Amanda Unvarnished

The collapse of the commercial real estate market because of remote work is good, actually. Most pushback against remote work comes either from overgeneralizing from the minority of cases where a particular role does in fact need to be in the office, or is the result of bosses just liking the power kick it gives them to see all these people gathered in one place and under their control. The former is a mistake in reasoning, the latter a mistake in moral psychology.

—@arossp

July is Disability Pride Month. One in four American adults has some kind of disability. For Teen Vogue, Madison Lawson, who is a wheelchair user, wrote about disability representation in “Barbie,” the history of the Becky doll, and what seeing Barbie in a wheelchair means to her.

https://flip.it/WfhWI-

#DisabilityPrideMonth #Accessibility #Barbie #Movies

—@CultureDesk

Hi, human chattel slavery was objectively bad by every moral metric available to humankind and the version practiced in the American South was peculiarly violent and odious and maintained by virulent rich pieces of shit who used the Bible to justify it, so, if you’re a teacher in #Florida and you could now get fired for suggesting this because pantswetting racist scum run your state, just drop a link to this post somewhere your kids can see it.

—@GrimmReality

It’s super frustrating that this Stanford study finding CSAM on top 25 Mastodon servers doesn’t specify WHICH servers they found it on: https://doi.org/10.25740/vb515nd6874

The study recommends integrating proprietary technological tools like PhotoDNA (which would involve running all images uploaded to participating servers through Microsoft cloud services), but knowing WHERE those images were found would let moderators defederate from those servers NOW.

—@lrhodes

@ben Agreed, KOSA is horrible and would easpecially hurt LGBTQIA+ people. And agreed, call your Senator! https://www.stopkosa.com/ makes it easy.

—@jdp23

Feed every child. It removes any stigma about who gets free lunch. It helps those older students who may already be working to help support the family. For a country that has the resources we have, there is no excuse for hungry kids.

Opinion: A radical idea: Just give kids lunch-
https://wapo.st/3DsSozg

—@TonyStark

So, I finally published that blog post about the algorithm driving my toot boosting AI here:

https://lisamelton.net/2023/07/24/how-i-boost-toots/

—@lisamelton

A prediction (based on decades of coding):
There is some code – somewhere deep in the zillions of lines of X(Twitter) code – which absolutely and wrongly depends on the literal string “twitter”.
And, as the rebranding continues, it will fail, spectacularly.
7/24/23
#TwitterX
#X

—@CogitoErgoWtf

While many complain about life in general and the cost of living etc, I am sitting on a sofa that costs £8000, lovely and cool in front of an air-con unit costing £3500, watching the latest film on a 70″ smart TV that costs £5000.
Right now, I’m happy, with no worries and not a care in the world.
Not even the employees at the department store who keep asking me to leave can spoil my day…..

—@aarondavid

A periodic reminder that while most fediverse services are provided for free, they are far from free to run. Many thanks to all who donate and support your instance. If you are in a position to do so, I encourage you to take a look at your instance’s “about” page for details on how to donate (for example, https://infosec.exchange/about)

Some instances do require a fee to join – I personally feel strongly that everyone should be able to participate, regardless of ability to pay and I will do all I can to make sure these resources are available to those in the community who want to use them.

Thank you and have a great weekend!

—@jerry