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I don’t agree with everything Lina Khan says or does, but it’s good to see @pluralistic calling out the enormous amount of crap she is taking for daring to actually enforce the antitrust laws.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/

—@marklemley

Today I learned about wet bulb temperature:

It’s the lowest temperature in a given environment that can be reached by evaporating water (e.g. sweating). At 100% relative air humidity the regular ambient temperature and wet bulb are the same. At lower humidity wet bulb is lower because the air can still absorb additional vapor. Humans generally can’t survive for long at wet bulb temperatures of 35°C (95°F) and higher.

This measurement might become much more widely used as dangerous heat conditions become more common.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature

Edit: there’s newer studies that indicate the wet-bulb limit for humans to be a lot lower even https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00738.2021

—@esther

“Why do you use Signal and all this Encryption!
Do you have anything to hide? 😡“

Yes! I do!

– The color of my underwear
– My friends’ cats photos
– My failed gym class grades
– My first attempt at “portrait”
– The outcome of my last meal
– The weird mole on my left toe
– How much I cried watching Star Trek
– How much cheese there is in my fridge
– My failed knitting experiment
– The horrible poem I just wrote
– My bank card pin number
– My social security number
– My main password
– The web search history for your birthday gift

Privacy is a Human Right! ✊

Not sharing publicly what you do not wish to share is your right! 🔒✨

#Privacy #Encryption #E2EE #RootForE2EE 🎉

—@Em0nM4stodon

“Glitch” is a fun word.

Glitch glitch glitch glitch..

glitch glitch..

glitch! glitch!

glitch glitch glitch glitch!!

Hmm. now it doesn’t look like a real word anymore. Must be a weird brain glitch.

—@bigzaphod

I am slightly confused how we’ve gone from US Congress and other governments constantly calling Facebook and Instagram bosses into public hearings to berate them about contention moderation and extremism..

to Elon Musk directly paying and promoting alt right people on Twitter.. and no government is interested.

—@GossiTheDog

I’m definitely going to change my life tomorrow. Or Wednesday. This week, for sure. Next week’s good too

—@donni

You can ask me to act normal or act natural but please understand these are two entirely different things

—@theropologist

One time I was hiking and some guy yelled to his young son “Stay out of the cave Aryan, there’s snakes and queers down there!”

I think about that a lot. That cave must have the craziest parties.

—@lowqualityfacts

WE HAVE SMOL BUNN IN THE FRONT GARDEN.

REPEAT

SMOL BUNN IN FRONT GARDEN.

SO SMOL. SO BUNN.

—@octothorpe