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@kenogo @serge They still have a responsibility to point this stuff out if for no other reason than to discourage the kind of conspiracy theorizing that's inevitable whenever this comes up. And that requires pushback, not a sign-on.

Yeah it's been pretty brutal in central PA. We're right in the middle of it.

@levjoy @serge EFF signing on to this is disappointing because anybody who is anywhere remotely close to the content moderation space could have told these orgs that automated content moderation sucks specifically because it is unable to determine context and has trouble with things like regional dialects, and also that huge centralized platforms are unsustainable when it comes to content moderation. See also: content moderation at scale is impossible to do well. CM-adjacent folks have been saying this stuff *for years* every time conservatives try to play the "it's-a-large-coordinated-effort-to-silence-us" game and it's all just as applicable here as it is there.

Honestly this last 3 months has been the worst version of "Worst person great point". With that said I think it's vitally important for those of us who are glad that people who we wouldn't normally agree with are pointing out the double standards and speaking up against antisemitism also make it clear that just because we agree with them on this one thing doesn't mean that they're right on things like trans rights/trans people and other stuff. 👁

Honestly this last 3 months has been the worst version of "Worst person great point". With that said I think it's vitally important for those of us who are glad that people who we wouldn't normally agree with are pointing out the double standards and speaking up against antisemitism also make it clear that just because we agree with them on this one thing doesn't mean that they're right on things like trans rights/trans people and other stuff. 👁

Sorry correction Win+period.

Ctrl+period.

I have a friend who works there in their disability rights office, but other than that and BSD I'm done with Berkeley at this point.

Yes. Very. You'll need proper ear protection, like the whole ear coverage kind not just earplugs.

Yeah I figured it out. I was basically trying to post locally to this instance and it torns out you have to use the actual emoji, not just the text form of the emoji.

@dukepaaron @serge @hundertsieben Emoji are, from a standards point of view, a somewhat unique way for ISO to force unicode support on keyboard creators in regions where they wouldn't normally support anything other than the Latin alphabet. (Looking at you America). They also ended up being a kind of messed up workaround in the WordPress community to sneak in a security-related update before there was the ability to force an update from the .org side, but that's a long story that's something like ten plus years old now.

@heribertschindler @hundertsieben Crap forgotot make that last local I'll edit once the buffer updates. 👁