snomad

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by snomad 4y ago
> How is this constant? This is just 1 request every 7 days That is only 1 VIP twitter recipient, not the total received by Twitter.
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by snomad 4y ago
It wasn't even a topic in the governor race, despite the numerous well documented connections between the governor and PG&E https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/abc10-originals/pge... https
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A meta-analysis of the effects of trigger warnings and content notes(osf.io)
81 points by snomad 4y ago|140 comments
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Meta, US hospitals sued for using healthcare data to target ads(bleepingcomputer.com)
4 points by snomad 4y ago|0 comments
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by snomad 4y ago
Why did he buy 10% of twitter stick? That wasn't a momentary lapse of judgement.
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by snomad 4y ago
Since all the clients have to do the work, doesn't that result in a net increase in electricity consumption? Since most electricity comes from fossil fuels doesn't that in net hurt our battle against climate change?
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by snomad 4y ago
There is a school of thought, primarily from critical theorists and their derivatives, that proposes constant agitation, there is no neutral. E.g. Kendi's anti-racist. As this school of thought has taken root in schools and media, poli
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by snomad 4y ago
> This comes up all the time that "you can't make edgy jokes anymore", but it isn't true. What would be your explanation for Nimesh Patel being removed from stage at Columbia? https://www.yahoo.com/ent
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YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denying election results(tampafp.com)
515 points by snomad 5y ago|813 comments
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by snomad 5y ago
Is Spengler the only person describing cyclical history? Probably not since someone above your post mentioned > Ibn Khaldun, 14th century Muslim scholar from Tunisia
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Twitter blocks multiple OSINTs covering Ukraine(twitter.com)
8 points by snomad 5y ago|0 comments
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by snomad 5y ago
No reason ad tech companies should have freedom to associate real world data with online data. This seems like the perfect candidate for a US state proposition.. no company engaged in online ad tech may combine or allow any other entity to
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by snomad 5y ago
> It would be good to analyze what happened between 1965 and 2022, what has changed that instead of progress we see some kind of downward spiral. Whether you agree with him or not, this video highlights how the 70s changed everything (in
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by snomad 5y ago
Its a Motte and Bailey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_castle
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by snomad 5y ago
> without that community college plus a cheap state school isn’t expensive. UCLA is 13k per year, *if* you are from California. Classes are likely impacted (even upper division) so even if a person goes to UCLA just for the last 2.5 - 3
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by snomad 5y ago
> We were warned - time and again - and each time that warning was ignored. And at least in the US, their are 1000s of people receiving good money to take that warning seriously. And they still failed.
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by snomad 5y ago
remind me, what happened in 2013?
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Swiss tech company boss accused of selling mobile network access for spying(thebureauinvestigates.com)
6 points by snomad 5y ago|0 comments
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by snomad 5y ago
A great use case would be data collected in the process of complying with general govt regulations. Why this is better than central DB: Allows govt to outsource IT Public interest in the data will result in 3rd party clients being developed
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Canada school board cancels book club event with Yazidi Nobel laureate(theprint.in)
4 points by snomad 5y ago|0 comments
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by snomad 5y ago
That completely ignores leaving the gold standard... which was necessitated by... runaway govt spending
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by snomad 5y ago
The democratic party famously screwed over VP Wallace in a highly rigged convention (so power leaders could get relative neophyte Truman in) Rumors are the mob delivered the election for Kennedy; even those historians who argue otherwise es
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by snomad 5y ago
* refuse to accept college IDs as valid for voting, even those issued by the state government because it's a state school (college students are more likely to vote for the "wrong" party). Hunting licenses? Cool (people with h
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Twitter is being sued for letting Saudi spies inside the company(protocol.com)
138 points by snomad 5y ago|83 comments
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by snomad 5y ago
I'm curious how a similar tool built for airplane and helicopter crashes. What if it was due to mechanical failure, would you want the story to focus on a mechanic?
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A TikTok trend inspired students to steal toilets. Now, theyre slapping teachers(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by snomad 5y ago|0 comments
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by snomad 5y ago
Check out elsagate on reddit... https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/
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by snomad 5y ago
That is a pretty broad brush. Would you be ok with a strip club and liquor store next to a elementary school? I wouldn't, and appreciate zoning laws for that reason. Simply blaming NIMYism feels like lazy analysis. Every community is d
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by snomad 5y ago
Ban algorithmic account suspensions to users who have derived $250 from a service in last year - all must be confirmed by a human. Gives Google, fb, twitter, et al time to ban the bots (in first 30 days of an account life), while still pro
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by snomad 5y ago
> Legislate what, specifically? I got some suggestios - No company w/more than 1 million MAU and deriving any income from online advertising may not combine any online information about a user with any physical real-world data; they

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