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dankennedy_nu, 11 days ago to journalism

Harvard has rescinded the suspension of a student who had been reporting for the Crimson on the pro-Palestinian encampment, raising questions about how that particular student was identified in the first place. According to the Crimson, the student had not taken part in the protest and had only “infrequently” reported on the encampment. #journalism https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/11/harvard-crimson-reporter-involuntary-leave-protest/

BrianPierce, 25 days ago to animals

Moxie has been informed that she only has four more months to stop trying to eat our socks.🧦

#wherescricket #kristinoem #maga
#dogsofmastodon #standardpoodle

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/us/politics/kristi-noem-dog-killing.html

JoshuaHolland, 28 days ago to random

#Trump losing 17% of the vote in a closed swing-state primary to a candidate who dropped out months ago should lead to a lotta commentary about his weakness. It won’t, because the press is obsessed with Trumpers sticking with Trump regardless, but it should. #Election2024

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/04/23/us/elections/results-pennsylvania-primary.html

arstechnica, 1 month ago to random

LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy

Campaign used email, SMS, and voice calls to trick targets into divulging master passwords.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/lastpass-users-targeted-in-phishing-attacks-good-enough-to-trick-even-the-savvy/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

rolle, 3 months ago to threads

"Meta doesn’t want its new app Threads to become another Twitter, full of heated political debates and the resulting toxicity that entails. In an announcement today, the company detailed how it will approach the recommendation of political content across both Instagram and its sister app, Threads, a competitor to Elon Musk’s X. In short, it will no longer push politics on users. Similar to Meta’s existing policies on Facebook, Instagram and Threads’ recommendation engines now won’t proactively suggest political posts to user by default, the company said on Friday."

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/09/instagram-and-threads-will-no-longer-proactively-recommend-political-content/

#Threads #SocialMedia

lauren, 3 months ago to random

Leaving aside the obvious GOP fascism just for the moment, a key reason why Ukraine is losing support broadly across the American electorate is that there is no apparent practical endgame in the conflict for Ukraine. It's obvious what Putin wants. But what does Ukraine really want that is practical to achieve? It is not unreasonable that at some point this question has to be asked repeatedly, given the reportedly more than $75 billion dollars of support that has flowed from the U.S. to that country.

sciencewrighter, 3 months ago to random

Enjoyed Cory Doctorow @pluralistic 's new essay re user "desire paths," ad blockers and apps. "This is why services are so horny to drive you to install their app rather using their websites: they are trying to get you to do something that, given your druthers, you would prefer not to do. They want to force you to exit through the gift shop, you want to carve a desire path straight to the parking lot." https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/24/everything-not-mandatory/#is-prohibited

BrianPierce, 4 months ago to llm

Clever trick for obfuscate text with similar appearing #unicode characters so only humans, no #llm #ai can read it.

I suppose this could be easily circumvented with some code if it were common enough to bother.

#eclecticlight #macos
https://eclecticlight.co/2024/01/20/the-revenge-of-unicode/

Free_Press, 4 months ago to news

A scientist reckons with climate grief

Climate scientist Peter Kalmus visits a fossil-fuel-free homestead in Maine, looking not for solutions to climate change, but for a better way to survive it and make peace with his grief.
#AureFreePress #News #GlobalWarming #climatecrisis #climatechange

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/scientist-reckons-climate-grief-rcna129981

mastodonmigration, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

About this new Threads Post Reader...

So, you follow an account on @threads.net. Now they CAN NOT see your comments, but other Fediverse accounts CAN see the comments. You CAN NOT see comments of the Threads users, but of course Threads users CAN see them. You are entirely isolated from Threads except you can read the post. It's simply just a Threads Post Reader.

If the Threads author wants to see the Fediverse comments they need to create a Fediverse account and follow themselves. 🤔

#threads

cfultz, 5 months ago to android

I was enjoying #BeeperMini on my #Android device and NOW Apple has come along, turned into the evil queen, poisoned the apple and turned off access to their network for the app. I'm not even mad I paid my $2 to Beeper, I'm more mad at CrApple for undermining the gapping security hole they have between Android and #iOS devices simply because #iMessage is the ONLY thing keeping people in the walled #Apple ecosystem at this point, at least on the mobile front. #rant

coloradosun, 5 months ago to random

A common parasite in cat poop could be linked to frailty in older humans.
https://coloradosun.com/2023/12/07/cat-toxoplasma-gondii-frailty-study/?utm_content=buffer5f789&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

w7voa, 6 months ago to random

AP — Police across Maine were alerted just last month to “veiled threats” by the Army reservist who would go on to carry out the worst mass shooting in the state’s history. https://apnews.com/article/4d5066230b500c152a7dd0d3e4d13f1b

w7voa, 6 months ago to random

Gunshots reported fired at more than one business in Lewiston, Maine. Authorities are declaring it a mass casualty incident.

Free_Press, 7 months ago to climate

Portsmouth, NH museum gives a 1750 house a new lease on life as climate change poses a threat
#AureFreePress #GlobalWarming #climatechange

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2023-10-19/a-portsmouth-museum-gives-a-1750-house-a-new-lease-on-life-as-climate-change-poses-a-threat

Hypx, 7 months ago to TeslaMotors

Reminder that demand for EVs is in fact down. Practically all "success" has been the result of huge subsidies, government mandates and cars sold at a loss.

https://jalopnik.com/slow-sales-mean-more-tesla-discounts-1850906180

#EV #BEV

TucsonSentinel, 7 months ago to Tucson

Shrinking number of primary care physicians reaching a tipping point https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/100323_physician_shortage_op/shrinking-number-primary-care-physicians-reaching-tipping-point/
The percentage of U.S. doctors in adult primary care has been declining for years and is now about 25% — a tipping point beyond which many Americans won’t be able to find a family doctor at all.
#Tucson #Arizona

daringfireball, 7 months ago to random

★ iPhone 15 OverheatGate Seems to Be a Nothingburger
https://daringfireball.net/2023/10/overheatgate_nothingburger

Leopard drifting in the field (streamable.com)

Mirror: files.catbox.moe/i5yzk2.mp4

slcw, 7 months ago to maine

This POS Democrat from #Maine voted for #MarjorieTraitorGreene's amendment to cut the Secretary of Defense's pay to just one dollar. We don't need trash like Rep. #JaredGolden (D-ME) in the party. Someone needs to #primary his ass and get him the hell out. We've got enough to deal with with the Republicans and their treachery. We don't need a knife to the back from our own people.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jared-golden-defense-bill-lloyd-austin-majorie-taylor-greene-2023-9

dankennedy_nu, 7 months ago to random

Like Justice Ginsburg before her, Sen. Dianne Feinstein spent her final months hounded by a mob even though we all know that a senator can get by on staff work. People seem to have laid off McConnell, as they should, but the treatment Feinstein got is reserved for — surprise! — women.

mekkaokereke, 1 year ago to random

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Not ready to talk about Black History. Still talking about white US history.

Q: Why are Black neighborhoods so often high crime neighborhoods? Must be a lawless people! Violent! Thieves! Predators!

A: There is no such thing as a "high crime neighborhood." The whole concept is entirely made up based on our notion of what we consider a crime.

You may be thinking:🤔 Wait... What?! Not true! A high crime neighborhood has more drug use and sales, theft, and even murder!