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Yeah this is probably the post that best sums up my whole deal
roooooland.bsky.social
clicked on an underwear ad and keep reading this tab title like it's a blog post about some new language runtime feature that Shopify is cooking up
browser tab titled "Reveal Thong Trunks in Ruby"
Reposted by roland
paris.nyc
🦐☢️ plume theory ☢️🦐

the release of a radioactive plume from a local scrap smelter could explain why there are now 10 sites contaminated with radioactivity in the area near the shrimp factory. but the FDA's discovery of contaminated cloves from a facility 400 miles away further complicates things!
How Did Indonesian Shrimp and Cloves Get Contaminated?
It’s not totally clear, but preliminary evidence suggests it’s because of industrial activity near food processing facilities rather than anything in the water or soil. 

Officials from Indonesia’s nuclear energy regulatory agency have traced the source of contamination to a steel manufacturer in the Cikande industrial area known as Peter Metal Technology, or PMT. Some of the highest levels of contamination detected in the area were reportedly found in the company’s furnace, which is about 1.5 miles southwest of the BMS Foods facility where the shrimp was processed. 

Investigators think that radioactive dust was released into the environment after PMT inadvertently smelted scrap metal containing cesium-137. “Because it’s airborne, the contamination can be carried by wind,” said Bara Khrishna Hasibuan, a senior adviser to Indonesia’s Ministry of Food Affairs, at a Sept. 30 press conference. 

Scrap metal was commonly used as a raw material by PMT, according to the Indonesian outlet Antara News. It’s unclear how it may have become contaminated with cesium-137. Biegalski, whose area of expertise includes nuclear forensics, told CR that the “easiest explanation” is that a medical or industrial device containing cesium-137 was inadvertently reprocessed as scrap metal. The radioactive material could have become gaseous after entering the PMT furnace and then been released from the facility’s smokestack, he said.

“That whole island likely had a cesium-137 plume go over it, leaving a trail of contamination,” Biegalski said. The Indonesian government is reportedly now considering new regulations on scrap metal to reduce the risk of further contamination.
roooooland.bsky.social
it does not help that the internet definition seems to be, do you check one or more boxes among "interested in anything quirky" and "socially awkward sometimes"
roooooland.bsky.social
ohhh those are youtube commenters not twitter accounts. only one of those handles exists on twitter and she...doesn't seem to have anything to say about drake
roooooland.bsky.social
if you don't want conversations about AI why are you having one now
roooooland.bsky.social
ok quick followup question then, why did you reply? like, if someone I followed reposted something about a webinar for whatever software voice actors use, I'd probably ignore it, y'know?
roooooland.bsky.social
just asking you as a representative-seeming reply here - how did you even find this post? you don't follow the account, and based on your posts and bio, you don't seem to have any interest in software engineering
roooooland.bsky.social
Why are, like, a voice actor and a poet/songwriter commenting on a post about a text editor webinar
roooooland.bsky.social
the other dude, who presumably doesn't appreciate that epithet given the pronouns in her bio, told you to click the link, and if you did that you'd see a "show all jobs" link
roooooland.bsky.social
damn you've cracked this thing wide open, next you'll be telling us the Senior Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure / Go listing also isn't a public relations role
roooooland.bsky.social
like, what circles do you have to be interacting with for a statement like that to even be legible as a joke
roooooland.bsky.social
still thinking about this: guy identifies an actual no-shit swastikas-and-all Nazi, then goes "I assume anyone making decisions about doing business with AI startups is at least halfway down this guy’s path". that is an insane thing to believe even a little bit! bsky.app/profile/trav...
roooooland.bsky.social
One downside of reifying static named communities is perpetuating concepts long past when they otherwise would have died out organically. Like today there are numerous execrable subreddits populated by people who identify as """gaybros""", an identity that should have run its course by 2015 or so
roooooland.bsky.social
Ahh pity I liked Travis Brown’s work but give me a fucking break
roooooland.bsky.social
Fellas is it Nazism to be a customer of any AI startup
roooooland.bsky.social
still curious what moderation they'll provide. imo independently moderating all content on the network is what separates a real third-party service from e.g. zeppelin, but it'd be very expensive. maybe it's more doable if most abuse comes from mushroom PDS repos that get taken down entirely anyway?
roooooland.bsky.social
His blender tutorials are really good
roooooland.bsky.social
Matt Albie is in big trouble
ansellscow.bsky.social
I mean what is this?!?!
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Also like cmon obviously you LOVE to say it, you are so excited to say it
roooooland.bsky.social
just indicate in the record that it's a hate-follow. i got this to work by specifying a custom rkey containing "hatefollow" instead of a tid, and detecting those in the client
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proposal: if you want to follow someone but you don't want it to count as an endorsement, simply indicate in the follow record that it's a hate-follow. then it'd just be a quick frontend change for the app to surface that information.
Screenshot of PDSls showing a 'follow' record indicating that atproto-test.rolandcrosby.com follows roland.cros.by. The record has the at:// URI at://did:plc:ngjew5ddz2shssbqblzy3neb/app.bsky.graph.follow/hatefollowlol Screenshot of Bluesky web UI showing roland.cros.by viewing atproto-test.rolandcrosby.com's profile, which has a "Hate-follows you" badge. The at:// URI of the follow record with the "hatefollowlol" rkey can be seen in an API response in the web inspector.
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that sounds great, looking forward to it!
roooooland.bsky.social
oh yeah I can think of all kinds of things to use this for, I meant what did you have in mind as the output of this component. CAR files? a stream of logical writes for you to consume and put into whatever database? something else?
roooooland.bsky.social
Did you get this angle on Y2K from You’re Wrong About by any chance
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maybe that's what this is? does this mean blacksky moderation actually intends to function as a full moderation service for the entire network? or are they going provide some kind of proxy "keep most of bluesky's moderation decisions except for the ones we disagree with" service?
rude1.blacksky.team
TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11