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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 31

🇩🇪🚨Leak: Viele Länder, die noch 2024 die #Chatkontrolle gestoppt haben, sind jetzt unentschieden - darunter Deutschland! https://netzpolitik.org/2025/internes-protokoll-eu-juristen-kritisieren-daenischen-vorschlag-zur-chatkontrolle/

Die Bundesregierung […]

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Eine Karte von Europa zeigt die Länder farblich markiert nach der Haltung ihrer Regierungen zur Chatkontrolle. Die Legende erklärt: Grün steht für „Ablehnend/Neutral“, Blau für „Unentschieden“ und Rot für „Dafür“. Die meisten west- und südeuropäischen Länder (darunter Frankreich, Spanien, Portugal, Italien, Irland, Schweden, Dänemark, Litauen, Lettland, Bulgarien und Griechenland) sind rot markiert, was bedeutet, dass sie dafür sind. Länder wie Deutschland, Polen, Österreich, Slowenien, Kroatien und die Niederlande sind grün markiert und somit ablehnend oder neutral. Einige Länder, darunter Finnland, Estland, Belgien, Rumänien und Griechenland, sind blau markiert und damit unentschieden.

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Cato Frederiks 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @catofrederiks.bsky.social · Aug 8

You would help me and my crowdfunding (gofund.me/07342fe1) immensly by buying this for a few bucks, leave a review, or share this with your network! Hopefully, with all of y'alls help, my skeleton will be as sturdy as Atlas' helper skeletons are

#DnD #TTRPG #CCI #AAI #EDS #crowdfunding

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Cato Frederiks 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @catofrederiks.bsky.social · Aug 8

It only took me about six months to write, but here is my (hopefully) pretty amazing one-shot. Your players too can help the dwarf Atlas Vertilibraedius when his experiment... didn't work out quite as well as he liked! Incl. a short and longer version!

legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/5314...

Fey or Fiend - Cato Frederiks | DriveThruRPG.com

Welcome to "Fey or Fiend", a bone-rattling adventure where adventurers will assist Atlas Vertilibraedius after an experi

legacy.drivethrurpg.com

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Cato Frederiks 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @catofrederiks.bsky.social · Aug 5

As soon as DriveThruRPG is done with reviewing, something very nice is coming up...

#DnD #TTRPG #CCI #crowdfunding #patience

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ME/CFS Science @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social · Jul 31

1) This factsheet is one of the best resources for explaining what post-exertional malaise (PEM) is.

The vague name ‘malaise’ isn’t very clear.

Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · Jul 30

5-page @scienceforme.bsky.social post-exertional malaise ( #PEM ) fact sheet
www.s4me.info/docs/PEM_Fac...

Headings:
-Characteristics of PEM
-Symptoms of PEM
-Exertion and other PEM triggers
-Effects of exertion that are not PEM
-Living with PEM
-Examples of PEM
-Research on PEM

#MEcfs #CFS #PwME

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Lingonaut @lingonaut.bsky.social · Jul 7

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · Jul 14

Yeah, a lot of the time I feel like AI boosters are people who think they loved Hitchhikers Guide but didn’t get the joke

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · Jul 14

That's basically how Douglas Adams arrived at 42

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(a)Shy vs Evil Dead 🤖 🎃 @shypixels.bsky.social · Jul 10

"Bluesky will perform age verification through Kid Web Services (KWS), an Epic Games-owned tool that developers can use to implement age verification and parental controls on their platforms." Surely this will go very well. Epic Games is known for having no breaches whatsoever.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Jul 10

Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard.

I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.

Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK

Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.

www.theverge.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Jun 30

Please, I beg you, DO NOT USE AN AI INSTEAD OF A LAWYER. Please. I see this every day and it never ends well.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · Jun 30

I have three hearings at three different courthouses today. At the second, someone was sobbing outside the courtroom. They'd asked ChatGPT what to say in Court. They believed what it told them.

They lost because it hallucinated, and they didn't know there were no do-overs.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · Jun 29

“The study found that 14% of infected infants and toddlers and 15% of infected preschoolers had probable long COVID, similar to rates in teens and school-aged children.”

Apparently toddlers aren’t 🦄. Who knew?

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · Jun 29

Oral health and head and neck examinations still need to be done on vulnerable patients, and infectious patients.

It’s up to us to do them safely.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · Jun 29

@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social wrote over there that a diagnosis of lymphoma under the jaw was missed because a patient wore a mask and therefore could not be examined.

*Important case.*

#Medsky

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Jun 29

Imagine if when wastewater levels are low, we all committed to keeping them that way?

We could stamp Covid out once and for all.

If we adopted regular masking (with N95s or better), clean air, paid time off and better access to tests and vaccines, it could be done.

Kegel @kegel7.bsky.social · Jun 29

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I can well imagine if you're currently able that people not finding these 'low current levels' as good news, might appear negative. When you've spent 5 years actively being ridiculed for masking & trying to avoid being sick at all costs, the 'low current levels' aren't actually a good thing.

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jun 28

Good news: the very low current levels of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater, even in places where the new variants are prevalent (XFG, NB.1.8.1), suggest that any summer wave will be limited, not like previous ones
www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVI...

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Snarky Robot @snarkyrobot.bsky.social · Jun 29

Pretty sure “we want to use the output of content creators to power our machine that will spit out janky copies to replace those creators, without compensating them for the content that made our machine possible, violating the social contract with content creators…also it kills the planet” is bad.

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Alfie Erin @alfieerin.bsky.social · Jun 27

Sad that we need to even say it though. Imagine starting a conference with reassuring people none of your research is plagiarized. Something’s (ideally) should go without saying.

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Valwen 😷🏳️‍🌈 @valwen.bsky.social · Jun 29

Unfortunately they are. And it’s terrifying!

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Jun 28

One reason I'm doing this is bc no real mechanisms exist yet to compel ppl to disclose their use of AI. We need such protocols in place. But in the meantime, I have the freedom to disclose my refusal to use AI, as doing so is a way to resist and weaken the (false) narrative of AI inevitability.

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Jun 27

Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language.

Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.

At no point in this study did I use AI. This includes the literature review, logical organization, writing, analysis, and proofreading. I do not cite any studies that use AI, to the extent that it is possible to know.

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Valwen 😷🏳️‍🌈 @valwen.bsky.social · Jun 29

I’d use a passive form over first person, but that’s a personal preference (expressed due to the concerns about the language). Otherwise it’s a good start and something I hope extends in use. Thank you!

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Jun 27

Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language.

Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.

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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · Jun 25

EBV is a leading cause of Multiple Sclerosis. Still, some people say, oh, if it is a virus that 90% of the population has, there is nothing we can do about it.
Wrong, we can do a lot to prevent the virus from damaging the brain. But all under development *while virology research is under attack*

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Jun 24

Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

What's happened since?

A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

Criminalizing pregnancy: A record number of women were prosecuted the year after Dobbs

They were targeted for substance use, miscarriages, and stillbirths, largely driven by fetal personhood laws.

www.motherjones.com

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Margo @mserenity.bsky.social · Jun 22

It hasn't become law yet but passed a house of commons vote. We now need the Lords to do their jobs and reintroduce all of the safeguards the committee decided not to include. But it is *very* clear what Keir Starmer and Kendall have in mind for us. 🤬

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