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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 37m

A colleague recently sent me a conference website to look at (something to do with satellites). Looking through the panels, I noticed that there was one panel that was 100% women speakers, with a women moderator, and it wasn't called "Women in XYZ". Is this how you pass the space conference […]

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Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️ @rachelthornsub.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 35m

The few times I’ve tried to do something with iOS Shortcuts, I have been frustrated. It seems like the list of things that can be done is extremely short, while the list of things that can’t be done is very, very long. I just want to be able to switch default browsers on the fly, without digging […]

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Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️ @rachelthornsub.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 42m

I’ve searched, and as far as I can tell, the mainstream press has entirely ignored the stuff going on at Bluesky. It’s only the tech press that has picked it up. In fact, I can’t find anything other than a TechCrunch piece on it, which has also been picked up by Yahoo! News.

Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️ @rachelthornsub.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 53m

Nothing at all terrifying about a rich Japanese merchant living in Napoli saying goodbye to his 8-year-old son for what might be ten years or more, and instead of encouraging his son to read and travel and find his own dream, tells him, “Become a great naval officer and live to protect Japan.” […]

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Kaito @ajin.la · 2d

Sharif don't like it

Windows 7 screenshot: "Lock the taskbar"

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Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️ @rachelthornsub.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 1h

@CoachMark I am pretty happy with Mona. You might want to give it a try.

Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️ @rachelthornsub.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 1h

If anything, we now know that Trump could actually have ended the genocide “on day number one,” if he had had the will. Let’s not forget Trump’s “suggestion” that Palestinians be “moved” somewhere else, so Trump could turn the Gaza Strip into a 5-star resort. Trump was all-in on the genocide […]

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Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️ @rachelthornsub.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 1h

I think it’s becoming increasingly clear that the #nobel Prize is not so noble, but I would like to believe they can clean up their act. They can start by refusing to consider #trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Yes, “Trump’s” plan (which was not of course actually Trump’s, as we can tell by the […]

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Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️ @rachelthornsub.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 2h

@carrideen I wish I could say it’s just the U.S., but as we see with Chat Control, with mass arrests in Starmer’s U.K., and of course all the atrocities committed daily by Netanyahu’s Israel, not to mention unabashed authoritarian regimes that use the same rhetoric, it’s a global problem.

Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️ @rachelthornsub.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 2h

The world is on fire, but if we manage to douse the flames, I hope one little lesson a majority of humanity learns is to be extremely wary of the label “terrorist.” We are seeing today how easily laws created to thwart “terrorists” can be turned against anyone or any entity that resists or […]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Up until this point the '20s have given us a worldwide pandemic, full-scale war in Europe and a genocide. Now brace yourselves for the next step: catastrophic financial crisis.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bank-of-england-impending-ai-disaster

A fragment of text from an article. It says:

Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it's 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.

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Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️ @rachelthornsub.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@futurebird Ah-hah!

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 1d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
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The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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LiteralGrill @literalgrill.sakurajima.moe.ap.brid.gy · 1d

[IT GETS EVEN WORSE! Bluesky Auto-Labeling Disabled People As Porn]

Fun news! The AI moderator they use that auto-labels disabled people as pornography on Bluesky? It's connected to an AI image and video generator!

So all art and videos posted on Bluesky not […]

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Skeet from sentient piece of feces Aaron Rodericks that reads: thehive.ai evaluates all images posted to the site. We don't actually provide any input.

A post showing that the company responsible for AI moderation on Bluesky has an AI image AND video generator. Seeing as how it gets access to every single picture/video posted here, I'm sure there's a special contract to avoid them using that data! Lol, lmao even.

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LiteralGrill @literalgrill.sakurajima.moe.ap.brid.gy · 2d

[Bluesky Auto-Labeling Disabled People As Porn]

Lmao, Bluesky is labeling pictures of folks with prosthetics as porn. Their auto labeling bot bullshit seems to make this error "surprisingly often" I'm told.

Love knowing I'm assigned porn at birth by AI. :neocat_think_woozy:

#disability

A screenshot of two Bluesky posts. The first shows pictures of an anime character that uses prosthetics. It reads:

Hi @aaron.bsky.team / @moderation.bsky.app

Thank you for removing the Adult Content (Explicit Sexual Images) label from images of a person with prosthetics.

I hope you explain to your moderators with acrotomophilia that depictions of disabled ppl are not “explicit sexual imagery”

It has a response from aaron that reads: It's an automated system, so unfortunately this is an error that gets made surprisingly often with prosthetics.

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Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️ @rachelthornsub.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Rumors that if one subsequently posts a toot in which one brags that one “caught the Golden Snitch” it results in 10 points being counted towards the next day’s quota are false, although confusion in the matter is understandable, since referencing transphobic author J.K. Rowling may feel like it […]

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Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️ @rachelthornsub.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 1d

The university she famously founded, Tsuda University, is largely secular, but I’ve learned there is a chapel on campus, and there courses on Christianity, but apparently Umeko wanted to keep the matter of religion an individual choice. (3/3)

Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️ @rachelthornsub.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Wait, how am I just learning now that Oshikawa’s father was a prominent Christian evangelist who founded the Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University. Also, how am I just learning now that TSUDA Sen, father of the amazing TSUDA Umeko, was also a converted Christian. I have fallen into a Meiji […]

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Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️ @rachelthornsub.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 1d

One exception I’ve encountered is H. Rider Haggard, who emphasizes the languages and cultures of Africa in a way that adds to the mise en scène, and tells the reader that Quatermain knows his stuff, and isn’t just some lazy-ass colonizer. #amreading #imperialism (3/3)

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Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️ @rachelthornsub.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I kind of love how in old-timey popular fiction, language is rarely a barrier. Everyone just speaks the language in which the book was published, and the reader is not supposed to wonder why this old uneducated woman from rural Italy can communicate easily with this Japanese guy who is just […]

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Minako 世界でひとりだけ藤井風にネガティブな気持ち @minakodb.mstdn.jp.ap.brid.gy · 1d

『たとえAI生成のものであってもこうした画像は児童ポルノに該当し、禁止される表現である』とか

『執行猶予付きの懲役18カ月、にフランス領土への入国禁止10年、未成年者に関わる業務従事禁止10年、性犯罪者名簿への登録』とか

この人がフランスでつかまって本当によかった

https://www.sponichi.co.jp/soccer/news/2025/10/07/kiji/20251007s00002000286000c.html?page=1

JFA影山雅永技術委員長がフランスで逮捕報道　機内で…児童ポルノ画像の輸入・所持の容疑、懲役18カ月 - スポニチ Sponichi Annex サッカー

JFA影山雅永技術委員長がフランスで逮捕報道機内で…児童ポルノ画像の輸入・所持の容疑、懲役18カ月

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Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️ @rachelthornsub.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 1d

And snapping at people in your replies who call you out for something, such as not adding #alttext to your images, is a bad look for any organization or project. (Just ask Jay Graber.)

Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️ @rachelthornsub.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 1d

To put it in a different light, if you want “engagement” for your account, one way to increase boosts is to add #alttext to your images. There are a lot of people on the Fediverse who will not boost a toot that includes an undescribed image. There are accounts of organizations or projects here […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Just got my official letter for the fellowship to New Zealand! And I have a possible lead on a local farm sitter, but nothing is set yet.

So I'm just going to put this out onto the Fediverse again, in case someone who knows how take care of goats in Real Canadian Winter (down to -40C temps) […]

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Rob Ricci @ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@troed @juergen_hubert

Another issue is that some harassers use the tools of this space against their targets; for example, as mentioned in: https://logicmag.io/policy/blackness-in-the-fediverse-a-conversation-with-marcia-x/

... some will set their messages to 'followers only' so that only […]

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