Joan E Hoffman
@zena-ballerina.bsky.social
Birth Place: Earth
Race: Human
Politics: Freedom
Religion: Love
Race: Human
Politics: Freedom
Religion: Love
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Sorry to see @UMich close its DEI office. @UMich complies with all laws prohibiting demographic preferences. Promoting DEI instead means welcoming the exchange of all viewpoints. But rather than blame the victim, I blame the White House for its heavy-handed directives to dictate academic values.
UMich announces cuts to all DEI programs
The University of Michigan announced cuts to campus-wide diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives Thursday, effective immediately.
www.michigandaily.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Sorry to see @UMich close its DEI office. @UMich complies with all laws prohibiting demographic preferences. Promoting DEI instead means welcoming the exchange of all viewpoints. But rather than blame the victim, I blame the White House for its heavy-handed directives to dictate academic values.
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Great day for consumers!
BREAKING: Judge Amy Berman Jackson has *blocked* the dismantling of CFPB. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
March 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Great day for consumers!
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In Joyce Vance’s Civil Discourse Substack, we discussed how we can counter disinformation in today’s political climate.
Five Questions with Barb Mcquade
How Do We Push Back Against Disinformation?
open.substack.com
March 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
In Joyce Vance’s Civil Discourse Substack, we discussed how we can counter disinformation in today’s political climate.
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Letter signed by 90 law professors at Harvard Law School explaining the lawlessness of the Trump administration‘s attack on the legal profession.
March 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Letter signed by 90 law professors at Harvard Law School explaining the lawlessness of the Trump administration‘s attack on the legal profession.
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If you believe Trump is joking about wanting to become a dictator after everything we've lived through -- including a failed coup attempt! -- I do not know what to tell you. He has also been lying about his poll numbers for his entire career. None of this should be surprising.
The transcript of this interview is worth spending time with. When NBC's Kristen Welker was on the phone with Trump, she started out by saying "I know you're joking about this," but "I've been talking to a lot of your allies. They say they're very serious." He responded by essentially confirming it.
March 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
If you believe Trump is joking about wanting to become a dictator after everything we've lived through -- including a failed coup attempt! -- I do not know what to tell you. He has also been lying about his poll numbers for his entire career. None of this should be surprising.
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Open social web browser Surf integrates with Bluesky in latest beta techcrunch.com/2025/...
Open social web browser Surf integrates with Bluesky in latest beta | TechCrunch
Surf, the new app from Flipboard for browsing the open social web, is expanding its support for Bluesky's social network. On Monday, the company announced
techcrunch.com
March 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Open social web browser Surf integrates with Bluesky in latest beta techcrunch.com/2025/...
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Epic Surf beta just dropped tonight. Deep AT Proto integration. Unifies social web around AT Proto, ActivityPub and RSS.
If all goes well with our existing beta testers we will start letting in new wave of folks this weekend and early next week.
For more details: techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/o...
If all goes well with our existing beta testers we will start letting in new wave of folks this weekend and early next week.
For more details: techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/o...
Open social web browser Surf integrates with Bluesky in latest beta | TechCrunch
Surf, the new app from Flipboard for browsing the open social web, is expanding its support for Bluesky's social network. On Monday, the company announced
techcrunch.com
March 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Epic Surf beta just dropped tonight. Deep AT Proto integration. Unifies social web around AT Proto, ActivityPub and RSS.
If all goes well with our existing beta testers we will start letting in new wave of folks this weekend and early next week.
For more details: techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/o...
If all goes well with our existing beta testers we will start letting in new wave of folks this weekend and early next week.
For more details: techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/o...
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You can sign up for beta at waitlist.surf.social
Surf Waitlist
Sign up for the Surf Dawn Patrol Beta.
waitlist.surf.social
March 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
You can sign up for beta at waitlist.surf.social
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Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
March 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
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Why does Elon want to kill the hashtag? Nobody better to ask than @chrismessina.me.
I always love talking to Chris. This time I hit the record button and we went deep into the power and future of the hashtag, the role of identity and reputation online and the pros/cons of AI for moderation.
I always love talking to Chris. This time I hit the record button and we went deep into the power and future of the hashtag, the role of identity and reputation online and the pros/cons of AI for moderation.
Had a great conversation with @mmccue.bsky.social on the history of the hashtag, why Elon is wrong about it, the future of social networks (vis a vis #ActivityPub, #ATProto, etc), and how LLMs may intersect with social media moderation.
This was a good one.
This was a good one.
Turning Moments Into Movements, with Hashtag Inventor Chris Messina | Dot Social
Chris Messina goes wide to explain where this next 20-year cycle of the internet is taking us. From the community-organzing power of the hashtag to decentralization and the massive shifts ignited by A...
dot-social.simplecast.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Why does Elon want to kill the hashtag? Nobody better to ask than @chrismessina.me.
I always love talking to Chris. This time I hit the record button and we went deep into the power and future of the hashtag, the role of identity and reputation online and the pros/cons of AI for moderation.
I always love talking to Chris. This time I hit the record button and we went deep into the power and future of the hashtag, the role of identity and reputation online and the pros/cons of AI for moderation.
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@mike.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy has always been a true innovator in tech and is a great guy to boot. This @nytimes.com story is a good read about his latest innovation, a decentralized browser called Surf.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/t...
A Long-Shot Bet to Bypass the Middlemen of Social Media
Facing the looming threat of A.I. as a competitor, some publishers are considering an alternative to the internet’s all-powerful algorithms.
www.nytimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
@mike.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy has always been a true innovator in tech and is a great guy to boot. This @nytimes.com story is a good read about his latest innovation, a decentralized browser called Surf.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/t...
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From the community-organizing power of the hashtag to #decentralization and the massive shifts ignited by #AI, @chrismessina.me threads the needle on it all. The inventor of the hashtag joins @mmccue.bsky.social on the latest episode of Dot Social: about.flipboard.com/fediverse/ha...
Turning Moments Into Movements, with Hashtag Inventor Chris Messina
From the power of the hashtag to decentralization and the massive shifts ignited by AI, Chris Messina threads the needle on it all.
about.flipboard.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
From the community-organizing power of the hashtag to #decentralization and the massive shifts ignited by #AI, @chrismessina.me threads the needle on it all. The inventor of the hashtag joins @mmccue.bsky.social on the latest episode of Dot Social: about.flipboard.com/fediverse/ha...
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"Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
www.theatlantic.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"Suddenly, and not accidentally, people who work for the American federal government are having the same experience as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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February 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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February 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Good morning, Ann Arbor. Beautiful snowfall last night at @UMichLaw. Just remember, pitchers and catchers report today! ⚾️🌴😎
February 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Good morning, Ann Arbor. Beautiful snowfall last night at @UMichLaw. Just remember, pitchers and catchers report today! ⚾️🌴😎
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Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
February 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
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so, fortunately, your human popularity isn't what makes plants grow and hold atoms together, manually: 1+1 Oxygen #now = +1 Oxygen molecule: 🫁👈🏽
see also: wikipedia.org , PiReset.net, or insist that AI re-explain that "a human head is smaller than planet Earth; so you point your own direction #now"
see also: wikipedia.org , PiReset.net, or insist that AI re-explain that "a human head is smaller than planet Earth; so you point your own direction #now"
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
wikipedia.org
January 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
so, fortunately, your human popularity isn't what makes plants grow and hold atoms together, manually: 1+1 Oxygen #now = +1 Oxygen molecule: 🫁👈🏽
see also: wikipedia.org , PiReset.net, or insist that AI re-explain that "a human head is smaller than planet Earth; so you point your own direction #now"
see also: wikipedia.org , PiReset.net, or insist that AI re-explain that "a human head is smaller than planet Earth; so you point your own direction #now"
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