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markwyner

@markwyner@mas.to

Activist, dad, husband, UX designer, technologist, researcher, writer, soccer fan, musician, vegetarian, meditator, competitive gamer, lover, hater, potty mouth, actually ADHD. He/him/his. https://mas.to/about/more?instance_actor=true moderator.

#BlackLivesMatter #AbolishThePolice #Antifascist #UX #Research #InformationArchitecture #Design #Code #Tofu

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arstechnica, to random
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Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature will record everything you do on your PC

Recall uses Copilot+ PC features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

18+ yurnidiot, to random
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how to weaponize your boob

:insta: @ cartumante

evacide, to random
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If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

anildash, to random
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Today is the anniversary of the MOVE bombing. The only thing that’s changed is police are far more militarized, far more funded, and far less accountable, while their supporters fly a desecrated flag to explicitly endorse their violent attacks.

markwyner, (edited ) to america
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You may be privy to or unfamiliar with how the ultra-wealthy are taking advantage of the system. Either way, you’ll find this report by @ProPublica to be staggering. The facts are clear: there is a class war, and we’re losing.

“…it demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system: that everyone pays their fair share and the richest Americans pay the most.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

#ClassWar #America #Taxes #Billionaires #Capitalism #Poverty #Inequality #EatTheRich

Attac_Norden,
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@markwyner @rbreich

Also in the European Union

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home

😘

jbzfn, to Futurology
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🧐 Shifting your research from X to Mastodon? Here’s what you need to know
by Roel Roscam Abbing and Robert W. Gehl

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10801199

#research #science #mastodon #fedi #academia

markwyner, (edited ) to mentalhealth
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Previously when I’ve shared this a number of people DM me to say they didn’t know it existed. This really surprised me, so I share it every so often.

If you might need it, tuck it away. If you know others who might, make sure they know.

We can feel vulnerable talking with friends and family. The 988 folks are compassionate, and enable anonymity and care when it’s needed most.

(This is for U.S. and Canada.)

funguy2playwith,
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@markwyner
🇨🇦 It also works in now as of November 2023. You can call or text 988 as well
https://988.ca/

ideogram,
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@markwyner
In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org.
@Tooden

dangillmor, to random
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Stack Overflow joins Twitter and Reddit in demonstrating control-freak contempt for the people who made the platform what it is.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

The company will probably get away with it, because people seem unable to fight back in effective ways, at least in numbers that make a difference.

dangillmor, to random
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If journalists cared about protecting democracy, they would be campaigning -- yes, in their news pages -- for free and fair elections.

Apparently that's too "partisan" for people whose fetish for balance has led them to help democracy's enemies.

So please read and pass around this piece from @marcelias, someone who cares passionately and is doing his best.

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/when-trump-attacks-our-elections-we-will-have-no-excuse/

Snowshadow, to internet
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Foreign Trolls and Bots are a problem on social media and the Fediverse is not immune so here are two links to help you identify them:

On of the links is interactive so you can test your skill.

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-how-do-i-spot-fake-social-media-accounts-bots-and-trolls/a-60313035

This one is interactive:

https://spotthetroll.org/start

The_Whore_of_Blahbylon, to random
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Cartoon by Henry James Garrett

silviamaggi, to random
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I am looking for a new role as either or within the UK (Cambridgeshire or London if hybrid). Boots, advice, and opportunities appreciated. Thank you in advance!

scottmatter, to random
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Space seems to be three dimensional.

Is time one-dimensional?

https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-think-about-time-to-understand-your-hopes-and-regrets

Snowshadow, to internet
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@GottaLaff

One of your followers asked for tips how to spot online foreign disinfo bots/trolls so here are a couple of links for people to read:

The second link is to an interactive article so we can judge the difference between a real account and that of a bot/troll.

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-how-do-i-spot-fake-social-media-accounts-bots-and-trolls/a-60313035

This one is interactive:

https://spotthetroll.org/start

mekkaokereke, to random
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The highest paid WNBA player makes under $1M a year. WNBA and NBA teams play 5 players to a side.

Ice Cube has a 3 on 3 basketball league called "The Big 3" that is made up mostly of retired NBA players. Ice Cube just offered Caitlin Clark a $5M contract to play in the Big 3. 🤯

Many WNBA players play in other leagues during their off-season, in places like Russia and Greece. The Big 3 plays during a time of the year when there is no WNBA season, so she can play in both leagues.

mekkaokereke,
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👨🏼"🤬But why are they giving a girl $5 million to play basketball?! She's not worthy! Is this DEI? They will lose money! No one watches women's sports!"

If I tell you that LeBron James is a big basketball star, you believe me. If I say that the NBA makes money selling TV rights, because people tune in to watch LeBron play, again you believe me.

When Caitlin Clark plays, she draws bigger ratings than when LeBron James plays. Her most recent game drew 4.9M viewers.🤯

People watch women's sports.

indivisibleteam, to random
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Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could threaten abortion access and restrict the FDA's ability to follow science. The legal and medical claims against mifepristone are completely bogus. We shouldn’t have to wonder if SCOTUS will follow the law & science to protect our rights. Tell your senators to hold the corrupt Court accountable: https://act.indivisible.org/letter/email-your-member-congress-and-tell-them-hold-corrupt-supreme-court-accountable?source=mastodon&medium=directpost

markwyner, to Venezuela
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These Venezuelan harpists are fire. Especially the first guy, Arquimedes Correa Mendoza. I follow and love him.

I actually had zero interest in the harp until I heard him. It’s not what you might expect. It’s SO good! 🔥❤️

More of his music:
https://www.instagram.com/arquimedes_32

#Venezuela #Harp #Music #Latin

Two young men wearing cowboy hats, playing a giant harp in an open grassy field, near a white horse, on a partially cloudy day.

Twitter_expat,
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@markwyner
Joropo. Music from the Venezuelan Savana mostly. These are the people who work with cattle and the land. Most of the time it’s a “contrapunteo” like a rap battle with improvisation. There is nothing like a barbecue, joropo, and a local town party in the Savana at sunset.

cassidy, (edited ) to opensource
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I just saw that Mozilla is retiring the Mozilla Location Service which provides an open, crowdsourced alternative to proprietary location services from Google and other vendors. 😰

https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065

This is used by GNOME and thus Fedora, Ubuntu, Endless OS, etc. to help provide OS-level location services without requiring every app to implement its own. And apparently a patent troll is part of the reason Mozilla stopped investing in it. 🙃

#OpenSource #Linux #GNOME #Mozilla

oconnell, to Health
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Millions of Texans are suffering from long and you might be surprised to learn that many of them are young and formerly healthy. Studies show that the more often you get infected, the more likely you are to have lingering, potentially life-changing effects.

Look for it in print in @TexasObserver magazine now, and online later this month.

indivisibleteam, to random
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This is really important: Too many Americans don't know about Trump's blatant authoritarian threats (like his vow to be a dictator "on day one" if he returns to power). We've got some work to do to raise awareness on what a second Trump presidency would mean for our country and communities. Our tools make it easy for you to take action locally: https://act.indivisible.org/lte/majority-over-maga-LTE?source=mastodon&medium=directpost

historyofpunkrock, to random
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Released 42 years ago

Walk Among Us, the debut album by the Misfits, featuring this song 'Skulls'

video/mp4

andycarolan, (edited ) to free
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The pack contains 64 88x31px PNG and SVG badges in 8 colors and phrases “made by a human, drawn by a human, human content, written by a human, I am not a robot, never by ai, human content, there's no ai here!”

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silviamaggi, to sustainability
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I’ve updated my bio, so it might be useful to introduce myself again here.

Based in Cambridge (UK), I am passionate about design, technology, their effects on our lives, photography and music.

I care about #Sustainability, #Accessibility, and curate the inspiration series Design, Digested.

Bilingual in Italian and English.

#UX #Degrowth #Photography #Knitting #Ukulele

markwyner, to KindActions
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Some of us are fighting those battles every single day of our lives. It’s exhausting. Compassion changes everything.

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