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thisismissem

@thisismissem@hachyderm.io

Tech Princess 👸🏻 Feminist Politicker 💁🏻‍♀️ Fashionable Woman 💋 Tooling Witch 🛠
🚀 Founder of https://unobvious.technology
Pro-Unions 💪🏻 Trans & Queer 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

I currently work on Moderation and Trust & Safety tooling for the Fediverse.

Contributor to Mastodon & Pixelfed.
You've probably used code I’ve written.

Advisor to IFTAS (https://about.iftas.org)

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mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Some of my friends that are convicted felons are 100% innocent of what they were accused and convicted of. Some of my friends that are convicted felons are guilty, and absolutely did what they were accused of. I don't make fun of people for being convicted felons, and I don't ostracize them. Instead, I don't let bad people around me. My definition of bad focuses on the choices that a person made in the past, and the choices that they make now. Some of the worst people, will never be felons.

1/N

juergen_hubert,
@juergen_hubert@thefolklore.cafe avatar

@mekkaokereke What really threw me for a loop is when I learned that in the USA voting is not a right, but a privilege - one that can be revoked for all sorts of reasons. But when I took a closer look at American history, I understood why this was the case (it always boils down to racism, doesn't it...).

And I have the firm conviction that voting should be a universal right for all adult citizens in countries which call themselves democracy.

(For the record, here in Germany the only way of losing the right to vote is if you are incapable of understanding the concept of voting - such as, say, dementia or similarly severe mental disability. And that requires a certified medical evaluation - it's extremely rare, and certainly not a useful tool for large-scale voter suppression.)

tomayac, to random
@tomayac@toot.cafe avatar

Released a neat little helper today—fetch-in-chunks 📦—a powerful utility library for fetching large files in chunks with parallel downloads, progress tracking, TypeScript types, and request abortion 💪!

Get started with:

npm install fetch-in-chunks  

const MODEL_URL = 'g-2b-it-gpu-int4.bin';  
const blob = await fetchInChunks(MODEL_URL, {  
 progressCallback: (done, total) => console.log(done / total),  
});

Check out the README for more details! 🎉

https://github.com/tomayac/fetch-in-chunks/

fj, to random
@fj@mastodon.social avatar

Email from Meta this morning:
“To help bring [Meta AI and AI Creative Tools] to you, we'll now rely on the legal basis called legitimate interests for using your information to develop and improve AI at Meta.”

QasimRashid, to random
@QasimRashid@mastodon.social avatar

BREAKING: Jury convicts Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts.

Poetic justice that in the state Trump took out a full page ad to falsely accuse 5 Black & brown youth of a crime & called for their death—he’s convicted of 34 counts by a jury of his peers.

Let's be clear.

Trump was NOT convicted by Biden, Clinton, Soros, Big Bird, Target, Wokeness, Disney, pride flag, CRT, or DEI. Trump was convicted by his fellow U.S. citizens under due process—as US Constitution requires

Let justice reign.

eslint, to random
@eslint@fosstodon.org avatar

Introducing the ESLint Configuration Migrator:
https://eslint.org/blog/2024/05/eslint-configuration-migrator/

mastohost, to random
@mastohost@mastodon.social avatar

I will be starting the installation of Mastodon v4.2.9 on Masto.host.

There will be about 15 seconds of downtime during the upgrade.

Changelog: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.9

thomasfuchs, to random
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar

I… uhm…

randahl, to random
@randahl@mastodon.social avatar

Trump told his voters, "I have all the best people”.

Here are those people…

Trump: Guilty of 34 counts of felony fraud.

Trump’s lawyer Christina Bob: Arrested.

Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani: Indicted.

Trump's lawyer John Eastman: Indicted.

Trump's CFO Allen Weisselberg: Jailed… twice.

Trump's adviser Peter Navarro: Jailed.

Trump's adviser Steve Bannon: Going to jail.

Trump's fixer Michael Cohen: Served 3 years in prison.

edri, to humanrights
@edri@eupolicy.social avatar

1/3 New "solution" from the @eu2024be on #ChatControl fails #HumanRights on all counts!

We're looking at:
🔸Forced consent
🔸Mass scanning of private messages
🔸Undermining encryption
🔸Punishing privacy-enhancing services & rewarding those that violate people’s privacy

Read more: https://edri.org/our-work/be-scanned-or-get-banned/

chendo, to random
@chendo@mastodon.social avatar

US anti-porn campaigning group that calls themselves "National Center on Sexual Exploitation" has been found advising, promoting, and endorsing anti-LGBTQ+ activists and politicians in Uganda: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/us-far-right-group-influencing-anti-gay-policy-africa

reconbot, to random
@reconbot@toot.cafe avatar

This is kinda cool - don't need it but I like it https://typespec.io/

carnage4life, to random
@carnage4life@mas.to avatar

A survey by the Reuters Institute and Oxford of 12,000 people across 6 countries shows a huge gap between adoption and hype around generative AI tools.

Just 1% using tools like ChatGPT on a daily basis in Japan, rising to 2% in France and the UK, and 7% in the USA.

stux, to random
@stux@mstdn.social avatar

She has a real good example of how algorithms on platforms like Instagram not only try to make you addicted but also divide us even more

I real LOVE the fact Mastodon and most of the Fediverse software avoids this all together

A girl explaining comments shown on an example Instagram posts. It looks at your age, gender, interests and serves comments based on that.

LLS,
@LLS@wandering.shop avatar

@mekkaokereke @sue @stux “Someone is still deciding which replies you see and which ones you don't see, presumably for your safety and enjoyment.”

THIS!

An instance’s mod policy & practices affect your fedi exp so much. At least it’s a subtractive thing: Admins can’t push posts at you (unless you follow them)

Still, it makes one’s finding the right instance hard bc mod info can’t be reduced to 30-character descriptions in the “pick a server” funnels

ethank, to random

It’s remarkable how Tesla went from a status thing to everything but the maker of quality cars. It’s all pay packages, shareholder intrigue, a shoddily built lemon car, a malignant narcacist CEO and diminishing features and reliability.

It’s a cult supported corporate mess that sometimes sells kind of shitty cars. Putting my auto broker on notice to jump on the first 2025 Ioniq 5.

thomas, (edited ) to random
@thomas@metalhead.club avatar

I'd like to remind all Mastodon users that you can add a language filter to any follow relationship on Mastodon.

If you follow me and you don't speak German, you can easily remove my German posts from your timeline by adjusting the language settings.

Go to my profile page, select the dot menu and click "Change subscribed languages". Then select the languages that you speak.

This really is a hidden gem 💎 on Mastodon and not many people seem to know this feature :awesome:

b0rk, to random
@b0rk@jvns.ca avatar

love this post “Instead of "auth", we should say "permissions" and "login"" by @nicole.

it's a great explanation of how using less jargon-y language can be more clear. Also I've been really enjoying her blog generally.

https://ntietz.com/blog/lets-say-instead-of-auth/

davidho, to random
@davidho@mastodon.world avatar

Lamppost EV chargers are the answer to how you charge your vehicle in cities.

This is possible because when energy intensive street lamps were replaced by LEDs, there’s excess power for charging EVs.

All cities should do this. ⚡️

h/t Robert Llewllyn

NGI_Taler, to Banking
@NGI_Taler@s10y.eu avatar

🎂 NGI TALER's amazing partner, @glsbank is turning 50 and they celebrate half a century of socio-ecological on the 1st and 2nd of June at !

💡On Sunday at 12:00 CEST, don't miss the workshop organised by @leoo under the title "Wer weiß, was du kaufst? Datenflut beim Bezahlen" presenting the unique benefits of @Taler for preserving digital payments based on !

📌 Register: https://www.gls.de/privatkunden/gls-bank/aktuelles/termine/ueberregional/gls-jubilaumlumsfestival-mit-nachhaltigkeitsmesse/

KeithDJohnson, to TeslaMotors
@KeithDJohnson@sfba.social avatar

#Musk is a free-speech absolutelynotist.
"This is why right-wing #billionaires sue people reporting on them," continued Collins, who previously worked as a reporter for #NBC News covering, among other thing, right-wing disinformation. "They know they can't win these lawsuits. But they also know legal fees will cripple the little guy reporting on their lies & crimes. This is how free speech is actually chilled—vengeful dipshit billionaires.
"This is the latest example of billionaires & pandering politicians abusing the legal system to retaliate against their critics & harm the public's right to know,""
https://www.commondreams.org/news/elon-musk-media-matters-suit

shauna, to random
@shauna@social.coop avatar

If you want to follow along with Ghost's attempts to implement ActivityPub they are surprisingly hilarious

https://activitypub.ghost.org/day2/?ref=building-activitypub-newsletter

KeithDJohnson, to twitter
@KeithDJohnson@sfba.social avatar

"Just 10 "superspreader" users on were responsible for more than a third of the misinformation posted over an eight-month period, according to a new report.

In total, 34% of the "low credibility" content posted to the site between January & October of 2020 was created by the 10 users identified by researchers based in the US & UK. More than 70 per cent of posts came from just 1,000 accounts.

This amounted to more than 815,000 tweets." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-23/twitter-misinformation-x-report/103878248

janl, to berlin
@janl@narrativ.es avatar

Let’s keep it.
https://det.social/@fryday/112501738544486389

heapwolf, to random
@heapwolf@fosstodon.org avatar

Almost everything in the Cloud will become software again.

Some younger people are calling this "local-first", which is just a rebranding of "software" for people who grew up with everything-as-a-service.

🧵Here's why it will happen sooner than you think...

heapwolf,
@heapwolf@fosstodon.org avatar

Google is having a crisis moment. People not searching js a threat to their Ad business. So being the highly reactive company they are, they're refocusing on AI, and instead of serving search results and sending people to websites, they will be serving AI generated content. The biggest proponent of "the Web" will become the biggest proponent of whatever makes them the most money. That's just business.

chrisjrn, to random
@chrisjrn@social.coop avatar

Justice Department to bring antitrust suit against Ticketmaster 👀👀👀👀👀

https://wapo.st/4bRFUAv (gift link)

carnage4life, to random
@carnage4life@mas.to avatar

"It's not Scarlett Johansson's voice. IT'S A VOICE ACTRESS THEY CAN'T NAME FOR PRIVACY REASONS"

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