RL_Dane, to Blog
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New post: "The Toxicity Dance"
https://rldane.space/the-toxicity-dance.html

This one may trigger some, but I tried to make it very impartial.

Shout out to the excellent @joel for tone-checking it for me before I published it.

cc: the rest of my : @amin @dm @ivan @libreivan @sotolf @thedoctor @theDoctor

ai6yr, to random

So far, it appears you can be a "Feng shui" expert by making up whatever dang thing you want and writing it down. Also, they believe in ghosts.

ai6yr,

Just a safety note: CINNABAR is toxic (it's an ore of mercury) -- some of the oldest cases of mecury poisoning were from the use of cinnabar, 5000 years ago. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/love-of-wine-leads-to-chance-discovery-of-widespread-mercury-poisoning-in-copper-age-180979091/

GottaLaff, to random
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

⚠️FDA says to throw away these 6 cinnamon products because they contain high levels of lead

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lead-cinnamon-fda-applesauce-children/

Daniel_Keppler,
@Daniel_Keppler@mastodon.social avatar

@GottaLaff Thank you for this alert. According to Wikipedia true or “fake” cinnamon may also contain coumarin, which is “known to cause liver and kidney damage at high concentrations”. The EU set some dose limits in baked goods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon?wprov=sfti1#Toxicity

SteveThompson, to politics
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"Political gender gap grows as young women move left"

https://www.axios.com/2024/02/16/gen-z-gender-gap-political-left-women

"Young women who increasingly identify as liberal are driving a stark political gender gap with their male counterparts.

Men affected by many of the same societal forces — early exposure to smartphones and social media and a toxic political culture — aren't budging."

RonaldTooTall, to relationships

7 ways to steer clear of all that exhausting workplace drama

Don’t let the chaos and toxicity some colleagues bring to the office suck you in. Rise above it and stay productive.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91013540/7-ways-to-steer-clear-of-all-that-exhausting-workplace-drama

franco_vazza, to academia
@franco_vazza@mastodon.social avatar

in

My office mate of the day is being quite rude.

After we discussed each other tasks for the morning, and I dared to give him some advice, he dismissed me saying
"where did you go to school"
and questioned the math I proposed.

He says my tasks are useless.

He also makes a lot of noise and don't care if I need to focus.

We decided to settle things in a Fifa24 tournament.

My office mate is an ill 9yr kid.

bojacobs, to climate
@bojacobs@hcommons.social avatar

The same is true for radionuclides, as residents of Simi Valley found out when radioactive particles from the Santa Susana nuclear meltdown of 1959 (of which they were unaware) were discovered after the Woolsey Fire of 2018:

"Wildfires can unlock toxic metal particles from soils, study finds"

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-wildfires-toxic-metal-particles-soils.html

itnewsbot, to science
@itnewsbot@schleuss.online avatar

Lead-tainted fruit pouches poison 22 toddlers; blood lead levels 8X threshold - Enlarge / The three pouches so far linked to lead contamination. (credi... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1983643

itnewsbot, to mountaindew
@itnewsbot@schleuss.online avatar

Soda additive linked to thyroid toxicity may finally get banned by FDA - Enlarge / Sundrop is among the citrus soft drinks that still contains B... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1981139

SteveThompson, to TeslaMotors
@SteveThompson@mastodon.social avatar

"Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia"

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-wikipedia-twitter-x-encyclopedia-1234861220/

"Behind the X owner’s trolling is a years long obsession with the internet’s favorite encyclopedia"

anderjens, to climate
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technewslit, to news
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Researchers use stem cells to generate human neurons resembling those in the brain that control breathing during opioid reactions, for eventual chip devices to test overdose therapies.

https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=45185

wagesj45, to overwatch
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Well that didn't take long, lol. Just switched match chat back on today. :disgust_cat:

Overwatch Social Settings Receive Whispers: On Group Text Chat: On Team Text Chat: Off Match Text Chat: Off

Oceancowboy, to Cat

An evening dose of . Take a break from the & enjoy these play fighting. to make you smile 😁 means you have to leave a on the .

https://youtube.com/shorts/23qaZwbz0S8?feature=share

Nonog, to Medicine

Ayurvedic infertility medicine sends woman to hospital with lead poisoning
The woman had more than 25 times the normal amount of lead in her blood after taking Ayurvedic pills for a year.
https://www.livescience.com/health/medicine-drugs/ayurvedic-infertility-medicine-sends-woman-to-hospital-with-lead-poisoning #ayurvedic #infertility #medicine #lead #poisoning #toxicity #consumers

tero, to OpenAI
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The image is an excerpt from alignment by reduction, instructions for labellers.

Note that it's all in principle based on simple social media content policy, and kind of reduces to avoiding slurs and being polite.

It does not mention respect of truth, transparency and love of humanity.

It is also not designed for agency, acting in good faith and avoiding harm, it is designed for a chatbot and social media content. Put this kind of an AI into a robot, and it won't have qualms harming humans as long as it can explain it politely.

We have a long way to go to do effectively.

schizanon, to Amazon
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"In addition to text, uses speech cues such as tones and pitch to hone in on toxic intent in speech."

Good luck AWS, my toxicity is completely deadpan

Flag harmful language in spoken conversations with | Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/flag-harmful-language-in-spoken-conversations-with-amazon-transcribe-toxicity-detection/

maikel, to internet

Some day I'll have a serious conversation with you all about how algorithms based on popularity ultimately end up making your website work on ANGERING content by using as example r/popular.

Just now in that ridiculous website.

  • British tourist jailed for carving name in Roman Colliseum ---> Angering.
  • Man fired for cursing lady with lavish house for a 25% tip --> Angering.

Fuck it, screenshots, I'll finish quicker.

I can continue bringing screenshots for the rest of eternity and that would just be TODAY in Reddit. I need someone to explain on simple terms to me, why do people participate on what's clearly TOXIC for their mood

Ledfox, to MagicTheGathering

I want to leave toxic spaces (Twitter, Reddit, ect...) But I want content. Is my hobby just fundamentally toxic?

jbzfn, to twitter
@jbzfn@mastodon.social avatar

:birdsite: jogblog.substack.com writes:
"You are in the middle of Westboro Baptist Church trying to talk to people about the debt ceiling. They don’t care. They want you dead."



https://open.substack.com/pub/jogblog/p/why-are-journalists-still-on-twitter

protimetheft, to internet
jbzfn, to linux
@jbzfn@mastodon.social avatar

☣️ Why Are Arch Linux Users So TOXIC?
➥ Eric Murphy


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sHQFGhTiyk0&feature=youtu.be

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