nitpicking

rbreich, 3 days ago to random

The Appeal to Heaven flag isn't just tied to Jan 6.

It's a Christian nationalist symbol.

Christian nationalists believe that the law of the land is not the Constitution, but instead the law of God as they interpret it.

Do you see the problem with Alito flying this flag?

luckytran, 4 days ago to random

A new gold standard review of 100 studies finds:

• masks are effective in reducing transmission of respiratory diseases

• N95 respirators are significantly more effective than medical or cloth masks

• mask mandates are effective in reducing community transmission

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/cmr.00124-23

pjol, 3 days ago to DuckDuckGo

Time to block #DuckDuckGo as my timeline is getting flooded... 😂

Yes, DDG is down
Yes, DDG uses Bing (among others)

Protip: If a service you are using behaves strange do a hashtag search, example #DuckDuckGo as step one before posting, that might answer many questions you might have 😆

#Bing #SearchEngine

chrisgeidner, 3 days ago to random

Justice Sam Alito actually is, to turn the phrase on its head, a politician in robes.

On Alito, Roberts, and the latest crisis his court is facing — whether he likes it or not: https://www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-is-a-problem

GottaLaff, 8 days ago to random

Oh look.

Via Aaron Fritschner:

Justice #Alito says his wife Martha-Ann Alito had an altercation with neighbors about a "'Fuck Trump' sign that was within 50 feet of where children await the school bus in Jan 21."

Except... FCPS and ACPS were all remote in January of 2021. No children were waiting for buses

Washington Post 2 EDUCATION ‘I'm so glad you're here: Students return to Fairfax County classrooms for the first time in months ' By Hannah Natanson February 16, 2021 at 7:12 p.m. EST
EDUCATION Alexandria City Public Schools sets date for reopening: Arlington refuses to follow suit ' By Hannah Natanson February 5, 2021 at 3:25 p.m. EST

GottaLaff, 9 days ago to random

He blamed “Mrs. Alito”!🤦🏻‍♀️

At Justice #Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display

An upside-down flag, adopted by #Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over the justice’s front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case. #SCOTUS

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU0.Ul57.KzkpFSD-0V_Z&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jdnicoll, 9 days ago to random

Unvaccinated child dies of easily preventable, highly contagious disease.

https://www.cp24.com/news/ontario-sees-first-measles-death-in-more-than-a-decade-after-young-child-dies-1.6890989

QasimRashid, 10 days ago to random

Virginia GOP banning fiction novels about slavery because they’re allegedly traumatic to white kids but renaming their schools to Confederate terrorists despite their documented trauma on Black kids, aren't protecting children or education, they're protecting white supremacy.

idoubtit, 12 days ago to random

There is NO good reason to drink #rawmilk. If you are doing this, you have been seriously misinformed or uninformed about how pathogens work. Seek help now, especially if you have children, because you have really upped your chance of hurting or killing them. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/anti-pasteurization-crowd-reaffirms-love-of-raw-milk-despite-bird-flu-outbreak/

mhoye, 17 days ago to random

Both incredible and 100% unsurprising that StackOverflow would choose to burn down their community in favor of AI-generated slurry, when their community was the only path and the only tool they had to differentiate themselves from any goddamn site made of AI-generated slurry.

wdlindsy, 19 days ago to random

"ProPublica won the prestigious public service Pulitzer Prize for what the judges described as 'groundbreaking and ambitious reporting that pierced the thick wall of secrecy surrounding the Supreme Court to reveal how a small group of politically influential billionaires wooed justices with lavish gifts and travel, pushing the Court to adopt its first code of conduct.'”

~ ProPublica

An excellent choice by the Pulitzer folks.

#ProPublica #SupremeCourt #corruption

https://www.propublica.org/article/pulitzer-prize-announcement-propublica-supreme-court

TechConnectify, 21 days ago to random

Real thought:

What depresses me most about the state of the world at present is that we've stopped caring to live up to the spirit of our ideals.

When we fail them and are pressed, we can rationalize our terrible actions based on technicalities - and large swaths of our culture have normalized doing this very thing.

It is my most sincere hope that we can walk our way back from this. I see some signs of this, but would prefer to see many more.

danjac, 1 month ago to DuckDuckGo

PSA: #duckduckgo has succumbed to FOMO and now uses "AI assist" by default (sigh).

You can disable this crap here: https://duckduckgo.com/settings#duckassist

TechConnectify, 1 month ago to random

I don't know who needs to hear this (that's a lie: ~80% of drivers) but when you're in a turn lane or an exit only lane, you should still signal to confirm to those around you that you are aware of the lane you're in and where it's about to go.

dgar, 1 month ago to random

I have a joke about trickle down economics, but 99 percent of you won’t get it.

miclgael, 1 month ago to ai

To turn off "duck assist" #ai you can go to settings#duckassist and switch it off manually. Doing so will set 2x cookies; "be" and "bd" in your browser.

#DuckDuckGo #Ai #Enshittification

https://duckduckgo.com/settings#duckassist

brucelawson, 1 month ago to random

Enjoy these two concentric circles

maxkennerly, 1 month ago to random

If you work in education, please please please educate your colleagues that "AI detectors" like TurnItIn are all scams and none of them can reliably detect AI-generated content.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1bwojmm/comment/ky7o8m4/

A teacher comments that TurnItIn deemed their own writing to be 94% AI written.

futurebird, 1 month ago to random

(via: https://www.tumblr.com/dont-fuckle-with-the-shuckle/747014658588917760?source=share)

space_cadet, 1 month ago to random

Economics: "Humans only value things monetarily."
Sociology: "Uh, | don't..."
Economics: "Humans are always rational and value is calculated by complex internal calculus."
Sociology: "Uhhh, Psy, can you help?" Psychology: "That's not how humans..." Economics: "ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!"
Physics: drops teacup

arstechnica, 1 month ago to random

101 studies flagged as bogus COVID cure pusher sees career unravel

It's a past-due reckoning for French microbiologist Didier Raoult, critics say.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/101-studies-flagged-as-bogus-covid-cure-pusher-sees-career-unravel/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

JamesGleick, 1 month ago to random

A Singapore-flagged cargo ship had a power failure for reasons still unknown and destroyed Baltimore’s bridge.

If you’re a Republican in 2024 America, your mission is clear: find a Black woman to blame.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2024/03/26/baltimore-bridge-collapse-caused/

lauren, 2 months ago to random

It's important to understand that "age verification" schemes being passed by states, ostensibly to "protect the children", won't do that and will bring about incredible abuses.

In order to age verify children, obviously EVERYBODY of any age must be verified, for every account, under every name or pseudonym, ultimately on every site no matter how public or private the topic, and before downloading any apps.

Children will find ways to work around this. They'll use the accounts of adults, which will be openly traded. But because these age verification systems must by definition be based on government IDs, the verification process creates a linkage between your account names and your actual identity, subjecting you to all manner of leaked personal information, government abuses (think MAGA in charge), and worse. Firms will claim their systems either don't keep this data or can't be abused. History strongly suggests otherwise, and when courts step in, those firms will have to do what the courts say, often in secret, when it comes to collecting data.

Age verification is in actuality a massive Chinese-style Internet identity tracking project -- nothing less -- and there are many politicians in the U.S. who look with envy at how China controls their Internet and keeps their Internet users under police state controls.

AskPippa, 2 months ago to space

It's solar storm season! We interrupt this program to... zzzp, pzzt, zap!

#sun #space #astronomy
https://www.earth.com/news/severe-solar-storm-will-generate-auroras-as-far-south-as-alabama/

davidbrin, 2 months ago to random

Loathe to rec a link to Joe Rogan, but that might lure your MAGA to watch Penn Jillette dissect Trump. Penn - a libertarian with liberal social codes - says a man should not be a bully, a liar, a traitor or a thief... and ideally not a monster, either.
https://youtu.be/A-UK40_XkWw?si=w3QNhT3bF8d7Xjba