I’m a queer-for-short Black American who loves to write and doodle, and is doing their best. Also nerd-adjacent. Has been caught VTubing. Typically they/them.
I’m a queer-for-short Black American who loves to write and doodle, and is doing their best. Also nerd-adjacent. Has been caught VTubing. Typically they/them.
Driverless Cars Are Worse at Spotting Kids and Dark-Skinned People, Study Says (gizmodo.com.au)
New research shows driverless car software is significantly more accurate with adults and light skinned people than children and dark-skinned people.
A white man fatally shoots 3 Black people at a Florida store in a hate crime, then kills himself (abcnews.go.com)
Jacksonville's sheriff says a white gunman who killed three people at a Dollar General store was racially motivated and hated Black people
Jitsi, the open-source video conferencing platform, now requires a Google, Microsoft, or Facebook account for their online service. - Beehaw (beehaw.org)
While Jitsi is open-source, most people use the platform they provide, meet.jit.si [http://meet.jit.si], for immediate conference calls. They have now introduced a “Know Your Customer” policy and require at least one of the attendees to log in with a Facebook, Github (Microsoft), or Google account. If you prefer not to...
Is Google going to make Android a nightmare? (arachnoid.com)
The discussion I stumbled upon, about this SSH app for Android, is really worrying. Will Google really manage to make it impossible to root your phone?...
Zoom's Updated Terms of Service Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out - Lemdro.id (lemdro.id)
Zoom Video Communications, Inc. recently updated its Terms of Service [https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/] to encompass what some critics are calling a significant invasion of user privacy.
A list of recent hostile moves by #Google's #Chrome team (Jeff Fortin T. (@nekohayo@mastodon.social)) (mastodon.social)
A list of recent hostile moves by #Google's #Chrome team;...
Musk says Twitter will no longer have a light mode, making dark mode the default option (9to5mac.com)
Since Elon Musk became Twitter’s CEO, he’s been pushing through a lot of changes to the social network. But perhaps...
Error when trying to upvote posts/comments?
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What does blocking someone actually do?
What does blocking on kbin actually do? I’m asking because it seems incomplete, to put it mildly. If you block someone, they can still see what you post and reply to you and you’re still sent notifications of their replies, even though you can’t see the comment itself (or any replies other people make to comments of an...
A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out" (privacy.thenexus.today)
When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon"....
Robotech: Rick Hunter – First Story Details Revealed (Exclusive) (www.denofgeek.com)
The newest comic book in the Robotech anime universe is focusing on fan-favorite Rick Hunter going up against an all new threat.
Bluesky allowed people to include the n-word in their usernames (www.engadget.com)
Before this week, Bluesky did not have an automated system in place to prevent people from including the n-word in their handle..
My feelings right now for myself and all my LGBTQ fam
What are tankies? What does sea-lioning mean?
I’ve run across these terms several times, but without enough context to figure out what they mean. Could someone help me out, please?...
did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school?
im 20 for reference. ever since i was a kid, up until hs, we were forced every morning to stand, look at the flag and hold our hearts and say:...
OC Little bit of family joy to share
My sibling is transitioning mtf and just started hormone therapy. She has also always been a huge fan of IPAs and has been super into sharing her love of them with us (to little success). So anyways, our discord movie night comes up and she says she has some bad news. Apparently the hormones have made things taste different, and...
Far-right figures, including Nazi supporters, anti-gay extremists, and white supremacists, are flocking to Threads (www.mediamatters.org)
A hedgehog on wheels
Southern US Reaches Dangerous "Wet Bulb Temperature". Here's What That Means (www.iflscience.com)
Multiple southern states and a few midwestern states are at "extreme threat" levels of "wet bulb temperature".
PSA: You Can't Delete Your Threads Account Without Also Deleting Instagram (www.makeuseof.com)
Meta's Threads app has a major flaw: you can't delete your Threads account without deleting your Instagram account.
OverClocked ReMix: Video Game Music Community (ocremix.org)
OverClocked ReMix is a video game music community with tons of fan-made ReMixes and information on video game music....