Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

The lawyer who advised Trump’s 2020 election scheme could lose his California law license. Meanwhile, he’s pushing a fringe election theory at the Supreme Court. (via Deadline: Legal Blog)

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/john-eastman-california-bar-supreme-court-rcna67828?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma&taid=63d7bf55f6f20a0001ba6831&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Hayes Brown: The biggest effect of Trump’s return to Facebook isn’t the reopened fire hose of lies. It's the renewed stream of cash to his 2024 coffers.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/facebook-giving-trump-2024-financial-boost-needs-rcna67687?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma&taid=63d7a34766853e00012d0fa1&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Helping my aging parents with their iPhone. It’s objectively v hard to use if you have eye issues, slightly shaky hands etc. surprised there’s not a simple “aging friendly” mode that behaves more like OG iOS.

For all y'all struggling with the egg shortage/ inflation:

1 TBSP of ground flax seed in 2.5 TBSP of warm water (let sit until it thickens) will sub for eggs in most baking recipes.

#Eggs #EggShortage #Egg #CookingWithoutEggs #Vegan #VeganBaking

71 in 13 minutes. Never been about compliance.

71 Commands in 13 Minutes: Officers Gave Tyre Nichols Impossible Orders-
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/us/tyre-nichols-video-assault-cops.html

I understand why some people don’t like algorithmic feeds. There is a feeling not only that you don’t have control in what you are presented and that the machines/people who do have control are optimizing for their objectives (max engagement + $) not yours (value for time…). That feeling is justified.

Throwing out the idea of computers helping us deal with info overload and discovery of things we truly care about is not, IMO, justified.

There's always been a crisis of masculinity.

"The American people have this to learn: that where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property is safe.”. - Frederick Douglass

Reposting this since it was in a thread where someone blocked hashtags.

#blackmastodon
It turns out they did catch the guy. Sounds like they just charged him, not his sons too.

I'm still shocked that not much has been made of the fact that this was an obvious attempt to make the Cleveland BLM protests appear "violent" these people weren't with the protest. It's a very real thing that happens but it's like no one cares.

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2022/08/man-charged-in-setting-fire-to-parking-lot-booth-outside-justice-center-during-may-30-2020-riots-in-downtown-cleveland.html

Photo source: https://clevelandpolice.wordpress.com/2020/06/06/males-wanted-for-arson-and-rioting-offenses-during-may-30-2020-civil-unrest-in-downtown-cleveland/

"Activation Lock is a great feature, but needs a rethink as 2020 Macs are turned into landfill"

#ewaste #mac #apple #environment #obsolescence

https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/27/2020-macs-landfill/

This is accurate ;)

(via https://marketoonist.com/2023/01/evolution-of-smart-products.html)

Just a random reminder that megachurches are corporations disguised as charities.

I’m not an #openai or #chatgpt fanboy but the list of big tech Machine Learning visionaries heavily criticizing the technology when their company doesn’t offer an alternative is very telling. Here is an idea: release a competing product and beat the product if it’s so bad. That’s the beauty of market economies and capitalism. Anything less than that makes them sound like someone ate their lunch in my opinion.

#technology #innovation

#palestine #palestinianlivesmatter #indigenouslivesmatter #seekjustice #sermononthemount #deconstruction #exvangical #agnostic #israeliapartheid

Everyone who read the NYT Magazine article today on NIL deals in college athletics (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/magazine/ncaa-nba-student-athlete.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes) should also read Craig Garthwaite et al. on how current funding practice "effectively transfers resources away from students who are more likely to be black and more likely to come from poor neighborhoods towards students who are more likely to be white and come from higher-income neighborhoods"
https://www.nber.org/papers/w27734

I hope there's a whistleblower at the New York Times and/or FBI who will reveal the source or sources who got the Paper of Record to help Trump win the presidency and derail the Clinton campaign.

Read this by @willbunch
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/mcgonigal-russian-oligarch-trump-2016-election-20230129.html

and this by Timothy Snyder

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-specter-of-2016

The metastasizing FBI scandal has many facets, but unraveling the Times' role is crucial for journalism -- and the paper has stonewalled relentlessly since 2016.

Ron DeSantis’ Florida, by Clay Jones #cartoon

businesses that won't allow me to delete my payment method upon canceling my account really infuriate me

you shouldn't have my credit card number anymore if I'm no longer your customer

https://www.calligrapher.ai

This is really interesting use of AI. Hand writing fonts notoriously feel ‘off’ because even if well designed they look the exact same when repeated. “Super Super Super” would return 3 stings that look identical. But AI can return strings with similar structure but subtle variations.

#openai #ai