ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

keep thinking about all those “wrong answers only” tweets and ai training sets.

I’m really looking forward to the day when the French tax office doesn’t require me to fill out a 4-page form in triplicate for each publisher & have it signed and rubber-stamped by the Australian tax office before I snail-mail it to France. Then I won’t need to own a printer.

Corbin on Critical Race Theory Bans https://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/2023/04/corbin-on-critical-race-theory-bans.html

Recommended! Check it out! You won't regret it!
(Well, I cannot guarantee the last bit, but the paper has a nice primer on Critical race theory, and a spot on dissection of how CRT bans reflect white privilege and white fragility)

#FediLaw #LawFedi #Law #LawProf #race #racism #CriticalRaceTheory #CRT

Fair warning to all journalists and reporters...

Today, Elon is spanking another reporter for publishing stuff Elon doesn't like. Be glad it isn't you. Just ask Taylor Lorenz, you don't want to be spanked. It's simple, just don't publish anything Elon doesn't like.

If you have any questions, any questions at all, just don't publish it. Your account on Twitter is way too important to you to risk publishing anything Elon doesn't like.

#twittermigration

Turns out most adults don't want to go to college in a state that doesn't give women full rights over their own bodies.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/20/health/reproductive-rights-college-decisions-wellness/index.html

So, Twitter decided to pull a DeviantArt move and change its Terms Of Services to include anything you post there on their AI dataset, to re-publish your art and benefit from it without your consent or compensation.

TIME TO DELETE YOUR ART PORTFOLIO ON TWITTER

I will only leave my contact information there, nothing else.

#Twitter #artistsonmastodon #TwitterAlert #AuthorsRights #AI #DeleteTwitter

I have an indoor cat. She greets me at the front door, like a good indoor cat.
Except this morning, when I returned home in an unfamiliar car, from the wrong direction. As I got out of the car I saw my good indoor cat barrel down a treetrunk, scoot across the lawn, and leap up a wall and through a window I didn't know she could access.
Then she demurely greeted me at the front door like any good indoor cat.
How long has this been going on?

I've only recommended one VPN service, ever (and no, I don't have any financial relationship to them): Mullvad. They have always seemed to be one of the few entities that practices the mantra, "You don't have to protect what you don't collect."

This quite a press release:

"Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant. Customer data not compromised
20 April 2023 NEWS

On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant.
They intended to seize computers with customer data.

In line with our policies such customer data did not exist. We argued they had no reason to expect to find what they were looking for and any seizures would therefore be illegal under Swedish law. After demonstrating that this is indeed how our service works and them consulting the prosecutor they left without taking anything and without any customer information.

If they had taken something that would not have given them access to any customer information.

Mullvad has been operating our VPN service for over 14 years. This is the first time our offices have been visited with a search warrant."

Source: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised/

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/a-deep-dive-into-the-residential-proxy-service-911/

If you're cis, I'd like you to read this article and learn that Missouri is about to enact a full ban on transition healthcare for transgender people. The deadline is April 27.

No cisgender person I've shared this with has had any idea that this is a ban, not a regulation - the requirements are impossible to meet.

I would also ask that you share this information with three other cis people today, preferably ones in or near #Missouri .

Thank you.

https://gizmodo.com/missouri-trans-gender-affirming-care-ban-adults-order-1850337858

akismet but for the #fediverse

I'm building a community service with first class #pixelfed support to help detect spam

integrity and privacy are key, I look forward to establishing a working group with community consensus driven development

together we can do so much

#pixelfed #akismet #activityPub #fediverse #spam

This helped a lot. Watch.

Lawrence O’Donnell:

Rupert #Murdoch and #Fox surrendered. Truth won big. Rupert lost.

#Dominion #legal
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-rupert-murdoch-and-fox-surrendered-truth-won-big-rupert-lost-170650181624

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Some online discussions imply that the factor of 8π is simply for the convenience not having to write it elsewhere. This is not the case: particle physicists take their 4π's seriously.
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https://twitter.com/FlipTanedo/status/1648839447625232385

A closer look at the dust-bore triggered brief thunderstorm at sunset with detached anvil then spreading off NE. Reminds me a bit of the Bore-Triggered Hector 😉➡️youtu.be/Wpg1LquKKHk

Love the mindset: "I sometimes describe myself as a technology optimist who thinks and prepares like a pessimist."

@cfiesler on #AI, ethical debt and the damages being done right now.

https://theconversation.com/ai-has-social-consequences-but-who-pays-the-price-tech-companies-problem-with-ethical-debt-203375

In France, they don't say "pot" they say "dispositif sonore portatif", which they use to express their democratic right to be heard when this right is being trampled. And I think it's beautiful.

#ReformeDesRetraites #CriseDemocratique

Cash-Strapped Fox Forced to Sell Kevin McCarthy
#GOP #news #Politics #USA

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/cash-strapped-fox-forced-to-sell-kevin-mccarthy

American Library Association on Twitter: ""From coast to coast and across the heartland, Americans remain overwhelmingly committed to libraries, despite what manufacturers of moral panic may claim." — Chris Harris @ips_dc blog, OtherWords #UniteAgainstBookBans https://t.co/ihMGabTU6B" / Twitter

https://twitter.com/ALALibrary/status/1648820271443222529

Judicial record undermines Clarence Thomas defence in luxury gifts scandal https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/20/clarence-thomas-supreme-court-harlan-crow-luxury-gifts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other