Sundar @digital_carver@social.cleverlibre.org

@hellhag666@godforsaken.website
i'm not

https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html
is interesting.

I once went searching for more natural-sounding singular pronouns than "xe" or "ze", but couldn't find any that had any significant following. (Singular "they" is ok in some places, but often sounds unnatural, and introduces more ambiguity in a language that's already ambiguous and difficult enough to learn for newcomers.)

Stallman's suggestion of "perse" (from person) for "he/she", "per" for "her/him", and "pers" for "hers/his" is easily to learn, sounds natural pretty quickly, and doesn't sacrifice clarity. "perse" and "pers" sounding alike in speech might be an issue, but maybe the context will clarify it in most cases, and maybe it's less of an ambiguity than arises from singular "they"? What do you think?

So just learnt that Cloudflare "email protection" is a thing (https://mstdn.io/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection).
Additionally, Cloudflare thinks Mastodon IDs are email addresses: so if you have Javascript disabled, you might find that instead of Mastodon IDs you only get to see `[email.protected]` everywhere. Thanks, Cloudflare, for going far and beyond your duties of serving pages given to you, for the sake of our "protection"!

@cereal
Sounds interesting, but I'm curious if it's been replicated. Given that 2/3rds of the studies in the field don't replicate, my default position is that it's likely untrue until proven otherwise.

"Help is out there" can be a well-intentioned message to someone struggling with mental illness, but it's also very often a thoughtlessly shallow, meaningless cliche.

Help is out there... if you're lucky enough to have the resources to access it.
Help is out there... if you fit into one of the pre-existing patterns that the system expects and is prepared for.
Help is out there... as long as you don't need too much of it.
Help is out there... in an abstract philosophical sense that may have no relevance and benefit to you.

If someone needs help, if you can, get them access to a specific resource that has a good chance of being helpful to them.
If you don't have the time or energy to do that, please don't substitute that with empty cliches, even if they happen to be popular ones - because you maybe simply amplifying falsehoods about the existing system, and dismissing the lived experience of many people that are mentally ill or suicidal.

Epistemic humility, personal confidence.

@urusan
I don't trust social progress to be constantly be upwards to arbitrary points in the future, so I agree to it only if:
(a) I'm promised complete autonomy when I'm revived,
and since promises can be broken and mean nothing,
(b) multiple internal kill switches, with different mechanisms, that I could use to kill myself post-revival if I so choose - just in case the future society is bad enough to warrant that. The switches could also be nullified by future technology, but corrupted societies are often also inept, so I'd be betting on the probability that at least one of the kill switches survives their attempts to mess with them.

Scientists discover oldest known human-made nanostructures in ancient artifacts in Tamil Nadu

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/scientists-discover-oldest-known-human-made-nanostructures-in-ancient-artifacts-in-tamil-nadu/article33149622.ece

@faho
shhhhhhhhhhhh

Another project similar to ToSBack: https://github.com/ambanum/CGUs-versions
Somewhat easier to use, cleaner commits.

Full diff between the current and upcoming versions of Instagram ToS [here](https://www.textcompare.org/index.html?id=5fb6e9224a4b890017b0a820).

The change should also appear as a commit [here](https://github.com/tosdr/tosback2/commits/master/crawl_reviewed/instagram.com/Terms%20of%20Service.txt) at the ToSBack project, once it's live (in a month). It's a pretty cool project, they track ToS and other policy docs of many sites in the `crawl` and `crawl_reviewed` folders, and commit each version to the repo so we can track their histories. It looks like Instagram updates their ToS from time to time without notice - even while adding the note to tell you that things are changing in December, they [snuck in a few other changes](https://github.com/tosdr/tosback2/commit/f16ea310722636978b64c94a86d807a1581e0dcb#diff-44b2543cb981cb6ee824693da013977470832f6ef28485311ad094e4ea9e0a39), for eg. saying that they could keep your content for 90 days or possibly forever after you delete your account.

Looks like Instagram's ToS is changing, to explicitly tell you that you are the product:

> How Our Service Is Funded
>
> Instead of paying to use Instagram, by using the Service covered by these Terms, you acknowledge that we can show you ads that businesses and organizations pay us to promote on and off the Facebook Company Products. We use your personal data, such as information about your activity and interests, to show you ads that are more relevant to you.

The Amazon Prime Music experience in India is so bad, it's like they took a version of one of the other music services from 8 years ago and slapped an Amazon label on it.

Some more relevant links I found from looking around, mostly on reddit (along with the country they're from):

* https://historyofexploration.net/ (France, no recent episodes)
* https://www.cmpod.net/episodes/ (Israel, no recent episodes)
* http://theeasternborder.lv/ (Latvia)
* https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/ (Qatar?)
* https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/ireland-now-nine-of-the-best-irish-podcasts-1.3004035 (Ireland)
* http://www.freespeechhistory.com/ (Denmark)
* https://letsfightaboss.simplecast.com/ (Ireland)
* https://www.sanspantsradio.com/podcasts/dd-is-for-nerds/ (Australia)
* https://2debate.eu/ (Germany)

#podcasts #worldmedia #diversity