Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

It's interesting the way much of TV and film has worked to pretend the pandemic never happened. I rarely see people wearing masks in TV in a contemporary setting and characters rarely refer to it. (Obviously there are some exceptions.)

It goes some way towards helping me understand another mystery: why so much fiction written after 1918 makes very little reference to the Spanish Flu despite it surely looming large in the lives of so many people.

#Threads stopped working for me a few days ago. Now, on both iOS and Android apps, all I ever get is a “Sorry, something went wrong” error. Reinstalling doesn’t fix it. It’s a shame, because the app was doing so well. That may not be a popular opinion on Mastodon, but I’m a fan of anything that pries people away from Twitter.

Found a solution to AI alignment

Four of the tweets denied the #Holocaust in explicit terms, one said “blacks should be gassed and sent with space x to Mars”, while a sixth compared Covid vaccination programmes to mass extermination in Nazi death camps. All were reported in January but Twitter ruled that three of the tweets did not violate its guidelines and failed to respond to the other reports, the legal action claims.

#Twitter faces legal challenge after failing to remove reported #hate tweets
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/10/twitter-faces-legal-challenge-after-failing-to-remove-reported-hate-tweets

How it started. (March 7, 2023):
“Elon Musk says Twitter may reach positive cash flow by second quarter”

How its going (July 15, 2023):
“Elon Musk says Twitter's cash flow still negative as ad revenue drops 50 per cent”

No more comments. 😏

#ElonMusk #Twitter #TheShipIsSinking

Until I moved from the dead bird site to Mastodon I never realized that I had so much pent up civility.

@dangoodin maybe the next stage of software engineering maturity will be a public, mandatory registration of security issues and root cause analysis, like the Chemical Safety Board, with a purpose to describe and mitigate classes of human frailty that cause these issues in the first place

Last year for my birthday I got a PhD, a nice job, and a pretty hectic move. This year I just want good memories and universal justice and liberation.

Multichain finally confirms their CEO was arrested in China

July 14, 2023
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=multichain-finally-confirms-their-ceo-was-arrested-in-china

Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born #OTD in 1943. As a grad student at Cambridge in 1967, she discovered an entirely new type of celestial object: Pulsars!

Photo: National Science & Media Museum / Science & Society Picture Library

@mastodonmigration if meta didn’t look like
It wanted to federate, there would be an outcry to federate. But it explored federation and the fediverse, protested strongly against it, so now they can do what they want while avoiding the scrutiny from the fediverse. They played it brilliantly. As the 800 lbs gorilla they’re away of how everyone would react to them.

12 years ago, I found a page with Lemmings written in DHTML. It still exists.

Oh, and the Dutch Dark Rock band hosting it's pretty good too.

https://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/

@dangoodin

Inigo Montoya has joined the picket line 😊

Phones with replaceable batteries to be required by 2027 thanks to the #EU

https://www.androidauthority.com/phones-with-replaceable-batteries-2027-3345155/

I’m hiring.

My team, which is overseeing the modernization of IRS IT with $10 billion+ from the Inflation Reduction Act, needs a coordinator. Someone early career who is beginning to see how much room for improvement there is with Federal IT, and is equipped for a high-profile mission.

Please boost.

https://openopps.usajobs.gov/tasks/5842

Someone seems mad!! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/

Aerospace researcher Sheila Widnall was born #OTD in 1938. She ran the @mit Fluid Dynamics Research laboratory, was the first chairwoman of the MIT faculty (1979), and became the first woman to head a branch of the military as Secretary of the Air Force (1993-97).

Image: MIT