Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

Just a few weeks after starting schools in Kentucky are closed due to widespread illnesses.

https://www.wkyt.com/2023/08/24/multiple-ky-schools-close-due-illness-start-new-year/?outputType=amp

Good thing everyone has thrown away their masks and decided #covid doesn’t exist anymore, eh.

#Tornado warning near #Toledo (well, south of Toledo, closer to Sandusky). Seeing lots of reports here on the Fediverse of power outages and storm damage. #MIwx

So looks like I'll be building my Fediverse presence from scratch now that I've lost my followers after moving instances (my fault entirely).

If you happen to see this, please boost so my old friends can see where I am!

A Fox TV broadcast station license renewal is facing an uncommon level of scrutiny at the Federal Communications Commission, with the FCC taking the rare step of allowing broader public input on a petition to deny the station's renewal application.

The proceeding concerns WTXF-TV in Philadelphia, the only Fox-owned TV station that's currently up for renewal. An advocacy group called the Media and Democracy Project (MAD) petitioned the FCC to deny the renewal, arguing that Fox "has repeatedly aired false information about election fraud, sowing discord in the country and contributing to harmful and dangerous acts on January 6, 2021."

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/petition-to-deny-fox-tv-license-over-false-election-info-gains-steam-at-fcc/#p3

#News #FOX #TV #FCC #Philadelphia

Looks like TFG's royal progress to Atalanta is a police escort extravaganza worthy of Cleopatra.

Who is paying for all those police? Who authorized that expense of tax payer money?

Whoever authorized that should himself be indicted for waste of public assets.

Attempt at networking post!

Hi! I would love to meet and talk to more people in #dataScience #statistics #stats #pydata #dataViz etc etc

I have a Phd in #appliedMath and I work in #productAnalytics

I attend my local American Statistical Assoc meetings sometimes, but they are rare.

I also helped start an R User Group once, (but haven't used R in more than 10 years), and ran a Big Data reading group in #pdx

Please boost 😀

@StillIRise1963 History will look at this the same way we do at the HCW who not only refused to wash their hands, but tantrumed so hard against it they had the MD who proved it necessary committed.
My daughter’s response to the Rheumatology NP (the entire specialty is in Immunocompromised people!) mocked us for masking: “Not masking is gleefully participating in genocide.” The NP was annoyed but did ask someone to bring her a mask. It was just a surgical paper one but the point was made.
I hate them all, and if we had any other options, I’d take them.

The first step is admitting you have a problem.

Though not a complete consensus at this point, this is what I see as the likely “unofficial” platform of the Republican party for 2024.

-12 year olds should be forced to give birth.
-12 year olds can be factory workers.
-12 year olds should be able to own semi-automatic weapons.
-12 year olds access to books should be controlled by religious panels.
-Christianity should be taught in schools.
-Christian schools should be tax funded.
-Christian groups can discriminate based on religion.
-History of Slavery, Misogyny, Corruption, Fascism, LGTBQ+ etc. should be diminished/eliminated from school curriculums.
-LGTBQ+ people can be discriminated against legally.
-Make abortion illegal nationally after 15 weeks.
-Make contraception for women illegal.
-Do nothing about climate change.
-Diminish, degrade, eliminate equity or inclusion in business and government.
-Businesses and individuals should not be made to obey laws if they are contrary to their interpretation of the Christian religion.
-Stop support for Ukraine.
-Capitulate to Putin in Ukraine.
-Abandon NATO.
-Emulate authoritarian leaders/oligarchs worldwide.
-Eliminate public health laws.
-Do not further fund Medicare/Medicaid.
-Do not further fund Social Security.
-Cut taxes further for business.
-Cut regulations for business.
-Eliminate civil rights laws.
-Support Trump.
-Weaponize the Dept of Justice against political foes.
-Pardon Trump.
-“Freedom”
-“Patriotism”

Great post on the hypocrisy in companies that ban web scraping while also relying on it.

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/08/web-scraping-for-me-but-not-for-thee-guest-blog-post.htm

Well, that’s sad. Another one bites the dust. https://consequence.net/2023/08/carlos-santana-anti-trans-speech/

A part of the spinning force working in #theWashingtonCottonMills, #Fries, #Va.Group posed by the overseer. All work. The overseer said, "These boys are a bad lot." All were alive to the need for being 14 years old when questioned. Location: #Fries, #Virginia.

#Photography #LewisHine #ChildLabour #ChildLabor

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018676372/

Reminder: friends don’t let friends use sticker mule. The CEO is a trump supporter and donates to anti-LGTBQ organizations. I saw a screed of tweets from the CEO happen live back in 2016. They are horrible in other ways too.

Mainstream media has failed to focus on the biggest takeaway from last night's GOP debate:

The Republican party has confirmed that it would put a convicted felon the White House.

Nothing else they talked about really matters. #politics #journalism

@claudegohier @rvawonk
Anyways, here's a story to hopefully help convince people from talking about ELoon's purchase as a business decision. It was in a way, but not to make the social media platform into a directly profitable business.

“It is an attempt to quash any counter-disinformation efforts ahead of the 2024 election,” Jankowicz, a well-known expert on disinformation and extremism, told West Wing Playbook. “That seems very clear to me now.”
https://politi.co/3JNHlEy via
@politico

Re. the “dormant” accounts: Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of Trust & Safety, testified during a congressional hearing in February that “thousands or hundreds of thousands” of “counterfeit” Russian Twitter accounts targeting the U.S. are still active on the platform as part of an ongoing campaign.

I wrote about this, and how Russian accounts have gotten more sophisticated & harder to detect in the past few years.
https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/twitter-exec-says-hundreds-of-thousands

After analyzing the sample of 200 tweets, I found a lot of indicators of coordination and possible inauthentic activity, including repetition of text, imagery, & video — with one particular video appearing in at least 10% of sampled tweets/QT’s —as well as recycled content from previous fires, and from previous disinformation campaigns surrounding “directed energy weapons.”

Information laundering and recycling is extremely common in disinformation campaigns.

I wrote about how outrage culture is helping racists monetize your clicks. It’s a pretty deep dive that breaks down the social psychology of why rage farming works and how we can stop the cycle — if we want to. #socialmedia #psychology #disinformation
https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/the-anatomy-of-a-viral-tweet-rage