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This isn't an easy question because the victim may not want to involve law enforcement, and at the same time, there is a choice, victims may be pressured into not reporting.

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The question is should there be some sort of mandated reporter thing, where universities are required to report to law enforcement if they become aware a crime has occured, in addition to following whatever internal process they have.

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Universities investigate and enforce their own internal policies. Law enforcement investigates and enforces criminal law. They aren't mutually exclusive and should both occur. Rapists on college campuses should get kicked out of school *and* go to prison.

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The next president needs to run a bunch of tv ads highlighting America's beautiful diversity.

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An interesting point of comparison: currently India has ~46% of its labor force in agriculture, while in China it's ~22%. Comparable points of in terms of agricultural employment US history were the 1880s and the 1920s.

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China and India were more comparable around 1990, with 60% and 63% respectively. A similar point in US history would be 1840.

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Nextdoor neighborhoods may also be an inspiration for how multiple sub-communities can be composed together.

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I like the “Topics” idea. Smaller, more focused timelines that are still nominally public. Basically a cross between a hashtag and a custom feed, potentially with the posts to the topic not displaying in the “main” timeline.

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I know lots of people want private spaces that they can control access to, but there’s a lot of baggage that comes along with that.

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David Ciani @davidciani.com · 3h

I second the concerns about private groups. Telegram groups are a similar example of what can happen with private groups. The alternative is investing in very aggressive human and automated moderation how Meta does, which is the only way they get away with private groups.

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What’s the idea behind “remove follower”? Does blocking the person not accomplish what you want?

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i’m sorry, but i have to post this political ad

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David Ciani @davidciani.com · 22h

Also pleasantly surprised to see a fairly sophisticated client-side PII detection system that prevents you from submitting PII to the chat bot. Looks like it uses a full on BERT model running in the browser.

Obligatory cat picture.

A grey and white American shorthair cat sitting on a bed looking straight at the camera.

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I love how this cat knows when she’s doing something she’s not supposed to. She does this “oops I got caught” routine and runs away.

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Quite telling that they routed it through CBP public affairs.

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Another day, another series of job applications.

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There often isn't even a "undergrad 20th century history course". General world history typically gets a two course sequence: "Before 1500" and "1500 to Present". There's likely a passing reference to the Russo-Japanese war in the context of one or both of those empires, but not much more than that.

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This America.gov thing is conceptually something that could be useful… a LLM sitting in front of a RAG built from indexing everything on the .gov domain. To bad trust in government is so low at the moment.

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wonder what model it's using under the hood. Would impact which languages are available.

Yeah, that’s a bit overly optimistic… the timeline for the Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement is like 6-7 years total, which is probably a more realistic comparison. That said, they could be pulling out all the stops and treating it as an emergency, but they aren’t even trying.

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Ehh, paid parental leave is best done via a public insurance program and not just having employers deal with it on their own. With a public program, you could just make it full pay for 52 weeks, then a flat minimum amount as a stay-at-home parent subsidy until school age.

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This issue isn’t the policy itself, but rather opposition to the taxes required to pay for it.

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It’s clear it doesn’t happen, but nominally voters should be considering the welfare of others in the community who are unable to vote. That said, we should at least let high school students vote.

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At least with the Norway program, the cash subsidy is not of equivalent value to the cost of the government funded child care.

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School vouchers aren’t the same thing. The big problem with those is that they are fairly explicitly intended as a back-door way of using tax dollars to subsidize religious schools/institutions.

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But yes, the governor doesn’t really care about transit or rail.

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It’s more that OCTA (the owner of the track) actively detests passenger rail and isn’t calling in the cavalry. If they showed even the slightest concern about it, Sacramento would be a bit less useless.

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I guess everyone has just given up on brand safety these days…

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If it was a freeway collapsing into the ocean and needed to be realigned, it would be an emergency and get done in 18 months.

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What’s incredibly frustrating is even if everyone decided to move forward with realignment today, in all likelihood it wouldn’t be ready for something like a decade, all while having to continue to shore up the existing tracks. At least there’d be an end in sight.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At least it’s not being written into the constitution, like we did with that stem cell research thing.

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Further evidence for my crank theory that chud men are cooking their brains with steroids.

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Data centers are just another light to moderate industrial land use, nothing too crazy or novel. (Except the ones with dozens of jet engines on trailers in the parking lot, but that is a fairly isolated phenomenon that can be addressed separately)

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It’s clearer that’s not the case at the state level. Here in California, the Republicans are seen as irrelevant, not as some powerful cabal running things in the background.

Imagine if California Democrats were constantly blaming Republicans for all the state’s ills. (We instead plug our ears and say “la la la la” pretending there are no problems)

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…also kinda sad seeing people replying to them and engaging.

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Looking back through the history like it's also keyed on "solarpunk", "dystopian", "authoritarianism", and "speculative fiction". It's quite possible that the profile is what it says it is, and it's just an AI pilled wannabe author. Some of their old posts are spam for their book.

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What I find more intriguing is all the people around him who are willing commit crimes alongside him and in his name, without the SCOTUS cloak of invincibility. They must really be counting on a preemptive pardon. Big risk to take…

Hold on a sec, I gotta pull over and reboot my car.

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TikTok tax tips: if you efile you won’t get audited. They only audit paper returns!

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It’s a tricky problem. Prohibitions on retaliation are essentially useless in an industry where people are expected to move between companies frequently. Complaining can make you persona non grata across the industry and tank your career.

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It is indeed a different model. The argument is that it isn’t unrelated, but rather it provides a more advanced foundation.

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