Reposted by JoshPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13/07/2023SAG-AFTRA has voted to strike, joining picketing writers in what will amount to an effective shutdown of Hollywoodhuffpost.comScreen Actors Guild Votes To Strike After Studio Negotiations CrumbleHollywood performers will join Writers Guild of America members who have been on strike for over two months. 6823227
Reposted by JoshAveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 13/07/2023I want everyone to read this: The cost of community moderation. Read this and realize BlueSky expects **us** to moderate. For free. This is real. www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714…theverge.comThe secret lives of Facebook moderators in America"I’m fucked up." 25539256
Josh @josh-ag.bsky.social · 11/07/2023Scenes from the best programmer I know tries to install any working OS on her most reliable piece of hardware: "OmniOS is the only real contender here imo but Tribblix has a huge advantage, it crashes without requiring a full OS install!" 001
Reposted by Joshtreekisser @treekisser.bsky.social · 06/07/2023Sacramento Sheriff is sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states #ALPR www.sacbee.com/news/politics-govern… 046
Reposted by JoshAdam Cerious @adamcerious.bsky.social · 02/07/2023all I wanna do is *bang* *bang* *bang* *click* *cash regis[rate limit exceeded] 439155
Reposted by JoshDr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 01/07/2023I’ve been sitting on a take that’s basically “the fact that Aveta had to do this should’ve given everyone pause.” How do you have two intentional attempts to diversify the Skyline fail and still not acknowledge that you have a whiteness problem? 15719
Reposted by JoshAveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 01/07/2023"What happened?" This sums it up. techcrunch.com/2023/06/08/blueskys-…techcrunch.comBluesky’s growing pains strain its relationship with Black usersBluesky is facing increased pressure to crack down on hateful and violent rhetoric, even though robust moderation conflicts with its decentralized goals. 314669
Reposted by JoshPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/06/2023Apropos of nothing, a reminder of JFK’s successful Harvard application essay 25622167
Reposted by JoshAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/06/2023The right wing justices ideological priority is that the system function uninterrupted regardless of the guilt of the convicted, unless the guilty are political or economic elites. Fine for the wheels of justice to crush the innocent as long as they keep turning.theatlantic.comThe Who-Cares-If-You’re-Innocent ProjectRepublicans want to blame the rise in crime on liberal permissiveness, which includes, in their view, the right to counsel. 23819
Josh @josh-ag.bsky.social · 23/06/2023"Still punk as fuck" I whisper to myself as I angrily eat the vegetables I don't want to eat but know I should eat 010
Reposted by JoshKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/06/2023not the first complaint about violent orcas to come from a stern in the atlantic 611222281
Reposted by Joshsaskatchewan potato utility (redux) @acabirlios.bsky.social · 16/06/2023Probably just a coincidence haha! Couldn't have anything to do with social conditions! 410215
Reposted by Joshevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/06/2023Please enjoy this niche Emacs humor. If you are GenX and have worked in the tech industry, there is a very good chance that you have been this person at some point in your life: youtu.be/urcL86UpqZc 4171
Reposted by Joshevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 11/06/2023This brain implant changed a woman's life. Then the company that made the implant went under & the implant was removed against her will. This is the grim meathook future we were promised and I hate it. www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/25…technologyreview.comA brain implant changed her life. Then it was removed against her will.Her case highlights why we need to enshrine neuro rights in law. 05216
Reposted by JoshRead the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 10/06/2023Holy shit 20354118
Reposted by JoshPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/06/2023Do liberals understand that by enforcing the rule of law in the face of overt, confessed-to federal crimes, they are destroying norms we don’t care about and unleashing a retaliatory abuse of the system that we were planning to do if we felt like it anyway? 1042181
Reposted by JoshChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/06/2023The Supreme Court told me that polluted water in wetlands won’t affect our waterways if they’re separated by a road. www.lawdork.com/p/brute-force-react… 25627
Reposted by JoshBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 07/06/2023Hi everyone! PSA: Your N95s and KN95s will block a lot of the particulate matter that makes you feel real shitty during bad wildfires. Even cloth masks and bandannas help. Sorry if this is already obvious to everyone, I would rather be tediously repetitive than not say anything in this case 14536182
Josh @josh-ag.bsky.social · 03/06/2023God I am getting so tired of reviewing code written with copilot. I'm running out of patience to not say "please for the love of Turing turn that off. Your code is getting worse and worse as you rely on it more and more." 000
Reposted by JoshBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 01/06/2023"The right to strike is fundamental to American labor law... Workers are not indentured servants, bound to continue laboring until any planned work stoppage would be as painless as possible for their master." Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. I need this in a tshirt TODAY 1102
Reposted by JoshAnil Dash @anildash.com · 30/05/2023To make it explicit for people who don’t follow tech in this way: the lesson investors took from Uber being able to break the law & then get the law built *around* their exploration was that this is a great way to monopolize a market just as it’s forming, and regulators will help. Thus: AI “panic”. 214065
Reposted by Joshrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 29/05/2023I share this with everybody: if you encounter traumatic content, play 20-30 minutes of Tetris or other fast paced, visually intensive video game. It helps prevent future intrusive thoughts. It can help even long after the exposure: when you start dwelling on it, grab the Tetris. 610738
Reposted by Joshrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 28/05/20236. People who aren't experienced in the nuances of T&S work are calling for "more moderators", by which they mean T&S agents, which is the wrong ask. Agents don't set policy or handle product safety feature design. They apply existing rules to the reports that come in. That's not the issue here. 113818
Reposted by JoshColin @yesitscolin.bsky.social · 27/05/2023Looks like Target caving to discriminatory demands in an attempt to appease bigots and fascists has worked out REALLY well for them…kutv.comLayton Target evacuated after bomb threats reported at multiple Utah storesA Target in Layton was evacuated after officials said they were informed of a bomb threat to multiple Utah locations. 13415
Reposted by JoshAnAngryOpossum @anangryopossum.bsky.social · 27/05/2023Rooting for more good news this long weekend 🙏 011737
Reposted by JoshElad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 25/05/2023For all the people telling everyone to stop expecting better moderation, that the focus is on tech etc: the only reason most of the people are here is because of broken moderation on Twitter. The tech means nothing without a moderated platform. It is the only feature most care about at this point. 711632
Reposted by JoshKumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 27/05/2023Moderation is key to a successful social media platform. Having racist shit yelled at me isn’t discourse and I am not weak for not wanting it. 422337467
Josh @josh-ag.bsky.social · 26/05/2023I'm reminded of a bryan cantrill quote about the development of zfs vs btrfs, betas, and the implications of the fit-for-purposeness of both. Paraphrased it's "at no point in its development did zfs ever lose your data" 000
Reposted by JoshFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/05/2023the problem with internet death threats isn’t “how credible are they” it’s “they should not be made at all so we don’t have to think about how credible they are” 23611
Josh @josh-ag.bsky.social · 26/05/2023I love late night road trips. They're somehow simultaneously relaxing and energizing 000
Reposted by JoshApril King @april.social · 24/05/2023With Target hiding or removing their Pride collection due to threats, do think it’s going to stop here? What happens when they receive threats about an employee wearing the rainbow logo? Or because an employee is visibly transgender or gender nonconforming? It never stops. 4354
Reposted by JoshAveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 24/05/2023The mental gymnastic over when antiblackness is called out. Feminism without intersectionality is white supremacy. 4429
Reposted by JoshErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/05/2023For months, people asked, "Is it safe? Where should I go?" about anti trans laws. I created the anti-trans legislative risk assessment map to help. This month, a whole new category for Florida. Subscribe to support my work. www.erininthemorning.com/p/may-anti…erininthemorning.comMay Anti-Trans Legislative Risk MapThe map of anti-trans risk has polarized into two Americas - one where trans people have full legal protections, and one where they are persecuted by the state. 413369
Reposted by Josh🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 24/05/2023Rainbow capitalism was never liberation, only a signifier of how far liberation had succeeded 16915
Reposted by JoshSage Deviant 🏳️⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 23/05/2023I’m doing my part 🏳️⚧️🫡 5351684138
Reposted by JoshStacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 23/05/2023Pretty proud of this coalition, tbh. Just a little while ago today, over the howls of Republicans, the Minnesota legislature repealed nearly every abortion restriction lurking in statute. And it all started with the efforts of this coalition of progressive organizations.unrestrictmn.orgMinnesota Legislature Repeals Series Of Anti-Abortion Restrictions As Health Omnibus Bill Passes Both Chambers – UnRestrict MinnesotaUnRestrict Minnesota celebrates further restoration of abortion services as essential health care, applauds champions of reproductive freedom in Legislature 27635
Reposted by Joshrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 22/05/2023The problem is, as far as I can tell, the team *was* born yesterday. I haven't been able to identify a single jaded old T&S veteran even advising them, much less working for them. Which means they're going to reinvent every single wheel along the way. 56616