So many microbes, so few inspections. Food safety oversight is one of those super-basic things the government should do, and it's degrading in so many ways at once. RE:
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Unbreaking (@unbreaking.org)
Our weekly briefing is out, this one touching on Medicaid but mostly looking at what we’re losing in federal food safety oversight. Spoiler, it i...
for the record I did not ask anyone to do this lol https://blacksky.app/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke&cid=bafkreihm7zrn65fqzsklnalnmd6tgem2nztnjavw6o4bbn2yl5aq5hekr4
Banger alert. RE:
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Dave Karpf (@davekarpf.bsky.social)
I'm attending a workshop hosted by @techpolicypress.bsky.social tomorrow. They invited me to write a "provocation" about the state of technology an...
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A public apology: I misspoke earlier this week when I said I don't write about mod decisions because I don't do quick-turn analysis. That is true but the real reason is I cannot endure the state of my replies. https://blacksky.app/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke&cid=bafkreigrg5gri3h3jjvchreccgss7cum4q4qbq47vy5mwlanmaevg76dny
Truly it is the journalists typing fast on devices known to introduce errors via increasingly deranged autocorrect who are the major societal problem https://blacksky.app/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke&cid=bafkreif32afadgfj6gdk2qrzkp3vcn6ufy43kolzn7uwud6alwm5uanily
What a weird week. RE:
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Erin Kissane (@kissane.myatproto.social)
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y’all I had to order a new sleep headphone headband thing when my last one died and I didn’t notice until after I had put it ON MY HEAD to test it that the inner fuzzy surface was covered in a dozen sticky insect cocoons with whole insects visible inside each one
Yet better in full: "…what has been demanded from so many in this room and in this city, this state, this country has been faith. Faith that life could be more than this. Faith that we could dream of something more than simply struggle. And as James 2:14 reminds us, faith without works is death." [LIVE | NY Gov. Kathy Hochul an...]( )
I want to restate something I said in a lot of replies yesterday, which is that this move is not going to reduce replies yelling at the Bsky team—and that should not be the goal. What it does is clarify how moderation works here so that people can assess that and act accordingly. RE:
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Bluesky Safety (@safety.bsky.app)
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, mad...
This exact same dynamic—dehumanizing fake content made entirely bc Facebook pays people to make it—played out in Myanmar in the run-up to a genocide. [@karenhao.bsky.social](
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Karen Hao (@karenhao.bsky.social)
NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The A...
 ) laid it out in the starkest terms: [www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1...](
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How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation
The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around ...
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Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social)
The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from...
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How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation
The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around ...
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