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What is Dropout.tv? It's too hard to put into words, so we just made this video. For exclusive series like Dimension 20, Game Changer, Make Some Noise, Um Ac...YouTube
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This looks onerous right now... but I can imagine something like this being incorporated into AC system or dehumidifiers, etc, especially if it gets expanded to an array of diseases...
It doesn't so much prevent disease, but it can at least help with peace of mind and rapid disease control (ie. system goes off, everyone in the area quarantines to limit spread)
This is wild! Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have created a prototype real-time monitor that can detect any of the SARS-CoV-2 virus variants in a room in about 5 minutes. They adapted a micro-immunoelectrode to use llama nanobodies that recognize SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins combined with a wet-cyclone sampler running at 1000 l/m. They oxidize tyrosines on the virus surface and measure with square wave voltammetry. #Covid https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39419-zReal-time environmental surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 aerosols - Nature Communications
Rapid detection of respiratory pathogens circulating in indoor environments could facilitate improved infection prevention responses.Nature
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somebody you know could be trans.
somebody you know could be a vanilla mastodon user.
think before you speak hate
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@vonneudeck When you address a person, what title do you use? I can't imagine there are not equivalents to "Mr. Smith," "Ms. Smith," "Mrs. Smith."
I remember "Frau Smith" or "Fraulein Smith" but I don't remember the proper address for "Mr. Smith."
In that type of situation, is it still "incredibly outrageous and only used for figurines"?
Sorry to use English - when I wrote in French before I used a translate thing.
@vonneudeck How could I forget "herr"? Sometimes my brain dissolves.
So all women are "frau"?
What about children addressed formally - are girls under a certain age still "fraulein" without it being considered sexist?
People - I think, esp English speakers - often think translations are word for word but each language culture organizes differently, so "miss"/"fraulein" can be a trap for the unwary!
5+1 Antisemitic Microaggressions:
A thing triggered me the other day. It was a little thing. Just a word someone used. Not a slur, not an attack. Just a word. When I calmed down and started thinking about why something so 'small' had hit me so hard, I realized that it was a microaggression -- and I have never heard anyone talking about microaggressions against Jews.
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@Friendica Admins I could use some help cleaning up something on my instance.
I'm moving around the storage, and for some reason a lot of the thumbnails (not all) seem to have gotten corrupted. Regular files seem fine, but basically full size profile pictures are good but small versions are blurry.
Is there any good way to clear the storage of everything that's cached both in terms of thumbnails and data from other servers?
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Content warning: Mutual Aid Call, Family Crisis, Mental Health Crisis
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Me: I bet it will be tidier if I put the dried catnip in a little bowl for him.
Him:
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This is so damn fascinating, an AI playing the game, not as a speedrun but humanlike, and dynamically monologuing in the voice of the original character!
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I'm really tired and at the end of my rope and could use some broad advice and help... I don't expect much...
My sibling (by choice) got arrested last night because they were in a major mental health crisis (really bad Borderline/Bipolar episode) and slapped/shoved their partner in the middle of it. I don't think that's okay for them to have done and am not remotely justifying it.
This was brought on by their breakup with their partner and the fact that they ran out of their medications.
I'm in the US, Texas to be specific. They need consistent access to medications and therapy to be remotely stable... and that just isn't available.
We moved into this apartment last year with various plans on how I would support them but all of those plans fell through. Their mother was supposed to cover their half of bills until they could get on disability, but just before move-in she basically disowned them.
They were off and on able to pick up some work initially, but were very unstable. Started this relationship with their now-ex who moved in and covered their half of the bills for most of the past year, but that ended recently and their ex is moving out.
I simply don't make enough to really cover them by myself and I can't abandon them when they're actively trying to be and do better. We just happen to live in a country and state that believes that it's better for people to just die than actually help someone who hasn't "earned it"
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[Corp Blog] Facial recognition tech lands innocent woman with bogus carjacking charge
* Detroit woman wrongly arrested for carjacking and robbery due to facial recognition technology error.
* Porsche Woodruff, 8 months pregnant, mistakenly identified as culprit based on outdated 2015 mug shot.
* Surveillance footage did not match the identification, victim wrongly identified Woodruff from lineup based on the 2015 outdated photo.
* Woodruff arrested, detained for 11 hours, charges later dismissed; she files lawsuit against Detroit.
* Facial recognition technology's flaws in identifying women and people with dark skin highlighted.
* Several US cities banned facial recognition; debate continues due to lobbying and crime concerns.
* Law enforcement prioritized technology's output over visual evidence, raising questions about its integration.
* ACLU Michigan involved; outcome of lawsuit uncertain, impact on law enforcement's tech use in question.
Facial recognition tech lands innocent woman with bogus carjacking charge
We take a look at another case of facial recognition technology getting it wrong in the land of law enforcement./blog/authors/cboyd (Malwarebytes)
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flaws in identifying women and people with dark skin highlighted.
Why did I read this as women using makeup to highlight their cheekbones.
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If you are talking to someone who is not currently using:
* A password manager
* MFA on most or all accounts that allow it
* An up to date operating system on all of their devices
Please stop yourself from recommending:
* A VPN
* Tor
* Tails (or any variations/equivalents)
Just… rewind a bit and help with the first items first.
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Just sharing a random bit of AI fun because I was bored and had a thought.
AI can incidentally translate language, but that also extends to things like converting victorian english to modern day english and even updating slang and euphamisms (though when asked for slang it'll lay it on a bit thick... but it's fun about it)
So... here's the opening monologue of Romeo & Juliet (and no, it didn't preserve iambic pentameter):
Yo, listen up, peeps! Two big-shot families, equally high and mighty,
Kicking it in fair Verona, where this drama's gonna go down.
An old beef turns into some fresh drama,
And it's so bad it gets everyone dirty.
From the messed-up love lives of these two rival crews,
A pair of star-crossed lovers are gonna do something crazy,
Their messed-up misadventures bring down a whole lotta pain,
And with their deaths, their parents' drama finally stops.
The crazy rollercoaster of their death-marked love,
And the never-ending feud between their folks,
That only ends with their tragic deaths,
Is gonna be the main event on our stage—
If y'all stick around and listen close,
We'll do our best to keep it real for ya!
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Fool Me Twice We Don't Get Fooled Again: There's a crucial difference between federatable and federated.
https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f
#Bluesky #Threads #Mastodon #Fediverse #Federation #SwitchingCosts #UlyssesPacts
Fool Me Twice We Don’t Get Fooled Again - Cory Doctorow - Medium
I’m kickstarting the audiobook for “The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation,” a Big Tech disassembly manual to disenshittify the web and bring back the old, good internet. It’s a…Cory Doctorow (Medium)
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Well, regarding disablities:
I don't know if I should still write something like this nowadays - but so be it.
2-3 years ago I went by train and there was a person in a wheelchair without legs, who turned on everyone else.
I kept out of it, but when I got off I had to inevitably pass him and he he had also for me me a stupid saying in store.
I was really annoyed by him and asked him where he was going? to a dance contest?
*concerned silence*
He started to laugh and said that I was the only one who would take him seriously.
I see him 1-2 times a year at most, but a friendship has grown out of the situation :)
@Raroun I call that a lucky bit of chemistry. Also, just because someone isn't using saying ableist things doesn't mean they're being ableist... walking lightly around disabled people is also it's own form of ableism that gets really tiring.
And I'm not even sure your joke is what I was talking about since it was very direct and more a specific targeted jab that happened to reference their disability, you didn't even mark it as something shameful but rather just spouted an absurdity.
A prime example would be something like mocking the lisp of a Nazi. Sure, that person is a Nazi... but what about all the non-Nazis that you're also mocking at the same time?
Call For Mutual Aid!
One of my sibling's friends was hit by a car and is temporarily disabled, they're currently living off of only $70 in food stamps while they can't work and every little bit can help!
They've been in this state for a few weeks but only now broke down and asked for help (we all know how it is with hyper-independence).
They can take donations over Paypal here: bigcloud456@yahoo.com
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Speaking as a therian, yes, those of us who identify as "were" (a spiritual/psychological thing, vs. people who believe they actually transform into animals), I've had this conversation so many times that it feels like Groundhog Day. A fellow werebear once described furry as being like "a trip to Disneyland." There's a lot of overlap, but therians tend to be about "big ideas” like….
(Con’t.)
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