I imagine this logic being applied to any other costumed people with personnas. "They identify as knights and kings and queens, soldiers in Napoleon's Army, and as Billy the Kid's outlaw gang. Don't let wierdo historical reenactors pick our leaders!" Anyway, I hope furries everywhere vote.
Scott Moore
Scott Moore
@scottmoore.bsky.social
I used to be a professional online community builder (1995-2020). I have eclectic interests: coffee roasting, kludge DIY, 16thC Germany, History of Surgery... Now, I just have opinions: all of them are wrong, but some of them are useful. Willing to learn.
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@sjjphd.bsky.social not sure if someone offered to help you test it yourself, so here is your post quoted. You can either detach it and I’ll tell you what happens on my end -or- you can quote post it again and I will detach it so you can see yourself If anything happens.
I may have popped off a little bit.
hot take time: not really a hot take, based on 30 years of designing online community spaces and fostering communities in those spaces*: We don't need One Platform to Rule Them All. This is horseshit thinking. Many platforms that allow many communities to meet their specific needs.
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✊🏾 An exhibition for the women of Afrofuturism lives at SFO Museum, Harvey Milk Terminal 1, through November 8, 2026. Ingrid LaFleur calls it a hug for Black women. Full tour by SFO Museum: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0upz... #SistahScifi #Afrofuturism
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The moderation values of blacksky make my heart sing! So happy to see such a shining example of community-first principles in action. Anyone who considers themselves an online community pressional not paying attention here is missing out.
most blacksky users don't see the worst of the worst bc blacksky peer moderators use these filters to keep us safe! the biggest difference between #blacksky and other social apps is their team has put COMMUNITY over ENGAGEMENT they're dedicated towards making sure our mental safety is a priority 💕
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Goddammit. I feel called out. I'm not angry or accusing OP of any wrong doing, just feeling the need to springboard off this thread as self-reflection. I've been digging myself out of suicidal depression for the last 8 years. A symptom has been trouble with the cognitive work of long reads.
Goddammit. I feel called out. I'm not angry or accusing OP of any wrong doing, just feeling the need to springboard off this thread as self-reflection. I've been digging myself out of suicidal depression for the last 8 years. A symptom has been trouble with the cognitive work of long reads.
Goddammit. I feel called out. I'm not angry or accusing OP of any wrong doing, just feeling the need to springboard off this thread as self-reflection. I've been digging myself out of suicidal depression for the last 8 years. A symptom has been trouble with the cognitive work of long reads.
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Drexel University is choosing to shut down the country’s oldest natural history museum, The Academy of Natural Sciences, for “funding” reasons (even though it costs .6% of their annual budget and they spent WAY more on ai nobody wants this year!) Go to save-the-academy.org to help.
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Academy of natural sciences in Philadelphia is closing. Nobody cares? The oldest American Museum Containing the very first exhibit of dinosaur bones? Dinosaur remnants collected by Thomas Jefferson? But nobody's paying attention? #worldnews save-the-academy.org
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With the backlash to Flock, cities are moving to Axon cameras. But what exactly are they doing with them? 404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs, @josephcox.bsky.social explains. You can too: www.404media.co/is-your-city...
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Tamir was one of the most gregarious personalities in the games industry. GDC regulars will remember him for his technicolor hair and his absolute willingness to help anyone with anything. I am absolutely gutted by this news. www.linkedin.com/posts/offici...
How timely! Just this morning, I was talking with an old online community pioneer about how metrics becoming goals is a hallmark of TESCREAL and the problems they create. Looking forward to this!
I am super excited about this which was originally meant to be part of my book buy didn’t make the cut in the end. But i am very happy that it has found a home to @techdirt.com. A great thanks to @masnick.com for brainstorming and getting this out to the world!
Why do I get the sense a plateau is approaching on current LLM models and this is just an attempt to get out in front of a looming market contraction. Maybe I am wrong.
Dario Amodei, who co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, called for a global slowdown of artificial intelligence development in a 3,800-word essay on Saturday. His appeal for a pause follows months of escalating concerns across the technology industry. nyti.ms/4AatwIK
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Flock should use this motto: Trading liberty for security since 2017
Cops Using Flock To Spy on People For The Crime of Standing Around Flock’s investors and executives insist its surveillance dragnet thwarts the most serious of crimes, it turns out police are also using the company’s technology to go after some of the pettiest possible offenses. shorturl.at/whl5k
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The original Habitat character creator has been restored. Likely the first instance of its kind in a graphical online setting, you could customize your sex, height, head and color/re-texture your torso and your legs before entering or "hatching" into Habitat. renoproject.org/lost-habitat... #MMO
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Lucasfilm's Habitat and Club Caribe feature in the latest edition of @worksinprogress.bsky.social with an article written by Virginia Postrel ( @vpostrel.skystack.xyz ) who did a really great piece. It was lovely chatting with her. Check it out here: worksinprogress.co/issue/virtua... #MMO
"Why are children glued to their screens? It must be the addictive design of social media!" No. It's that we have spent decades criminalizing kids and teens being in public spaces on their own. Malls, parks, off-hours schools yards, streets (watch an old get mad at kids on bikes), sidewalks.
This is insane. When I was in first grade my parents let me walk 3 blocks to school in the mornings, and home after it was over. The independence that I got as a child helped me so much in my life. No parent should face charges for something like this, let alone be convicted!
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A lot of men confuse feminism with misandry. Feminism isn't "man-hating"; it's simply wanting all of us to be equals. I love men, too! I'm married to one, and have two sons who are, last time I checked, men. Misandry (actual man-hatred) isn't compatible with feminism's quest for equality for all.
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Black Threads is now an official community. But, Meta *allowed* them to have it. Meta *owns* the community. @rude1.blacksky.team + @blackskyweb.xyz built w/o permission from @bsky.app. It's owned by the community, not a multi-trillion dollar corp run by a billionaire CEO who can't be fired. 1/
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🚨🧵 Non-consenual pelvic exams during surgery: These may still occur in ~half of US states. Last night I wrote about what you can do to avoid it - see below. Now I'd like to provide a bit more info. on the topic - this is something you may have undergone w/o your knowledge, or might in the future.
@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social calls & I answer! This 🧵 is in response to a question about what to do in US states (or elsewhere) where it's legal to perform pelvic exams, often w/o informed consent, while a patient is unconscious (to train students & residents). That's in ~ half of US states, btw.
This is harrowing and worth reading and being aware of if you ever have to have general sedation.
@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social calls & I answer! This 🧵 is in response to a question about what to do in US states (or elsewhere) where it's legal to perform pelvic exams, often w/o informed consent, while a patient is unconscious (to train students & residents). That's in ~ half of US states, btw.
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@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social calls & I answer! This 🧵 is in response to a question about what to do in US states (or elsewhere) where it's legal to perform pelvic exams, often w/o informed consent, while a patient is unconscious (to train students & residents). That's in ~ half of US states, btw.
Hellooo, Kelly! I think these are separate issues: one is a type of illegal assault very similar to that of rapists spiking women's drinks; the other is a legal medical exam in about half of US states - though it shouldn't be legal in any. In my state, it was legal until 2022, but though the bill...