ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

Immediately scrolling to the bottom of Terms & Agreements and clicking OK is known as American Acceptionalism

I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.

https://www.businessinsider.com/clearview-scraped-30-billion-images-facebook-police-facial-recogntion-database-2023-4

Peter Beinart is absolutely right. One of the biggest reasons the political left is weak in the US is that many of us on the left choose to tear away at each other across lines that divide us, rather than making common cause and turning our critical focus towards those who really deserve that focus, those setting us against each other from the top of the economic ladder.

The lack of solidarity of many on the left in US, and the insistence on purism tests: so politically dumb.

#solidarity
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Your regular reminder that if you have a “no politics” rule, what you really have is a community that is only welcoming to straight white cis men

@DaveMWilburn It infuriates me just seeing people refer to Russia-Ukraine War as “crisis” or “conflict”. It’s hard to view it as anything other than a transparent attempt to downplay the deaths and suffering of tens of thousands.

come on down to the stop n shop in salem tomorrow between 10 and 12, where I’ll be autographing copies of my new self-published book, “Musk: Ascent of a Man”

I DON'T NETFLIX AND CHILL, I BETAMAX AND RUN AMOK.

I propose that all major #tech companies stop developing new software features & new hardware for a full year. And then spend that year fixing the shit they’ve already released so it actually works properly.

My Soros-backed wife made me do the dishes again.

If Trump had just delivered a briefcase full of cash to Stormy Daniels, I'm pretty sure the whole thing would have disappeared. Just weird and dumb and cheap that he didn't do it that way.

#introduction
Samuel, currently finishing a residency in clinical oncology and will directly continue in radiation oncology. Mainly working with lung cancer (the subject of my PhD), melanoma and brain tumors. Occasionally dabbles in research.

Spends any remaining time hiking, skiing, kayaking or gardening. Interested in all types of electric vehicles, currently having a Tesla and a DIY e-bike in the garage.

Mornin’.

Many people asking us about #bumblebees at the moment - why they’re seeing them on the ground - so what follows is a quick series of toots to explain what they’re up to. Please #boost as every #queen bumblebee that survives means a new colony that gets to exist and produce new queen bees for next year! 1/8
🙏🏼🐝

#bees #beesofmastodon
#nature #beesanctuaryireland #hibernation #savingbees #vegan #organic #spring #share #bee #help
#naturephotography #pollinators
https://savingbees.ie

#SciFiSaturday #StarWars #meme

🚇 Why you shouldn’t hang out at the end of railway tunnels 👇👇

If Denmark was like Russia, the Danes would now be invading, England, Germany, Sweden, and Norway, because these countries were part of the Kingdom of Denmark during the viking ages.

But fortunately, our thinking has evolved since the year 1013, when the violent king Sweyn Forkbeard ruled and raided.

A judge in Texas ruled that books removed from public libraries because of their LGBTQ and racial content, must be placed back onto shelves within 24 hours
#SomeGoodNews

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/01/us/texas-book-ban-removed-library-replaced-judge/

Boy Scouts insurers seek to delay $2.5 bln abuse deal, bankruptcy exit https://www.reuters.com/legal/boy-scouts-insurers-seek-delay-25-bln-abuse-deal-bankruptcy-exit-2023-03-31/

I keep getting caught up in the USA of it all, but it's important to remember that our side of the pond is also in trouble. Nonsensical toxic anti-immigration rhetoric is becoming mainstream in Ireland, and the far-right is gaining strong footholds all across Europe. Stay vigilant #Europe #Politics