Posts by eob@social.coop
(DIR) Post #AXyHb0ohvwZTWAaMIC by eob@social.coop
2023-07-23T01:54:38Z
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@Maholmire @georgetakei Takai, a US-born US citizen was imprisoned in internment camps in California and Arkansas as a child, just because of his Japanese ancestry
(DIR) Post #AXyUYApVY37h6jw7xQ by eob@social.coop
2023-07-23T04:18:31Z
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@Maholmire Countries in WW2 did intern "enemy aliens" (citizens of enemy countries), but what is exceptional and disgraceful about the Japanese internment in the US is that it included US citizens. In addition to losing their freedom for years, they also lost their houses, businesses, and farms.And it was obviously racially discriminatory, given that German-American and Italian-American citizens were not interned.(BTW, I'm offended by your use of that derogatory term for Japanese people)
(DIR) Post #AXyXb8JheD7m2rA9yK by eob@social.coop
2023-07-23T04:46:24Z
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@Maholmire Please don't put the Nazi concentration camps and the Japanese internment camps (often slave-labor camps) on the same level as the allied internment campsThe Axis concentration camps and slave-labor camps were scenes of industrialized murder on a mass scale, some of the worst evils of historyThe Allies internment camps, while being discracefully racist and contrary to the democratic ideals is some cases (as for Japanese Americans), were intended only to keep detainees contained
(DIR) Post #AXyYuq2rOHmR7eFF3Y by eob@social.coop
2023-07-23T05:14:58Z
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@Maholmire If ever there was a war where there was *not* a moral equivalence between the two sides that was World War 2.That's not to say the allies were faultless.But for fuck's sake the other side were literal Nazis! If they ahd won the war they would have enslaved the world and committed even worse genocide on an unimaginable scaleIt seems you are either a fascist or are trolling, so I'm blocking you now. That's the end of this conversation
(DIR) Post #AaVFJI1EOJMcYzmimW by eob@social.coop
2023-10-06T16:25:35Z
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Walmart is unashamedly reporting that it is observing how customers' use of prescription drugs affect how much they eat, as tracked by how much food they buy on the storeThe U.S. needs real #privacy lawshttps://www.axios.com/2023/10/06/ozempic-weight-loss-drugs-food-business
(DIR) Post #AhdSAnDPxT6fYPtXNI by eob@social.coop
2024-05-07T03:32:21Z
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@BrodieOnLinux What's the alternative? LateX? Haml?
(DIR) Post #Aj2b8r1d0QgEdxAYIS by eob@social.coop
2024-06-17T16:05:06Z
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I just deployed a Mastodon bot that posts forecasts for the most dangerous upcoming heatwavesYou can follow it at@heatwaveTo determine how dangerous a heatwave is, it uses wet-bulb temperature, which is the temperature that a body can be cooled to by evaporationSweating works to cool you because generally the wet-bulb temperature is lower than body temperatureAs wet-bulb temperature increases and approaches body temperature, people can no longer cool themselves by sweating and will die
(DIR) Post #Aj2b8sr4CfQ8JmF972 by eob@social.coop
2024-06-17T16:29:06Z
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@heatwave And apologies to Americans, this is a Celsius-speaking botIf there is enough interest I might deploy an alternate Fahrenheit version of the bot
(DIR) Post #AjxUuwZGqsitlMaAe8 by eob@social.coop
2024-07-15T15:19:03Z
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@jeffcliff @heatwave Thanks for the feedback. Yes I probably should filter out the lower severity posts.In the meantime, one thing you could do is follow one or more of the hashtags I add to the posts, which in increasing level of severity are:#DangerousWetbulb#UnlivableWetbulb#UnsurvivableWetbulb
(DIR) Post #Akd4tvgkCP1mZoFbZg by eob@social.coop
2024-06-20T00:04:14Z
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@MichaelBishop @heatwave Good point.I have created a second bot, @heatwave_usa , which is for heat waves just in the USA, and I configured it to present the temperatures in Fahrenheit
(DIR) Post #Akd54UgMwmuw0K73QW by eob@social.coop
2024-06-17T21:24:40Z
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@raphaelmorgan @meganL Thanks for the feedback!Given the unexpectedly large amount of interest in this bot, I'm planning on spending some time to improve it, and all this feedback is helpful
(DIR) Post #Akd54VrOZHKbeoHNFg by eob@social.coop
2024-06-20T00:09:38Z
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@raphaelmorgan Thanks for the kind thoughts!I've updated the bot as you suggested to add city and state.I've also added a US-specific version of the bot at @heatwave_usa
(DIR) Post #Akd5pUk0XxH9nSE6fA by eob@social.coop
2024-06-20T01:22:08Z
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@zir4n @5ciFiGirl Thanks for the feedback. Yes, perhaps the language of the posts is over-dramatic and does not have enough nuance.A more nuanced wording might use something like "unprotected people" or "people without access to air conditioning". And maybe the wording should say something about how important the length of time exposed to the excessive heat, which is another factor.I'll see if I can come up with other wording, perhaps citing a reputable source
(DIR) Post #Akd6oImrbbd0O2YcWO by eob@social.coop
2022-11-06T22:04:05Z
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#introductionGlad to be here on social.coop. I’ve long been attracted to the co-op ideal, and looking forward to seeing how it works.My socialist, anti-nationalist politics were formed growing up in working-class Dublin, sickened by the carnage from both sides in Northern Ireland’s “Troubles”.I’m fighting the fight for privacy within a big-tech company in San Francisco, leading a team building user-interface changes that give people more transparency and control over their personal data.
(DIR) Post #Akd7GR0ed0uhzqQG92 by eob@social.coop
2024-05-19T22:26:23Z
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As Ellen Ullman observed, we build computer systems the way we build our cities—over time, without a plan, on top of ruinsAll software development is iterativeAll software plans are wrongThe only way we advance is by learning from failures
(DIR) Post #AkdOEOiLtC2pWHTahU by eob@social.coop
2023-03-18T00:58:28Z
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I celebrated St Patrick's Day by spending some time checking with a mailing list of fluent Irish speakers in my company that the translated text of a consent user interface was idiomatic Irish. It's challenging to express a complicated yes/no decision on UI buttons in a language that does not really have words for yes and no.
(DIR) Post #AlOubVP3W1e3t5d6C8 by eob@social.coop
2024-08-19T05:23:20Z
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The W3C's recently published Privacy Principles note has a section on "privacy labor"This is a very interesting framing of the issue of tech companies putting too much of the burden of protecting privacy on the person using the servicehttps://www.w3.org/TR/privacy-principles/#privacy-labour
(DIR) Post #AmzWIDWFZhD13RZ6vY by eob@social.coop
2024-10-13T23:20:47Z
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Do you live in one of the countries in red?If so, your government is pushing for the EU Chat Control law which mandates mass surveillance via fully automated real-time surveillance of messaging and chatsSee:https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/
(DIR) Post #Aoevhhq9HsL5JaFxC4 by eob@social.coop
2024-12-03T05:42:49Z
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@PopeASDF @mattl Dorsey is no longer involved in BlueSkyHe's moved on to Nostr, which is actually where all the crypto bros are
(DIR) Post #Aoewfm6uXUTzvyjvLE by eob@social.coop
2024-12-03T05:53:40Z
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@PopeASDF @mattl Oh, You're right. They did get funding from Blockchain Capital.Though I thought it was that the VC firm was just diversifying outside cryptoI don't get the sense that BlueSky itself though has any orientation towards crypto in their technology or people