Posts by jud@qoto.org
(DIR) Post #APSybSbXbZQx1tDGCm by jud@qoto.org
2022-11-10T16:36:15Z
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@freemo Regarding your last question: I suppose this becomes a more difficult calculus for people/groups subjected to continual random harassment. What's a good alternative (if there is one) between leaving people unaware of threats on one hand and having them spend undue amounts of time blocking insults and slurs on the other?
(DIR) Post #APTWcBFP1KjtvdNAbA by jud@qoto.org
2022-11-10T22:57:21Z
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@freemo @inspired Thanks for the good (& enlightening for me, a newbie) discussion. What sparked my toot (there's a phrase 🙂) was seeing several excellent Black scientists (on other servers) I know from the birdspace mention it was a matter of a day or 2 after joining before they were first subjected to racial slurs & other offensive content from random other users. It's the random, ubiquitous and scattered nature of this pollution that makes it difficult to combat by blocking some servers, I think.For people not members of targeted groups, imagine your email had a lousy spam filter & you had to manually put dozens of individual junk emails in the spam folder every day. It would rapidly get very tiresome. (This is without considering the anger & frustration racial slurs provoke.) These are top notch scientists with a lot to contribute, & I hate to think of them or others deciding to leave b/c they have to swim through a sea of garbage every day.I don't know if other humans have the capacity to moderate this, and I don't think AI is there yet (subtleties of membership in a group, satire, sarcasm, etc., all being pretty difficult for them). At the end of the day, it's nice to know people who are smarter and more experienced than I am have thought about this and are doing their best.
(DIR) Post #APTZUdRKcMJgua2vGC by jud@qoto.org
2022-11-10T23:29:35Z
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@freemo @inspired Here's something relevant from one of the scientists I was referring to. Please do me and her a favor and try not to contact her with good advice. 🙂 https://mas.to/@Chanimal/109316109756331900
(DIR) Post #APY1HBJLSmjtFvWVyC by jud@qoto.org
2022-11-13T02:51:22Z
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chances-of-finding-covid-causing-virus-ancestor-almost-nil-virologists-say/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR15dpjupSWVvKnSWbPMer8j8AfN6qbWXrFpPIy7zRkQW-O_HEdNeReO_zU#Echobox=1668175663
(DIR) Post #APY1PPYYNpwBkmYrTs by jud@qoto.org
2022-11-13T03:01:15Z
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@lucifargundam Yeah, plus recombination covering some of the historical tracks.
(DIR) Post #AaJZNmB9ItIYODSoeO by jud@qoto.org
2023-10-01T04:14:22Z
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@freemo I’m sad that the first server I joined in the Fediverse will be the first one I drop. Calling this statement ludicrous would be dignifying it too greatly.
(DIR) Post #AaJa7fIdDGjUNHqSnY by jud@qoto.org
2023-10-01T04:22:39Z
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@freemo I grew up Jewish, and saw your “very fine people” with Confederate flags, swastikas and torches chanting “Jews will not replace us!” So please tell me all about how they’re so much less racist than the people bothered by them.
(DIR) Post #AaJb68ylzf23ndOYTY by jud@qoto.org
2023-10-01T04:33:36Z
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@freemo False equivalency, eh? Do you remember what the Charlottesville white supremacist rally was about? Removal of a Confederate statue. Why were those statues erected? Educate yourself about the Lost Cause. Those statues are about Jim Crow. The statues were erected as monuments to suppression of the former slaves and their heirs.
(DIR) Post #AaJc6dTCjHEmJrQYkq by jud@qoto.org
2023-10-01T04:44:53Z
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@freemo Yeah, and people who fly swastikas are just trying to honor their German ancestors. 🙄 Listen, can you remove me from this server so I don’t have to read any more of this BS? Because I’m going to bed and it would be nice to be rid of this when I wake up.