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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by dexa_scantron@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

Right now, on Stack Overflow, Luigi Magione’s account has been renamed. Despite having fruitfully contributed to the network he is stripped of his name and his account is now known as “user4616250”.

This appears to violate the creative commons license under which Stack Overflow content is posted.

When the author asked about this:

As of yet, Stack Exchange has not replied to the above post, but they did promptly and within hours gave me a year-long ban for merely raising the question. Of course, they did draft a letter which credited the action to other events that occurred weeks before where I merely upvoted contributions from Luigi and bountied a few of his questions.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by dexa_scantron@lemmy.world to c/lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world

"Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives. Inspired by Ben Wallace, I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly."

Babies doing cute things, aerobics classes, amateur drag races, pets looking confused, work presentations, friends hanging out, boats for sale, amateur marching bands... just people living their lives. Most of the videos have fewer than 15 views.

[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 45 points 5 months ago

Plastics industry: "See?! We told you plastic decomposes and doesn't just stay in landfills forever. Happy now?"

[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 89 points 7 months ago

Because every page is insane bullshit. Here's one I saw a post about and looked up, where they want to just straight up fire everyone in the Treasury Department who's participated in a DEI initiative:

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[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 109 points 7 months ago

If you're willing to do "whatever it takes" including instituting fascism, you're a fascist.

[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 49 points 7 months ago

I believe they do this the same way they do traffic jams, by seeing how many android phones are at the location vs. average.

[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 78 points 7 months ago

Patriarchy oppresses us all.

[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 60 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There are plenty of women who live like this now. It's a cultural thing, not a timeline thing. I had a roommate in college who would wake up before dawn to do her makeup so nobody would see her without it.

(Also high society women certainly didn't make their own breakfasts... well, ever, but especially not hundreds of years ago)

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I have a friend who likes making care packages for people; anyone know of a good outlet for that? Before Reddit got big there were a few good places on there but I'm drawing a blank now.

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Most of the leadership of the Columbia strike in 1968 was young men like myself. That no longer appears to be the case — either at Columbia or the other university protests around the country.

In 1968 we made the mistake of answering the police violence with anger, fighting them and calling them pigs. We blurred the line between nonviolence (the occupation of buildings) and violence (our slogans and rhetoric), thereby undercutting our moral position.

The students protesting the slaughter in Gaza, with their diverse leadership are making no such mistakes. They are thoroughly nonviolent. There may be individuals or provocateurs who defy the strategy, but at least the protesters are trying to make their intention clear. In a little-reported Instagram post last week entitled “Columbia’s Gaza Student Protest Community Values,” they wrote “At universities across the nation our movement is united in valuing every human life” and “We firmly reject any form of hate or bigotry.” Setting up tents and praying for the souls of the dead, all the dead, is not violence.

[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

You should think about reading the Declaration of Independence sometime:

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

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“Life-and-death decisions relating to patient acuity, treatment decisions, and staffing levels cannot be made without the assessment skills and critical thinking of registered nurses,” the union wrote in the post. “For example, tell-tale signs of a patient’s condition, such as the smell of a patient’s breath and their skin tone, affect, or demeanor, are often not detected by AI and algorithms.”

“Nurses are not against scientific or technological advancement, but we will not accept algorithms replacing the expertise, experience, holistic, and hands-on approach we bring to patient care,” they added.

[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 75 points 11 months ago

I switched to standing-only at work about 10 years ago and it's been great, except for a 2-year stretch where the cleaners in the building I worked in would somehow find a free desk chair and push it under my desk every. single. night. So every morning when I got to work there'd be an office chair sitting on my standing mat and I'd have to find somewhere to put it. I tried moving it far away, finding a chairless desk on the other side of the building, but somehow they kept finding me a chair I didn't want and rolling it onto my mat. Eventually I got a little guest stool and would pull that over onto my mat when I left, and that worked as a decoy chair and kept them from adding a chair. Maybe this comic was about them.

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I started editing Wikipedia more seriously over the last couple of months, and this video has a bunch of useful information and how-tos that I wish I had then, and some stuff that I still didn't know. I really like contributing to such a useful resource, and knowing that every little edit I make helps everybody who wants to learn about that topic!

[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago

It's not awesome to ask someone out when they're working, but it's not harassment unless it's repeated.

[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 104 points 1 year ago

Culture comes from the top.

[-] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

l o g i s t i c s

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A senior Trump advisor shared a video that seems to show an NBC reporter badmouthing Republican presidential candidates. It appears AI was used to imitate the reporter's voice.

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