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"5 years since the pandemic started, long COVID patients are still hoping for a cure" https://www.opb.org/article/2025/03/12/5-years-since-the-pandemic-started-long-covid-research-is-gaining-ground/ @mecfs @longcovid #Covid19 #LongCovid #PostCovid #MEcfs #POTS #CovidIsNotOver

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[USpol action to take] Would be a crying shame if you all looked up some red state book banning school board bully and reported them for something plausible enough to waste resources and get them to turn on one another enddei.ed.gov #resist #stopfascism #3e

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[US pol] THIS CANNOT STAND. This is permanent, irreversible ecocide. Forests are not there to be raped by madmen. Seriously, how do we fight this? What protest do I join? #climatechange #ecology #biodiversity https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/trump-national-forest-executive-order

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Apparently fascists still do RFIs-- good and decent people of the United States, apply some pressure here. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/06/2025-02305/request-for-information-on-the-development-of-an-artificial-intelligence-ai-action-plan

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There's a nonprofit whose website I support that monitors the far right. They want to set up a mirror site in Iceland (or other country with strong data sovereignty laws) in case the Trump administration takes down their website. Does anyone have Icelandic hosting companies they recommend? The […]

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Any guess about an ID? Found in the Coast Range outside Portland, OR. Second growth forest. #Mushtodon #fungifriday

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https://50501movement.bsky.social/ to find your local protest #chicago #50501movement #50501 #NoKingsDay #protest #fiftyfiftyone

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Live in the US near a state Capitol? Join a president's day protest. Deets at indivisible.org. https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

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Giant insurance company wants website to take down quotes -- but the company's own CEO said this stuff in his praise for "AI"-authored claims correspondence: https://futurism.com/allstate-demanding-delete-quotes-ai If you're not already reading Futurism, I recommend you start.

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love to see the strong consolidated civil society voice making clear and concrete demands. Bravo! #AI #climatechange #climatejustice https://greenscreen.network/en/blog/within-bounds-limiting-ai-environmental-impact/

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Zenith is a rogue fossil fuel company trying to grab land here in Portland for some dodgy operations that will kill us all -- slowly through climate change or quickly in an earthquake liquefaction. The new city council has an opportunity to stop them. If you are local to #Portland, send a […]

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If I ever program chair a conference again, I'm just going to call the theme "Suitably Vague" and leave it at that.

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I love craven linked in garbage-- like this guy... why on earth would you spend money so your boss can get more out of you? Like, do you hear yourself right now?

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In case you were wondering... My spouse is a school bus driver and these are the instructions drivers have received today.

submitted 51 days ago • 5 comments

So... non- fashy mapping apps?

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Do you want to engage in algorithmic sabotage of "AI" scrapers? But you have a static website on something like @Codeberg (or GitHub) Pages that makes this hard? I've written up how I've setup @marcusb's "quixotic" for that even if you can't change any webserver settings. I'd love for people […]

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just in case we've forgotten what things look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8iujof6IL8&ab_channel=UnitedStatesHolocaustMemorialMuseum

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ICE Watch - learn how to do it. Watch the video. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-watch-programs-immigrants-how-to-start

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I agree that this is what EU should do now. "#EU [should] ..start seriously addressing our dependency on Big Tech and invest in real alternative models and services." "public funds.. must be reserved for open digital infrastructure, software, hardware and standards." "we also need […]

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Stargate is starting to sound more and more like Land Space Force.

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Seems relevant today.

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Bit of Cold War history: the reason the US did not spy on its citizens as much as it might have was related to the need to construct the Soviet Union as Other. The Other surveils, we have freedom. Never mind what spying was actually done on the Panthers, MLK, etc.. its the Others who spy and […]

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🚨 🚨 🚨 New paper announcement 🚨 🚨 🚨 The public policy world is increasingly calling for transparency in energy & emissions for AI models. As my team learned the hard way, it's just not as simple as pulling a tool off of the shelf, or using a standard. Getting to transparency means […]

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Hive mind, I'm looking for examples where hierarchical organizations became meaningfully less hierarchical. Not in the sense of fewer management layers, but in the sense that people stopped looking to the higher ups to issue permission slips and blessings for every damn thing. Thoughts?

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Suing the Planet In a stunning display of corporate audacity, ExxonMobil has filed a lawsuit against California Attorney General Rob Bonta and environmental groups over attacks on recycling efforts. The fossil fuels corporation is “accusing them of defaming and disparaging the oil giant's […]

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Everyday erasure of feminized work example from today. "What's your official title for this xyz thing?" "PE and Research Manager, Sociotechnical Systems Lab" "Sociotechnical? That sounds made up." My dude...

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Gosh I hate Circling Back Season.

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1500 humanities professors in tenure track/tenured positions, but 80,000 instructors w PhDs in the precariate. CS friends, it's that bad. Meanwhile, 16k ML people showed up to Neurips, all flush with travel $ and NSF $ and private sector $$$, all to get a .02% improvement on an arbitrary […]

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https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/bidens-usda-never-tried-to-control 100% on point.

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This is fine. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai-power-home-appliances/

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My 2025 wish is for the AI winter to hit so hard it slows down climate change.

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For 2025 I think we should just ignore every "AI did this thing" report that does not explicitly state the resource cost (energy/CO2 for training and inference, hardware requirements/e-waste). We just cannot afford burning the planet for technological parlor tricks.

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Get a library card—even if you don’t plan to use it. Your registration helps secure funding for libraries, keeping them open and thriving for the entire community. Every card counts! #SaveLibraries

submitted 89 days ago • 3 comments

Tis the season to give to the Amazon Workers' Union strike fund. https://www.amazonlaborunion.org/strike-fundraising

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Ok so I tried Bluesky. It felt like a firehose of dread, cognitive dissonance, attention clamoring, and odious comparison. I feel none of those things here, and I only know 3ish people here IRL. So, #mastodon, you win. This is indeed better.

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«A Nestlé sustainability manager recently stated that: “The water bottle has in some ways become the mink coat or the pack of cigarettes. It’s socially not very acceptable to the young folks, and that scares me.”» A scared manager for Nestlé is the only good manager for Nestlé. But also, it […]

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I love how CNN can only bring themselves to put corporate greed in scare quotes. https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/11/business/ceo-shooting-unitedhealth-security/index.html

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