Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Do you understand sampling bias? Please boost after voting so the poll can have better statistics

Are you getting tired of all these links back to the bird site? (Consider boosting so we can get a sample of opinion.)

Literally fuck every Senator that supported this maneuver with a pike, base first:
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-12-08/ndaa-afghan-siv-8343652.html

Your regular reminder that #MachineLearning models (or #AI, if you insist on ignoring the meaning of 'intelligence') will repeat and reinforce any #bias that already exists in society.

BIG NEWS: A first-of-its-kind provision in the must-pass defense bill will ban former senior State officials from advising China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, or Syria FOR LIFE and other countries for 3 years. Secretaries & Deputies are banned from ALL advising @SenateForeign@twitter.com

Like, there are ways to self-rationalize not vaccinating, attending leisure gatherings and even going to work sick. We all do things we know we probably shouldn't.

But the mask thing is pure 100% self-aware absolute egoism. I *will* remember you are capable of that.

I'm a pretty empathetic person normally, so just for my own sanity, a couple months into the pandemic I'd made up a very simple mental rule for myself.

A person who prefers a real possibility of causing someone else's death or disability over having to smell their own breath does not deserve sympathy, now or ever again.

This year there are people actively being killed and that's causing us here some minor financial problems, so seeing people for who they are got even easier.

According to #Wikidata there are 18,218 universities worldwide.

I've worked out ( https://w.wiki/65$4 ) that 37 of the Wikidata entries have Mastodon accounts associated with them (not including bot accounts and sub-department accounts).

I'm confident there are more. 😀

Can you share this appeal widely, please, to either add Mastodon addresses to Wikidata items by editing directly, or letting me know of others and I'll add them.

#BoostWelcome #Boost
[Edited to add missing bracket]

#MastoAdmin #Abuse Is there a way to recover a post that a user has deleted? Or a way to set a user deleted post as not visible but still in the database? After poking around the database and doing some tests it looks like an erased post is removed from the “status” table and no longer exists anywhere else I can find. That leads to a way for abusers to post and delete as well as no easy way to investigate abuse.

Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"