Austin W

Austin W

@austinjwebster.bsky.social

Education advocate. Frequent traveler. Occasional photographer. Views my own. We're all stories in the end, just make it a good one...

33 Followers 23 Following 16 Posts Joined Nov 2024
9 months ago

The fact that the rest of California is currently rooting for LA is how you know this is really crazy

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10 months ago

What if I just want $1M one-time Prop 98, Jason? 😂

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11 months ago

OMFG darth, so much.

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1 year ago

I was considering deducting all of it.

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1 year ago

3 weeks feels generous…

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1 year ago

i miss when weeks felt like weeks and not a thousand days long because of the firehose of bad news

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1 year ago

Remember when we had laws and things? And most people believed they should be followed? That was, in retrospect, kinda nice.

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1 year ago

I am all for criticizing the Biden admin for their shortcomings but it is hard to take anyone in media seriously when they make statements like this.

Trump 1.0 was literally “guess we’ll see what the President tweets tomorrow.”

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1 year ago

I have a lot of questions. 1) Does Wisp need friends? 2) Where does one acquire a copy of this tabletop?

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1 year ago
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1 year ago

lmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.

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1 year ago

JUST AT ME NEXT TIME, SHY.

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1 year ago

What the fuck are we even doing here anymore?

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1 year ago
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The man in charge of social media platforms used by billions should show some moral courage, writes @jemima.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/682c...

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1 year ago

Extremely cursed is under selling it.

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1 year ago
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Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out

Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades

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1 year ago

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

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1 year ago

Anyone have a good Instagram alternative so I can ditch Meta entirely?

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1 year ago

You’re an idiot. Please go back to X or threads.

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1 year ago

Whatever you’re imagining, it’s going to be 4x dumber that that.

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1 year ago
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In case you’re interested in the weeds of how bad this is,

this is a redline version of Meta’s formerly Hateful SPEECH now Hateful CONDUCT rule.

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1 year ago
But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project.

"I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

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1 year ago

Just the dumbest fucking people…

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1 year ago

Hope you feel better, Kate! Sending good vibes and hopes for soup.

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1 year ago

It is Tuesday. The year is seven days old. The Legislature has only been back for two days. Despite all this, I feel like this month has been an eternity already…

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1 year ago

We live in the dumbest possible times…

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1 year ago

Well, time to start shit talking here I guess…

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