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Diego Gonzalez

@oyediego.bsky.social

Working in tech Loove dogs and animals at large Passionate about nature and the environment

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Power cartoon by Zezvaz.com

15.02.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 880    πŸ” 248    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 11
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I fear there is deep truth here.

11.01.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 55503    πŸ” 13728    πŸ’¬ 1439    πŸ“Œ 843
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."

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...

08.01.2025 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 24815    πŸ” 6400    πŸ’¬ 862    πŸ“Œ 341
Keith Wasserman: Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here. All neighbors houses burning. Will pay any amount. Thank you.

Keith Wasserman: Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here. All neighbors houses burning. Will pay any amount. Thank you.

β€œWill pay any amount.”

Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.

08.01.2025 06:16 β€” πŸ‘ 37779    πŸ” 6311    πŸ’¬ 2420    πŸ“Œ 1500

Hello! Nothing concrete as of now, but that would indeed be great to combine. Let me know if you have any interesting ideas!

06.01.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A PR on GitHub with a ton of removed code

A PR on GitHub with a ton of removed code

There's just something oddly satisfying about this

11.12.2024 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cotton-and-squid-bone sponge can soak up 99.9% of microplastics, scientists say Filter performs well in removing plastic pollution from water and Chinese researchers say it appears to be scalable

This sounds fairly promising, hoping for the best 🀞

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

10.12.2024 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Comparison of older and newer pick-up truck. Although the truck bed is essentially the same, the overall truck size is substantially larger and higher.

Comparison of older and newer pick-up truck. Although the truck bed is essentially the same, the overall truck size is substantially larger and higher.

Trucks have been getting bigger, more energy & space consuming, more polluting, and much deadlier to everyone around them including kids. Not because most of us actually need bigger vehicles, but as ego boosts, status symbols & β€œindicators of male virility.” Note the truck bed is basically the same.

01.12.2024 04:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2428    πŸ” 610    πŸ’¬ 189    πŸ“Œ 185
A round, light brown tablet made of clay with three lines of cuneiform scripts. Two rulings, or traced straight lines, enclose the writing. The photo also shows the sides of the tablet, including a few damaged parts.

A round, light brown tablet made of clay with three lines of cuneiform scripts. Two rulings, or traced straight lines, enclose the writing. The photo also shows the sides of the tablet, including a few damaged parts.

May as well dive right in.

Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?

According to a Sumerian proverb, β€œThe dog understands β€˜Take it!’ It does not understand β€˜Put it down!’”

Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

13.11.2024 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5146    πŸ” 1489    πŸ’¬ 106    πŸ“Œ 136

This place feels like a breath of fresh air compared to the ex-twitter cesspool ❀️

06.11.2024 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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