Mastodawn

Your request to not want to see US politics, or any topic, is fair. Especially given your view that it is your responsibility to filter, not others' responsibility to not talk about it.

Many people are so opposed to LLM based systems, that they've given up on regular statistical based regression filters. 🤷🏿‍♂️

You should be able to list topics that you don't want to hear about, and your client should score posts, and hide things that you don't want to see. You can do this without transformers.

Alternatively, BlueSky has composable moderation. Some human can read posts and tag as "US politics." Then you can subscribe to that filter, to not see it. Low effort for posters, good result for readers.

Telling people to add hash tags to everything is silly. It only makes sense from the position of someone in the default category, because they don't really think that they'll have to adorn everything they write with:

#white #male #whiteman #man #cis #dude #bro #ablebodied #whitepeople #pinkskinned #majority #justaguy #guy #caucasian #presumeddefault #stuffjustworksforme #benefitofthedoubt #thoughtoffirst

They presume themselves to be the default, and hash tags are for everyone else that deviates from their view of the world with them at the center.

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Nov 13

A quotation from Kit Marlowe

BARABAS: Religion
Hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Jew of Malta, Act 1, sc. 2, ll. 282-283 (c. 1590)

More about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #kitmarlowe #christophermarlowe #benefitofthedoubt #coverstory #mischief #plans #plots #religion #suspicion

The Jew of Malta, Act 1, sc. 2, ll. 282-283 (c. 1590) - Marlowe, Christopher | WIST Quotations

BARABAS:Religion Hides many mischiefs from suspicion. Planning to send his daughter, Abigail, as a penitent to the nunnery that his confiscated house has been turned to, so that she can recover his treasure left hidden there.

WIST Quotations

Su_G Jun 28, 2025

@Janet_52square

My 1st thought was that the 'benefit of the doubt' is (just) a lazy way of thinking (like stereotypes) - but lazy can be good: it lets us get on with things quicker & stops us wasting time on stuff that isn't rewarding. Unless they're actively evil, trying to harm you or another, where's the value in evaluating/ assessing people or their motives when you could be using the same energy in more personally rewarding ways, like listening to music or planning a party etc... But it could also reflect a generational attitude/ approach & be part of why older people (who grew up in less complex times) can be more vulnerable to cons & scams. 😕

Then I thought of times I've been told to give 'the benefit of the doubt' - usually by those who are determined not to give it to me... 😐

So I see that it can be a double-edged sword & like most things to do with people, more complicated than it looks on the surface. It's certainly provoked an interesting discussion! I enjoyed reading this thread - thank you for kicking it off! 🙂

#BenefitOfTheDoubt #AssessingMotives #HumanBehaviour

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Stafford Gregoire Jan 7, 2025

Cops who kill are always “ex-police”
After their #BenefitOfTheDoubt
Expires with the video’s release
& The #NewYorkTimes loses more clout

@nytimes
#HeadlinePoem
#HeadlineSonnet
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/us/virginia-beach-deputies-indictment-inmate-murder.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nU4.9-vD.WOI2dWLfAORI&smid=url-share

3 Ex-Deputies Face Murder Charges in Virginia Inmate’s Death

The deputies restrained the man after he was “uncooperative and combative” while being booked into the jail, officials said. He was hospitalized after a “medical emergency” and died days later.

The New York Times

WIST Quotations moves again!Jun 12, 2024

A quotation from Barrie, James:

«
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/barrie-james/16382/

#quote #quotes #quotation #accusation #assumption #benefitofthedoubt #motivation #opponent #perspective #selfrighteousness

"Courage," Rectoral Address, University of St. Andrews, Scotland (1922-05-03) - Barrie, James | WIST Quotations

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

WIST

scholar_farmer Mar 7, 2024

Oh wow: deleting files and had somehow forgotten that maternity leave and mom's death memorial ceremony were the same semester -- and that once upon a time the exams that were expressed mailed to me got lost in the postal system and we had to figure out semester grades with incomplete information. And my colleague hadn't provided any first-half-the-semester assessments. That was a hot mess.

#StoriesFromThePast #GradingIsAMess
#BenefitOfTheDoubt

Shine My Crown Jan 9, 2024

ICYMI: Garcelle Beauvais Slams ‘RHOBH’ Cast Member Over Racially Insensitive Comments Toward Black Women https://shinemycrown.com/garcelle-beauvais-slams-rhobh-cast-member-over-racially-insensitive-comments-toward-black-women/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #News #Accusation #Benefitofthedoubt #Blackcasting #Casting

Garcelle Beauvais Slams Dorit Kemsley Over Insensitive Comment

"Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" (RHOBH), Garcelle Beauvais takes her co-star, Dorit Kemsley, to task over racially insensitive comments.

Shine My Crown

Shine My Crown Jan 8, 2024

Garcelle Beauvais Slams ‘RHOBH’ Cast Member Over Racially Insensitive Comments Toward Black Women https://shinemycrown.com/garcelle-beauvais-slams-rhobh-cast-member-over-racially-insensitive-comments-toward-black-women/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #News #Accusation #Benefitofthedoubt #Blackcasting #Casting

Garcelle Beauvais Slams Dorit Kemsley Over Insensitive Comment

"Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" (RHOBH), Garcelle Beauvais takes her co-star, Dorit Kemsley, to task over racially insensitive comments.

Shine My Crown

WIST Quotations moves again!Nov 2, 2023

A quotation from Rogers, Will:

«
Hunt out and talk about the good that is in the other fellow’s church, not the bad, and you will do away with all this religious hatred you hear so much of nowadays.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/rogers-will/64363/

#quote #quotes #quotation #benefitofthedoubt #complement #fairness #positivity #religion #religiousintolerance #tolerance

"Weekly Article" column (1923-03-11) - Rogers, Will | WIST Quotations

Hunt out and talk about the good that is in the other fellow's church, not the bad, and you will do away with all this religious hatred you hear so much of nowadays.

WIST

Renee Jan 1, 2023

#Friction with a spouse or partner or loved one, #TracyPollan on husband #MichaelJFox, even in the small moments, facing his #Parkinson’s disease side by side, they give each other the #BenefitoftheDoubt:

“We assume the best.”

#People Magazine, 11.7.22