"40 Senators have sponsored a bill to make sure you have to upload your driver’s license before you can use your First Amendment on the internet. That’s what they want. That’s what this bill is."
Influencers Starting To Realize How The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) Will Do Real Damage
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/25/influencers-starting-to-realize-how-the-kids-online-safety-act-kosa-will-do-real-damage/
Hours after anti-vax Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the United States House of Representatives Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Thursday afternoon, one of the nation's foremost experts on vaccinations reminded P...
There's a really good community feature on here called groups. It works like this:
1. Follow a group's account
2. You will start seeing posts on that topic
3. You can post to the group by @-ing it
It's more powerful than hashtag following, as all group posts are actively pushed to all of the group's members. No one misses anything.
Find out more about groups at https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse/
If you're interested, try following one of the friendly active groups curated at https://fedi.directory/tag/fediverse-groups/
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Luck 25/99 NYT average 5.4!
My condolences to the approx 22% of players who lost their streak today.
Google Bard/OpenAI runoff with simple question:
"can you tell me how many weeks old my puppy born on 3/10/2023 is?"
Bard: first try, correct formula (days/7), wrong answer. 8 weeks. Second try: days divided by 4 weeks in a month: 16.5 weeks. Third time correct.
OpenAI nailed it with lovely exposition on trial one. 9.5 weeks old.
And this is little Ricky the Havanese. (pictured at 8 weeks)
Reports of a mass shooting this morning
And now?
11 injured, 9+ shot during mass shooting at a South Carolina park.
Victims range from 16-20 years old
119 days into 2023:
175 mass shootings
5,868 homicides
567 children (under 18) murdered
Mass shootings tripled when the assault weapon ban ended.
It's the guns.