Jason Levine

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Geek, doc, dad, drone, former Capitol Hill Classic race director, righter of wrongs. Shouldn't have to be said, but views expressed here are my own. He/him. Proudly Washington DC.
The ending of mask mandates in healthcare settings has serious implications for #LongCOVID treatment. Long #COVID patients should not have to risk reinfection to go see their physician.
@rmogull While this is hysterical to think about, I can't imagine it's the same pilot; the first was downed by a pilot out of Langley AFB (in NoVa), the second by a pilot out of Elmendorf AFB (in Anchorage).
This is how you review an antisemitic, transphobic, piece of shit video game: you roast it in the review and turn the buy link into a donation to Trans Lifeline.
https://www.wired.com/review/hogwarts-legacy-review/
Review: There Is No Magic in 'Hogwarts Legacy'

The game is mid at best, and its real-world harms are impossible to ignore.

WIRED
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Rowling: I don’t undersssstand why people are mad
Rowling: they don’t like my hook-nosed bankers who use childrensss blood for vile ritualsss?
Agent: people think they’re kinda antisemitic
Rowling: well, I thought the jewsss wanted represssentation!
Agent:
@franktaber @dangillmor More importantly, if the people I read are right, it doesn’t support migration — as in, you can’t migrate an existing account into Wildebeest, but worse, you can’t migrate an account OUT of it. This is pretty terrible, a violation of one of the most notable anti-lock-in tenets of the fediverse.

So this is interesting...

Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz, who is famous in these circles for being banned from Twitter then reinstated after much outcry, has conducted an experiment to determine if view counts on Twitter are legitimate.

Surprise, she presents proof that they are not, as shown in the Tweet screenshot below.

Many stay on Twitter because they believe that their "engagement" is higher, but now it seems like they can not trust the numbers.

#twittermigration

@afilina Following this!
Anti-Semitic tropes in the Harry Potter game are not an accident.

Kudos to the New York Public Library (#NYPL) for mining this vein of gold beneath our feet.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzyde/librarians-are-finding-thousands-of-books-no-longer-protected-by-copyright-law

"NYPL has been reviewing the US #Copyright Office’s official…records for [books] whose copyrights haven’t been renewed…The books in question were published between 1923 & 1964, before changes to US copyright law removed the requirement for rights holders to renew their copyrights…Around 65 -75% of rights holders opted not to renew their copyrights."

#PublicDomain
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Librarians Are Finding Thousands Of Books No Longer Protected By Copyright Law

Up to 75 percent of books published before 1964 may now be in the public domain, according to researchers at the New York Public Library.

@april (Meanwhile, this would be an amazing plot point in a hacker thriller — the hacker who failed to stop the bad guys' firewall intrusion at the last second because he couldn't find his cursor to click on the terminal window to issue the command.)