Primary election day in WA -

We review the local races, initiatives and the last-minute info you need to know before polls close at 8 p.m.

In #Seattle, seven of the nine City Council seats are up for grabs, leaving lots of room for a shift in city politics. (via @kcts9) https://crosscut.com/politics/2023/08/its-primary-election-day-washington-heres-what-know #politics

From @kevincollier:

“Scams that once bilked victims out of hundreds or even thousands of dollars are increasingly persuading them to move their investment and retirement accounts into phony investment schemes.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-online-romance-scams-netting-millions-self-harm-rcna85252

TIL:
The Greek word amethystos may be translated as "not drunken", from Greek a-, "not" + methustos, "intoxicated". Amethyst was considered to be a strong antidote against drunkenness, which is why wine goblets were often carved from it.
— Wikipedia

But this makes me wonder if the Greeks had a different name for it *prior* to coming up with this (easily refuted) belief.

When you first see a gemstone in the ground, don’t you call it something related to its appearance or location, rather than jumping straight to “Oh, that will ward off drunkeness!”

🚨 Yikes, last month was the hottest June on record for our planet! This is not surprising at all.

Summary of conditions: https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-june-2023

PORTLAND: Time for First Friday office hours at Books with Pictures on SE Division.

This Friday April 7th, I'll be there, masked, from 4- 6PM giving portfolio feedback to emerging #comics artists. Details in the thread below:

Within the next 18 months we're going to see an explosion of invasive #tracking and #datascraping as major advertisers and #dataanalytics companies realize just how fucked Twitter is and start looking for new hunting grounds(profit sources, us and our "content").

We, as #MastoAdmin and #mastoMods MUST have tools to easily lock out, allow list, and control who can have access to our users that are expecting us to protect their peace and privacy. We're going to see #spam ads from pop up domains in larger numbers, we're going to see garbage coming into our DMs like it used to on Twitter.

The reason these things weren't a larger issue on Twitter (until recently) was because of the infrastructure that went into managing and subduing that sort of behavior. The fediverse has none of that infrastructure, or really even tools.

If you do #MastoDev, please, we need tools. Perfect is the enemy of done. We mastoadmin need ways to share reports about problematic users and servers quickly and with notes and standardized categories. We need ways to identify and share with our peers and friends the things we are seeing and actions we are taking, and we need room for nuance and flexibility and options in our response to unknown unknowns.

It's a big ask, but there's decades of these kinds of tools being built for email and other distributed systems, we don't have to start from nothing!

#fediblockhole #rapidblock #FedeRater #fedirelay #relay

New: A former TikTok employee is secretly fighting the company on Capitol Hill, telling congressional investigators the app is lying about its defenses against Chinese spying.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/10/tiktok-data-whistleblower-congress-investigators/