I didn't expect "using a Torrenting client to seed US government scientific datasets because the policy settings are erasing years of research" on my 2025 bingo card but here we are.

You wouldn't download America's scientific research output would you?

#SafeGuardingResearch

EDIT: Several people have contacted me for the link.

https://sciop.net/datasets/

(Better link)

and follow @SafeguardingResearch

Premier rdv endoc ce matin, et c'est ouf comme on sent tout de suite la diff entre des soignant'e's transphobes et des trans-friendly.

Je lui annonce que j'ai commencé les injec en pirate, 0 jugement. Elle checke mes taux, tout est OK, tout bon. "Vous avez pas besoin de moi en fait ^^ est-ce que le suivi avec votre généraliste se passe bien ? Oui, ok n'hésitez pas à m'écrire ou à prendre rendez-vous avec moi si besoin mais a priori tout est bon, faites juste un bilan tous les 6 mois encore pendant 1 ou 2 ans puis une fois par an, ça suffira".

Dr. Munch à Strasbourg si besoin ;)

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Then filtering down to the top 1000 instances by active user from instances.social who had posted at least 31 images (2x the average).

Hi, we're a tech startup run by libertarian Silicon Valley tech bros.

We're not a newspaper, we're a content portal.
We're not a taxi service, we're a ride sharing app.
We're not a pay TV service, we're a streaming platform.
We're not a department store, we're an e-commerce marketplace.
We're not a financial services firm, we're crypto.
We're not a space agency, we're a group of visionaries who are totally going to Mars next year.
We're not a copywriting and graphic design agency, we're a large language model generative AI platform.

Oh sure, we compete against those established businesses. We basically provide the same goods and services.

But we're totally not those things. At least from a legal and PR standpoint.

And that means all the laws and regulations that have built up over the decades around those industries don't apply to us.

Things like consumer protections, privacy protections, minimum wage laws, local content requirements, safety regulations, environmental protections... They totally don't apply to us.

Even copyright laws — as long as we're talking about everyone else's intellectual property.

We're going to move fast and break things — and then externalise the costs of the things we break.

We've also raised several billion in VC funding, and we'll sell our products below cost — even give them away for free for a time — until we run our competition out of the market.

Once we have a near monopoly, we'll enshitify the hell out of our service and jack up prices.

You won't believe what you agreed to in our terms of service agreement.

We may also be secretly hoarding your personal information. We know who you are, we know where you work, we know where you live. But you can trust us.

By the time the regulators and the general public catch on to what we're doing, we will have well and truly moved on to our next grift.

By the way, don't forget to check out our latest innovation. It's the Uber of toothpaste!

#startup #business #tech #technology @technology

Every single thing conservatives are mad about can fit into three categories:

1) things they made up entirely
2) things caused by conservatism
3) things that are none of their goddamn business