Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ashleygjovik/116229534725271216

🧵Last night a federal court granted Apple's request to force me to delete my public speech about Apple using their employee's bodies like lab rats & gagged me from talking about it going forward with no end date. No hearing or findings; and Apple decides what I can & can't say....

RALLY: Thursday 4/2 at NOON 450 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco Phillip Burton Federal Building with LaborMedia, Whistleblowers United, CA Coalition for Workers Memorial Day, WorkWeek, UFCLP
https://www.ashleygjovik.com/blog/federal-court-approves-apples-demand-for-a-gag-order-on-workers-about-work-conditions-apples-misconduct

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Alice McFlurry

2d ago

Since it's my dad's birthday, he's been sending me a bunch of photos, so can we all talk about how cute his desk is?

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Danielle Foré 3d ago

I just finished the prologue/episode 1 of Oshi No Ko. Holy shit dude. I didn’t realize I was sleeping on peak

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Prof. Sam Lawler 3d ago

Following up to say... the whole idea is so fucking ignorant that it's all shocking. I'm just focusing on the eye damage issue because it's something they readily admit will cause harm, and it's a concrete calculation (even if I think they did it in a bullshit way that ignores a lot of things that actually make it MORE likely to cause eye damage)

Ecological damage has me far more worried, and losing so much of the night sky for some techbro fuckweasel's pipe dream is just devastating.

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Prof. Sam Lawler 3d ago

Any journalists want to write about this? Or anyone know how to figure out who insures Reflect Orbital? Reflect Orbital will cause eye damage to people using telescopes, as astronomers have previously calculated, and they openly admitted it in their reply.

(There is a whole slew of absolutely devastating ecological damage they will also cause, but I'm focusing on this one for now because it's so shocking)

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Prof. Sam Lawler 3d ago

FCC reply comments are due by 5pm EDT Monday 30 March on Reflect Orbital. If you wrote in a comment, please please please write in again saying that they did not address your concerns in their letter (which is very hard to find in the FCC dumpster-fire-of-a-website). Instructions here: https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02/how-submit-comments-satellite-applications-fcc

The most horrifying part in their "consolidated reply": they agree that they could in fact cause permanent eye damage to people using medium-sized telescopes. WILD.

OH: “What is it about DNS that people find so difficult? It’s just cache invalidation and naming things.”

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Max Leibman Mar 24

My negotiations with Iran? You wouldn’t know them. They go to a different school.

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qdot Feb 4

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment