sydney woernturn

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grass is a blight. touch an endangered tropical plant with a potent neurotoxin on its leaves

zoomer compsci guy recovering(?) from being terminally online & trying to figure out a renewed sense of identity

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sydney woernturnMar 8, 2025
Electronic Frontier FoundationMar 6, 2025
Take It Down would give the rich & powerful an easy way to demand content removal—no questions asked. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/trump-calls-congress-pass-overbroad-take-it-down-act-so-he-can-use-it-censor
Trump Calls On Congress To Pass The “Take It Down” Act—So He Can Censor His Critics

We've opposed the Take It Down Act because it could be easily manipulated to take down lawful content that powerful people simply don't like. Last night, President Trump demonstrated he has a similar view on the bill. He wants to sign the bill into law, then use it to remove content about — him....

Electronic Frontier Foundation
sydney woernturnJan 17, 2024
Teri KanefieldJan 17, 2024

The authors are political science professors at Stony Brook.

Their point: The biggest divide isn’t by party.

The biggest divided is by involvement in politics.

The most vocal voices from social media, who are amplified by the mainstream media, come from a relatively small group.

Echoing what Dannagal Young had to say in “Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive our Appetite for Misinformation," the authors talk about 2 sets of relatively small groups of hyper-engaged partisans.

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sydney woernturnJun 30, 2023
Qasim Rashid, Esq.Jun 30, 2023

Affirmative action was never about admitting unqualified Black kids. It was always about ensuring qualified Black kids could also get accepted despite a world of systemic racism.

The “unqualified admission” you’re thinking of are legacy students—like how Kavanaugh got into Yale, or how George W. got into yale, or how Kushner got into Harvard.

Every GOP accusation is a confession, and this is no exception.

Show threadsydney woernturnNov 25, 2022

and this new suggestion to restrict the initial visibility of the instances that aren’t block-happy (not even just the unsavory instances themselves) is an additional step that i hadn’t realized could even be made in the first place

why are so many people so averse to making their own decisions regarding the content they get to see?

sydney woernturnNov 25, 2022
Show threadEvan ProdromouNov 20, 2022

One of the big mistakes people make, over and over again, is relying on technological determinism.

That is, thinking the architecture of the technology will preserve the topology of the network.

Mastodon is Open Source. It's built with open standards.

This is necessary but not sufficient to keep the network decentralized.

We're going to need social and legal structures, plus cultural norms, that counterbalance Metcalfe's law, which pushes the network towards centralization.

sydney woernturnNov 25, 2022
am i the only one who thinks this isn’t a good way to prevent harassment & improve user experience?
Show threadsydney woernturnNov 25, 2022

i already sort of dislike the idea that instances can block entire other instances in the first place

USERS blocking instances would be sensible and necessary, of course, but allowing instance admins to choose which parts of the fediverse other users are allowed to observe seems too restrictive regardless of how unsavory those other instances are

sydney woernturnNov 25, 2022
Chad LoderNov 25, 2022
Hours after documenting Andy Ngo's vocal support for known pedophiles, journalist Vishal P. Singh (@VPS_Reports) was permanently suspended from Twitter.
Show threadsydney woernturnNov 25, 2022
northern european countries really decided we should clean our asses less thoroughly than we clean our hands
sydney woernturnNov 25, 2022
how the fuck do so many people live without bidets in their restrooms