Richard Ferro, MD MSc

@richferro.com

Family & Preventive Medicine Physician at the intersection of @latinsky.app & @medsky.network Knead your anger & create dangerously Projects: (Latin/Med)sky, @qbank.study, @atls.city, @stemlabels.xyz Support: https://ko-fi.com/richferro

Media circles always frame convos re: moderation as a question of someone’s right to freedom of expression, and never around ensuring someone’s expression is not causing deliberate harm to others It’s giving “How do we make houses less flammable so the arsonists can keep lighting things on fire?”

JD (by way of Blacksky)@jdot.blacksky.team · 20h ago

I don’t know all this talk about how to merge polarized views, makes me believe that y’all desperately want to reform bigots and don’t care about those who are or share the creed of the marginalized. Like these people are threatening to kill me and I’m supposed to talk to them and smile?

WA workers under UFW contract are clearing off leaves for better growth and production of the wine grapes. "Miguel" says: Chateau Ste Michelle cares about us. When temps reach 95° we're sent home. In hot weather they bring us in early so we can work when it's safer." #WeFeedYou

Workers thinning leaves for a better wine grape harvest

At your next meal, take a second to think about the people working long hours in HOT 100° temps to put food on your table. They're not just statistics. They're real people who can't avoid the heat in an air conditioned house or office. #WeFeedYou

ANNOUNCEMENT: I’ve been working on putting together something between a retreat and a hackathon for #atproto builders for the past several weeks. I’ve been in discussion with potential funders and some funding has become available to make this a reality. now, I need your help!! KEEP READING 👇🏽

i still currently believe that free and open-source software bundled with self-hosted options are the only sustainable path forward for content creators longterm we should be educating and sharing knowledge on these tools now more than ever

🧵 Blacksky is looking to buy a server for $30k USD. We'd like the following specs or better: - 384 GB RAM - 80 TB NVMe; ZFS RAIDZ2 in 2 vdevs - 1 Gbps + 10 Gpbs burstable - at least 84 threads for the CPU(s) - Ideally somewhere in the eastern half of North America but open to North America and EU

Next big thing for Leaflet: helping creators monetize! 💸 First step = paid memberships for your publications Next, exploring other things like one-off payments — tell us what you need! Almost ready & we'd love to find some early partners, please fill out the linked form if you're interested!

Piloting paid memberships for the open social web!

Lab Notes 035: building monetization features for Leaflet creators, starting with paid memberships — tell us if you'd like to be the first to try, and what else you need!

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