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@iamdiogenesdog.bsky.social

MFA - History B.S. - Criminal Justice B.A. - History Please DM for ways to help turn your cisgender, conservative neighbor into a trans antifa furry

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Diogenes Dog@iamdiogenesdog.bsky.social · 3d ago

Just a reminded that it is literally unconscionable to continue using Twitter *so many people* continue making excuses to remain on that site, & there aren’t any It directly funds a literal Nazi, & the platform itself is used for producing CSAM Get off Twitter

kate conger@kateconger.com · 3d ago

Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

Diogenes Dog@iamdiogenesdog.bsky.social · last wk.

I did my master’s history thesis on the role the far right has had on mainstream conservatism One of my favorite sections to research/write was on why people gravitate towards conspiracy theories, & what role these conspiracy theories play for the people who latch onto them

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · last wk.

Vaccine conspiracism is overwhelmingly clustered among the religious, white and affluent. It’s a function of conservative ideology and bad faith media. Being nicer to MAHA types will not ‘bring them into the fold,’ it will only increase their sense of entitlement.

Objective: Strengthening of antivaccination movements in recent decades has coincided with unprecedented increases in the incidence of some communicable diseases. Many intervention programs work from a deficit model of science communication, presuming that vaccination skeptics lack the ability to access or understand evidence. However, interventions focusing on evidence and the debunking of vaccine-related myths have proven to be either nonproductive or counterproductive. Working from a motivated reasoning perspective, we examine the psychological factors that might motivate people to reject scientific consensus around vaccination. To assist with international generalizability, we examine this question in 24 countries. Methods: We sampled 5,323 participants in 24 countries, and measured their antivaccination attitudes. We also measured their belief in conspiracy theories, reactance (the tendency for people to have a low tolerance for impingements on their freedoms), disgust sensitivity toward blood and needles, and individualistic/hierarchical worldviews (i.e., people's beliefs about how much control soci hould have over individuals, and whether hierarchies are desirable). Results: In order of magnitude, antivaccination attitudes were highest among those who (a) were high in conspir- atorial thinking, (b) were high in reactance, (c) reported high levels of disgust toward blood and needles, and (d) had strong individualistic/hierarchical worldviews . In contrast, demographic variables (including education) accounted for nonsignificant or trivial lev f variance. Conclusions: These data help identify the "attitude roots" that may motivate and sustain vaccine skepticism. In so doing, they help shed light on why repetition of evidence can be nonproductive, and suggest communication solutions to that problem. Keywords: vaccination, conspiracy beliefs, health communication,
Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is a related and expanded graphic which emphasizes an important point: Higher speeds reduce your visibility and reaction time, making it more likely you'll hit someone or something, and then when you *do* hit them, it's more likely to be fatal.

A graphic that says Why Speed Matters Below that are two stats: Drivers yield 75% of the time while traveling 20 mph Drivers yield only 17% of the time when traveling 37 mph The next line shows that drivers have a much wider field of vision at 15 mph as compared to 30 to 40 mph. Finally, there are three stats: 9 out of 10 pedestrians survive when hit by a car traveling 20 mph 5 out of 10 survive at 30 1 out of 10 surive at 40
Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Most speed cameras ticket at 11 mph over the limit. So I'm issuing my regular reminder that when it comes to a car hitting a pedestrian, each 10 mph increase in speed significantly raises the victim's risk of death. Chart source: walksf.org/our-work/cam...

A graph showing the various risk of death for a pedestrian hit by a car. At 20 mph the risk is 10%, at 30 mph, it's 40%, and at 40 mph, it's 80%
Sam Biddle@sambiddle.com · 3w ago

The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors

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Diogenes Dog@iamdiogenesdog.bsky.social · 3w ago

I seriously don’t know how cooked your brain has to be to publicly say these things, willingly, & out loud @masnick.com coined “Streisand Effect” & yet he can’t comprehend why people don’t like the plagiarism bot or the website full of racists & literal Nazis

Johnny Normality@probgobl.in · 4w ago

"A bunch of people would rather post on Race War Now Dot Swastika rather than Bluesky because you keep making fun of their imaginary computer friend" is a RESOUNDING endorsement for the concept of hostility.

Part of a thread from some bluecheck: Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule. I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X." I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie). I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI.
Diogenes Dog@iamdiogenesdog.bsky.social · 3w ago

@masnick.com Besides the cowardly move to turn off replies, if you call yourself a “journalist,” then whine that everyone is mean to you because you use the plagiarism machine that helps fund fascism to do your job, then you should find a new profession “I’m cheating & everyone is mean about it!”

Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 4w ago

🧵You can't talk about Natalie Harp w/o talking about how strange she is. This isn't making fun of physique or bearing. It's about obsessive/creepy behavior. And it matters on policy. As a former Republican media consultant, I can tell you that this attack is astonishingly effective w/the public...

A photo of Donald Trump sitting at a desk with national flags on it, seemingly at a meeting in an office. His omnipresent aide, Natalie Harp, is sitting behind him, staring at him with an unnatural smile, her eyes shrouded with pupils not visible.
dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...