Notices by Emory (emory@soc.kvet.ch)

@bmacDonald94 i've done some photography for them a few times and i always just hand them a stack of licensed images they can use however they want. my type of photography is good for events and protests (reportage/doc/street) i actually framed one i took of lindy west when she was speaking after the 2016 election to an auditorium of extremely alarmed people! i usually don't do that but i love her and i needed to hear her talk at the time!

every day there are weirdos protesting there. creeps.

@bmacDonald94 iowa trivia here in #iow (iowa city, ia) we have one of the few remaining independent women's healthcare clinics in the country. The Emma Goldman Clinic.

they do incredibly important work that people can't benefit from otherwise for miles and miles.

#women #healthcare #emmaGoldman

> … Fourth, as a first-term Trump administration official and ex-CIA officer, I believe the reason these officials risk interacting in this way is to prevent their communications from being preserved as required by the Presidential Records Act, and avoid them being discoverable in litigation, or subject to a subpoena or Freedom of Information Act request.

That's what a lot of people have been saying from the beginning. #SignalGate #whiskeyLeaks https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/05/why-trump-administration-used-signal-hegseth-gabbard

@thepoliticalcat @Nonilex this is only further making me confident about his imminent pivot from cars to robots and AI and installing one to run a federal agency by 2027.

it occurs to me that the one agency i wouldn't mind DOGE tearing through would be the #ATF, but thanks to #NRA lobbyists and republican pandering they're still on microfiche last i heard. the republicans blocked #NIH funding into gun violence for decades. there's probably mountains of crimes in the ATF records room and nobody cares enough to start scanning film because they're told not to.

https://firearmsresearchcenter.org/working_papers/the-debate-over-the-atf-digitizing-gun-sales-records-from-out-of-business-firearms-dealers/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-atfs-nonsensical-non-searchable-gun-databases-explained-392/

#doge #resist #guns #gop #bootlicking

@ukraine @bmacDonald94 this cease fire sounds sloppy

@bmacDonald94 i had a really great one-shot generated image for "all the time in the world" once: cc: @Binder

weirdly this is one of the very first things i prompted #midjourney to create. i wound up creating four different variants and they're lovely as wallpapers, especially in iPadOS when it will render out of focus to not distract me. idk why but i just love it. dreamy. #generativeAI

@bmacDonald94 omg i love this art so much. yesterday for my "superposition of possible patterns" repository was adorned with this (generated) image that i rather like:

@aral I don't think Apple can even comply with this sort of request. They have never wavered on this and in fact have continued to make it even progressively more difficult with every major and even minor releases. One of my iCloud accounts (I created one for my former employer) is entirely self-managed via u2f/fido2 tokens, it doesn't use Apple's MFA at all, and i disable imessage in the cloud so they're not decrypted there. now what, guvner?

nothing stops them from doing police work does it?

@glynmoody @hkrn ah ha i misread that part thank you 🙇🏻

@hkrn @glynmoody wait so there's zero wind? there's a lot of wind power in Iowa and when the blades aren't moving it's usually because they need to generate less electricity and turn some down, but people often think it's because they're broken or non-functional and it drives me crazy because politicians like to be wrong about it all as well.

@glynmoody about 12 years ago i was thinking they should spin gaming/entertainment and azure out into subsidiaries.

@mmasnick @stoicybele sorry for contributing to the frustration, i was probably overreacting and i didn't mean to end up arguing with someone i respect, i just felt like you were missing my point that the irony of people highfiving themselves over leaving twitter bookended between phobes and nazis was just too much 🤪😆

@mmasnick @stoicybele because i didn't know. i blocked them immediately but took a screenshot, if you do a search for a certain keyword in the tenant fqdn of that asshole there are probably several more just like him. i don't have time to spend curating scumbags on social media.

@stoicybele @mmasnick look i have been publishing on the web since ncsa mosaic, i expect trolls and assholes. i wasn't surprised a nazi transphobe immediately popped up the moment i said something kind about trans people, it was the fact that it's interspersed between posts from people celebrating freedom from nazi phobes and trolls on twitter while nazi phobes wave. i was following five people maybe so the new user experience at bluesky could be very similar to that and that would suck.

@briankrebs 💯 💯 💯 get a load of this - i replied to someone about #trans 🏳️⚧️ day of remembrance and this asshole shows up in my feed

i would like to introduce a technical executive with an engineering background and diabetes to someone in the #HealthKit team at #Apple, because a “no updates" control failed and her blood glucose instrument silently stopped working overnight because of it.

this could be an incident that could be impacting a lot of people that don't know about it and she's recovering to a working state again but i don't think this should have happened. the FDA certified the device for #AppleHealth lil’ halp?