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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Oct-2025 00:25:40 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom

    Info on tomorrow's #NoKings rally in Center City Philadelphia: https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/no-kings-protest-philadelphia-road-closures-start-time-location-20251017.html Plan your trip there keeping in mind there's also a bike ride closing streets in the morning, and that SEPTA Regional Rail can't handle big weekend crowds even when they have all their railcars online.

    There's also a rally in Mount Airy and elsewhere in NW Philly, and others in Philly suburbs.

    There are many more across the US. Look here to find one near you: https://www.nokings.org/

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      No Kings
      On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.
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      ‘No Kings’ protest in Philly Saturday. Here’s what to know.
      from @PhillyInquirer
      Demonstrators will march in Philly as Trump continues to send troops into American cities in response to protests against ICE.
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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Oct-2025 03:54:36 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom

    The ADL took down its glossary of extremism after Trump-aligned figures objected to its description of Turning Point USA: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/adl-deletes-extremism-database-after-receiving-backlash-for-including-charlie-kirks-turning-point-usa/

    The Wayback Machine has a partial copy of the glossary, at least for now. It doesn't look like they crawled everything (and the search doesn't work): https://web.archive.org/web/20250403100909/https://extremismterms.adl.org/search

    The ADL's description of TPUSA elsewhere has also changed significantly. Compare
    present version: https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/turning-point-usa with a December version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250121192850/https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/turning-point-usa

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      About that ’09 Ticker Tape Parade — 1909, That Is
      from Philip Bump
      Today, the Yankees will get a ticker tape parade to celebrate their World Series win. One hundred years ago — in 1909 — a ticker tape parade made its way up Broadway celebrating a very different occasion — and very few millionaires were involved.


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      Turning Point USA
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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Sep-2025 09:25:55 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom
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    Update: Delaware, Maryland and Vermont have now also joined the Northeast Public Health Collaborative, announced earlier today. There's already a Wikipedia page for it, which is keeping track of which states are in, with references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Public_Health_Collaborative (There's also a page for the West Coast Health alliance, a similar organization of the 3 contiguous-US Pacific coast states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Health_Alliance )

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      Northeast Public Health Collaborative
      The Northeast Public Health Collaborative is a coalition created by the governors of several northeast states (including New York, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and Vermont) to coordinate public health guidelines separate from the CDC, similar to the West Coast Health Alliance. Maryland would go on to join the coalition in September 2025. The voluntary collaboration aims "to share expertise, improve coordination, enhance capacity, strengthen regional readiness, and promote and protect evidence-based public health" and "ensure trust in public health, respond to public health threats, advance community health and strengthen confidence in ... science-based medicine". See also Eastern States Multi-state Council Midwest Governors Regional Pact Second presidency of Donald Trump Vaccination policy of the United States West Coast Health Alliance Western States Pact References
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      West Coast Health Alliance
      The West Coast Health Alliance is a coalition, formed by interstate compact, created by the governors of California, Oregon, and Washington to coordinate public health guidelines separate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including safeguarding access to vaccines. It was announced by the governors of those states on their websites on the morning of September 3, 2025. The day after the initial announcement, it was then announced that Hawaii will become the fourth member. The West Coast Health Alliance criticized the dismantling of the CDC and announced plans to coordinate providing evidence-based immunization recommendations and public access information about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. Background The coalition was formed following a series of controversial decisions by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A week before the announcement, CDC director Susan Monarez was fired over disagreements on vaccine policy, with her attorneys claiming she "refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives". Following Monarez...
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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 02:32:26 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom

    Today's press release announcing the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. "The group’s shared goal is to protect the health, safety and well-being of all residents by providing information based on science, data, and evidence, while working to ensure equitable access to vaccines, medications and services." https://www.mass.gov/news/several-northeastern-states-and-americas-largest-city-announce-the-northeast-public-health-collaborative.

    It includes the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, as well as the NYC health department.

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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-May-2025 22:27:15 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom

    The White House's "Make America Healthy Again" report cites papers that appear not to exist:

    "Epidemiologist Katherine Keyes is listed... as the first author of a study on anxiety in adolescents. When NOTUS reached out to her... she was surprised to hear of the citation. She does study mental health and substance use, she said. But she didn’t write the paper listed."

    NOTUS couldn't find the paper in the cited journal, and I've verified the claimed DOI doesn't resolve: https://www.notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report-citation-errors

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      The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
      from https://www.notus.org/margaret-manto
      The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-May-2025 22:27:14 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom
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    While I can't say for sure at this point how the report was written, the fabrication of nonexistent papers (as well as the citation of actual papers for claims they don't support) is a common behavior of "AI" large language model-based text generators. (Such applications can be very good at outputting convincing-sounding text, but cannot be considered reliable or scientifically supportable.)

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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Apr-2025 14:27:02 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom

    Nearly 1000 Yale faculty so far have signed a letter to the university's administration urging it to stand firm against "extraordinary attacks that threaten the bedrock principles of a democratic society, including rights of free expression, association, and academic freedom". The last of the 6 actions urged in the letter is to "work purposefully and proactively with other colleges and universities in collective defense". https://sites.google.com/view/yalefacultyletter2025/home #HigherEd #USPol

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      Yale Faculty Letter
      April 2025 Dear President McInnis, Provost Strobel, and Members of the Yale Board of Trustees: We stand together at a crossroads. American universities are facing extraordinary attacks that threaten the bedrock principles of a democratic society, including rights of free expression, association,
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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 13:52:27 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom
    • peter purgathofer

    Our library has access to a book published by Springer, _Advanced Nanovaccines for Cancer Immunotherapy: Harnessing Nanotechnology for Anti-Cancer Immunity_. Credited to Nanasaheb Thorat, it sells for $160 in hardcover: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-86185-7

    From page 25: "It is important to note that as an AI language model, I can provide a general perspective, but you should consult with medical professionals for personalized advice..."

    None of this book can be considered trustworthy.

    (h/t @peterpur )

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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 12:24:38 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom

    The first Nazi concentration camp, Dachau, was established on March 22, 1933, just under 2 months after Hitler was named chancellor. It had an initial capacity of 5000 prisoners. Historians estimate that at least 40,000 people died there by the end of World War II: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/dachau.

    9 days after inauguration, Trump announced intentions to send as many as 30,000 prisoners to Guantanamo Bay, which has previously never imprisoned more than 1000: https://apnews.com/article/guantanamo-bay-detention-migrants-what-to-know-trump-d027c5c24b523f31a62271dcbe7c010e

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      Dachau
      Dachau was the first and longest operating Nazi concentration camp. Learn about the camp's early years, prisoners, medical experiments, and liberation.
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      What to know about Guantanamo Bay, the base where Trump will send 'criminal aliens'
      President Donald Trump says he will use a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold tens of thousands of criminal immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 02:17:10 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom

    One reason we avoided the "connected cars" when we had to replace ours recently: Subaru's Starlink had a huge ineffectively secured backdoor that let anyone with a license plate and last name of a Subaru owner remotely unlock and start the car (and also get various personal information, including everywhere the car had been driven to in the past year). Here's a report from someone who found and reported the vulnerability (which has now been closed): https://samcurry.net/hacking-subaru

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      Hacking Subaru: Tracking and Controlling Cars via the STARLINK Admin Panel
      On November 20, 2024, Shubham Shah and I discovered a security vulnerability in Subaru’s STARLINK admin panel that gave us unrestricted access to all vehicles and customer accounts in the United States, Canada, and Japan.
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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 01:09:15 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom
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    • Paul Cantrell

    @inthehands Not only is email not technically designed for E2E, it's not really socially designed for it. Given that email addresses get shared with various people and organizations, and they're common vectors for spam, phishing, and the like, I'd assume most email users *want* their ISP to be able to scan and filter that stuff out, rather than try to do it themselves. But that means it can't be E2E, and the users have to have a certain level of trust in their ISP.

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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 01:41:10 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom
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    • photomatt

    @photomatt Speking as one person who's been a paying wordpress.com customer for years, I've never had any confusion knowing WP Engine is distinct from Wordpress.com and Wordpress the open source software. I *am* now concerned about the viability and reliability of the platform that your company maintains and that I pay for. However, my concerns are based not on their actions, but on yours.

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      WordPress.com: Fast, Secure Managed WordPress Hosting
      from @wordpressdotcom
      Create a free website or build a blog with ease on WordPress.com. Dozens of free, customizable, mobile-ready designs and themes. Free hosting and support.
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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 08:54:43 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom
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    • The Public Domain Review
    • Public Domain Image Archive

    @publicdomainrev @pdimagearchive Looks very cool! I'm curious about the underlying software you're using for the platform. Is it something you've acquired, or something you've developed?

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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 13:42:36 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom
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    • Peter Binkley

    @pbinkley Thanks for this! This article is in the public domain (in the US at least). Here's a link to a non-paywalled scan: https://archive.org/details/sim_american-library-assoc-ala-bulletin_1936-06_30_6/page/495/mode/1up

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      Bulletin of the American Library Association 1936-06: Vol 30 Iss 6
      Bulletin of the American Library Association 1936-06: Volume 30, Issue 6.Digitized from IA1514523-06.Previous issue: sim_american-library-assoc-ala-bulletin_1936-05_30_5.Next issue: sim_american-library-assoc-ala-bulletin_1936-07_30_7.
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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 00:03:55 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom
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    • Nathan Schneider

    @ntnsndr Stallman didn't create Emacs; there were already a number of versions of it when he started the GNU version. The most prominent predecessor was written primarily by James Gosling at CMU. (The Emacs editors grew out of an earlier line-oriented editor called Teco, which a number of people including Stallman had created macro packages for. Vim is the product of a different evolutionary line of editors that grew out of the line editor "ed".) More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs.

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      Emacs
      Emacs ( ), originally named EMACS (an acronym for "Editor Macros"), is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. The manual for the most widely used variant, GNU Emacs, describes it as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor". Development of the first Emacs began in the mid-1970s, and work on GNU Emacs, directly descended from the original, is ongoing; its latest version is 29.4 , released June 2024. Emacs has over 10,000 built-in commands and its user interface allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work. Implementations of Emacs typically feature a dialect of the Lisp programming language, allowing users and developers to write new commands and applications for the editor. Extensions have been written to, among other things, manage files, remote access, e-mail, outlines, multimedia, Git integration, RSS feeds, and collaborative editing, as well as implementations of ELIZA, Pong, Conway's Life, Snake, Dunnet, and Tetris. The original EMACS was written in 1976...
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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 11:44:38 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom
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    • Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC

    @LordCaramac That may depend on how you get active. I'm also a white nerd, and do some editing of articles that are of interest to me, but I also try to keep an eye out for what's going on with topics not on my usual beat and editors who don't resemble me, and try to make the Wikipedia environment more amenable to them.

    (E.g., there are ways to watch for articles in danger of deletion because the usual demographics don't know much about them, and are more likely to consider them "non-notable".)

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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 05:49:16 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom

    More than funds, what Wikipedia really needs is more good editors. The number of people who regularly edit articles in English Wikipedia hasn't grown substantially in years, while the number of articles has, and editor demographics remains skewed. The foundation itself largely stays away from editing, leaving it to volunteers. While articles that get a lot of attention are often good, it's not hard to find ones with biased and promotional content in less-visited topics, and in other languages.

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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 01:10:12 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom
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    • Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

    @ryanc At least as stated, couldn't they use "that commentary violates our Guidelines" to sanction a harasser under their rules? There's nothing in the statement that says the commentary has to be on Bluesky itself.

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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 18:52:34 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom

    While the book publishers' suit against the Internet Archive has ended, the record labels' suit against them continues. Some recent docs remain paywalled on PACER, but from opened filings we learn:

    - mediation in September didn't result in an agreement
    - defendants are opposing discovery requests for all their recordings, Brewster Kahle's and George Blood's personal finances, and all statements IA folks have made on copyright
    - a jury trial is scheduled for July 2026

    https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68101636/umg-recordings-inc-v-internet-archive/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc

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    John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 04:46:12 JST John Mark Ockerbloom John Mark Ockerbloom

    I've been overdue in splitting off my personal email from my work email, in part due to dithering over what privacy-respecting paid provider to go with. But I recall Proton and Fastmail looking appealing last time I looked.

    Proton seems to now be wandering off into dubious LLM and crypto schemes, so I'm leaning towards Fastmail. If you use it, how's your experience been? Does it work well with Thunderbird and IMAP? Custom domains? How well does it deal with spam? What else should I know?

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    A Philadelphian with professional interests in libraries, technology, copyright, and culture, and nonprofessional interests that include singing, reading, hiking, biking. Also other personal interests that you might pick up from my posts over time.He, him, his. Lent, Easter, Pentecost. Impeach, convict, remove.

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