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Started training a bot that tries to analyze and identify hate-speech on Twitter.

A few things became quite apparent after only a few days:

1. There are huge networks of (seemingly) fake accounts that like and retweet each other's posts. Someone is operating this at a _massive_ scale.

2. Reporting and banning fake accounts seems futile. You're fighting a hydra that spawns new accounts quicker than one can report them.

3. I'm feeling sick to my stomach just browsing through the logs.

Why the fuck was I breached?
http://whythefuckwasibreached.com/

(submitted by skinkestek)

Watching Nature Documentaries Can Produce "Real Happiness," Finds a Study from the BBC and UC-Berkeley

http://www.openculture.com/?p=1069854 https://t.co/Tca0dbZIEV

Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Email on Hkmap.live Doesn’t Add Up
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/10/10/cook-hkmap-live-email

(submitted by srameshc)

For the first time in history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower tax rate than the working class last year

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/08/first-time-history-us-billionaires-paid-lower-tax-rate-than-working-class-last-year/

Time to learn COBOL.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GnuCOBOL

CO Corporate
BOL Bollocks

Artists and photographers on the fediverse aren't limited to Pixelfed!

The fediverse has two well established Mastodon instances for art and photography.

Your friends and fans can follow your https://mastodon.art or https://photog.social account from Pixelfed or other supported implementations!

#mastoArt #photography #fediverse

opponents of EVs say that EVs don't solve pollution because the power plants still run on coal or whatever.

but what they don't mention is that coal plants have less emissions in general than the hundreds of thousands of cars on the road every day, so it's still a net positive

and of course, if we fix the power plants...

but fukushima scared neoliberals away from nuclear, even though there are several modern reactor designs that are near impossible to push into a run-away meltdown state

Ugh. Why do I have such a hard time getting myself to do work that I actually do like doing when I get into it?

#AmProcrastinating

50 ways to leak your data: apps’ circumvention of the Android permissions system
https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/09/25/50-ways-to-leak-your-data/

(submitted by mpweiher)

Astronaut 1: I can't find any milk for my coffee.
Astronaut 2: In space, no one can. Here use cream.

Wouldn't it be great if the organizations responsible for allowing private data to be stolen and released had to actually answer for that loss in a meaningful way...?

My SO sent this to me. She really gets me. 💗

Source:
http://www.poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/keeps-you-going/

Removing One Maine Dam 20 Years Ago Changed Everything
https://therevelator.org/edwards-dam-removal/

(submitted by howard941)

China Is Waging a Disinformation War Against Hong Kong Protesters
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/world/asia/hong-kong-protests-china.html

(submitted by tysone)

Hey! I’m new to Mastodon. It was recommended to me by some fellow artist friends. I live in Melbourne, Australia and I live for my art.

I concentrate exclusively on animals which means I’m usually doing some kind of wildlife art or pet portraits. Here’s a charcoal piece I did fairly recently called “Thy Fearful Symmetry”. I used a reference courtesy of Kaz Turner.

#wildlifeart #charcoal #tiger #tigerart #traditionalart #mastoart

How do I know Republicans aren't really religious? Because if they genuinely cared about their souls they wouldn't do all the things they do.

Engage in random acts of kindness and altruism. This has been linked to mood boosting.