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  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

    I’m on a weekly meeting with PIs and trial coordinators from 10 different major universities. One MD/PhD has his pronouns in his zoom name, They could easily be inferred by his appearance and name, IOW, it’s entirely performative.

    Interestingly he’s not from a coastal university, it’s UNC.

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    George K
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    @jon-nyc said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

    One MD/PhD has his pronouns in his zoom name, They could easily be inferred by his appearance and name, IOW, it’s entirely performative.

    Yes, I would think so as well. However, I could just as easily see this person preferring to use "They" as a pronoun. That's not obvious from appearance.

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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      I would like to use “your honor”, but as I understand things from TV and movies, you have to be a female of color to be addressed that way.

      Education is extremely important.

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        Only non-witches get due process.

        • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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          • MikM Away
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            Elon wants to make sure all Twitter accounts are actual humans. he hates the spam accounts. Not a bad idea.

            https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-wants-to-authenticate-all-real-humans-on-twitter-here-s-what-that-could-mean/ar-AAWHZiO?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=ad072a5761474587b0a2cf4a092a2add

            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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            • George KG Offline
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              You needed this.

              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                https://www.seattletimes.com/business/a-day-after-musk-moves-on-twitter-tesla-loses-126-billion/

                Tesla wiped roughly $126 billion off its valuation Tuesday as the stock fell 12% on investors’ concern that Elon Musk may sell shares to complete his $44 billion takeover of Twitter.

                The electric-vehicle maker’s market capitalization is now down more than $275 billion since April 4, when Musk disclosed that he increased his Twitter stake. That’s a drop of roughly 23%. The dollar value of Musk’s 17% stake in Tesla has shrunk by more than $40 billion, almost double the equity portion he pledged in the Twitter transaction.
                ...

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                  It must be nice to have so much money that you can lose or make billions simply by trolling.

                  I was only joking

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                  • George KG Offline
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                    @jolly, @bachophile !

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                    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                      • MikM Away
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                        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                          That TansuYegen thing was pretty funny.

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                            Interesting

                            Only non-witches get due process.

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                              Still challenging to identify professional propaganda accounts that disguise themselves as casual users.

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                              • AxtremusA Axtremus

                                Still challenging to identify professional propaganda accounts that disguise themselves as casual users.

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                                @Axtremus said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                                Still challenging to identify professional propaganda accounts that disguise themselves as casual users.

                                I'm not at all in the tech field, but that seems like a rather simple thing to solve for as a general condition. It needn't be perfect to be very good.

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                                • IvorythumperI Ivorythumper

                                  @Axtremus said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                                  Still challenging to identify professional propaganda accounts that disguise themselves as casual users.

                                  I'm not at all in the tech field, but that seems like a rather simple thing to solve for as a general condition. It needn't be perfect to be very good.

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                                  @Ivorythumper said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                                  I'm not at all in the tech field, but that seems like a rather simple thing to solve for as a general condition. It needn't be perfect to be very good.

                                  Cat and mouse game. You try to up your game at piercing through their disguise, they try to up their game at improving their disguise.

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                                    Biometrics.

                                    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                    • JollyJ Jolly

                                      Biometrics.

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                                      @Jolly said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                                      Biometrics.

                                      Oh, sure, now that Elon has bought one Internet company, you want all the the Internet companies to have everyone’s biometric data.

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                                      • JollyJ Jolly

                                        Biometrics.

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                                        @Jolly said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                                        Biometrics.

                                        Is it time for the government to roll out a digital ID for all it's citizens? (Replacing the primacy of driver's licenses, SSN, passport, etc.)

                                        Everyone gets one - the government foots the Bill to maintain and secure it and allows other entities to verify it.

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                                        • X xenon

                                          @Jolly said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                                          Biometrics.

                                          Is it time for the government to roll out a digital ID for all it's citizens? (Replacing the primacy of driver's licenses, SSN, passport, etc.)

                                          Everyone gets one - the government foots the Bill to maintain and secure it and allows other entities to verify it.

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                                          @xenon said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

                                          the government foots the Bill

                                          You misspelled citizens.

                                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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