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Quick reference to COVID-19 variants of concern:B.1.1.7: first identified in the UK, more transmissible.B.1.351: first identified in South Africa, some vaccines are less effective.We're going to try to use the

So, as somebody who's been involved with running various online communities for decades, we have a perspective on this that isn't the usual political lens...https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/1/21497067/nexus-mods-bans-us-political-tr

So. ML models and figuring out where their bad decisions are coming from. At some point we should give a primer on this topic, but for now, this thread will

The thing you have to understand about America is that anyone who grew up there, grew up being fed propaganda that most of us took at face value. That sounds

We're about to describe a very common problem, but it's particularly relevant to plural communities right now. #pluralpride #pluralgang #pluraltalkIt's this: With online harassment, it can be next to impossible

We have a privacy joke, but don't worry, it's not targeted at you specifically.https://twitter.com/mcmillen/status/1286784453239615489 We have a privacy joke but you need to opt in to personalized avertising before you

So we have cis followers, so we should say this. The soy = estrogen thing is not sciencey, it's a bigoted talking point. As far as we're aware, the hate

Trying to answer this poll made us realize... in hindsight, though we didn't see it that way at the time, the creation of the Developer ID program was the exact

We would really appreciate a color picker that allows us to write constraint-satisfaction formulas expressing how the various colors in the scheme relate to each other. And then drag around

Oh cool, some data science which provides support for the intuition that the organization "LGB Alliance" is a front for transphobes trying to drive wedges between trans people and the

When will we stop having to say thisBEING A NAZI IS NOT A MENTAL ILLNESSThey're mostly saner than we are, personally And this casual ableist shit hurts, because it fragments

So, we don't get into this a lot although we suspect our long-time followers have noticed it, but we'd like to take a moment to elaborate on our stance.The reason