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need these two on my screen again more than i need oxygen

The Internet Archive saves the day again

An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not pub

probablyasocialecologist

Rights group says Facebook and Instagram routinely engage in ‘six key patterns of undue censorship’ of content supporting Palestine

Meta has engaged in a “systemic and global” censorship of pro-Palestinian content since the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war on 7 October, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW). In a scathing 51-page report, the organization documented and reviewed more than a thousand reported instances of Meta removing content and suspending or permanently banning accounts on Facebook and Instagram. The company exhibited “six key patterns of undue censorship” of content in support of Palestine and Palestinians, including the taking down of posts, stories and comments; disabling accounts; restricting users’ ability to interact with others’ posts; and “shadow banning”, where the visibility and reach of a person’s material is significantly reduced, according to HRW. Examples it cites include content originating from more than 60 countries, mostly in English, and all in “peaceful support of Palestine, expressed in diverse ways”. Even HRW’s own posts seeking examples of online censorship were flagged as spam, the report said. “Censorship of content related to Palestine on Instagram and Facebook is systemic and global [and] Meta’s inconsistent enforcement of its own policies led to the erroneous removal of content about Palestine,” the group said in the report, citing “erroneous implementation, overreliance on automated tools to moderate content, and undue government influence over content removals” as the roots of the problem.

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Users of Meta’s products have documented what they say is technological bias in favor of pro-Israel content and against pro-Palestinian posts. Instagram’s translation software replaced “Palestinian” followed by the Arabic phrase “Praise be to Allah” to “Palestinian terrorists” in English. WhatsApp’s AI, when asked to generate images of Palestinian boys and girls, created cartoon children with guns, whereas its images Israeli children did not include firearms.

hella-marshmella

This is the bad place.

lullabadbye

preemptively censoring "Nazi" and "third Reich" on US TikTok so musk can do a fucking Nazi salute during the inauguration (TWICE!) on live TV and people can't search it or have to find workarounds? yea..

yzuposts

Just cried. “So this is how democracy dies… with thunderous applause” has never been so strongly felt

sabrinacarprenter

#lgbtqia+ confirmed!

assiraphales

I think every film critic review needs a footnote called the “fun-o-meter” where they ignore everything they said in the previous paragraphs and have to answer objectively. put it on a scale. good good to bad good to bad good to bad bad. for example. did venom get a 30% on rotten tomatoes? yes. but watching sweaty tom hardy sit in a fish tank and eat a live lobster was VERY fun. some movies aren’t meant to win awards. they’re just meant to be a hoot n a holler

assiraphales

this is the energy we need critics to start bringing back to the table

cephalon-sancti

There are two scales of "good" you can rate movies (and other works but let's focus) by.

Is it of artistic merit, are the choices made by the director, cinematographer, editor etc intentional and serve the movie well, does the movie have meaning, does it make you think or change your perspective in some way?

Or

Is it FUN?

A movie with artistc merit can be fun, and a fun movie can be artistic, there is room for overlap of course. But sometimes you just want fun.

wiccanwitch74

for how many days do you think rebecca spent staring at her office doorway in the mornings expecting ted to come in with a cheery greeting and her biscuits before realizing he's never coming back?

when she needed a pick me up, who was there to give her pep talks?

what does a person do when someone that filled up so much of their life with joy, leaves?

the biscuits were never just biscuits. they made her feel like a priority, like she was worth ted's time. like she was finally worth something.

something tells me that after he left, nobody ever made her feel the way ted did. she would be always comparing every new person to him. will they fill the void he left? will they unconditionally care for her the way he did?

do you think that after 3 years, she only realized how much he meant to her when she started to feel his absence?

ghost-of-a-vulture

This is it. This is my last fucking straw

maxanor

BRIDGERTON | Season 3, Episode 8, “Into the Light”

hauntedfictionland

Dearest gentle reader, I am pleased to inform you that our dear pianist miss Francesca Bridgerton, is indeed, autistic and gay. When she was wicked indeed.

BRIDGERTON (O3X08: —“Into the light”) FRANCESCA BRIDGERTON + MICHAELA STERLING

(Gif: @maxanor)