Bryan Davis

Geek-of-all-trades. ACAB. Join a union. Opinions are my own or stolen from others. @wikimedia

[Bryan Davis @bd808]

Fellow @Wikimedia staff, I think we should form a union. And I think that union should represent both “staff” and “contractors” in whatever place they live. And that we should do this before we are gifted a new CEO/ED by the Board of Trustees. How do we do this?

[Bryan Davis @bd808]

@brooke_a_storm I am so sorry to hear this Brooke. I will make some inquiries. Do reach out to me if you think of anything concrete I can do to help.

[Wikimedia Foundation @Wikimedia]

The #CoolestToolAward celebrates software tools created and used by Wikimedia communities. This year's winners include tools that gamify the process of improving a @Wikipedia article, automate vandalism reporting, and more. ⬇️
https://t.co/CmB0lu4ZbT

[Freedom of the Press Foundation @FreedomofPress]

Ginni Thomas’s political work continues creating conflicts for Justice Thomas and begs the question of why Congress made it harder for journalists to report similar conflicts by passing the overbroad and unconstitutional Judicial Security and Privacy Act.

https://t.co/K5Q3IJZ6HW

[Bryan Davis @bd808]

I almost twitted about micro$oft doing something good and smart earlier. I was wondering if they really are a different org these days. But this reminded me that if they did something I like it was only because capitalism had an incentive aligned with the same outcome.

[Julian Gough @juliangough]

And so Microsoft, with 1700 legal staff available, didn’t reply to requests for comment from a major global media organisation about an about-to-be-published story explaining how Microsoft didn’t own the ending to the most successful game of all time.

[Librarianshipwreck @libshipwreck]

My hot take is that it a lot of our current messes could have been avoided if “fact check the grandiose claims of this tech executive” was standard procedure.

[Bryan Davis @bd808]

@Dixie3Flatline I get to shout “there’s a leek in the boat!” as I do the prep for this one. https://t.co/9Z4qy1P8um

[Bryan Davis @bd808]

This ride keeps getting weirder and weirder.

[Bryan Davis @bd808]

Free speech absolutism sure is weird.

[Geoffrey Thomas @geofft]

BTW, the Freenode reference: banning mentions of other IRC servers, even "we're both here and there" in the channel topic, is what made people finally say "okay we're only there." https://t.co/kzqdS07Py5

[Bryan Davis @bd808]

@tehreedy It probably won’t become sentient or burst into flames if you wash it. I’d imagine worst case the shell shrinks on drying or the filling clumps.

[Bryan Davis @bd808]

@BreeNewsome Capitalism is in opposition to democracy. Always.

[The Tor Project @torproject]

The Tor Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and one of the best ways to power Tor is through a monthly donation. Plus, every one who becomes a monthly donor (of any amount) before the end of the year will get a Tor sticker pack. 💜 https://t.co/si4ZSzYMaC

[Bryan Davis @bd808]

https://t.co/dAIPobzsAW

[COVID Advocacy Initiative @COVID_Advocacy]

"COVID-19 is the #3 cause of death in the U.S. thus far in 2022"

#COVID19

https://t.co/IcWRzeVqSW

[Bryan Davis @bd808]

Please put a mask on when you’re out in public. Please.

[OR Health Authority @OHAOregon]

"The combination of surging flu, RSV and COVID-19 cases is pushing hospitals past their current ICU bed capacity, which never happened during the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic in Oregon."

[Mom To 2 Big Ass Dogs 🌊🌊🌊 @JanaStarr828]

So apparently selling a wedding cake to an LGBTQ couple is participating in the marriage, but selling a gun to a shooter isn't participating in the crime.

[CWA @CWAUnion]

Don't cross that digital picket line.

[Bryan Davis @bd808]

I’m excited for more actual center left folks in the US Senate next term, but with the loss of the center right House (yes, the US Democrats as a group are center right) I don’t expect that any actually useful legislation will make it to POTUS.

[John Fetterman @JohnFetterman]

The Senate stays 🔵. And thanks to your support I will officially be your 51st vote in the U.S. Senate 😊🙏

I will proudly cast that 51st vote to:

✅ Scrap the filibuster
✅ Codify Roe v Wade
✅ Raise the minimum wage
+ a lot more

[Kiwix 🐘 @[email protected] @KiwixOffline]

Answers produced by the #chatGPT AI have been banned from StackOverflow forums.

They're basically well-written loads of bollocks 🤷

Source: https://t.co/Mv9vZ5reYi