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Open Sourcerer, Let's Encrypt

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bruno
@bruno

building this type of mechanical turk really should be regarded as a form of fraud


asg
@asg

they have basic recognition+parsing for a few well-known receipts/invoice formats, and those ones "scan" basically instantly. if it takes more than 30 seconds, then your receipt has been shipped to India for a human to read and do data entry from.



jesncin
@jesncin

Drew this for trans day of visibility! I want to talk about Lunar Boy and the thought process behind crafting a sci fi Indonesian future that embraces queer history.

I've always struggled connecting to escapist queer fantasy or sci fi where "real world bigotry doesn't exist" because when one's identity is so inherently political and tied to a generational history of oppression, I end up realizing I share very little in common with queer characters in those stories. Often times QPOC in escapist media feel like re-skinned white characters. It's as if people's only frame of reference for queer joy is that of white people, and that erases the specific cultural joys POC experience.

Sci fi is all about speculating what's possible. And in Lunar Boy we'd like to take you to a world where that history informs the joy.

If this book sounds like something you'd like to see, please consider pre-ordering it and telling your local library about it!



catball
@catball

the group of pedestrian safety advocates explain that waving a red flag while crossing an intersection to get driversโ€™ attention โ€œmisses the point.โ€

โ€œWhen drivers fail to yield for pedestrians, itโ€™s not because they canโ€™t see them, itโ€™s because they donโ€™t care.โ€



victoria-scott
@victoria-scott

In 2022, cars killed 7,508 pedestrians, the equivalent of 18 fully-loaded Boeing 747s crashing with zero survivors. That means a pedestrian died roughly every 70 minutes, with no breaks in the tide of fatalities for weekends or holidays. This flood of death is recent: American roads were demonstrably safer to walk on just a decade ago, with thousands fewer pedestrian deaths.

Experts are unanimous in their assessment of the situation: this is a disaster.

For Motor1.com: Pedestrian deaths are an emergency. We need to start acting like it.


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