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Last chance to save archives of Twitter accounts that are inactive because the users are deceased

[frameacloud]

Twitter has started purging inactive accounts. Musk says they’ll be archived (doubtful) and their usernames freed up (allowing impersonation). This is bad for preserving history and remembering deceased friends. Unlike Facebook, Twitter doesn’t grant a protected memorial status.

Saving them directly from Twitter to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine doesn’t get far, because Twitter limits how much can be accessed without a login. Twitter’s new API limits also prevent archiving an account to Mastodon anymore, so it’s too late for that. My solution now is to access the Twitter accounts via a front-end, Nitter.it, and then archive them from that, but I still have to keep manually clicking “next page” to nudge the archival process along. Do you know better solutions?

This is a race against time. Later, in the Otherkin News blog, I’ll list where to find archives of the Twitter accounts of alterhuman community members who have passed away. Whose accounts do you know of that you want to save?

[frameacloud]

Twitter presently is designed to be actively hostile to being preserved. My friends and I keep running into obstacles to it. Accounts that have several thousand tweets aren’t possible to completely archive, because it cuts you off after a few thousand. I don’t expect us to find a work-around for that particular obstacle, but we are continuing to look into how to do this better. We welcome any solutions that other people come up with.

Here is a tutorial on how you can create offsite and offline archives of those Twitter accounts before Twitter deletes them: https://otherkinnews.dreamwidth.org/90308.html?thread=241092#cmt241092

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[beemovieerotica]

PSA: bot comments are taking over ao3

The above examples have been provided with the authors' permission to demonstrate what these look like.

Basic rundown:

• They are all 3 sentences long
• Perfect grammar, capitalization, and punctuation
• Like absolutely flawless English teacher-style writing with only a single exclamation mark, ever
• No mentions whatsoever of character names, settings, situations, or anything that could be tied to the story
• The usernames may be identical to people who exist on ao3, but the name is not clickable, and no profile is associated with it EXCEPT when you directly search for that name. What this means: the comments come from an unregistered (not logged in) reader, bots scrape the site for real usernames, attach that to the comment, and post

Please spread the word about this so authors can filter comments and report them accordingly

There has been some speculation about why this is happening at all, and the best guess is that this is a feature that AI-training story-scraping tools are implementing to try and make their browsing traffic look legitimate

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[nessa007]

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[psychotic-gerard]

it bears repeating in a more gentle manner but in the nicest way possible, there is a really issue with discrepancy when you talk about issues happening in different countries. when it’s anti-trans/gay laws in north america and western europe, it becomes “genocide”. when other countries, like mine, have jail and death penalties for being gay explicitly, it becomes a matter of “oh it’s illegal there” and sometimes, insidiously, “that’s just how they are, they’re less progressive.” and i need you all to know this is white supremacy talking and i, a gay person living in a country under the threat of death penalty, am as much of a victim as you are.

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[inflarescent]

july is disability pride month !! so, here’s a reminder that respect isn’t something disabled people should have to earn or fight for, but something that should be given naturally, this month and every month.

there is still so much ableism not just in the wider society, but in queer spaces and communities, even amongst other disabled people - as a person with autism, i am part of the disabled community, but i know that that i still have more privilege than people with physical disabilities who are harmed by the unaccommodating design of our buildings and public spaces; or more stigmatised metal disorders and disabilities such as psychosis, schizophrenia and dissociative disorders.

so, this disability pride month i urge not just for more respect in the wider community, but within the disabled community itself. celebrate your own disability/ies, but make sure you celebrate other disabilities too and never put someone down for being ‘more’ or differently disabled than you.

happy disability pride month from your local anxious autistic girlie <3 it’s a time to celebrate

[ID: a banner of the disability pride flag, which consists of red, yellow, white, blue, green stripes, diagonal across a dark grey background. end ID]

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[chittychittyyangyang]

Listen, you should never film strangers in public without their consent, but I swear there need to be fines or something for people who do that shit in some spaces. For example: I had to go to the ER last night, and some jerk filmed a woman who just came in and was clearly having an asthma attack. She immediately got to go back, and he was unhappy about that. Believe me, I get that it sucks having to wait when you're in pain, but you don't get to pick who deserves care when. The medical system in the US is a nightmare, and the ER could be the worst moment of someone's life. No one deserves to be recorded because some jack ass believes someone doesn't look like they need care.

This is fine to reblog. People who film strangers should be shamed if nothing else.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

I know a lot of EFR instructors (Emergency first response, the people who teach CPR classes) who used to be ambivalent about this and now are firmly in the "fuck you fuck your phone category.

Maybe its demographics, EFR instructors do tend to be older and less online, but there's been a shift from voyeur filming being seen as irritating and tasteless to actively harmful.

I met one lady who had an entire section of her lecture based on how to divide labor in emergency and one of those steps was crowd control. If you are taking charge of an emergency situation, you delegate tasks. Point at one person and tell them to call 911, Point at another person tell them to warn traffic, Point at another person tell them to get the first aid kit if you know where it is. You assign small tasks to individuals instead of asking a crowd that way the task actually happens, and you're not sitting around 20 minutes later wondering why the ambulance is taking so long to show up and it turns out that everyone assumed someone else called.

Now there is another step. Pick a big dude and tell him to stop people from filming. Which is actually the tamest version of what she said, because this lady went on and on about how phones are fragile, light, small, pieces of computer equipment that can be easily punted into oblivion.

And yeah, she's probably the most vocal proponent of property destruction in the face of voyeur filming I've heard lately but she's far from the only person in emergency services who's frustrated with the eternal quest for viral videos of strangers pain.

And to be clear there is a huge difference between the paramedic who doesn't want you filming and the cop who doesn't want you filming.

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[play-now-my-lord]

"We need to decolonize the names for mountains" right but you're still treating them as lifeless hunks of rock with one specific name that exist for human amusement, that part is maybe the part that matters and what you're actually doing is not really "decolonization" so much as "memorizing trivia"

[play-now-my-lord]

This is not an argument for calling mountains by settler names. The mountains where I live are alive, tied to the people that still live here by bonds of family and custom. Some of them are straight-up sacred and in fact I'm not even 100% sure those ones' names should be in your mouth, or mine. The whole western attitude about the earth is beyond fucked. I don't want you to do land acknowledgements about the living being you're about to blow the head off of digging for minerals, you nasty freaks

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[janemorris]

mannnnn until we all get okay with the idea of people needing other people to get them water/food/etc like. idk we’re just never gonna make it

[janemorris]

yes you have autistic in your bio but are you rude to people who need carers and assistance with basic tasks? do you call me lazy for a text post where i ask my father to bring me water? yes you have adhd and post constantly about executive dysfunction but if a schizophrenic person who needs but doesn’t have have a carer hasn’t showered or worn clean clothes in months exists, how are you going to react to that?

[janemorris]

yeah yeah you’re all for disability rights but if someone is campaigning for adult changing tables in disabled stall bathrooms because they have incontinence and have to wear a diaper are you going to think they’re weird? if a person has a visible colostomy bag are you going to think it’s gross? what about feeding tubes? how does your opinion on these issues change if the person in question is fat, or homeless, or a person of color?

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[headspace-hotel]

reading creationist articles about evolution out of some terrible urge of morbid curiosity and it makes me sad about general scientific literacy and the pop science idea of evolution

like creationists really emphasize how the "Darwinistic worldview" is driven by competition and only the strong survive etc. and there's no reason for anything except for ensuring survival, so there is no reason for moral behavior or altruism and it's SO FRUSTRATING because people like Richard Dawkins really promote that

But it's not accurate! A lot of scientists now believe that cooperation is a fundamental driving force of evolution. the fact that we cooperate and take care of each other is a major reason why humans are such a successful species. Auuuugggghhhh

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[drmogie]

i guess this is my home now

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[userboxer]

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