jbeales
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Affiliated by name only ;) It's a private corporation.
Comment · 3 years ago
Unfortunately, that "government-funded media" tag implies a lack of editorial independence:
> Government-funded media is defined as outlets where the government provides some or all of the outlet’s funding and may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content. [https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/government-me...]
Yes, it says "may have" and not "has" but the implication is there, which is what the CBC & others are pushing back on. Twitter also has a "publicly-funded media" label which, in spirit, is probably more applicable, but the way the definition has been written, (I suspect it was written exclusively for the BBC), it doesn't apply to the CBC:
> Publicly-funded media refers to media organizations that receive funding from license fees, individual contributions, public financing, and commercial financing.
Twitter should remove "may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content" from the government-funded media label and call it a day.
Comment · 3 years ago
From the Globe & Mail article[1] about the "government-funded media" label:
> The Canadian Press e-mailed Twitter asking for an explanation of the added tag, and the company responded with a poop emoji.
1. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-twitter-adds-...
Comment · 4 years ago
The American Association of Private Railcar Owners has a page on their website listing cars available for charter: https://www.aaprco.com/travel/cars-for-charter/
Comment · 4 years ago
> A breakthrough study by University of Alberta researchers has shown the fat cells that lie just beneath our skin shrink when exposed to the blue light emitted by the sun.
I'm going to guess no. Blue light therapy maybe, if that's a thing.
Comment · 5 years ago
I feel like there have to be actual hackers out there thinking "You think that's hacking? I'll show you hacking!"
Comment · 5 years ago
My recovery plan: tarball & upload to Object Store. I'm going to check out exactly how much replication the OVH object store offers, and see about adding a second geographic location, and maybe even a second provider, tomorrow.
(My servers aren't in SBG either - phew!)
Comment · 5 years ago
> If your production is in Strasbourg, we recommend to activate your Disaster Recovery Plan.
Ouf.
Comment · 6 years ago
ATC warning of a jetpack reported at 14:36 here: https://archive-server.liveatc.net/klax/KLAX-Final-Oct-14-20...
Edit: The incoming report from the pilot is at 7:23 of this file: https://archive-server.liveatc.net/klax/KLAX4N-Final-North-O...
Comment · 6 years ago
Looks like it's only the cosmic bodies formerly known as "Eskimo Nebula" (NCG 2392 [1]) and "Siamese Twin Galaxies" (NCG 4567 [2] and NCG 4568 [2] that are changing right now, but if anything else comes up, or if they have to refer to something with an offensive name they won't use the name.
[1] https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2000/07/940-Ima... [2] https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190201.html
Comment · 6 years ago
Seems pretty big, I can't log in to my account and it seems like no email is being sent.
Hopefully this isn't another Garmin.
I can't disagree here. Of the labels described on the Twitter help page, "government-funded" fits the best. The CBC isn't funded by license fees of donations!