The is the rot at the core. The root cause of every systemic problem in America. Every last one. It is also the harbinger of American fascism.
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The is the rot at the core. The root cause of every systemic problem in America. Every last one. It is also the harbinger of American fascism.
"One model is the North African zeer pot: two nested #clay pots separated by wet sand. As air moves across the surface, evaporation chills the inner pot enough to preserve vegetables for weeks... Using local clay and a ceramic 3D printer, the team built porous column modules packed with sand and […]
This misfeature rolled out in Office365 last year and was the final straw for me that led to me cancelling my MS subscription and ditching Word. You should aim to do likewise: if you don't, you're one EULA change away from losing control of everything you say/write using their tools […]
CNN - A federal judge rules that President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth violated federal law by using the US military to help carry out law enforcement activities in and around Los Angeles this summer […]
This is an unwelcome development: New research shows Android-based malware droppers aren't just delivering banking trojans anymore: They're also being loaded with SMS stealers and spyware. Dutch mobile security firm ThreatFabric finds the shift comes amid changes Google is piloting in certain […]
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Nothing like a surprise holiday phone interview with the local CBC station. But it's about the auroras tonight/tomorrow! If I get a few more people outside looking up that is definitely worth it. Goal for myself this semester: I need to learn to properly and confidently pronounce the Cree term […]
I recently talked with a guy who builds software for small & medium sized German insurance firms and he says almost all of their clients are working on removing US services from their tech stack due to perceiving them as highly risky. This includes cloud services, office tools, AI tools, etc. So […]
Jews of Conscience: https://www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfConscience/comments/1n4k8s3/andrey_x_reports_on_the_continued_ethnic
Jesusfuck I am just finding out about the Pentagon Puzza index and that totally tracks
Breaking: White smoke above the White House indicates that a new fascist has been selected.
@thetnholler.bsky.social mediocracy
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'Vicious compliance': Alberta premier decries Edmonton Public Schools' banned book list | CBC News #censorship #handmaidsTale #blessedDay […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]
It’s easier to purchase an assault rifle in the U.S. than it is to get a COVID19 vaccine. But food dyes and wearable fitness monitors are going to fix everything.
"It rubs the AI on its skin or it gets the hose again" CEOs everywhere
by @will_santino_illustration@threads.net: https://www.willsantino.com/ #USpol #satire #comics
A new psychological study published in the Journal of Personality says that people who report favorable views of President Donald Trump tend to score higher than those with other views on measures of callousness, manipulation, and other malevolent traits, and lower on empathy and compassion. The […]
😩 Fed up with news that’s all drama and no trust? You’re not alone. Canadians deserve journalism that informs, not divides! 🇨🇦 It’s time to bring back diverse independent news. 🗞️ Tell Canada’s leaders to #FixCanadianMedia! @OpenMediaOrg 👉 openmedia.org/FixCanadianMedia
You may have seen this tragic story about a teenager who committed suicide and used chat GPT to plan and work up the nerve to go through with it. If you are skeptical that an LLM could really be responsible the details of this case will challenge you. With LLMs "the user is always right" they […]
on our very recent shipments of MNT laptops to the US, i can see that a number of people had to pay "government charges" via UPS before delivery. there is no transparency on these charges, we can only see the dollar amount. the amount is never the expected 15% (EU->US agreement), but usually […]
"I will tell you, having spent time personally with the man in the first Trump administration, he would wax poetic in private about foreign dictators he admired. He was jealous of their ability to exert total control over their populations."" Trump target reveals 'jealous' remarks that show […]
@steltenpower @osma Stuff? These are children, not 'stuff'.
You can racially abuse Black Men on the street in the UK, but wear a T-Shirt critical of a Genocide and the UK State will come for you.... https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-police-arrest-actor-paul-laverty-anti-genocide-t-shirt #PaulLaverty #ACAB #YvetteCooper #PalestineAction #Fascism […]
@bruno_j_navarro is anyone keeping tabs/statistics on the yearly death rate in the US?
The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast. https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-and-robert-f-kennedy-junior-to-ban-covid-19-vaccine-within-months/
Oh wow, Google is really sneaky with their AI Mode button on the new tab page in Chrome. Here's a very unintuitive way to disable it. 1. Open chrome://flags/ in your browser. 2. Look for "ntp-compose-entrypoint". 3. Switch to "disabled". 4. Restart your browser. #chrome #GoogleChrome #AI #AIMode
Today Trump signed an Executive Order that directs a barrage of federal agency action to escalate his dictatorial takeover of the District of Columbia. But embedded in the EO is a deeply chilling provision that orders Hegseth and the DOD to create specialized military units for rapid deployment […]
Obligatory visibility comparison between an actual main battle tank, an actual Semi truck, and SUV/light truck vehicles. @Sassinake
@cadey exactly only it should be some young dumbfuck on the right.
@osma child crushers, or urban tanks, have no place in human cities.
Giant US pickups must not be normalized as civilian vehicles on the EU market. Same goes for US SUVs, too. No to RAMs, no to F-series, no to Suburbans, no to Escalades. European streets are for people […]
[US Pol: Roblox] This story has been bubbling on the side for some time it involves a lot of complex topics. The best run-down I've seen is from "Legal Eagle" But I'm just glad that Ro Khanna is taking it seriously. Because most people are just rolling their eyes because ... well it's *roblox* […]
"Corruption isn’t just about what a politician gains, it’s about what the public loses." - Zohran Mamdani Yes, exactly. I wish more journalists would emphasize this. Every corrupt act by an elected official *hurts* the people they are supposed to be helping […] [Original post on newsie.social]
Super smart visual tension and analogy.
Bayrou confie son incompréhension face à la menace de blocage du pays mais étale aussi son mépris envers les mouvements sociaux: "C’est comme dans le film Astérix et Obélix : mission Cléopâtre : Pas content ! Pas content !", ironise le Premier ministre dans Le Parisien. Le journal précise que le […]
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
Let's fight for peace
Zooof!
After I’ve tested my new #WildClay samples on tiles, the next step is to try them on small items to see how they behave. It’s common to get a satisfactory result on a test tile but then have problems when applying that same material to an actual pot. For […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Tip for newbs: If you want a lively feed, be a follow back person. My criteria for NOT following back are extremely narrow. My default response to a follow is to follow back. You're not gaming any algorithms here or gaining any cred with your ratio.
MAKE AMERICA ALONE AGAIN!!!!! European postal services suspend shipment of packages to US over tariffs https://apnews.com/article/us-tariffs-goods-services-suspension-85c7b36b9e92c0e640dfe2ac418cd907 #TrumpTariffs #Tariffs #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #Project2025 […]
Cool cool, Sam Altman met a UK government minister and tried to get the UK gov to buy every citizen a ChatGPT license, at a cost to taxpayers of £2bn a year. We’re a country with food poverty and food bank usage is high […]
Cautionary tale from a hacked book author at #Amazon: https://dgilesphilosopher.medium.com/how-amazon-allowed-someone-to-sabotage-my-book-sales-6475f01f87f2 @pluralistic might want to add this to the #enshittification files
“BlueSky is decentralised” - the media.
schlorp schlorp schlorp schlorp schlorp schlorp schlorp schlorp schlorp schlorp schlorp schlorp
@cstross Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree
@filmstories.co.uk oh boy.
DEVELOPING: FBI Raids John Bolton’s House In a dawn operation, FBI agents descended on the home of Trump’s former national security advisor. (Yup, Trump has got the FBI working on his enemies list. We're only 3-12 months away from the show trials starting. (I think they'll be timed for maximum […]
I'm a little concerned AI chatbots are melting peoples' brains. This is the second time this month I've gotten an email from an otherwise intelligent seeming person who is convinced that there is a persona -- a being -- that exists and persists in the AI chat world, that has persistence of […]
#BlueEyeSamurai get a first s02 trailer https://youtu.be/wuGj4XgbDKg
@EdwinG Montreal is a lively, diverse, walkable city.
SHAME: Official HD Trailer youtu.be/Op9iQiB_ANI Finally watched this after years of putting it off. it was touching. Even upsetting. Extraordinary work by the leads. Top quote: "we're not bad people... we just come from a bad place."
'Nothing short of extraordinary': See Nicolle Wallace react to new #Epstein Ruling https://youtu.be/0GFToWuQxrc
@NewsDesk @time Sequestration. solitary confinement unless she complies with an undemocratic process AKA 'light' TORTURE
Texas Democrat Nicole Collier has been locked in the state's House chambers since yesterday because she refused to be escorted from the building by state troopers — a requirement of GOP Speaker Dustin Burrows, who says this is to prevent another walkout by Democratic representatives. “I refuse […]
Defying #RFKJr, the leading #pediatric group urges #COVID #vaccines for young kids The American Academy of Pediatrics #AAP] recommends ALL #children ages 6 months to 23 months old receive a #coronavirus vaccine as [#federal officials move to roll back recommendations. #PublicHealth #Medicine […]
@j12t from software engineer to janitor.
So "Vibe Code Cleanup Specialist" is now a job title? Not sure I should be excited or horrified. And the potential employers are ... the equivalent of software development superfund sites?
I’m allergic to shrimp so no danger here, but yikes! FDA warns public not to eat possibly radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart https://abcnews.go.com/US/fda-warns-public-eat-possibly-radioactive-shrimp-sold/story?id=124780934
people keep mentioning me whenever altbot makes a mistake, and honestly it's annoying. its an LLM. LLMs make mistakes. I've said hundreds of times you should always review and edit the text that it writes. and I'm self hosting it. i made the conscious choice to pick user privacy over performance […]
The silver lining here is that the FDA is, for time being at least, still opposed to radioactive shrimp. https://6abc.com/amp/post/fda-warns-public-not-eat-possibly-radioactive-shrimp-great-value-brand-sold-walmart-13-states/17586897/
@alfiekohn like 'Extra Light' cigarettes
Continuous reports of AI's harmful impact serve as reminder that we need to continue using AI, but more responsibly
LOL wonder if the AI coding is going well there at Microsoft. ""A recent change, intended to improve the left sidebar in Microsoft Teams, enabled an unoptimized code flow that's causing an error to be generated when launching the Microsoft Teams desktop and web app." […]
Anti-car? Me...? #FuckCars
The Knight Foundation and others are trying to raise $50 million to rescue public radio and TV stations, prioritizing ones that historically received more than 30% of their funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and are among the only sources of information in their communities […]
“An international broadcast company has ceased operations in the United States and will make a complete liquidation of their late model digital radio, video and podcast technology assets, studio equipment office and business equipment.” […] [Original post on journa.host]
"Satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize." -- Mathematician and musician, Tom Lehrer
All the LLM tools are like 100 pages of markdown pleading with the model to be a real boy, 100k lines of boilerplate, but it's the 100 lines of handrolled crypto, and 100 lines of hardcoded leaking every byte of data that passes through them that really makes them shine
We're slowly seeing what leftists always warned about in the UK: all these laws against 'terrorism' are now expanding the definition to be used against every day citizens, from authors being arrested for donating money to activist organizations or hundreds being arrested for protesting a […]
@GossiTheDog Doctorow now calls ai slot-machines. it's gambling with other people's work, money, and in some places: environment.
95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing. https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/
Memes didn’t exist before Twitter/Facebook. OK, maybe they did, but they certainly didn’t before the interne…
All the books I've read and don't remember in detail, have been firmly pressed into the foundation of who I am. You can't tell the individual books apart under the weight of the later experience, but they are there, shaping who I am, planting the seeds of today's thoughts and decisions. Every […]
@tante ai is for lazy hacks. Whether in coding or writing or art... or even in relationships. in gaming: it's paying someone to play in your steed and watching them. You think you're pimping, but you're a cuck.
I think the Vibecoding reddit has accidentally stumbled on the best description of vibecoding: It's "roleplay for guys [it is always guys] who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part". (Source […] [Original post on tldr.nettime.org]
Arnold Schwarzenegger eviscerated Trump for his pathetic submission to Putin — and he’s right. “Mr. President Trump, you stood there like a little white noodle, like a fanboy.” While Ukraine is invaded, its people slaughtered, Trump grovels before a dictator. That isn’t leadership. It’s betrayal.
#Trump - #Putin documents left on #HotelPrinter Papers w/ US #State Dept markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaska hotel, revealed previously undisclosed & potentially sensitive details about the Aug 15 meeting between Trump & Putin in Anchorage. 8 pages, that appear […]
it's interesting how most people haven't heard of our stuff at all! i hope this will change once the Reform Next is shipping.
![reddit screenshot. someone asks: Why do you buy a Framework Laptop? Would be interesting to see what the main motive of people is that makes them buy a Framework Laptop. top answer: [...] How do you buy any other? It's literally the only one you can fix.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5iarh4qnooxftne7xbdvjqgr/bafkreifruweubkonpbreoo7ya427jarbzj4mdg5cipu7xoew3yld6d4cea@jpeg "Click to view full size")
I’m probably laughing harder at this than it deserves. But, still… 😂 #Caturday
#SolarPunk https://youtube.com/watch?v=p1ljiTU1mGE&feature=shared
@WarnerCrocker plant.
Farcical incompetence. Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit #politics https://www.npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-5504196/trump-putin-summit-documents-left-behind
"The Art of the Deal" https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2kzn1nw1d4t?post=asset%3Af3be449e-94be-4d83-a4e1-bd5d0a88873a#post #Ukraine #USA #Russia #AlaskaSummit #VladimirPutin #DonaldTrump #Politcs #InternationalRelations
**Rail Workers Warn Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern Merger Would 'Simply Line the Pockets of Wall Street'** _# RailroadWorkersUnited expressed opposition to any further consolidation of the U.S. rail system—unless it was brought under public ownership._ from #CommonDreams Jake Johnson Aug 11 […]
@skribe The Martian, and/or The Expanse (series)
Can you name ONE (one only please) SF/F book, written this century (2001+), that has absolutely blown your mind? Not just something you liked, or that was good, I'm looking for the absolute best books written this century. Boost for visibility please. #Books #SF #Fantasy #21Century
Ah, les mouches à fruit ! 😖 https://www.centredessciencesdemontreal.com/blogue/les-mouches-a-fruits-ca-vient-d-ou-et-surtout-comment-s-en-debarrasser #Québec #Été #Canicule #Science #Drosophile
Mafia meetings used to be much more discreet
#paulryan #gop #politics
Long political post: slavery is the "plan" read at -> https://my-place.social/display/e599373b-1568-9fbc-7012-add362470842 mirrored at: https://diasporasocial.net/posts/d928e8305c57013e720c0a04ffb1b246 #politics #maga #tariffs #immigrantion #antifascist #privateprisons #usa #freedom #liberty
Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.
Pressure works. Protests matter. Our voices matter. "The next mass protest against the Trump administration on Saturday takes aim at Texas' redistricting fight. Why it matters: "Fight the Trump Takeover" events organized nationwide push against Trump's effort to draw a new map more favorable […]
Just remember all of you billionaires out there...
@hacks4pancakes Now is the time of monsters.
The streets of Anchorage before the meeting between Trump and Putin in Alaska. #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO
