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A shift is happening:
•Biden has cancelled his meeting with Netanyahu
•Harris will skip Netanyahu's speech to Congress
•Harris will meet with Netanyahu to tell him to stop bombing Palestinian civilians
•Seven major unions just sent a joint letter to Biden calling on him to "immediately halt all military aid to Israel" ahead of Netanyahu’s DC visit:
SEIU, NEA, UAW, UE, APWU, AFA, & IUPAT
Don't let up. Keep the pressure on until US stops funding genocide & starts rebuilding Palestine. Let's go.
transphobia rots the brain in a seemingly unique way. I've also been thinking for a while that there's a dearth of research on it.
One name that wasn't mentioned here: Notch. He was actually cool about trans people once upon a time, and then he became a billionaire and basically melted his mind on twitter becoming a transphobe. Bizarre how people will commit to being unlikable.
The rise of ChatGPT-style "AI tools" is a climate change issue. Advertising them is, by extension, an attempt at disengaging our sense of alarm.
Therefore, "you need to adapt and learn these 'tools'" is an anti-climate stance. Companies that engage in marketing these tools *are* engaging in the politics of climate change, even if they don't know it yet.
Did a long investigation for WIRED looking at how studios are already using AI to degrade and kill jobs in the video game industry
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-already-taking-jobs-in-the-video-game-industry/
Everybody in a UBI study could spend it all on drugs & I would still support UBI.
Stop asking virtue of the poor which you don’t of the rich.
The thing is though, we know from the doubling of JobSeeker during the COVID emergency that they won't spend the money on drugs. People will spend the money on housing and food. We've already run that experiment, we've already got the answers.
i don’t even need to hear from the EFF to have a good argument why adshit shouldn’t run on my computers
the argument is: it’s my computer
no seriously. are they paying me for the use of my computer to run their adshit? no? then it doesn’t need to run on my computer.
that shit is for me, not doubleclick or whatever the bloody thing is called now. if it ain’t making me happy or bringing me money, it’s out
@rameshgupta @tauon @silly The internet existed before corporations used it as an ad platform. They are not innocently developing cool services with ads as a monetization strategy, they're developing services as a way to force people to view their ad network content.
Ads were not inevitable, but viewpoints like yours allowed them to become ubiquitous.
Privacy should be the default. It's very simple.
⬆️ @sekka @tauon @ariadne @silly
>>Ads were not inevitable, but viewpoints like yours allowed them to become ubiquitous.
You either did not read my viewpoint or did not understand it.
I say the same thing — email and web existed before ad monetization.
I have resisted ad monetization with good results. I wonder why others failed, why they whine, and put blame on anti-ad people like me.
Don’t eat free candy without giving up something else. Pay for services using money or your data. Simple.
By happy coincidence, Alexei Sayle was recording an episode of “Strangers on a Train” from London to Hereford just as people were arriving for EMF. It’s live on the radio at 10.30am this coming Saturday, and will be available to listen/download after the broadcast.
The lost files are found!
Hrhrhrhr, awesome shots from an #EAST far far in the past by fella Dakoru appearing! 💜💖
There'll be more!
Featuring Heyz worn by Cabro 🧡🤍🖤,
I wonder how they is, havn't heard from for ages!
Can someone help?
this is a good policy
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"Tory conference could be like a wake as business stays away"
Attendance in Birmingham predicted to be worst in living memory with big impact on party’s fundraising effortsRob Davies (The Guardian)
Email received a few days ago: "We need to know which version of SSH is installed on the server, as we want to ensure it is not vulnerable to external attacks." My response: "Don’t worry, SSH is accessible ONLY via VPN, and I am the only one with access to that VPN—activated only when needed—so there is no way for there to be any issues, regardless of the version used."
Email received this morning: "We’re not interested; you must provide the SSH version installed and, if it's not the latest, ensure us of the update date."
My response: "Sorry, could you explain the rationale? SSH is not exposed, it’s not listening on any public IP."
Their reply: "Provide the version."
My response: "OpenSSH_9.7, LibreSSL 3.9.0, on OpenBSD."
Their reply: "This is not considered secure. It must be OpenSSH_9.2p1 Debian-2+deb12u3."
My response: "It’s not Debian; it’s OpenBSD."
Their reply: "So the systems are insecure."
And they claim to be a cybersecurity company...
#CyberSecurity #SSH #VPN #ITSecurity #SysAdmin #TechSupport #OpenBSD #Debian
I've talked to a few friends today. Construction contractors & similar for political issues. This is the first time I've ventured into it because people in the blue collar industry around here tend to be more Republican.
They are non-social media and don't think about politics the way we do. They think in terms of common sense resolutions that will help both them and the country, and don't put political labels on them.
They thought Trump is an idiot who can't string more than a few sentences together and don't believe him capable of anything.
They were disgusted by the entire process and worried that Biden was following along that same track.
They said Harris is kind of a relief, seeing someone finally capable of stepping up and running the country the way a president should. And they will be voting for her.
I wanted to relay this because much of the time we only see Social Media feedback so some real world examples helps get a better perspective.
It's vital, over the next few weeks, to remember that Republicans, foreign powers, and extremists will be working to make Democrats and people who vote for them angry with each other.
The goal will be to create turmoil in the party and its followers, and to disrupt the Harris campaign before it gets going.
Do not be fooled by bots and extremists that try to make you hate your allies.
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In the newly-formed parliament in France, the youngest member, far-right MP Flavien Termet, was given the task of welcoming the deputies. Most of the deputies did not shake his hand.
(Extra credit to the Rock, Paper, Scissors guy!)
From https://bsky.app/profile/caymanwent.bsky.social
If your win10 install is pushing Copilot on you:
1. Run PowerShell as Administrator
2. Paste: Get-AppxPackage *CoPilot* -AllUsers | Remove-AppPackage -AllUsers
3. Press Enter (There will not be any output if it is successfully removed)
4. Reboot
Repost to save a life
I did some searching but couldn't find the original source of this graphic but it's just too good not to share. My apologies for swiping this without credit.
This chubby otter, Sveni, is about to enjoy his favorite food: sushi. But not before his eyes first take in the delight before him.
Patreon reward for Sveni
Digital. Procreate.
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A really cool and interesting thing just happened in space. NASA’s Mars Rover drove over a rock that cracked open, revealing pure sulfur.
This is a first on Mars. It’s also unexpected given the characteristics of its surroundings.
#NASA #Space #PlanetaryGeology #Mars #Rover #Astronomy
Among several recent findings, the rover has found rocks made of pure sulfur — a first on the Red Planet.Anthony Greicius (NASA)
It's always so refreshing to see more rubber and gear kink peeps who are also massive nerds who're into some of the same engineery shit I'm into, because it makes me feel like less of an oddball.
It makes me feel normal. Like there is absolutely a niche community for weird exotics like me. 💙
Even a big wolf looks tiny in the wide expanse of nature
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I admin a local "pantry" group on Facebook, for food sharing. Basically, if you have food (or other stuff, but mostly food) that you don't want for whatever reason you can post it in the group and give it away. It stops good being thrown out and wasted, and helps people who might be going hungry otherwise.
Tonight a woman put up a post talking about how she's a young mum with two small boys, and that they were out of food until Thursday. She talked about how she was embarrassed to ask but really needed help.
Two women answered the post, offering food. The OP explained that she didn't drive and would it be ok of people dropped things at her place, so I offered to drive around and collect the things people were giving and drop them at her place. I don't have spare food I can help with, but I have a car and I have time.
The second woman I collected from was someone I actually met at the beginning of the year, when she posted in the group and asked for help with cleaning supplies.. I gave her a bunch of things I had tucked away under the sink and didn't use.
She had told me then about how her partner had just been diagnosed with cancer. She told me tonight how she'd stayed in the group because she was waiting for the opportunity to help someone else because we'd helped her so much. She's doing better now, and it made her feel happy she could help someone else.
When I dropped the food these two women had given to the OP, she talked to me about how her partner had died suddenly the year before, leaving her with two young boys.. both with autism and ADHD. She said she's 31 and doesn't have her life together yet. I told her I'm 50 and mines a mess too. I told her that one of the women who had offered food was someone the group had helped previously, and how happy she'd been to be able to help as well. We talked about how community means not only helping people, but also being helped. We talked about how this means that our communities are stronger and prosper together. She's looking forward to being able to help someone else too.
This is how mutual aid works. No matter how dark things get, we can find hope in community.
#MutualAid #Indigenous #Aboriginal #CommunityCare #CommunityNotCops #RegionalAustralia
It's wild how many views my Leeds Furmeet videos are getting so far, over 4,800 views already! Thank you so much for watching. Here's a GIF of Nebraxas being awesome
It's been great being back at the LeedsFurs furmeet and I got some good footage from the fursuit walk and the meet. I'm looking forward to going back again s...YouTube
Rosemary Fowler discovered the kaon particle during her doctoral research in 1948 but gave up PhD to have a familyMabel Banfield-Nwachi (The Guardian)
THIS should be front-page news every day.
THIS should be the primary focus of every major world leader.
But it's not.
Instead, all we get is month after month of more Business As Usual.
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Dr. Robert Rohde (@RARohde) delivers the latest update on our global climate emergency:
"The last 12 months were each at least 1.5°C (2.7°F) warmer than Berkeley Earth's 1850-1900 baseline. This brings the 12-month moving average of Earth's global temperature to a record high of +1.68°C (+3.02°F) above the 1850-1900 baseline, far surpassing previous short-term warming events."
See ➡️ https://fediscience.org/@RARohde/112824106977970378
Learn more ➡️ https://berkeleyearth.org/june-2024-temperature-update/
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
April 2024 was the warmest April since records began in 1850. This year is very likely to become either the warmest or 2nd warmest on record.Robert Rohde (Berkeley Earth)
Content warning: Long form - on transphobia and trans women as basilisks
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https://eldritch.cafe/@Tattie/112838374730432971
Tattie (@Tattie@eldritch.cafe)
Eldritch Café@Tattie OK, so this is interesting. I went and looked at this post as federated to mastodon.social and, it seems, most of the "you said bags of piss, you're a nazi!" responses aren't actually there.
Isn't that curious?
some victims lose 25 billion dollars buying a previously well regarded social media website and turning it into a shithole, just because trans women exist.
Fear us.
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Medusa in mirror shades
We should make this the trans motto.
My name is Tristram, and I am a basilisk. Fear me.
found a new kind of basilisk who's going to name it
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/4511002214527633932/
Helping the community to identify hidden moderator alt accounts :: Steam Discussions
steamcommunity.com@geekylou ok so this is interesting, if it isn't a coincidence: JKR and Glinner both have history of first being criticised from the right. JKR for "promoting witchcraft", Glinner for "mocking the church".
It's almost as if they fell into a trap of thinking "well, at least the left will support me no matter what I do", and then when they actually get (correctly) criticised from the left, they feel betrayed. And not coincidentally, a lot of their cope seems to be strawmanning their critics to make it sound like right wing rather than left wing criticism.
@goatsarah