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Le mouton à 5 pattes

Désinformation Esprit critique

Paperback Edition

104 pages

Published in 2025-06 by Éditions des trois canards

« Si le berger l’a dit, c’est que c’est comme ça ». Le chien de berger est d’accord. Et aussi l’oiseau que nourrit le berger. Mais il y a ce mouton vert à 5 pattes qui doit toujours ramener sa fraise, ça complique tout. C’était plus simple de penser qu’il fallait donner sa laine et en vouloir aux moutons noirs. Enfin, il est quand même bizarre : il est vert et il a 5 pattes.

N’y voyez aucune similitude avec des situations réelles. Vraiment aucune.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denies CDC cuts fueled Cyclospora outbreak
https://flipboard.com/video/usa-today/cebfec9c75?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denies CDC cuts fueled Cyclospora outbreak

HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denied that CDC cuts impacted the outbreak of the Cyclospora parasite in a sitdown interview with USA TODAY.

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If power stays where it has always been, then the language may have changed – but the system has not

In #OMN usage, #mainstreaming is the process by which radical ideas are absorbed, softened and neutralised by mainstream institutions. The language survives, the branding survives, even some of the practices survive - but the political challenge and challenge that gave those…

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NO to KOSA and the SCREEN Act: Tell Sen. Cantwell not to shield Big Tech from accountability and put LGBTQ+ teens at risk (1/2)

The Senate Commerce committee has a markup this Wednesday (August 5) on KOSA, the SCREEN Act, and a few other bills. Sen. Cantwell is the Ranking Member, and we want her to vote no.

https://www.badinternetbills.com/ makes it easy to connect to your Senators and ask them to vote against KOSA and other bad internet bills

#KOSA #SCREENAct #WApol #USpol

Fight for the Future

Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

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China’s Quiet Quest to Dominate Latin America
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas-quiet-quest-dominate-latin-america?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Diplomacy @diplomacy-ForeignAffairs

Foreign Affairs

China’s Quiet Quest to Dominate Latin America

Small projects, big influence.

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Peak Neil deGrasse Tyson coded factoid here:
smallmariofindings.tumblr.com/…

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Small Mario Findings

Top: after completing the Seaside Kingdom's plotline in Super Mario Odyssey, the sun is seen setting for the rest of the game in that location. Bottom: the fact that the game contains maps for every...

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Oh look, a new version of Delorean, the datetime enhancement library, has been released after just eight years:
https://github.com/myusuf3/delorean/issues/104 🚀🕒
#Python

GitHub

Publish New Version · Issue #104 · myusuf3/delorean

@myusuf3 Any chance of publishing a new version of Delorean to pip that includes the fix provided here: #103 Cheers

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The Left Hand of Darkness

Paperback Edition

341 pages

Published in 2000 by Ace Trade

"One of my favorite novels is The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K Le Guin. For more than 40 years I've been recommending this book to people who want to try science fiction for the first time, and it still serves very well for that. One of the things I like about it is how clearly it demonstrates that science fiction can have not only the usual virtues and pleasures of the novel, but also the startling and transformative power of the thought experiment.

"In this case, the thought experiment is quickly revealed: "The king was pregnant," the book tells us early on, and after that we learn more and more about this planet named Winter, stuck in an ice age, where the humans are most of the time neither male nor female, but with the potential to become either. The man from Earth investigating this situation has a lot to learn, and so do we; and we learn it in the course of a thrilling adventure story, including a great "crossing of the ice". Le Guin's language is clear and clean, and has within it both the anthropological mindset of her father Alfred Kroeber, and the poetry of stories as magical things that her mother Theodora Kroeber found in native American tales. This worldly wisdom applied to the romance of other planets, and to human nature at its deepest, is Le Guin's particular gift to us, and something science fiction will always be proud of. Try it and see – you will never think about people in quite the same way again."

Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website

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chan-fe v0.2.0 release

yet another slop-fe, but it's been my daily driver
>>526cf444 (Cross-thread) Previous thread

https://git.wizard.casa/nak/chan-fe/releases/tag/v0.2.0
Highlights:

- /dm/ board for your direct messages
- Draggable compose panel, allows for multi >>reply tagging
- Link menu on posts, exposes originating post URL, >>(Cross-thread) markdown copy and quote posting
- More configurable (video looping, mute defaults, auto-refresh options)
- Multi-account drifting: sign into multiple accounts across instances and easily switch
- Mitra XMR subscription support

Special thanks to @silverpill for upstreaming some API changes to Mitra v5.8.0 which reduces API hits by a lot

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v0.2.0 - nak/chan-fe

Detailed [v0.2.0 CHANGELOG](https://git.wizard.casa/nak/chan-fe/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#0-2-0-2026-08-01) Highlights: - /dm/ board for your direct messages - Draggable compose panel, allows for multi >>reply tagging - Link menu on posts, exposes originating post URL, >>(Cross-thread) mar...

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@Ayzacoder: Attention if you have a Gmail account:

Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

#Google #Email #Privacy #AI

CU photo of a smiling man in a suit and tie (Sundar Pichai) next to a large Google mail icon

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WA statewide burn ban and wildfire emergency declared; fire risk ‘extreme’
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/wa-statewide-burn-ban-and-wildfire-emergency-declared-fire-risk-extreme/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/wa-statewide-burn-ban-and-wildfire-emergency-declared-fire-risk-extreme/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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finally finished my latest blog post which I've been working on for the last few weeks after I got interested in E 2nd Street and its klezmer connection.

I definitely went from "wow this is neat" to "WTF am I doing" over the past month, but I may as well document it🤪
https://alte.klezmor.im/2026/08/01/east-2nd-street-as-a-hub-of-new-york-klezmer/

#LowerEastSide #MusicHistory #JewishMusic #klezmer #Yiddish #East2ndStreet

https://alte.klezmor.im

East 2nd Street as a Hub of New York Klezmer

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Le dieu venu du Centaure

Paperback Edition

288 pages

Published in 1964 by J'AI LU

Synopsis

Qui est Palmer Eldritch ? Un aventurier parti dix ans plus tôt découvrir les richesses de Proxima du Centaure, aujourd'hui de retour dans le Système solaire. Un nabab de l'industrie qui s'apprête à lancer le K-Priss, une drogue destinée à remplacer le D-Liss et à lui assurer le monopole du juteux marché des colons martiens. Un dieu omniprésent qui s'incarne dans chacun de vos trips. Un organisme extraterrestre venu prendre le contrôle de la Terre. Oui, tout cela, et peut-être plus encore.

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Mitch Conner

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@silverpill Google Plus Circles was perfect. I just want that functionality. It was basically specific distribution lists you could address posts to and people outside those groups could not see it if set to private.

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@Mitch Conner @silverpill Exactly this exists on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte. With even more options, actually. Hubzilla calls them "privacy groups", (streams) and Forte call them "access lists".

Now it comes: You can not only post to one specific such group/list. You can also post to several ones. Or to any combination of privacy groups/access lists and single contacts.

Better yet: You can even exclude single contacts or the members of certain privacy groups/access lists. You can post to the members of privacy groups Foo and Bar, except if they're also in privacy group Baz, and except for Alice, and in addition, you can post to Bob and Carol.

In addition, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte don't just define who receives the post. They don't simply flag it a DM either. They flag it "restricted" and only grant the recipients permission to read the post, read any comments and interact with anything in the conversation. In practice, this also means that those who have these permissions can not only interact with the original poster, but just as well with each other, because it isn't a DM.

Anything that doesn't understand these permissions, e.g. Mastodon, do understand it as a DM. This limits their possibilities to interact, but it's the safe way.

And yet, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte still have private and/or secret groups with moderation (like Facebook groups) on top of all this. (streams) and Forte even optionally have two levels of non-moderator users.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #Groups #FediGroups #FediverseGroups #PrivateGroups #Permissions #PrivacyGroups #AccessLists

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Week in Fediverse 2026-07-31

Servers

- Mastodon v4.6.4
- yukimochi/Activity-Relay v2.0.11
- Iceshrimp.NET v2026.1.2-beta
- Mitra v5.8.0
- ActivityPub for WordPress v9.2.0
- Misskey v2026.7.0
- NeoDB v0.17.4
- NodeBB v4.14.5
- Announcing Bonfire for communities: groups and tools to organise together
- bandwagon.fm: July 2026

Clients

- Fedilab v3.43.0
- Pachli v3.8.0
- PleromaFE v2.11.2
- Aria v1.5.10
- Photon v2.4.3
- Rocinante v1.2.0
- FediSuite: Manage all your Fediverse accounts in one place

For developers

- Masto.js v8.0.0
- activitystreams-vocabulary: ActivityStreams 2.0 Vocabulary data structures (Rust)

Protocol

- FEP-2345: fediverse:creator

Articles

- Pelago: The Old Man, The Sea, and The Island
- Cooperative Software
- Cacheable Requests for Remote Content
- A newbie's guide to self-hosting: GoToSocial part 1 (installation and set-up)

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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019f95f5-5736-7753-8aaa-83f9c26fa07e

FEP-2345: fediverse:creator - Fediverse Enhancement Proposals

This FEP specifies a method by which website authors can attach their fediverse profile to link previews generated by fediverse software for that website, through the combination of a new OpenGraph-style meta property and an ActivityPub-side security mechanism to prevent spoofing.

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Drifting past the pier

Two jellyfish drifted past the end of the pier at Ballycotton, less than a metre under the surface but in the warm light of a setting sun the water grew dark quickly with depth....

https://inphotos.org/2026/07/31/drifting-past-the-pier/

#Ballycotton #BlarneyPhotographyClub #Cork #CountyCork #Ireland #IrishCoast #jellyfish #MarineLife #MoonJellyfish #Photo #Photography #pier #underwater #WildlifePhotography

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Lollapalooza, Daisy Chain Fields & Ocean Way: 2026 Summer Festival Season Is Just Heating Up
https://www.billboard.com/media/podcasts/lollapalooza-daisy-chain-ocean-way-festivals-pop-shop-podcast-1236302558/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Sounds of the Summer @sounds-of-the-summer-theculturedesk

Billboard

Lollapalooza, Daisy Chain Fields & Ocean Way: 2026 Summer Festival Season Is Just Heating Up

While Coachella typically kicks off summer music festival season in the U.S., Lollapalooza is far from the end of the season this year.

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FEP-2345: fediverse:creator

Hello! First time submitting a FEP myself. This one is for a feature Mastodon has had since July 2024, which is fairly popular among bloggers and journalists.

Often, the author of a website is present on the social media platform where the links to the website are being shared. However, usually there is no quick way to navigate to the author's social media profile from the link preview. Being able to navigate to the social media profile of a website's author from that website's link preview is a win-win situation for the author and for the platform. This FEP defines a new meta property fediverse:creator which can appear in the section of any website.

PR: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/893

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FEP-2345: fediverse:creator

First time writing and submitting a FEP myself, let me know if there's something I've done wrong here. This is the FEP for the `fediverse:creator` feature that has been [part of Mastodon since July 2024](https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/).

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Aftermath just posted:

Welcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandates

'When I copy-edit writing I take an extra twenty minutes to double check, then say I had Claude copy edit it as well. Everyone’s really happy with my performance'

https://aftermath.site/ai-resistance-tips-workforce-llm-workers/

#gamingNews #Aftermath

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Welcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandates

'When I copy-edit writing I take an extra twenty minutes to double check, then say I had Claude copy edit it as well. Everyone’s really happy with my performance'

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Russian LGBTQ+ journalists forced into exile when their site got labeled an “extremist organization”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/russian-lgbtq-journalists-forced-into-exile-when-their-site-got-labeled-an-organization/

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA