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@catsalad you made that up ;-)
dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker:
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So there's a particular grassy outdoor spot where my daughter and the other kids in her after-school program like to sit and eat -- and the kids and staffers have dubbed this location "Snack Meadow", and it's now being called that in official program comms. Is there any more delightfully named place than Snack Meadow?
That dad dilemma where the grass desperately needs mowing but it’s forecast to rain all day
@jpm 🎶 I'm mowin' in the rain 🎵
Friends, have you seen the investigation on UK students, including those at Oxford and Cambridge, hiring Kenyans to write their papers and dissertations?
I assume it wasn't cross Atlantic news as the media only seems to be interested in laundering eugenics into the mainstream.
Think about the audacity of them telling Black people that we're subpar DEI hires and frauds such and these students hiring Black people to do their work for them and pass it off as their own.
@timnitGebru
I don't think that's a UK attitude to equality legislation, despite Brexit and a loud set of nasties.
Quite a disconnect between what the present USA Administration says and does, and over here in a relatively civilised country.
יום שישי. אמצע הלילה. בעוד כמה ימים אנחנו טסים לחופשה שאנחנו מתכננים המון זמן. ואז מתוך שינה אני שומע מעל לראש מטוסי קרב. האם התחילו מלחמה כוללת?
My grandmother used to take me when I was a kid. I don't really know why, because I was not interested in dolls even slightly.
But we went at least 6 times between the ages of 4 and 8.
The original location, as seen in the above linked video, is now an antique store.
Last weekend, I accidentally stumbled across it.
I didn't recognize it until we were half way through the building and suddenly I realized that we were standing where the tree of life and the titular cabbage patch would have been.
Bits of the building are intact, and there are a couple of dolls scattered throughout it, but mostly it's just a weird 80s building.
Billy Smith
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This is #Fascism.
“When a transaction objectively looks like a sale to a reasonable customer, the customer should get the legal rights that come with purchase, even if the vendor figuratively has their fingers crossed behind their back in the fine print,” EFF’s @cmcsherr told The Daily Mail. https://www.dailymail.com/yourmoney/article-16099153/sony-playstation-digital-game-ownership-court.html
Billy Smith
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TAKE YOUR BALLOTS TO A DROP BOX THIS NOVEMBER.
Don't use a mailbox. Use a ballot drop box, because the US postal service is _already_ fucking with ballots.
This is not a guess, theory, or extrapolation, this is an _observed fact_. Here's the Thurston County auditor talking about postal service fuckery during the primary, and some of the steps they're taking to get around it:
https://www.thurstoncountywa.gov/news/we-are-still-getting-ballots-should-have-counted-primary
Imagine express mail taking 19 days to deliver to the _next county over_. Literally behaviour they've never seen before. That's they kind of fuckery they're seeing.
Take your ballot to a BALLOT DROP BOX, not a mailbox.
#usps #election #elections #seattle #cascadia #2026midterms #midterms2026 #fascism #FuckTrump #FuckTheGOP #FuckFascism
45 Years After His Death, Indiana Jones Resurrects One of Its Most Iconic Villains
https://www.mensjournal.com/entertainment/45-years-after-his-death-indiana-jones-resurrects-one-of-its-most-iconic-villains?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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@shiva non sono un esperto e l'unica cosa che non mi convince affatto del tuo ragionamento è il fatto che non credo che la volatilità nel settore cripto stia gradualmente diminuendo.
Per il resto il tuo ragionamento fila, anche se penso che la spinta a stablecoinizzare la schiera dei paesi satelliti sia dovuta più alla volontà di speculare da parte del cerchio trumpiano, piuttosto che per consolidare il dominio statunitense
@informapirata @informatica
@economia
Sta oggettivamente diminuendo, se paragonato con i cicli passati di crescita (x1000 x100 x20 x4) e i cicli di ribasso (-98% -80% -75% -55%) ad esempio su 
pur rimanendo molto volatile, lo è stato meno. E meno di alcuni titoli azionari come ad esmpio NVIDA ma non solo...
Like, "Trump wants to return Falklands to Argentina" is not a headline that's going to make me angry, even if the fine print is bullshit and it's about propping up Milei. This dog does not hunt, it's a loser, drop it. By my calculations this is way better than him spending all day trying to figure out how to annex Canada. You will find nothing but ash and ruin on this line of attack.
@AnarchoNinaWrites It's helpful to slap the Brits upside the head as hard as possible though
Billy Smith
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The US declared measles eliminated in 2000. It's back.
One reason is simple: nobody remembers what measles does to children. When a miracle fades into the background, the machinery that produces it starts to look unnecessary.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/we-live-in-an-age-of-miracles-and
Billy Smith
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Training AI models on copyrighted works is "squarely what transformative use is," EFF’s Tori Noble told Reason - these are "general purpose tools" and "exactly the kind of creation that copyright is designed to foster.” https://reason.com/2026/09/04/doj-says-barring-ai-training-on-copyrighted-material-could-severely-hamper-tech-progress/
@eff No sane person loves transformative work that boils the ocean and makes hardware and electricity expensive
The new compound is apparently slick and shiny. They moved there in like 2010.
So 16 years ago.
The old one though, was horrific.
Here's a video tour of the original location, accompanied by a Babyland General song.
It's legitimately unsettling.
My grandmother used to take me when I was a kid. I don't really know why, because I was not interested in dolls even slightly.
But we went at least 6 times between the ages of 4 and 8.
Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx:
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The consultant is ranked at the same level as, and as advisor to, the person who brought them in.
I quickly learned, at the start of my work as a consultant, that the most effective strategy was to come up with some excuse to go talk to the workers, ask them what should be changed around here, and put that into a presentation to management.
The better managers would at least ask their people if my proposal was a good idea. They would, of course, say yes. It was their idea anyway.
Paul Schrader è tornato e che fine hanno fatto i filmoni americani - Il Post
https://www.ilpost.it/podcasts/dicono-che-e-bello-al-cinema/paul-schrader-e-tornato-e-che-fine-hanno-fatto-i-filmoni-americani?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su News @news-ilPost
Billy Smith
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Re: map projections, one of my favorites is this one I saw at the Seattle Aquarium that unifies the oceans into a single mass while maintaining scale
Billy Smith
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As Zack Polanski (rightly) points out:
'How can the government designate new data centres as ‘critical national infrastructure’ when they don’t even keep records on who is using them and what they are being used for? '...
The reason, is all the better to render protestors against Data Centres as 'terrorists'.
This could be a major vote winner for the Green Party of England & Wales, and specifically for Polanski's (likely) by-election..
