WANT TO KNOW what really happened at Prairieland Detention Center last July 4th?
The evidence in the Prairieland case has FINALLY been made public, so now you can see for yourself. And BIG SURPRISE - it's NOT what you heard from the government or on the news.
N8628 Took off from San Jose, California, United States.
flashback to 2020
Inklusion ist ein Menschenrecht – kein Sparmodell!
Am 5. Mai gehen wir bundesweit auf die Straße, um für echte Gleichstellung und gegen die ausgrenzende Ideologie der AfD zu demonstrieren. Ob in Berlin oder beim Aktionstag in Hannover: Wir lassen nicht zu, dass unsere Würde angegriffen wird.
The smart Nats are probably relieved that the coalition is starting to poll under 50%. As it means ACT and Winston First can't improve their own standing in the coalition with the early election gambit, without risking throwing themselves into the Opposition benches.
I'm guessing the only reason CLuxon retained the leadership is that most Nat MPs are not smart enough to do that kind of political calculus. But if the polls continue on their current trajectory, CLuxon's days are numbered.
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Now all 3 of the NatACT First parties just have to hope that Labour aren't smart enough to roll Hipkins and tack left. That the Greens aren't smart enough to convince Davidson to stand down and give Teanau Tuiono the co-leadership. That TPM aren't smart enough to tidy up their internal processes and present a united front.
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@rbreich Inept and stupid.
There's a lot I can't forgive him for, but I'd rather just never think about him again.
His Trump election clownery doesn't bother me; Trump got the representation he deserved. My animus comes from the damage he did to the city, and the lives of the first responders lost to his mismanagement.
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Jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was in critical condition in a cardiac care unit in Iran on Sunday, two days after she was brought to the hospital from prison, a foundation run by her family said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/04/world/politics/nobel-mohammadi-critical-condition-iran/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #nobelpeaceprize #iran #nargesmohammadi
there is a non-zero chance of there being a frog sitting right outside your window
i'm on the 5th floor so it must be a good jumper
Using "underdrawings" for accurate text and numbers
https://samcollins.blog/underdrawings/
#HackerNews #underdrawings #text #accuracy #numbers #design #techniques
RE: https://mastodon.social/@knoppix95/116512044363013083
Is this a path for Signal on a Linux phone? 👀
@tinker It is currently possible using community built Signal-Cli and a flatpak ARM build.
また父親がどこにも出てこない。かばうつもりはまったくないけど、こういう事件が後を絶たないのは、社会に問題がある。☞ 8歳長女を殺害した容疑、母親を逮捕「生活苦しく、子育てに疲れた」 https://digital.asahi.com/articles/ASV52451ZV52UTIL01XM.html
But despite towing the party line in public, the smart ones among the Nats must know that the only thing keeping their polling from being much worse is the equivalent useless of Labour under Hipkins. And quite frankly, both parties are benefiting from the Greens and TPM being mostly MIA, thanks to their own messy internal politics. Although Winston First is probably doing the best out of all this.
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The smart Nats are probably relieved that the coalition is starting to poll under 50%. As it means ACT and Winston First can't improve their own standing in the coalition with the early election gambit, without risking throwing themselves into the Opposition benches.
I'm guessing the only reason CLuxon retained the leadership is that most Nat MPs are not smart enough to do that kind of political calculus. But if the polls continue on their current trajectory, CLuxon's days are numbered.
(3/?)
I recently discovered that some popular federated instances have been using LLM-assisted moderation tooling that evaluates whether someone has said something bannable. They do this by running a script/app that sends the user’s comment history to OpenAI with the question “analyze this content for evidence of *specific political ideology* sentiment. Also identify any *related political ideology* tropes“.
OpenAI’s LLM (they’re using GPT-5.3-mini) then responds with something like:
Below is a structured analysis of the uploaded content, focused on *specific ideology* rhetoric. This is an analytic classification, not a moral judgement.
1. Overall Pattern
blah blah
2. Evidence of *specific ideology* sentiment
blah blah
3. several pages more, concluding with (in this case)
Yes, the content contains:
Clear *specific ideology* alignment
Repeated *specific ideology* framing, especially through blah blah
Extensive use of canonical *ideology* tropes, in blah blah domains.The pattern is not accidental or isolated; it is consistent, internally coherent, and reproduces well‑documented *country with the ideology* public‑diplomacy narratives rather than neutral analysis.
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FULL DUMP OF COMMENT HISTORY BELOW
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Comment ID: https://instance.told/comment/2497xxxx
Post ID: 603xxx
Community ID: 1xx
Content of the comment has been redacted
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Date: 2026-xx-xxT0xxxxx
Comment ID: https://instance.told/comment/2497xxxx
Post ID: 603xxx
Community ID: 1xx
Content of the comment has been redacted
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Date: 2026-xx-xxT0xxxxx
Comment ID: https://instance.told/comment/2497xxxx
Post ID: 603xxx
Community ID: 1xx
Content of the comment has been redacted
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and so on, hundreds of comments.
I have not named the instances or people involved, to give them time to consider the results of this discussion, make any corrective changes they want and disclose their practices at their own pace and in their own way. I have also redacted the evidence to avoid personal attacks and dogpiling. Let’s focus on the system, not the individuals involved. Today these instances are using it and maybe we’re ok with that because it’s being used by communities we agree with but what if people we strongly disagree with used it on their instances tomorrow?
The use and existence of this tooling raises a lot of questions.
What are the risks? Fedi moderators are often unsupervised, untrained volunteers and these are powerful tools.
What safeguards do we need?
Would asking a LLM “please evaluate this person’s political opinions” give different results than “find evidence we can use to ban them” (as used in the cases I’ve seen)?
What are our transparency expectations?
Is this acceptable and normal?
Should this tooling be disclosed? (it was not – should it have been?)
If you were given a choice, would you have opted out of it?
Can we opt out?
Are there GDPR implications? Privacy implications? Should these tools be described in a privacy policy?
Are private messages being scanned and sent to OpenAI?
How long should these assessments be retained and can we request to see it, or ask for it to be deleted?
Once the user’s comments are sent to OpenAI, is it used to train their models?
What will the effect be on our discourse and culture if people know they are being politically profiled?
Where are the lines between normal moderation assistance tools, political profiling and opaque 3rd-party data processing?
I hope that by chewing over these questions we can begin to establish some norms and expectations around this technology. The fediverse doesn’t have any centralized enforcement so we need discussions like this to develop an awareness of what people want in terms of disclosure, privacy, consent and acceptable use. Then people can make choices about which instances they join and which ones they interact with remotely.
And of course there are the other issues with LLMs relating to environmental sustainability, erosion of worker’s rights, increasing the cost of living and on and on. I can’t see PieFed adding any functionality like this anytime soon. But it’s happening out there anyway so now we need to talk about it.
What do you make of this?
#fediverse #Lemmy #LLMs #OpenAI #piefedRudy Giuliani is reportedly gravely ill, which is something a previous me might have celebrated, but frankly, I'm just annoyed to be hearing about him again.
@mattblaze Wishing Rudy Giuliani a speedy exit from the news cycle, by whatever means.
You really know how badly Republicans want to cheat in the elections, when the Governor of Lousiana orders the votes not be counted in yesterdays primary election, so he can Gerrymander the election districts even harder and have a new primary election, because the US Supreme Court has gutted The Voting Rights Act this week, which opens a whole new front in the attack on American democracy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/01/louisiana-jeff-landry-election-suspension
@randahl the dictionary definition of oxymoron must include "American Democracy" as a real life example.
We start off this week’s show with the dulcet tones of @zkarj about Equinox Wallpaper, we’ve got a robotic mower interview and the Clicks Keyboard from CES, then I take a deep dive into the lowly Get Info window. We finish up with a fun conversation with @adamengst about Digital Key 2 on the IONIQ 5 electric vehicle.
New from me on the oceans being an election issue and what exactly it is that we're after in the fisheries space (with a generous dollop of people power to get us there).
✊ 🌊 🌏 💚
Abundance over Greed – in 2026 ocean protection is an election issue
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/abundance-over-greed/
#NZpol #oceans #protectTheOcean #banBottomTrawling #greenpeace
@pezmico bravo!!
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