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If there are future generations I wonder what they will think of things like this https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/utah-approves-datacenter-backlash
If there are future generations they will have much more other issues to solve than thinking about the done sins of their predecessors. Like surviving the day.
I want to speak to the manager of storytelling
found at https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:x2muxxe5t25hckf22sk25ocf/post/3mlobs4uq422l
@davidgerard I was once leading a postgraduate seminar in a university when one of the qualified and registered professionals attending complained that I was introducing words and concepts that they found unfamiliar.
We paused a beat, and I repeated that, and "that sounds like university to me".
Similar thinking.
Luke Drury
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113 Nobel laureates call to release gravely ill Narges Mohammadi: the Iranian human rights activist, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, has been campaigning for women’s rights for decades. Her life may be at imminent risk.
@annehargreaves It is such a shame that a person with those needs has to share so much of their personal data with Meta. There must be a better way.
@neil Yes indeed.
r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖
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Is this not a reasonable place to park? (Or charge)
@halcy Back when the job market was still a thing and I was active on LinkedIn, with my status correctly indicating I was working in a permanent role in Berlin, I kept getting headhunted for 3-month gigs of similar experience level in London. Different times for sure, but made no sense even back then.
@breaque recruiters really are just pretty much spammers, I guess
Neil Brown
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Handing wads of cash to the many disabled designers and programmers would sort out the issue of expensive and privacy invading tech as a substitute for purpose-built accessibility tools. It would also be better than “disability dongles” from design schools.
My favourite band from the 2000s that I still listen to regularly is Guillemots.
Who are yours?
@fenix 
Bon par contre ça va encore sûrement être bardé de cette saloperie de Denuvo.
Donc malgré le fait que j'ai très envie, je n'achèterai pas.
@sebsauvage Zut, tu viens de doucher un peu mes attentes 
GeofCox
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The Parliament Standards Commissions has just announced it WILL launch an investigation into #Farage's £5million
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Fine Art 🧐
we have achieved Artificial General Met Policing
![[object Object]](https://media.mas.to/accounts/avatars/109/287/758/133/964/366/original/0f3099c0adfb36a0.png "[object Object]")
@davidgerard I love that the excuse is that the alert button isn’t hooked up yet but like
- why is it there if it actively misleads you into thinking it does anything
- the fuck is it going to do when it’s hooked up? why is this a robot? it’s just like calling the police on the phone except now you have to track down a moving button that sings at you
Quixoticgeek
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This AI data center will be bigger than 2,000 Walmarts and dump '23 atom bombs worth of energy' into the environment every day — and locals are terrified
The scale sounds almost unreal. The proposed campus reportedly spans around 40,000 acres in Box Elder County, Utah, an area larger than many major cities.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ai-data-center-bigger-2-124356503.html
> Women leaving the beach, going into a shop, or simply standing outside are now being approached by men usually wearing Meta's Ray-Bans, the company's "smart" or "AI" glasses, often in order to film the women's responses to casual questions or pick-up lines without their knowledge or consent.
Perhaps it is time to simply ban them from public.
Whether I'm talking about spy glasses or men, you decide...
@neil this is gonna get a lot of dorky guys punched in the face just because their glasses are old and dorky.
Chip Butty
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Hey folks,
We are happy to announce that we have added LaSuite Docs to our Co-operative Computer, our extremely un-automated Solarpunk As A Service.
If you already have an Co-op Comp account, you can find the La Suite Docs app here: https://docs.cooperative.computer
La Suite Docs is a minimal collaborative document editing app funded by the French and German Government.
It's very minimal right now but it could grow to be a Google Docs competitor for certain use cases in the future.
Note that we also offer LaSuite Docs hosting for organisations for £30 per month: https://docs.coop/
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Quixoticgeek
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actually, the climate destroying machine, which is the reason you can no longer buy any hardware, is threatening your job and your water supply is a good thing because it always finds bugs no one previously gave a single shit about. 
Quixoticgeek
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Polycystic ovary syndrome ( #PCOS) was officially renamed Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome ( #PMOS) on May 12, 2026,. This change, published in The #Lancet and announced at the European Congress of Endocrinology, followed a rigorous 14-year global consensus process. The update aims to reduce stigma, improve diagnosis, and accurately reflect the condition's complex, multi-system nature beyond just the ovaries.
This is huge news for women, as it’s estimated that up to a third of women experience some PMOS symptoms. The previous nomenclature meant that many women were not being diagnosed correctly. As a matter of #bioethics of women’s treatment, this is a big sea change. As to how it changes medical professional’s approach, we will have to determine.
The Lancet:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00717-8/fulltext
The Endocrine Society: https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2026/pcos-name-change
