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@da2x IL faut faire attention à ne pas jouer comme un manche !
Mais c'est top ! Ne faudrait-il pas ajouter un micro pour que cela soit moins nazillard ?
Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥
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Heating engineer on a car-free island? No problem, with a cargo bike
https://k4rgo.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/heating-engineer-on-a-car-free-island-no-problem-with-a-cargobike/
@rysiek ja tam tego rośnięcia nie widę za bardzo, może 1-2 osoby na miesiąc. A niestety też ciężko tutaj kogoś ściągnąć 😒
@Pokojnadysku no efekt sieci działa tak, jak działa, ludzi ciągnie tam, gdzie ich więcej. ale to też oznacza, że każda nowa osoba tu ma znacznie większy wpływ na efekt sieci ciągnący w kierunku fedi.
David B. :SetouchiExplorer:
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Looked at the UN report on "AI" (written by a bunch of mostly computer scientists who to a large degree have close ties to big tech) and it's really bad.
Just "AI" hype based on studies that are long shown to be garbage.
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK NOOOOO
@sundogplanets how can a single country unilaterally approve something that will fuck up astronomy research for everyone?
> 'Men Carsten gider mig bare ikke mere' med hele bussen.
Det løgn, jeg gider jer godt - allesammen!
@CarstenBoll @infonauten haha sorry :)
@tryberg @infonauten Jeg kan forestille mig, at det er affødt af diverse reality shows, hvor de medvirkende er nødt til at dele deres telefonsamtaler, og helst også telefonskærmens indhold, med kameraet. Det er svært, når man holder telefonen som et normalt mennesker.
@wolf @infonauten true dat! Der kan også være nogen, der gør det for at mindske stråligen; synes de hører lyden bedre (men det gør alle vi andre så også...). Måske nogen også oplever at lægge på når telefon rører kinderne; det kan tvære makeup ud oa,
But still - i det offentlige rum er det virkelig mærkeligt :)
GREAT guess I'm not going to sleep tonight either. Maybe there will be auroras. I need to enjoy the night sky as much as I can now, I guess.
Fuck you, FCC, for approving this. Fuck Reflect Orbital and all the copycats it's going to spawn. Fuck techbros everywhere. Fuck venture capitalists for funding this destructive, useless bullshit.
Maybe Kessler Syndrome isn't the worst outcome...
Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥
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No car needed
https://cargoroo.nl/
Shared electric cargo bikes for the families, neighbourhoods and small businesses building a cleaner, calmer city.
It is a shame that this idea hasn't spread to more cities. It is kind of what I had in mind when I wrote this in 2010 https://kimharding.net/blog/new-idea-the-cargo-bike-club/
Admittedly, I rather overthought the idea then and the technology didn't exist back then either, but it does now...
🚨 The Intercept says its Signal tipline username was hijacked for months, allowing an impersonator to solicit tips and potentially expose confidential sources. FPF’s Dr. Martin Shelton outlines plausible causes and safeguards. #InvestigativeJournalism #SecureComms https://cyberinsider.com/the-intercepts-signal-tipline-username-was-hijacked-for-months/
Problem is: It's a long document and going through it in detail showing that for example relying on "epoch.ai" (an effective altruist ai think tank) for your studies and data might not be smart just takes so much time.
So the corporate stance that "agentic AI will totally change the world" is what the UN beams into politician's brains.
We're cooked.
SPD-Fraktion meutert gegen Entkernung des unverzichtbaren IFG. Hubig (SPD) sucht mit Dobrindt (CSU) erst noch das direkte Gespräch https://www.heise.de/news/Geplante-IFG-Reform-SPD-Fraktion-meutert-gegen-Transparenz-Einschraenkungen-11360018.html
@CCC Show !
Am Ende werden sie zustimmen.
Doug Webb
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You have probably heard of the Flamingo Revolution in Albania. What started as a protest against a Jared Kushner-backed resort in a protected area is now in its 40th day, with protesters demanding Prime Minister Edi Rama's resignation and early elections.
The country's pro-government oligarchs have publicly backed Edi Rama, but one in particular stands out: Gjergj Luca. He has received hundreds of hectares of public land for free and holds fishing rights along the entire Albanian coast.
A few days ago, he posted a video showing two children, aged 14 and 15, working on a construction site: https://youtube.com/shorts/49pKkSndzXc
The video sparked immediate public backlash. His Rozafa Fish City business has received more than 5,000 one-star reviews on Google Maps, and the number continues to grow.
Yesterday, Edi Rama's police chief announced that authorities are investigating and prosecuting people for leaving negative reviews.
Criminal investigations over online reviews have raised serious concerns about freedom of expression and the use of law enforcement to shield politically connected business interests from public criticism.
"Meet the Socialists" sounds like a fun sitcom. So I had Gemini write lyrics and Suno made a theme song:
https://suno.com/s/GddN5y0uD2SasM9j
Meet the Socialists on Their Way to Capitol Hill
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/democratic-socialist-candidates-congress-2026-d868b354?st=BgSEnx
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(Chorus)
Yeah, meet the Socialists! (They’re on their way!)
When the establishment is wondering what to say.
Yeah, meet the Socialists! (They’re on the Hill!)
If the landlord doesn't get you, then the healthcare will!
(Outro)
They’re marching down the Commie Corridor...
They’re knocking on your district door...
They’ll be there for you... (if you organize your union too!)
Persona
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🚨 The Intercept says its Signal tipline username was hijacked for months, allowing an impersonator to solicit tips and potentially expose confidential sources. FPF’s Dr. Martin Shelton outlines plausible causes and safeguards. #InvestigativeJournalism #SecureComms https://cyberinsider.com/the-intercepts-signal-tipline-username-was-hijacked-for-months/
@evan But you didn't define a "level of distribution" in the poll.
If you don't include your assumptions, and you have no information on what assumptions the respondents were making, you haven't defined the "it" that people want or don't want.
If you are making assumptions that are directly contrary to an existing default paradigm (e.g. OP control of reply posts in threads vs. individual control of posts), you can't trust that the respondents interpreted the question the way you intended.
Having worked through it, I know I don't want it under any assumptions.
But you have no way of knowing whether your respondents have done that or whether they just clicked on the basis of "that sounds cool/terrible".
I hope you're not using polls like this to justify pushing for feature changes. They don't generate information about whether "people want it" or not. They just tell you whether people liked the sound of the phrase.
@Robotistry I'm sorry to dash your hopes! You can read my poll FAQ to understand how and why I make polls.
Who's Gonna Buy All the AI Stuff? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/whos-gonna-buy-all-the-ai-stuff?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
@rbreich great piece. broke the AI productivity fallacy down in simple terms.
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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brb, having some feelings about a 9,000-year-old wizard
Miniminuteman (Milo Rossi) on Youtube does fun long-form videos about “why this pseudo-archaeology conspiracy theory is wrong, and how the actual archaeology of the site they’re talking about is cooler anyway.”
Specific rec: his video about the Bad Dürrenberg skeleton, which was originally spun as “a mighty white male Aryan warrior,” but turns out to be a woman, dark-skinned, and unusually-inactive, possibly because she was so rich and important that people brought stuff to her. (Wikipedia article on her, if you’d rather read than watch/listen.) She lived around 9,000 years ago, and was buried with so much stuff. Milo explains it as “she might have been the richest human alive in 7,000 BCE” levels of stuff.
There’s a lot of suspicion that she was some kind of religious figure. She had a skeletal malformation that meant she could probably cut off a blood vessel to her brain by holding her head just right, which is a perfect recipe for “the ability to open a connection to the spirit world, i.e. induce hallucinations, on-demand.”
(There was also an infant buried with her. Not her biological child, but a close-ish relative. Nobody seems to have any particular theories about that part.)
What gets me is:
Along with some of the possibly-religious ornamentation buried with her, there were similar decorations buried a few feet away…that tested as being from 600 years later. As in, maybe the religion she represented (led?) (started??) was still going strong for the next 6 centuries.
And then another 8+ millennia went by, and present-day humans dug her up, with absolutely no idea what this religion was. Digging up this skeleton is the only reason we know it existed at all.
If these were already a feature of human culture in 7,000 BCE — before the invention of writing! — how many others do you think we’ve had and lost?
Somewhere in Plato’s realm of forms, there’s a graveyard for all the gods humanity has invented, sustained for centuries, and then abandoned so completely that there’s not a speck of knowledge about them left in the physical world.
And it’s a big graveyard.
#religion
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50 ANNI DAL DISASTRO DI SEVESO. DALL’EVENTO CHE SEGNÒ LA STORIA AMBIENTALE E INDUSTRIALE ITALIANA “C’E’ ANCORA MOLTO DA FARE” https://www.radiondadurto.org/2026/07/10/50-anni-dal-disastro-di-seveso-dallevento-che-segno-la-storia-ambientale-e-idustriale-italiana-ce-ancora-molto-da-fare/ #industriale #ambientale #disastro #50anni #Seveso #News
