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I feel ya, more or less literally. At least I think some of mine are ant bites. Worse itching, but you don’t read about ant-borne illness…
@JMMaok @czarbucks I hate itching more than moderate pain. I have to try a modern invention: heat a spoon to 50-53 Celsius and apply it for a few seconds. That destroys the proteins causing the itching . You can even buy a small pen like device doing that.
@jpm @mattrobertson big phone and big powerbank
@decryption @jpm @mattrobertson well, they’re charging the entire grid from powerbanks these days, so this seems reasonable
Science: hey look we found some new knowledge and want to share it with humanity!
Capitalism: you should be charging for that.
Science: no you see the more it gets shared about the more everyone can participate and the more further knowledge we can generate! It's not a zero sum thing! And that wouldn't work if we charged people to access it!
Academic journals: Don't worry Capitalism, we've got this
Capitalism: cheers fam
Science: well fuck
Introductory post . . .
At my brother’s suggestion I have made the transition to Mastodon! As an attorney, I spent my career in Health Care Law but my roots are in constitutional democracy. Now retired, I have time to search out fun facts, learn new crafts, and continue old interests. Most of the time I can be found in a comfy chair knitting or crocheting while listening to an audio book or podcast with one or more cats getting in the way. Looking forward to meeting some really cool people!
Comment renverser le pouvoir des grands acteurs de l'IA ?
@hubertguillaud, de #DansLesAlgorithmes, nous propose de décrypter le rapport de l'AI Now Institute qui en esquisse les modalités !
👉 https://framablog.org/2026/07/19/renverser-le-pouvoir-artificiel/
@Framasoft @hubertguillaud décrypter encore et encore, à croire que tout est crypté
@gavin57 just checked my security stuff & my account is logged in to an iPad in the UK... and I have never owned an iPad in my life! Such a weird thing to do with somebody's password!
@alexisbushnell That’s weird. It could be that they compromised the account and are waiting for a reason to use it.
I’d also check there’s nobody else signed into your password manager, just in case it wasn’t that they compromised. There has been a few breaches lately.
Endlich wieder Zuhause. Direkt bei der Landung aufgenommen... hier seht ihr die Muendung des Tamsui Rivers in die Strasse von #Taiwan
Moin #Fediverse und euch einen gesunden Start in diesen Sonntag. Alles wird gut!
@pallenberg Die neue Brücke is echt schick geworden
@smallcircles@social.coop I've forked discourse-activity-pub, implemented full groups support, but haven't tested properly so it sits in a private codeberg repo for the time being. @angusmcleod@mastodon.social never replied to my messages 🤷♂️
(Traveling by train, so typing sloooow)
Discourse AP plugin is in a weird state, with Angus inability to spend time on it, while it is still quite immature.
Since Discourse made the plugin 'official', what I'd do is go via the Meta forum, and address the company/organization directly with your contribution. Get some discussion going on the forum. Other folks have pointed out issues, stated interest in improving the plugin, and they were not that well served. I expected more from Discourse in that regard.
Perhaps they don't see high enough value in AP support. Fedi integration right now has the disadvantage of eroding the 'concept of Community' that is unique selling point of their product.
8 yr old Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The butterflies he had tended as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. When he released them into the wild, they would fly right back to him. Was it possible they actually remembered him?
Jo wrote a letter to an entomologist at Georgetown University, Dr. Martha Weiss. He asked if she could help him design an experiment, and she said yes.
Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70% of them still avoided the scent. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis, yet the memory survived anyway. Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to lavender their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/ten-old-butterfly-researcher-discovers-184204801.html
Stories you will only hear in Gaza:
A mother, who lost two of her children, was told that they would be buried together in one grave.
She asked them to wait a little while longer for their sister, who was critically wounded, as she might pass away soon so they could all be buried together side by side.
The International Olympic Committee lifts its ban on Russian athletes. Nine European countries then suggest "lifting" all EU funding of The Olympic Committee:
Estonia, Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Sweden.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Kudos to Romania.
Non-kudos to Germany, the only European _Union_ Baltic country that is missing.
Maybe they need more time...
They lied to you when they told you the genocide had ended.
They lied to you when they told you it was the 'most moral army.'
They lied to you when they told you there were safe zones in Gaza.
They lied to you about the death toll.
They lied to you about the number of the wounded.
They lied to you, and you were even foolish enough to believe them
For Instagram, my art is "Likely made with AI". Hard to be an artist in 2026...
Relived that the AQI is down to reasonable levels here for now. I've been masking up outdoors since the miasma showed up a few days ago, and that's been effective in protecting my lungs. So the limiting factor for outdoor activity (other than the heat) for me has been my eyes, which would start to get really irritated after half an hour or so.,
@mattblaze I just want to thank you for your utterly appropriate use of the word "miasma".
I might end up using particularly entertaining expansions as release code names past 1.0 though.
Okay. I'm at the PC now. Lets get down to business.
I'll move OJF to the iocaine org first, will tweak my postfix config a little, then open up the port forwarding on Eru, so I can receive mail from outside - so I have something I can test with under production circumstances.
Then I can get down and start writing the milter. There's an indiemilter crate I've been eyeing that looks like a good foundation to build on.
@_elena or.. firefox?
"Basel Adra, Palestinian filmmaker and Oscar winner: ‘Israelis don’t see us as human beings’
The director of the documentary ‘No Other Land’ took part in a cultural event in Madrid and explained how Israeli violence in the West Bank has increased after he won the statuette"
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![Q. Do you feel Spain supports the Palestinian cause?
A. Absolutely. Both the government and ordinary people. For example, I remember a footballer did something small with a flag and caused a huge stir [he is referring to Lamine Yamal, who waved a Palestinian flag in May during FC Barcelona’s victory parade after winning La Liga]. Israeli ministers and officials had to comment on it, which drew even more attention.
Q. Europe is more hesitant…
A. We hope Spain doesn’t change because, you know, in Europe and other countries it’s easy to get support at first, but after a while the government changes or people within the government itself — as has happened in Sweden — change their minds and stop supporting the cause or even turn against it. The Israeli lobby always finds a way to influence official policies.](https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/116/943/142/195/435/771/original/fa8c1478b96e3295.png)
![Q. With Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu in charge, can one still be optimistic about the future of Palestinians?
A. No, and regarding Israelis, it’s not only Netanyahu, the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, the finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, or the settlers. Netanyahu, Smotrich and Ben-Gvir were elected by the people, and I believe they represent the majority of Israelis. For me, the problem is Israeli society. Even before [the Hamas-led attacks on] October 7 we lived under occupation, but Israelis in Tel Aviv lived their normal lives; the money from their taxes went to the settlers, to the settlements, and to the army, which killed Palestinians, although in smaller numbers than after October 7. But they do not see us as human beings. That’s why they accept the occupation and cannot claim ignorance; we live in the same territory and they cannot say they didn’t know what was happening. And now I think they have reached their worst moment in terms of racism and tolerance of the crimes committed against us Palestinians. So I don’t think change will come through elections in Israel or the United States.](https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/116/943/152/405/196/464/original/79083006e9aad7cc.png)
