So, this "everything is AI now whether you muggles like it or not" shit is working out well, huh?
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Smila Blomma
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Reportage agghiacciante dall'Afghenistan.
KUMIAI-KI THE MIGHTY UNION MACHINE - UPDATED LAUNCH TRAILER (UPDATED AGAIN)
This video rocks! 
https://communitymedia.video/w/cN87z2FMpLzG1ccXgEaqos
That's definitely @DoctorDeathray's Hurly Burly in the background, right?
@SrRochardBunson @DoctorDeathray it is! And there's more coming!
people be asking for my LinkedIn but i only got my #Fedi name printed 😫😫
@newswimming Way to gooooo
Looks to me like, hot on the heels of his catastrophic interview with Jack Tame, Paul Henry and his political bedfellow, David Seymour, are demonstrating that he was born a couple generations too late for his brand of humour to resonate. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/776520/shoot-shag-or-marry-game-was-act-candidate-paul-henry-being-authentic-seymour-says Too bad. I sincerely hope his (well, both of their) tone deafness & ignobility are reflected in his(their) popular support (or lack thereof).
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara defended Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi after the leader's social media post about being unable to get enough sleep drew criticism for running counter to workstyle reform efforts. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/23/japan/politics/takaichi-sleep-schedule/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #sanaetakaichi #sleep #health #workstylereform
@samlitzinger I worry particularly that the contraction/implosion of the industry means that if the internet goes down in an area in an emergency, radio will cease to be a viable alternative source of reliable and timely local information, because the infrastructure that supports it will have shriveled up and died.
The programming is still available by C band. The receiver stores the audio file locally until it’s inserted.
ABC News Radio Audio content is distributed to radio affiliates via LinkUp Communications Corporation using XDS satellite receivers and IP-based distribution.
I love this, so I
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I was @-mentioned in a spam/phishing post along with hundreds of other accounts. And now PEOPLE ARE REPLYING.
You know the absolute lightbulbs at work who reply-all to all-company emails?
They're here. They're on the Fediverse.
@_elena this helps for the individual - but not for the once running an instance for others....
I really hope this social media ban, like in France now, is only "for the big ones".
In theory: the Fediverse is a big one too:
- 13.8M Accounts in total
- but only 1,141,317 active Acounts.
(source: @fedidb)
If the numbers are for each server, most of us don't have to suffer anything. If it's the (complete) Fediverse, and it makes sense to see it that way, we are doomed too.
Unfortunately, most laws are either worded so vaguely that it's up to the regulator's discreation (the Online Services Act in the UK for example) or explicitly apply to sites of all sizes and maybe have some handwaving language along the lines of requiring networks to deploy age verification methods that are "commercially reasonable".
It's certainly not a good situation, and anxiety is very warranted, but I don't think we're necessarily doomed. In the short term, VPNs are a thing and can buy us some time (although as we're seeing in the UK, age-limiting VPNs is the next step).
What I do think is that we have to mobilize to fight these kinds of bad internet bills more effectively. Here's a thread with some initial thoughts and a request for other suggestions - https://neuromatch.social/@jdp23/116967043175194824
Carlo Gubitosa :nonviolenza:
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Quando M nel 1925 avviò lo smantellamento dei tram di Roma... danneggiando i trasporti pubblici italiani per oltre un secolo
https://benzinazero.wordpress.com/2026/07/23/quando-m-nel-1925-avvio-lo-smantellamento-dei-tram-di-roma-danneggiandone-i-trasporti-pubblici-per-oltre-un-secolo/
#storia #trasporti #mobilità #tram #roma #mezzipubblici
@Elizafox Unbirthing kink -> Re-enshelling kink
@Elizafox People would make keepsakes out of their child's birth-shells.
Carlo Gubitosa :nonviolenza:
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@Elizafox Unbirthing kink -> Re-enshelling kink
John C. Dvorak, a pioneering technology journalist, podcaster, and cultural commentator, passed away peacefully on the morning of Monday, July 20, 2026. He was 80 years old. For tech journalists of a certain age, there was a time when everyone knew him.
@sjvn RIP
Carlo Gubitosa :nonviolenza:
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"La intención especial de eliminar una identidad...":
Israel amenaza con arrebatar a los palestinos el yacimiento histórico de las 'Piscinas de Salomón' de Belén.
La enorme obra monumental, construida en el siglo II a. C., es un importante espacio de ocio para los habitantes de Belén: “Es el único lugar donde puedes encontrar un sitio para sentarte y disfrutar del agua, la sombra y el espacio verde… y ahora están intentando arrebatárnoslo”.
https://www.eldiario.es/internacional/theguardian/israel-amenaza-arrebatar-palestinos-yacimiento-historico-piscinas-salomon-belen_1_13399592.html
Persona
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@personalescrito "I said, let go, or you’ll end up sitting down!" 😂
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116967209619847979
I like the good Argentinians. But I grow weary of these weird Argentinians that can't cope with the fact that Blanqueamiento happened, that it was intentional, that it was almost complete, and that the people that designed it wrote books and articles bragging about the worst parts of it as it was happening.
I don't debate Holocaust deniers about Germany. And I'm not going to debate people that have internet access, and can go read up on Sarmiento and his policies, or read the words of Black Argentinian professors instead.
I said what I said.
I said what I said about Blanqueamiento.
Indiana news org got banned from Facebook but public outrage forced the soulless social-media giant to reconsider. https://bloomingtonian.com/2026/07/20/facebook-restores-bloomingtonian-news-page-on-facebook/
(FB seems to have banned me, too, but I have no interest in going back.)
@dangillmor Facebook at this point is a boomer maga wasteland
