Today we had to tell two semi-regular customers that we would not be serving them any more.

It wasn't dramatic. It was a quiet conversation in the back booth.

It was not a decision that we made lightly, but it had to be done.

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This is why men - and particularly millennial, gen-X and boomer men - need to step up and call out bad behaviour when they see it.

Because the sad truth is that these are the only people that perpetrators *might* take seriously.

@informapirata @Nico_Piro@mastodon.uno Il problema della "disinformazione" è che non può avere una definizione legale (non ce l'ha neanche in Europa: https://bsw-ep.eu/wp-content/uploads/Rechtsgutachten_Sanktionen_gegen_natuerliche_Personen_BSW_von_der_Schulenburg_Firmenich.pdf), perché travalica il limite di ciò che è perseguibile in uno stato di diritto (diffamazione, procurato allarme e simili). Per questo può emergere come tale - o no - solo in un libero dibattito, o può essere tale domani, ma non ieri. Per millenni il consiglio di evitare le paludi perché c'è l'aria cattiva che fa venire la febbre (mal'aria) è stato parte della scienza medica. E perfino il confronto con l'omeopatia, che ora è una pseudoscienza, ha aiutato a definire il protocollo della sperimentazione randomizzato in doppio cieco https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1676327/

@mcp non proprio: la "disinformazione" può avere una definizione legale, ma, nell'attuale quadro democratico, sarebbe un problema più grave rispetto al problema che vorrebbe risolvere. Purtroppo il fatto che sussista una eccessiva credulità a favore della disinformazione da parte della popolazione oltre che una eccessiva tolleranza nei confronti di chi disinforma anche da parte di troppi intellettuali, non farà altro che favorire soluzioni autoritarie

@_Nico_Piro_

Les cliniques privées, un modèle à bout de souffle en passe d’exploser ? - L'Humanité
https://www.humanite.fr/social-et-economie/cliniques-privees/les-cliniques-privees-un-modele-a-bout-de-souffle-en-passe-dexploser

> Les hôpitaux du privé lucratif, qui soignent 9 millions de patients à travers le pays, alertent sur leurs déficits depuis des mois et la baisse des dotations publiques. Mais la financiarisation pèse lourd sur l’avenir de ce secteur devenu central dans l’offre de soins. Décryptage.

#santé #finance #société #clinique

#GenAI #TheOneRing #Evil #Tolkien
Via: https://www.tumblr.com/ellipsus-writes/822936303010267136

🆕 blog! “Book Review: Foreign Fruit - A Personal History of the Orange by Katie Goh”
★⯪☆☆☆

I didn't care for this book. It attempts to interweave botanical and cultural history with an autobiography and ends up doing neither particularly well.

For every dose of poetry about the far-flung and exotic journey of the fruit, there's a dull recitation of …

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@mekkaokereke @Arleka Sí: Argentina tuvo presidencias como la de Roca y la de Sarmiento que buscaron llevar a cabo un proyecto civilizatorio que copiaba el modelo europeo y estadounidense. Sí: eso implicó el avance sobre la diversidad. Pero también es cierto que hubo luego más de 100 años de transformación de nuestros valores.
Es un error asumir que nuestros historiadores, nuestros partidos políticos y nuestras bases populares no han cambiado esos valores.
La historia escrita por las élites hasta mediados del siglo pasado es completamente cuestionada por nuestros historiadores de hoy, educados en la universidad pública, gratuita y de calidad.
Sin embargo, aplicar las categorías históricas de otras geografías en nuestra historia constituye el principal error de esta conversación (y, de hecho, significa continuar el legado de Sarmiento y de Roca, que es lo que se supone que cuestionan).
Hay que estudiar el período de Rosas para entender el lugar de las personas negras en la sociedad argentina previo a los proyectos de gobierno de la élites racistas.
Pero, fundamentalmente, hay que entender que: (1) el problema de racismo en Argentina hoy es otro, que va contra los pueblos originarios; (2) las élites argentinas siguen siendo discriminadoras; (3) para hablar del genocidio de personas negras primero tenemos que reconocer el genocidio significativamente mayor realizado hacia los pueblos originarios. Esto último constituye un problema actual, una parte negada de nuestra cultura, pues no nos asumimos mestizos cuando sí lo somos.

Por último:
Desde hace una semana, desde los países que Sarmiento, Roca y la dictadura copiaron (los que fueron base de inspiración y socios directos para los proyectos de exterminio) se nos acusa de ser lo peor del mundo. Aún así respondemos con paciencia y respeto los pésimos planteos que nos hacen.
Bloquearnos no te hace tener razón. Bloquear es invisibilizar la diferencia. Eso es lo que hacen los historiadores racistas.

@libreoffice

Thank you Libreoffice for such an excellent product.

I dumped microslop years ago, absolutely no regrets.

@neil you love to see it, so much

The new Euro bank notes really are a combination of mostly EU institutions on the back and nature on the front, I kind of love it?

@cratermoon yeah, some bullshit about how “when companies pay, candidates become the product”… which, yeah? that’s how employment works. we sell our labor, a product, to an employer who has the budget to pay for labor. like, come on

#ConfessionFriday
J'ai jamais rien capté au concept du jeu de Démineur.
Oui oui, même le vieux truc de Windows.

@onepict
I very trying to bring this issue from an anthropology lenses into NGOs and very often the reaction is like "we don't do philosophy" in our report. Leftist NGOs BTW.
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I might be a bad writer and also bad analyst but, I think, it tells us something close and not similar to "we are politically polite / sensible / balanced ".
I mean, it's not just philosophy, but it could be. It's anthropology and it's definetly not a matter of "category". And it's about fact and clues. Something distorted or destroyed by AI / LLM and previously by other Carbon actors.

So what, in your view, is the point of categorising a fact established by scientific consensus differently or in a different context?
I don’t want to jump to conclusions, and I try not to judge (it is through judgement that we categorise things). I’m trying to understand.

Very often, the topic of AI/LLMs triggers strong emotional reactions, which are often fundamentally contradictory.

In some ways, this resembles what I’m experiencing and observing with regard to the issue of pesticides or plastics.

https://we.riseup.net/assets/857041/Pollution%20Is%20Colonialism%20

https://civiclaboratory.nl/

Cc @timnitGebru

i don’t usually respond to these kinds of emails, but this one made me so fucking mad that i blacked out and regained consciousness with this in my outbox

@andrewnez I am not comfortable.

@hryggrbyr I can't remember exactly when it happened, but as they obviously didn't redo the dubbings from Episode 4, it's a bit strange when you watch the OT in French (I think Chewbacca gets his original name back in Ep 5 or 6, but C-3PO stays Z-6PO for the entire trilogy, etc).

@cirku17
Grazie millissime!

We can ban under 16s from social media, but children are not the most at risk from radicalisation | Michael Marshall

While the UK has moved to limit the harms of social media by restricting access for children, Facebook and Twitter continue to radicalise people of all ages.

https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2026/07/we-can-ban-under-16s-from-social-media-but-children-are-not-the-most-at-risk-from-radicalisation/