The reason AI datacenters need all your water is for those AI watermarks!
So if they just stop watermarking, no more water problems, right? Perfect solution! Maybe they should start skidmarking instead.
Jürgen Hubert
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„Lass die sich mal an der Macht entzaubern“ ist halt auch nur eine andere Art zu sagen: „Dank meiner Privilegien berührt mich das nicht unmittelbar & was mit anderen Gruppen passiert ist mir ehrlich gesagt gar nicht so wichtig.“
Em :official_verified:
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Can you help up get to 60K & spread privacy?
It's AMAZING to see this community grow and how kind everyone here is ❤️
DC's Spanish steps, shown here, aren't actually in Spain or in any way Spanish. They're named for the more famous, larger Spanish steps in Rome, which is also not in Spain. Once again, our nation's capital is built on a foundation of deception and lies, or at least on a deep misunderstanding of geography.
@mattblaze And now I've learned that the Spanish Steps referenced in Guy Clark's Dublin Blues almost certainly weren't the ones in Rome.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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"The #FirstResponders - The black men from Pittsburgh who made up #America’s original paramedic corps wanted to make #history and save lives—starting with their own."
by Kevin Hazzard
https://magazine.atavist.com/2019/the-first-responders-paramedics-pittsburgh-civil-rights-ems
#longform #writing #atavistmagazine #amreading #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackHistory #BlackExcellence #AmericanHistory #EMS #paramedics
@mattblaze are Spanish Steps the most common name for steps globally?
Asking because I've seen them in Rome and Tacoma
@bedirthan Mostly they're named after the steps in Rome, which are themselves called that because a Spanish embassy was once nearby.
#OtD 21 Aug 1917 Antonia Ugeda Fuentes, a Spanish furniture worker, nurse, anarchist and civil war militant, was born. Imprisoned for years after Franco's victory, upon release she joined the underground struggle against his regime https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9348/antonia-ugeda-fuentes
Jürgen Hubert
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Das darf doch wohl nicht wahr sein.
🇪🇺 schlägt vor, Strom künftig niedriger zu besteuern als fossiles Gas. SPD-Finanzminister @larsklingbeil ist dagegen – er will die Steuer sogar erhöhen.
Bald hat Schwarz-Rot jedes Wahlversprechen ins Gegenteil umgekehrt.
Anuj Ahooja
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My teenager has started blogging and she told me, "Dad, share it on Bluesky." So I'm sharing it, you all should check out her writing. norapowell.leaflet.pub/3msf7vsnk6k22
Blade Runner and Obsession: Au...
It's been a tough few years for MacStories.
An explanation of why we resumed posting on X, and what comes next:
@amministratore l'account @informapirata ha bloccato e segnalato il mio account @Argyl e dopo ho scoperto che il mio account è probabilmente stato violato..
Quindi, carissimo account @informapirata il mio account che hai segnalato è stato violato. #Grazie infinite per avermi fatto limitare e sospendere il mio account nell'istanza Infosec.exchange. #grazieinfinite #graziemille
@Arg @amministratore @Argyl@infosec.exchange il tuo account aveva un comportamento sospetto e i messaggi che mi hai inviato erano strani e sconclusionati: io ho solo segnalato al tuo amministratore alcuni elementi che lo rendevano tale. Il tuo amministratore ha quindi fatto le proprie valutazioni e ti ha sospeso. Invece di lamentarti, spiega al tuo amministratore le tue ragioni con la funzione di appello e ti ricordo che non ha senso segnalare un utente solo perché ti ha segnalato
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Lopa the vixen relaxing during the heatwave, which thankfully has now eased. https://www.permuted.org.uk/photography/fox-of-the-day/ #fox #nature #wildlife #photography
Was wollen eigentlich CDU und Linke in SA bewegen?
Alex Akselrod
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say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@markarayner Wait, we're NOT supposed to do that? 
@catsalad @markarayner The polite thing to do is ask first. That's what I always do. Consent matters!
jbz
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This was quite interesting. Since being diagnosed I've had real battles with how I feel about it. In the beginning there was a tidal wave of relief. A life of feeling broken inside or different. To finally understand I'm OK and just wired differently, not wrong. Perhaps a chance to have a real conversation with myself that doesn't involve constant internal self-flagellation. But then came some strong resistance from the people in my life who I love and trust the most. It's not a real condition. I'm leaning into it. It's the medicalisation of the human condition and I'm just looking for attention. That was very very hard. Fedi was brilliant. But I continue to live with imposter syndrome. And the constant narrative in the press that I may have been misdiagnosed, or there is an overdiagnosis - maybe I am stupid. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe everyone is wrong and I am a broken boy. Even more so for wanting or daring to believe there's a reason for it all. And I'm back where I was 4 or 5 years ago. But looking at this article I'm reminded that there were soooo many assessments. So many different people. So many interviews and tests. With people stood in the corner of the room with clipboards whilst I undertook a series of physical tasks. At every stage there was a sense that so many people want to go through this process because they've seen something they identify with on social media. People seeking diagnosis. I pointed out at every stage I never asked about autism. I never even thought about it. I didn't even think I had autism and were they sure they wanted me to carry on with the process. And at the end of every stage, there was an emphatic yes. There is a range in the diagnostic assessment process (which is very very long and thorough, with people who have lots of fancy qualifications and who have spent their lives working to get to the stage of their career they're currently at). And if there's any sense it's inconclusive of they feel there's any question, then they do not diagnose. They say it's inconclusive. That they can't be 100% sure so don't confirm. They were very very clear with me (and in the subsequent reports) that there was absolutely no question. I was in the top range. The absolute best at autism. I don't know why. To be honest I still haven't really read it. I should probably do that, thinking about it. But I'm minded, reading articles like this..... how could so many people - so many people who are very highly paid doctors and scientists or whatever - how can so so many people over so many different assessments, get it wrong? I don't know what autism looks like. I'm just me. For the most part the me I've always been. And for a moment I had a chance to have a real identity. To accept myself and ask others to accept me. But all the time the narrative's that I'm a fool - misdiagnosed, deluded and just wanting attention - I won't know peace with it. The end. Sorry. Just wanted to get that out. X
A split in the spectrum? The ongoing battle to define autism
Our leaders have their own agenda regarding dismissing and diminishing the very real difficulties posed by neurodivergence, which is large part I suspect to absolve the state of any and all responsibility toward this group of people, be it in terms of healthcare, benefits or whatever.
We're going to see trans people and other vulnerable minorities increasingly thrown under the bus I fear, even more than they are already, and it sickens me to my core.
I’m in 1st class because my employer is paying and it’s a problem because after this taste of how the other half lives I will never want to set foot in 2nd class ever again.
This was brought directly to my seat:
@juliette more "the other 10%". But yes.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
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@rysiek My pleasure. I really enjoyed learning about their achievements in the Atavist Magazine. Fortunately, despite the ongoing effort of whitewashing American history and the white supremacist indoctrination machine operating in the US ever since Columbus set foot in America, the resilience of Black Americans ensures that stories like this one are preserved and passed down to the coming generations.🙂
Whenever I'm forced to buy insurance I feel like I'm getting scammed. The sales department / agent will say anything to get you to pay the premium. And the claims department will do anything to avoid paying any money out. Like you need a whole separate legal team just to get a claim paid.
