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Great quote from @pluralistic (as for myself, I was a music major!) #bubbles
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i was recently reminded that this connector is real, and can hurt you.
In other news, a neighbor cat came by to visit our yard; but left as soon as they spotted me with glasses. Didn’t know cats were scared of glasses
@farah I had to lower mine with a cat, I assumed they knew everything about me 😆
@Gargron what a series. I love watching this game... playing it on the other hand is a different story haha
If you live outside of the United States,
do you know if your country has a plan if the US government decided to cut access to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon products overnight?
What would happen to your work?
What would happen to your hospitals?
What would happen to your emergency services?
What would happen to your banks?
Imagine overnight, for all those public services and private businesses, no more Windows, no more AWS, no more Google and Microsoft office software, no more remote files storage, no more emails, no more online maps, no more videochats.
What would happen?
Is your country prepared?
@Em0nM4stodon Large parts of germany will be doomed.
I think today's sizzle might be a rare, AI/LLM free issue??
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Review of "The Nerd Reich" (4 stars): Sobering and well-documented, but light on solutions
A well-researched set of essays about how the tech industry — and particularly figures like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk — have used their power and influence to push a far-right agenda over a period of decades. I live and work in the intersectional space between tech and…
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Just picked up milk and noticed the label says "100% milk from real cows". This wasn't something I was worried about before now.
And this is the number one reason Canadians do not want US dairy.
We don’t want imaginary cows milk
Ink & Open Source: David Revoy’s Fantasy Webcomics in the Fediverse - E73
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@queerisnotdead/116743571522848222
QUEER IS NOT DEAD FEST
Komend weekend in Amsterdam. Queer en antifascist festival. Niet door ons georganiseerd, maar we juichen dit uiteraard wel toe! 
Meer info op https://qindfest.my.canva.site en volg ook @queerisnotdead.
This is a fascinating and weird failure mode for a #CRT. Circles like that I would assume are a digital artifact, but the rainbow sheen around the perimeter of each one suggest an analog mechanism.
Ideas, anybody?
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Heartbreaking! "At least 30 people have been killed after a mound of rubbish at a major waste site collapsed on to nearby homes in Guinea's capital Conakry, the government has said.
Another 22 people were injured, including six seriously, in the city's Dar-es-Salam area."
One woman told local media her five children had died in the disaster. There are fears that the death toll will rise further."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g3g36z7p6o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
Das ist teurer, aber gefährlicher Mumpitz: Das Kottbusser Tor in Berlin wird von einem Überwachungssystem von Kameras mit #Verhaltensscanner kontrolliert, die ein privates Unternehmen herstellt https://taz.de/KI-Videoueberwachung-in-Berlin/!6205593/
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Ohje, das gehört untersagt, solche Systeme zu installieren, die unsere Freihetsrechte untergraben und jeden unter Generalverdacht stellen. Dabei wird kein Verbrechen mehr aufgeklärt, noch welche verhindert.
Kommunen sind finanziell am Limit, jedoch diese Investition ist dann vom Haushalt möglich?
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Popping in from a social media break to say: Reflect Orbital still totally sucks! https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/21/1142755/space-mirrors-night-sky/
@sundogplanets Well, I think you should take a break from this break from your social media break as soon as you need one!
(PS I did read both articles before switching to facetious mode. Glad both horrors are being covered, but obviously not glad of the need to cover them.)
Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
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Mmmmmm, picked up some Moo Shu ice cream this evening on Wellington Street W.
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Today I was reminded that there are grouplets in Aotearoa who think that supporting Ukraine's self-defence, against an imperial invader, is morally equivalent to supporting Israel's genocide in Gaza, or the US bombardment of Iran;
https://community.scoop.co.nz/2026/03/new-zealand-government-backs-criminal-war-against-iran/
This kind of Vulgar Marxist apologetics was already decades out of date when it was defending the USSR's imperial conquests. It makes absolutely no sense now that Russia is an openly capitalist state with a crypto-fascist dictator.
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You have to wonder what kind of a Marxist group would push this pro-Putin line, and why. In this case, I don't think it has much to do with Russian bots.
This piece was published on behalf of campus Marxists called the Socialist Equality Group. They're aligned with a Marxist faction in the UK, called the Socialist Equity Party. I suspect both groups would dismiss Wikipedia as a tool of US imperialism, but their article is nevertheless an eyebrow-raising read;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Committee_of_the_Fourth_International
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