@Aphelion Prolly not what you wanted, but what you said you wanted.
@GeePawHill beautifully written. 🫂🖤
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Carl_Zimmer/117345065655681591
Commercial mega platform sucking up virtually all of human knowledge, deceiving the public about it, and bending the rules to their liking - I guess it's just a normal Monday morning in 2026? Have a nice week, everyone.
@Lambo We're still not over the mechanical Turk, same snake oil since hundreds of years ...
Chip Butty
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@kumarvibe @holdenweb You seem to be suggesting that giving random software (or “AI agents” or whatever it’s called this week) with undefined behavior access to dangerous capabilities is somehow necessary for society to be able to function efficiently.
I think that’s ridiculous and indefensible. The fact that something has “AI” pixie dust doesn’t somehow cancel out basic principles of safety engineering.
Have you ever literally thrown away a novel because you thought it was evil, and you did not want anyone else to read it?
If yes, tell us about it?
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@GeePawHill I once threw away a copy of Enid Blyton's "The Three Golliwogs" on stern instructions from my partner. Hated doing it. Can't understand why she didn't do it herself.
(FWIW, the golliwogs in the title are cuddly toys come to life rather than black people.)
Florian 'floe' Echtler
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Today, we are celebrating sixteen years of LibreOffice’s independence and commitment to supporting free software, open standards and digital sovereignty
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/28/sixteen-years-of-libreoffices/
@jonassmith @EUCommission @smk In what jurisdictions do you need to "declare copyright status"? In the UK you have copyright simply by virtue of having created something.
@TimWardCam @EUCommission @smk No declaring is needed for copyright to apply. But for humans and machines to understand the copyright status of material, publishers need to state/declare it. Extremely hard for museums to get right (in the sense that probably 9/10 get it wrong).
@juh das wird erst der Anfang sein, viele anderen Investoren wird das Pflaster wahrscheinlich auch zu heiß und viele Zocker können sich das genauso wenig leisten wie Oracle mit seinem miserablen Rating.
@energisch_ Wenn dadurch die irrwitzigen Preise für Rechenzentrumskomponenten wieder sinken, soll es mir recht sein.
Cumulonimbus
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After five years of war, how do Ukrainian small businesses survive?
https://globalvoices.org/2026/09/28/after-five-years-of-war-how-do-ukrainian-small-businesses-survive/
🐡🏳️🌈 39C3
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Für eine linke #Perspektive – Berlin nach der Wahl: Ein Gastkommentar
https://www.l-iz.de/leben/gesellschaft/2026/09/fur-eine-linke-perspektive-berlin-nach-wahl-gastkommentar-671675
#Berlin #RGR #Gastkommentar
Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
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It happens thousands of times a year and the term for it is Avocado Hand - so if you don’t want to have to go around telling everyone you have something stupid called Avocado Hand - ditch the knife whack method.
Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
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Just heard an acquaintance is in hospital waiting for plastic surgery because he sliced his hand open doing the knife in avocado pit hit & twist trick, so a good reminder to DON’T DO THAT JUST USE A DAMN SPOON TO GENTLY SCOOP THE PIT OUT IT WORKS JUST AS WELL & SAFER. 🥑
W T-D
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Antique breeds show
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"Beware cargo-cult reproducibility" by Lorena A Barba.
On the transformation of "reproducible" into an increasingly meaningless quality label that becomes a victim of Goodheart's law.
Accendo il computer, guardo l'agenda del giorno. Call di due ore e mezza sulle performance di marketing.
A i u t o
@antanicus buondì😞
They're all the same just with different moustaches
@nadia_z Panda?
Ne, Jugospeak am Morgen vertreibt Kummer und Sorgen, @evildanwallace
@chiraag What 'system' are you talking about? Conviction is based on a jury of one's peers, specifically so that criminal trials aren't decided by 'the system'. It's in the DAs interest to win as many easy and high-profile cases, since you make it seem like the the conviction is a foregone conclusion.
Both Hegseth and Kavanaugh faced allegations that were never tried. Having no standard of proof, no cross-examination by lawyers, and no discovery process is a poor example to point to say "get away with rape".
The only principle I'm defending is that nobody, in any case, gets labelled a criminal before the evidence has been tested. I think this is foundational to liberal democracy. Again, as I mentioned before, NY has no statute of limitations on first-degree rape. Surfacing evidence in a civil case, or surfacing new evidence decades later, which can reopen a criminal suit is, imo, infinitely better than acquittal on weak evidence and closing the door on criminal charges forever.
@budududuroiu @chiraag @ShadSterling @QasimRashid the problem with a jury of your peers, at least in the UK, is you're not allowed to serve on a jury for a particular crime if you have experiences that the prosecution believe would bias your judgement for that particular crime. Most adult women have experienced some degree of sexual assault so the prosecution goes in, says "Has anyone been a victim of sexual assault?" all the women stick their hands up and you end up with rape being tried by a jury of uninformed men
Right Said Ben
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"If companies are only taxed on profits, not revenue, then citizens should only be taxed after paying for rent and bills." #kenoath
