John Siracusa
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Good article explains the rampant speculation to file permits for sites with no firm tenants.
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last night was swamp football in the netherlands
tools for commensality 🧿
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THIS WEDNESDAY: join @DAIR as we launch the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a resource for workers fighting AI at work. We provide strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of this tech through case studies, primers, and a resource library.
Andreas Wagner
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LinkedIn guy: Where others saw a trolley problem, I saw a trolley opportunity…
@nosfe it's a serious tune
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116160627758292678
Some folks have the mistaken impression that I think the US military can just beat everyone up unilaterally, and win any war? No. I think the polar opposite.
"Lethality" is not as useful for winning wars as coalition building. But even on the lethality point, the US military is less lethal than it was when it had people like this. It's just more violent and cruel now. Some people mistake that cruelty for lethality.
Competence matters. The ability to negotiate matters. If you have no ability to even fake empathy? Then you are constitutionally incapable of being a good negotiator. Because effective negotiating requires the ability to see the world through the other party's eyes.
No, this is not a glorification of war.
@mekkaokereke as a vet who fought in Afghanistan, our record is abyssmal. We lost in Vietnam, we lost in Afghanistan, we lost in Iraq and we are clearly losing in Iran. But at least we spent more than it would have cost to do free education and medicare for all.
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For a while now, a lot of people have used YouTube to make purchasing decisions.
They would search YouTube for reviews, comparisons, demos, tutorials, etc of whatever product (type) or service (type) they were interested in —
Whether that be a camera, a dish washer, a new mobile phone, a car, etc. People would even do this for business and enterprise purchases.
It seems as if this pattern is changing.
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It seems as if LLM-based tools are starting to compete with this YouTube-based pattern.
It seems as if more and more, people are just talking to one or more LLMs to help them make purchasing decisions.
Anarchist Black Cross Fed.: **NU 2 Court Update 05/02/26**
https://www.abcf.net/blog/nu-2-court-update-05-02-26/
Via https://wesupportcc.wordpress.com/ Trial was officially continued to a later date! We’re also expecting a ruling on discovery-related litigation imminently. We expect to know more on both fronts soon. Therefore, the trial will not begin in May. When the new date is scheduled, we will post a new update. Thank you to everyone who planned to […]
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Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦
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Most cyberpunk headline I've seen all week. I live in a videogame.
I thought 'someone should make a @panoramax instance for Argentina' - and then I remembered that I am someone. And I even know some more "someones" that could help.
And here we are, also thanks to the help of @dbellomo and @mdione and Lucas. And @cquest and @mnalis for sharing their advice! 🫶
https://tzovar.as/setting-up-a-first-panoramax-instance-for-argentina/
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
Setting up a first Panoramax instance for Argentina
tl;dr: With panoramax.libre.net.ar we have set up the first (public) Panoramax instance in the Americas. It allows the collection of street-level imagery in the Argentine territory. Una versión en español es disponible en OpenStreetMap Panoramax is an open-source system for creating a commons of street-level imagery, thus creating an openly...
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
@gedankenstuecke @panoramax @dbellomo @mdione @cquest @mnalis
Wow, big congratulations!
beka valentine
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It's probably bad that every hundred years or so in this country, the government decides to pay reparations to white supremacists, but reparations to Black and Indigenous people are consistently deemed a nonstarter or too hard.
@informapirata a fronte dell'innalzamento dei prezzi non c'è stato un adeguamento dei tetti di spesa, e così anche nella nostra scuola siamo stati costretti ad adottare alcune edizioni digitali.
@myrornaskrig i tetti di spesa vanno rispettati nella forma e nella sostanza, non devono essere AGGIRATI! Quando si impone il libro digitale, magari consigliando di comprare il libro cartaceo e senza un progetto didattico, si sta:
- aggirando la legge (avvilendone il valore civico di fronte agli studenti)
- ribaltando i costi reali su studenti e famiglie: tablet, stampe, acquisto di libri cartacei, etc
- abusando dell'indipendenza del ruolo del docente
Questo è gravissimo e irresponsabile
@PeterLudemann The difference with AI Overviews in particular is that (despite the useless disclaimers) are presented as authoritative answers, not as 10 blue links "suggestions" as to where to go to perhaps find an answer. That chatbots of course are even worse. In either case, public anger at the entire AI space is rising rapidly in a bipartisan fashion, and the results won't be pretty, especially for what otherwise would have been positive AI use cases.
@lauren But putting in all the caveats would make the response read like a piece of badly written legalese (yes, I'm being redundant).
An interesting problem...
Chip Butty
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RIP Peter Neumann of Multics fame, who worried a lot about how complex systems fail, and was an early advocate for computer security and privacy
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For a while now, a lot of people have used YouTube to make purchasing decisions.
They would search YouTube for reviews, comparisons, demos, tutorials, etc of whatever product (type) or service (type) they were interested in —
Whether that be a camera, a dish washer, a new mobile phone, a car, etc. People would even do this for business and enterprise purchases.
It seems as if this pattern is changing.
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gosh SF is hot today
(I mean you can say government finance doesn't work that way - but actually it does, because regardless of how the SYSTEM functions, the political calculus is "you can't have this, because we need to pay for that" and taxes are only as "fake" as your willingness to go to jail - stop paying em and the really real IRS will visit you soon. So yeah, MMT says you're not paying fascist militias with this settlement - but the fascists sure think you are and will behave as such)
