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Chip Butty
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People can’t tell the difference between a whistleblower and a snitch.
These are the same people who don’t seem to know the difference between empowerment and abuse of power.
Israel’s Chief Rabbi says Palestinians are not a people and have no rights | Benjamin Netanyahu | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/22/08-22-26-israel-rabbi-palestinians-clip
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Das ist eine wunderbare Frage, da gibt's ne einfache Antwort: Nein
Dan York
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🌾 Climate change is becoming a food security crisis. Heatwaves and drought are damaging crops across Europe, reducing harvests and threatening livelihoods. When food production falls, prices rise.
🌳 We need climate-resilient food systems now: regenerative agriculture, agroforestry and food forests in gardens, parks and unused land. Food security is everyone’s responsibility. The time to prepare is before the shelves are empty. 🌍🌱
#FoodSecurity #ClimateResilience #FoodForest
Urgent action now.
Chip Butty
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For reasons (*gestures widely at the world at large*) I started reading @adamgreenfield's book "Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire"
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2536-lifehouse (ebook DRM-free)
"[showing practices of mutual care and local power] from the Black Panther survival programs, the astonishingly effective Occupy Sandy disaster-relief effort and the solidarity networks of crisis-era Greece, as well as municipalist Spain and autonomous Rojava."
#NowReading #ClimateCrisis
@slyka oh, that's fascinating! I love learning things about signal processing, thanks for explaining 😊
also, having just done my first shader programming recently, I'm enjoying that you're sharing your results
@jamey yeah, I'm getting back into shader programming for the first time in ages right now, the last time I touched low level openGL stuff geometry shaders were not even a thing yet I think, so it's exciting to have new toys to play with. it's really cool what you can do with them and I can already see a whole bunch of ways I can use them to improve my virtual analogue television thing
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In OOPS MY FIRST JOB mistakes:
LA Times: AI led to mistakes in Nevada County criminal cases. Should the D.A. be sanctioned?
"...In the declaration, Maxwell said that when she used generative AI to edit documents she submitted to courts she didn’t know large language models can insert citations for cases that don’t exist. Maxwell started work at the district attorney’s office in July 2024, her first job after law school. She resigned in May and now works in the nearby Sutter County district attorney’s office...."
@ai6yr I don't understand why people in general, let alone professionals, trust LLMs more than they would trust a newly-acquired intern.
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Friends, have you seen the investigation on UK students, including those at Oxford and Cambridge, hiring Kenyans to write their papers and dissertations?
I assume it wasn't cross Atlantic news as the media only seems to be interested in laundering eugenics into the mainstream.
Think about the audacity of them telling Black people that we're subpar DEI hires and frauds such and these students hiring Black people to do their work for them and pass it off as their own.
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Weird consequence of the continued Middle East conflict is black & white crisp packets in Japan. Due to a shortage of the petroleum-derived naphtha which is used for coloured inks, big snack company Calbee switched to colourless packs. They were initially hard to spot, but are now overtaking stores.
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@brianb no time like the present…
@toddconaway my principal saw me ride in last year and started calling me "Tour de Bennett" whenever I took my bike instead of driving 😅
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I don't feel any safer because of the #OnlineSafetyAct, but it has caused me to reach for Tor Browser for a fair few sites when, before, I did not need to do so.
To access stuff which is perfectly legal in the UK.
*sigh*
@rouge not that old. It was launched in 2025: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/241636/intel-processor-n150-6m-cache-up-to-3-60-ghz/specifications.html
@stefano
Makes sense. Thx.
I'm imagining a shady dairy with a bunch of goats in ill-fitting cow costumes.
LOL!
I was thinking to the cow with rubber boots on the "Top Secret!" poster.
@SteveBellovin @joebeone @paul_ipv6 here's the talk. https://town.hall.org/radio/University/Stoll/ This is how we did it when we couldn't livestream. Caution ... .au files. You may need to install a device driver. ;)
@SteveBellovin @joebeone @paul_ipv6 aha! I do have it on @internetarchive as a single audio file plus a slide show. https://archive.org/details/RTFM-Uni-Stoll Now in state-of-the-art mp3 format!
Cliff Stoll : Internet Multicasting Service : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Internet Archive
I wonder what kind of sorting is in place there. It's not the order which I added the accounts. It's not alphabethical. It's not domains then usernames. It's not the internal UUID by the looks of it (the UUID of my main is the 6th in the list, yet, is displayed second).
Maybe I should look at the source.
Mmmngh. Nah. I'm not that interested in sorting them.
(Especially since I'm still on Tuba 0.9, because newer versions have changed some UI elements and cutoffs and whatnot in ways I don't like, and it's easier to stick to 0.9 than to patch it.)
@lavaeolus I agree these are very different things. The book scanning deserves a category in its own right, as it’s part of an effort to create automatic digital twins of the authors that then exploit their work or mimic, impersonate, replace it with the effect of destroying the authors’ livelihood. It’s “slo-mo economic vanishing of authors with the help of an automated impersonator”.
@christianschwaegerl yes, and it is part of a larger fascist movement.
But a different thing, just as you said
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 @blotosmetek We're as prepared as the US is for China cutting off access to the products they manufacture. Or, in fact, as prepared as we are for that eventuality ourselves. There's a similar situation with Taiwan and chips, or the Netherlands and chipmaking machines. This is probably number 30 on our priority list right now.
'Actual apartheid': Trump Education boss enrages with new plan for elementary-school kids - Raw Story
@servelan The trade-school idea actually sounds reasonable to me at first glance -- but given who it's coming from, I am now highly suspicious of it. (Maybe this is one of those "could be okay if done right, but they definitely want to do it very wrong" kinds of things?)
