At IKEA. Where Swedish Meatball Poutine is apparently a thing.

“Every day, Michael Geoffrey Asia spent eight consecutive hours at his laptop in Kenya staring at porn, annotating what was happening in every frame for an AI data labeling company. When he was done with his shift, he started his second job as the human labor behind AI sex bots, sexting with real lonely people he suspected were in the United States. His boss was an algorithm that told him to flit in and out of different personas.“

https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/

#AI #HumanRights #HumanRightsAbuse #Ethics

HT @gerrymcgovern

Taking care of the kid means I get to read more books. Currently reading - the haunting of velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste #books #Bookstodon

(from the European Roma Rights Centre)

THE NORMALISATION OF NEO-FASCISM: ANTI-ROMA RACISM AT THE HEART OF EUROPE'S FAR-RIGHT SURGE

By Bernard Rorke

'Academic discussions about the inexorable rise of the far-right in Europe routinely overlook the extent to which anti-Roma racism is integral, and not incidental, to the mobilisation of aggrieved and resentful constituencies, particularly in eastern and central Europe, and the extent to which Romani communities function as an all-purpose scapegoat for the perceived ills of society. A review of anti-Roma racism by state and non-state actors over the past eighteen months, shows that there has been no diminution of one of Europe's oldest hatreds, and serves as yet another reminder that the far-right presents a very real threat to the safety, security and dignity of Roma in Europe.' >

> https://www.errc.org/news/the-normalisation-of-neo-fascism:-anti-roma-racism-at-the-heart-of-europes-far-right

#Roma #Europe #fascism #antigypsyism #farRight

Remontés contre le projet de parc d’attraction près de Cergy-Pontoise, un collectif d’habitants dénonce un « projet d’un autre temps », monté sans concertation citoyenne et aux effets écologiques et sociaux délétères.
Lire l'article ➡️ https://l.reporterre.net/qGz

A clarification: Trump didn’t rename Lake Ontario. He directed the executive branch of the US government to lie about the name of Lake Ontario. This is not unusual. He orders his lackeys and subordinates to lie about all kinds of things. It’s still Lake Ontario and Trump is still a liar.

The only thing that will help us is if @jamesthomson writes an Android version of PCalc. https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1vzv8nl/google_calculator_updated_itself_with_this_ugly/

@GeePawHill Can I assume you are already familiar with #OldPeopleOfMastodon?

I wish I were old enough to use it. It’s a fun hashtag.

You have probably heard about the US regime's crackdown on the Italian IT collective Autistici/Inventati. Someone wrote down what it means and what can be done about it: https://www.wewillfreeus.org/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati-before-september-25/ (thanks to @geertlovink and @liaizon for the link).

I first met A/I people in Florence when I attended the first European Social Forum in 2002. They provided a room full of computers with Internet access so that the grassroots press could report on the event. Great, friendly people.

Now the supposedly independent ICANN has destroyed the domain autistici.org and might do the same with https://inventati.org soon. A/I will lose their bank accounts etc. The same could happen to all of us who are not fascists. This is the time for solidarity.

#AutisticiInventati #SaveFreeSpeech #SaveIndependentMedia #SaveIndyHosting #indyHosting #solidarityIsBeautiful

Measles-linked deaths since RFK Jr became HHS Secretary now surpass those recorded in the previous 20 years combined.

If you still support Trump and his administration, we don’t have political differences — we have moral ones.

Because racism, hatred, and incitement are not opinions.

They are a character test.
And you are failing it.

Je vais vous demander 1 chose au sujet de l'AFFAIRE JASON ARDAY.

Veuillez lire cet article.

Si, si, je vous demande de lire un article de CLOSER.

Ça date de février 2023, à l'époque de la nomination d'Arday à Cambridge.
https://www.closermag.fr/vecu/temoignages/temoignage.-analphabete-jusqu-a-18ans-je-suis-devenu-le-plus-jeune-professeur-noir-de-l-universite-de-cambridge-1724632
Lisez donc.

@9to5Mac cancel plans!

It's a comical thing. "Free man in Paris" actually changes very little in my typical behavior.

I won't be watching a BBC murder. I will likely skip dinner as I had a late lunch. I will drink more and faster. I will listen to music at a louder-than-usual volume.

But that's not much actual difference.

"Free man in Paris" is much more of an emotional or consciousness thing than it is a reality thing.

I wonder if it's a nearly universal thing?

As an alpha male, I rebuke rollercoasters. I will not be jostled and flown along a silly track according to another man's engineering. Flipping around some perverts dream. And what if I squeal?

@zachleat as someone who knows the website, I can only guess that it's one of the many measures to make the user experience as shitty as possible.

I have used vim since around 2000. I have written five books, a PhD thesis, a few dozen papers and over 150 articles with it. At this point, my higher brain functions are not engaged at all when I use a bunch of common vim commands, they just happen. Documents I wrote with anything else have random :w in the middle.

So I tried NeoVim when it was quite new. Vim that you are familiar with, but better? Great!

Persistent undo is one of my favourite features of vim (introduced a few years after I started using it). My .vimrc includes a couple of lines related to this. One sets the path to be under ~/.cache so the undo files do not clutter the rest of the filesystem (I do the same for the swap files). The other sets the undo limit to something large (10,000, I think) because disk space is enormous relative to pretty much anything involving human-readable quantities of plain text.

I don’t often need the persistent undo. But on the few occasions when I have needed it, it’s been invaluable: ooops, I deleted something from this file, maybe last week and one reboot ago, what was it? Undo until I find it, copy it, paste it into the current version. Or, a bit more commonly: I had this working, then I tidied it up ready to commit, now it isn’t working, what did I do?

Vim has kept this working across major version upgrades over a period of about 20 years. I don’t even think about it, it’s just part of Raskin’s First Law: A program may not harm a user’s data or, through inaction, allow a user’s data to come to harm. If vim or the computer crash, or if I close a file and come back to it six months later, my undo history is still there.

The first thing I noticed in NeoVim was that undo didn’t work. I tried opening the file in vim and undo didn’t work there either.

Neovim had changed the format of the undo files. It hadn’t upgraded the old one. It hadn’t used a different name for its undo files. It had just noticed the existence of a vim undo file, deleted it (losing all of the data in it) and replaced it with one that vim couldn’t read.

I raised an issue about this and was told that the persistent undo format was unstable and users should not rely on data being preserved in a feature explicitly called persistent undo. It had changed once and would probably change again.

And that ended my experience with NeoVim. The authors showed immediately that they absolutely could not be trusted with any of my data. Breaking persistent undo is something I could forgive as a bug, but the attitude that just because something is a persistent file on your filesystem that contains data that you might want is no reason for their program not to delete it meant they had no concept of a duty of care to their users.

Apparently now they’re platforming white supremacists. I am completely unsurprised. Different facets of the same underlying attitude.

London Science Museum cuts links with BP after decades of partnership
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/28/london-science-museum-cuts-links-with-bp-after-decades-of-partnership
#ClimateChange #fossilfuels #co2