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Alex Akselrod
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There's a Trump Lake in Ontario and people want to rename it after Obama: https://www.blogto.com/city/2026/08/lake-trump-ontario-obama/
Milo "ICE checkpoints at supermarket entrances, gas stations, strip malls, intersections, and government buildings with on-the-spot deportation of anyone unable to prove they were legally in the United States." Yiannopoulos has been busted by ICE. The really odd sound you hear is me cackling like a manic.
https://abcnews.com/US/milo-yiannopolous-british-commentator-detained-ice/story?id=136038107
We don't want him back.
CW ableist language, but god help me, this is all that comes to mind re: US/Canada trade war
(h/t @pikesley)
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Fediverse Development
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RE: https://flipboard.social/@ScienceDesk/117174471038431364
π¨π¦ We're just going to keep on calling it Lake Ontario (or more correctly, OntarΓ'io or oniatarΓ:io)
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fsearch%2Flake%20ontario?mtm_campaign=Searches&mtm_cid=LO
It's a yes from me. I just worry for when he becomes Old Gravy. In other news - I will always listen to music recommended by you because I think you have terrific music taste. Huzzah! π (just did a lil kitchen dance)
@TheBreadmonkey The best part of that reply is that when I posted it on another website my caption was "A reminder that while I have perfect pitch and impeccable taste in music, I also like garbage like this." ππππ
In case there was any doubt that LinkedIn is complete nonsense these days, it just sent me an email to suggest I follow the Prime Minister.
No. Just no. That is π― not what I use a business networking app for π
@andypiper π€£
@vvilhelmus @Floppy I'm not saying it's *always* mastodon.social,
@davidgerard @vvilhelmus @Floppy Sometimes it's infosec.exchange!
It's really funny to me - I've had a bit of counselling and therapy in various forms over the years and for different reasons (or arguably the same reasons), and thematically it's been people telling me I've experienced a bucket load of trauma and basically need to have a conversation with the kid inside me (not like that) who's hurt, and forgive that little idiot and tell him it's not his fault. Of course I have never believed any of this and intrinsically just think I'm a rubbish broken person who doesn't work proper. But watching a silly film, it's like a laser beam of unimaginable power smashed into me and made me realise that is actually true and I suddenly started actually crying. Bit weird. But yes I suppose trauma happening to a young person who has no control over it and it then shapes their entire lives - that's not on them. And I should probably get round to acknowledging that in some way. I think that might be actually healthy. Maybe this overshare helps someone else. π β€οΈ
In other news - I'm a total sap when it comes to feel-good films. Or just maybe...... I'M TOTALLY FIXED! IN YOUR STUPID FACE, UNIVERSE! I AM NOW 100% FINE AND NOTHING CAN TOUCH ME. BEN! BEN! BEN! BEN!
Oh man, I can think about things from my childhood and feel like, Eh, that's just how it was, or maybe shake my head a little and go "whew!" but the thing that actually makes me cry is when I have the rare occasion to tell one of these ugly little stories and a friend says, "I'm so sorry that happened to you."
KawaiiPunk
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Tag war gut π
Is it also making you upset π‘ that the majority of laptops π» are only sold with a specific proprietary operating system: Microsoft Windows.
So as user, you must pay for it π², even if you do not want to use this OS.
This is unfair and we want to change it! Consumers should be able to buy laptops without any specific OS, and should not have to pay the license price if they don't want to.
Find out more β‘οΈ https://en.refund4freedom.org/
@fsfe wouldn't it be better to do some lobby work on this at the EU parliament so that computer manufacturers or resellers always also have to offer their computers and smartphone without a preinstalled OS?
Don't you have connection to lobbyists?
Or maybe start a petition?
hypebot
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If you still support Trump and his administration, we donβt have political differences β we have moral ones.
Because racism, hatred, and incitement are not opinions.
They are a character test.
And you are failing it.
California Sues Trump Administration Over Offshore Wind Cancellation
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/us/politics/california-trump-offshore-wind-lawsuit.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-newyorktimes
Fediverse Development
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Gabriele Svelto
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Chip Butty
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RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/117172792450861828
there are no "ethical LLMs", regardless of local models, regardless of open weights, regardless of renewable power,
regardless of country or origin
you cannot have models this large and this "capable" without the accompanying mass abuse of human labour
Uptown Funk is like those example problems in the text book that are always easier and much more clear then any real problem. Only it's the pop song version of that.
It's a perfect song technically, and almost content free.
@futurebird 100% agree
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