Lisa Melton
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Attorney General Bonta Secures Early Win for Voters in Lawsuit Over USPS Rule Restricting Mail-In Voting https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-secures-early-win-voters-lawsuit-over-usps-rule
Meta tweaks AI glasses to block some creepy recordings, but privacy risks remain
Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/meta-tweaks-ai-glasses-to-block-some-creepy-recordings-but-privacy-risks-remain/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica
I can see Zuck and Musk joining forces to create "nudify glasses".
Alex Akselrod
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/117176477273532427
🗣 LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!!! 🔊
Alex Akselrod
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Zohran Mamdani won the democratic nomination & centrist Dems endorsed Cuomo anyway.
Angie Nixon won the democratic nomination & centrist Dems are saying they would’ve spent millions on Vindman, but won’t on her.
Abdul El Sayed won the democratic nomination & centrist Dems are refusing to endorse and threatening to leave the party.
The anti-Black, anti-Arab, & anti-Muslim hate from the centrist “vote blue no matter who” Dems rivals that of MAGA fascists. We need to call it out for what it is.
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Imagine how much this software would cost now.
Alex Akselrod
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RE: https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/117176263159901069
How breathtakingly offensive.
Version 8.3 of Calibre is the last without any genAI at all.
https://download.calibre-ebook.com/8.3.0/
*sigh*
Lisa Melton
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I think all the Cassandras of the world should unionize maybe they will have to listen to us then
The Cat Motherships Arrive
@catsalad they erect a giant intergalactic Stargate, but whenever it opens a sparkly hyperspace tunnel to strange alien worlds they refuse to go through, and when in closes they meow and meow until you open it again.
Lisa Melton
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📷 There were pallets of Mums and other Autumn plants in front of Ingles this morning.
Este verme tem que ser derrotado no primeiro turno, sem chance de abrir o Brasil para a exploração desenfreada de nossos recursos pelas empresas e bancos estrangeiros.
"Flavio Bolsonaro disse no JN que vai combater as mudanças climáticas com… saneamento urbano.
É um troço espantoso. Ele também negou que a emergência climática mundial seja provocada pela ação do homem.
Taí um legítimo representante dos Bolsonaros, um negacionista daqueles de almanaque."
- Rubens Valente (no bsky)
"Flavio Bolsonaro [a far-right candidate for the Brazilian presidency backed by Trump] said on *Jornal Nacional* [TV Globo] that he will combat climate change with… urban sanitation.
It’s an astonishing claim. He also denied that the global climate emergency is caused by human activity.
He is a true representative of the Bolsonaros, a textbook denier."
- Rubens Valente, journalist (on bsky)
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TIL that Gumroad (a previously popular indie creator store front) has gone all in on AI everything (apparently even editing the look of your storefront now requires arguing with an AI agent) 😱
(Consensus is this is the choice of the CEO that started about a year ago.)
If you bought things via Gumroad in the past, you might want to make sure you have downloaded everything to a safe place.
Lisa Melton
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RE: https://old.mermaid.town/@futzle/117175788454918982
This is fucked. Australians: if you have the capacity to lodge a complaint, please do so.
Harry Potter is at this point essentially a transphobic dogwhistle and promoting it directly funds anti-trans activism, and AusPost doing this is unacceptable.
I noticed that recently. All zero position results are answered by AI instead of coming from sites.
I think I'm going to start working on NekoDeck again soon. But less so the frontend first... the new plan is to use MQTT to tie all our streaming setup together.
Originally I was thinking of doing a Redis thing but then I realized... I already have MQTT for Home Assistant!
It makes sense, I think. OBS control, model expressions & toggles, Stream Deck mappings & events, audio mixing and control, HDMI matrix routing, even things like scraping YT sub count, stream control, and the YT chat feed. All those map quite nicely to the MQTT data/message model.
And mosquitto already has a WebSocket listener, so I don't need to write a backend at all. No database, no backend. Just various scripts and glue layers, and a web frontend, all talking to the MQTT server I already have running anyway.
It also solves the HA integration issue, because I have stuff (like putting machines/monitors to sleep when we hit the light switch in the office) that HA needs to handle, but also streaming is involved (disabling that during a stream to avoid accidents). If everything is in MQTT it's easy...
Lisa Melton
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Maybe this week WAS the Rapture, and only three people made the cut...
#dolly #timcurry #petercullen #transformers #optimusprime #obits
Vasily "Vaz" Différence
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The Xylom has been named an Online Journalism Awards finalist in the Excellence in Science Reporting (Small/Medium Newsroom) category!
This is our first OJA nomination; winners will be announced next week.
Learn more: https://awards.journalists.org/entries/all-hell-breaks-loose-how-big-oil-ruined-a-small-texas-town/
