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as i walked over to take a picture of this bad ai banner, a group of teens walked by and pointed at it and said “hahah look at that horrible ai”.
that’s comforting
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The Mamdami administration is hiring a Public Interest Technology crew to make NYC city services not suck.
Preferred qualifications for software engineers include:
"Hands-on experience integrating with legacy systems, such as mainframes, FTP-based data feeds, undocumented APIs, or workflows that begin as PDFs and spreadsheets."
This crew will have a lot of work to do. 👀
RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/116930792368199189
Wage slavery isn't just a metaphor. It's what the far-right wants for everyone who's not an oligarch.
This is one of the most chilling manipulative lie I have read in a while. And I have read a lot of chilling manipulative lies from that American administration:
“When the leftist protests that we are violating his rights, understand that he is lying to try to persuade people who are not closely following the political scene that some injustice has been perpetrated against him. We must stay the course and be completely unflinching in the pursuit of justice against these enemies of civilization.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/16/political-violence-event-trump-marco-rubio
@Em0nM4stodon “Little Hands” Pinochet. If anyone doubted that #Rubio is a Fascist 100% on board with the regime, this quote should clear it up. Like the rest of the MAGA leadership, Rubio is an #enemyofthepeople
Picked the first 2 teeny tiny zucchini today! (And I picked them teeny tiny because I can see that I'm going to be drowning in zucchini in about 2 days. Why did my partner plant 12 zucchini plants?!)
@sundogplanets you can give zucchini away! I'd take them for cooking but I don't think we're in the same town.
I used to take buckets of feijoas from my mother's trees into my workplace. Co workers were delighted.
The AI industry has confused abundance with value.
More drafts.
More images.
More summaries.
More angles.
More options.
But “more” is not a product.
It’s often the product refusing to do its job.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/infinite-choice-is-the-curse-of-the
@stragu I'll only feel good when their popularity gets shifted to people/parties that are actually digging up.
@LovesTha what do you mean by "digging up"? Is that in opposition to "punching down"?
So here's my proposal for least convenient way of specifying a datetime:
- Japanese imperial year (eg Reiwa 8)
- Month and day in French Revolutionary calendar (eg Messidor 27)
- Time of day as Swatch .Beats (eg @760 )
Antifeatures of this system include:
- Can't predict future years "offline" (you need the realtime status of the Japanese royal family)
- Poor software support
- Intellectual property encumbrance (purely gratuitous because the First Republic had its own decimal time system)
@eniko The problem with AI isn't "social warriors" and "anti-woke". It's the constant stacking of more dominos towards Big Tech domination so consumers have zero options when Billionaires demand that we all kneel. Being pro AI apparently means all other principles (including user safety, privacy and software freedom) go out the window.
As a user, I can only hope capable individuals call the bluff.
I calculated an average of 1 collision avoidance maneuver every 75 seconds in the Starlink megaconstellation based on the numbers they gave in their last conjuction report. But sure, launch more Starlinks.
@sundogplanets Prof, do you ever wish that one chain reaction would occur and everything would come crashing down?
As a child of the 60's, sometimes I do.
And we need to work on positive, optimistic strategies that show we are not only existing in opposition of destructive forces.
Yes, we do need to fight on many fronts, not putting all our eggs in one basket, by supporting media campaign orgs like GetUp, conservation orgs like AWC, parties like The Greens and the socialists, youth orgs like AYCC, human rights orgs like Trans Justice Project and Justice for Palestine...
But also: talk to neighbours, share some food, do hyper-local work.
I'm reminded of Neha Madhok talking about the antidotes to right-wing extremism: finding common ground and shared values across varying backgrounds, by making community in the physical spaces we interact in and working on shared struggles. At work through unions; at church; at your local bushcare working bee; at the potluck you organised for your street... where collaborative work has a visible, direct impact on your everyday environment.
"I hope that this shares with people that are incarcerated on Rikers, that they too are a part of this city. The World Cup has been a magical moment for the entire city. These are New Yorkers, and they will be New Yorkers when they get out of Rikers. They are New Yorkers today."
♥️♥️♥️
@mekkaokereke Johnny Cash would approve
If you alphabetized a gear shift, would it be like:
D 1 N 2
5 4 R 3
Or like this?
5 4 R 3
D 1 N 2
@catsalad 1 must always go forward
Of course, our lawmakers will ignore this latest sign of our climate emergency and literally blame Canada.
#Environment #ClimateChange
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