I can't believe I posted that just after my surgery. I was super out of it. One week on, I am starting to feel like a human being again.
This week, I've learned something important: Naproxen is available over the counter. That stuff is gooooood.
If the report you're citing is the one I read a week or so ago, they bucketed 'fears about AI' into a single axis and didn't pull out rational fears from marketing-driven ones.
@david_chisnall it's linked, I still don't see where you're pulling this claim from. Do you have a quote?
Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
rationalist tries to get head around dealing with actual professionals in a professional context. Also, fuck them donkeys.
the EAs have access to so much money that other orgs have to dance to their tune, and are discovering the professionals think the EAs are fucking nutters
the comments are darling also
@dgerard this is the first time I've looked at LessWrong... It's a parody, right? Surely.
#LibreOffice 26.8 is here – with tabbed UI improvements, draft mode in Writer, and better scripting support. (And no built-in AI, of course.) Learn more about the latest update to the private office suite: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
@libreoffice you got me at "no built-in AI"
Just had a conversation regarding the dynamics of an international project I’m involved with in which a person said what amounted to “If I have to fly to {countryName}, then so be it”.
Just once in a while it would be nice to hear an earnest commitment to going about the thing *without flying*.
And given the project objectives, opposition to flying anywhere at the drop of a hat shouldn’t even need to be stated
…I didn’t state it. The it needing to be said but not saying it is emotionally draining.
It is the second such conversation this week
Natouille 🧊🧊🧊
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j'ai mis du temps à le retrouver alors je pose ça là : https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/
dommage que ce soit une vision très statique alors que la chronologie est vertigineuse surtout mise en récit avec talent dans "empire of ai"
@fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe Yours is an Opossum. Theyre just as cute, but I wont come pet one haha.
Theyre both marsupials, but not related to each other.
@crimsonbutterfly TIL! 👍🏼
"I understand being mad, I understand not tolerating it, but I think there's an uncomfortable truth, representing the world being a messy place where few things are completely black and white.”
— @matt_birchler: https://birchtree.me/blog/comfortable-and-uncomfortable-truths/
@marcoarment @matt_birchler the uncomfortable truth is that Twitter today represents the real world far better than any of the other platforms at this point. All of the things found on 𝕏 that “make people feel unsafe” can also be said about the Internet in general. Anything you can find on Twitter, you can find on the Internet. And no one has left the Internet since Paul Miller did it and then came back. The self-righteous posturing BS needs to stop. Focus on what makes us similar…not different.
Tommi 🤯
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La Resistenza Palestinese
Tra abbandono e supporto internazionale – talk
📍 Scambi Festival - Piazza San Costanzo, La Pigna, Sanremo
📅 29 agosto 2026 · ore 17.30
Cosa significa resistere sotto occupazione? E quale ruolo può avere chi, dall’esterno, sceglie di esserci?
Mentre a Gaza continua il genocidio e in Cisgiordania proseguono occupazione, violenza, demolizioni e sfollamenti forzati, vogliamo interrogarci sul significato della resistenza palestinese e sul ruolo della solidarietà internazionale.
Ne parleremo con Turaya Tulsi, operatrice umanitaria e attivista della campagna Faz3a per la protezione dei civili palestinesi, e Francesca Ghio, consigliera comunale di Genova.
Due prospettive per parlare di resistenza nonviolenta, presenza internazionale, colonialismo d’insediamento, intersezionalità delle lotte, neocolonialismo e disarmo, ma anche di come trasformare la solidarietà in azione politica e istituzionale.
Dall’esperienza di Genova alle iniziative locali, fino alla responsabilità di istituzioni nazionali ed europee: quanto può incidere ciò che facciamo qui?
La miriade di iniziative locali che prendono piede nelle città e nei comuni tradiscono la mancanza di una risposta altrettanto forte e autorevole a livello regionale, nazionale ed europeo.
La solidarietà internazionale non può limitarsi a osservare.
Deve diventare presenza, sostegno attivo, pressione politica e responsabilità.
Modera Vittorio Toesca, consigliere comunale di Sanremo, promotore, relatore e primo firmatario della mozione sul riconoscimento della Palestina.
Nel carosello alcune foto dalla campagna di raccolta olive 2025 e di presenza protettiva a cui ha partecipato Turaya.
Ingresso libero 🌱
#ScambiFestival #Sanremo #palestina #cisgiordania #talk #estate #festival #liguria #Gaza #Palestine #freePalestine
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#LibreOffice 26.8 is here – with tabbed UI improvements, draft mode in Writer, and better scripting support. (And no built-in AI, of course.) Learn more about the latest update to the private office suite: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/ #foss #openSource #freesoftware
Björn Brembs
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Ihr kennt das Spiel: ich will in einem #Workshop Wissenschaftler:innen beibringen, was #Mastodon so kann. Wie immer die Reichweitenfrage. Könnt ihr das hier bitte mal eben Reposten? Ich lösche den Post morgen auch. Danke! #fediverse #advocacy
Quelle galère,
oui, il ne faut pas sous-estimer le trauma, même quand rien n'a été volé.
Plein de soutien !
@nartagnan on a une petite chance dans ce malheur c'est que ce week-end toute la famille est réunie pour le mariage de ma sœur ça fera du bien au moral et ça fera un peu relativiser les problèmes matériels !
Même si évidemment on ne sous-estime pas le trauma (et je vais aller passer l'aprem du dimanche avec mon Papa pour l'aider à finir de ranger avant de rentrer à Lyon...)
Javier Armentia
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RE: https://neopaquita.es/@javierarmentia/117161085206654390
🎯 "Soluzioak ez baitira teknologikoak; batez ere, sozialak dira".
Antonio Aretxabalak, Aralarren bilatzen ari diren hidrogeno naturalari buruz ⤵️
The People‑First Platform: Hannah Aubry on Mastodon and the Fediverse - E74 - Livestream 2026-02-11 12-12-23
@edithmair1 @sadmin @Soweitsogut
Ich habe auch reportet. Billigung/Aufruf zu Gewalt von einem Account der gestern generiert wurde
Ah, stimmt, melden ist auch wichtig. Nachgeholt.
UCRAINA, RUSSIA E IL MISTERIOSO DOCUMENTO DELLA “SBER BANK” RUBATO DAGLI HACKER
@news
Da qualche giorno gira un memorandum che sarebbe stato sottratto alla banca russa SBER dai pirati informatici del gruppo criminale “Black Mirror”.
L'articolo UCRAINA, RUSSIA E IL MISTERIOSO DOCUMENTO DELLA “SBER BANK” RUBATO DAGLI HACKER proviene da GIANO NEWS.
Wenn Die Linke eine Zeitung besitzt, Anteile dran hält, oder in irgendeiner Verbindung dazu steht, dann ist das irgendwie das Neue Deutschland, die Junge Welt, oder Jacobin. Zeitungen und Magazine die sich offen als Links bezeichnen und ehrlich über ihre politische Voreingenommenheit sind.
Wenn die SPD eine Zeitung besitzt oder Anteile dran hat, dann ist das Madsack, das Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND), die Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ). Zeitungen welche von sich selbst behaupten politisch überparteilich und neutral zu sein.
Bei Madsack ist die SPD sogar der größte Anteilsbesitzer. Einfach skurril warum man nicht ehrlich Zeitungen betreibt und besitzt welche offen seine Positionen vertreten und das transparent macht, sondern diese Lüge von Neutralität” voranschieben muss.
#WritersCoffeeClub 26 Aug: What are good examples of texts written from a non-human point of view?
"Excession" by Iain M. Banks tries to tackle a vastly superintelligent AI as the viewpoint character, as do some of the other Culture novels. And a whole lot of C. J. Cherryh's work goes there—consider "The Pride of Chanur" as an easy way in.
(And my own "Saturn's Children" and "Neptune's Brood" are told by post-human protagonists, long after humanity is extinct.)
@cstross *adding your titles to my book list*
