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No, #Trump is not importing horse meat from foreign countries and marketing it as beef. He is importing beef from #Argentina to prop up Javier Millei, the leader of that country and a darling of the MAGA crowd. https://politifact.com/factchecks/2026/aug/25/social-media/beef-horse-meat-us-trump-imports/
RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/117168474495628474
“The systems through which people speak determine who can speak, who can listen, who owns the record and who can be silenced.”
Building privacy-preserving infrastructure is not itself an act of terrorism.
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The Rationalist Community® are making six figure bets about AI supercharging GDP growth.
This is not odd: they've got silly money to spend on silly things, and can justify gambling as a form of effective altruism because it unlocks new epistemic vistas when you've got "skin in the game" etc.
The funny bit is they wrote a clause in to specifically exclude AIs being counted as humans in macroeconomic statistics. Because, in their mind, that's a thing that might happen.
https://benjaminmoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/growth_bet.pdf
Quinn Slobodian's back. Back again. This time with an account of how neoliberalism and racism dovetailed into the alt-right during the 90s and 2000s. Tell a friend.
(comment on Hayek's Bastards)
been thinking about an old joke that #unix is "user-friendly, but very selective as to who is a friend"
think i want to extend this analogy
#windows is someone who is very friendly to everyone at first, but will keep trying to change the way you live every once in a while, often in ways you may personally dislike, sometimes at a great cost -- and while it's possible to push back on some of these demands, others are completely non-negotiable and can cause serious problems later if rejected or delayed
#macOS is a friend who has very specific tastes and gets really annoyed if you have other friends outside of their circle. you look at how macOS's friends look and act so similar to each other, and wonder if macOS really has that good of a taste that everyone else agrees with them or if this is turning into some kind of cult -- especially since being friends with macOS requires quite significant expenses
#linux is definitely selective about who can be their friend, has unusual hobbies and interprets things way too literally, but if you can be friends with them, they'll trust you very much and demand very little (mostly in terms of attention). they'll understand if you don't live in a nice apartment and can't go to fancy restaurants with them every time, and will get along with most (though not all) suggestions of where to hang out or what to do
@rnd ...and Linux has gotten less choosy about its friends, over time, while Windows has become more so.
MacOS is the expensive friend, for sure... who always wants to be taken to the same bar for long discussions about their problems...
A view of tonight's partial lunar eclipse taken through some light cloud cover with a Unistellar Equinox 2 telescope from Poway, CA. w/ @podfeet
C'est systématiquement débile... mais en fait c'est même plus inattendu.
Une amie étrangère vivant en France aurait besoin d’aide : séparée mais pas divorcée de son mari français, elle a un permis de séjour. Son mari a collecté 4000 euros à la CAF en leurs deux noms sans qu’elle ne le sache et elle doit rembourser au risque de perdre son titre de séjour. Elle vient juste d’apprendre ça.
Si vous avez un contact qui est pro de ce genre d’affaire et qui peut l’aider, ça l’aiderait énormément.
Here's another neat Bonfire feature: organisation profiles.
You can create a shared profile for your co-op, collective, project, or any other organisation or team, and invite trusted people to manage it with you.
Each team member signs in with their usual Bonfire account, with no insecure sharing of passwords, and together they can post as the organisation, access its feeds and private messages, manage its settings, and add or remove other members.
It’s similar to managing a Facebook Page, but built for the #fediverse: one shared public identity, securely managed by multiple people.
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Just reading about the death of the Norwegian king. Physically recoiled at reading he was a popular leader, credited with breaking tradition by marrying a COMMONER. I do not love that word. It's 2026 for fucks sake. We don't say that the royals are.... a.... fuckn bunch of parasites. Outdated. Slavers. A disgusting blight on humanity. Commoners. What a word. Peasants. The unclean.
There's a sausage fingered geezer here who gets called, with straight faces, His Royal Highness. Fucking Highness.
I regularly get letters on behalf of His Majesty.
Majesty.
È uno dei possibili "qualcos'altro" a cui alludevo.
Mi sembra la reazione di una persona esasperata.
@max quello che volevo sottolineare però è che è sbagliato pensare che solo una persona esasperata possa ricorrere contro una violazione della privacy. Ricorsi di questo genere dovrebbero essere considerati normali, mentre ad essere anormale è l'indifferenza o peggio la cattiva pratica dei dirigenti
There’s a great Tim Curry reading of Journey to the Center of the Earth; unfortunately it’s only on Audible.
Too bad there’s no ways to enjoy this otherwise.
@thomasfuchs Apple Books seems to have it.
https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth-a/id387959937
@marcoarment Hi. I’m a big fan of Quitter. But it does not seem to want to open its UI on MacOS 26.6.2. It does not show any error either when launched from the command line. Not sure if you have observed the same behavior.
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