The purpose of a political spectrum that admits authoritarians at both ends is to make it impossible to imagine the opposite of authoritarianism.

@mbirth It would need thinking through carefully!

Day 2 of #MeshCore experiments, let's go! 🚀

First I'll try to see if I can send any messages with just my companion unit and if that fails, I will set up my second unit as a repeater on my parents' balcony...

Thanks to everyone who sent in pics of their cute pets yesterday to cheer me up (after hours of failing to send any messages). Much appreciated! 💖

Hey all, I have a big favour to ask.

At the beginning of the week, a large client that we had 100% expected to get started with a large project this month has dropped out at the most inconvenient time for us.

My team at @neighbourhoodie and I are looking for any and all projects we might be able to help with, the sooner the better.

We are really good at turning manual and/or analogue processes into digital ones, especially, but not limited to, if parts of the process need to work while a person or device is offline.

We have proven this repeatedly by making substantial contributions to fighting a Ebola epidemic, testing the first ever Ebola vaccine and distributing the very first COVID vaccinations to all eligible Bavarians.

We are also really good at taking your prototypes and turn them into real-life, secure, reliable, fast and scalable systems that you can bet your company on for years. From UX to SRE, we got you covered.

You need a frontend for a backend service you’ve built, we got you. You need a backend for a mobile app or game you’ve built, we got you.

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RE: https://narrativ.es/@janl/116884281452306834

Jan and team are good at what they do, and are a joy to work with.

"Appello del mondo sanitario e civile contro la securitizzazione della cura

[...]il Nuovo Patto Europeo sulla Migrazione e l’Asilo è entrato in vigore in tutta l’Unione Europea[...]. Nello stesso giorno è entrato in vigore il Decreto-Legge n. 100/2026, che introduce (tra vari dispositivi che minano alla base il diritto d’asilo) il confinamento coattivo delle persone richiedenti asilo “in luoghi specifici” alla frontiera. [...]

Le procedure di screening dovrebbero avere l’obiettivo di identificare tempestivamente bisogni sanitari e condizioni di vulnerabilità. Riteniamo che tali finalità possano essere perseguite solo se le attività sanitarie rimangono chiaramente separate dalle funzioni di controllo migratorio e di pubblica sicurezza."

Repeat after me: there is no such thing as left authoritarianism. Tankies and fascists are cut from the same cloth.

I don't know anything about UK employment law but I don't really understand why the resistance to a maximum legal working temperature seems to be based on saying this would be impossible because there are jobs where people have to work with ovens or blast furnaces. We have a legal minimum working temperature but are still allowed to work in cold rooms and walk in freezers if it's time limited and sufficient protection is put in place - we have one at my work for seed storage, and people work in food storage warehouses. Does anyone know if there is actually a practical difference or is it just right wing scaremongering?

La maggioranza della comunità ebraica statunitense ha una pessima opinione del primo ministro israeliano Benjamin Netanyahu. L'opinione di Pierre Haski.

Le crepe che mettono a rischio...

@kimcrawley Unfortunately, all over the world, the environmental and social costs of solar are offloaded onto the poor because that's the way the system is designed. California--the home of solar--has some of the highest electricity bills that mainly poor people are paying, in the US. That's the system working as designed. And the costs of solar the poor are far more than simply higher electricity bills. Entire ecosystems are being ripped asunder.

Meta misses the mark

A lot!

https://social.andyrush.net/meta-misses-the-mark/

Irgendwie gehen uns allmählich die Superlative aus. Danke, danke, danke ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Wer will noch mal, wer hat noch nicht? gerne hier entlang: https://www.startnext.com/riffreporter
@riffreporter

Europe has continuous heat data since 1979 and three usable years of heat death data.

Not three decades. Three years.

June 2026: at least 10,650 excess deaths in one week across 27 countries. The May to July total is north of 12,000 and nobody can give you a firm number.

We count the heat. We don't count the dead. 🫣

#ClimateChange #Heatwave

@robryk

As with pretty much all data protection stuff, it will be case / context specific. But what someone does, for the own personal / domestic purposes, will be different, legally, to what someone does outside that (e.g. in the course of a business).

Tankies spamming the anarchism hashtag. Sigh.

@markus_netzpolitik

Vielleicht war er ebenfalls uninformiert?

#OtD 13 Jul 1917 thousands of workers joined a spontaneous strike in São Paulo, Brazil following the police killing a 21-year-old shoemaker, José (or Antonio) Martínez, at a demonstration against the high cost of living two days previously https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-shirt-of-the-month0523

My Polish cousin sent her daughter over to stay with us in England for the weekend as she wanted to go to an anime convention. It turns out being a 47 year old man waiting alone in an airport for a 17 year old Polish girl does alert the authorities.

“Don’t speak ill of the dead” is more about not starting a fist fight at the funeral.

In other words, when a horrible person dies, wait until the relatives and friends leave before watering the flowers.