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Adesso qualcuno mi spieghi come si può concepire una macchina empatica.
Dire macchina empatica, è come dire dittatore democratico.
Intelligenza artificiale, non ti fidare mai se scrive queste parole: come capire quando non è affidabile webnews.it/intelligenza-artifi…
Dire macchina empatica, è come dire dittatore democratico.
Intelligenza artificiale, non ti fidare mai se scrive queste parole: come capire quando non è affidabile webnews.it/intelligenza-artifi…
Intelligenza artificiale, non ti fidare mai se scrive queste parole: come capire quando non è affidabile - Webnews
Se un chatbot ti parla con eccessiva cordialità, sorridendo virtualmente ad ogni frase e cercando di mostrarsi empatico, forse dovresti alzare le antenne.Silvia Dalia (Webnews)
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Cory Doctorow: Mark Carney is not a Carneyist.
#Canada’s Liberal Party is trying out its dangerous Third Way austerity approach again.
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Pluralistic: Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
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When employers get access to credit scores, and credit scores penalize non-use of credit, what you have is the loan shark scheme seen in On the Waterfront.
Some chance at ten percent a week! And if he don't borrow, he don't work.
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@geekysteven
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@jwz I wonder if IMDB ever posted my comment about Stabler and Benson beating confessions out of people in back-to-back episodes
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The important thing is to be continuously patching vulnerabilities in the tax code as new exploits (loopholes) are discovered. The democratic process, being a deliberative process, is at a huge disadvantage in this. There needs to be a way to delegate the authority to make adjustments to the tax code to actual experts in tax strategy, subject of course to legislative enactment within a year. It would be much more democratic in the long run, more in keeping with the spirit of democracy.
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The wealthy have easy access to the resources for financial alchemy to convert income to wealth and vice versa. This is why income tax and wealth tax both have to be in place, and probably a lot of continuing proactive loophole-closing in both programs.
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Millionaires might need a little encouragement to invest in tangible productive assets rather than derivatives and crypto "assets" and other casino capitalism fluff. Even without such incentives for the millionaires, taxing billionaires will do a lot more to prevent more "asset" bubbles than taxing millionaires. Billionaire money is what really inflates things to extremes.
Apparently you can't use Facebook Marketplace on your phone anymore without installing the app. (Unless someone can give me a workaround option).
Thanks but no thanks, this was literally the only thing I used Facebook for anymore, and the last thing I want is Zuck's spyware on my phone.
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The infamous 20 year old MySQL Bug #11472 has been fixed. (bugs.mysql.com)
bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=1147…
#bug #programming #sql #mysql
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I wish people would stop calling them apps. They're not applications, they're programs. An application is how a program is used.
My pet peeve too, even more than referring to directories as folders. I even have to correct myself sometimes when I catch myself saying (or even thinking) "app" or "folder," the messaging is so pervasive. Every single aspect of being an active (as opposed to passive) user of technology is an adversarial process every single step of the way. Even on the mental level, with what word comes to mind.
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Mensa is short for mens rea.
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Am I the only one that finds it comical that with all the pressing problems facing our country, our willfully inept Congress can’t even mitigate the phone spam problem? In stricter countries, you still get scams but less of the “I signed up once and now 200 companies are calling me” behavior.
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I mean this is what I am saying to you, clearly:
Nobody is gonna stop him. At all. Ever. There is no "too far" point where the entire system will collapse in on him because THIS time, he's done too much. It does not exist. And yeah that means when they're fucking gassing people like it's the Holocaust, he will ALSO not be stopped by the system.
That is my ENTIRE fucking argument. That's what I been telling you this whole time.
Your checks and balances are a joke. Rules for you, not rich men
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droopy face might stop him - supposed to be a sign of mini strokes.
Ofc, you meant "him" as in the blond beast of fascism he's unleashed, so no, you're right, unfortunately, nothing. :(
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GUYS I’M IN A NEW DARKWAVE DUO 🦇🦇🦇
holy shit it’s been hard sitting on this since march 
we’re called Death Drive, IG is here: instagram.com/deathdriveldn/ and we'll also be posting to mastodon here: @deathdrive
our first show is June 18th supporting ULTRA SUNN in London!!! 🎵
tickets here!!!!: dice.fm/event/oeg2xa-ultra-sun…
insanely psyched for this, hope to see some of you there 🖤🖤🖤
P.S we had to write an entire setlist in 2 months so no time for photoshoot and that’s why the pic is just me 😎
ULTRA SUNN Tickets | £19.80 | 18 Jun @ Oslo Hackney, London | DICE
Night Terrors will be hosting Belgian coldwave act ULTRA SUNN for their next London headline at OSLO, Hackney next June.DICE
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omg 🖤 you look absolutely fab in that pic! 😍
I'm not on IG, so I rely on you putting some content on the Masto account.
Wishing you a great first show! ✨
LineageOS fixed the VPN bypass bug discovered in Android 16, which Google refuses to fix at the time of writing.
Good work! @LineageOS
The patch will presumably be adopted soon by @iode and other LineageOS forks.
GrapheneOS has already patched this bug too.
You can learn more about the bug here: mullvad.net/en/blog/any-app-on…
Sources: review.lineageos.org/c/Lineage…
grapheneos.org/releases#202605…
#android #lineageos #cybersecurity #dataprotection #privacy #vpn
Any app on recent Android versions can leak certain traffic | Mullvad VPN
A recently discovered bug in Android 16 allows any app to leak traffic outside the VPN tunnel.Mullvad VPN
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PBS: A live feed on the Global Sumud Flotilla website showed armed Israeli soldiers boarding the vessels as activists in life vests put their hands up. Soldiers then destroyed cameras mounted on the vessels. pbs.org/newshour/world/israeli…
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I hate random calls that are spam anyways.
Just give up, I will never pick up.
I only ignore unkown numbers.
But its dont help to block them, they will always come back with new ones.
It was quiet a long time but since yesterday they start to get annoying again.
Just give up, I will never pick up.
I only ignore unkown numbers.
But its dont help to block them, they will always come back with new ones.
It was quiet a long time but since yesterday they start to get annoying again.
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"when it comes to technopolitics, object permanence eludes even full-grown lawmakers. These motherfuckers would lose a game of peek-a-boo."
Today's threads (a thread)Inside: There's no such thing as "age verification"; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/05/19/she…
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Pluralistic: There's no such thing as "age verification" (19 May 2026)Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow)
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Intelligence in the IQ sense is bullshit. Intelligence in the CIA sense has real consequences. My view on that is that people must build their own intelligence agency which, in contrast with the CIA, specializes in DECLASSIFYING knowledge. The CIA itself needs to be DISASSEMBLED, in the assembly language sense.
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The Times, Atlantic, USA Today, and various other publications are blocking Wayback Machine because it undermines their paywalls.
They shouldn’t have paywalls in the first place, but that’s another discussion.
Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved.Today, many publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk.
Tell publishers: don’t block the Wayback Machine. Sign the petition ➡️ savethearchive.com/newsleaders…
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When people are disconnected from the internet, it can impact everything — access to essential info, how they receive medical care, or communication with loved ones. Whether it’s from the government or natural disasters, you can prep in advance to limit the impact of such shutdowns. 🧵 (1/9)
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This is a concern NOW, due to the FCC's proposed extension of "know your customer" rules to individual cell SIM customers. This would reqiure ID, verified address, and background check against "terrorism" lists just to get a phone number. The proposal looks like it was written for major business customers with telemarketing spam as the target but if not changed could apply to everyone.
Workarounds would be data-only SIMS if the "voice service provider" language stays in the final language, international data-only SIMS if it does not, and if that gets blocked too millions will only be able to use decentralized mesh networks, which hopefully would be bridged to the external internet
It’s time for community networks to be built. Networks that are owned and operated by volunteers in the community are much more difficult to be subjected to government surveillance. I would like to help build one in my community.
Part of me really sympathizes with Americans because I very much believe in democracy and the power of the vote...but Republicans have almost completely nullified the ability to course correct at the ballot box, because they have realized the pro-democracy coalition doesn't have the will to prevent them using illegal, unconstitutional & unethical methods to rig elections.
I fear that the time to show them that the cost of attempting this brazen theft was too high has passed.
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Alabama Republicans Pass Last-Minute Gerrymander in Middle of Election
Republicans want to stop an active election so they can redraw the maps and strip Black political power.
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Tom's political theory for this moment in time...
When "sensible" Centre-Left parties don't deliver meaningful positive change for society, Right-wing populist parties flourish.
(I am so incredibly smart for realising this... well, at least smarter than the Centre-Left parties spiraling into oblivion)
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No, website. Not "not now". Not ever.
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A please @labouruk.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.
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We could have open source, cooperatively built ed tech, where students and faculty write specs, fix bugs, test, and develop features, instead we have a private sector boondoggle.
NEW w/ @lorenzofb: Hackers have defaced a bunch of school login pages for Canvas, the student portal made by ed-tech giant Instructure.This appears to be the latest effort by the ShinyHunters to apply pressure on the company.
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Hackers deface school login pages after claiming another Instructure hack | TechCrunch
The cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed to have hacked Instructure again, defacing the login pages of several Instructure customer schools with an extortion message.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
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@b yep. Most of the colleges and universities across the US. Everything from Laney to UW-Madison are down at the end of the semester.
Ted Turner is dead. The man wasn't great by any means - but he co-created Captain Planet when everyone was making toy commercials instead of entertainment, and it's not nothing.
So kick a corporate or fascist polluter in the balls in memory of Turner. He may not of liked it, but it's a better legacy than any billionaire deserves.
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Hey internet, what's the temperature please?
Internet; 6 degrees. Feels like 2 degrees.
Hey internet. That's utter nonsense. 6 degrees feels like 6 degrees. 2 degrees feels like 2 degrees.
This is how I know the internet is neurotypical.
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Well, if you don’t understand about winds and windchill. 6 is 6 if you’re out of the wind and 2 if wind is blowing in your face for the first example, so lots of info in there.
Spanish newspapers are keeping track of the #hantavirus ship as it moves towards the Canary Islands where remaining passengers will be examined and repatriated.
What’s new to me in this report is that 23 people got off the ship in St Helens, and nobody was keeping track of them.
These 23 individuals are now the subject of an international contact tracing effort led by the World Health Organization (#WHO), as the outbreak is linked to the #Andes strain of hantavirus, which can spread between humans. One of these passengers, a Swiss citizen, has since tested positive and is receiving treatment in Zurich.
Y’all remember how covid got its first big push? A cruise ship. It docked, the Trump admin sent healthcare workers to deal with it, then those healthcare workers got on national airlines and flew around the country, and a few weeks later…epidemic.
Unbelievable that these people weren’t being monitored for a human to human spread vector.
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at protocol is vastly superior to activitypub, which is why mastodon immediately grew a network of servers and after three years, at proto has two (2) full nodes and sometimes they send posts to each other
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I’ve heard of something called "NorthSky" but have no idea how autonomous they are. So, 2.1?
Today is the fourth anniversary of the surgery I needed for colon cancer. I have a year and a few months left of surveillance before I can throw myself a party, but so far, so good.
#FuckCancer but also our medical system, which wanted to diagnose me with depression 🙄 rather than listen to what was going on before I got to Stage IIIc. I am lucky, because people a decade younger have died of this.
Stay on your doctors for better care, stay on your politicians for better #publichealth
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It's annoying that Ron DeSantis says data centers are extremely unpopular and shouldn't be allowed to drive up electricity bills, at the same time Tucker Carlson is saying patently obvious things about Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians, if only because they can see which way the wind is blowing where Democrats, being bought and paid for, simply cannot.
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Battlestar Galactica could defeat an Imperial Star Destroyer.
- True (60%, 24 votes)
- False (40%, 16 votes)
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Star Destroyers were originally presented as invincible, but with an exposed shield generator at the top, which makes them vulnerable to attack.
Then in Star Wars: TIE Fighter, they became rather vulnerable to heavy rockets and space bombs, as if they had no point defense.
It might be hard to judge a straight up engagement, but it's likely the fighters are going to do all the work.
@arem It's my understanding that the Imperial class carries 72 TIE fighters of various types while a Battlestar has about 50 active fighters. Worth mentioning, of course, is the acquisition by Galactica of 75 (?) fighters from Battlestar Pegasus.
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A new fediverse platform might be dropping!
Meet Fedibook!The idea came from thinking about what it actually takes to get regular users onto the fediverse. Mastodon is great (i love it), but the follow-based model feels unfamiliar to some. Friends and Groups though — that's something everyone already understands.
So Fedibook is a fediverse platform built around exactly that, using ActivityPub. Think federated address book meets social network, with the kind of social graph people are already used to.
Current status:
- Friend requests across servers working
- News feed working, with visibility levels: public, friends-only, or local server onlyHoping to open up for early testing and feedback soon. Open source of course.
#fediverse #activitypub #fedibook #danmarkskifter
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"une batterie de 82 kWh bruts et 77 kWh utiles. Au fil du temps, la marque débloquera peu à peu les 5 kWh inutilisés via des mises à jour à distance pour compenser l’éventuelle usure."
Ils vendent un système à double fond avec une arnaque de contrôle à distance.
Et ils s'en vantent !!
La merdification est sans limite.
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Happy anniversary to Neneh Cherry’s debut album, ‘Raw Like Sushi’. Released this week in 1989. #nenehcherry #rawlikesushi #buffalostance #manchild #kissesonthewind
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Larhanya of the Muddy Waters
in reply to MikeDunnAuthor • • •GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to MikeDunnAuthor • • •The next stage we need to move to is class consciousness that the rich are intrinsically evil, if only because that much wealth disparity brings out the absolute worst in people. The wealth makes them evil.
I’m thinking of the comments made by Bezos about you know how government is bad with undercurrent that somebody like him is virtuous and would do good. We only have to look at the working conditions and their warehouses and fulfillment centers.
The root cause is wealth
Denis Buckley
in reply to MikeDunnAuthor • • •Could neoliberalism come to an end or will it instead, precipitate a cataclism?