Flock cameras and ring cams are the eyes and ears of the human extinction cult. AI data centers are its nervous system.
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I think we should start referring to bluesky as Bainsky
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Every time I see some freak pagans rhetorically making out with white nationalists I get closer to developing a position like "Christianity is good because it enforced Mediterranean cultural values on the vile Celt"
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Today I finally found a way to report a problem to Google Maps about a road near my house that terrifies all my guests who are directed to use it 
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Free speech in Russia explained in just two headlines.
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I have been invited to but turned down 3 conferences talks already this year because they're told me it's new policy to not cover speaker travel under the assumption that your tech employer will cover it. I own my own small business as a researcher and my wife is an academic teaching professor, so I cannot ask my household to absorb that. I just want to generally observe that we are filtering the voices we're going to be able to hear from, with all this contraction
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Conversely I think very well of the organizations who have maintained their intentionality on this, which if you look back at my last year of public talks you can be assured every one of them was an organization that thought about supporting the creators they invited.
I hate how tech conferences act like the only thing that exists are big companies with travel budgets. Even when they have token "indie" or small business discounts, everything else about it is designed around excluding those they know they can't extract much money from. And frankly, it makes the conferences way less interesting! It's of course their loss if you're not doing a talk for them.
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@thomasjwebb I know! Same with academic conferences, who have zero acknowledgment of applied researchers and assume every one of us has some limitless corporate budget, when in fact so many applied researchers are fighting constant uphill battles to advocate on behalf of the people whose data they work on, and could be a really valuable voice to inform otherwise detached academics
@thomasjwebb Education conferences, too. Vendors talkin' to admins at school districts and the sessions about learning are pretty much a side thing. (If they cared, they'd get those recorded and broadcast and shared for free.)
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There has never been a time when it wasn’t fully within the capacity of Congressional Republicans to join their Democratic counterparts to have Trump impeached and removed from office. Never.
#DonaldTrump is the rogue POTUS #WeThePeople STILL have because he’s the rogue POTUS who racist, bigoted, corrupt Republicans STILL want.
#TrumpRepublicansAreNazis #DonaldTrump #AmericanHitler #fascism
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When a politician uses the 'household budget' analogy you know they're taking us for fools.
Polanski doesn't insult the Voter's intelligence.
#ZackPolanski #Polanski #Green #GreenParty #GPEW #UKPol #UKPolitics
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Ha. Ha. Certain jokes get you instantly blocked.
I don't care if you're a mutual. Fuck you.
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Il social network Bluesky si prepara a grandi cambiamenti con l'annuncio di oggi di aver raccolto 100 milioni di dollari in un round di finanziamento di Serie B. Il round, guidato da Bain Capital Crypto, si è concluso nell'aprile del 2025 ma non era stato reso pubblico fino ad ora. Tra gli altri partecipanti al round figurano gli investitori già presenti Alumni Ventures e True Ventures, oltre ad Anthos Capital, Bloomberg Beta e Knight Foundation. Questo round segue il round di Serie A da 15 milioni di dollari di Bluesky , guidato da Blockchain Capital e concluso nel 2024, e il round di seed da 8 milioni di dollari ricevuto da Neo e altri angel investor l'anno precedente. Bluesky non ha reso nota la sua valutazione aggiornata.
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Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition | TechCrunch
Bluesky's Series B closed last April but is being shared now, the week after its CEO stepped down.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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@Katy B. 📚 🥛 ti dirò, a me non dispiace l'idea di base che c'è dietro Bluesky, l'interfaccia è molto buona e può insegnare molto al Fdiverso.
Malgrado questo però preferisco il Fediverso, sia per le possibilità che attualmente presenta (formattazione, messaggi lunghi, autodeterminazione totale) sia per il tipo di realtà sociale che c'è dietro e dentro al Fediverso
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ammetto che ho il sospetto che il poco appeal che bluesky ha e ha avuto verso di me sia per i profili che ho scelto di "seguire" e che mi fanno sentire come fossi su facebook. Ma è anche vero che anche la modalità discover, che mostra altri account, non è poi tanto diversa, quindi l'errore non può essere tutto mio.
Qui sul fediverso ritrovo le persone che su bluesky latitano.
Quindi le mie ragioni sono legate principalmente ai contenuti.
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Thanks to the US federal gov't defunding PBS, they're having to get funding from other places, including, apparently that TERF rag, The Economist.
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PBS continues to disappoint. Washington Week has become a collaboration with that other TERF rag, The Atlantic.
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Not one more dime for war until we have universal health care and high-speed rail from Boston to Miami, from Seattle to San Diego,from New York to Chicago
to Los Angeles, and everywhere in between.
Starve the military-industrial complex of
corporate welfare and build up American society instead.
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Dear computer companies,
This -> ✨
Is now the Mark Of Cain. I will never ever click any button that features it.
Regards,
Approximately everyone
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I wish people were required to use it on everything generated by, or invoking, AI™.
" Corbyn Submits Gaza Tribunal Findings of #UK ‘Complicity in Genocide’ to #ICC . "
#CommonDreams #Palestine #Gaza #StopGazaGenocide #SuspendIsrael #BreakTheSiege #news
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"The report recommends a full investigation by the International Criminal Court into Britain’s complicity and participation in genocide," said the leftist lawmaker.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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Android: l'Europa punta al sistema proprietario di Google che controlla le app e desidera un'alternativa open source
UnifiedAttestation è il consorzio guidato da 4 aziende UE: Volla Systeme (DE), Murena (che sviluppa il sistema /e/OS), Iodé (FR), "l' azienda che ha eliminato Google ", e Apostrophy (CH). Il loro obiettivo: Play Integrity, il meccanismo con cui Google certifica che un dispositivo Android soddisfa determinati criteri di sicurezza.
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Android : l'Europe s'attaque au système secret de Google qui contrôle vos applications et veut une alternative open source
Sur Android, c'est Google qui décide si votre appli bancaire a le droit de fonctionner. Un consortium européen compte bien mettre fin à ce monopole invisible avec un projet libre baptisé UnifiedAttestation.Naïm Bada (clubic.com)
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Non è molto diverso da Play Integrity, è probabile che le aziende dietro spingano per whitelistare i loro dispositivi. Perché non vietare invece di negare il servizio a chi non passa l'attestazione?
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The best thing we can do to build resilience and independence from global oil is walkable neighborhoods and cities.
The cheapest energy is the stuff we never have to dig up or burn. Think about it. you do the construction, you put in the passively thermally managed buildings you put in your greenery to eliminate the heat island effect and you have a quiet, safe, healthy inexpensive, and economically vibrant neighborhood. Everyone wins residents, business and municipal finance
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My internet provider phoned to give me a hard time for not paying my bill.
I apologized and explained that it was neither intentional or an oversight. I had been in hospital basically recovering from death.
The service agent then apologized to me and wished me well.
I still owed the penalty fees though. 😒
I apologized and explained that it was neither intentional or an oversight. I had been in hospital basically recovering from death.
The service agent then apologized to me and wished me well.
I still owed the penalty fees though. 😒
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Human rights groups are increasingly struggling to verify tolls as Italy, Tunisia and Malta have quietly restricted information on migrant rescues and shipwrecks along the deadliest migration route in the world. The news barely makes headlines, in part because the lack of transparency prevents journalists from confirming reports.
“It’s a strategy of silence,” said Matteo Villa, a researcher focusing on migration and data at the Italian Institute....
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So Canada will not join in Captain Epstein and Netanyahu's war, but we stopped short of saying that Iran has the right to defend itself like Israel does because Iran is a destabilizing force in the region and the people who are ethnically cleansing Gaza are not.
Better than nothing.
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I have this really bad feeling that we’re about to trade a performatively evil DHS secretary, for an empirically evil DHS secretary. We may soon be nostalgic for the good old days of DHS under Botox Barbie.
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Piql is a Norwegian company that takes your data, pictures and other digital artefacts, encodes them in an open binary format and puts them on 35mm black and white film. To retrieve the data, you scan the film, use their open source software and there you go. Very long term storage as a combination of analog and digital. I like! Already used by museums and artists.
Piql – Making Data Immortal
Technology that enables greater data security and longevity while reducing the risk of data loss and overall cost significantlyPiql
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interesting, but I've also read about Hollywood studios racing to preserve decaying old film. I guess this kind of film here will not spontaneously combust or decay that much?
What should our next #Monsterdon movie be?
- The Werewolf (1956) (19%, 30 votes)
- End of the World (1977) (29%, 45 votes)
- Reptilian (1999) (20%, 31 votes)
- Critters 4 (1992) (23%, 36 votes)
- Shock Waves (1977) (24%, 37 votes)
- The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974) (41%, 63 votes)
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Okay, well, "Golden Voyage of Sinbad" has Tom Baker in it.
I also own this DVD. In fact, I have the whole "Sinbad" series, I think.
If this happens to you, insist on the return of the ‘broken’ RAM.
I've heard anecdotal reports of computer repair places "accidentally" breaking the ram and refunding the customer the catalogue price from six months ago, presumably to feed it into machines of more important corporate customers... so we're already at the scavenging-to-survive stage of AI economic collapse
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FFS.
I am old and tired I don't wanna do my own repairs anymore.
There is _so_ much to burn down. _So_ much.
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I've tooted this before but, clearly, that old WW2 veteran I knew who said, "Don't worry about China. Worry about America" knew what he was talking about.
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It is important to remember regarding States that one mass-murderoulsy oppressive aggressively imperialist reactionary, etc attacking the people living in another mass-murderoulsy oppressive aggressively imperialist reactionary State's claimed area does not change any of the other properties of either, they are both still institutionalized-violence based calamities.
Sometimes the magnitude of devastating outcome of one's acts can make it more immediately urgent than the other, but still can not negate the other's and usually is not for lack of desire to commit as horrendous or preferably worse acts – just difference in capacity at the time.
It's like with the expression "choosing between the plague and cholera" (in German, Scandinavian languages, French, Portuguese and probably more) where my answer is "no, thanks".
The plague does not negate cholera and vice versa.
It's a false choice.
Regarding States just as with the plague and cholera, you can oppose all States in a war, and generally should.
In fact, you can oppose all States, Statehood as a concept, and in many's opinion should.
Expressing opposition to one, does not automatically declare for the other. Only actually declaring for forcing the plague on everyone is being for doing so, while opposing everyone getting cholera doesn't.
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Have the major economies in the rest of the world figured out that the structure of the US economy where only 10% of the population is the majority of consumer spending is a gigantic opportunity?
90% of the population has been reduced to a permanent under class, meaning that there are all these people who if they had labor rights and the political power to defend their own interest would become customers?
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The personal computer revolution was revolutionary. The PC revolution happened because the computing industry didn't realize how much value it was sitting on. If they did, the first consumer-market computers would have been made in a much more tamper-resistant way, like, say, the first "smart" phones. The current apparent inflection point in computing capabilities is not revolutionary, but counterrevolutionary, because all the technology is proprietary, and the people who own it have been taught by the DIY revolution that value capture is far more important than value creation. The indisputable fact that a few of the "AI" technologies really are game-changing is cause for sorrow, not celebration. While obviously able to serve man [sic], these technologies, being proprietary, will do so at a cost, and that cost will be paid as economic rent. I used to be awestruck by launches of missions of space exploration, with that feeling that we're an innovative species, but since that got privatized, I'm simply not feeling it any more. This feels the same. It's progress, but I'm not in the club that it belongs to.
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"America has been pushed into fighting Israel’s war"
Oh, that's funny. I thought the united states was pushed into bombing Iran because the u.s. regime is headed by a malignant piece of shit who enjoys power games and who has a staff full of people who mirror that thinking AND a portion of the u.s. polity has been looking for an excuse to destroy Iran for nearly a half century.
Israel is just the excuse that they stopped on after the first few excuses sounded too incoherent to stick.
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yeah I've read about this phenomenon before about how in newspapers the US never starts a war they just "stumble" into it by accident as a victim of circumstances
It's a republican specific phrasing too. If Dems go off and bomb people it's considered a war of choice, that the president is wanting, ect ect (Remember outrage on Clinton and NATO's war in Kosovo? "He's a madman!" ect). Even here it's Israel's fault the warmonger who's repeatedly said he'd attack Iran - while he cited lies about their nukes as being an immenant threat - is somehow being forced to do so? [twirls fingers]
Additional note: when foodprices rocket, that is ALMOST ALWAYS the trigger for civil unrest and revolutions. (The other is a fiscal/tax/revenue crisis, caused by government turning into rent-seeking by the rich *and* trying to fund a war simultaneously, as with the French Revolution.)
Does this look familiar to you, too?
…For the northern hemisphere, fertiliser for next year’s growing season will be needed towards the end of this year.We can expect food prices to rocket.
And in the UK, we have only a single fertiliser manufacturing plant left
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“Lack of a middle class with a vested interest in keeping change modest” also one of the pre-revolution boxes we seem to be ticking off.
Yup, in simplistic terms you could break down the prelude to the French revolution to a failure of the system to feed the people and then emptying the treasury on foreign wars (i.e. the American revolution).
So seriously.... when has the entirety of a linux distro's human labor ever gone on strike before? Or is this a first? #linux #floss #manjaro forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-2-…
Manjaro 2.0 Manifesto
Manjaro 2.0 Synopsis This document covers the organizational, technical, management, and other changes we (the Manjaro Team, et al) like to see applied to the Manjaro Project.Manjaro Linux Forum
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“When Target said they were supporting us, it felt real.
It felt like they saw us. Target, especially in 2020, but for me even before, it kind of felt like Target was like for us.
Now people will often ask me, well, where's the smoke for Walmart?”
“No one forced them to handle business in such a disrespectful, sleazy, dirty way. That was a choice, and I think that communicates a lot about, like that tells me a lot about the people who are leadership at Target.”
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From There Are No Girls on the Internet: Why aren’t people boycotting Amazon like they’re boycotting Target?, Nov 28, 2025
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Why aren’t people boycotting Amazon like they’re boycotting Target?
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"Last week, actor and filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers won the Toronto Film Critics Association award for outstanding supporting performance in a Canadian film, for her role in the drama Sweet Angel Baby.
But, she returned the award shortly after her win once she learned that the acceptance speech she had recorded for the award ceremony had been edited, so that the section where she expressed support for Palestine was removed."
Good for her.
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Stop calling it “moving to the center” when Democrats capitulate to the far right.
If Democrats wanted to “move to the center” they would go left
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The Political Compass
The Political Compass: a 2-dimensional typology of political opinionswww.politicalcompass.org
finally, the clock in my car is right again
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Does anyone have a screepcap or link saved of the interaction about a decade ago when a trans girl on reddit asked an adult cis man how often he thought about being a girl and his answer was something like "I dont think ive ever thought about that".
That interaction broke so many people and i wish i had properly secured it for posterity. My brain remembers the guys handle had Panda in it iirc.
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@jens @JoscelynTransient Dissociation, depression, depersonalisation, hypervigilance, growing self harm and/or self destructive behaviour, loss of emotional depth, addiction, chronic illnesses, autoimmune conditions, and the big bopper: cPTSD.
The above are issues that arise and grow stronger from the human body not being able to have its core needs met. Ultimately ruining the persons ability to live happily and affects those around them as they collapse inward.
@jens @JoscelynTransient So thats just the knowledge i wanted to make sure you are aware of so you can be better informed, because watching my friends in their 50s and 60s slide down that line has been really hard.
If by some minor miracle Democrats took back a semblance of control during Trump's lifetime, they should just go "LOL, we recognise the ICC now. Here, take these."
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the borg aren't actually evil terminator monsters, they're just big LLM evangelists that got a bit too into shoving it into everything and travel the universe in their giant ugly cybertrucks to tell everyone how great it is. It never worked on the ferengi because they were smart business people who saw the cost of those cybertrucks, and how generally useless the technology was and how unappealing it made people, it was just unmarketable crap.
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"FBI counterterrorism teams on elevated alert
As part of the elevated alert, the FBI will likely increase surveillance on the ground and online"
Excellent, so now the US police state will have even more opportunity and justification to crack down on political opponents and flex their power even more
There really is no joke to make with Patel in charge, the joke is on Americans
Not to say the FBI were not completely corrupt before, bc they absolutely were
But its all so out in the open now
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I was thinking about this earlier.
The FBI has a long history of entrapment. They use undercover agents to get people to plot violence, then they arrest the people the feds covertly put up to that shit in the first place. Wouldn't shock me if they were working on some folks right now, trying to get them to plot a terrorist attack the FBI can then foil heroically.
Create a pretense for further eroding people's civil rights. Increase surveillance. Disappear dissidents.
I hope I'm wrong.
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The flesh colored speedo sure was a choice. #monsterdon #Hercules
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I suspect this is a choice that was offered to him:
- It's the psychiatric hospital or the window.
- But that window is on the ground floor...
- ... And?
- I... I think I am not feeling well, I am depressed and probably need a lot of rest.
- Wise choice.
Just the fact that this is a very common joke tells you what you need to know about this horrible man.
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