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It's almost impossible to overstate the costs of Trump's recklessness & corruption. The environmental costs, economic costs, legal costs, political costs, moral & ethical costs, opportunity costs. Staggering to think about.

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a good idea for other provinces to emulate thewalrus.ca/manitoba-moves-ag… #Canada #Manitoba #NDP

Manitoba Moves to Outlaw Algorithmic Pricing—a First in Canada | The Walrus

The bill would ban using personal data to charge customers different prices for the same goods
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"And at a minimum, there should be mandated transparency requirements. If companies operating in Canada are using algorithmic personalized pricing, they should have to disclose it clearly. Consumers should know when prices are being tailored, on what basis, and with what kind of oversight. Right now, too much of this happens in a black box."

they should have to give you a transparency report in the airport. "Your sandwich costs 36$ because you're flying to portugal and fuck you"

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We need to take more seriously the problem of asymmetric information more generally. Data is as important as algorithms. Data about consumer prices should be queryable by the public, conveniently, and in machine readable form, so researchers and casual computer users (anyone) can use any analytical tools, from spreadsheets to databases to statistical software. #pubwan
#pubwan

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According to economics, competitive markets means (1) transparency and (2) low entry and exit costs. The least the economists could do is acknowledge that the reality is far from this and work (by default) from models that do NOT assume competitive markets. One implication of competitive markets is The Law Of One Price. I would think the readily observable state of the economy would rule out any hypothesis that we live under competitive conditions.

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[A story from the internet of yore.]

An American was visiting Australia around the time the Clinton/Lewinski matter was first in the news in the late 90s.

The Usian asked an Aussie what they thought of the whole thing. The Aussie replied:

"I'm glad we got the criminals & you got the puritans."

#US #Australia #Humor #Funny

#us #australia #humor #funny

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Elon in America, England and Germany. This fucker, Sterin, in France.

All the billionaires need to go. Nationalize all wealth of 1 billion and more.

#NoBillionaires

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#NoBillionaires

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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 :apartyblobcat:

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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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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
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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 racist, bigoted, corrupt Republicans STILL want.
#TrumpRepublicansAreNazis #DonaldTrump #AmericanHitler #fascism

#donaldtrump #fascism #AmericanHitler #wethepeople #trumprepublicansarenazis
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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

#ukpolitics #ukpol #green #greenparty #ZackPolanski #gpew #polanski

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Chi finanzia Bluesky? E perché finanziare un'iniziativa in perdita? E soprattutto, può esserci decentralizzazione del web dove c'è concentrazione di fondi di investimento e di cryptobros?

@Che succede nel Fediverso?

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.
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@Che succede nel Fediverso?

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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

@Katy B. 📚 🥛

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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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" Corbyn Submits Gaza Tribunal Findings of #UK ‘Complicity in Genocide’ to #ICC . "

#CommonDreams #Palestine #Gaza #StopGazaGenocide #SuspendIsrael #BreakTheSiege #news

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Corbyn Submits Gaza Tribunal Findings of UK ‘Complicity in Genocide’ to ICC | Common Dreams

"The report recommends a full investigation by the International Criminal Court into Britain’s complicity and participation in genocide," said the leftist lawmaker.
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#news #gaza #palestine #uk #ICC #breakthesiege #commondreams #stopgazagenocide #suspendisrael

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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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@informatica

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)
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy)

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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. 😒

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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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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.com

#DigitalSovereignty #Archive

Piql – Making Data Immortal

Technology that enables greater data security and longevity while reducing the risk of data loss and overall cost significantly
Piql
#digitalsovereignty #archive

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#MonsterdonAlert

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)
153 voters. Poll end: Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 5:46 PM

#monsterdon #monsterdonalert

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If this happens to you, insist on the return of the ‘broken’ RAM.

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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 :lolsob:

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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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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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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]
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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?

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…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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Iran, Food & Fertiliser — Macrodose — Overcast

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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.
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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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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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en/fr, banking/banque, askfedi

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#askfedi #banking #foss #bank #ethics #onlinebanking #duckduckfedi #online_banking #dataethics
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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.

@Joscelyn Transpiring @Jens Finkhäuser
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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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