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The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.
.io considered harmful
The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.Cariad Eccleston (beep.blog)
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I was talking to my son in the car about the FTX trial and it occurs to me that a whole bunch of folks who used to have “web3” in their LinkedIn headlines don't anymore. I never saw an apology for how much money they wasted. I never saw a mea culpa from any of them.
It's like I how I wish pundits had to keep a scorecard displayed on screen of how often they're correct. Your past boosterism for bullshit should stick to you and be harder to remove than just updating your profile.
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Reminder that abortion in the UK is actually illegal – we just disapply the legislation in most cases.
So, when The State can use this legislation against citizens, it can most certainly do so.
British police testing women for abortion drugs
tortoisemedia.com/2023/10/30/b…
British police testing women for abortion drugs - Tortoise
Forensic reports seen by Tortoise show police requesting tests for mifepristone and misoprostolTortoise
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Payment Card Tools
Payment Card Tools - tools for engineers working in the Payment Card Industrypaymentcardtools.com
A painting of a troll by Brian Froud (1976). The painting inspired Jim Henson to create the Mystics for "The Dark Crystal."
#JimHenson #BrianFroud #DarkCrystal #art #fantasy #troll #monster #31DaysofHaunting #OfDarkandMacabre #BookChatWeekly
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“Open the pod bay doors, Hal.”
“I’m sorry, Dave; I can’t find anything like that in your Apple Music library.”
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“Not a single phone in Gaza can be reached right now. Israel completely cut off all communications to Gaza. No internet, no landlines. This is a total blackout. Every person you know from Gaza has completely lost contact with their loved ones.
We know what comes next.”
- Hanna Alshaikh
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hey so if you can swing it, now's a great time to look into picking up a few radios for you and your friends and your partners.
not walkie talkies, though. regular amateur ‘ham’ radios. they don’t even have to be expensive ones and you don’t even need to know how to use them.
just make sure they’re dual-band, which means they transmit and receive on both major frequency ranges (UHF and VHF—think AM and FM, but different) and high-power (at least 4 Watts but shoot for 8 Watts or more).
if you happen to be using money to acquire them (i feel for you and i get it lol) we’re talking roughly $15-40 each depending on stock / demand / greed. start with one and do some price-watching… they always go back down.
#preparedness #readiness #communication #infrastructure #GazaGenocide #gaza #radio #hamradio
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This is local to me - Lib Dem South Cambridgeshire. lemmy.world/post/7413017
Ministers warn English councils not to adopt four-day working weeks
Ministers warn English councils not to adopt four-day working weeks
Central government’s attempt to restrict councils’ ability to try out the practice is ‘a massive overreach’, say council leadersPatrick Butler (The Guardian)
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I have no advice, I'm just noting how autocorrupt has changed Platignum to platinum. Also, ironically, the old Platignum factory in Royston has long gone, having been roughly where the platinum refinery is
fountainpennetwork.com/forum/t…
Oh wait, there is a Japanese company named Platinum who also do pens, and no relation to the English company whose products were once so ubiquitous
Platignum - A Short History
http://hans.presto.tripod.com/scan/platignum02.html I find it interesting. Rather than copy & paste it I've given you the link.Platignum made the reai-life James Bond type pens for the British Government.Ebberman (The Fountain Pen Network)
Before and after aerial pictures show deadly Gaza destruction in full
Entire neighbourhoods destroyed in retaliation for attack launched by Hamas on Israel on 7 OctoberTara Cobham (The Independent)
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This is another reason why a secular, atheist world is the only viable future.
We are witnessing a #genocide in progress.
Israeli think tank lays out a blueprint for the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza
An Israeli think tank with ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a report on October 17 promoting the “unique and rare opportunity” for the “relocation and final settlement of the entire Gaza population.”Adam Horowitz (Mondoweiss)
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I got to about 45% without breaking a sweat, thought a bit harder about 45-50, and am now absolutely RINSING myself for the fact that I still have a blank or two on the fucking circle line. THE CIRCLE LINE. Ugh.
london.metro-memory.com/ Anyway thanks @melofthevalley and @Mollysdailykiss for giving me what I now view as my most important life task.
London Tube Memory Game
How many of the London Tube stations can you name from memory?london.metro-memory.com
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Doomsday diaries
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#Gaza #Palestine #Irael #Hamas #resistance @palestine
Doomsday Diaries | Sarah Aziza
What does it feel like to stand at the edge of annihilation?The Baffler
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🤔 The US government is the most well funded in the world. We have Federal agencies dedicated to emergency management (FEMA). We have a robust network of highways. We have the best access to electricity and fossil fuels. Most US citizens are adults. Despite all this, when there is a hurricane, we struggle to evacuate a few million people from the path of a slow moving weather event.
If most Gazans are children, who have no fuel or electricity, how do they evacuate a million people?
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The current auto-centric world is also quite hostile to their feet, even with shoes, is what I'm told.
That said, humans have always needed - wait for it - horsepower. Bikes won't cut the mustard when the fuel really gets low and we want to remain a globally-intertwined world.
Camels too, if you're in future peaceful solarpunk Israel/Palestine.
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This is fascinating: Hacking the job search process by inserting secret prompts into your resume that confound or manipulate the AI language models that are being used to screen applicants.
kai-greshake.de/posts/inject-m…
Inject My PDF: Prompt Injection for your Resume
To escape a deluge of generated content, companies are screening your resumes and documents using AI. But there is a way you can still stand out and get your dream job: Prompt Injection.kai-greshake.de
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Instagram ‘Sincerely Apologizes’ For Inserting ‘Terrorist’ Into Palestinian Bio Translations
The "see translation" feature for user bios was auto-translating phrases that included "Palestinian" and “alhamdulillah” into "Praise be to god, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom."Samantha Cole (404 Media)
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I wouldn't want to ascribe maliciousness where incompetence could be the more likely outcome but this would only translate like this under 2 conditions:
- a constantly learning/re-learning translation model
- editorially
The former seems unusual because most words don't change in translation based on current events ... unless Meta is of the opinion that what words mean is based on their users opinions.
I also tested this phrase on a few LLMs & none of them translated to that.
I've had a number of non-Jewish friends reach out to me over the past week to see if I'm okay.
No, I'm not okay. But neither is anyone.
Tribes are bullshit. Race is bullshit. Religion is bullshit if you kill in the name of God. Murder is murder. Cruelty is cruelty. Injustice is injustice. Dead children are dead children.
The planet is being devoured by the insatiable greed of a handful of people and the rest of us are fighting over scraps. It only gets worse from here unless we learn to love.
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We are so enbroiled in all the world that we cannot understand there is only one simplesolution to it all. We cannot reach this solution because the world is full of people who do not love themselves for whatever reason, good or bad. When you no longer have love for yourself, you cannot understand anything. Not one thing.
Our world is full of broken people that do not love themselves so they will never be able to act compassionately and see that the entire worlds problem lies within each and everyones heart and their ability to love in the true sense of the word. Not the love we sell as true, that for your family friends and church. But true compassionate and powerful love. The deep type of love that does not allow you to be violent, angry and mean. We have lost the ability to have LOVE. Without it we are doomed.
Psychopaths and sociopaths are people who no longer can identify with the power of love. Not the love of couples family children. That is the only love we are left with currently and it is an exclusive GIFT we only give if we feel the other person is WORTHY.
That is not real love. Real love has no judgement. The world has fallen out of its capacity to actually love and the result of this is sheer catastrophe. Our planet is now out of balance with hatred and hatred kills. It is as simple as that. But we have no recollection of how it works so we will have to suffer horrible loss so we can regain our humanity which is the path to understanding that love IS NOT SOME GIFT YOU GIVE TO PEOPLE YOU LIKE A LOT.
Love IS the POWER of all creation. Without it we cease to exists.
That was Christs Message
That was Muhammad Message
That was Buddhas Message
That was Gods Message
Love is not something you GIVE
LOVE IS WHAT YOU ARE
Or
ARE NOT.
So, for the first time in eleven months I had a bigot 'reply-guy' on a post I did about a #trans -affirming UK legal case. Like the only other time it has happened, I reported it immediately and cc:ed his server of course
Result: their account is removed within 20 minutes. Gone, nixed ...
It matters, "it's why I am here and not there" 
Thank you to all moderators on servers big and small for keeping things safe, and reacting fast like this
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Moderation #Mods #LGBT #LGBTQ #OnlineSafety
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The town of #KhanYounis in the south of the #Gaza_Strip is struggling to cope with the evacuees from the north with one road.
#PalestineUnderAttack #PalestineIsraelconflict #palestine #IsraelPalestineconflict #Israel #gaza #gaza_under_attack
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Unknown parent • • •This is a hot take for fedi, but I honestly think an iPhone is the best off the shelf defense against this kind of health data shit.
The Health app is one of the most comprehensive of its kind, and is one single place to defend as opposed to many apps for different functions, with different privacy policies.
You get prompted a single time whether you want to share your health data with Apple. Decline it and your data stays on-device. I’ve never been nagged again after the single request to upload data.
There are some ways that Apple is shit with privacy, but there are other ways they very much aren’t.
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in reply to :baba_yaseen: -> yassie_j@labyrinth.zone • • •If that's the law in the UK, I don't think much would protect you other than keeping it on a device that the police don't confiscate.
In the US, you can be compelled to unlock a phone biometrically, but AFAIK you can't be forced to disclose a password.
It's gone back and forth a few times here, about whether it's protected by the 5th amendment.
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