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Jesus Harriet Christ on a motherfucking pogo stick. This is BAD bad. mondoweiss.net/2023/10/israeli…

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New word I have learned today: Dunkelflaute, the dark doldrums where little or no energy can be generated with wind or solar power. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkelfl…
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@pseudomonas @chiffchaff (...bah, sad to see the Dinorwig visitor centre closed with no current prospect of reopening)

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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.

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I saw this last night on the old place, and have come back here purely to tell you about it, but I'm delighted to see you're already hooked!

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Doomsday diaries

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#Gaza #Palestine #Irael #Hamas #resistance @palestine

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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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@jpaskaruk @ellie Horses, donkeys, and dogs all need to be fed and cared for.

Bicycles (or, in the event of a lot of snow on the ground, cross-country skis and sleds to haul stuff on) don't.

Which is not to say that people have not ridden or dog-sledded through disasters and evacuations before.

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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.



There’s something about pratting about in a chlorinated swimming pool (or maybe just a particular one) that seems to give me cold like symptoms the next day. Congestion, runny nose, sneezing, headaches. And this was with a nose clip!



So, oval sportball time. I feel morally obliged to support South Africa and follow my father’s “Anyone But England” tradition.



When a devolved legislature’s presiding officer certifies legislation is within that legislature’s competence… is that a vires check?

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The Northern Ireland Assembly website is “temporarily unavailable” which I suppose is appropriate. (If annoying since it means I can’t read it to inspect the Assembly’s processes)

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The builders’ merchants have a “no reversing without a banksman” sign. What’s the gender neutral equivalent? “No reversing without a banker”?
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@molybdomantic Post-Bod: When the Milkshake Runs Dry. The Commissioning of Childrens Television in the late 1980s.
@ceb

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@pseudomonas @molybdomantic Banksy would be fun, 😄 . You could then sell the signs to art dealers afterwards.
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Heard this Scot on the radio talking about the maudlin in the forecast. Took me a while to realise he meant modelling!

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Heading out into storm #Babet, #RRSSirDavidAttenborough departed from Portsmouth this afternoon to begin the long journey South. Intention is to find shelter further along the coast rather than burn unnecessary fuel battling the 8-10 m waves presently in the Western Approaches.

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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…


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IG/Meta has been inserting the word "terrorist" into the bios of users that included the words Palestinian" and “alhamdulillah” (which means praise to Allah, or God) 404media.co/instagram-palestin… #meta #instagram #palestine #war

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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.


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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.

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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.

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Still terra nullius.

My @smh cartoon.

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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" :birdsite:

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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you don't know me, but I'm here as of yesterday due to my account on the other place having been censored and by result given a permaban. Bigots of the "free speech for me, not for thee" ilk mass reported me. It was always on my mind to migrate here, and having had received this unfair censorship. It was the straw that broke the camels back. I'm glad to see the moderation on this platform is actually doing its job properly.


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It’s weird. I remember in the lead up to the 1997 General Election that Blair and Brown were offering hope. With an election next year it feels like all the parties are now offering is reduced despair.


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We done fucked up if "killing civilians of any nationality is bad" is a controversial thing to say.

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genocide
One might think “the cold blooded murder of a million children is a bad thing” is an uncontroversial statement to make on this here federated network thing, but apparently there are more fans of murdering children here than one might imagine.
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genocide
@Rachel Lawson yeah. I server blocked them.

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The Israelis are about to kill over two million people, half of whom are children, and the world is just going to let them.

How utterly monumentally fucked up.

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@Steffi the Redhead Get fucked, genocide apologist. Not having that shit on my wall. Arsehole. *plonk*
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@Jack The difference is that Hamas aren’t actually capable of doing this.

Israel absolutely is.


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Thread of UK and Ireland #Palestine demos today.

#Glasgow

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the funniest thing in the Apple is the last version of MacOS features "video reactions" where if your camera sees you do a thumbs up or heart symbol with your hands, stuff happens behind you like fireworks in ANY video app you are using BY DEFAULT.

A friend was in an online therapy session, describing his trauma so the therapist asked if he was alright and he did a thumbs up and then HUGE FIREWORKS BEHIND HIS HEAD.

It's so bad that online therapy sessions now start with a warning dialog!

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The Activision thing finally landed. Which means MS owns Infocom, via an impressive 40-year chain of buyouts, takeovers, and shakeups.

Now I formally put forth the plea:

Microsoft should put all of Infocom’s IP under a Creative Commons license. Or donate the rights to a nonprofit which can do the same. Let’s bring all these legally-shaky fan sites and collections into the light.

blog.zarfhome.com/2023/10/micr…

(Yes, I’m part of a nonprofit that could do that.)

Pass it along.

#InteractiveFiction


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When Russia inflicts this kind of damage on civilian targets in Ukraine, we call it a war crime, and rightly so.

Why isn't it a war crime when Israel does it to Gaza?

bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-middle…

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Thoughts on the Eben Moglen situation and how it reflects a wider problem in free software: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/68004.htm…

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@lxo it wasn't during his speech, it happened at the end of the conference in a hallway
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thanks. I'm pretty sure I was there on that year. I even watched his speech, but I surely didn't have the context to read between the lines what you did.

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Link Post: Breakthrough in reading unopened ancient scrolls by scanning them scrollprize.org/firstletters

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Meta, news


I realise I have fallen out of the habit of hash tagging or cw-ing posts. Given the distressing nature of the news at the moment I will try harder to do so.
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@demoographics I think this is because the post is originally on friendica. I got confused about it a while back. Our comments here *do* end up in friendica, but the original content is a link.
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@kæt @Matthew Vernon It’s confusing and I don’t understand why friendica’s AP implementation does that, but 🤷‍♀️

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It is strange and disturbing to see so many posts on social media that deny it's a war crime to stage a surprise attack on civilians (including murders, kidnappings, and rapes) or to starve out a civilian population (by cutting off electricity, food, and water).

These are both obviously war crimes and should be discussed as such.

justsecurity.org/89403/the-sie…

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And there it is. A fully sorted #Amiga 1200 with a working floppy, 68060 CPU, 128mb of RAM, and a 4gb SD for storage. Really, really pleased with this thing. 2023 is the year of Amiga on the desktop. 😀

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👏 If we ever adopt a written constitution, this should be the opening paragraph.


Maybe I need to dig out the several Palestinian flags I brought back home from my visit in 1994