Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales
Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales - Inside Climate News
At the U.N. Ocean Conference, Tonga’s princess called for recognition of whales’ legal rights. The move is one of several rights of nature initiatives happening at the conference.Inside Climate News
CIO wants to clone top techies as digital twin and AI agents
CIO wants to grow tech team by cloning staff as digital twins and AI agents
Cisco Live: UC San Diego hopes humans spend less time fighting fires, more time repelling 'exquisite' attacks from abroad that researchers accidentally invitedSimon Sharwood (The Register)
Why, and how, journalists must cover racism
Why, and how, journalists must cover racism
Too much press coverage of racism and other bigotries remains objectively lackingJamil Smith (The Emancipator)
David Hogg to exit Democratic National Committee after months of turmoil
David Hogg to exit Democratic National Committee after months of turmoil
Vice-chair and Parkland survivor, 25, to leave after members voted to hold elections that could have led to his ousterGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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It just worked.
I've felt compelled to post; it just works!
I've got a pc which is over a decade old; I've only ever used Microsoft with my main OS on that machine being windows 7 and then windows 10.
With the new requirements for windows 11 being what they were I was considering installing it anyway with some workarounds.
My computer appeared to be getting slower, I was annoyed with all of the bloat which goes along with the Microsoft OS, the constant reminders to "finish setting up my device" and use one drive. All of this was a bit too much for me.
I figured I'd have a go at installing a Linux OS. I'd ran Ubuntu years and years ago as an experiment on an evening older pc and it was very much sub par, it looked nice, it was a pain to do anything and didn't play any of the games I wanted at the time.
A little bit of research told me that Linux mint may be a good option. I also read that dual booting can be difficult. So I just backed up my data, and installed it on the hard disk.
It was mostly seamless, I had issues with my graphics driver, which meant I couldn't click the buttons to install mint & crashes, when running off the live disk to see what the os was like. This was part of the reason I just installed it on the hard drive and didn't go through with a 'testing' phase.
Once that was resolved by installing the Nvidia driver I could use mint. This was made quite easy as it was just a few clicks in the gui and made really obvious to see. And the Mint does everything I need it to!
Gaming appears to have come a long, long way, I ran Civ V to test and it worked.
My Bluetooth mouse and keyboard connected without issue.
The libre office suite is great to use and I've found it similar to the Microsoft equivalents.
My computer appears to be faster. I now realise that it was actually just the additional demands of the Microsoft OS on my machine which slowed it.
I have a multi screen set up, this simply just worked, the only tweek I made was selecting my main monitor.
To top it all, and perhaps the most surprising thing for me (and the reason for the post) is the printer just worked. Like, printers never just work. It's just plugged in, recognised and I could print. No additional set up needed.
I'm short, Linux has progressed so much over the years. I thank all those who have worked on it to make it such a great option. It will be my main OS going forward and I'll advocate for it. I'll also ensure that my kids are running a Linux OS when they have computers of their own.
So, if you're reading this and unsure about Linux, don't be. It's great and easy to set up, works flawlessly.
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I have a Lenovo Legion 5 Pro with an RTX3060. When Linux can run 2D graphic animations in browsers with more than 5fps I'll switch, but it just doesn't work.
It may have come a long way, but let's not pretend it's flawless.
When Linux can run 2D graphic animations in browsers with more than 5fps I’ll switch, but it just doesn’t work.
I have a laptop with a 3060 and I don't have this issue.
Iran Vows To Respond After IAEA Passes Noncompliance Resolution
The International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Board of Governors has passed a resolution formally declaring Iran noncompliant with its nonproliferation obligations for the first time since 2005, a move Tehran immediately condemned.The resolution, which was adopted on June 12 during a quarterly meeting of the IAEA board, can facilitate the return of UN sanctions against Iran later this year.
In response, Iran's Foreign Ministry announced that a new enrichment site would be established in a safe zone and first-generation centrifuges in the Fordo site will be replaced with advanced sixth-generation machines.
"As we have previously stated, the Islamic Republic of Iran has no choice but to respond to this political resolution," the ministry said in a statement.
Iran Vows To Respond After IAEA Passes Noncompliance Resolution
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Board of Governors has passed resolution formally declaring Iran noncompliant with its nonproliferation obligations for the first time since 2005, a move Tehran immediately condemned.RFE/RL
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Al-Shawa: Palestinian citizens who went out to receive aid returned to their families as corpses
Al-Shawa: Palestinian citizens who went out to receive aid returned to their families as corpses
Amjad al-Shawa, director of the NGO Network in Gaza, has confirmed that aid distribution centers supervised by the American security company and the enemy army have been transformed into military sites serving the Israeli and American agendas.www.saba.ye
Could this be the death of Australia's nightmarish welfare system?
Mutual obligation is one of the last great shibboleths of Australian politics. Now the entire system is under scrutiny with potentially big implications for our welfare system.
Could this be the death of Australia’s nightmarish welfare system?
The system of mutual obligations for jobseekers is under scrutiny, with potentially big implications for Australia's welfare program.Ben Eltham (Crikey)
“Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney
- Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney.
- The companies allege that the platform used its copyright protected material to train its model and that users can generate content that infringes on Disney and Universal’s copyrighted material.
- The scathing lawsuit requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
https://htxt.co.za/2025/06/piracy-is-piracy-disney-and-universal-team-up-to-sue-midjourney/
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I say this as a massive AI critic: Disney does not have a legitimate grievance here.
AI training data is scraping. Scraping is — and must continue to be — fair use. As Cory Doctorow (fellow AI critic) says: Scraping against the wishes of the scraped is good, actually.
I want generative AI firms to get taken down. But I want them to be taken down for the right reasons.
Their products are toxic to communication and collaboration.
They are the embodiment of a pathology that sees humanity — what they might call inefficiency, disagreement, incoherence, emotionality, bias, chaos, disobedience — as a problem, and technology as the answer.
Dismantle them on the basis of what their poison does to public discourse, shared knowledge, connection to each other, mental well-being, fair competition, privacy, labor dignity, and personal identity.
Not because they didn’t pay the fucking Mickey Mouse toll.
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“Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney
- Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney.
- The companies allege that the platform used its copyright protected material to train its model and that users can generate content that infringes on Disney and Universal’s copyrighted material.
- The scathing lawsuit requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
https://htxt.co.za/2025/06/piracy-is-piracy-disney-and-universal-team-up-to-sue-midjourney/
Israeli army officers refuse to serve in ‘unnecessary, eternal war’ in Gaza; say many hostages have been killed by IDF bombings
Israel’s government is issuing “clearly illegal” orders that must not be obeyed, a group of Israeli military intelligence officers have said, announcing they will no longer participate in combat operations in Gaza.
The intelligence officers said Netanyahu’s government had given a “death sentence” to the Israeli hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza when it “chose to collapse” the ceasefire deal in March.
The group, which is understood to include members of the elite military surveillance division Unit 8200, claimed that “many hostages have already been killed by IDF bombings” and accused the government of continuing to “abandon their lives”.
Organised by the anti-war group Soldiers for the Hostages, the letter comes amid growing dissent within certain parts of the military over the continuation of the war in Gaza and an apparent increase in the numbers of soldiers who are refusing to fight.
Israeli government issuing ‘illegal’ orders that must not be obeyed, say IDF intelligence officers
In letter to Netanyahu, 41 signatories say hostages given ‘death sentence’ and Israel waging ‘unnecessary’ warHarry Davies (The Guardian)
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Even when protesting the war they only care about their hostages.
Not saying they shouldn't care about them, but deliberately only caring about them and not the tens of thousands of Palestinian women and children they murdered speaks volumes.
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Manjaro is good enough for me, even though I hear one should use Endeavour or whatever.
Half of businesses rethink ditching humans for customer service bots
Agentless contact center 'not yet technically feasible, nor operationally desirable'
Half of businesses rethink ditching humans for customer service bots
: Agentless contact center 'not yet technically feasible, nor operationally desirable'Richard Speed (The Register)
Amazon to call on EU judges for online platform rules exemption
The hearing is the second in which a company contests the European Commission's reasoning behind the Digital Services Act.
Trump Says He Wants FEMA Eliminated After Hurricane Season
"The FEMA thing has not been a very successful experiment," Trump said.
Acting head of FEMA said he wasn't aware U.S. has a hurricane season, sources say
It was not clear to staff whether FEMA's David Richardson meant it literally or as a joke, but current and former employees who spoke with CBS News said the comment flustered many.Nicole Sganga (CBS News)
Meta to announce $15bn investment in bid to achieve computerised ‘superintelligence’
Mark Zuckerberg expected to announce Meta will buy 49% stake in Scale AI as race to dominate AI market speeds up
Researchers create AI-based tool that restores age-damaged artworks in hours
By slashing time and cost of restoration, technique could be used on paintings not valuable enough for traditional approach
A Carrelli tram in Milan, Italy, from 1927
I took a picture of this tram this morning.
This is a series of trams "type Edison" produced in Italy in the period 1927-1930
They are in active use on a number of lines in Milan, and while beautiful, they are slow, hardly accessible and noisy... But still.
Some more info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM_Clas…
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New proof that von der Leyen ignored Israel's acts of genocide
In February 2024, the European Commission’s president received an appeal from the governments of Ireland and Spain.
The joint letter referred to a preliminary International Court of Justice ruling from the previous month which deemed as plausible allegations made by South Africa that Israel had violated the Genocide Convention.
Ireland and Spain then sought an “urgent review” of whether Israel was upholding its obligations to respect human rights, as stipulated in the association agreement underpinning its relations with the European Union.
I recently submitted a freedom of information request asking for access to all briefing documents drawn up for von der Leyen on how the issues raised by Ireland and Spain should be addressed.
The European Commission has now confirmed that it has no records of any such material being compiled within the three months after the appeal by Ireland and Spain was made.
Only one conclusion can be drawn from that fact: Von der Leyen did not regard the call from Ireland and Spain as something which should prompt action on her part. She, therefore, neither asked her staff for advice about how to respond nor issued them any instructions.
New proof that von der Leyen ignored Israel's acts of genocide
European Commission indicates that 2024 appeal by Ireland and Spain was allowed to gather dust.The Electronic Intifada
Germany's "rearmament" debate expands to include Mandatory Military Service - PlatformNews
Germany's "rearmament" debate expands to include Mandatory Military Service - PlatformNews
Amid Germany’s push for “rearmament,” there is growing debate about reinstating mandatory military service, which was abolished in 2011. Some argue that both men and women should bear the same responsibility for compulsory service.wapnews (PlatformNews)
200 Protesters Flood Maersk’s Manhattan HQ to Demand End to Military Shipments
200 Protesters Flood Maersk’s Manhattan HQ to Demand End to Military Shipments
The protest targeted a transnational company that plays a critical role in supplying F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel.Schuyler Mitchell (Truthout)
The Strategic Logic of the No Kings Protests
Over the last six weeks, we’ve gotten the occasional question about why Indivisible, together with our coalition of incredible partners, called for No Kings Day on June 14.Why another protest? What is it going to accomplish? Shouldn’t we be [insert alternate tactic] instead?
These are good-faith questions, and they stem from very reasonable concerns. The speed, scope, and scale of the MAGA assault — on our rights, our neighbors, our democracy — is staggering. The stakes are enormous. There are days when nothing we’re doing feels sufficient to the magnitude of the horrors we face.
Protest is a tactic. And with any tactic, there’s a danger of tactical freeze, of it getting stale, of deploying it without a real strategy in mind. And it’s easy to look at any single protest and ask, “what did that even accomplish? What was the point?”
So I want to take a step back and talk about the role of a peaceful mass mobilization like No Kings in the context of our strategic analysis.
The Strategic Logic of the No Kings Protests - Indivisible Guide - Medium
Over the last six weeks, we’ve gotten the occasional question about why Indivisible, together with our coalition of incredible partners, called for No Kings Day on June 14. Why another protest? What…Indivisible Guide (Medium)
Canva now requires use of AI during developer job interviews
Canva to job candidates: Thou shalt use AI during interviews
: Design software slinger warns it won't hire devs who aren't good at modern toolsSimon Sharwood (The Register)
Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
“The Wikimedia Foundation has been exploring ways to make Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects more accessible to readers globally,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told me in an email. “This two-week, opt-in experiment was focused on making complex Wikipedia articles more accessible to people with different reading levels. For the purposes of this experiment, the summaries were generated by an open-weight Aya model by Cohere. It was meant to gauge interest in a feature like this, and to help us think about the right kind of community moderation systems to ensure humans remain central to deciding what information is shown on Wikipedia.”
Some very out of touch people in the Wikimedia Foundation.
Fortunately the editors (people who actually write the articles) have the sense to oppose this move in mass.
Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of articles after an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the Wikipedia editors community.“Just because Google has rolled out its AI summaries doesn't mean we need to one-up them, I sincerely beg you not to test this, on mobile or anywhere else,” one editor said in response to Wikimedia Foundation’s announcement that it will launch a two-week trial of the summaries on the mobile version of Wikipedia. “This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source. Wikipedia has in some ways become a byword for sober boringness, which is excellent. Let's not insult our readers' intelligence and join the stampede to roll out flashy AI summaries. Which is what these are, although here the word ‘machine-generated’ is used instead.”
Two other editors simply commented, “Yuck.”
For years, Wikipedia has been one of the most valuable repositories of information in the world, and a laudable model for community-based, democratic internet platform governance. Its importance has only grown in the last couple of years during the generative AI boom as it’s one of the only internet platforms that has not been significantly degraded by the flood of AI-generated slop and misinformation. As opposed to Google, which since embracing generative AI has instructed its users to eat glue, Wikipedia’s community has kept its articles relatively high quality. As I recently reported last year, editors are actively working to filter out bad, AI-generated content from Wikipedia.
A page detailing the the AI-generated summaries project, called “Simple Article Summaries,” explains that it was proposed after a discussion at Wikimedia’s 2024 conference, Wikimania, where “Wikimedians discussed ways that AI/machine-generated remixing of the already created content can be used to make Wikipedia more accessible and easier to learn from.” Editors who participated in the discussion thought that these summaries could improve the learning experience on Wikipedia, where some article summaries can be quite dense and filled with technical jargon, but that AI features needed to be cleared labeled as such and that users needed an easy to way to flag issues with “machine-generated/remixed content once it was published or generated automatically.”
In one experiment where summaries were enabled for users who have the Wikipedia browser extension installed, the generated summary showed up at the top of the article, which users had to click to expand and read. That summary was also flagged with a yellow “unverified” label.
An example of what the AI-generated summary looked like.
Wikimedia announced that it was going to run the generated summaries experiment on June 2, and was immediately met with dozens of replies from editors who said “very bad idea,” “strongest possible oppose,” Absolutely not,” etc.“Yes, human editors can introduce reliability and NPOV [neutral point-of-view] issues. But as a collective mass, it evens out into a beautiful corpus,” one editor said. “With Simple Article Summaries, you propose giving one singular editor with known reliability and NPOV issues a platform at the very top of any given article, whilst giving zero editorial control to others. It reinforces the idea that Wikipedia cannot be relied on, destroying a decade of policy work. It reinforces the belief that unsourced, charged content can be added, because this platforms it. I don't think I would feel comfortable contributing to an encyclopedia like this. No other community has mastered collaboration to such a wondrous extent, and this would throw that away.”
A day later, Wikimedia announced that it would pause the launch of the experiment, but indicated that it’s still interested in AI-generated summaries.
“The Wikimedia Foundation has been exploring ways to make Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects more accessible to readers globally,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told me in an email. “This two-week, opt-in experiment was focused on making complex Wikipedia articles more accessible to people with different reading levels. For the purposes of this experiment, the summaries were generated by an open-weight Aya model by Cohere. It was meant to gauge interest in a feature like this, and to help us think about the right kind of community moderation systems to ensure humans remain central to deciding what information is shown on Wikipedia.”
“It is common to receive a variety of feedback from volunteers, and we incorporate it in our decisions, and sometimes change course,” the Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson added. “We welcome such thoughtful feedback — this is what continues to make Wikipedia a truly collaborative platform of human knowledge.”
“Reading through the comments, it’s clear we could have done a better job introducing this idea and opening up the conversation here on VPT back in March,” a Wikimedia Foundation project manager said. VPT, or “village pump technical,” is where The Wikimedia Foundation and the community discuss technical aspects of the platform. “As internet usage changes over time, we are trying to discover new ways to help new generations learn from Wikipedia to sustain our movement into the future. In consequence, we need to figure out how we can experiment in safe ways that are appropriate for readers and the Wikimedia community. Looking back, we realize the next step with this message should have been to provide more of that context for you all and to make the space for folks to engage further.”
The project manager also said that “Bringing generative AI into the Wikipedia reading experience is a serious set of decisions, with important implications, and we intend to treat it as such, and that “We do not have any plans for bringing a summary feature to the wikis without editor involvement. An editor moderation workflow is required under any circumstances, both for this idea, as well as any future idea around AI summarized or adapted content.”
The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes
WikiProject AI Cleanup is protecting Wikipedia from the same kind of misleading AI-generated information that has plagued the rest of the internet.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects
Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.NBER
Is the ‘tech bro-ification’ of abortion here?
EXCLUSIVE: Is the ‘tech bro-ification’ of abortion here?
Repro workers and tech experts reveal startling gaps between the promises offered by abortion tech and the realities facing abortion-seekers and support workersNicole Froio (Prism)
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Is the ‘tech bro-ification’ of abortion here?
EXCLUSIVE: Is the ‘tech bro-ification’ of abortion here?
Repro workers and tech experts reveal startling gaps between the promises offered by abortion tech and the realities facing abortion-seekers and support workersNicole Froio (Prism)
An Experimental New Dating Site Matches Singles Based on Their Browser Histories
An Experimental New Dating Site Matches Singles Based on Their Browser Histories
Browser Dating users upload their 5,000 most recent searches, which are turned into a “browsing personality profile" by AI.Jason Parham (WIRED)
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Mary Gauthier – The Foundling (2010)
Blood is blood And blood don’t wash away Questi versi racchiudono nel modo più chiaro ed immediato l’essenza del sesto album di studio di Mary Gauthier, intitolato The Foundling e pubblicato da Proper Records nel 2010... Leggi e ascolta...
Mary Gauthier – The Foundling (2010)
Blood is blood And blood don’t wash away Questi versi racchiudono nel modo più chiaro ed immediato l’essenza del sesto album di studio di Mary Gauthier, intitolato The Foundling e pubblicato da Proper Records nel 2010. Si tratta di un concept album che può essere sinteticamente definito come un’autobiografia in musica. Attraverso le tredici tracce, infatti, viene narrata la storia di una bambina abbandonata alla nascita che dopo un anno in orfanotrofio viene adottata, ma poi scappa dai genitori adottivi. Una volta cresciuta finisce nello show business, ma il suo passato irrisolto continua a tormentarla. Cerca di trovare i propri genitori naturali e riesce a rintracciare la madre con la quale si mette in contatto, ma viene freddamente respinta. Alla fine, nonostante la durezza della vita, attraverso l’amore o la speranza dell’amore, riesce a trovare pace con se stessa. E’ impossibile scindere la musica dalla narrazione: Mary Gauthier si fa portavoce attraverso la propria esperienza personale del disagio degli orfani, di chi deve affrontare le difficoltà della vita con la ferita aperta dell’abbandono e del non sapere nulla delle proprie origini. La sua voce profonda, a volte dura e tagliente, contrasta con il suo aspetto fragile, ma androgino e da questa unione ne esce un senso di sacralità e di sensibilità vera.
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L'esilio di un libro e la morte invisibile sui muri dell'Imperatore - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
L'esilio di un libro e la morte invisibile sui muri dell'Imperatore - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
In una delle leggi riportate nel Levitico, terzo libro della Bibbia e della Torah, viene spiegato che: “Quando la piaga appare sulle pareti della casa con cavità verdastre o rossastre, che sembrino più profonde della superficie della parete, il sacer…Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
2019 executive order began a trend toward White House-centered AI policy
2019 executive order began a trend toward White House-centered AI policy
Among other things, the first AI executive order focused on building R&D and the nation’s workforce. But it was only the first of a half dozen to come.Jared Serbu (Federal News Network)
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That time I caused a mod skirmish in /r/AskHistorians
This post in /r/AskHistorians apparently caused a mod conflict and confused sub users.
A couple of highlights:
Hello everyone wondering where the answer is […] We are not asking anyone to completely re-write something to suit our tastes, but to contextualize what is written within the reality of the times. As this question hit /r/all, it’s very clear that there is a large audience reading it, with various degrees of knowledge about the period and the novel/film.
They did, though, and people called them out, to be met by some confusion, followed by another mod response:
In sum, you had the poor timing of posting right at the point when the mod team ‘turns over’ several times - US slips off to Bed and then Europe wakes up. It meant that you were dealing with, essentially, a string of mods in different time zones and different “shifts” which created something of a Moderator game of telephone about what we had been expecting out of an answer in the thread.
General confusion ensued.
There were several conflicting mod DMs that weren’t captured publicly, too, but were responded to in the OP. Asked to include all races, then asked to narrow it down, asked to include a disclaimer (I did, at the bottom), then asked to move it to the top, asked to remove things, then to include those same things. It was maddening.
E: re-reading, I don’t think I’ve ever used race words so often in my life, jesus.
e: I only included this photo because I couldn’t seem to submit this post without a photo for some reason. It’s only tangentially related to the Reddit post, but this is an example of my education on the subject.
From Word and Excel to LibreOffice: Danish ministry says goodbye to Microsoft
From Word and Excel to LibreOffice: Danish ministry says goodbye to Microsoft
All employees at the Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs are to work without Microsoft. Instead, Linux and LibreOffice will be used, says the minister.Martin Holland (heise online)
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Hopefully this also means monetary investment in open source, not just open source usage without a support contract or contributing back. Matrix is a great example of an open source project that is being used by governments but struggling to get paid because governments are employing their own support staff and making internal forks.
But the more governments, agencies and individuals switch, there greater the chance they'll pay the developers and maintainers for support or features.
Republicans Hate Knowledge, Love Grift
I was going to write about how excited I was that both the Ignyte Awards and the Shirley Jackson Awards nominations both dropped last week. I’ve already started reading through the Hugo Awards nominees, which were announced back in April, and now I have plenty of reading material to last me the rest of the year.
Then I saw this drop: Senate budget threatens Ohio library funding
Senate Republicans aren’t coming to the rescue of Ohio libraries.The Senate budget plan mirrors a House proposal that eliminates guaranteed state funding for libraries, tied to percentage of state tax revenues.
Under both budgets, library funding instead appears in the budget as a simple line item that could be slashed in subsequent budgets without notice.
On top of that, it lumps together several other library entities into the same Public Library Fund so the money allocated would potentially be cut into smaller pieces.
Needless to say, libraries are concerned.
This is the budget which Republicans passed in both the Ohio House and Senate. The Senate passed the bill today, in fact, with just one Republican joining Democrats to vote no. The bill removes the Public Library Fund, which gives Republicans the option to kill funding for libraries in this and future budgets. Meanwhile, Republicans chose to fund the proposed new Brookpark Browns stadium with $600 million.
It is clear that Republicans don’t care about knowledge. They only care about grift, as the Haslem family is a major MAGA donor, all while showing they are inept at actual business.
This is due to Republican corruption.
This is due to Republican gerrymandering.
This is due to Republican greed.
If you vote Republican, this is all on you.
Senate budget threatens Ohio library funding
The Senate budget proposal is similar to the House approved bilMary Frances McGowan, cleveland.com (cleveland)
WhatsApp is getting AI-powered summaries for unread chats
WhatsApp is getting AI-powered summaries for unread chats - 9to5Mac
WhatsApp is testing its own in-app, AI-powered feature that summarizes unread messages in chats, groups, and channels. Here’s how it works.Marcus Mendes (9to5Mac)
I made a gpg Hat
I recently have been playing around with GPG (its pretty fun!)
And decided to make a hat with my public key on it!
Its a fun conversation starter at walmart, when somebody asks what it is? It activates my tism, and i get to talk about computer science! Its also important to teach others the importants of encryption especially as of one day ago the EFF made a post talking about yet another bill trying to go after encryption.
The keen eyed among you see i have blocked out certain parts of my key, this is because i have a key for this hat exclusively and would like to see if anybody i talk to about encryption in real life bothers to email me. I know its not much but i enjoy it!
I laser etched the leather, and hand stitched it to the hat.
I know this is more kinda clothing stuff, but it just didnt feel right posting a hat with a gpg key on a fasion/clothing community.
Hope you enjoy
My little project >😀 hehe
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Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news
Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news - r/SubredditDrama
View on Redlib, an alternative private front-end to Reddit.redlib.tiekoetter.com
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I mean if you read any Reddit that during the road to the recent USA elections, Biden should have won by an extremely large margin, and later , Kamala.
If we used Reddit threads of those months as reference, we'd currently been talking about how hard Kamala won
But she didn't
So yeah, take whatever is on Reddit, and now Lemmy, with an asteroid sized pinch of salt
Not saying those comments were fake, they certainly represent someone, now, wheater that someone is a sizeable amount of voters...
Hollywood studios target AI image generator in copyright lawsuit
Hollywood studios target AI image generator in copyright lawsuit
Multiple-studio complaint cites AI image outputs as evidence of “bottomless pit of plagiarism.”…Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
What happened to Blockinger? (Tetris Clone)
Its gone from F-Droid Store..
It looks like F-Droid does not have any apps matching your search string "Blockinger"
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Lemuroid emulator + apotris is the best (FOSS) tetris replacement on Android
Can you be tracked for marketing purposes on a "dumb-phone"?
I'm aware that carrying a phone means that I can be tracked with cell towers and that's fine.
But is there some sort of tracking that can be done on modern dumb-phones that make relevant ads show up(on spotify/youtube) that are based on where the phone has been?
Thanks I'm a newb
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I would unironically love if there were enough people in my life that also wanted to live that way to make it viable... Also the lack of functioning payphones these days would be challenging.
The place (at least in the USA) where I've found the most functional-looking payphones was actually Hawaii... And even then, so many are decaying and non-functional. I've had a silly idea to go back and just roam around and photograph as many as I can.
Republicans Want to Defund NPR. To Survive, It Needs To Do Some Soul-Searching.
Republicans Want to Defund NPR. To Survive, It Needs To Do Some Soul-Searching.
NPR's job is to produce news for every American. Its partisan lean is undermining that mission.Zaid Jilani (The American Saga)
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My wife and I listen to NPR fairly regularly, she donates, I do not.
My argument is as long as they are taking money from companies like Archer Daniels Midland and the Koch Foundation, they don't need MY money.
Local stations (not NPR, but NPR affiliates) even take money from fucking Monsanto(!)
Use supervisor or desktop Linux for TV gaming PC + NAS?
To give a bit of context : I'm upgrading my whole desktop computer so I now have a spare computer for gaming on the TV. I'm thinking of using it mainly as a gaming "console", but might be interested in embedding a NAS as well, and possibly some Docker containers for Home Assistants etc...
So the question : should I just install a normal Distro like Arch, setup a network share and Docker containers, or should I use a proper hypervisor like Unraid and have a VM for couch gaming etc...?
What issues could I expect with both? Are performances impacted with the hypervisor? (I don't plan on doing competitive games on the TV) or is troubleshooting going to be easier on a standard distro?
Did someone do such a setup and have some feedback?
Never properly used Linux before, but I'm a Windows power-user and am looking to transition part of my setup to Linux.
The GPU is going to be an RTX3070 if that matters
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Have you considered/tried streaming games from your primary desktop PC? Obviously very dependent on your situation's specifics, but that's one of the things I do with the Linux htpc I have set up.
And then you wouldn't have to worry about games and NAS stuff competing for system resources.
I'd personally go the hypervisor route (I'm using proxmox, truenas, and an arr stack on my NAS). It keeps things compartmentalized (especially network configurations) and usually keeps me from breaking *everything at the same time.
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The legislation was opposed by companies such as Amazon and the statewide nonprofit Oregon Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, an industry group, where executives see private investment as vital to their business strategy.
“We universally agree that the way to protect clinics from closure and maintain the broadest patient access to outpatient care is to keep the existing, and multi-ownership models alive and well,” wrote Ryan Grimm on behalf of the association and the Portland Clinic, a private multispecialty medical group, in a March letter to lawmakers.
“In some communities, there is no hospital to swoop in to the rescue, or no hospital in a financial position to save a clinic,” he wrote.
The bill does not go into effect immediately and it contains a three-year adjustment period for clinics to comply with the restrictions. Institutions such as hospitals, tribal health facilities, behavioral health programs and crisis lines are exempted.
Mein Gott, a ray of sanity! Listen it's not everything a constituent can hope for but it's a giant step in the right direction. Congratulations, Oregon!
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