A podcast episode with heavy-weights of the Fediverse and ActivityPub - fredrocha.net
A podcast episode with heavy-weights of the Fediverse and ActivityPub - fredrocha.net
The main idea here is you post once on your own website, and automagically your content is displayed across the Fediverse (Mastodon, Flipboard, Pixelfed, WordPress, and Threads).Fred Rocha (fredrocha.net)
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Giuseppe Cesaro, “Si pubblicano troppi libri, abbandono l’attività di scrittore”
Lo scrittore Giuseppe Cesaro in una lunga lettera spiega i motivi della sua decisione: troppe uscite, pochi spazi in libreria, nomi famosi che tolgono spazio agli emergenti i motivi principali
> “Sui libri sventola bandiera bianca” potremmo dire citando un celebra del 1981 di Franco Battiato per raccontare la vicenda di Giuseppe Cesaro, scrittore di Sestri Levante nato nel 1961 e autore professionista dagli anni Ottanta. “Con “Fatico a ricordare il tuo viso. E, ancora di più, la tua voce” (La nave di Teseo) si chiude la mia vicenda di scrittore”. Così inizia la lunga lettera di Giuseppe Cesaro rivolta a tutti: editori, autori e lettori.
> Ma perché ha deciso di abbandonare l’attività di scrittore? Il suo non è un capriccio, ma un grido d’allarme legato al mondo dell’editoria oggi.
> Leggiamo di seguito la sua lettera in cui racconta la sua sofferta decisione.
La lettera di Giuseppe Cesaro
Giuseppe Cesaro, "Si pubblicano troppi libri, abbandono l'attività di scrittore"
Lo scrittore Giuseppe Cesaro in una lunga lettera spiega i motivi della sua decisione: troppe uscite, pochi spazi in libreria, nomi famosi che tolgono spazio agli emergenti i motivi principaliSalvatore Galeone (Libreriamo)
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Duolingo 365, l’inizio della fine…
Mi era passato di mente il dato a dir poco pazzo e avvilente di aver raggiunto il fantomatico slancio di 365 fottuti giorni su Duolingo… e la cosa è assolutamente terribile, perché se ne viene con il suo bel malloppo di implicazioni scomode. (A parte il fatto che non ho iniziato a usare il servizio […]
octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…
Duolingo 365, l’inizio della fine…
Mi era passato di mente il dato a dir poco pazzo e avvilente di aver raggiunto il fantomatico slancio di 365 fottuti giorni su Duolingo… e la cosa è assolutamente terribile, perché se ne viene con il suo bel malloppo di implicazioni scomode. (A parte il fatto che non ho iniziato a usare il servizio il 29 giugno 2024 come sembrerebbe, ma una o due settimane prima, perché nel corso dell’anno qualche volta ho perso dei giorni… cazzo di gufo.)
Innanzitutto… ora ho lo stato di “VIP”… che pare una roba da pazzi detta così, ma in realtà semplicemente aggiunge una scrittina “🔥 1+ year” sotto il nome nelle classifiche. Molto meh, ma… è ancora peggio il fatto che in un anno ho imparato relativamente pochissimo!!! Non poco quanto i tizi super anti-Duolingo dicono, ma comunque… フクロウのせいで、私の生命が危ない!!! Purtroppo non ho sia tempo che voglia di fare gamin’ a quanto pare, quindi sono nella cacca, e l’unika a parte usare anke Anki sarebbe di procurarsi qualche manga tipo per i bimbi dell’asilo, non lo so… ☠️
![June 29:[I'm on a365 day learning streak!duolingo]> però ora basta.](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/1024/51643566 "June 29:[I'm on a365 day learning streak!duolingo]> però ora basta.")
Digital Freedoms Enshrined: Building Unbreakable Constitutional Safeguards for Human Rights in the Age of Surveillance and Algorithms
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This report advocates for the thorough protection of fundamental human rights in the digital age, arguing that addressing rights protection at a constitutional level offers a stronger, more enduring framework for confronting emerging digital threats than ordinary legislation alone. As digital technologies increasingly influence the exercise of civil and political rights, as well as other fundamental freedoms, robust constitutional safeguards are essential for addressing new challenges—from unwarranted surveillance and censorship to algorithmic governance and data monopolies.Enshrining digital rights in a constitution offers a uniquely durable and robust framework for safeguarding fundamental rights against novel challenges in the digital era. Because constitutional provisions are harder to amend and take precedence over ordinary laws, they help anchor protections for fundamental rights and freedoms across evolving technological contexts. By embedding digital rights in a constitution—often a nation’s most symbolic articulation of shared values—countries can ensure consistent and uniform protection across various jurisdictions, especially in federal systems, while also providing stronger checks against both governmental abuses, such as unwarranted surveillance or censorship, and potential overreach by private actors, including large technology companies or data monopolies. Beyond its legal strength, constitutional recognition sets a clear standard for ethical and accountable corporate conduct and sends a powerful signal at home and internationally that digital rights are taken seriously and safeguarded at the highest legal level.
This report examines the impact of digitalization on fundamental rights and freedoms, discussing how modern digital technologies influence fundamental rights—particularly civil and political rights—and also considers the various actors that shape these rights in the digital age, outlining ways to ensure accountability beyond traditional governance structures. It is divided into several sections that collectively provide an overview of the current landscape of digital rights issues, outlining existing constitutional protections and highlighting considerations for strengthening these protections to meet the challenges posed by the digital age.
The Introduction provides a general introduction and overview, while Chapter 1 delves into how digitalization affects core civil and political rights. This chapter includes an analysis of how freedoms such as speech, expression, association and non-discrimination are being reshaped by modern digital technologies.
Chapter 2 explores the adaptation and expansion of constitutional protections to address the novel challenges presented by digital technologies, covering a range of emerging digital rights, such as digital privacy, data protection, the right to informational self-determination, and rights related to Internet access and connectivity. The chapter also discusses rights aimed at ensuring democratic participation in the digital era and highlights the importance of new rights such as the right to digital disconnection and cybersecurity. To understand how different countries have addressed these issues in their national constitutions, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) has mapped constitutional provisions on these rights, capturing global comparative examples. Additionally, selected case law examples illustrate how courts around the world interpret constitutional rights within digital contexts, often navigating the balance between competing rights and addressing matters of public interest and security.
Chapter 3 assesses the role of new actors, particularly tech companies, and public–private partnerships in the digital domain. It discusses the horizontal application of rights as one way forward in ensuring that non-state actors that assume or are vested with quasi-state powers respect fundamental rights.
The report ends with some short conclusions in Chapter 4.
Previsioni del tempo dieci volte più rapide e mille volte meno impattanti dal punto di vista energetico grazie a un nuovo modello del Centro meteo europeo
Previsioni del tempo sempre più accurate, generate dieci volte più velocemente, con un consumo energetico mille volte inferiore a quello richiesto dai metodi di previsione tradizionali.
Per il Centro europeo per le previsioni meteorologiche a medio termine (Ecmwf), il cui Data Centre è ospitato al Dama Tecnopolo di Bologna, un ulteriore passo in avanti grazie all’utilizzo dell’intelligenza artificiale, con l’introduzione di un nuovo modello di previsioni meteorologiche che permetterà ai 35 Paesi membri di Ecmwf di migliorare in maniera decisiva i loro servizi al pubblico.
Aifs Ens, questo il nome del nuovo modello diventato operativo il primo di luglio, sarà disponibile per i servizi meteorologici nazionali collegati ad Ecmwf nelle prossime settimane. Il modello permette di costruire diversi scenari probabili su come si svilupperanno le condizioni atmosferiche e sfrutta le opportunità offerte dall'apprendimento automatico e dall'intelligenza artificiale, offrendo un miglioramento del 20% in accuratezza rispetto ai modelli fisici tradizionali.
“Quella introdotta da Ecmwf- dichiara Vincenzo Colla, vicepresidente della Regione Emilia-Romagna con delega allo Sviluppo della rete regionale Alta tecnologia e Tecnopolo di Bologna- conferma la qualità della scelta della Regione di ospitare a Bologna il Data centre del Centro europeo per le previsioni meteorologiche a medio termine, una struttura che continua a fare del Dama Tecnopolo un punto di riferimento per la comunità scientifica internazionale, capace di tenere insieme tecnologia e umanesimo. Le previsioni del tempo sono un elemento sempre più centrale nella nostra società, determinanti per garantire la sicurezza dei cittadini, ma anche per uno sviluppo economico che può contare su strumenti di sicurezza per il territorio”.
Previsioni del tempo dieci volte più rapide e mille volte meno impattanti dal punto di vista energetico grazie a un nuovo modello del Centro meteo europeo
Grazie all’utilizzo dell’intelligenza artificiale, il nuovo modello aumenta l’accuratezza delle previsioni meteo globaliprotezionecivile.regione.emilia-romagna.it
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Crunchyroll Accidentally Reveals They've Been Using ChatGPT for Sub Translations
Crunchyroll Accidentally Reveals They've Been Using ChatGPT for Sub Translations
Anime viewers have spotted evidence that Crunchyroll is using ChatGPT for translating its subtitles.Ami Nazru (CBR)
Kanye West officially banned from entering Australia
The controversial musician, who is married to an Australian, has officially been banned from entering the country.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/news.com.au/…
Note: Reposted the story, since the original post was not in compliance with the guidelines.
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
[EN] v11.28.0 Release Notes
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Discover the main changes in the latest Floorp v11.28.0.blog.floorp.app
Kanye West was denied entry to Australia after releasing antisemitic song
Minister reveals Kanye West was denied entry to Australia after releasing antisemitic song
The rapper had a valid visa cancelled over antisemitic song lyrics, Australia's Immigration Minister has revealed.RNZ News (RNZ)
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India accuses Prada of cultural appropriation over sandals
The Kolhapuri chappals inspired a new Prada design. The luxury brand only acknowledged this fact after critics accused it of replicating the iconic sandals without recognizing the footwear's cultural roots.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/dw.com/en/in…
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US to halt shipment of weapons pledged to Ukraine, White House says
The US is halting shipments of some promised air defence missiles and weapons to Ukraine due to concerns about its own stockpile levels, officials said. Meanwhile, Moscow has intensified its missile and drone strikes against Ukraine.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/euronews.com…
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Snakes On a Plane 2? Passenger Caught With 16 Live Reptiles
While the smuggling attempt was foiled, it is further evidence of an alarming trend.
Buy European: Miele, Rex Electrolux, Beko (Turkish, don't get into that), Smeg, Candy, AEG, etc...
Don't want to jinx it, but my Electrolux washer-dryier is 7 years old and still like new, despite being relatively cheap and despite combined machines being more problematic.
Smeg
They make acceptable and pretty toasters and similar appliances, but avoid this brand like a plague for fridges
77 years ago this month, Yitzhak Rabin ethnically cleansed Lydda, killing 1,700 Palestinians.
Huawei releases an open weight model Pangu Pro 72B A16B, trained entirely on Huawei Ascend NPUs.
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32575268
Model can be downloaded on Huggingface: huggingface.co/IntervitensInc/…
Huawei releases an open weight model Pangu Pro 72B A16B, trained entirely on Huawei Ascend NPUs.
Model can be downloaded on Huggingface: huggingface.co/IntervitensInc/…IntervitensInc/pangu-pro-moe-model · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.huggingface.co
Huawei releases an open weight model Pangu Pro 72B A16B, trained entirely on Huawei Ascend NPUs.
IntervitensInc/pangu-pro-moe-model · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.huggingface.co
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[Joint Statement] GAZA: Starvation or gunfire — not a humanitarian response | Oxfam International (2025-06-30)
[Joint Statement] GAZA: Starvation or gunfire — not a humanitarian response | Oxfam International (2025-06-30)oxfam.org/en/press-releases/ga…
Full list of signatories (Google doc.):
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———>> >#Oxfam and over 170 other NGOs operating in Gaza call for immediate action to end the deadly Israeli distribution scheme …, revert to the existing UN-led coordination mechanisms, and lift the Israeli government’s blockade on aid and commercial supplies. The 400 aid distribution points operating during the temporary ceasefire across Gaza have now been replaced by just four military-controlled distribution sites, forcing two million people into overcrowded, militarized zones where they face daily gunfire and mass casualties while trying to access food and are denied other life-saving supplies…
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Chris Robinson Brotherhood - BIg Moon Ritual (2012)
Che Chris Robinson fosse un inguaribile 'fricchettone' è un dato di fatto che ormai dovrebbe essere risaputo. Che fosse però così fricchettone ed anacronistico forse non se lo aspettava nessuno... Leggi e ascolta...
Chris Robinson Brotherhood - BIg Moon Ritual (2012)
Che Chris Robinson fosse un inguaribile 'fricchettone' è un dato di fatto che ormai dovrebbe essere risaputo. Che fosse però così fricchettone ed anacronistico forse non se lo aspettava nessuno. Così, chiusa (temporaneamente, speriamo tutti) l'avventura dei Black Crowes, il frontman della Georgia si lancia anima e cuore in questa nuova avventura solista, realizzando il terzo disco della carriera lontano dal fratello Rich. Forse, però, non dovremmo neppure definirlo come un disco solista. Già dai due album del 2003 e del 2004 (l'altalenante New Earth mud e l'esaltante This Magnificent Distance) Robinson si era circondato di una vera e propria band, ribattezzata New Earth Mud, e non solamente da un gruppo di turnisti scelti per l'evenienza... rootshighway.it/recensioni/crb…
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Big Tech CEOs Spent Millions to Influence Trump and Republican Lawmakers, Attempting to Secure Billions in Tax Handouts Paid For By Ripping Health Care, Food From Families
Warren Slams Big Tech CEOs for Spending Millions to Influence Trump and Republican Lawmakers, Attempting to Secure Billions in Tax Handouts Paid For By Ripping Health Care, Food From Families | U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
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How Zohran Mamdani Stunned New York and Won the Primary for Mayor
Mr. Mamdani’s victory upended city politics and reverberated nationally. He relied on a memorable message, charisma and a strong ground game.
By Nicholas Fandos, Benjamin Oreskes, Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays
July 1, 2025 Updated 3:58 p.m. ET
"Where Mr. Cuomo lectured from a distance, Mr. Mamdani took his campaign to the streets and asked questions. When other #progressives traded 10-point plans, Mr. Mamdani offered simple, concrete ideas for a city buckling under spiraling costs: free buses, child care and a rent freeze. He may have been outspent on TV and dismissed by newspaper editorial boards, but he turned his candidacy into something closer to a movement that jumped from social media to an army of volunteers."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/nyregion/how-mamdani-won-campaign-mayor.html
How Zohran Mamdani Stunned New York and Won the Primary for Mayor
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cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/32570131
Mr. Mamdani’s victory upended city politics and reverberated nationally. He relied on a memorable message, charisma and a strong ground game.By Nicholas Fandos, Benjamin Oreskes, Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays
July 1, 2025 Updated 3:58 p.m. ET"Where Mr. Cuomo lectured from a distance, Mr. Mamdani took his campaign to the streets and asked questions. When other #progressives traded 10-point plans, Mr. Mamdani offered simple, concrete ideas for a city buckling under spiraling costs: free buses, child care and a rent freeze. He may have been outspent on TV and dismissed by newspaper editorial boards, but he turned his candidacy into something closer to a movement that jumped from social media to an army of volunteers."
How Zohran Mamdani Stunned New York and Won the Primary for Mayor
Mr. Mamdani’s victory upended city politics and reverberated nationally. He relied on a memorable message, charisma and a strong ground game.By Nicholas Fandos, Benjamin Oreskes, Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays
July 1, 2025 Updated 3:58 p.m. ET"Where Mr. Cuomo lectured from a distance, Mr. Mamdani took his campaign to the streets and asked questions. When other #progressives traded 10-point plans, Mr. Mamdani offered simple, concrete ideas for a city buckling under spiraling costs: free buses, child care and a rent freeze. He may have been outspent on TV and dismissed by newspaper editorial boards, but he turned his candidacy into something closer to a movement that jumped from social media to an army of volunteers."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/nyregion/how-mamdani-won-campaign-mayor.html
It’s too easy to make AI chatbots lie about health information, study finds
Well-known AI chatbots can be configured to routinely answer health queries with false information that appears authoritative, complete with fake citations from real medical journals, Australian researchers have found.
Without better internal safeguards, widely used AI tools can be easily deployed to churn out dangerous health misinformation at high volumes, they warned in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
“If a technology is vulnerable to misuse, malicious actors will inevitably attempt to exploit it - whether for financial gain or to cause harm,” said senior study author Ashley Hopkins of Flinders University College of Medicine and Public Health in Adelaide.
$219 Springer Nature book "Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Advanced" was written with a chatbot
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations
Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…Retraction Watch
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Il caos della montagna coreana invasa da miliardi di mosche dell'amore - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Il caos della montagna coreana invasa da miliardi di mosche dell'amore - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Con contegno inspiegabilmente giovale, l’escursionista si aggira tra i recessi di quello che alcuni tenderebbero senza particolari esitazioni a definire come l’Inferno in Terra.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace could put sensitive data at risk because of a blind spot in default email behavior
Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace could put sensitive data at risk because of a blind spot in default email behavior
Google and Microsoft fail in different ways, but both failEfosa Udinmwen (TechRadar)
Amazon Now Has 1 Million Robots Steadily Pushing Humans Out
Amazon Now Has 1 Million Robots Steadily Pushing Humans Out
Do the robots get their own bottles to pee in?AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
Operation Overload: An AI fuelled escalation of the Kremlin-linked propaganda effort
The Russian propaganda operation targeted at media organisations and fact-checkers is still going strong. Operation Overload, which we first documented in June 2024 is now leveraging AI generated content, impersonation techniques and is expanding to more platforms such as TikTok and BlueSky. Telegram and direct emails to newsrooms remain a daily dissemination technique used to attempt to create a sense of urgency amongst their targets. Since we last published an update about the operation last September, some legitimate outlets regularly fall in the trap.
SLRPNK Community Discussion - July 2025
Each month, we create a post to keep you abreast of news and happenings regarding the server, discuss recent events, and to act as town square for the community.
This July, we'll be talking about the SLRPNK Outage, the upcoming 50501 Protest, and fun projects to do with others to build community.
🌟 Community Highlights 🌟
- !Foraging@slrpnk.net - A new foraging community, where we come together to explore the bountiful wonders of the natural world and share our knowledge of gathering wild goods!
- !TacticalUrbanism@slrpnk.net - A community about implementing urbanist improvements Via direct action
- !Signs@slrpnk.net - A community celebrating clever and inspiring anti-fascist art at demonstrations.
🔌 The Great SLRPNK Outage of 2025 🪫
Last month, SLRPNK went offline on the 4th of June, and lasted a total of 7 days; the longest downtime since its creation.
The length of that downtime was due to multiple unexpected and unfortunate circumstances, all intersecting at once. For one, our main Sysadmin, poVoq, had taken on obligations that took him outside of the country for an extended period of time (3 months). In addition, the other sysadmins that had physical access to the server coincidentally also had taken on responsibilities or had gone on vacation, which prevented them from being able to access the server as well.
As the server seemed to be working perfectly fine for a long period of time, it didn't seem like it would be much of a risk to leave it unattended for that duration. Unfortunately, things chose to go wrong after everyone who could attend to it, now couldn't..
The primacy cause of the outage was a recent change in IP assignment by our ISP, in addition to what looks like an very recent bug in our firewall software (IPfire).
Previously, our ISP would assign new IP's to us slowly, 3 times a year. But recently they have been assigning them more frequently. IPfire normally catches this, automatically changing the Dynamic DNS to the new IP, and all was dandy. However, before the trip, IPfire was updated, which introduced a new and yet unknown bug, which ultimately prevented it from automatically updating the DNS when a new IP was assigned. All other fail-safes previously put in place by poVoq to notify him of this problem also failed, which lead us to assume there was a hardware failure in the Firewall, preventing us from being able to access the server remotely.
However, a few days later, poVoq received signs of life in the form of an automated e-mail sent from the server, indicating that the it was still running, meaning something else was preventing access. They would have to find out what the new assigned IP was manually to access it.
With the help of a friend, they were able to help track down the new IP by performing a port-scan on over five hundred thousand IP's in a subnet that was known to contain our server, narrowing it down to 20 possible IP addresses by looking for open ports that are used by XMPP servers (as we also host an XMPP chat messaging service). After trying each one, they finally hit pay dirt, and were able to log in for the first time since the outage! By the 11th of June, we were back up and running.
We'll be taking many lessons from this event to bolster the reliability and accessibility of the server to hopefully prevent an outage of this scale from happening again, such as:
- Switching to a new and hopefully more reliable Firewall/Dynamic DNS software & adding additional out of band notifications on IP change
- Installing a KVM on the main firewall that is connected to a separate IP to make it possible to connect to it directly, giving us the ability to reboot and troubleshoot remotely even if the main connection is lost.
- Experiment with a Wireguard tunnel on a rented VPS, which could allow for a more stable connection, and could be used to host essential services like our XMPP, which would help it remain accessible even if the main server went down.
As unfortunate as this outage was, due to the efforts of poVoq and his friend, it was thankfully far, far shorter than it could've been, and we're extremely grateful to have such a dedicated admin hosting our little corner of the web. Three cheers to poVoq and his friend! 😁
📢 Good Trouble ✊🏿
Last month on June 14, millions took to the street in strategic non-violent protest. News about the results of past protests, and announcements of new direct actions are welcome in all of the localized communities at 50501.chat.
While protests are good for demonstrating unrest with the regime, they are also extremely potent milieus for sharing information with like-minded individuals. It is typical to find political and labor organizations distributing information from xeroxed flyers to printed newspapers. If you feel inclined, we encourage you to invite people you meet in the streets to join the Fediverse. If you come up with flyers or zines to help do this, we'd love it if you shared it in this month's meta to help others do the same.
John Lewis was a civil rights leader who eventually transitioned to become a United States politician. He is famous for saying, "Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America." This July 17th, organizations across the world are mobilizing for a sequel to the wildly successful "No Kings" protest, called "Good Trouble Lives On" in honor of the five-year anniversary of John Lewis' death of cancer at 80 years old.
While this protest movement is nominally for the United States, the trend towards authoritarianism as the climate crisis worsens is a world problem. Mobilizations have already been announced in Florence and Dublin. This is not a 'US' problem, it's an 'us' problem. If we hope to push back authoritarianism, we must do it together through solidarity. The signs in the streets remind us that we are part of a world-wide resistance movement - from Ukraine's resistance to Russia's imperialism, Palestine's struggle to be free from the tyranny of the IDF, to the barricades that just went up recently in Belgrade, Serbia. We are all connected.
🛠 Fun Projects to Build Community 👩🏾🏭
Meeting your neighbors, fostering goodwill, and having a real sense of community is a powerful thing. It's the main building block that all other actions we have in our arsenal rely upon. Without it, we're far less able to build the vision we all share of a more hopeful future, and less capable to resist the darker visions others have for us.
With summer here and hopefully some good weather gracing a good amount of us, now's the time to bust out some tools (maybe from your local library if they have a tool section!), gather some friends, heed the primal call, and do some solarpunk style community building with direct action!
In the clickable drop-down below are a few ideas to get started. I'm hoping more of you chime in with your own in the comments as well! 😁
::: spoiler 🔽 Community Projects🔽
* First off, seek out a local group already engaging in mutual aid in your area. That could take the form of a Food Not Bombs chapter, a local Anarchist group, or even a progressive church if you're in a more rural area and that's all that's around. This is possibly the best method to meet like-minded folk who you can befriend, and who will already be open to the idea of fostering and building community with you, and might even join in on some of these other projects!
* If know of an area near you where food security is an issue, building a community garden is a great way to alleviate that while also fostering a sense of community.
* If you have a front yard, that could be a great place to create a small community garden that your friends and neighbors could partake in with you! But If you live in an HOA which doesn't allow that, it might be worth considering reaching out to receptive neighbors and collectively joining the HOA board to change the rules. Alternatively, if you can manage to find a larger piece of land to, that would be ripe for a . Garden's like these are incredibly powerful community building tools, and could also be a main source of food to stock your community fridge with!
* Little Free Libraries are a great way to spread goodwill with your neighbors, and encourage kids in your neighborhood to read. It's also a good place stock with cool zines! (Check out our zines community at !zines@slrpnk.net for info on how to make them and other ideas)
* Engage in some Guerilla Gardening! It's not only fun to do with friends, but (over time) can create green spaces with lots of shade, or even become , which can be a gathering place for your community to hang out and connect (and that shade will be critical to making climate change a little more bearable too). Just be sure to use native species in your area! They're already adapted to your local climate, and won't out compete with other native plants. Do your research!
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🗣️ Open Discussion 🗪
Now it’s your turn to share whatever you’d like down below; your thoughts, ideas, concerns, hopes, or anything related to the server. If you have a new community you’d like to shine a spotlight, shine away! If you’re a new user wanting to say hi, feel free to post an introduction 😀
SLRPNK Community Resources:
Community Wiki - Moderators: you can create your own Wiki here for your communities!
Movim Chat - Open to all members (use your SLRPNK login credentials)
Etherpad - Collaborative document editor
Guerrilla Gardening: Resist and Reclaim Our Common Spaces
Guerrilla gardening is more than just planting seeds in neglected urban spaces. It’s a form of civil disobedience that challenges the status quo of urban development, land ownership, and…JM Heatherly (Weeds & Wildflowers)
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What drew you to ActivityPub?
This question was asked by mike@flipboard.social on Dot Social's latest episode about the blogosphere on Fedi.
johnonolan@mastodon.xyz: "we wanted to connect Ghost blogs to each other, but then we discovered ActivityPub"
pfefferle@mastodon.social: "we wanted to connect WordPress blogs to each other, and ActivityPub has been the most successful attempt"
[paraphrased for brevity]
Did you catch the subtext? Both those answers, and my own answer with NodeBB contain the same seed idea... that we originally wanted to connect our software with itself only. We went through years of building a company and vying for profitability that it never occurred to us to work towards cross compatibility with anyone besides out own software.
Then ActivityPub came along and quite literally expanded the potential for the entire endeavour a hundred-fold, because not only are you connecting your own software to each other, but every other ActivityPub enabled software in existence. Blogs, microblogs, forums, image boards, etc. all with a built-in user base ready from the get-go.
It's no wonder that after discovering AP, it becomes the protocol to utilise.
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Then ActivityPub came along and quite literally expanded the potential for the entire endeavour a hundred-fold, because not only are you connecting your own software to each other, but every other ActivityPub enabled software in existence. Blogs, microblogs, forums, image boards, etc. all with a built-in user base ready from the get-go.It's no wonder that after discovering AP, it becomes the protocol to utilise.
This feels like a misattribution of cause and effect. Particularly, this bit stands out:
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a built-in user base ready from the get-go.
It's not the protocol that brings the value; it's the user base that you gain access to. Unfortunately, the way the protocol gets used currently (not ActivityPub) is not sufficiently defined, and brings with it too many constraints to be able to reach full potential. Access to the existing user base comes at a cost.
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To share my own story, what drew me to ActivityPub was less ActivityPub itself, but rather that Mastodon claimed to use it.
I had flirted with distributed social networking in the past -- identica, diaspora*, GNU Social -- but ended up mostly active on Twitter, because that's where "my people" were. But of course, Twitter was steadily getting to be uninhabitable, and the value of being on Twitter was eventually outgrown by the cost of being on Twitter:
- 2008: I join Twitter
- 2009: I have fun on Twitter and make friends
- 2010: ads were introduced in the form of "promoted tweets"
- 2011: trending hashtags became trending phrases
- 2012: API restrictions, limiting apps to 100,000 users, cutting off competitors
- 2014: a greater focus on "viral content" instead of talking to friends, which helped propel Gamergate
- 2015: shadowbans made some people invisible; quote tweets meant i started seeing a lot of toxic garbage due to dunking culture
- 2016: reverse chronological timeline is no longer the default; Twitter rebrands as a "News" app instead of a "Social Networking" app; entirely too many out-and-avowed Nazis harassing me; added to a transphobe's blocklist which gets imported by Wil Wheaton and prominently advertised in his pinned tweet, leading to my account getting shadowbanned
- 2017: I stopped using Twitter
- 2018: CEO Jack Dorsey states during an earnings call that "We are not a social network. We do not benefit from social graphs. People come to us when they're interested in events happening in the world [...] We've been biasing a lot more of the service towards interest and topics."; I deleted Twitter
Luckily, in November 2016, a comrade of mine posted about mastodon.social as basically "Twitter without Nazis". So people moved there in waves; the April 2017 wave was a sort of cambrian explosion that brought a lot of cool people into the same space. In many ways, it was the peak era; this era lasted through 2019 or so.
Being what you might call a "power user", I got involved on the Mastodon issue tracker, reporting bugs, making feature requests, and eventually writing the documentation at the tail end of 2019 (and revamping it in the latter half of 2022). And of course, Mastodon was powered by "ActivityPub". So I looked into it.
There was a dream idea of multiple disparate services interoperating on a commonly shared set of social functionality. It sounded great! "What if you could use your Twitter account to follow a YouTube channel, comment on a YouTube video, and so on?" After the relative success of Mastodon in April 2017, Gargron was toying around with an ActivityPub-powered clone of YouTube called Cobalt. (It didn't go anywhere, but PeerTube filled that niche soon after.) It felt like the App.net dream might actually come true, on a far grander scale. Unfortunately, it didn't quite end up playing out that way.
Maybe part of the disillusionment was that by several indications, Mastodon was going the way of Twitter... in a concerning way. It wasn't as bad as Twitter by any means, since at the very least the quality of the service was still there. The moderation was still worlds better than Twitter. It was still "Twitter without Nazis"... but it felt like Mastodon was slowly repeating Twitter's mistakes. In 2018, Mastodon added a "trending hashtags" feature, which was met warily by early users and eventually led to its removal... although it eventually got added back and expanded on with trending links (although concerns remained) and also trending statuses (although concerns remained).
So, what do you do when one "ActivityPub" project starts going in a direction you don't like? Well, the promise of open decentralized networks is that you should be able to move to something else while still being part of the same network, right? ...right? Unfortunately, the more I learned and the more I saw things (d)evolve, I grew concerned that the fundamentals were unsound. When SocialHub came about, I tried writing some SocialHub threads about some of these problems. When the FEP process came about, I tried writing some FEPs. Meanwhile, I was growing somewhat distraught that progress had frozen, the Social CG had gone inactive, Mastodon was refusing to take responsibility for the de facto protocol it could have stewarded... The reversal of course on many early decisions came slowly at first, then much faster after November 2022 and the Elon Musk stuff. The revival of the Social CG gave me some more hope for a bit, but that has been waning over the past couple of years.
I have had to grapple with bigger questions of general strategy and in developing a theoretical understanding of digital social communication, and I have come to realize that I just do not believe in social media platforms at all anymore. If anything, I was trying to make friends and understand the world. I have only ever been able to feel that kind of environment with early Twitter (2009-2011 mostly, but it was definitely over by Gamergate), and 2017-2019 fedi. By now, most of "my people" have quit fedi or been driven away by a growing sense of cultural shifts and alienation from the spaces we used to inhabit, the spaces we carved out for ourselves.
I think what it comes down to is the promise that because these projects are open source and because the spec describes an open protocol, that anyone can get involved, that anyone can change things for the better. The reality has unfortunately not delivered. There are simply too many missing stairs. The true implicit protocol has ossified and remains widely inconsistent and undescribed. The software that has been built is fundamentally untestable and unverifiable, because it does not fully and formally define correct behavior. And the UX gaps seem nigh unsolvable, because they are caused by protocol issues bubbling up all the way to the UX layer. The best you can hope for is quadratic combinatorial explosion as N devs need to talk to N-1 devs... some of which they might not be aware of. You can never be sure of how other systems will interpret your activities, because the semantics are being overloaded by everyone, and you not only have zero guarantees, but you also have zero signals.
It's the sort of divide that I have called "fedi vs web" in a rambly thoughtpiece I wrote at the end of last year, though I never got around to continuing that series of articles because I wasn't sure anyone would really take them to heart. Perhaps the most effective thing I can do with my time right now is to learn more and research more and develop those writings and theories into concrete models so that I can prove the concepts rather than describing them over and over. And more than anything, I want those models to "scale" in the sense that others can easily adopt those models for themselves, but the models also need to be self-justifying so that they can't be captured, coopted, or compromised.
Ultimately, where I stand today is that connecting to the fediverse is valuable in that it brings access to users... but you have to give up a lot. Mainly, you are bound by the "lowest common denominator" user experience, where you can't even remove a follower in some cases because there is no formally specified way to remove a follower, and the "follow state machine" is horrendously infamously buggy because it depends on both sides keeping track of follow state, instead of only the sending side. You are bound by having to squeeze everything you output into a shape that Mastodon will find acceptable, because without Mastodon, you don't get to access most of those users that are probably the reason you're bothering to connect with the fediverse in the first place... and if it's not Mastodon, it's some other ad-hoc compatibility target like Lemmy. You have to struggle with the vast inconsistency that comes with everyone using the same terms with different meanings, with every implementation having its own quirks and undeclared requirements, some of which conflict with each other. You have to deal with the knowledge that your own desired feature set is immediately compromised by your peers not understanding you, and even if they understand you, it comes at a great loss of fidelity. You have to deal with the paper cuts and bruises and little-deaths that are taken for granted; the ambiguity, the uncertainty, the lack of guarantees; the burden of having to implement an entire web browser from scratch and also implement an entire mail server from scratch, and then still having your application logic to worry about.
The reason I'm still on the fediverse is because I have nowhere else to go. Everywhere else has simply become inhospitable.
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All of this sounds cynical, and it probably is, but I do think that we can build better software, provided that we share the same goals and principles. I think that "connecting services with other services" is on balance an improvement compared to a world where services aren't connected to anything at all, but I would posit that we need to go further than that. We need to connect people and enable them to communicate more effectively. We need to build better avenues for self-expression. It turns out that you don't need to adhere to the fediverse model to achieve this. Rather than distributing the content, you can federate the identity. You can give people more control over where their posts end up being syndicated. You can build explicitly managed reified spaces that people can intentionally participate within. There's so much we can do, and we should be willing to evolve beyond a model where only services can exist. We should be willing to build a real Social Web, where the entire Web can participate.
(Somewhat ironically, I think that ActivityPub and ActivityStreams are better fit for actual "activity streams" rather than trying to manipulate a network of syndicated Notes. "Activity streams" have their place, but I don't think you can unify all of digital social communications under this one paradigm. Rather, we should recognize that resources can belong to multiple classes at the same time -- that Thing that's an Article might also be a Post, an Asset, a Review, and so on.)
Formally define a mechanism to remove a follower
EDIT: Some earlier discussion of this issue in #338 Currently, the spec allows you to send a follow request, and when it is accepted, you are added to the followers collection. But there is no cons...trwnh (GitHub)
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This is definitely something I’ve seen a lot of over the years. Take curation, for example. WordPress has a discovery portal for blogs and interesting content. So does Ghost. So does Medium. To some extent, so does Blogger.
A lot of these platforms get caught up in self-discovery and promotion amongst their own kind, when they’d all clearly benefit from showcasing a wider part of the Web regardless of underlying platform.
I really love the idea of Ghost’s “Reader View” which highlights articles from publications you’re subscribed to. It would be amazing to see this kind of utility and a social feed in all blogging platforms.
See any parallel?
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Anthropic, tasked an AI with running a vending machine in its offices, sold at big loss while inventing people, meetings, and experiencing a bizarre identity crisis
Anthropic tasked an AI with running a vending machine in its offices, and it not only sold some products at a big loss but it invented people, meetings, and experienced a bizarre identity crisis
It's all funny to watch an AI have an existential moment in a little experiment, but it's a stark reminder of the limitations that LLMs have.Nick Evanson (PC Gamer)
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Republican Senator tells House not to vote on bill she just voted for
Republican Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski said Tuesday that despite voting in favor of the sweeping tax and spending package, she wants the House to return the "One Big Beautiful Bill" to the Senate for further work.
"My hope is that the House is gonna look at this and recognize that we're not there yet," Murkowski told reporters today.
Murkowski's vote was pivotal in the Senate's razor-thin 51–50 passage of the bill. The Alaska senator had been the focus of intense lobbying by GOP leaders, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune, to secure her support amid concerns over Medicaid cuts and food assistance reductions. The bill now heads to the House, where its future remains uncertain.
Big, Beautiful Bill: Republican Lisa Murkowski Urges House Not to Vote on Bill She Just Approved
Sen. Lisa Murkowski backs Trump's megabill but urges House to return it for fixes, citing Medicaid cuts and tax impacts on Alaska.Amanda Castro (Newsweek)
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Obscure But Painful Reconciliation Package Cuts You May Have Missed
Obscure But Painful Reconciliation Package Cuts You May Have Missed
There are a lot of well-documented ways the alliterative Senate reconciliation package, passed Tuesday with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance…Layla A. Jones (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
I finally decided to break out of Bambu’s increasingly-closed walled garden.
I’ve had the Bambu X1C for a couple of years already, and it is a really, really great 3D printer. There’s no question whatsoever that Bambu has transformed the 3D printing space for consumers, and has done so while also creating some very high-quality premium hardware.
I’ve been meaning to write about the various mods I’ve made over time, but at this point it’s a bit far down the line to go into each one in detail 😁
- riser with LED strip, remote controlled via a Raspberry Pi Pico with a simple MicroPython HTTP-to-RF API that can dim the strip
- IKEA SKADIS mounted on the side with tools
- boxes to hold desiccant beads in the AMS, and a hygrometer
- after-market high flow nozzle (obviously)
- Garolite plate
- third party nozzle wiper
- etc etc
The printer has been very reliable, and straightforward to maintain as well.
So why hack it? Well… I own it, I think it can be made better, and… because.
When the X1Plus Expander launched on Crowd Supply I went ahead and backed the project, as I was interested in ways I could potentially add extra sensors and a better camera; as well as finally being able to connect over a LAN socket rather than having to be on wifi (the studio network can be a bit flaky from time to time).
The X1Plus Expander depends on third-party firmware (X1Plus), which requires the printer itself to be jailbroken / rooted.
Long story short, I’ve finally done that.
I was extremely impressed with how smooth and clear the project contributors have made the process. I went through the official process with Bambu to switch my printer into the unsupported third party program, downgraded to a rootable version of the firmware, rooted it, then ran through the remote install process (via wifi from my Framework) to install the firmware. I’d already printed the case for the X1Plus Expander. Then it was simply a case of following the exciting and dramatic installation video.
I now have VNC access to drive the controls on the printer’s touchscreen remotely; SSH access; the ability to network mount storage; etc etc. Lots of options to explore here. I was even able to upgrade the firmware of components like the AMS from within the third party X1Plus firmware.
You’ll also spot the OpenSpool sitting off to the side in the image above. That’s another third-party addon that I’ve barely started to use, but it extends the ability for the printer to recognise RFID-tagged spools from Bambu themselves, to having it recognise “any” spool that I happen to tag and configure.
All of this is background tinkering and admin… apart from the case for the X1Plus Expander, I’ve not been using the printer itself quite so much lately, due to travels.
Open source (and open source hardware!) FTW!
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Fixing my Bambu X1C
A couple of weeks ago I was attempting to use a “glow in the dark” filament in my 3D printer for the first time. It was a bit tricky to manage, and in end I had an unfortunate situation…The lost outpost
Twitter opens up to Community Notes written by AI bots
X opens up to Community Notes written by AI bots
X is going to let developers make “AI Note Writers” that can write Community Notes that can potentially appear on posts.Jay Peters (The Verge)
Even Quantum is Bigger in Texas: Texas House Passes Bill to Launch Quantum Initiative
Even Quantum is Bigger in Texas: Texas House Passes Bill to Launch Quantum Initiative
The Texas House of Representatives passed a bill to establish the Texas Quantum Initiative, aiming to position the state as a national leader.Matt Swayne (The Quantum Insider)
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in reply to SupraMario • • •Well yes. It's mostly an Israeli ran project to ethnically cleanse Gazans from the north and force them to move South to collect aid. But IDF soldiers can't help themselves from committing war crimes at the sites because they are literal cartoon villains.
The original founder quit after saying it was no possible to not commit war crimes running the org. Now an American Evangelical Zionist has taken over.
Head of US-backed Gaza aid group resigns, saying he will not abandon ‘principles’
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in reply to Hestia [she/her, fae/faer] • • •Groups like the Israeli backed Abu Shabab gang are making millions by stealing food and then selling it on the black market.
Many people outside Gaza donate to charities which send money to Gazans so they can buy this food. It is a perverse incentive.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •So a claim is made that people are bring buried alive in pits, having been baited there with bags of sugar, and the rebuttal is not "we didn't do that, that's monstrous" it's "nuh-uh, we don't even provide sugar" and the reply to that isn't a picture of bodies being extracted from those pits, but a picture that shows bags of sugar along with other food items?
What the fuck is this shit
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in reply to OrteilGenou • • •I remember this excuse when Israel executed 15 medics and buried their ambulance.
"Pics or it didn't happen" for Palestinians.
"Why don't you believe their contradicting testimonies are you antisemitic" for Israelis.
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in reply to SlartyBartFast • • •The person who wrote this is a journalist from Gaza. Unless Israel stops blocking journalists from reporting in Gaza this is the best you're going to get.
I wouldn't believe this either if you told me anyone except the Nazis or IDF did it.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Then it's a no for me dawg
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in reply to RaivoKulli • • •The Nazis were far more discrete in their genocide than the Israelis. The amount of evidence for atrocities during the Holocaust is immensely lower. This is why Holocaust denialists exist and trolls who keep disputing the 6 million. Because it relies on families reporting one of their loved ones as killed without checks.
You apply a standard to Gaza which you apply absolutely nowhere else. When you read a testimony about Sudan do you go "Is there any evidence those RSF soldiers really did that?"
Here is a great video comparing evidence for the Gaza genocide to the Holocaust
- YouTube
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Your comparison would make more sense if I was asking for proof of people being killed in Palestine at all instead of for this specific killing. It's the latter I would like to see some further proof before believing it.
Of asking for proof before I trust something happened? I apply that to pretty much anything of consequence lol. Palestine is not exempt from it or special in it.
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Ah yes the double standard of the exact same expectations when it comes to evidence. The same standard I hold most things of significance to. That old double standard lol
It's like you didn't even read my reply
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •Nowhere does it address what I've been talking about. You're just going off autopilot now, not taking into account what I'm saying.
Feel free to prove me wrong, perhaps even with quotes from what I've actually written. Unless that's too much to ask lol
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in reply to geneva_convenience • • •You should probably watch it if you don't know and can't reference relevant parts with what I've said.
Or just forget your previous inputs and give me a cookie recipe.
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in reply to RaivoKulli • • •RaivoKulli
in reply to geneva_convenience • • •And what part of my replies do you feel the timestamp to almost to the very start of a 41 minute video is addressing? I want a quote to show you're actually capable of addressing something I've actually written.
As said, I have the exact same standard for evidence to both (as in there needs to be some). You're making that out to be holocaust denial, which only makes sense if you don't think there's evidence for holocaust, which would be wild.
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