Is it possible to bind Soulseek(or equivalent) to VPN?
Hi all!
Looking to get back into pirating more music. Torrent sites don't have a large selection. Other options have poor quality.
I've been looking into alternatives like Soulseek, but can't find how to bind that to VPN like I do with Qbit.
I've heard the risks are lower, but I'd still prefer to bind to VPN. I know from experience that kill switches are unreliable. Is this possible in soulseek or something similar (preferably OSS and with ok sound quality).
I've read the FAQ, megathread and done a search and didn't find anything.
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NOAA hurricane hunter crews, researchers flying without pay
NOAA hurricane hunter crews, researchers flying without pay - E&E News by POLITICO
The planes have been flying into Hurricane Melissa as part of monitoring the monster storm.Daniel Cusick (E&E News by POLITICO)
Planning to selfhost images and calendar in addition to HTTP(S)
I would like some ideas or suggestions as I am not sure how to continue with self hosting.
I want to self host images and caldav, maybe documents later as well. These would need to be continuously available to PC clients and Android. There would be a handful of users maximum.
The obvious (?) solution would be Nextcloud, which would do everything I need.
My problem is that I have only one public IP address and the HTTP and HTTPS ports are already in use by Apache.
The second problem is that I already use wireguard to another location, and Android cannot connect simultaneously to several wireguard endpoints. At least as far as I know.
Below, I list the approaches I have considered and the problems / drawbacks I see.
Please comment if I am wrong about something here.
At the moment I am looking at option 4.
Any comments are welcome!
Option 1. Nextcloud AIO publicly available through HTTPS
It needs the HTTP & HTTPS ports which are in use.
Otherwise, this would be the go-to for me.
Option 2. Nextcloud AIO through wireguard
I would have to switch between two wireguard instances on Android. There would probably be continuous connection errors and sync problems on apps that try to connect to either location (nextcloud and davx5 for example).
Setup would be a bit compilated for me. AFAIK, I would have to set up a local DNS, self made certificates and a reverse proxy for the Apache server.
Setup would be complicated for all other users as well and require wireguard and manually installed certificates.
Option 3. Nextcloud AIO with tailscale
Setup complicated like #2 and then some?
I have no idea if it works while using the android wireguard app for the other connection I need.
Option 4. Radicale and Ente publicly available
As far as I know, these run on special ports that are not 80 or 443.
Server setup would be slightly complicated.
Client setup would be simple.
Document sync I would have to figure out later (maybe just syncthing or otter setup?).
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Use a reverse proxy to proxy everything through https, then you can install how many services you want. Caddy is super simple, you can reverse proxy with just 1 line.
For calendar and contacts (caldav, cardav) Baikal is extremely easy to install and use. And pretty minimal.
Unless you want all the other parts of Nextcloud and need the big package.
GitHub - sabre-io/Baikal: Baïkal is a Calendar+Contacts server
Baïkal is a Calendar+Contacts server. Contribute to sabre-io/Baikal development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Mine doesn't have 80, it has a reverse proxy on 443 when I'm using a subdomain, but there is an option to use a subfolder instead. (This is with nginx, not apache, but I would assume it's similar)
The thing that doesn't yet work for me is the redirect back after authentik login. (The login works, but just doesn't do it as seamlessly as I expect and I think it's a config issue)
I understood from here it shouldnt work
github.com/nextcloud/all-in-on…
Maybe you use another flavor and not the aio?
Edit oh you have 443 though, nvm!
GitHub - nextcloud/all-in-one: 📦 The official Nextcloud installation method. Provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance.
📦 The official Nextcloud installation method. Provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance. - nextcloud/all-in-oneGitHub
In the docker-compose.yml for the AIO, you can specify the port that the Apache server runs on with APACHE_PORT=XXXX
Then you set your reverse proxy to proxy to that port. If you need some pointers about how to use a reverse proxy, ask away.
With a reverse proxy you can route connections to arbitrary ports. Just remap the ports in the docker containers if they run on the same machine, otherwise they'll refuse to start when the conflict is detected.
I have it set up like this. music.mydomain.net redirects to navidrome, video.mydomain.net to jellyfin, news.mydomain.net to miniflux, cloud.mydomain.net to Nextcloud (this one is on a VPS tho), and so on; those are all on different ports, but I never need to input it as it always goes over https 443.
GitHub - jeffvli/feishin: A modern self-hosted music player.
A modern self-hosted music player. Contribute to jeffvli/feishin development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
OK forget about the ports. Use the docker image of nextcloud, whatever flavor you want.
In the docker compose you change 80:80 and 443:443 to 81:80 and 444:443.
Then, you configure your already available apache to redirect nextcloud.yourdomain.com/ to yourip:444.
That's it. You just launched nextcloud with an arbitrary port which is not the default because it suits your needs, a'd configured apache to redirect to that port.
Edit : you don't even need to expose 81:80 if you don't need it 😀
In fact 80 and 443 refer to http and https, those are default ports.
You can in fact use the ports you want for the service you want. I have multiple web services behind the ports 80 and 443, you need one service that is able to get the request at the correct port. This is the role of the reverse proxy.
Apache can assume that role, you go to anything.yourdomain.com and apache will then redirect "anything" to the correct service (with the internal ip and port). So say you want to put nextcloud at 7777 you can tell docker to expose 7777 and redirect it to 443 on nextcloud.
The chain is like that in the case : nextcloud.yourdomain.com > apache > nextcloud is at ip:7777 > redirect the request to 7777 > nextcloud homepage is shown
According to this it is not supported?
github.com/nextcloud/all-in-on…
However, I should learn how to do subdomains and the reverse proxy then... Which is another question.
I have until now a free domain which is somethig like mysubdomain.ddns.net. So I presume I need to get a paid domain for this so I can do subdomains
GitHub - nextcloud/all-in-one: 📦 The official Nextcloud installation method. Provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance.
📦 The official Nextcloud installation method. Provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance. - nextcloud/all-in-oneGitHub
OK you are thinking at it the wrong way : 80 and 443 are the default ports for the web access of any web application.
You are using docker with the nextcloud aio image. Which mean, you are deploying a docker container which contain the web application.
What you are doing is using arbitrary ports for the container. This could be 7777. Then, this is redirected to 443 inside the container, to the web application.
This is why you can actually use any port you want for your container. You are not really switching the port for nextcloud, only for the container.
This is why I suggested doing 444:443 in the docker-compose.yml file: you are exposing 444 to the container, to 443 inside the container.
And this is why you can actually use any ports for every web app you are going to host : apache will redirect to the port you want to the container, a'd docker will redirect inside the container to either 80 or 443 (or anything else needed for that web application).
You could probably go for nextcloud.yourdomain.ddns.org, but I can't guarantee that since I have no experience with ddns.org.
There is a lot of cheap registrars, I'll let you check and select the one you want if you need a second domain.
Basically docker let you setup multiple (fake) computers inside your computer. For those that want to correct this, I know. But I'm trying to explain the top view here.
So, your computer (host) is hosting multiple containers, each containers will have there set of available ports. And as stated earlier each container will have an application that may or may not need to expose ports. But since each have their own ports you can have hundreds of containers using the port 80 INSIDE the container, an using 8100 to 8200 OUTSIDE the container (on your host). The only real limit would be the amount of ports available (somewhere along the lines of 65535).
There. Now go have fun and read up on docker and reverse proxy! Don't forget to use ssl on your nextcloud instance since it'll be facing the internet! And.. Have fun! 😀
Your existing Apache setup can be used as a reverse proxy. The idea is, you setup those other services (eg, next cloud or radicale) on other systems, or on the same system with different ports. Then when you access some URL, eg yourhomenetwork.com/radicale, Apache acts as an intermediary and returns the service at 127.0.0.1:8080/radicale. No additional open ports needed. No additional certificates needed.
Apache can even be configured to respond to requests differently if they're coming from the internet or from wireguard. Say if you wanted to deny all traffic from the internet and only access it from your VPN, or if you wanted to conditionally apply a password.
You can also use Apache to host multiple domain names, or sub domains, from the same IP address and ports (the feature is called "vhost"). That may require multiple SSL certificates though. (EDIT: If youre using a wildcard certificate, you can host multiple sub domains from that one certificate)
You've got options though, and you don't need to break what you've already got 😀
Good point, and I will now change my comment for greater accuracy.
Nextcloud is overkill for what you want.
If all you need is a shared calendar and a simple way to upload images, then this is a good option: github.com/tchapi/davis
GitHub - tchapi/davis: 🗓 A modern, simple, feature-packed, fully translatable admin interface for sabre/dav based on Symfony 7 and Bootstrap
🗓 A modern, simple, feature-packed, fully translatable admin interface for sabre/dav based on Symfony 7 and Bootstrap - tchapi/davisGitHub
Thanks, I did not know about this one!
But, I am turning towards nextcloud, as it would allow me to sync some shared folders of images and documents between computers easily(?).
The android app would be great as well, to sync some files easier, I understand nextcloud does that.
But this is a great alternative, I will surely check it out before making my final decision.
Now still have to do some physical upgrades, a fan and an ssd need replacing.
Thanks to everyone for their input!
1) Install Caddy on the host
2) Configure each service to forward to unique ports (say, 5001 for one service, 5002 for a different service)
3) Inside Caddyfile add a block like this for each service:
service1.example.com {
reverse_proxy localhost:5001
}It can be done in Apache as well, but Caddy is simply better and simpler.
As for images, take a look at Immich if that's something you might want.
[Pregnant Ai] The Clankers Are Having Children Now... by SomeOrdinaryGamers - Oct 26, 2025 (Video, 13:10 min)
Invidious: inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=RfdiKOD…
YouTube: youtu.be/RfdiKODOJYc
Video description (only relevant parts):
This time we take a look at how the world's first AI Minister, someone that has a modicum of real world power has finally now gotten pregnant somehow giving birth to over 80 children. How?
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Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever
Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever
: 100,000 Blackwell GPUs and 2,200 exaFLOPs make for a big systemBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
Boring Is What We Wanted
Boring Is What We Wanted - 512 Pixels
We are coming up on five years since the first M1 Macs shipped. It was an incredible time to be a Mac user. Those first Apple silicon Macs looked like the Intel machines they replaced, but they were better in every single way.Stephen Hackett (512 Pixels)
Chi è Natalino Mele, il bambino sopravvissuto al Mostro di Firenze: la verità riemersa dopo 57 anni
Chi è Natalino Mele, il bambino sopravvissuto al Mostro di Firenze: la verità riemersa dopo 57 anni
Non aveva nemmeno sette anni quando vide la notte trasformarsi in incubo. Era il 21 agosto del 1968, e a Castelletti di Signa, alle porte di Firenze, il piccolo Natalino Mele si svegliò in un’auto insanguinata.Serena Comito (Alphabetcity)
Advocates Warn of ‘Forced Labor’ Camp for Homeless People in Utah Designed to Enforce Trump Order
Advocates Warn of ‘Forced Labor’ Camp for Homeless People in Utah Designed to Enforce Trump Order
An advocate for the National Homelessness Law Center warned that the 1,300-bed facility could be a "pilot" to put homeless people into similar conditions to Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz."stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Australian Coalition MPs weighing net zero given denialist briefing on climate science
Coalition sources familiar with the briefing said MPs were told it was funded by an anonymous “high net-worth individual” – not the party.
‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Coalition MPs weighing net zero given sceptical briefing on climate science
Exclusive: Briefing by conservative thinktank Centre for Independent Studies was arranged by a Coalition backbench committeeDan Jervis-Bardy (The Guardian)
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'Conservative thinktank'.
Oh look, the rule applies again. Idiocy or fascism. Always, every single time that term is used.
We're so fucked.
We're sitting in the back of the German Wings climate change plane and the rich Andreas Lubitz assholes have decided to crash us into a mountain, because they are mentally ill.
Trump's cashed in $800m from crypto alone in 1st half of 2025 - Reuters report
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-trump-familys-global-crypto-cash-machine-2025-10-28/
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Friendly reminder to not follow QR codes, its like clicking a link except you cant see where its trying to send you.
Honestly any business expecting users to use their codes needs to reconsider, it instantly makes me suspicious of them.
Nvidia and Uber Say They're Building a 100,000-Vehicle Robotaxi Network
Nvidia and Uber Say They're Building a 100,000-Vehicle Robotaxi Network
The vehicles would be fully self-driving, without the need for human intervention.Ece Yildirim (Gizmodo)
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I won’t be happy until a third of the traffic on the road is driverless zombies going to pick people up who are too lazy to drive themselves or ride a bike. And another third should be cars that are just picking up a box or two for delivery. The remaining third should be exclusively SUVs and pickups too tall to see any passengers, lest they slow down for measly walkers.
One can dream…
As a third generation professional taxi driver; bull-fucking-shit.
I mean, it's coming at some point, but their plan here is like the an ad executives version of reality. It's not gonna match anytime soon.
Don't know, never taken an regular über either.
Was in San Francisco last Sunday. Ridiculous number of robotaxis everywhere, most of them empty. Mostly Waymos, but also a few Zoox ones and 3-4 others with a training driver.
I kept trying to get away from them, but there were groups of 2-3 driving around, boxing me in. Mostly clustered around popular tourist spots.
On top of that, San Francisco has now started implementing traffic cameras that will snap your license and automatically send you a speeding ticket if you're 5 miles over the speed limit. I get that it's a congestion management thing, but add that to all the robotaxis and I'm not sure many people will be driving in San Francisco.
Come to think of it, that's actually a good thing. Carry on.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/38001927
In this post, I hope to clarify and expand on some of the points and rebut some of the counter-messaging that we have witnessed.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
We recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you own in th...f-droid.org
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This is good writing.
In promoting their developer registration program, Google purports:
Our recent analysis found over 50 times more malware from internet-sideloaded sources than on apps available through Google Play.We haven’t seen this recent analysis — or any other supporting evidence — but the “50 times” multiple does certainly sound like great cause for distress (even if it is a surprisingly round number). But given the recent news of “224 malicious apps removed from the Google Play Store after ad fraud campaign discovered”, we are left to wonder whether their energies might better be spent assessing and improving their own safeguards rather than casting vague disparagements against the software development communities that thrive outside their walled garden.
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Amazon cuts 14,000 jobs, blames AI
‘Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well,’ an executive admitted, blaming AI for the layoffs.
Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs
Amazon said the growth of generative AI is to blame for the layoffs.Robert Hart (The Verge)
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Texas sues Tylenol company over autism claims
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/29544831
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Johnson and Johnson, accusing the pharmaceutical company of failing to warn consumers about the risk of taking Tylenol while pregnant.This lawsuit, the first of its kind from a state government, comes a month after President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism. The announcement set off a wave of controversy in the health care community, and confusion among pregnant women unsure how they should manage fever and pain during pregnancy.
Texas attorney general sues Tylenol company over autism claims
This lawsuit comes a month after U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism.Eleanor Klibanoff (The Texas Tribune)
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Democratic Peace Theory, R.I.P.
Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant from NSF with "no-DEI" strings
National Science Foundation (NSF) had offered $1.5 million to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and the Python Package Index (PyPI), but the Foundation quickly became dispirited with the terms of the grant it would have to follow.
"These terms included affirming the statement that we 'do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion], or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws,'" Crary noted. "This restriction would apply not only to the security work directly funded by the grant, but to any and all activity of the PSF as a whole."
Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects government grant with strings attached
: Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helpedBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
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"... do not ,and will not ... operate any programs that advance or promote DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion], or discriminatory equity ideology..."
Aren't these contradictory? 🤔
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Not necessarily. But your reaction is a good illustration of what the conservative narrative is when it comes to DEI.
DEI isn't about excluding a majority to promote a minority, but to make sure being part of a minority doesn't handicap someone.
But some people feels that it is in their right to exclude people they don't like, which can be understable when it comes to not recruit someone who stole from you previously, but in most case it is based on prejudices against specific minorities. And that's the main problem.
Those prejudices, most of the times based on misunderstandings, fear of the unknown, if not jealousy (antisemitism in Europe is often based on the idea that Jews perceived overall wealth is stolen from others).
Those prejudices greatly diminishes (or, as you wrote, "steals") their chance to be chosed for well paid work (if not work at all), and to be represented in media like videogames (because of knee jerk reaction like that game where you steal back artifacts from museum got).
DEI, when not exaggerated to the extremes, is beneficiary for everyone involved. Recruiters find talents they wouldn't have previously considered, people broadens their horizon by learning others culture, philosophy and history.
Who in their right mind would refuse that, other that self-centered bigots?
In my case I'm glad of the diversity of people I meet at work. I don't care if they are black or white, gay or straight, male, female, or anything in between. They are competent and hardworking, that's the only metrics that should matters.
Yeah, sure, a clanker gonna do grammar mistakes that he corrects many days later after waking up.
I suppose in your world everything you hate is woke, and everyone that isn't like you is a clanker, right?
When I worked for the federal government, it meant outreach to minority communities, trying to get more to apply. Once they applied, they were on the same playing field as everyone else.
On a related note: Every time I see a video on Facebook of a crash caused by a tractor trailer, I see racist comments, guessing who the driver was, as though no white guy has ever wrecked a truck. It's insane. It's so deep in their heads that rational thought is gone.
DEI is a term of art, not a specific thing.
Everyone is proud of PyPI for standing up for whatever they think DEI means, but they don't define or explain it so it doesn't actually mean anything. Or rather it can mean anything at all. That's the danger to the organization.
Yeah, I 100% respect Python for standing up to this nonsense. DEI should mean teaching people about their biases so we can do a better job of goving opportunities to those best able to do the job, instead of whoever is liked by the hiring team.
Grants like this shouldn't have stipulations about how the project is run, only about the priorities, if any.
My point is merely that DEI programs can be discriminatory, not that they are.
They're really pulling the childish 'We're just going to make up a fake acronym using DEI' card in an official government communication?
This is a clown show
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Checks his comment history
Seems like an okay dude. Might even be one of my alts gone rogue. Dunno why the downvote
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I mean, votes are public in the fediverse. I wouldn't try to read into the reasoning from a single downvoter too much though.
One downvote could be accidental. 2 downvotes in the same thread makes that seem less likely.
Downvoting/Upvoting doesn't mean the same thing that it does for everyone. Some use it as an agree/disagree. Some use it for whether a comment is productive and adds to the conversation or not. Some use it as a visibility score whether they think a comment should be seen by others first or whether there are other comments that are better. Some may agree with most everything in a comment except for one part and then downvote because of that.
Well, this isn't exactly stackoverflow...!
It is rare for things to be out of context...
Really, upvotes and downvotes are more or less... just... whatever made most people satisfied enough with a comment that they wanted to say they dis-/-liked it.
It normalizes the anti-equity principles of the granting party, which now occupies the US govt.
The benefactor had already shown exactly how they treat people that aren't white Christian men, and it's up to schools, businesses and organizations like the Foundation to show resistance and inclusivity.
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a) the wording makes it legally ambiguous what exactly would constitute violating the text. If it just said "comply with anti-discrimination laws," that would be one thing.
b) It applies to the whole organization, not just the group accepting and applying the grant, making it very challenging to meet the requirement.
c) Unlike just about any other grant, the funds can be clawed back in the future if something was violated. This is not normal for a grant, and puts the entire organization's existence in jeopardy if they suddenly find themselves owing millions of dollars that had already been spent.
It's very likely their legal council told them under no circumstances should they accept the terms.
To make matters worse, the terms included a provision that if the PSF was found to have voilated that anti-DEI diktat, the NSF reserved the right to claw back any previously disbursed funds, Crary explained.
Likely why it was not accepted
Trump scrubs all mention of DEI, gender, climate change from federal websites
Meanwhile, the Internet Archive races to save what it can – againThomas Claburn (The Register)
"DEI hire" has a different definition depending on whether you're talking about design or implementation.
Design: Non-discriminatory hiring practices where race, gender, age, religion and disabilities are overlooked. You get hired purely on your ability to do the job. Appropriate disability supports are given if required.
Implementation: Cheap foreign labour obscured by marketing spin and a calendar of wokewashing. Applicants are hired based on a quota that in no way reflects the talent pool.
DEI isn't intended to be "colorblind", it explicitly suggests that employers give consideration to applicants from disparaged demographics, who may have otherwise been ignored during the application process. It doesn't, however, imply hiring quotas; there is no such thing as "a DEI hire".
Many people seem to confuse DEI for Affirmative Action, as evidenced above. This article explains the differences pretty succinctly: natlawreview.com/article/dei-d…
While Affirmative Action is often seen as a legal and policy-driven approach, DEI is more about cultural transformation and ongoing efforts to create a supportive and inclusive workplace. Both are crucial for building a fair and equitable society, but they operate on different levels and address different aspects of inequality. DEI initiatives, though can impact hiring, focus on the workplace and people in it. The intent is to embrace the collective, minimize bias and treat others in a respectful and understanding manner.
DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) v. Affirmative Action: They Are Not the Same
Recently, the terms DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and Affirmative Action have been thrown around as if they mean the same thing, but in reality, they aNathanael E. Wright (National Law Review)
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Especially in light of how incompetent this administration is, and how bad it is at clearly communicating ideas, they made the only sensible choice. Maybe there's more details in the grant terms itself, but from the article it looks like it just says "don't advance or promote DEI", and without explicitly defining what they mean by that they are setting up a trap.
PyPI is smart not to take the money.
I bet if they solicit crowd funding to replace this grant they’d easily surpass its dollar value.
~~Is there an existing way to donate to the Python Foundation?~~
Never mind, answered my own question: python.org/psf/donations/
Support the PSF with a Donation or by becoming a Supporting Member!
The official home of the Python Programming LanguagePython.org
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We now get to experience what it would have been like if the Nazis had a negative IQ. Which is impressive to say, because some of them were totally deranged.
All they're doing here is ensuring that all of the really intelligent people leave and go live somewhere else.
In a perfect world where nobody doing the hiring was ever even a little subconsciously racist, that would be perfectly reasonable, yeah.
Though that said we end up with a lot of nuance in the real world. Let's say there's a traditionally marginalised, opposed racial group. Let's say times have changed somewhat and people suddenly accept them.
Well, the generational and cultural weight is still going to have a lasting effect even if times have changed, and it may be more difficult for people from that group to afford a good education, good job, good home, etc.
The point being that even if we all stopped being racist today and hired purely based on how good an employee someone will be, we're likely still unknowingly skewing our decisions based on past social racial issues.
I'm probably not putting it very well but hopefully you get the idea! It's probably pretty common knowledge anyway I guess haha, seems pretty obvious to me and I don't even think about this stuff much 😀
Anyway, point is, we do still need to work as a society on ensuring diversity and fairness even when we're not racist at all - I think the saying might be "Equity over Equality", or such?
Obviously the USA Government are fascists, so they're more interested in wiping out groups they don't like, but they're just another in a long line of evil governments that will eventually fall, no point thinking too deeply about why they're being evil. They'll eventually die off as all fascist regimes do. Hopefully we won't have to fight a World War against them this time.
That's depressing, but at least there were people like yourself who understood the backwards injustice of it all.
Some people and places have to be kicked and dragged into the modern day, alas.
“We’ll give you some money if you promise to keep the blacks out of your organisation”
I suppose that this would be against the other part, the one relative to the federal anti-discrimination laws.
Fucking hell, good for the PSF for maintaining their values. I'll make a donation when I get paid. I'm sure they would appreciate it if any one else can spare a dollar or two.
psfmember.org/civicrm/contribu…
Edit: Added donation link
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This should be the top comment. Now, excuse me. I've got a donation to go make.
ETA: Done. I felt dirty using Paypal, but I was being lazy, right up until Paypal barfed up some error saying "This credit card can't be used something something blah blah blah. Let's try a different one." In response to which I suddenly found the energy to go find the checkbook and an envelope.
In response to which I suddenly found the energy to go find the checkbook and an envelope.
Who on Earth actually still uses checks? Is it ~~2005~~ 1995?
the terms included a provision that if the PSF was found to have violated that anti-DEI diktat, the NSF reserved the right to claw back any previously disbursed funds
So even if they didn't violate the anti-DEI, whoever controls the US gov could just decide to claw back money PSF already spent...
Trump scrubs all mention of DEI, gender, climate change from federal websites
Meanwhile, the Internet Archive races to save what it can – againThomas Claburn (The Register)
Yeah, this is one of those terrible ideas even if you thought that, in theory, you were onboard with 'anti-DEI'.
Out of the blue the wrong person gets randomly pissed at you and invokes the highly subjective clause and suddenly you owe them $1.5M...
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The Seattle zoo also rejected federal funding with these strings. My wife lost her job because of it. Because it was just for one program and the no-DEI was organization wide…
Apparently the Portland Zoo signed it… No one expected that shit. We both let her parents know that this is because of their vote in another state.
Uncritical application of DEI methods without due consideration for the objectives isn't reasonable.
But signing a contract that says "if you do anything we can construe as DEI we can demand payback of all the support you falsely relied on" is like stepping on a landmine and hoping the fuse stops working before you have to step off.
DEI is nothing more than an acceptable form of racism.
Hiring people to meet quotas does not make a society better and does nothing to fix the root cause of inequalities.
Free access to quality education, healthcare and funding higher education for the people who can't afford it is how you fix things for the better. This is the future and good.
DEI is the equivalent of a small band aid over a putrid, gaping wound.
Social studies are about worth as much as the paper they're written on. 60 years ago studies said black people were inferior. In 60 years it'll be something else. They always match the era they were made in.
The only true solution to inequality is actual action against the cause of inequality, not some feelgood quarterly corporate email asking employees to not be openly racist at work.
You call it a band aid but its more of a hammer. There are numerous systemic issues these policies force society to confront head-on and in meaningful ways.
Calling DEI racism is just a conservative dog whistle for "owie my privilege hurts" and ignores the other forms of discrimination DEI challenges head on.
In a perfect world, you are right - equality. But our world is far from perfect.
Quotas is just one small aspect of DEI.
Things like anonymous soliciting and punishing racism are others.
And even quotas are just a response to stupid people using their bias at their workplace while being blindly unaware of them.
The world is full of smart women and minorities. If there wasn't a bias we would be closer to 50% of managers not being white males.
I will admit I was mistaken, I forgot the quarterly company wide corporate email asking employees to not be openly racist at work.
Truly solving inequalities, one middle manager asking you to sign that you've read the email at a time.
The problem isn't that there isn't smart women and minorities, they exist. They're just crushed by the system. DEI won't solve that. DEI won't women and minorities the resources to achieve their dreams, DEI won't give handicapped people access to a better life.
DEI is a bandaid on a festering, maggot filled wound. People slap it on and are like "wow, what a good job", and it drives me crazy.
NSF: "We'll give you money as long as you don't hire minorities".
Python: "Get fucked."
Chad shit
I mean basically yeah, "DEI" and "Woke" are right wing buzzwords that basically can mean whatever, and the Trump admin et al know this. They could say "letting x people use this is woke" or "hiring y people is DEI". The Anti-DEI movement is just an excuse for actual discrimination because now we have people being fired not because they are unfit for their job, but because they're from a minority who was deemed more qualified than someone who was White, Male and Cishet.
I mean Hegseth fired the Chief of Naval Operations because she was a woman. Straight up.
Congratulations for having a real spine and showing the world that money isn't everything
Thank you python team
Good.
I'm glad that the people offering this money did not compromise on their ideals.
The Future of Magazines… and the World
There's a fair amount of publishing inside baseball here, but what stuck out at me was:
DSJ: Your work is mostly concerned with the past and the present, but what kind of futures do you see unfolding for the world?TM: There was an extraordinary moment of international class coordination in the 1990s and early 2000s. Washington, Beijing, Moscow, and Brussels all agreed—despite their mounting geopolitical tensions—that they wanted their capitalists to get richer, that they no longer faced real threats from their working populations, and that they would help each other in the other great cause of the day, “counterterrorism,” which in practice meant killing and repressing Muslims the world over, whether in Xinjiang, Iraq, or Chechnya. Muslims were the ideal target for fine-tuning the emerging world order because they had no major power base of their own; their wealthiest members in the Gulf had no interest in upsetting the status quo. What is fascinating is how quickly this order broke down. One can point to cracks like the Iraq War, Putin’s 2007 Munich speech, the 2011 Libya intervention, or even further back to the Yugoslav wars, which Beijing and Moscow took to be a grisly preview of coming attractions.
Never genuinely threatened by “terrorism,” untroubled by rebellions of workers at home, the states superintending the 21st-century world economy found their hold on power jeopardized by the very success of the globalized capitalism whose ascendancy they oversaw, as powerful fractions of their ruling classes came to see themselves as unmoored from anything so constrictive as a national interest, however notional. Each state still believed it needed to enrich its elites—that was never in doubt—but there was a question now of which faction of the elite to enrich, and which to cast aside. Major purges were conducted in almost all the major states of the order. The purges were most drastic in China, where Xi in 2020–22 had to prove that the country would resist the liberal script of the business class overpowering the party. Putin conducted his purge more indirectly via the Ukraine war, which neatly separated out his capitalist loyalists from more Western-oriented capitalists in the upper strata around him. Trump, too, has done a purge, to the extent that one even can in the US, where capitalists, to a much greater degree, control the state. Trump had to confine his purge to the US bureaucracy; no major capitalists were threatened or fled the country (though the loyalty oaths extracted from the likes of Zuckerberg made for good television).
The other thing I see emerging is China developing a monopoly on state-backed science, especially climate science—one of Xi’s rumored successors when I was last in China was Chen Jining, the climate scientist who is now the party secretary of Shanghai—while the US will continue to excel in the carnival of recognition and continue to corner the market on identitarian innovation and mimetic desire. This is not a minor form of soft power, though it is one that the US itself barely understands. Meanwhile, the US has so thoroughly financialized itself that it has great difficulty producing basic military hardware, while it commits headlong to a kind of Green New Deal in reverse: the reorganization of its energy infrastructure and capital allocation in order to guarantee wealth transfers to investors in large language models, and to cover the shame of not having developed more socially beneficial innovations.
The last major rearrangement of global fortunes was the Second World War, the best thing—if you hadn’t died in it—that ever happened to American wage earners, and the best thing that ever happened for American technology. It’s doubtful that a war with China would result in a similar uplift, considering not only the obstacles to social mobilization on such a scale but the sheer amount of firepower that could be involved.
That's bleak, baby!
The Future of Magazines… and the World | The Nation
A conversation with Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.The Nation
The Weirdest "Car" I've Ever Driven - mkbhd's video about the Aptera EV
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I dont really like the essay style of that youtuber, but they cite hard, irrefutable data that paints a very clear picture that aptera is just treading water now, they dont have the funds to mass produce these cars, and no hope for further investments. Its sad really.
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Was that before or after the $75M LOC?
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Aptera Motors Executes $75 Million Equity Line of Credit Facility with affiliates of New Circle Capital | Aptera
Aptera Motors Executes $75 Million Equity Line of Credit Facility with affiliates of New Circle Capital Carlsbad, CA — October 14, 2025 — Aptera Motors Corp.Chris (Aptera)
TLDW: that line of credit is not going to save them.
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That's pretty decent range, and having solar panels trickle charge all day means for a lot of people it's basically at zero fuel cost. That right there is the big selling point.
If they figure out how to lop off a foot or two from the back without destroying aerodynamics and solar charging, it would look and park more like a normal vehicle.
Gullwing doors are fun, but a bigger person might have trouble fitting through that gap.
FWIW, Toyota experimented with a three-wheel, two-seater a while back, but range was nothing like this: theautofuture.com/2014/07/12/t…
Toyota’s Three-Wheeled i-ROAD EV Technology Ready To Hit The Road In France - The Auto Future
Toyota is about to deliver a test fleet of its i-ROAD three-wheeled electric vehicles to Grenoble France, in order to see how the vehicle stacks up against the requirements of daily ‘drinding’ along mountainous country roads.Rick Carlton (The Auto Future)
For Years, Islands Have Warned of Climate Disaster. They’ve Seen Little Help.
As Hurricane Melissa threatens island nations across the Caribbean, many are already burdened by debt from a string of climate-fueled crises.
Apple becomes third company in history to crack $4 trillion market value
Apple market value hits $4 trillion
Apple joined Nvidia and Microsoft to become the third company to break through the $4 trillion market value milestone.Steve Kopack (NBC News)
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It's not as impressive when they've already crossed the 1, 2, 3 trillion marks.
Call me when they hit 1 quadrillion dollars market cap.
Remember when it was viewed as not appropriate to write stories about Apple's tax dodging because Tim Cook came out as gay, and how important and brave he was.
Remember that Apple, and specifically Tim Cook, has bent over for Trump over and over, including helping fund his bullshit ass ballroom?
Maybe we should accept that absurdly rich gay white men can be just as big of shitbirds as absurdly rich straight white men and just as willing to sell out their own countrymen and their own sexual identity community.
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Billionaire transcends all other identities.
A trans billionaire (if it was ever allowed to happen) would be a shitbird by default.
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I didn't even know he was gay.
Still, fuck him. Whenever somebody is doing something evil nothing should be used as an excuse. Similarly, Israel should not be allowed to commit genocide, because someone in the past committed genocide on Jews.
Tax dodging is stealing from us (using benefits of the society without contributing back), sending bribes and bending a knee is helping fascism to take over.
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That's honestly a bit surprising, the media went whole hog with accolades for him in 2014 when he first openly talked and wrote about being gay.
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Tim Cook: 'I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me'
Apple CEO Tim Cook has written about his sexuality for the first time, in the hope that he can ‘help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is’. By Alex HernRupert Neate (The Guardian)
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Dude needs to be dicked down hard till post nut clarity smacks him in the face so hard he begins to realise he is supposed to be human.\
I aint volunteering. Maybe some apple fan boi will do the deed.
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Reminder that many companies bent the knee to the Nazis because it was financially beneficial for them at the time.
I heard Apple products taste like boots.
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I mean, I don't disagree, but Google is just as awful and most people only really have a choice between an Android phone and an iPhone so not "supporting" one or the other isn't really an option for most people who, you know, want a phone.
Linux phones need a lot of improvement and growth before they can be a functional replacement for either of those, sadly.
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The open source community could really shove it to Apple and Google by figuring that out.
Last I recall, a lot of mobile hardware requires proprietary firmware and drivers that make OSS work here really difficult.
Mac Pro's $400 Dollar Wheels Don't Even Come with a Lock System
Your Mac Pro can roll around freely without your consent.Fabienne Lang (Interesting Engineering)
Taxing every billionaire and corporation 90% would give every American 400,000 dollars a year...
Just saying
That’s optimistic.
In reality ot would make the people who control the government VERY rich.
I feel like Prime is way more terrible.
Actually came across a useful thing the other day… if you go back 20-30s because you missed something (because you didn’t have CC on), when it restarts it will add captions for 20s.
You did the thing you just complained about by not writing out 400,000,000 (400M) in relation to the 4,000,000,000,000 (4T)
To scale that down, it's like someone paying 400 from a net worth of 4,000,000 (4M), or 4 from a net worth of 40,000, they would barely even notice. Of course that's ignoring all the details of revenue and profit vs net worth or actual tax rates, and I can't be bothered to look those up.
But imagine you own some land and a house that you bought for 4,000,000 (4M) that you have to pay property taxes on, and the taxes were 400 per year. That's a 0.01% tax rate.
Shit, now I actually want to know what the real numbers are. according to Finbox
"Apple's effective tax rate for fiscal years ending September 2020 to 2024 averaged 16.5%." although I think that's specifically income tax.
Per macrotrends, apple profited 180,600,000,000 in 2024, from 391,035,000,000 revenue, a profit margin of ~45%, from which they payed 29,749,000,000 in taxes for an effective tax rate of 16.5% on the income.
Relative to net worth valuation of ~3,800,000,000,000 at end of 2024 that income tax paid is 0.75% of their net worth.
RFK Jr. Orders CDC to Study Alleged Harms of Offshore Wind Farms
Autism Study Identifies Air Pollution Link
Other factors may be in play, howeverJudy George (MedpageToday)
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Did you know small airplanes still dump lead into the air? I don’t see RFK getting upset about that actual MAHA problem.
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EPA Determines that Lead Emissions from Aircraft Engines Cause or Contribute to Air Pollution | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Determines that Lead Emissions from Aircraft Engines Cause or Contribute to Air PollutionUS EPA
Did you know small airplanes still dump lead into the air?
Detroit Free Press
After toxic lead from old pipes started poisoning the drinking water in Flint, residents were outraged.Matt Pearce, Detroit Free Press (Detroit Free Press)
Donald Trump is a real life Don Quixote and and RFK Jr is his Sancho Panza.
Except I read the book and Quixote could be charming and Sancho always had something witty to say.
Elizabeth Warren Calls for Investigation of Top Banker Tied to Epstein
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/48759495
Senator Elizabeth Warren has called for an investigation into former Barclays CEO Jes Staley and “all current and former US banking executives who may have facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s illicit conduct,” according to a letter seen by The Guardian.Staley, who like the Democratic senator is from Massachusetts, was known as one of the chief financial enablers of Epstein, allowing the late sexual predator to continue his account with J.P. Morgan in the midst of his crimes coming to light. The New York Times called Staley Epstein’s “chief defender” at J.P. Morgan, processing billions of dollars for him even as Epstein’s abuse and trafficking crimes were public.
Warren also noted that Staley is already banned for life in the UK banking industry for his connections to Epstein, and referred to court documents suggesting that Staley told Epstein about the bank’s apprehension towards him (and his large cash withdrawals), allowing him to alter his approach so that his account wouldn’t raise further suspicion.
Warren has urged the Federal Reserve Board, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to announce plans for an investigation by 7 November.
“It is critical to send a message to the public and current bank employees that this type of egregious misconduct has no place in the American banking system,” Warren wrote.
“Staley is not the only bank executive with concerning ties to Epstein. For example, according to Staley’s sworn deposition, he discussed Epstein with [J.P. Morgan] CEO Jamie Dimon on at least two occasions,” she continued. “The Fed, OCC and FDIC should investigate any other current or former banking executives who engaged in similar conduct to determine whether their conduct satisfies the legal standards for a ban on working in the banking industry and civil monetary penalties.... Any banking executives who facilitated the crimes of one of the world’s most notorious sex criminals should be held to account.”
Elizabeth Warren Calls for Investigation of Top Banker Tied to Epstein
Senator Warren is demanding regulators look into Jes Staley for protecting convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.The New Republic
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Auto-import of deny lists
NodeBB has a very simple allow/deny list capability at present. You paste in a bunch of newline-separated domains, and we block (or optionally, only allow) them all.
On the road to more fine-grained controls, I discovered that IFTAS publishes a Do Not Interact list in an importable CSV format.
As maintenance of these lists is important (adding new entries as well as handling removals), it looks to be increasingly important that I add into NodeBB the functionality to follow these lists automatically and update as necessary.
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Australia’s social media ban is “problematic,” but platforms will comply anyway
Platforms expect to monitor a range of signals, but age detection will be spotty.
Climate inaction could cost Europe €5.6 trillion by 2050, study finds
Not implementing climate friendly policies could cost European countries around six times as much as the price of decarbonisation, a new study finds.
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Israel | Netanyahu orders air strikes on Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday ordered air strikes on Gaza as he accused Hamas of only pretending to actively search for captive remains.
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US | Trumps tries to change the constitution so he can serve a third term
Dictator wannabe Donald Trump appears to be trying to change the constitution so he can serve a third term
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Makes sense that they'd want to kidnap israelis to free palestinians. No zionist can ever justify that.
Of course, israeli prisoners/hostages are well treated, in the futile hope that israelis will have some empathy, and treat palestinians as they'd want to be treated.
I hold for a fact that Israel wouldn't be able to do the horrors it does if the world was better informed(, the most important is to inform the israelis themselves, and i know that people here will claim that they all perfectly know, but i disagree). Mistakes are the root of evil.
From vm.tiktok.com/ZNdcE3Fgc
It's obviously far from the only testimony of tortures, even teenagers aren't spared.
I posted that two years ago, but didn't know how widespread it was.
With only a few minutes of researchs you can find dozens of testimonies : youtu.be/eIXCI3NuKQ8, youtu.be/-On--4b6qf8, youtu.be/7BJtpL1aGFs, youtu.be/AJi52pMblgQ, youtube.com/shorts/IcrF9d8rnJA… youtu.be/1JDEXsSuffo, ...
I'm so sorry for that useless suffering(, useless because it was supposed to have been over in the 90s).
Corey Gil-Shuster
What do Israelis & Palestinians really think? You ask, I get answers Real voices of Israelis & Palestinians No filters. No agendas. The Ask Project. New videos every Sunday and ThursdayYouTube
Mahmoud Abu Foul, freed after the ceasefire, lost a leg in 2015, was kidnapped in Kamal Adwan hospital last december, and is now blind after the beatings and lack of medical treatment in israeli jails
https://x.com/Channel4News/status/1978860897201197412Other mentions of prisoners from today on this community :
- lemmy.ml/post/37589373 ;
- lemmy.world/post/37423140Others :
- lemmy.world/post/37491370
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If that's indeed the case(, as unbelievable as it seems), then breaking through their ignorance could benefit the palestinian fight.
(Just a thought i wanted to share because it seemed worth it, /r/IsraelPalestine is disproportionately populated with pro-israelis if you have a few days to spend, i don't rule out the possibility that none were arguing in good faith because it remains an improbable conclusion on my part)
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(I just saw your comment, sry for editing my previous one i didn't know 😬)
Just know that it wasn’t my intention to defend Israel(, obviously?), i said that because it could benefit the palestinian cause.
I came on the subreddit mentioned to understand why they "needed" the west bank, and instead they insisted that it's the palestinians who want Israel despite the explicit demands of the 1967 borders, and pretended that it's the palestinian violence that prevents a two-states solution, the YT channel mentioned in the selftext kinda confirm that the situation is perceived in a weird way by the israelis.
I recognize that it's an overly strange conclusion, i'm doubting myself. Surveys show that 80% of israelis consider themselves the victims in this conflict, so i.d.k., perhaps more israelis don't understand the situation that we may think. Look at how they speak about security while it's their colonization of the West Bank and refusal of the Oslo accords that provoke more attacks ?
It's not impossible that a palestinian operation could be to send a document in each of their mailbox explaining more clearly that the attacks will continue to happen as long as Israel refuses a palestinian state along the 1967 borders with East-Jerusalem, and more explanations.
They probably wouldn't be able to do this more than once, but at least afterwards israelis won't ever have the excuse of not understanding what's happening, and that Israel is responsible for Hamas&palestinians attacks.
But yeah, unironically, stay cautious about the presence of zionists bots/people on the net, like i can't understand why that popular french account(, banned in the past, obv. by the authorities who else,) has an almost unanimity of comments opposing him, if you look at his posts with dozen of comments, that kind of weird example. I can't prove anything but these millions/billions spent ought to go somewhere.
(now i'm searching for surveys proving their brainwashing, but it's probably not necessary)
(Netanyahu won in 2019, promising to annex the jordan valley, which is 30% of the west bank, meanwhile israelis somehow believe to be the victims, and that there's nothing they can do, or that it's a convenient question of irrecoverable trust(, instead of security measures), it's so weird/unbelievable)
I.d.k. how, but that'd be great :
The Palestine/Israel Pulse, a Joint Poll: Press Release | PCPSR
These are the results of Palestinian-Israeli Pulse: ....Morepcpsr.org
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On iOS, the official Peertube app works okay.
It’s still being improved, but I’m surprised it became so good, so fast.
I don’t know about Android though.
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Behind the scenes test shots just discovered
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NATO trying to turn Eurasia into its ‘fiefdom’ – Lavrov
NATO trying to turn Eurasia into its ‘fiefdom’ – Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused NATO of continued expansion and trying to prolong the Ukraine conflictRT
One Piece anime TV series will release a maximum of 26 episodes per year 2026 onwards
One Piece Sails to a Brand-New Era in 2026
The One Piece anime TV series is embarking on a brand-new era for its 2026 schedule for U.S. and global anime viewers.Leo Reyna (CBR)
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The sudden break is for the animators and the rest of the production crew.
Disgusting liars.
What's the real reason then?
I don't see anything wrong with slowing production to improve quality and working conditions.
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They don't care about quality, as we have already seen multiple times, and such companies don't care about working conditions, as we can see everywhere in the world.
One episode every two weeks means doubling its duration. That's it.
It's about money, as always.
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Diana Loginova: Teenager jailed for playing anti-Kremlin song on the streets of St Petersburg
The 18-year-old Russian singer was arrested after her street performance of an anti-Putin song went viralLucy Papachristou (The Independent)
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CIA Agent says: Why do you like Russia so much? You have no freedom. In the USA, you can stand in front of the White House in Washington, DC, and yell, "Down with Ronald Reagan", and you will not be punished.
KGB Agent smiles and shakes his head: Nonsense, you can also stand in Red Square in Moscow and yell, "Down with Ronald Reagan", and you will not be punished, either.
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A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink.
"I have to admit, I'm always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up," the CIA agent says.
"Thank you," the KGB says. "We do our best, but truly, it's nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them."
The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. "Thank you friend, but you must be confused.. There's no propaganda in America."
The KGB smiles and says "Exactly".
I remember monsters of rock or whatever it was. I was hugely into Pantera, my parents hated Pantera. Pantera played to the largest audience in the fucking world after the fall of the commie scum, suddenly, Pantera ain't so fucking bad.
RIP Dime and Vinnie.
Horseshoe theory only holds up if you believe that all of politics is on a 1 dimensional spectrum from left to right. That's simply not that case. There are anti-authoritarian right wingers and leftists alike, just as there are authoritarian right wingers and leftists alike and everything in between, below, and to the side.
You probably see Stalin and Hitler and say, "See! Both authoritarians!" But, like, yeah... That's the problem. That's not even pointing out anything meaningful.
It's not that edgy.
18yo is jailed for a couple of songs lol.
It won't do anything, right, but that what I and them should be free to do.
its pretty edgy to get yourself thrown into jail for something stupid you know will put you there.
If your highest goal is self-preservation, then yeah, it doesn’t make sense. However, protestors like this usually care about something more important than themselves. It’s what drives them to put themselves out there, knowing they could be at risk for doing so.
I’m sure we could disagree on what specific things would make sense to potentially sacrifice one’s self for, but I hope the simple idea of something being that important at all is relatable. For some it’s their rights, for some it’s their religion, and for some it’s their family, but either way, most people can think of something they consider more important than themselves. It’s that importance that compels people to defend it, despite the personal danger for doing so.
"hmm, could it be that his sarcasm meant to make a case for irrationality of teenagers? no, i bet he meant it like he wrote it when he said teenagers are known for their rationality."
rly?
I believe
Terrible Google translate of the lyrics:
I'd like to talk to you,
But the TV is too loud—
It's pretending to be your head,
Its speaker is so much like your mouth.My country has risen from its knees
In all its negative growth.
I negatively agree with everything—
Here's my answer to your non-question:Where have you been for eight years,
Fucking inhuman beings?!
I want to watch the ballet—
Let the swans dance!Let Grandpa tremble in fear for his "Lake."
Get the nightingales off the screen—
Let the swans dance!When it's all over, you'll be silent
And pretend you had nothing to do with it.
Your face is more sour than a Crimean cherry plum:
You're clearly slightly depressed about something.I'd like to talk to you,
But the TV is too loud—
It's pretending to be your head,
Its speaker is so much like your mouth.Where have you been for eight years,
Fucking monsters?!
I want to watch a ballet—
Let the swans dance!Let Grandpa tremble for his "Lake."
Get off the screen, Solovyov—
Let the swans dance!
A lot of references to the fall of the USSR
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So, some of this is a bit of deep cut of Russian history, which is probably contributing to your confusion.
::: spoiler Here's my take.
I’d like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It’s pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.
The artist would like to have a conversation, but the person they want to talk to is just repeating the propaganda they see on TV.
My country has risen from its knees In all its negative growth. I negatively agree with everything— Here’s my answer to your non-question:
The USSR fell in the '90s, and the artist doesn't think modern Russia has developed in a good way.
Where have you been for eight years, Fucking inhuman beings?! I want to watch the ballet— Let the swans dance!
Eight years is likely referring to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The ballet bit is talking about how Swan Lake played on repeat during the fall of the USSR, as a placeholder to keep broadcast airwaves available for use as emergency broadcast. Because it has been so completely tied to the idea of political upheaval in Russia, it's recently picked up steam again as a sort of shorthand for calling for protest and resistance against the government.
Let Grandpa tremble in fear for his “Lake.” Get the nightingales off the screen— Let the swans dance!
Grandpa was pro-USSR, the artist wants the empire to hurry up and fall already.
When it’s all over, you’ll be silent And pretend you had nothing to do with it. Your face is more sour than a Crimean cherry plum: You’re clearly slightly depressed about something.
Once the USSR had fallen, a lot of people tried to deny their support or involvement with it.
The song repeats a few things, and the only thing left of note is that "Solovyov" has been a news anchor on Russian television since shortly before the invasion of Ukraine.
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Hey, I’ll do my best, here is my take;
I'd like to talk to you,
But the TV is too loud—
It's pretending to be your head,
Its speaker is so much like your mouth.
Someone feeling frustration over wanting to talk about things but the person can’t hear them because they only listen to and regurgitate what the TV (main stream media or government controlled media) wants them to say.
My country has risen from its knees
In all its negative growth.
I negatively agree with everything—
Here's my answer to your non-question:
We were getting back up after the fall of the USSR when everything fell apart and cratered. I don’t agree with what is going on, even though you didn’t ask I am going to tell you how I feel about all this anyway.
Where have you been for eight years,
Fucking inhuman beings?!
I want to watch the ballet—
Let the swans dance!
This has been going on for 8 years now and you have turned a blind eye to it. I want to watch Swan Lake again at the ballet (referencing Russia’s primary artistic exports historically is ballet, of which Swan Lake is one of the most popular/wellknown)
Let Grandpa tremble in fear for his "Lake."
Get the nightingales off the screen—
Let the swans dance!
Not entirely sure what this is referring to, my best guess is juxtaposing story elements of Swan Lake to current political happenings in Russia, ie comparing Putin to a grandpa and lake may be ambiguous as a reference to Swan Lake and Putin’s lakeside palace.
When it's all over, you'll be silent
And pretend you had nothing to do with it.
Your face is more sour than a Crimean cherry plum:
You're clearly slightly depressed about something.
When we, or future generations, fix this you are just going to pretend you had nothing to do with it, you’re a liar, like the lies they tell us about why we have the right to invade Crimea in Ukraine to justify our war with an innocent country. You know it is wrong but you keep lying to yourself about why.
I'd like to talk to you,
But the TV is too loud—
It's pretending to be your head,
Its speaker is so much like your mouth.
Repeat of the first verse;
Someone feeling frustration over wanting to talk about things but the person can’t hear them because they only listen to and regurgitate what the TV (main stream media or government controlled media) wants them to say.
Where have you been for eight years,
Fucking monsters?!
I want to watch a ballet—
Let the swans dance!
Repeat of the second verse but changing “Fucking inhuman monsters” to “fucking monsters”
Let Grandpa tremble for his "Lake."
Repeat of the first line in the fourth verse but changing fear to tremble, again most likely referencing Putin and him willing to sacrifice the people of Russia in order to keep his extreme wealth and lake side palace.
Get off the screen, Solovyov—
Let the swans dance!
Solovyov is a famous TV presenter in Russia, which I believe the speaker believes, or is inferring, is a government shill or otherwise bought off to only report what Putin wants him to report. So they are demanding Solovyov be removed from TV and to give the people back their freedom (swans dancing)
Hope that helped if you were being sincere about needing assistence to understand it. I have ADHD myself and have several friends with both ADHD and learning disabilities (they are co-morbidities of ADHD) so I can understand the frustration.
I was being sincere. Thank you.
As someone in their late 30s with a recent diagnosis, I'm beginning to learn just how stigmatized my condition is. It's beyond frustrating when I get dismissed as just being lazy by even my own friends and family.
[Incoming Rant]
Nobody understands the struggle unless they have it. They don't seem to understand that it's a lot more than just forgetfulness and an inability to process long blocks of text. It is a full-blown disability that has been holding me back from reaching my full potential. Hell, I didn't even move out of my parents' house until my 30s due to my condition. Even other people with ADHD don't seem to understand that there's different levels of severity, and I'm on the more extreme end of the spectrum.[/rant]
So again, thank you for being kind.
So asking for the ballet is asking for putin to be replaced, which is obviously bad.
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Russia being a tolitarian oppressive shithole is old news. I just pointed that the US's closest allies in the middleeast are a genocidal aparthied that bribes their government, and oppressive dictatorships that enrich their elites with their natural and political resources. All are objectively worse than Russia.
so I agree russia is bad and deserve their sanctions from the US and rest of EU,, but where are the sanctions against Israel? it's lawless hypocracy
O7
Mad respects.
As a Chinese-American, I feel so depressed about the situation of both countries I lived in, tyranny is everywhere. I'm being targeted by both countries and tbh I'm just not brave enough to do actual protests, because I'm scared and I just want to stay under the radar. I'm dealing with a lot of depression, and I don't think I have the endurance it takes. I already got falsely arrested once by the US Gestapo and I'm still dealing with the PTSD.
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon ValleyGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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*Ya know, i was god once...
Yes, i saw. You were doing well until everyone died.*
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I don’t get the last one and feel pretty dumb at the moment.
Screwball, crackpot… leaky faucet?
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Remember when God said he didn’t want idols made, then he punished the Jews to wander the desert for 40 years.
This gives those vibes.
It feels plain wrong.
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Also I don’t think Christ would return if we were all being cool to each other, so they’re admitting they’re just trying to push humanity more off track.
How does that help you in God’s judgement? I’m pretty sure disrespecting all of his creation and doing the opposite of everything Jesus stood for won’t go well.
I’m agnostic, but selfishly I would not purposefully try to hasten driving myself to hell/damnation if I believed in it.
Thankfully the values my mom taught me are the same ones Jesus taught: love your neighbour as yourself and do unto others as you would have done to you.
How does that help you in God’s judgement?
"The ends justify the means", or something.
Thankfully the values my mom taught me are the same ones Jesus taught: love your neighbour as yourself and do unto others as you would have done to you.
This is what baffles me when my dad argues with me for being left of center.
You sent me where they taught this, did you not want me to learn it?
(Also not religious, but kept some of the philosophy)
There’s a lot of good Christian teachings that just make the world better regardless of your fear of eternal punishment or any god.
While outside my education I’m sure most religions too, but too many people get caught up in casting out others, or hating the non believers, or doling out punishments they have no right to.
Remember when God said he didn’t want idols made
You are about 1700 years late to this argument. Christians reconciled with iconography some time in the Byzantium Era.
And after Protestantism? FFS, can you imagine what Joseph Smith would say about an AI Prophet, after spending half his career reading discs out of a hat with special sunglasses?
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He had a magic rock he put in at hat lol
I don't have any problems with building beautiful things like cathedrals or making art in the name of God
But building oracles and such is gross. The who AI pope question was insane.
But I will have to read that article deeper, that's an interesting wikipedia link
I don’t have any problems with building beautiful things like cathedrals or making art in the name of God
What about Catholics praying to little figurines and statues of saints? Because that's been going on for a long time
You know how people used to put pictures of their loved ones in a locket, or in their wallets, or as a background pic on their phones? That's what they were supposed to be. (As told by a catholic friend)
I can accept that. I have one of my kids in the car cause I used to drive like a maniac. It's a constant reminder of the kind of person I should be while driving.
But of course, people will be people, ignoring what they're told and doing whatever the hell they like... "This statue cried blood, let's pray to it!" (and ignore the leaking toilet upstairs)
But building oracles and such is gross.
You're talking about a religion whose entire foundation is built on saints and prophets. The whole Jesus story is a big deal because it is fulfillment of prophecy.
The who AI pope question was insane.
It's certainly heretical to the Catholic Church. But fits comfortably in a bunch of New Age and Technocratic Futurist Protestant understands of their faith.
You REALLY expect conservatives to actually follow the non oppressive sections of the scriptures?
Rotfl
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They think God works through them, and it is their divine duty to do this.
It's how they justify a lot of the shit they do.
This justification is always funny.
“Oh, your all powerful god needs the help of Brian the middle manager to get its work done for them?”
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
-Susan B. Anthony
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“So GodGPT, is the bible the inerrant word of God?”
> yes
“So why does it contradict itself”
>*explodes in Spr0ing*
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mission to build a Christian AI
But AI is already fucking stupid?
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Such Christians, acting like they know better than god.
Mathew 24:36\
[36]“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,Mathew 24:42-44\
42Watch therefore, for you do not know what [g]hour your Lord is coming. 43But know this, that if the master of the house had known what [h]hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. 44Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
Matthew 24:42 - Readiness at Any Hour
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.Bible Hub
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The oldest praying automaton we know of is from the 16th Century. This is basically that but with more capitalism.
I can't help but notice how captured the Christian mind is, when even the return of the Savior is a business opportunity; a revenue stream. These people are already robots who can't worship without a prospectus and a spread sheet.
Not just the Bible. A lot of this extremist ideology comes from people who like to sound smart, but don't know what they're talking about.
Like the whole effective altruism movement, or even just the resurgence of eugenics with Musk and his whole birthing weirdness.
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“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” -- Frank Herbert
"Right now there is an explosive growth of the number of computers
and things they can do. Not only are their numbers increasing at a
dazzling rate, but the storage of information in giant data banks is growing
in the same explosive way.
We have no way to control this now and none in sight. In fact, the
very nature of this growth says that all controls will lag far behind
computer developments. Any attempt to ban them will only drive com-
puters underground. Never lose sight of the fact that computers "crunch
time." The speed at which computers can operate tells us that laws
cannot keep up with them. The person with a computer can dance rings
around you while you react as though you were embedded in molasses.
What can you do?
Get your own computer. Learn how to use it. We are here to help you
make that first step: how to find the one that fits your needs and your
pocketbook, where to put it, how to program it-all of the essentials. If
you don't do this, the Bill of Rights is dead and your individual liberties
will go the way of the dodo." -- also Frank Herbert
I hate how much we seem to be slowly careening towards Frank Herbert's vision like the worse case of collective target fixation.
Not that I disagree, just as someone who loves computers and programming it really feels like throwing out the baby along with the bathwater.
We could (should imo) be planning a sort of overthrow of the rich assholes who don't share; make sure everyone has access to a computer, the electricity need to run it, and the knowledge to use it to their own benefit.
The second, longer quote in my previous comment is from the intro to a computer self-help/"how-to" book, Without Me You Are Nothing (pdf link).
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” -- Frank Herbert
I for one, welcome our AI overlords. All hail Omnius!
"We're building the Eschaton Immanentising Machine, from the famous theological treatise 'Don't Immanentise the Eschaton'"
(Also, using LLMs sounds a lot less efficient than the exhaustive search described in The Nine Billion Names of God)
I have a problem with these people exploiting and weaponizing my religion for their own profit. Not that they're the first to do it, but it's even more ridiculous to grow up and see the hypocritical "traditionalists" joining forces with hypocritical technocrats.
Fight for your "traditional" values and force them on anyone you disagree with. Put all your faith in the middlemen "chosen by God to lead" all of his creations, act on "God's behalf," and tell everyone else what is or isn't "God's will." Insist on diving headfirst into the most cutting edge unregulated dystopian tech, while accusing anyone who questions your hubris of being a luddite.
Meanwhile, base all social and legal policies on your very literal interpretation of parts of a book that often contradicts itself, was written thousands of years ago, and has been edited multiple times throughout history by power hungry men very similar to yourself. Accuse anyone who questions this of persecuting you because of your religion.
Pick and choose random parts of that book to fit your narrative and justify your actions as a "Warrior for Christ." Very rarely (if ever) will the parts chosen be any of the stuff Christ actually said, but if anyone points that out, just DARVO and accuse them of religious persecution or "toxic empathy." Feed only your cherry picked bullshit into your biased AI. Congratulations, you've created an easy button for blasphemy.
These are definitely the people who end up killing us all.
Why would Christ want you literally playing God and fucking with his timeline?
Holy shit, when does Big Tech ever stop being such a clown show???
Also:
Destruction of the planet, hardly. The earth has and will shrug of worse than humanity. Thinking otherwise is giving humanity too much credit.
Destruction of humanity is more likely. We are actively making the earth worse for us, and many other species. But there are many more which will survive and thrive after we destroy ourselves.
I think when people say "destruction of the planet" they are really meaning "our ecosphere and the multitude of species that are currently going extinct".
Many recognize that we are in a 6th mass extinction period and understand that as the ecosystem goes, so do we. Is the spheroid body of the planet going to crumble or plate tectonics stop working because we're gone? With all deference to George Carlin, no we know better (we'll, there is the question about racking-induced earthquakes, but that's a bit in the weeds).
~~An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return~~
An ex-intel CEO's idea to make money by combining two money making tools
More than that, most of the old testament is stories about how you don't debate God, you don't test God, and you definitely don't force God's hand.
Honestly, this Intel guy is cute compared to the Christian Zionists, who somehow think God wants and will be happy with their attempts to manufacture prophecy.
Breaking: Lightning flashes, thunderous boom. Jesus Christ appears upon a obelisk in the center of the reflecting pool in DC.
And I say unto you: FUCKING HELL, CAN YOU ALL JUST STOP RUINING THE WORLD AND EACHOTHER, JUST FUCKING STOP IT WITH THE MONEY AND FUCKING OVER THE POOR. EVERYONE DESERVES FOOD AND COMFORT AND STOP TRYING TO SPEND ALL THE NATURAL RESOURCES ON GET RICH QUICK AI BULLSHIT, I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAD TO COME DOWN HERE TO STOP YOU ASSHOLES.
Thanks Patrick, you superstitious cunt!
Curing cancer? Nooo
Protecting children from gun shots? Nooo
Making sure children are educated and fed? Nooo
Let's build a fucking ball room and create a Jesus chat bot -- YES
I cannot believe that this is the future we were waiting for.
Hastening the coming? He needs to reread the bible then.
"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." - Matthew 24:36
The week, on the other hand, is fair game.
Sounds ridiculous, but apologists will literally say this.
I was brought up Catholic. The Dominican brothers taught me to think critically. Now I'm not a Catholic, or any kind of Christian, anymore.
And for the fractally schismatic fundamentalist Protestants, they stopped adhering to a Christian belief system over a century ago. Very little that they believe has any connection to Christianity, and most of it contradicts core beliefs. For them, it's just a tribal identity. "We're the chosen people and everyone else is wrong."
They think that they can force God's hand. They're that arrogant.
Anyway, the whole fundie end-times narrative is late 19th-century fanfic. It not only contradicts their scriptures, it's also incoherent and badly written. At least Dante, when he made things up, was consistent with the core beliefs, as well as his work being far better-written and more coherent than the source literature. But the Rapture is just the rantings of tent-show shysters. Even bronze-age shepherds did better.
Actually this is a pretty impressive grift. I don’t think anyone has tried this before.
lol
Exactly, one man's mission to soak up as much money from religious nutters as possible.
Just as the church has always done.
Where there was once purported atheism, there is now “a very loud, very visible and very specifically Christian-inflected technological culture” in Silicon Valley, said Damien Williams, a scholar at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who studies how technologies are shaped by religious beliefs.
Danger. Danger.
a scholar at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Hahahahaha.....wait, was that not a joke?
I’m willing to bet you could convince a subset of those people that such an LLM is in fact the second coming of Christ. So not just some tool “approved” by God, but that the LLM is the God itself.
Then (to the “true believers” minds) whatever it says will be unquestionable. And then whomever is pulling the strings behind the scenes can commit whatever atrocities they desire.
So glad to read your comment @SparrowHawk. This is exactly it, and why I am no longer a hardcore atheist. We can't connect with anyone while we're in the middle of telling them that they're wrong - even if they are completely wrong about factual matters. It's essential to build connection first, then conduct any education through the connection. Without connecting it's wasted effort.
The educating can't come through coercion or condemnation either, because those shut people down. If we don't offer something better then we push those people away. We might write them off and say "fuck em, who cares!" and that's how we end up at political deadlock and perpetual war.
This is why the fascists are so terrified of empathy, because intelligent, educated people (lots of those around!) who are highly empathic (not so many, it's a harder skill) joining together and building connections with and between the masses, already have all the tools to dismantle the whole scam we're living in.
Empathy and education, from kindness not condemnation, is unstoppable. Though I will grant that there's not much in it for rugged individualism, but lots in it for diverse, individuality-celebrating collectivism.
Of course we're supposed to be arguing - we'll never get anywhere that way.
Empathy lets you say "I absolutely disagree with your view, yet I still value you as a human, so am committed to your long-term wellbeing" and other similar bits of "radical hate speech" which, put into action will dismantle capitalism, fascism, authoritarianism, religions, prisons... you name it.
But it can't be passive, it is something for each person to be putting into action all the time.
That's my spiritual practise and I don't feel personally affronted if someone disagrees with it or doesn't understand it any more, because it's just with myself and how I want to be in life with myself and others anyway.
There are billions of us humans and we're unstoppable when we put aside our petty differences and work together for common dreams.
....besides, if you don't agree with me, you're wrong! /s
radical atheism will never work because most people need a connection to the world that goes beyond what’s material
What's "radical" atheism? Atheism is not believing in god(s). How do you exceed that? Believing in infinite negative numbers of non-gods? Or do you mean I'm running around trying to convince everyone I know to be an atheist? I don't play with model trains, but feel no need to tell everyone I meet that they shouldn't waste their time with it. Same with religion. Now, if either group tries to coerce me into participating in their favorite pastime, I'll resist. No sirree Bob, not my job.
And what would "moderate" atheism be? Believing in half a god? Not believing but going out of one's way to conceal it? That might be a rational strategy to avoid persecution, but it's not a belief system.
I'm an atheist. I feel a sense of connection to other people and living things and a sense of wonder at nature. I just don't need an alpha male in the sky to personify it. Lack of something unnecesary is not a deficit. There's not a huge void in my life where the Easter Bunny should be.
selling a worldview that cancels that immateriality is doomed to fail
I don't need to assume mythical entities in order to live. If the soul turns out to be a real thing, fine, though there's no evidence for it so far. If it's not, that's fine too. Meanwhile, it's irrelevant.
and then slowly but surely many of those same atheists either became Christians or allied themselves with the same vile Christian nationalists who are actively exporting their filth all over the world.
* Cough * Dawkins * Cough *
People don't really change much. They are sort of set in their ways. All the toxic bootlickers back in the day used to constantly insult us for being Christians because being an atheist was the popular thing and the path to power, now the opposite is true so they switched sides. Now they call us nihlistic and corrupters of the western world. They just follow what's popular. The politicians especially. They are obsessed with power and always appearing like they agree with the masses. They hated religion when it was antiwar, pro acceptance, anticorruption, they love it now that it is militant, right wing, and breeds corruption. The people never changed though. Most people who were Christians 20 years ago have abandoned the religion although ironically they are still very much like Christ. The people who were atheists 20 years ago in large part have embraced it. There is always those few people who stock to their principles. Who believe in truth. Unfortunately the world has changed a lot in 20 years. Our politicians started to bring in millions of immigrants and most people have become single issue voters on the issue of immigration because they see no other way to stop it. They are too foolish to see that the same people who allowed it are the same ones who are pumping billions of not trillions into promoting maga and Christian nationalism.
Since people have become single issue voters they have seized the opportunity to push all the worst shit in the world. Trump might throw them part of a bone when it comes to immigration but he will also be the president of the most mass survellience in history. He cleaned out the doj and replaced them with loyalists, he openly defies the constitution. He is trying to starve states that aren't loyal to his regime while also trying to steal their taxes.
The atheists are somewhat at fault. They used to call people Nazis when they weren't. They used to call people racist for not wanting unlimited immigration. They became too prideful of their own power. With all the hyperinflation the red states were hurt the worst. They threw protestors from Jan 6 in prison and then called them traitors. From their perspective if you are one who agrees with them, it actually seems perfectly rational because Democrats supported their politicians in doing many of the same things trump does to his enemies. They also would try to force policy with a tiny majority of the vote, like throwing people in prison for many years over relatively meaningless crimes, like modifying a rifle or something. Protesting the liberal government.
The corporations of course just switch sides the instant that they realized it was going the other way. What trump is doing is far beyond what the Democrats did.
However in the end, people mostly don't care about truth. They care about power. Truth dies to the pursuit of power. Language itself is tortured and twisted to try to change reality for those who cannot see it clearly. We have truly become a democracy in this sense. Our state being reduced to a weapon for one minority to oppress others. For one group to oppress truth. Democracy is truly here in the form that our state now reflects the average voter. Someone who hates taking responsibility, someone who can't see two sides of an issue. Someone in which everything is a means to power, and their only goal is to make other people feel the pain that they feel.
The greatest irony still is that there are actually people out there that understand how to fix everything, but they are the most hated of all people, because they say what nobody wants to hear. They don't validate any side nor agree with their extreme positions. They don't promise people prosperity and growth in their 401k but decades of pain and actually fixing things the right way, the slow and painful and responsible way. Those people will never get power, and so the likely outcome is that our society will both collapse as the Democrats fear, and white people will get replaced like the Nazis fear. The Democrats will lose all of their freedom, to speak and to live who they love by nature, and the Nazis will be undercut by millions of people who can do their job for half the wages. Women will be oppressed by religion, and yet most men will still be alone because they are disgusting. The rich will lose everything and also will die in the greatest shame, knowing that in the end they choose to always pursue power and profits over human dignity and truth.
There is a bit of sick joy to it in a way. Trump will be remembered in exactly the opposite of the way he wants. His legacy which is what he cares most about will be that he was the one who lied and manipulated people and destroyed freedom, not just in America but around the world. He nearly single handedly destroyed every good thing in the world. Hundreds of years where humanity finally escaped slavery and serfdom and religious brainwashing and most common people had a little bit of a decent life, where most people could be happy most of the time, and technology progressed fast, all gone away by his insatiable appetite for power. In the end he will realize that he is the worst president in human history. By his own choices no less. He might not say it but he will be remember that way. A perfect example of everything that's wrong with humanity. All the ones who cling to religion now to cherry pick hateful quotes to justify their immortality, will be remembered as so. Humanity will maybe fall. Western civilization might get erased by religious cultures who traffic women into marriages and take over city by city. All the survellience in the world will not change the fact that nobody gives a shit anymore, and so the great crescendo that was the 20th century will flame out like a fire without fuel. Humanity will descend once more into the darkness, and everything will collapse into tyranny and tribalism once more. Every human on earth will hate this small group of rich assholes who somehow manage to trick all of us into hating each other.
And maybe, on the other side of this, humanity will remember. They will remember that they want to be free, that they want to be nice to each other, that power is a waste of their one life. Maybe something good will come if it, like a flower out of ashes. Maybe all will be set right and wisdom will carry over from ages past. Humanity will awaken and with nothing to lose anymore, they will stop clinging to their materialistic world of power and status. There is many things going against authoritarianism. It's not just that it's evil, but it's bad. It kills creativity, it ruins genetics, it takes away hopefully and also silences the dreamer. It cannot take responsibility and so in this way authoritarianism for all of its physical power, because frail and weak. It is so easy to overcome in that way once people decide they don't want it anymore.
Is this irony or something? Use Ai to get closer to god? Its the exact opposite people need to do.
But who is surprised in this upside down world.
Just corporations trying to bring on the apocalypse so they don't have to pay a little more in taxes.
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AI "Phone Farm" Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam
You know those obnoxious social media accounts that flood your messages with spam? Those might not be scammers after all, but a legitimate new business backed by one of the most powerful venture capital funds in Silicon Valley.Introducing Doublespeed, a startup operating a phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated slop on behalf of its clients. In a nutshell, phone farming is a tactic most often used by hackers and financial criminals to use large numbers of devices to send spam texts, farm social media engagement, or generate fake reviews.
On its website, the fledgling company bills itself as a “bulk content creation” service. Basically, it lets customers “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.” It does this through “instrumented human action,” a fancy phrase meaning the company’s phone bots will somehow mimic “natural user interaction on physical devices to get our content to appear human to the algorithims [sic].”
In a post on X-formerly-Twitter, Doublespeed co-founder Zuhair Lakhani even boasts that they used AI to write the company’s code. “Claude code is truly our third cofounder,” he wrote.
The whole thing is backed by a $1 million cash injection from a16z, also known as Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capitalist firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz back in 2009.
Doublespeed clients can expect to pay anywhere between $1,500 and $7,500 a month for access to its phone farm.
AI “Phone Farm” Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam
Andreessen Horowitz has injected $1 million into Doublespeed, a startup meant to flood social media with gobs of for-profit spam.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
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A Michigan elected official is married to a neo-Nazi. Some constituents have a problem with that.
A Michigan elected official is married to a neo-Nazi. Some constituents have a problem with that.
Meghyn Booth says she didn’t know she was married to a neo-Nazi influencer, not exactly.Matthew Miller | mmiller@mlive.com (mlive)
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