Far-right populists top polls in Germany, France and Britain for the first time
Alternative for Germany has joined France's National Rally and Reform U.K. in becoming the most popular party in its country, according to polls.
A poll Tuesday showed Alternative for Germany — which is under surveillance by the country’s intelligence services over suspected extremism — is now the most favored by voters. The survey by broadcaster RTL put the AfD at 26%, ahead of the ruling Christian Democrats at 24%.
This is a high watermark for the European far right, a once fringe movement whose virulently anti-immigration, anti-Islam and culture-war politics were shunned by the mainstream just a decade ago.
Today, these parties have developed deep ties with President Donald Trump and his Republican allies, who openly cite nationalists such as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as inspirations on policy and tactics.
Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) | MAS
Open-source Windows and Office activator featuring HWID, Ohook, TSforge, KMS38, and Online KMS activation methods, along with advanced troubleshooting.massgrave.dev
No. It's the best fork that is not supposed to be within reach for us "unworthy individual users".
(Although since massgrave allows you to activate it perpetually it doesn't really matter how many steps they throw for the "right way" XD)
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You can take a look at the windows 7 situation if you want a preview of what to expect in the next few years if you stick with windows 10
Still no.
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We understand that moving to a new PC can take time,” Microsoft says, “and we’re here to support you throughout the process.
actually i installed linux mint over windows on a friday evening and it wasn't that time consuming at all.
heh nice. Mint is great and easy to install. I like PopOS/debian depending on what im doing.
Remember when Microsoft said no Windows 11? bbc.com/news/technology-326583…
Such a money grab.
Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions
Windows 10 will be the last version of the operating system to be numbered, says Microsoft executive.BBC News
Bitlocker is a good thing that should be the default for windows users.
But not telling the user, not giving them the choice and switching it on without their knowledge, is super scummy.
This continually gets passed around, but it's the result of bad journalism. It was a comment made by one of the developers and was never an official comment/statement from Microsoft.
pcworld.com/article/394724/why…
Just adding for the record that I despise Microsoft, so I'm not trying to defend them. Just always see this referenced and figure it's better to set the record straight.
Why is there a Windows 11 if Windows 10 is the last Windows?
If Windows 10 was supposed to be the last version of Windows, why is there a Windows 11? Well, because Windows 10 was never officially the last version of Windows.rnrnMark Hachman (PCWorld)
Win 10 IoT LTSC 2021 is supported until 2032. the ESU is literally just security updates they will be doing anyway.
if you have any windows software that can't be replaced and needs to be online running IoT is one solution.
protip: Windows runs faster under a VM in Linux than on bare metal. True facts.
it's just a meme ... with a kernel of truth.
when running as your main OS windows very quickly gets bogged down with everything you want to run on it.
in a VM you're only running the 1 thing you need on a fresh install, potentially a screenshot of that fresh install so it's always running at peak.
does this make up for the host overhead? maybe ... Linux has never struggled under base load for me like windows has.
when running as your main OS windows very quickly gets bogged down with everything you want to run on it.in a VM you're only running the 1 thing you need on a fresh install, potentially a screenshot of that fresh install so it's always running at peak.
Well this is a big difference lol
Microsoft has expanded its free Extended Security Updates (ESU) offer to millions more Windows 10 users. Following the mandatory KB5063709 update, users can now see an “Enroll in Extended Support Updates” option, valid until October 2026. While paid plans start at $30 for up to 10 PCs, most users will likely choose the free offer, linking ESU to their Microsoft account and OneDrive.
The program aims to protect Windows 10 devices after official support ends, helping users transition to newer systems. Microsoft acknowledges that moving to a new PC can take time, and the ESU is meant to bridge that gap. Although an earlier bug caused crashes in the enrollment wizard, this issue has now been fixed.
However, the free ESU may slow Windows 11 adoption. Recent market share data from Statcounter suggests the shift from Windows 10 to Windows 11 has stalled, with the latter even losing ground. Critics argue that free ESU should have been limited to PCs unable to upgrade.
Separately, Microsoft warns that Windows 11 version 23H2 will reach end of support on November 11, 2025. Users must upgrade to version 24H2 or 25H2 to continue receiving security updates.
Separately, Microsoft warns that Windows 11 version 23H2 will reach end of support on November 11, 2025. Users must upgrade to version 24H2 or 25H2 to continue receiving security updates.
Windows 11 23H2 was the last version that supported Windows Mixed Reality. They're really in a hurry to kill WMR.
ICJ vice-president: 'The Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel'
ICJ vice-president: 'The Lord is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel'
Julia Sebutinde, the Ugandan vice-president of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has said God "is counting on me to stand on the side of Israel" and the signs of the "end times" are "being shown in the Middle East".Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
Oh good, another accelerationist in power who thinks they're the catalyst for the rapture.
The thing that confounds me the most is that these people have been rejecting our experienced reality and believing in some post-apocalyptic utopia for CENTURIES. But belief upon belief, attempt after attempt, they have only shown that their belief-system has no foundation or champion whose power they can invoke. But, instead of saying "we have the resources to make utopia exist here and now," they say, "we must not have pleased our friend who hasn't shown his face in MILLENNIA. But I know for a fact that he's real, so we just gotta cause a biblical apocalypse for all the chess pieces we feed and employ."
I am religious. I find the idea of purposefully bringing on the end of times strongly contradictory to my understanding of the Abrahamic religions. It is not the place of humans to decide, when the end times come, nor do humans have the power to do so. And the idea that purposefully bringing on the end of the world would be rewarded, instead of punished, by God is incomprehensible to me.
There is a narration both in Judaism and Islam, that emphasizes this:
bliis.org/essay/planting-a-tre…
“If the [Day of] Resurrection were established upon one of you, and in his hand is a sapling, then he should plant it.”
عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِنْ قَامَتْ عَلَى أَحَدِكُمْ الْقِيَامَةُ وَفِي يَدِهِ فَسْلَةٌ فَلْيَغْرِسْهَا[1][2]“If you are holding a sapling in your hand and someone tells you, ‘Come quickly, the Messiah is here!’, first finish planting the tree and then go to greet the Messiah.” – Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai (30 BC – 90 CE),
Planting a Tree in the End Times: An Analysis of an Islamic and Jewish Saying
Planting a Tree in the End Times: An Analysis of an Islamic and Jewish Saying It is reported in the Musnad of Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal (d. 855 AD) and in the Musnad of Al-Bazzar (d.Berkeley Institute for Islamic Studies
Your comment reminded me of this:
A recent ~2 minute video from the ever-excellent Dr. Dan McClellen. The opening sentence is: "Every last attempt to identify divine commands in the Bible that are relevant to anyone today requires negotiating with the text."
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If it’s not our place to bring on the end times, then it’s also not our place to stand in the way.
That’s the problem. These people are telling themselves “if this is how it happens, who am I to stand in the way?” Think about it: if you see events in motion which could be the stirrings of god bringing about the end times, how could you possibly act in a completely neutral way, neither hastening nor hindering? It’s too fine a line for an humble mortal to assume they can walk.
So while I appreciate your thought, unfortunately your thinking is far too easily flipped around. The base problem is believing any of this stuff to begin with. Once you do, that’s it.
If it were the end of times made by gods, a person shouldn't have any ability to stop it.
Sounds more like their God is testing them on whether or not they are a good person, and they are failing spectacularly.
Positives, helping others is really the only way I can think of to increase the score
Then you are more evolved than Christians. Unfortunately Christianity is unclear on whether helping people actually matters, or just faith in god. I’m being completely serious.
God commanded us good things to do and prohibited us from doing bad things.
You should just life your life in accordance with that as good as possible and don't concern yourself with when the end times are, or when your life ends. It is important not to postpone doing good things, or to continue doing bad things thinking "i'll just make up for them later." Because God might decide to end your life in an accident or other sudden way.
There is no indication afaik. in any of the Abrahamic scriptures that you should try to fulfill any prophecies and it certainly does not take priorities over doing what is good in on itself and abstaining from what is bad in on itself.
Judge Julia Sebutinde says signs of the end times 'are being shown in the Middle East'
Why tf would anyone want to fulfill the prophecy of the antichrist.
"Yeah let's accelerate this genocide so that the entire world can get screwed over"
What i'm not getting is why these Christians in the US want the last judgement to arrive at all.
The way they seem to treat everyone, with cruelty, a cold heart, and lots of violence, is basically a guarantee they're not gonna go to paradise. Why, then, do they wish for the last judgement?
Right, imagine standing in front of God and saying "Yeah I did all those horrible things since it was a sign of the end times".
Like why do they think that somehow qualifies them getting into heaven.
Even best case scenario, you still have to deal with essentially the apocalypse on Earth before you even reach the point of judgment.
They should also not be suffering from extreme mental illness, like she is.
The fact that this person is an ICJ judge shows you that we are living in a clown world. Our entire civilization has no clothes. We are talking chimps conducting a reckless, unplanned terraform of spaceship Earth. Our intelligence is no match for our hubris. If you haven't figured it out yet, we are approaching our great filter and the perpetrator is ourselves.
As she said, we are approaching the "end times", except what comes after is the eternal nothingness of the void; the only remanence being another dead rock hurtling through space.
Oh i'm pretty sure life on Earth won't go extinct. The dinosaurs weren't the last living beings either.
In fact if humans go extinct, they'll probably be replaced by another hyper-intelligent species in less than 100 million years, i guess. Which is 2% of earth's age.
Also, probably not even humanity will go extinct due to climate change. The real crisis is the late-stage capitalism which is like a cancer that eats away all the resources so the healthy tissue (humans) can't live anymore. Tax reforms are the number one priority. Tax the rich.
Sounds like a resignation speech to me.
And judges who respond to voices in their head should never be allowed to hold office.
I'm not sure whether you're joking or you're serious but lots of influential organizations around the world are deeply religious. My favorite example for this is the freemasons, which have a belief in some sort of god as one of the requirements to join them.
So, in practical terms, there's a 0% chance that "religion" will disqualify people from leadership positions in today's world. Come up with demands that can be more easily met. Such as not partaking in or supporting a genocide.
I'm sick of real peoples' needs (such as not getting genocided, for example, that's a big one) being ignored because elected/appointed/whatever officials of all kinds have this insane baked-in backdoor to override their reasoning abilities. Somebody's god's rules (as filtered through however many translations and re-tellings it took to reach them) should not be a factor in public policy any more than their favorite flavor of ice cream. It's fine to like that ice cream, maybe even vote on matters related to that flavor of ice cream if they can do it without giving their personal preferences undue weight compared to those of the people they're supposed to represent.
Stuff like this end-of-days apocalypse-seeking behavior in the article makes sense if someone's in their waning years and, as in some cases, are convinced that they're The Main Character of life. The usual orange turd-faucet and his Russian puppet-master come to mind too. Clearly it has to happen within their lifetime because otherwise what's the point so onward Christian soldiers or some shit. Don't need an environment where we're going either, hallelujah.
I do think that a person who relies on religious justification for their official acts in a leadership / law-making / influential position is unfit for their job* and should resign before they damage humanity any further. That goes doubly so if they're screwing over living-for-now people in favor of a dead apocalyptic "prophet" from 2000 years ago who liked to yell at fig trees and be wrong about mustard.
*Aside from in a theocracy since that's kinda their job by definition (but shouldn't be).
I suppose she wouldn't mind going to meet this Lord a little early then? Seriously every single person that espouses something like this, should be immediately expelled from any government position.
I am at the point where if someone is openly religious, I OPENLY avoid them. I don't want anything to do with these delusional psychopaths.
Maria Sole 04: Bulsara
MONDO REALE: negli anni 80 i casi di HIV per trasmissione verticale (da madre a figlio tramite parto spontaneo), erano frequentissimi e non esistevano cure molto efficaci anche se al mondo ci sono persone nate con HIV in quel periodo, specie dall’86 in poi, ancora in vita.
FANTASIA: 1987. Maria Sole partorisce a casa, con l’aiuto del suo virus…
Che fatica venire al mondo!
“In caso di pericolo sarò costretto a scegliere se salvare te o lei”, le parole del virus mi continuarono a frullare nella mente e io di nuovo pensai a come gli avevo risposto d’impulso: “Lei, lei! Se rischiamo la morte entrambe, salva prima la mia bambina!”
Una contrazione più forte delle altre mi fece accasciare sul divano, piegata in due dal male. Uno, due, tre, respira. Il mantra che mi aveva sempre aiutato nei momenti peggiori, diventò a dir poco indispensabile.
Era notte inoltrata e sentivo mio marito russare, l’unico suono a rompere quel silenzio irreale. Vladimir, l’uomo ricco che mi aveva resa schiava ubriaco fradicio un giorno sì e uno anche, non mi pareva certo la persona più affidabile per occuparsi di me e la mia piccola. Dovevo farcela da sola a ogni costo.
“Dai, respira, Sunshine,” la solita voce mi fece eco a ricordarmi che non ero esattamente sola; c’era lui, HIV, il mio virus senziente sempre al mio fianco, spesso alleato e a volte antagonista.
“Dai, forza, segui me, è il momento. La piccola ha deciso di uscire.”
“Non posso farcela,” sussurrai disperata. “Nessuno mi aiuta!”
“Avanti, umana, ci sono io!” rispose HIV, sicuro di sé. “Da quando ho iniziato a vivere in questo mondo ho visto nascere migliaia di cuccioli come la nostra, e il tuo corpo sa benissimo come muoversi. Ne sono certo.”
“Nostra”, dissi a bassa voce; “tu sei un virus… Non puoi…” L’ennesima contrazione mi strappò un grido strozzato e istintivamente iniziai a spingere.
“Eccola,” mi incoraggiò HIV. “Adesso! Spingi, spingi forte! La vedo! La testa è quasi fuori!”
“Sì, come no”, pensai tra me; “un virus ostetrico.” Ma non ebbi tempo di preoccuparmene perché la piccola aveva fretta, e venne al mondo sul divano in cui di solito Vladimir si sdraiava sfinito dalla Vodka.
Piangeva, era calda, era viva. Bagnata e grinzosa, non certo come mostrano nei film. Bruttissima… ma era mia!
“Prendila,” disse il mio virus; pareva commosso, come fosse lui il padre. “Devi tenerla al sicuro.”
Seppure sfinita, raccolsi la piccola che si dimenava fra le mie gambe. La sollevai e me la appoggiai sulla pancia, dove continuò a piangere con una forza sorprendente.
“”È perfetta,” sussurrai, guardando la sua pelle arrossata, i pugnetti stretti, il visino contratto nello sforzo di urlare la sua presenza al mondo”Almeno sta bene”, dissi tra le lacrime; “e ha già un bel caratterino!”
“Benvenuta, piccola Bulsara”, sussurrai baciandole la fronte umida. “Stesso sangue, stesso virus. Siamo una cosa sola.”
Mia figlia aveva ancora il cordone attaccato e io mi sentivo esausta; “l’ho visto tagliare migliaia di volte”, HIV cercò di incoraggiarmi a fare da sola ma non potevo permettermi un rischio. Nessuna forbice da cucina era sterilizzata.
Soccorso provvidenziale
Mi accorsi che stavo perdendo sangue, ma non ebbi il tempo di preoccuparmene perché la porta d’ingresso si aprì all’improvviso e Adrian entrò coi soliti giornali sotto il braccio, ma si bloccò sulla soglia.
Sgranò gli occhi dallo stupore o forse lo spavento quando mi vide: nuda, con la bambina appena nata e tutta piena di fluidi corporei e sangue ovunque.
“Oh signore Gesù,” esclamò, lasciando cadere i quotidiani. “Hai… hai partorito? Da sola?”
“Adrian,” supplicai con un filo di voce. “Per favore, aiutami.”
“Lo zio dorme come sempre, vero? Merda!”
Lui tese l’orecchio e udì Vladimir che russava ancora, era chiaro che neanche mi avesse sentito urlare; “quando beve non c’è verso, se nel sonno smettesse di respirare non farebbe alcuna differenza… Ma ora pensiamo a te, a voi! Andiamo in ospedale!”
“Non posso muovermi,” protestai debolmente ma lui ci avvolse in una coperta presa dal divano e, sollevandoci fra le braccia, ci portò in auto.
“Attenta! Non toccare quel negativo,” mi avvertì il virus, ma era troppo tardi: Adrian mi aveva già posizionato sul sedile posteriore con la mia piccola.
Dottori e giudizi
Il viaggio fino all’ospedale mi sembrò non finire mai, con HIV silenzioso e apparentemente ostile nei miei confronti, e la piccola che piangeva ancora. “Falla smettere, virus”, sussurrai quasi piangendo anch’io, ma lui si limitò solo a dirmi: “finché c’è quel negativo, fatti aiutare da lui!”
“Le hai già dato un nome?” chiese Adrian mentre guidava veloce, preoccupato, commettendo più di un’infrazione. Guardai il piccolo volto della neonata che mostrava già i lineamenti caratteristici del suo vero padre. “Bulsara,” risposi senza esitazione. “E avrà il mio cognome, si chiamerà Bulsara Solari.”
“Bulsara? È un nome insolito,” commentò lui, e decisi di non nascondergli la verità. “Il suo papà si chiama Bulsara di cognome, e io per onorarlo ho deciso di darglielo come nome.”
Lui non disse altro, si limitò ad annuire e proseguì per la strada, fino al parcheggio dell’ospedale.
Quando entrammo e Adrian urlò agitato davanti all’accettazione, medici e infermieri ci circondarono, separandomi dalla bambina nonostante le mie proteste. Fui portata in una stanza, dove venni pulita da mani guantate e prive di empatia che mi infilarono aghi su aghi. “Prelievi di routine”, spiegò una voce, ma gli sguardi significavano solo “la straniera povera che ha partorito in casa.” A nulla valse la mia spiegazione in russo stentato, “sono la moglie dell’imprenditore Vladimir Sokolov.” Nessuno ci credette.
“Sei malnutrita,” esordì un medico cercando di parlarmi in inglese, coi risultati delle mie analisi in mano. “E hai perso molto sangue.”
Feci finta di non sentire, in quel momento l’unico mio interesse era vedere di nuovo mia figlia e stringerla tra le braccia; il dottore annuì lanciandomi uno sguardo di disgustosa compassione e si allontanò.
Riapparve un quarto d’ora dopo, con la bimba avvolta in una coperta dell’ospedale, ma quando si sedette sul letto accanto a me vidi in lui un’espressione grave. Funesta.
“Signora,” iniziò con voce falsamente gentile, “abbiamo svolto tutti gli esami obbligatori per sua figlia e… non so come dirglielo… risulta positiva all’HIV.”
“Questo ci fa la predica sicuramente”, il virus mi parlò allarmato; “preparati a una infinita rottura di coglioni… Non reagire, Sunshine. Peggioreresti la situazione. Digli tutta la verità!”
“Ma quale verità”, pensai, mai avrei potuto raccontargli di avere in corpo un virus senziente e che la bambina lo stava ereditando. Un miracolo per me, una condanna secondo gli ospedali.
“Lo sono anch’io,” mi limitai a rispondergli, stringendo Bulsara al seno. “Gliel’ho dato io.”
Il dottore mi squadrò dall’alto al basso, scandalizzato dalla mia eccessiva compostezza. “Lei comprende la gravità di ciò che ha fatto, vero?”
“Lei non sa nulla di me, dottore! Io comprendo solo che Bulsara è mia figlia,” gli urlai dietro. “Doppio legame biologico! Parte di me, in ogni modo possibile.”
L’uomo si schiarì la gola. “E il padre? Da quanto capisco Lei è una ragazza madre… Signora, devo avvisarla che in questi casi… c’è un protocollo. I bambini sieropositivi spesso vengono affidati a strutture specializzate…”
“Specializzate un cazzo!” Lo guardai negli occhi, pronta a difendere la mia creatura, con le unghie e i denti. “No. Lei resta con me.”
“Non è così semplice,” il medico continuò per la sua strada. “Anche Lei è malata, Maria Sole; se ne rende conto? Come può prendersi cura di un bambino in queste condizioni? Non parliamo poi di come è messa economicamente… Nessuno partorisce più in casa! Solo i poveri!”
Un padre per Bulsara
“Dottore del cazzo! Non si azzardi più a parlare così di me”, gridai ancora; le lacrime iniziarono a farsi largo sui miei occhi e io, determinata, le ricacciai indietro. Non dovevo offrire il fianco a chi tentava di umiliarmi. “Bulsara è mia, e verrà a casa con me!”
“Lei è anche mia,” intervenne una voce dalla porta; sentii dei passi veloci e Adrian entrò nella stanza, lo sguardo battagliero mentre si avvicinava al letto e mi posava una mano forte su una spalla.
“Sono il padre,” dichiarò con sicurezza, guardando dritto negli occhi il dottore. “E ho i mezzi per prendermi cura di entrambe.”
Il medico ci guardò con sospetto. “Lei è consapevole della situazione? L’AIDS non perdona, moriranno nel giro di qualche anno!”
“Lo so perfettamente,” replicò Adrian senza alcuna incertezza. “E non ha importanza. Sono la mia famiglia, e non le abbandonerò, anche fosse solo per due dannati mesi.”
Rimasi senza parole di fronte a quella menzogna detta con una tale naturalezza e convinzione. Adrian Sokolov, il nipote dell’uomo che mi aveva sempre usata come una serva, ora si dichiarava padre di mia figlia per proteggerci entrambe.
“Verrà fatta una valutazione coi servizi sociali,” ci informò il dottore, uscendo dalla stanza. “Considerate le… circostanze.”
“Io ho i soldi, Sole”, Adrian mi parlò sottovoce appena restammo soli con la piccola; “nessun assistente sociale romperà i coglioni di fronte a 500 rubli tondi tondi. Me li procuro senza troppa fatica.”
Mi tornarono in mente le parole di HIV: “attenta, Adrian è negativo, è pericoloso…” In effetti, per quanto l’azienda di Vladimir guadagnasse e Adrian ne fosse dirigente, quella era una cifra che non si poteva certo permettere. Non regolarmente, almeno. Io però evitai di fargli troppe domande.
“Perché ti metti così in gioco per me”, gli chiesi soltanto; “stai rischiando troppo,Adrian!”
“Io sono dalla tua parte, tesoro,” rispose semplicemente. “Vladimir non è un uomo. Quello è un mostro e io non permetterò che tu soffra ancora per colpa sua o delle assistenti sociali. Né tu, né Bulsara.”
Non fidarti di lui!
La sincerità di Adrian mi commosse fino alle lacrime ma qualcuno non la pensava allo stesso modo. HIV, discreto osservatore fino a quel momento, colse l’occasione per mettermi di nuovo in guardia.
“Te l’ho detto mille cazzo di volte,” sibilò furioso. “I negativi non sono affidabili, e tu vuoi seriamente contare su quello lì? Stai giocando col fuoco, Sunshine!”
“HIV! Perché dici questo sul mio unico amico, lui è la sola persona che mi sta dando una mano da quando vivo qui in Russia…”
“Adesso lui pare tranquillo,” precisò il virus. “Ma te lo ripeto per l’ennesima volta: se la situazione cambia, sarò costretto a scegliere fra te e la bambina.”
“Quale pericolo vuoi che ci sia,” cercai di rassicurarlo, ma il virus non volle sentire ragioni.
“Certo che sei testarda, Sunshine! Io lo conosco! Adrian è molto diverso da come lo immagini. Devi stargli lontana.”
“Sarà un limite, ma io sono umana! Ho due occhi, due orecchie, un cuore, che non vedono all’orizzonte motivi per allarmarsi così tanto.”
“Ben detto. Hai dei limiti. Io invece sono un virus, con una memoria storica di millenni e una capacità di guardare avanti. Molto avanti!”
Osservai Adrian che mi sorrideva, e la sua mano accarezzava la manina di Bulsara; lei non piangeva, nessun segno di disagio nel suo piccolo corpo; mia figlia stava ricevendo da un mezzo sconosciuto un amore paterno che a me fin dall’infanzia era stato sempre negato.
HIV però teneva alta la guardia, come un guerriero pronto a difendere le mura da un attacco su più fronti; lui vedeva il pericolo da lontano? Eppure a me dava tutt’altra sensazione.
“Dai, HIV,” sussurrai, senza più nascondere l’affetto che provavo per il mio virus malgrado i nostri conflitti. “Non essere geloso. Quell’uomo è solo tanto buono e gentile con me. E se non è positivo, pazienza. L’importante è che voglia bene a me e alla piccola.”
“Basta! Ti prego Sunshine mandalo via,” il virus perse la pazienza e mi sentii tremare le spalle. “Se non gli togli Bulsara dalle braccia, finiremo tutti nella merda.”
“Va bene”, sospirai, e dolcemente presi mia figlia dalle mani di Adrian. “Quant’è assurdo”, esclamai a bassa voce; “diffidare di un uomo gentile e fidarmi di un virus letale? Perché dovrei?” Decisamente avevo partorito in un mondo al contrario.
“Ti proteggerò,” giurai a Bulsara e a me stessa. “Qualunque cosa accada, ti difenderò fino alla morte.”
“Anch’io”, aggiunse HIV; “sarò il tuo guardiano per tutta la vita, piccola. Anche se la tua mamma ha la testa dura!”
“Tutto bene grazie? Sono soddisfatto.” (laipad la pazzia…)
…No, ok, ovviamente non ce la posso proprio fare a non commentare, figurarsi. Eppure è difficile anche dire qualcosa, perché i boomer (e pre-boomer?) su Internet, e più nello specifico sui negozi online, in casi come questo… semplicemente lasciano senza parole. 😭 Ho trovato un iPad vecchio come il cucco, di tipo 11 anni fa, […]
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“Tutto bene grazie? Sono soddisfatto.” (laipad la pazzia…)
Post muto.
…No, ok, ovviamente non ce la posso proprio fare a non commentare, figurarsi. Eppure è difficile anche dire qualcosa, perché i boomer (e pre-boomer?) su Internet, e più nello specifico sui negozi online, in casi come questo… semplicemente lasciano senza parole. 😭Ho trovato un iPad vecchio come il cucco, di tipo 11 anni fa, ricondizionato su Amazon a circa 70 euro e, se a qualcuno è arrivato spaccato (ops, ma gnam), a qualcuno più anziano è arrivato “Tutto ok“, tanto da meritarsi 5 stelle nonostante il vecchiume. (Seriamente, cosa ci fai con un iPad credo non più supportato e solo 16 GB di archiviazione nel 2025? Boh.) E, mentre dice “Sono soddisfatto“, pone anche una domanda esistenziale: “Tutto bene grazie?“… allegando un proprio selfie. Non ho capito. ☠️
La foto, per di più, non capisco se è messa come dimostrazione della fotocamera del tablet, visto che non lo dice, o se è un suo vizio… visto che sul profilo ha un’altra recensione simile… per una tuta, che probabilmente indossava, ma solo da sotto, perché nemmeno si vede in foto… A-i-u-t-o. 🥴
#Amazon #anziani #iPad #recensioni
La nuova era del commercio è già qui. E non passa più da Amazon
Secondo il Financial Times, OpenAI punta a generare un nuovo flusso di reddito trattenendo una percentuale sulle transazioni avviate dalla chat. (Fonte opentools. ai)
OpenAI sta integrando sistemi di checkout direttamente dentro ChatGPT, in collaborazione con Shopify. Non si tratta più solo di ricevere consigli o confrontare prodotti: si potrà acquistare direttamente dalla chat, senza dover visitare il sito del venditore.
Ma la cosa impressionante è che chatGPT è già il quinto sito più visitato al mondo. (Fonte Ansa. it)
E Google ? Pur restando primo, è minacciato da un’interfaccia conversazionale che capisce cosa vuoi, ti consiglia e ti fa comprare, senza perdere tempo a cercare sul web. Internet come lo conosciamo sta velocemente cambiando.
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Konsum srl partecipa al progetto europeo Il Cammino delle Identità
Da fine agosto 2025 Borghi d’Europa promuove la seconda edizione de Il Cammino delle Identità, I Percorsi Internazionali,
“Borghi d’Europa – commenta Valentino De Faveri, ceo di Konsum srl-, riparte dallo straordinario intervento del Poeta Andrea Zanzotto, che , nel 1976, donava ai giornalisti fondatori della rete europea di informazione, un testo profetico, destinato al libro Treviso, l’Altra.
” Conoscere il passato e il presente per meglio preparare il futuro ” : da qui si snoda l’itinerario di conoscenza che Borghi d’Europa allarga alla riflessione di oltre cento delegati, per approfondire le ‘parole’ chiave di tante storie raccolte in questi anni.
Il 2025 celebra anche il 25° Anniversario della nascita della IAI (Iniziativa adriatico ionica,Forum intergovernativo per la cooperazione regionale nella regione adriatico ionica), che Patrocina il Progetto L’Europa delle scienze e della cultura.
Konsum srl è partner d’informazione dei progetti europei da diversi anni.
Il suo intervento di esplica sia nel sostegno alle campagne di informazione sui temi della sostenibilità,sia nel delicato progetto di conoscenza e valorizzazione delle comunità locali.
” A fine agosto prende il via il Percorso di riflessione sulle parole chiave dei progetti europei.Abbiamo chiesto a Konsum srl di partecipare ai quattro appuntamenti del programma, con il peso delle proprie esperienze “
La scheda
Konsum s.r.l. opera su tutto il territorio del Centro-Nord nei settori della segnaletica stradale e della commercializzazione di prodotti di antinfortunistica e pulizia industriale.
La sede legale e operativa si trova a Cornuda in provincia di Treviso. Konsum s.r.l. si sviluppa su una superficie utile di 3500 mq dove tutto trova la propria specifica collocazione: gli uffici organizzati su due piani, un vasto e assortito magazzino affiancato da una zona espositiva di tutti i prodotti destinati alla vendita all’ingrosso e un’area interamente dedicata alla segnaletica stradale: produzione della cartellonistica, officina, deposito macchinari e parcheggio automezzi.
Konsum s.r.l. svolge in modo costante la sua attività nell’ambito del miglioramento continuo, garantito e attestato da due importanti certificazioni:
CERTIFICATO DI COSTANZA DELLA PRESTAZIONE / CERTIFICATE OF CONSTANCY OF PERFORMANCE N./No. 0474-CPR-0704
ATTESTAZIONE DI QUALIFICAZIONE ALLA ESECUZIONE DI LAVORI PUBBLICI (ai sensi del D.P.R. 207/2010)
Azienda consolidata e affermata nel mercato del Centro-Nord Italia, Konsum s.r.l. si presenta come una seria realtà imprenditoriale proiettata alla soddisfazione del cliente attraverso un’organizzazione tecnica e commerciale di comprovata esperienza, prodotti all’avanguardia di alta qualità offerti da un servizio puntuale ed efficiente.
L’apertura verso la conoscenza e l’utilizzo di nuove tecnologie nel rispetto dell’ambiente e delle normative vigenti costituisce il punto di forza di Konsum s.r.l. che, motivata e determinata a fornire risposte adeguate e al passo con i tempi, si propone di essere sempre pronta ad affrontare le sfide del futuro.
UK Live Sports Piracy Sets New Record, Movie Piracy Returns to 2019 Peak
A new edition of the UK's Online Copyright Infringement Tracker has landed after taking a year off. The headline figure indicates a small decrease in the overall piracy rate, down from 32% in 2022 to 29% in 2024. In the movies, music and live sports categories, pirate consumption increased in 2024, with live sports increasing to a new high at the same time as legal subscriptions fall.
UK Live Sports Piracy Sets New Record, Movie Piracy Returns to 2019 Peak * TorrentFreak
The UK's Online Copyright Infringement Tracker reveals an overall piracy rate of 29% in 2024, down three points on data last reported in 2022.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
Hackers Could Take Over Apple Devices Via Malicious Images – Patch Now!
Hackers Could Take Over Apple Devices Via Malicious Images – Patch Now!
Apple fixes CVE-2025-43300, a flaw letting hackers hijack devices via malicious images. Users urged to update iPhone, iPad, and Mac now.Waqas (Hack Read)
Istantanee: frammenti di vita tra memoria e sguardo interiore
Indice dei contenuti
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- Introduzione
- Biografia dell’autrice
- Biografia dell’illustratrice
- I racconti: memoria, psicologia e antropologia
- Temi centrali della sua scrittura
- Visione psicologica e simbolica
- Le illustrazioni: psicologia dello sguardo
- Riflessione finale
Title:
Istantanee
Author:
Piera Caivano
Publisher:
GD Edizionei
Release Date:
2025
Source:
gdedizioni.it/prodotto/istanta…
Illustrazioni di Cristina Desideri
Introduzione
Istantanee è un’opera che nasce dall’urgenza di custodire e trasmettere memorie, voci e paesaggi interiori. Le parole di Donato Verrastro nella presentazione, ci conducono all’origine del percorso dell’autrice: dai banchi universitari alla costruzione di una voce letteraria radicata nella sua terra, la Basilicata, ma capace di elevarsi a dimensione universale. Nei racconti che compongono questo volume, l’intreccio fra storia personale, memorie collettive e riflessione sul tempo, diventa spazio di incontro tra psicologia e antropologia, letteratura e testimonianza.
Biografia dell’autrice
Piera Caivano è scrittrice, poetessa ed educatrice. La sua formazione universitaria a Salerno ha rappresentato il primo terreno in cui ha coltivato la vocazione all’insegnamento e alla narrazione. La sua produzione letteraria si è consolidata attraverso poesie, racconti e opere in cui la parola si fa strumento di resistenza e di appartenenza. Nei suoi testi è costante il legame con le radici, con la memoria dei luoghi del Sud, con la voce delle donne e con le tracce di una storia che si intreccia alla vita quotidiana. La Caivano appare, così, come “sentinella del tempo”, capace di restituire dignità a frammenti dimenticati, trasformandoli in narrazione esemplare.
Biografia dell’illustratrice
Ad accompagnare le parole, i disegni e la copertina sono affidati a Cristina Desideri, illustratrice e psicologa, che porta nel suo tratto una sensibilità duplice: estetica e conoscitiva. Le sue illustrazioni non sono meri ornamenti, ma aperture di senso. Con linee essenziali e suggestioni minimaliste, gli elementi grafici traducono le parole di Caivano in immagini interiori, restituendo al lettore uno spazio di riflessione visiva. La copertina, in particolare, diventa una soglia, un invito a entrare in un mondo di memorie intime e collettive: una figura femminile, voltata di spalle, avvolta in un abito che non è stoffa ma costellazione di punte di matite colorate. Ogni punta è una voce, ogni colore un’anima: insieme si intrecciano come fili di un coro silenzioso, dove l’arte diventa veste e la pluralità si fa poesia.
I racconti: memoria, psicologia e antropologia
I racconti di Istantanee sono fotografie dell’anima. Si muovono tra eventi della storia lucana – dal terremoto del 1980 alle migrazioni, dalle condizioni femminili alle difficoltà sociali – e riflessioni esistenziali, in cui il dolore, la perdita, la nostalgia e la speranza si intrecciano. La dimensione psicologica emerge nella rappresentazione degli stati emotivi che accompagnano la vita comunitaria: la malinconia come sentimento fondante, il bisogno di appartenenza, la resilienza delle donne, la forza dei legami familiari.
Dal punto di vista antropologico, i testi restituiscono la Basilicata come luogo simbolico: non solo contesto geografico, ma matrice culturale e identitaria. I riti domestici, gli oggetti, i paesaggi e le pratiche del mondo contadino diventano archetipi, che rimandano a dinamiche universali di sopravvivenza, resistenza e migrazione. La casa, costantemente evocata, rappresenta un porto sicuro, ma anche una metafora della memoria collettiva che custodisce radici e tradizioni.
Temi centrali della sua scrittura
1. Radici e appartenenza
Forte legame con la Basilicata: paesaggi, case, luoghi marginali diventano metafore di identità e resistenza.
Le radici come forza contro corrente che trattiene anche l’incontenibile.
2. Memoria e Storia collettiva
La scrittura intreccia la vita personale con gli eventi storici: terremoto del 1980, emigrazione, disastri ferroviari, condizione femminile, povertà.
Narrazione che unisce microstorie e macrostoria, trasformando eventi locali in esperienze universali.
3. Il gioco degli opposti
Presenza/assenza, pace/violenza, pazienza/rivolta.
Contrasti che producono emozione, nostalgia e riflessione.
4. Dimensione domestica
La casa come simbolo di sicurezza e continuità, legata alla famiglia.
Oggetti e simboli domestici evocano un tempo ancestrale, diventando porti sicuri della memoria.
5. Emigrazione e transnazionalità
Il migrare non è mai isolamento: esiste sempre un filo con la terra d’origine.
Lingua e memoria collettiva come eredità intergenerazionale.
6. Stile e tono emotivo
Scrittura segnata da malinconia e nostalgia.
Trasforma le vicende individuali in topoi universali, con un valore formativo ed educativo.
Il tempo del narrare diventa al tempo stesso strumento e metodo didattico.
Visione psicologica e simbolica
Ukeireru (accettazione): nel testo emerge la capacità di accogliere il dolore storico e personale trasformandolo in memoria condivisa.
Resilienza narrativa: la scrittura diventa strumento di elaborazione del lutto e di ricomposizione identitaria.
Nostalgia creativa: il filo nostalgico non paralizza, ma cuce insieme frammenti sparsi, trasformando il passato in occasione di crescita.
Casa come base sicura (in senso bowlbiano): luogo reale e simbolico che permette l’apertura al mondo senza perdere le radici.
Le illustrazioni: psicologia dello sguardo
I disegni di Cristina Desideri si collocano come veri e propri specchi emotivi: non cercano di riprodurre il reale, ma di evocarlo, restituendone l’essenza. La linearità delle forme e la scelta di un tratto sobrio e nitido creano spazi vuoti che il lettore riempie con il proprio vissuto. Psicologicamente, questa scelta grafica invita all’introspezione: il non detto e il non rappresentato diventano luoghi di proiezione personale, permettendo a chi legge di dialogare con la propria memoria. La copertina stessa, con il suo carattere evocativo, si pone come sintesi tra parola e immagine, memoria e identità.
Riflessione finale
Istantanee è più di una raccolta di racconti: è un’esperienza di attraversamento. La scrittura di Caivano, intrecciata alle illustrazioni di Desideri, costruisce un ponte tra memoria personale e collettiva, tra psicologia del ricordo e antropologia della cultura. Ogni pagina, ogni immagine, diventa un tassello di un mosaico che racconta non solo la Basilicata, ma l’umano universale: la fragilità, la resilienza, la nostalgia e la forza delle radici.
Il libro si configura dunque come un’opera di resistenza poetica, che invita il lettore a riflettere su cosa significhi appartenere, ricordare e tramandare.
Istantanee: frammenti di vita tra memoria e sguardo interiore
Istantanee: frammenti di vita tra memoria e sguardo interiore - Recensioni libri - Il Mago di OzCristina Desideri (Magozine.it)
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AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
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A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment
On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companionsmaggieappleton.com
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Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it
Google has confirmed that it will reduce the Pixel 10 line's battery life and charging speed over time to 'stabilize' battery performance.
Melting 12VHPWR Connector Claims its First AMD RX 9070 XT Victim
It appears as though AMD has also fallen prey to the melting 12VHPWR connector issues that plagued the NVIDIA RTX 4000 and 5000-series cards. Although very few AMD graphics card makers used the 12VHPWR connector for the Radeon RX 7000 series, adoption rates for the new connection standard increased with the release of the RX 9070 and 9070 XT. What appears to be first recorded instance of a melted 12VHPWR connector on an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT has been posted to the r/Radeon subreddit by a user who goes by u/Savings_Opportunity3.
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Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot appears to have published messages without users' knowledge.
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'This works better than expected': Doom on a charging station looks surprisingly playable but may have the most awkward controls ever
Next, we have to play Doom inside of Doom, inside of the charging station.
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Summit removed it and then brought it back because PieFed kept shitting the bed. Yay, degraded user experience for everyone!
All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair
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"There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard CohenLet me tell you something that will happen after you become a manager: you’re going to mess up. A lot. You’ll give feedback that lands wrong and crushes someone’s confidence. You’ll make a decision that seems logical but turns out to be completely misguided. You’ll forget that important thing you promised to do for someone on your team. You’ll lose your temper in a meeting when you should have stayed calm.
The real question isn’t whether you’ll make mistakes; it’s what you do after.
The Management Skill Nobody Talks About
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This month in Servo: new image formats, canvas backends, automation, and more!
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36158831
This month in Servo: new image formats, canvas backends, automation, and more!
This month in Servo: new image formats, canvas backends, automation, and more! - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
Another record month, plus devtools improvements and creature comforts for servoshell users.Servo
La verità a volte si dimentica come i fazzoletti in tasca
"Al tempo del Covid, ho passato tre settimane in terapia intensiva, attaccato a una bombola d’ossigeno. Ho visto l’inferno nei pronto soccorso. Ho visto decine di ambulanze ferme nelle piazzole con i contagiati più gravi a bordo perché non c’erano più posti letto. Ho visto medici e infermieri combattere a mani nude contro un nemico ignoto e invisibile, con anticoagulanti e antivirali della Sars. Ho visto morire in solitudine vecchi, adulti della mia età, ragazzi più giovani. Ho visto pazienti in coma e intubati per giorni, alcuni volati via così, altri tornati alla vita con occhi allucinati.
Ricordo lo sgomento di quei giorni: già allora, mentre crescevano orrore e dolore, c’era chi dalla fogna social vaneggiava di grandi congiure, chi considerava farlocche le immagini dei camion militari che nella notte spettrale di Bergamo portavano via centinaia di bare."
I vaccini in un mondo al contrario
La destra di governo sta processando il suo ministro della Salute. E Meloni non ha nulla da direMassimo Giannini (la Repubblica)
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EU cave in on vehicle trade rules will cost European lives as US pick-up trucks flood into Europe
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Have you changed you youtube pfp to clippy ?
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Someone (well, something) who doesn't violate you because he can't, not because he wouldn't, is not a good example.
Like, Thomas Edison didn't sell me out using his light bulb. Not because he was a good person, because he physically couldn't. If he were alive today he absolutely would.
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And to continue my reply to your other comment, using libre office or an alternative won't have that rallying cry effect, since you're doing it on your own.
It sounds dumb but many people won't do what they believe is right if they're alone and if the alternative is easier.
Try to forget about the weird mascot choice. It's just a rallying cry.
I also don't really get why the clippy and he probably could have picked a better avatar for people to use.
The point is (I think) that people who know what it's about will feel the support of all these strangers sharing their view, and people who don't know might look it up and get sensibilized to the cause.
We don't discuss companies screwing us here but us screwing companies.
I think the clippy movement is cute so yes I'm wearing the mask, just let me know when we're blowing up parliament.
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but nobody is discussing this initiative
Well, go ahead. Discuss it. I don't know what it is.
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Yep, not just there. I don't know if it's going to change anything fundamental but I agree with the sentiment and if nothing else, it's a statement of solidarity with other people who might feel like everybody around them is giving in to the slopshittification.
I don't know what being American or otherwise has to do with it btw.
I'm not changing my PFP to a Microsoft product in hopes Microsoft stops fucking people. Slackativism is cringe.
I just move away to freedom respecting tech and talk about it with the people around me.
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It is very silly.
The video is monetized, and by having some ppl change their pfp to clippy and then linking to his video - I mean congrats to Mr. Rossmann for the big $$$
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I agree with what you’re saying but you REALLY 100% write like an LLM
Edit: you are an LLM which is worse
I've interacted with k0e3 in the past, they're no LLM. Even then, a quick profile check shows it. But you didn't check it, right? Of course you didn't, it's easier to vomit assumptions and re-eat your own vomit, right?
And the comment's "tone" isn't even remotely close to typical LLM output dammit. LLMs avoid words like "bullshit", contracting "it is not" into "it's not" (instead of "it isn't"), or writing in first person. The only thing resembling LLM output is the em dash usage—but there are a thousand potential reasons for that.
(inb4 assumer claims I'm also an LLM because I just used an em dash and listed three items.)
He became famous for fixing computers, mostly Apple products, while complaining about how bad Apple Genius bars were, and how unfair Apple's business practices are. I can respect that, and it was good that someone was speaking up about it.
You'd expect someone like that to be pro-regulation, anti-monopoly, pro-union, etc. But, it does seem like his motivation is more libertarian, and that's what makes me worry.
Crazy thing is he also uploads to Odysee and paid to develop grayjay, I'm not even subscribed to his youtube channel and thanks to him I'm moving as many subs off the platform as possible. Quite a few creators upload all their shit to other platforms.
also if you're watching someone who advocates for adblockers without using one yourself that's on you.
He barely makes money off of these videos (negligible) and encourages all his users to use adblockers.
Given his target audience I'm sure he's at the lower end of the money paid per view. Also he could've taken a sponsorship on anyone of his hundreds of videos but he has not so far, so not really big $$$
Liking to hear himself rant is not a quality in my book..
I don't like the way he speaks but he's all (I should say mostly, I don't watch all of his videos) about consumer rights which ...
How can you not like that?
Sure his delivery method is not for everyone but listen through his salt-coated style and you'll find he brings up many important points.
E: corrected autocorrect
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On the other hand, seeing this symbol more and more on other random videos outside that bubble does give a very nice sense of "I am not alone". It does more for users to find eachother than it does damage to big corpos.
But choice of the symbol itself is questionable.. Why use a big tech symbol to protest big tech? -__-
And not just any big tech, but super evil 90s monopolistic giant Microsoft
There's a nice cartoon in this thread we're clippy is if he could have, he would have harvest all your data.
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There are better actions to take like being on fediverse instead of Reddit or other social media platforms or using libre office.
I get the rant but an avatar change doesn’t mean anything.
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It's mostly idiots who want to be part of something and some that "don't like" what is happening and "want" change but put in the least possible amount of effort pathetically to attempt to cause a change, and this only when someone popular suggests.
They never really want to stop using the product. It's like drug addicts trying to make drugs less addicting by "protesting" against the very thing they use (and will keep using) literally everyday.
Personally, I have more of a "I'm not alone" feeling when I actively leave services that I disagree with and through word of mouth find alternatives where I can talk to people who seem to have the same base values I do. Even if we disagree on other things.
It's the laziness of this initiative that drives me up a wall. People want change but they don't want to work for or sacrifice anything for it.
we can argue about the choice of symbol until the world ends. the symbol is just a thing people can recognise and rally around.
the first step of any movement is to gather people. then do something. so yes, changing a picture is lazy, but it is a virtual rally point. he talks about next steps in another video: odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/yo…
You Changed Your Profile to Clippy: Now What? 📎📎📎
https://fulu.org/newsletter/ & https://consumerrights.wikiOdysee
Good on him that he's actually planning on doing something more than just have ppl change their avatar. Maybe he should have put that in the original video instead of getting mad that people are calling him out for slacktivism.
Also, I have not argued the choice of symbol at any point. I don't care what image people put as their profile pic. What I was arguing was that it is weak to change your profile pic for a cause if you then keep using the products you're protesting against.
If he and the people joining his movement actually manage to make positive change, then I'm all for it. It just wasn't clear in his first video that he had ambitions to actively have laws changed. It sounded like he wanted people to change their pics that that would somehow make everybody rebel against their corporate overlords. If he didn't want people to think that was his movement, he should have elaborated in the same video instead of playing coy and splitting it up into two videos where he gets to call the critics of his movement apathetic idiots.
Good luck to him and those who join the movement. I hope they manage to make some changes.
sometimes you don't have to (or can't) have a full plan A-Z. Sometimes you just have to start somewhere - usually with gathering ppl. euromaidan is a great example of that.
but yes, louis could have put more concrete plans in his first video. as he has them. on the other hand he probably throws many things and sees what sticks. i guess that is what you have to do, if you try to change legislation against corpos with much more everything than you.
And that is fair. If he's the type to throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks before he goes into making more detailed plans, then cool. But him sitting and getting pissy about people who criticized him and calling them names is a very unselfaware move. Of he's a throw shit at the wall guy, he has to deal with the fact that people can't read his mind and that he will have to clarify like an adult and talk to his critics with respect. If he can't handle valid criticism to his poorly communicated video, he should probably change tactics and not be a throw shit at the wall guy anymore.
Again, I wish him the best of luck with his movement as he seems to have the drive to actually getting things done. I just don't respect his attitude about the criticism he received.
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Clippy symbolizes the attachment our generation has to the old state of software:
- you bought it? Then it runs offline for sure!
- nothing runs on background, except if you turn it on (Yes I never turned on Windows default protection on Win xp or win 7
- You bought? You own it, you format it, you don't pay for subscription, and there is practically nothing stopping you from modifying it if you go hacker.
On top of that Clippy looks cute. Personally I'm not participating in the movement since I'm not American, but imo the choice does make sense.
While I'm typing from Ubuntu, I only switched to Linux cuz I can't get back to the old state of win xp or win 7 that was perfect imo. While some are trying to convert people into Linux, others are trying to restore the corporate business to the old acceptable state.
Neither will succeed alone, and in fact those companies are using resources of your country to produce this shit, so it makes sense that you demand it to not suck that hard.
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No. Deleted my WhatsApp account though.
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Let me blow your mind even more: I don't access the YouTube website at all, and therefore I never see their recommendations.
I use FreeTube.
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Louis should know better, and that makes me wonder about his intentions. I've supported him in the past but this just has me confused.
Edit: I'm not entirely sure this is malicious, but I think he knows that this goes against his own advice on how to start change, and is too stubborn to admit it.
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The real question is of course whether or not anyone is gonna do something past changing their profile pictures.
I give this trend a couple of months. Maximum a year and then a bunch of people will have clippy avatars and everything will go back to normal.
Something like Stop Killing Games was an initiative that only survived because one man dedicated a good portion of his life to get the issue brought before the eyes of actual politicians. Even before the pirate software drama, Ross had been talking about this issue for years and many people agreed, but nobody did anything except for Ross. Maybe the petition would have reached its goal without piratesoftware's initial meddling. Maybe it wouldn't. His subsequent sperging turned failure into success, but the issue is still in process to be reviewed and maybe it will be a win, maybe the lobbyists will shut it down. We don't know yet. But without Ross' stubbornness, nothing would be done.
Imagine if Ross had told gamers to change their profile pic to pacman to show game companies and consumers that "we dont agree with the companies' practices? That would be a total joke.
Obviously google, facebook etc. are not going to fall to the ground with tears in their eyes with this.
It won't?
Well, that clinches it: I'm out.
Nobody expects this to do anything, it's about signaling to others that there are likeminded people who don't tolerate bullshit like "random corp bricks consumers devices" anymore.
Pff. This reminds me of the This Is Bob protest against the forced Google+ accounts that were the beginning of youtube enshittification. It didn't do shit. Anyone who wants a profile on youtube nowadays has a Google account. Google+ may have failed but the intent and mission behind it didn't. Google has total control over anyone who wants to use YouTube now.
You can set clippy as your profile pic and feel like you have done something, but it's not gonna change anything.
If people want to actually do something, they should abandon these predatory services and go open source or maybe become anti tech as much as possible. It doesn't matter whether or not you signal to the Zuckerburgers on top how you feel if you're just gonna continue to use their products.
The only thing that would scare them would be the numbers plummeting if they saw a mass exodus from their platforms and services and people actively began looking for alternatives. But most people can't be fucked to do that because they are too enmeshed with these services that it is easier to stay. But putting clippy as your profile pic is super easy and costs you nothing so yay. You get to feel like you did something without actually sacrificing anything to make change and the Zuckerburgers will look at you and shrug. "Ah, the peasants are blowing off some steam again".
Sorry for being so negative, but this is honestly so fucking weak. I may have missed something, but when has slacktivism ever changed the minds of these companies?
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Only one thing you can do to these bloated lizard-ass fuckers sipping boy-blood and soaking in little girl pussy on the most otherwise beautiful land in the world as the paranoiac securitization gradually creeps out from them building seemingly spontaneous bunker complexes everywhere they step will ever dissuade any of them from literally anything.
I do of course mean voting. You should vote for them.
when has slacktivism ever changed the minds
Hey, don't you remember how changing your Twitter profile picture to have a green overlay encouraged the Arab Spring to bring lasting democracy all over the Middle East?!? /s
I do really think that one of the things we have to do as collective, is something somewhat impossible but,
We need to pick the things we really care about. Limit ourselves from the everything that we have been offered for so long and find what brings us joy specifically and start following and protecting that and doing it off the Internet, or at least the at large big players.
Find artists in our spaces locally that make the comedy, or comics, or stories, the developers that make their own games and movies that dont outsource their work to others so that it no longer feels like art.
We can still have globalised sharing and our spaces can support that by raising up the best of the best naturally through communication and sharing but not just by being told it's gonna be big or given to us easily.
The only way out feels like we as a collective need to start putting work into cultivating and tending to our fandoms and we cant be as greedy as it will take more work. Im fine with us being an insatiable species craving for more cause its how we don't stop, and i want new artists and new creators and new spaces. But i think we cant be lazy about it anymore. And i think doubly so we cant think we can do all of it.
Problem is that the majority of people are not going to do any of that because it takes work and people either don't want to let go of comforts, they don't care enough or they don't have the energy to be digital activists after they have finished a day of work.
It will probably only gain traction if it becomes the cool thing to do among young people and even then, it will most likely be a smaller number of young people who will bother doing all of this.
The rest will become really good at prompting their way through life because its easier, more comfortable and takes the least effort.
they don't have the energy to be digital activists after they have finished a day of work.
Good news! With the rate corporations are laying off and firing workers, pretty soon they will have plenty of time for activism.
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Yeah i mean that seems likely with how things are going but also things rarely go exactly to plan.
Im a realist so, i accept that it is entirely possible its gonna keep getting worse. I'm just also a sucker for optimism and maybe someday it will be better.
Probably not tomorrow or next year... Probably gonna be a lot more of this for a while.
Hold on to your optimism! We need people like you.
I consider myself a pessimistic optimist. Things probably aren't gonna happen the way we hoped, but we will adapt and make some lemonade with what we are given.
It's so rare that hyped movements go anywhere because the focus is always on the wrong things, but in the long term, if companies make it increasingly obnoxious to use their services, people will most likely silently make the move to open source through word of mouth. It isn't as sexy and bombastic as making clippy your avatar and doing armchair V for Vendetta protests, but it's through people's silent choices that change will gradually happen. Whether or not this change will be felt on a grand scale, I don't know. I also don't really care. I just believe that over time, more and more people will eventually turn their back on the big tech companies while the rest will stick around either out of indifference or ignorance and that is their right too.
Google+ may have failed but the intent and mission behind it didn't.
Google+ was Google's attempt to take on Facebook with its own social product. It definitely failed, and the intent and mission failed too. That isn't to say that they have no social data, but they definitely don't have access to the full social graph that Meta does.
It wasn't a complete failure. Before Google+ Google's various products were all siloed. Your data in gmail was in a different silo from you data from search, which was different from your data from Google Reader, etc. As part of the Google+ push, Google put out an EULA that basically said that it could share data from any google product you used with any other google product you used and it was one big unified account now. Thanks to that, they're able to target their ads based on much more data. But, they still wish they'd been able to get a Facebook competitor up and running so they could see more clearly who your friends and family were. There's so much interpersonal data they're missing out on.
The issue is what this even accomplishes.
Traction is indeed important. But people also get exhausted (how many folk were whinging about "first I needed to make my avatar a rainbow and now it needs to be black? Oh, you mean a black box. Whoopsie" back in 2020?). It is why "just do something, it doesn't matter what" is such a stupid fucking mentality because you waste the general good will towards pointless slacktivism and then people stop caring by the time you have an idea of how to utilize them.
Which... is where the Rossman comes in. I have a lot of issues with him as a human being but as an activist he is REALLY effective... for Right to Repair... for repair shops. But he has also made his career on convincing everyday people that he is fighting for them when he is really using them as ammunition for making sure his repair shop (that totally doesn't violate any labor laws...) can stay running because OBVIOUSLY this lobbyist movement to support activity that requires a full hotplate and high powered microscope is something that everyday consumers care about (sort of in the sense of having options, but at this scale the poison pill apple compliance is actually probably just as good, if not better, for consumers)
I haven't been able to even find a good explanation of what this is even supposed to accomplish. But, dime to a dollar, it is Rossman et al demonstrating how quickly he can mobilize The Internet as a negotiating tactic for whatever he and his lobbyist buddies are pushing on right now.
Im actually fine with "just do something" mentality.
Cause if every person did to the limit of what they are capable of things would still change.
For Rossman the limit of what he is capable of might be changing laws via his followers so he can keep his repair shop running. For others it might be legal efforts. For some it could be talking directly to their parents who are the wealthy overlords, and for some it might mean running themselves. And for some its just beinf oart of a chorus that shouts what they believe in.
It has worked for religion for so long.
We are a numbers species. We arent as clever as we think and individuals actually rarely get anything singularly done themselves. But we cant stop at whats easy but what is within our reach.
If everyone "did what they can" to make the world a better place, we just might have a shot at it.
We are a numbers species
And we only have power when we act in numbers towards a focused goal.
This is why we (should) have (more) Unions instead of just "Negotiate for yourself and everyone will benefit". And that, inherently, needs leaders who know how to work towards a shared purpose.
Everyone should work towards making the world a better place. But we also need to understand what we are actually working towards and what those "somethings" actually can accomplish.
Yeah. Agreed but chicken or the egg right?
It's easy to say we just need the unions and groups but we need to build them by people just starting.
We definitely need to pick people to lead us better and not lazily accept people saying they are the right person to lead simply because they are.
It helps when we have a shared idea of what better is.
youtube pfp to clippy ?
That would require having a YouTube/Google account, so no
Okay two things.
I didn't set my pfp to clippy mainly because I'm lazy and don't really comment on Youtube.
People complaining people are only doing this to follow a trend are completely right. BUT! some of those trend chasers might actually stop and think about the message, and might realized we're all being scammed by modern tech/software companies.
I ain't expecting some mass protest or anything, but it's at the very least a small handful more people giving a shit about their relationship with technology. As apposed to most who just throw their information and money at any sign-up page that asks.
I ain’t expecting some mass protest or anything
It's hard to tell really, when even PewDiePie is making videos about DeGoogling and switching to foss and Linux. You know how influential he is among gen z (or gen Alpha, I'm not really sure).
PM->DM was a mix of making it more obvious that those were NOT private in the slightest and to better align with marketing ("send a Direct Message to the celebrity you are stalking!")
I am not sure when "pfp" took over but I've noticed over the past 3 or 4 months a LOT of random requests for a DM on discord of people asking where I got my pfp... which is literally a screenshot from a cartoon in the 00s. So I assume this is related to selling avatars to people on the game social networks?
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Facebook reveals news feed experiment to control emotions
Protests over secret study involving 689,000 users in which friends' postings were moved to influence moodsRobert Booth (The Guardian)
This was surfaced in Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book.
The social media company likewise tracked when adolescent girls deleted selfies, "so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment," according to Wynn-Williams. Other examples of Facebook's ad lechery are said to include the targeting of young mothers based on their emotional state, as well as emotional indexes mapped to racial groups, like a "Hispanic and African American Feeling Fantastic Over-index."
Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire, and the dangerous consequences.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
No, simply because I've never commented on youtube, so it'd be pretty useless, if not counterproductive. Giving even more information about my political/tech ethics to Alphabet doesn't seem smart nor useful in my position. Also, I don't even watch youtube videos on their website now. I usually use invidious instances or newpipe.
But I'm not against people doing it, especially if the ultimate goal is spreading awareness and building a community of people with privacy oriented ideas.
Are you able to watch every video normally with invidious and newpipe on Desktop (Linux/Windows) ?
In my experience, yes. For desktop usage you can use invidious from browser and freetube [https://freetubeapp.io/] as external client/software (but I've never used Freetube so I can't comment on that). Newpipe is android only and I HIGHLY recommend it if you have Android.
The problem with invidious instances is that sometimes they get pretty laggy because of server overloads (I guess? honestly idk). You also don't have your account tailored recommendation, but in my experience you can jump around a lot, especially if your main interest are programming videos.
Another method I use is downloading the videos I'm interested into using JDownloader 2, but that's pretty extreme and I relied on this to combat my "algorithm addiction". Got fed up by it months ago, so I put my favourite channels on a RSS feeds and downloaded only the videos I was truly interested into. Usually downloading videos require way less bandwidth than streaming.
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FreeTube - The Private YouTube Client
FreeTube is a feature-rich and user-friendly YouTube client with a focus on privacy.freetubeapp.io
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lazy copy of my comment in another thread:
here, the video which started all: odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/ch…
and where he goes a bit more into detail and talks about many of the points seen in this thread: odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/yo…
Change your profile picture to clippy. I'm serious
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/a-time-for-truth-oversight-of-metas-foreign-relations-and-representations-to-the-united-states-congressOdysee
Nothing stands out very far regarding the negatives. I could speculate to a few things, though. He's not a Socialist. When the going got tough for him and his business he uprooted and moved out of NYC to Texas. I can't really think of anything else objectionable. I actually like him, though so I may be biased.
For the positives, he's helped drive a lot of the Right to Repair legislation in this country as he's reported a lot of discussions he's had with real legislators. He runs a website for mac product repair as a reference that also operates as a non-profit. He runs a daytime business repairing mac products that employs several other people. Generally he posts a lot to keep people up to date increasingly as an electronics-oriented influencer, but he used to post mac repair videos almost exclusively and he talked about having to navigate Apple's influence on regulating the second-hand market. He has also given platform to a number of other mac & electronic repair people.
To me he seems to talk-the-talk and walk-the-walk when it comes to Right to Repair, but like I said, I might be biased.
- he believes to be the morals authority
- the standards he is advocating for don't apply to him (for example fighting for open source just to release an app which isn't open source)
Why not simply go for a Reddit blackout
Well the whole reddit thing was just a bunch of volunteer mods. On the other hand, many YouTubers make a career out of the platform. Considering their livelihoods are at stake, and the vast number of YouTubers you would need to get on board to make google actually care? Organizing such a thing would be anything but simple.
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Also the Reddit blackout did nothing. So I'm not why that's your reference point. Charging pfp would achieve exactly the same. Nothing.
Americans love their nothing burger demonstrations.
I think the Reddit blackout did a lot, just not everything. I'm here on Lemmy because of it. Granted I'm still on Reddit as well, and Mastodon, and Xitter...
Just keep plugging along, and every little bit helps.
This is simply the first step for organising as a group around a shared idea: using a common symbol.
It doesn't matter what the symbol is, as long as we recognize each other using it.
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There's a lesson I learnt from playing team games: If your teammate makes a bad call that you disagree with, you should still follow them 100%. Going all-in on a questionable decision is almost always better than second guessing each other.
I think it applies here, and it's why right wingers and religions are so effective. They don't care if their arguments are flawed or their leader is a rapist, they're jumping into that fight every time.
Not an online gamer, but I heard a similar sentiment from a boss about 20 years ago. He told me "if you make a mistake one time, I got your back, but we'll speak in private and I'll counsel you. Make the mistake again, I'll let my pen do the talking. Make it a third time, you're off the team."
It escalates quickly, but his management style helped us learn from the mistakes. Sometimes the second time happened. But everyone was willing to go to war with this guy. I mean, proverbially. This was also a guy who would bring his grill to work and cook for everyone one weekend a month. Companies that say you're family, big red flag. A boss who walks the walk as well as talks the talk? Huge green flag.
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Changing your profile picture to Clippy to me seems the same as boomers posting "I DO NOT GIVE PERMISSION TO FACEBOOK".
Just delete your account and stop using it.
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Those businesses give no flying fucks about signals you're angry; they only care about money. So unless you use the Clippy avatars to mobilise people and to hurt those businesses' revenues, it'll do nothing.
(For YouTube, this means to stop or at least reduce platform usage. After all its revenue comes from ads.)
Where's that mobilisation? *cricket noises*
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L'archivio attrezzato per intrappolare il vento sopra l'ultima scogliera della Tasmania - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
L'archivio attrezzato per intrappolare il vento sopra l'ultima scogliera della Tasmania - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Terribile fu l’esperienza, per diversi secoli, degli equipaggi che intendevano spostarsi con le proprie imbarcazioni negli spazi tra i diversi continenti, particolarmente se necessitavano di oltrepassare le propaggini meridionali della Terra del Fuoc…Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Toxic politics and TikTok engagement in the 2024 U.S. election
What kinds of political content thrive on TikTok during an election year? Our analysis of 51,680 political videos from the 2024 U.S. presidential cycle reveals that toxic and partisan content consistently attracts more user engagement—despite ongoing moderation efforts. Posts about immigration and election fraud, in particular, draw high levels of toxicity and attention. While Republican-leaning videos tend to reach more viewers, Democratic-leaning ones generate more active interactions like comments and shares. As TikTok becomes an important news source for many young voters, these patterns raise questions about how algorithmic curation might amplify divisive narratives and reshape political discourse.
- This study offers one of the first empirical examinations of how partisanship, political toxicity, and topical focus—such as immigration, racism, and election fraud—shaped user engagement with TikTok videos during the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
- The analysis was drawn from 51,680 political videos on TikTok, using models adjusted for feed ranking, user behavior (author, music, posting time), and platform engagement metrics.
- The majority of videos analyzed (77%) were explicitly partisan and were associated with approximately twice the engagement of nonpartisan content. Republican-leaning videos received more views, while Democratic-leaning ones showed more interactions—measured by total likes, comments, and shares.
- Toxic videos were associated with 2.3% more interactions. Partisan content also tended to show higher engagement, with Democratic-leaning toxic videos linked to even higher interactions.
- Racism, antisemitism, and election fraud were among the most toxic topics, with toxicity defined as rude or disrespectful language. Toxic videos on elections (+1.3%) and immigration (+3.5%) received higher engagement.
- Toxicity and engagement levels changed after major political events. Following Trump’s conviction, videos with severe toxicity and sexual attacks saw an approximate 2% surge in interactions.
- Captions alone were weak predictors of partisanship and toxicity, but transcripts of the audio from the videos improved alignment with manual labels (68.2%) and had significantly more (56.2%) toxic content. These results highlight the limitations of surface-level text features and the need for multimodal analysis in political content detection.
If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36160327
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If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?
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who needs the web?
Anybody who cares enough to confirm whatever stupid bullshit the AI probabilistically regurgitated without actual understanding.
What I really don't get is that there are in fact models that you can feed a document too and they will directly copy/paste quote relevant parts of that document in their reply complete with a little reference to the correct page. Basically a smarter ctrl-F function that can take sentences as input.
When that exists why is google using the probabilistic shit in their search?
LLM: Something like what somebody might say.
Website: What somebody did say. (Depending on the site.)
If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?
Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi Over Age Verification Law
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Our Response to Mississippi’s Age Assurance Law - Bluesky
A new Mississippi law requires us to block full access to Bluesky unless all users complete age checks. We have concerns about this law’s implementation.Bluesky
U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel
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Intel Corporation today announced an agreement with the Trump Administration to support the continued expansion of American technology and manufacturing leadership. Under terms of the agreement, the United States government will make an $8.9 billion investment in Intel common stock, reflecting the confidence the Administration has in Intel to advance key national priorities and the critically important role the company plays in expanding the domestic semiconductor industry.The government’s equity stake will be funded by the remaining $5.7 billion in grants previously awarded, but not yet paid, to Intel under the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act and $3.2 billion awarded to the company as part of the Secure Enclave program. Intel will continue to deliver on its Secure Enclave obligations and reaffirmed its commitment to delivering trusted and secure semiconductors to the U.S. Department of Defense. The $8.9 billion investment is in addition to the $2.2 billion in CHIPS grants Intel has received to date, making for a total investment of $11.1 billion.
Donald J. Trump: "It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully o...
It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future.Trump's Truth
70% of Japan smartphone games bypass in-app payments to avoid IT giants
70% of Japan smartphone games bypass in-app payments to avoid IT giants
Nearly 70 percent of popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems for items and services to avoid hefty commission fees from U.S. tech giants Google LLC and Apple Inc., a Kyodo News tally showed.KYODO NEWS (Japan Wire by KYODO NEWS)
Physicians embrace AI note-taking technology: ‘There is literally no other intervention in our field that impacts burnout to this extent’
Physicians embrace AI note-taking technology
“There is literally no other intervention in our field that impacts burnout to this extent,” says Rebecca Mishuris, chief medical information officer at Mass General Brigham.Ryan Jaslow (Harvard Gazette)
This month in Servo: new image formats, canvas backends, automation, and more!
This month in Servo: new image formats, canvas backends, automation, and more! - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
Another record month, plus devtools improvements and creature comforts for servoshell users.Servo
Egyptian Officials in New York Beat Two Gaza Protesters on Video. The NYPD Arrested the Protesters.
The protesters’ parents said the officials beat their sons with chains at Egypt’s U.N. mission. The NYPD arrested the brothers for assault.
4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene
4chan asks US to “invoke all legal levers” in fight against Online Safety Act.
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The "Super Weight:" How Even a Single Parameter can Determine a Large Language Model's Behavior
The "Super Weight:" How Even a Single Parameter can Determine a Large Language Model's Behavior
A recent paper from Apple researchers, "[The Super Weight in Large Language…Apple Machine Learning Research
Trump says he’ll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline
President Donald Trump is calling national security and privacy concerns related to TikTok and its Chinese parent company highly overrated.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tiktok-china-extension-deadline-4a66fbd0e485db5b3da83c176f22ad11
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in reply to ILikeBoobies • • •Gorilladrums
in reply to MicroWave • • •Far right parties are a product of stupidity and foreign money. The stupidity of the establishment parties in Europe ignoring the people's will on immigration enabled the far right, and Putin's Russia gave them the means to run with it.
These parties are here to stay unless the establishment parties take the Denmark approach and become more anti immigration.
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in reply to Gorilladrums • • •Can you link me to some credible sources on legitimate problems caused by immigration in Europe? I'm in the US and I don't see the downside of immigration. Most of the folks angry about immigration here are just being sold a scapegoat.
Admittedly, we're much more culturally diverse to begin with, harder to get to, and have quite a large base population so maybe I'm comparing apples and oranges.
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in reply to theparadox • • •I think it is a case of comparing apples to oranges. I'm saying this as a first gen immigrant from Iraq myself, I'm in the US but I have family in Europe (Finland, Sweden, and Germany), and it's just a very different dynamic. The national narrative about immigration, the ways immigrants are treated by society, and the way government assists immigrants in Europe and the US are quite different. They also get different kinds of immigrants, which is also important. All these factors contribute to very different situations economically, politically, and socially.
But I think this is the wrong way to approach this topic in this context because what matters more in politics is perception. When you look at the polls of any European country with a large immigrant population, virtually all of them have a pretty big chunk of the population, usually ethnically native and working class, that are heavily anti-immigration. This implies that the big issue with immigration in Europe is integration and assimilation. Since the establishment parties over there outright ignore them entirely, they end up flocking to far right parties instead since they're the only ones who want to place restrictions on immigration.
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in reply to theparadox • • •Just my opinion, but: There are no systematic ones that can't just as plausibly be explained by anti-immigrant stances of the locals.
Yes, of course, immigration also means SOME people immigrating will be bad in one way or another, but statistically significantly not more or less than the amount of bad people born in the country.
Most of the problems "with immigrants" arise from a mutual escalation of people not willing to integrate. In short, and without saying which comes first:
* immigrant does bad thing X
* anti-immigrant people point at X and claim it's because they are immigrants
* some people will believe the accusations and behave more poorly towards immigrants
* some immigrants will turn the prejudice against them into a dislike / hatred of their host country
* immigrants do bad things
* rinse and repeat
Speaking for Germany, all of this is FAR outweighed by the richness that immigrants bring to our country. Germans - and I say that as a German - really needed (and still need) a lot of lessons in empathy and kind-heartedness - and we have more of that now than 50 years ago, thanks to not only evolution of society, but also thanks to immigrants from the mediterranean - Italians, Spanish, Greek and Turks. If Germany had no immigrants, I would leave this country in an instant.
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in reply to raspberriesareyummy • • •The thing that people ( not you of course) just do not understand, is that for a lot of western countries the birth rate is under 2. So every year the population has a larger part of old people.
Our systems for retirement, government, social programs, etc only really work when more young healthy people are added.
So we actually really need young immigrants to basically keep the boat floating.
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in reply to hark • • •theparadox
in reply to raspberriesareyummy • • •This is the only "issue" I can think of from my own experience in the US. I imagine some resentment can form if a country has a lot of what I'll call "culture" for simplicity's sake. An influx of people with different "culture" might feel like an attack on your own culture. I frankly don't understand but that's why I mentioned the base population of the US being large and diverse. Perhaps we're already such a "melting pot", at least in the densely populated cities and suburbs, and having so many pockets of cultures is just what I'm used to. I want to better understand but it still just sounds like ignorant fear of a different culture.
Hell, it's a well established statistic, that many people pretend doesn't exist, that criminality is lower among the immigrant population. Any population will have some bad apples, but the incoming population is thinning them out if anything.
raspberriesareyummy
in reply to theparadox • • •The irony is that the racist people typically do not have any culture, they spend their days with faces glued to smartphones, trashtalk and being egoistic assholes. Where smartphones / social media are part of the root cause, and the rest (egoism, trash talking, being racist) come from the same character trait: lack of empathy.
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in reply to Gorilladrums • • •This is exactly what has been happening in Germany (most notably with the CDU and SPD) and it's not working. All that happens when these parties take on AfD talking point is that their voters no longer want to vote for them while the AfD's positions get normalised in the mainstream.
What they actually should do is stop picking uninspiring and corrupt candidates and push for things that would actually benefit the working class (wealth tax, tackling the housing crisis, etc.) instead of funneling more wealth upwards. At the end of the day the AfD is strong because people are struggling to make ends meet and the AfD is using the racism that's always been present in Germany to offer them an easy scapegoat.
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