I was thinking about the hippy, flower child, free love, anti establishment days this morning. How some of those people ended up right leaning as old people I can't understand.
In my opinion we all need to find our groovy again and shame on the people who would deny us peace just because they can.
I am working hard to get my body in a better place so I walked again this morning. I walked up the hill at the #HumboldtBotanicalGardens twice. Forty minutes of keeping my heart rate up. I am motivated. Lots of things rely on me staying healthy.
I took a couple of groovy photos.
Peace.
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Japan’s Factory Sentiment Improves, Firming Up BOJ Hike Case
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He was waiting for me to come to the dining room to eat MY supper. Have a good end of Sunday where it still is.
#dog #dogs #DogsOfMastodon #AdoptDontShop #rescuedog #photography #FujiFilm
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And have a lovely start of the week, we all need that on these sad times we live in.
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Between the Best and the Worst: Some Thoughts on Not Surrendering
Dear readers, I'm setting off in a couple of hours on an overnight trip with a friend to go visit our mutual friend, Jarvis Masters, who's one of the many prisoners moved off Death Row but not actually relieved of that murderous sentence.Rebecca Solnit (Meditations in an Emergency)
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A new release of #Hachinan is out!
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Enjoy~
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"Meanwhile, Zuhrah’s friends repeatedly called the prison requesting an ambulance, who they said “kept hanging up” on them. They tried ringing for ambulances directly, but were informed that this would have to be arranged through the prison.
“We were being told by ambulance operators that they have no power over whether an ambulance goes to a prison or not, because it is up to the prison whether they will accept an ambulance," Moulsdale said.
“If someone collapses in a prison, they don't get an ambulance sent to them. The prison gets to decide.”
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How a Palestine Action hunger striker was left on her cell floor
The friends of a Palestine Action-affiliated prisoner currently on hunger strike say she was left to lie on her cell floor with worsening chest pains while the prison refused repeated requests to call an ambulance.Katherine Hearst (Middle East Eye)
Once Upon a Now in America
-- Standing up to nazis
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Really Open AI The Future of Open Source
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L’odio di Trump per l’Europa dimostra la nostra potenza. Senza di lui rinasceremo
https://www.lastampa.it/esteri/2025/12/15/news/l_odio_di_trump_per_l_europa-15434890/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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L’odio di Trump per l’Europa dimostra la nostra potenza. Senza di lui rinasceremo
Da adesso in poi l’Unione deve agire come se fosse solaBill Emmott (La Stampa)
L’esercito di Kiev scudo per l’Europa
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L’esercito di Kiev scudo per l’Europa
Sul campo i soldati ucraini hanno già dimostrato di saper usare meglio di chiunque le armi occidentali. In caso di conflitto allargato, è a loro che chiederemo…La Stampa
L’Ue è costosa, bloccata e illusa su Mosca. La corsa al riarmo non la difenderà
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L’Ue è costosa, bloccata e illusa su Mosca. La corsa al riarmo non la difenderà
Il meccanismo di Bruxelles la rende impotente di fronte ai sovranismi. Che rapporto vogliamo con la vicina Russia?Massimo Cacciari (La Stampa)
Utah farm family in the orchard at peach harvest. Near Springdale, Utah
#Springdale #theUnitedStates #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
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RE: mastodon.social/@martoiu/11571…
The same company with eyes on our NHS data....
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Israel used Palantir technology in its 2024 Lebanon pager attack, book claims https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-used-palantir-its-2024-lebanon-pager-attackMihai Martoiu Ticu (Mastodon)
Hey all, if you're interested in learning more about renewables, check out this free webinar about heat pumps, geothermal energy, biomass and more on Jan 29. I'm not affiliated at all, just wanted to get the word out because education is neat.
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Renewables 101: Heat Pumps, Geo-Exchange, Wastewater Energy, Biomass & More
Kickoff Session of the Material, Energy & Technology (MET) SeriesEventbrite
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Discorso veramente interessante
My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about:
1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead
2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns
3. How OSS can actually innovate in #uxyoutube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bO…
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Some amazing links found in this talk:
- inkandswitch.com/upwelling/ : Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers.
- dynamicland.org/ : Dynamicland is, among other things, a new kind of computer.
- huggingface.co/blog/starcoder : StarCoder is a Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs) trained on permissively licensed data
- wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-w… : These are brutal, dispassionate points that directly deal with the most common boosterisms. Generative AI isn't transforming anything ...
- jenson.org/boring/ : Ultimately, a mature technology doesn’t look like magic; it looks like infrastructure. It gets smaller, more reliable, and much more boring.
- couldshouldmightdont.com/revie… : A book about futurism
How To Argue With An AI Booster
Editor's Note: For those of you reading via email, I recommend opening this in a browser so you can use the Table of Contents.Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about:
1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead
2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns
3. How OSS can actually innovate in #uxyoutube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bO…
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
La cucina italiana non esiste, il patrimonio è la sacralità di offrire il cibo
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La cucina italiana non esiste, il patrimonio è la sacralità di offrire il cibo
Nutrire chi si ama è un rito universale, ma si celebra lontano da chi professa il culto delle eccellenzeMaurizio Maggiani (La Stampa)
Di Segni: “Perché siamo nel mirino”
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Di Segni: “Perché siamo nel mirino”
Il rabbino capo di Roma: «È il risultato di troppa propaganda. C’è chi pensa che gli ebrei siano cattivi»Luca Monticelli (La Stampa)
La Garante per l'infanzia in Abruzzo: “Quei bimbi vanno protetti: il ritorno in società può essere uno choc”
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La Garante per l'infanzia in Abruzzo: “Quei bimbi vanno protetti: il ritorno in società può essere uno choc”
De Febis: «Troppi dettagli su di loro, rischiano discriminazioni e bullismo»La Stampa
Le sfide del Dopoguerra tra i grandi inviati e Specchio dei tempi
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Le sfide del Dopoguerra tra i grandi inviati e Specchio dei tempi
Prima Burzio, poi De Benedetti rilanciano la testata. Tra le firme Bettiza e ManCesare Martinetti (La Stampa)
A Montecassino il Giubileo delle persone con disabilità
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A Montecassino il Giubileo delle persone con disabilità
Il progetto “Giò” promosso dalla cooperativa Exodus prevede inclusione e opportunitàLa Stampa
Ecco perché sono andata ad Atreju: questo dialogo vuol dire progresso
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Ecco perché sono andata ad Atreju: questo dialogo vuol dire progresso
Chiara Francini, attrice e scrittrice, è stata ospite con il suo ultimo romanzo che parla di fascismo e ResistenzaChiara Francini (La Stampa)
Atreju celebra il culto del capo. Meloni dimentica i poteri forti: ora il nemico è solo a sinistra
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Atreju celebra il culto del capo. Meloni dimentica i poteri forti: ora il nemico è solo a sinistra
Tra selfie e orgoglio populista tutti allineati come ai tempi di BerlusconiAlessandro De Angelis (La Stampa)
La doppia partita di Schlein: tenere insieme le correnti e lanciare la sfida al governo
https://www.lastampa.it/politica/2025/12/15/news/la_doppia_partita_di_elly_tenere_insieme_le_correnti_e_lanciare_la_sfida_al_governo-15434871/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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La doppia partita di Schlein: tenere insieme le correnti e lanciare la sfida al governo
All’Assemblea del Pd attrito Boccia-Delrio. L’ex sindaco furioso: «Non voglio rovinare la festa»Francesca Schianchi (La Stampa)
This is from Alt National Park Service
Palantir’s involvement in fusion-center ecosystems has long raised alarms for enabling mission creep, a steady expansion from investigating serious crime, to monitoring protests, and ultimately to tracking lawful speech and political organizing.
Many people are aware that fusion centers exist, but far fewer understand how aggressively they are being used today. There are more than 70 DHS-funded fusion centers operating across the United States, originally justified as post-9/11 coordination hubs meant to help federal, state, and local agencies share intelligence about genuine security threats. In practice, their scope has grown far beyond that mandate.
Fusion centers function by combining federal intelligence streams with local and state law-enforcement data. This includes information from DHS, the FBI, ICE, and CBP, alongside police reports, license-plate readers, CCTV feeds, and increasingly, online activity. Public social-media posts, event pages, livestreams, fundraising links, and activist messaging are routinely monitored and analyzed, often under the broad and loosely defined banner of “situational awareness.”
This is where Palantir’s role becomes significant. While Palantir is rarely branded publicly as “fusion-center software,” its platforms are widely used by the agencies that feed data into fusion centers. Palantir tools excel at linking disparate datasets, identifying relationships between people, locations, and events, and visualizing networks over time. That capability makes it especially useful for mapping protest movements, identifying organizers or influential voices, and tracking how activity spreads across cities or regions.
The result is a system where lawful political activity can be pulled into intelligence workflows designed for criminal or terrorism investigations. Even when each individual data source is technically legal (public posts, permits, open-source information) the combined analysis can paint detailed profiles of movements and individuals who have committed no crime. Once that information enters a fusion center, it can be shared widely across agencies, often with limited transparency or meaningful oversight.
This structure blurs the line between public safety and political surveillance. Fusion centers, powered by sophisticated analytics and private contractors like Palantir, make it easier to justify continuous monitoring on the grounds of prevention (anticipating unrest before it happens) rather than responding to actual wrongdoing. That shift fundamentally changes how dissent is treated: not as a protected civic activity, but as a potential risk to be managed.
In short, fusion centers are no longer just passive information-sharing hubs. With advanced analytic platforms feeding into them, they have become active nodes in a nationwide intelligence network one that is increasingly targets speech, association, and protest, all under the cover of “security and preparedness”.
Mike
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