Despite the fact my server federates on #Threads, my account is invisible there.
Which is exactly why I’m skeptical about Threads. 🙃
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Western Australia doubles exploration incentive scheme to boost mining sector
The Western Australian Government has doubled its funding for the Exploration Incentive Scheme, increasing its annual budget to $18 million. The move underscores the state’s commitment to fostering mineral exploration and driving economic growth.Liezl Gambe (Grafa)
A stylized illustration depicts a person wearing a large, black VR headset. The headset's screen shows a futuristic cityscape at night, filled with tall, brightly lit buildings. The person's face is partially visible, and they appear calm. The background is an orange-hued sunset sky above a sprawling futuristic city with tall, angular buildings and flying vehicles.
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"Arbeit macht frei" - work makes one free, was a cynical welcome at the Auschwitz I camp. SS guards often told prisoners of #Auschwitz that the only way out from the camp was through the chimney of the crematorium.
Watch a video about the history of this sign at Auschwitz: youtu.be/p9aBOp28H5Q
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In every generation, there are young people who take up the task of revolution directly, intensely, and most seriously.
The Brigade was quite clear in their aims; they sought to attack property, not people, and their targets included banks, fascist embassies, and the homes of Conservative MP’s, including then Home Secretary Robert Carr, courts and, as depicted in the film Misbehaviour, a BBC Outside Broadcast van at the 1970 Miss World event.
@workingclasshistory has an excellent two-part podcast interview with John Barker.
#theangrybrigade #angrybrigade #johnbarker #anarchisthistory #englishanarchism #guerrilla #guerrillawarfare #anarchy #anarchism #anarchist #workingclasshistory
E83-84: Angry Brigade
Double podcast about the Angry Brigade, Britain’s first home-grown urban guerrilla group, in the 1960s and 70s, in conversation with John Barker, who was put on trial as part of the group.Working Class History
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*Indiana bill seeks to end tax breaks for non-profit hospitals that overcharge patients.* This is a clever tactic and I can imagine it might work.
Indiana bill seeks to end tax breaks for non-profit hospitals that overcharge patients
Proposal comes after the Guardian investigated Parkview, a Fort Wayne-based non-profit chain that charges some of the highest prices in the countryGeorge Joseph (The Guardian)
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Got tired of drilling CW in MorseMachine, Morsle, and Morse code for Android, and listened in a few times today to see whether I can copy off the air yet.
During the afternoon on 20m, Winter Field Day was in full swing and every CQ I could hear was too fast for me to copy anything after "CQ". (Well, I did copy what sounded like "FDW9" at one point which I assume was related to field day activities) After dark, 80m had some folks with a more leisurely pace. However, signals fading in and out meant that I still had trouble copying call signs. I could at least recognize more characters even if I couldn't copy enough to understand...
I don't have a key yet, so I don't have to feel bad about not transmitting. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it, for a while! 😀
Microsoft Windows+Office for $55?
What happened?
Usually cheap MSFT license offers are a sign of Linux gains somewhere but I'm not seeing it this time
LibreOffice for Steam OS is taking off?
They're selling at a loss because it makes you train their "AI"?
There's some market share number they need to tweak upward to keep some stock analyst happy?
mashable.com/deals/january-24-… #networkEffects
$55 for a lifetime license to Microsoft Office
One price, two upgrades, no subscriptionsSponsored by StackCommerce (Mashable)
📚 Study: Medical large language models are vulnerable to data-poisoning attacks
▪️"replacement of just 0.001% of training tokens with medical #misinformation results in harmful models more likely to propagate medical #errors"
▪️"a successful attack potentially executable for under US$1,000"
🌐nature.com/articles/s41591-024…
#AI #technology #LLM #healthcare
Medical large language models are vulnerable to data-poisoning attacks - Nature Medicine
Large language models can be manipulated to generate misinformation by poisoning of a very small percentage of the data on which they are trained, but a harm mitigation strategy using biomedical knowledge graphs can offer a method for addressing this…Nature
tonight's wikipedia rabbit hole has led me to: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiank…
which has the absolutely *fascinating* property of containing sentences starting with things like "He became widely known" and "He was listed in", in which you can't tell if "He" is an English pronoun or a Chinese name, because either parse results in exactly the same meaning
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Money is going into AT Protocol to build up to what ActivityPub already is
FreeOurFeeds is a $30M plan to take back social media from billionaires
A new project seeks to build an alternative social media ecosystem free from billionaire control, with support from Eli Pariser, Roger McNamee, Alex Winter, Jimmy Wales, and more.Taylor Lorenz (User Mag)
French newspaper Le Monde has decided to stop sharing content on Xitter where they have 11m followers. This lengthy editorial explains their ethical decision.
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Fighting for facts in the era of Trump and Musk
The alliance between Donald Trump and social media platform bosses such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg represents a global threat to free access to reliable information.Jérôme Fenoglio (Le Monde)
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US, Colombia wage tariff war after Petro blocks Trump’s deportation flights | Migration News
The United States and Colombia have announced tit-for-tat tariffs amid a spat over Bogota’s refusal to accept the return of migrants being deported under United States President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
non riesco a sentirmi ancora a casa qui, non sopporto più instagram.
è tutto molto frustrante.
sto provando a capire come spostare tutto quello che ho messo su ig in questi ultimi tredici anni ma sembra che ci voglia una laurea in informatica per farlo.
sono giù di morale.
volevo solo un posto dove parlare di quello che mi piace. di là è strutturalmente impossibile, di qua mi sento solo stupida e ignorante e non capisco nulla.
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We’re out and about today for a drive in the country. We’ve stopped to charge up first and an electric motorcycle just rocked up to charge too.
#EV
I found out what the #EV bike was:
An Energica EVA Ribelle RS.
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Energica Eva Ribelle – Energica Motor Company
The special versions Technical sheet This data sheet is provided for reference only.Energica Motor Company reserves the right to substitute or change components.Technical features under development may change or be…Energica Motor Company S.p.A.
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Just one more reason to kick #Meta, #Facebook, #Instagram, #Threads, #Messenger, etc. to the curb.
#Abortion #AbortionRights #AbortionBan #AbortionIsMedicalCare #AbortionIsHealthcare #AbortionIsAHumanRight
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#Meta is apparently blocking posts and accounts mentioning abortion pills. I really, really hope that EU makes a push and bans Meta here if they don't comply.PHP Community on Mastodon
Help with Decluttarr
This is for Gentoo but very applicable to your case as well:
wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=g…
gentoo:pip
or pip is the Packager Installer for Python and it's a great tool to quickly install and manage python tools.wiki.gardiol.org
#FAFO Colombia President Petro responds to Trump tariffs: Read his full statement
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Colombia President Petro Responds to Trump Tariffs: Read His Full Statement
Colombia-US clash erupts over deportation flights, sparking 50% tariffs and fiery statement on sovereignty from President Gustavo Petro.Adeola Adeosun (Newsweek)
This story as written is deceptive and omits key facts.
#Colombia DID NOT reject repatriation of its citizens. It rejected the landing of military planes and the handling of its citizens in chains as criminals. The norm for repatriation is to deliver people unbound in civilian planes. Colombia upheld its duty to protect the dignity and bodies of its citizens, consistent with international treaties, which the US was violating.
English media is routinely distorting the facts.
Tristan Snell on Substack
BREAKING — Inspectors General are NOT leaving, stating Trump’s attempted firings broke the law Also: Chuck Grassley, Republican Senator from Iowa, said Trump broke law requiring 30 days notice to Congress and detailed reasons for firing IGs KEEP …Substack
#colombia Statement by President Gustavo Petro (thread, 4/?)
"Colombia is the heart of the world, and you’ve failed to understand that. This is the land of yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of Colonel Aureliano Buendía, and I am one of them, perhaps the last. You may kill me, but I will survive in my people, who existed long before yours, in the Americas. We are people of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea, and freedom."
#colombia Statement by President Gustavo Petro (thread, 5/?)
"You don’t like our freedom, fine. I won’t shake hands with white enslavers. I will shake hands with white libertarians, heirs of Lincoln, and with the Black and white farm boys of the U.S., at whose graves I wept and prayed on a battlefield I reached after walking through the mountains of Tuscany and surviving COVID. They are the U.S., and before them, I kneel—before no one else"
#colombia Statement by President Gustavo Petro (thread, 6/?)
"Bring me down, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia no longer looks to the north; it looks to the world. Our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization of its time, from the Latin Romans of the Mediterranean, the civilization that founded the republic and democracy in Athens. Our blood carries the resilience of Black people enslaved by you."
@alienghic @_L1vY_
This BBC article is rewriting the US press release. It omits that #Colombia obtained agreement from the US to ensure that deported citizens are transported safely, not in chains, with respect for their bodies, dignity and human rights. This was President Petro's core demand.
Western media is at this point consistently framing the agreement as a unilateral concession by #Colombia and that is false.
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Sadly the Beeb no longer seem to give a damn about actual journalism anymore. Redrafting a press release appears to be about their limit these days.
US oligarchs unfortunately have too much ability to mess with the UK government.
And the super rich have also been trying to degrade the UKs access to information too.
@Pachacutec @alienghic @_L1vY_
That has been my take as well but it took gleaning tiny bits from multiple news sources.
There still hasn't been a real report on what the deportations will look like going forward.
The main issue was treatment of migrants as criminals in chains. It seems like the US agreed to stop that but still use military planes.
So a compromise by both parties, not a concession by Colombia.
But media only reports the bombastic press releases from the WH.
@squared99 @Pachacutec @alienghic @_L1vY_
Do you have a source for the US agreeing to terms of dignity and respect?
None of the mainstream news are mentioning this.
@leighms @squared99 @alienghic @_L1vY_
No english language sources acknowledge it that I can find. #colombia
Here's a video in Spanish that includes the live announcement of the Colombian government.
This Colombia vlogger covers it. I will follow up with my own quick translation of the government statement.
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@leighms @squared99 @alienghic @_L1vY_
"Official Communication: The Colombian government announces that it has overcome the impasse with the US government.
In this context, Counselor Luis Hilberto Murillo and Embassador Daniel García Peña will travel to Washington DC in the next few days to participate in high level meetings that will continue to advance the agreements resulting from the joint work of diplomatic exchanges between the two governments. . .
@leighms @squared99 @alienghic @_L1vY_
[. . . We will continue receiving Colombian men and women that are returned as deportees under guaranteed conditions of dignity as citizens who are accorded rights.
The Colombian government under the the direction of President Gustavo Petro has made available the presidential plane to facilitate the return of its citizens that were to arrive here in Colombia this morning in deportation planes.. . .
One doctor's harrowing, monthlong visit to Gaza, in the days before the ceasefire
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/26/nx-s1-5246217/one-doctors-harrowing-monthlong-visit-to-gaza-in-the-days-before-the-ceasefire?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World News @world-news-npr
Trump trying to give Smotrich, Ben-Gvir et al carte blanch to eliminate all Palestinians from their homeland forever. This would be the culmination of the entire Zionist project.
Dislocation. Genocide. Complete theft of an indigenous people's land.
[“I would like Egypt to take people,” Trump said. “You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say: ‘You know, it’s over.'”]
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Ethnic cleansing feared as Trump asks Jordan, Egypt to take Gaza residents
Trump says relocation may be temporary or long-term as he announces lifting of hold on 2,000-pound bombs for Israel.Al Jazeera
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert explains (correctly) that #Smotrich and Ben-Gvir etc. are much more of a threat to #Israel than Hamas or Hezbollah:
@cryptadamist
It is the most excruciating aspect of the nut jobs and control the country. They have guaranteed animist towards Israel generations to come. And the next wave because they’ve guaranteed the circumstances for this of violent antisemitism is now locked in.
I often reread and listen to portions of Tolkien’s Works because he was simply brilliant, describing the nature of evil
What should I dream about? I will abide by the results of this poll.
#StableDiffusion #AIArt #AIGenerated #AI #GenerativeAI #GenerativeArt
- Pencil drawing of a space ship, steampunk (0 votes)
- Plastic toy of a taco, decora (0 votes)
- Crayon drawing of a toolbox, cubism (0 votes)
Gaza checkpoint shell company outs itself as led by former CIA paramilitary chief
Gaza checkpoint shell company outs itself as led by former CIA paramilitary chief
Or, how access journalism is used by the U.S. intelligence community to divert narratives away from their covert activity.Jack Poulson (All-Source Intelligence)
like this
#USA #AirForce #Resumes #Teaching Video on #FirstBlack #Pilots After #DEI Review
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Jens Ljungkvist
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •I did not defederate them when they opened up to the rest of the Fediverse because I wanted to see what this kind of interoperability would mean.
But since Meta announced that they will stop moderating on their platforms I went ahead and defederated them, as I would with any other instance not actively moderating its users.
Chris Trottier
in reply to Jens Ljungkvist • • •@jens I respect that. My concern is two-fold:
Jens Ljungkvist
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •That could be said for Twitter as well.
The Swedish PM has an official account on Twitter. As a swede that’s an important person.
I’m not on Twitter for the same reasons.
Chris Trottier
in reply to Jens Ljungkvist • • •@jens Believe me, if I could receive tweets from Twitter, I would opt to view them here. But alas, Musk has shut off API access and has made it a requirement to have a Twitter account to view tweets.
For me, I will never be active on Twitter or anything Meta ever again. Which is also why I believe all that content should be accessible off those services.
Chris Trottier
Unknown parent • • •@ezmyrelda @jens I absolutely believe in moderating communities, defederating if need be.
I also believe information should be free and accessible, not held prisoner by a narcissistic maniac who insists that everything be hidden—unless you give him personal information.
There was a case just a few months ago where an amber alert was broadcast on Twitter, and if you weren’t on Twitter, you couldn’t see it—and to me, that’s wrong.
Everything that should be known to the public should be public. Better yet, federated.
If you want to opt out of seeing that info, that’s fair. But it should be public.
Chris Trottier
Unknown parent • • •@ezmyrelda @jens I’m not on Twitter or Meta—and haven’t been for years. And I’m livid that my government—specifically, the Canadian government—still depends on American companies for public-facing communications when they should be building local social media infrastructure.
But they’re there. They even insist on staying there. And it’s maddening they’re letting Elon Musk restrict such critical information.
Why the hell are Trudeau’s posts on Twitter and not the Fediverse? That should be a scandal.