Target of Injustice: Free Mahdi Ali Campaign Kicks Off
Fifteen years after being sentenced to life in prison, a new grassroots campaign called The Coalition to Free Mahdi Ali has launched to demand justice and freedom for Ali, who claims he's wrongfully convicted.
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Target of Injustice: Free Mahdi Ali Campaign Kicks Off - UNICORN RIOT
A new grassroots campaign called The Coalition to Free Mahdi Ali has launched to demand justice and freedom for Ali who they say is wrongfully convicted of murder.niko (UNICORN RIOT)
Botões GL/GR do Nintendo Switch 2 terão muitas opções de mapeamento
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Meat Firm Marfrig Makes Offer for Remaining BRF Stake
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Iran and Ethiopia have a security deal – here’s why they signed it
Addis Ababa’s willingness to work with regional rivals in the Middle East shows its practical approach to foreign relations.The Conversation
DOJ Conducts Probe Into Live Nation, Coinbase Data Breach, More
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FEMA's acting chief says agency will shift more disaster recovery responsibilities to the states
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Microsoft is ending its search API in favor of a LLM-fueled "replacement," which they claim "better meets market demand for having AI solutions."
Nobody is asking for AI instead of search. Corpos who profit from the compute involved are asking us to accept it.
Remember kids: demand doesn't matter when you can control the supply of alternatives!
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New Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Hypocritical Infrastructure @cathygellis.bsky.social guest hosts, and we talked about a whole bunch of hypocrisy. We start, though, with her concerns about the lack of 1st Amendment analysis in the Copyright Office's rushed AI report. podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...
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In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Cathy Gellis, an internet and First Amendment lawyer. Together, they cover:The Copyright Office Issues A Largely D...Buzzsprout
I definitely haven't been considering that pro bluesky people might read my stuff and how it could upset them. I guess I don't weigh the feelings of people working for peanuts with VC funded stuff equally. I should.
I do consider that all when I tag people and try to be nice. I'm aware of the hot take attention game and don't do that. I try to make a strong case for what social media should be and where I feel we are going wrong. I probably post too much.
I guess you're not gonna see this but I wrote that sentence to explain my thinking after you forced me to think about it and then said I will try to do better.
as I've said before, sometimes what one feels they need to say, can't be said in a way that won't upset others. it's why moderation needs to be more nuanced than it has tended to be here.
I wish you well too.
I mean most people working on AP related projects are not getting paid well for it, if at all.
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Unshelling the Origins: Where Did the Saying "Working for Peanuts" Come From? - TastesFood
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Stopped by a greenhouse on the way to my grandma's house I've always wanted to go to, but never had money during the short time they're open. I got me some herb babies. This African Blue Basil and its tiny purple flowers was way too beautiful to pass up.
Also got a holy basil, peppermint, ornamental mini mint, parsley, chives, rosemary, and a hot and spicy oregano.
Can't wait to plant everything at my house and my grandma's house this weekend.
Interview with Boaz Bismuth from the Israeli administration (Skip to 0:40, rest is in english)
The interview is pretty wild. The introduction the first 40 seconds is in Norwegian. He talks about how this interview is unprecedented and that he has never experienced anything like this (You will understand why).
The journalist is a respected renowned Norwegian journalist covering various wars and politics.
Highly recommended interview. Although a bit frustrating at times, as it was hard to get any straight answers.
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Israels høyre-ekstreme regjering anklages for folkemord. Yama utfordrer en av Netanyahus største forsvarere, Boaz Bismuth fra regjeringspartiet Likud.NRK
Trump says nuclear deal with Iran ‘getting close’
Washington has targeted several Iranian individuals and entities with sanctions since the conclusion of the latest round of nuclear talks with Tehranthecradle.co
Proseguiamo il nostro viaggio tra le vetrine in rosa del Comune di Lucca, che partecipano al concorso "La vetrina più bella", indetto da Comune di Lucca e Confcommercio di Lucca e Massa Carrara per celebrare la tappa lucchese del Giro d'Italia. A vincere il concorso saranno i tre negozi le cui vetrine otterranno più "mi piace" nelle noitv.it/2025/05/seconda-tappa…
Building software on top of Large Language Models
I presented a three hour workshop at PyCon US yesterday titled Building software on top of Large Language Models. The goal of the workshop was to give participants everything they …Simon Willison’s Weblog
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A good chunk of the United States is getting ground water with significant amounts of fluoride already in it.
Sometimes more than four times the recommended level, just from natural deposit erosion.
I wonder how Bobby Brainworms expects to "fix" that, especially considering that these deposits where it goes above the action level cover a lot of the Southwestern part of the United States.
Sam Altman’s goal for ChatGPT to remember ‘your whole life’ is both exciting and disturbing
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Sam Altman’s goal for ChatGPT to remember 'your whole life’ is both exciting and disturbing | TechCrunch
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out a big vision for the future of ChatGPT at an AI event hosted by VC firm Sequoia earlier this month.Julie Bort (TechCrunch)
Automatic Transmission For Manual Transportation
The drivetrain of most modern bicycles has remained relatively unchanged for nearly a century. There have been marginal upgrades here and there like electronic shifting but you’ll still mostly see a chain with a derailleur or two. [Matthew] is taking a swing at a major upgrade to this system by replacing the front derailleur with a torque converter, essentially adding an automatic transmission to his bicycle.
Most of us will come across a torque converter in passenger vehicles with automatic transmissions, but these use fluid coupling. [Matthew] has come up with a clever design that uses mechanical coupling instead using a ratchet and pawl mechanism. There are two gear ratios here, a 1:1 ratio like a normal bicycle crank and a 1.5:1 ratio that is automatically engaged if enough torque is applied to the pedals. This means that if a cyclist encounters a hill, the gear automatically shifts down to an easier gear and then will shift back once the strenuous section is finished.
[Matthew] machined all the parts for this build from scratch, and the heavy-duty solid metal parts are both impressive but also show why drivetrains like this haven’t caught on in the larger bicycling world since they’re so heavy. There have been some upgrades in internally geared hubs lately though, which do have a number advantages over traditional chain and derailleur-based bikes with the notable downside of high cost, and there have been some other interesting developments as well like this folding mechanical drivetrain and this all-electric one.
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Thanks to [Keith] for the tip!
📰 Minstens 115 Palestijnen gedood op dag herdenking Nakba
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🔸 #Nakba #Dode #Volksgezondheid #Gaza #Palestijnen
Minstens 115 Palestijnen gedood op dag herdenking Nakba
Minstens 115 Palestijnen, voornamelijk vrouwen en kinderen, zijn gisteren omgekomen bij een golf van Israëlische aanvallen door de hele Gazastrook. Dat meldt de zender Al Jazeera op basis van cijfers van het ministerie van Volksgezondheid in Gaza.RTL Nieuws
Taking my dog…less seriously.
I look at some of the photographers I admire, like Takuma Nakahira and Saul Leiter and Vivien Maier and plenty of others.
I want to be like them. I want every photo to speak, to capture the essence of the moment. The zeitgeist. The Koan.
Scrolling back through my file of keepers, I mostly fall short. Every so often I approximate a little glimpse. Mostly by accident. The harder I try, the more I miss. The closer I focus, the more distant I expose.
Then I remember not to take the whole thing too seriously. It is perfectly OK, I say to myself, to just post the process. The journey.
Sometimes that journey is just a cute picture of your dog taken at home. On the couch. That’s all I got.
Its enough.
#blackAndWhite #dogs #meditation #photography
How Takuma Nakahira’s “Circulation” Breathed Life into Photography
During the 1971 Paris Biennale, Nakahira photographed, printed, and exhibited his daily images of the city—creating a landmark photo-installation that pushed the bounds of a "living" work.aperturewp (Aperture)
Granted, just because project 2025 wants this doesn't mean it will happen, but it's good to know where their head is at
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The Big Takeover: The secret plans to give Trump command of America’s police
For months, a Project 2025 subgroup drafted plans to place domestic law enforcement under Trump's thumb. We have their files.Beau Hodai (Phoenix New Times)
I must remind myself constantly not to take myself too seriously.
And not to try to be Tauma Nakahira.
And not to try to be Saul Leiter.
etc.
#photography #blackAndWhite #dogsOfMastodon #dogs #blueSkyDogs #monochrome
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I was briefly a foster carer. The system is almost impossible for anyone to thrive in, for the kids and young people, the carers and the workers.
Even putting aside the systematic unfairness that sees certain kids (Aboriginal, Black, refugees) much more likely to be removed, it's a trainwreck.
These kids need our political attention. Please pay attention when fostering hits the news.
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Katri Uibu (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
In Seattle we never actually defunded our police force but we still managed to reduce the total number of cops by a staggering amount with one simple hack: We were mean and rude to ALL cops for a year or two and they ACTUALLY just quit their jobs in droves.
The cop exit interviews were full of statements like:
"In 2020, where everyone hated us"
So to the Patrick Hanlon's of the world, be sure to tell that no good pig that he's a monster who should quit his job.
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#ACAB
'SPD is dying': What Seattle police officers say as they depart
When asked what had a negative effect on morale in their exit interviews, Seattle police officers were nearly united in their responses.Frank Sumrall (MyNorthwest.com)
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"The business of universities is to exemplify + create the conditions of liberty. There are reasons why tyrants come after universities first, + this is the main one."
—Timothy Snyder, the great scholar of 20th-century authoritarianism, on leaving Yale + Trump's America for Canada.
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SNYDER: On leaving Yale - Yale Daily News
I did not leave Yale because of Donald Trump, or because of Columbia, or because of threats to Yale — but that would be a reasonable thing to do and that is a decision that people will make.David Yaffe-Bellany (Yale Daily News)
The value of institutional memory
In 1978, a dredging gang working for British Waterways was struggling with a problem. They were trying to clear obstacles on the Chesterfield Canal so they could stabilise a concrete wall — not an easy day’s work. But what really had them stumped was a heavy iron chain on the canal bottom. After various attempts, they hooked the chain to their dredger. That did
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The value of institutional memory
In 1978, a dredging gang working for British Waterways was struggling with a problem. They were trying to clear obstacles on the Chesterfield Canal so they could stabilise a concrete wall — not an …Tim Harford
Tigray Genocide
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.dair-institute.org
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Social Media Platforms Are Spreading Violent Warmongering Content Encouraging All-Out War Between Ethiopia and Eritrea, Again
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"At a hospital in the Ethiopian city of Adigrat, the second largest in the Tigrayan region, a nurse said she regularly treats women raped by Eritrean soldiers in the occupied areas."
"New cases of sexual violence are still coming to our medical facility, on average 15 to 20 cases daily including victims of gang rapes by three or more Eritrean soldiers," she told AFP by telephone.
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Life Under Eritrean 'Occupation' In Northern Ethiopia
From his home in the far north of Ethiopia, Hagos can see Eritrean soldiers positioned on the other side of his town, Alitena, and says all his neighbours fear a full occupation.Barrons
artist: Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894
source: National Portrait Gallery
notes: The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand […]
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
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yeh, people took it too far for the last few, so AEC kind of cracked down on it.
This shit is hilarious, no matter the party, the swastikas and racism, was not
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Channel 13: #Israeli cabinet ministers criticized the #Trump administration at a security session regarding the agreement to release Alexander.
- The relationship between Tel Aviv and Washington has become more tense despite Netanyahu's attempts to draw a pink picture of it.
- #Netanyahu said during the security meeting that this is the way Trump administration is pushing toward a broad agreement.
- #Ben-Gvir told Netanyahu that if the Trump administration is bypassing us, we must not make our commitments to #Hamas.
#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine group @israel group
Today's under 100 game is... Bossgame!
Listen, i know i'm preaching to the choir here, but I can only assume the reason a game this targeted at trans lesbian losers like me has under 100 reviews is because all of us are equally poor.
A one button boss rush game with TONS of style, check it out!
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BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart on Steam
BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart is a lesbian romance boss rush! Sophie and Anna are broke and trying to pay rent by hunting devils.store.steampowered.com
Under 100 is where i talk about games on steam with under 100 reviews. Some are old, some are new, all deserve more respect then they've gotten. Check out yesterday's game, the stylish arcade puzzle game Bauhaus Bonk
Apple says a warning on EU App Store listings for apps with no IAP has been live since March 2024, and the EU told it to hold off on tweaks that Apple proposed (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Viral outrage over Apple's EU payment warnings misses key fact | TechCrunch
Apple says the warning messages now appearing next to EU App Store listings that use third-party payment systems are not actually new. According to aSarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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"America this is quite serious." Allen Ginsberg, "America" 1956.
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America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twentyseven cents January 17, 1956. America when will we end the human war? I don’t feel good don’t bother me. I won’t write my poem till I’m in my right mind.The Poetry Foundation
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I love City Lights, too, and Ginsberg. He would be saying Kaddish for our country and fighting like mad. That's what I'm aiming for.
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Голос Кореи,Voice of Korea,Voz de Corea,صوت كوريا ,Stimme Koreas,공화국,vokwww.vok.rep.kp
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OpenAI may be planning to challenge Microsoft Teams Copilot integration with a new "Record" feature in ChatGPT.
⚡️🇺🇦Front News: New powerful AFU attack | Is Putin preparing an “Oreshnik” strike? (UATV News VIDEO) #Ukraine #NukesForUkraine #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom
#EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar
#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
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Justice Elena Kagan called out the government’s attorneys, flaming Justice Department officials for being “dead wrong,” while asking the administration to explain why they would bring a case they had uniformly lost in lower courts.
Trump Justice Department Makes Insane Claim About Obeying Court Orders
Donald Trump’s lawyers made the argument to the Supreme Court during a hearing on birthright citizenship.The New Republic
Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom
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Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data and are demanding $20 million ransom
The incident may cost Coinbase up to $400 million to fix, the company estimated.Tanaya Macheel (CNBC)
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in reply to Taggart • • •"People want something that works better than search."
Why doesn't search work?
WHY DOESN'T SEARCH WORK M__________R??