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Know your rights. A resource for trans people in the UK following the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act.

The Know your rights resource has been reviewed by a team of lawyers to help you (and us) feel confident in knowing your rights.

You'll find it at transactual.org.uk/know-your-rโ€ฆ

(And yes, launching it on #IDAHOBLIT was a coincidence)

#TransRights #Trans #Nonbinary #Transgender #EqualityAct #SupremeCourt #TransAlly #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #IDAHOBIT

in reply to TransActual

I fucking hate those bigots for making you have to prepare something like this (but thank you for making it).

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Experte: Russland hรคtte aus Istanbul abreisen mรผssen de.rt.com/international/245179โ€ฆ Russland hรคtte angesichts der zahlreichen Demรผtigungen in Istanbul seine Delegation am ersten Abend abziehen mรผssen. Das ist die Meinung des Geopolitik-Experten Alex Christoforou, Mitbetreiber des Podcasts "Duran". Es tat es nicht, weil neben USA und Tรผrkei auch "Freunde" wie China und Brasilien den Verbleib erwarteten. #news #press


@classicalmusic
Johannes Brahms: Violinkonzert in D-Dur op. 77;

Elsa Barraine: Symphonie Nr. 2;

Claude Debussy: โ€žImagesโ€œ fรผr Orchester

Orchestre National de France,
Dirigent: Cristian Macelaru.
Julia Fischer, Violine

@Pierrette ?

sound.orf.at/radio/oe1/sendungโ€ฆ

#music #classic #concert



La rotta dei diritti: a bordo della Vespucci, tra infanzia, salute e sostenibilitร 
pressenza.com/it/2025/05/la-roโ€ฆ
Durante la tappa napoletana del suo tour mondiale, la nave scuola della Marina Militare si รจ trasformata in un laboratorio galleggiante di diritti, consapevolezza e dialogo tra generazioni. Cโ€™รจ chi la osserva per la sua eleganza, chi la visita perโ€ฆ
Lucia Montanaro




@classicalmusic
Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918) : D'un matin de printemps

Piotr Ilyitch Tchaรฏkovski (1840 - 1893) : Concerto pour violon et orchestre en rรฉ majeur opus 35

Valentin Silvestrov (nรฉ en 1937) : Serenade - pour violon

Ernest Chausson (1855 - 1899) : Symphonie en si bรฉmol majeur opus 20

Vadim Gluzman, violon
Orchestre Symphonique de la Radio Bavaroise
Direction : Tugan Sokhiev

radiofrance.fr/francemusique/pโ€ฆ

#music #classic #concert




Lโ€™Italia guardi allโ€™Europa senza dimenticare la Difesa. Lโ€™opinione di Nones

@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo

Lo sconquasso provocato nello scenario internazionale dallโ€™amministrazione Trump rende molto piรน difficile prevedere le sue possibili implicazioni. Questo vale inevitabilmente anche per il processo di integrazione europea nel campo della politica estera e di difesa. Se in








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CIVES e il Volontariato Livornese a Supporto del Trofeo Velico 2025 dellโ€™Accademia Navale
Leggi l'intero articolo sul nostro sito web!
cives-odv.org/web/2025/05/17/cโ€ฆ
Grazie per il tuo supporto!


Sensi e cervello, rivelato il centro unico che li collega tutti
notiziescientifiche.it/sensi-eโ€ฆ
Dal sito #notiziescientifiche
@scienza
Un nuovo studio pubblicato su NeuroImage[1] ha rivelato che due aree profonde del cervello si attivano in modo simile quando percepiamo stimoli sensoriali diversi, a patto che lโ€™attenzione sia coinvolta. [leggi tutto]

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5 Best Compact Cameras for Street Photography in 2025
https://www.thephoblographer.com/2025/05/16/5-best-compact-cameras-for-street-photography-in-2025/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into "Street Shots" ๐Ÿ“ธ Street Photography @street-shots-street-photography-msecchi

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30 Stunning Black and White Street Photos That Capture Timeless Beauty
https://121clicks.com/inspirations/black-and-white-street-photos-timeless-beauty/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into "Street Shots" ๐Ÿ“ธ Street Photography @street-shots-street-photography-msecchi

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@classicalmusic
Pierre Boulez
โ€žร‰clatโ€œ fรผr 15 Instrumente

Maurice Ravel
Konzert fรผr Klavier und Orchester G-Dur

Bรฉla Bartรณk
โ€žDer holzgeschnitzte Prinzโ€œ, Tanzspiel op. 13

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Klavier
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Leitung: Petr Popelka

deutschlandfunkkultur.de/gewanโ€ฆ

#music #classic #concert






We'll go defenceless Open wide We'll let the senses Be our guide We'll break the surface Snip these strings Relearn the grace Of selfless things We'll dance like no-one sees Now sleek to dive in mirrored pools... David Gray - A Tight Ship #photography #texture #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin


US National Endowment for Democracy Targets Cuba With $6.6 Million in 2025 networkdefenseofhumanitycuba.wโ€ฆ


Plans for the weekend: I'm going to scan the local anarchist bookshop's entire collection with a barcode reader, so they finally get an inventory. I'll probably use my little program which also checks whether a book is needed by the #InternetArchive. (Still works without changes 5 years later!)

framagit.org/nemobis/bots/-/blโ€ฆ

in reply to Nemo_bis ๐ŸŒˆ

Some 70 of those books are in the @internetarchive wishlist. They've been set aside and I'll see what to do about them.
blog.archive.org/2018/09/10/reโ€ฆ
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in reply to Nemo_bis ๐ŸŒˆ

Also, I've found my new arch-enemy: book cover designs where the ISBN barcode is printed in green or white (or anything other than black on white really).


I had to drive my eldest daughter to Rheinfelden at half past 7, then pick her up again at half past ten. I decided to use the time for a ride in unknown territory.
So I used two well-known apps to make me a route, and started riding at 8, an hour before sunset. #MTB #Fatbike #EveningRide
in reply to jexner ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

I had originally planned to take the eeb, but decided to take this beauty, instead. Good decision!
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@classicalmusic
John Adams
Klavierkonzert "After the Fall"

Gustav Mahler
Symphonie Nr. 1 D-Dur

Vikingur ร“lafsson, Klavier
Tonhalle-Orchester Zรผrich
Leitung: Paavo Jรคrvi

www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr3/programโ€ฆ

#music #classic #concert



I realized something recently, which is that we're building AI tools completely backwards.

While I was aware that there's some de-skilling happening already, I finally clicked a bunch of pieces together and decided to write this to talk about how we can do *better*

In short: Most AI tools suffer dramatically because

- We use them to short-circuit the human cognitive reasoning (and learning) process
- We use them to silo people rather than bring them together
- We then feed broken data back into the AI and exacerbate the cycle

We're building anti-human tools

However, there's a evidence-backed way to help prevent this, by leveraging how humans *work* to influence how we design AI.

To no surprise if you've been reading my stuff lately, it involves *gasp* embracing collective learning and augmenting human collaboration patterns rather than breaking them.

Originally, I was going to bang this out as a thread, but then I kept going and realized I had a lot to say about the topic. This scratches the surface, but as always... I have thoughts. Lots of thoughts. They never stop thinking. Never stop thunking.

(Also... ~4k words and no swearing, somehow?!?)

hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-buildโ€ฆ



ยซJe pars ร  lโ€™universitรฉ de Toronto car je veux faire mon travail sans avoir peur dโ€™รชtre puni pour mes motsยป, (Jason Stanley). Lโ€™historienne Marci Shore, elle, รฉtablit un parallรจle avec les annรฉes 1930 : ยซLa leรงon de 1933 est quโ€™il vaut mieux partir plus tรดt que trop tard.ยป

ยซNous sommes comme des passagers du Titanic qui disent que leur navire ne peut pas couler [โ€ฆ] Et ce que vous savez en tant quโ€™historienne, cโ€™est quโ€™il nโ€™existe pas de navire insubmersible.ยป

liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/โ€ฆ



@classicalmusic
Symfonie nr.7 in e kl.t. -
Gustav Mahler

Jaap van Zweden (Dirigent),
Chicago Symphony Orchestra

npoklassiek.nl/concerten/3150eโ€ฆ

#music #classic #concert



Here's to my first keynote at phpday in Verona ๐ŸคŸ
in reply to Edoardo Dusi

Che sguardo! Questa รจ la ragione per cui ti invitano a tutte le conferenze.


globalist.it/culture/2025/05/1โ€ฆ

Ne parla la storica del Medio Evo Gabriella Piccinni




๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Sen. Lindsey Graham: โ€œPutinโ€™s Russia is playing games โ€” and it needs to stop.โ€

Graham is pushing new legislation with 70+ cosponsors to hit Russia with tougher sanctions and slap tariffs on countries buying Russian oil & gas.

โ€œEnough is enough.โ€

lgraham.senate.gov/public/indeโ€ฆ

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Apple annuncia modifiche ai prezzi dell'App Store e ai proventi degli sviluppatori. In Brasile, una nuova tassa del 10% colpirร  gli sviluppatori stranieri. Aggiornamenti dei prezzi in arrivo in piรน regioni ๐Ÿ“ฑ๐ŸŒŽ #AppStore #Sviluppatori #Tasse



Curious about the Green's Zack Polanski (who is currently deputy leader of the Green Party, but pitching to lead the party)?

Here's an interview with him from @openDemocracy where he makes his views on the Left pretty clear:

'I would really like to see the Labour MPs who align with our values to join the Green Party & to be honest I don't understand why they're still in the Labour Party'

#GreenParty #politics

opendemocracy.net/en/green-parโ€ฆ

in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Think her main interest was treating animals better, rewilding etc which is fair enough and critical in fact, but I did find it weird that she was so against doing anything about climate change, had to go and walk with another part of the group because I found it so weird ๐Ÿ™„



ยป#OpenAI launches #Codex, an #AIcodingagent, in #ChatGPT: By connecting with #GitHub, Codexโ€™s environment can come preloaded with your code repositories.ยซ techcrunch.com/2025/05/16/openโ€ฆ #tech #media #news


fake news di qualitร  shevathas.wordpress.com/2025/0โ€ฆ via @shevathas


Italy is ramping up support for Ukraine, pulling 400 M113 armored vehicles out of storage and including them in its 11th military aid package. The M113s have been phased out and replaced by Dardo IFVs.

ilgiornale.it/NEWS/POLITICA-ESโ€ฆ

in reply to NOELREPORTS ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

it's ironic that actual wars are only ever fought with obsolete equipment, because we're keeping the up to date equipment in reserve for the wars we will hopefully never fight.

All wars are evil, and we should do everything possible to avoid having to fight them; but the longer a war drags on the more evil it gets. If Europe had poured all its available forces into #Crimea in 2014, the #UkraineInvasion would be a footnote in history with not a shot fired.

Bullies back down.



Nine people killed, four more injured:

Russia attacked a civilian bus in Sumy region with a Lancet drone.

According to local authorities, passengers were evacuating from Bilopillia as it is constantly attacked by Russia.

Russian terror on Ukrainian civilians continues.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO



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Rimane aperta la possibilitร  che i servizi segreti italiani e la CIA avessero collaborato clandestinamente bigarella.wordpress.com/2025/0โ€ฆ


I liked 'The Interstellar Song Contest', the episode took a turn that I really didn't expect it to, in a good way. There is an interesting pattern forming in the themes Doctor Who is exploring during Ncuti Gatwa's run. Not that tackling with certain topics is anything new for the show, but it's done from a new, and more current angle, and I'm here for it. Also they weren't kidding about avoiding spoilers about that thingโ„ข that happens, along with the other thingโ„ข that happens too.

#DoctorWho #DrWho #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday #cat #cats #Floof #FediCats #MastoCats

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The Financial Conduct Authority's Financial Lives survey, makes it clear (if it wasn't clear enough already) that large numbers of people in the UK live a relatively precarious economic existence with few (or no) financial reserves to tide them over periods of difficulty.

When people shout about 'growth' & the UK's economic success, inequality ensures that whatever 'success' the UK *does* enjoy doesn't improve the lives of many... no wonder they are angry!

#economics
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgv6zโ€ฆ

in reply to Emeritus Prof Christopher May

a better measure of the precariat is how many wage packets are they away from crisis? Savings could be ยฃ100, which wouldnโ€™t go far.

A huge proportion are only one wage packet away from crisis .

in reply to Peter Brown

@peterbrown

Yes, an excellent metric of precarity & one I've seen formulated from time to time



Ares 3 Landing Site: The Martian Revisited

#Astronomy #Picture of the Day


apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250517.htโ€ฆ

#APOD #Mars



Ukraine shot down 36 Shahed drones and lost track of 6 decoy UAVs overnight โ€” none hit their targets. In total, Russia launched 62 drones from Kursk, Oryol, Shatalovo, and occupied Crimea.


The initiative calling for the ban of "conversion therapy" in the European Union has collected enough signatures (around 1 180 000 as I type) ๐ŸŽ‰

But you still have till the end of today, May 17, to add your signature and support putting an end to hateful practices that have been described as torture by the United Nations.

Wouldn't that be a suitable thing to do on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia?

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/

#IDAHOT2025 ๐ŸŒˆ



New Jersey train engineers go on strike bringing chaos to commuters en.people.cn/n3/2025/0517/c900โ€ฆ



Gaza:

โ€œThe most vulnerable โ€“ infants, pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers and others needing special diets โ€“ are already starving.

The very poorestโ€ฆare already wasting away as their internal organs suffer irreparable damage.โ€

[Pictures and videos of toddlers having starved to death are appearing daily on social media, look them up if you wish -ed.]

lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/may/starvaโ€ฆ

#Gaza #ICC #ICJ #Genocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Famine #Hunger #Israel #Palestine

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