Daily podcast: Google, Transunion, Farmer's Insurance and even DOGE are part of this week's mess.
#News #TechNews #DataBreach #Cybersecurity #Privacy #Podcast
I absolutely fucking hate small talk.
I end up masking again to hold normal conversations with colleagues, and utterly paranoid afterwards of possibly sharing TMI.
Yo computer touchers: there's a history of Black invention and ingenuity you may or may not know about, *and* a history of Black inventors' ingenuity being denied at a systemic level
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“To run things, don’t fuss with them. Nobody who fusses is fit to run things.”
— Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula K. Le Guin
#TheDivineQueen #Tao #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfTheFediverse #Catstodon #CatLovers #CatAppreciators #Humane #Rescue
Como usar o Google Maps SEM SINAL de internet
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Is Windows Firewall blocking your apps? 🛡️ Our expert guide shows you how to allow programs, create firewall rules, and resolve connection issues on Windows 10 & 11. Stay secure and in control!
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#IzoateTech #WindowsFirewall #FirewallTips #AllowProgram #Windows10 #Windows11 #Technology
How to Add a Program in Windows Firewall: Expert Guide to Configuring Windows Firewall Settings - Izoate Tech
Want to configure Windows Firewall settings and add a app in it? Let’s learn step-by-step with our expert guide on how to add a program in Windows Firewall.Vanshika Vampire (Izoate Tech)
Fact-Checking 101: A Professor Teaches Students About Misinformation
And what you can learn from him, too.Sam Wineberg (Honolulu Civil Beat)
Juventus ancora nel segno di Vlahovic: 1-0 al Genoa
https://www.repubblica.it/sport/calcio/serie-a/2025/08/31/audio/juventus_ancora_nel_segno_di_vlahovic_1-0_al_genoa-424818609/?rss&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Calcio e sport @calcio-e-sport-repubblica
Heyo it’s pretty special that I can literally say “book my services” and add my link here.
There’s not many places left on the internet where that’s still possible
Charles Bierbauer, longtime CNN correspondent and journalism dean, dies at age 83
https://apnews.com/article/charles-bierbauer-cnn-journalist-28ed279f87400be067437132b73c44d0?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Juventus ancora nel segno di Vlahovic: 1-0 al Genoa
https://www.repubblica.it/sport/calcio/serie-a/2025/08/31/news/genoa_juventus_gol_vlahovic-424818610/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Juventus ancora nel segno di Vlahovic: 1-0 al Genoa
Dopo aver segnato nella prima giornata, il serbo si ripete anche a Marassi lasciando i bianconeri a punteggio pienoEmanuele Gamba (la Repubblica)
> The dialect of Lisp used in this book is called Scheme.
they've been lying to me 
Caso Bayrou, Renzi contro la Francia: «Sono scelte fatte dal mio governo, imparino a riconoscere gli alleati dai nemici»
https://www.open.online/2025/08/31/caso-bayrou-dumping-fiscale-matteo-renzi/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Caso Bayrou, Renzi contro la Francia: «Sono scelte fatte dal mio governo, imparino a riconoscere gli alleati dai nemici»
L'ex premier e leader di Italia Viva replica al primo ministro francese: «Il mio amico François evidentemente non è informato. Il dumping non lo fa l’Italia»Stefania Carboni (Open)
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Just so you know, if you’re old as fuck, you’re about 550 years old.
But if you’re old as shit, then you’re only about 445 years old.
Shit - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
Originating from Old English scitan and Proto-Germanic *skit- (from PIE *skei- "to cut, split"), shit means excrement, diarrhea, or trouble.etymonline
Dragon & elephant must come together: Xi-Modi bilateral at SCO Tianjin aimed at upholding multipolar world, highlights Chinese media
Dragon & elephant must come together: Xi-Modi bilateral at SCO Tianjin aimed at upholding multipolar world, highlights Chinese media - The Tribune
According to Chinese state-run media outlet Xinhua, Xi noted the importance of viewing bilateral ties from a long-term perspective.ANI (The Tribune)
“It is a dark and dangerous moment for this country when our government chooses to target orphaned 10-year-olds and denies them their most basic legal right to present their case before an immigration judge,” Olivares said in a statement before the hearing.
600 scared kids & teens put on a 2 am flight holiday weekend.
politico.com/news/2025/08/31/j…
Just released the list of changes to the Hundred Rabbits projects for August 2025.
This month's drawing is a tribute to Moebius :>.
100r.co/site/home.html#aug2025
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Oh wow, the Pets at Home Ouija Board for Cats is a real thing. I dread to think what the average cat could summon with it.
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Buy Pets at Home Halloween Ouija Board Cat Toy | Available to order today & Free Delivery on orders over £40www.petsathome.com
Sun baby.
(This is his chair, as you can probably tell from the cushion in the second photo.)
Kapitalist: Leistung muss sich wieder auszahlen.
Mensch: Sozialleistungen müssen wieder ausgezahlt werden.
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Hi Paula.
It's funny, it sounds like the summary of a great book I'm currently reading, by Melinda Cooper : Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism.
It’s almost pepper season!
Peppers back to front, left to right: ají cacho de cabra, habanada, madhatter, zavory, Trinidad perfume, PJ UFO, peppapeach stripey, cheiro do norte, Jimmy Nardello, ají charapita, variegated naga, ají habanero
Also pictured but burried, cherry and wild tomatoes, red hybrid jabuticaba, Romano purpiat, Romano musica, Tepary beans and physalis grisea
#solarpunksunday #gardening #jardin #garten #peppers #paprika #chile
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e-codices – Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
The goal of e-codices is to provide free access to all medieval and a selection of modern manuscripts of Switzerland by means of a virtual library.www.e-codices.ch
No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search
Link: bradt.ca/blog/no-clicks-no-con…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
No Clicks, No Content: The Unsustainable Future of AI Search - bradt.ca
AI companies are causing a content drought that will eventually starve them.bradt (bradt.ca)
We had fun with the launch of Firebloom from Justin Davies (pub by Discover Kelpies) in @TheEdinburghBookshop
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Readings, questions from our younger readers, sea shanties, drawing jellyfish, plus cake!!
#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Bruntsfield #Photography #Photographie #LivresJeuness #ChildrensBooks #Bookstodon #bookshop #librairies #EdinburghBookshop #author #auteur #JustinDavies #Firebloom
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We had a return visit from author Justin Davies - we had a terrific night launching his children's novel Haarville a couple of years ago, and this month he and the Discover Kelpies publishing team were back in the Edinburgh Bookshop to launch Fireblo…Flickr
If there is no possibility of a Control Group, you can't do RCTs or really any meaningful stats.
Thanks to the Let'er'rip Normalcy Bandwagon, there is no Control Group with Covid now, and just deciding to pretend there is one is bad Science.
What do we do instead? MODELS. MODELS YOU FUCKWITS. MODELS.
The damn Solar System has no control group either.
This relates to a horrible abuse of the term "Model" that's current now among anti-Science Techbro pop literati shitheads.
A Model is something that makes a prediction and entails a contradiction. With a model, you know if you're wrong.
Go read Hume or Leibnitz.
Kepler had a MODEL of the orbits of the planets. You can ask where Jupiter should be in the night sky on August 8 @ 44N48W. If it is NOT there, Kepler knows he was wrong.
Newton had a MODEL of motion, e.g. F = m * a. If you have the force and the mass, you know what the acceleration is. If you end up with the wrong acceleration - YOU KNOW YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG.
An "LLM" is not a "model." It's a guessing machine. It just generates plausibility. Plausibility is not prediction and plausibility is not contradiction. It is a "model" in the same sense that your stock broker has a model.
Don't come whining when you run out of money. Past performance is no indicator of future results.
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#CyberSecurity
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EA: l’anticheat di Battlefield 6 che chiede le chiavi del regno - (in)sicurezza digitale
Il mondo del gaming si prepara al lancio di Battlefield 6, previsto per il prossimo 6 ottobre, Electronic Arts si trova al centro di un polemico dibattitoDario Fadda (inSicurezzaDigitale.com)
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Patreon has introduced a draggable paywall, which is actually a little bit useful.
No news on whether the italics bug that shows up under Safari has been fixed.
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Did you know playing Tetris can help with PTSD, panic attacks and anxiety? Like as it can help immediately within minutes.
Get yourself an old Game Boy Advance SP or a modern Game Boy-emulating handheld console and keep it around.
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Via the #AssociatedPress @ 12:03am ET on Aug 31, 2025
#Trump wants to axe an #AffordableHousing grant that’s a lifeline for many rural communities
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Be consistent: I can do this. Piece of cake
Be controversial: that gets me into such trouble
Be useful: How can I help you?
Thank you for the tips 💖
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Chris Del Grande (@valuedmerchants) on Threads
The 4 laws of social media growth: • Be consistent • Be conversational • Be useful • Be humanThreads
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#France Threads
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einer der besten sätze die ich in deutschen talk-shows gehört habe.
“ich möchte nicht auf menschen schießen von denen mich nichts trennt, außer dass sie in anderen staaten geboren wurden. ich glaube von diesen soldaten auf der anderen seite trennt mich mehr als von denen die mich befehligen.” Ole #Nymoen
#demokratie #krieg #rme #RheinmetallEntwaffnen #peter_decker #gsp #WohlstanFürAlle #zeitenwende #anarchismus #kommunismus #politik
The video begins with an interview conducted outdoors, featuring a man wearing a light blue shirt over a dark blue t-shirt. He is being interviewed by someone holding a microphone with the 'WDR' logo. The background shows a building with a concrete pillar and some hanging decorations. The text 'TikTok [@]moderator_sozialdemokrat' is visible in the bottom left corner. The man discusses a topic related to a 17-year-old son, with text overlays such as 'wenn', 'achtzehnjähriger', 'Sohn', 'und', 'müsste', 'schicken', 'würd', 'dem', 'Erlass', 'verlassen', 'Warum?', 'ja', 'schick', 'Mein', 'den', 'rein', 'ich', 'mich', 'nicht', 'dabei', 'ein', 'Konflikt', 'auszutragen', 'ich', and 'angefangen'. The scene transitions to a young man, shirtless, being interviewed in a sunny outdoor setting with trees and people in the background. The 'WDR' microphone is held close to him, and the text 'TikTok [@]moderator_sozialdemokrat' remains visible. The young man continues the discussion, with text overlays such as 'angefangen', 'WDR', and 'ich'. The video concludes with a black screen displaying the TikTok handle '[@]moderator_sozialdemokrat'.
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Quante persone sono 5000 truppe?
Un falso amico ricorrente in notizie tradotte dall’inglese con riferimenti a forze armate o reparti militariwww.terminologiaetc.it
‘A different shock to the system’: De minimis tariff dodge ending means less purchasing power for Americans
Closing the loophole could raise $10 billion a year, but experts say the number is "not all that meaningful" compared to the country’s trade deficit.Nino Paoli (Fortune)
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The Art of a Hopeful, Solarpunk Future - The Story Seed Library
The Quiet Part, August 28, 2025
"In this video I wanted to share a really cool resource for publicly available #SolarpunkArt, called the the #StorySeed ibrary at storyseedlibrary.org I think most people could really benefit from taking a moment to question what a better world, or better future might look like. The art and artists in this video have done an incredible job inspiring me to imagine that better future, and I hope by sharing their works I might be able to do the same for you. All of the art featured in this video has been made by hand by people, none of it is AI, just straight up human artistry."
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#SolarPunkSunday #SolarPunk #LunarPunk #StorySeeds #Art #ImaginingABetterFuture
Welcome to Story Seed Library!
A library of Solarpunk art and story seeds helping you imagine a better climate future!Story Seed Library
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Trump says he plans unconstitutional executive order to mandate ID for voters
President also wants to ban most voting by mail in push stemming from baseless claims related to 2020 election lossMichael Sainato (The Guardian)
‼️🇩🇰Live From Denmark: Why American and Western Media get frontline military analysis wrong: How Ukraine’s battlefield tactics are nothing like any previous war (Ukraine Matters VIDEO) #Ukraine #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
POTUS threatening violations of Posse Comitatus across the country
Is there a more important story than "where is the military on the question of the fascist authoritarian takeover of America"?
#media #journalism #press #uspol #fascism
tools for commensality 🧿
in reply to tools for commensality 🧿 • • •tools for commensality 🧿
in reply to tools for commensality 🧿 • • •(CW antiBlack racism) 3/
Here’s Fouché describing what happened when an enslaved Black person invented a piece of agricultural equipment:
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tools for commensality 🧿
in reply to tools for commensality 🧿 • • •Why am I talking about hay rakes on a decentralized #openSocialWeb network? This history is at play in some of the arguments we’re seeing about #Fediverse #ATProto #activityPub right now
Whatever one thinks of Bluesky, *the* most innovative cultural and technical experimental space there right now is Blacksky; *and* it’s also the clearest example of decentralized possibility on the AT protocol. When people double down saying “AT isn’t decentralized”, they are denying that Blacksky exists. 4/
tools for commensality 🧿
in reply to tools for commensality 🧿 • • •Taking the a longer view of Black technological ingenuity, this isn’t just an oversight: it’s an erasure that chimes with historical erasures. And it's not just 19th century history: both Mastodon and Bluesky exist in the forms that they do largely in reaction to Twitter; they’ve been built with the goal of keeping some good things about Twitter & skipping past bad things by doing them better.
Scholars of social media show that Black Twitter was a huge force in innovating social practices, 5/
tools for commensality 🧿
in reply to tools for commensality 🧿 • • •some of which iteratively turned into technical features. So, upstream, Black collectivities have been hugely impactful in designating as relevant and subsequently shaping the spaces where we’re now associating to talk about #ATProto and #ActivityPub !!
TL;DR erasing Black contributions to the social web is weird behavior, and it’s also wrongheaded in that *it sets all of us up to perpetuate old exclusions, old harms, and old failures* 6/
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tools for commensality 🧿
in reply to tools for commensality 🧿 • • •Have the productive discussions about sociotechnical problems and opportunities you want to have, but #ActivityPub partisans should watch out for antiblackness in how they talk about #ATProto.
How awesome would it be to have these conversations about the good things everyone wants, *while breaking racist patterns*?? 7/
Short bibliography in next posts, then fin/
tools for commensality 🧿
in reply to tools for commensality 🧿 • • •Some reading:
Brock, André, Jr. Distributed blackness: african American cybercultures. New York University Press, 2020.
Fouché, Rayvon. "Say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud: African Americans, American artifactual culture, and black vernacular technological creativity." American Quarterly 58, no. 3 (2006): 639-661.
Fouché, Rayvon. Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation: Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, & Shelby J. Davidson. JHU Press, 2003.
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tools for commensality 🧿
in reply to tools for commensality 🧿 • • •Jackson, Sarah J., Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles. # HashtagActivism: Networks of race and gender justice. MIT Press, 2020.
Kiam, R.I. and M.X., 2023. “Blackness in the fediverse: A conversation with Marcia X,” Logic(s), volume
20 (13 December), at logicmag.io/policy/blackness-i…
McIlwain, Charlton. Black Software. Oxford University Press, 2019.
(there's one more I am gonna edit in but I can't remember the title or author right now, welcome to my brain)
Blackness in the Fediverse: A Conversation with Marcia X
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natacha 🍉
in reply to tools for commensality 🧿 • • •Black Software from Charlton McIlwain is a great reading on this also.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_So…
2019 non-fiction work by Charlton McIlwain
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Jürgen Hubert
in reply to tools for commensality 🧿 • • •tools for commensality 🧿
in reply to Jürgen Hubert • • •i couldn't agree more strongly--it was a missed opportunity here that has had long-term consequences. and it was Not Great that many people here were so gleefully ignorant about the dynamics they were participating in that ran people off
crazyeddie
in reply to tools for commensality 🧿 • • •I actually hopped into one such argument recently to point out that blacksky was in fact a thing. Ran into it when researching if there were any ATProto implementations other than bluesky. It seemed like it might be about the only one.
Does it interact with the "bluesky app"? That seemed to be the big focus in that argument and I just didn't know. I in fact don't even know what that means I guess.
tools for commensality 🧿
in reply to crazyeddie • • •I don't know the answer to the question about the app--maybe someone else here does?
Laurens Hof
in reply to tools for commensality 🧿 • • •@crazyeddie
yes it does. atproto works quite different from activitypub, but the summary is as follows. Every decentralised network needs 3 parts:
data storage
application logic (stuff like counting the number of likes on a post)
a client (the website you log in to)
fediverse combines this into a single server: mastodon.social stores my data, it counts all the likes on all the posts i see, and when i visit mastodon.social i see my timeline
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Laurens Hof
in reply to Laurens Hof • • •@crazyeddie
atproto splits this into 3 separate parts
data hosting is on a PDS (personal data server), and you can any PDS you want to use the bluesky app
a separate piece of software called an appview indexes the entire network, and counts the likes on all posts
the client is separate again, this is just a framework that gets its data from the appview
bluesky the company provides all 3 parts, but you can create your own individual part for each layer and still use the same network
Strypey
in reply to Laurens Hof • • •@laurenshof
> a separate piece of software called an appview indexes the entire network
That's a Relay. The AppView is the client. Otherwise your description is pretty much right;
dustycloud.org/blog/how-decent…
TBH I'm not sure about this, but I'm guessing all 3 component play a role in counting Likes. With Likes indexed by the Relay, stored in the PDS of the account that made the post, and displayed by the AppView.
@inquiline @crazyeddie
How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
dustycloud.orgLaurens Hof
in reply to Strypey • • •@strypey @crazyeddie
no, when i use index i mean creating a database of the entire network. the relay just broadcasts the network
the relay is just an optimisation piece that prevents an overload of consumers on PDSes, that has gotten wayyyy to much attention compared to how important it is
appviews is definitely not a client? its a database with all interactions. constellation is a minimal example of an appview: constellation.microcosm.blue/
Strypey
in reply to Laurens Hof • • •> the relay is just an optimisation piece that prevents an overload of consumers on PDSes
Unless @cwebber is wrong (and she hasn't been corrected yet), the Relay sits between the PDS and the AppView. It's not possible to overstate the power that gives the operators of the only Relay in the current network.
> appviews is definitely not a client? its a database with all interactions
These are not mutually exclusive.
@inquiline @crazyeddie
Laurens Hof
in reply to Laurens Hof • • •@crazyeddie
thats how blacksky works:
they first created their own data storage for blacksky users. people who are on the blacksky PDS can use any client or app as the same, so they also could use the bluesky app and exactly nothing changed
blacksky then released their own client at blacksky.community/. literally any atproto account (including nonblacksky users) can use this. when you use this client you see the exact same network as if you used bsky.app
Blacksky
Blacksky CommunityStrypey
in reply to Laurens Hof • • •@laurenshof
> people who are on the blacksky PDS can use any client or app ...blacksky then released their own client
OK, so are they running their own Relay? I know they aspire to, but I had a good rummage around the web and couldn't find clear confirmation this has happened.
Until there is more than one Relay, the ATmosphere is only as decentralised as early Titter, back when API access was freely available for third-party apps. In others words, it's not.
@inquiline @crazyeddie
Strypey
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That link shows they're developing their own Relay software. That's great.
"This library is a work in progress. Things will change. Things are incomplete. Things will break. Until the project reaches version 1.0.0, stability will not be guaranteed."
github.com/blacksky-algorithms…
But are they running a Relay in the wild, and could I use it in place of the BS Relay? Nothing in this repo answers this question.
@laurenshof @inquiline @crazyeddie
GitHub - blacksky-algorithms/rsky: An AT Protocol implementation prioritizing community safety and self-governance, written in Rust.
GitHubLaurens Hof
in reply to Strypey • • •@strypey @breathOfLife
its live at atproto.africa/
theres 5 ppl/orgs running publicly accessible relays, you can compare them at compare.hose.cam/
i know of at least another 5 ppl who run their own relays but dont publicly advertise the endpoints
compare hoses
compare.hose.camStrypey
in reply to Laurens Hof • • •@laurenshof
> theres 5 ppl/orgs running publicly accessible relays
Ok, cool. Clearly I haven't been keeping up with the ATmosphere Report : P #MeaCulpa
At this point the focus moves from whether the full ATProto stack can be independently hosted (it can) to;
* does BS Inc. retain control of any chokepoints in a way that, say, Mastodon.social doesn't?
* how effectively does ATProto distributes sociopolitical power? Which was the main focus of @cwebber's analysis IMHO.
@breathOfLife