The Cherry Arthaus in Ithaca by the Inlet seen from a nearby footbridge
#photo #photography #buildings #architecture #bridge #ithaca #inlet #cayugalake #water
Arizona’s Low-Income Families Aren’t Using School Vouchers
Working-class parents often express interest in vouchers. But in Arizona, the nation’s school choice capital, these families aren’t using them due to the inaccessibility of private schools and the costs of transportation, meals and uniforms.ProPublica
I seem to be missing something ... if the point of the vouchers is to improve every child' education ... why can't the vouchers be used to provide better conditions in a public school ...
Or ... as the cynic in me says ... the vouchers are just another perk to assist private schools ...
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Israel says it killed longtime spokesman of Hamas’s military wing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/31/hamas-obaida-spokesman-killed-israel-qassam-official/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Corruption and Control: How Turkmenistan turned internet censorship into a business | Tor Project
In Turkmenistan, one of the most isolated regimes in the world, internet censorship has evolved beyond surveillance and control.blog.torproject.org
#comic #comicstrips #daddydaze
In other news. Bottom line is for most part Mastodon instances just do not track that data nor store it if they get it, say during a sign up. #Bluesky already cut the retrogrades of #Mississippi off.
> Mastodon Says It Doesn't 'Have the Means' To Comply With Age Verification Laws tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/…
#SocialMedia #Mastodon #Internet #GOP #PartyOfStupid #tech
Mastodon Says It Doesn't 'Have the Means' To Comply With Age Verification Laws - Slashdot
Mastodon says it cannot comply with Mississippi's new age verification law because its decentralized software does not support age checks and the nonprofit lacks resources to enforce them.tech.slashdot.org
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Poltergeist (1982)
E niente, non dormirò stanotte.
Extra per non aver mai visto un trailer.
Lazio-Verona, le pagelle: Castellanos show, 8. Com'è incerto Montipò, 4,5
https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Serie-A/Lazio/31-08-2025/voti-gazzetta-lazio-verona-castellanos-8-montipo-4-5_preview.shtml?reason=unauthenticated&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Calcio @calcio-Gazzetta
Lazio-Verona, le pagelle: Castellanos show, 8. Com'è incerto Montipò, 4,5
Nella squadra di Sarri molto bene anche Zaccagni, in quella di Zanetti il migliore è BernedeStefano Cieri (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
Le pagelle di Inter-Udinese: Sucic, chi sei davvero? Da 4,5. Rimpianto Solet, 7,5
https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Serie-A/Inter/31-08-2025/le-pagelle-di-inter-udinese-dumfries-croce-e-delizia-atta-e-davis-super_preview.shtml?reason=unauthenticated&utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Calcio @calcio-Gazzetta
Le pagelle di Inter-Udinese: Sucic, chi sei davvero? Da 4,5. Rimpianto Solet, 7,5
A San Siro i bianconeri sorprendono i nerazzurri e condannano Chivu alla prima sconfitta in A. Dumfries più croce che delizia, stupisce Atta: non solo il gol vittoria da applausiFilippo Conticello (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
Anti-LGBTQ+ official says separation of church & state is a "weapon" to "dismantle our Republic". Via @lgbtqnation #LGBTQ 🏳️🌈 #AtheistsOfBlueSky #Politics 🇺🇸 🗳️ #TaxTheChurches
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Google, Transunion, Farmer's Insurance and even DOGE are part of this week's mess.
Daily podcast: Google, Transunion, Farmer's Insurance and even DOGE are part of this week's mess.
#News #TechNews #DataBreach #Cybersecurity #Privacy #Podcast
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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![In the technological realm, creativity by African Americans is regularly dismissed as cleverness, instead of being interpreted as smart, ingenious, or innovative.
In 1858, when plantation owner Oscar J. E. Stuart attempted to patent the double cotton scraper that his slave Ned invented, Attorney General Jeremiah S. Black firmly determined that “a machine invented by a slave, though it be new and useful, cannot, in the present state of the law, be patented. I may add that if such a patent was issued to the master, it would not protect him in the courts against persons who might infringe it.”?® The Patent Office made it abundantly clear that inventions by slaves were not worthy of patent protection. The implication was that slaves were not human beings and definitely not citizens. With this reasoning, it was inconceivable for the Patent Office to grant a Negro a patent.”” Even when American society began to accept the fact that African Americans did invent, black inventors were framed in a negative context. Some even went to the extent of denying that black people possessed American ingenuity. A white attorney expressed this perception by making the following comment in a patent rights battle involving a black inventor: “It is a well-known fact that the horse hay rake was first invented by a lazy negro [sic] who had a big hay field to rake and didn’t want to do it by hand.”](https://poliverso.org/photo/preview/640/57684419 "In the technological realm, creativity by African Americans is regularly dismissed as cleverness, instead of being interpreted as smart, ingenious, or innovative.
In 1858, when plantation owner Oscar J. E. Stuart attempted to patent the double cotton scraper that his slave Ned invented, Attorney General Jeremiah S. Black firmly determined that “a machine invented by a slave, though it be new and useful, cannot, in the present state of the law, be patented. I may add that if such a patent was issued to the master, it would not protect him in the courts against persons who might infringe it.”?® The Patent Office made it abundantly clear that inventions by slaves were not worthy of patent protection. The implication was that slaves were not human beings and definitely not citizens. With this reasoning, it was inconceivable for the Patent Office to grant a Negro a patent.”” Even when American society began to accept the fact that African Americans did invent, black inventors were framed in a negative context. Some even went to the extent of denying that black people possessed American ingenuity. A white attorney expressed this perception by making the following comment in a patent rights battle involving a black inventor: “It is a well-known fact that the horse hay rake was first invented by a lazy negro [sic] who had a big hay field to rake and didn’t want to do it by hand.”")
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
@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.
“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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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
> The dialect of Lisp used in this book is called Scheme.
they've been lying to me 
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.
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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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Pets at Home Halloween Ouija Board Cat Toy | Pets
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
flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_g…
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
Justine Davies At The Edinburgh Bookshop 02
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 💖
RE: threads.com/@valuedmerchants/p…
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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