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The last 3 years have been the hottest in around 125,000 years.

CO2 levels are their highest in MILLIONS of years.

But most people have no idea this is happening, let alone what it means for our kids’ futures.

Our politics & media have failed our children. We should be furious.

#GlobalHeating #ClimateCatastrophe

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#FotoVorschlag: Telefon >> Telephone

International Steampunk City 2011
Waltham MA USA, 8 May 2011

#photography #steampunk #telephone

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🔍 Search is evolving—fast.

From keywords to voice, visuals, and AI intuition. Discovery is becoming natural, adaptive, and human-centered.

📎 I break it down in my latest article:

ashishvarghesethomas.wordpress…

💬 How do you search today? #Tech #AI #SearchUX #DigitalTrends #VoiceSearch #VisualSearch #HumanCenteredAI




🎮⚖️ Entre les syndicats et la direction d'Ubisoft, les différends se règlent désormais devant la justice. Cet été, il a fallu une condamnation du tribunal de Bobigny pour que le CSE obtienne des documents importants. #tech #ubisoft #jeuxvideo

▶️ l.linforme.com/2p8vb3yx



wacoca.com/news/2629365/ ウクライナ元国会議長殺害、ロシアが関与と警察長官 容疑者拘束 | ロイター ##war #Asia #ASXPAC #CEEU #CISC #CLJ #CRIM #CWP #DEST:NOJPTPM #DEST:NOJPWDM #DEST:NOJPZTM #dip #dis #DRONE #EMEA #EMRG #EU #EUROP #Gen #INTAG #JFOR #JLN #MURD #NASIA #POL #Ru #SCI #SECUR #TOPCMB #TOPNWS #TRN #UA #Ukraine #ウクライナ




“This is the biggest flood in the history of the #Punjab. The flood has affected two million people. It’s the first time that the three rivers — Sutlej, Chenab, and Ravi — have carried such high levels of water.”
#ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis
#Pakistan #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCatastrophe
aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/31/t…


Why am I, at my age, still a radical progressive socialist?

“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.” – Christopher Hitchens



The Chinese scholars keeping the memory of Japanese sexual slavery alive socialistchina.org/2025/08/31/…


Really love how much of the Android docs tell you to "see the API documentation," where by "API documentation" they actually mean "read the code, if you can find it."


🧓 Percorriamo insieme la straordinaria strada degli 80enni che armeggiano con l'AI: la scelta che ribalta ogni pregiudizio! #AIforall #NeverTooOld 🙏

🔗 tomshw.it/business/lavoratori-…



The irony of a US immigrant arguing for mass deportations in the UK.

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Labor Day report: #Michigan has fourth-highest unemployment rate in U.S., wage disparities persist michiganadvance.com/2025/09/01…


Well I hope freedumb Libertarians are happy now. They were celebrating eliminating inspections so they don’t have to spend $35 every year on a sticker, so now they’re free to drive around with bald tires and no brakes. Yay freedumb!!

Maybe if they weren’t such children they would have been able to anticipate some of these consequences. I can’t speak for all poor people, but I would rather spend money on an inspection sticker and necessary safety equipment for my car than have it impounded by the police and have to pay a tow yard daily storage fees if I don’t have the $ to tow it home.

I’m almost positive we still have a law here that says if you abandon a vehicle to a tow yard because you can’t afford to get it out they can suspend your drivers license.

If the police get their way they’ll be able to impound your car on the side of the road based on their judgment. But hey at least you won’t have to get it inspected every year!

“NH police want power to take unsafe cars off the road after state ends inspections”
archive.is/2025.08.29-204853/f…

#ACAB #NH #CivilForiture




"One of the stranger consequences of the UK’s asymmetrical governance arrangements is that England is rendered invisible, even though it is by far the largest part of the state. If UK governments of various hues are unwilling ever to name England and, indeed, behave as if the very existence of its English electorate is something to be ashamed of, it’s perhaps little wonder that English identifiers don’t feel they matter or have a voice."

Read more: tcnv.link/0Jy4BfW

#england #ukpol




"As Warsan Shire writes in her poem Home, ‘no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.’"

#UKPol
#immigration

Labour Is Paving the Path to Fascism

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/labou…



Reimagining Campus Life: Integrating #Solarpunk Principles for a Sustainable Future

by Lily Packo, March 19, 2025

About the author: "Lily Packo (she/her) is an Indigenous undergraduate student in her third year of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus. She is passionate about exploring the connections between culture, environment, art and sustainability, with a focus on how these intersections support #Indigenous conservation efforts and #sovereignty. Her studies center on understanding how #TraditionalKnowledge and contemporary approaches can work together to promote #EnvironmentalStewardship and strengthen Indigenous communities."

Excerpt: "Universities and colleges often serve as microcosms of society, where innovative ideas, environmental consciousness, and social justice movements take root. By integrating Solarpunk principles into student living, we can create environments that are not only sustainable but also foster collaboration, well-being, and community-driven change. Assessing areas like UBCO and Academy Way, there seems to be a void of self-sustaining community development. Speculative fiction can provide places such as Academy Way with a community-based and collaborative plan focused on sustainability and innovation.

"In a world often dominated by dystopian narratives of environmental #collapse, #authoritarian regimes, and #TechnologicalOverreach, Solarpunk emerges as a counterbalance, offering a hopeful and actionable alternative. Rather than resigning to the idea that the future must inevitably be grim and disastrous, Solarpunk challenges this assumption by presenting a vision of a world where humanity has chosen #sustainability, #ethical technological advancement, and #resilient, #SelfSustainingCommunities. More than just an aesthetic or literary movement, Solarpunk represents a framework for real-world change that can carry forward through generations."

Read more:
thefeeledlab.ca/2025/03/19/rei…

Printable zine (PDF):
thefeeledlab.ca/wp-content/upl…

#SolarPunkSunday #BuildingCommunity #SustainableAgriculture #IndigenousSovereignty #FoodSecurity #Rewilding #ImaginingABetterFuture



The September #Inkscape challenge is to

DRAW A ROBOT 🤖

Get your creative gears in motion. Draw any kind of robot .... scary, funny, cute, a toy, a house appliance .... anything robot.

Let's share ideas and techniques to better understand Inkscape or learn to make it do things you didn't think were possible. Don't hesitate to ask for suggestions. There may be an easier way and there's always someone to help.

inkscape.org/forums/competitio…

#ArtWithOpenSource
#InkscapeChallenge

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Of course this tiny android was drawn freely with @inkscape in #SVG, but @Blender was more than handy getting right pose and light. If there are questions about the process, please don't hesitate.

The robot is here depicted as a piece of a bigger collage about #Linux #UNIX and #software #developers like #DennisRitchie at #ITsHistory on @pixelfed
pixelfed.social/p/gfkDSGN/8072…




Bye-bye Microsoft ! Comment les organisations se mettent (enfin) au logiciel libre - INCYBER NEWS


#politique #logiciellibre #sécurité #souveraineté

Un pays tout entier, le Danemark, un länder allemand, des dizaines de communes, comme Lyon, la troisième ville de France… Lentement mais sûrement, les collectivités basculent vers Linux, LibreOffice et autres NextCloud. Le but est économique, mais aussi d’asseoir sa souveraineté numérique et d’en finir avec la dictature des GAFAM.


incyber.org/article/bye-bye-mi…

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@pluralistic

You know what’s truly depressing and terrifying about this shit? Is the richest men in the world, the genocidal maniacs will dictate that this is great.

We should automate them.. It would be a great thing because what the automation would could not be possibly more demented.

I think we need a groundswell to create

#chatCEO

futurism.com/gpt-5-literary-ou…

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“ Exactly why that's happening is opaque, but a reasonable theory might be that to build GPT-5, OpenAI used other AI models to evaluate large numbers of potential outputs to fine-tune how it handled various types of tasks. As a result, it ended up producing ornate text that makes little sense to a human — but is perfectly calibrated to please another AI model.”

Truly, the big brains in Silicon Valley intend to automate the very worst aspects of humanity.

in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell

This is what they are going to replace humanity with in order to rule over them.

A dim reflection of themselves.

Every day I listen to a little bit of Tolkien audiobooks. What strikes me about his characterization of dark Lords exactly fits how Silicon Valley billionaires operate.

They corrupt everything they touch.

everything that they do is a perverse mockery of the real thing

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“ In other words, GPT-5 "has been optimized to produce text that other LLMs will evaluate highly, not text that humans would find coherent." Provocatively, he suggests that AI models now "share a 'secret language' of meaningless but mutually-appreciated literary markers, defend obvious gibberish with impressive-sounding theories, and sometimes even become MORE confident in their delusions when given more compute to think about them."

in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell

Tell me how this doesn’t sound exactly like Elon Musk or Peter Thiel and their own gibberish output.

They are setting up a world for their own dimwits, love and adore and highly rate the output of their other dimwits.

Somehow, these men are dictating our future

in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell

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If humanity destroys itself via climate inaction (all signs point to this), then it's quite conceivable these LLMs may survive in some fashion. If they do, its fascinating to consider this might be our legacy for some future version of ourselves to ponder over...or some extraterrestrial race to discover.
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@clintruin

How are they going to survive without the global supply chain that is made impossible by extreme weather.

The climate in action is the decision making power of the richest people in the world who profit from burning the world to the ground.

in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell

I was thinking more about the LLMs ("AI") themselves...not the human beings.

But your point certainly stands.

in reply to Kid Mania

Yes, it’s so easy to lose sight of the fact that the data centers are monstrosities of modern supply chains. You would actually have to have a robotic force capable of designing and building infrastructure, but that infrastructure is still subject to the second law of thermodynamics.. high temperatures make the environment chaotic, and you cannot predict for any length of time what operating conditions will exist.

It is a hot mess, literally

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in reply to Kid Mania

My concept is more of just a bullshit thought experiment examining the irony of these fucking things being our legacy.
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I am sur ethere was a chapter in Freakonomics where Levitt et al. proved CEOs are worthless (trackign CEos fomr post ot post and finding all gains or losses in company value/profitability over a CEOs tenure can be attributed to overall market trends and/or regression to the mean).



#OnThisDay in 1984, "What's Love Got to Do With It" single tops the charts, giving #TinaTurner her 1st #1 as a solo artist.


In Indonesia mobilitazione popolare di massa contro il presidente conservatore Prabowo Subianto. A far scoppiare la miccia e i violenti scontri con le forze di sicurezza l’uccisione di un conducente di moto-taxi da parte della polizia durante la manifestazione di lunedì 25 agosto contro la legge che accorda ulteriori benefit ai parlamentari, di fronte a salari bassi e immobili e a un carovita in continua ascesa

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The anticapitalist/pro-Palestinian block in the 2025 2025 Pride Prague parade.

#anticapitalist #palestine #gaza #pride #queer




Snappen PVV-stemmers niet dat hun partij mensen écht leed aandoet?
trouw.nl/opinie/snappen-pvv-st… | archive.vn/WnJY6
Spoiler: Best wel, het interesseert ze gewoon geen reet.

"Gerekend met de kiesdeler van de laatste verkiezingen komt dat neer op 2,3 miljoen Nederlanders die blijven stemmen op een partij die niets geleverd heeft. Een partij die klimaatbeleid onzin vindt. Een partij die alleen geeft om de veiligheid van vrouwen en lhbtqi-mensen als ze daar moslims of asielzoekers mee kan bashen."



Una curiositat sobre la flotilla que ja navega rumb a Gaza:

Un dels velers que integren l'expedició és el Bribón, la mateixa embarcació que havia estat utilitzada pel Borbó sènior, el campechano, durant molts anys.

En aquest cas, el Bribón serà capitanejat per Jordi Coronas (sí, exacte, Coronas 😆), que és regidor de Barcelona per Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya.

A vegades el destí té aquests girs inesperats.




When were you born?

  • Thu Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC (69%, 145 votes)
  • Wed Dec 31, 1969 23:59:59 UTC (30%, 63 votes)
208 voters. Poll end: 2 settimane fa

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Storm forces #flotilla back to #Barcelona port, delaying its journey to #Gaza
apnews.com/article/gaza-palest…

A flotilla headed to Gaza that departed Barcelona Sunday under much fanfare has been forced back to port after a storm hit parts of Spain overnight.


«And you may ask yourself
"Well... how did I get here?"»



I first wanted to catch the light filtering through green leaves, when the dead tree appeared in my viewfinder.

I keep the viewfinder set to black and white, so contrasts speak louder than colors. That shift of vision brought the tree into focus. Again and again, I need the viewfinder to remind me: the world in black and white is never the same as the world I see.

And what we see is never the same as reality itself.

#Photography #BlackAndWhite #Squared



First, the cookie banner swoops in like a mall cop with a clipboard: “Can we track every pixel of your soul?” Before you can hit “Accept All,” a newsletter modal barges in — “Wait! Don’t you want exclusive tips?” You close that, and boom, an onboarding overlay takes over the whole screen, walking you through features you didn’t ask for. Oh, and while you’re here, would you like to turn on notifications? And how about upgrading/subscribing? Oh, and don’t forget to turn off that AdBlocker!

By the time you actually see the thing you came for, your will to live is halfway down the drain

It’s not one pop-up or one tutorial that ruins the experience. It’s the stack of them. One after another. Every single session.

We love to talk about performance budgets — how much JavaScript we can ship before things crawl. But we don’t talk enough about attention budgets. Every user arrives with a limited supply of patience. Burn it all in the first 30 seconds, and it doesn’t matter how beautiful your UI is — they’re gone.

What we see today is the Web of desperation.

Startup got thirsty. Funding dried down. Growth became a religion. Every visitor was seen as a potential “conversion opportunity” that had to be squeezed for value immediately. We started celebrating tiny bumps in sign-ups or click-throughs without noticing the bigger, slower damage to long-term retention.

Instead of letting users explore naturally, we began pushing “Invite your team!” prompts on first login, or locking key features behind upgrade walls before users have even had a win.

Don’t ask for a review on day one. Wait until the user has a positive outcome to share.

Don’t run a 15-step onboarding tour before they’ve done anything.

Show tips in context when they’re relevant. If a user says “not now,” actually respect that.

Don’t hit them with the same prompt in the next session like nothing happened.

It’s basically the same principle as good conversation: don’t dominate, and don’t ask for too much too soon.

Use a non-blocking consent toast. Let users start browsing immediately. Make “Reject All” as prominent as “Accept All,” and keep settings one click away.

Prompt upgrade popups only when the user actually needs a Pro feature. If dismissed, give it a long cooldown before showing again.

Don’t ask for notification permissions right away, without the user even knowing what you’re going to notify them about. Ask in context: “Want to get notified when your report is ready?” If they say yes, then show the browser prompt.

This isn’t just about aesthetics — it’s about retention economics. Every unnecessary prompt chips away at trust and habit formation. You can’t build loyalty on a foundation of annoyance.

Push back when a growth metric is chasing short-term wins at the expense of long-term health. Run 90-day tests. Track retention after the first week. Ask: “Will this make people want to come back?”

Dark design patterns and intrusive ads and tracking are pushing users away from websites and towards pre-distilled answers from LLMs.

The sites that will survive? The ones that let users get things done without treating them like walking email addresses.

Respect the attention budget. Delay the asks. Let people breathe.

webdesignerdepot.com/ux-fatigu…

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My free software and open source activities of August 2025 daniele.tech/2025/09/my-free-s…



New #XeroLinux Release !!!

It's time to push updated ISOs. If you are already a user no need to grab them. For new users please make sure to read the wiki via link you get upon donation for notes.

Donate & grab ISOs here
ko-fi.com/xerolinux/shop

Changelog
github.com/XeroLinuxDev/xero-b…

#FOSS #Linux #OpenSource #Distribution

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New data! My ranking of top podcast hosting companies based on the 1.5 million new episodes I saw in August 2025

- Megaphone continues steady share increases since a recent nadir in March

livewire.io/podcast-hosts-by-e…

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OK by my calculations if you listened to 1.5M episodes in August you had to play them at 1000x speed



Trump cuts to climate satellites will make weather prediction harder, scientists say


The Trump administration is scrapping satellite observations of Earth that officials say go beyond the essential task of predicting the weather.


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One is free floating and the other is attached to the international space station. The original team hopes to find funding to save the ISS attached monitor. A more detailed article below

apnews.com/article/trump-nasa-…




SOZ-Gipfeltreffen in China: Gemeinsam für eine neue Weltordnung

Roter Teppich, Schulterklopfen, Familienfoto - beim Treffen der Shanghaier Organisation für Zusammenarbeit demonstrierten die Mitgliedstaaten Geschlossenheit. Ein Zeichen auch gegen den Westen. Von Eva Lamby-Schmitt.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/sh…

#ShanghaierOrganisationfürZusammenarbeit #Gipfel




Update: Wie groß ist die Sorge vor einem Krieg? (Statista + Kommentar) +++ Das neue Wehrdienstgesetz erklärt +++ Wie stehen die Menschen zur Wehrpflicht (Umfrage-Statistik) #War and #Peace #Germany #Geopolitics #Wehrdienst #IPSOS #Whatworriestheworld

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Gheed Kassem, lawyer for Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza, who was kidnapped by Israeli army months ago from the hospital, shared in a Facebook post Dr. Abu Safiya’s message from his jail cell:

"I entered in the name of humanity, and I will leave in the name of humanity. I'm the one who was abducted from inside the hospital. We will remain on our land & continue to provide healthcare services to the people, God willing, even from a tent."
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe




Jude Law è Il mago del Cremlino e il suo Putin una metafora da brividi del potere
https://www.wired.it/article/il-mago-del-cremlino-jude-law-mostra-del-cinema-di-venezia-2025-recensione/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Cultura @cultura-WiredItalia

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project-anime.com/1276571/ 【サザエさん】ボケてのサザエさんネタに本気でアフレコしてツッコんでみたらヤバすぎたwwww【第112弾】 #Anime #AnimeNews #Fuwakun #Shorts #tiktok #アニメ. #アニメ最新情報 #アフレコ #アンパンマン #おもしろ #クレヨンしんちゃん #ゲーム #ゲーム実況 #サザエさん #ジブリ #スマホゲー #ツッコミ #ドラえもん #ドラ絵 #ドラ絵シリーズ #ネタ #のび太さんの○○ #バカゲー #ふわくん #ボケて #ポケモン #ポケモンフュージョン #まとめ #ワンピース #合体 #吉田沙保里 #名探偵コナン #声真似 #実況プレイ #新作アニメ #漫画 #爆笑 #白骨化 #神回 #総集編 #衝撃 #雑学 #面白 【サザエさん】ボケてのサザエさんネタに本気でアフレコしてツッコんでみたらヤバすぎたwwww【第112弾】 いの、夢の中で済まない。僕は最後の戦い に行ってくるよ。無事に帰れたらまた一緒 に野球しようぜ。夢だよな。中島はみ



GAZA: IL PIANO DI TRUMP E’ ELABORATO SOTTO IL SEGNO DEL CAPITALE E DEL NEOCOLONIALISMO” radiondadurto.org/2025/09/01/g… #INEVIDENZA