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Listening to #NPR while I do some indoor work (raining today).

Sounds like the US is headed to municipal elections everywhere shortly. Two interesting points:

#Mamdani is poised to win the NYC mayorship. (Yay!) and…

#Minneapolis is using #RankedBallot voting. Glad to see that (slowly) moving forward! Maybe some other US cities too?

My strong belief is that ranked ballot is perhaps the only thing that'll save democracy from creeping authoritarianism and associated electoral manipulation.

in reply to Ross of Ottawa

I believe that to be true as the Tories TOOK AWAY ranked choice voting in London (not that it did them any good)

#London #Politics #Tories #Democracy

in reply to Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

@Lazarou Ugh. Invariably political parties on the right use it themselves internally, but don't want to let the public use it in general elections.






Dybala, con Gasp è nuova Joya. Raggiunta quota 300 assist, il rinnovo si avvicina
https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Serie-A/Roma/30-10-2025/dybala-con-gasp-e-nuova-joya-rinnovo-piu-vicino.shtml?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Calcio @calcio-Gazzetta





Iran’s Abolfazl Zandi Wins Gold at World Taekwondo Championships After 10 Years iranpress.com/content/312068


I guess I'll get used to it but I'm currently at the "regret" part of the Five Stages of Upgrading MacOS.
in reply to mhoye (temporarily spooky)

I assume that MacOS designers sit with their noses pressed into their 8K monitors so their raptor-like eyes - composed of Rods, Cones, and A Secret Third Thing - can optimally tune the spectral traces from each individual liquid crystal so that somewhere the absent ghost of Jony Ive can gaze upon each of them in the solitude of sub-micron-optimal ennui but even a hint of backlight or glare, a soupcon, makes this almost unusable.
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in reply to mhoye (temporarily spooky)

And these display options should really just read “click here to we don’t like you either”. I’m enjoying the descend-into-chaos slider though. A Glass <-> Shrapnel slider.


Die Weihnachtszeit steht wieder bevor. Für viele Menschen wird in dieser Zeit bewusster, wie allein sie sich fühlen. Manchmal besteht auch einfach nur der Bedarf, mit jemand anderem anonym und kostenlos zu sprechen.
Du kannst helfen, indem du ans Telefon gehst. Denn du bist die Person, die anderen Menschen ein offenes Ohr schenkt.

#Plaudernetz



Callum Turner e Jude Bellingham e protagonisti della nuova era Louis Vuitton Uomo
https://www.esquire.com/it/stile/moda-uomo/a69202881/louis-vuitton-jude-bellingham-callum-turner-pre-collezione-uomo-pe26/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Stile @stile-Esquireitalia2



Republican voters back sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine

semafor.com/article/10/30/2025…





Messico, 'gli Usa rispettino le leggi sulle barche dei narcos' - America Latina - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/mondo/americalatina/2025/10/30/messico-gli-usa-rispettino-le-leggi-sulle-barche-dei-narcos_ad27c307-cbfd-40d5-84b8-61f395d112ce.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su ESTERI @esteri-AgenziaAnsa



Trump is Xi's cock holster.

Trump embarrassed on world stage as Chinese leader delivers fact-check to his face
rawstory.com/trump-2674250111/



Voters could be asked in the 2026 election if they want to change the name of Broward County, Fla., to “Lauderdale County.”
A Republican state legislator and a Democratic county commissioner want to ditch the 110-year-old name for what they see as a more marketeable brand.
Others decry the idea as a waste of money and abandonment of history.
#Florida #politics #marketing
gift link... sun-sentinel.com/2025/10/30/wi…


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DHS is Tolkien posting and chuds still don't get Tolkien
in reply to PallasRiot

"There won't be a Shire anymore"

When the War of the Ring comes to the Shire it's because Lotho Sackville-Baggins made a fortune selling pipeweed to Saruman, and he uses that fortune to gain power over his fellows. Lotho industrializes and militarizes the Shire. Prior to this the Shire has literally twelve law enforcement officers and no written laws, but Lotho uses his wealth to get many hobbits to turn on their neighbors and join the sheriffs. Saruman eventually arrives and takes over, killing Lotho and expanding the militarization and industrialization. Our heroes carry out the Scouring of the Shire, where the Shire is liberated.

This is literally a story of a capitalist turning to fascists for greater control and tyrannizing his own people through surveillance, paramilitary occupation, expasion of security forces, and legalism, before that homegrown fascism grows beyond his control.

ICE is the Chief's men you stupid fucks

in reply to PallasRiot

This is your regular reminder that Tolkien self identified his politics with anarchism, his notion of a good king was the idea of someone who could hold all the power bu never use it so that no one could actually wield state power, his anti-industrialism is based in his hatred for people being instrumentalized into mere tools therefor robbing their work of meaning and individual expression, and one of his most consistent values throughout his life and writings was anti-authoritarianism.

Chuds literally do not understand Tolkien and use like three coffee table book facts about his life to claim he was right-wing because they want to adopt a Tolkien aesthetic*.

*actually a Peter Jackson aesthetic but they don't know the difference because they don't read




in reply to Ramses Revengeday ​

okay, gerade gesucht. ich hatte das Original von Millenium Kid und JBS gehört.
Die Stimme dort hört sich hart nach Henning an und die Kommentare debattieren, ob die ihn im Refrain als Sample eingebaut haben oder ob der Sänger einfach nur ähnlich klingt.
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omg, THIS

I was bordering on apoplectic when I first heard about K-12 teachers forbidding students from using Wikipedia but then teaching them to use LLMs.

mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its…

in reply to Paul Cantrell

The most Britannica manages to mention of what was actually in that land is this:

❝Much of the territory turned out to contain rich mineral resources, productive soil, valuable grazing land, forests, and wildlife resources of inestimable value.❞

Not a single mention, AFAICT, of the fact that there were already people there.

4/

in reply to Paul Cantrell

I remember being extremely confused about this as a kid when I first heard about the Louisiana Purchase. How could the US “purchase” land that nobody from the nation had even explored? Didn’t the people who live there own it? Huh?!?

Wikipedia, for all its messiness, answered Young Paul’s question. Britannica buried it.

But guess which one teachers are •still• trying to keep out of education.

5/

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in reply to Paul Cantrell

One muddle-headed way of looking at this is “oooooo Wikipedia is wooooke blah blah.”

The better way of looking at it is that Wikipedia lets people jump in and say “What?! No, you are totally missing something important!” It actually •does• the thing the radical centrists (falsely) claim they want: it opens itself to different perspectives.

6/

in reply to Paul Cantrell

As humans, we •all• live our lives with our heads up our butts — including but not limited to the Britannica writers. If we’re lucky, someone will help us see what we’re missing. If we’re wise, we listen. At its best, that’s what Wikipedia can do — and in public, at scale, for everyone.

7/

in reply to Paul Cantrell

I remember years ago seeing a study that diligently compared the factual accuracy of Britannica vs Wikipedia for a few select articles (will update this post w/link if I find it).

They found a similar rate of factual errors. The short of it: Wikipedia is chaotic and messy, but Britannica often had missing or out-of-date information. Wikipedia had higher noise, but also a higher correction rate. Factuality came out about a wash.

[UPDATE] I think it was this study: nature.com/articles/438900a

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in reply to Paul Cantrell

Wikipedia has •numerous• problems, but it belongs in education.

And right now, per the McSweeney’s OP, it’s a lifeboat of humanity in a sea of slop.

For reference, snapshots of the two articles concerned at the time of this writing:

web.archive.org/web/2025092312…

web.archive.org/web/2025091701…

/end

in reply to Paul Cantrell

The name "Encyclopædia Britannica" alone should indicate that colonial bias is ever present. Its articles on Irish based topics are, I think the most appropriate word is, "fascinating".
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🎃 happy spooky time 🎃

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🎬 Con Linux hai tutto ciò che ti serve per creare, liberamente.

:opensource: Editing foto, montaggio video, conversione multimediale e streaming: una potenza di strumenti open source, gratuiti e pensati per chi crea — non per chi viene tracciato 😎🐧

🐧 Niente abbonamenti, niente lock-in: solo libertà, comunità e codice aperto

:lemmy: :diggita: Scopri tutte le infografiche dedicate al mondo open source nel gruppo @diggita qua 👉 @opensource@diggita.com

#UnoLinux #UnoOpen #Linux #OpenSource

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in reply to Open Source Italia

L'immagine è un diagramma circolare che rappresenta il software multimediale. Il diagramma è diviso in sezioni colorate, ciascuna etichettata con un nome di programma. La sezione più interna, contrassegnata con "Software", è verde. Seguono sezioni etichettate "Player", "Editing", "Recording", "Streaming", "Creation", "Management" e "Conversion", che partono dal verde e si muovono verso l'esterno con colori diversi.

I nomi dei programmi sono i seguenti: VLC, MPV, Shotcut, Kdenlive, OpenShot, OBS Studio, Handbrake, OBS, Firefox, Ksnip, Flameshot, Simple Screen Recorder, Kazam, OBS, FFmpeg, Spectacle, Gnome, Shutter, Core, Qrator, LMM, Rythm, Hydrogen, Audacity, Flow, Krita, Darktable, Pinta, DigiKam, Audacity, Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, Media Manager, Linux. Il diagramma è accompagnato da testo: "Created by study-notes.org".

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Welp, an artist I like a lot will release new #music on #Bandcamp soon. Not gonna buy it though, since they've gone for #AIslop for the #cover +___+ And the #artwork was always so simple but cool before … Why. #NoAI
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Brussels rushes to complete the Lisbon-Madrid 'missing link' in the high-speed rail network.

Travel by train between the capitals of Spain and Portugal should take no more than 5 hours by the end of the decade – and just 3 hours by 2034 – according to plans unveiled by the European Commission.

The EU-backed project is key to connecting Iberia with France and Germany and shifting passengers from planes to trains.

mediafaro.org/article/20251030…

#Highspeedrail #Portugal #Spain #Lisbon #Madrid #EU



Und Katzen so:
„Menschen ey, ständig wach. Du musst dich praktisch auf sie setzen damit sie mal Ruhe geben!“


"Giftig und brandgefährlich" - Warentester warnen vor Shein und Temu

• Die Stiftung Warentest hat Produkte der chinesischen Online-Plattformen #Shein und #Temu getestet. Zwei Drittel davon erfüllen die EU-Standards nicht. Ungefähr ein Viertel sei sogar "potenziell gefährlich".

www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/shein-…



ChatGPT Atlas ist ein Quatsch-Browser

OpenAI wollte den Browser neu erfinden. Herausgekommen ist dabei ein schlechterer Chrome mit ChatGPT als Startseite, findet c't 3003.

heise.de/news/ChatGPT-Atlas-is…

#AMD #Apple #ct #Entertainment #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Mobiles #Nvidia #news

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in reply to c't Magazin

Wenn ihr in Bezug auf anti-Menschen Technologie eine gesellschaftlich relevante Position hättet wäre es glaubhafter. So ist es halt nur "diese anti-Menschen Technologie funktioniert nicht sehr gut" :psyduck:
in reply to c't Magazin

ich finde das ja soooo traurig, dass es keine Linux Version gibt! Soooo traurig! 😂 😂 😂


Comme chaque jour, je reposte la cagnotte de Yazan parce que
C'EST TOUJOURS UN GÉNOCIDE !!

Partagez et donnez si vous pouvez 🙏🙏🙏

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@fedipourgaza



Yuck!
Ob es am „Zero“ liegt? Früher jedenfalls hat sie besser geschmeckt.
in reply to Joel

I don‘t. 🙃 Though, 🤔with „best“, do you mean best or worst? And why is that so?
in reply to Elena. (she/ her)

because we actually still use proper cane sugar instead of corn syrup like everywhere else ;)



Die Hölle friert zu:
Correctiv berichtet kritisch zum Talkshow-Token #AhmadMansour und dessen Fake-Projekt #DisIdent. Eine FDP-Ministerin hat es per Erlass (und unter Umgehung des erforderlichen Antragsweges) ermöglicht.
correctiv.org/aktuelles/integr…


Algorithms are not tuned for what is best for society. They don’t follow the rules that hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution have built into our cultures, religions & political systems…

hartmannreport.com/p/is-the-al…



Nvidia als erste Firma mehr als fünf Billionen Dollar wert

Chips von Nvidia wurden zur Schlüsseltechnik für Künstliche Intelligenz. Das treibt die Aktie auf neue Höhen – und zu einem Börsen-Rekord.

heise.de/news/Nvidia-als-erste…

#Börse #Finanzen #Halbleiterindustrie #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Nvidia #Wirtschaft #news



I went to the spot where Charlie Kirk was killed. It was a haunting vision of what’s coming.

slate.com/news-and-politics/20…



For the #ICC, moving away from #MicrosoftOffice is a matter of self-preservation - several of their members have been sanctioned by the US (in retaliation for pursuing charges against US officials), and thus are legally banned from using Office altogether. euractiv.com/news/internationa…
in reply to Óscar Enrique

Buen punto ese. ¿Qué tanto está dependiendo, digamos, la Asamblea Legislativa de los sistemas de Google y Microsoft? Servidores tenemos aquí en Costa Rica, de ser necesario, ¿no sería sabio tener datos sensibles de instituciones gubernamentales dentro del territorio costarricense?
in reply to Carlos Solís

No conozco ningún jerarca o director de T.I. de la administración pública listo para tener esta conversación; mucho menos cuando del poder ejecutivo emana una directriz no escrita de que toda la tecnología que usemos en el país sea de fabricantes “aprobados” por una embajada que queda en Pavas.


Zum GRIMME-Preis gibt’s ein fettes Update auf afd-verbot.de: 🔍 Neue Beweise sind da – und es werden immer mehr! Aktueller Stand: 3.919! Die gesichert rechtsextreme und staatsfeindliche Partei liefert und liefert.

Herzlich Willkommen zur Beweis...

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Unten hatte ich es schon geschrieben, im Gespräch mit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social durfte ich es nun noch mal sagen: Die Aufnahme so vieler Schutzsuchender 2015/16 war vor allem anderen eine große humanitäre Leistung, auf die wir stolz sein könnten — wenn Menschlichkeit noch etwas wert wäre. 1/
RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:36isd…

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Robotaxis: Wann fährt mich endlich ein Robotaxi nach Hause?

In San Francisco gehören Robotaxis längst zum Stadtbild – nun machen auch Elon Musk und Tesla mit. Wann kommen Sie nach Deutschland? Der Digitalpodcast

zeit.de/digital/2025-10/robota…





“Since vaporwave’s an internet genre, it’s easy to be an anonymous artist. You can be anything if you make an alias. I enjoy artists who do that.”

Navigating the Maze-Like Discography of the Label Geometric Lullaby:

daily.bandcamp.com/label-profi…



This is a fascinating breakdown of the dynamics across social media - it mirrors what I feel in my gut is happening (social media has hard-wrenched right), and is dominated by foaming-at-the-mouth individuals, rather than thoughtful inclusionary discourse. (mores the pity).

#uspol #politics #socialmedia #data

bsky.app/profile/pettertornber…



For Zettlr 4.0, we have put some extra effort in rewriting the citation parser. Now, your citations will be properly highlighted and detected. This improves performance, user experience, and implements more citation features.

Oh, and the citation renderer now properly detects crossrefs!



Eine soziale, sichere Stadt für alle, statt aufhetzender Ablenkungsmanöver!: Der Sächsische Landtag debattierte am 30.10.2025 auf Antrag der Linken über das „Stadtbild“ und die Konsequenzen der von Friedrich Merz angestoßenen Diskussion. Meine Beitrag: - jule.linxxnet.de/eine-soziale-…
in reply to Jule Nagel

Eine Person steht hinter einem Holzpult. Die Person trägt ein rotes Oberteil, eine schwarze Hose und schwarze Schuhe. Ein Teil des Gesichts der Person ist verdeckt. Im Hintergrund befindet sich eine Gruppe von Personen, die an Tischen sitzen. Die Wände sind mit einer grünen Farbe in einem Schachbrettmuster bemalt. Es gibt ein großes, gerahmtes Bild an der Wand hinter den Personen.

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Every mainstream politician in the west has suddenly discovered the genocide in Sudan - with some truly disgusting comparisons with Gaza as to which one is a "real" genocide (and a quick jab at the protesters for their "silence").

Here's MEE to tell us just how complicit we are in this one too.

"For over 500 days, urgent warnings of an impending slaughter were ignored as the UAE's 'unlimited cash' spoke louder"

middleeasteye.net/opinion/uae-…

#SudanGenocide #Politics #WesternComplicity