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Curing Type 1 diabetes could be Canada’s legacy
https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/10/30/curing-type-1-diabetes-could-be-canadas-legacy/480191/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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A "Katie Porter moment" and it's just Kat correctly saying that she can't say much about the case. What?
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland on #Budget #RachelReeves @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com





you know its bad when the error is "What the fuck happened here...."

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“How science got here, and where next” | Honored to have been part of this panel discussion w/ an amazing panel of experts and the irreplaceable @peaseroland
(whom we will all miss listening to on @BBCNews):

bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6yg7

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‘Dreamboi’ Director Rodina Singh on the Realities of Being a Trans Woman in Film

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA



In this economy even Tux has fallen on hard times and gotten a second job.

#Pics #Linux

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“Oh, I see...But what do working people do on Anarres for a bit of jollity, to escape the woes of the world together for a night?”

Shevek looked blank. “Well, we ...I don’t know. Perhaps our woes are inescapable?”

“Quaint,” Pae said, and smiled disarmingly.

—Ursula K Le Guin, The Dispossessed

#Reading #LeGuin #Dispossessed #UrsulaKLeGuin #Quotes





Royal family, royal nonce

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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 30: Do you tend to include epilogues?

I had one in "A New Faith". I got rid of it because it felt corny. I find myself wondering if I should re-write it and make it available to readers. It was about the antagonists (#plutocrats #oligarchs #billionaires) and their nefarious plots. TBH - I thought I had gone way over the top. But then when I read about real-world billionaires I find my imagination pitifully humble. Gaaaahhh...



Open Source “b3” Benchmark to Boost LLM Security for Agents infosecurity-magazine.com/news…


Racisme et blanchité dans nos milieux militants
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"Ce texte a été écrit à quatre mains par une personne racisée et une personne blanche, à la suite de la prise de parole de personne racisé.es en clôture du festival les Résistantes. On a trouvé que cette prise de parole était forte et qu’elle soulevait des problèmes très larges et structurels au sein des milieux militants. Ce texte est une manière pour nous de continuer



AI Is Taking Over The Music Charts

#News #TechNews #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Music #AIMusic #Billboard

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Daily podcast: AI Is Taking Over The Music Charts

#News #TechNews #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Music #AIMusic #Billboard #podcast

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Greek authorities have stepped up security at various ports in response to this protest in Patras earlier in the week.

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#FreePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada

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A cardinal in Bologna read the names of the dead for seven hours last Friday at a vigil for Palestine.

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#FreePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada #SayTheirNames



I need you to know that the NEO home robot (an "AI" humanoid robot to do chores) is bullshit, because automated laundry folding is not a solved problem.

Even the current best clothes folder in the market requires a human to manually set the item, then it folds the item perfectly.

In my cohort of graduating engineering students back in 2010, there was a team that tried to build a laundry folding machine, then they dropped down to just towels. Even that was impossible for the tech at the time. The machine they built was also bigger than a phone booth.

Anyway, here's Marques Brownlee hating on the thing.
youtube.com/watch?v=j31dmodZ-5…

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the need for a humanoid robot is... curious. We have machines that wash our dishes and our clothes and clean our floors. They don't look like us, and they work. But we seem to want something that looks like us even if it isn't very good at the work. Why? Do some of us miss having... a slave?
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Saving this one for when it happens and the revisionists try to rewrite who he was


Here’s a thread of a little batch of shit I made that I will eventually put into zine format called “The Maelstrom”




Le occupazioni delle scuole: da Firenze alle province limitrofe alla ricerca dell’elemento sfuggente
Le scuole occupate a Firenze non fanno notizia. Ma alcune docenti, orgogliose, pubblicano sui social i comunicati delle occupazione dei loro student*
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#FirenzeEDintorni #diritti #occupazione #PalestinaLibera #prato #scuola #ScuolaPubblica


have to go into the office today. Car waiting on parts, so bus it is. Regional #PublicTransport in #Queensland is a community building exercise. Bonds forged in the shared trauma of adversity and hardship. We are the band of sisters and brothers, made in the grinding battles of attrition in the #Translink campaign of '25 - "Darryl got left behind in Koah, he was meant to go to the base hospital!"



October 30th, 2025. The fermentation includes 1,800 grams of mixed hot peppers from the October harvest, one tablespoon of fish sauce, 250 grams of fermented garlic paste from the 2023 harvest, 12 tablespoons of coconut palm sugar, and 36 grams of salt. The salt grams are two percent of the hot pepper grams. The peppers are finely processed and blended with the other ingredients. This fermentation will sit on the counter for weeks. #fermentation, #minnesota, #garlic, #growyourown


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Die Abschweifung 66 Trigger im Livestream – Was Reaktionen wirklich zeigen


"Von parasozialer Nähe, Datenanalyse und verletzter Eitelkeit."

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In Folge 066 der Abschweifung geht es um Reaktionen im Netz – und was sie über Menschen verraten.
Sascha spricht über parasoziale Beziehungen, getriggerte Content-Creator und wie schnell Kritik mit Angriff verwechselt wird.

Dabei erzählt er offen, wie er seine Analysen technisch umsetzt: mit Transkripten, Skripten und Datenbanken – nicht aus Hass, sondern aus Interesse an Strukturen.

Ein Einblick in digitale Dynamiken, verletzte Egos und das, was bleibt, wenn Empathie nur behauptet wird.

#DieFernsehschatztruhe #Fernsehschatztruhe #Abschweifung #Podcast #Medienkritik #ParasozialeBeziehung #Reaktionen #Trigger #LautFunk #RektalDigital #AkteFlattermann #FrankBattermann #Satire #Gesellschaft #SocialMedia #KI #Datenanalyse #Internetkultur #PodcastGermany #Kritik #KommentarKultur #BorderlineReflexion

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Wired: No, SNAP Benefits Aren’t Mostly Used by Immigrants
SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps.

"...A number of conspiracy theorists and right-wing influencers are claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps, while AI-generated videos on TikTok push racist stereotypes of Black people demanding more benefits...."

wired.com/story/disinformation…

#AI #disinformation #snap #hunger #racism

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***the extra horror here is they believe by claiming only "immigrants" or people of color are using SNAP, they believe it's fine and okay for so many Americans to be driven to hunger. It's not okay for anyone, no matter their legal status, to be going hungry. Are they feeding ICE detainees?


Il filo rosso che lega Gaza al Mediterraneo. I corpi raccontano storie, editorialedomani.it/fatti/diar…, , Il team sanitario a bordo è composto da un medico e due infermieri. Ma lo spazio di una nave è ridotto e tutto l’equipaggio, nel caso in cui ci siano molti pazienti critici, deve essere istruito. Essere in mare è «un dovere assoluto di fronte alla vergogna di quello che continua a succedere


With 99.7% of votes tallied, it looks like D66's Rob Jetten will be the next prime minister of the Netherlands — by the narrowest of margins, with far right populist Geert Wilders snapping at his heels, and with weeks or months of negotiations over which parties will form the governing coalition. @BBCNews takes a look at how 38-year-old Jetten pulled the liberal D66 party from fifth place to the top in less than two years.

flip.it/HlOND9

#Netherlands #DutchElection #D66 #RobJetten #GeertWilders #Europe #News




Reporter had ONE JOB

"Meet Bill DeBlasio, the man a British newspaper confused with ex-NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio"

apnews.com/article/zohran-mamd…

#journalism

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I recall a few years back some guy showed up at a BBC office for an interview for a maintenance position and was rushed from reception into the studio to be asked for his views on the economy live on air. It turned out the actual guest was running late.


It appears most people outside the USA (and many inside) don't understand what the government shutdown is all about. Here is a succinct summary:

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“You won’t let us kill you slowly, so now we’ll kill you faster”


Ich nutze seit ein paar Tagen auf dem #Android nicht mehr #fedilab sondern #pachli als #Mastodon Client.

Ich denke tatsächlich das wird so bleiben - großartige Software das.

Schnell, zuverlässig und vor allem kann man die Timeline so einstellen das man "richtig" scrollt - von unten nach oben.

#bedankt #justmy2cents






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First Non-Profit #AfricanHalal Pantry In The World.

"Food For All Services is the first ever registered 501c3 immigrant-owned nonprofit African halal pantry located in Portland, Maine. We provide food-insecure new immigrants with a low-barrier, dignified, and respectable solution to access culturally-relevant food. New immigrants are often expected to assimilate into American culture but at FFA we celebrate and appreciate our customers' lived experiences while coming together in a space that is welcoming and people of color focused."

Located in Portland, ME
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Hours:
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Sunday - Closed

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#HalalFood #Maine #FoodPantry #HalalFoodPantry #FoodInsecurity #SNAPCuts #NewMainers



"Because conservative Christianity is so tightly woven into the state’s political culture, #Musk and his fellow California exiles find themselves confronting a new ideological fusion, a blend of neoliberal economic policies and Christian-nationalist cultural ambition, rooted in the state’s long history of resource extraction and at ease with racism and misogyny."

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#tech #BigTech #USpol #SiliconValleyRight #Texas #techMigration #techFutures



Kommande föreläsning på #pycon Sweden 2025. #Mastodon and #python 💪🎉

"A talk about Fediverse and Mastodon networks. What they are, how to join and how to integrate with python.

As free software alternative to business social media networks, that push you propaganda - like it or not - there is the fediverse. And within the fediverse, the Mastodon.

This talk will show the interconnection between these federated universe and walk through how to use with python.



Black cats don't bring bad luck. They bring you a random half-dead spider they found under the frige.


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From: @privacyguides
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Good news! #ChatControl has been withdrawn by the Danish EU Presidency after failing to gather support. For those who spent countless hours campaigning for #stopchatcontrol, thank you for fighting with us every step of the way.

dr.dk/nyheder/politik/efter-ty…





When Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons when it supposedly serves the national interest.

When Trump decides to increase nuclear testing as it supposedly serves the national interest.

Remember that it's not only such criminally irresponsible politicians who threaten the Unacceptable.

Only scientists and technicians know how to design and build these weapons: all the bombs and long-range missiles. They're the only ones who know how.

Scientists: have responsibility for what they do, too.

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I participated in funding this. You're welcome.

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This right here 100%
“Social Networking is Pickleball…
The fediverse doesn’t need to resurface the tired, worn-down tennis courts of the old internet. It needs to create something new. This ecosystem offers an entirely different kind of online experience. It’s smaller, more local, more relational. It’s messy in the best ways. It prioritises conversation over content, sharing over extraction, and community governance over corporate control.”
jaz.co.uk/2025/10/30/there-is-…


There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Pickleball Courts.


OK, maybe not a million, but over 100,000 and growing fast. And they are displacing tennis courts, because you can get four pickleball courts where one tennis court existed, and more and more people think that’s a good thing.

Around the world, tennis is in decline. Court usage is down, club memberships are shrinking, and fewer young people are picking up a racket. At the same time, pickleball is on the rise. In parks, leisure centres, and converted gym halls, it’s growing at a pace few expected. It’s a big enough shift that Big Tennis is trying to massage the numbers and remain relevant, claiming participation rates that aren’t really there.

I don’t play either sport, but suddenly I see pickleball signs everywhere. What was once a niche pastime has gone mainstream seemingly overnight. And it makes sense. Pickleball is easier to get into, more fun for casual players, takes up less space, and can be played indoors without needing a full court or expensive gear. It’s inclusive, low-pressure, and social.
A graph showing pickleball participation surpassing tennis in 2024Source: Apple Heart and Movement Study
There’s a lesson here. The old, customary way of doing things can and does change. You can pour resources into resurfacing old tennis courts, hoping to bring back players who’ve already moved on. Or you can build pickleball courts, simple, accessible spaces that meet the needs of today, not the nostalgia of yesterday.

And this is a little bit how I’ve come to see the fediverse.

For years, much of the energy has focussed on building a better version of something else. A better Twitter, a better Instagram, a better Tumblr. The assumption being that if we replicated what people already knew but made it safer, more ethical, or decentralised, the masses would come.

But they didn’t.

And that’s not a failure, it’s a sign that something way more interesting is going on.

Social Media is Tennis


Social media use is declining overall. That’s not a problem unique to the fediverse, it’s a signal that people are tired of the model entirely. The data backs it up. Engagement is down, trust is eroding, and more people are asking whether these platforms actually serve their needs. Conversely, for the first time, social media has displaced television as the top way Americans get news. Europe’s not far behind.
Source: NiemanLab
Most if not all of the large platforms started out as social networking. A way to connect with friends, family, and new communities. But over time, they slide into something else: social media. The focus becomes content, metrics, attention. People become audiences, and the algorithmic feed of addictive slop, propaganda, and ads replaces human conversations.

The world maybe needs both things, social media and social networking. But the two are a wee bit mutually exclusive. At the very least, the motivations for operating these services are very different.

Social Networking is Pickleball


The fediverse doesn’t need to resurface the tired, worn-down tennis courts of the old internet. It needs to create something new. This ecosystem offers an entirely different kind of online experience. It’s smaller, more local, more relational. It’s messy in the best ways. It prioritises conversation over content, sharing over extraction, and community governance over corporate control.
A before and after shot showing tennis courts being replaced by pickleball courts. Over each court is the logo of a social media platform.
Right now, not everyone wants that, not yet. But as we hear the call for digitally sovereign, locally governed platforms, we’re not just offering an alternative to what’s failing. We’re laying the groundwork for what comes next.

We don’t need to build the perfect tennis court for a game that fewer and fewer people are playing. We need to build a million pickleball courts. Small, accessible, playful spaces that reflect the changing culture of online life. That’s why the fediverse shouldn’t be chasing migrations. We don’t need to become the next Twitter. We need to be the first of something else.

Growth will come, but not by chasing the habits of a declining model. Growth will come when we fully embrace what makes the fediverse distinct.

The fediverse isn’t growing slowly because of a lack of cross-platform migration, it’s because the people who will thrive here aren’t migrating at all, they’re looking for something fundamentally different.

Sure, some will switch from tennis to pickleball, that’s a given. But many more will have never played tennis, or tried it a few times and it wasn’t fun. They will show up on the fediverse at some point.

And when they arrive, we should have the courts ready.

To everyone already building in the fediverse – the admins, the moderators, the developers, the artists, the writers, the everyday users… keep going.

Every time you welcome someone new, every time you resolve a conflict with care, every time you share something thoughtful or beautiful or kind, you’re helping shape a different kind of internet.

You’re not just connecting people, you’re restoring meaning to that connection. You’re helping build spaces that are slower, more intentional, more humane. You’re showing that online communities can be self-governed, safer, and grounded in values, not revenue.

It may not look like growth from the outside. But this is how movements begin, not with numbers, but with purpose. So keep doing the good work. Keep experimenting. Keep protecting each other. Keep making space for joy, for solidarity, and for belonging.

The future of the internet doesn’t arrive all at once, we build it, bit by bit, together.

And we’re already building it.


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wacoca.com/news/2683554/ クラーケン、EUロビー活動費で暗号業界トップに―コインベースを上回る支出を記録 – Crypto Trillion #EU #Europe #EuropeanUnion #ヨーロッパ #欧州 #欧州連合


Openpilot 0.10.1 Released: Improved World Model and Overhauled User Interface


Openpilot 0.10.1 introduces the North Nevada Model, featuring major improvements to the World Model architecture. The system now infers 6 degree of freedom ego localization directly from images, removing the need for external localization inputs. This reduces over-constrained data and opens the door for future self-generated imagery.

To support this change, the autoencoder Compressor was upgraded with masked image modeling, switched from CNN to Vision Transformer architecture, and the World Model itself was scaled from 500 million to 1 billion parameters. All models now train on a much larger dataset of 2.5 million segments, up from 437,000, covering more vehicles, countries, and driving scenarios.

The UI has been completely rewritten, moving from Qt/Weston to Python with raylib. This reduces code complexity by about 10,000 lines, cuts boot time by 4 seconds, lowers GPU usage, and simplifies development.

Finally, the Driver Monitoring Model's training infrastructure has been streamlined with dynamic data streaming, though the model’s functionality remains unchanged.

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Indeed it is. The comma has that same effect except maybe five fold.
in reply to otterpop

So what do you do if you want this? Does the car need to already have cameras and sensors and stuff or do you get those with the comma and you have to install it into your car by yourself somehow? What's the procedure?

I have a Volvo EX40 right now and it has a lot of features but it refuses to drive on its own for more than a number of seconds for safety reasons. (We're in the EU, so I guess that's not allowed.)



Había nueve cubiertos para diez personas, ese día de Acción de Gracias. Mi padre señaló a mi hija de doce años: «Puedes comer en la cocina. En esta mesa, solo adultos». Ella susurró: «Pero… yo también soy parte de la familia, ¿no?». Se hizo el silencio. Nadie la defendió. No discutí. Me levanté, le tomé la mano y me fui. Lo que hice después arruinó su Navidad.
… Mi padre miró a mi hija de doce años como si no fuera más que un mueble que estorbaba. «Puedes comer en la cocina», dijo con un tono despectivo que arrastraba desde hacía cuarenta años. «En esta mesa, solo adultos».
Vi el rostro de mi hija descomponerse. Esa mañana, Meredith había pasado una hora peinándose y eligiendo su mejor atuendo. Incluso había anotado temas de conversación en pequeñas tarjetas.
Y allí estaba ella, de pie con su vestido verde esmeralda, frente a nueve cubiertos inmaculados dispuestos en una mesa que podría haber acogido a doce sin esfuerzo. Nueve cubiertos, diez personas. Una crueldad deliberada, calculada.
La voz de Meredith era apenas un susurro, pero en aquel comedor paralizado, fue como un trueno: «Yo también soy parte de la familia… ¿verdad?».
La pregunta quedó suspendida como una acusación. Debería haber recibido una reafirmación inmediata. Mi madre, Vivian, debería haber corrido con un plato de más. Mi hermano, Dennis, debería haberle ofrecido su sitio. Pero los nueve adultos alrededor de aquella hermosa tabla de caoba —mi madre, mi hermano y su esposa, mi tía y mi tío, mi prima— no dijeron nada.
El silencio se alargó, cada segundo una nueva negación. Vi las manos de mi madre tan apretadas que sus nudillos palidecían, pero su mirada seguía clavada en la porcelana. De repente, Dennis encontró su corbata fascinante. Todos esperaban a que pasara el momento incómodo, a que Meredith se arrastrara hasta la cocina, donde le habían preparado una mesita frente al microondas.
Miré el rostro de mi hija y vi algo romperse en sus ojos. No era solo decepción; era la conciencia, repentina y devastadora, de que esta gente —que le enviaba tarjetas de cumpleaños firmadas "con cariño", que publicaba fotos con ella escribiendo "nuestra preciosa sobrina"— la dejaría ser humillada sin decir una palabra.
Entonces hice lo que haría cualquier padre. Tomé la mano temblorosa de mi hija. «Nos vamos», dije con una voz que rasgó su cómodo silencio.
Mi padre resopló: «No seas dramática, Alexandra. Es solo una comida».
Pero no era solo una comida. Eran todas las veces que la habían hecho callar, cada foto de familia de la que le habían pedido que se apartara, cada fiesta donde sus éxitos habían sido ignorados mientras se celebraban los de Dennis. Era un patrón que yo había sido demasiado cobarde para ver, hasta que mi hija se vio forzada a preguntar si era parte de la familia.
Eché un último vistazo a aquella hermosa mesa, a aquella familia que había pasado mi vida intentando satisfacer, y tomé una decisión que lo cambiaría todo. Irme era solo el principio. Lo que hice después no solo arruinó su Navidad; hizo que todo su mundo se desmoronara. #narraciones #mensajedepaz #socialmedia


Livorno non è questo: la morte di due giovani migranti nel nostro porto
Abbiamo appreso della morte di due ragazzi questa mattina, nel porto di Livorno. Due giovanissimi lavoratori che, nella speranza di una vita migliore, si erano imbarcati su una nave ro-ro nascosti dentro un semirimorchi
perunaltracitta.org/homepage/2…
#InEvidenza #CollettivoAutonomoLavoratoriPortuali #diritti #Lavoro #Livorno

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wacoca.com/news/2683552/ Apple、昨年EUロビー活動に12億円超を支出 – iPhone Mania #EU #Europe #EuropeanUnion #ヨーロッパ #欧州 #欧州連合


Happier times
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Smurfs Log: Oma en Opa Sterk (around 1920)

* Part of the "Housecleaning (Things Left in My Mom's House)" series

#ThrowBackThursday #History #Caregiving #Photography




hard to find a headline i care less about than no-longer-prince andrew.