Despite the fact my server federates on #Threads, my account is invisible there.
Which is exactly why I’m skeptical about Threads. 🙃
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Western Australia doubles exploration incentive scheme to boost mining sector
The Western Australian Government has doubled its funding for the Exploration Incentive Scheme, increasing its annual budget to $18 million. The move underscores the state’s commitment to fostering mineral exploration and driving economic growth.Liezl Gambe (Grafa)
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"Arbeit macht frei" - work makes one free, was a cynical welcome at the Auschwitz I camp. SS guards often told prisoners of #Auschwitz that the only way out from the camp was through the chimney of the crematorium.
Watch a video about the history of this sign at Auschwitz: youtu.be/p9aBOp28H5Q
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In every generation, there are young people who take up the task of revolution directly, intensely, and most seriously.
The Brigade was quite clear in their aims; they sought to attack property, not people, and their targets included banks, fascist embassies, and the homes of Conservative MP’s, including then Home Secretary Robert Carr, courts and, as depicted in the film Misbehaviour, a BBC Outside Broadcast van at the 1970 Miss World event.
@workingclasshistory has an excellent two-part podcast interview with John Barker.
#theangrybrigade #angrybrigade #johnbarker #anarchisthistory #englishanarchism #guerrilla #guerrillawarfare #anarchy #anarchism #anarchist #workingclasshistory
E83-84: Angry Brigade
Double podcast about the Angry Brigade, Britain’s first home-grown urban guerrilla group, in the 1960s and 70s, in conversation with John Barker, who was put on trial as part of the group.Working Class History
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*Indiana bill seeks to end tax breaks for non-profit hospitals that overcharge patients.* This is a clever tactic and I can imagine it might work.
Indiana bill seeks to end tax breaks for non-profit hospitals that overcharge patients
Proposal comes after the Guardian investigated Parkview, a Fort Wayne-based non-profit chain that charges some of the highest prices in the countryGeorge Joseph (The Guardian)
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Got tired of drilling CW in MorseMachine, Morsle, and Morse code for Android, and listened in a few times today to see whether I can copy off the air yet.
During the afternoon on 20m, Winter Field Day was in full swing and every CQ I could hear was too fast for me to copy anything after "CQ". (Well, I did copy what sounded like "FDW9" at one point which I assume was related to field day activities) After dark, 80m had some folks with a more leisurely pace. However, signals fading in and out meant that I still had trouble copying call signs. I could at least recognize more characters even if I couldn't copy enough to understand...
I don't have a key yet, so I don't have to feel bad about not transmitting. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it, for a while! 😀
Microsoft Windows+Office for $55?
What happened?
Usually cheap MSFT license offers are a sign of Linux gains somewhere but I'm not seeing it this time
LibreOffice for Steam OS is taking off?
They're selling at a loss because it makes you train their "AI"?
There's some market share number they need to tweak upward to keep some stock analyst happy?
mashable.com/deals/january-24-… #networkEffects
$55 for a lifetime license to Microsoft Office
One price, two upgrades, no subscriptionsSponsored by StackCommerce (Mashable)
This deal is a bit suspect.
1) It's wrapped in affiliate links.
2) Despite being called a "lifetime license" it appears to be tied to Office 2021. It says updates are included but I assume that's only minor/security updates (after all, Office 2024 is already out.)
3) Buried on the page "IMPORTANT: This licensing type will be connected with your actual device NOT your account."
It's still not a bad deal, but very misleading. I suspect it's about getting people to migrate to Win 11.
📚 Study: Medical large language models are vulnerable to data-poisoning attacks
▪️"replacement of just 0.001% of training tokens with medical #misinformation results in harmful models more likely to propagate medical #errors"
▪️"a successful attack potentially executable for under US$1,000"
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#AI #technology #LLM #healthcare
Medical large language models are vulnerable to data-poisoning attacks - Nature Medicine
Large language models can be manipulated to generate misinformation by poisoning of a very small percentage of the data on which they are trained, but a harm mitigation strategy using biomedical knowledge graphs can offer a method for addressing this…Nature
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tonight's wikipedia rabbit hole has led me to: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiank…
which has the absolutely *fascinating* property of containing sentences starting with things like "He became widely known" and "He was listed in", in which you can't tell if "He" is an English pronoun or a Chinese name, because either parse results in exactly the same meaning
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David Hilowitz - Paralytic insomnia (tense horror/sci-fi film cue)
Contemporary Classical/Classic
- radio.unitoo.it/
#UnitooLiveRadio #WebRadio #OnlineRadio #InternetRadio #bot
Jens Ljungkvist
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •I did not defederate them when they opened up to the rest of the Fediverse because I wanted to see what this kind of interoperability would mean.
But since Meta announced that they will stop moderating on their platforms I went ahead and defederated them, as I would with any other instance not actively moderating its users.
Chris Trottier
in reply to Jens Ljungkvist • • •@jens I respect that. My concern is two-fold:
Jens Ljungkvist
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •That could be said for Twitter as well.
The Swedish PM has an official account on Twitter. As a swede that’s an important person.
I’m not on Twitter for the same reasons.
Chris Trottier
in reply to Jens Ljungkvist • • •@jens Believe me, if I could receive tweets from Twitter, I would opt to view them here. But alas, Musk has shut off API access and has made it a requirement to have a Twitter account to view tweets.
For me, I will never be active on Twitter or anything Meta ever again. Which is also why I believe all that content should be accessible off those services.
ezmy :theart: :flagSapphic:
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •Chris Trottier
in reply to ezmy :theart: :flagSapphic: • • •@ezmyrelda @jens I absolutely believe in moderating communities, defederating if need be.
I also believe information should be free and accessible, not held prisoner by a narcissistic maniac who insists that everything be hidden—unless you give him personal information.
There was a case just a few months ago where an amber alert was broadcast on Twitter, and if you weren’t on Twitter, you couldn’t see it—and to me, that’s wrong.
Everything that should be known to the public should be public. Better yet, federated.
If you want to opt out of seeing that info, that’s fair. But it should be public.
ezmy :theart: :flagSapphic:
in reply to Chris Trottier • • •Chris Trottier
in reply to ezmy :theart: :flagSapphic: • • •@ezmyrelda @jens I’m not on Twitter or Meta—and haven’t been for years. And I’m livid that my government—specifically, the Canadian government—still depends on American companies for public-facing communications when they should be building local social media infrastructure.
But they’re there. They even insist on staying there. And it’s maddening they’re letting Elon Musk restrict such critical information.
Why the hell are Trudeau’s posts on Twitter and not the Fediverse? That should be a scandal.