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The Disney-ABC-Time-Warner-Microsoft machine -- exists only because we turn it on. If enough of us turn it off, it is gone. Think of it: It is in your power to plunge Bill Gates into poverty, to send Peter Jennings off to 'Good Morning, Saskatchewan,' to rid the world of Disney-licensed products, to see Martha Stewart and Jerry Springer reduced to talking only to each other. Disconnect now!
-- Michael Kelly (Editor-in-Chief, National Journal)
β¬ #Wisdom #Quotes #MichaelKelly #Microsoft
β¬ #Photography #Panorama #Sand #Tracks #Iowa
Hello Fedi friends!
I'm preparing a presentation for a conference. The title: "The Rebellion will be self-hosted: Resisting the Digital Coup with #YunoHost"
I'm trying to describe how @yunohost has had a positive impact on my life. It's so hard to do so in 10 minutes or less π
A routine reminder that #YunoHost has a fundraising drive for the year so if you self-host through them and can afford to donate, any euro / dollar / yen counts: yunohost.org/donate.en.html Their volunteers are amazing β€οΈ
YunoHost: garden your own piece of the Internet!
YunoHost is a system that installs itself on a server and allows you to install and maintain - with very little technical knowledge - digital services (apps) that you control.yunohost.org
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I'm using yunohost within political collectives to bootstrap independent organizational infrastructure (mostly nocodb+n8n for custom systems, mattermost for chat, plus nextcloud for file sharing).
If you ever want to produce content, either educational or agitprop, about similar stacks, feel free to reach out. I have an endless backlog of stuff I have no capacity to self-produce.
"Former White House lawyers, diplomatic protocol officers and foreign affairs experts have told the Guardian that Donald Trumpβs receipt of overseas gifts and targeted investments are 'unprecedented', as the White House remakes US foreign policy under a pay-for-access code that eclipses past administrations with characteristic Trumpian excess."
~ Andrew Roth
#Trump #corruption #bribery #Qatar #SaudiArabia
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mβ¦
βVery disturbingβ: Trump receipt of overseas gifts unprecedented, experts warn
White House remakes foreign policy under pay-for-access code that critics say could violate US constitutionAndrew Roth (The Guardian)
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π» La fine di un'era? Surface Laptop Studio 2 chiude la linea innovativa, lasciando un segno indelebile in global tech. #SurfaceLaptopStudio2 #TechNews
π tomshw.it/hardware/surface-lapβ¦
Surface Laptop Studio 2: la fine di una linea innovativa
Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio verso la fine: l'innovativo portatile con cerniera dinamica potrebbe non avere una terza generazione.Andrea Maiellano (Tom's Hardware)
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Bienkov βnailsβ the βempty suitβ known as Sir Keir Starmer!
βThe Founding Myth of Morgan McSweeneyβ
by Adam Bienkov in Folded With Adam Bienkov on Substack
βIf it was in any way clear what Starmer actually believes in and wants to do with the job, then it would matter far less which advisers he does and doesnβt choose to hireβ
open.substack.com/pub/adambienβ¦
#Press #UK #Labour #Starmer #KidStarver #BenefitsHarmer #McSweeney #Austerity #Factionalism #FarRight #Election #Results #Farage
The Founding Myth of Morgan McSweeney
Reports of Keir Starmer's chief adviser's supposed campaigning genius do not appear to match up with the factsAdam Bienkov (Folded with Adam Bienkov)
Self-Hosted Software and Apps
A directory of self-hosted software and applications for easy browsing and discoveryEthan Sholly (selfh.st)
Le maestranze tutte della #mastofficina si riuniscono in un caloroso abbraccio collettivo per ringraziare @rapitadaglialieni per questo splendido cartello π
Secondo me ne servirebbe uno pure nella #mastocartoleria β¦
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πΈ Capturing lifeβs beauty through #Flower π» #Photography: "A day of Smelling Flowers"
#flowers #flowerphotography #jlwerstroh #janetwerstroh #calgary #macro #nikon #macrolens #alberta #wildflowers #jlwalbertaphotography #canada #calgaryphotographer #flowerphotography
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β«οΈ Names, dates, places change, but the strategy is always the same: normalize and forget.
π΄ #KeepEyesOnSudan & #KeepEyesOnAgadez are links in the same chain: remember this & follow the tags to learn more.
Lo sfruttamento dei #rifugiati e il ricatto dei loro diritti a mangiare, bere e avere una vita dignitosa sono totalmente inaccettabili e non negoziabili.
πΈ Capturing lifeβs beauty through #Flower π» #Photography: "A day of Smelling Flowers"
#flowers #flowerphotography #jlwerstroh #janetwerstroh #calgary #macro #nikon #macrolens #alberta #wildflowers #jlwalbertaphotography #canada #calgaryphotographer #flowerphotography
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MΓΆchte in einer Rubrik einen Beitrag oben anheften, so das er auch bei neueren BeitrΓ€gen oben bleibt.
Geht um diesen Beitrag:
swquadrat.de/2025/05/17/linkliβ¦
Nach meiner Meinung habe ich alles richtig gemacht. (siehe Foto) Habe einen Testbeitrag erstellt der neuer ist und schon rutscht der angeheftete Beitrag runter.
Wo ist mein Denkfehler?
Linkliste fΓΌr FotofachhΓ€ndler vor Ort - SWQUADRAT.DE
Mir ist durch den Kopf gegangen, dass wir auch mal eine Linkliste von unserem Lieblings-Fotoladen erstellen kΓΆnnten. Also da wo wir persΓΆnlich beraten werden und dort auch einkaufen.Holger@swquadrat.de (SWQUADRAT.DE)
Das Bild zeigt eine BenutzeroberflΓ€che mit dem Titel "Status und Sichtbarkeit" in einer deutschen Sprache. Es ist eine Liste von Optionen, die verschiedene Status fΓΌr einen Beitrag oder eine Seite in einer Website darstellen. Die Optionen sind:
- Entwurf: Nicht bereit zur VerΓΆffentlichung.
- Ausstehend: Auf die ΓberprΓΌfung vor der VerΓΆffentlichung warten.
- Privat: Nur fΓΌr Website-Administratoren und Redakteure sichtbar.
- Geplant: Automatisch an einem ausgewΓ€hlten Datum verΓΆffentlichen.
- VerΓΆffentlicht: Sichtbar fΓΌr jeden.
- PasswortgeschΓΌtzt: Nur sichtbar fΓΌr diejenigen, die das Passwort kennen.
- Oben gehalten: Diesen Beitrag im Blog oben halten.
Die Option "VerΓΆffentlicht" ist derzeit ausgewΓ€hlt, was bedeutet, dass der Beitrag fΓΌr alle sichtbar ist. Darunter befindet sich eine Option "Oben gehalten", die aktiviert ist, was bedeutet, dass der Beitrag im Blog oben angezeigt wird.
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Hamas bestΓ€tigt GesprΓ€chsrunde mit Israel
Die Hamas hat eine neue GesprΓ€chsrunde mit Israel ΓΌber eine Waffenruhe im Gazastreifen bestΓ€tigt. Der hochrangige FunktionΓ€r Mahmud Mardawi teilte mit, die GesprΓ€che wΓΌrden unter katarischer und US-amerikanischer Vermittlung gefΓΌhrt. Er sagte, die Verhandlungen fΓ€nden ohne Vorbedingungen statt und basierten nicht auf frΓΌheren israelischen VorschlΓ€gen. Israel machte keine β¦
π tagesschau.de/newsticker/livebβ¦
π 17.05. 16:57 CEST
#Nahost #Israel #Gaza #tagesschau
Nahost-Liveblog: ++ Israel und Hamas wollen wieder verhandeln ++
Delegationen von Israel und der Hamas wollen offenbar in Katar wieder verhandeln. UN-GeneralsekretΓ€r Guterres forderte einen sofortigen Waffenstillstand im Gazastreifen.tagesschau.de
new lorna shore single confirming my hypothesis that this band is incapable of releasing anything besides masterpieces
Jimmy Carter's Art of the Deal
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/17/trump-carter-mideast-peace-deal-00354432?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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BRICS+: Reforming or Redefining Global Governance?
BRICS+ stands at a critical crossroads, navigating the delicate balance between reforming existing global governance structures and ambitiously seeking to redefine them.BRICS
Cosmic Breach
stgreenie.wordpress.com/2025/0β¦
Cosmic Breach
When the starsbegan to pixalatethe serious realization hitthat we were all trappedwithin a glitchof the space/time continuum Somehow our Universe rippedand unless we can quickly repairthis torn celβ¦stgreenie
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"You can think LLMs are arenβt intelligent, are built in exploitative ways, arenβt useful, overhyped, but if you donβt think theyβre a wildly interesting scientific artifact I donβt know what to tell you"
bsky.app/profile/eugenevinitskβ¦
#ai #llm #science
#Diem25 #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #USA #Germany #UN #ICJ #StopGenocide #SuspendIsrael #StopArmingIsrael
"#OferCassif, the Knesset Member Opposing the #Genocide, in Conversation with #YanisVaroufakis"
"...that is even before the nakba of 1948, the destruction, the mass killing and expulsion of the Palestinians from the homeland...Now, nothing of those crimes justify the massacre of 7/10, but by the same token, the massacre of 7/10 cannot justify the ongoing genocide..."
Moody's US Cut, Trump Eyes Possible Xi and Putin Meetings, More
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-05-17/moody-s-us-cut-trump-eyes-possible-xi-and-putin-meetings-more?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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La polizia dei due cantoni ha arrestato tre cittadini accusati di aver sottratto materiali tra le tombe
rsi.ch/s/2835956
Gemini-2.5-Pro is awesome - almost as good as a human labeler with a PhD ππ
With the initial prompt I shared, it tends to be way, way better than the other LLMs used internally for validating labeling decisions.
Ultimately, however, for the time being, I think every decision will have to be reviewed and manually validated by a human being - i.e., me.
Gemini-2.5-pro only helps me to speed up a bit the process, by reinforcing my initial intuition after a quick Google search. From 30 seconds to 2 minutes to about 5 to 20 seconds.
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Susanne Lilith
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •demofox
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Ulli
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Maybe something similar to the black stripes, you can often see on the faces of Footballers?
Or those Alu-Hatsβ¦
Someone told him (or he dreamed about) that the smear protects him from radiation or something similar�!
AndyGER
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Reiner Jung
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •maybe he has some deficiency in color vision and thinks.it is brown. Yet nobody wants to tell him the truth.
Alternatively, it is to keep his enemies off balance.
π David Sommerseth
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Grandpa Don
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Angela aus dem Tassenschrank
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •I wouldn't be surprised if it was to keep us talking about his orange face. π€
Then again he is so vain, he probably wouldn't go out in something he thought was ridiculous.
There have been photoshops where people have adjusted his face colour to the skin close to his ears and it was a bit scary.
overflo πΏοΈ
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Phosphenes
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •In a clumsy attempt to look younger and more healthy.
Elderly people get increasingly pale. Sick people can too.
Also, Trump also came out of the 1970s, when fashionable white people all had tans.
Iβm Boomertifa!
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in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Mr. Bruno
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
And build them a home, a little place of their own
The Fletcher Memorial
Home for Incurable
Tyrants and Kings
And they can appear to themselves everyday
On closed circuit TV
To make sure they're still real
Itβs the only connection they feel
Roger Waters
Captain Jack Sparrow
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Gregory
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Christian Gudrian
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •John Q McDonald
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Very much foolish old man energy hereβ¦
Then again, the orange may best hide the lizard scales visible beneath his skin
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Crowjane
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Because Anita Bryant told him once that a day without Orange Abuse is like a day being completely obtuse.
Heβs lived by that ever since.
Bob Blaskiewicz πΊπ¦ π¨π¦ π¬π±
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Schroedinger
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •It covers up the fact that he is ancient and ill and looks terrible without it.
He looks terrible with it too.
But he cannot stop now. Otherwise he would look as if he had aged hugely.
But also - nothing he ever does makes real sense. He is an idiot with no brain cells left.
Jack Stephens
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Chibani
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •John Rasmussen
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •βDonald Trump isnβt orange because of a bad spray tanβ¦ itβs just his bodyβs way of warning the world heβs toxic.β
βWhy is Trump orange? Because even his skin is trying to escape the embarrassment.βπ
π₯ Yours Truly! Unruly π¨π¦πͺπΊπΊπ¦π»
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Most of the filthy rich and the filthy rich wannabes are all like Trump. Shocking, I know. One of them finally came out of their closet. All of them make me cringe.
Barry Cook π¨π¦
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in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Steinar Bang
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •George π¦π² π₯Ύ βοΈπ π
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Megawatt
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •christianmlong
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Ebondevil
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Everyone knows he's a clown, it's his clown face.
ABX
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •John W. Kennedy
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •Physically, Iβm nearly his age, and I remember Man-Tan coming out when I was a teenager.
Old 60s civil-rights song:
βWell, thereβs just one thing, / I donβt understanβ: / Why the Southern Whites / Use Man-Tan.β
But the thing about Man-Tan is thatβs not traditional make-up. Itβs a chemical lotion that turns skin dark. And if you abuse it, it turns skin orange. It appears that, after about 60 years, the Syphilitic Orangutan hasnβt yet worked that out.
EarthMomma
in reply to George Takei π³οΈβπππ½ • • •