Found in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger. The one lesson I wish the modern left would internalize more than anything.
Use shared language.
Don't use lefty jargon when the person you're talking to doesn't subscribe to these ideas. No white privilege, no colonial oppression, no intersectionality. Translate to a shared language, built on reasonable, common assumptions and do the work required to bring people on board.
Because you can be damned sure the MAGA crowd are doing the work.
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So many berries, so little time...
Bay-breasted Warbler adult
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Attached: 4 images I've created "Mystical", a programming language that looks like magic circles, or maybe just a way to write PostScript in a very pretty way. https://suberic.net/~dmm/projects/mystical/README.htmlweirder.earth
Honestly love this infographic, too 😆
(by frogchildren, from an original design by Shannon Lattin: sfba.social/@scm/1145251145476… )
Steve (@scm@sfba.social)
@alexglow@chaos.social @Viss@mastodon.social this is, I think, the original: http://www.lattindesign.com/how-many-guide Which you may be able to still buy as a small posterSFBA.social
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Another fave: artist James Bridle using a salt circle to trap autonomous cars 😁
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How does one design against "magic" used to trap self-driving cars?
As if the challenges of politics, engineering, and weather weren't enough, now self-driving cars face another obstacle: purposeful visual sabotage, in the form of specially painted traffic lines that entice the car in before trapping it in an endless…Archinect
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New York University is penalizing student commencement speaker Logan Rozos for condemning Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza by withholding his diploma while the school pursues “disciplinary actions.”
NYU appears to be adopting the tack of many universities in trying to shut down any protests against Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Here’s the Gaza Speech NYU Is Withholding a Student Diploma Over
NYU is punishing a student who delivered a graduation speech on the genocide in Palestine.The New Republic
Futuro del servizio idrico e della depurazione industriale, associazioni scrivono all’Ait
Lettera al direttore generale Mazzei: "Spieghi come intende agire rispetto alla vicenda Geal dopo la sentenza del Tar"
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Global hunger worsened in 2024, affecting 295 mln people: UN report
Global hunger worsened in 2024, affecting 295 mln people: UN report -english.news.cn
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Il testo descrive una situazione politica in cui un'iniziativa si è posta in contrapposizione alla mozione presentata da Giuseppe Conte il giorno precedente. Questa mozione era stata aderita anche dalla segretaria Elly Schlein. L'intervento di Fassino ha rivela la cifra culturale dell'evento, definendola "un sionista di sinistra" e affermando che la soluzione dei due Stati è "al momento impraticabile". Inoltre, ha giustificato le vittime civili palestinesi come "conseguenze fatali" della collocazione delle strutture di Hamas in aree densamente popolate.
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L'immagine mostra un articolo di giornale con il titolo "Fassino? Ad ammazzarlo non si fa peccato. La folle frase di un consigliere Pd a Cagliari". L'articolo è scritto da Oscar Serra e data il 16 Maggio 2025, aggiornato alle 20:09, con una durata di lettura di 2 minuti. Il testo descrive un post su Facebook di un consigliere del Partito Democratico (Pd) a Cagliari, che ha suscitato reazioni forti. Il consigliere ha rivendicato il suo rispetto incondizionato per la vita umana, a prescindere dalla nazionalità, dal credo o dal ruolo politico. L'articolo menziona che il post ha fatto il giro delle chat in poche ore, ma il consigliere ha poi chiesto scusa. L'immagine accanto al testo mostra un uomo in giacca e cravatta, che sembra essere il consigliere in questione, mentre parla con le mani in movimento. Sullo sfondo si intravede un banner con le parole "LOPA DON".
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Explosion Rocks Fertility Clinic, Trump to Speak with Putin & Zelenskiy, More
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How Broken is Google?
I've been writing short spoiler-free reviews of the current seasons of Doctor Who each (for me) Sunday morning, having watched the show Saturday (evening). Last week, I had a bit of blank on the title of the episode: was it the Story Engine...no...not quite. Rather than tie myself in knots I just googled it. "doctor who recent episode". Google came back with an answer: Castrovalva: Part One, Doctor Who Season 117, episode 1. It had a little…
RIGHT WING TERROR!?!
Bomb destroys a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, CA.
At least one fatality.
DEVELOPING....
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Roma, duplice omicidio in una falegnameria: due uomini uccisi a colpi di pistola
I corpi trovati in via della Stazione di Ottavia dal proprietario dell’attività. Indagini in corso della polizia Due uomini sono stati uccisi a colpi di arma da fuoco all’interno di una falegnameri…LiberoReporter
Please share this Joint statement from 🇮🇪 🇮🇸 🇱🇺 🇲🇹 🇳🇴 🇸🇮 🇪🇸 on Gaza: to fight against the continuing slaughter of the Palestinian people.
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"At least 140 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in the last 24 hours, a deadly escalation as Israel seemed poised to launch a major offensive in the besieged territory.
"Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed more than 300 people since Thursday."
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Israel accused of ‘ethnic cleansing’ after more than 140 killed in Gaza in last 24 hours
Israel says intensified bombings are part of campaign expansion to ‘achieve all of the war goals in Gaza’William Christou (The Guardian)
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🗓️ June 18–21, Oakland
🎟️ locusmag.com/2025-locus-awards… (link in bio)
2025 Locus Awards Weekend, June 18-21
We can’t wait to see you at the Locus Awards on June 21, 2025 in Oakland, California! For more than 50 years, the awards have been highlighting the very best in science fiction, fantasy, and …Locus Online
The Biden Scandal Goes Well Beyond the Aging Cover-Up | The Nation
The former president’s stubbornness and narcissism led to disastrous Trump victory.The Nation
Canonical, maker of Ubuntu, donated $120,000 to open-source projects, highlighting the importance of supporting smaller developers.
They use the thanks.dev platform to recognize vital tools that power their operations.
This initiative underscores the need for big #tech to invest in the open-source community.
#Canonical should make this an annual commitment to foster recognition and support for the heroes of software development.
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Canonical Donating $120,000 to Open Source Projects This Year
Canonical commits to donating $120k to the open source developers building the projects and tools that help power the Ubuntu ecosystem.Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
High-Ranking Diplomat Found Dead Days After Being Arrested on Suspicion of Spying
I've written a blog post about how Amazon S3 security demonstrates limitations of LLMs in cloud security. This mastodon post acts as an anchor for comments on the blog post.
The gist of it is this: Amazon S3 has encrypted objects at rest automatically, by default since January 2023. Not only is there nothing for you to do to make your objects encrypted, you can't stop objects from being encrypted. All you can do is choose keys. 17 years of blog posts and documentation saying you must DO something to encrypt your data at rest means that LLMs will give you incorrect instructions on S3 security. Probably forever.
It reiterates my point: You can't use an LLM to do something that you don't know how to do without the LLM.
Amazon S3 Shows How LLMs Get Things Wrong | Paco Hope
Ask an LLM for any information on how to do security in Amazon S3, and you’ll get a bunch of crap. There just happens to be this one change to how S3 works that shows clearly the effect of frequency on LLM training data.blog.paco.to
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** Russian drone attack in Sumy - nine dead, fighting continues on several fronts
**Drone attack on evacuation bus in Sumy
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