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Entschuldigung, ich konnte dieses Bild nicht verarbeiten.



Seattle ist im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes auf Sägemehl gebaut. Die Abfälle der Sägewerke der frühen Siedler wurden auf die Straßen verteilt. Heute erinnert die Underground Tour an die Anfänge der Stadt.

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Cambio al vertice della Lega in consiglio comunale, le motivazioni di Ferrari
Dopo il terremoto politico relativo alla sostituzione del capogruppo in consiglio comunale Alessandro Santini, il suo successore Walter Ferrari, in una nota, specifica le motivazioni che hanno portato a questa decisione.

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Lo spray volumizzante più usato nei backstage delle sfilate della Milano Fashion Week per dare volume ai capelli fini
https://www.vogue.it/article/sebastian-potion-9-lite-spray-volumizzante-capelli-fini-milano-fashion-week?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Pubblicato su Bellezza @bellezza-VogueItalia



Full video from the September 24 attack on the Tuapse oil terminal shows two Ukrainian sea drones heading for the target. The first explosion was already known, but it remains unclear whether the second vessel reached the terminal.


City Leaders Say Trump Administration Has Sent Influx of Federal Agents to Portland

portlandmercury.com/news/2025/…

Updated: 8:34 am September 27 City and state elected officials say the Trump administration has deployed additional federal agents to Portlands ICE facility. The news came at an emergency press conference on Friday evening, where Portland Mayor Keith Wilson announced that the "rumors about deployment" of national law enforcement "became a reality" today, after a week of escalating rhetoric out of the White House. Wilson said the city has confirmed sightings of armored federal law...

#PortlandMercury #News VIA #MPAQ #English #PDX #Portland September 26, 2025




I really enjoyed @pluralistic ''s essay on the AI bubble. Partly because I largely agree with Doctorow's analysis, but more importantly because it is about what we do after the inevitable crash.

I'm curious about one paragraph (which would be worth unpacking, but which I don't have the capacity to do so in full):

"The only thing (I said) that we can do about this is to puncture the AI bubble as soon as possible, to halt this before it progresses any further and to head off the accumulation of social and economic debt. To do that, we have to take aim at the material basis for the AI bubble (creating a growth story by claiming that defective AI can do your job)."

There is a lot here, but I'm unsure where do we look? Are we talking about the cultural narratives of AI? The material base--in chips and data centers, power consumption and underpaid labor? The furious hype cycles that prop up failing businesses (Tesla)?

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Going to the end of the essay, @pluralistic writes:

"Plan for a future where you can buy GPUs for ten cents on the dollar, where there's a buyer's market for hiring skilled applied statisticians, and where there's a ton of extremely promising open source models that have barely been optimized and have vast potential for improvement."

I think this points to what will crash out, and what technologies and skillsets are currently being most overvalued.

I do like the idea that this might offer a moment of reflection and realignment. It has been increasingly obvious that big tech is propping up so much of the west's white supremacist ideologies, both in their rhetoric and their technologies. Those ideas are totalitarian at their base, so a crash might be the best opportunity we have to dismantle their monopolies. (Not in terms of regulation but by bankrupting them entirely.)



[T]he AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into some other sector, e.g. "pivot to video," crypto, blockchain, NFTs, AI, and now "super-intelligence." Further: the topline growth that AI companies are selling comes from replacing most workers with AI, and re-tasking the surviving workers as AI babysitters ("humans in the loop"), which won't work. Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.


Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)



The priests say that their sacred writings will live forever. But how long until a scroll crumbles into dust? #cybersecurity cromwell-intl.com/cybersecurit…



hundreds of engineers, teachers, or outreach workers sounds good. I'd like a "full force" helping of that, please
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Portland Mayor Keith Wilson:

"President Trump has directed 'all necessary Troops' to Portland, Oregon. The number of necessary troops is zero, in Portland and any other American city."

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@mastodonmigration can the military brass get courtmartialled for disobeying Trump's order if they send any troops there? Because he said send necessary ones only...
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@mastodonmigration
The mayors and governors of all western states need to stand together and speak with one voice.

This is only happening because people are letting it happen. Governors are letting it happen. Mayors are letting it happen.






A Portland Trump ordina l’uso della “forza massima”
In un messaggio sui social il presidente degli Stati Uniti mette nel mirino Antifa - che considera organizzazione terroristica - e autorizza anche il dispiegamento dell’esercito
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Last boost: nonsense, it’s clearly a rip off of The Pina Colada Song



Good evening. It's 7PM, Saturday, 27th September. The headlines: #England's women have clinched the #Rugby World Cup title, overcoming #Canada. Harrods has revealed a security breach involving customer data theft. #Russia's Foreign Minister addressed the 80th UN General Assembly. A British couple in Iran are due to appear in court. #BBC #News




The theme tune for The Poddington Peas was a rip-off of The Ballad of John & Yoko.


I repeat: Declassified has had its Parliamentary press pass revoked and was banned from the Labour Party conference in Liverpool this weekend.

declassifieduk.org/revealed-th…

#UKPolitics #LabourAgentsOfGenocide



mi aspettavo di risentire Roads, non questa sensazione di hopelessness a fine video 💔

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The latest design from Jony Ive’s LoveFrom is a stunning sailing lantern
https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/27/the-latest-design-from-jony-ives-lovefrom-is-a-stunning-sailing-lantern/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Stories @all-stories-9to5mac




New Comic Strip found: Arctic Circle by Alex Hallatt for Sat, 27 Sep 2025 arcamax.com/thefunnies/arcticc…

#comicstrip #arcticcirclestrip



When I first saw the news alert pop up, I thought it said “Trump deploys troops to Poland, authorizes full force”. Which would have been a sort of good thing? #russiaukraine

Then I blinked and realized it said Portland.

I should have known better. Wishful thinking.
#theAmericanFascist





The San Francisco Police Department is the latest California law enforcement agency to get caught sharing automated license plate reader data with out-of-state and federal agencies. EFF and the ACLU of Northern California are calling them out for this direct violation of California law. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-…

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The image features a Rottweiler dog standing in a room. The dog has a black and tan coat, with a happy expression, its mouth open and tongue out. It is wearing a collar and is positioned in front of a green leather bag with the text "PORTLAND A LEATHER" embossed on it. The bag is placed on a white surface, possibly a table, and contains a pair of teal-colored glasses. In the background, there is a light-colored couch and a framed artwork on the wall, adding to the domestic setting.

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