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





More than two dozen people in the town were accused and tortured in the belief that they were doing Satan's bidding, as religious fervour swept the area during the 17th Century.
Now campaigners are hoping to spotlight the names of those accused and pay tribute to them with a memorial. - Jonathan Geddes
apple.news/AwdUl7FWoTpGjiQOjJl…


In case you missed it, Mastodon treasure @hildabast has published a great article describing the current situation with Mastodon and #Bluesky and the relative merits of each.

What is particularly nice about this detailed essay is the conservative and learned approach she takes, and the honesty with which she recognizes deficiencies in both platforms. She also addresses how Mastodon's recent developments in usability are changing this equation.

Great job Hilda!

mastodon.online/@hildabast/115…


Have you been noticing the flurries of new or returning people leaving Bluesky due to recent controversies?

It got me thinking about how a real Bluesky exodus would play out, and digging into the studies of the 2022 Mastodon migration from Twitter. I found 14 studies. TLDR; a Bluesky flight would be different.

Here's my new post @PLOS :

absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/…


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Look at this ridiculous primitive country, casting out its sex pests rather than making them Presidents or Mayors or Supreme Court justices
RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eclio…


#meta entscheidet mal wieder bei #Instagram, was gesagt werden darf und was nicht. Hier machen Menschen ihrem Frust darüber Luft, dass die transphobe Sängerin Róisín Murphy beim #NewFallFestival in @duesseldorf.bsky.social auftritt - keine Reaktion vom Veranstalter. #metaenteignen #deleteInstagram




Alfred Hitchcock’s birds vs Andrew Lloyd Webber’s cats


The Pentagon believes “they do not need to positively identify individuals on the vessel to do the strikes” and that is partly why the administration has not sought to detain or prosecute the survivors of the strikes, “because they could not satisfy the evidentiary burden.” trib.al/LLaC598


#LibreWolf v144.0.2-1 is now available!

codeberg.org/librewolf/bsys6/r…

librewolf.net/installation/

No major changes from LibreWolf's end.

See mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/144.… for upstream changes.

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Textures, Hampi, Karnataka, India 2025 Pentax 645n, 45-85 4.5, Tmax 100, Pyro 510 #BelieveInFilm #Fieldwork #India


What is a programming language you learned and mastered, but that is now completely obsolete in your work?
in reply to nixCraft 🐧

Pascal comes to mind...
And BASIC, yeah
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[2018]DUDES: We made a website where you can look up a charity and see what % of donations it spends on admin overhead

ME: Hey that rules

DUDES: It's called effective altruism

[2025]OTHER DUDES: So those EA dudes want to pave all farmland on earth for the benefit of hypothetical robots 10,000,000,000,000 years in the future

ME: Wha

[DOES THIS STORY HAVE A MORAL? I CAN'T TELL.]

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in reply to Eleanor Saitta

@dymaxion I think there's a threshold % where if admin+fundraising exceeds it it indicates a real problem.
in reply to mcc

Definitely! Also, that threshold is a lot higher than folks outside the sector think and varies a lot by org structure and space. What indicates a real problem at one org in the same space that provides minimal staff support can be an absolute survival budget for another org that isn't a burnout and abuse factory.


"The angels have not been driven out. They live in every person who refuses to accept that health care is a privilege rather than a right. They live in every voice raised in defense of the vulnerable. They live in every act of solidarity that says: not on our watch. Goodness has the last word. Hope is faith in action. And the time to act is now." ncronline.org/opinion/editoria…



La crisi climatica e le abitudini occidentali di viaggi aerei anche quando non è necessario o per viaggi mordi e fuggi, non vanno proprio d'accordo. Il peso in termini di emissioni di gas climalteranti dei viaggi aerei non è ecocompatibile e anche il fenomeno dell'overtourism è insostenibile per l'ambiente delle mete prese di mira.
Una interesante proposta è quella della piattaforma online Evaneos, riportato in un articolo di Lifegate.
lifegate.it/vacanze-responsabi…



@HarriettMB

4 min

Boy UK politics get spicy with all the dick swinging around. :o

youtu.be/8-IYmHBF49I

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mastodon - Collegamento all'originale
GhostOnTheHalfShell
@Opfoss
Evidently, I need to investigate this phenomenon further. I would like to know more about the higher levels on this scale
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mastodon - Collegamento all'originale
GhostOnTheHalfShell
@Opfoss
My goodness this is turned into the most delightful education!



#ScribesAndMakers 30 Oct: How do you feel about conceptual art?

It is art and I am totally okay with it. If it works for me, I will recommend it to someone else.




Filings: business services giant Conduent, which was spun off from Xerox in 2017, confirms that a 2024 data breach has impacted over 10.5M people (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…
techmeme.com/251030/p51#a25103…

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Robię upgrade pmOSa na pinephonie. Poprzednio mi się popsuł tak, że nie potrafiłam naprawić. Teraz nie miałam żadnych dziwadeł więc może będzie lepiej.
I przy okazji odkryłam, że klawiaturka bow na bt działa dużo lepiej, niż ostatnio, czyli wtedy gdy jej potrzebowałam, bo nie miałam laptopa. I to lepsze działanie widać na każdym pine-cosiu, no ale teraz mam laptopa...

O, i tak długo się zastanawiałam pisząc tego tootka, że mi się skończył upgrade robić...
I się znowu zjebał...🤦‍♀️




Funky Cafè Noir


14 novembre 2025 22:00:00 CET - GMT+1 - Cafè Noir, 01100, Viterbo, Italy
Nov 14
Funky Cafè Noir
Ven 22:00 - 23:59
📅 Elisabetta Fratoni Jazz Quartet

Dalle note Funky al Jazz riarrangiato al nostro stile.

Piano, basso, tromba, batteria e voce.

Sul progetto musicale


"Jazzy!" è un viaggio attraverso una galleria di composizioni originali e reinterpretazioni audaci, dove la solida base del jazz si fonde con ritmi irresistibilmente funky.

Ma non pensate che sia tutto ritmo e beat: troverete anche momenti di malinconia e riflessione in brani come Sassi dove l'abilità tecnica del gruppo e la sensibilità di Elisabetta si fanno sentire al massimo.

I componenti del quartetto:


Elisabetta Fratoni (🎤 voce e 🎸 basso) – Cantante dalla voce calda e bassista versatile, Elisabetta incanta con il suo talento e la capacità di creare atmosfere uniche.

Sandro Santilli (🎺 tromba) – Trombettista dal suono pulito ed espressivo, Sandro arricchisce il quartetto con una presenza musicale genuina e misurata.

Luciano Tellico (🎹 pianoforte) – Pianista dal tocco elegante, Luciano accompagna il quartetto con armonie raffinate e una grande sensibilità artistica.

Fabio Ruggieri (🥁 batteria) – Batterista preciso e creativo, Fabio dà ritmo e dinamismo a ogni performance, valorizzando ogni brano con il giusto groove

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Coppa Toscana Prima e Seconda, si completa il quadro del secondo turno
Avanti, fra le lucchesi Ghivizzano e New Team, già protagoniste in campionato: vittorie nel derby con A.Castiglione e Borgo a Mozzano

luccaindiretta.it/sport/calcio…



A paragraph I never in a million years would have ever expected to read in a legitimate news source. (And yes, I do consider @404mediaco a very good news source - better than the tech desks at every mainstream newspaper combined...)

404media.co/ai-generated-mpreg…

Perplexed by all this, I reached out to Cuomo’s campaign for an explanation. I wanted a response to the ad and to get his thoughts on AI-generated political content. More importantly, I needed to know their opinion on the pregnancy. “Does that bill look pregnant to you?” I asked. “I think it looks pregnant, but my editors are split. I would love for the Campaign to weigh in.” Out of journalist due diligence, I also reached out to Mamdani’s press office. Neither campaign has responded to my request for it to weigh in on the pregnancy of the AI-generated cartoon bill.



Andrew Cuomo Uses AI MPREG Schoolhouse Rock Bill to Attack Mamdani, Is Out of Ideas


I am haunted by a pregnant bill in Andrew Cuomo’s new AI-generated attack ad against Zohran Mamdani.

Cuomo posted the ad on his X account that riffed on the famous Schoolhouse Rock! song “I’m just a bill.” In Cuomo’s AI-generated cartoon nightmare, Zohran Mamdani lights money on fire while a phone bearing the ChatGPT logo explains, apparently, that Mamdani is not qualified.

The ad bears all the hallmarks of the sloppiest of AI trash: weird artifacting, strange voices that don’t sync with the mouths talking, and inconsistent animation. It feels both surreal and of the moment and completely ancient.

🎶“I’m Just A Shill” (FT. Zohran) pic.twitter.com/ga3JxnYO7B
— Andrew Cuomo (@andrewcuomo) October 30, 2025


And then there’s the pregnant bill.

The Schoolhouse Rock! Bill is an iconic cartoon character that has been parodied by everyone from The Simpsons to Saturday Night Live. There are thousands, perhaps millions, of pictures of the cartoon bill online, all available to be gobbled up by scrapers and turned into training data for AI.

For some reason, the bill in Cuomo’s ad has thick red lips (notably absent in the original) and appears to be pregnant. Adding to the discordant AI jank of the image, the pregnancy is only visible when the bill is standing up. Sometimes it’s leaning against the steps and in those shots it has the slim figure characteristic of its inspiration. But when the bill stands it looks positively inflated, almost as if the video generator used to make Cuomo’s ad was trained on MPREG fetish art of the bill and not the original cartoon itself. The thick and luscious red lips are present whether the bill is leaning or standing.

Towards the end of the ad, an anthropomorphic phone with a ChatGPT logo wanders into the scene. Standing next to the pregnant bill, I could not but help but think that the phone is the father of whatever child the bill carried.

My observation led to an argument in the 404 Media Slack channel and opinions were split. “It does not seem pregnant to me,” said Emanuel Maiberg.

Jason Koebler, however, came to my defense. He circled the pregnant belly of the cartoon bill and shared it. “Baby is stored in the circle area,” he said.

Perplexed by all this, I reached out to Cuomo’s campaign for an explanation. I wanted a response to the ad and to get his thoughts on AI-generated political content. More importantly, I needed to know their opinion on the pregnancy. “Does that bill look pregnant to you?” I asked. “I think it looks pregnant, but my editors are split. I would love for the Campaign to weigh in.” Out of journalist due diligence, I also reached out to Mamdani’s press office. Neither campaign has responded to my request for it to weigh in on the pregnancy of the AI-generated cartoon bill.

This is not the first time the Cuomo campaign has used AI. An ad in early October featured a deepfaked Cuomo working as a train operator, stock trader, and a stagehand. A week ago, the Cuomo campaign released a long, racist video depicting criminals endorsing Mamdani. Critics called the ad racist. The campaign deleted it shortly after it was posted and blamed the whole thing on a junior staffer.

It is worth noting that Cuomo's AI slop is being deployed most likely because the candidate has been utterly incapable of generating any authentic excitement about his campaign in New York City or on the internet, and he is facing a digitally native, younger candidate who just seems effortlessly Good At the Internet and Posting.

This is, unfortunately, how a lot of politics works in 2025. Desperate campaigns and desperate presidents are in a slop-fueled arms race to make the most ridiculous possible ads and social media content. It looks cheap, is cheap, and is the realm of politicians who are totally out of ideas, but increasingly it feels like slop is the dominant aesthetic of our time.




Russia, Reality, and the Bureaucratic Degeneration of the West journal-neo.su/2025/10/30/russ…




UN calls for immediate ceasefire in Sudan's al-Fashir after mass killings
https://www.africanews.com/2025/10/30/un-calls-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-sudans-al-fashir-after-mass-killings/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Africanews @africanews-euronews






Project Nimbus is the ultimate end goal of imperialism from a tech perspective.

Google and Amazon's Israeli cloud contracts reportedly require them to sidestep legal orders

engadget.com/big-tech/google-a…

#Google #Amazon #Israel #Palestine #ProjectNimbus #Cloud #AI #Tech

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