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Good to see that at least one journalist doesn't fall to the hype.
If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good itās going to ruin the global economy, youād be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached from reality.
Yet when tech CEOs do the same thing, people tend to perk up.
Photographer Charles Brooks embarked upon a quest to photograph the inside of musical instruments, creating images that look like monumental buildings.
Eternal Father, you inspired the Virgin Mary, mother of your Son, to visit Elizabeth and assist her in her need. Keep us open to the working of your Spirit, and with Mary may we praise you for ever. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen.
EU is getting more authoritarian by the day. Kill the beast !
In January 2025, The Economist delivered a devastating verdict: Romania had become the European Union's first "hybrid regime", downgraded from its previous "flawed democracy" status in the British newspaperās yearly Democracy Index. The trigger was Romania's Constitutional Court annulling the first round of presidential elections based on what The Economist described as "murky intelligence reports" with evidence that was "at best, questionable".
Who better foreshadows Romaniaās plummet in the democracy index than General Rog, head of the cyber division of the Romanian intelligence services, boasting of his executive overreach over a year ago?
As one German commentator observed: āThe planned ban on Russian gas imports has little to do with the war in Ukraine ā and everything to do with the American trade war. The EU is capitulating to Trump. The cost of that capitulation will be devastating, especially for Germanyā.
This is not about āstopping Putinās war machineā but about pre-empting any normalisation of EU-Russia relations ā at the cost of deepening dependence on the US and accelerating deindustrialisation
AI isnāt an existential threat to humanity, capitalism and corporations are.
You see, we created capitalism, a religion modeled on cancer, and the corporation, a new, artificial species; a parasite that co-opts human beings to do its bidding; an organism thatās psychopathic by design and grows by extracting from and exploiting us and our habitat.
And we now find ourselves ruled by this religion and driven to ruin by these parasites as they drain our humanity, destroy our habitat, and condemn our future.
Your enemy is capitalism.
Your enemy is the corporation.
This is an existential battle against a cancerous ideology and an invasive species for the survival of our own.
you know the 40% rule, right? Profit + growth "must" add to 40% So if you're growing at 60%, it's ok to have a 20% negative profit. That is one of the reasons we are where we are.
As with many other tools with tremendous potential for humanity and good governance, AI is and will be misused by the capital for dystopian domination and extraction.
there's also this "funny" framing that corporations themselves *are* functionally agi paperclip-maximizers, only they run on human workers instead of sillicon.
"funny" because the various ai doomer talking points, are already shown to be true for corpos:
-(microtargeted) mass manipulation -(occasional) warmongering -government/regulatory capture -the "alignment" issue (mostly on climate) -convert all available matter into rent-seeking -gaslighting opponents (a'la the basilisk wager)
I fundamentally disagree with this characterization of capitalism. Capitalism is not an entity. It has no meaningful intentional stance. It is a model of interaction only. It is not the enemy.
The enemy is those who wish to apply this model upon us no matter what the costs to us. This enemy consists of people. And these people have names and addresses.
Generative AI intrinsically alters the political landscape in ways that put fascists at an advantage. The way people are using it to cognitive offload pretty much any given workload is crippling their own ability to engage in critical thought. Assuming access to a sufficiently advanced model, malicious actors in positions of power can use it to fabricate evidence of crimes and weaponise the state's violence against opponents. It's eroding people's trust in the authenticity of literally all online communication that's not coming directly from an already trusted source. Surely you understand how a tool that's pretty much purpose-built to flood the zone with shit is inherently beneficial to a political project that's been relying on exactly that tactic for its entire existence, right? It's not a coincidence that this technology's most vocal proponents in the political sphere are all basically Hitler.
@Walk_blesseD Iām not saying āAIā as branded and developed by Silicon Valley/Big Tech isnāt *a* problem. Iām saying the socioeconomic system that leads to it being developed in the manner in which it is developed is the problem.
Machine learning doesnāt have to be planet-scale. In fact, itās more effective when itās not.
At its core, there isnāt anything that evil about iterative matrix multiplications used for pattern matching in data sets.
But yes, of course, AI as it exists today is a problem. But itās a symptom of the core malady which is capitalism/corporatism.
All that said, I really donāt think weāre stating different things š
Elon Musk Timothy Mellon Miriam O. Adelson Richard & Elizabeth A. Uihlein Kenneth C. Griffin Jeffrey S. & Janine Yass Paul E. Singer Stephen A. Schwarzman Timothy M. Dunn Rob Bigelow Diane Hendricks John Joe Ricketts Shirley W. Ryan Warren A. Stephens
Beschreibungen darĆ¼ber was die israelische Armee in #Gaza eigentlich macht, abgesehen von dem Bombardieren von Zivilisten - vor allem einfach alles zu zerstƶren was an HƤusern noch Ć¼brig ist, damit ja nie jemand mehr zurĆ¼ckkommen kann. Viel davon mit Bulldozern, zum betrƤchtlichen Teil gesteuert durch Zivilisten, Extremisten aus Siedlerbewegung
Auch wenn Netanyahu das nicht als konkretes Ziel ausgibt, oder ƶffentlich kommuniziert so ist es doch das was geschieht am Boden, genauso wie schon der GenerƤleplan in Nordgaza ausgefĆ¼hrt wurde, obwohl man sich ƶffentlich nicht dazu bekannt hat. Die Armee besteht zu einem groĆen Teil aus rechtsextremen Extremisten, so dass das fast schon eine Art Automatismus gibt, der auf dauerhafte Vertreibung hinauslaufen muss.
Es ist also auch eine komplette FehleinschƤtzung so zu tun, als wƤre nur Netanyahu das Problem.
Wenn wir irgendwelche ĆuĆerungen Netanyahus in den deutschen Medien hƶren, dann sind das - so Ć¼bel sie auch klingen mƶgen - das was ihm diplomatisch vertretbar erscheint, bei dem schon der Druck der US-Regierung und anderer Regierungen mit eingepreist ist. Echtes Handeln in Gaza, der Westbank wird bestimmt und umgesetzt von Extremisten die noch viel weiter rechts sind als Netanyahus ĆuĆerungen.
Deren Ziele sind auch nichts was irgendwie in einer Form unklar wƤre: Komplette Vertreibung aller PalƤstinenser, oder eine Existenz ohne jede Menschenrechte, ohne jede Selbstbestimmung, ohne jede Bewegungsfreiheit.
Und diese Variante ist noch die freundlichere Variante der Extremisten in Israel. Wenn man der kĆ¼rzlich in Haaretz verƶffentlichten Umfrage glauben mag, dann ist ein betrƤchtlicher Teil der israelischen Gesellschaft noch deutlich extremer eingestellt. (Siehe:norden.social/@stephie_hamburgā¦)
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Ā»Yes to Transfer: 82% of Jewish Israelis Back Expelling GazansĀ«
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article-magazine/.
A pretty sure sign of a dying civilisation if you ask me.
Earlier this week, it was discovered that the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer had both published an externally-produced "special supplement" that contained facts, experts, and book titles entirely made up by an AI chatbot [...]
The writer didn't care. The supplement's editors didn't care. The biz people on both sides of the sale of the supplement didn't care. The production people didn't care. And, the fact that it took two days for anyone to discover this epic fuckup in print means that, ultimately, the reader didn't care either.
It's so emblematic of the moment we're in, the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore.
europesays.com/uk/146429/ Hamas must accept hostage deal or be āannihilatedā, warns Israeli defence minister ā Middle East crisis live | World news #News #World
If you want to know how Farage's plan will work out, then get a dog or a cat and then deal with the vets bills. It quickly gets eye watering. His plan only works for the rich who can afford private healthcare.
SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. - A local organization that has spent four years distributing fresh, nutrient-dense foods to families in need is partnering with the
The YouTube AskTheSpiritGuides 30 day challenge workbook arrived yesterday early, no need to copy over from my spiritual journal now. Thereās even a printable version available via link in the YouTube description. Here is a Photo of 30 day challenge workbook with botanical theme of my spiritual journal.
"Der frĆ¼here Wehrbeauftragte des Bundestages hƤlt Beck āein einseitiges Nachbeten dessen, wie Netanjahu seine KriegsfĆ¼hrung rechtfertigt und das Vƶlkerrecht missachtet, weil keine RĆ¼cksicht auf die Zivilbevƶlkerung in Gaza genommen wirdā vor."
Ex-DIG-PrƤsident Reinhold Robbe attackiert seinen Nachfolger Volker Beck und wirft ihm āfehlendes MitgefĆ¼hl fĆ¼r zivile Opfer im Gazastreifenā vor.
Ist Volker Beck, PrƤsident der Deutsch-Israelischen Gesellschaft, ein āSprachrohrā der Regierung Netanjahu? Das behauptet sein VorgƤnger Reinhold Robbe.
"..according to Israelās own army, not a single example of 110 aid looting incidents was perpetrated by Hamas. The whole claim by Israel of Hamas stealing aid, used by Israel to justify mass starvation is a lie" Owen Jones
We need to act fast or there'll be a whole generation of lobotomised morons...
I sighed and went around the room getting a quick read on how much screen time each student had accumulated. The class average neared 11 hours. I said, āGuys. Guys. Letās suppose you sleep 8 hours a day. That means you're awake for 16 hours a day. If youāre on your phone for 12 hours, that means you only spend 4 hours not looking at a two by four inch screenā¦Is that really how you want to spend your life?ā Most of the kids just shrugged. Then one kid said, āWhat else is there to do?ā Thatās how I know weāre in deep trouble.
NHSGGC News Update NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Vaccinations are the best way to protect yourself and your family. And to help prevent the spread of measles Measles cases in Glasgow prompt more vaccination clinics NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is urging families to ensure they are fully protected against measles following several recent cases in the Govanhill area. In response, additional drop-in vaccination clinics are being made available to help prevent further spread. Measles is a highly infectious disease that can spread rapidly among individuals who have not received two doses of the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine. It can lead to serious illness and long-term complications such as hearing and vision loss, brain swelling, and often requires hospitalisation. a high temperature runny or blocked nose red, sore, watery eyes sneezing coughing
@Christo_459 Alt text, second image: Recognising the symptoms Measles typically begins with cold-like symptoms, including: ā¢ High temperature ā¢ Runny or blocked nose ā¢ Sneezing ā¢ Cough ā¢ Red, sore, watery eyes Small white spots may appear inside the cheeks and on the back of the lips a few days later, followed by a rash that usually starts on the face or behind the ears before spreading to the rest of the body. The rash may appear brown or red on lighter skin and can be harder to detect on darker skin tones. Symptoms usually appear 10-12 days after exposure. Helen Benson, NHSGGC Consultant in Public Health, said: "While Scotland and Greater Glasgow and Clyde have strong MMR uptake through the childhood vaccination programme, we cannot be complacent. Govanhill is one of the areas where uptake is lower, and although case numbers are low, there is a risk of community spread, especially with increased overseas travel during the holiday season. "Measles is preventable with two doses of the MMR vaccine. We are offering weekly drop-in clinics for both adults and children and would encourage anyone who has missed one or both doses, to come along. The vaccine is free, completely safe, and this is great opportunity to catch up with any doses you may have missed to protect yourself and your family. Interpreters are available, and we welcome anyone who needs extra support. "If you're unsure at all, you're welcome to pop-in for a chat with our immunisation team who will happily answer any questions that you may have too." If you are unsure of your MMR vaccination status, or would like to find out about how to catch up with any missed MMR doses in your area, please visit the NHS Inform page on MMR vaccination for further information.
HSGGC MMR drop-in vaccination clinics For children aged 12 months to 6 years: ā¢ Govanhill Clinic (Sandyford Building, Calder Street, G42 7PE) Every Tuesday ā¢ 9:00am - 10:45am ā¢ 11:20am - 1:05pm ā¢ 2:00pm - 3:30pm For adults: ā¢ Tuesday 10 June 2025 9:00am - 3:30pm The Community Wing (upstairs), The Shields Medical Practice, 80 McCulloch Street, G41 1NX ā¢ Every Tuesday evening from 17 June to 23 September 2025 5:00pm - 7:30pm Govanhill Health Centre, 233 Calder Street, G42 7DR ā¢ Saturday Clinics at Govanhill Health Centre (10:00am - 4:00pm): ā¢ 28 June 2025 ā¢ 26 July 2025 ā¢ 23 August 2025 ā¢ 20 September 2025 For more information, visit: nhsggc.scot/your-health/general-vaccinations
Alt text: Hampton Institute @HamptonThink CAL Profit is all that matters in a capitalist system. If your life isnt generating profit for capitalists (working/investing/consuming) it is considered worthless. This is why many feel hopeless & isolated, are searching for meaning & addicted to escapism. Capitalism is dehumanizing 3:08 PM ā¢ 19 Dec 18 ā¢ Twitter for Android
Eev (and lisp secret alien technology) made it /really/ easy and convenient to generate a kitten matching @aral's Tutorial 2: dynamic pages, kitten.small-web.org/tutorialsā¦ serve it and visit it inside emacs (just press F8 over and over again and it happens on its own).
I guess you can do it too...? What do you think? How much of a Hurkle itch is this giving you Aral ;p. It seems /really/ easy to get a fancy! #tls site up like this.
Haha, part of whatās great about making things is seeing all the ways people end up using it that you hadnāt anticipated. Love that youāre playing and experimenting with it š
Fremdwahrnehmung und Eigenwahrnehmung sind ja oft unterschiedliche Dinge.
Bei Carolin Kebekus war Anna-Lena Baerbock zu Gast & wurde zur "feministischen AuĆenpolitik" befragt, auf die Baerbock sichtlich stolz ist.(Ab min 16)
Aber irgendwie war die "feministische AuĆenpolitik" nirgendwo zu finden wenn es um Gaza ging, als sie dafĆ¼r plƤdierte dass zivile GebƤuden den Schutzstatus verlieren - eine Einladung dazu Frauen und Kinder zu tƶten & Lebensgrundlagen zu vernichten ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDovā¦
Als Ministerin musste Annalena Baerbock viele Entscheidungen treffen, doch auf diese PrĆ¼fung war sie sicher nicht vorbereitet. Carolin Kebekus stellt sie vor die Qual der Wahl.
Ich weiss nicht wie man darauf kommen kann von feministischer AuĆenpolitik zu sprechen, wenn es ihr wƤhrend der eigenen Amtszeit so vƶllig egal war wenn es wirklich darauf ankommt und sie stattdessen aufmunternd auf die Schultern geklopft hat wenns darum ging gerade die Leben der vulnerabelsten Menschen zu gefƤhrden, verletzten und zu tƶten.
Senior human rights investigators reporting to the UN Human Rights Council alleged on Thursday that sexual and gender-based violence by Israeli security forces against Palestinians ā including children - have been increasingly used āas a method of waā¦
Loretta Swit led a decades-long celebrated acting career where she advocated for animal rights. The actress passed away on May 30 at her home in New York City.
āWe're widening sidewalks, improving intersections and crosswalks, and we're putting a lot of effort into improving bus infrastructure." > When will Arlington's Columbia Pike Project finally be completed? wusa9.com/article/news/local/aā¦
This is all the dangerous messy escalation resulting from community defiance. > US communities spanning from red to blue blast Trump administration's sanctuary list apnews.com/article/sanctuary-jā¦
Starving civilian populations is a long-standing strategy of war, used to break morale, force surrender, or weaken resistanceāseen in sieges, blockades, and scorched-earth tactics throughout history. > LIVE: Israel kills 2 Gaza aid seekers as UN warns of ācatastrophic hungerā aje.io/3tqtdr
'The current wave of anti-liberalism is a revolt against double standards. In a society governed by mistrust the cynic is the only one to be trusted'...
He thinks voters have become fed up with the hypocrisy of the (declared) liberals, who manage to enrich themselves & their families when in Govt. & so prefer people who are at least open about their conflicts fo interest...
Its unlikely to be the full story, but it could be a contributory factor?
Zodiacs & Astrology News: India faces renewed COVID-19 anxiety in 2025 amid a sudden case surge, sparking both medical and mystical concerns. A resurfaced prophecy by Japanese
This is why Trump won so handily > Supreme Court lets Trump end legal protections for 500,000 migrants, exposing more to deportation bostonglobe.com/2025/05/30/natā¦
The justices lifted a lower-court order that kept humanitarian parole protections in place for migrants from four countries: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
The past two months since the last update have been busy again around KDE Itinerary, with additional train and bus trip editing capabilities, a new departure...
Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:35 Sponsor: Proton Mail 01:41 SteamOS outperforms Windows on the same hardware 04:20 Linux kernel 6.15 is released 06:31 Firefox revamps the search and URL bar 08:29 Firefox 139 brings faster uploads and more customisation 10:14 Rust works on being a better Linux kernel citizen 11:44 XFCE merges their Wayland compositor 13:57 Linux Format magazine closes shop 15:36 Peertube launches campaign for their mobile app 18:13 GeForce Now is on Steam Deck 20:43 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 21:30 Shilling my own channel
So what would be the best device to run steam os right now? The steam deck has old specs. Don't know how good the support on newer handheld devices is.
I'd be fascinated to know how much you get paid per viewer per month on average from YouTube. I'd bet it's not very much. I love the idea of having a "Peertube subscription" where basically I could subscribe via Librapay or similar for twice the YouTube amount to know that I was both supporting you, the use of Peertube, but also making Peertube the MORE profitable platform for you, per viewer.
Kind of missed the release of the Peertube app on AppStore. Just checked it, the thing starts quiet solidly:
default local account that allows to manage "Watch later" and History lists offline;
defaults to official instance / content indices;
instance / search indices can be set in settings;
runs on older iOS version (at least version 15.8.4, which my perfectly intact, still sufficient hardware will never be able to update or switched from);
That said, some cons are:
it's complicated to search for an instance and/or channel outside of chosen index; there's no search by URL or federated handle, so to find a channel not on selected index, one must specify instance URL in settings for search index, scroll the main page down until any channel from the instance is found, click on it, click big plaque that finally leads to instance' view. This is a lot more convoluted than if just searching by URL could give a desired result;
to log into account, one must find the instance their existing account resides on, see the point above;
can't create custom playlists with local account;
no audio-only mode and no playback when screen is locked / app is minimized (there might be situations when one might want to consume a video content as audio-only);
no video quality setting (mobile trafic can get expensive like that);
All things considered, solid application for it's solid purpose at its's current maturity level, just needs more time, attention, and funding ā which Framasoft speak clearly about.
I wonder if it'll be a lot easier for MATE, Xfce, Cinnamon, etc. to switch to #Wayland after GNOME & KDE have already done so. Perhaps some of the heavy lifting has already been done?
Ā»U.N. officials have also criticized Israeli limitations on what kind of aid they can provide. "#Israeli authorities have not allowed us to bring in a single ready-to-eat meal. The only food permitted has been flour for bakeries. Even if allowed in unlimited quantities, which it hasn't been, it wouldn't amount to a complete diet for anyone," said Eri Kaneko, U.N. humanitarian affairs spokesperson.Ā«
#Palestine / Thousands of tons of food aid for Gaza are spoiling in Jordanian warehouses due to Israeli restrictions
Medical supplies are being rationed, while hundreds of millions of dollars worth of goods remain stranded, compounded by halted shipments from #Jordan and #Egypt. Aid organizations report #Israel is barring aid shipments, with concerns raised over a new Israeli-led āaidā organization and the safety of deliveries to starving populations.
Quoting Itay Mak on how Israel's "aid plan" for Gaza is ethnic cleansing on a minimally full stomach:
Mak says Israel's 'aid plan' sounds like an antisemitic blood libel. Except that it's reality.
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