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Hey. Remember when I went rogue scientist to try to figure out what Apple did to ruin my hair?
Well, down that rabbit hole, I accidentally discovered that humans share extensive DNA sequences with siphonophores (cool colonial jellyfish things) and very cute sea slugs.
Like, 2000+ base pairs, zero error rate, mathematically certain.
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5 anni fa veniva condiviso il primo post in questo nostro Social federato. Un buon traguardo per un progetto autogestito.
Alcuni di voi sono con noi sin dall'inizio: grazie! Ma grazie anche a chi si è aggiunto/a da poco! E grazie pure a chi è stato con noi e poi ci ha salutati.
An Edinburgh-based tour company is making a significant shift this June by replacing its popular Harry Potter-themed walking tours with LGBTQ+ history tours in observance of Pride Month
Il y a donc un 4ème Poilu dans l' #Oise !! C'est un mâle et je ne sais pas comment il s'appelle. Il a débarqué ce matin quand j'étais dans mon bus pour partir à Paris ! Je me suis dépêchée de rentrer pour le rencontrer ! On a repéré son propriétaire, je pense qu'il va rester un peu ! Il est super mignon !
Les Poilu.e.s vont avoir besoin d'ajustement. Mais honnêtement, tout à l'heure, tout se passait bien. Et puis le nouveau a vraiment l'air content d'avoir trouvé des potes !
I don't think fedex actually wants to *deliver* packages. I think they want to move them between cities and have you pick them up yourself.
I currently have a package coming that requires an "indirect signature", which their website states "the recipient can sign for the package electronically through fedex delivery manager". Delivery manager tells me that I simply click on a shipping notification and click on "Sign for a package". The shipping notification says "This package can no longer be signed online... blah blah blah".
Meanwhile, the AI bot in the corner is suggesting I can pick up the package at a fedex location. Fuck you. Bring my shit to my house. That's the fucking job. The nearest location requires a 25 mile round trip drive.
So, fedex sucks for me and the GOP wants to kill my access to the Postal Service. UPS is the "good" option, but I'm not holding my breath on that continuing.
Epilogue: FedEx showed up right in the middle of their delivery window, which is a truly shocking occurrence. Dude handed me my package and, DID NOT ask for a signature, even though everything online seemed to indicate that I would absolutely NEED to be home to provide one. I assume he just scribbled something on his digital pad, but I'm really curious whether he would have done the same if I wasn't home? It's all just fucking random.
this is a v important rant. in some ways i dont think anything will bring this country together like how fucking impossible it is to rely on the usps now, and how expensive and barely-better the private options are.
@benda That's absolutely it. I think that's why they're slow-walking their destruction of the postal service. I think they realize it's one of the live wires where they can't afford to move too quickly, lest the public lose their shit.
I will NEVER forgive Biden for not taking decisive action against DeJoy. I've heard all the explanations why he "couldn't" and... (Gestures vaguely toward the Trump Whitehouse)... Yeah bro, no one would ever let a president get away with firing the people on a supervisory board because they refuse to fire a guy who is there to literally destroy the agency he's been placed in charge of. **That** would be overreach... 🤦♂️
those narratives are verifiable bull shit. biden had the opportunity in the first year and a half of his term to put THREE members on the board of governors. we only needed *two* of those three to vote in favor of getting rid of dejoy. biden, in his infinite incompetence, put one republican, and one "democrat" who was in favor of dejoy's 10 year bankruptcy plan. sorry, this is a topic that pisses me off hugely because the msm reports on it picking and choosing which facts to report in order to construct a narrative that dem leadership isnt exactly the same as the republican party. at this point, biden/dnc are just as much to blame for the impending failure of the usps as trump/republicans.
@benda Oh, absolutely. It was obvious bullshit from the word go. It's painfully apparent that the "money assholes" are salivating at the prospect of stripping several government sectors of every dime. One party is busy crying that they just can't seem to do anything about it, and the other party is trying to convince us that we'll actually be happier without. USPS, medicare, social security, the park service... you fucking name it, they all want to strip mine it and sell us a watered down replacement.
the dam will break. and i think fairly soon. the only question is whether we'll be dumb enough to be at one anothers' throats or go for the assholes that ran this ship into the ground.
Time for our Wednesday tease of Other People's Music! This thread will share JUST the first line of each entry, along with links to the music, the artist's socials, and the full review. Don't need/want a tease? Dive into the full thing here:
A compact epic of a single that starts off somewhere between The Streets & Arctic Monkeys & ends up neck deep in Bowie’s underrated late ‘80s/early ‘90s output.
And, as always, please remember that indie musicians live and die by your clicks and listens, and eventually by your monetary support. Please open your ears for anything that looks intriguing and your wallet for anything that fulfills that promise!
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"What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 7
"Yet most men don't understand computers to even the slightest degree. So, unless they are capable of very great skepticism (the kind we bring to bear while watching a stage magician), they can explain the computer's intellectual feats only by bringing to bear the single analogy available to them, that is, their model of their own capacity to think."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 9-10
🔥🔥🔥 "And so the rationality-is-logicality equation, which the very success of science has drugged us into adopting as virtually an axiom, has led us to deny the very existence of human conflict, hence the very possibility of the collision of genuinely incommensurable human interests and of disparate human values, hence the existence of human values themselves."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 14
"The feeling of hunger was rejected as a stimulus for eating; instead, one ate when an abstract model had achieved a certain state, i.e., when the hands of a clock pointed to certain marks on the clock's face (the anthropomorphism here is highly significant too), and similarly for signals for sleep and rising, and so on."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 25
"Yes, the computer did arrive "just in time." But in time for what? In time to save - and save very nearly intact, indeed, to entrench and stabilize - social and political structures that otherwise might have been either radically renovated or allowed to totter under the demands that were sure to be made on them."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 31
"That was the option man chose to exercise. The arrival of the Computer Revolution and the founding of the Computer Age have been announced many times. But if the triumph of a revolution is to be measured in terms of the profundity of the social revisions it entrained, then there has been no computer revolution. And however the present age is to be characterized, the computer is not eponymic of it."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 32
"If a particular technique requires an enormous amount of computation and if only a limited computational effort can be devoted to it, then a failure of the technique can easily be explained away on the ground that, because of computational limitations, it was never really tested."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 35
"One programs, just as one writes, not because one understands, but in order to come to understand. Programming is an act of design. To write a program is to legislate the laws for a world one first has to create in imagination."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 108
"Indeed, many professional programmers believe that their craft is difficult because the languages with which they must deal have rigid syntactical rules. There is therefore a persistent cry for natural-language, e.g., English, programming systems. Programmers who hold to this belief have probably never tackled a truly difficult problem, and have therefore never felt the need for really deep criticism from the computer."
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 109
"A real reason that programming is very hard is that, in most instances, the computer knows nothing of those aspects of the real world that its program is intended to deal with. [...] It is in fact very hard to explain anything in terms of a primitive vocabulary that has nothing whatever to do with that which has to be explained. Yet that is precisely what most programs attempt to do."
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 109
"A computer's successful performance is often taken as evidence that it or its programmer understand a theory of its performance. Such an inference is unnecessary and, more often than not, is quite mistaken."
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 110
"The extreme phenomenon of the compulsive programmer teaches us that computers have the power to sustain megalomaniac fantasies. But that power of the computer is merely an extreme version of a power that is inherent in all self-validating systems of thought." (1/2)
"Perhaps we are beginning to understand that the abstract systems - the games computer people can generate in their infinite freedom from the constraints that delimit the dreams of workers in the real world - may fail catastrophically when their rules are applied in earnest." (2/2)
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 130-131
"If a theory written in natural language is, in fact, a set of patches and patches on patches, its lack of structure will be evident in its very composition. Although a computer program similarly constructed may reveal its impoverished structure to a trained reader, this kind of fault cannot be so easily seen in the program's performance. A program's performance, therefore, does not alone constitute an adequate validation of it as theory."
Computer Power and Human Reason, Weizenbaum, 1976, p152
"The public vaguely understands but is nonetheless firmly convinced that any effective procedure can, in principle, be carried out by a computer. [...] Indeed, on the basis of this unwarranted generalization of the words "effective" and "procedure," the word "understanding" is also redefined. To those fully in the grip of the computer metaphor, to understand X is to be able to write a computer program that realizes X."
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 157
"When the computer is used merely as a numerical tool in psychology (or in any other field), it does not usually create a focusing of vision; i.e., it is not comparable to the microscope. It is therefore unrealistic to expect such use to uncover previously unseen worlds or to render distinct what was earlier seen only in vague outline."
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 160
"That is why, for example, the computer expert who knows nothing but computers (the "Fach Idiot," as the Germans call such a person) can derive no broad intellectual nourishment from his expertise and is therefore doomed to remain forever a hacker. That is also why the computer metaphor is, as George Miller puts it, "most productive in areas where a considerable foundation of theory based on previous research already exists.""
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 160
The analogy to stage magick seems really apt too me. Reminds me of a Pen and Teller clip and one of Teller in which they explain their magic. Can't find those anymore, but did find this one that shows that even if you know how the trick is done, part of you is still fooled regardgless: youtu.be/UF6p0bH7qPc
Les ouvriers d’une usine de thé autogérée décident d’aller à contre-courant et d’appliquer leurs règles.
En 2010, Unilever a annoncé la fermeture de l'usine rentable de préparation et d'emballage du thé Fralib dans le Sud de la France. Après 1336 jours de résistance, les ouvriers ont célébré leur victoire contre la multinationale géante. Aujourd'hui, avec l'entreprise et la production sous contrôle ouvrier, une nouvelle lutte a commencé dans un marché concurrentiel.
Le Goût de l'espoir Un documentaire de Laura Coppens (Suisse, 2019, 70mn)
Ça fait un moment que je leur commande du thé, et je ne suis pas déçu ! 1336.fr/
Documentaire disponible jusqu'au 19/02/20261336 jours de résistance contre UnileverLes ouvriers d’une usine de thé autogérée décident d’aller à contre-couran...
Among the many dangerous things the Trump administration is doing ...
... this one's a doozy:
the executive order giving his political appointees the power to determine what are "correct" scientific findings, and "the power to 'discipline' anyone who violates the way the administration views science"
i gave them this little dell pc with a low end nvidia card years ago and it's been mostly trouble free, other than some broken USB ports (kids are rough with comptuers) and this borked upgrade. i went from fedora 39-42 which isn't recommended. they recommend doing no more than 2 versions at a time
Neofeud is a Dystopic Cyberpunk adventure game in the vein of Blade Runner, but with an overlay of Game of Thrones-like political intrigue, and 1366x768, hand-painted, stylized visuals.
China's CSG commissioned the world's first grid-forming sodium-ion battery storage plant, Baochi Energy Storage Station, in Yunnan province.
The plant is a hybrid lithium-sodium battery energy storage facility with an installed capacity of 200MW/400MWh.
The facility, which can power 270,000 households, supports the integration of high shares of renewables into the grid and alleviates the impact of intermittent supply.
"YouTube Permanently Bans Fantasy Author John A. Douglas Without Giving Any Substantive Reason"
https://x.com/fandompulse/status/1930303365243908415
https://nitter.poast.org/fandompulse/status/1930303365243908415
At lunch today, I saw a person, that must have weighed 350 to 400 lbs. He was wearing a dress and had long curly hair, had heavy makeup on and some major five o clock shadow. I am now suffering from PTSD.
✅ The focus on perfect form: calisthenics bros will applaud 2 perfect reps over 50 sketchy ones ✅ Systems built around 'progressions' ✅ Almost entirely compound movements ✅ The focus on the eccentrics ✅ Makes you fucking jacked
What i don't like:
❌ Nothing will make you feel like a more uncoordinated klutz than calisthenics ❌ Progression is actually pretty slow ❌ A lot of the advanced movements are stupidly risky for no real gain [besides showing off]
Let me start by saying, i really don't like any machine workouts, they take something that is probably already boring and make it 10x more boring.
But the rowing machine might be the worst of all machines because you can't really just zone out and do it like a treadmill, elliptical, or stationary bike, you actually have to pay attention to your speed and form pretty consistently.
BUT, i will say, it is _very_ effective both for cardio and a full body workout.
Discussing the importance of not just accepting technology as it’s given to us, but collaboratively breaking it, tinkering with it, and rebuilding it together until it becomes the technology that we really need to make our world a better place with @effeff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/podc…
Many in Silicon Valley, and in U.S. business at large, seem to believe innovation springs only from competition, a race to build the next big thing first, cheaper, better, best.
les armes sont bloquées par les dockers de Marseille(que de belles Âmes), refusant de charger 1bateau de merde, d'armes de merde, pour des merdes génocidaire.
Le projet de loi sur l’accompagnement des malades et de la fin de vie, proposant de légaliser le suicide assisté et l’euthanasie, s’inscrit dans une logique inédite. L’étude d’impact de ce texte n’a pas pris en considération les implications sociales de ces nouvelles pratiques dans notre société.
Or, les exemples observés au Canada et dans l’Oregon font apparaître que les personnes seules ou défavorisées sont surreprésentées parmi les populations ayant recours au suicide assisté. De plus, on voit désormais circuler, à bas bruit mais aussi explicitement, l’idée que le développement de la mort provoquée pourrait être une source d’économies.
Oui, ça aussi j'ai vu.... plus le WHO qui met en avant des maladies aussi bénignes connues et maîtrisées que l'épilepsie en avant, l'âge retenu pour être vieux est 65 ans, et que la DÉMENCE visée "bénéficierait" d'une "prise en charge" mise en place par les médecins !... T'as pas intérêt à aller mal... Ni à avoir des analyses de sang trop mauvaises...
Fellow #Fosstodon people, where did you migrate to?
It's quite sad to lose the history of content in the process, but I'd like to at least be sure that our new home will stay online for the years to come, and for it to be a relatively "mainstream" safe space for FOSS people.
wouldn't you miss the local timeline? (I don't know cause I don't use since I'm on social and I've procrastinated to migrate) one of the reasons I might go to a smaller instances instead of self-hosting @tuxdevices
@minkiu I won't, what matters to me is that I can access as much content. This account is so topic focused, no need to have a nice clubhouse (if there were a #linuxmobile focused instance that would be interesting, but alas..) @tuxdevices
@qkalligula I don't know friendica too well, IIRC it was more of a facebook style thing (written in PHP), while gotosocial is a tiny mastodon replacement implemented in Go. It requires less than a GB of RAM and keeps disk-use in check, so that it can be simply run on a SBC or a small VPS. @tuxdevices
#UbuntuTouch #OTA9 is now available! It brings VoLTE support on more carriers, newer version of Waydroid , and more. Check our blog post about this release: ubports.com/blog/ubports-blogs…
Upgraded all of my working arm64 #postmarketOS devices to the latest #phosh #systemd edge! Also wrote a small script to do all my preferred app installs and some configurations (my custom squeekboard layout, autostart TouchpadEmulator, set default scaling to 200%) to make reinstalling less painful.
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in reply to Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD • • •I, for one, am very proud to learn I'm part Siphonophore.
They're like literally one of the coolest animals in the history of existence.
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in reply to Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD • • •Oooooooh! I love the colony systems they have going on.
I don't like their stings, but they're amazing creatures
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