Please tell your friends about federated social media site that speaks several fediverse protocols thus serving as a hub uniting them, hubzilla.eskimo.com, also check out friendica.eskimo.com, federated
macroblogging social media site, mastodon.eskimo.com a federated microblogging site, and yacy.eskimo.com an uncensored federated search engine. All Free!
Not far away, anti-aircraft guns begin to fire โ every blast is a sign that brave people are trying to defend the city. But every shot feels like a lightning bolt of anxiety that unfurls from your heart to your head.
What it felt like overnight in Kyiv as the Russian dictator lashed out in response to Ukraine's sneak attacks on military targets. This morning, we awoke to Journalist's Day in Ukraine.
โI heard the drone flying around, but my roommate Sashka and I are really used to that sound, so we just tried to sleep. Suddenly, the sound became unbearable and louder with every second..."
RUSSIA AIMS TO CUT UKRAINE OFF FROM BLACK SEA: Russia is planning to create a 'buffer' zone in northern Ukraine and then move south to completely cut off Ukraine's access to the Black Sea, according to a top official in Ukraineโs Presidential Office, Politico reported.
UKRAINE LAUNCHED PREEMPTIVE STRIKE AGAINST RUSSIA: Ukraine struck several Russian airfields overnight before Russia launched one of its most powerful air attacks, the Kyiv Independent reported.
Ukraine attacked Engels and Diagilevo airfields. Both are key to conduct air attacks.
Ukrainian strikes reportedly targeted Engels and Dyagilevo airfields โ two key hubs for Russia's long-range bomber fleet, as well as logistics sites in Russia's Kursk Oblast.
GERMANY SCRAMBLES PLANES OVER RUSSIAN INTEL: A Russian reconnaissance plane was spotted in the Baltic Sea yesterday, prompting Germany to scramble two fighter jets, the European Truth reported with reference to DPA.
A war correspondent's open notebook, reporting live from Kyiv. Human stories that illustrate whatโs happening during the war in Ukraine, and elsewhere on the frontlines for democracy.
FERRET OF WAR: Today we have an unusual animal of war โ a ferret! His name is Stitch: just like the cartoon character, he cannot sit in one place and bites a lot.
A war correspondent's open notebook, reporting live from Kyiv. Human stories that illustrate whatโs happening during the war in Ukraine, and elsewhere on the frontlines for democracy.
A good YouTube channel #ThinkUkraine documents some of the life of an average Ukrainian.
"Widow of a military pilot, I'm an ordinary teacher in Kyiv sharing the truth about life during the War. With two kids by my side, your donation to #ThinkUkraine fuels my mission. Help me amplify the voices of those living through the chaos. "
This one is from 25 May 2025, the day Kyiv turned (approximately) 1543 years old.
๐บ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ Widow of a military pilot, I'm an ordinary teacher in Kyiv sharing the truth about life during the War. With two kids by my side, your d...
@timkmak@journa.host > Follow along through the link in bio! Dude... It's #Substack. Substack profits from and provides material fucking support to #NAZIs and Neo-Nazis. ***No thank you.*** #JustSayNoToSubstack
A war correspondent's open notebook, reporting live from Kyiv. Human stories that illustrate whatโs happening during the war in Ukraine, and elsewhere on the frontlines for democracy.
"On Tuesday, a Palantir employee threatened to call the police on a WIRED journalist who was watching software demonstrations at its booth at AI+ Expo. The conference...is free and open to the public, including journalists." www.wired.com/story/palant...
Palantir threatened to call police on a WIRED reporter and kicked out other journalists from a recent conference following reports of the data analytics firmโs work with the Trump administration.
A mystery pigeon lady is snatching โweakโ birds from outside the Met and storing them for days at a time inside her car โ leaving neighbors disturbed over the strange behavior. The birdnapper, who โฆ
Really enjoyed David Gerard's amusing take on how programming with AI becomes like a gambling addiction for many.
"Large language models work the same way as a carnival psychic. Chatbots look smart by the Barnum Effect โ which is where you read whatโs actually a generic statement about people and you take it as being personally about you. The only intelligence there is yours."
"With ChatGPT, Sam Altman hit upon a way to use the Hook Model with a text generator. The unreliability and hallucinations themselves are the hook โ the intermittent reward, to keep the user running prompts and hoping theyโll get a win this time."
"This is why you see previously normal techies start evangelising AI coding on LinkedIn or Hacker News like they saw a glimpse of God and theyโll keep paying for the chatbot tokens until they can just see a glimpse of Him again. And you have to as well. This is why they act like they joined a cult. Send โem a copy of this post."
Youโll have noticed how previously normal people start acting like addicts to their favourite generative AI and shout at you like youโre trying to take their cocaine away. Matthias Dรถpmโฆ
Couldn't resist so I asked #AI if your post was written by AI and honestly I wasn't prepared for the critique:
-----
That excerpt does not appear to be written by AIโit reads very much like the work of a human author with a distinctive voice, strong opinions, and a flair for biting, satirical commentary.
Hereโs why it almost certainly wasnโt AI-generated:
1. Authorial Style: The tone is snarky, sardonic, and rhetorically sharpโhallmarks of a practiced writer with a clear worldview and a human-like sense of irony. AI tends to struggle with sustained sarcasm and tightly controlled satire without explicit prompting.
2. Cultural Referencing & Analogy: Comparing LLMs to carnival psychics, invoking the Barnum Effect, referencing the Hook Model, and equating AI enthusiasm to religious zealotryโthese are layered cultural critiques typical of polemical essayists, not AI text.
3. Narrative Framing & Voice: It uses deliberate pacing, rhetorical repetition ("just a glimpse of Him again"), and personal/colloquial flourishes ("Send โem a copy of this post")โstylistic touches that feel authored, not synthesized.
4. David Gerard Reference: David Gerard is a real-life tech critic known for his skeptical takes on crypto and AI. Referencing his writing and mimicking his voice is something a human poster might do, especially if theyโre quoting or paraphrasing him.
Itโs very likely this came from a blog, a Mastodon post, or something like a Substack articleโnot AI. If it was AI-generated, it would have had to be very tightly prompted and heavily edited by a human afterward.
Let me know if you want help tracing the original source or adapting the tone for something of your own.
-----
The fact that AI apparently seems to know what makes it's writing "appear to be AI" is what I found the most interesting.
How long before the AI companies tweak the settings and throw in more cultural references?
Just a thought: Maybe the planes are attacking the big Shroom because it can provide better insights & that's dangerous for the people in control .. Really nice artwork..๐
โAll questions of power, arising under the constitution of the United States, whether they relate to the federal or a state government, must be considered of great importance. The federal government being formed for certain purposes, is limited in its powers, and can in no case exercise authority where the power has not been delegated. The states are sovereign; with the exception of certain powers, which have been invested in the general government, and inhibited to the
"All questions of power, arising under the constitution of the United States, whether they relate to the federal or a state government, must be considered of great importance.
โThe province of the Court is solely to decide on the rights of individuals... . Questions, in their nature political or which are, by the Constitution and laws, submitted to the Executive, can never be made in this court.โ
~ John Marshall (1755-1835) US Supreme Court Chief Justice Marbury v. Madison, February 23, 1803
"The province of the Court is solely to decide on the rights of individuals... . Questions, in their nature political or which are, by the Constitution and laws, submitted to the Executive, can never be made in this court." ~ John Marshall
I'm in my cushy office, minding my own business, considering taking a nap on the couch. Two guys from the warehouse come bargin in. We had a container arrive from Japan and they were both talking at once telling me that there's no way we can unload it. I had to walk all the way to the warehouse and across it. They had nailed 2x4s to the floor of the container in front of each pallet, to prevent shift. We don't have a loading dock, just a huge bay door and no crow bar. each skid weighed 650lbs...
The pallets were stacked to high to clear the top of the door from the bottom of the contaner. They had tried to get the boards up with a hammer, but werent' able to. I got a second hammer and used it to hammer the claws of the first hammer under the boards and pried them up. Then I stayed in the container and positioned one skid at a time with the pallet jack at opening where our forklift could read them, had the forklift guy pick up a skid and hold it, then had the driver pull forward 2/3
โThat government is best which governs least.โ
~ Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalist Civil Disobedience (1849)
Turns out everything we've been told about the state of Russian army for the past three years was a lie.
โข It's now twice as large as in 2022, and continues to grow โข Production of arms and munitions has soared โข Exposure to the advanced Western weaponry allowed the Russians to figure out how to neutralize it โข The Russian air force, built to fight NATO, is modern and has been preserved intact โข In terms of drone and electronic warfare, Russia is probably ahead of NATO
An Italian parliamentary committee has confirmed that the government used the Israeli-made spyware Graphite, developed by the offensive cyber company Paragon, to hack the smartphones of several activists working with migrants. haaretz.com/israel-news/securiโฆ
The finding by an Italian parliamentary committee comes after WhatsApp announced in January that it had detected that about 100 user accounts were likely hacked using spyware developed by Paragon, an Israeli offensive cyber company
If โToo Lateโ at the Fed would CUT, we would greatly reduce interest rates, long and short, on debt that is coming due. Biden went mostly short term. There is virtually no inflation (anymore), but if it should come back, RAISE โRATEโ TO COUNTER. Very Simple!!! He is costing our Country a fortune. Borrowing costs should be MUCH LOWER!!!
looks like i can get away with just welding a broken part in the old stock RSX exhaust and i don't have to replace the whole thing... which is good cause this is getting ridiculous
โToo Lateโ at the Fed is a disaster! Europe has had 10 rate cuts, we have had none. Despite him, our Country is doing great. Go for a full point, Rocket Fuel!
If people were taught, there would be debates, evidence, peer reviews, discussions. I even heard a congressman say science is settled. Ice is building up in the Arctic also.
Global greening from higher CO2 levels has hit "striking" new heights, the latest research has confirmed. But the Net Zero obsessed mainstream media don't want to tell you about it, says Chris Morrison.
"AI companies claim their tools couldn't exist without training on copyrighted material. It turns out, they could โ it's just really hard. To prove it, AI researchers trained a new model that's less powerful but much more ethical. That's because the LLM's dataset uses only public domain and openly licensed material."
tl;dr: If you use public domain data (i.e. you don't steal from authors and creators) you can train a LLM just as good as what was cutting edge a couple of years ago. What makes it difficult is curating the data, but once the data has been curated once, in principle everyone can use it without having to go through the painful part. So the whole "we have to violate copyright and steal intellectual property" is (as everybody already knew) total BS.
President Trump isnโt ruling out cutting Elon Muskโs government contracts, saying itโs on the tableโif itโs fair for both him and the country. t.me/GeneralMCNews/13751
Email: GeneralMCNews@onmail.com Support my work: https://GeneralMCNews.substack.com X (Twitter): https://X.com/@GeneralMCNews Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@GeneralMCNews
Professor Postol explains that the Golden Dome is a political idea with no technical value, designed to appeal to Trump's supporters by giving the impression that it would protect the US from nuclear threats.
A big worry is that the imbeciles in charge of the US might actually think these defenses work and act more recklessly in a crisis, which could lead to a world ending miscalculation.
MIT Professor and Pentagon advisor Ted Postol presents the dangers of Trump's Golden Dome.Follow me:Substack: https://glenndiesen.substack.com/X/Twitter: htt...
People also forget that a missile defense system is a first strike capability. It's not for protecting people's lives, it's for freeing the leadership from the constraints imposed by MAD.
Anyone who grew up during the Cold War should know this - it was openly discussed in the newspapers in the context of Reagan's similar proposal.
ยซ La #gauche est devenue aussi mensongรจre et hypocrite que la #bourgeoisie parce quโelle continue ร proclamer sa vertu, la dรฉfense des pauvres. Elle continue ร sโaffirmer comme le reprรฉsentant des classes misรฉrables. Mais elle ment. Elle dรฉfend et soutient exclusivement ce qui peut la servir, ceux qui sont utilisables soit pour sa propagande, soit pour lโaction directe. Elle utilise les pauvres exactement comme le capitalisme. Elle les exploite. Elle les fait marcher sans leur dรฉvoiler ses vrais objectifs. Elle leur ment jour aprรจs jour. ยป ยซ On nโavait pas en 1936 ou en 1945 le droit de dire que le communisme stalinien รฉtait une dictature sanguinaire et que les camps de concentration y รฉtaient รฉquivalents ร ceux du nazisme. On nโa pas le droit aujourdโhui de dire que la Chine est une dictature de fer et que les camps de concentration y sont florissants. Chuttโฆ cela servirait les ennemis de la rรฉvolution. La gauche est engagรฉe jusquโau cou dans le mensonge. Elle ne reprรฉsente en rien les pauvres. Elle ne les dรฉfend en rien. Elle a substituรฉ pour eux, ร lโillusion religieuse du paradis cรฉleste ร venir, lโillusion politique du paradis terrestre ร venir. La gauche est lโexact รฉquivalent de lโรglise bourgeoise du XIXe siรจcle, ร lโรฉgard des pauvres. Elle en prรฉsente les mรชmes caractรจres et mรฉrite le mรชme mรฉpris. Parmi les pauvres, exactement comme pour les bourgeois chrรฉtiens du XIXe siรจcle, il y a les bons pauvres, ceux qui marchent dans la combine, ceux qui sont les bons moutons de la rรฉvolution, ceux dont la situation peut รชtre exploitรฉe comme facteur de propagande. Et puis les mauvais pauvres, ceux qui refusent, dans un rรฉgime communiste, de se trouver bien ceux qui se rรฉvoltent ร tort et ร travers simplement parce quโils sont malheureux et sans tenir compte des plans de la rรฉvolution mondiale, ceux qui reprรฉsentent des valeurs et une culture traditionnelles. Tous ceux-lร il faut simplement les rรฉprimer, les refouler. ยป ยซ Il est vrai que la gauche ne prรฉtend plus le moins du monde รชtre rรฉvolutionnaire. Elle a enterrรฉ la rรฉvolution, et sโapprรชte paisiblement ร occuper le pouvoir pour continuer. Mais il faut aller plus loin. Non seulement elle nโest plus rรฉvolutionnaire, mais elle occupe maintenant un rรดle tout ร fait prรฉcis : sa fonction dans la sociรฉtรฉ moderne est de bloquer la rรฉvolution. La gauche, des radicaux jusquโau PC, PSU compris, a reรงu dรฉlรฉgation tacite du corps social entier pour que la rรฉvolution ne puisse pas avoir lieu. Les meilleurs gardiens de lโestablishment ce sont les partis de gauche et les syndicats. Pensez donc, si ces partis arrivent au pouvoir ce ne peut รชtre que grรขce au jeu des institutions mรชmes ! Comment ne les garderait-on pas avec le plus grand soin ? Bien entendu, je ne dis pas quโil y a une connivence explicite, et une formulation claire de ce rรดle. Les bourgeois font toujours semblant dโavoir trรจs peur du PC. Mais combien il est rassurant, ce brave PC ! Il ne fait plus peur ร personne, et la bourgeoisie sait trรจs bien que lโon pourra dorรฉnavant sโentendre avec lui. Il faut seulement avoir lโair dโavoir peur pour que lโidรฉe de son opposition et de sa rรฉvolution soit ยซ crรฉdible ยป, cโest-ร -dire pour que les forces de rรฉvolte qui existent dans la sociรฉtรฉ puissent รชtre fixรฉes, catalysรฉes, bloquรฉes sur le PC et de ce fait ne sโexercent pas en tant que forces de rรฉvolte, ailleurs, sur un autre point et de faรงon incontrรดlable. La gauche est le grand paratonnerre anti-rรฉvolutionnaire. ยป Jacques #Ellul, Le naufrage de la gauche. #politique #pipolitique
Le PS a rรฉformรฉ massivement tout au long des annรฉes 1980, en faveur du capital : il a mis fin au contrรดle des crรฉdits et des taux dโintรฉrรชts et a dรฉrรฉglementรฉ les marchรฉs financiers. Il a lรฉgalisรฉ les produits dรฉrivรฉs ร lโorigine de la crise de 2008. Il a soutenu le traitรฉ de Maastricht qui nous a fait perdre notre indรฉpendance monรฉtaire et nous a livrรฉs pieds et poings liรฉs aux emprunts auprรจs des marchรฉs financiers. Et dans le mรชme temps, il a dรฉsindexรฉ les salaires des prix.
Failure, corruption and warmongering: Ursula von der Leyen is awarded the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen for her contribution to the EU โ because in Europe utter failure is not only tolerated, but celebrated! It is one of lifeโs guilty pleโฆ
Kuiper et al. looked at the effectiveness of these approaches and found that only one, removal of the poacherโs reward through dehorning, significantly reduced rhinoceros loss.
At the re:publica internet conference, Federal Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger (CDU) took up the cudgels for greater digital sovereignty in Germany and Europe. He wants to make open standards and open source the "guiding principle", emphasized the former CEO of Ceconomy (MediaMarkt and Saturn) on Tuesday in Berlin.
All the discussions he has had in his four weeks in office "include precisely these topics". The urgency to become more independent of traditional software providers, cloud service providers and big tech companies from the USA is "greater than ever". However, it will not be possible to simply flip a switch here. Rather, it is possible to raise awareness for change.
According to Wildberger, German and European IT solutions offer the opportunity to create platforms and build technologies that are based on "our values". He specifically mentioned freedom, the rule of law, justice, openness, the social market economy and a functioning community. What is needed is a Germany stack, i.e. a uniform IT infrastructure with cloud and IT services that do not have to be built 20 times each. Every citizen should also receive a digital identity via the planned EU wallet (EUDI).
Currently, over 75 percent of European cloud data is "in the hands of US hyperscalers", the minister said, referring to the strength of AWS, Google, Microsoft & Co. "Why?" he asked the audience. This approach has no future; the German government is committed to European structures in the computer clouds. These are "part of a fair, open and innovation-driven competition". Sensitive payment data leaving the EU legal area
The former manager also believes there is an urgent need for alternative offers for digital payments "that are accepted and give citizens a more secure feeling". This requires a trustworthy infrastructure with the highest security standards. Currently, 80 percent of payment providers do not come from Europe, meaning that a lot of sensitive data leaves "our jurisdiction". However, he did not address the plans for a digital euro. With social media, it is also important to act in a decentralized manner and work with open interfaces to improve exchange.
Achieving a digital administration with functioning e-government is another "big issue" that Wildberger wants to tackle. Other countries are orchestrating this more centrally, but he does not yet have all the answers for a solution. He aims to set up a federal IT security center in close cooperation with the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) to create the basic requirements for digital services, for example. The country also needs an "economic push forward". The location must also be attractive for start-ups in the data economy and AI sectors. The state's task here is to create a free space for start-ups in which they can "build something themselves".
A new twin study published in Translational Psychiatry suggests that the sensory sensitivities often seen in autistic individuals may not be caused by autism itself. Instead, these sensory traits appear to be genetically linked to alexithymiaโa condition characterized by difficulties in identifying and describing oneโs own emotions. After accounting for alexithymia, the researchers found no remaining genetic association between autism and sensory symptoms. These findings challenge long-standing assumptions about the nature of autism and point to the possibility that some hallmark features attributed to the condition may instead arise from overlapping but distinct traits.
Extrait de notre entretien avec l'ancien lobbyiste de l'UE Frรฉdรฉric Baldan, dans lequel il explique comment le cabinet de RP bien connu Hill & Knowlton a ลuv...
"ฤฐnsan haklarฤฑnฤฑn varlฤฑฤฤฑ ve geรงerliliฤi yฤฑldฤฑzlara yazฤฑlmaz ... Tarihin bรผyรผk bir bรถlรผmรผ bu haklar iรงin verilen mรผcadeleyle dolu.. Son zaferin asla kazanฤฑlamayacaฤฤฑ bir zafer. Ama bu mรผcadelede yorulmak toplumun yฤฑkฤฑlmasฤฑ anlamฤฑna gelir. โ
iam-elegance
in reply to dead key • • •dead key likes this.