Caitlin Johnstone- The challenge isn’t KEEPING the US out of Israel’s wars, it’s GETTING the US out of Israel’s wars. THAT is where the push should be.thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
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Indigenous scholar Tyson Yunkaporta on gut knowing and brain knowing: "The gut governs terrestrial relations and is in constant communication with land and all our human and nonhuman kin. The head follows slower signals and cannot pivot in ways that are informed by complexity, so the mind can manifest as a top-down governance relation when it is not used in concert with the gut. When a person’s head is in the clouds, carrying or longing for unearned power and privilege, their gut is out of right relation, which may result in a series of cascading failures that affect all the systems and beings around them. Executive function should always be signed off by the gut before any action is taken, if these consequences are to be avoided. Your gut might pick up the subtle informatics of a car salesman weirdly staring at your kids while you’re distracted and checking under the hood—so your head may be telling you it’s a good deal, but your gut is telling you not to trust this creep." - emergencemagazine.org/essay/fi…
I was just talking with @saltphoenix about how much I value the Hawaiian concept na'au, which refers to gut knowing.
I like to think that my gut knowing game is pretty strong, and when working correctly, it leads me in the right direction.
I also like what Dr. Yunkaporta has to say about gut knowing governing everything to do with the land. The longer I live with the land, the more in tune I feel with it, and the better my intuition gets (specifically intuition for land stuff, not in general).
He's right that it operates faster than brain thinking and that it's able to work on incomplete data (the dynamics of the land and ocean and sky are so complicated that you're basically always working with incomplete data when making decisions about how to relate to the land).
Anyway, the article is written in quite fancy language, but the ideas are solid.
#land #gardening #indigenous #solarpunk
Probing the way we overthink and underfeel our existence, Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta urges us to attend to a vital intelligence beyond the cerebral: the fire in our gut.by Tyson Yunkaporta (Emergence Magazine)
They did DNA studies to try to find the location of ancient Ashkenaz homeland of the Adhkenazi Jews in an article I read and they came up with a location in Turkey that they said was where Ashkenaz was
The Soviet Union ancestry might contribute some Mongoloid ancestry mixed with Caucasian ancestry
If I had to guess the primary ancestry of Ashkenazi Jews on average is from Germany, Poland and the Soviet Union where most of them primarily came from
In much smaller amounts than the Syrian Palestinians they might have some ancestry from the middle East near Israel including ancestry from the countries that were enemies of ancient Israel
If you take a weighted average of the locations of their ancestors you might end up with Ashkenaz in Turkey not in Israel
I'm in need of a CAD program with an easy aproach for someone with zero experience on this type of software.
3D printing is not a concern
I intend to draw the blueprints for my house. The building is old, no blueprints exist for it, and I intend to make renovations to it, so having blueprints to work on to plan the renovations will be a huge help.
I've been doing amazing stuff in FreeCAD. It has a lot of power that lets me do things I never thought I would be able to do. It's also riddled with bugs that will make you want to throw your computer out the window.
My success with FreeCAD comes from extremely strict version control and years of use. I've learned to live with a few specific bugs. For example, external geometry doesn't work and hasn't for 14 months. Don't believe the forum when they say it works. It does not. In any given sketch, you will be able to make is 0 or 1 external link work properly without breaking your drawing. If you have more than one external link, even if you aren't using any of them, it will give you a "wire not closed" error when trying to pad or pocket.
Oddly, the subshape binder works perfectly and it is the illegitimate brother of external links. It even uses the external link tool to define import links from the binder object. Using a master sketch and the subshape binder is absolutely brilliant and wildly productive.
It comes down to having several tools to do any given thing but only one or two may be working.
There is a decent architectural plug-in for FreeCAD. I think Yorik wrote it, some time ago, but it's brilliant. I've used it for doing exactly what you describe on several house projects and it's helped quite a bit with renovations.
SweetHome3d is also a decent app but extremely primative and it's not going to create professional looking blueprints for anyone. It's really just a toy but can be extremely useful for mocking up a design or room layout. I have used it for years with great benefit. It's simple, quite powerful, and a brilliant visualization tool.
Honestly, if you want to create real blueprints to give to a builder, you're going to need Windows or OSX and one of a handful of applications, preeminently AutoDesk REVIT. REVIT is probably over specified for your purpose but it's the adult table. At least know it's there if you find linux apps have too many shortcomings.
Look at QCad. They have a paid ($40), and a free version that is fully functional and open source. It's the most autocad-like app out there, so learning that has the advantage of learning the UI of autocad too.
LibreCad that others suggested was forked from Qcad about 15 years ago and hasn't moved much in terms of features. While QCad has. So in my opinion, it's the best solution.
Then there's Freecad, but that's more about 3D cad, and it's more complicated overall.
Iran intercepts 10 Israeli aerial targets over Tehran, Karaj, and Isfahan amid strikes on defense ministry and residential areas, including Narmak.Al Mayadeen English (Iran says minimal damage caused by Israeli attack on Defense Ministry)
Former intelligence and strategic affairs correspondent for the Haaretz newspaper, Yossi Melman
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Okay.
All righty then.
Trump has further clarified his deportation priorities.
"Okay ICE: Go for the big blue cities first. That way we delay going after agricultural workers for the time being, and we're more efficient. Do it NOW, ICE."
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Oh shit after the initial fakeout (cyberattack??) Iran is launching another enormous wave of missiles
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe #palestine #iran #news
Is this the tenth wave or how many are we on?
Se ha producido un #apagón total en el centro de Israel. Las sirenas antiaéreas suenan en todo el país debido a la #nueva oleada de ataques con #misiles iraníes.
Se escucharon #numerosas explosiones en Tel Aviv; cohetes #impactaron en diferentes puntos de la ciudad. En #Haifa, una central eléctrica se incendió tras impactos de #misiles iraníes.
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A people whose entire existence depends solely on military might is destined to end up in the darkest corners of destruction, and ultimately, in defeat.Dikla Taylor (+972 Magazine)
❝Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning.❞
Hell of a research abstract there, via @gwagner: fediscience.org/@gwagner/11469…
To write is to think. Using ChatGPT to write leads to..."cognitive debt", which might be one of the better euphemism for somewhat less polite words.Small n, not yet peer-reviewed, etc arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition.arXiv.org
“Using LLMs makes you stupid” is such an emotionally appealing conclusion that I’m going to consciously work — this post is my public commitment! — not to read •too• much into this one study. As the OP says: small N, not peer reviewed, etc.
But I •will• immediately heed the authors’ “concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance.” However the research shakes out, it seems like good practice to double down on helping students keep their own brains awake and active regardless of the technology available to them.
The forum’s business program includes a plenary session involving EAEU heads of state and over 30 thematic events: plenary sessions, round tables, and business dialogues.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
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Probably everyone that is interested in the Linux desktop has heard about Wayland. It's the next big thing, the replacement for X.org, a solution to a lot of woes in terms of performance and graphics on Linux. And still, it has failed to materialize, over and over, and is still not the default on many big distributions, like Ubuntu, or Linux Mint. Let's see what Wayland is, and how ready it is, right after this!
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Wayland is, in itself, just a protocol. It's not a program, or a replacement for the old X.org display server. This protocol has to be implemented by a compositor, which will display the application's content on the user's screen.
Currently, a lot of distributions use X.org, the very old display server that has served us pretty well for ages. The goal of wayland is to put this old beast to pasture, but for what benefits ?
First, let's take a look at how X.org works. This old thing, dating back to 1987, the blessed year of my birth, by the way, is a multi-layered process:
First, you have your display server, or the X server. It's the central platform to communicate with the clients, like the applications you're using, and the compositor, which displays the windows for these apps themselves. This server is interacting with clients, which are basically your applications, but also with a compositor, which is your window manager, like Kwin on KDE, or Mutter on GNOME.
It's a sturdy process, but it introduces a lot of delay, with some back and forth betwen the server, the compositor, and the application itself.
Wayland has a simpler model, because in Wayland, the compositor IS the server as well.
This means that, in our example, the application opens, tells the compositor that it wants a window, and the compositor gets all the details from the app in one go, decides what to do with the window, and tells the app to draw itself. Yep, on Wayland, the applications also have to do their own rendering on the screen: they manage their own titlebars, their own drop shadows, everything.
This is why you can't just switch GNOME or KDE from X.org to Wayland: the pieces that compose the desktop environment don't play the exact same role on both solutions. On Wayland, the compositor doesn't draw the windows, the app themselves do, so you have to update the window managers to become compositors that don't do any drawing, and you have to update the toolkits, GTK and Qt, to let them draw stuff themselves.
Then there's the issue of the graphics drivers: the Nvidia drivers, the open source AMD or Intel drivers, these were written to send information back and forth with X.org, not with a wayland compositor.
So they also have to be updated to work with that new model. This is already the case, as the open source Mesa drivers, which cover AMD and Intel, already support wayland using a solution called GBM. Nvidia, on the other hand, decided that they had a more efficient solution called EGL, which has to be supported separately by the wayland compositors.
Since Nvidia doesn't seem to be willing to update their driver to use GBM, for nvidia drivers to work with wayland, desktop environments have to also support EGL, which is an extra burden, and also explains why Nvidia drivers are hit or miss when using Wayland.
So, where is Wayland? Well, it's already very well supported:
- GNOME supports Wayland, with Mutter, its window manager and compositor
- KDE supports Wayland as well, with Kwin
- Both GTK 3.20 and QT 5 support wayland out of the box
In terms of distros, Fedora already uses Wayland as the default, if the drivers permit it, and has been since 2016. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 also uses Wayland as the default, and Debian does so as well, for their GNOME sessions. Manjaro also defaults to wayland for the GNOME sessions, if the drivers allow it.
Some programs that were made specifically to work with X.org don't work on wayland-based systems, especially games.
For that use case, Wayland developers have a solution: as wine or proton expects to run in an X Server, Wayland provides the ability to run such a server inside of Wayland, as a client, this is called Xwayland.
The performance of Xwayland, however, seems on par with just running a game on X.org, as demonstrated by Phoronix early this year:
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Gaza (Quds News Network)- At least eleven starving Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces while waiting for food aid across the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning, amid a weeks-long Israeli blockade thaEditing Team (Quds News Network)
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Israel is completing its genocide. Keir Starmer says the aid blockade is 'intolerable'. And yet day after day he tolerates Israel’s bombs, gunfire and mass starvation campaignJonathan Cook
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David Attenborough at 99: 'I will not see how the story ends'
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Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri and commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami have been martyred in 'Israeli' aggression that also targeted scientists and civilians.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
This is a #FediHire post, but it's not about technology, so I don't know how helpful the fediverse will be.
I have a PHD in math and nine years of experience teaching university students. I want to leave higher education and become a high school math teacher, but I am not certified.
I'm in the U.S. and have no easy way to leave. I also can't go four years without an income or health insurance.
What states would be the easiest for me to get at least provisionally certified to teach in?
Also keep in mind that I'm trans, so I am only willing to move to a state where it's legal for me to interact with teenagers and get health care.
A couple of things about these claims circulating that the 2024 election was "rigged":
1. The supposed "proof" is essentially the same nonsensical statistical gobbledygook that the MAGA people were claiming about 2020, with the parties reversed.
2. There is no legal mechanism to "recount" an election after the results are certified. None. The ship has sailed.
3. SHOCKINGLY, they need funds to continue their "work"
4. Nope, not linking to it. Not giving them oxygen.
@evan
Sort of like, it's fine to seek the truth, but the truth now isn't going to deliver the promise being made when asking you to donate money to assist in uncovering the truth.
I understand that finding the truth now won't overturn the certified election. But, *IF* there did end up being proof of actual vote manipulation, the individuals that did so could still be held accountable at least right?
@finner @evan Go for it. But understand a few things:
- the supposed "smoking guns" indicating fraud in 2024, like those put forward in 2020, aren't really anything.
- elections are ultimately human endeavors, run by fallible people, and small but inconsequential "irregularities" are normal and expected. But it's often very easy to make them seem much more sinister and significant than they are.
- versions of almost everything claimed about 2024 were claimed by the MAGA people in 2020.
This will do wonders for China's incursion into the Pacific
Three Pacific nations in Trump's expanded travel ban list | RNZ News
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It's part of President Trump's crackdown on foreign nationals from countries that fail to meet "established benchmarks and requirements" for remaining in the US.RNZ News (RNZ)
Photographer Stephen DiRado was concerned for his father, Gene, as #Alzheimers, took his father away. So he began to take photographs.
“It kept me with him.” #FathersDay buff.ly/6fgLIOQ
Fucking tired of the 'Iran is attacking civilians and Israel is just attacking military sites' bullshit.
YOU DO NOT GET TO CHOOSE HOW YOUR ENEMY FIGHTS
My character is to care about my family, my community, and my country.
Not people 1/2 way around the world who have been warring for centuries.
You can send your kids to die in a sand pit on the other side of the world for people who view them as nothing but war fodder.
I will not.
Your examples is the very reason we shouldn't be involved - to no escalate.
Is Iran the reason people can't afford houses in America? The reason fentanyl is everywhere? The reason people go bankrupt from a car accident requiring hospitalization?
It's WHOLLY UNIMPORTANT.
To write is to think. Using ChatGPT to write leads to..."cognitive debt", which might be one of the better euphemism for somewhat less polite words.
Small n, not yet peer-reviewed, etc arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
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This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition.arXiv.org
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.John Lyons (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
After the last 20 months of #Israel bombing all over the Middle East, this is the #EU conclusion:
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Damselflies, chilling and mating, plus a dragonfly nymph molt. Circle of life, man.
#nature #photography #dragonfly #insects #naturePhotography
HEADLINE: "Tulsi Gabbard’s Nuclear Warning Is Scary and Strange"
ALT HEADLINE: "Tulsi Gabbard Is Scary and Strange"
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Tulsi Gabbard’s new video about the horrors of nuclear war is, indeed, scary — just probably not in the way she intended, says Bloomberg Opinion columnist Marc Champion. (Source: Bloomberg)Bloomberg
🔴 Wife went on a crusade against non-red spectrums of light after sunset.
Now I feel like I live on a submarine.
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same thing with the gooks
all asian animation is now chinese cartoons, i claim it under the mandate of cunny
Alahednews - Fastnews - Fires break out in central and northern occupied Palestine due to Iranian missiles.english.alahednews.news
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Final evacuation order officially lifted nearly six months after Palisades fire
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Six months after a wildfire devastated the Pacific Palisades, the final evacuation orders have been fully lifted, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.Tony Briscoe (Los Angeles Times)
'How to Train Your Dragon' soars with $197.8 million global box office debut; 'Materialists' makes modest start with $12 million collection
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The live-action adaptation of 'How to Train Your Dragon' opens with a staggering $197.8 million worldwide, highlighting the franchise's enduring appeal. Meanwhile, 'Materialists' makes a modest entry with $12 million.AP (Times of India)
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So I got struck by lightning a long time ago and the most important thing I took away from that is just how simply quickly the human brain can comprehend what is happening
You see a bolt of lightning strike a tree and it happens within 1 millionth of a second. When you get struck, that lasts for several minutes. Immediately your brain tells you to just drop to the floor. You can’t. You don’t even have the time to turn your body off and hit the ground. Time doesn’t exist anymore.
But what your mind does, is revolve through every single scenario in one billionth of a second. It’s fascinating how fast it calculates when it needs to.
Eventually, it ends up with, “well I guess this is how I die now”
Not fun.
I mean I didn’t die (clearly) but I certainly didn’t dodge a bullet there
I had a great time at the protest yesterday, but dang the introvert hangover is REAL.
Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014) - tim.dierks.org/2014/05/securit…
The Netscape/Microsoft browser wars in the mid-90's were really vicious and competitive. They really had it out for each other. Netscape had...tim.dierks.org
The Iranian president says Iraq should extend more protection of its borders and airspace to prevent any act of aggression against Iran.PressTV
So it is being re-branded from anti-ICE protests to No King... might be a long, hot summer.
"This is Unlike Anything We've Seen Before... | Victor Davis Hanson"
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"This is Unlike Anything We've Seen Before... | Victor Davis Hanson"In this video, Hanson dissects how progressive policies have led to California’s decline,...YouTube
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There is no cause so noble that you should sacrifice your children to its altar. Shame on you.Chris Abraham
Arthur 'Afa' Folasa Ah Loo, 39, was shot at the Salt Lake City 'No Kings' protest.Tyson Beckett (NZ Herald)
The Jewish state has asked Washington to help strike Iran’s Fordow enrichment site, according to AxiosRT
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Text-to-LoRA: Hypernetwork that generates task-specific LLM adapters (LoRAs)
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Hypernetworks that adapt LLMs for specific benchmark tasks using only textual task description as the input - SakanaAI/text-to-loraGitHub
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It’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting (2021)
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The famed TV artist was one of history’s most prolific painters. But finding Bob Ross paintings for sale is a long shot.Zachary Crockett (HubSpot)
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Main topics of the meeting are expected to be the conflict in Ukraine, the situation in the Asia-Pacific Region and the tariff policy of US President Donald TrumpTASS
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One of the first and still one of the best, Stan Lee’s How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way has been the primary resource for any and all who want to master...Internet Archive
Political studies like to separate out those with college degrees and those without.
I never understood what the implication is. In that demographic are doctors, lawyers and research scientists. Along side graphic designers, HR personnel, and disk jockeys.
These people have nothing in common except they ate at the same cafeteria for 4 years.
it’s because they try to lump the value of all college degrees into the averages. Have you ever met a CEO or C-Suite executive of a Fortune 500 company without a college degree? Or a Doctor, Lawyer, etc…
If they are in the averages they make college degrees seem significantly more valuable.
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@sun I want to go back so much. The density of attractive women was actually a surprise. They're keeping all the cute women to themselves over there.
The female wotas went crazy for the boy bands at the events I walked by. tfw I'm not in a boy band.
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@sun Haven't had the rural japan experience yet. Major cities skewing things makes sense but it was still surprising compared to visiting a major city around here.
I'm also glad I was able to make a spring trip. Streets full of attractive women in kimonos around the cherry blossoms. There's probably photos of me out there where I'm just looking 😳
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I'm here for another five months right now
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