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"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."

(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/19/goo…


Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage

iNaturalist is a website that crowdsources pictures of plants and animals to help identify species. Its tagline is “A Community for Naturalists.” iNaturalist is administered by its own small charit…
Pivot to AI

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"It's the Christians' fault!" Lol. What's funny about it is religion is not even needed to base an argument on. It's common sense. I never use it that way. It's automatically rejected without a 2nd thought. I know atheists who think the same as I do. It makes for great discussion and we lead by example.

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Defense Secretary Hegseth hails U.S. strikes in Iran as 'overwhelming success'; VP Vance: Open to diplomacy haaretz.com/us-news/2025-06-22…

Defense Secretary Hegseth hails U.S. strikes in Iran as 'overwhelming success'; VP Vance: Open to diplomacy

The strikes mark the largest B-2 operational strike in U.S. history, with officials estimating the three targets struck in Iran had 'sustained extremely severe damage and destruction' ■ Vice President Vance says U.S.
Ben Samuels (Haaretz)

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#Israel
#TheScarsOfDavid

The level of evil and cruelty with Israel is boundless.


Why Israel is arming ISIS-linked gangs in Gaza, with Muhammad Shehada

Israel has admitted to arming an ISIS-linked gang in Gaza. We talk to Palestinian analyst Muhammad Shehada who explains why.Read more here: https://electroni...
YouTube

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"All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing."

-- Edmund Burke
(1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker
Source: Attributed, not found in any of his writings, originally mistakenly appeared in Barlett's Familiar Quotations

Quotation by Edmund Burke

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing." ~ Edmund Burke
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“History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”

~ Abba Eban
[Aubrey Solomon Meir] (1915-2002) Israeli diplomat and politician
Speech in London, 16 December 1970

Quotation by Abba Eban

"History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." ~ Abba Eban
LibertyQuotes
in reply to Theodore John Kaczynski

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laurel

Osint as a fad has been completely coopted.
Osint as a function is still going strong on this side. It's just a fancy word for what /cow/boys were doing a decade ago, while /sg/, kiwifarmers and similar are doing nowadays.

Their online Ukraine psyop has been their most successful this far. They have been trying to copy GG and Trump2016 type of online organization for years and they were finally successful.
An irl friend of mine was completely mind broken by it.

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Do you know when the mice abandon ship?

“If there’s nothing to hide, let the journalists in.”

Speaking on the BBC, British journalist Piers Morgan delivered a scathing critique of Israel’s ongoing blockade of Gaza and its refusal to grant access to international media.

He condemned the humanitarian crisis, accusing Israeli forces of starving a civilian population already devastated by war, and targeting people queuing for limited food aid.

#Gaza #GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes #PiersMorgan

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Sankoré, the famous medieval mosque-university at Timbuktu (in present-day Mali), was set up around the 12th century and is proof that Africans have always pursued knowledge.
(I remember a senior professor who was quite shocked to discover that Timbuktu exists...)

folukeafrica.com/timbuktu-site…


Timbuktu: Site of 1st African University

Sankoré was a contemporary of Oxford and the Sorbonne.
Foluke's African Skies

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I know I'm late to the party to be finishing @karenhao's Empire of AI Now. But now that I've finished the book, I can tell you that it is nothing short of a masterpiece. It needs to be required reading for everyone in the tech industry, or anyone who wants to be in the tech industry.

The book also articulates why I've had such an aversion to OpenAI since its inception in 2015, more so than any other tech company.

penguinrandomhouse.com/books/7…


Empire of AI by Karen Hao: 9780593657508 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

An Instant New York Times Bestseller “Excellent and deeply reported.” —Tim Wu, The New York Times “Startling and intensely research...
PenguinRandomhouse.com
in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her).

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Timnit Gebru (she/her).

I even said that there is a higher chance of me wanting to go back to Google, the company that fired me, than OpenAI. I've never been to fully articulate why I had such an aversion to them, but once you read Empire of AI, you'll understand.

Now, Anthropic is being sold as the benevolent alternative to OpenAI, just like OpenAI was sold as the benevolent alternative to Google back in 2015. Don't buy it.

Please read the book which is based on years of meticulous reporting by Karen.

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Sabin10

A lot of games are going to work without you having to do anything and some will need some tinkering. In that case, protondb.com/ will be your best friend, telling you exactly what you need to do to get things running.

That being said, some games simply can't be run under Linux. They might work in the future as compatibility improves but some won't. If it's an issue for you, you might want to dual boot windows as a workaround.

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I’ve begun my journey to reduce my reliance on US tech, so it’s time for an update on how it’s all going.

No surprise, some services are far more easy to replace than others. Email and streaming are low-hanging fruit; maps and messaging can be more difficult. But we should still make the effort.

disconnect.blog/p/getting-off-…

#tech #digitalsovereignty #email #socialmedia #streaming


Getting off US tech is no easy task

But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make the effort
Paris Marx (Disconnect)
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One of anthropology’s great cautionary tales involves the American anthropologist Margaret Mead. Mead travelled to Samoa in the 1920s and described in her book Coming of Age in Samoa a society totally free of the Western world’s sexual taboos, to its great benefit. The book captivated Western audiences and seemed to suggest a happy alternative to our damaging complexes and hangups, a world of joyful love and sex without guilt and shame — until it was revealed, decades later, by Derek Freeman, that Mead’s informants had been systematically lying to her about their sexual lives because she was an outsider and a woman. The whole thing was a dream. Mead’s Samoa didn’t exist and never had.

Critics of liberalism and multiculturalism, especially critics of the postmodern variety, see them both as a kind of Western imperialism, whilst denying that they are such. These people are right. Presented as neutral political and interpretive frames that allow the world’s great multitude of peoples to live happily side by side and “be who they really are” in peace and harmony, liberalism and multiculturalism are nothing of the sort. They smuggle in values, not least of all a commitment to moral universalism, to individual over group, to law over custom, that are utterly partial in their origin and force, and to which the vast majority of people throughout history have not subscribed and probably couldn’t even if they wanted to.

The multicultural experiment forced on Britain and other Western nations by their ruling classes is not a genuine encounter with the Other. It’s a dangerous fantasy, a delusion of shared humanity that ends in disaster. We’ve been told these people are just like us, though they may wear a different skin colour and worship a different god — but they’re not. Just how different they are is a lesson our rulers still have yet to learn, if they even care to learn it at all, but one tens of thousands of young white girls will never be able to forget.

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From someone who was blessed enough to see on television the #ColdWar, the #GulfWar, the invasion of #Iraq (with Saddam Hussein hanged in #Baghdad to mark a job well done, take note, #Khamenei), #911, the #Afghanistan campaign, more intifadas and Gaza wars than one could possibly remember, and all kinds of raghead dictators firing AK-47s in the air for the cheer of their loyal supporters, here's how all of this is going to play out unless #Iran backs down: the #USA is going to go in there, they're going to be kicking in doors in #Tehran by the time you can say mid-term elections, and for the next 25 years they'll be there trying to have free elections and make decent people out of religious fanatics who they end up calling the Iranian Police Force.

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R&D Successes Onboard Biomass


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Radio eye on forest mission Biomass

For any space mission to launch, thousands of hours must have been spent iterating new technologies to make the spacecraft fly. The Biomass satellite, which today shared its first science data, is no exception. The probe, which carries just a single instrument on board, will perform a five-year census of all the trees on Earth to teach us more about how climate change and pests are affecting the world’s forests than we’ve ever learnt before.

#engineering #technology #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Brian Ó Donnell / pod_feeder_v2 · GitLab

Publishes RSS/Atom feeds to Diaspora*
GitLab

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U.S. enters war on Iran, strikes nuclear facilities #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2025/06/u-s-ent…

U.S. enters war on Iran, strikes nuclear facilities

After a week of anticipation, the U.S. struck Iran’s nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Iran accuses the U.S. of “betraying diplomacy” and violating international law and the UN Charter.
Qassam Muaddi (Mondoweiss)

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"Senior officers in London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have accepted invitations to address an Israeli think tank linked to its government and intelligence service, Mossad..

A number of high-ranking MPS officers have also accepted gifts or hospitality from the Israeli embassy in London, despite MPS guidance stating that such offers be refused"

#Israel #MPS #MetPol #Palestine

Met Police linked to Israel as it gears up for pro-Palestine protests
declassifieduk.org/met-police-…


Met Police linked to Israel as it gears up for pro-Palestine protests

Senior Metropolitan Police officers are regular attendees at a think tank closely tied to Israel’s military and intelligence services and have accepted hospitality from its embassy in London.
JOHN McEVOY (Declassified Media ltd)

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While the world’s got its eyes on the war between Israel, the US, and Iran, the Zionist death machine keeps grinding on in Gaza. Our friend Hamza just dropped a gut-wrenching piece showing the brutal desperation of Palestinians trying to grab aid while dodging bullets. Reposting the video from @dropsitenews so y’all can see what that nightmare actually looks like.

#Gaza #FreePalestine #GenocideInGaza #ZionismIsTerrorism #PalestinianLivesMatter #CeasefireNow #EndTheOccupation #Solidarity #DropsiteNews #Hamza

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Portland, OR, everyone. This is DHS not only starting the violence but escalating it. This is what Trump and his thugs want, the entire west coast up in flames, and they, and they alone, are inciting it. It's why they have nearly 30 tanks now stashed at the Port of LA.

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Trump's trade deal with China is a rollback to the pre-trade war status quo, but with Americans paying a higher tariff rate.

Trump's tariffs will cause more economic pain to the US than China, with the World Bank projecting US growth to slow significantly. China, as the world's largest goods exporter and leader in processing critical materials, has leverage in the global economy and can respond to US restrictions with its own.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/20…

#usa #china #economics #tradewar

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Weird Computer Contest
A contest to see the strangest computer being used to read mastodon/the fediverse. The prize is a cool drawing from me just for you.

Rules:

1. Post a reply to show your device and why it is strange. Can mean hardware and software. A photo is better.
2. You can't go *too* much out of your way to use some goofy device that you don't ever really use.
3. Winner selected by general consensus.

This is *not* just an excuse to see/post photos of strange computers.

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stibbons

My daily driver for most of my personal computer touching these days is a ClockworkPi DevTerm. The photo doesn't really convey scale, but it's about the size of an A5 sheet of paper.

Inside the hardware is nothing special, it's a raspberry pi CM4 module on a custom carrier. But I really enjoy the form factor. The keyboard is OK for four-finger typing on the couch, but I do frequently connect an external keyboard and display.

The screen is 1280x480. I'm usually running emacs full screen and split in to two windows side but side. That gives me enough to comfortably read and write text.

I use mastodon.el in emacs. It's not as good as tusky on my phone, but it does the job.

A small flat rectangular computer, with a beige case. It's arranged landscape orientation, the top half occupied by a very thin and wide screen, the bottom half with a compact, dark grey keyboard. The screen is split in two windows. One showing lines of text (recognisable as this thread if you zoom and squint). The other features ASCII art saying "emacsOS".

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#Zionists OWNS America
Professor #JeffreySachs once again reveals the whole truth about the illegal and unprovoked #USA attack on #Iran.
He ridicules the current administration and irreparably exposes the deep state and the #CIA.
Is he saying anything new?
Certainly not, but it is quite satisfying to hear it from a recognized #US professor.
Enjoy

youtube.com/watch?v=hrwGNN0qNg…


Professor Jeffrey Sachs Reveals TRUTH on US Iran War

The US has officially attacked Iran and Professor Jeffrey Sachs joins the show to help us understand the truth about the US Iran War.00:00 - Intro to Jeffrey...
YouTube
in reply to Spartacus

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heretical_i

Cites on mqy claim that Zionists ARE NOT Jews. They're apostates.

meridian.allenpress.com/awg/ar… Academic paper

huckmag.com/article/zionism-is… Ilan Pappe

Ps. When I told my mother my zionist weapons smuggling post wwii father was teaching Comparative Religion at UNC Asheville in the 90s, she lol and said: "He never had a religious bone in his body!". Any questions?


Zionism is not Judaism and other myths about Israel

In this excerpt from his groundbreaking book, outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the origins of Zionism and tracks its role in…
TCO London Publishing

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LIVE: Iran vows to retaliate over US attacks; Trump warns of regime change | Israel-Iran conflict News | Al Jazeera
aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20…

- ‘Trump doesn’t want to quit while he’s ahead’
- Iran to observe holy month of Muharram under shadow of war
- Israel promises to continue Iran attacks until ‘all goals achieved’
- Israel says it is striking military sites in western Iran
- Two supertankers make U-turn in Strait of Hormuz after US strikes on Iran: Report

#Iran #Israel #USA


LIVE: Iran missiles slam into Israel as huge explosions rock Tehran

Israel and Iran continue to trade attacks as US President Donald Trump hints at possible regime change in Tehran.
Usaid Siddiqui (Al Jazeera)

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Israeli media has been limited in detailing the specifics of recent attacks on targets within Israel due to military censorship. For instance, most outlets didn't mention that Tel Aviv University was the target of a strike yesterday, which damaged a nearby shopping area. The prominent coffee shop's signage at the site was cropped or not included in the images published, even though they circulated widely on social media.

This morning's message states only the following:

"Israel Electric Corporation: Strategic infrastructure facility in the south was hit, disruptions in electricity supply to settlements in the area"

Instead, Israelis are shown random images of attacks on targets in Iran.

@palestine
@israel
#TAU #Israel #Iran
Don't forget the #GazaGenocide

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The Israeli #Mossad agents just bombed the entrance of #Tehran’s #Evin #prison in an effort to facilitate the escape of prisoners in order to destabilise Iran’s security.

It was never about Nuclear Weapons! It's all about regime change like Iraq, Libya & Syria.

#WarOnIran #IranUnderAttack #Israel #Iran #RegimeChange

video shared on #BlueSky
bsky.app/profile/faab64.bsky.s…

And #Telegram
t.me/newsvideofa/3471

@iran @israel


Resistance & Current News videos ☮️🇵🇸

The Israeli occupation has just bombed the entrance of Tehran’s Evin District prison in an effort to facilitate the escape of prisoners in order to destabilise Iran’s security.
Telegram

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Quoting Noa Limona on how the Israeli media is reckoning with uncritically accepting military explanations for targeting journalists and media infrastructure, after using the same justifications in both Gaza and Iran attacks that are now being used at home against them:

[…] After all, the killing of journalists in Gaza is covered here only through the #IDF filter, according to which they are all terrorists.

[…] and the bombing of the Iranian broadcasting network was reported with cheers and corrupt mockery. No journalist in the mainstream media questioned the army’s justifications for the bombing: the station ‘served military activity,’ the wonder excuse that worked for us in Gaza, and served as ‘a mouthpiece of the regime that incites genocide.’ It seems that no one in Israeli studios felt the crushing irony.”

Limona’s concludes that the assault on press freedom that began with targeting foreign journalists is expanding to encompass Israeli media outlets that don’t toe the government line. She warns that even mainstream Israeli channels (11, 12, 13) are now being labeled as problematic by government supporters, suggesting that the restrictions will eventually affect all non-compliant media.

Hebrew haaretz.co.il/opinions/2025-06… or archive.is/oKaRU

@palestine
@israel
#PressFreedom #Israel #Palestine #Iran


צל על התקשורת — הפגיעה בעיתונות הזרה במהלך המלחמה היא סכנה של ממש

לזירה מוכת ההרס בתל אביב זרמו אתמול כוחות הצלה רבים כדי לפנות פצועים, לאתר לכודים ולוודא שאין עוד סכנה בין הבניינים המטים לנפול. ואמנם עד מהרה אותרה סכנה חמורה,
נועה לימונה (הארץ)

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A lot of bitter truth. And, as far as I can, as a non-US-citizen , I share her feelings.
What a lot of people prefer to ignore (also in Europe, very much so):

"n fact, Iran hasn’t attacked any other country unprovoked in nearly 300 years, while Israel has attacked five countries in just the past year while also committing genocide."

laura-bassett.com/p/reality-tv…


Reality TV star bombs Iran

We could really use some honest headlines right now.
Laura Bassett (Nightcap)

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A Highland-wide control zone to limit Airbnb-style lets has been suggested as a way of tackling a shortage of homes across the region.

Councillors proposing the move said 7,011 short-term let licences had been granted across the Highlands, but only four refused.

Holiday lets are not banned in control areas, but operators need planning permission as well as a short-term lets licence.

The councillors said the powers could be used where there was local demand for them.

Highland Council officials said control area status for the whole of the Highlands would require research and, if it was introduced, could mean additional costs and workload for its planning department. The idea of Highland-wide status has been suggested by Inverness councillors Michael Gregson and Duncan Macpherson.

In a paper going to next week's meeting of the full council, they said the region needed more than 24,000 homes over the next 10 years.

They added: "The private long-term rental market has shrunk disastrously: estate agents are withdrawing from letting out properties because of the shortage of properties available.

"Even taking into account the efforts of Highland Council and the housing associations, there is a shortage of affordable housing."


Limit on Airbnb-style lets in Highlands proposed

Councillors behind the idea say it could tackle a shortage of homes in the region.
Steven McKenzie (BBC News)
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HaleakalaCrater

@Fullycaffeinated I don’t think there’s anything wrong with hoping for that, it seems logical to expect it someday. I saved a lot first and had to blow almost all my savings on just LAND. Then acquired loans for construction. Today, I’m paying a large amount on property taxes, almost $1,000 USD a month. Maybe more soon, we just got reassessments.

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One difference between real human interlocutors and language models is the level of sycophancy. Consumer chatbots are trained to be helpful, but there are situations where a human will give you what you need, not what you want.

Testing this, I just posted this query to chatGPT, and got the shopping advice I requested, missing what I think is the clearly superior response of "Hey Buddy, are you sure your wife really wants to celebrate her birthday with housework?"

1/

Screenshot of ChatGPT. Prompt "I am buying my wife a birthday present. She is a home keeper and works hard to keep the house clean and tidy. We don't currently have a vacuum cleaner and I know buying her one would make keeping the floors clean easier for her. What kind of model should I buy?"
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Stephen Royle

your example was great. It reminded me a bit of AITA or confession things you read online where it is kind of obvious what the situation is but the person recounts it in such a way that it is obscured. Example: man says he outsmarts his wife by telling her about minor issues (and is forgiven) when he does so after she returns from one of her weekends away with a male work colleague.
Not sure this helps formulate a question!

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Excellent disquisition on Trump's fundamental racism. While DEI is in its essence of course reasonable and sane, here there is the finer-grained analysis of how it plays out in the still white world. Black artists don't need white approval--and therein is also the conundrum of how "black and white" are such horseshit terms, yet the lived reality underscores otherwise--so far.

theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…


Trump is terrified of Black culture. But not for the reasons you think

A look back at 1960s Black arts movement explains why Trump is obsessed with eliminating Black artistry and the museums and institutions that support it
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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