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!
PULSE POINTS ❓WHAT HAPPENED: A new detention center for illegal immigrants in Florida's Everglades, nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” is under construction.
NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX are targeting 2:31 a.m. EDT, Wednesday, June 25, for launch of the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, Axiom Mission 4. The mission will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew will travel to the orbiting laboratory on a […]
Here is a quick series of frequently asked questions about the X11 session kissing us goodbye. Shoutout to Nate from which I copied the format of the post. Is Xorg unmaintained and abandoned? No,...
The fight for the safety and rights of LGBTQ+ people is not just a fight for visibility online (and offline)—it’s a fight for survival. Join us to make the internet private, safe, and full of gay pride. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/lgbt…
You know, a dangerously high majority of pride postings and declarations are ugly politics and/or business. This is something concrete, useful and much needed. Thank you.
Despite the hype, Model Context Protocol (MCP) isn’t magic or revolutionary. But, it’s simple, well-timed, and well-executed. At Stainless, we’re betting it’s here to stay.
My mom is safely with the Lord. She slipped away peacefully this morning around 9 am. I stayed with her until the morning, holding her hand, kissing her forehead, and softly touching her to soothe her. We listened to praise music all through the night.
I thought I did not have the courage to be with mom when she died, but the Lord came through and He gave me the strength.
When I realized mom was gone, I went to hallway to ask the nurses to help. Two of the nurses went into the room to check. And at that moment, all that strength left me.
They closed the door, and I put my hands over my ears like a child because I didn't want to hear them calling my mom and her not answering. When they came out of the room, one of them went to the linen cart and pulled out two sheets, and I knew why and I burst into tears.
Sending you and your family prayers for this time. How difficult it must have been to be there, but so important you were able to be with mom in her final moments on Earth. I am sorry.
My deepest sympathies on the passing of your beloved Mother. I am so very sorry to hear this sad news, but how wonderfulthat the Lord gave you the courage to be with her. May she Rest in Peace, and Rise in Glory. God bless. ✝️
I use OSM and Organic Maps, but I have difficulty searching by address or business. I end up using my computer, finding the location, matching it to the map in the app, and favoriting it. Am I doing this the dumb way? Is there an alternative FOSS navigation app which has this functionality?
Transit (Bike/Bus/Rail) and Waze, sometimes Google maps just for more...global maps. (Eg, stuff like finding a campground on a map, or a certain bakery)
Same except I supplement with Gmaps. Transit is fantastic if you know your destination but Gmaps is way better at looking around for restaurants for example
obviously, I doubt Rutte was expecting this message to be shared. If he wasn't a complete moron and actually doing this just to stroke his own ego, I'd actually give Donald props for leaking it, as Rutte kissing Donald's ass makes him look terrible, and more broadly makes the European parts of NATO look terrible.
I imagine Rutte's intent is to stroke Trump's ego to try and keep him interested in NATO, but I feel like that's a fool's errand. Trump doesn't give a shit about anyone else but himself. This new agreement, with NATO signatories needing to commit 5% of their GDP, feels like a grift for the benefit of U.S. defense contractors. The U.S. cannot be trusted to actually honor their agreements anymore, so why pay more into their alliance? Is Europe really that scared of further Russian aggression?
This new agreement, with NATO signatories needing to commit 5% of their GDP, feels like a grift for the benefit of U.S. defense contractors. The U.S. cannot be trusted to actually honor their agreements anymore, so why pay more into their alliance? Is Europe really that scared of further Russian aggression?
Their massively investing in European defense industry, not just buying more from the US. They are scared of Russian aggression and they are scared the US will not honor NATO agreements which is why they're committing so hard to defense spending. Also, I believe it's 3.5% for military and 1.5% for infrastructure.
They are also spending big on domestic arms production. France will be a big winner out of this since they've long valued independent military arms production and the rest of Europe will want to buy French stuff (yes along with American stuff) while they get their arms production up and running. South Korea is also a big arms supplier internationally.
The reduction in US support for NATO is largely part of a pivot to focusing on Taiwan and China. The US military industry would love it if the US focused on both and kept cozy relations with europe. I'm sure they're happy with the whole world increasing defense spending amid rising tensions, but they aren't happy about the US scaring away customers. I hate how involved the US military is globally but acting like Trump is some mastermind of American imperialism is reductive and giving him too much credit. The thought that Europe shouldn't be worried about Russia (the ones currently invading a European country) is bonkers.
Enterprises affiliated with the Belarusian Industry Ministry will present their goods at the Made in Belarus exposition at the 12th Forum of Regions of Belarus and Russia in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Download/Stream - https://lnk.to/GlennMedeirosFormed in the late 1970’s by Leonard Silver, Amherst Records has a variety of releases including The Stylistics...
When the reaction to daubing paint on warplanes is to call the group terrorist and when a band who call out genocide are banned we have to decide if we speak for the oppressed or agree with the very rich and powerful. Does anyone know if Palestine Action or Kneecap have accounts here on Mastodon which we can follow? #Kneecap #PalestineAction theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Editorial: Labelling direct action as an act of terror criminalises dissent, chills speech and redefines nuisance as extremism under the banner of national security
Really enjoy the entire world having to worry about the minute-to-minute emotional state of a 79-year old narcissistic rapist and fraudster. It really brings home how effective constitutional democracy actually is.
#zombies I should tell you, I love you, I do My words should explain, but my words won't come I shouldn't hide my love deep inside My words should explain, but my words won't come Colin Blunstone, British rock singer-songwriter (The Zombies) is 80 youtu.be/7ViYPQSZlg8?si=foOLVO…
Sounds for when you are lying down while dissociating in a hospital bed.
Tracks from 1 to 3 are are in custom scales that i made based on my personal perception of the tones and timbres found in the hospital environment. Track 4 uses Wendy Carlos Super Just tuning. Track 5 is in 24 EDO. I used only the #LMMS Triple Oscillator and free samples as well as my own recordings.
Not going to pretend like I'm all that invested in NYC politics, but "Vote Cuomo, Not The Homo" is objectively one of the hardest campaign slogans ever.
Iran’s response could determine whether the recent escalation turns into a broader war, or even the widely feared World War III. Join us on Telegram, Twitter,…
🎙️ Enseignant, spécialiste de la guerre informationnelle et des enjeux numériques, Fabrice Epelboin décrypte dans cette première partie d’entretien les mutations profondes de nos régimes politiques à l’ère des #réseauxsociaux.
Vivons-nous encore en démocratie, ou bien dans une oligarchie ? Les plateformes comme TikTok ou Twitter peuvent-elles être compatibles avec une expression libre et éclairée ? Et comment comprendre les nouvelles droites radicales qui émergent un peu partout dans le monde, des libertariens californiens au trumpisme version Bannon ?
Un entretien dense, sur l’état des libertés, la #captologie, la fabrique de l’ #opinion et la fin de la social-démocratie en #Europe.
⏱ Chapitres : 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:02:05 – Peter Thiel, JD Vance, le fascisme de Bannon, MAGA 00:06:59 – Ce que dit la rupture entre Trump et Musk 00:11:15 – Pourquoi ce goût pour la censure en France 00:14:50 – Comprendre le bandwagon effect 00:17:54 – Alex Hitchens, AD Laurent… le ridicule de la commission TikTok 00:23:00 – Le divorce entre peuple et élites (immigration, RIC…) 00:29:21 – Algorithmes, captologie, bulles de filtre 00:35:25 – TikTok et la revanche de la Chine
Comcast rant (US Internet provider) - manage your home network at home, please
Sensitive content
I thought i would try to save on Internet costs by trying out Comcast (I will never say their new name, it's worse than twitters) because the fiber provider i have was cheap when i got it but they've been increasing their rates a lot lately.
I did a self setup. I wanted to plug my router into their modem and be done. Comcast wanted to force me to manage their modem/router from an app that requires Internet access to use. So my router settings would live in the cloud with a bunch of other people's and i have no say if they want to alter how my home network functions, and i can only touch my settings with their permission while i have internet access - which tends to be spotty if you are tinkering with your access point to the Internet.
Comcast assumes i have internet outside of their service in order to use their service. They want to manage the settings of my home network in a server farm that requires access through an app that collects personal data when i want to make changes to my home network settings. Why? What good is this to me? Why can't i log in on the hardware directly in front of me using an Ethernet cable instead of pushing values to it from a remote server database?
Comcast rant (US Internet provider) - manage your home network at home, please
Sensitive content
I'm pretty sure i just sound weird because I'm having a hard time explaining why the Comcast arrangement is so bad.
There's no reason or benefit to not letting people control their access points. Not for the customer at least. Requiring an app to do basic home network maintenance, something that has been working without issue for decades using an Ethernet cable and a local PC, it's just adding complication to the system, more points of failure and more places for security to fail. The only reason they would do this is to collect user data and exert control over hardware in places where they shouldn't. They paid money to build a system that people cannot use without their permission, they just made sure to make it convenient for enough people that don't understand these systems so they won't complain. Because they have no understanding of what they're losing.
Comcast rant (US Internet provider) - manage your home network at home, please
Sensitive content
its collecting data, its also collecting advertising metrics to promote in search of greater advertising revenue. I'm assuming the "the fiber provider" you had was AT&T. they've been pissing me off with raising rates as well as locking down their hardware in different ways (no way to edit DNS settings at the gateway level). SO I was looking into comcast and realized as you are now, that they have even more lockdown on their network hardware. Its fucking infuriating. They know we only have the two of them as choices. Both will continue to get worse and worse. We have to resort to hacking the equipment. It seems there are ways to bypass AT&T's humax bgw gateway, but it requires a little bit of money for hardware and some script-kittying. Let me know if you want links to whatever I've found in my research.
@benda I have a provider that was new in the area several years ago, but i wouldn't be surprised if at&t bought them 😅 Fortunately they are cool with a dumb gateway that i get to do all the routing from.
Had my first phishing/scam email that purported to come from Bandcamp. Quite well worded (for once) and supposedly inviting you to an elite artist promotion scheme. I forwarded it to support@bandcamp.com and within hours they replied confirming my suspicions, thanking me and saying they'd taken steps to prevent the Bandcamp page contact form being used as the phishing portal (that was how it had been done). Excellent response by Bandcamp support I must say.
(A lot of) Germans when you ty to apply historical materialism to current day (especially middle-eastern for some reason🤔) antisemitism: "No, antisemitism is inherent in the arab, it must be!"
Les élus locaux sont très enthousiastes pour accueillir un data center géant de Microsoft dans le sud de l'Alsace. Conçu pour accompagner le développement
Attendez ! Si ça se trouve Microsoft va remettre en route la centrale de Fessenheim ! ☢️
Après tout, ils vont bien remettre en route la tristement célèbre centrale de Three Miles Island (qui a eu un *accident* nucléaire, elle). : liberation.fr/international/am…
Mise hors service en 2019, une unité de la centrale américaine, où avait eu lieu en 1979 le plus grave accident nucléaire de l’histoire des Etats-Unis, va être relancée pour fournir en électricité le géant de l’informatique Microsoft.
Les « élus » locaux sont du siècle passé. En outre, ils n'ont absolument aucune culture énergétique ni des usages. Tout ce qu'ils voient ce sont les pépètes mais l'occupation des sols, le détournement des flux d'eau, la création de nouveaux îlots de chaleur, ça, ils s'en fichent.
Je doute fortement de ce chiffre de 6 millions de foyers. Pour fournir l électricité a 6 000000 de foyers il faut entre 4 et 5 réacteurs nucléaire donc même si on pou ait redémarrer fessenheim cela ne suffirait pas.
Perso j'ai bcp de mal à croire ce chiffre. 20% de la conso des particuliers (il y a 30 millions de foyers en France) c'est gigantesque. Les particuliers c'est 1/3 de la conso en France, donc ce datacenter à lui tout seul représenterait 6% de la conso Française ? Pour moi c'est purement impossible.
Aux JT de 13h, ça disait que ça allait créer des emplois. Le seul exemple qu'a cité l'élu interviewé, c'était des emplois dans le BTP... C'est à dire éphémère...
Ensuite, le nombre total d'emploi créé par les datacenters en France a été cité... J'ai fait la division : ça faisait 92 emplois par datacenter.... C'est peu... Très peu...
NASA astronaut Zena Cardman [link to her bio] inspects her spacesuit’s wrist mirror in this portrait taken at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on March 22, 2024. Cardman will launch to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission. This will be her first spaceflight. Cardman was selected by NASA as […]
NASA astronaut Zena Cardman inspects her spacesuit’s wrist mirror in this portrait taken at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on March 22, 2024. Cardman
The New Atlas ▪️After repeatedly lying to Iran, attacking it amid negotiations designed specifically to lure it into complacency, then announcing a 2 week deadline to decide on strikes on Iran that…
🚨 There are reports from #Gaza about a sophisticated ambush in which Israeli soldiers were killed and injured, and some of which are still unaccounted for. It's unclear if they're under the rubble of destroyed buildings, or captured by the resistance fighters. It seems it's still an ongoing situation.
“For reasons which they could not comprehend…they found themselves made strangers in their own country”.1 —Enoch Powell, the “Rivers of Blood” speech, 20 April 1968. “[W]e risk becoming an island of strangers”.
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—The countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America—People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) condemned in the strongest terms on Sunday, June 22, the military attack by the United States government against civ…
Clearly those masked "agents" are fearful of personal retributions they might suffer. I don't blame them, but obviously it should also be illegal for them to hide their identities in such a manner. Full name and badge numbers should be required on all uniforms, and identity cards for non-uniformed agents.
if you can deliver bombs here, deliver food. deliver food. instead, deliver food. [ ^ #DigitsPoems | inspired by] starvation is one of the most cruel ways to kill. #normalpeoplesaveeverybody #salvateinvicem
Dying for a sack of flour: The grim reality of #Gaza's #humanitarian zone
La France a officiellement autorisé la vente d'une participation de 32 % dans l'opérateur de transport Transdev au conglomérat allemand Rethmann, qui devient ainsi actionnaire majoritaire.
▪️After repeatedly lying to Iran, attacking it amid negotiations designed specifically to lure it into complacency, then announcing a 2 week deadline to deci...
A federal judge has ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted works to train AI is transformative and fair use.
An important caveat is that in this particular case, the authors conceded that "training LLMs did not result in any exact copies nor even infringing knockoffs of their works being provided to the public."
The ruling says authors are still free to sue in the future if they can prove those things happen.
It will be interesting to see how the Disney/Universal suit plays out, since they’re not arguing necessarily that training results in exact copies. Rather, they’re arguing that users are able to create new works that are almost indistinguishable from their IP.
“The purpose and character of using copyrighted works to train LLMs to generate new text was quintessentially transformative,” Alsup wrote. “Like any reader aspiring to be a writer.”
Welcome to Final Front in the Battle for Truth! Learn how to protect your life savings from inflation and an irresponsible government, with Gold and Silver: https://alphalikesgold.com #Ad #Sponsor #Pa
Welcome to thin-skinned authoritarianism. Brought to you by the “free speech” party. Hey @MarshaBlackburn care to comment? www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
20:15 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses the Iranian people: "This historic triumph belongs, with utmost pride, to the great Iranian people, the true architects of civilization" 20:16 "Today, after the steadfast resistance of our great people, the makers of history, we witness a ceasefire and the end of a twelve-day war"
i mean it seems like their isis buddies are already laying siege to the country. my assumption has been that they used the war to heavily arm the insurgents via the corridor they created in the northwest.
June 24, 2025 NASA’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, has paused observations due to a problem with one of the motors that drives its ability to track cosmic objects. The NICER team paused operations June 17 when performance degradation in the motor began affecting science observations. […]
@Emmanuel Florac Some of these old women are aging quite nicely. Raphaël seems as if he's satisfied and can't wait to get home. Although, this photo may be old by now and so, attitudes may have been adjusted.
Mr. Glucksmann has been previously a counsellor for the president Saakashvili of Georgia after the CIA-backed coup in 2008; he even married a minister, who later became entangled in violent repression, and fled Georgia for Ukraine, where she was a minister after the 2014 "EuroMaidan" coup. Mr. Glucksmann is, without any possible doubt, a CIA agent.
Léa Salamé is the darling of official, state media in France. She's the daughter of a former minister in Lebanon; her mother is from a family of diamantaires. She loves plutocrats, and raves interviewing billionaires, grovelling at their feet on national TV and radio in quite a shameful manner. She'll be the anchor for the national evening news; the previous holder has been fired for not grovelling enough (i.e. doing her job) when interviewing oligarchs.
@Emmanuel Florac perhaps, she herself is a spy. Thanks, I did some research on both of them. I could tell just by looking at her that she's an extrovert. Her partner on the other hand seems less so. Thanks for filling in the nuances.
S'ils s'aimaient vraiment, ils devraient renoncer tous les deux, pour ne pas risquer de mettre l'autre au pied du mur. Bien sûr je dis ça parce que je suis soucieux de leur bonheur, pas parce qu'ils me donnent des boutons, l'un comme l'autre...
@5149jamesli: Trump wants to make a historic nuclear deal with China and Russia. Great! But there’s one nuclear-armed country that never gets mentioned — because officially… it “doesn’t exist.” Here’s the untold sto...…
that hit did look a little flat but the blade did draw back diagonally. simulating an unarmored duel I could believe the sword would have taken a scoop out of his head without the bounce off from the protective mask
“We need comprehensive privacy legislation that protects all Americans while preserving First Amendment rights. Congress should be focused on protecting all of us, not just itself,” EFF’s @cmcsherr told Roll Call. rollcall.com/2025/06/23/worrie…
Tehran (Quds News Network)- Iran has launched a major military response against US forces in the region, targeting American bases in Qatar, Iraq, Bahrain, and Kuwait. Iranian state TV confirmed the st
BleuKitty 😺
in reply to UptownGirl • • •UptownGirl reshared this.