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Freedom degrees. Roughly -13° or 38° if you live in the sane parts of the world.I’d pick triple digits, mostly because I’ve lived in places that routinely hit 100° in the summer, and I hate shoveling snow.
Given that the average healthy body temperature is ~98.6⁰ F, and humidity on the Gulf Coast tends to be so high you gotta drink the air, I prefer temperatures 85⁰ or lower.
With high temperatures and high humidity, sweat can't even evaporate, forcing your internal body temperature into unhealthy feverish levels. I'm not a fan of heat exhaustion or heat stroke.
I'm also not a fan of freezing temperatures either, but at least people can dress in layers to keep warm when it's cold.
My knee-jerk reaction to this article from @adamshostack was a cynical [citation needed] re “artists from all mediums emphatically support the use of AI.”
On further reflection…well, that’s still my response to the eyeball-grabbing lede, yes, but the actual article is what I wish we’d had instead of this inane hype avalanche:
Artists poking at the new thing, playing with it, finding its possibilities, critiquing it, problematizing it, asking us to ask what it is, helping us see it with fresh eyes from many angles. infosec.exchange/@adamshostack…
Well, this is one way to introduce a topic: > Artists from all mediums emphatically support the use of AI, saying it augments and enhances their work, expanding what is possible.Infosec Exchange
The arts and education — when they are at their best, anyway — have in common this deep root: they ask us to see and to think and to feel, to see with fresh eyes, to be aware of our own seeing, to be •active• in our seeing.
In that way, both the arts and education are antidotes to the AI hype cycle, and similar endeavors of capitalism run amok.
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I’m fond of quipping that arts education is •the• foundational form of education, and that education in any field should never stray too far from being arts education.
It’s little wonder that the forces that push investment bubbles and wealth concentration are so hostile to both the arts and education. And we need to recognize that hostility, which is so often cloaked as support:
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Commoditization disguised as democratization is a form of hostility.
The AI venders saying “Now anyone can make music!!” slip quickly into “Nobody wanted to work at making music,” then “Music is best manufactured and sold by the yard,” then “Music is essentially worthless.”
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But here’s the thing: anyone could make music •before• gen AI. Some more skilled or more artistically successful than others, sure! But that’s not the point. •Doing it• is the point. •Living it• is the point.
A product that promises to generate it for you so that you neither do it nor live it is antithetical to the point, is hostile to the idea of art itself.
(Note: that’s exactly what the artists in the OP are •not• doing! They are all grabbing the AI and actively •doing• and •living• while poking at the curious new object.)
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Similarly, hostility to education cloaks itself as support by saying that education should be useful, should be practical, should be focused only on what students need, should be narrowed to what students need, should narrow students, should narrow students into being only what capitalism needs.
I wrote extensively about this dangerous line of thought here:
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Susan Sontag:
❝What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to •see• more, to •hear• more, to •feel• more.❞
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Georgia O’Keefe:
❝Nobody sees a flower—really—it is so small—we haven’t time—and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.❞
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Maria Montessori:
❝Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.❞
❝We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.❞
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The language is old fashioned but I like the intent:
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"Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point.The Quotations Page
i don't think i disagree with any of your "actual" points, but i kinda don't like the specific phrasing of "anyone could make music <or other art form>"
i've recently been doing some more-serious self-experiments and found that I *definitely* (neurologically?) cannot hear what other people seem to hear in music (amusia is a thing, apparently). everyone around me nowadays also suspects i have awful undiagnosed dyspraxia which made me *hate* "doing art" as a child
this particular line is very excellently said, thank you
i've been confronting the implications of this in relation to my memories of growing up in the hype of how "the coming new digital millennium will democratize access to everything", versus the current state of the world in the present day
Fighting in War Still Didn’t Prepare Me for Prison’s Mental Health Crisis
Helping those in distress at my South Carolina prison was much harder than I expected.
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#prison #trauma #SouthCarolina
I overcame PTSD after fighting in war, but I had no encounters with other mental illnesses until I helped people in crisis at my prison.Derek S. Carter (Prison Journalism Project)
As relentless bombardment and mass killings continue in Gaza, with entire neighbourhoods wiped out and children buried under rubble, the corporate media and political establishment have once again shown where their true priorities lie: policing langu…Penny Lane (Dorset Eye Ltd)
More Americans are biting their tongues, not because they don’t care, but because they’re afraid to speak.
From DEI to the war in Gaza, people are more afraid to speak their minds now than during the Red Scare, according to a political scientist who has been conducting surveys.
This “spiral of silence” is real. It’s stifling democratic debate and amplifying the loudest, most aggressive voices.
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Nearly half of Americans say they feel less free to speak their minds.The Conversation
The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that no further action will be taken against Mo Chara, a member of the Irish rap group Kneecap, following the recent terror charge brought against him in May.Dorset Eye (Dorset Eye Ltd)
Through decades of anti-racist campaigning, I have seen that peaceful, direct action can be the only way to get results, says campaigner Suresh GroverSuresh Grover (The Guardian)
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Family horrified at jail cell interview with man who confessed to Arizona murderDavid Millward (The Telegraph)
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interesting...
... I'll have to learn more.
B. Franklin used to write under other names, but I always assumed it was just to fill up space and generate interest in his newspaper. In retrospect, he DID write some controversial things. Perhaps the same technique to avoid getting cancelled?
The modern purges aligned with the Oligarchy we have now started in the 1930s in this country (USA).
This is also hidden.
Ppl don't know that the communist purges of the 1950s were a decades delayed political retribution campaign, too.
Nothing in isolation. War is continuous.
Do your NAS duty! Vote now before the polls close!
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La dona ha perdut la vida quan ha arribat a casa i ara s'espera el resultat de l'autòpsia per determinar la causa de la defuncióMarc Orts i Cussó (Nació Digital)
El govern palestí ha augmentat a 66 la xifra nens morts a Gaza arran de la desnutrició causada pels obstacles imposats per Israel a la distribució d’ajuda humanitària a l’enclavament.Europa Press (VilaWeb)
Russia's terror attacks against Ukraine have significantly increased the last 3 months and reached another height. 477 drones, 46 cruise missiles and 14 ballistic missiles were used only last night. The targets of this terror attack were all far from the frontlines.
Putin is clearly feeling emboldened by the indecisiveness of the West, especially by this US administration, but also by European timidness. It proves once more that appeasement only emboldens Russian aggression and causes more war.
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The Incredible Drama Of The European Tram Driver Championships
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Μάλλον ο μοναδικός έλληνας δημοσιογράφος στην Παλαιστίνη. Το ρεπορτάζ αξίζει σε όλα τα επίπεδα.
#Palestine #media #report #Tamra #occupation #apartheid #israel
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>GC_HPWR
>instead of shoving 600W into your gpu through a single wire you're gonna shove 1000W into your motherboard (plus whatever your cpu will draw) through 1x12vhpwr (read: a single wire) and 3xpcie connectors
yes you need to buy a new motherboard
yes you need to buy a new gpu
yes if anything goes wrong anything attached to your motherboard will be fried instead of just your gpu and psu
yes ANUS is behind this
yes jewidia will just buy/license it, build it to a cost and make it a standard
yes both motherboard and gpu prices will increase
yes SAPPHIRE already adopted this
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Scandal Brews in the UK as New Female Intel Chief of MI6 Is Revealed To Be Granddaughter of Ukrainian Nazi Nicknamed ‘The Butcher’
Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s soon-to-report linking aluminum in vaccines will open the legal floodgates.Baxter Dmitry (The People's Voice)
@Friendica Support Wie nutzt ihr eigentlich #Hashtags? Ich frage, weil ich mir nicht sicher bin, ob ich alle Möglichkeiten kenne.
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I didn’t make the original song — all credit goes to Duran Duran.This is just a fan cover for fun.If you see this track on Spotify or SoundCloud — that’s not...YouTube
If you're the kind of person who follows me, you may know about the Kessler Syndrome.
That's when collisions between satellites and space junk create enough debris to cause *more* collisions, leading to a runaway chain reaction. This could render certain regions of near-Earth space unusable!
It's one of nature's ways of containing stupid civilizations, sort of like how inflammation contains infections. So don't be surprised:
A new study by Lewis and Kessler argues that we've hit the "runaway threshold" - the point where a chain reaction is expected - at nearly all altitudes between 520 and 1000 kilometers.
Below that, or above that, space could remain usable. So we could still get out and ruin other layers of space - or go to other planets and mess up those. Luckily, planned deployments of large satellite constellations like Starlink, Amazon's Project Kuiper, etc. will reduce the risk of such a breakout.
Yes, I'm joking - we can differ on whether the expansion of stupidity into the cosmos would be a good or bad thing compared to a mostly dead cosmos, and I don't really have an opinion on that. But the study is for real, and worth checking out:
• Hugh G. Lewis and Donald J. Kessler, Critical number of spacecraft in low Earth orbit: a new assessment of the stability of the orbital debris environment, conference.sdo.esoc.esa.int/pr…
Thanks to @michael_w_busch for pointing this out.
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Attached: 1 image And as a making-of, all the 482 frames with a smol processing but before registration (alignment). The drift and jumps are caused by the motorized mount which is not perfectly following the target.Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net
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"A new study by Lewis and Kessler argues that we've hit the "runaway threshold" - the point where a chain reaction is expected - at nearly all altitudes between 520 and 1000 kilometers."
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Lo siento, pero me pongo un poco pesao porque en mi entorno han pasado cosas™ y os quiero bien:
BEBED AGUA, OSTIA.
Estamos con olas de calor de narices y lo sabéis, así que toca hidratarse aunque estemos en casa con el ventilador y nos encontremos bien. Aunque mayormente estemos en un sitio con Aire Acondicionado...
Si toca engañaros porque el agua no es para vosotros os dejo un par de trucos tontos:
- No tiene pq ser agua, pero tiene que tener mucha agua. Haceos infusiones frías, usad saborizantes (la marca Bolero no está mal). Cuando haga mucho muchísimo calor no tiréis de refrescos, que el azucar al final da sed.
- Si vivís en un sitio donde el agua del grifo es potable, pero sabe un poco a cloro/fluor llenad una botella grande y dejadla sin tapar una noche. Le cambia el sabor e igual es más tolerable.
- Si sois como yo que lleváis botella a todos lados, rellenadla a la mínima. Aunque luego esté calentorra como para echarle un puñao de arroz es mejor tenerla a no tener nada...
- Los hielos de hieleras alargadas sirven muy bien para luego echar un turulillo helado a la botella y que haga su magia de hielo.
-Motivaos con lo que haga falta, compraos una botella chula para el agua (metálica para poder fregarla bien a ser posible). Poned pegatinas o pintadla. Yo soy muy fan de esta que pongo abajo.
Y a la mínima que os sintáis pochos (nauseas, mareos, dolor de cabeza...) buscaos una sombra y bebed poco a poco.
Y no salgáis a dar un paseo a las 5 de la tarde, eso es tentar a la suerte...
Besotes o equivalentes.
#BebedAgua #ElAguaEsLoMejor #Hidrataos #BuscadLaSombra #OlaDeCalor
Four days ago, I asked for help — just to get medicine for my father, to save his life and ease his pain,
but I couldn’t secure the money needed.
Now, it’s no longer just about medicine.
We are without food, without water, without the basic things any human needs to survive.
We are dying slowly.
If you can hear this — if you still believe in humanity — please, help us survive. 🙏💔
#gaza
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I hope President Trump sees these amazing interviews. This is the important work.
Parallel 8 Media: 06/26/2025
"Epstein Survivor - The 40K View - Episode #29"
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This past weekend, the REV17 Anti-Child Trafficking Conference was truly remarkable. Some of the most inspiring individuals gathered to share their stories of resilience and contribute to the fight agRumble
Our yacy search engine is back online and fully operational. And it is now upgraded to the most recent release. Upgrading provided a substantial improvement in crawl rate but at the expense of higher memory consumption. All in all though the performance increase
was worthwhile.
For those who are not aware, yacy is a federated search engine. When you put in a query,
it queries all the federated servers (there are some stand alone and isolated yacy networks), and collates and returns a combined result.
Bob Vylan
"While zionists are crying on socials, I've just had late night (vegan) ice cream."
"بدي بابا مش قادرة أعيش بدونه" لقد أصابتني كلماتها في مقتل وهي تتحدث عن والدها الذي قتلته اسرائيل، بكت نجوى اليتيمة فأبكتني وأبكت الجميع..
“I want a father, I can’t live without him.” Her words ki,lled me while she was talking about her father, who was ki,lled by Isr,ael. Najwa, the orphan, cried, so I cried and everyone cried.
#Gaza #Help #Support #Peace
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Starmer and Reeves need a fresh approach to enact their vision, and I have a plan for that, says Randeep Ramesh, the Guardian’s chief leader writerRandeep Ramesh (The Guardian)
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Much of my family left Turkey after my great-grandfather was murdered in the Armenian Genocide. Turkey, Israel, and many other countries still deny this genocide occurred. It’s a denial that enables genocides like that in Gaza to take place today.John Klopotowski (Mondoweiss)
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[Έντυπα - Αφίσες - Προκηρύξεις] [Έντυπο] Γη & Ελευθερία # 39
Democrats doing performative resistance.
IMO he's still probably the worst US president in my lifetime, although Obama and Clinton follow fairly closely.
"I am not obsessed with Israel nor - to be sure - am I obsessed with Jewish people. I would be happy to never mention Israel again if only they would stop killing children (I am a father) and stop blackmailing our politicians into supporting them.
I would be very happy for a divorce.
(And stop killing women and men, too!)
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@DameAtomicGinger I just don't see that they are zionists. I'd love to hear why you think they are. I'm not here to defend them, I am genuinely curios why you think they are.
They pretty much just talk about what is in the media, so of the media isn't covering Epstein, they can't cover it either.
In that case, you should check out FEAR, and STALKER, but you probably know those.
Here's a lesser known title:
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Fight under the onslaught of mutated monsters, obsessed soldiers and even darker bosses. Just try to survive and find out what to do next in this life, simultaneously tearing your enemies to pieces.store.steampowered.com
Good Morning Fedi
The Earth is boiling
The World is bleeding
because of clowns who put
money over Life
"This is your last chance.
After this, there is no turning back.
You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Remember, all I'm offering is the truth - nothing more."
surprisingly prophetic 25 years ago
Never again.
Is now.
And Israel is the perpetrator.
#israel #IsraelTerroristState #gaza #genocide #zionism #MiddleEast #WarCrimes
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Vermont Is Just Done With Letting People Run Around Naked
Burlington, Vermont is looking to implement a new ordinance that curbs public nudity....
I think Raul Hilberg is still alive and lives in Vermont.
Society destroying cut outs, all of them.
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The Netherlands is enacting it's national heat plan this week. With temps forecast to be as high as 35˚C in the middle of the week. We need to talk about shade. Specifically, about the way our infrastucture is not designed for the new normal of these high temperatures in the summer.
In the heat of a summers day, by far the best thing a person can do is seek shade. Alas the way we have designed our built infrastructure makes this difficult. Take for example this bus stop in Amsterdam.
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Matter interact with other matter in different ways. Just like rain drops are made of matter, light is matter too and can be blocked. In other words, we can have windows that let visible light through while absorbing, or reflecting rest of the spectrum.
That bus stop might be letting visible light while blocking wavelengths that contribute to most heat, or upgraded to do that.
Article 1: sciencedaily.com/releases/2016…
Article 2: european-coatings.com/news/app…
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame develop a new window coating to block heat-generating ultraviolet and infrared light and allow for visible light, regardless of the sun’s angle.Sender, Romy (vn-lack.kdprojekte.de)
IDF soldiers are killing civilians in Gaza every, single, day. More than 500 Palestinians have been killed & 4,000 injured trying to get aid in a territory where 100% of the population are at risk of famine. IDF soldiers have said they are being ordered to shoot civilians.
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