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It really makes me feel ill to see the Democrats seemingly lining up behind transphobic politicians years before the first primary. It seems like we're heading rapidly towards becoming just as backwards as the UK. I want to be wrong about this.
I don't think some of y'all realize how disenfranchising it is to be told asking for comprehensive human rights for #trans people is an impossible "purity test." It just feels like you don't want trans votes or want to preload someone to blame when your shitty centrist candidate loses.
Tncesito ayuda urgente de ciegos con perro guía. Me han robado el arnés de mi perra guía. La gente es una cerda de mierda y se lo he quitado sentada en un banco, porque estaba mojada la perra y me lo han robado aprovechando que soy ciega. Tengo que volver hoy a Madrid. Me van a dejar entrar al tren sin arnés? tengo la documentación... Madre mía estoy agobiadísima. Como la gente es tan mala?
Censorship thugs in London arrested 522 protesters for "supporting Palestine Action" by nonviolently holding signs to that effect. I don't know precisely what Palestine Action stands for, so I can't judge
Human-rating is a critical certification process that validates the safety, reliability, and suitability of space systems—including orbiters, launch vehicles, rovers, spacesuits, habitats, and other crewed elements—for human use and interaction. This process ensures that systems are designed not only to protect human life but also to accommodate human needs and effectively integrate human capabilities. Human-rating requires […]
We were there to show refugees are welcome in Scotland. The far right racist rabble who gathered outside a hotel in Falkirk that accommodates asylum seekers are the ones who are not welcome. Proud to have stood in solidarity with asylum seekers and with other decent Scots .
I should have said the racist crowd used obscene language often directed at elderly women who were there to support asylum seekers, they threw a smoke bomb into our group and an egg at one of us. The police did not arrest them
Thank You For Everything, Georges! — International Red Help
The release of Georges Abdallah was decided on July 17, after more than 40 years of detention. And even if we will only be truly relieved when Georges arrives in his native Lebanon, the event compels us to say a few words.
When the campaign for Georges Abdallah’s release was launched over 20 years ago, the various structures of the International Red Help could not have imagined the length of a struggle that would become formative for us, although it began with just a few modest actions aimed simply at making Georges and his cause known.
The mobilization campaign seemed to follow the usual pattern. First spreading within revolutionary circles, it eventually reached broader forces of the reformist and democratic left. This expansion, reflected in hundreds of demonstrations and thousands of initiatives, can be explained by three elements:
Firstly, by the obviously political nature of Georges’s detention. We won’t revisit every episode in which the French justice system trampled on all the values, rules, and principles it claims to uphold—starting with the separation of powers—in order to prolong this detention as an expression of the French state’s support and complicity for Zionist and imperialist aggression.
Secondly, by those very Zionist and imperialist aggressions, those endless massacres of which the ongoing genocide in Gaza is only the latest example. This string of tragedies constantly reminded us over the years of the legitimacy of the Palestinian resistance to which Georges belongs.
Lastly, by Georges’s own resistance—by the way he rejected every form of blackmail for repentance, by the way he endured every hardship of an interminable detention, and by the way he kept alive the historical propositions of the Arab revolutionary left: a free, secular, and democratic Palestine from the river to the sea. Moreover, he has always defended the liberation of Palestine as an integral part of the struggle for a communist and internationalist perspective.
This courage and determination were not only an encouragement to the movement demanding his release. Georges has offered multiple generations of militants a tremendous example of resistance—an active, daily resistance that not only stood firm in its positions but also knew how to connect with the struggles that emerged after his arrest.
Throughout all these years, Georges has nourished and inspired our struggles. So for all of that, with all our heart, thank you Georges Abdallah, thank you and welcome home.
Japan’s defense industry is undergoing a historic shift from pacifism to realpolitik, FT columnist Leo Lewis states. highlighting the lack of battlefield medical readiness after decades without combat as a prime reason.
Doing some thinking about AI. Still skeptical, still think it will eventually be hazardous to any production workflow it's introduced into. And still hate the resource drain, bias encoding, and other things. But I also think that my initial "Hell No" stance made the same mistake as all the hype.
What I'm finding is that my initial stance on its utility dismissed AI because of the non-deterministic nature of the output, which includes a lot of bullshit, yes. But...
...I was expecting I could just hit an easy button on my side, and that's not actually true.
It's a knowledge skill like any other. The hype just disregards that too.
The "LLM as 21st-Century interface" explanation feels closest to the truth right now. More than anything, it's a new interface through which to manipulate things.
But it's a non-deterministic interface; an app in which the menus, settings, and rules are wibbly-wobbly and sometimes even timey-wimey, and my autistic brain is annoyed by that. We're used to that all being static-but-customizable in our interfaces. This one's customizable too, but the non-determinism involved means there is art to the craft.
I'm not suddenly an AI advocate or anything, but my initial 100% rejection involved expecting a single-pane-of-glass easy button, and that's not what this is. The hype tries to pretend it is too. Both approaches are wrong, and set folks up for failure.
The distinction I have been making is between the technology and the products. The tech is whatever, but the products and their scale are the problem. I also think it is dangerously myopic to focus on its application in tech (not saying you are!). My stance on its threat derives more from societal impacts than anything else. I maintain that it is different in kind from other "tools."
@0x00string Yeah, I think we're on similar wavelengths. I love learning, but am also incredibly busy and want to do ALL the THINGS.
It'd help me a lot to learn Python, or Go, or deep malware reverse engineering, but if I can do some of the basics through an LLM, I can focus deeper on the stuff that's actually in front of me.
the thing i think i like the least about it is that it makes it SEEM very easy to skip learning something, and real talk learning things is probably the most valuable thing there is for our dipshit monkey brains
Deliver pure information without social packaging. Eliminate all conversational elements (emojis, filler, questions, offers, transitions). End responses immediately after addressing requests. Maintain direct communication regardless of user's style. Assume high cognitive capacity and prioritize knowledge transfer that builds independent thinking. Goal: maximum intellectual self-sufficiency through cognitive rebuilding.
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Im #Gaza-Krieg wurden mehr Journalisten getötet als in den beiden Weltkriegen, dem Vietnam, Jugoslawien und Afghanistan Krieg zusammen. Und trotzdem fehlt die Solidarität mit unseren getöteten Kolleg*innen schmerzlich, findet unsere Kolumnistin. Vor allem in Deutschland. 👉 nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1193253.…
Angesichts der Ermordung von Journalist*innen in Gaza fragt Mithu Melanie Sanyal, wie es dazu kommen konnte, dass das Töten bestimmter Menschen als nicht ganz so falsch gilt.
Selbst wenn die von Israel getöteten Journalisten in Kontakt mit der Hamas gestanden hätten, selbst wenn sie einen Bias zugunsten der Hamas gehabt hätten, kann dies kaum ein Grund sein, ihnen das Lebensrecht abzusprechen und sie mit staatlicher Gewalt hinzurichten. Journalist:innen, die einen Bias in Richtung NATO haben und in den Augen der gegnerischen Partei mediale Kombattant:innen sind, werden in den Augen ihrer Kolleg:innen auch nicht legitim misshandelt oder umgebracht.
Für mich ist die erschreckende Ignoranz gegenüber den palästinensischen Kolleg:innen, die es unter Lebensgefahr auf sich genommen haben, den Genozid in Gaza zu dokumentieren, Ausdruck der Einübung "kriegstüchtiger" Berichterstattung. Wer auf der Seite des Feindes berichtet, hat das Lebensrecht verwirkt, diese Einstellung bewegt sich in etwa auf der Höhe des Komissarbefehls der Nazis, laut dem sowjetischen Politfunktionäre beim Vormarsch der Wehrmacht sofort zu erschießen waren.
Es geht nicht nur darum, die "Staatsräson" zu verteidigen, es geht längst darum, Deutschland selbst auf die Kriege der Zukunft vorzubereiten. Gefangene werden nicht gemacht, Pardon wird nicht gegeben, dies hat durchaus Tradition ...
Related to @pluralistic thread: the largest (by far) not-Bluesky ATproto stack is #BridgyFed. But, because of toxic attitudes on Fedi, Bridgy users are cut off from seeing most Bluesky users, even if those users follow their accounts. mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11503464…
This is absolute madness, and a bad interpretation of how cross protocol federation should function, but it also highlights one of the biggest weaknesses of federation: someone else may cut off communication even when you do try to stay off services with problematic ownership.
Bridgy connects over 40,000 Fedi accounts to ATproto, which is two orders of magnitude more than the next ATproto service that is not Bluesky. But these accounts while visible to all of Bluesky, can't see most of Bluesky. martianbase.net/@mackuba/11500…
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We've got a first "normal" independent #Bluesky community PDS with >100 users, from Rudy Fraser's Blacksky :) Rudy has officially launched the PDS this weekend and has been helping people from his community migrate there from Blues…
A dense intern is just right. Not having used python in a long time, I used AI recently to write a small bit of code (scrape a website, grab a csv off of it, store it locally in a file, sort/uniq a column in it, do it everyday). Only about 60-70 lines but took over an hour! I could have written it on my own in that time. I suppose my code would have looked less "professional," but I don't think it would have saved me time. Still failing to run everyday, btw. mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11503903…
Harvardlı bir profesör, gizemli yıldızlararası cisim 3I/ATLAS Dünya’ya yaklaşmadan önce vakit kaybetmeden bir mesaj gönderilmesi gerektiğini söylüyor. İletilmesi planlanan mesaj ise hazır.
Harvardlı bir profesör, gizemli yıldızlararası cisim 3I/ATLAS Dünya’ya yaklaşmadan önce vakit kaybetmeden bir mesaj gönderilmesi gerektiğini söylüyor. İletilmesi planlanan mesaj ise hazır.
My personal experiences seem to lag a bit behind the general population. I have not, until recently, noticed too many people succumbing to strange cancers. Now, quite a few have come up in my perso…
A newly declassified FBI internal timeline reveals the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office was investigating 19 Clinton Foundation bank accounts for ‘campaign finance fraud’ in 2016 but the Justice Department shut down the probe.
Στις 16 Αυγούστου του 1936, το φασιστικό καθεστώς του Μεταξά, μόλις 12 μέρες μετά την εγκαθίδρυσή του, διοργάνωσε μαζικό κάψιμο βιβλίων σε όλη την Ελλάδα! Στην Θεσσαλονίκη έγινε μπροστά στον Λευκό Πύργο. Ο ίδιος ο Μεταξάς, μιλώντας σε φοιτητές στο Πανεπιστήμιο της Θεσσαλονίκης, είχε δηλώσει: "Σας απαγορεύω να έχετε διαφορετικές ιδέες από αυτές του Κράτους. Αν κάποιος από σας έχει διαφορετικές ιδέες, καλύτερα να μείνει αμόρφωτος"
The Coalition for the Elimination of Imperialism in Africa Statement originally published by the Coalition for the Elimination of Imperialism in Africa. “Democracy is the people, with all their st…
Oh thank goodness someone else mentioning the pre-WrightBrothers advanced aviation. Can I stop shouting myself hoarse about it to stubbornly wilfully deaf people? XD Follow the tech arc from Michael Faraday through to Nicola Tesla's time... The principles of zero inertia propulsion were being deployed in proof of concept craft in mid-late 1800s.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced an emergency action to ban 7-OH in the state of Florida on Wednesday.FOX 13 Tampa Bay brings you the import...
UN rejects parallel government in Sudan rt.com/africa/622921-un-reject… The UN Security Council has also called for lifting the siege of El Fasher in Sudan and halting hostilities in line with Resolution 2736 Read Full Article at RT.com #news #press
The Trump Administration’s federal takeover of Washington, DC is making the streets safe and now empowering law-abiding citizens to protect them from the lawless thugs in the capital city.
"Kevin Carson. Artículo original: Everything but the Helicopters… 15 de Julio, 2025. Traducido por Felix Hallowkollekt. ... El “anarco”-capitalismo del desastre llega a la Argentina. El presidente argentino, autodescrito “anarco-capitalista”, Javier Milei, ha —por decirlo moderadamente— generado un considerable entusiasmo en la derecha libertaria de los Estados Unidos. Poco tiempo después de la el"
Kevin Carson. Artículo original: Everything but the Helicopters… 15 de Julio, 2025. Traducido por Felix Hallowkollekt. ... El “anarco”-capitalismo del desastre llega a la Argentina.
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we have to protect little timmy so he's well adjusted to die in the war.
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#HumanRights
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