McKinsey wonders how to sell AI apps with no measurable benefits
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: Consultant says software vendors risk hiking prices without cutting costs or boosting productivityDan Robinson (The Register)
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Hey fediverse, today is the World Sight Day!
How about, as a small gift for the blind and visually impaired folks on here, we step up our alt text game!
Visit alttexthalloffame.org to learn why this is important.
#AltText #ImageDescriptions #accessibility #WorldSightDay
Celebration of the effort, ingenuity, and creativity that goes into making the web a friendlier and more inclusive place, one captioned image at a time.Alt Text Hall of Fame
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World Cup 2026 qualifiers: Why FIFA won’t ban Israel despite Gaza genocide
https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/10/9/world-cup-2026-qualifiers-why-fifa-wont-ban-israel-despite-gaza-genocide?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Protection of political, economic and commercial interests has led to FIFA’s ‘double standards’ in dealing with Israel.Hafsa Adil (Al Jazeera)
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Don't be serious; be sincere.
I'm not saying there isn't a time and place for sarcasm, but hiding behind sarcasm and irony isn't a strength; it's a weakness.
It's a sign that you're too fragile to take yourself seriously and say what you mean.
The company's bitcoin-linked perpetual preferred shares give it a lasting capital edge, analyst Mark Palmer said.Will Canny (CoinDesk)
A firmer U.S. dollar and fading risk appetite weighed on bitcoin Thursday, while Binance’s new Meme Rush platform targets surging Chinese-language memecoin speculation.Omkar Godbole (CoinDesk)
Institutional access, a surging debasement trade, and bitcoin’s rally above $125,000 are setting the stage for the strongest quarter ever for ETF flowsWill Canny (CoinDesk)
France has urged the European Union to give ESMA direct authority over major cryptocurrency firms operating across the bloc.Amin Ayan (Cryptonews)
Bitcoin (BTC) fell 0.1% and while Litecoin (LTC) dipped 0.9%.CoinDesk Indices (CoinDesk)
Luxembourg's FSIL becomes first Eurozone sovereign fund to invest in Bitcoin, allocating 1% ($9M) to ETFs as it holds 515,885 BTC worth $63B.Anas Hassan (Cryptonews)
Sleeper pick ZEC has seen a parabolic two weeks – Zcash price prediction now eyes $1,000 as the privacy coin narrative heats up.Harvey Hunter (Cryptonews)
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sometimes i think about how @brooklynmarie.bsky.social pointed out that the same folks tasked with ‘protecting’ our borders against others were also there to prevent us from leaving
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Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries...
Never mind I found it and uploaded the HQ version here youtu.be/JUvuiIpK31U
Does anyone have that video where Pleroma-tan dances specialist?
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Following some layoffs at its studio, development of Hyper Light Breaker ends.
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This framework reveals why some MAGA-aligned Christians act in ways that contradict Jesus’ teachings.Caroline Bologna (HuffPost)
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¿Os acordáis cuando pasaba que si una comunidad se negaba a cumplir la ley se le aplicaba el artículo 155 y se suspendía la autonomía? Pues vamos a ver si esto era verdad o resulta que, qué cosas, solo era verdad para ESA COMUNIDAD en concreto. Por lo que sea.
Hoy estaba hablando con mis compañeras y compañeros de trabajo sobre si realmente habrá una recesión o no y bueno, solo decir que fuera de las redes sociales y del fediverso más concretamente la mayoría de la gente no tiene ni idea de hasta qué punto la burbuja de la IA está inflada y hasta qué punto las consecuencias de que estalle van a ser catastróficas. La mayoría ni se lo había planteado, con excepción de una compañera que se lo había oído a no sé qué tertuliano.
Así que me temo que la hostia va a ser de órdago porque encima nos va a pillar con el culo al aire.
Migrants stab Polish border guards.
The officers were in Georgia as part of an operation to deport Georgian and Pakistani nationals, which Polish border guards conducted in cooperation with the European Border and Coast Guard Agency
The attack occurred in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, on Wednesday, shortly after the operation had been completed.
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The officers took part in an operation to deport Georgian and Pakistani nationals.Michał Woźniak/pk (Telewizja Polska S.A)
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London's £34bn pension fund complicit in Israeli genocide, report says
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London's £34bn ($45bn) pension fund has £7bn invested in companies "enabling Israel's human rights abuses", a new report has revealed.Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)
Marwan Barghouti will not be released in Gaza deal, says Israeli spokesperson
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Prominent Palestinian prisoner Marwan Barghouti will not be released as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal, an Israeli government spokesperson said on Thursday.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
YESSSSSS LABScon 2025 videos have started going up. This was a fantastic talk by two Dreadnode folks on the nuts and bolts of an agentic system built for Russian internet content analysis, as well as the limitations, ways to properly assess it, and further implications.
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‘Arm yourself’: Israeli right decries Gaza deal as Smotrich says war not over
A fanatic, terrorist and war criminal who should be in jail.
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Though the Gaza ceasefire deal has prompted celebrations in Israel in anticipation that the remaining captives will soon be released, discontent is rumbling among the powerful Israeli right wing, with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich insisting the w…Nadav Rapaport (Middle East Eye)
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BTCC Exchange Hits 10M Users and $1.15T Q3 Trading Volume, Accelerating Global Expansion - VILNIUS, Lithuania, October 9th, 2025, Chainwire
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Luxembourg’s sovereign wealth fund has become the first in the Eurozone to invest directly in bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs).Jamie Redman (Bitcoin News)
Afghanistan’s internet outage highlighted a need for more decentralized internet infrastructure to strengthen the decentralizion of blockchain networks.Zoltan Vardai (Cointelegraph)
The cryptocurrency market focuses on Cardano (ADA) because the platform advances its scalability features and develops practical applications in the real world.Michelle DG (Blockonomi)
UN: ‘Our teams are on standby’ to get aid into Gaza | AJ #shorts
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Show HN: I built a web framework in C
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A fast, lightweight web framework in C for building modern web applications - ashtonjamesd/lavandulaGitHub
UK poverty crisis laid bare as 500,000 children living in families trapped in benefits debt cycle
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Exclusive: Tens of thousands of families are forced to take out loans to cover the five-week wait until their first universal credit payment – but many struggle to pay it backAlbert Toth (The Independent)
Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.
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President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities, NBC reportedSean James (Mediaite)
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Wall Street hovers near all-time highs with solid performances from top-tier companies
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Frustrated lawmakers say lack of trust is making it harder to end the government shutdown
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A new global food plan, backed by billion-dollar foundations, aims to reshape what you eat. Whether you like it or not.Join Revero now to regain your health:...YouTube
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Research suggests rich people tend to be more selfish – but why is that?
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Research in psychology has found a link between wealth and selfishnessThe Conversation
The new edition of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version.Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
Environmental defenders are being killed for protecting our future – the law needs to catch up
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Nearly 150 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2024, mainly in Latin America.The Conversation
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.YouTube
BYNV NATSARIM VERSION… BARUK HABA BASHEM YAHUAH. BLESSED IS HE THAT COMES IN THE NAME OF YAHUAH. #YAHUSHA, #MOST HIGH, #YAHUAH, #YAHUAH IS YAHUSHA, #GENESIS,...YouTube
Protected minimum floor in Universal Credit: new policy targeting hardship
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A new safety net in Universal Credit would limit hardship from debt deductions and the benefit cap, giving 130,000 people a lifeline out of poverty.Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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Ah, les disputes à la con sur les réseaux sociaux, en mode "cour de récré" "c'est çui qui dit qui est" avec l'interlocuteur en face qui fait tout pour avoir le dernier mot et la satisfaction débile d'avoir mouché l'autre alors que...
Alors que juste, c'est tellement puéril que ça ne vaut plus la peine de remettre une pièce dans la machine qui tourne en rond...
...Bah ÇA M'AVAIT PAS MANQUÉ !!!
Law centre threatens government with legal action for abandoning UK flotilla crew
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Legal centre undertakes legal proceedings against government for abandoning UK citizens on the flotilla to IsraelSkwawkbox (The Canary)
Witches should be burned at the stake.
Traditions are solutions to problems that we have forgotten. End the tradition and the problems come back.
DWP lies exposed as minister admits they’re cutting Access to Work
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The DWP has repeatedly denied it's cutting Access to Work - but an admission from a minister has now revealed the truthAlex/Rose Cocker (The Canary)
The Debugging Book
Link: debuggingbook.org/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Welcome to "The Debugging Book"! Software has bugs, and finding bugs can involve lots of effort. This book addresses this problem by automating software debugging, specifically by locating errors and their causes automatically.www.debuggingbook.org
New report finds inequality corresponds with passive income the rich receive
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You'd have to work for 52 years without spending a single penny in order to join the UK's richest 10% - when will it be time to eat the rich?James Wright (The Canary)
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“Critical issues” with the agreed Gaza ceasefire
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/quotable/2025/10/9/critical-issues-with-the-agreed-gaza-ceasefire?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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“There's a lot of fingers pointing at him [Netanyahu] saying that the same deal could have been reached a long time ago.Al Jazeera
Palestinian journalist released after Israel held him without charge or trial
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Palestinian journalist Alaa Al-Rimawi was released from Israeli detention after being held for 2 years without charge or trialCharlie Jaay (The Canary)
A 64-year-old man was beaten to death on a New York City subway on Tuesday by a sword-wielding monster with at least 33 prior arrests.Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
There’s a Gaza ceasefire deal – but what happens next?
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/10/9/theres-a-gaza-ceasefire-deal-but-what-happens?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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There are celebrations in the occupied Palestinian territories and in Israel after a ceasefire deal.Al Jazeera
From Vatican, Pope Leo attacks wealthy elite who ‘live in bubble of luxury’
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Pope Leo echoes his predecessor Pope Francis in calling out economic injusticesNicole Winfield (The Independent)
Princess of Wales suggests parents should put down the phone to combat social discontent
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No one should ever trust that Israel can respect a ceasefire, or believe that it can ever be a good faith actor.
Israel is violence incarnate. It is a pathological liar of a rogue state.
50 years of the women's basketball poll: From scrappy beginnings to a force in the sport
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I love how we’re all just pretending MCP can be patched like any other software and the problem solved.
The “magic” is in the nondeterminism, and the introduction of nondeterminism will always be exploitable. It’s what Nvidia AI red teamer Rich Harang calls a “universal anti-pattern” that continually allows for these vulnerabilities.
(via @siliconshecky )
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A bug (CVE-2025-53967) in a popular Web design tool's option for talking to agentic AI allows command injection leading to remote code execution (RCE).Tara Seals (Dark Reading)
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in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •This article might also be useful!
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#AltText #ImageDescriptions #accessibility #WorldSightDay
Polls and other insights about the use of alt text on social media
Stefan Bohacek (stefanbohacek.com)Mint Spies
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in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •DarkAthena “It’s Not Tylenol!”
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in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •Mat creepy username already B
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in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •@Stefan Bohacek My biggest suggestion for encouraging alt-text:
Don't reply with complaints about lack of alt-text, don't bully over the lack of alt-text, unless you yourself are one of the screen reader users.
Instead if you see something without alt text, reply with: "Please add this to the alt-text: <write some alt text for them>".
There are accessibility issues with writing alt-text itself, so providing them with alt text can be a huge help. And if it's too much effort for you to provide them with the alt-text then why should you be judging them for not having it? (rhetorical you)
Also, doing this makes people less defensive when they're not aware and shows examples of how alt-text should look.
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in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •I'm creating a completely new social network. Adaptive themes, keyboard navigation, alt text, nav collapsing for larger content room, adjustable font size, reduced motion and other features are built into the foundation of the webapp version.
Mobile apps are trickier. We're doing what we can, and that includes alt text, but the mobile apps don't have adaptive themes yet and layout is fixed.
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in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •@aussocialadmin aus.social sneaking in at number 4, nice work.
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in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •I really, REALLY want such a statistic for app.wafrn.net
we should generate one from our database…
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in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •Quality not quantity.
But well done #beige.party