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Back in his philanthropy era, Mark Zuckerberg made a grand pledge to put $1 billion toward building new housing, to combat the affordability crisis in California that companies like his had contributed to.Jay Barmann (SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports)
Larry Krasner has won Philadelphia’s Democratic primary election to continue serving as district attorney.Marc Levy (AP News)
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Scores of Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip since dawn, including 24 in Khan Yunis alone.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
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Bertolt Brecht: Revolutions are born in dead ends. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
People who moan about Europe not having a Google or Meta. Because of regulation and shit and because (of course) we in Europe don't like success.
It's always funny, because to me, the system is working. I don't want an unregulatable, too-big-to-fail hot mess of a company in Europe.
This may not be 100% intentional and I am not saying that EU regulations are without fault.
I just become increasingly suspicious of people who advocate for slashing them.
L'empan mnésique désigne le nombre d'éléments (en général des chiffres) que l'on peut restituer immédiatement après les avoir entendus. Une expérience classique consiste à lire une liste de chiffres, à une vitesse donnée (par exemple un par seconde) puis à demander au sujet de les restituer dans l'ordre.
l’empan désignait une unité de mesure ancienne correspondant approximativement à la largeur d’une main les doigts écartés. Il couvre la distance allant de l’extrémité du pouce à celle de l’auriculaire, soit environ 7,5 pouces (20 centimètres), et était déjà utilisé par les bâtisseurs de cathédrales.
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OCCUPIED QUDS, May 20 (YPA) - Hebrew media have highlighted the resumption of operations at Sanaa International Airport, nearly 10 days after it was subjected to a devastating Israeli attack.This comes at a time when air traffic at Israeli "Ben Guriobasheer (Yemen Press Agency)
I'm going to try something new. I have used this account for comments in my blog. Now I'm going to use it to write blog post. I will write a thread as replies to this post and have the comment system publish it on my blog.
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Collected thread from https://indieweb.social/@jautero/114535133067453691Juha Auteron kotisivu
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Just finished 3rd ep of @pluralistic's "Who Broke The Internet" & remain unsurprised by anything, but it's well laid out & I realize many people will, in fact, learn new things.
One thing, though: It is NOT impossible not to use #Amazon. Don't tell me u have to cuz it cheap & u poor & I don't grok; I've lived for years not knowing where next month's rent was to come from, metering out a bag of frozen nuggets over a week to not starve.
It's a choice. It's YOUR choice.
Nach der Nakba-Demonstration am 15. Mai fordert die CDU ein schärferes Versammlungsrecht. Doch Videos der Kundgebung werfen Fragen zum Polizeieinsatz auf.nd-aktuell.de
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In Unconditional Parenting, I challenged the belief that parents must punish their kids to protect them in dangerous neighborhoods (alfiekohn.org/article/discipli…). A recent study confirms that punitive parenting is damaging even (or especially) in such places: selfdeterminationtheory.org/wp…
Children who face racism & other perils may need more structure or closer monitoring, but not authoritarian parenting. In fact, the chance to participate in making decisions may be most important in tough neighborhoods.
From the Appendix (“Parenting Styles: The Relevance of Culture, Class, and Race”) to Unconditional Parenting (Atria Books, 2005) Copyright © 2005 by Alfie Kohn Parental Discipline and Race By Alfie Kohn ….Needless to say, differences…Alfie Kohn
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During June and July 2024, as Donald Trump campaigned to be re-elected by falsely characterizing journalists as “enemies of the people” and calling for the arrests of journalists whose reporting displeased him, two researchers surveyed US adults to d…Kate Horgan (Project Censored)
One small step for a bacterium, one giant leap for bacteriakind
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Swabs from China's Tiangong space station reveal traces of a bacterium unseen on Earth, with characteristics that may help it function under stressful environmental conditions hundreds of kilometers above the planet's surface.Mike McRae (ScienceAlert)
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FediForum has a new date and a new board
The fifth edition of FediForum has been rescheduled, and will be held on June 5-7. The event was originally planned for early April, but got cancelled at the last-minute after transphobic posts by one of the co-organisers of the event were surfaced. FediForum held two sessions in the meantime with the community on how the event should move forward. One of the outcomes is that there is now an advisory board for FediForum with people from the community. For this edition of FediForum, I will be hosting a session on what’s been going on in the fediverse in 2025. The network is constantly changing and evolving, and this session is intended to get you up to speed on what’s been happening in the last half year. More information on that soon.
Bandwagon talks about monetisation and sustainability
Bandwagon is a fediverse music sharing platform that’s currently in development, where artists can share their music. They are currently working on online album sales, and Bandwagon is committed to making this feature available without taking any transaction fees. In order for the project to be sustainable, Bandwagon is a paid 10$/month paid premium plan which will enable online album sales and higher bitrate streaming. At the same time, creator Ben Pate is also committed to keeping the software open source, and says that the project needs other Bandwagon servers to exist if the project is to be successful. – Bandwagon.fm
Discourse and the fediverse
Forum software Discourse has posted a blog talking about how they have integrated ActivityPub into their forums. They explain how Discourse forums can now select per category if it is federated, and thus followable by other fediverse software. It also shows what Discourse-to-Discourse federation looks like, allowing 2 forums to cooperate with each other. Federated forums require a mindset shift as have to get used to seeing forum posts in their microblogging timelines. Forum software like Discourse and NodeBB have made great strides in the technological capabilities regarding what’s possible with federated forums. Now people have to find out and experience what these technological features enable in practical use cases for people.
Bonfire slowly moves towards a 1.0 release
Bonfire is an upcoming fediverse platform, with a core functionality of microblogging with a focus on extensibility. In their latest update about how the platform is moving to a 1.0 release, Bonfire talks about the values and intentions of the platform, writing: “In a world of ‘move fast and break things,’ we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship. Slow software means building for long-term resilience and meaningful participation, rather than chasing novelty, speed, or scale.”
Bonfire has taken a deliberate and mindful approach to software development, but their own description of “Slow Software” seems fairly accurate as well, as the team has talked about getting ready for a 1.0 release in the next few months since at least September 2023.
FediDB onboarding
Fediverse statistics site FediDB, operated by PixelFed and Loops creator Daniel Supernault, now has an onboarding tool to help people get started with the fediverse. It asks the user a few simple questions: first to select the type of content they are interested in, such as microblogging, video or forums. Based on that choice, it recommends various platforms. Based on the platform choice it asks for a few simple filters, such as region and community size, before presenting the user with a list of servers to choose from for registration.
The onboarding tool is sleekly designed, and streamlines the signup process by boiling it down to a few essential questions that the user needs to answer. However, this also showcases the issues that the fediverse has with onboarding new users: picking a platform and picking a server are meaningful choices that are hard to fully grasp the impact from as a new user. When it comes to picking a platform, the tool lists a few features for each platform, but comparing the relevance of these features is hard to do as an outsider. And when it comes to picking servers, the challenge is that servers themselves often do not publish relevant information that is needed to make an informed choice of which server to pick.
Mastodon: Giving Journalists Options Away From Big Tech
Saskia Welch from Newsmast writes about Mastodon and the fediverse at the recent International Journalism Festival. A consistent challenge remains to put all the lofty ideals about healthy social networks into practice, with Welch noting: “However, joining the platform continues to be a barrier for many users. A group of Italian women who attended the event abandoned their short effort to join the platform half-way into the presentation, confused about where to go and which app to use.” – WeDistribute/Saskia Welch
Owncast turns 5
The fediverse streaming platform Owncast turns 5 years this month, with a new merch store. One of the challenges of FOSS projects such as Owncast is the sustainability, and Owncast creator Gabe Kangas “at one point exhausted his personal savings so he could work on Owncast full-time.” Kangas says that now “people want to be around in meaningful ways. From the newsletter, core code contributions, the Roku app, people answering questions in chat, people brainstorming in GitHub, it’s important for it to be bigger than myself”. – Owncast Newsletter/Kit Rhett Aultman
For all the links, check out the website itself!
FediForum will be next month, Discourse talks about their fediverse integration, and an update on Bonfire.fediversereport.com
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By the way I think the communication can be much simpler:
From here: staygrounded.online/p/an-extre…
I have no fucking idea.
Did somebody tell you it's too confusing?Justin (Stay Grounded)
AI, TL; DR:
“…the tech industry is trying to bake a broken toy into every aspect of our society…”
#AI #TLDR toot.cafe/@baldur/114545208574…
And if you think LLMs are "good enough" as they are, then the only thing I can say is I hope you're right because at the moment it looks like the tech industry is trying to bake a broken toy into every aspect of our society in the belief that the onl…Toot Café
The Lebanese House Speaker Nabih Berri indicated that the recent municipal elections proved that Hez...Al-Manar TV Lebanon
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Julien Assange, le fondateur de WikiLeaks, présent à Cannes pour la présentation d’un film documentaire retraçant son histoire et intitulé The Six Billion Dollar Man (« l’homme qui valait six milliards de dollars »), a monté les marches du Palais du …Benjamin König (L'Humanité)
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Wonder where it's going? /s
Note: All these are things which should be publicly funded, not privatized and run for-profit.
"i don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks. daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs
college costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and puts students into debt for life and yet we have thousands of professors living in their cars.
everything we need is astronomically expensive and yet almost none of the money we pay is going towards the people actually doing the work and providing the services."
- @missmayn
La jeune femme de 21 ans, passagère d’un véhicule refusant d’obtempérer, avait été tuée par le tir de l’agent Thomas B. à Paris. Les juges d’instruction estiment que les fonctionnaires ont pu légitimement croire à un danger de mort.Ismaël Halissat (Libération)
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Time is running out. 😮
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#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #FossilFuels
Even allowing warming to exceed 1.5°C for a few decades could trigger irreversible damage.The Conversation
Read it and weep.
"Shell pays no tax on North Sea drilling and gets £12.4m back from HMRC".
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THE oil giant Shell effectively paid no tax in the UK last year and got £12.4 million back from the UK Government, new filings show.Hamish Morrison (The National)
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Pars Today- Leader of the so-called Democrats party of Israel, criticizing the war crimes committed by the regime, said,Pars Today
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"May" - I hear your calm songs..May
I remain
in the green of your memory.May
I pass through
you,
as winds pass through
new leaves.May
your eyes find me
even in other springs.May
our shadows
touch again.May
you return
with the calmness you left in me..TsL. 25
#mypoems
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News - Middle East: Lebanese political analyst and director of the Sonar Media Center, Hussein Mortada, stated that the escalating operations of the Yemeni Armed Forces send multiple political, military, and economic messages to the Zionist enemy.english.masirahtv.net
Bertolt Brecht: With the war the properties of the landowners increase, the misery of the miserable increases, the speeches of the general increase, and the silence of the men increases. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Quotes
- Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
- Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
- Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
- Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
- Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
- Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
- Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
- Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
- Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
- Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
- Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
- Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
- Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
- Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
- Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
- Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
- Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
- Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
- Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
- Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
- Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
- Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
- Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
- Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
- Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
- Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
- Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
- Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
- Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
- Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
- Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
El medio rusofóbico Radio Libertad ha encontrado un nuevo patrocinador.
La #UniónEuropea decidió apoyar a los propagandistas de Radio Libertad y asignó 5,5 millones de euros de su presupuesto para financiar sus transmisiones en "regiones vecinas a la #UE", incluyendo el Cáucaso y Asia Central.
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Petite piqûre de rappel :
Vendredi prochain, le 23 mai de 15h à 18h30, il sera possible d'acquérir un laptop fonctionnel entre 20 et 40€ et de profiter de l'install-party organisée par Librezo à la ressourcerie de la Petite Roquette, 125 rue du Chemin Vert à Paris 11, pour repartir avec un bel OS GNU/Linux sur votre laptop reconditionné !
Vous pouvez aussi amener votre propre ordi, bien sûr, ça marche aussi 😉
agendadulibre.org/events/32403
2ème Atelier de "dégagisme numérique" proposé par Librezo et Electrocycle en partenariat avec la ressourcerie de la Petite Roquette.www.agendadulibre.org
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UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures urged governments to prioritize international legal obligations over domestic laws.iranpress.com
My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane
Link: old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDe…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Jokes aside, GitHub/Microsoft recently announced the public preview for their [GitHub Copilot...reddit
Video available on social media 17.05.25, 4:30pm, Shannon Airport: 3 women have entered the airport runway, attempting to inspect a plane on contract to the US military and sprayed the […]bluehost (Palestine Action)
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio suddenly announced the possibility of the imminent fall of the new "government" of Syria.Max_Svetlyshev (Военное обозрение)
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •Seeing that #ecosia promoting #LLM seems bad. Planting some trees to cut them all down again to run the AI? HUH?
@ecosia