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Why a retired 79-year-old shop owner earned a college degree to honor the victims of the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/retired-shop-owner-earns-college-degree-to-honor-victims-orangeburg-massacre/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Why a retired 79-year-old shop owner earned a college degree to honor the victims of the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre

Linwood Riddick had never heard of the Orangeburg Massacre until a few years ago when he stumbled on a campus memorial at South Carolina State University. He says he knew right then what he had to do.
Steve Hartman (CBS News)
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Lady MountainJay

@picofarad — “red meat allergy” is a misnomer. 🥺

“Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), or mammalian meat allergy, is a tick-induced allergy to galactose-α-1,3-galactose. This sugar, commonly known as alpha-gal, is found in all mammals except for humans and some primates.

Products made from mammals can also contain alpha-gal. These include mammalian meat (like beef, pork, and lamb), milk and dairy products, gelatin, medications, medical products…”

alphagalinformation.org

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Lady MountainJay

“…medical products (like heparin and vaccines), personal care products (like lotion and make-up), and many other items.

Reactions, which can be life-threatening, may be immediate, as in the case of injected drugs, or delayed from 2 to 10 hours, as is typical after the consumption of mammalian meat.”

On the bright side, I could still eat Soylent Green! 🤪

And I now have a lifetime medical vaccine exemption. (Whoever designed this bioweapon at least left us that loophole.)

@zio

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Lady MountainJay

@picofarad — I’ve heard that our county health department estimates that 30-40% of people in our county have AGS (Missouri Ozarks). Three people in my family have it, at least two of our closest neighbors do, and we personally know at least two dozen more.

A friend from Colorado visited us for a week and got it, possibly from just one tick bite.

And if chiggers and mosquitoes end up increasingly being vectors for it (rather than just ticks), which is being posited and studied…🤯

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Soul Dessin

@MountainJay @picofarad
Okay, one, the Alpha Gal is very interesting and I've not really crossed this before.

But,
Two, Oh my goodness, have you seen the possible solutions? 96% responded to essentially acupuncture and an abstaining from Alpha Gal-based products for three weeks and then slowly introduced over two.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/…

It's just fascinating!

Successful Treatment for Alpha Gal Mammal Product Allergy Using Auricular Acupuncture: A Case Series - PMC

Introduction: Alpha gal syndrome (AGS) is an acquired allergy to mammalian products correlates with a tick bite(s) that appears to cause immune sensitization to an oligosaccharide in meat. Most publications on AGS describe no management other than ..
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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DOGE cuts to weather balloon sites leave U.S. without crucial data, some meteorologists say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-cuts-nws-balloon-sites-leave-us-without-crucial-weather-data-some-meteorologists-say/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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DOGE cuts to weather balloon sites leave U.S. without crucial data, some meteorologists say

Some meteorologists say they were unable to accurately forecast an ice storm that hit Northern Michigan in March because National Weather Service balloon sites were cut or reduced.
Dave Malkoff (CBS News)

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Say, what's the first major-release film to mention either "the internet" or "the world wide web?"

(Or, alternatively, "DNS" or "SMTP" or "TCP/IP" or other uniquely internet technology, though that seems doubtful.)

And I mean mention as in, either in dialogue or printed and shown on screen in a newspaper or something.

There's a kind of annoying reddit thread about this that's not very helpful and is fixated on WarGames which definitely doesn't talk about the internet (all the comms in that movie are over dialup).

A timestamp reference would be just great if you have it.

Reddit - The heart of the internet

www.reddit.com

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Thailand readies homecoming for stolen ancient statues located in US museum
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/24/thailand-readies-homecoming-for-stolen-ancient-statues-located-in-us-museum?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Features @features-AlJazeera


Thailand readies homecoming for stolen ancient statues located in US museum

San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum is set to return four bronze statues from Thailand’s looted Prakhon Chai hoard.
Zsombor Peter (Al Jazeera)

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Future Buffer Zone is 'Turning Point in Russia's Defensive Architecture': Analyst en.sputniknews.africa/20250523…

Future Buffer Zone is 'Turning Point in Russia's Defensive Architecture': Analyst

The measure, announced on Thursday by Putin, "aims to preserve the integrity of Russia's western border, which is jeopardized by NATO's constant policy of provocation," Argentinian analyst Tadeo Casteglione told Sputnik.
Sputnik Africa

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The Biden regime was literally trying to make the "next pandemic" - bird flu a thing via gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute. Fortunately canceled by President Trump's US Dept. of Agriculture.

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/w…


WINNING: Trump Cuts USDA Bird Flu Gain-of-Function Research Partnership with China | The Gateway Pundit | by Cassandra MacDonald

           The Trump Administration has terminated a controversial $1 million maximum-pain bird flu gain-of-function research project conducted by the U.S.
Cassandra MacDonald (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13775
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Beyond Semantics: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens

Recent impressive results from large reasoning models have been interpreted as a triumph of Chain of Thought (CoT), and especially of the process of training on CoTs sampled from base LLMs in order to help find new reasoning patterns.
arXiv.org

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'Golden Dome' a threat to global security, experts say global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202…

'Golden Dome' a threat to global security, experts say

Experts warn that the US plan to build the "Golden Dome" missile defense shield could escalate the weaponization of outer space and destabilize global security, while doubts persist over the project's feasibility.
global.chinadaily.com.cn

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Federated Services

Federated Services are services which many instances form a network to provide a greater whole than the sum of their parts, each participant in the Fediverse is an “instance”. A message or other item made available on one instance is visible and available on other instances.

We make these services available to all people who do not abuse it in order to promote the values of Free Speech, and those of the United States Constitution First Amendment. A free republic is not possible without free speech and commercial mainstream media do not provide it. We also get some advertisement benefit from hosting these, it is our hope that people who see how fast and responsible our services are will decide to do hosting or use other paid services here.

There are numerous federated services available, we offer Macrobloging platform Friendica, Hubzilla; Microbloging services Mastodon, Misskey, a federated search engine, Yacy, and a federated cloud service, Nextcloud.

Macrobloging services are message systems that allow long form posts similar in format to Facebook. These allow for works of fiction, poetry, technical papers, news items, short stories, and more. These formats are most useful for discussion of social issues.

Microbloging services allow only short form posts similar in format to Twitter. While you can link to larger articles elsewhere, you have a relatively short character limit and so can not post them directly.

Censorship, is handled much different on the fediverse than on mainstream media like Twitter or Facebook. On the fediverse, each individual instance is responsible for content available on that instance, but does not censor the rest of the network. Thus if you find the rules of one instance too constraining you can move to another.

Federated search engines are analogous to federated message systems in that each instance chooses what portion of the internet it wants to crawl. When you enter a search term, the local instance queries all of the federated instances, collates and sorts the results and presents them to you. As with messages, each instance can have it’s own censorship policies but no one instance can censor the entire network.

Given the wild-west nature of the fediverse, it is probably not suitable for children under 14, and you’re guaranteed to find some material that will offend virtually everyone. With federated search engines, material that is inappropriate will usually be flagged sensitive or nsfw (not safe for work) so as long as you don’t expand material marked as such, you can avoid this sort of material. There are occasionally people who violate these rules, we do our best to remove such individuals none the less some will get through.

We offer the following federated services:

Friendica.Eskimo.Com
Friendica is a decentralized long format macrobloging message network. It is similar in format to facebook however there is no centralized censorship. Also, it is able to federate with all other federated message systems which use ActivityPub protocol and also we have extensions that allow it to speak to several other networks via other protocols.

Hubzilla.Eskimo.Com
Hubzilla is similar in message format to Friendica in that it allows long posts. However, it specializes in it’s ability to provide connectivity to multiple protocols and so we include it in our mix of federated services primarily for the better connectivity it offers. Hubzilla provides a great deal of interoperability between many networks though ActivityPub is still it’s primary protocol. Hubzilla gives you a greater degree of control over privacy than some of the other networks. You can create private channels that are served between hubzilla instances and other compatible instances.

Mastodon.Eskimo.Com
Mastodon is first and foremost an alternative to Twitter. While Twitter has Tweets, Mastodon has Toots. The format is very similar. Mastodon toots have a limit of 500 characters. Similar to the short limit of Twitter. This is why this platform is referred to as a Microbloging format. Mastodon interacts with other ActivityPub instances however when a long form blog post from another instance arrives, you are only shown a short portion with a link to follow to see the full post on the originating site.

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If you are a customer of Eskimo North, your login credentials will work without a domain extension to access Nextcloud. If you are not a customer you can apply for a Nextcloud account using your choice of login and password, in this case the login should include your originating network. Some features require an Eskimo North shell account to take full advantage of.

Pixelfed.Eskimo.Com
Pixelfed is a federated pixel gallery. A place where you can share your photos to the widest audience possible, and you can view what others have shared. Instance is new as of April 6th, 2025.


Yacy.Eskimo.Com
Yacy is a federated search engine. There are several thousand instances on the Internet. Each instances crawls whatever portion of the web the administrator requested. It is also possible for the administrator of a site with relatively few resources to request a larger site to do crawls on their behalf. Unfortunately, it does not provide a method for an end user to initiate a crawl, but if you send e-mail to support@eskimo.com and request a crawl, we will initiate a crawl on your behalf.


If you enjoy these services, please consider supporting us by taking advantage of our paid services: https://www.eskimo.com/

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Positional preferences, order effects, prompt sensitivity undermine AI judgments

Link: cip.org/blog/llm-judges-are-un…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


LLM Judges Are Unreliable

When Large Language Models are used as judges for decision-making across various sensitive domains, they consistently exhibit unpredictable and hidden measurement biases, making their verdicts unreliable despite common prompt engineering practices.
James Padolsey (The Collective Intelligence Project)

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Shell Accounts

Shell Accounts
A shell is a command line interface for an operating system. With most shell providers, a command line interface on one flavor of Linux or Unix is all you get. Eskimo North provides access to eight different popular Linux distributions and SunOS Unix. Eskimo North also full remote desktop capabilities using X2Go with sound, and also NX, VNC, and RPD without sound.

Account Types
We offer four different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, and Enterprise. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types except student. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.

Web Hosting
Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.

Remote Desktop
Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.

Applications
Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.

E-mail
Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.

Security
Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.

Eskimo North has been providing Unix timeshare services since 1985. We have been providing Linux timeshare, shell access, web hosting, e-mail, and Internet services since 1992. Please take a look at our services as they support our free Federated services including Friendica, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Nextcloud, Pixelfed, and Yacy Search.

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Nanook

@gentoobro We started as a single line BBS in 1982, became a unix based timeshare service in 1985, and then when the first public CIX in stockton was formed in 1992, we ordered Sprint T1's and went online and started providing Internet services. When we first started providing Unix services it was using Microsoft Xenix on a MC68000 machine, in 1991 I purchased a Sun 3/180, and over the course of the next few years upgraded to a 3/280, then 4/280, then got a second Sun 4/330, then added two 4/670MP with quad 40Mhz SPARC CPUs, then to Sun SS-10, we took our Ross hypersparc modules from the power hungery 4/670MP and stuck them in much more power efficient SS-10s, then we upgraded to Ross 125Mhz Quad CPUs, then when the Linux .98 kernel came out we started experimenting with Linux and we tried Linux on Sparc and found it far out performed the SunOS native to the machines so we converted all of our machines except for one to Linux. We started experimenting with 386 machines when they became available and found Mhz for Mhz the SPARC got about 3x as much work done and initially the 25Mhz bus of the early Intel machines limited them to tasks that were not I/O intensive. Also the early Intel machines tended to handle task switching rather poorly so were best suited to tasks that didn't involved a lot of interrupts or thread. But the cost was so much cheaper, we could put together a PC for under $2,000 where as the Sun Sparc CPU modules were $20k a pop and it required two of them for a four CPU machine. So as Intel performance improved we gradually moved more and more things over and finally retired the very last Sparc machine just a few years ago. So yes we were an ISP on 1992 and I believe we were the eight to get connected to the Stockton CIX providing public services and I believe all of those prior to us have either changed hands or folded.

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Just upgraded #VScode and holy shit is #Microsoft shoving AI down everybody's throats. I'm 30 minutes in disabling shit after shit of unwanted feature. I don't #trust Microsoft anymore so unfortunately I feel compelled to go through each entry line by line.

You know what, I miss #Atom. Now that was a fine editor.

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Mysterious #Database of 184 Million Records Exposes Vast Array of #Login #Credentials


source: wired.com/story/mysterious-dat…

#cybersecurity #socialmedia #hack #hacker #security #internet #problem #cybercrime #news #breach


Mysterious Database of 184 Million Records Exposes Vast Array of Login Credentials

A trove of breached data, which has now been taken down, includes user logins for platforms including Apple, Google, and Meta. Among the exposed accounts are ones linked to dozens of governments.
Matt Burgess (WIRED)

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi arrives in Rome at the head of an official delegation to participate in the fifth round of indirect negotiations with the United States. english.alahednews.news/fastne…

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi arrives in Rome at th...

Alahednews - Fastnews - Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi arrives in Rome at the head of an official delegation to participate in the fifth round of indirect n...
english.alahednews.news

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It was always about programmable DNA. Depopulation was just collateral bonus. Once they GMO you, you're transhumanized. They can now do with you what they will. minds.com/newsfeed/17727570163…

It was always about programmable DNA. Depopulation was just collateral bonus. Once they GMO you, you're transhumanized. They can now do with you what they will. | Minds

...st collateral bonus. Once they GMO you, you're transhumanized. They can now do with you what they will.. Subscribe to @FretzCapo on Minds
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Nanook

@FretzCapo Farcebook of course covers the video with a disclaimer saying this information is false, read about why.

The day they announced these death shots, I knew there was potential for bad because I knew about reverse transcriptese, an enzyme that transcribes RNA into a DNA equivalent, it is used by all RNA viruses like AIDS, Covid, many flues, to make DNA copies of themselves that can then transcribe messenger RNA to make the various proteins they need for replication. So them saying this could not get into your DNA flew in the face of how viruses worked.

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Personality changes after the jab?
The jab completely destroys the pineal gland:

instagram.com/reel/DJ_-gmIyygD…


Based4Ever Media on Instagram: "If you were forced to take the shots for whatever reason, you can still breakdown the spike proteins with the Ultimate Spike Detox formula from The Wellness Company. This extra-strength formula is the only one designed and

1,680 likes, 87 comments - based4ever_media on May 23, 2025: "If you were forced to take the shots for whatever reason, you can still breakdown the spike proteins with the Ultimate Spike Detox formula from The Wellness Company.
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Need a good resource to learn linux

I just fucking can't with windows anymore. I'd preach about it but I imagine you've heard it all. I have minimal computer expertise.

I use my PC mainly for streaming, downloading torrent files who's copyright you don't need to worry about, and light gaming. Usually just messing with New Vegas mods.

If someone knows of a good YouTube channel or guide or something written for andelder millennial caveman I would be grateful.

Edit: after having been recommended mint OS and giving it a quick Google, I got this! I haven't fucked with anything linux scince the early aughts. And holy shit has that come a ways. Guess I remembered back and got a little intimidated. Mint is downloading now. As a small f.u. I booted up edge to do it. Ty you beautiful people!

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taanegl

It's a weird time to live in, but not confusing. It's obvious to see that what you really want as a vendor is control over the operating system stack itself, and relying on Microsoft has become challenging.

In essence what NVIDIA is doing is bringing it's entire GPU driver stack open source side, so that entire industries say go on buying tons more hardware.

Us Linux enthusiasts get to reap the benefit, what with entire open source movements bringing libraries to Linux side first that can turn GPU hardware into whatever tool you'd like. Projects like PyTorch and ffmpeg run as first class citizens on Linux.

Windows still relies on either shared DotNet stack (which will make a monkey out of you - cough cough) or the nearly ancient MSYS2 build environment. Microsoft of course prefers you run all that software inside their Linux container system known as WSL - and there's a reason for that.

The Linux graphics stack is looking more "feature complete" by the month, bringing up the question of where you actually get the best hardware support. This is a good question to have.

Now, if only the open source desktop movements could clean house, figure out funding and get their stacks in order, we might finally, for the umpteenth time, maybe see the year of the Linux desktop.

I grow old with anticipation, but seeing what NVIDIA did in the before time versus what they do in the now puts a smirk on this haggered face.

Onwards to the future.

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