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Negotiators from Russia and Ukraine met in Istanbul for an hour on Monday, where they exchanged documents outlining their requirements for a ceasefire...
NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX are targeting 8:22 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 10, for launch of the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, Axiom Mission 4. The mission will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew will travel to the orbiting laboratory on a […]
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5 anni fa veniva condiviso il primo post in questo nostro Social federato. Un buon traguardo per un progetto autogestito.
Alcuni di voi sono con noi sin dall'inizio: grazie! Ma grazie anche a chi si è aggiunto/a da poco! E grazie pure a chi è stato con noi e poi ci ha salutati.
An Edinburgh-based tour company is making a significant shift this June by replacing its popular Harry Potter-themed walking tours with LGBTQ+ history tours in observance of Pride Month
NASA and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) are collaborating to launch scientific investigations aboard Axiom Mission 4, the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. These studies include examining muscle regeneration, growth of sprouts and edible microalgae, survival of tiny aquatic organisms, and human interaction with electronic displays in microgravity. The mission is […]
I don't think fedex actually wants to *deliver* packages. I think they want to move them between cities and have you pick them up yourself.
I currently have a package coming that requires an "indirect signature", which their website states "the recipient can sign for the package electronically through fedex delivery manager". Delivery manager tells me that I simply click on a shipping notification and click on "Sign for a package". The shipping notification says "This package can no longer be signed online... blah blah blah".
Meanwhile, the AI bot in the corner is suggesting I can pick up the package at a fedex location. Fuck you. Bring my shit to my house. That's the fucking job. The nearest location requires a 25 mile round trip drive.
So, fedex sucks for me and the GOP wants to kill my access to the Postal Service. UPS is the "good" option, but I'm not holding my breath on that continuing.
Epilogue: FedEx showed up right in the middle of their delivery window, which is a truly shocking occurrence. Dude handed me my package and, DID NOT ask for a signature, even though everything online seemed to indicate that I would absolutely NEED to be home to provide one. I assume he just scribbled something on his digital pad, but I'm really curious whether he would have done the same if I wasn't home? It's all just fucking random.
this is a v important rant. in some ways i dont think anything will bring this country together like how fucking impossible it is to rely on the usps now, and how expensive and barely-better the private options are.
@benda That's absolutely it. I think that's why they're slow-walking their destruction of the postal service. I think they realize it's one of the live wires where they can't afford to move too quickly, lest the public lose their shit.
I will NEVER forgive Biden for not taking decisive action against DeJoy. I've heard all the explanations why he "couldn't" and... (Gestures vaguely toward the Trump Whitehouse)... Yeah bro, no one would ever let a president get away with firing the people on a supervisory board because they refuse to fire a guy who is there to literally destroy the agency he's been placed in charge of. **That** would be overreach... 🤦♂️
those narratives are verifiable bull shit. biden had the opportunity in the first year and a half of his term to put THREE members on the board of governors. we only needed *two* of those three to vote in favor of getting rid of dejoy. biden, in his infinite incompetence, put one republican, and one "democrat" who was in favor of dejoy's 10 year bankruptcy plan. sorry, this is a topic that pisses me off hugely because the msm reports on it picking and choosing which facts to report in order to construct a narrative that dem leadership isnt exactly the same as the republican party. at this point, biden/dnc are just as much to blame for the impending failure of the usps as trump/republicans.
@benda Oh, absolutely. It was obvious bullshit from the word go. It's painfully apparent that the "money assholes" are salivating at the prospect of stripping several government sectors of every dime. One party is busy crying that they just can't seem to do anything about it, and the other party is trying to convince us that we'll actually be happier without. USPS, medicare, social security, the park service... you fucking name it, they all want to strip mine it and sell us a watered down replacement.
the dam will break. and i think fairly soon. the only question is whether we'll be dumb enough to be at one anothers' throats or go for the assholes that ran this ship into the ground.
Time for our Wednesday tease of Other People's Music! This thread will share JUST the first line of each entry, along with links to the music, the artist's socials, and the full review. Don't need/want a tease? Dive into the full thing here:
A compact epic of a single that starts off somewhere between The Streets & Arctic Monkeys & ends up neck deep in Bowie’s underrated late ‘80s/early ‘90s output.
And, as always, please remember that indie musicians live and die by your clicks and listens, and eventually by your monetary support. Please open your ears for anything that looks intriguing and your wallet for anything that fulfills that promise!
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"What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 7
"Yet most men don't understand computers to even the slightest degree. So, unless they are capable of very great skepticism (the kind we bring to bear while watching a stage magician), they can explain the computer's intellectual feats only by bringing to bear the single analogy available to them, that is, their model of their own capacity to think."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 9-10
🔥🔥🔥 "And so the rationality-is-logicality equation, which the very success of science has drugged us into adopting as virtually an axiom, has led us to deny the very existence of human conflict, hence the very possibility of the collision of genuinely incommensurable human interests and of disparate human values, hence the existence of human values themselves."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 14
"The feeling of hunger was rejected as a stimulus for eating; instead, one ate when an abstract model had achieved a certain state, i.e., when the hands of a clock pointed to certain marks on the clock's face (the anthropomorphism here is highly significant too), and similarly for signals for sleep and rising, and so on."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 25
"Yes, the computer did arrive "just in time." But in time for what? In time to save - and save very nearly intact, indeed, to entrench and stabilize - social and political structures that otherwise might have been either radically renovated or allowed to totter under the demands that were sure to be made on them."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 31
"That was the option man chose to exercise. The arrival of the Computer Revolution and the founding of the Computer Age have been announced many times. But if the triumph of a revolution is to be measured in terms of the profundity of the social revisions it entrained, then there has been no computer revolution. And however the present age is to be characterized, the computer is not eponymic of it."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 32
"If a particular technique requires an enormous amount of computation and if only a limited computational effort can be devoted to it, then a failure of the technique can easily be explained away on the ground that, because of computational limitations, it was never really tested."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 35
"One programs, just as one writes, not because one understands, but in order to come to understand. Programming is an act of design. To write a program is to legislate the laws for a world one first has to create in imagination."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 108
"Indeed, many professional programmers believe that their craft is difficult because the languages with which they must deal have rigid syntactical rules. There is therefore a persistent cry for natural-language, e.g., English, programming systems. Programmers who hold to this belief have probably never tackled a truly difficult problem, and have therefore never felt the need for really deep criticism from the computer."
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 109
"A real reason that programming is very hard is that, in most instances, the computer knows nothing of those aspects of the real world that its program is intended to deal with. [...] It is in fact very hard to explain anything in terms of a primitive vocabulary that has nothing whatever to do with that which has to be explained. Yet that is precisely what most programs attempt to do."
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 109
"A computer's successful performance is often taken as evidence that it or its programmer understand a theory of its performance. Such an inference is unnecessary and, more often than not, is quite mistaken."
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 110
"The extreme phenomenon of the compulsive programmer teaches us that computers have the power to sustain megalomaniac fantasies. But that power of the computer is merely an extreme version of a power that is inherent in all self-validating systems of thought." (1/2)
"Perhaps we are beginning to understand that the abstract systems - the games computer people can generate in their infinite freedom from the constraints that delimit the dreams of workers in the real world - may fail catastrophically when their rules are applied in earnest." (2/2)
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 130-131
"If a theory written in natural language is, in fact, a set of patches and patches on patches, its lack of structure will be evident in its very composition. Although a computer program similarly constructed may reveal its impoverished structure to a trained reader, this kind of fault cannot be so easily seen in the program's performance. A program's performance, therefore, does not alone constitute an adequate validation of it as theory."
Computer Power and Human Reason, Weizenbaum, 1976, p152
"The public vaguely understands but is nonetheless firmly convinced that any effective procedure can, in principle, be carried out by a computer. [...] Indeed, on the basis of this unwarranted generalization of the words "effective" and "procedure," the word "understanding" is also redefined. To those fully in the grip of the computer metaphor, to understand X is to be able to write a computer program that realizes X."
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 157
"When the computer is used merely as a numerical tool in psychology (or in any other field), it does not usually create a focusing of vision; i.e., it is not comparable to the microscope. It is therefore unrealistic to expect such use to uncover previously unseen worlds or to render distinct what was earlier seen only in vague outline."
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 160
"That is why, for example, the computer expert who knows nothing but computers (the "Fach Idiot," as the Germans call such a person) can derive no broad intellectual nourishment from his expertise and is therefore doomed to remain forever a hacker. That is also why the computer metaphor is, as George Miller puts it, "most productive in areas where a considerable foundation of theory based on previous research already exists.""
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 160
The analogy to stage magick seems really apt too me. Reminds me of a Pen and Teller clip and one of Teller in which they explain their magic. Can't find those anymore, but did find this one that shows that even if you know how the trick is done, part of you is still fooled regardgless: youtu.be/UF6p0bH7qPc
Les ouvriers d’une usine de thé autogérée décident d’aller à contre-courant et d’appliquer leurs règles.
En 2010, Unilever a annoncé la fermeture de l'usine rentable de préparation et d'emballage du thé Fralib dans le Sud de la France. Après 1336 jours de résistance, les ouvriers ont célébré leur victoire contre la multinationale géante. Aujourd'hui, avec l'entreprise et la production sous contrôle ouvrier, une nouvelle lutte a commencé dans un marché concurrentiel.
Le Goût de l'espoir Un documentaire de Laura Coppens (Suisse, 2019, 70mn)
Ça fait un moment que je leur commande du thé, et je ne suis pas déçu ! 1336.fr/
Documentaire disponible jusqu'au 19/02/20261336 jours de résistance contre UnileverLes ouvriers d’une usine de thé autogérée décident d’aller à contre-couran...
Seule la lutte aboutit ! Encules la multinationale unilever, fais ta lessive (tes cookies et tes cosmétics etc...) toi-même et échanges les recettes avec ton voisin. Désolée pour mon vocabulaire grossier mais j'ai décidé d'arrêter de m'auto-censurer ! C'est ma réaction à ce monde aseptisé où l'injonction à parler guimauve devient la norme !
Among the many dangerous things the Trump administration is doing ...
... this one's a doozy:
the executive order giving his political appointees the power to determine what are "correct" scientific findings, and "the power to 'discipline' anyone who violates the way the administration views science"
The explainer article below, originally published on Xinhua News Agency, challenges Western allegations that China is imposing a “debt trap” on developing countries through loans tied to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
I mean, its a war. Nobody is playing "fair" and you're delusional if you think they ever were.
But it's crazy to fixate on Russian losses and ignore the devastation rained on Ukrainian territory. Or the enormous debts Zelensky has had to assume in order to continue importing new munitions and mercenaries to fight. We've already seen bombings inside Moscow and assassination attempts (more than a few successful even) against Russian military and state security leadership. But that's not budging the front lines. Neither is it curbing the continuous barrage of artillery and Russian-based retaliatory drone attacks.
This is just the Iraq-Iran War on steroids. Two countries absolutely butchering their youth in a vainglorious attempt to claim hegemony over a minefield.
Ukraine is obviously the victim here. The Ukrainian people are amazing and have their own rich history and culture as well that deserves to be preserved and respected and cultivated. They do not deserve any of this.
It's weird to suggest anyone would. But we've been hearing about how "Now is the time for a Ukrainian counterattack!" since 2022. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian conscripts got shoveled into Russian defense lines and butchered by mines and artillery, while Westerners cheered like they were watching some kind of pro-sporting event.
FFS, you can find videos all over the internet of Ukrainians and Russians butchering one another and bragging about it. You can find bespoke influencer news networks bragging about how their team is "Owning" the opposition with grisly reprisals. They're trending all over social media.
Talking about one does not mean I don’t care about the other.
It's just a show for the West. You don't actually give a shit, because you don't see (or care) about the cost anyone is paying.
I am just teasing out exciting (well as exciting as war can be, which is horrific)
I wish people were more willing to confront the horror and less eager to speculate on the excitement.
Instead, we just see bloodlust. People online clutching their keyboards in rapt anticipation of the next bombing or shelling or assassination, like this isn't costing uncounted civilian lives to put points on the board.
What do you want? More solemnity? Do you want us to not cheer for Ukraine? I mean what the hell is your goal?
To get people to see this as an ongoing disaster, tragedy, and fundamental political failure, rather than some kind of CoD Twitch Stream epic playthrough.
This is just the Iraq-Iran War on steroids. Two countries absolutely butchering their youth in a vainglorious attempt to claim hegemony over a minefield.
What are you even talking about?
There are no "two countries butchering". There is no symmetry.
There is a bandit state which invaded their neighbour (like many other neighbours they invaded before) and are murdering civilians, commiting war crimes and kidnapping children.
In Ukraine today, no topic is more barbed than that of compulsory military service. Few want to talk about conscription publicly; men within service age range, 25 to 60 years old, are particularly reticent. “It’s just too sensitive. I hope you understand me,” one man told me, referring to the many families in his circle of friends whose sons, brothers, and fathers are on the front or have perished there. Some fear that speaking out might prompt a letter from the Defense Ministry announcing their call-up. Or worse, they might be plucked randomly by recruitment officers on the streets and, should their documentation prove their eligibility for service, sent straight to boot camp.
Minor correction, it's a million casualties on the Russian side. Dead number is probably around 300k.
But seriously, imagine going from the number 2 world power to a paper tiger that relies on old stock because they don't have the manufacturing capabilities to mass produce new equipment. They can barely keep the old shit running.
i gave them this little dell pc with a low end nvidia card years ago and it's been mostly trouble free, other than some broken USB ports (kids are rough with comptuers) and this borked upgrade. i went from fedora 39-42 which isn't recommended. they recommend doing no more than 2 versions at a time
A Profile of Curtis Yarvin, the right-wing thinker behind the Substack “Gray Mirror,” who has been embraced by J. D. Vance, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, and other supporters of Donald Trump. Ava Kofman reports.
Black holes are invisible to us unless they interact with something else. Some continuously eat gas and dust, and appear to glow brightly over time as matter falls in. But other black holes secretly lie in wait for years until a star comes close enough to snack on. Scientists have recently identified three supermassive black […]
China's CSG commissioned the world's first grid-forming sodium-ion battery storage plant, Baochi Energy Storage Station, in Yunnan province.
The plant is a hybrid lithium-sodium battery energy storage facility with an installed capacity of 200MW/400MWh.
The facility, which can power 270,000 households, supports the integration of high shares of renewables into the grid and alleviates the impact of intermittent supply.
"YouTube Permanently Bans Fantasy Author John A. Douglas Without Giving Any Substantive Reason"
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✅ The focus on perfect form: calisthenics bros will applaud 2 perfect reps over 50 sketchy ones ✅ Systems built around 'progressions' ✅ Almost entirely compound movements ✅ The focus on the eccentrics ✅ Makes you fucking jacked
What i don't like:
❌ Nothing will make you feel like a more uncoordinated klutz than calisthenics ❌ Progression is actually pretty slow ❌ A lot of the advanced movements are stupidly risky for no real gain [besides showing off]
Let me start by saying, i really don't like any machine workouts, they take something that is probably already boring and make it 10x more boring.
But the rowing machine might be the worst of all machines because you can't really just zone out and do it like a treadmill, elliptical, or stationary bike, you actually have to pay attention to your speed and form pretty consistently.
BUT, i will say, it is _very_ effective both for cardio and a full body workout.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses far-right groups and criminal networks of plotting to assassinate him and promises to expose those responsible.
“Madleen”, the civilian ship of The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), sets sail from the port of Catania in Sicily, while being globally tracked on its journey towards besieged Gaza.
by Leo Hohmann. The U.S. government would likely strive to give the president plausible deniability for an operation like this, which took place some 2700 miles inside Russia and far from the front lines.
New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have captured a rare cosmic event: two galaxy clusters have collided and are now poised to head back for another swipe at each other. Galaxy clusters are some of the largest structures in the Universe. Held together by gravity, they are monster-sized collections of hundreds […]
On June 3, 1963, Imam Khomeini’s powerful speech at Qom’s Feyziyeh School denounced the West-backed Pahlavi regime’s corruption and ties to the Israeli regime, igniting protests that faced brutal repression.
Gaza (Quds News Network)- The controversial, US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has announced Johnnie Moore, a US evangelical leader known for his strong support of Israel, as its new execut
You should help save PBS from the Trump administration, see the link below.
Why? I just finished watching a fine #PBS Nova episode I missed last year: "Secrets in Your Data," starring @evacide @eff @cwebber and @pluralistic and other awesome people.
Among the important lessons for the public to see about data privacy and security, showing them the power and use of Mastodon and the Fediverse.
You value this. You're here. No. Other. Broadcaster. Would do something like this hour-long video. Share it with your friends and family who need it, because it's PBS and it's free.
Public media is facing its most immediate and serious threat yet. The Administration sent Congress a rescissions package that would claw back $1.1 billion in public media funding already approved by law.
les armes sont bloquées par les dockers de Marseille(que de belles Âmes), refusant de charger 1bateau de merde, d'armes de merde, pour des merdes génocidaire.
Le projet de loi sur l’accompagnement des malades et de la fin de vie, proposant de légaliser le suicide assisté et l’euthanasie, s’inscrit dans une logique inédite. L’étude d’impact de ce texte n’a pas pris en considération les implications sociales de ces nouvelles pratiques dans notre société.
Or, les exemples observés au Canada et dans l’Oregon font apparaître que les personnes seules ou défavorisées sont surreprésentées parmi les populations ayant recours au suicide assisté. De plus, on voit désormais circuler, à bas bruit mais aussi explicitement, l’idée que le développement de la mort provoquée pourrait être une source d’économies.
Oui, ça aussi j'ai vu.... plus le WHO qui met en avant des maladies aussi bénignes connues et maîtrisées que l'épilepsie en avant, l'âge retenu pour être vieux est 65 ans, et que la DÉMENCE visée "bénéficierait" d'une "prise en charge" mise en place par les médecins !... T'as pas intérêt à aller mal... Ni à avoir des analyses de sang trop mauvaises...
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