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Abundance is very near to Australia Labour policy, still feasible under its resources & election system. The tiniest hint of taxing multimillionaire pension pots windfalls results in so much Murdoch & commercial media resentment that it's abandoned...? RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p5yoi…
this is just obviously true. the point is to put tons of donor money behind a liberal-coded agenda that tacitly rules out taxing the rich, attacking corporations, or building out the welfare state www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/06/09/a...
this is just obviously true. the point is to put tons of donor money behind a liberal-coded agenda that tacitly rules out taxing the rich, attacking corporations, or building out the welfare state www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/06/09/a...
"Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change."
-- Frank H. Knight (1885-1972) American economist Source: Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit par. III.VIII.15
"Knowledge is more a matter of learning
than of the exercise of absolute judgment.
Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with,
as well as the learner, undergoes change." ~ Frank H. Knight
ICE agents mistakenly detain U.S. marshal in Arizona
The deputy marshal was detained because he "fit the general description of a subject being sought by ICE," according to the U.S. Marshals Service. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-m…
@bob yeah comrade they aint concerned with nazis and fash. they just don't like the color red. "new axis"... tf is that? the only axis has always been empire and capital. some fucking rachel maddow world history over here.
The Hungarian prime minister further warns that Europe's fixation on defeating Russia is enticing Kyiv to prolong the war in the hope of more financial handouts
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Dozens were detained as US immigration agents raided a Nebraska meatpacking facility, in a display of federal power condemned by rights groups as discriminatory and disruptive.
Wieder werden Dutzende Hungernde bei Verteilzentren im Süden und Zentrum des Küstenstreifens getötet. Derweil ruft die israelische Armee zur »Evakuierung« auf und löst einen Internetblackout in Gaza-Stadt aus.
A Chinese state-owned company began construction of a solar power plant in Nicaragua on June 6, 2025.
The project will be the largest green solar power plant in Nicaragua.
The solar power plant, located in the municipality of Nindirí, Masaya, will have an installed capacity of 70 megawatts and include 112,700 high-tech photovoltaic panels.
The main function of the solar power plant will be to provide clean energy for sanitation and water services in Nicaragua.
A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future. 2016 Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film.World of Tomorrow Episodes Two a...
Well, guess I wasn't actually familiar with this album before, but I am fixing that now. Like, holy moly, it might be my favourite? Pretty sure you can hear the birth of Prince from "Frisky" alone.
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i gave him one of the new mousies i got him recently. this is probably why he wants to stay in cause he's playing with it. it's a brown thing with a feather tail
Meta is under investigation for a privacy violation called "localhost tracking." This process allowed Meta to link users' real identities to their web browsing activity, even if they used VPNs, incognito mode, and deleted cookies.
The process involves the Facebook or Instagram app listening for incoming traffic on local network ports and exchanging information with Meta's tracking scripts in users' web browsers.
Berlin: Friedensinitiative ruft gemeinsam mit Palästina-Bewegung zum Protest gegen Regierung auf. Ein Gespräch mit Jutta Kausch-Henken von der Initiative »Nie wieder Krieg – Die Waffen nieder!«
Scheduled servicing keeps your crane in the game. The parts you choose—OEM or third-party—shape its future. While OEM parts deliver reliability, third-party options can save costs if chosen carefully. Work with a supplier who knows your equipment and prio
Regular maintenance is the foundation of crane reliability, preventing costly downtime and safety risks. But when it's time to replace worn parts, the decision between OEM and third-party options sparks debate. It's about more than cost—it's about keeping your crane on the job.
Why Scheduled Servicing Is Non-Negotiable
Every crane, including Tadano models, follows a maintenance schedule based on usage or wear. Over time, components like filters, seals, and structural parts degrade. Skipping these intervals lets small issues escalate into project-stopping failures. The real question is which parts to use during servicing.
The Case for OEM Parts
OEM parts come from the crane's original manufacturer. They're built to precise specs, ensuring seamless integration and reliable performance. Tested to handle your crane's specific conditions, they reduce the chance of breakdowns and typically protect your warranty.
The downside is cost—OEM parts are often more expensive. Availability can also be an issue, especially for older models, leading to potential delays.
Third-Party Parts: A Mixed Bag
Third-party parts are attractive for their affordability and quicker delivery. Some aftermarket options are well-engineered, rivaling OEM quality at a lower price. But quality varies widely. Poorly made parts may fit incorrectly, wear out fast, or cause damage to other systems. They could also void your warranty.
For non-essential components like filters, a reputable third-party part might be fine. But for critical systems, caution is crucial.
Tadano Cranes Demand High Standards
Tadano cranes are known for their durability and precision, but only if maintained properly. High-pressure systems like hydraulics, electronics, or load-bearing components require parts that meet strict standards. Parts designed for these demands ensure safety and performance.
For less critical parts, a vetted third-party option could work, but only from a trusted source.
Partnering with a Parts Supplier
A reliable supplier is your ally in making smart choices. They understand your crane, can recommend when third-party parts are viable, and ensure fast delivery to minimize downtime. They'll also clarify the risks of each option.
Suppliers who push parts without context or can't verify compatibility are a liability. Choose a supplier who values your operation's success.
Closing Thoughts
Scheduled servicing keeps your crane in the game. The parts you choose—OEM or third-party—shape its future. While OEM Tadano crane parts deliver reliability, third-party options can save costs if chosen carefully. Work with a supplier who knows your equipment and prioritizes quality.
Ask the tough questions: Is this part reliable? What's the risk? A little care today prevents major headaches tomorrow.
Three years ago I wrote about how we may be slowly coming to understand that progress isn't inevitable and things may actually be trending downward on multiple fronts: alfiekohn.org/blogs/regress/.
Now comes strong evidence that this is particularly true regarding trends in attitudes about gender roles: nytimes.com/2025/06/04/opinion…. Some truly disturbing polling data here.
May 16, 2022 When the Myth of Progress Unravels By Alfie Kohn The arc of history is long, but it bends toward catastrophic annihilation. — Barbara Ehrenreich The fact that five religious Supreme…
As Washington, D.C. prepares for the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, armored tanks have begun to arrive ahead of Saturday's celebration.#DonaldTrump #Arm...
I'm keeping an eye out for it. We first saw it on our way out to dinner. And I didn't see it when we came back about an hour later. Hopefully mama found it and got it home. It was barely bigger than a softball. I already know of a rehabber collective that I will call if I do see it again.
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#Alerta Neo-nazi Ryan Sanchez was apparently on the ground in LA yesterday with a crew, infiltrating protests and taking people's pictures. He also had a knife with him. (See first link below)
Sanchez is a (former?) member of Patriot Front and a (definitely former) member of neo-nazi fight club Rise Above Movement (RAM), which was sort of the precursor to and model for today's "active clubs". (See second link below)
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 10 (ACN) In a post on X, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel reasserted his unwavering support for former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner after the Argentine Supreme Court of Justice upheld her six-year sentence (to…
“This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of articles after an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the Wikipedia editors community.
“Just because Google has rolled out its AI summaries doesn't mean we need to one-up them, I sincerely beg you not to test this, on mobile or anywhere else,” one editor said in response to Wikimedia Foundation’s announcement that it will launch a two-week trial of the summaries on the mobile version of Wikipedia. “This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source. Wikipedia has in some ways become a byword for sober boringness, which is excellent. Let's not insult our readers' intelligence and join the stampede to roll out flashy AI summaries. Which is what these are, although here the word ‘machine-generated’ is used instead.”
Two other editors simply commented, “Yuck.”
For years, Wikipedia has been one of the most valuable repositories of information in the world, and a laudable model for community-based, democratic internet platform governance. Its importance has only grown in the last couple of years during the generative AI boom as it’s one of the only internet platforms that has not been significantly degraded by the flood of AI-generated slop and misinformation. As opposed to Google, which since embracing generative AI has instructed its users to eat glue, Wikipedia’s community has kept its articles relatively high quality. As I recently reported last year, editors are actively working to filter out bad, AI-generated content from Wikipedia.
A page detailing the the AI-generated summaries project, called “Simple Article Summaries,” explains that it was proposed after a discussion at Wikimedia’s 2024 conference, Wikimania, where “Wikimedians discussed ways that AI/machine-generated remixing of the already created content can be used to make Wikipedia more accessible and easier to learn from.” Editors who participated in the discussion thought that these summaries could improve the learning experience on Wikipedia, where some article summaries can be quite dense and filled with technical jargon, but that AI features needed to be cleared labeled as such and that users needed an easy to way to flag issues with “machine-generated/remixed content once it was published or generated automatically.”
In one experiment where summaries were enabled for users who have the Wikipedia browser extension installed, the generated summary showed up at the top of the article, which users had to click to expand and read. That summary was also flagged with a yellow “unverified” label. An example of what the AI-generated summary looked like. Wikimedia announced that it was going to run the generated summaries experiment on June 2, and was immediately met with dozens of replies from editors who said “very bad idea,” “strongest possible oppose,” Absolutely not,” etc.
“Yes, human editors can introduce reliability and NPOV [neutral point-of-view] issues. But as a collective mass, it evens out into a beautiful corpus,” one editor said. “With Simple Article Summaries, you propose giving one singular editor with known reliability and NPOV issues a platform at the very top of any given article, whilst giving zero editorial control to others. It reinforces the idea that Wikipedia cannot be relied on, destroying a decade of policy work. It reinforces the belief that unsourced, charged content can be added, because this platforms it. I don't think I would feel comfortable contributing to an encyclopedia like this. No other community has mastered collaboration to such a wondrous extent, and this would throw that away.”
A day later, Wikimedia announced that it would pause the launch of the experiment, but indicated that it’s still interested in AI-generated summaries.
“The Wikimedia Foundation has been exploring ways to make Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects more accessible to readers globally,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told me in an email. “This two-week, opt-in experiment was focused on making complex Wikipedia articles more accessible to people with different reading levels. For the purposes of this experiment, the summaries were generated by an open-weight Aya model by Cohere. It was meant to gauge interest in a feature like this, and to help us think about the right kind of community moderation systems to ensure humans remain central to deciding what information is shown on Wikipedia.”
“It is common to receive a variety of feedback from volunteers, and we incorporate it in our decisions, and sometimes change course,” the Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson added. “We welcome such thoughtful feedback — this is what continues to make Wikipedia a truly collaborative platform of human knowledge.”
“Reading through the comments, it’s clear we could have done a better job introducing this idea and opening up the conversation here on VPT back in March,” a Wikimedia Foundation project manager said. VPT, or “village pump technical,” is where The Wikimedia Foundation and the community discuss technical aspects of the platform. “As internet usage changes over time, we are trying to discover new ways to help new generations learn from Wikipedia to sustain our movement into the future. In consequence, we need to figure out how we can experiment in safe ways that are appropriate for readers and the Wikimedia community. Looking back, we realize the next step with this message should have been to provide more of that context for you all and to make the space for folks to engage further.”
The project manager also said that “Bringing generative AI into the Wikipedia reading experience is a serious set of decisions, with important implications, and we intend to treat it as such, and that “We do not have any plans for bringing a summary feature to the wikis without editor involvement. An editor moderation workflow is required under any circumstances, both for this idea, as well as any future idea around AI summarized or adapted content.”
@DODResponse · 36m . @PressSec "President Trump will never allow mob rule to prevail in America. The most basic duty of government is to preserve law and order...
That's why President Trump deployed the National Guard and mobilized Marines to end the chaos and restore LAW AND ORDER."
A few weeks back I read on Mastodon that the US Dept of Health and Human Services was getting rid of COVID tests. This is bad for all the reasons, but some enterprising government employee did a program where you could fill out a form and get anywhere from 300-3000 COVID tests (unexpired) sent to your home. I figured why not try? Last week I got seven boxes of COVID tests delivered to my porch. I posted to a local mailing list and I am getting them pointed towards my community. Thanks Mastodon!
@DrChris ⚔️ I'm afraid I don't see it that way. Mainstream media is out of touch, losing popularity, and is no longer the main source of news or culture.
This is a great example of how historical path-dependence has borked Canada. This savvy innovation is only workable with district heating, a collectivist infrastructure from the past. Now, that history of collectivism is allowing flexibility in unanticipated circumstances (climate change) which we cannot match, constrained as we are by our past choices.
A small town in Finland is about to ditch fossil fuels in its heating network thanks to a sand-filled energy storage tank the size of a house.
Finnish startup Polar Night Energy ...
Interesting that they are going the subscription route and not selling these outright. It works because the comparison with the cost of a human looks so favorable. I'd expect to see this with humanoid robots too as they take over more and more human jobs.
In Ukraine, there is growing reflection, turning into panic, about the ongoing offensive of the Russian army in the Sumy region, the tasks of which, for now, include the creation of a security buffer zone in the border area with the Russian Federatio…
A very interesting analysis of Monday's anti-ICE protest in #Austin. I especially am interested that protesters used micromobility scooters as a makeshift barricade.
(I do wish Crimethinc would give credit for the photos they borrow from other sources)
Hey guys i have been using Navidrome to stream my music from my server and its been amazing. I primarily use YT Music because of discoverability so I have all of my "primary" playlists (about 8 of them really, but supporting a somewhat arbitrary limit would be nice) in YouTube.
Im looking for an automated way to download the music and keep my navidrome instance updated with a couple playlists. I started working on some Python script to handle it, but its just not working super well so i would prefer to use someone elses solution haha.
Anyone have any good recommendations? I tried this one but I couldn't actually find the music and it seems to only support one playlist at a time. It would also be nice to download the album art and set some ID3 tags too
Yeah I am using yt-dlp to download the music, and I can set that on a cronjob no problem.
I am specifically asking for better downloading (I don't want just the raw YouTube title most of the time), album art, and ID3 tagging. But that beets.io thing looks super cool! I might integrate that into my existing python scripting instead of trying to build it all out myself
Just to throw out an easy option: if the music is well-labeled on Youtube, you can get pretty close to that full suite with just yt-dlp by using --embed-thumbnail as a stand-in for album art, dumping your files with an “Artist - track - album” naming structure using the --output-template flag — then using an awk or python script as a second pass to add the artist/track/album names to each file as tags.
E: and in case it isn’t self-evident, you don’t have to give yt-dlp a URL for each track; it’ll work fine with a playlist URL.
Fair enough; I can do one for you. I have a local ComfyUI setup, so prompt data won't go anywhere. Heck, even if I were generating it on a service, it'd be useless for letting said service gain information about you, as I don't know who or where you are.
For "over_clox", using stoiqNewrealityFLUXSD35_f1DAlphaTwo:
An example of what the AI-generated summary looked like.
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