Look, I know AI is controversial, but just for a moment, let's set aside our preconceived notions, our biases, the environmental impact, the massive cost to train and run models, the labor exploitation, the intellectual property theft, the inaccuracies, the mania it causes in users, the destruction of search, the deskilling of professionals, the devaluation of creative work, job losses, and lack of economic value from enterprise implementations.

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I'm with Frances Ryan - the cut to disability payment is the final confirmation that Labour is not the party it once was.....

In political terms its a massive unforced error... in moral terms, its a disgrace.

#benefits #disability #politics

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I don't recognise the UK anymore. The level of aggression is off the scale. Imagine this happening to Jeremy Beadle back in the day! minds.com/newsfeed/17848519430…

Fairly often on here I see people sharing stories about #PublicLibraries being like a secret cheat code around late-capitalist extraction and the collapse of communitarian values we see every day in a world built on individualism, consumption and individualistic consumption. Here’s another one:

After arranging a drag queen story hour at her very rural library, out of the abundant depth of her caring and curiosity and without a great deal of political context, and not quite knowing what she had gotten into when chuds with sidearms and bibles showed up to block the door with their pickups, and being very appreciative when, truly spontaneously as we’d never organized together before, a much larger number of anarcho inflected antifascists of all flavors appeared from across the region to help keep the day safe (the queens were extremely sparkly and the kids were extremely giggly), the librarian was so appreciative and got so curious (again, as librarians do) that she now wants to put together a series of intro workshops around topics like de-escalation, mutual aid, protest safety, community defense and consensus-based autonomous organizing.

So, tl;dr.. some christofascists showed up to be mean and dumb about queer and trans people and scare little kids and now the targeted library is starting to look a little like an anarchist infoshop πŸ–€πŸ˜‚πŸ–€

#EverydayAntifascism #EverydayAnarchism #CommunityDefense #HugADragQueen #HugALibrarian #FuckFascists

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Mon amie,
Ton passage dans ma vie m’a rappelΓ© l’abandon Γ  Dieu.

notesandsilence.com/2025/04/12…
#zen #silence #prière #méditation #abandon #conscience #spiritualité

Tearing apart , from side to side,
the cement sky,
What a deafening noise,
this return to silence...

notesandsilence.com/2025/04/12…
#zen #silence #prayer #meditation

What does a #FLOCK license plate reader camera #LPR look like and what do they do? They take pictures and videos of license plates and drivers that may be seeking reproductive rights or the desire to live in their family's native lands. I took a picture of this specimen on my way to work, where it is now taking a nap.

Cuba and Belarus to deepen strategic cooperation cubanews.acn.cu/world/27048-cu…

β‰ͺ Der Wald ist eine Oase der Ruhe und Inspiration. Hier finden wir den Frieden und das GlΓΌck, nach dem wir suchen. ≫


~ Unbekannt

NamastΓ© und einen guten Morgen fΓΌr all diejenigen, die schon wach sind, und fΓΌr die, die es noch werden πŸ™

Ich wΓΌnsche euch einen friedvollen und achtsamen Tag πŸ˜€

_(Bildbeschreibung: Sonnenstrahlen scheinen zwischen den BΓ€umen eines leicht nebligen Waldes hindurch.)_

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in reply to Memo

Leider gibt es (spÀtestens) seit Corona auch viele Erdenkinder (mehr groß, als klein), die sich im Wald genau so "benehmen", wie in Berlin Kreuzberg und anderen gentrifizierten "Brennpunkten" in anderen GroßstÀdten. Sie glauben, ihnen gehâre die Welt, Rücksichtnahme auf Andere sei nicht vonnâten, sondern der Wald sei ausschließlich für sie gewachsen und ihr und ihres Anhangs Eigentum.
Darum kann ich dem schΓΆnen Sinnspruch leider nicht uneingeschrΓ€nkt zustimmen. Aber dafΓΌr kann der Sinnspruch nix πŸ˜‰
in reply to GΓΌnter

Ja, doch! Du musstest an der frischen Luft Masken wegen einer "Pandemie" (eher #Plandemie ) tragen. Dann passt es natuerlich passend, gleich gegen das "harte und langweilige" #Landleben zu schiessen. Dass dort lange Fussmaersche an der natuerlich, frischen Luft moeglich sind und es dort andere Sportarten LAN-Parties gibt, scheint denen wohl nicht in den Sinn zu kommen? Werben nicht dafuer "Die Gruennen", dass in der #Natur leben viel besser ist?

#gone at 82
I sat and talked with Lou in the late 90s after a show in Hersheypark
----If she gives me a sign
That she wants to make time
(Stop)
I can't stop
(Stop)
I can't stop myself
youtu.be/h0NsTD7FlIY?si=3-3FBK…

In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die GΓ€ste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den GΓ€sten an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration
#Sharia #Islam #Islamismus #GG #Grundgesetzt

China and DPRK support dialogue between civilisations socialistchina.org/2025/06/25/…

xkcd #3106: Farads


xkcd #3106: Farads

Title text:

'This HAZMAT container contains radioactive material with activity of one becquerel.' 'So, like, a single banana slice?'


Transcript:

[Cueball holds a stick while talking with Megan and White Hat.]
Cueball: This stick is one meter long.
Megan: Cool.
White Hat: That's a nice stick.

[Cueball holds a smallish rock.]
Cueball: This rock weighs one pound.
Megan: I'd believe it.
White Hat: Looks like a normal rock.

[Cueball holds a small battery.]
Cueball: This battery is one volt.
Megan: Seems fine.
White Hat: Might need a recharge.

[Cueball holds a capacitor while Megan and White Hat panic.]
Cueball: This capacitor is one farad.
Megan: Aaaaa! Be careful!!
White Hat: Put it down!!


Source: xkcd.com/3106/

explainxkcd for #3106

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friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Disappeared Thread from Dj33p


Someone seems to have disappeared a thread from Dj33p. I am not surprised that they could disappear it on the original server but I am somewhat surprised it can be disappearing from 3rd party sites it has propagated to. I didn't disappear it and I'm the only admin on my site. Perhaps an ADL or Mossad back door?

Iran vs Israel: An African Perspective journal-neo.su/2025/06/25/iran…
in reply to Pete Alex HarrisπŸ¦‘πŸ•ΈοΈπŸŒ²/∞πŸͺβˆ«

Note that a previous government decided against proscribing Sinn FΓ©in despite association with actual terrorism, because it was an incredibly bad idea.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ire…

Ultimately Starmer must know he's on an unwinnable side of this argument, because genocide is unconditionally wrong, and nonviolent acts to oppose it are well within the public's accepted range of troublesome behaviour excused by moral necessity.

in reply to Gerrit Venema πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸŒπŸ‰

Having said that, I do believe that the EU countries should abandon NATO and create their own defense alliance. Because NATO was maybe always very much about US interests, but lately it has has become 99.999% in US interests only.

Keeping yourself attached to this MAGA US as European countries is very harmful.

I do support a moderate increase in military spending but only if it doesn't involve the US in any way. And the 5% goal is ludicrously extravagant and war inducing.

Better Auth, by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC

Link: techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/this…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

A damning new report has laid bare the Department for Work and Pensions’ catastrophic failure to protect the vulnerable people it claims to support.

voxpoliticalonline.com/2025/06…

Details of the innocent Palestinians murdered by Israel

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The government’s willingness to demonise migrant workers is a sign of its increasing moral degradation. Meanwhile, like their New Labour role models, Starmer and Streeting are supremely relaxed about multinational involvement in the NHS

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/06/the-r…

Iran-U.S. War β€˜FAR FROM OVER,’ Trump Still Pushing for Regime Change –Danny Haiphong rachelblevins.substack.com/p/i…
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It's a serious problem that doesn't only affect the NSFW artists and stuff. It's also intentional and by design, as if you control finances and payment transactions then you gain massive control over everything and everyone else. Terminating payment/transaction processing is a primary tool within the Western censorship apparatus.

greenmemag.com/environment/bra…

#trees

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