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Despite the Israeli army’s announcements that it plans to occupy Gaza City in October, the first stage of the invasion has already begun. It is starting with the flattening of the Zaytoun neighborhood, including the Old City of Gaza.
Beyond the Tool: Why True AI Literacy is About Critical Thinking, Not Prompting Michael G. Wagner contends nature of AI literacy is largely misunderstood w/in #education community. Ultimately goal of #AIliteracy should not be 2 make students better @ using AI but 2 empower them 2 be more discerning #thinkers, more #ethical #citizens more self-aware #humanbeings in world where #AI exists. Analyzing relationship btwn artificial & human intelligence requires 2 components llrx.com/2025/08/beyond-the-to…
Le même tortueux menteur machiavélique qui disait le 13 juillet 2025 devant les forces armées: « Pour être libre dans ce monde, il faut être craint. Pour être craint, il faut être puissant. »
Especially today. Not sure what I did to get the whole lower back angry but I couldn't do the daily sit-ups. Most days it is just a discomfort on the left side.
What are #lawyers for? Jordan Furlong states that we all know lawyers’ commercial role, to be professional guides for human affairs. But he stresses we also need lawyers to bring the law’s guarantees to life for people and in society. And we need it right now. #law #justice #justicellrx.com/2025/08/what-are-lawy… #law #legal #lawyers #attorneys
For the most part Sr. family are all gone or very far away. I'm the 2nd eldest cousin so .... I don't take any shit. I understand what you are saying though.
Browse millions of anime, manga, videos, hentai, and video game themed images on Gelbooru. Discover art with detailed tags. Contains explicit hentai content.
#Mastodon Resources 2025, Marcus P. Zillman recommends selected sources and sites to help navigate and use the vast Fediverse effectively. Although BlueSky, Threads and Twitter continue to dominate the #socialmedia space, Mastodon offers #opensource connectivity that transverses silos and allows users to seamlessly communicate with users across platforms with little impediment. #research #education #socialmedia #KM #knowledgemanagementllrx.com/2025/08/mastodon-reso…
@GossiTheDog @da_667 I occasionally see “have you ever had flash cookies on your website” on insurance questionnaires and I start internally screaming on multiple levels.
Bloodlines 2 developers try to justify the game's DLC clans, but it's not very convincing: 'We have been expanding it from where we originally planned to land'
The long-awaited Bloodlines sequel will launch with six playable clans, but you'll need to pay extra for two of them.
Another Brilliant Idea! the Hidden Dangers of Sycophantic #AI Jordan Furlong’s article expands analysis on already noted #risks arising from lawyers using AI. #GenerativeAI can be incredibly, & dangerously, sycophantic. This is particularly worrisome for lawyers, because if they lose intellectual skills, what will they left to offer people? Furlong notes that the similarities between lawyer thinking and AI “thinking” should be a cause for alarm within the legal profession.llrx.com/2025/08/another-brill…
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Like pretty much everyone I know, I’m sick of Google’s enshittified search results. This article got me really interested… arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
I've used Kagi solely for the past two or three years. It's been a great experience for me. The search results are higher quality in my opinion, plus I love the ability to rank the results to see more or less of certain sites. They are all-in on AI but allow the user to discern how much or little of it to use. I've used their Privacy Pass off and on to not link searches to my account but overall don't find their service to be that handsy in the first place. I've enjoyed it.
@lonelyowl13 hey buddy, not sure if u heard about the new direction were going here at Soy Magnus Inc. But tony needs some help spreading these advertisements he paid for please post them to any russian forum u can he said hes really in need of new unique foreign users
@markrprior@ohai.social I am SO doing this! Actually, are ICE agents smart enough to recognize the difference between the Mexican flag 🇲🇽 and the flag of Ireland 🇮🇪? Or maybe Italy 🇮🇹? Fuck it. I might put all three! ---
Washington DC experiences dramatic crime reduction following Trump's police takeover, with robbery down 46%, carjacking down 83% and no murders in a week
Battlefield 6 Is Toning Down The Wild Jumps And Slides Seen In the Open Beta
EA also confirmed the shotgun is being nerfed and Rush is getting tweaked to make it more fun The post Battlefield 6 Is Toning Down The Wild Jumps And Slides Seen In the Open Beta appeared first on Kotaku.
"France Bleu / jeudi 21 août 2025 Deux engins ont été volontairement incendiés dans la nuit de mercredi 20 août à jeudi 21 août sur le site de l’usine Lafarge du Teil. L’action n’a, pour l’instant, fait l’objet d’aucune revendication, … Continuer la lecture →"
If you have ever been covered in a past Other People's Music, and want to show your thanks, how about giving THIS week's a look/listen? This week's is an *especially* nice collection of weird, cool stuff but traffic has been shit, so I feel like these folks are getting short-changed. Fix that?
"Senior officials have warned ministers that Ireland's rapid growth in data centres is using up electricity capacity and adding to the risks around energy costs and climate targets. In a confidential memo issued in November last year, the Secretary General at the Department of Public Enterprise, Delivery and Reform said that soaring electricity demand, "largely attributable to data centres" is forcing the State to spend heavily on new power generation and grid upgrades." rte.ie/news/primetime/2025/082…
Senior officials have warned ministers that Ireland's rapid growth in data centres is using up electricity capacity and adding to the risks around energy costs and climate targets.
Touching grass is nice, but it's not enough any more. I need a really good hug. Not one of those casual "okay, see you next time" kind of hugs. A hug like the hug the drummer of a band gave me after a show in 2018, which was the best hug I ever got.
2 of my friends and I randomly decided to do a long group hug one night. I could just feel the happy chemicals coursing through me. We decided we were hugging from then on rather than fist-bumping. And we've stuck to it.
someone should do a street encounter video where they show septum pierced white women the many tik tok videos of beaming blacks in DC talking about how great it feels to have a safe city thanks to Trump.
À la télévision comme dans les entreprises, au Parti socialiste comme à l’Élysée, à Sciences Po comme à l’armée résonne un nouveau mot d’ordre : Vive la diversité ! Avec l’élection de Barack Obama, le bruissement s’est changé en clameur. Désormais, chacun devrait se mobiliser pour que les femmes et les «minorités visibles» occupent la place qui leur revient au sein des élites. Mais une société dont les classes dirigeantes reflètent la diversité a-t-elle vraiment progressé sur le chemin de la justice sociale ?
À cette question jamais posée, Walter Benn Michaels répond par la négative. La promotion incessante de la diversité et la célébration des «identités culturelles» permettent au mieux, selon lui, de diversifier la couleur de peau et le sexe des maîtres. Sans remettre en cause la domination qui traverse toutes les autres : celle des riches sur les pauvres.
À l’aide d’exemples tirés de la littérature, de l’histoire et de l’actualité, ce livre montre comment la question sociale se trouve désamorcée lorsqu’elle est reformulée en termes ethnico-culturels. Plus fondamentalement, il s’interroge sur l’objectif d’une politique de gauche : s’agit-il de répartir les inégalités sans discrimination d’origine et de sexe, ou de les supprimer ?
STAY WEIRD FEDI: IN DEFENSE OF THE ECCENTRIC, ECLECTIC, AND ERRATIC
by vanta rainbow black
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"queer people joined, and furries. it comes in waves." --Gargron, 2018
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a person's attitude towards furries is a great litmus test for their level of tolerance generally, and the presence of furries and queer people and other outcasts in a space is a major sign of a healthy social ecosystem. maybe the biggest one even. with statistics showing the vast majority of furries are queer in some capacity, it makes sense that 2000's era meme furry hate was nothing more than thinly-veiled bigotry
the fediverse is an interesting place. what happens when you accidentally sextuple-overbook the same convention center with a queer pride event and furry convention and punk show and kink festival and antifa assembly and hacker conference? you get early mastodon, essentially. the november 2022 twitter waves and meta threads' activitypub integration have diluted this vibe considerably, but the fighting spirit of the fediverse is still there. and as corpo gentrifiers (meta, etc.) continue to attempt to chip away at what makes the fediverse so wonderful, here's why it's worth saving:
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ONE: because it's beautiful
the fediverse is the only major social media platform where trans people can freely express themselves and be visible without fear of experiencing unmoderated hate-speech. provided your instance has adequate moderation, of course. but this is the case more often than not. sure, the occassional new bigot pleroma instance pops up once in a while. but at least you can trust that something will actually be fucking done about it when you submit a report. nazis get banned and defederated. it's such a low godddamn bar to clear... and yet, by and large, the fediverse is the only major social media platform that actually manages to do this (the decent sections of it, at least). why? well, here's the big secret: BECAUSE WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT PROFIT!!! big companies allow nazis to fester on their services because it makes them money, and here we're not beholden to such a corrupting influence. that's kinda the entire point
all the good servers have all the bad ones blocked. that's the beauty of the fediverse. they're essentially isolated from the good portion of the network. in a book i got interviewed for (Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media by Robert W. Gehl) this is termed the "covenantal fediverse" due to said instances broadly following the mastodon server covenant, the most important point of which is "active moderation against racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia." the rest is just technical stuff. still important, but nowhere near as influental
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TWO: because it's subversive
c'mon. being "normal" is boring as fuck. "is anything as strange as a normal person? is anyone as cruel as a normal person?" pushing back against the mainstream is awesome and epic and cool as fuck. not just for the sake of it of course, but because the mainstream SUCKS. compulsive heterosexuality, patriarchy, transphobia, ableism, competition instead of cooperation, sanitized advertiser-friendly language ("unalived" etc.), silence in the face of injustice, compromise, conformity, boring watered-down top 100 pop hits playing on the radio and barbeques with a biological family who harshly judges and really just outright hates you
DON'T WE FUCKING DESERVE BETTER?!?!?!?!?!?!
i think we do. let's be less like uptight milquetoast suburbanites and more like the neighbors down the street who they despise -- the punk house with a front yard full of empty beer bottles and crumpled up anarchism zines that's constantly getting noise complaints. in other words: let's have fun, and be awesome, and fuck the corpo stiffs trying to stand in our way!
you can't even say swear words on tiktok. and other corpo social media platforms don't fare much better. that's no way to live. FUCK!!!!!
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THREE: because it's important
as fascism ever-encroaches digital spaces free from corporate tyranny will only become more important. as trans people are being actively genocided here in the U.S. and abroad, alternative social media systems are a place where we can truly express ourselves. find ourselves. become ourselves. corporations are rolling back DEI initiatives and rules against queerphobia. these corpo platforms are no place to thrive. when i joined mastodon in 2017, it was at a crucial time in my gender journey. fedi singlehandedly saved me from being some doofy techbro and turned me into the amazing cyberpunk catgirl i am today. it gave me the critical positive trans representation i so desperately needed, and gave me a likeminded community. a space to learn and grow, and try on new aspects of identity to see what fit. i credit it almost entirely with shaping me into Vanta Rainbow Black
it's a common thread on the fediverse. always has been. even today. so much so that i came up with a name for it, way back in 2017: The Fediverse Effect. people tend to join and realize they're trans due to the sheer abundance of trans people on the network. it really helps to have positive representation y'know? like actual tangible people to dispel common myths and misconceptions, who you can even talk to personally about this stuff. it was indispensible in my journey towards finding myself and molding myself into the person i was meant to be
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in closing... fuck meta. fuck automattic. fuck flipboard. and fuck all the other corporate gentrifiers in the future who might try to encroach upon our beautiful weird digital haven in the name of turning a profit. you have nothing but my contempt
we should stay weird. unsanitized. unmarketable. for to do otherwise would be to forfeit the very soul of what makes the fediverse so special
Wearable devices record physiological and behavioral signals that can improve health predictions. While foundation models are increasingly used for such predictions, they have been primarily applied to low-level sensor data, despite behavioral data o…
We got hands on with Phantom Blade 0 and put Max to the test with the hardest difficulty in the game currently "Hellwalker" mode. Hellwalker is an "Extreme Mode" where every enemy is a tough piece of work and they have new moves you've never seen before. In the final release, this mode will only be unlocked after you've beaten the game at least once in Gamechanger Mode. ...
Israeli occupation forces storm the village of Al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, carrying out detentions and field interrogations amid the ongoing assault on the area in the occupied West Bank.
I saw a youtube video, where this guy was like (and this is paraphrasing) "I don't like AI art because it's like a microwave meal whereas proper art from talented individuals like paintings in art galleries are actually captivating".
I get that mentality. However, that is not a motivating mentality. His focus was on talent, and the old greats; artists who instinctively "get it". Not wrong, but I do not think this is super helpful to promote human creative endeavours.
It's why I like to focus more on perseverance and acquired skill rather than talent.
I got my notion about art from Jreg, he says art relates to consciousness, the more conscious something is the more artistic is is. AI generated images have very little consciousness placed into them, as you barely describe what the image "should look like". Your input is very small. And so, the result is also, barely artistic.
also nothing is inherently wrong with microwave meals? sure don’t only eat those and, on a larger scale, be aware that they can destroy local food culture, which is also true for ai art but if that’s the only issue that would more speak for ai art (in contexts where money and time matter while human art will in that case continue to be cherished as “artisan” or something) than against i think?
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