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aiefel

@aiefel@mastodon.social

Technologist for the humans and misanthrope for the machines. Works on digital safety and information security for media and good orgs via Internews. Opinions are my own and subject to drift.

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aiefel, to random
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Well 'Baby Reindeer' was just unrelentingly brutal.

aiefel,
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@parkerd Or a caution, depending on what you're up for. Well done but... gaaaaa!

aiefel, to random
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We need a party for MPs who want to be Labour to defect to.

aiefel, to random
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"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that Eurovision wasn't political." — Charles Baudelaire
https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/eurovision-palestinian-scarf-keffiyeh-eric-saade-controversy

aiefel, to random
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Katherine Maher did nothing wrong. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/business/media/npr-republican-bias-ceo-katherine-maher.html

aiefel,
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@jadugar63 I agree... unless she had grenade to throw in the testimony that would do more damage to them by turning up and getting the mic.

aiefel, to random
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“He's made it clear since the beginning that they were going to continue to push Palestinians further south ... And the point is very clear, that they want to get rid of Palestinians.” Diana Buttu with Mehdi Hassan and Raz Segal.
https://zeteo.com/p/israeli-professor-on-rafah-we-are

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I see that today on the internet people are discovering who Meir Kahane was.

aiefel,
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@evacide kind of nice for them getting to not know about Kahanists all that time 'til today.

aiefel, to random
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This is pretty nuts. Expect Reuven Kahane to start trending on news for trying to live up to the family name.
https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/1787881577482944745

aiefel, to random
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A good Tuesday lunch long read on how the autocrats of Russia, China and elsewhere message internally and externally on a growing set of common themes and find allies to peddle their message in the U.S. and Europe.

"The infrastructure of antidemocratic propaganda takes many forms..."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/06/china-russia-republican-party-relations/678271/

aiefel, to random
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Times Radio already doing a "fall of the SNP" piece seems a tad premature, and mostly built on hopium. There's still a ways between now and whenever a general election will be.

Kadsenchaos, to random
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I have a proposal:
Whenever some company insists on calling a piece of equipment or software "smart", let's call it "needy" instead.

  • needs wifi
  • needs bluetooth
  • needs update
  • needs cookies
  • needs access
  • needs account
  • needs login

I want dumb stuff that works.

aiefel,
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@Kadsenchaos I don't want to deal with firmware updates before using a thing that I don't think should need firmware to do its job.

aiefel, to random
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Say what you will about a public with a "Boaty McBoatface" level of taking the piss, but it comes in handy when you want to measure something like how far-right extremists are doing at the polls in comparison to Count Binface.
https://www.cityam.com/london-mayoral-election-count-binface-ahead-of-britain-first-immigration-candidate/

FloydyStu, to random
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I'm seeing a few posts blaming France for the deportation of Doctor Ghassan Abu Sittah from this country yesterday.

This isn't strictly true.

Germany, in April, issued a Schengen wide ban on the good doctor which, unfortunately, means that France, and ALL other Schengen countries are legally obliged to follow.

The conversation needs to be had with Germany about overturning this law, not with France.

aiefel,
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@FloydyStu @melanie though somewhat true because Germany has a mechanism to bar France from letting someone enter France.

aiefel, to random
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Very official sounding automated call from a UK number hit my phone saying my (nonexistent) passport of visa application has problems, and then said some things in a Chinese language. Someone's having a go.

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"Officials at The Evergreen State College in Olympia and students with the Evergreen Gaza Solidarity Encampment reached an agreement in which the public college will work toward divesting from “companies that profit from gross human rights violations and/or the occupation of Palestinian territories.”"

https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article288254270.html

aiefel,
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@seth nicely the school I went to and Goldsmiths University, which I now live very near, seem to be on the same page on this.

th, to random
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We’ve cast off lines and put Honolulu to our rudder. Soon we’ll leave Hawaii in our wake as we sail on towards Japan.

aiefel,
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@th I've enjoyed all your photos throughout that journey. Thanks for sharing them all.

aiefel, (edited ) to random
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Something like 'Constellation' should be my kind of sci-fi but are we really supposed to dislike every character? Does quantum entanglement make everyone an arse?

aiefel, to random
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Looking at Biden's "temporary pier" plan with a Rashida Tlaib expression.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-says-building-gaza-port-take-likely-up-60-days-2024-03-08/

aiefel, to random
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The TikTok fear mongering is at idiotic levels. But go ahead and alienate a whole demographic of young voters, have fun with that. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/08/tiktok-ban-biden-sign-congress-trump/

aiefel, to random
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Bidenistas throwing online fits about people who returned ballots with "uncommitted democrat" are just an extra bonus.

aiefel, to random
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Happy leap year day, everyone, remember that the 29th doesn't count it's a made-up day. You don't gain calories for anything consumed today and work is optional.

aiefel, to random
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Just watched "The Favourite" and have decided that is how it is inside the monarchy all the time.

mattblaze, to random
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I realized the reason I dislike editing google docs is that I neurotically worry that other authors are quietly judging my typing ability.

aiefel, (edited )
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@mattblaze this is similar to what I think about when people can see those bouncing ellipses in chats while I keep redrafting what I type and end up just saying 'ok'.

aiefel, to random
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"Greater trolls, the ones who post bait or otherwise deliberately kick off flame wars that consume entire platforms, are a subclass of posters who’ve lost the mandate of heaven." https://www.theverge.com/24058356/trolls-social-media-commenter-lurker-reply-guy-threads

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