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aral

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

I make small things.

My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

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#SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #tech #privacy #humanRights #personhood #democracy #aral #fedi22 #searchable

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gerrymcgovern, to random
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"ChatGPT consumes a lot of energy in the process, up to 25 times more than a Google search. Additionally, a lot of water is also used in cooling for the servers that run all that software. Per conversation of about 20 to 50 queries, half a litre of water evaporates – a small bottle, in other words."

AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030

Training GPT3, took 1,287 MWh (Megawatt hours) of electricity.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/world-all-news/1042696/chatgpt-consumes-25-times-more-energy-than-google

nickbwalking, to UKpolitics
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The Telegraph running a story about a Lib Dem candidate being deselected for his "Christian beliefs" without stating which beliefs in particular got him into trouble. (To save you looking, it's the homophobia and transphobia, not the Sermon on the Mount)
https://archive.ph/BeAUj

pikuma, to random
@pikuma@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

The state in Brazil where I grew up is now under water. Everything I knew, the friends I had, the houses I lived, the animals I loved, the bridges I crossed, even the waterfall I used to hike by... all gone.

Everything you know, love, and work hard for can all crumble down in a matter of seconds.

It's been a tough week. 😔

Cachoeira da Mulada, Caxias do Sul.

thomasfuchs, to random
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This is has been the endgame for years.

Remember AMP, the bullshit thing that Google used to break news websites with?

And then quietly removed after the damage was done?

Washington Post article, "Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers: The tech giant is rolling out AI-generated answers that displace links to human-written websites"

https://archive.is/flZXI

gerrymcgovern, to random
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Since 1970, humans have pumped so much groundwater, we’ve altered the Earth’s tilt. “It is, in a way, mind boggling,” the researchers who discovered the tilt, stated. Humans are causing so much polar ice to melt that we are changing time. We are slowing the Earth’s rotation and may have to subtract a leap second very soon.

https://www.science.org/content/article/humanity-s-groundwater-pumping-has-altered-earth-s-tilt

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/global-warming-is-slowing-the-earths-rotation/

baldur, to random
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One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.

gerrymcgovern, to random
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"The British Crown and other colonial states relied on racist concepts like the Doctrine of Discovery and Terra Nullius, known as the unowned lands doctrine, to seize Indigenous lands and ignore or subvert the laws and institutions through which Indigenous Peoples had successfully managed these territories. The consequence has been cultural loss, alienation, impoverishment, conflict and environmental degradation."

https://theconversation.com/historic-haida-nation-agreement-shows-the-world-how-to-uphold-indigenous-rights-229447

eniko, to random
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For my birthday, I'd really like it if my beloved fedi could spread word far and wide of Kitsune Tails. It's a platformer with a heartwarming story featuring queer main characters and personal discoveries in classic SMB3 style. You can find trailer, screenshots, and wishlist links here: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

It's coming out this year and the team and I have been working hard on it for several years now. Most of the team is queer in some form so by boosting you'd not only be making me happy on my birthday, but supporting a bunch of queer creators making queer art as well

yuzu kitsune tails, a purple haired fox girl, picks up samurai armor in a tower that's rapidly filling with lava. she jumps away from the rising lava and sticks her spear in the wall, doing a dashing twirl to get on top of it. she walks off the spear and into a new scene, fighting a ghost fox with armor and spear. it stabs and she jumps over, but is caught by a follow up stab. the ghost fox over extends and its ghostly powers wane, giving yuzu a chance to bop on its head

ridicol, to random
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Activists worldwide send a message to America's first lady, Dr. Jill Biden, urging for a ceasefire in Gaza as Israel intentionally kills Palestinian women and children.

https://t.me/QudsNen/105595




taylorlorenz, to random
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Pro-Israel counter-protesters at UCLA previously took part in anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-vaccine events across Southern California.

Some of the pro-Israel counter protesters are also associated with local Proud Boy and Three Percenter militia chapters and fundamentalist Christian churches.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/college-campus-protests-far-right

jackofalltrades, to Russia
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I guess that's the last place we haven't exploited yet...

😔

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/11/russia-uncovers-oil-and-gas-reserves-british-antarctic/

raganwald, to random
@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us avatar

A rallying cry for the "Make Something Wonderful" crowd.

🪖 @aral

https://social.bau-ha.us/@aral@mastodon.ar.al/112427628706932284

mondoweiss, to Palestine
@mondoweiss@social.mondoweiss.net avatar

Israel is deliberately destroying the entire health sector in Gaza as only 4 hospitals remain operational. "If these hospitals stop working, they will turn into mass graves, like Nasser and al-Shifa," Muhammad Zaqout, General Director of Hospitals in Gaza, told Mondoweiss.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/gazas-collapsing-health-system-is-one-of-the-goals-of-israels-genocide/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

ainmosni, to random
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Here's a reminder, EVs are not here to save the environment, they are here to save the car industry.

ridicol, to random
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Graduates of Virginia Commonwealth University staged a walkout during their commencement ceremony in protest against their university's complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza.

https://t.me/QudsNen/105407




fanta, to random Spanish
@fanta@mastodon.green avatar

¿Está es esa niña contra la que te metías desde tu casa en Twitter?

Grande Greta y moviéndose no como otra gente.

Varios detenidos, entre ellos Greta Thunberg, durante las protestas contra la participación de Israel en Eurovisión

https://www.eldiario.es/vertele/noticias/miles-personas-protestan-malmoe-participacion-israel-horas-final-eurovision-2024_1_11359481.html

ridicol, to random
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Arizona State University (ASU) bans Dr. Jonathan Yudelman, who appeared in a video harassing a pro-Palestine Muslim woman.
According to the university president, he is "no longer permitted to be on campus and will never teach here again”

https://t.me/QudsNen/105168




mondoweiss, to Palestine
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Canada’s largest private high school recently organized a genocide solidarity trip in which students cooked for Israeli soldiers. In a sane world, the school’s charitable status would be revoked.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/toronto-school-promoting-israeli-military-deemed-charity/


@palestine @israel

aral, to Israel
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

So you come into my replies on my instance and then block me.

This is what you think happens:

“Haha, everyone will see my reply and he can’t respond.”

Here’s what actually happens:

  • You piss me off
  • I suspend your account and delete your data from my server so it no longer distributes your reply
  • I post a screenshot of your reply so everyone can see the mental gymnastics you have to employ to defend Israel
  • You learn something new

Screenshot of post by verena elisabeth @verenalettmayer: @aral and i guess you think you are an anti-fascist. sorry,: excluding and bullying a person because of their affiliation to israel is not anti-fascist, but ... You know what. and for 1000 times: no governments participate in the , but independent broadcasters (that's why russia was also suspended, because NOT independent).

kathimmel,
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@aral
she popped up in my mentions & insinuated that i'm antisemitic when i posted about falastinvision. really going hard for a genocidal apartheid state. odd.

PixelRobot,
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@aral "You must understand that the contender that is representing Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 isn't representing Israel in any way, and it's antisemitic to suggest otherwise."

The pro-Israel people always sound like over the top gaslighting. And they wonder why they're losing the propaganda side of the war...

aral, to Eurovision
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Folks, if your strategy is to vote multiple times (at ~€1/pop) to try and influence the Eurovision Song Contest outcome against Israel: please don’t.

Financially rewarding the EBU will only make them look successful. You don’t buy all the beer at the fascist bar to teach them a lesson.

HauntedOwlbear,
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@aral Further, if you must watch, even just to see if anything goes down, you can use NewPipe (https://newpipe.net/), FreeTube (https://freetubeapp.io/) or Invidious (https://invidious.io/) to ensure that you contribute to neither ad impressions or viewer counts.

weirdwriter, to random

This is so wild, but the blog and RSS feed, well, one of them anyway, I've been reading and loving, I just figured out was @aral and if you all don't have his RSS feed, you really should, because I love posts like this https://ar.al/2021/05/10/hell-site/

nelsonakis, to Eurovision
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Just like when they are bombing children

LostTransposon, to Eurovision Spanish
@LostTransposon@paquita.masto.host avatar

Israel ha terminado haciendo con lo mismo que con Gaza: invadir hasta conseguir la destrucción de lo que antes había.

EndIsraeliApartheid, to Palestine
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Shireen Abu Akleh, the highly respected Al Jazeera correspondent, was shot dead by an Israeli soldier two years ago.

To this day, her niece, Lina Abu Akleh says she and her family have been unable to hold anyone accountable, and in the process they’ve witnessed the systematic killing of more journalists by the Israeli military in Gaza.

“The fact that there was no justice for Shireen has paved the way for the systematic targeting of journalists.”

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