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baldur, 1 day ago to random

Not going to link to the actual review because I don’t care and will not care about the movie in question, but I find it interesting how quickly and thoroughly the meaning of “AI” in the public vocabulary as shifted from “futuristic automated intelligence” to “bad and lazily made”

DaveMasonDotMe, 1 day ago to microsoft

The deed is done. Debian is installed. Windows is gone for good.

30 years of Microsoft OS experience down the drain, because they can't not be capitalist dicks.

What a waste. 🙁

#Microsoft
#Linux

futurebird, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

I'm so sick of "big men" enamored of the trappings of power & anyone impressed with them. I'm sick of the mystique of "all he had to do was wave a finger & you were dead" & that is supposed to be impressive rather than terrifying & childish. I'm sick of their entourages, and the way they stick out their lips, pout, posture, bluster. The way they use other people as decorations.

They way they lie to your face as a power play.

It's all... so embarrassing for the human animal of which I am one.

yosh, 1 day ago to random

This would be funny if it wasn’t so sad. Germany projected 50_000 people to become disabled and need active care in 2023. Actual number: 360_000.

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/lauterbach-pflege-1.7420180

Last year during Germany’s Covid peak about 1 in 12 people was infectious at any given moment. It got so bad that Germany experienced negative economic growth because of record illness. Record disability is, of course, to be expected.

catrionagold, 1 day ago to coronavirus

Just learned of another (young, fit & healthy) colleague's death by heart attack.

There have been so many sudden deaths these past few years.

Covid is not over, and no-one is truly immune. 💔

https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/coronavirus-and-your-health/what-does-coronavirus-do-to-your-body

#UKHE #PublicHealth #Solidarity #Liberation #Covid #Covid19 #CovidIsntOver #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #CovidIsAirborne #MaskUp #Pandemic #Coronavirus #Disability #Ventilation #HEPA #Vaccine #CovidVaccine #Vaccination #HeartDisease #HeartAttack #SuddenDeath #Safety #Health

GryphonSK, 1 day ago to random

#GayMarriage #hypocrisy #commonsense

dwasmkuk, 1 day ago to random

In dismissing calls for Netanyahu’s arrest, the west is undermining its own world order

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/27/icc-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-arrest-warrant-us-west?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

ayoub, 1 day ago to random

The Atlantic publishes an oped that literally includes the sentence “it is possible to legally kill children”

The NYT describes Israel violating the ICJ orders by literally copying official Israeli PR.

The BBC describes yesterday’s massacre in Rafah as ‘a violent incident’

The WSJ described that same massacre as ‘dozens killed and wounded after explosions’

ayoub, 1 day ago to Israel

I just can’t comprehend how one can look at footage of what #Israel just did in #Rafah #Gaza overnight and not conclude that there js something fundamentally broken about Israelis. And yes, there are obviously exceptions here, very noble ones. I’ve platformed a number of them on my podcast, but even they say that they are a rare voice, that most Jewish Israelis around them are either enthusiastic about the genocide or indifferent about its victims.

alexanderhay, 2 days ago to technology

[SLOWCLAP]

"'I was misidentified as shoplifter by #FacialRecognition tech...'

"...[Sara] says after her bag was searched she was... banned from all stores using the #Technology.

"I was just crying and crying the entire journey home… 'Oh, will my life be the same? I'm going to be looked at as a shoplifter when I've never stolen'.

"#Facewatch later wrote to Sara and acknowledged it had made an error..."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-69055945

#News #UK #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy #HumanRights

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 1 day ago to NewZealand

🇳🇿"New Zealand is experiencing its highest peak in COVID-19 cases since December 2022, professor Michael Baker says."

"Despite the recommended isolation period now only being 5 days, Baker suggested people still getting a positive Covid-19 test wait to test again on day 6 or 7 before going back into society."

"The biology hasn't changed," Baker said, but there was more pressure for people to go back to work and school."

#COVID19 #NewZealand #COVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/517905/covid-19-nz-experiencing-highest-peak-in-18-months-epidemiologist

DrALJONES, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

Report

They burned people alive with 2,000-pound bombs.

Survivors of the Israeli attack on the displacement camp in Rafah:

“The air raid burned an entire block. They burned people alive"

The attack used seven 2,000-pound bombs - a clear message from Israel & US that the massacres against displaced persons & children will continue, & that breaking international law will not stop.

https://aje.io/jwe0qf?update=2928170

21.45 GMT MAY 25 AJ UPDATES (+ 21.20 GMT)

#Rafah #IsraeliWarCrimes ..

Kellys, 1 day ago to random

'50 burned bodies recovered' after Israeli strikes on Rafah centre for displaced people https://jrnl.ie/6390397

baldur, 2 days ago to random

This talk by Meredith Whittaker is excellent. I originally clicked way from it without reading because the title is in German, but turns out the talk itself is absolutely in English.

https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuelles/detail/die-rede-der-zukunftspreistraegerin

> What we call AI today grew out of this toxic model – and must be understood primarily as a way of marketing the derivatives of mass surveillance and concentrated platform and computational power.

DrALJONES, 1 day ago to random

Interview

"Physician Back from Gaza: There’s a very dark side to the Israeli State”

"Anybody who says, “Well, this is a complicated issue...,” I don’t think understands the scale of what’s going on.”

~ Dr. Khaled Dawas

https://www.juancole.com/2024/05/cambridge-trained-physician.html

#IsraeliCrimes #Gaza ..

can, 1 day ago to random

https://news.mit.edu/2020/brain-reading-computer-code-1215

onepict, 2 days ago to random

In this world of pandemics, questionable governments and questionable choices in computing when we need to embrace degrowth, I find comfort at the moment in helping other folk when I can.

A bit like the metaphor of a butterfly causing a small flap that turns into a hurricane.

You never know quite how far small deeds can go. Help others when you can, it can be just a message of support. Or helping folks on to here.

It's all I can do. Rebel with small acts of kindness.

#HopePunk

Sevslv, 2 days ago to random Dutch

Here is a threat/risk of armed mutiny against Israeli MoD #Gallant should Hamas or PA be in charge of Gaza.

Gallant is between the ICC's potential warrant and the Netanyahus' to-the-bitter-endists. Remarkable that the video is shared by #Netanyahu junior. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-25/ty-article/.premium/pm-netanyahus-son-shares-clip-of-apparent-idf-reservist-threatening-military-coup-in-gaza/0000018f-af39-d24f-a5df-ffffd6180000?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

IAmSpartacus, 2 days ago to random

Taylor Swift's jet emissions controversy leads to #US ban on tracking private aircraft.
The recent amendment allows owners of private aircraft to hide their registration details from the public.

Anything to protect the rich and famous.
What you don't know won't hurt you... plebs

stux, 2 days ago to random

Poppy!

Poppy is a prairie dog and his human thaught it to stand and make a sound on hearing its name!

18+ otfrom, 2 days ago to random

Do you remember when the right wing of the UK Labour party went on a campaign to make sure they didn't win an election in 2019 b/c they thought the leader was too left wing?

I'm glad they aren't doing that again now that their current leader is sufficiently right wing. #UKpol

bikeshed, 2 days ago to random

relb: if Israel has lost Germany then it's really over for them

18+ salad_bar_breath, 2 days ago to random

To post what I just put in a reply...

If you want Biden to win, don't shame voters considering not voting, shame Biden and his administration to actually do things for his base and get them some human rights, and tell him to quit genociding Palestinians.

Use your energy like that. Like literally everytime you reply to some person thinking about not voting, instead write an email to your boy instead and tell him to do something that infers he actually wants to win this fucking election.