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ploum, 5 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

The kind of professor I’m trying to be at university:

EDIT: just to clarify, this is a screenshot found offline, not from one of my student. I’m more direct as I tell my students that "piracy is sharing knowledge and sharing knowledge is ethical and what I’m paid to do so please use libgen.rs and sci-hub"

aral, 5 days ago to DuckDuckGo

Duck Duck Go is down because Bing is down.

(Also, you saw the recent AI stuff, right?)

Folks, I know… I use Duck Duck Go also but remember they have venture capital. Enjoy it while it lasts (or let’s fund and build alternatives differently that aren’t temporary businesses with profit motives and exits but commons-owned institutions working for the common good).

#DuckDuckGo #bing #microsoft #ventureCapital #DDG

DrALJONES, 5 days ago to random

Interviews

“Collective Punishment”: Israel Raids Jenin Camp in West Bank, "Shooting Everything”

The IDF murdered at least eight Palestinians, including a doctor shot dead on his way to work & a teenager riding his bicycle."

About a dozen others were injured. A witness described the ongoing attack on the camp; "They are shooting everything."

"The raid began just as Spain, Ireland & Norway became the latest European states to recognize the Palestinian state."

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/22/freedom_theater

#Jenin .

Saltssaltgirl, 5 days ago to random

Asking for some good juju. You all came through for me the last time I needed it.

I have my first surgery scheduled for tomorrow and another on Friday.

Please send good vibes and calm. I’m worried about my students who will be without the stability of my classroom for an entire week.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 5 days ago to auscovid19

🇦🇺 Australia: COVID keeps killing more people every month than flu does in a year.

“In other words, there were three times as many confirmed Covid-19 cases as influenza cases,” Adrian Esterman, professor of biostatistics at the University of South Australia, told TND.

“And the death rate associated with Covid-19 was about four times as high as for influenza.”

He said it was “completely crazy that face masks are not mandatory in all health care, hospital and aged-care settings”.

#COVIDisNotOver #PandemicIsNotOver #COVIDisAIRBONE @auscovid19

Source: https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/2024/05/22/covid-kills-more-people-than-flu

jeffowski, 5 days ago to random

The Kansas Wheat company, in the midst of the Great Depression, realized that the poorest families were reusing their sacks (containing flour and grain) to sew dresses for women and girls, so to make them more captivating they decided to print them with floral and colorful motifs.
The initiative was a huge success: they made sure that the ink used for the logos would fade after a simple wash, and some bags even had the patterns already drawn on the fabric, ready to be cut and sewn.

ayoub, 5 days ago to random

Incredible report: “Europe supports, finances and is directly involved in clandestine operations in North African countries to dump tens of thousands of Black people in the desert or remote areas each year to prevent them from coming to the EU.”

This makes the EU directly complicit in human trafficking, torture and murder of black people.

https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/desert-dumps/

finiteattention, 5 days ago to Scotland Norwegian

Hey #scotland, please register to vote by post if you think you might be away on July 4 because it's the school holidays and you have plans to be somewhere else. Don't let Westminster disenfranchise Scotland!

https://www.gov.uk/apply-postal-vote

18+ burgerdrome, 5 days ago to random

the only thing you need to do to understand how imperialism works is to understand this: anyone who does anything in support of Palestine is 'rewarding terrorism', but anyone who does anything in support of Israel is 'respecting law and order' - even though you can quite literally read a history book and see that Israel was established through unbelievable, industrial-scale, violent terrorism. every time I see this argument come up I lose my fucking mind

jeffowski, 5 days ago to LGBTQ

#lgbtq #trans

mpesce, 5 days ago to random

An NDA forbids former OpenAI employees, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer. Even acknowledging that the NDA exists is a violation of it.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/05/23/chatgpt-can-talk-but-openai-employees-sure-cant/

aral, 5 days ago to random

Hey @EUCommission – thoughts? Not looking great, is it? https://spore.social/@ayoub/112489234296990765

woodpunk, 5 days ago to DaftPunk

A bit of #German minimalist #synth #pop for a Thursday morning.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xqTBlft8gQA&si=pb6nxSGzgMephNK2

david, 5 days ago to tech

I am amused. One the one hand, Microsoft is introducing Recall, which literally takes screenshots of everything you do on windows, but on the other hand, they are taking users ability to take screenshots of their browser away if their company configures it as such.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2336462/microsoft-edge-will-begin-blocking-screenshots-on-the-job.html

#amusing #tech #windows

mapache_tico, 5 days ago to random Spanish

interesante pregunta!

LALegault, 5 days ago to random

Remember when Trump imposed sanctions on the #ICC and the #Democrats went wild, my how the tables have turned…. #uspol

raganwald, 5 days ago to random

“The Big Web has users – a term Silicon Valley has borrowed from drug dealers to describe the people they addict to their services and exploit.”— @aral, “What is the Small Web?”

https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

JoshuaHolland, 5 days ago to random

This professor, who is Jewish, was suspended for posing a threat to Jewish students, AKA participating in a protest (where he was violently arrested). Now he's in a kind of limbo.

This is what a moral panic looks like. #gazaprotests
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/professor-suspended-by-wash-u-after-protests-hears-only-silence-42567338

pafurijaz, 5 days ago to random

Today in Western societies you can say anything but not what undermines the founding pillars of neoliberal oligarchic power. If you do so then you become an enemy.

Susan_Larson_TN, 5 days ago to news

This #amazing #news #anchor #surprised his #colleagues by #comingout #onair after a #career spent “#living in a #glass #closet.”

#JasonHackett wants to set an #example for #young #queer #Black #boys who don't often #seethemselves in the #media.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #ComingOut #Entertainment #Media #News #Representation #Culture

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/05/this-amazing-news-anchor-surprised-his-colleagues-by-coming-out-on-air/

therightarticle, 5 days ago to random

Cringing in the rain: soggy Rish! kickstarts his farewell tour | John Crace

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/22/cringing-in-the-rain-soggy-rish-kickstarts-his-farewell-tour

LALegault, 5 days ago to random

Americans replying that the ICC or ICJ have “no power” is a perception you have because America has never been held accountable for anything. It does not mean that the rest of the world does not take both very seriously. The “rules based order” depends upon serious people taking their commitments to international law, seriously.

18+ rad, 5 days ago to KindActions

Hey, so it's me again. I've set up some mutual aid posts recently, because I'm running short on money. Turns out one of my rats - the one with the worst genetic lineage - is currently suffering from the ear inflammation and lower facial nerve palsy. You can see the lip is weird. She also sneezes a lot and scratches her eye to the point of wounding herself.

I'm seeing veterinarian tomorrow morning. But as I previously stated, circumstances left me with little money and I'll probably be left with almost nothing. Veterinary care is very expensive, she's going to need medicine, EKG and Roentgen photos.

I need your aid. Urgently. This is not just my life on stake here. The rat I have is rescued from the shelter. Her mother used to be a lab rst. I gave her a nice, comfy life instead of euthanising her young because she had nowhere to go. Unfortunately, I haven't expected things to go as bad.

I need your aid. You can do it on PayPal (radnow@tutanota.com) or ko-fi

https://ko-fi.com/szczursky

Please, please help us.

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #BegPost @mutualaid

A photo of rat face with clear scratch marks and a blood wound in the corner of the eye. It's a result from scratching it extensively.