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aral, 4 days ago to random

I don’t know what’s worse, that a worm ate part of R.F.K. Jr.’s brain or that it died after eating it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html

grandmastershah, 4 days ago to random

Remember that TikTok is Chinese propaganda but the press here is pure freedom and honesty.

aral, 4 days ago to SmallWeb

:kitten: Meow! New Kitten just dropped:

• Uploads are now listed in the Small Web Place Settings (/💕/settings) of all Kitten apps.

#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #uploads #settings #web #dev

aral, 4 days ago to ireland

Meanwhile in Ireland, you can get your first dose of the Covid vaccine at age 12 and, in just 68 years, you can get your first booster.

Because that’s cool and normal.

https://www.boots.ie/vaccinations/covid-vaccination

#ireland #covid #stupidity

heydon, 4 days ago to random

sigh I have an American client who is having trouble, they say, being able to convert to £ (their end) for paying me. I have business bank account for my LTD that only accepts £ or €, apparently.

Anyone know of a way around this? A service either they or I could use? I would really prefer not to change bank accounts. Wish I'd know Starling was this limited at the outset.

aral, 4 days ago to Israel

Hamzah Saadeh: How many Palestinians have you killed?

Israeli soldier: 20 … I don’t what is a “Palestinians”. I know Hamas. In Gaza there is not civilians. They’re all Hamas terrorists.

Hamzah Saadeh: So the 1 million kids in Gaza they’re all Hamas?

Israeli soldier: Yeah.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/C7hBkC8cqZM

I thought this was what The Hague was for.

#israel #palestine #gaza #apartheid #warCrimes #ethnicCleansing #genocide #TheHague

JoshuaHolland, 5 days ago to journalism

I read a Politico piece that referred to students walking out to demand a ceasefire as an “antisemitic incident.”

This stuff tells people that there’s no shame in being called an antisemite and that perhaps reports of real antisemitic incidents are overblown. Just makes the world more dangerous for Jews. #media #gazaprotests #antisemitism

aral, 5 days ago to apple

On this holy day of The #Apple Event, I find myself writing the following comment in my code after trying to run my app on a #Mac:

/**
Metadata about the database itself.

This is inlined here instead of being kept in its own Database.js file like all the other model classes so as not to leave our friends who have Appleⓡ Macⓡ devices that cannot differentiate between database.js (this file) and Database.js (that file).

Perhaps when Apple becomes a Gazillion billion-dollar company…
*/

aral, 5 days ago to random

Israel insists it has a right to defend itself from ceasefire agreements

https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-insists-it-has-a-right-to

Prime satire. Read & weep.

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‘…Israel said no to the deal that would have freed the hostages because it wants to free the hostages. If you question this reasoning, it’s because you are Hamas.’

‘The US doesn’t mind supporting genocide, but it draws the line at being unable to plausibly deny genocide.’

‘Twelve of AIPAC’s most reasonable politicians have taken the step of blackmailing the ICC’

aral, 5 days ago to SmallWeb

Just deployed a new version of Kitten.

It uses the latest version of JSDB (5.1.3) which fixes an issue where instances of EventEmitter subclasses persisted to the database were erroneously persisting their (by convention private) _events arrays containing AsyncFunction instances and thereby causing a crash on the database open attempt when the AsyncFunction class could not be found as it wasn’t provided to the JSDB.open() method.

https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

:kitten: 💕

#Kitten #SmallWeb

RadicalGraffiti, 5 days ago to random

"When the rich make it unaffordable to eat, Eat the Rich!"
Spotted in Burnie, Tasmania

aral, 5 days ago to Israel

If you’re tired of hearing about the genocide in Gaza, just imagine how tired the Palestinians are of dying from it.

#israel #palestine #gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #eurovision #boycottEurovision

DrALJONES, 5 days ago to Columbia

More false accusations of "anti-Semitism" about Columbia

Report

Judges boycott Columbia grads, calling the campus demonstrations "anti-Semitic".

13 Trump-hired U.S. federal judges said they would not hire law students or undergraduates from Columbia University over so-called "anti-Semitism" at the university, calling the Manhattan campus an “incubator of bigotry”.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/conservative-us-judges-boycott-columbia-grads-over-campus-gaza-protests-2024-05-06/#:~:text=May%206%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20A,handling%20of%20pro%2DPalestinian%20demonstrations.

#USPol #Columbia ..

davemark, 5 days ago to Eurovision

🍿🎤
Eurovision starts today.

For US folks, you can watch live on Peacock, if you subscribe.

EU / UK folks, this still a big deal? Worth watching?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/voting-schedules-favotires-everything-need-know-eurovision-rcna150616
#Eurovision

john, 5 days ago to random

When I’m browsing artist's bios, I see #NoAI a lot, but there's still a lot number with #NoNFT. It's been an exhausting couple of years, huh?

On the other hand, NFTs turned out to be a bunch of nothing in the end, and I feel like just ignoring the whole thing would have worked.

I feel like maybe this is true of AI ‘art’. It's boring. It doesn't even need a backlash.

jbaert, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

aral, 5 days ago to random

Just updated my WezTerm¹ configuration file. (In case you’re the kind of person that gets excited by such things.) 👋🤓

https://codeberg.org/aral/.config/src/branch/main/wezterm.lua

¹ https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/

#WezTerm #config #dotConfig #terminal #cli

ben, 6 days ago to random

Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.