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dangillmor, 3 days ago to random

The cops who tortured a bogus murder "confession" out of a man -- even threatening to kill his dog along the way -- are still employed by the Fontana, Calif., police department. The city's taxpayers paid for the $900,000 lawsuit settlement.

https://www.sbsun.com/2024/05/23/fontana-pays-nearly-900000-for-psychological-torture-inflicted-by-police-to-get-false-confession/

This tells you everything you need to know about police impunity.

GossiTheDog, 3 days ago to random

"Nobody uses Mastodon"

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cstross, 3 days ago to random

Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong

https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-chatgpt-answers-wrong

inthehands, 3 days ago to random

The author’s direct observations at USC, backed up by national study: “With few exceptions, the encampments have been overwhelmingly peaceful, well-organized microsocieties.” “The image of a lawless, violent, antisemitic pro-Palestinian mob stands completely at odds with the reality.”

But people •were• violence at USC. Who?

• Proud Boys
• anti-gay activists
• actual for-real Nazis
• and…the Los Angeles police https://union.place/@inquiline/112497242322621862

b0rk, 3 days ago (edited 18 hours ago) to random

finally ready to announce that my git zine, “How Git Works", is coming out in ONE WEEK! on Friday May 31!

it also comes with this (free!) cheat sheet which you can download and print out here: https://wizardzines.com/git-cheat-sheet.pdf

arstechnica, 3 days ago to random

After mice drink raw H5N1 milk, bird flu virus riddles their organs

No, really, drinking raw milk during the H5N1 outbreak is a bad idea.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/after-mice-drink-raw-h5n1-milk-bird-flu-virus-riddles-their-organs/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

foone, 3 days ago to random

Apparently DoorDash has started filling in missing item descriptions by generating them with AI.

I'm sure this'll not cause ANY problems

mediaarchaeologylab, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

so if anyone has a soon to be bricked Spotify Car Thing... we will happily take one to add to our shelf of "hardware that would continue to work just fine if it weren't for capitalism being capitalism" (we're still working on the name)

edit: thanks to @dgfitch and @Mabande for getting us to Corporolized Hardware, as in "enshittification in it's final stage a fossilized piece of corporate shit"
feels like we should tag @pluralistic in on this one 🌈

cstross, 3 days ago to random

So doge, very meme, I old; go bye now

scalzi, 3 days ago to random

Iceland is photogenic.

dworkin, 3 days ago to random

ALERT: In Ohio Republicans are refusing to add President Biden to the ballot unless their unrelated policy demands are met. Please share this to help expose their anti-American scheme.

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/gop-exposed-for-plan-to-block-biden

jwz, 3 days ago to random

Dear Lazyweb, I have an NEC video projector and I can't get it to do DHCP, or become pingable with a static IP. Tried several cables; the switch gets a link light on all. Is there something weird about these that I'm missing? The setup menu seems straightforward.

TheNeedling, 3 days ago to random

You can read more about this 2022 study here: https://theneedling.com/2022/03/06/geologists-mount-rainier-will-not-erupt-during-your-lifetime-with-possible-exception-of-very-end/

hanse_mina, 3 days ago to Ukraine

Former president Donald #Trump again invoked authoritarian leaders at a rally Thursday, a reminder of a vision he has been outlining for a potential second term.

Trump referenced Russian President Vladimir #Putin, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, Chinese leader #Xi Jinping and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor #Orban.

Trump said the leaders were “at the top of their game, whether you like it or not.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/24/trump-rally-bronx-putin-kim-jong-un/

#Ukraine #Russia #US #China #Hungary #NorthKorea

Adam_Cadmon1, 3 days ago to random

Please for the love of Democracy, please stop calling that Appeal to Heaven flag a Christian Nationalist flag.

It's an insurrectionist flag.

nocontexttrek, 3 days ago to StarTrek

It's the weekend, baby
#StarTrek

david_oxtaby, 3 days ago to random

Before I go I just wanted to say thank you for all your kind comments, I do appreciate it. You can find me on Flickr at www.flickr.com/photos/doxtaby or on twitter under Disc_light . Thanks once again and very sincere best wishes to you all

servelan, 3 days ago to random

After call with Biden, Egyptian president agrees to restore aid flow to Gaza - JNS.org

https://www.jns.org/after-call-with-biden-egyptian-president-agrees-to-restore-aid-flow-to-gaza/

meganL, 3 days ago to random

Can anyone who has disabilities tell me how good Linux support is for Wacom or other digital tablets and if there's any speech recognition available for Linux (including the ability to give voice commands in addition to dictation)?

TheNeedling, 3 days ago to random

Washington state geologists confirmed today that, according to their most recent research study, Mount Rainier definitely won’t erupt at any point during your lifetime, with the possible exception of the very end: https://theneedling.com/2022/03/06/geologists-mount-rainier-will-not-erupt-during-your-lifetime-with-possible-exception-of-very-end/

alvaromontoro, 3 days ago to random

Random weird career advise for US people: when you change jobs, it may be tempting to make your last day fall in the last day of the month. It looks like a good and clean way to provide "closure". Don't! Instead set your last day for the first day/week of the following month.

Most companies pay for insurance at the beginning of the month, and you keep it until the last day of the month even if you left the company. Leaving the last day of the month, you'd be uninsured until the next job starts.

ami_angelwings, 3 days ago to random

the ache is coming from inside the head

coriander, 3 days ago to random

Why does the fact that boomers invented participation trophies because they didn't want THEIR kids not to get an award not get brought up more?

Like they use it against us now but it was literally their idea in the first fuckin place

masukomi, 3 days ago to transgender

Well 💩
I just learned that Peru 🇵🇪 signed a law last month that classifies #transgender people as mentally ill, despite lots of societal support for them.

Guess we can cross Peru off of the countries USians can flee to in November (if the cheeto gets reelected).

br00t4c, 3 days ago to tesla

Mechanical-Armed Grimes Flees Elon Musk Compound With Five Wives In Stolen Cybertruck

#elonmusk #tesla

https://www.theonion.com/mechanical-armed-grimes-flees-elon-musk-compound-with-f-1851488909