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skua

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Civil responses to my posts sought.
If I want to express myself without response I'll talk into my pillow.

Watching, wrestling, working, dreaming and sleeping in Australia.
Not always clear which is which. #AgedCareBusinesses #WhatHappensAfterYouDie #ArchiveElon #AgedCare #Robodebt #TheColorOfDistance #Dance #PinaBausch #ContactImprovisation #SeaKayaking #HannahNyala #Schnapsen #LibertarianBillionaires #RePurposeMyEducation #HellScapeTheBioSphere #GraeberAndWengrow #DawnOfEverything

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GottaLaff, to TeslaMotors
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🤦🏻‍♀️😳 & have discussed a possible advisory role for the Tesla leader should TFG reclaim WH, the latest sign that the once-frosty relationship between the 2 has thawed.

The role hasn’t been fully hammered out and might not happen, but they discussed ways to give Musk formal input & influence over policies related to border security and the economy, both issues on which Musk has grown more vocal.
https://apple.news/A12U7FLPbQbm6Nfj7Y1_glQ

skua,
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@GottaLaff

If rational, the financial market would treat this as a possible risk to market stability.

But that would surprise me.

patrickworld, to random
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Asked a co-worker a question and she touched my screen 4 times. I'm not counting or anything, but 4 times. 4. It doesn't bother me at all though, it's just that it was 4 times. Anyway, I'm just gonna forget about the 4 times she touched my screen. No big deal. It's not like it was 5 times. It was 4

skua,
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@patrickworld

It's the handcreme isn't it.
And the tiny corundum particles from her home worksop that leave almost invisible scarifications on your monitor.
Which together create a diffraction effect in which the shift of the sodium lines as the moon wanes is oh so very obvious.

All I can say is that it's temporary and will stop with the new moon
.

augieray, to random
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The colder it gets, the worse the impact. STUDY:

"Results showed that every short-term drop in daily temperature of more than 3°C led to an increase in the number of hospitalizations due to a worsening of disease progression in infected individuals with a 1–3 day lag."

I can't access the entire study. I wonder if cold air does something to the virus, or if it's just that colder weather means more time indoors and greater exposure.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2210670724003500?via%3Dihub

skua,
@skua@mastodon.social avatar

@augieray
Does cold air increase mast cell activation -> increased inflammatory response?

skua, to australia
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Slice of 1960s / 1970s culture in .

Broken car badge from an American company that pretended to be Australian.

Something about "Hemi" goes with the badge.

Can't exactly remember what. It seemed meaningful and exciting at the time.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I want American traitors charged with treason. They’re easy to find, they’re in the government.

skua,
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@StillIRise1963

AIUI treason as a criminal act is strictly defined in the law of USA.

And a declared war is needed to create the legally defined enemy.

If I've got this right then it seems impossible for them to be charged with treason.

nixCraft, to random
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I asked Google "who ruined Google" and they replied honestly using their AI, which is now forced on all of us. It's too funny not to share!

skua,
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@nixCraft
Hmmm.
Google search was seriously degenerating from prior to 2016.

I used to reseach metadata on obscure LPs.
Google search just got worse and worse and worse.

skua, to random
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1/2
How to evaluate opinions?

Below is one approach. (It is decontextualised and so not a fair example of the aufhor's position.
But still it is worth looking at IMO.

"Anyone who is excessively optimsitic or excessively pessimistic about AI is someone who hasn't engaged with AI critically."

Let's consider this appraich by replacing "AI" first with "government under Stalin", then "clean water and sanitation", and finally "a second term for DJT".

...

internetarchive, to random
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Why is The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center:
❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible
❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link
🔗 https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

skua,
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@internetarchive
@edsu

Figures given are AIUI low.
Study estimates the percentages of webpages that are known to have existed that now are broken links.

Webpages that existed and have no accessible digital record of existing are not included in this study.

Know if had archived for perpetuity? Would be one way to that was (/is?) such a poisonous feature of the culture of a large online community project. Train for online abuse.

skua,
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@HN414
Thanks for sharing that.

"anyone" does seem to exclude those without access to considerable technical IT skill and equipment.

But at least research by funded experts is possibile.

GottaLaff, to random
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“Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) is projected to survive his GOP primary in ’s 2nd Congressional District, putting him one step closer to reelection this fall, according to Decision Desk HQ.

Bacon fended off a challenge from conservative hardliner and former congressional candidate Dan Frei. Frei received the backing of Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, while Bacon received the backing of House Speaker Mike Johnson”

https://trib.al/kpqsnSu

skua,
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@GottaLaff
Some days it's just, "You will be having horse urine or goat urine with that."

angeidheal, to queer
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Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government

https://www.404media.co/google-delists-sites-providing-diy-hormone-therapy-at-behest-of-uk-government/

Google has removed two websites providing “DIY” hormone replacement therapy used in gender-affirming care from search results at the request of the UK government, according to legal letters viewed by 404 Media (@404mediaco).

@lgbtqia

skua,
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@angeidheal @404mediaco @lgbtqia

The sites Google has delisted do not appear in the non-paywalled preview section of the article.

It verges on the edge of being when is paywalled like this. More so when it is .

Below may be one of the two sites delisted in the UK.

If I was using this information I'd do a site rip now as a precaution.

https://diyhrt.wiki/

skua,
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@angeidheal @404mediaco @lgbtqia @canleaf

No problem with you posting this.
It's a complex situation.
Possibly the publisher would have been wiser to make it paywall-exempt.

skua, to Windows11
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Currently resetting/reinstalling #Windows11.

#MicrosoftThreatening me with,

"Good things coming your way."

Chilling feeling with this coming from a company with #Microsoft's record.

Edent, to Cybersecurity
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🆕 blog! “Bank scammers using genuine push notifications to trick their victims”

You receive a call on your phone. The polite call centre worker on the line asks for you by name, and gives the name of your bank. They say they're calling from your bank's fraud department. "Yeah, right!" You think. Obvious scam, isn't it?…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/bank-scammers-using-genuine-push-notifications-to-trick-their-victims/
⸻
#bank #CyberSecurity #phishing #scam #security

skua,
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@Edent

And then a ummm "successful" Australian bank texts an elderly customer saying they'd like to speak with them.
The SMS included a phone number and a password.

[invective directed against that bank's dipshit customer communication manager]

Yes it was genuinely from the fking bank.

Great way to train customers up to be scammed. Dickheads.

gutenberg_org, to books
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in 1915.

The rondeau "In Flanders Fields" by the Canadian poet John McCrae is written; it is first published on December 8 in the London magazine Punch. He was inspired to write it, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres. According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially dissatisfied with his work, discarded it.

In Flanders Fields at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/353

skua,
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@gutenberg_org

I like to read that when I hold the Foe to be the systems of government that resulted in that war and the many wars since, and now .

GottaLaff, to legal
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#TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #Trump #legal
PLEASE NOTE: I likely can’t reply while live-posting. Adding NFL (Not For Laffy) helps! Thx.

1/…

Via Andrew Weissmann:

Court about to begin. The defense table, from left to right: Blanche, the defendant (ie Trump), Bove, and Necheles (notably farthest from Trump). Gaggle of photographers shoot Trump, inches from his face: he maintains an implacable and dour expression. ADA Josh Steinglass and his team now enter: Steinglass is very much the lead here.

skua,
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@GottaLaff

"Peggy" huh?

More likely "Pegger".

ZwiebeIfisch, to random
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Noch Fragen?

skua, (edited )
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@HistoPol @ZwiebeIfisch

WARNING
The map is interesting.

But the linked site is "Kill them all and let God decide who is innocent" on a global ecological and human genocide scale.

A quote from the article,
"Not solutions that will lead us back to the climate of a few decades ago – costly and pointless – but solutions that work for the world as it will be, when it will be much warmer than it is now."

But maybe you're less blasé about the deaths of billions?
Try here:
https://mymodernmet.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/climate-change-map-HD.jpeg

plaguepoems, to random
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History remembers nothing
it is a closed book
gathering dust on a shelf
history may record
but history does not remember
for that is a responsibility
which is left to people.

skua,
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@plaguepoems
The next pandemic will test the learning ability of our systems of government, health science, and official communications.

They have/had a big WAKE UP call with the arrival of Covid-SARS2.

Will they have display adequate adaptation?

nixCraft, to linux
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👀 joke 😂 https://x.com/cmuratori/status/1783274430376120770

skua,
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@nixCraft

That is so not funny.

It's the printers, the , that take a year.

realTuckFrumper, to random
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Musk Plays Up ‘Sentient Humanoid’ Robots as Tesla Flounders https://www.thedailybeast.com/musk-plays-up-sentient-humanoid-robots-as-tesla-flounders?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

skua,
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@realTuckFrumper
Ahh, it's the old "died of a heroin overdose while watching animal porn and your auto company has gone to shit so you play the sentient humanoid card" trick, .

gutenberg_org, to books
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American novelist, humorist, and critic Mark Twain died in 1910.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, often called "the Great American Novel," is particularly noted for its vivid depiction of people and places along the Mississippi River. Twain's other notable works include The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, & his autobiography, which was published posthumously.

Books by Mark Twain at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/53

Cover of Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

skua,
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@gutenberg_org

I read a far more recently written sequel to this book.

It made explicit the racism and sexism of the times, culture and geography that Huckleberry Finn the character was living in.

What do you think the implications of the name "Huckleberry" were?

skua, to random
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Oooooooh, pretty pretty, looking very comfortable.

Probably just needs the door lock fixed and it'll be ready to go around Australia.

Subscribe for more great holiday ideas!

gutenberg_org, to books
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in 1897

The Grand Guignol is opened in Paris by Oscar Méténier.

From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962, it specialised in naturalistic horror shows. Its name is often used as a general term for graphic, amoral horror entertainment, a genre popular from Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre (for instance Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, and Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil), to today's splatter films.

skua,
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@gutenberg_org


Amoral natural horror entertainment huh?

"Beware of , any excess and global politics so easily becomes a Grand Guignol."

Does that scan?

campuscodi, to random
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The developers of the Notepad++ text editor have asked users to help report a new website impersonating its brand and ranking high in search results

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/help-to-take-down-parasite-site/

skua,
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@campuscodi

I used to think computing was cool.
I still have a soft spot for Notepad++.

Reported.

But By Satan's Balls I don't miss the scene.

melissabeartrix, to random
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The war between Israel and Gaza, Will end the moment the Israeli government forces the ultra orthodox Jews into national service ... My opinion

Hugz & xXx

skua,
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@melissabeartrix

Hehehehehe.

Next you'll want DJT cleaning his own toilet bowls.

Really, who'd elect some jerk who does not clean their own toilet bowl?

Wanna bet whether Dutt's wife is assigned the toilet cleaning role?

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