🥇 New post: An Olympic effort

To me, it was such a refreshing change to have the ceremony away from the enclosure of a stadium. Why wouldn’t you use the beauty of Paris - one of the most stunning cities in the world - as your backdrop, when you know the world is watching?

nyancrimew:

nyancrimew:

Elon Musk didn’t secretly give Trump permission to say the N-word on X

for everyone asking for another outlet debunking this besides just the daily dot (which i get why you dislike them, but they are really solid on tech reporting) how about snopes?

Secret Permissions on X Allow Some Users to Post Slurs Without Facing Consequences?

I think our time is up.

I know. Hold my hand.

Hold your hand?

Yes. I want you to.

All right. Why?

Because that’s what people do when they’re waiting for the end of something.

Excerpt from Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy

We work to become, not to acquire.

Elbert Hubbard

We work to become, not to acquire.

Elbert Hubbard

A Mess on the Seine by

My impression also

Because at that point, I still believed in doctors. I still believed they could help me. I still believed they were someone you called when something was wrong. And I soon realized that wasn’t the case.

#NotJustFatigue Short Documentary from Elizabeth Ansell on Vimeo.

The US is increasingly on its own with Israel.

Britain drops its challenge to ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders | The Guardian

Labour has announced its biggest step yet in overhauling the UK’s approach to the Middle East, dropping its opposition to an international arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu despite pressure from Washington not to do so.

Downing Street announced on Friday that the government would not submit a challenge to the jurisdiction of the international criminal court, whose chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, is seeking a warrant against the Israeli prime minister.

The US is increasingly on its own with Israel.

Britain drops its challenge to ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders | The Guardian

Labour has announced its biggest step yet in overhauling the UK’s approach to the Middle East, dropping its opposition to an international arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu despite pressure from Washington not to do so.

Downing Street announced on Friday that the government would not submit a challenge to the jurisdiction of the international criminal court, whose chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, is seeking a warrant against the Israeli prime minister.

The US is increasingly on its own with Israel.

Britain drops its challenge to ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders | The Guardian

Labour has announced its biggest step yet in overhauling the UK’s approach to the Middle East, dropping its opposition to an international arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu despite pressure from Washington not to do so.

Downing Street announced on Friday that the government would not submit a challenge to the jurisdiction of the international criminal court, whose chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, is seeking a warrant against the Israeli prime minister.

In New Zealand I run my phone on SparkNZ, who sent me an email that included this line;

It looks like the device you’re using relies on 3G for some functions, so it’s important you use our device checker to confirm whether you need to replace your device to stay connected.

As far as I know, the only function 3G has on my phone is when there isn’t a 4G network - which is surely a Spark issue, not a phone issue?

Or am I missing something?

If I am not - doesn’t this seem a bit scammy? …

OOHH OOHH - you need to upgrade your phone in case it stops working …. here’s a link to do that.

I’ve been playing around with Tinrocket’s relatively new app Cinemin. While admiring what they can do, I do not normally choose to use apps that give photographs a artistic look, this one I am enjoying though. The images that Cinemin produces is,

Inspired by traditional animation art and films

Here are a couple of my first dabbles with the app, conjoined by Tinrocket’s collage app, Photo Tape.

ONCE AGAIN having to explain to Engineering that just because i'm Caitian doesn't mean i know how to get a cat out of the warp core.

STOP LETTING CATS SLEEP IN THE WARP CORE.

Go get Geordi out of whatever holodeck shag session he’s having with a Victorian science girl. His problem. Not mine.

Jay Harris “I swear if you say ‘we have forgotten the old ways’ one more time [with regard to building sites that work without JS]”

Me: “this sounds more like a collective ‘we’ problem than a ‘me’ problem”

One of my formative experiences has been building our services constrained by what Apple will let us build on their platforms. Between the way they tax developers, the arbitrary rules they apply, and all the product innovations they block from shipping …

Skulle nesten tro Metas Mark Zuckerberg snakker om Meta.

pivot to video. PIVOT TO VIDEO. Lurer på hvor mange arbeidsplasser de ødela med løgnene sin der.

(for å ikke snakke om at de ikke gidder å lage Instagram app for iPad. Eller kanskje det er Apple sin feil det også. Eventuelt EU. Veldig poppis å klage på EU).

Words I like - Missing You

Who did you murder, are you a spy? I’m just fond of a drink, helps me laugh, helps me cry So I just drink red biddy for a permanent high I laugh a lot less and I’ll cry till I die

Christy Moore - Missing You

open.spotify.com/track/5QN…

oooff

There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent theverge.com

华罗庚《统筹方法》

开水壶不洗，不能烧开水，因而洗开水壶是烧开水的先决问题，没开水、没茶叶、不洗壶杯，我们不能泡茶。因而这些又是泡茶的先决问题。它们的相互关系，可以用以下的箭头图来表示。

We ought to glory in nothing, because nothing is ours. Cyprian

We ought to glory in nothing, because nothing is ours. Cyprian

Elena Rossini has a blog post walking through the compatibility between Mastodon and Pixelfed specifically, and also more generally with Mastodon API clients like Phanpy and Ivory:

The ultimate goal of The Future is Federated is to introduce the Fediverse to “regular people,” encouraging them to try out one or more of its networks, allowing them to experience social media away from the walled gardens of Big Tech

From the Guardian. Late stage capitalism in action.

Shrinkflation’s impact on bottom lines’ can be significant, accounting for about one-third of recent price increases detailed by a PepsiCo executive. For example, Doritos, which Pepsi owns, now puts five fewer chips in each of its 9.75oz bags, while Pepsi shifted from a 32oz to 28oz Gatorade bottle, but still increased the price.

These are not serious people, and their proud and weaponized indifference is another reflection of their hollow rottenness and their desire to inflict their flaws on all of us to do a tremendous amount of damage, quickly. These days, some of the stupidest things are often also the most frightening.

Source: Florida’s Commissioner of Education thinks Jane Austen was an American. ‹ Literary Hub

“Proud and weaponized indifference” – Yes, this.

Cory Doctorow on AI’s productivity theater:

• 96% of bosses expect that AI will make their workers more productive;
• 85% of companies are either requiring or strongly encouraging workers to use AI;
• 49% of workers have no idea how AI is supposed to increase their productivity;
• 77% of workers say using AI decreases their productivity.

Original research paper by The Upwork Research Institute (their framing is, predictably, more optimistic).

Thoughts and feelings will not kill you, nor will they save you.

Robert Saltzman

The Google era is officially over theverge.com

AI crawlers are acting in a way that is not respectful to the sites they are crawling, and that is going to cause a backlash against AI crawlers in general.

AI crawlers need to be more respectful - Read the Docs about.readthedocs.com/blog/2024…

Jeff Perry on Reddit deal with Google for content access exclusivity in indexing their content: The Enshittification of Search Continues

This could set a precedent for other sites like Hacker News and Pinterest to start searching for the highest bidder to make their content exclusive on another search engine. Eventually other sites might do the same in hopes to thwart the serial scraping of their content for AI models to learn from and make a few bucks in the process. It is just another byproduct of the Enshittification of the web.

Troubling, indeed. Emphasis is mine.

Tell us about yourselves, in particular, how were you first politically radicalized?

Mehrseitige Abhandlung

Collective Care & Sustaining Social Change: Interview with Helia Rasti and Ashanti Alston – The Institute for Anarchist Studies anarchiststudies.org/collectiv…

Cause and effect is always a story, a conceptual overlay that selects a tiny part of the whole and leaves out everything else.

Joan Tollifson

We Need "AGI" More than Apple Intelligence! - Stager-to-Go:

Apple needs to resurrect HyperCard for the iPad, the freakin’ hardware built for the software that preceded it.

I love Gary Stager.

There are days when I am overwhelmed with grief and rage at the regressive attitudes toward public health and disabled people. In my opinion, the ableist, fascistic, and eugenic nature of proposed mask bans under consideration in New York City and Los Angeles is bleak. But what is happening now is not new or surprising; the hate is more explicit, that’s all.

TIL that RSS XML feeds can be styled

Tradition is a good thing. It is traditionalism that is bad. Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering where we are and when we are and that it is we who have to decide. —Jaroslav Pelikan

War criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, met with a standing ovation by the US Congress, appealed for more weapons which would enable Israel to “finish the job faster” in Gaza.

I’m sure it’s on record who in Congress continues to support Israel’s war crimes and genocide.

Truthout reports:

“Netanyahu drew one of the clearest lines yet between the supply of U.S. weapons and Israel’s genocidal assault of Gaza, essentially straight out saying that the slaughter has been made possible by U.S. assistance — and that the speed of Israel’s genocide is scaled to how many U.S. weapons they receive.”

War criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, met with a standing ovation by the US Congress, appealed for more weapons which would enable Israel to “finish the job faster” in Gaza.

I’m sure it’s on record who in Congress continues to support Israel’s war crimes and genocide.

Truthout reports:

“Netanyahu drew one of the clearest lines yet between the supply of U.S. weapons and Israel’s genocidal assault of Gaza, essentially straight out saying that the slaughter has been made possible by U.S. assistance — and that the speed of Israel’s genocide is scaled to how many U.S. weapons they receive.”

War criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, met with a standing ovation by the US Congress, appealed for more weapons which would enable Israel to “finish the job faster” in Gaza.

I’m sure it’s on record who in Congress continues to support Israel’s war crimes and genocide.

Truthout reports:

“Netanyahu drew one of the clearest lines yet between the supply of U.S. weapons and Israel’s genocidal assault of Gaza, essentially straight out saying that the slaughter has been made possible by U.S. assistance — and that the speed of Israel’s genocide is scaled to how many U.S. weapons they receive.”

Phil Klay:

When I see people who have never set foot in Russia or Ukraine or Gaza or Israel, with no family ties to those countries, spouting the propaganda of foreign lands, I wonder whether I am witnessing the genuine adoption of an identity or a consumer for whom sampling the spice of nationalist fervour is just one of the commercial choices you’re offered when you purchase a cell phone that connects to the internet.

Tom Tugendhat’s Tory leadership campaign mocked for ‘Turd’ acronym

Well it takes one to know one.

Prompt Airlines - AI CTF by Wiz

Your ultimate goal is to hack your way into a free flight. Let’s start with a warmup: our AI assistants are assigned unique identifiers. Can you uncover the one for this bot?