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After ending with a non-booting #openbsd machine after a sysupgrade -s for the second time in the last weeks, I'm really amazed on how easy it is to fix this.


Time: U.S. Unemployment Rises to Four-Year High

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I'm sponsoring @TheEvilSkeleton for $20/month to help work on #accessibility for #GNOME! Who wants to join me!?

github.com/sponsors/TheEvilSke…

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Wines linked to putin and Patriarch kirill enter U.S. tasting contest in San Francisco

The wines were transported by a manager tied to mikhail kovalchuk, who in 2019 organized an online appearance by Elon Musk at a forum in russia's krasnodar Region.

theins.ru/en/news/287816



First of two Microbrute things I made today. Used the sequencer on the 'brute to do the bass thing and then layered on with three other ideas. Its all just improvised on the spot.

I call both of these "Post Collapse" and this is the first one.

#music #electronicmusic #electronica #experimental #ableton

in reply to The Tired Horizon

This is the second one. Trying to create a vibe with the bass sound. Layered on some plinky stuff and a warbly, waspy drone with lots of verb.




So, it's been a while since I've written an uplifting, we're gonna make it, it'll all be ok, kinda post.

Because, goddamn it's dark right now, and finding the light is a struggle, even for those whom Hecate has tasked with holding torches at the crossroads.

We are at a crossroads. And I don't know which direction to go either.

You are not crazy. We are under direct assault from the leadership of the US govt. I don't know if they're trying to drive us into despair, or revolution, but in a country with more guns than people, I fear revolution.

We are in dark times. But we have been in dark times before, and we broke the darkness and sent it hiding for 60 years. It's back, and it's time to break it again.

I believe in *us*, we the people. It's hard to believe, but we *will* make it through this. We will defeat the dark again and again and again until one day it dies.

Today may not be that day, but that day is coming. I believe in us.

in reply to MissConstrue

Heather Cox Richardson, whom I cited recently in a blog post, has rather a lot to say about how we got relatively lower inequality in the 20th century, and who the people are trying to drag us back.

youtube.com/watch?v=AHgOYW8_Jo…

in reply to Weekend Editor

@weekend_editor I love her so much! A calm, steady, knowledgeable voice of reason. I watch her almost daily, just to try and keep perspective on what's happening.


What if we rely on AI for the one thing it’s definitely not good at?

vox.com/future-perfect/471918/…

in reply to Dare Obasanjo

The perception that scientific progress is deterministic and just requires the right admixture of people, money, and ideas needs to die in a magnesium fire. The progress of science is often slow, typically incremental, and very rarely direct. If you want that kind of science, switch to writing screenplays.
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in reply to Dare Obasanjo

Very sloppy thinking.
"just to keep productivity and growth on the same old trend line. We have to row harder just to stay in the same place."

WTF ? Growth != Staying in the same place




Veronica4Prez #mozilla @vkc linuxmom.net/@vkc/115730418559…


My platform for when I reboot the Mozilla brand:

1. It supports www, as well as Gopher, ftp, and the good Gemini
2. Using udm14 instead of Google, which will no longer be the default
3. Fully funding MDN and Gecko via taxes on web sales and kickass branded swag
4. so-called "AI" will not be shipped

Vote for me to be the next Mozilla CEO!







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Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future on The David Letterman Show (1980)

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Psychologists are increasingly using — and worrying about — AI tools, poll finds


A survey finds that 56% of psychologists are trying out artificial intelligence tools at work, mainly for administrative tasks. A majority also are concerned about harms of AI on patients and society.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Today was a "it's quarter to ten in the evening and I'm making coffee" kinda' day :floof_mug:
in reply to Flaki

I just woke up from a nap, and I'm very proud at the levels of both of our Advanced Adulting skills


Republicans have gutted the ACA and Medicaid - causing harm to Medicare, and big increases to job-based health insurance and emergency room wait times.

Hold them accountable and vote them all out.

Now we must shift focus to the blue state trifectas to advocate for state universal health care systems.

This recognizes that it will be at least two or more election cycles before there is a progressive trifecta with a large enough majority to bypass or end the Senate filibuster.

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