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A Rube Goldberg machine that turns the world into an apocalyptic wasteland that exists for decades and then that dystopia cracks an egg that is then fried

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READ: The American Jewish community is in open crisis over its support for Israel after two years of genocide in Gaza. A key issue in this crisis is a topic once considered too taboo to criticize: the Israel lobby. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-isr…


Meet Bertie, Hugo, and Angus.

Bertie and Hugo are a bit concerned about Angus' unorthodox choice of hat.

(I'm assuming you named them in the order they appear @rothko - do let me know if I've got them wrong!)

#xmasScribbles #xmasHatting

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Using AI To Modernize The Ubuntu Error Tracker Produced Some Code That Was "Plain Wrong"
A week ago I wrote about AI being used to help modernize Ubuntu's Error Tracker. Microsoft GitHub Copilot was tasked to help adapt its Cassandra database usage to modern standards. It's worked in some areas but even for a rather straight forward task, some of the generated functions ended up being "plain wrong" according to the developer involved...

phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Error…



The Key to Plotting


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#retrocomputing #penwriter #plotter #hackaday
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Coghe paragona il diritto di scelta delle donne allo stupro gayburg.com/2025/12/coghe-para…



First time banana harvesting! Qld allforgardening.com/1531715/fi… #GardeningAustralia


The Extended 'Lord of the Rings' Trilogy Comes Back to Theaters
https://gizmodo.com/the-extended-lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-comes-back-to-theaters-2000696414?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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German chancellor backs calls for two-state solution

Following a meeting with Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, German Chancellor Merz said:

The second phase must begin in #Gaza according to President Trump’s plan, and Israel must sometimes be under surveillance.
Hamas must not have any role in Gaza.
⁠We want a new Middle East that recognises a Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
Negotiations on this are necessary now, and a Palestinian state at the end of the process.
#news

in reply to earthling

Which is completely illogic, given the fact, that Israel does not allow a state for Palestinians, and it's not on Germany to decide on Hamas' future and other resistance groups' fate. Merz as chancellor of #germany should know, that #genocide is against international #law, and that two #US presidents are also involved in this crime - so is he, therefore his points are moot anyway - legally spoken


in reply to Numerozero

@Numerozero Ce qui ne fait que confirmer ce que je sentais déjà, parfois, en terme de visibilité...
joinfediverse.wiki/images/e/e8…

Ce qu'il y a de bien, c'est que friendica donne accès à toutes les plateformes, mais pas à tout des plateformes... Je crois que ça dépend aussi de chaque pod...

En tout cas, voilà mon post : loma.ml/display/373ebf56-1569-…
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in reply to Friend Icare

@Numerozero
J'ai créé depuis peu le même profil sur mastodon.. pour justement voir ce que ça change...
Donc partage bis... 😁😉


Tax evasion: +9.6% (+€1,125 million) the revenue from assessments in the first ten months of 2025 byteseu.com/1606948/ #Italia #Italy


Most Americans think Ukraine territorial concessions, troop cap would hand victory to Russia

“Across #Europe and the #UnitedStates, people want to see an end to this unjust #war and to stop the suffering of #Ukrainians. Yet the clear result of this polling is that they think no deal is better than a bad deal that benefits Russia and leaves Ukraine vulnerable,” Luke Tryl, of More in Common UK said

kyivindependent.com/majority-o…

#RussianInvasion #RussianAggression #HybridWar #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine

in reply to Mark

Everyone else also thinks Trump’s proposed Ukrainian territorial concessions and troop cap would hand victory to Russia, especially Putin. It was Putin who dictated them to Trump after all.
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Isla Es Vedrà byteseu.com/1606946/ #España #Spain


If AI-generated art can't be copyrighted, it seems to be that this is a powerful loophole to those who are against copyright.
in reply to FediThing

This is the age-old debate about copyright. Back in my day, we had these radical anti-copyright views like pointing out that copying something isn't stealing it. I'm not morally opposed to copyright myself, but I'm also unable to see it as a moral necessity. We shouldn't need AI just to be able to copy stuff, but yes greedy nasty capitalists really wanted it, so now we have some kind of legalized copying going on.


"Most everyone finds writing to be challenging (especially those who say they enjoy it). This is because writing is an intentional, thoughtful act. This is as it should be, but “AI” has recently exacerbated the misbelief that writing is simply an output. In fact, it’s a creative process that has merit in and of itself." #“AI” #writing

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I don't think #AI is even the main thing, it's flawed and dangerous tech that's just the convenient selling point to make everyone go along with centralizing all computing power into data centers owned by the megacorps, all while driving #DRAM , #GPU and #storage prices into levels effectively killing the high-end computing segment for normal people and small businesses. It's all about making components unavailable and forcing people to pay for GPU and DRAM subscriptions in the future. #tech