A Brief Animated Introduction to the Life and Work of Frida Kahlo
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A Brief Animated Introduction to the Life and Work of Frida Kahlo
Reducing an artist’s work to their biography produces crude understanding. But in very many cases, life and work cannot be teased apart.Josh Jones (Openculture.com)
Day 16: Corythosaurus
The story started out like, “Maybe dinosaurs swatted bugs away with their tails like cows do,” and turned into “Attack of the Cockroach’s Ancestor” halfway through
#ArtAdventCalendar #Dinosaur #PaleoArt #SciArt #Cretaceous #Insect #Art #DigitalArt #Nature #Illustration #MastoArt #CreativeToots
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Baku Museum of Modern Arts, or how to make use of all the walls everywhere.
#travel #travelphotography #streetphotography #walkingaround #fujifilmxe2 #museum #museums #museumroaming #baku #azerbaijan
Un bug informatique menace de bloquer le RER A et huit lignes de métro en 2038
Le tribunal administratif de Paris a condamné, jeudi 13 novembre, Alstom à réparer un défaut logiciel grave affectant le RER A, huit lignes de métro et six lignes de tramway. Sans correction, ces rames s’arrêteront le 19 janvier 2038.Candice Doussot (Le Parisien)
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Eieiei, heute ist einmal alles. Bus-Schläfer samt Wolldecke, Personensuche, vielfach ausgebremst und geschnitten worden.
Jetzt habe ich Pause, Kollege muss an mir vorbei, in die rechte Spur und über die Kreuzung wenden. (Das ist so gewollt und problemlos machbar, wenn man langsam macht) Er haut sich erst den Knickschutz rein und dann den Spiegel ab. Und wer ist schuld? Na? 🤬
Ich war deutlich. Das macht er nicht nochmal mit mir.
Here is the #Rabbi from #BondiBeach, #EliSchlanger, who is being turned into a Holy Saint martyr by the #Western #media & political class mocking a #Palestinian woman who was starving to death just a few months ago, saying she was " #AI"
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #Australia #Bondi #BondiShooting #Israel
He also loved calling the Palestinian babies, toddlers, children, women & men his fellow #Jewish supremacist #Zionist #terrorists were raping & murdering "Amalek", ...
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #Palestinians #Palestinian #Israeli #Politics #Gaza #Egypt #Lebanon #Syria #Iraq #Iran #SaudiArabia #Qatar #Yemen #USA #Zionism #BDS #Ceasefire #CeasefireNow #ArmsEmbargo #ArmsEmbargoNow #Netanyahu #BenjaminNetanyahu #FreeGaza #FreePalestine
... as he frequently traveled to his precious #Israeli death-cult to support them, while raising funds to arm them & ensure they could continue their massacres.
A true #Zionist Saint & #Martyr.
*Link of Eli with #IDF #Nazis: x.com/thatdayin1992/status/200…
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #US #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive
Look at the good #Rabbi, Eli Schlanger, the #Zionist Saint & #Martyr raising funds for his precious #IDF rape-soldiers & #settlers: x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/20…
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #Palestinians #Palestinian #Israeli #Politics #Gaza #Egypt #Lebanon #Syria #Iraq #Iran #SaudiArabia #Qatar #Yemen #USA #Zionism #BDS #Ceasefire #CeasefireNow #ArmsEmbargo #ArmsEmbargoNow #Netanyahu #BenjaminNetanyahu #FreeGaza #FreePalestine
Now if you're in #Australia or anywhere in the #West, especially if you have a #Muslim #Middle-Eastern #Arab background but also anyone else, and you raise funds for the #Russian army or #Hezbollah or #Hamas or the #IRGC, your life is over. You are now a permanent #terrorist, & you will be jailed. It's over.
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #Trump #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist
But if you're a #Zionist #Jew & you raise funds for a #state & #military that every leading #humanrights org in the world & the #UN has recognized as committing #genocide, not only will nothing happen to you, ...
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #Palestinians #Palestinian #Israeli #Politics #Gaza #Egypt #Lebanon #Syria #Iraq #Iran #SaudiArabia #Qatar #Yemen #USA #Zionism #BDS #Ceasefire #CeasefireNow #ArmsEmbargo #Netanyahu #BenjaminNetanyahu #FreeGaza #FreePalestine
... no one will dare touch a hair on your disgusting grotesque head for fear of screams of #ANTISEMITISM ANTISEMITISM by the entire #media & &political class that you own, but if you somehow end up getting eliminated you be transformed into the most Saintly #Martyr who has ever walked the earth.
#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist
Drop the Price, Not the Signal: Take $220 Off the Eero Pro 6E Mesh Wi-Fi System
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"AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off."
Since this is the flat out opposite of Firefox now—you have to go into unsupported debug settings and click eight boxes based on folklore—and there's no acknowledgement that this comment is a complete 180 on Firefox's current policy of enabling AI in secret then trying to trick you into using it… this statement is not a reassurance to me. It feels dishonest and like a continuation of Firefox's dishonesty about AI, "PPA" etc.
Mozilla has a new CEO. Once again iterating that the future of Firefox is AI first, AI by default:"Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software"
"It will evolve into a modern AI browser"
"AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off."
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Mozilla’s Next Chapter: Building the World’s Most Trusted Software Company
Today, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation, focusing on becoming the trusted software company.Rebecca Smith (The Mozilla Blog)
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1. It is my belief that the AI previews and tab grouping AI are very probably running on your machine and waiting for you to accidentally kick them off, for example by accidentally pressing shift over a link.
2. Do you have "studies" turned on? I believe some of the AI was turned on for random people but not others based on "studies".
2. yes
About 1., as far as I understand, they all run locally. Is the problem for you that it has "AI" written on it?
@leo
1. Not true, firefox has integration with multiple cloud providers (perplexity search, chatgpt chat)
2. The fact that AI runs in the cloud is *one problem* with it. There are still the problems of IP theft, the fact the product does not work, the fact the project is overall part of a fascist project. "Local first" AI is like "less cyanide" toothpaste.
3. "AI" is a meaningless phrase, but branding something as "AI" is indeed a good sign you're doing something wrong.
2. I was told that the data used for these features are well-known data.
3. I don't know, it depends who you're talking to. Talking to tech-savyy people, it would probably be good to talk about specific models and things like that, but for the general audience it's another story, I believe.
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To be clear, "it's there but you can turn it off" is not enough for me, I already stopped using SwiftKey, Microsoft Windows, Miro, etc on the basis of "we put AI in the software with an option to turn it off". If an org ships a "generative AI" product I want to boycott them and I want everyone to boycott them until they go out of business. I don't want a virus on my hard drive even if it's turned off. But Mozilla's ever-shifting checkbox scavenger hunt has never *resembled* "can easily turn off"
One thing I am seriously considering is using Vivaldi. Although it's most likely they've hidden rather than patched out the "AI" features, they're the one browser org I know of to have taken a strong anti-AI stance. The thing keeping me away is last time I tried a Chromium browser on Linux it had platform-specific bugs, so that's gonna be an auditioning thing.
The only real solution is for Servo to reach viability and then switch to that, but that's a slow process.
Currently the LibreWolf project seems to be focused on disabling among other things the telemetry and AI features that Mozilla keep on stuffing into Firefox.
They appear to be doing an OK job of it although my ability to audit the project is limited by my limited IT skills.
I am also trialing the "de-Googled Chromium" based browser Helium which seems faster than Chromium on the devices I have tried it on and apparently that project is also privacy focused.
> ecosystem of trusted software
* starts by betraying users with opt-out features nobody wants.
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@RogerBW The fault here is that you assume that you, or in fact the product, are more important than the valuation of the stock. This is not the case. These executive might be fully aware that adding Gen-AI to their product achieves nothing, but they're also aware that if they don't do it, and if their valuation falls behind because of it, their jobs are at risk (along with their options, etc.)
So they go out there and enthuse about AI, knowing full well they'll soon be in a "well we really had high hopes but it didn't turn out that way so oops now no Gen-AI" when the bubble bursts.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Mozilla Foundation, is in fact, Mozilla Corporation/Foundation, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Mozilla Corporation plus Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla Foundation is not a steward of free software unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning extractivist corporation made useful by the free software core concepts, shell corporations and vital system components comprising a full takeover as defined by capitalism.
Many computer users trust a modified version of the Mozilla Corporation every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Firefox which is widely used today is often called "Developed by the Mozilla Foundation", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the AI grifters, bankrolled by the Gen-AI Project.
There really is a Mozilla Foundation, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Mozilla Foundation is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the developers resources to the software they develop. The foundation is an essential part of a healthy internet, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete Corporation. Mozilla Foundation is normally used in combination with the Mozilla Corporation: the whole system is basically Mozilla Corporation with Mozilla Foundation added, or Mozilla Corporation/Foundation. All the so-called Mozilla Foundation projects are really distributions of Mozilla Corporation/Foundation!
Firefox ESR. Which isn't good enough but at least means I get 1 year between new antifeature dumps to research how to turn off the antifeatures :(
I am considering Vivaldi and desperately looking forward to a web-capable version of Servo.
oddly, a function they put in there to prevent users in businesses from willy-nilly installing updates without approval is your friend in this! In effect one JSON file in a specific directory makes the system thinks your "admin" has "disabled updates," even if that's you.
It works well on Mac; unsure about Windows or Linux as far as where it goes.
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But when I last checked the field for which LLM to use was still blank: I assume they want someone to offer them money for that.
Bit needless to say I do turn everything AI related I'm aware of off.
AI, a product nearly universally loathed, yet is still being funded at scale.
What happens when the AI bubble bursts?
When the data centers are sold for parts in bankruptcy sales?
Firefox will have rebuilt itself around a service no longer available & gets bricked.
Who jumps on a bandwagon with this level of risk?
Because Firefox has a focus on "local models", their "AI" solutions will almost certainly keep running if the cloud providers shut down or introduce paywalls.
Unfortunately.
Agreed. Though for EFF coveryourtrack, it produces unique fingerprint where Firefox produces nearly unique (Brave is randomized). With uBlock Origin, LibreWolf produces a nearly-unique fingerprint.
All depending on the IP and other addons enabled of course. Unless my configuration is missing something.
People Against Genocide targets 11 HSBC branches over Elbit investments - Canary
Groups across Britain shattered windows and doused HSBC buildings in red paint to symbolise the bloodshed of the Palestinian people.The Canary
![Capture d'écran de Mastodon.
Compte @Musiquelntrigante:
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Compte de Johanne Sylvestre:
Concours de soupirs dans le bureau](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/37917663 "Capture d'écran de Mastodon.
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Yes, we can propser while we cut our use of fossil fuels year by year until it hits zero. The drop described in the headline is from 2022 to 2023, and would be even greater if we accelerated the shift to better refrigerants.
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California Lowers Climate Pollution by 3%, Report Finds
A report finds that California’s planet-warming emissions fell significantly in 2023, the third largest drop after the pandemic-induced economic slump and the 2008 recession.Laura Klivans (www.kqed.org)
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