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This party somehow gets away with claiming that it champions free speech. Like reporters don’t laugh at them for it and people actually believe it.

#gop #desantis #media #fascism #freespeech




I wish all prisoners were treated with dignity and had access to good food and whatnot but it *enrages* me that these seditious fuckers are segregated with seemingly endless perks within an otherwise infamous jail as they become ever more radicalized. What are we doing here? Where’s the deterrence?
#j6 #fascism #maga

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Me: "I'm not allowed to spend ANY money anymore."

The second I'm outside.. 🥲

in reply to Gina

you should see me "window shopping" at IKEA 😂


Will the Earth warm by 2°C or 5.5°C? Either way it’s bad, and trying to narrow it down may be a distraction #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #extremeweather theconversation.com/will-the-e…


From my new essay about America’s abuse cycle at the hands of toxic political party-parents…

catvalente.substack.com/p/wait…



Elon Musk's 'Free' Starlink for Hurricane Helene Victims Will Cost at Least $400 (Tom Maxwell/Gizmodo)

gizmodo.com/elon-musks-free-st…
memeorandum.com/241009/p34#a24…



I’d like to invite you to vote in our 1981 Favourite Record Poll

Fourth Quarter-Final
Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads v Under Pressure - Queen and David Bowie

Please vote below 👇

#Music #PopMusic #RockMusic #Songs #Poll #SoulMusic #RockNRoll

  • Once in a Lifetime (0 votes)
  • Under Pressure (0 votes)
Poll end: 1 year ago

in reply to vinnatron

@vinnatron I agree, it is mean 🙂

I think that’s true of all these quarter-finals.



Blogged:
Transcribing meeting recordings with OpenAI
Using a little bit of Python to transcribe a meeting recording with OpenAI #python #OpenAI
synesthesia.co.uk/note/2024/10…


Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi has been injured by Israeli military gunfire in northern Gaza.

“Israeli forces shot at the Al Jazeera crew, and the network’s photographer, our beloved colleague Fadi al-Wahidi, was injured by a sniper’s bullet in the neck during our coverage,” Al Jazeera Arabic’s Anas al-Sharif said in a post on X.

@palestine
#Gaza
#journalists



Microsoft, $MSFT, won't impose a new return-to-office mandate unless management concludes that productivity has dropped, per BI.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options



The bill finally comes due for Elon Musk

The Tesla CEO has long promised — and failed to deliver — a fully autonomous vehicle. With this week’s robotaxi reveal, his time is up.



Meet #ONLYOFFICE at Salon Solutions in France 🇫🇷

📆 October 9 – 10, 2024
📍 Paris, France
🌐 salons-solutions.com/

Salon Solutions is an annual event in Paris focused on enterprise solutions and digital transformation.

Visit booth G17, where our team will demonstrate our solutions and answer any questions.







Has anyone noticed how mean Cadbury has got lately? Chocolate is half the size, worse quality and somehow the same high price byteseu.com/481586/ #Éire #Ireland #PoblachtNaHÉireann #RepublicOfIreland



New from 404 Media: there are thousands of internal AI training sets and tools exposed to anyone on the open internet. Some belong to tech companies. No authentication, just visit IP and look. Can include raw training data, ability to use models

404media.co/thousands-of-inter…



Of my 12 observations this year of conopid* flies – mostly parasites of adult wasps – from US, UK and Croatia, none have collected a single comment or endorsement of the genus or species.

inaturalist.org/observations?d…

Did I get them right? Hopefully. Am I an expert? No. Just wish there was a guide out there on these fascinating flies. How they ever evolved into being is a fascinating thought to entertain.

* Conopids are also known as thick-headed flies, beegrabbers and waspgrabbers. For their life history, see: Gibson's thesis (2011), titled "The evolutionary biology of Conopidae (Diptera): a life history, molecular, morphological, systematic, and taxonomic approach" repository.library.carleton.ca… which, among other details, has "the first ever key to world genera of Conopidae".

#iNaturalist #entomology #Conopidae #Diptera

in reply to Albert Cardona

I've got 2 obs of conopid flies this year: uk.inaturalist.org/observation…

Conopidae might make a good addition/extension to the "British Soldierflies and their Allies" book? nhbs.com/british-soldierflies-…

"allies" seems to be anything and everything in Brachycera?