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More to come... Digital Fairness Act

European Commission 'President von der Leyen refers to the need to develop a Digital Fairness Act to tackle unethical techniques and commercial practices related to dark patterns, marketing by social media influencers, the addictive design of digital products and online profiling especially when consumer vulnerabilities are exploited for commercial purposes'.

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#eu #law #tech #dsa #advertising

#tech #EU #Advertising #DSA #Law

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Mindless: The Human Condition in the Machine Age by Robert Skidelsky, 2024

This sweeping history of humanity’s relationship with machines illuminates how we got here and what happens next, with AI, climate change, and beyond.

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#books
#nonfiction
#history
#technology
#machines
#AI

Faith in technological fixes for our problems is waning. Automation, which promised relief from toil, has reactivated the long-standing fear of job redundancy. Information technology, meant to liberate us from traditional authority, is placing unprecedented powers of surveillance and control in the hands of a purely secular Big Brother. And for the first time, artificial intelligence threatens anthropogenic disaster—disaster caused by our own activities. Scientists join imaginative writers in warning us of the fate of Icarus, whose wings melted because he flew too close to the sun. This book tells the story of our fractured relationship with machines from humanity’s first tools down to the present and into the future.
#AI #technology #history #Books #NonFiction #machines @bookstodon group

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About 25 of every 1,000 homes were sold between January and August. That means 37% fewer homes were sold between January and August this year than during that same period in 2021, per Redfin.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

#News #finance #economics #stocks #Options

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Milton
This morning at 10AM, we have some very light rain and no wind yet.
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Ted
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Yes, we never lost power. The storm did very little damage around here.
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Good outcome for you at least. South of there it seems things fared somewhat less well.

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Is there anyone out there who actually cares about the GTK deprecation warnings? I doubt that.

#linux #gtk

#Linux #gtk
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Thank you SAS for sponsoring #AllThingsOpen at the Platinum Level! Their support helps us to bring together 200+ of the best #OpenSource leaders! Check out which speakers you can learn from and register for just $197 today! buff.ly/4dByFxw
Background is a starfield with clouds and a planet around the border with two astros floating to the mothership above the SAS logo. Text reads All Things Open conference. October 27-29. Raleigh, NC, USA. ATO 2024. Thank you! Platinum sponsor.
#opensource #AllThingsOpen

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Hamas, Fatah meet in Cairo to 'unite efforts, national front' | Al Mayadeen

#Genocide #Palestine

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#Palestine #genocide

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c-squares: render squares in the terminal window (c language)

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c-squares written in the C language will render random coloured rectangulars in the terminal, while the font, speed, density, color, ratio and number of the shapes drawn are fully costumizable.

Every time a rectangular is complete, a new one starts to take shape.

https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/1024/16739836

https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/1024/16739838

https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/1024/16739840

Feel free to explore the endless variations.

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More like something like eye candy, but it can also work like this.

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Nice..... 😂🤣😂🤣
It erupts every 12 seconds Folks round here call it "Old Hateful" Mike Luckovich @divarcingreligion

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"To understand what’s happening in America today and what’s on the ballot this November, you need to pay attention to shifting coalitions. What we’re seeing right now is a strengthening and expanding coalition between Christian nationalists, tech billionaires, and Trump’s inner circle."

~ Kristin Du Mez

#Trump #JDVance #ChristianNationalism #TheoBros #TechBros #OilMoney
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#Trump #ChristianNationalism #techbros #jdvance #theobros #oilmoney
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@Klara What you're responding to in Kristin Du Mez's good commentary is unclear to me. If it's her observation that big oil money is allied with these groups doing all they can to place Trump in the White House, the I'd say the answer is obvious: big oil is precisely why we're in a climate change crisis of epic proportions.
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@Klara I don't think Kristin Du Mez is surprised that TechBro billionaires want to fragment democracy and replace it with autocracy. I think she's warning us about this and about their alliance with the other groups she hames.

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Japan PM calls snap election to 'create a new Japan'

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#VOANews

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Video: The Prime Constant [11:23]
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Latest follow-up podcast is out! YouTube: youtu.be/ikukEEHTkeY Audio: share.transistor.fm/s/81244df5 We talk about a slow year for wind, and what might be a better future, as well as more feedback on Matt’s net zero home build motivations and results. Does wind energy really blow?

#Netzero #StillTBD #Windenergy

Matt and Sean Ferrell in front of a large Wind Turbine in a field
#netzero #windenergy #stilltbd

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Apple has just updated the iCloud website with new navigation options in Photos, a customizable homepage with dark mode, a redesigned Calendar, shared view in iCloud Drive, and enhanced Notes and Reminders features.
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#Research #mentalhealth #university #psychology #healthcare #depression #academia #journal #psychotherapy #professor #Scholarship #psychiatry #socialwork #Counseling #psychotherapist #journalarticle @psychotherapists group @psychology group @psychiatry group @psychotherapist group @socialpsych group @socialwork group

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"The corporate-owned media are no longer masters of the universe. Much like Donald, they are increasingly irrelevant. Instead of looking inward and trying to figure out how to change, they double-down and lose even more ground.

Kamala Harris is a threat to the old way of doing things, which is yet another reason to vote for her."

~ Mary Trump

#KamalaHarris #media
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#Media #kamalaharris
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"Far from 'avoiding the media,' Harris has plunged right in—just not under the terms that would allow legacy media to control the narrative."

#KamalaHarris #media
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And that’s perfectly fine by me.

#Media #kamalaharris
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"For months, it’s been stunning to see the media abrogate its responsibility when it comes to covering Donald Trump. Compared to its coverage of both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the corporate legacy media has held Trump to an entirely different standard—which is to say no standard at all."

~ Jay Kuo

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media
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#Media #Trump #kamalaharris
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"Instead, they have cast the election as a typical political horserace, normalizing and sane-washing Trump, rather than calling him out for his incessant lies and the fascist threat to democracy he represents.

In tomorrow’s piece, writer Todd Beeton will explore this phenomenon and then take a look at some recent examples of the media actually doing its job."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media
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#Media #Trump #kamalaharris
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It is the people. Media goes where people are.

How do you explain GOP complete takeover by bull shit autocrat

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@Hash Media often give us the impression of going where people are, but they are highly selective on which people they choose to interview or listen to. And they shape public opinion in profound ways.
@Hash

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October 8, 2024 -- "It's been a tradition for more than half a century that the major party candidates ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)

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Ron DeSantis Throws Televised Conniption Fit After Reports That He Ignored Kamala Harris's Calls to Discuss Hurricane Relief (Bess Levin/Vanity Fair)

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Trump's 'God Bless the U.S.A' Bible Was Made in China (Nikki McCann Ramirez/Rolling Stone)

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"Thousands of people" could be some tens of train cars, no traffic jam, no fuel shortage, no panic. (All 1M evacuees would fit into about 10k train cars, or about 500 trains!)
Car dependence kills.
#FuckCars
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#fuckcars
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