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Putin’s ‘not doing so well,’ says Trump in unusually critical remarks on Kremlin leader byteseu.com/674411/ #BreakingNews #GlobalNews #LatestNews #News #World #WorldNews


I'm going to miss the State of Open Con 2025, I'm afraid, but that's no reason for you to be there 🙂

Tickets still available at stateofopencon.com.

And if you're a student or unfortunately unemployed, tickets are free!

#soocon25 #stateofopencon #opensource



From: blenderdumbass . org

This is a test of federation. But I will be using it the way it was intended, for discussion and respectful disagreements between people. In this case I will be trying to counter argument the statement in this post by Madiator, while agreeing with some of it.

blenderdumbass.org/articles/us…

#madiator #fediverse #federation #test #blog #webdev #AI






#trap : a machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals

- French: piège

- German: Die Falle

- Italian: trappola

- Portuguese: armadilha

- Spanish: trampa

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Report an incorrect translation @ wordofthehour.org/r/translatio…

#Trap


A good cause? How #charities funnelled £28m into rightwing think-tanks - goodlawproject.org/a-good-caus… "Over the past two decades, rightwing think-tanks and pressure groups that spread climate denial, attack public services and stoke culture wars have bagged millions of pounds in donations from charities. " fix it, #starmer #transparency



In some places, there’s a lack of water. Desalination plants are not working anymore. The infrastructure is completely collapsed.

Sewage is filling the streets.

In every single street, neighbourhood, city – infrastructure is destroyed. Palestinians are going to have to start their lives from scratch.

Hind Khoudary

@photography
@palestine
#Gaza
#children

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in reply to earthling

Les journalistes internationaux sont-ils enfin autorisés à entrer et à faire leur boulot dans la bande de Gaza ?
Et , accessoirement; dans toute la Palestine ?
On attend leurs reportages...


Journalist calls out people for being ‘fine’ with Elon Musk’s Nazi salute but not pronouns. Elon Musk’s Nazi salute is ironic when “we’ve been told for the past five, six years that the thing we need to be most frightened of is what pronouns people are using,” one BBC contributor says. byteseu.com/674404/ #America #Politics #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USPolitics #USA #USAPolitics


"Personal autonomy should come first when it comes to search. Here are a few of the ways we provide that on Mojeek, that you will not find elsewhere..."

blog.mojeek.com/2023/12/search…


in reply to Oblomov

I was thinking the same thing, a while back could someone make a animation that takes the X logo, and therotates it, X but extend the parts at the top / bottom of each line so the X becomes a swastika, display an actual swastika, (for illustration) then repeat,

So maybe once pointed out of the similarity, people will see it and hopefully start a conversation.

Also once seen it can't be UNSEEN.



New preprint!

Comparing Human-Only, AI-Assisted, and AI-Led Teams on Assessing Research Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Science
econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbw…

Brodeur et al (including me and 261 others)

Thread on findings on 🦋 bsky.app/profile/i4replication…

#Preprint #TeamScience #Replication #Reproducibility



The Technological Poison Pill: How #ATProtocol Encourages Competition, Resists Evil Billionaires, Lock-In & Enshittification - techdirt.com/2025/01/21/the-te… "If this approach succeeds, it won’t just protect users; it will fundamentally reshape the dynamics of the social web."
in reply to Troed Sångberg

@troed Mike is not just a bluesky board member; he is probably the best tech journo around
in reply to Glyn Moody

I "know" Masnick well, but this post was clearly "Bluesky board member" because of how extremely twisted the actual technical arguments were.

I think we all understand what the Bluesky team set out to do with ATproto, but they _failed_. Centralization is built into the architecture since it's simply too costly to run an instance for it to be viable.

Imagine the early Internet if it would cost a minimum of $1M to publish blog posts.





Canada’s digital services tax is right in Trump’s crosshairs byteseu.com/674398/ #Canada #CanadaPolitics #Politics


The temperature in Northern NSW today at 4:20🌱 in the afternoon byteseu.com/674396/ #Australia


Wieso übersetzt #DeepL nicht immer den «deutschen Gruss»?

steigerlegal.ch/2025/01/22/dee…

(Via @tobi82.)

#AI #KI