In 1919, #ColumbiaUniversity President #NicholasButler amended the admissions process to limit the number of #Jewish students admitted. In the 1920s, #Butler became an admirer of #Mussolini and praised #Italian #fascism. In the 1930s, he expelled a student for leading an anti-Nazi protest on campus.
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"A whopping $1.4 billion appears to have vanished in thin air."
futurism.com/huge-amount-moneyβ¦
A Huge Amount of Money Is Missing From Tesla
As the Financial Times reports, a whopping $1.4 billion is unaccounted for in Tesla's financial statements.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
WhatsApp is testing support for Android motion photos.
Thatβs according to WABetaInfo, which spotted that a recent beta of the Android app supports sharing motion photos, Androidβs GIF-like animations that accompany some photos, similar to the Live Photos feature found on iPhones (and which, the outlet notes, WhatsApp for iOS already supports).
WhatsApp beta for Android 2.25.8.12: what's new?
WhatsApp beta for Android 2.25.8.12: what's new? | WABetaInfo
Discover the WhatsApp beta for Android 2.25.8.12 update: WhatsApp is working on a feature to share motion photos in chats, groups, channels!WABetaInfo
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The enterprise formerly known as Twitter is now understood by all to be in the service of right-wing authoritarianism in the United States and around the globe.
There is an uprising against Tesla, which is just a car company. Where is the uprising against X? How can any nonmalicious nonprofit or state or city organization continue to use it for its messaging? Or anyone else.
Rise up!
politico.eu/article/musks-x-suβ¦
Muskβs X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest
Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.Eliza Gkritsi (POLITICO)
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When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via SSH (2022)
tinyhack.com/2022/09/16/when-yβ¦
Discussions: discu.eu/q/tinyhack.com/2022/0β¦
When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via ssh
Let's first not talk about why this can happen, but deleting /lib, /usr/lib, or some other essential runtime files happens quite a lot (as you can see: here, here, here, and here).Tinyhack.com
Netflix's Live-Action One Piece Loses Its Co-Showrunner
https://gizmodo.com/netflixs-live-action-one-piece-loses-its-co-showrunner-2000579397?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Netflix's Live-Action One Piece Loses Its Co-Showrunner
Matt Owens is stepping back from the One Piece remake ahead of its second season's eventual release on Netflix.Justin Carter (Gizmodo)
Mooi interview wel.
Duitser Sebastian Vettel was Formule 1-kampioen. Nu zet hij zich in voor het klimaat. βBen ik hypocriet? Ja. Zijn we dat allemaal? Waarschijnlijk.β
Zeker een mooi interview!
Ik herken in zijn antwoorden wat ik meegekregen heb van het lezen van Michael E. Mann. Iedereen moet Γets doen, maar de echte winst komt bij systemische verandering en die ligt bij overheden en bedrijven.
Dus ja: je kan vliegen, vlees eten of een auto rijden en daarnaast ook een beter klimaat willen. Maar niet alles dus doe wel iets: sla een reis over, switch naar hybride, eet iets minder vlees en maak een andere duurzame switch. Dat is al winst.
Ukraineβs clandestine book club defies Russiaβs push to rewrite history
Risking discovery and even prison, teenage readers meet in secret to discuss texts that Putinβs troops are trying to erasePeter Pomerantsev (The Guardian)
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Ipse Dixit, Giorgia Meloni alla Camera: "Non credo di aver mai usato la parola 'vittoria' rispetto alla guerra in Ucraina". Giorgia Meloni nel 2023: "Noi scommettiamo sulla vittoria dell'Ucraina"
βNon credo di aver mai usato la parola βvittoriaβ rispetto alla guerra in Ucrainaβ , ha detto lβaltroGianluca Pace (Blitz quotidiano)
βπ Quiz: How to Strip Characters From a Python String Quiz
In this quiz, you'll test your understanding of Python's .strip(), .lstrip(), and .rstrip() methods, as well as .removeprefix() and .removesuffix(). These methods are useful for tasks like cleaning user input, standardizing filenames, and preparing data for storage.
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This is #CentOS Stream 9 Cinnamon. CentOS is a distribution from the US based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, available with several desktops. This one uses the #Cinnamon desktop.
- This is part of a #Linux history project at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Catβ¦
- Website: centos.org/
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)My dislike of RHEL comes from afar, and it has been more and more confirmed.
Should you trust that doctor? (maybe more relevant today than ever)
(by instagram user @sheadoodles)
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What about Doctor Worm? Certainly not a real doctor, but it is a real worm, an actual worm.
Zoth hacked for nearly $8.3 million, second theft in two weeks
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Zoth hacked for nearly $8.3 million, second theft in two weeks
RWA restaking platform Zoth suffered a $8.29 million hack after an attacker gained access to admin privileges that allowed them to modify the platform's smart contracts. The hacker "upgraded" the contract to a malicious version, then withdrew $8.Web3 is Going Just Great
Interesting paper!
'The flaws of policies requiring human oversight of government algorithms' by Ben Green.
He says, among other things: 'β[t]he vast majority of research suggests that people are unable to provide reliable oversight of algorithms.β
Zoth RWA restaking platform hacked
web3isgoinggreat.com/single/zoth-hack-1
Zoth RWA restaking platform hacked
Zoth, a restaking platform for "real world assets" (or RWAs), was hacked for around $285,000 when an exploiter discovered a bug in the platform's collateral calculations.Web3 is Going Just Great
Colin the Mathmo
in reply to James Gleick • • •Everyone else is expressing their opinions so I figure I may as well.
For a given individual to protest against Tesla costs them nothing.
To protest against twitter means they have to do something inconvenient to them personally.
So they will do the former, and not the latter.
Johns
in reply to James Gleick • • •I sent an email to all Spanish political parties and all media organisations asking them to leave twitter, no one even answered.
Worst thing is those in favour of catalan independence, the ones that will end (and have been) in prison for their ideologies, the disassociation is embarrassing...
Strypey
Unknown parent • • •(1/?)
@GhostOnTheHalfShell
> Motivating people to dump big platform needs to be a separate initiative
This reminds me a lot of how net culture took on a cluster of highly concentrated and politically powerful broadcast media platforms in the 1990s. How powerful is TV now? At least among anyone under 50.
We didn't replace broadcast media by fighting them. We did it by building something better, and doing everything we could to make it comprehensible and accessible to more people.
@gleick
Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •(2/?)
I still remember the defensive MTV ads on bus stops in the late 1990s;
"www.thenetsucks.com"
Joke's on them now, isn't it.
"As of November 2023, MTV is available to approximately 67,000,000 pay television households in the United States, down from its 2011 peak of 99,000,000 households."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV
American cable television channel
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •(3/?)
Just like MTV in the 90s, it serves the DataFarmers to have us believe their power is growing and unassailable. But right now, they're circling the wagons, calling in political favours, and doing everything they can to exploit their oligopoly power while they have it.
Because their growth already peaked, and no concentration of power is unassailable. Certainly not in the face of a creative global community determined to leave the world - and the mediasphere - better than we inherited it.
Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •(4/4)
The plutocratic pushback is heating up right now, all around the world, precisely because what we're doing with all these tech freedom movements is working. We just need to keep pushing, keep building community, and keep finding ways to make technology better at serving people's real needs.
We got this. Hold the line.
Matt Griffin
in reply to James Gleick • • •(UPDATE: He didn't say "picket" and there obviously ways but I'm at loss for good ones.)
Autolycus π΄ββ οΈ
in reply to Matt Griffin • • •@mattgriffin One thing you can do is follow news organizations on Mastodon or Bluesky, and interact with their content on those platforms. They need to see an audience if they are to continue investing in non-Twitter platforms.
I was never on any social media before Mastodon. Iβm only here and engaging to try and support the fediverse model take hold.
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Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •"Separating yourself from the world doesn't work. Trust me, I know. We have a chance to tear their whole sick system down together."
Michelle, The Electric State, 2025
#movies #SciFi #TheElectricState