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Upgraded my #framework13 laptop to 64gig of memory in under 5 minutes while sitting on the sofa.

Seriously don't think I can go back to a non-self repairable laptops now. If I didn't have the Pixel 9 pro, I think the #Fairphone would be next.




One of the four lynx that were illegally released into the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, in January and rescued by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland. The three lynx that survived the ordeal have settled in to their new homes at the nearby Highland Wildlife Park, where this picture was taken. They have been named Caledonia, Cardrona and Bluebell.

Photograph: RZSS/PA

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#AnimalRescue
#lynx

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Iran's supreme leader makes first public appearance since Iran-Israel war started


Iran' s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday made his first public appearance since the 12-day war between Israel and Iran began, attending a mourning ceremony on the eve of Ashoura.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Dolphin Emulator - Ten Years of Dolphin
So, I've found this really neat video showcasing the entire history of Dolphin, one of the absolute best Gamecube and Wii emulators we have. It's honestly surprising to see how it was almost as old as the Gamecube, and that it even grew up alongside it, then the Wii, to the point where it could even work with the official Wii and DS online (until Nintendo did a hella smooth-brained move and shut down the Wii and DS online in general in 2014 (I'm still mad about it)). Plus, it's just neat to see how far it has come since ~2003. ​:blobcat_heart:



Dodental na overstromingen in Texas loopt op tot zeker 50 nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/07/06/doden…


#accurate : in exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains

- French: précis

- German: akkurat

- Italian: attento

- Portuguese: acurado / preciso

- Spanish: cuidadoso

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Une première moitié de disque interprétée par un choeur d’adolescents, l’autre en déclinaison ASMR aux airs de bande sonore, c’est le nouvel album de Blonde Redhead, «The Shadow of the Guest», qui revisite leur album de 2023, «Sit Down For Dinner».
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Le campane troppo rumorose e con frequenza e orari assurdi ti disturbano e non sai... a che santo votarti?
Leggi il nostro approfondimento sull'inquinamento acustico e scopri cosa puoi fare in concreto per eliminare questo fastidio quotidiano. 👇
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Europe stockpiles critical minerals due to risk of war byteseu.com/1168727/ #Europe


in reply to Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

First, they liken AI training to open-source:

“CC is dedicated to facilitating greater openness for the common good. CC thus supports, in principle, broad access and use of copyright works, including openly licensed content, to train AI in the public interest…to ensure sharing ultimately benefits the public.”

The inherent problem with this is that AI training does not benefit the public. Trained AI is a commercial product. It only serves stakeholders and wealthy tech bros.

🧵2/3

in reply to Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

Second, they liken AI bots to researchers and academics.

“At CC, we believe that, as a matter of copyright law, the use of works to train AI should be considered non-infringing by default…for example, text-and-data mining in the context of research or education should be allowed under an exception to copyright.”

Researchers and academics cite their sources. AI products do not cite anyone or anything at all. They return a paid product after harvesting what they required to do so.

🧵3/3

in reply to Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

thanks for running this poll, Mark.

Striking that it got 8x the response here than on X.

Seems to me that the responses in each place are somewhat self-selecting. People still on X are likely to be more credulous.

Thing is, even if CC’s position were sensible in a narrow boundary sense (and I agree with you on that score), it’s obtusely ignoring the wider picture mastodon.social/@urlyman/11458…

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in reply to Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

Re 3 (&1,2). The CC team are naïve. I think the David Wiley affect is in play here, he believes that genAI is the future of OER, which is ridiculous, insulting to all the people who create OER, and naïve. CC have become meaningless overnight due to AI bot crawlers. that trawl on gigantic scale and completely ignores *all* licensing. The only way this can be solved is in the courts - not only USA courts either! See LAION case in Germany. There are grey areas, but CC are just childish.
in reply to Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

the poll has 155 votes, and it's on twitter so that's probably 100 far right botfarm votes and 55 nazis lol

really, just them actually doing that on twitter and taking the results seriously is another reason for me to become very wary of them.

*edit: hold up, that whole twitter poll is from 2021!! 😅 (still, 100 votes are probably going to be from right wing bots lol, but it does place the results in a different perspective)

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in reply to Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

I posted on he CC Signals initiative a few days ago. Sadly I didnt see your posts. Re 1 - this is the assertion of folks like Stephen Downes - a big player in OpenEd. Theoretically he sees a democratisation of connected knowledge (ie Connectivism). But, he is wrong on multiple levels (imo). Money/profit is the biggest of these problems, closely followed by all the errors of genAI.
in reply to Dr Pen

@DrPen we crossed in the night. 😂 I just saw your post and hadn’t seen any recent news about CC. But I def think they should reflect on their stance.

As you allude to, the main issue is how AI profits from CC work with no citations. That’s one of the quotes I pulled from the linked article in my follow-up.

in reply to Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

Yes we did! Also, sry about typos but Im angry, can you tell?! I think we all need to follow these developments very closely. I didnt even know about the CC Twtr poll and Im in the OpenEd google email group! Why on Twtr? Ridiculous.

Academics are massively impacted by AI deals with article publishers. This is a powerful area for potential pushback as so much academic work uses CC licences. I think this is where the pressure is coming from for CC to acquiesce about the AI training.

in reply to Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

Re 2 - the problem here is that people who run CC are totally unfit to make judgements off the top o their head, driven by their feels about IPR and copyright. They need to shut up, basically. They can have opinions, but not that are the 'legal' position of CC licenses. Thats the worst enshittification of T&Cs.


Denmark, France, Iceland, Norway and UK to join NATO Forward Land Forces in Finland byteseu.com/1168725/ #Europe #NATO


Minister of cunning … a fox plots its next move in Downing Street, London, during ministerial arrivals for a cabinet meeting at Number 10.

Photograph: Zuma Press/Alamy Live News

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#foxes

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Rutte praises Trump in a NYT interview while warning of Russia’s rising threat to NATO byteseu.com/1168723/ #Europe #NATO


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Today I spent half a day walking on the Golden Gate Bridge. First, it took me almost an hour to get to the bridge itself, then I walked for about forty minutes in one direction and the same amount of time back. I also went up to the viewpoint to truly enjoy the amazing views. My legs ache, I'm incredibly tired, but it was definitely worth it! #GoldenGateBridge #OutdoorAdventure #AmazingViews
in reply to Henry Fisher

The possibility of walking across is one advantage of bridges over tunnels.
It's no fun being stuck on an island with tunnels closed during an electrical blackout.

Manhattan in 2003: the ferries ran.
The bridges are accessible to pedestrians, like George Washington Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge.

#BridgesAndTunnels

@henry

in reply to Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов

@vnikolov I was actually surprised when I found out that the golden gate that I open for pedestrians. Such a rare thing for such a large bridge