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By making trade absolete in this planet, but we are not ready, we are still dumb monkeys...

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in other 📰 nothing new
I still remember when svastika trended on google
Bad Actors are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods
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It's my birthday!! If you wanna support me today and help me have an awesome birthday the best thing you can do is make an order for some beadwork. Financial security during this move is the best gift I can ask for right now. Mvto!!!

Check out my website: cvkvlv.com

#Beadwork #Mvskoke #TwoSpirit

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Don't want Google AI bs in search?

Just add "-fucking" :flan_guns:

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it really works! (Just added "fucked" after a search and indeed AI was removed 😃)
Good to know!

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Ar esi pasiruošęs?

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Video: Tracing our long-lost lineages using proteomics and ancient DNA [5:51]
youtube.com/watch?v=RBkz6clFTK…

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Edit: To clarify, we're talking about webmonetization.org and admins will be able to disable it. We're not introducing ads.

Exclusive Pixelfed posts = direct creator income 📸

Building a world where photographers and content creators get paid for their premium content, not platforms getting rich off your work.

Creator-first monetization is coming ✨

Interested? Join today ⬇️

pixelfed.org/servers

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direct monetization is something that as an artist I've tried to set up on Pixelfed before, and a working system would be a big deal. Thanks for trying to work on it ❤

My question is unfortunately the same that it has to be for every payment system - will NSFW artists and creators be able to participate, or will we be locked out like we usually are from these things?

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Privacy-wise, while the recipient does not get your details, do the "wallet providers" then know all your web history?

Ultimately there is no privacy respecting way to make payments online right now (except some cryptos & maybe gnu Taler) so how does KYC and other legal requirements work with webmonetization ? I found nothing about it in their doc

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I just added a new visualization to my climate indicators page. This one shows monthly global mean surface air temperatures from 1950 to present, with shading corresponding to the approximate state of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). I hope it is useful.

Follow along at zacklabe.com/climate-change-in…. It will be updated each month.

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What even *is* a Good Day?

You don’t need a breakthrough.

You need 24 hours where you’re not at war with yourself.

You eat, move, speak honestly, maybe laugh once or twice.

That’s a good day.

That’s rare.
youtu.be/RUhnxzt367I?si=MmdDqs…

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Human-caused climate change is making extreme heat waves around the world more likely.

Each day you can follow the "Climate Shift Index" to find out how climate change has altered the weather in your area: csi.climatecentral.org/climate…

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#Gaza We watched this last night. It was the most traumatic thing I hsve ever seen. It shows how systematically Israel has destroyed Gaza’s healthcare system and killed doctors. This is ongoing - just yesterday many killed at Indonesian hospital.

I feel irrevocably alienated from all the lovely people around me who choose to just ignore all this. Not watch, not see. For almost two years the most barbaric slaughter, aided by our governments here.

theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

#Gaza
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People are shocked to discover they need to fact-check ChatGPT and I'm having the uncomfortable realization that they never fact-checked their uncle's Facebook posts, their friend's medical advice, or literally anything Google's top result told them, and suddenly the last decade makes sense...
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I was one of the few male members of a Canadian forum with global reach, dedicated to Lucy Maud Montgomery. From 1999 till 2010. The IT-level was very high, many posts from the female majority how to protect your presence on the net. Double-googling , anti-googling , and limit the amount of contacts to trusted persons. I was IT-rookie, but the instinct was woken up. It also works in real life. < De-googling continuous >

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What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔

NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: noaa.gov/sites/default/files/2…

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Long ago I heard a truism that stuck with me. The circumstances were oddly relevant. It rose up in my mind today:

“There is no news. There is only the truth of the signal. What I see. And, there's the puppet theater the Parliament jesters foist on the somnambulant public."


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I have a new 'climate viz of the month' blog posted, which dives into a visualization and description of future Arctic sea ice cover: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-th…

#SciComm #DataViz #OpenScience #OpenData #ClimateChange

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he wouldn't say good idea after the first loop though right?

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Capture the Atlas project published their anual collection of the Milky Way photos from the enthusiatic photographers from all around the world 😍 Look at this beauty!

capturetheatlas.com/milky-way-…

Capture the Atlas is a project that is aiming to provide guidance, knowledge and adventures to the photographers around the world to elevate their picture-taking skills, travel the jaw-dropping locations on Earth, build long lasting communities and friendships to learn, being amazed and grow together.

capturetheatlas.com/about/

#astropgotography
#capturetheatlas
#photography
#milkyway
#earth
#cosmos
#world

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Yah but first u send it to me ya? haha I am still waiting for some astrophotos from you! :)
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@Tio for sure, friend! Haha, I know, I’m slow, but you’ll be the first to see them 😜
@Tio


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Well the “NOAA Climate” and “NASA Climate” social media feeds - a key tool to communicate the massive challenge of climate change to the world - are now gone.
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Donald Trump promised the world it would get colder soon and doubting him means your funding gets cut, so I guess there's no need to have expensive organizations check on his promises every day.


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New instance, new #introduction !

Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.

One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!

We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy

And many thanks to @sebinthestars for running our former instance!

📷 ESO/G. Vecchia

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700 mastodons, only 1 instance.

You're welcome! (Again)

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Look forward to what you'll share here!

Perhaps you know this already, but if not then, Mastodon has the ability for accounts to verify who they are by way of their domains (in your case esa.org). Think of this as Mastodon's version of the blue checkmark from other platforms.

It is easy to set up, and would signal to everyone that your account is in fact the official ESA account.

joinmastodon.org/verification