The Biden admin isn’t even pretending anymore this time around. They are openly telling the world that #Israel can invade a sovereign country with no consequences.
What an absolute catastrophe Biden has been to our people. #Lebanon
Where did you get the tweet screenshot from? When I look at x, he doesn't appear to have tweeted in the last two years, and I don't find that quote from any reputable sources.
Since I only have about 40 followers, I would appreciate as many boosts as possible as it is hurricane related. The Iphone 14 and above has the capability to send messages via satellite. You have to install IOS18 then swipe down from top right to get the utilities screen. You can then do a demo by touching the satellite icon. Evidently it only works if you do not have cell data or wifi available. #hurricaneMilton
Blender 4.3 Beta has been released, featuring a new Grease Pencil version, Asset Browser integration for brushes, EEVEE Light Linking, and Multi-pass Compositing.
Oh no, it's #PortfolioDay already! First time participating because I never see it coming. 💀
I'm Camila and I'm obsessed with colors, light, and people. Doing concepts and illustrations for games and books are my bread and butter. I do freelancing and studio work, and I'm about to reopen commissions after several years so I get to paint even more faces!
Question the status quo, stand up for justice, and strive for personal and societal growth, using truth and nonviolence as your weapons.
^ from asking a llm:
surmise the overall message of ghandi, bill hicks, and malcomX, disparate in parts as they are, in one pithy quip.
Despite their different backgrounds and methods, a common thread that can be drawn from the messages of Mahatma Gandhi, Bill Hicks, and Malcolm X is:
"Question the status quo, stand up for justice, and strive for personal and societal growth, using truth and nonviolence as your weapons."
This pithy quip captures their shared emphasis on critical thinking, advocating for fairness, and promoting positive change, while acknowledging the importance of peaceful means and personal evolution in achieving these goals.
The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, has declared Australia will soon protect more ocean than any other country after the government finalises a more than 300,000 square kilometre expansion of a sub-Antarctic marine park.
Speaking ahead of what was billed as a global nature positive summit starting in Sydney on Tuesday, Plibersek confirmed the Heard and McDonald Island Marine Park about 4,000 km south-west of Perth would quadruple in size.
She said the decision meant Australia would protect 52% of its ocean territory, far more than the global 30% target by 2030 that the government signed up to two years ago.
Science organisations planned to use the summit to highlight what they say is Australian governments’ failure to invest at the level needed to protect the environment, which a major government review found was in poor and deteriorating health.
An alliance of 27 environment groups under the banner Save Our Marine Life largely welcomed the marine park announcement but said some areas important to albatross, penguins, seals and fish had not been given the sanctuary-level protection that scientists had recommended.
The Pew Charitable Trusts’ national oceans manager, Fiona Maxwell, said the two islands were “wildlife havens”, and the decision meant the bulk of the waters around them would be free from mining and the creation of new pelagic fisheries targeting mackerel icefish and Patagonian toothfish.
But she said important undersea canyons and seamounts had not been included in sanctuaries. “Even the government’s own science report said there was inadequate protection for a range of seafloor habitats, foraging areas for albatross and macaroni penguins, and areas supporting an abundance and variety of fish,” Maxwell said.
Hello everyone in the #fediverse! This is will be our official SNS after we've left Twitter last year in June due to it crossing too many lines for us to even continue using it as a channel for notifications. We will be doing that stuff here too: announce important updates such as new releases and scheduled downtimes for our services whenever they come. However, with this account not being directly managed by our project owner (it is instead managed by @job), this social media account could try to be a bit more flexible this time, such as boosting relevant #PaleMoon commentary and sometimes posting about less-known features we have that deserve attention. We will see how this goes! ;)
As our first post, let me, the operator of this account write a short #introduction of what this #
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Hello everyone in the #fediverse! This is will be our official SNS after we've left Twitter last year in June due to it crossing too many lines for us to even continue using it as a channel for notifications. We will be doing that stuff here too: announce important updates such as new releases and scheduled downtimes for our services whenever they come. However, with this account not being directly managed by our project owner (it is instead managed by @job), this social media account could try to be a bit more flexible this time, such as boosting relevant #PaleMoon commentary and sometimes posting about less-known features we have that deserve attention. We will see how this goes! ;)
As our first post, let me, the operator of this account write a short #introduction of what this #browser is: we are one of the first projects out there to have forked from #Firefox / #Mozilla. We've started as a humble rebuild aiming to bring an optimized Firefox, but we've soon evolved into a full-fledged fork (hard fork if you will) which kept what we believe were the good stuff that Mozilla axed and didn't deserve axing, like #XUL (which we believe is the most powerful language for extending a browser, up to its internals), #RSS, and <style scoped>, and kept out the ones that we believe were not good for our userbase (like Pocket, the LLM cruft, and if you're old enough, Australis!). We aim to keep evolving this mature platform in order to keep up with the latest feature additions to the web as we reasonably can (even though we believe they're becoming increasingly silly) while, if possible and necessary, adding up some of our own. All of that, as an independent effort supported primarily by nothing else but you: the users!
I would love to explain more, but it would take too long to write here, so we suggest exploring our website if you want to learn more!
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Fellow Blenderheads, if you're with me on this, please upvote the feature request…
I'd love Blender to recognize externally copied SVG curves in the copy buffer, and paste them into the current scene.
Inkscape, MoI 3D, etc. feature copying of SVG curves to the copy buffer. It'd be very flexible and convenient if you could edit curves in external editors, and simply copy and paste those into Blender.
I still wish Glimpse had worked out- great name, great spirit. I find Tom's suggestions remind me of the sans-serif invasion (velvetshark.com/why-do-brands-…) and the attendant logo frankly looks more like the copyright logo than an 'open' version. I think the 'thiccboi' version starts becoming interesting. I also can't be the only one who sees ai inclusion and runs for the hills. I do think the decluttering is a great step forward however.
will be used to justify crimes against minorities as well, after all AI said it was best from some opaque utalitarian–inspired reasoning disguising racism, seksism, ...
the greatest trick AI ever pulled was creating the cultural perception that it would be the „slaving machines“ that kills us, instead of the indifferent wills of the money-men who built the machines…
And of course, now they keep recycling the same fears with classism and racism.
And so many sci-fi writers have been blatantly uninformed and ignorant Ito these issues throughout.
Don't count out the killer robots. They are coming along nicely. Just because they will be deployed by humans and not by SkyNet and won't be self-replicating doesn't make them not a threat.
All those "human in the loop" systems are being developed with the knowledge that it would be more profitable to take the human out of the loop at some point. Palantir drools about it.
I don't know. Mass suicide and artificial negligence might win this one long before anyone notices all the water is gone. Does anyone actually drink that boring stuff anyway?
For the average person, they’re more likely to have their life threatened by an AI: - Rejecting their medical needs - organ recipient, insurance (US) - Deciding that cost cutting measures on the product factory floor are worth the risk to safety relative to likely blowback - Rejecting their job application - Devaluing the only work they are able to do, being disabled - Stealing time in productivity’s name from others who might have seen your pain
There's also the people who'll die to it but not by anything bombastic but because it decided to cut some bureaucratic thread that unravels someone's life entirely.
Making a massive misinformation generator means it'll misinform in small and big ways, some very noticeable but others will be subtle enough to cause some real damage.
Remember when we thought search engines would use more all the electricity and water? Then it was social media.
It’s not that the technology is unproblematic — glorified predictive text of dubious origin being wildly and widely misused to support a fantasist tech bubble — but there is a pattern here.
@justanotheramy Almost as if there might be detrimental cumulative effects of the ever-increasing resource demands of Big Tech’s (capitalism’s) hype and bust cycles?
or moral panics are recycled when they’re proven distractions.
OpenAI’s Superalignment team was pushing AI as existential threat when distraction was needed from IP… complications…, labour abuses, and bias. Now that grounding is creating new issues like impersonation risk and exploit vulnerabilities, suddenly we’re supposed to be looking away at the water?
there is a push toward using AI to "automate away" jobs involving critical thinking like contract negotiation and decion making. The problem is that humans are much more driven by emotion than logic. Ever noticed that many people who claim to be "data driven" are actually balls of emotion.
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Exactly! I had a discussion on AI with a colleague and when I said I see an overall danger in AI, without being specific, he just threw in the argument„yeah killer robots are terrible but we can regulate them, see AI is just a tool like any other“…
It’s like you say. People have been effectively gaslighted that THAT is the real danger.
By absorbing all their energy. AI consomes copious amounts of energy, the equivalent of a small nation, I've heard it reported? Any reports to the contrary?
or by blocking all their attempts to get help, as it's already being used by department of social services to process SNAP paperwork, social security paperwork, new patient paperwork for many medical clinics & some banks.
*If you can't use any money & can't get any medical care, then you're not going to survive very long in our society.
or by giving the wrong instructions how to sanitize the drinking water to the vibe technician that was left after everyone else with the proper training was fired because their jobs are supposed to be automated by A.I.
Well, I'd have to say I'm swooning over #Friendica again, sorry;)
I absolutely love how many protocols it supports, including #diaspora
I'd have to say of all the #decentralized social networks I really loved Diaspora, for its interface and usability, it was well positioned to be a real FB killer, too bad that the Devs took such a bad decision to reject interoperability with other networks.
Anyway, Friendica still allows me to keep tabs on the network, both ways. Great job Devs!
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