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Europeans have until May 27 to restrict Meta from using their data: Meta is about to use Europeans’ social posts to train its AI. Here’s how you can prevent it

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At the end of May, Meta will start using Europeans’ data to train its AI. Here is how you can exercise your rights and prevent it.
Instagram and Facebook users in Europe will soon have their data and posts used by parent company Meta to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models.
Europeans have until May 27 to restrict Meta from using their data, the date when the company will start using Europe’s data.

Meta's new 'optional' AI chatbot in apps like Whatsapp is proving controversial. Here's why

Some users are irritated at the bright blue and pinkish circle now omnipresent in Meta’s applications, primarily because of data protection issues.

^{Oceane Duboust (Euronews.com)}

#privacy

thelastaxolotl [he/him] via Indigenous

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thelastaxolotl [he/him]
2 months ago • •

Sioux Chef Sean Sherman Expands His Vision for Decolonizing the US Food System

Sean Sherman walks through an expansive commissary kitchen in South Minneapolis, his eyes lighting up with excitement. He isn’t taking in the kitchen as it is—dormant but well-equipped with an industrial smoker, a walk-in sausage-making area, and plentiful storage space. Instead, he’s seeing the future of his Meals for Native Institutions initiative, when the space is up, running, and realizing a long-term vision to introduce more Indigenous foods into the American food system.
Sherman, an Oglala Lakota tribal member with an unassuming demeanor, a soft smile, and a signature long braid hanging down his back, has endeavored to revitalize Native American food traditions since 2014, when he founded The Sioux Chef, a catering and educational enterprise. His focus is on “decolonized” food—made without Eurocentric ingredients such as beef, pork, chicken, dairy, wheat flour, and cane sugar—most notably at his acclaimed Minneapolis restaurant, Owamni.
Sherman still cooks at his restaurant, but these days, he has his sights set on

Sean Sherman Expands His Vision for Decolonizing US Food | Civil Eats

The Sioux chef, known for celebrating and restoring pre-colonial foodways, launches two new Indigenous food ventures.

^{Kate Nelson (Civil Eats)}

#indigenous

Rent control goes a long way to solving the housing crisis

Imposed from above during an economic emergency, rent control played a significant role both in curbing out-of-control inflation and solving the housing crisis Canada was experiencing at the time.

^{canadiandimension.com}

#Canada

Don't give up, skeleton! Bone ahead!

#memes

I still miss my grandpa every day.

#memes

HP OmniBook 5 is a slim laptop with Snapdragon X, OLED display and $799 starting price

The HP OmniBook 5 14 is a laptop with a 14 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel OLED display, support for up to 32GB of LPDDR5X-8448 onboard memory, and an M.2 slot for user-replaceable PCIe Gen 4 storage. And the OmniBook 5 16 is a 16 inch model with similar specs, but a larger display.

#hp #hpOmnibook5 #hpOmnibook514 #hpOmnibook516 #omnibook5 #snapdragonX #snapdragonXPlus

HP OmniBook 5 is a slim laptop with Snapdragon X, OLED display and $799 starting price - Liliputing

^{Brad Linder (Liliputing)}

#hp #snapdragonx #hpOmnibook5 #hpOmnibook514 #hpOmnibook516 #omnibook5 #snapdragonXPlus

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Can #linux run on this #SnapdragonX ?

#linux #snapdragonx

BlueMonday1984 via TechTakes

2 months ago • •

BlueMonday1984
2 months ago • •

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th May 2025

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a whil

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

BlueMonday1984

2025-05-04 23:00:08

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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YourNetworkIsHaunted

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Think about it. What have they been pushing AI abilities in? Planning, strategizing, research, analyzing information, etc. What do they keep screwing up? Execution. Details. Accurately imitating a real human being. Now what kind of job are those skills and weaknesses suited for?

I think the implications are clear.

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Rachel Greenham

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probably the reason they think anyone's jobs can be replace by LLMs is that in their hearts they know theirs can, and that's after a lifetime of thinking they're the smartest people in the room.

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julian via General Discussion

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julian
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Who Broke the Internet?

Today I'm listening to [em]Who Broke the Internet?[/em], a four-part series by [url=https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic]@pluralistic@mamot.fr[/url] on CBC's [em]Understood[/em] podcast. [quote]Google Search was the gold standard — a product born in a dorm room

Today I'm listening to Who Broke the Internet?, a four-part series by pluralistic@mamot.fr on CBC's Understood podcast.

> Google Search was the gold standard — a product born in a dorm room during the internet’s early, idealistic era. But when internal emails surfaced they revealed a deeper conflict inside the company: was Google making Search worse, on purpose, to boost ad revenue? Google says its changes are all about benefiting users. Critics say it’s all part of a bigger pattern — one that host Cory Doctorow calls enshittification: the slow, deliberate decay of platforms in the name of profit.

Have you noticed internet search has become next to useless? It's like the arms-race between search and spam is ramping up, and not in a good way. Cory lays out the foundation that it isn't that simple, and that the degradation of search was brought on internally.

Check it out here or wherever you get your podcasts!

BlueMonday1984 via TechTakes

2 months ago • •

BlueMonday1984
2 months ago • •

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a whil

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

BlueMonday1984

2025-04-27 23:05:12

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025

Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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BlueMonday1984

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Ran across a Bluesky thread which caught my attention - its nothing major, its just about how gen-AI painted one rando's views of the droids of Star Wars:

Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up
Threepio: Sir, the odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field are 3720 to one!
Han Solo (knowing that Threepio just pulls these numbers out of Reddit memes about Emperor Palpatine's odds of getting laid): SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!!
"Why do the heroes of Star Wars never do anything to help the droids? They're clearly sentient, living things, yet they're treated as slaves!" Thanks for doing propaganda for Big Droid, you credulous ass!

With that out the way, here's my personal sidenote:

There's already been

Ran across a Bluesky thread which caught my attention - its nothing major, its just about how gen-AI painted one rando's views of the droids of Star Wars:

Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up
Threepio: Sir, the odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field are 3720 to one!
Han Solo (knowing that Threepio just pulls these numbers out of Reddit memes about Emperor Palpatine's odds of getting laid): SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!!
"Why do the heroes of Star Wars never do anything to help the droids? They're clearly sentient, living things, yet they're treated as slaves!" Thanks for doing propaganda for Big Droid, you credulous ass!

With that out the way, here's my personal sidenote:

There's already been plenty of ink spilled on the myriad effects AI will have on society, but it seems one of the more subtle effects will be on the fiction we write and consume.

Right off the bat, one thing I'm anticipating (which I've already talked about before) is that AI will see a sharp decline in usage as a plot device - whatever sci-fi pizzazz AI had as a concept is thoroughly gone at this point, replaced with the same all-consuming cringe that surrounds NFTs and the metaverse, two other failed technologies turned pop-cultural punchlines.

If there are any attempts at using "superintelligent AI" as a plot point, I expect they'll be lambasted for shattering willing suspension of disbelief, at least for a while. If AI appears at all, my money's on it being presented as an annoyance/inconvenience (as someone else has predicted).

Another thing I expect is audiences becoming a lot less receptive towards AI in general - any notion that AI behaves like a human, let alone thinks like one, has been thoroughly undermined by the hallucination-ridden LLMs powering this bubble, and thanks to said bubble's wide-spread harms (environmental damage, widespread theft, AI slop, misinformation, etcetera) any notion of AI being value-neutral as a tech/concept has been equally undermined.

With both of those in mind, I expect any positive depiction of AI is gonna face some backlash, at least for a good while.

(As a semi-related aside, I found a couple of people openly siding with the Mos Eisley Cantina owner who refused to serve R2 and 3PO [Exhibit A, Exhibit B])

Deceptichum via memes

2 months ago • •

Deceptichum
2 months ago • •

the glass is 2025-02-01 full

#memes

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cm0002 via science

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cm0002
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US doctors rewrite DNA of infant with severe genetic disorder in medical first

Doctors in the US have become the first to treat a baby with a customised gene-editing therapy after diagnosing the child with a severe genetic disorder that kills about half of those affected in early infancy.
KJ was born with severe CPS1 deficiency, a condition that affects only one in 1.3 million people. Those affected lack a liver enzyme that converts ammonia, from the natural breakdown of proteins in the body, into urea so it can be excreted in urine. This causes a build-up of ammonia that can damage the liver and other organs, such as the brain.
Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, the doctors described the painstaking process of identifying the specific mutations behind KJ’s disorder, designing a gene-editing therapy to correct them, and testing the treatment and fatty nanoparticles needed to carry it into the liver. The therapy uses a powerful procedure called base editing which can rewrite the DNA code one letter at a time.

US doctors rewrite DNA of infant with severe genetic disorder in medical first

Gene-editing breakthrough has potential to treat array of devastating genetic diseases soon after birth, scientists say

^{Ian Sample (The Guardian)}

#science

BeBopALouie via Canada

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BeBopALouie
2 months ago • •

In case you need even more reasons to not visit US

As every day goes by it gets even scarier going to the states. I know I won’t be going in my lifetime.

Canadians may soon have to go through 'facial biometrics' at U.S. land border

We asked U.S. border control about future plans.

^{Irish Mae Silvestre (Daily Hive)}

#Canada

cm0002 via United States | News & Politics

2 months ago • •

cm0002
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Trump Family Pulled in Over $2 Billion in Past Month Through Stock Surge, Crypto, Real Estate, and Exclusive DC Club

archive.ph/qcY45

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/briefing/trump-family-business.html

#usa

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xs4me2

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#grifters

inclementimmigrant via politics

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inclementimmigrant
2 months ago • •

House Republicans unveil Medicaid cuts in Trump's big bill

https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-cuts-trump-tax-cuts-bill-1e2b12a91a3d12ceb0420ce7053de58e

#politics

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LillyPip

in reply to inclementimmigrant • 2 months ago • •

Just so these dipshits know, I’m already feeling the cuts to Medicare/Medicaid staffing and services.

I live in the US and rely on Medicare because I’m fully disabled, to the point of being homebound.

Apparently the division that deals with remote visiting technology has been cut, so they can’t legally fill my prescriptions anymore unless I physically travel nearly an hour to their office every 3 months to remain eligible, and my doctor can’t legally renew medications that I’ve been on for 20 years. Within a couple of months I’ll have to stop taking all of my long term maintenance meds because I cannot travel to their office.

This will remove all my quality of life and will kill me slowly. I don’t want to die slowly of neglect, so I’ve got a decision to make, and I’m putting it off because I really don’t want to die yet.

I don’t know what to say except I have a name. I’m Lilly Piper. I’m a very good user experience designer, a pretty good writer, and decent friend.

We’

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Kevin LaRose, 8647

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@gwaldby No sugar coating here. These are evil people. Pure evil. I’ve never been one to believe the worst of people, but I can’t conclude anything based on the actions of this regime other than they want to kill people. They want to eliminate the weakest, most vulnerable people in our society. And people voted for this. I’m done giving people a pass. If they didn’t know they should have had some bloody idea, and if they chose to ignore it because they wanted lower prices or anything but an evil baby killer or black woman or whatever, this is all on them. I feel like the white hot rage I’m feeling is probably shortening my life, but what’s the point? If I’m stuck in that hell hole I’ll ultimately won’t have quality of life anyway. Best of everything to you. You are in my thoughts, for what it’s worth, which I know isn’t much.

@GailWaldby@bsky.social❌👑

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Ioughttamow

in reply to inclementimmigrant • 2 months ago • •

It’s not death panels, it’s the market telling you to die

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floofloof

in reply to Ioughttamow • 2 months ago • •

Yay freedom!

Keep an eye on RFK Jr. though. He seems like the death-panel eugenicist type.

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disguy_ovahea

in reply to floofloof • 2 months ago • •

He’s already appointed his first eugenicist. David Geier is who RFK is having conduct the ‘study’ on Autism. He and his father previously experimented on autistic children in his basement by giving them Lupron injections, which cause chemical castration. He was prosecuted in Maryland for practicing medicine without a license, and his father had his medical license revoked in the process.

RFK said he was going to identify and eliminate the cause of autism. The cause of autism is DNA.

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MicroWave via News

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Man checks out 100 books from Beachwood Library, then burns them in social media post

Summary

A man checked out 100 books from Beachwood Library in Beachwood, Ohio, covering Jewish history, African-American history, and LGBTQ topics, and later posted social media videos showing the books with captions referencing “cleansing” libraries before burning them.

Princeton University’s Bridging Divides Initiative alerted the library about the posts.

The books were worth about $1,700. Since they are not overdue, the library will bill the man later.

Police say the matter is civil unless he fails to pay. He is now banned from returning to the library.

Man checks out 100 books from Beachwood Library, then burns them in social media post

A man applied for a card from the Beachwood Library and, over two visits, withdrew 100 books. He later posted two videos, one in which he burned all of the books.

^{Jeff Piorkowski/special to cleveland.com (cleveland)}

#news

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cm0002 via Privacy

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cm0002
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In São Paulo, ‘Big Brother’ is watching, with 25,000 cameras and facial recognition technology

Using artificial intelligence, a vast municipal video surveillance network scans the faces of passersby day and night, hunting for fugitives and criminals

^{Naiara Galarraga Gortázar (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)}

#privacy

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via China, 中国

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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Google Maps view, same zoom level shows the difference in infrastructure as seen "from space" between USA and China

#china

dwazou via Canada

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dwazou
2 months ago • •

US Intelligence may have launched a social media information war to break Canada. Some Youtube videos are suddenly flooded with comments like this.

cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-ann…

Perhaps I'm just paranoid.

#Canada

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solarbird via Solarbird{y|z|yz}, Collected

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solarbird
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threatening the supreme court

Miller’s out there again threatening the courts with a suspension of habeas corpus if they don’t rule the way the fascists want. Explicitly. In words.

They’re threatening to start arresting anyone and everyone they want, at will, with absolutely no legal recourse for anyone. That’s what “suspending habeas corpus” means. Habeas corpus is the right to challenge an imprisonment through law, through the courts – it means you have to have a reason to arrest someone and it has to be valid, and people can demand you demonstrate that it’s valid or otherwise release that person.

Most people are quoting the “looking at” part, but I want to highlight two other phrases. First, I want to point at the monstrous cur calling this fundamental right of the Constitution a “privilege”:

“…the privilege of the writ of habeas co

threatening the supreme court

Miller’s out there again threatening the courts with a suspension of habeas corpus if they don’t rule the way the fascists want. Explicitly. In words.

“…the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended…”

Habeas corpus is a fundamental right, not a goddamn privilege, you solipsistic ghoul, and you know it but you don’t care. It predates the Constitution; hell, it predates the Magna Carta. What he’s doing here is telling the MAGAt base what to say and how to react, saying that it’s not a right, it’s some kind of bonus which can be taken away.

And that’s horseshit. If you don’t have the right to contest your own imprisonment, if you can be imprisoned by them at will, thrown overseas or into some dark hole to die with absolutely no recourse, then you have no rights at all, and that’s what they’re going for. You: no rights. Them: absolute power. That’s the intent.

Now, to the threat:

“[suspending habeas corpus] depends upon whether the courts do the right thing or not.”

If the courts don’t let them do whatever they want, they’ll throw out the most fundamental right that can exist – the right not to be arbitrarily imprisoned without recourse.

The right not to be disappeared.

The right to exist at all.

For anyone.

That’s what he wants to take away. That’s what they want to take away.

This alone should be cause for impeachment, conviction, and removal.

That it’s not is a complete condemnation, by their own hands, of the Republican Party.

If you’re not getting out there on the streets, why the hell not? Here are some places to look for protests near you:

Tesla Takedown – this is a big weekend for anti-Musk protests at Tesla dealerships. Find yours. Get out there.
Indivisible – this is a bigger list with a more general focus. Find something near you. Get out there.
No Kings – June 14th. Put it on your calendar now. Be there.

The more effective we are, the more of us there are, the more radical and scary they’ll get up to the point where they piss off enough people that they get taken down. But we have to keep building, and we have to keep getting out there, and dragging as many people out there with us as we can if we ever want to reach that point.

It’s been said a bunch, but the rubber has hit the road, and if you’ve ever wondered what you would do in the 1930s, you’re finding out now, because it’s what you’re doing right now.

Make it the right thing.

Get out there, team. And stay out there. If we want to keep a republic, we have to get this done.

#fascism #politics #uspol #uspolitics

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#uspolitics #uspol #politics #fascism

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Five via Science

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Five
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Proximity to Golf Courses and Risk of Parkinson Disease

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2833716

#science

Protestation via Communism

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Protestation
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Protestation

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Picture Of The Day

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#bwphotography #bwportrait #bwfineart #bwart #femaleform #bodyart #blackandwhite #monochromeart #cloudflareFree #notMyImage #Model #Beauty #Aesthetic #NaturalBeauty #photography #fineart #artwork #art #potd2025 #potd #pictureoftheday #art #artwork

Sunshine (she/her) via Buy European

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Sunshine (she/her)
2 months ago • •

I wish more would appreciate Mastodon

Elmo "European institutions" snorts crack "BlueSky" instead of eating fruit "Mastodon instances hosted in europe"

#buyeuropean

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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

in reply to Sunshine (she/her) • 2 months ago • •

The EU commission is on mastodon though, over at @EUCommission

@liiwi

@European Commission @Jaakko Niemi

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FediVariety

in reply to Emil Jacobs - Collectifission • 2 months ago • •

we are a team of activists and researchers exposing the limits and potentials around the entire EU Voice/Video story and pilot project. We plan to publish a report real soon. Stay tuned

nocturne via New Mexico

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nocturne
2 months ago • •

New Mexico to allow cyclists to roll through stop signs

Starting on July 1, people riding bicycles in New Mexico will be able to ride through stop signs without coming to a full stop, and stop at red traffic lights and continue even if the light hasn’t turned green — as long as it’s safe to do so.

That’s according to a new state law Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed on Friday.

Senate Bill 73 changes New Mexico’s traffic law to allow cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs, and to treat red traffic lights as stop signs and proceed if there are no other cars, cyclists or pedestrians.

New Mexico to allow cyclists to roll through stop signs • Source New Mexico

Starting on July 1, New Mexico will ease its traffic laws for people riding bicycles who reach a stop sign or a red light.

^{Source NM}

#newmexico

ickplant via Accidental Renaissance

2 months ago • •

ickplant
2 months ago • •

Firefighters saving a dog

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/29194509

#accidentalrenaissance

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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#AccidentalRenaissance

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rozlav via Accidental Renaissance

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rozlav
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Emily Feiner, social worker, physically dragged out of NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall Sunday night

cross-posted from: 50501.chat/post/188367

Originally Posted By u/pbeenard16046 At 2025-05-05 10:41:48 AM | Source

Emily Feiner, social worker, physically dragged out of NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall Sunday night - r/50501

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AnarchistArtificer

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What a badass, posing for the camera as she's taken out. Props to the photographer also for this excellent pic

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Meta Is Turning Its Ray-Bans Into a Surveillance Machine for AI

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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th May 2025

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
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s3p5r

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So it's not quite a sneer, but i could use some help from the collective sneer brainstrust. If you're willing to indulge me.

I work for one of those horrible places that is mainlining in its own AI koolaid as hard as it can. It has also begun doing layoffs, inspired in part by the "AI can do this now instead!" delusion. Now, I am in no way in love with my job nor the sociopaths I labor for, and it's clear to me the feeling is mutual, but I am cursed with the affliction of needing to eat and pay for housing. I am also at a significant structural disadvantage in the job market compared to others, which makes things more difficult.

In an executive's recent discussions with another company's senior executive, my complicated, unglamorous and hugely underestimated small tech niche was raised as one of the areas they've swapped out for AI "with great success". I happen to know this other company has no dedicated resource for my niche and therefore is unlikely to be verifying their swap actually works, but it will have the superficial appearance of working. I know they have no

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Case studies

Identify 3-5 common use cases for your niche, and ask them to walk you through how AI "did it."

If they can't, then their AI clearly isn't up to the job if it can't actually do the basics.

If they provide something, shoot it full of holes .

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