This week, we spoke to Prof. Shimon Schocken about teaching computer science from NAND logic gates to arithmetic units, micro assembly, virtual machines, compilers, operating systems, and the Tetris games among other things.
Join us on the show here: embedded.fm/episodes/496.
Here's Prof. Schocken on the importance of hardwork in getting to the depth of concepts:
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496: Beauty, Elegance, Consistency
Professor Shimon Schocken spoke with us about teaching computer science from NAND logic gates to arithmetic units, micro assembly, virtual machines, compilers, operating systems, and the Tetris games.Elecia White (Embedded)
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Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice
New Scientist has used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT records of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary, in what is believed to be a world-first use of such legislationChris Stokel-Walker (New Scientist)
The Government of Sweden announces a new USD 290 million artillery package to Ukraine, containing 18 artillery pieces of the Archer type plus counter artillery radars and money for the Ukrainian defence sector.
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: the Netherlands govt may be disintegrating as we toot (that would be great, although most Dutch voters have not resisted the propaganda spilled out over them - on the contrary - so I'm not sure that they've seen enough lunacy from the US).
Our PM Schoof was stabbed in his back (by three of the four political parties responsible for our current government) for promising that NL would contribute to the 800 M€ EU defense plan.
A tiny majority in the Dutch parliament now makes Schoof look like a fool.
For the first time in his life he told the parliament to GFY. The debate will continue tonight IIRC.
Dutch: nos.nl/artikel/2559357-crisiso… (Google translate, typically buggy: nos-nl.translate.goog/artikel/…)
We'll see...
#Schoof #Wilders #Eerdmans #PVV #BBB #NSC #Ja21 #GFY
Crisisoverleg over EU-defensieplan duurt voort, Schoof wil wens Kamer niet uitvoeren
De premier houdt crisisberaad met de coalitiepartijen PVV, VVD, NSC en BBB omdat drie partijen hem niet steunen over Europees defensiebeleid.NOS Nieuws
This.
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A GOP lawmaker called Sarah McBride ‘Mr.’ She called him ‘Madam.’ Then, her colleague stepped in.
U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride used the same strategy her Democratic colleague used last month when a Republican misgendered her.Aliya Schneider (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
We're still a ways off from the conversational AI "partner" teased last year.
arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/03…
Microsoft’s new AI “Copilot for Gaming” struggles to justify its existence
We’re still a ways off from the conversational AI “partner” teased last year.Kyle Orland (Ars Technica)
I excavated some old Spotify playlists and am re-finding everything on Bandcamp.
Here's some Norwegian instrumental dark folk for you. It's shockingly beautiful.
Vàli - Forlatt
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Hacking a Rotary Phone
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Hacking A Rotary Phone
[Yaymukund] made an interesting observation. Old-style rotary phones were made to last and made for service. Why? Because you didn’t own them, the phone company did. There was no advantage fo…Hackaday
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@crowbriarhexe @spinach Although I'm all for de-branding *anything*, y'all know these are made by Lenovo, a Chinese company, right?
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Alan, you get a follow for low-key hating on America (as an American, I'm hating on us too) and for apologizing, and being kind/Canadian in both efforts. Cheers.
We could have elected our first female president. We could have had nice things. Instead we apparently wanted Putin's Agent Orange in charge again.
Gods help us.
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@dicenbuttons I don't think many people thought it through to the Russian asset point. I think it was mostly sexism, then racism (both toward Harris and the whole "immigrant" thing), and then gullibility to propaganda and misinformation.
I'm fine with Americans as people. Hell I'm even related to some of them. But if anyone supports the idea that the US should annex us, they can expect big trouble in response.
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(Update: This is not a blasphemy mod. It was a product sold by SiliconGraphics in Germany. There is even a spec sheet for the Espressigo. Ask google if you don't believe me)
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#Retrocomputing meets #CoffeeSnob !
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Nvidia Says It Shipped Twice as Many RTX 5000 GPUs Than 4000, But There's a Catch
A closer look at Nvidia's statement suggests supplies for the GeForce RTX 5000 series aren't great. 'Partners are working overtime to...catch up with demand,' the company says.Michael Kan (PCMag)
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Egg Companies Assure Customers Dozen Has Always Meant 9
JACKSON, MS—Seeking to assuage consumer concerns about dwindling supplies, the nation’s egg companies reportedly assured shoppers this week that a dozen has always meant nine.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
Widersprüche, die die Zukunft unserer Kinder riskieren: Die Union hält an einer Politik fest, die das Morgen nicht mitdenkt. Nicht mit uns: Wir messen Politik an der Realität. Und die lautet: Klimakrise bekämpfen, Klimaschutz schaffen, Menschenleben schützen!
#Merz #Schuldenbremse #Politik #Bundestag #Klimaschutz
When music provokes utter silence
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"In his own twisted way, Donald Trump has become a unifying figure. He’s more politically divisive than ever, but his outright attacks on liberal democracy everywhere have managed to rally America’s traditional allies against a common threat — one he sees when he looks in the mirror."
~ Stephen Robinson
#Trump #authoritarianism #Canada #Mexico #Europe #NATO #Putin #democracy
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Trump has united the free world against a grave threat
It's coming from inside the White House.Stephen Robinson (Public Notice)
“Trump and Musk are engaged in a broad-based downsizing of government, using that downsizing to selectively target their enemies, while expanding their political power by trading exceptions to the downsizing.”
~ Don Moynihan
#Musk #Trump #authoritarianism #FederalGovernment #Europe #NATO #Putin #power
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Trump and Musk are building a new spoils system
When ideological targeting becomes cronyismDon Moynihan (Can We Still Govern?)
"It's not the sort of old empire style of 20th century dictatorship. It is transnational organized crime mixed with technology."
~ Sarah Kendzior
#Musk #Trump #authoritarianism #FederalGovernment #Europe #NATO #Putin #power #broligarchy #crime
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How The Broligarchy Conquered America: An Interview With Sarah Kendzior
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""In 2025 the Republicans in charge of the United States of America are not the conservatives they call themselves; they are the dangerous ideological radicals [Edmund] Burke feared. They are abruptly dismantling a government that has kept the United States relatively prosperous, secure, and healthy for the past 80 years."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Musk #Trump #authoritarianism #FederalGovernment #Europe #NATO #Putin #power
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Trump’s 25% tariffs on all aluminum and steel imported into the U.S.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
Laurie Winer cites history to insist that "MAGA will continue to believe what the leader says up until the very brink of disaster":
In the summer of 1939, three months after Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, Robert Jamieson, a British English teacher living in Essen, wrote to Lord Londonderry, who had recently acted as a go-between British and Nazi leaders:"
#Musk #Trump #authoritarianism #MAGA
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting Catastrophe
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Ms. Jade's "Big Head" is also excellent work.
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Ms. Jade - Big Head
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Regal Portraits Evoke Myth and Power in Simone Elizabeth Saunders’ Hand-Tufted Textiles
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Regal Portraits Evoke Myth and Power in Simone Elizabeth Saunders' Hand-Tufted Textiles — Colossal
Simone Saunders' hand-tufted portraits merge cultural narratives and history with mythology, nostalgia, identity, and personal experiences.Kate Mothes (Colossal)
Joe Pyne: America's first angry talk show host
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Drivers and kernel-level software can't be translated automatically by Windows.
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Epic Games is addressing one of Windows-on-Arm’s last big app compatibility gaps
Drivers and kernel-level software can’t be translated automatically by Windows.Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)
Can the Trump administration legally deport Palestinian rights advocate Mahmoud Khalil? 3 things to know about green card holders’ rights
Lawful permanent residents hold many of the same rights that US citizens have, but the government can deport them on certain, often vague, security grounds.The Conversation
A dire warning for everyone in the “LGB” part who thought they could keep themselves safe from the fash by throwing “TQIA+” under the bus:
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
And if you’re none of the above, if you thought that is an LGB-specific warning and not addressed to •you•, I promise you, whatever •your• letter is, they’re coming for yours sooner than you think. Stop them now or pay later.
Republican state lawmakers galvanize to attack same-sex marriage
The recent wave of GOP-led bills comes as Trump becomes emboldened in orders against LGBTQ+ communitiesMaya Yang (The Guardian)
this is one reason the term should always have been “queer” — the alphabet soup of LGB…+ aspires to be inclusive and comforting but mostly only divides
yes, some people are discomfited by “queer” but its history as a slur actually helps make the point that it’s not any one specific difference that marks you as a target for bullying: bullies will fix on **any** difference as a target for their disgust and fear and hate
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I'm sympathetic to that argument in many ways — I'm a programmer and a mathematician, and I like to handle things in the general case! — but in the past 10 years or so, I've really come around to the importance of •individually naming• each marginalized subgroup.
BLM activists in particular taught me about this. The danger of using an umbrella term is the “All Lives Matter” pitfall: a term that •theoretically• should include everyone ends up •in practice• only including people culturally regarded as the neutral default. And such terms don't challenge anyone whose thinking dwells in that default: someone who doesn’t really think of Black people at all when they hear “all lives,” or doesn’t think of transgender people when they hear “queer.”
@possibledog
So, yes, I personally like the term “queer” in the broadly inclusive bell hooks sense of capturing a wide spectrum of gender-related experiences that may not even have a good name yet — but I •also• appreciate the specific enumeration of identities in “LGBTQIA+,” even if that enumeration is sort of laborious.
My brother, a math teacher, often talks with his students about the importance of examples, counterexamples, and non-examples. It's not enough just to have a theorem, even if you have a proof! Mathematicians think about specific cases, and ground their thinking in them even when they've found suitable generalizations (or •think• they have; cf Fourier’s heat equation blowing up calculus and forcing the development of Real Analysis). A similar principle applies here.
I agree that the alphabet-soup enumeration is useful, but my point is that as a popular term its disadvantages outweigh its advantages. It just sounds elite and effete and academic and pompous and silly, and it's way too hard to deploy in political arguments.
"We're here, we're ell gee bee tee queue eye eh plus, get used to it!" just doesn't have that same ring, now, does it? 😉
Not that it matters, it's too late now; this is just an academic argument about academic terms. Nice chatting with you.
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Yeah, “LGBTQIA+” clearly is not good chant material. The detailed enumeration has its place; so do the catchy single words. Many important tools in the kit!
Nice chatting with you too.
Something that makes fascism a particularly pernicious form of authoritarianism is that it doesn’t just need the population crushed and subservient; it needs to •keep actively destroying• whole subsets of the population in order to stay alive.
Fascism is a fire. Its fuel is the othering of minority groups; its oxygen is fear. It will keep finding — creating, if necessary — more and more “others,” without limit. Unless you cut off that oxygen or that fuel, it will keep on burning until there’s nobody left.
HEREs THE THING, centuries old alarm bells came to a head in 2024:
1. the attacks on the 1st Black woman president of Harvard
2. the attacks on students protesting genocide
3. the state-sponsored murder of WHITE WOMEN in need of abortions
but what distinguishes these attacks on trans folks is that #techbros & #MAGA are saying TRANS WHITE CHILDREN DESERVE TO DIE, not to transition into healthy, out and proud lives.
Musk wants his trans daugter dead.
scream that from the rooftops
13 March 1913 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Henriette Roode, was born in Onstwedde.
In November 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
I read that Meta/Facebook was took legal action to halt the promotion of "Careless People", the recently released tell-all memoire from whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams.
So I did the logical thing and purchased a copy from Bookshop.org. I sure Zuck would hate it if others did the same thing.
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31 separate actions roll back restrictions on air and water pollution.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.The New Republic
Trump before the election: “On day one, I will lower grocery prices”
Trump now (attached): “… the U.S. will shortly place a 200% Tariff on all WINES, CHAMPAGNES, & ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS …”
Let him do it — the US voters will soon realize, living in a Trump economy where everything is tariffed to death, will only crash the US economy.
31 separate actions roll back restrictions on air and water pollution.
arstechnica.com/uncategorized/…
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EPA administrator Zeldin says it is necessary "to protect consumer choice."
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The EPA is scrapping fuel economy regs, claiming it will bring back US jobs
EPA administrator Zeldin says it is necessary “to protect consumer choice.”…Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
Finland and Ukraine have signed a bilateral defense cooperation agreement. Finland's defense ministry said it would give a new military aid package to Ukraine, worth around 200 million euros ($217.48 million), including artillery ammunition to help in the war with Russia.
Finnish Minister of the Interior Mari Rantanen visited Kyiv.
The visit continued the dialogue on cooperation and exchange of experience within the framework of the signed agreement on security cooperation
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If your source material is online and public, and your story unearths something deeper about our planet, we'd love to hear from you.Claire Press (bellingcat)
Hello EU people:
There is an EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" on LGBTQ+ folks (i.e., trying to de-LGBTQ us— a process often described as "torture"). If you're interested, you can sign it here:
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
Please especially take note if you are a national of Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, or the Netherlands; the petition needs about 5x as many votes as it has now, but also needs to hit a threshold in four additional countries, and those are the four closest.
In the time since I linked the petition* above, Ireland has gone from under 50% to above the threshold! Spain is also now getting very close.
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The petition is up overall 26,000 votes in the last ten days. I don't know whether it can hit a million by May, but turning more countries green definitely sounds viable.
* The petition asks the EU to ban pseudo-psychological practices purporting to "convert" gay and trans people to straights. Yes, that's a thing, and it's cruel.
I think other countries should follow what Ireland has done, we were spamming the petition on the #MastoDaoine hashtag and on BSky the #SpéirGhorm hashtag and that saw us shoot up from like 45% to 100+%Hello EU people:
There is an EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" on LGBTQ+ folks (i.e., trying to de-LGBTQ us— a process often described as "torture"). If you're interested, you can sign it here:eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
Please especially take note if you are a national of Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, or the Netherlands; the petition needs about 5x as many votes as it has now, but also needs to hit a threshold in four additional countries, and those are the four closest.
EU citizens, if you want in while you can, there's a EU citizen's petition for the EU to ban "conversion therapy" (this is as ominous as it sounds) of LGBTQs, with 7 days left to sign.
It will not make the threshold, but might be able to rack up a few more country thresholds— I'm happy to note Spain just hit it. Belgium and The Netherlands are the next best bets as they're over 65%; If you know queer-friendly folks in those countries, maybe a good time to forward this:
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Britain proclaimed the legal non-existence of trans people in the last month with a court decision; in the US, Texas did so last night, with a bill passed in its House of Representatives. There is a global effort to unexist trans people. If nothing else, if the EU wants to show that it's different— that it's not a part of this— it seems like a pretty direct way to say so would be this citizen's initiative against attempting to unexist individual trans people via torture.
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EU citizens, if you want in while you can, there's a EU citizen's petition for the EU to ban "conversion therapy" (this is as ominous as it sounds) of LGBTQs, with 7 days left to sign.It will not make the threshold, but might be able to rack up a few more country thresholds— I'm happy to note Spain just hit it. Belgium and The Netherlands are the next best bets as they're over 65%; If you know queer-friendly folks in those countries, maybe a good time to forward this:
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
I've tried before to sign European petitions, never got it to work yet
Apropos of nothing, I read some real science about this stuff and there are over 40 biological sexes.
Reality doesn't get a voice.
I would but my Nationality is British and that excludes me even though I have left the sinking island and have lived in Europe for many years.
Stupid petitions.
I was reading the petition demands that are rightly detailed.
I started wondering whether "Provide a clear, precise and comprehensive definition of conversion practices, which shall cover all practices that seek to change [...] a person's [...] gender identity [...]" could be misinterpreted (wilfully, perhaps) by some as including voluntarily-chosen HRT for trans people that has a positive rather than negative psychological effect, unlike what this is combatting.
Okay big news on the EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" (IE "curing" or perhaps "torturing into submission") on LGBTQs—
BE, NL and SI came through and last night the initiative *met* the 7 countries goal! It needs 330,000 more signatures before the 17th to pass, which sounds rough, but it's got *420,887* in just 5 days, so things are actually on a good pace. This will at least be really close, and this could happen!
EU citizens can sign at: eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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By the way, since I know there's a lot of Germans on Mastodon:
The need right now on the EU citizen petition against anti-LGBTQ "conversion therapy" ( mastodon.social/@mcc/114512352… ) is raw votes from anywhere. BUT as it happens Germany's currently the closest %-wise to being the 8th country to endorse the petition!
15.5k DE votes would turn Germany green on this map, and send a pro-LGBTQ message to German lawmakers¹:
¹ DE already has a local law banning gay/trans conversion therapy against minors.
Okay big news on the EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" (IE "curing" or perhaps "torturing into submission") on LGBTQs—BE, NL and SI came through and last night the initiative *met* the 7 countries goal! It needs 330,000 more signatures before the 17th to pass, which sounds rough, but it's got *420,887* in just 5 days, so things are actually on a good pace. This will at least be really close, and this could happen!
EU citizens can sign at: eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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not-so-funny sidenote: there's a FI citizen petition for the same subject now in the parliament, but as we are saddled with at least one religious party in power, they're just stalling the handling. Why? Because they can.
And also because they are thoroughly foul people as well, but I guess that was obvious already.
You don't need to sign up for an account or anything.
It literally takes only a minute to enter your information so they can check if you're actually a real person.
I find this important to mention with these things.
Thank you. We quite like it. 💚
And we stand corrected. We were under the impression this is something which was only going on for a few weeks. Our pessimism got the better of us.
It is 7 AM CEST. The EU citizen initiative calling for a ban on "conversion therapy" (here meaning, pseudoscientific attempts to "cure" LGBTQs) is less than 250,000 votes from success. This is astounding, the votes have like, *tripled* in a week.
The page says voting ends "May 17", and I wish I knew if that meant "at midnight tonight" or "midnight tomorrow" or what. Uh. Do you know
Germany is ~6,000 local votes from endorsing it. Are there 6,000 Germans on this website
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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it's also important** to mention that this is an official EU website, they already have the data you have to give them to sign - it's not like it's some mid shadiness proxy petition site
**maybe lowering activation energy for signature
steadily increasing at a rate of 500 votes/minute, IF this keeps up, it'll be done in around 5h :o
Of course keeping it up requires everyone's support in shouting it from the rooftops
The process of signing it is a bit offensive, the EU wants to read your ID card…
I was also confused by the text, because it is so broad that the “or others” include the hormonal therapies for trans people, which are not pseudo-medicine, but they do alter the gender expression of these people (as desired).
Yeah it's maddening that the exact closing time is not posted on the website. In normal business, I would assume that "deadline 17 May" means: submit by 16 May 23:59. But I have seen some people post with apparent confidence that it's 17 May 23:59.
(CEST? CET? Le sigh.)
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Thomas Tanghus (@tanghus@freeradical.zone)
@thisismissem@hachyderm.io 821K, so close with one day leftFree Radical
Thank you for your help promoting!
Amazing, more than 900.000 signatures. Hundreds of thousands have signed this week.
EU citizens: IT REALLY TAKES ONE MINUTE TO SIGN. Just your name and your ID number. No registration, no electronic ID, nothing. DO IT NOW because the deadline is tomorrow.
OKAY WOW. WOW. THE WHOLE THING WHILE I WAS SLEEPING. WOW.
The EU citizen initiative petitioning the European Parliament to outlaw "conversion therapy" ("curing" LGBTs via torture) has met its threshold (1M votes and 8 countries supporting).
One week ago I sincerely thought y'all wouldn't make it. Amazing work Europe (and hi5 Germany, now country 8).
This is an incredible statement at a time the US/UK govt are forcing conversion (medical detransition) for trans minors.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
![Signatures collected online
1,018,657 of 1,000,000
[Map with eight countries highlighted green]](https://friendica.rogueproject.org/photo/preview/640/1619929 "Signatures collected online
1,018,657 of 1,000,000
[Map with eight countries highlighted green]")
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UPDATE: Nine. 9 countries. Sweden passed the threshold *while I was writing that last post*.
The "end of the collection period" is May 17 (so seven hours from now… plus 24 if the person who told me it's *EOD* May 17 is correct) so if you're an EU national you can still vote to run up the numbers and convince EU Parliament you're serious. Also:
- If 4,343 Italians sign, it's ten countries endorsing
- 5,308 Austrians makes it eleven
- 6,794 from Portugal makes it twelve
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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very few needed to get Denmark across the line too.
and France is only 400 signatures away from 1000%
ANOTHER UPDATE: About three minutes ago on the website, France literally hit 1000% support for the anti-"Conversion Therapy" initiative. France really showed up here, with ten times the threshold support FR is literally half the supporters on this initiative. Apparently the people of France really, REALLY don't want their trans friends medically tortured
(if this is a boost, see upthread for explanation)
let's hope It doesn't end in a petition or a "for 2050 we aim to have 20% less convertion therapy"
Still happy to see people wants us to be safe, makes me quite a bit less worried about losing my friends
slight amendment. The petition calls on the Commission to propose legislation, not the parliament.
And it is excellent news to see it reach the target.
I’m having a problem understanding your convoluted grammer.
Is it go for therapy or no go.
@ipd I'm sorry, there is a 500 character limit and it makes my text awkward…
The proposed law bans therapists from trying to turn LGBTQs into straights.
I like that law. Personal choice and autonomy. Is it passing or not, so far?
Spectrum plus you tube interruption with psyop ads == brain injury and diminished mental capacity today. Or you got any spare spoons?
... aaaaaand Italy made it.
Italy!
What's next? Poland?
Come on, Denmark, just 1800 votes to go!
(I can't remember /when/ I voted, just that back then, I saw no chance in hell of this ever getting the necessary support. Wow.)
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@maccuinneagain Isn't this just how the EU works?
"The Commission is the only EU institution empowered to initiate EU legal acts. It submits proposals for EU legal acts on its own initiative, at the request of other EU institutions or following a citizens' initiative."
I just wanted to say that I woke up today and saw this post (8am CEST). I thought: "well that's a cool initiative. I guess I'll sign this. Also gonna tell my (50% queer) friend group and family about this, but let's face it: 200.000 Signatures in less than a day? Not gonna happen."
And now, we're not that far from hitting TWICE AS MUCH signatures. This kind of made my day.
There are ~7 hours left in the EU citizens initiative ( eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/… ) asking the EU parliament to ban "conversion therapy" (pseudo-medical efforts to "cure" queers). It's at 1.2 million votes over 1 million; surplus votes are good because some votes may be disqualified, so EU nationals, it's still worth voting!
One thing I notice, it looks like DENMARK and CROATIA are *so* close to passing— under 1000 votes each. Does anyone here know how to inject a message in the Danish internet?
I gave it a shot: mastodon.online/@atjn/11452402…
Seems like the Danish channels are already flooded with posts about it, maybe there arent enough danes on Mastodon yet?
Anton 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@atjn@mastodon.online)
Hvis du synes at det skal være ulovligt at torturere transkønnede i EU, så skynd dig ind og stem her: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home Vi mangler kun 1.Mastodon
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It's a minor nitpick in the grand scheme of things, but WTF does he even think he means by "digital" in this phrase?
It's just like how "cyber" became a nothing word, so help me.