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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
xssfox@cloudisland.nz ("1.3.6.1.4.1.61513") wrote:

I was using mastodon before it was cool.

Narrator: that's currently.

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
eco-g@stroud.social ("Cllr Gareth Kitchen") wrote:

The fact that police facial recognition technology has been put on our streets and expanded repeatedly over nearly ten years - by two Governments - without a single piece of specific legislation being voted on by MPs is utterly outrageous and sinister. - Sian Berry MP - Green Party

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/31/met-police-to-more-than-double-use-of-live-facial-recognition

#ukpol #GreenParty #police

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Me and @uoou chat about some of the stuff we're working on, and window managers.

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/uX6pBUPeJs1UVV4p4pAN4L

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

I'm your (not so) private dancer 🔞

Spotify users in the UK have to verify their age to listen to Parental Advisory music due to the Online Safety Act.

We're being infantalised for something that's already manageable by parental controls.

It could even end up in accounts being deactivated 🤯

Bad law makes for bad, incoherent outcomes. That's the #OSA for you.

https://www.404media.co/spotify-uk-age-check-verification-yoti/

#OnlineSafetyAct #ageverification #agegate #ukpol #ukpolitics #spotify #privacy #onlinesafety #censorship

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

The UK Online Safety Act has erected an age wall through the Internet.

UK users are forced to accept censorship or hand over sensitive data to unregulated providers.

The government’s response? You’re a predator 🤨

Enough. Tell your MP to fix it now ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working

#OnlineSafetyAct #OnlineSafety #privacy #OSA #ageverification #agegate #ukpolitics #ukpol #censorship #spotify #reddit

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Boosted by jwz:
schwa ("Jonathan Wight") wrote:

My new favourite metal shader…

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brianvastag@mas.to ("Brian Vastag") wrote:

BitTorrent never asks for age verification.

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jwz wrote:

Motherfucking Wind Farms.

Samuel L. Jackson is a treasure. And every copy of this video hosted elsewhere bleeps it, because we live in a world of cowards.
https://jwz.org/b/yksB

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jwz wrote:

Atomic Keyboard.

Someone's doing a Kickstarter to replicate the Macrodata Refinement Keyboard: Looks like it will start at $600.
https://jwz.org/b/yksL

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I don'y know which title I like better: Gravy SEALs, or Meal Team 6

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange ("Lesley Carhart :unverified:") wrote:

Dragos just opened 21 positions in Australia, UK, and US/Canada. Not my team, not the hiring manager, but there is an array of roles https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dragos

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SethRudy@c18.masto.host ("Saethelred the Unsteady") wrote:

The Gravy SEALs are now the Waffle-SS

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Yasha Tarr") wrote:

You are moving some things around in your house, you find a small door that is screwed shut. You unscrew it, and there is a small winding staircase that goes up, but you can't see where. It doesn't go to your attic, as far as you can tell. Do you go up the stairs or do you screw that door back closed?

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jwz wrote:

ICE Arrests Carpenter Named Jesus, Church Community Fights for His Release.

Not The Onion: Jesus Teran, a Venezuelan immigrant and civil engineer working as a carpenter in Imperial, Pennsylvania, was reportedly detained by ICE on July 8 after a...
https://jwz.org/b/yksI

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

This article may upset some of my readers on the left, but remember, as a human rights lawyer my standard is not political convenience, but absolute justice.

In America today, Islamophobia isn’t just a Republican disease—it’s a bipartisan epidemic. And if we are serious about justice, we must be serious about calling out both the open bigotry and the insidious hypocrisy—no matter its source.
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/islamophobia-is-a-bipartisan-scourgeand

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
PBSNewsHour@flipboard.com ("PBS News") wrote:

Trump’s ‘censorship and control’ campaign threatens press freedom, FCC commissioner says
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trumps-censorship-and-control-campaign-threatens-press-freedom-fcc-commissioner-says?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-PBSNewsHour

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

We’re very grateful for the tens of thousands of you who joined tonight’s One Million Rising training. This is the organized people power that can slow down, stop, and ultimately defeat Trump’s authoritarian takeover. If you missed it, check out the replay: https://youtube.com/live/yqhFZjHIz-o

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
accentedcinema@masto.ai ("Accented Cinema") wrote:

In our last video, I said navigating Chongqing is like being trapped inside a dream. This video shows exactly what I meant.

(Sources is hughchonqing from TikTok, I think)

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
weirdestate@eigenmagic.net ("Weird Estate") wrote:

Here is a user submission!
This is one of those listings that is so wild it was nearly impossible for me to pick only 3 images to share. I don't even have appropriate snark for this. I don't know where to begin.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/911-New-York-Ave-Lynn-Haven-FL-32444/42759272%5Fzpid/

A bathroom with pink tile and red hand prints on the wall, including smears made to look like blood. The bathroom is otherwise cheerful looking and it is extra incongruous.
A bedroom with black and red painted stripes up the walls and across the ceiling and the same stripes are on the floor. It kind of of looks like a goth circus tent. There are also creepy masks above the bed.
A room made to look like a cave, despite it not being a cave. The walls and ceiling are grey and very lumpy, with bits hanging down from the ceiling. There is also a tv, guitar, and a blue rug.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

No, Goddamnit, #BrokenTimes, he just *raised* the 2023 tariff on your phone, car, and washing machine from South Korea from 2.5% to 15%. That is a 500% TAX INCREASE. #TrumpTax #Trumpflation

South Korea deal: President Trump announced a trade deal with South Korea that would lower its tariff from 25 percent to 15 percent, mirroring the deal he struck with Japan last week. He also said South Korea would invest $350 billion in the United States.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de ("Codeberg.org") wrote:

Due to ongoing issues with SSH (many parallel connections resulting in useless timeouts during authentication prevented legitimate users from pushing), we have decided to enable rate-limiting on the SSH endpoint.

The likely response is "Connection reset by peer". If you are a heavy user of SSH, please adjust your usage accordingly or reach out in case you need more generous limits.

Thank you for understanding this step seems necessary currently.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:

Seems to me that if the GOP Senate approved a neo nazi on a party-line vote for director of the National Counterterrorism Center, they must be neo nazis themselves. Duh.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

It is a good reminder that a single person is enough to bring AI company Anthropic to its knees by using almost all GPUs? 🤣 I can’t imagine how much resources they are burning for glorified machines that spitting nonsense.

The X post by Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) reads: Some of the biggest Claude Code fans are running it continuously in the background, 24/7. These uses are remarkable and we want to enable them. But a few outlying cases are very costly to support. For example, one user consumed tens of thousands in model usage on a $200 plan

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

truth

https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou/114944746102509432

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

Any country that thinks a deal with Trump will last is a country that's going to be ripped off.

But they still do it, don't they? Bend the knee to a Child Rapist....

#Trump #Tariffs #SouthKorea

2imago 23578ST Trump announces trade deal to impose 15% tariffs on imports from South Korea, despite existing free trade agreement he signed Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he has agreed to a new trade deal with South Korea that will subject South Korean imports to a 15% tariff rate. South Korean importers will pay no tariffs on US goods they purchase. The new arrangement comes seven years after the president negotiated a slightly revised version of the existing US-Korea Free Trade Agreement, known as Korus, under which almost 95% of the goods traded between the two nations were free of tariffs. When that agreement was struck, Trump called the deal “fair and reciprocal” and praised it as a win for US auto- ‘makers, since South Korea agreed to phase out a 25% tariff on US-made trucks. Trump said that South Korea agreed to invest $350 billion in the United States and purchase $100 billion in U.S. energy products. Writing on his social media platform, Trump claimed that the new agreement meant that “South Korea will be completely OPEN TO TRADE with the United States, and that they will accept American product including Cars and Trucks, Agriculture, etc”

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises ("antimagic heart-sickness") wrote:

> This particular video was difficult to discern as AI in part because security camera footage is also famously the blurriest type of footage. The aesthetics of this particular video make it very difficult to tell that it’s AI at first glance, because we are used to looking at surveillance camera footage as being blurry and dark, which can hide some of the standard signs people look at when trying to determine if a video is AI generated. The background of the image is also static; newer AI video generators are getting pretty good at creating the foreground subject of a video, but the background often remains very surreal. In this video, that’s not the case because of the static nature of the background. Pretending to be nighttime security footage also helps to disguise the things AI is often bad at—accurate movement, correct blur and lighting, and fine details. Tagging “@Ring” was also pretty smart by the uploader, because it gives a plausible place for the video to come from.

https://www.404media.c...

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

There's an incredible amount of cope in my replies from people who claim that Google, Microsoft and Meta posting record revenues and profits due to AI is some kind of mirage and AI is actually losing them money.

This is some form of AI derangement syndrome. Wild to observe.

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Boosted by jwz:
ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:

The Onion wins again

A tweet by New York Times PR saying “We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below.” AB article by the Onion is responding saying “'New York Times' Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths. Published October 10, 2023”

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SouthDakota ("South Dakota Dep. Propaganda") wrote:

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Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The Waldorf-Astoria is perhaps New York's most prominent monument to jazz age luxury and glamor. It's been the traditional residence for US presidents and foreign heads of state when in town (the "presidential suite" was meant rather literally there).

Built over the below-grade railyard of Grand Central Terminal, the hotel was equipped with a private rail siding and platform where guests could park their personal railcars(!). (Andy Warhol once threw a party on the platform.)