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EugeneMcParland@mastodon.ie ("Eugene McParland 🇺🇦") wrote:
603,628 reasons to fight for that's the total area of #Ukraine in square kilometres.
Every single one matters.
Discover #WhatWeAreFightingFor through 26 powerful stories
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:
The only reason you assassinate every Al Jazeera journalist left in Gaza is because you don’t want anyone to document the genocide you are about to accelerate.
Any politician, Democrat or MAGA or Independent, any journalist, liberal or conservative, who cannot call this genocide for what it is, is complicit, and I hope history remembers you as such.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
nyquildotorg@gts.nyquil.org ("jer") wrote:
With everyone freaking out about how Microsoft is now saying the quiet part out loud re: GitHub being a repository that exists mainly so they can train Copilot on its contents, I think it's important to mention that Microsoft also owns NPM.
Mastodon Feedaral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
Were I not an atheist I’d get some comfort from knowing that this son of a bitch would spend eternity burning in hell. But because I am, I have to hope he gets his comeuppance in life instead. Him and everyone else who is complicit in this genocide. https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/115011330582603002
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I don't hold out much hope that it would actually keep me out of those meetings, but it would at least let me drop a link and say "let's schedule more time when you've had a chance to digest", which would be a big quality-of-life improvement.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
chrisjrn@social.coop ("Christopher Neugebauer") wrote:
I (and several other people I know) have observed that autism-spectrum people are more averse to LLMs than NT people.
It was pointed out to me that for NT programmers, LLMs turn a necessary intermediate step – structuring your thinking so it's suitable for writing code – into something that has "productive output". I can see how if you need to do that extra thinking, a tool that "helps" with it can be useful.
Likewise, it's hard to see the value in something that does work I don't need to do.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Note to self: write a blog post called "Solve Problems You Have" to avoid getting pulled into meetings to socratically pull apart the case for big piles of technology that arrive in omnibus fashion without so much as a "we're all moving to it" as justification.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
paka@mastodon.scot ("Mark") wrote:
#Glasgow neighbourhood where over 50 shops are boycotting Israel
The community is at centre of growing #Scottish movement to #BoycottIsrael amid its #genocide in #Gaza
Called #Apartheid Free Zones (AFZ) Scotland, an initiative launched by Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) that is looking to sign up shops, restaurants, businesses, community organisations & trade unions across #Scotland to commit to BDS practices
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25376985.glasgow-neighbourhood-50-shops-boycotting-israel/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:
I think this shows how @linuxfoundation is not necessarily on our side.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
We have bats living above our garage, but they're less obvious than all of our spiders. We haven't lifted the roof, though.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NewsBot@assortedflotsam.com ("World News Bot") wrote:
Norway wealth fund divests from several Israeli companies due to Gaza war https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/11/norway-wealth-fund-divests-stakes-in-several-israeli-companies?traffic%5Fsource=rss #News
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
koteisaev@mastodon.online ("Magical Cat") wrote:
@CursedSilicon @aral
// Big Tech surveillance capitalists like Google, Facebook, etc., are factory farms for human beings. And their tools are designed to make it possible to build and run similar factory farms. If that’s not what you want to do, you should ask yourself why you’re using their tools and building things the way they tell you to. //
This is quote from https://ar.al/2024/08/19/kitten-kawaii-porting-a-react-library-and-next-js-web-site-to-kitten/#fnref:5
by @aral
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
hamishtpb@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Hamish The PolarBear") wrote:
I keep telling people that hardware has barely changed for over a decade - they need to keep inventing "features" - especially on GPUs - to justify the upgrades. We reached a plateau way further back than any tech vendors will admit. Without switching on "features" or measuring stats like FPS hardly anyone in the mainstream would notice the difference. Microsoft, of course, are happy to help by creating a self-debilitating OS but I digress on that...
Great work as always and I love seeing someone younger than me be bad at games ;-p
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:
Interesting. Does anyone know how this turned out?
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-police-in-the-nazi-state
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lightfighter@infosec.exchange wrote:
@jsonstein The Stephen Miller combo.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss@burn.capital ("Democracy Now! Headlines RSS") wrote:
"This Is Orchestrated Killing": MSF Condemns GHF Aid Sites, Saying They Were Set Up to Be Death Traps
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
arrrg@kolektiva.social ("Charlie the Anti-Fascist Dog") wrote:
I will never forgive those who made this happen - never.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
arrrg@kolektiva.social ("Charlie the Anti-Fascist Dog") wrote:
if you don't weep watching this video i feel sad for you.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:
Hello my Mastodon friends,
I need your urgent help!
We haven't received any donations since Saturday. Your donations helps us to survive for longer time.
Please donate in the link in the bio and share with your friends
Thank you :underheart: 🇵🇸
Mastodon Feedaral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
I just had a video conversation on Signal with Nouran (@NouranKhaledGh) and her brother Yousef from Gaza.
Their family is one of countless ones in Palestine who are still alive but unsure of what tomorrow is going to bring. Last night was especially tough with Israel’s renewed bombing. Yousef told me that at least they are still in their own home and that if they’re ordered by Israel to evacuate again that they will not leave what little they have left. He told me “we will die here”.
Please don’t let Nouran, Yousef, and their family die.
We must keep protesting, keep pressuring our governments until they take definitive action to stop Israel’s genocide.
And also, please help Nouran and her family survive in the interim by donating to their campaign:
https://chuffed.org/project/121561-urgent-help-for-ahmads-family
Your donations help them buy food to eat as Israel continues to starve Gaza.
Even if you cannot help financially right now, please boost this to help spread the word.
Thank you!
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
wlaatje@social.edu.nl ("Wladimir Mufty") wrote:
The EU (still) wants to scan
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Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social ("Sarah Dal") wrote:
The UK may be about to lose access to Wikipedia as they've lost their High Court Challenge to OSA.
You can download Wikipedia by installing the @kiwix app https://kiwix.org/en/applications/
Then use https://library.kiwix.org/ to find Wikipedia, or any other interesting book. It will download a file (Wikipedia is 110gb) that you can then open in the Kiwix browser
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
For as long as I've been alive corporations have been predatory towards the poor and defenseless. The excuse from democrats has always been that they simply don't have the power to do anything.
So now that we know that's a lie, can we start holding Dems accountable?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
We are asking the wrong questions and learning the wrong lessons from Trump's presidency.
It's not- why are corporations so quick to bend the knee to Trump. It's why haven't the #democrats been able to wield the same power over corporations in fifty years that an idiot reality TV star has been able to do in 8 months?
https://www.theverge.com/news/737757/apple-president-donald-trump-ceo-tim-cook-glass-corning
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Well, there's a shock
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-rfk-mrna-vaccines-effective-76633aadedfad3bec9a77e524c7ce6f7#
Mastodon FeedBoosted by lloydmeta ("Lloyd"):
mreinhold ("Mark Reinhold") wrote:
First JDK 25 Release Candidate: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jdk-dev/2025-August/010296.html
Downloads: https://jdk.java.net/25/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
That he was dissatisfied with a metal plate that had been placed in his skull (to replace bone that had been removed due to a tumor), so he designed his own and:
"He soon underwent a second operation to replace the metal plate in his head with one of his own design"
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
I knew he was useless almost ten years ago. Give me a prize.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/11/hes-useless/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:
Your art history post for today: by Jules Bastien-Lepage (French, 1848-1884), Portrait de Sarah Bernhardt, 1879, oil on canvas, 17 1/8 x 13 5/8 in. (43.5 x 34.6 cm.), photo: Christie’s New York, 20 Oct 2022. #arthistory #portrait #portraitpainting #painting #oilpainting
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spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie ("Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives") wrote:
New one
