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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Geri@mastodon.online wrote:

Reports are coming in of serious incidents on the eastern side of Gaza City, with massive bombing raids being launched upon tented encampments

Palestinian journalists report that Israeli military forces have begun a wholesale massacre in the Al Sabra district of Gaza City overnight, continuously shelling homes and tents, flattening whole areas and murdering hundreds, of Palestinians and wiping out whole families.

There is a massacre taking place right now!

#Gaza

https://share.google/i9ZjAaw78JcbFZtIU

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
dallo@pouet.chapril.org wrote:

Cops not sure whether to arrest man with "Plasticine Action" shirt for supporting terrorism

From @IndustryStandard via https://lemmy.zip/post/46608027

#cops #acab #Palestine #gaza #freePalestine #freeGaza #protest #maliciousCompliance #chaoticgoods #uk #ukpol #ukpolitics

Attachments:

• video: video of a white Guy with a Plasticine Action shirt caught by confused cops.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

🔴I still need $276🔴

Every Tuesday, I ask for your help to feed my family. We need $500 each week for my family of 6. Every single dollar makes a real difference If you’re unable to donate, please consider sharing — it might reach someone who can help. Thank you so much for your continued kindness and support. Here’s the donation link and our full story 👇
https://chuffed.org/project/138285-help-sehwel-family-with-their-medical-treatment

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Someone recently described me as a "left wing nut," I presume for having radical political beliefs like "slavery was bad" and "maybe genocide isn't a great idea" and "hey, wouldn't due process be great for everybody" and probably also "presidents and their advisors shouldn't be hopelessly corrupt and should probably also follow the Constitution," you know, real out there stuff like that

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

(I mean, I also blocked them so I will never see them again, but, you know, that doesn't decrease the sincerity of my statement)

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Wishing all the people who said "you weren't there, you don't know" when I said "slavery was absolutely awful" a very sincere and hearty go fuck yourself

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

despite being somewhat neglected, there might actually be some corn after all

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

New post: "Seriously, Markdown" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/markdown/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

Microsoft is required to regularly provide U.S. officials with its plan for keeping government data safe from hacking. Yet a copy of the tech giant’s security plan obtained by ProPublica makes no reference to the company’s China-based operations.

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-china-defense-department-cloud-computing-security?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #Microsoft #Tech #Data #China #Cybersecurity #Government #Technology

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Wired - Ant smugglers in the US have been emboldened by widespread government staffing cuts spearheaded by DOGE. https://www.wired.com/story/usda-ant-smuggling-pets-illegal-wildlife/

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

woah, what have we gone back to? https://substack.com/@reallyamerican/note/c-137565074

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

Today in History: First commercial radio station airs in Detroit, Michigan, 1920

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

Today in History: Leon Trotsky assassinated, 1940

Boosted by jwz:
siderea@universeodon.com ("Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis") wrote:

Hey, #PatreonCreators! Did anybody else have a weird increase in processing fees?

I'm not talking about Patreon's cut ("platform fee"). I'm talking about is the payment processors' fees (allegedly) that Patreon passes along.

Patreon just announced they're increasing their own cut to 10% for new creators just signing up, but I am an existing creator and that doesn't apply to me. My platform fee was 5.8% for July, which is a touch higher but fine, whatever.

But my processing fee shot up. My January and July were extremely similar in revenues ($466.19 vs $458.50) and patrons (160 vs 162), but the payment fees jumped up over 50%, from 5.8% to 8.8%.

This plus the minor increase in the platform fee means my fees jumped from 11.4% (on the high side of previously previously typical) to the astounding 14.6%.

Any of you seeing something similar?

Boosted by jwz:
ANARCORAXA@todon.eu ("☆ ANARCORAXA ☆") wrote:

Good morning / afternoon / evening / night dear birds of a feather! 🏴

Attachments:

• gifv: A person walks behind a riot cop and sticks an ACAB sticker on the riot cop's back. There are several people and trees in the background.

Boosted by jwz:
paulrickards wrote:

Rate my battlestation!

This is a Sony Anycast Station AWS-G500HD from 2007. It's essentially a Sony luggable PIII 933Mhz PC that runs Linux 2.4.20 with a ton of FPGAs to do the heavy lifting of a video switcher. Plus glorious physical buttons, faders, dials, and removable keyboard. Oh, and a jog wheel.

#RetroComputing

Boosted by jwz:
phire@phire.place ("jenny (phire)") wrote:

AI is the least punk technology there is I will not be accepting further questions

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
catileptic@chaos.social ("Alex Ștefănescu") wrote:

I appreciate the academic and rigorous effort to measure the bullshit that LLMs generate: https://machine-bullshit.github.io/

I just wish we would do away with the rhetoric that we're just aiming to make these models better.

How about no? How about admitting that the premise is poisoned from the start?

How about saying that holding everyone's labor, creativity and expression hostage for the sake of deskilling people and making them precarious is a horrible idea?

#AI #antifascism #antiAI

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
EndIsraeliApartheid ("End Israeli Apartheid") wrote:

Acting US Attorney for Nevada Sigal Chattah let suspected Israeli predator Tom Artiom Alexandrovich flee to Israel.

38-year-old Alexandrovich was arrested after agreeing to meet who he thought was a 15-y/o girl to engage in “sexual contact.”

Alexandrovich sent pictures of himself to the undercover detective via his phone, spoke about engaging in sexual activity with her, and stated he would bring condoms to the meeting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81N7ob5u3I

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
oliverknabe@berlin.social ("Oliver Knabe") wrote:

"Another farmer, Muhamed, shared through tears at a recent seminar that every morning before he leaves for his fields, he says goodbye to his wife and children as though it might be the last time. This is because of the settlers. “Each day I fear I will not come home alive,” he told Palestinian and Israeli activists who stood with him. CfP activists Jamil and Sayel were there, and the weight of that daily fear hung heavy among everyone present." #Westbank
#CombatantsForPeace

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
LillyHerself ("LillyLyle/Count Melancholia") wrote:

Simple solutions are always the best.

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

People are starving in Gaza, you fucks. Talk about not having taste. Read the fucking room. https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115059906348542852

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

What is Hasbara? Learn about Israel’s “Ministry of Truth.”

https://www.972mag.com/hasbara-why-does-the-world-fail-to-understand-us/

#hasbara #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
DrALJONES wrote:

Analysis: Three favourite false claims of Israel Flunkies:

1. "Modern Palestine, even the term Palestine, didn't exist until the British invented it."

2. "Ok, ok, it did exist, but it was never an independent state."

3. "Most of the Palestinian Arab population in 1948 consisted of foreign-born immigrants from the surrounding Arab countries."

Why they're false:

https://substack.com/inbox/post/171030316

#Hasbara #USPol #EuroPol #PalestineHistory #IsraeliLies @palestine .

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:

We’re Struggling to Survive!

Famine is slowly killing us. Prices have skyrocketed (20 times higher than before) and we can no longer afford even the basics.

I’m asking for your urgent help to secure food my family.

Please share this post.

Your support can help us stay alive 🇵🇸

https://chuffed.org/project/121561-urgent-help-for-ahmads-family

Attachments:

• video: 7db4cab02cca5779.mp4

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

Every Tuesday, I ask for your help to feed my family. We need $500 each week for my family of 6. Every single dollar makes a real difference If you’re unable to donate, please consider sharing — it might reach someone who can help. Thank you so much for your continued kindness and support. Here’s the donation link and our full story 👇

133/500$
https://chuffed.org/project/138285-help-sehwel-family-with-their-medical-treatment

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

The smell of gunpowder fills the skies of Gaza from the intensity of the bombardment.
@palestine #gaza #gazaunderattack

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz ("Anthropy") wrote:

A Snickers is about 570Wh, which is like eating a very sizable ebike battery's entire charge in one go.

A Big Mac slightly tops that with about 650Wh. A slice of pizza is about half that with 340Wh.

Meanwhile, fruits like apples/bananas are in the ~100-130 watt-hour oversized twice laptop battery ballpark, and a cup of greek yogurt is about the same, so a big cup of fruit-filled yogurt is still less calories than a big mac or snickers!

A full english breakfast can be over 1kWh! Quickcharge ⚡⚡

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz ("Anthropy") wrote:

I propose replacing calories with watt-hours.

- Almost same value (1 kilocalorie / Calorie is ~1.1 watt-hours)
- more intuitive for people who use electricity
- never the confusion between calories (science), Calories (food, which is technically kilocalories), kilocalories, and 'kilo Calories' (which is technically megacalories)
- you get to feel more like a robot with your 2.5kwh power consumption a day which may feel like validation to some creatures on this fediverse
- become powered by cake

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
joyce@hcommons.social ("Joyce Lionarons") wrote:

This is for people over 65 only. Please boost for reach.

How often are you in pain?