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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

A slightly more cohesive thought.

https://jasongullickson.com/why-our-technology-is-so-harmful.html

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

A lot of the damage could be fixed just by firing one guy

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/08/28/tesla-europe-sales-plunge-40percent-chinese-ev-rival-byd-up-225percent.html#amp%5Ftf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17563835261200&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

So many stickers 🏴‍☠️

∞ https://rknight.me/notes/202508281131/

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐"):
piccalilli@front-end.social ("Piccalilli") wrote:

Are people’s bosses really making them use AI tools?

Andy Bell had heard companies were forcing employees to use AI tools so spoke to developers to determine if that was the case and learned some horrors in the process.

https://piccalil.li/blog/are-peoples-bosses-really-making-them-use-ai/

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

Thank you so much for your continued support.
I still need $202 to feed my family this week.
Every dollar truly makes a difference.

And if you’re unable to donate, sharing the link could reach someone who can.

Forever grateful for your kindness and for standing with us 💕

Here’s the link and full story👇
https://chuffed.org/project/138285-help-sehwel-family-with-their-medical-treatment

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
prolrage@todon.nl ("Proletarian Rage") wrote:

The crime of the crimes continues:

👉 Gaza’s Ministry of Health has recorded four deaths “due to famine and malnutrition” over the past 24 hours, including two children, bringing the total number of hunger-related deaths in the enclave to 317, including 121 children.

👉 All members of the United Nations Security Council, except the United States, jointly backed the IPC’s declaration that famine in #Gaza is a “man-made crisis” on Wednesday, despite Israel and the #USA attacking the findings.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/8/28/live-israel-demolishes-all-buildings-in-gaza-citys-southern-zeitoun-area
#gazagenocide #genocide #starvation #starvation #CrimesAgainstHumanity #HumanRights #warcrimes #IsraelWarCrimes

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
prolrage@todon.nl ("Proletarian Rage") wrote:

#Gaza ’s Health Ministry has recorded 10 deaths “due to #famine and malnutrition” over the past 24 hours, including two children, bringing the total number of hunger-related deaths to 313, 119 of whom were children.
#gazagenocide #genocide #starvation #starvation #CrimesAgainstHumanity #HumanRights #warcrimes #IsraelWarCrimes
via @arrrg

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

"I am not here to make a careful comprehensive argument, because people have already done that. I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response."

"But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."

https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Stevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk ("Steven Heywood") wrote:

"How significant is the fact that Tony Blairs involved in discussions about a post war Gaza?"

Ash Sarkar : "Well, I guess it's because Satan was unavailable"

#Gaza
#UKPolitics
#TonyBlair

https://www.reddit.com/r/Palestine/comments/1n25ht3/how%5Fsignificant%5Fis%5Fthe%5Ffact%5Fthat%5Ftony%5Fblairs/

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
gimulnautti@mastodon.green ("Toni Aittoniemi") wrote:

Revealed: US Vice President #JDVance called comander-in-chief of of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valeriy #Zaluzhny to discuss “potential leadership changes” after Oval Office meeting of February 2025.

Zaluzhny refused to talk, instead immediately called Zelensky to inform what Vance was planning.

So. In other words, #US leadership was directly involved in trying to arrange a #coup in #Ukraine. In February this year. This is the state of matters.

https://baltimorechronicle.com/world/2025/08/26/vance-attempted-to-arrange-a-call-with-zaluzhny-after-the-trump-zelensky-confrontation/
#NAFO

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
ctxt@mastodon.world ("CTXT") wrote:

Contra la complicidad de los gobiernos, la desobediencia del mar

👉 https://ctxt.es/es/20250801/Firmas/49918/Jaume-Asens-Global-Sumud-Flotilla-Gaza-Genocidio-Palestina-Israel.htm

"Este domingo 31 de agosto, desde el puerto de Barcelona, zarpará la mayor misión civil organizada contra el bloqueo de Gaza desde 2007. Veinte barcos de la Global Sumud Flotilla, cargados con harina, medicinas y material sanitario, surcarán el Mediterráneo para abrir un corredor humanitario."

✍ Jaume Asens

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

Analysis: How Israel & the US manipulated aid to kill, rather than save, Palestinians.

The group Forensic Architecture used spatial analysis & open-source research to reveal the architecture of the genocidal starvation of Gaza.

Malnutrition during early childhood "can cause irreversible damage, stunting both physical growth & cognitive ability."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/27/starvation-strategy-how-israel-created-famine-in-gaza

#GazaGenocide #WesternEnablement #USPol #EuroPol #BDS #Racism #Press #News #IsraeliCrimes #GHF @palestine .

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

Cookies

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

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

Shot: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/microsoft-ceo-says-up-to-30-of-the-companys-code-was-written-by-ai/

Chaser: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/170758

#microsoft #AI #BigTech #bullshit

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:

blogged: Croissant RSS Beta is Live!

https://dbushell.com/2025/08/28/croissant-rss-beta/

I made myself a PWA & macOS app to read things, maybe you like to read things the way I read things!

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
clawfulneutral@soc.port0.org wrote:

Journalist’s final images show the Gaza hospital stairwell where she was killed by an Israeli strike

The last photos taken by #MariamDagga show the damaged stairwell outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip where she would be killed by an Israeli strike moments later.

Dagga, a visual journalist who freelanced for Associated Press, was among 22 people, including five reporters, killed Monday when Israeli forces struck Nasser Hospital twice in quick succession.

Algeria’s ambassador to the United Nations, his voice breaking and on the verge of tears, read a letter Wednesday to the U.N. Security Council addressed to Dagga’s 13-year-old son, Gaith, who left #Gaza at the start of the war to live with his father in the United Arab Emirates.

“Ghaith. You are the heart and soul of your mother,” Bendjama quoted Dagga as writing. “When I die, I want you to pray for me, not to cry for me.”

AP / https://archive.is/y8op8 #Israel #IsraeliValues #Genocide @palestine @geopolitics

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

And still: “Palestinians say”. It on video. All of it. To the world’s media: What do your own fucking eyes say? https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/115105303439614782

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

Croatian President Zoran Milanovic on Wednesday called on the country’s government to initiate the parliamentary process for recognizing Palestine as a sovereign and independent state.

“Croatia should recognize Palestine as a step toward ending the war and the human catastrophe in Gaza. Recognizing the rights of the Palestinian people to their own state is the only way to establish lasting peace in the Middle East,” Milanovic said.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250827-croatian-president-calls-for-initiating-parliamentary-process-to-recognize-palestine/

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

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

Moazzam Begg - I'm no stranger to arrest and imprisonment under Britain's so-called fight against terrorism. But on Saturday, 9 August, it was for something quite different.

I was one of 532 people arrested in Parliament Square for "supporting terrorism" after carrying signs that read "I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action", organised by Defend Our Juries (DOJ), a protest rights campaign.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-opposing-israels-genocide-got-me-arrested-terrorism

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

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

In Greece, neo-Nazis like the Spartans posed as “helpers” shopping for the elderly, escorting voters then entered into parliament.

Now UK extremists are copying the same playbook. They call it “concierge nationalism,” with street patrols, escort apps and fake charities that sell hate as care.

Don't be fooled. This isn’t protection. It’s fascism repackaged.

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/concierge-nationalism-how-the-far-right-is-selling-extremism-as-a-lifestyle-service/

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

When even an organisation as reprehensible as the Catholic Church finds your behaviour unacceptable. Say the word, Popey, say the word: genocide.

#israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #ThePope https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/115105299158774298

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

Well-connected person whom I trust was just telling me that he’s personally talked to 4 Canadians who in recent weeks have had US CBP demand to look through their phones and on the basis of phone content been turned back and handed 5-year entry bans. Three of the 4 were at Vancouver airport. These people are not taking their story to media because they don’t want to draw attention to their employers.

#USpol #Vancouver

jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb,

Can someone tell me how the fix the problem that when I try to print any of my flyer pages in Safari (e.g. <https://www.dnalounge.com/flyers/2025/08/29d.html>) it shows up blank in the print dialog? Most of the time, hitting cancel and then print again makes it show up, but not always, so something's racing. I even tried perversions like adding a busy-wait in window.onbeforeprint.

The problem does not seem to occur in Chrome and Firefox.
https://jwz.org/b/ykuM

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐"):
mattwilcox@mstdn.social ("Matt Wilcox") wrote:

Xbox want me to verify my age to use stuff? And you can’t take my account age and previous payment details to do it?

You want me to send personal identifiable info to a “trusted third party”?

This “Online Safety Act” is the most dangerous and un-safe bit of legislation to hit the web. Like; ever.

You an adult? Here; burning hoops galor and risk risk risk. It’s to “protect the children” tho!

Bullshit. No.

Boosted by jwz:
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

I’ve spent the better part of two decades dealing with people trying to dox and harass the volunteers who make Wikipedia the incredible resource it is today.

I liked it better when they weren’t in Congress.

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/082725-letter-to-Wikimedia.pdf

#Wikipedia #USpol

Boosted by jwz:
earthshine@masto.hackers.town ("Earthshine") wrote:

The star trek future we have at home:

Boosted by jwz:
igd_news@kolektiva.social ("It's Going Down") wrote:

"A federal grand jury has refused to indict folk hero Sean Charles Dunn on a felony assault charge for allegedly throwing a sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer in Washington, D.C. on August 10.

Video captured a man, allegedly Dunn, throwing a sandwich at an officer and then fleeing the scene on foot.

“Fuck you! You fucking facists!” he yelled before throwing the sandwich, according to the complaint. “Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city!”

https://truthout.org/articles/d-c-grand-jury-refuses-to-indict-folk-hero-who-tossed-sandwich-at-cbp-officer/

Boosted by jwz:
LillyHerself ("LillyLyle/Count Melancholia") wrote:

I feel like I could have posted this image every day since the early 2000s.

Boosted by jwz:
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

Thanks assholes. So here’s the deal — I’m not over 65 and I don’t have qualifying health conditions, so I don’t qualify for a COVID shot now.

I FUCKING GET SPRAYED WITH COVID ALL GODDAMNED DAY AT WORK. I WORKED THROUGH THE WORST DAYS OF THE PANDEMIC, I STOOD IN LINE FOR MY SHOT, I GOT PTSD, AND NOW THAT PUSILLANIMOUS WEASEL WHO HID FROM COVID IN 2020 SAYS I DON’T NEED A SHOT. FUCK HIM AND EVERYONE THAT VOTED TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.

Thanks for coming to my rant session.

Boosted by jwz:
luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

Wow the CDC director is now saying she was not officially fired and is refusing to resign.