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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
tobeB@climatejustice.social ("TobeB") wrote:

The collapse of a critical Atlantic current can no longer be considered a low-likelihood event, a study has concluded, making deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions even more urgent to avoid the catastrophic impact.

The tipping point that makes an Amoc shutdown inevitable is likely to be passed within a few decades.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/28/collapse-critical-atlantic-current-amoc-no-longer-low-likelihood-study

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
Vivaldi@vivaldi.net wrote:

Be an active explorer, not a passive spectator!

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

He's no rocket scientist.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/28/theyre-not-hiring-the-best/

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

This administration is very literally prepared to let this nation burn

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/federal-agents-arrest-firefighters-working-on-wa-wildfire/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

I will give a webinar "Demystifying AI" targeted at non-technical people, primarily working in the third sector or consultants working for the third sector.

It's scheduled for 18 Sept, at 11:00 UK time, on Zoom.

If you are interested, let me know, I can DM you a link to the registration.

To be clear: I will be explaining why it is bad.

#genAI #AI

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
canyakker@mas.to ("Sabine") wrote:

I think the male Ruby-throated Hummingbirds left. It turned cold yesterday. It was already getting dark, and this lone bird was sitting in the rain for a long time, without being chased by others.
Taken through the window, at 12800 ISO no less. Surprised it worked.

#birds #BirdPhotography

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐"):
best_of_mltshp@mefi.social ("Best of MLTSHP") wrote:

https://mltshp.com/p/1R8L2 “llm data”

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay") wrote:

Prehistoric Googling

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

“Where’s your autopilot?”

“You’re looking at it”

“All I see is a bunch of cogs and shafts. Where’s the computer?”

“That’s the computer”

“You have a *clockwork* jumpdrive. For the love of Eris, why?”

“The best human takes forty seconds to recover from jumpshock. There isn’t a digital computer that can tell a one from a zero in under a minute postjump. Belinda here will have us into the next wormhole before those customs cutters chasing us stop drooling.”

“You *named* this abomination”

“Hey, no cause to be mean to her! You can get out and walk anytime, friend.”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I don't know what caused the church shooting in Minneapolis, but I do know what WON'T be discussed: too many guns and self-loathing religious doctrines.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/28/church-shooting-in-minneapolis/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Has science gone too far?

Here is a video showing how they can make a heart using the wave pool

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

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

(They do not cover some of the more... regrettable songs.)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

New cover band idea: Bestie Boys.

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