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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

+ a few more pics from Seattle waterfront from that day https://www.flickr.com/photos/isagalaev/albums/72177720328850316

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Panoramic view. Caught some shining white sails on the bay. Best viewed in full screen!

#darktable

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
marcohackney@todon.eu ("Marco Hackney") wrote:

#HannahEinbinder
#FreePalestine
#StandingTogether

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• video: 0597390add177329.mp4

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
jacqui76@mastodon.ie ("Jacqui ☘️") wrote:

As the powers at be have covered up this new #Banksy work, the only proper course of action by a concerned population is to spread the image as far and wide as we can!

#protest #Banksy #Freepalestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
TheProgressive@federated.press ("The Progressive") wrote:

Israel has issued new evacuation orders for the entire population of Gaza City to leave, in preparation for its full-scale ground occupation of the city by October 7, 2025. But for many, leaving is no longer a choice.
#Gaza #evacuation #iSrael #Palestine

https://progressive.org/latest/nowhere-to-run-i-am-choosing-death-at-home-over-forced-evacuation-shnino-20250905/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

I am SO enjoying this very early...the earliest? critique of AI from 1965 whereby Hubert Dreyfus calls the hot air about AI "the production of intellectual smog" #ai https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3244.html

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
alttexthalloffame ("Alt Text Hall of Fame") wrote:

Everyone wins!

#AltText #accessibility

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

People willingly do this to their face? Why?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/08/the-official-cult-mask/

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

listening to: https://vibecoded.transistor.fm/

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
CraigStuntz@discuss.systems ("Craig Stuntz") wrote:

@aral Not just .pe, but "CH, .ES, .FR, .LI, .PE, .SG, .COM.SG, .COM.AU, .ORG.AU, .NET.AU" according to the source linked there: https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9916/2207/tlds-grace-periods/

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

A team of sex pests, bigots, kooks, and clueless numpties has written a book. Yay free speech.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/08/renowned-scientists-and-scholars-who-deserve-shaming/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
gundersen ("Marius Gundersen - mdg 🌻") wrote:

@Edent I've used charts.css in a recent backoffice project, where you create a table using html templating language and then it's styled like a bar chart. Very handy!

https://chartscss.org/

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪡"):
medienbaecker ("Thomas Günther") wrote:

I collected some advice for designing and developing websites for Apple's new design language, Liquid Glass™:

https://medienbaecker.com/articles/the-web-behind-glass

#apple #accessibility #liquidass

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
faab64@freefree.ps ("Farhad") wrote:

Brave British police captured another dangerous terrorist today

#FuckUK #FuckStarmer #ViveLaResistance #StopGenocide #PalestineAcrion #ukpol #protest

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Jinjirrie ("Jinjirrie 🐈‍⬛✅") wrote:

Mass numbers of actors & directors vow not to work with Israeli film institutions complicit with genocide. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/08/film-pledge-israeli-institutions-palestinians #BDS #Israel #GazaGenocide

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Gustodon@mas.to ("Ω 🌍 Gus Posey") wrote:

Squirrels don't get enough credit for their nests.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
LMac1970@mstdn.social ("Mr Lawrence 🇪🇺🇷🇼") wrote:

#FediHire If anyone needs a database developer around the end of this year or early next year, I’ll be available around then! I can work in #SQL, #VB, #C#, #SQLServer and #Snowflake.
My current contract comes to an end in mid-November and I’m very good at remote working.
On the other hand, if your role is in Gloucestershire, I’m more than happy to work onsite.
Let’s make things happen for you!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DrPsyBuffy@mstdn.social ("Buffy the Psych Prof") wrote:

In any discussion of what’s happening to Arkansas farmers, we should include how Fox News has repeatedly misled them. We have got to get these folks to stop watching propaganda 24/7. Getting people to turn off Fox News is the ONLY way out of this nightmare.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya "Lethal Precision" Bidniss :CIAverified: 🇺🇸") wrote:

High schooler worries LLM use is making classmates unable to think and perform in the world after school.

"I am concerned about what will happen as the short-term solutions presented by chatbots become the only ones that people know how to pursue—especially beyond the classroom. If we keep leaning on AI to sidestep pressure or deadlines, what happens when the tools aren’t there? In the real world, chatbots cannot hold the powerful to account in the way an investigative reporter does, through relentless interviews and vetting hard-to-find information. They cannot perform open-heart surgery or ballet. Many of us are so accustomed to outsourcing that we’re dulling the very instincts that we need to prevail in life: grit, critical thinking, and the ability to function smoothly under stress."

"If chatbots have made school easier to get through, they are also making school equally as hard to grow out of. The technology is producing a generation of eternal novices, unable to think or perform for themselves." #LLM #AI
Original: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/09/high-school-student-ai-education/684088/
Archive: https://archive.is/TAb6y

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Dennisbours@sciences.social ("Dennis Bours") wrote:

🐖 The Trump admin has cancelled a key health study on biogas emissions from hog farms, raising concerns over transparency & public health risks. Communities near farms may face unanswered questions. 🧪💨
🔗 https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06092025/trump-cancels-hog-farm-biogas-health-study/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=fedica-Autoposting
#PublicHealth #EnvironmentalJustice #HogFarms #ClimatePolicy

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

#Dog #Dogs #dogsofmastodon

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Swede1952@universeodon.com ("Swede’s Photographs") wrote:

Perch and Petal

Charlie and I sat out back for about an hour this morning while I sipped coffee. As usual, dozens of birds flitted in and out of the crepe myrtle trees that line the back fence. Nothing unusual—just the regulars: cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, tufted titmice, house finches, and sparrows. It’s the colorful birds that catch my eye first.

But the house sparrows (Passer domesticus), like the one I watched today, move differently. They fly in and out in small groups—five to ten at a time. I watch them arrive and vanish among the crepe myrtle leaves, lingering just long enough to conjure up the courage to raid a feeder.

If you enjoy photos of birds and other wildlife, take a look at my photo gallery. Sparrows are never overlooked—they're a valued and important part of my collection. Feel free to explore!

https://swede1952-photographs.pixels.com

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #HouseSparrow

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

The thing that separates war from murder is the law,

and the law of war contains two key components.

They go by two Latin terms: jus ad bellum and jus in bello.

Jus ad bellum refers to the limited legal right to go to war. In other words, when is it legal to fight?
Jus in bello refers to conduct within the war. If it’s lawful to fight, then how must I fight?
For the use of military force to be lawful, it must satisfy the requirements of both doctrines.
There must be a legal basis for the use of force, and the force that is used must also be lawful.

Russia’s war in Ukraine would be lawless, for example, even if President Vladimir Putin confined himself to conducting airstrikes against only military targets, and even if his troops behaved scrupulously in the field.
Why? Because there was no justification for the initial invasion. International law prohibits wars of aggression and territorial conquest, so Russia’s war itself is a crime, regardless of how the military behaves.

Conversely, when debating Israel’s war in Gaza, jus ad bellum is satisfied: Hamas’s attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, gave Israel the legal right to respond with military force, even to the point of removing Hamas from power.
The controversies are, for the most part, over jus in bello, Israel’s conduct in the war.
Hamas’s attack did not give Israel carte blanche to fight however it desires

In the United States, we have two firewalls against unjust and unlawful wars.

First, the Constitution grants Congress the exclusive power to declare war.

The president does have authority as commander in chief to respond to immediate military threats, like an armed attack, before a declaration of war,

but he is not supposed to initiate new hostilities in the absence of congressional action.

A crime — even a crime as vicious as trafficking hard drugs into the United States — is not an act of war.

It can’t be compared to Pearl Harbor, to Sept. 11 or to any other attack on American citizens or troops, or allied citizens or troops.

To even mention Tren de Aragua in the same breath as Al Qaeda, much less Imperial Japan, illustrates the absurdity of the administration’s argument.

Second, the international law of armed conflict still applies to United States forces.

The broad language of Article 18 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice
— the criminal laws that govern the armed forces
— extends the requirements of international law into U.S. military law,
and that means that presidents don’t have the power to order violations of the laws of armed conflict.

So where did Trump find the legal authority to initiate deadly force against suspected members of a drug gang?

The closest thing we’ve heard to an actual legal argument is the repeated assertion that Trump could order a strike on Tren de Aragua because it’s a designated terrorist organization.

Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, said after the attack that American forces may strike anyone
“trafficking in those waters who we know is a designated narco terrorist.”

“We knew exactly who was in that boat,”
he added, and
“we knew exactly what they were doing, and we knew exactly who they represented, and that was Tren de Aragua.”

Though I question his certainty (I’ve had enough experience with airstrikes to know that our intelligence is rarely that precise), even if he’s correct, then that knowledge granted American forces probable cause to stop and search the boat for evidence of a crime,
not grounds to execute the crew (or any passengers) from above.

For his part, Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, said that the United States will
“blow up” members of criminal groups, and on Thursday designated two more groups,
the Ecuadorean gangs Los Lobos and Los Choneros, as terror organizations.

It is true that the administration has the authority to designate foreign entities as terrorist organizations.

And it’s true that the administration has used its authority to classify a host of drug gangs as terrorist organizations,
but the relevant statute that allows the administration to make that designation does not include an authorization for military force.

What the statute does do is bar Americans from providing
“material support or resources” to the designated group
and bar members of the group from entry into the United States.

It can also require financial institutions to block transactions involving terrorist property and assets.

⚠️ What we are left with is a military strike conducted against suspects without due process,
in the absence of any need for immediate self-defense (the boat was not firing on American forces),
without any congressional authorization
and without any basis in international law.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/opinion/trump-venezuela-airstrike-laws.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

Today in History: Richard Strauss dies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 1949

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

Today in History: Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) is born in San Bruno CA, 1945

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

Today in History: Antonin Dvorak is born in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia, 1841

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

Today in History: US President Ford pardons Richard M. Nixon, 1974

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

Today in History: "Star Trek" debuts on NBC, 1966

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

Today in History: Peter Sellers born in Southsea, England, 1925

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

Today in History: Richard "the Lionheart'', king of England born in Oxford, 1157