Kind of disturbing to hear people saying "this is the new normal" about the climate crisis. It isn't a new normal, because it will carry on getting hotter if we carry on using fossil fuels.
This "new normal" talking point seems to be the latest way fossil fuel companies are trying to avoid action 🤮
Hanson dodges questions about who paid for Italy trip https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-18/pauline-hanson-dodges-questions-about-italy-trip/106925384 #PoliticalIdeologies #PoliticalParties #OneNation
If you're making a video and you want people to watch it, please please don't use an AI-generated thumbnail 😞
AI images scream "This is worthless slop" louder than anything else. People who might have enjoyed your video may skip it completely because they think the content will be slop too.
If you're making a real video, use a real thumbnail from the video itself. Staying genuine tells people what the video is really like, and connects you to your audience.
This also puts his own service members in danger if they're captured.
He has no interest in anyone else's wellbeing, not even that of his own forces. He's just interested in making himself look macho while others die because of him.
This is a real time recording of my git server's web access logs. It's a constant stream of requests from "Claude" attempting to access every possible item on the site.
A couple of months ago, I set up a rule to return an error code for every request its user agent makes. It has not retrieved a single valid item for many, many weeks at this point. Every request is immediately and abruptly terminated.
It hasn't even slowed down as a result.
Tell me again how their operation involves "intelligence" of any kind.
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Ex-prince Andrew in custody for serious crimes, South Korea's ex-president also in custody for serious crimes.
It is possible to arrest important people, it doesn't cause the collapse of society.
More accountability like this please!
EDIT: Just looked up the specific charge Andrew is facing, it has a maximum penalty of life imprisonment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malfeasance_in_office#England_and_Wales
Those queer people and allies who chose to throw trans people under a bus can hopefully now see where that leads.
For example the UK anti-trans hate group "LGB Alliance" is linked to the Heritage Foundation, and the Heritage Foundation is where this attack on marriage equality was announced. Any queer people who supported this hate group need to wake up and realise they are being played.
When you sacrifice one part of your community, you're just playing along with the "divide and conquer" strategy of fascists.
Fascists are dangerous to everyone and have to be opposed by everyone, no matter who they are attacking.
This is an excellent article. ICE are acting like violent cosplayers with live rounds and permission to kill:
"ICE agents move with zero military sense. They bunch up and cluster around their target or in doorways; in a combat zone, soldiers clustering up like this could be annihilated by a single grenade or burst from an automatic weapon. ... ICE agents’ tactics often seem to be modeled off what they’ve seen in movies or imbibed via TV shows or video games."
Perhaps it's both incompetence of ICE and an awareness by Miller that this would be useful to provoking violence? So, ICE are the "useful idiots" of Miller?
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that (the depraved are) the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave."
This is going to sound a bit weird, but it might be a good idea to purchase a shortwave radio if you haven't got one already. They're quite cheap and small, you can buy one and store it long term just in case.
Shortwave is the only way to receive news and information internationally without relying on the internet or satellite. It might be a useful fallback to receive news from the outside world if your country's media and internet are ever restricted or closed down.
If you've never used one, it's like a normal radio but the frequencies reach around the world. Every country used to have its own station.
That whole "W" platform thing seems to be just a private company trying to grab itself free publicity by claiming to be something it isn't.
It's nothing to do with any governments or official organisations, the press release is just a private company talking about itself.
I appreciate BBC has to use a certain house style, but the actual letter is a lot more disturbingly incoherent. He's writing like it's a Twitter rant rather than a letter between governments, the grammar and spelling is a bit weird, it clearly hasn't been checked by any advisors.
How can anyone be in denial of the Trump regime's nature any more?
Is there really a legal specialist who says it's legal to murder innocent foreigners in international waters posing no threat to anyone just because the president says it's okay?
There isn't even any evidence that these boats are linked to drug cartels, they captured survivors from one attack and released them without charge.
These are all murders.
He's just openly saying what this was all about:
"The United States is going to be very strongly involved in Venezuela’s oil industry after the operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump told Fox News on Saturday."
"We have the greatest oil companies in the world, the biggest, the greatest, and we’re going to be very much involved in (Venezuela's oil industry)."
This isn't some conspiracy theory thing, it's straight from the horse's mouth.
EDIT: Trump now also openly saying that the US "will run Venezuela".
People of the Fediverse, I need your advice.
FIL undergoes dialysis every other day. He reads on ereader during the therapy to pass time, because he can hold the device with a single hand and it is lighter than a book.
He's an eldery person, has issues adapting to touch interfaces.
I collected all the button based kindles I could. I repair them where possible, but their batteries are all dying.
Need advice on a button based ereader that is either economical so I can buy spares, or resistant enough survive drops. #ebook #ereader #kindle #accessibility
EDIT: seems I can use K5/K6 batteries on the Kindle4 FIL currently uses.
If AI/LLMs are cut off from stolen human labour, their outputs turn to meaningless gibberish due to model collapse.
If AI/LLM owners are forced to pay for human labour instead of stealing it, they go bankrupt.
If AI/LLM data centres are forced to stay within energy consumption levels compatible with fighting climate change, they have to close down the overwhelming majority of their capacity.
AI/LLMs are just not sustainable, they can only function through labour theft and burning the planet. They're not so much new technology as a new type of ponzi scheme.
15 year car loans for an asset that depreciates in less than 5 years & is often unrepairable after the warranty runs out...hmmm
Republican Policies of Immiseration that service Trump's shady car-loan megadonors...
Don Hankey getting his quid pro quo?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/02/donald-trump-bond-paid-don-hankey
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/nyregion/don-hankey-car-loan-billionaire.html
If anyone's confused by what the heck is going on with latest Bluesky drama, I've tried to summarise it in one toot here:
https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/115308150378037772
This is in context of Bluesky welcoming JD Vance to their platform with an email to Fox News, allowing him to post transphobic stuff, welcoming other prominent transphobes, while simultaneously banning people who were disrespectful to Charlie Kirk.
There is a far right pattern emerging in how Bluesky chooses to ban or not ban people.
My Antifa team leader is pissed.
Having the organisation reclassified has placed us under a totally new compliance framework and making the process changes is going to throw out all our KPIs for Q4. Nobody's getting a bonus in this performance review cycle. What total bullshit.