"Purge Palantir" is a "campaign to raise awareness of the need to get Palantir out of our government and our lives."
"Purge Palantir is working with organizers across the country to put a spotlight on the company and its abuses—and anyone can join."
https://www.thenerdreich.com/how-to-purge-palantir/
#USPol #EUPol #UKPol #Palantir #Fascism #Racism #Democracy #PurgePalantir #news .
Ich habe mich der Verbandsklage gegen Facebook angeschlossen, da meine Daten, trotz ablehnen, gesammelt und verkauft wurden!
Macht gerne mit. :facebook:
I guess, as a poor person, having someone tell me that people need money to do science feels patronizing, when I'm the one who does without a heck of a lot because I don't have money.
The concept of needing money to do things, I assure you, is familiar to poor people. Who often don't have money. We still try doing things though.
It's a middle class trait, when discussing money with a poor person, to talk about budgets and basic math and assume the poor person just never learned how to budget is why they don't understand anything about how the world works.
Today we launched https://code.overheid.nl: the NL government-wide code platform 🥳🥳
Code.overheid.nl is a pilot in which we are going to test @forgejo; an open source and sovereign alternative to GitHub/GitLab.
This is an initiative of @BZKopensource, in collaboration with our friends from team DAWO (SSC-ICT), @opensource , @developer , and a number of participating government orgs. 🤝
@tomootes from developer.overheid wrote a nice piece about it: https://developer.overheid.nl/blog/2026/04/24/we-gaan-samen-code-overheid-bouwen
Meowtosis in progress
Are there any reliable community-run docker package registries out there? I'm trying to extricate myself from GitHub (i.e. GHCR) but just swapping to DockerHub seems like a step backwards.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116472454612911877
TL;DR Flock is rolling out both a Shotspotter-like feature (inherently flawed) and a function purporting to detect human voices "in distress" using AI.
This is not going to work. And it's going to get people killed by police aggressively responding to non-emergency situations mistaken for emergencies.
If your municipality has a Flock contract, tell them to cancel it.
A wee history lesson #LGBT
here i've been saying "i code without using llms" when i should have been saying "i code with maximum token efficiency"
Cosmonauts learning Morse Code!
Titov, Gagarin and Tereshkova, Leonov, Belyaev.
If you don't want AI contributions to your project, here is a standard NOAI.md file you can add:
https://codeberg.org/andybalaam/noai.md
Contributions and suggestions welcome on the repo.
Please do boost!
Last RT - I mean OP is expressing an opinion; but it's one I happen to agree with. I didn't like either Triumph of the Will or Birth of a Nation and I remain, to this day, very skeptical of film people who swear that both films are foundational in Western cinema. I have never quite accepted the argument that "this is high art, so it's fine" - one is a branding exercise for literally Hitler and the Nazis and the other is just white supremacist "Lost Cause" Johnny Reb drek.
the thing about “never attribute to malice what can be easily explained by incompetence” is that it’s rat-fuckable
when there is functionally no difference between the two, engaging with someone as if they’re incompetent means accepting their frame, that what they’re ultimately trying to accomplish isn’t *bad*, they’re just going about it in a way with bad side-effects, and people use in bad-faith our good-faith willingness to treat them as incompetent to push their agendas
engaging with someone as if they’re malicious, on the other hand, means rejecting the harmful frame, recasting the argument in terms of “why are you trying to do this bad thing?”, and not quibbling about the details of why the thing is bad
these age-verification laws whose implementations are a form of category error is a good example; if you engage with a proponent of them with “well here’s why your implementation is bad” you’re tacitly approving the larger idea that surveliance is good, and you just disagree with the techniques; bad-faith actors use this
If instead you come back with “why are you trying to surveil everyone’s computer use? Why are you laying the groundwork to prevent people from using their own computers?”, you re-cast the frame. Sure, there are probably incompetent people who don’t realize the results of what they’re going to do, but casting the larger idea into question AND KEEPING IT IN QUESTION is the only effective path I’ve found to debating people on things like this
so, instead:
don’t ascribe to incompetence something that is functionally malicious
Next-generation batteries cut EV charging times to just a few minutes.
China’s CATL has unveiled new EV batteries capable of charging from 10% to nearly full in about six minutes, and with a range of 1,500 km (more than you get from any tank of fuel).
Clear your mind for moment and understand this.
We are altering the very #climate of the planet in a way that's dangerous for our own survival and the stability of our ecosystems. With only a few exceptions, our politicians are not only looking the other way but actively making the problem worse.
"Being up front about how much I want to be loved means I also have to face the important caveat that comes hand-in-hand with that desire: I do not want to be loved *at any cost*"
Part 2 of last week's post on #love:
https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/but-not-at-any-cost/ Cute art by @stuart_cb
There are two main ways to invite someone to join Mastodon:
- Send them a link to a human-curated server list, then exchange account addresses so you can follow each other
- Use Mastodon's built-in invitation system to invite them to join your server and follow you automatically
Both methods are covered in this guide:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/inviting-people-onto-mastodon-and-the-fediverse
👈 Boop! Photo of me booping a giant bucket wheel excavator right on the bucket-snoot.
The scale of these machines is mind-blowing! A mechanical monster that once tore through the Earth strip mining coal.
This monster is long dead, its rusting hulk retired and put out to pasture.
#Germany #Rust #Explore #Photography #Machine #WeirdCarMastodon #Adventure #Mining
The tabs you have open on Firefox are waiting
Poor dears… really takes it out of you, committing genocide. @QudsNen https://mastodon.neometropolis.net/@QudsNen/116470305710416707