RE: https://mastodon.social/@axios/117122177875924878

No, we're waiting for new AI models like they're new strains of the influenza virus.

Hey internet, please rename all #AI support channels "slopport" so we can distinguish them from the useful ones.

Thanks!

This giant mural of Andy #Burnham hugging a #Shell oil barrel painted onto a scorched Welsh mountainside deserves to be seen by the widest possible audience.

Let’s show it some love!

‘Our house is on fire Andy’

#Wildfires
#ClimateBreakdown
#Rosebank
#Jackdaw
#Labour

https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/activists-paint-giant-climate-warning-to-burnham-on-mountainside-scorched-by-wildfires/

Love this!

In Tilburg, #Holland, local residents have installed a hand-cranked ferry so they can get their bicycles across an historic canal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDm3itmrrgk&time_continue=3&source_ve_path=NzY3NTg&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.core77.com%2F

Privacy laws at their root need to capture the idea that information we understand to be private cannot be a transferrable or sellable asset. Company full of PII goes bankrupt? Tough break, but that information's just gone.

https://mastodon.social/@KimSJ/117121361709201008

I'm surprised by this news. The January 6th people usually seem so normal and well-adjusted.

https://globalnews.ca/news/12020125/jan-6-rioter-guilty-assault-stroking-womans-hair-dc-transit/

UK jury fails to convict activists over direct action at Israeli arms factory

Watch for another secret trial behind closed doors?

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-jury-fails-convict-activists-over-direct-action-israeli-arms-factory

A sanctioned ICC judge lost access to Amazon, Apple ID, iCloud, PayPal, Google, even her Alexa stopped responding. 🚨

One executive order, and your entire digital life can vanish if it lives on US-controlled servers.

Move your data to European, open-source infrastructure.

🐘 https://pixelunion.eu/blog/2026/08/digital-guillotine/

#DigitalSovereignty #Privacy #ICC #BigTech #OpenSource

@pixelunion If a country wants to be absolutely get charges put on them by the ICC, then that's how it would do this.

Seriously though, how is this not considered racketeering at this point? One corrupt government should never hold this much power over other contries' citizens!

"Examinations of London schoolchildren before and after the introduction of the city’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) found a restoration of lung capacity that had been stunted by exposure to pollution."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/18/ulez-better-lung-size-function-london-children

There must be something I'm missing here.

If you've got a stocks and shares ISA and you keep a few pounds, or even tens of pounds, in cash, perhaps from recent dividends, perhaps so that fees can be paid without selling anything, then you'll get a few pence interest each month.

And the ISA provider will have to write new systems to pay a penny or two of that to HMRC. And HMRC has to write new systems to accept these odd pennies.

The whole costing, surely to goodness, several times what it will raise in this "charge" (which isn't a "tax").

What am I missing? Or is it really as bonkers as it sounds?

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fiscal-events-2026-factsheets/isa-reform-2027-anti-circumvention-rules-factsheet

I guess now it's a bit late to warn people not to update the firmware on their #framework laptops, but here is what somebody did to fix them, when the company didn't help. at all.

quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-…

spoiler: it ends well, but not thanks to framework

also, the ending of the article is *epic*.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/117122932570466010

Remember this when the white man preaches morality.

Think they already know what the downstream effects of aerosolized car tire particles are on human health, like the tobacco industry knew about lung cancer?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/117122355449278784

Optically centring text in a box or button is now much easier!

#WebPlatform #CSS

Can anyone recommend a journalling app? Preferred: cross platform (though can be web, as long as it sends a notification to remind me to do it) as I prefer typing on my keyboard at my PC but have photos etc. on my iphone; reminders to journal; prompts of some kind (I am bad at thinking about what to write); maybe something like which book I'm reading, how I'm feeling, little tidbits like that (not sure if this is something these do). Info on weather? Anyway recs please!!

It’s ironic that the people hailed as “job creators” are now intent on spending trillions to use AI to kill jobs. Jokes on us I guess.

Low emission zones save lives, improve health, and allow us all to breathe cleaner air. 🙌

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l1r1zne1ro

➡️Americans and Canadians: do YOU recognize this man?⬅️

He collapsed on the streets of Amsterdam in 2023 with a brain injury. He wasn’t carrying ID and he lost most of his ability to communicate. His identity still hasn’t been established.

Interviews near where he was found have turned up that he was a native English speaker with an American or Canadian accent, enjoyed shopping for art, was passionate about Buddhism and cultures like Nepal, and gave different names to different people (Chris and Lucky being the best known). He was probably living a hippyish, off-grid lifestyle with substantial personal savings from earlier in life.

One of the few words he can still say is “nonsense,” so he probably said this quite a lot.

The Dutch Cold Case Team has taken over trying to identify him after time has not healed his ability to communicate. If you think you might know who he is, please help reunite him with his loved ones and give them closure. Scroll down on this page to the button that says “Tip via het formulier”, and rest assured sending messages in English is 100% fine. Also, his family won’t get a surprise bill for his hospital stay. https://www.politie.nl/nieuws/2026/augustus/17/een-heel-leven-maar-geen-naam-wie-herkent-deze-man.html

"South Africa's Constitutional Court blocked offshore exploration led by Shell along the country's ‌pristine Wild Coast, a setback for the oil major after years of legal challenges by local communities and environmentalists.

One of the ​reasons why communities ​and environmental groups ⁠had challenged Shell's exploration plans was that they argued there had not been sufficient public consultation."

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/south-africas-top-court-rules-shell-exploration-off-wild-coast-cannot-proceed-2026-08-14/