Rats have more empathy than MAGA Republicans.

Basic education piece:

Not all Jewish people are Zionists.

Lots of Zionists aren't Jews.

The Board of Deputies largely self identity as Zionists.

The Media often report the Board of Deputies as the opinion of Jewish people.

Yet many Jewish people say #NotInOurName

✨ c a t ✨ #Cats #MastoCats #catsofmastodon

Computers were not a mistake.

The Internet was not a mistake.

The mistake was allowing everything to be about money and power rather than community building.

This was actually quite informative.

tl;dr: The online influencer economy is collapsing. This is due to several factors including:

1. More people are becoming influencers, but ad spend hasn’t gone up accordingly.
2. Advertising using big-name influencers is no longer trendy.
3. AI has taken up 86% of VC money, making sponsors increasingly likely to be scammy AI startups that influencers don’t want to partner with, because partnering with scammy sponsors drive away future sponsors.
4. AI slop is overwhelming human-created video. They take up more YouTube insertion-ad revenue through sheer volume, and YouTube is pushing AI slop tools and accelerating the slop takeover.

There’s even more in the video. It was eye-opening to me.

#ai #influencer #creator #economics

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

So Mark Carney has said to Andy B don't renationalise Thames water as it'll hurt foreign investors. I fail to see the bad side here for people of the UK aka the ones that need safe and reliable water supplies. Sign here to fight back https://the.organise.network/campaigns/network-re-nationlise-water-companies-567e31aac26e790d

In which Casey continues to have absolutely no understanding of how academia works.

Also talk about a false equivalence here! One of these sides of the “polarising” debate has billions of dollars they want to make more from. The other is an academic just doing their job to reach truth.

I used to love Casey’s work for being critical about emerging tech. Now he’s just being used as another mouthpiece to brand actual critical thought as “polarising” and “self-interested”. It’s disappointing.

Just ordered 24 red cedar trees so I can replace the rubbish horrible box leaf honeysuckle rear hedge. Really pleased about that but not looking forward to planting them however will like ripping the old stuff out!

I am reminded again how in 1935, the US Congress passed a tax law that created a new top tax bracket of nearly 80%.

That tax bracket contained exactly one person, John D. Rockefeller, and was designed to stop him from causing so much trouble.

In case anyone needs the precedent.

The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really??? 🤦‍♀️

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckgel5xp2xv9t

#php

Unless you live under a stone, everybody will have heard about PHP today.

Now, please realize that the vast majority of Open Source Software, like PHP, and including PHP, is largely maintained by **unpaid volunteers**.

If you agree that this is inconceivably irresponsible: let this be your call to action and FUND THE OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS YOUR ORGANIZATION RELIES ON.

Saying "Thanks" once in a while is not enough and does not make open source sustainable.

I deleted my Facebook account in 2017 because I saw what was coming and I didn't like it. I didn't "deactivate" it, I deleted it, according to all the "are you sure?" prompts I recall wading through to get the final message that if I don't log into it in the next 30 days, it's all gone forever.

This morning I woke up to a 2FA email request from Facebook, to the email address I last used with the service. It was a legitimate email from FB so I decided to see if my account was really just deactivated instead of fully deleted. Welp, guess what? I logged in with the password stored in my password manager, and it sent me a new 2FA code. I continued all the way in, and absolutely nothing was actually deleted. All of my friends from that era who still had Facebook accounts were in my friend list, my last post from the summer of 2017 was still there, and many more sent before that, along with photos that I recall individually deleting before closing the account just in case.

Facebook lied. Imagine that.

Of course I immediately went through the whole deletion process again, confirming I was sure at least seven times, and got the same "if you don't log in over the next 30 days all posts are deleted and unrecoverable". Gee, where have I heard that before?

I will try logging in around the first of December just to see what happens. As for that first 2FA request this morning, clearly someone has my FB login info. I know there was a breach a few years ago but I wasn't concerned back then since like a good tech person I only ever used that password on that site (which I confirmed with my password manager), and besides I had deleted my account right? ...Right. And I know that even if they really "delete" it this time and I can't get back in, they still have my data forever.

So the moral of the story (and we all know this already, don't we?) is that all corporations; all data holders and harvesters; all social media companies; all entities trusted with our personal and financial data, are lying to us. They are all defying the law, they are all disregarding their own data retention, privacy, and security policies, and they know they can get away with it so they do it with impunity. I'm in the US so there are virtually no laws protecting my rights. But even in the EU, the GDPR is not enough. Facebook/Meta was recently fined nearly a quarter of a billion Euros over "right to be deleted" legislation, and they brushed it off like the minor inconvenience it was.

It was so offensive and disgusting, I could not actually watch the entirety of the ITV Farage and Reform doc.

I literally can't spend that much time listening to racist, misogynist, corrupt fucks. It hurts my brain and my body revolts.

But it's probably the most powerful political expose in UK history. #ITV

The PHP #security issue shows once again how much our society relies on mostly volunteer work.

Look at PHP Foundation @thephpf finances:
https://opencollective.com/phpfoundation#category-BUDGET

- Reimbursed $67K on development work this year
- Received: $642,755 last year

Compare these numbers with the amounts companies have made with products & services built upon #PHP. Our digital foundations are built on the backs of #opensource volunteers. Governments & companies need to invest in our common digital infrastructures.

So today some of the worst people on earth using the most environmentally destructive tools on earth brought down a huge part of the internet by exploiting a potential problem found many years ago in PHP which was previously not practical for anyone to exploit.

It only became "practical" to exploit this problem because "AI" came along to automate the boring and repetitive work required to do so. Absurd amounts of computing power were applied specifically to break into other peoples' websites.

Now the same people who are behind this are trying to pretend that they're heroes for finding an exploit.

"AI uncovers critical vulnerabilities", their headline reads. But the vulnerability was only made to be critical by the very same people as hide behind that headline.

Many thousands of websites are offline, many people are losing money, many thousands of people are working hard to try to patch or work around the problem, many small guys are finding it almost impossible to patch, and we're all supposed to be thankful to OpenAI and others involved ? Nah. Fuck off.

Everything about "AI" involves a lot of externalized costs, but I've still yet to see even a single positive thing that has been achieved by "AI". That has definitely not changed today.
#php2shell #php #fuckai #openai

New Hectic City Mixtape! - BANJIE REALNESS : A CIRCULAR WILLIAM ORBIT MIX - we're paying tribute and celebrating the recently departed Mr. Orbit with a mighty four-hour mix, featuring a personal selection of his remix work and productions, mainly from around 1989-98.
Watch the vid to get a sampling, then stream in full below, or sign up to our mailing list to grab a download.

https://www.mixcloud.com/kleptones/hectic-city-26-banjie-realness-a-circular-william-orbit-mix

https://soundcloud.com/kleptones/hectic-city-26-banjie-realness-a-circular-william-orbit-mix

#kleptones #mixtape #williamorbit #music

Watching the ITV documentary on Farage's Reform Party, at this link, which is regionally blocked to the UK... but Firefox's built-in VPN allows you to watch it at a good quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp4hV7MALTg

It's REALLY extreme and widespread what many, MANY Reform candidates have been caught telling people... AFTER being vetted! Literally, a shitstorm of deplorables. Dangerously stupid, violent, bigoted, sexist, and thuggish.
More screencaps and details in the comments.🧵

AI is like those artists who make perfect forgeries of famous paintings. Nobody would disagree that they are technically brilliant, it's the dishonesty and lack of originality that people don't like