Urgently. Please read this.

We owe 4 months rent for the land our tent sits on — $150/month. The owner is threatening to evict us. In Gaza. With nowhere to go.

A kind friend covered one month. I still need $450 in the next 48 hours.

$450 is the difference between having ground under our tent — or nothing.

I have never been this scared of losing what little we have left.

Please donate any amount :
https://chuffed.org/project/help-mai-and-the-gaza-camp-kids
#urgent #gazagenocide #palestine #war #support #donate #mastodon

I would kill or die for Larry the cat.

A marathon is impressive.

A slow marathon is impressive.

Walking parts of a marathon is still impressive.

What’s not impressive is saying:

“5 hours?”

from the sideline like your knees did anything today.

The distance is still 26.2 miles / 42.2K.

The clock does not make the course shorter.

Fast runners suffer hard.

Slower runners suffer longer.

Respect both.

If all of America's fossil-fuelled data centre power plants go ahead, it'll be the same climate impact as adding another Australia to the world.

environmentalintegrity.org/news/74-gas-...

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Me: "Therefore, any sufficiently complicated technical problem is indistinguishable from a curse."

#infosec #sysadmin #bofh

I only realised why Ray-Bans are called ray bans. I'm 40.

how bad is the memory crisis? shady guy outside micro center was trying to sell me this for a thousand bucks

Australia is introducing free daytime power in July. They’ve installed so much #solar that the challenge is to use it effectively. People who can shift their electricity usage to the day (think retirees or people that work from home) can save a lot even if they don’t have solar. Anyone with a battery or two installed could see their power bill for many months go to almost zero.

Batteries are the key to having an economy that can run on solar and wind all the time.

https://lenergy.com.au/free-daytime-electricity-is-coming-heres-how-it-actually-works/

The wildest part of the AI bubble is watching American tech companies spending most of their profits on GPUs and memory chips in the hope that they can build AI smart enough to replace their workers and everyone else’s.

SwiftUI devs — this is a massively underrated doc (found by accident) of some 100% non-obvious behaviours for styling options in context menus. I knew some and forgot some, and some are new to me. 🔥

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/SwiftUI/Populating-SwiftUI-menus-with-adaptive-controls

Belarus reactivated one of the relay stations Russia's military allegedly uses to direct strikes on Ukraine, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said yesterday. Syrskyi also claimed that Putin has ordered plans for a new direct assault on Kyiv, possibly staged from Belarus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2loliH9Hy9w

"In the first months of 2026, the United States has bombed nearly 20 sovereign nations. I do not believe that you could name two-thirds of them without consulting your favored LLM"

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dangerous-dirty-violent-young-ayers-dohrn-weather-underground/

#uspol

Today, Bellingcat launches its formal membership program. For over a decade, our investigations have contributed to international court rulings, identified state actors behind war crimes, and documented accountability failures on American streets. This work has always been free to access. That independence depends on individual supporters. If evidence-based accountability journalism matters to you, we'd be grateful for your support.
https://www.bellingcat.com/donate/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=donation_drive_2026

This is a truly remarkable development: A carbonized scroll, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and successfully deciphered in its entirety.

What informations will the other carbonized scrolls reveal? What an exciting project!

👉 https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll

Back to pen and paper: Norway bans AI from primary schools.

For decades, Norway has been a pioneer in digital education. But now the Scandinavian country is making a U-turn.

The Norwegian government is reacting to declining test results among students and is issuing a far-reaching ban on the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in teaching.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260620-back-to-pen-and-paper-norway-bans-ai-from-primary-schools?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Norway #AI #PrimarySchools #Skills #Education #Tech #Teaching

Masayoshi Son has funded such wacky ideas as spending $16 billion on a coworking space startup (WeWork), Uber for dog walkers (Wag) and robots that bake pizzas in the back of delivery trucks (Zume).

However even he thinks SpaceX’s data centers in space is too wacky to believe.

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars.

AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai-automation-human-workers-b3003787.html

#climate #BoilingFrog

Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/tens-of-thousands-march-in-the-first-budapest-pride-since-viktor-orban-was-voted-out

“I’m going to pronounce it in my head as ‘buns’.”

— “Training an LLM in Swift, Part 2: macOS built-in frameworks”

https://www.cocoawithlove.com/blog/macos-ml-frameworks.html