> OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear. It's kind of hilarious that they go "if you don't want me to pirate your movies, you need to opt out" […]

Another nation fighting Russian tyranny, and winning. As Arthur says in that piece, the fight against Reform is also a fight against Russian tyranny. We should be a single-minded as Moldova is.

Government services are necessary services offered to citizens. They shouldn't have to be profitable to survive. (Can be applied to multiple organisations)

The EU has entire buildings in Strasbourg that it barely uses 😂 https://aus.social/@spinopsys/115274779429699790

💀 https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qougpda3f2sgfyco7qllxoeu/post/3lzpw5dzmok24

Exactly this 💯 #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent

We have one of these! 🤯 https://hachyderm.io/@recursive/115086203231534367

This satirical blog post really illustrates the problem with a lot of technical writing. Amazing technical writing is so good and then everything else reads like this https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-me-a-beginner

“Farage is treated less as a politician accountable to the public, and more as some kind of political rockstar. When he speaks, it’s packaged as ‘entertainment’. When he cheats, it’s shrugged off as “just Farage being Farage”. This is not harmless; it is a distortion of democracy by endlessly […]

Imagine thinking there’s actually a rise in autism and not just a rise in parents willing to listen to their autistic children and not bully them into conforming.

Was wondering if @lastweektonight.com would address the Kimmel stuff briefly or make it the "main story" (even though its "main stories" often involve months of prep and research). Looks like they went for it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohPT...

Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.

There is no obvious limit to how far Trump is prepared to go. He wants everything. He wants everyone to swear undying loyalty to him. He is prepared to do anything to get it. “Anything” might currently seem unimaginable to us. It's time we started imagining it. 4/4

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I love this explanation of how adtech has gone wrong, because it frames inefficient advertising as a corporate tax, the proceeds of which were distributed arbitrarily (but relatively fairly) among other creators. Efficient advertising can then be thought of as tax avoidance, meaning that […]

The least intuitive part of this is where eight of the vertexes of a regular dodecahedron form a cube. Sure, constructing an icosahedron using an octahedron and the golden ratio *looks* impressive, but it involves sqrt(5) and some funky algebra so *feels* plausible. The hidden in plain sight […]

Reason number 5728 to build up the European military industrial base www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

“an uncanny dynamic is unfolding across the world: one person in a couple becomes fixated on ChatGPT or another bot — for some combination of therapy, relationship advice, or spiritual wisdom — and ends up tearing the partnership down as the AI makes more and more radical interpersonal […]

The international community is talking about the state of Palestine, but no one has any ideas for keeping the Palestinians unmurdered.

The US Government has claimed the right to kill anyone it likes, anywhere in the world, for any reason. How is this any different from Putin poisoning the Skripals, or Litvinenko? https://www.justsecurity.org/120568/caribbean-strike-departure-war-on-terror/

You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you, your friends, your interests, your community. Diseased politics infects everything else, eventually. https://ruby.social/@getajobmike/115231677684734669

I'm officially writing a book! "Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London. It's uses ecology to show why we've got such a toxic technology monoculture through almost the whole tech […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#github "By changing our terms and conditions, we are making it easier for you to give us more money. If you do this on purpose, great! If you do it by accident, too bad we're still keeping your money. kthxbye" […]

TIL that Pakistanis have to sign a statement *condemning the Ahmadi faith* in order to be eligible for a passport. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8744092.stm

Got an email today from #github notifying us that they will be removing the default limits that stop their users from accidentally running up an enormous #copilot bill. That's one of the shittiest, most exploitative moves I've seen in a long time. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/173899

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The actions suggested here are overdue, but also woefully insufficient. So long as personal data is worth something to businesses, it will just be laundered through other jurisdictions. We must render personal data worthless to any legitimate business, which means *at minimum* a total ban on […]

#apple Mail (macOS *and* iOS) is nearly unusable now. Messages that have been in my inbox for an hour (on the web) still not showing up in Mail. Also, on iOS sometimes refreshing makes all of today's (sometimes several days worth) messages disappear so it looks like I've had no email for days […]

Some #macos update in the recent past has changed a setting so that every time I plug in my headphones to go on a Zoom meeting, Apple Music starts up. Even though I have never used it on my work laptop. WTF 😡

One of the most surprising reasons that people have told me that they dropped off the Fediverse is that they simply forget which server they signed up for.

Bravo to this parent for saying it exactly right! ““There is no comparable requirement for boys to confirm their gender,” said another parent. “Once again, the onus is placed on girls to be monitored and regulated, reinforcing the idea that female athletes are the ones who need to be verified.”” […]

In light of @pallenberg having content about Jimmy Kimmel removed from LinkedIn, I've written about the topic of Europeans problematic use of US commercial social networks in the era of Trump […]

Hardware companies shouldn’t be permitted to write or bundle commercial software, and vice versa. If your hardware would be a brick without an OS, you can only ship open source. Give the customer a choice - and “nothing” must be a valid choice […]

Yet another piece of music that has been mysteriously disappeared from streaming. This is why you always buy the CD... 😡

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

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I think this thread is spot on how the american right wing is now eating (and shooting) itself. https://thepit.social/@peter/115218108012661763

Who could have figured out that automatically downloading half the internet and ten thousand always-changing dependencies every time you build could actually be a weakness?

You can bring all the receipts you like to the propaganda war, but that’s bringing a knife to a gun fight. Keep the receipts, but they’re worth nothing until after you win. You have to win first.

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npm was a mistake. the concept of pulling live dependencies that are not collectively managed by a QA team but each individually managed by many thousands of people with wildly varying skill and availability is inherently doomed to constant incidents.

For all the right wing mockery of "pronouns in email", they've saved me so many times when someone has a gender neutral name or just a name from another culture I'm not familiar with which gender it typically is.

These checks are - racist - arbitrary (as they check trains more than other modes at Kehl) - costly (labour intensive) - inefficient (why not check while a train is moving?) - ineffective (the pedestrian bridge at Kehl isn’t checked) - annoying (they delay everyone) Could you imagine anything […]

And they hauled a black guy off and were going through his papers on the platform. I could have been transporting *anything* and got through no problem.

It makes me so effing totally fucking furious. Every single time. Racism pure and simple.

Yeah. Who did they control? The ethnic minority person. Fuckers, really. I approached the police and asked why they only control ethnic minorities. “She was the only one not to show her passport without asking” he said.

"We’ve built a machine that rewards extremity and punishes moderation, and because its driving incentives are profit and power, not truth, it will only intensify. If anything, it’s going to get worse. More polarisation, more fractured realities, more people convinced their neighbours are enemies […]

Time to tap the lossy jpg of a vintage Tumblr post again. Do not punish the behaviour you want to see. If people have just come here from Bluesky. Or finally got around to closing their Airbnb account. Or leaving Meta or whatever. Don't immediately jump on them […] [Original post on social.coop]

During discourse, do not insist on civility, but good faith. It should be acceptable for a person who has suffered a grave injustice to shout in rage, and it should not be acceptable for a charlatan to mislead with eloquence.

"The goal is to equip students to critically examine the digital environments they inhabit daily... This includes algorithmic literacy, the ability to understand how recommender systems work, how content is ranked and surfaced, and how personal data is used to shape what you see — and what you […]