@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-07-13 18:09:02
I’m always excited to see people moving to vehicles that are (1) smaller and (2) more electric/human-powered. However, I probably agree with @… on this one.
Questions for this and any such “Should it use bike infrastructure?” situation:
1. Does it have emissions while in operation?
2. Does it regularly •stop• in the bike line (in practice, not just in theory)?
3. Does it block the full width of a narrow-ish urban bike lane, and thus prevent passing where a cargo bike would allow it?
4. What’s the magnitude of its momentum (weight times speed) while in operation? https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/114845877730092611
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-06-14 10:21:24
I have my share of issues with Parkrose Permaculture, but she has a lot of things I do strongly agree with. I can't stress enough that you never dehumanize your enemies. You can respond appropriately to violence. You can defend yourself from them by any means necessary. But you do not dehumanize them. You always limit your response to the minimum necessary to defend yourself.
There are a number of former Nazi skins who became antifascists after realizing they were wrong. Those folks tend to be some of the most dedicated because they feel a debt, and some of the most knowledgeable because they were there. Coming out of these types of cults, police included, is hard and takes time. A lot of us don't have the ability to work with them. But some do.
By repeatedly humanizing your opponent, you can break some of them. The #Seattle Police Department was not defunded but saw a massive reduction in numbers because their morale was destroyed. Some people will never change. Some people are broken and feel like they need the power. But if you change one person's mind, even give them something to think about, it's a crack. If even one cop quits, that's one less trained gun pointed at you in the future.
The 18 year old marines and federalized national guard troops out there are literally kids. A lot of them came from poor communities. They are being used in a way they haven't been trained to do, doing things they (should) have been told are not legal. They joined to get out of poverty, to go to college, or to "defend the American people" (regardless of how misguided that is). Few, if any, of them joined to abuse people. They will be especially open to persuasion.
Remind those troops that they are carrying out illegal orders, that they are being called on to violate their oath to protect the constitution, that they are suppressing the free speech of the fellow Americans they swore to defend. Remind them that the people they could be illegally arresting now are just like their parents, their neighbors, their families, the friends who didn't join. Remind them that this is the first step. They will be called on to kill Americans if they let this keep going.
Remind them ICE sleeps in hotels while they sleep on the ground. Remind them that their drunk and incompetent leadership thinks of them as disposable tools. Remind them that some of these people are out protesting *for them* against cuts to the VA and other services. Remind them that the people they're defending refuse to make college free so they can recruit from poor schools. Remind them that they will always be welcome when they're ready to join the side of freedom and justice.
When you dehumanize your enemies, you unify them. When you humanize your enemies, you can divide them. There is no weapon available to us right now so powerful as compassion.
https://youtu.be/YtWOYUDMsBw
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-06-13 21:41:13
Azure cost reduction/optimization for hosted applications using Artificial Intelligence. And it's REPEATABLE. Interested? Read on...
✅ Daniel Meppiel's Project Post
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielmeppiel_enterpriseai-ai-…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2025-07-08 00:30:05
Urban Solitude III 🈳
城市孤独 III 🈳
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan SS, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-13 11:55:56
Sources: Tencent is in early talks to acquire Nexon, the South Korean gaming giant behind Dungeon & Fighter Mobile; Tencent pursued a Nexon acquisition in 2019 (Dong Cao/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@dingsextrem@mas.to2025-06-14 10:58:55
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2025-06-13 13:08:14
"Para o ajudar".
Pooooooois.
E eu tenho aqui uma ponte em ótimo estado, não a querem comprar?
https://masto.pt/@tugatech/114676165940672788
@benb@osintua.eu2025-07-14 06:25:16
EU expected to agree on new Moscow sanctions, Russian oil price cap, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/eu-expected-to-agree-on.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-13 19:15:49
Yupp, which rewards users in crypto for comparing answers from multiple AI models and giving feedback, emerges from stealth with a $33M seed led by a16z crypto (James Hunt/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/358094/a16zcrypto-3…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-07-13 03:45:54
Samsung agrees to acquire Seattle-based Xealth, which helps healthcare providers manage digital health tools and has raised over $50M, for an undisclosed sum (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/samsung-acquiring…