@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-10-08 21:07:51
Perhaps they'll have to change their brand name to Beyond Dead Animals now?
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/10/08/when-is-a-sausage-no-longer-a-sausage-european-parliament-answers-a…
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-09 08:13:42
Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-09 13:27:14
Day 16: Mayra Cuevas & Marie Marquardt
Okay so this is cheating, but they're co-authors of multiple books together, and there's no way for me to separate their contributions... I've already got too many authors I'd like to list, so why not?
I read their book "Does My Body Offend You?" and absolutely loved it; it's a celebration of teen activism while also being a deep exploration of feminist issues through practical situations that bring out the complicated side of things, which the authors refuse to reduce back to a simple formulaic answer. It has a supporting cast of appropriately-complex male characters that help in exploring the nuances of issues like the line between female empowerment & male gratification, and it brings race and macho culture into the conversion as well.
CW for sexual harassment & deep discussion of the resultant trauma.
I'll cheat again here to sneak in mention of two male authors whose work resonates with theirs: Mark Oshiro's "Anger is a Gift" has a more pessimistic/complex take on teen activism along with a gay romance (CW for racist cop murder), while Jeremy Whitley's graphic novel "Navigating With You" deals with queer romance & disability, while having a main character pairing that echoes those from "Does My Body Offend You?" in a lot of ways. Another connection (to non-men authors this time) is with "Go With the Flow" by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann. Their graphic novel about teen activism and periods is a bit more didactic and has a much lighter tone, but it does necessarily have some overlapping themes.
To bring it back to Cuevas & Marquhardt, their writing is great and their ability to discuss such complex topics with such nuance, all wrapped up in a story that feels completely natural, is amazing to me, and makes their book feel like one of the most valuable to recommend to others.
In writing this I've realized a grave oversight in the list so far that I'll have to correct tomorrow, but I'm quickly running out of days. The didn't-quite-make-it list is going to be full of more excellent authors, and I'm honestly starting to wonder whether it might actually be harder to name 20 male authors I respect now that I've found the sense to be mostly somewhere between disgusted and disappointed with so many of the male authors I enjoyed as a teen.
#20AuthorsNoMen (cheating a bit)
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-08 16:35:42
Source: Piers Morgan's YouTube-based venture Uncensored is raising £22.5M from The Raine Group, Theo Kyriakou, and others at a £97M pre-money valuation (Mark Kleinman/Sky News)
https://news.sky.com/story/piers-morgan-s-uncensored-nears-…
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-12-08 19:22:54
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@hyphacoop/115685327547429897
They likely won't like my answers. 😅
FWIW a 7B param LLM costs around 55MWh to train and test, and about 300Wh per query. Then factor that 52% of the answers are unusable, so like Lay's potato chips, NOBODY does only one prompt.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-08 15:54:19
While politicians often avoid answering questions,
Speaker Mike Johnson’s habit of doing so is particularly noteworthy
because of the prominent place the speaker occupies in government.
“Very few officers are mentioned specifically in the constitution;
the speakership is one of them,”
“I would say it’s absolutely the responsibility of the speaker to keep up with what the president is saying and doing.”
But there are at least 14 examples of Johnson saying he…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-11-09 19:18:42
Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
RELF: No knowledge, cannot answer.
TARRANT: Are there others like you?
RELF: Yes.
TARRANT: And where are they?
RELF: Some menials like me. Others absorbed in the core.
TARRANT: Core, what's that?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/290
@mlippert@vmst.io2025-10-09 15:00:37
#Wordle 1,573 4/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 224,245 (175)
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 0 of 107 (16)
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 0 of 0 (1)
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WordleBot
Skill 94/99
Luck 42/99
I was avoiding the letter my friend accidentally showed me was in the answer last night until it had to be used in my 4th guess. But it was basically a normal progression of guesses for me.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-08 18:30:41
Piers Morgan's Uncensored launches its first spin-off, History Uncensored, hosted by former CNN anchor Bianca Nobilo, airing weekly on YouTube and as a podcast (PodcastingToday)
https://podcastingtoday.co.uk/piers-morgan-launches-h…
@mlippert@vmst.io2025-12-08 19:16:58
#Wordle 1,633 4/6*
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 231,589 (314)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 0 of 9 (4)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 0 of 0 (2)
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WordleBot
Skill 95/99
Luck 56/99
Well this is just a crazy wordle day. I start off with just typing the 1st 5 letter word that pops into my head, which when I looked at I had to wonder what I was thinking (obviously not). Then I get into 2 letter hell, but my 4th guess is the answer.
I'm just taking the win 🙂
Bot also wondered what I was thinking. It said: "Bold choice! Not what I would have picked, but I admire your creativity."