https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald-trump-has-posted-an-ai-video-of-himself-dumping-st-on-protesters_uk_68f47da4e4b0e68c2dd0afe4
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Apparently the US government departments are starting to join Bluesky and are getting ratioed in that the accounts are being blocked more than they are followed.
Doesn't really seem to make sense at first. The US Department Of Transportation isn't going to show up as a reply guy in your mentions and the spooks aren't going to use that account to spy on your posts.
Is the blocking then entirely performative? Because blocks are public they are votes?
I guess really it's people deliberately reading the recommended-for-you AI-driven slop feeds.
Blocked users won't show up in your machine-learning robot-recommended feeds that people apparently must be reading over there.
Just not-following would be enough for me, I don't see things I don't follow. But if you read the robot-DJ feeds then anything can show up, so you have to preemptively block it. If only to train the robot shuffle.
#blueSky #fediverse #aiSlopFeed
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Those are all wonderful films, but The Princess Bride is quite simply the perfect movie. @… https://flipboard.social/@CultureDesk/11572588…
«an ineffectual "open source revolution" that maintains the status quo of our modern day hellscape by facilitating an upwards transfer of wealth and power, amassed by the hyperscalers who are now entering their final, fascistic form. Open source "won" by aiding and abetting the already dominant owner-class.»
Quite a long read, but the core issue of where FLOSS is failing feels about right to me.
https://blog.muni.town/open-source-power/
Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"The Egyptians say that Demeter [Isis] and Dionysos [Osiris] are the rulers of the lower world. The Egyptians were the first who maintained the following doctrine, too, that the human soul is immortal, and at the death of the body enters into some other living thing then coming to birth"
Herodotus, Histories 2.12…
Kneecap, a music artist with a global following, is being unjustly denied entry into Canada solely based on their political stance supporting the 'Free Palestine' movement.
Kneecap has no record of criminal activity in any country. Preventing their entry appears to be a punitive measure stemming from their vocal opposition to policies regarded by many as oppressive and unjust.
Registration for HRM26 Hellenic Mountain Race 2026 is now live. May 23-30, 2026
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Spin Hall effect in the high-resistivity high-entropy alloy AlCrMoW
Jyoti Yadav, Felix Janus, Tiago de Oliveira Schneider, Shalini Sharma, Daniel Schr\"oter, Markus Meinert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09835