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One thing I think about is how flat-earth types could convince themselves, without having to trust anyone, their model of the earth is wrong. I don't think the earth is flat, but it is an interesting problem in #epistemology.
A model needs to explain observations if it is to be believed.
Lately, I've been thinking about day length as seasons change, and how cycle is opposit…

#F35 #killswitch
« Bien sûr, il y a un bouton d'arrêt. Tout ce qui est équipé d'un logiciel ou d'une connectivité internet est doté d'un kill switch. C'est comme ça que ça marche - bienvenue dans la société moderne ».

Le Sillon Fictionnel est désormais disponible au format EPUB pour vos liseuses, ainsi qu’en PDF et sur le site web sillonesque.
🌊 Pour plus d'information https://sillon-fictionnel.club/apropos/#le-sillon-en-revue
🗄️ PDF

马斯克“查账”曝150岁老人领福利，竟是COBOL惹的祸？-InfoQ
https://www.infoq.cn/article/7OFw27GfLm370K4M1lR3

Ordis et tablettes Š l'école:
"Le gouvernement régional de Madrid a dévoilé des plans visant Š limiter l'utilisation des ordinateurs et des tablettes dans les écoles primaires Š un maximum de deux heures par semaine afin de lutter contre « les risques associés Š l'utilisation précoce, intensive et inappropriée des technologies de l'information »."

Really grateful for community tonight.
We really do keep us safe and healing.

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我不會馬上看，直到手中工作告一段落才會開來看，有時候已經好幾個小時過去了。

Tout le monde n’a pas eu la chance de voir l’exposition Invader Space Station, installée dans le parking et l’ancien siège historique du journal Libération, situé rue Béranger Š Paris...
👾 Lire la suite sur le Sillon https://sillon-fictionnel.club/post/invader/
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#taxesoda #malbouffe
"une nouvelle étude de l'Université de Washington a montré que les femmes qui
qui boivent au moins une boisson gazeuse pleine de sucre par jour sont environ cinq fois plus de risques de développer un cancer de la cavité buccale que le…

Overwhelmed by winter? A traffic camera shows this rest stop on I-70 not only has no snow, but it's spring and the leaves are out 😆
#OHWx

Wer aktiv gegen das #afd_verbot_jetzt ist, ist mmn ein Faschist, Rassist und Nazi.
Die wissen genau, was die da unterstützen und wofür diese Partei steht!
#afd #afdverbot

New year’s wishes 🎆
I want to be aggregated. And #aggregators should make the most of #metadata. And therefore I appreciate demanding #validation services vs. lowest common denominat…

Dernières nouvelles du paradis du capitalisme: faire ses courses Š crédit.
https://futurism.com/doordash-klarna-loan-partnership

"White guy window dressing" is a little better. I just wish it was one word.
I bet, if they weren't white, the Germans would have a word for this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1w0fs0/til_chinese_companies_rent_white_people_to_look/?rdt=52577

🎟️ Indian Railways estrena #SwaRail, una app integrada e innovadora 💫
🚧 La app, que aún estš en versión beta, incluye ka compra de tickets, solicitud de reembolsos, y compra de comida a bordo

It's gonna be a sad day if all the handmade, off-model, copyright-defying art on carnival rides ever gets replaced by boring generative AI images.
#Art #AI #Airbrush

Warum sind nur 17% der Abgeordneten für ein #afdverbot , obwohl 50% der Bevölkerung dafür sind?
Die Abgeordneten sollen doch die Meinung der Öffentlichkeit vertreten, ich finde sowas unakzeptabel.
Letzendlich bleibt wohl nicht mehr viel übrig, außer Druck auf die Abgeordneten auszuüben und zu hoffen, dass die darauf reagieren.

There is a long and storied history of whistles for protection. Ancient Egyptian guards used to place a blade of grass between the thumbs to alert other guards of issues that were transpiring. Later, shells were used to the same end. In China, acorns with holes drilled in them were used similarly.
As a dedicated instrument, whistles have been made of wood, bone, metal, and later, plastics. British bobbies have used whistles to communicate over distances since the 1880s. They are a commonly used tool for boatswains, crossing guards, and referees.
I wish I knew more about rape whistles, but they seem similar in functionality to hikers taking whistles with them in case of injury, as the sound carries much further than yelling, and is much less tiring.
As someone regularly stalked by a large creepy harasser, I am grateful for the whistle I was given for self-protection, even if the creeps who it was given to defend against resent the fuck out of it.
Fin.

One reason why I love using Fedilab for Mastodon: the option to display a translate button on every post. I follow people who write in various languages, and I can get an English translation with a single tap. @… #Android

Der #aliceweidel und #elonmusk Talk war mmn eine illegale Parteispende.
Solch eine geboostete Aufmerksammkeit würde als werbetreibender auf X 75k im falle einer Werbung, bzw 150k im Falle einer Influencerwerbung (was Musk ja ist) kosten.

Awkward when you're literally doing more organizing in a whole other city where the knob who thinks he's — actually I don't know what he thinks he's accomplishing — lives, than the actual knob who &c.
🖕🏾

#DemocracyMatters

#Trump is butthurd by a bishop telling him indirectly that his politiks are bad.
He wants a apology and says that she is a leftextreme trump hater.
Does this sound like kindergarden drama? Yes.
Is this person running the country? Yes.
#trump

Das zeigt wieder einmal, wie wichtig politische und politikhistorische Bildung ist.
Anscheinend wussten 40% der befragten nicht, dass 6m Juden im #Holocaust gestorben sind.
15% glauben, dass es unter 2m waren, 2%, also jeder 50ste glaubt nichtmal an den Holocaust.
Kein Wunder, dass sich bei dieser schrecklichen

Umfrage: Viele junge Menschen wissen wenig über Holocaust
Was ist der Holocaust? Wie viele Jüdinnen und Juden wurden durch das NS-Regime ermordet? Vor allem junge Menschen in den USA und einigen EU-Ländern zeigen bei diesen Fragen deutliche Wissenslücken.

Yesterday in #FuckThePolice
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A Portland Police Bureau report released late last month shows that the agency's review board recommended that a sergeant be fired after lying to investigators about placing a right-wing meme in a training presentation — a recommendation that Chief Bob Day and then-Mayor Ted Wheeler declined to follow.
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Known as the "Prayer of the Alt Knight," the meme has been traced back to a member of the far-right Proud Boys group and endorses police brutality against a "dirty hippy," showing an officer in riot gear with fist raised over a person with long hair.
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McDaniel denied the allegation that he'd put the slide in the presentation. Then-Chief Chuck Lovell ultimately concluded that it was "more likely than not" that McDaniel was responsible for the slide, according to the memo, though Lovell backed away from termination of the sergeant's employment and instead suspended him for 100 hours without pay.
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#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle