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“The very notion of compassion begins with feeling kindness towards yourself.” Chögyam Trungpa

The Burros of Boquillas del Carmen, March, 2017
The burros have always been a big part of the experience of Boquillas. When I first attended as a kid in 82 or 83, my parents let me ride a donkey on the trip. My donkey had done the trip so many times, it kept falling asleep while walking and waking with a start and jump.
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[[content nation]] backlash highlights [[mastodon's toxicity]]: https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/contentnation-mastodons-toxicity/

Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity
It turns out, if people in an online community really don't like what you're doing, they can turn to harassment, threats, or worse to try to shut you down.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09047 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_…

6G Non-Terrestrial Networks Enabled Low-Altitude Economy: Opportunities and Challenges
The unprecedented development of non-terrestrial networks (NTN) utilizes the low-altitude airspace for commercial and social flying activities. The integration of NTN and terrestrial networks leads to the emergence of low-altitude economy (LAE). A series of LAE application scenarios are enabled by the sensing, communication, and transportation functionalities of the aircrafts. The prerequisite technologies supporting LAE are introduced in this paper, including the network coverage and aircrafts…

Kris @… goes into a very important issue here (in German):
Since "AI" has become the thing to do, no cloud platform is neutral anymore (they never fully were, try hosting warez there, but for your own content they mostly were): They all "need" (as in want) to use your work as training data for their neural networks - especially work that's not "…

Kris (@isotopp@chaos.social)
Attached: 1 image In https://ddinstagram.com/sloan_spencer_author/p/C48JN_TrvxO/?img_index=1 heißt es: "Warning to all writers who use Google Docs. In a Discord with other indie authors last night, one romance author explained that all her work was suspended by Google for violating their rules of sharing explicit content with her beta/alpha readers. She has no acces to these files or her other works. Please read the following screenshots and go back up your workj now on a different plattfor…

Selenskyj: Brauchen "Patriots" und Granaten
Trotz einer Belebung westlicher Rüstungshilfen nach monatelanger Pause benötigt die von Russland angegriffene Ukraine eigenen Angaben zufolge weiter Waffen und Munition. Die täglichen russischen Raketenangriffe, die täglichen Angriffe an der Front könnten gestoppt werden, sagte Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj in seiner abendlichen Videobotschaft. "Aber dazu …
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) on X
I have just received reports on the situation in Odesa following a Russian missile strike and in Kharkiv following a Russian guided aerial bomb strike. Unfortunately, a number of people have been killed in Odesa. My condolences to their close ones. Many people have been injured,…

Deutschland 09 ist auch schon wieder 15 Jahre her. Das einzige Mal, als ich über einen roten #Berlinale Teppich lief.
Hier nicht zu sehen, aber immerhin die Schauspielerin, die mich spielte.
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OpenAI releases seven Sora videos from select filmmakers, artists, ad agencies, and musicians; Fairly Trained CEO Ed Newton-Rex calls the move "artistwashing" (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-show…

OpenAI shows off first examples of third-party creators using Sora
Sora creations made by a select group of outside filmmakers, artists, advertising agencies, and musicians that have been given access.

In a surprise vote, major European climate protection plan shelved following farmer protests
https://apnews.com/article/eu-climate-nature-protection-farmers-protests-7b222f346d4898e32766b230da781385

In a surprise vote, major European climate protection plan shelved following farmer protests
A major European Union plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc has been indefinitely postponed , underscoring how farmers’ protests sweeping the continent influence politics ahead of the June EU parliamentary elections..Monday was supposed to be the day the member states gave their final approval to the plan. But what was to be a mere rubber stamp following months of proceedings through the EU’s institutional maze has now been indefinitely postponed. It …

Announcement: #socialcoop member Nathan Schneider has a book that recently went open access!
[[Governable Spaces]]: Democratic Design for Online Life
https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.