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I helped lead the National Guard. Troops don't belong in our cities. (Home of the Brave)
https://newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/i-helped-lead-the-national-guard
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p38#a251029p38

1/ Super-excited to release the first complete rewrite to the Pyret home page in 10 years, corresponding to major language improvements! So many cool new things, let me give you a brief tour: ↵
https://pyret.org/

Pyret
The Pyret programming language

The Supreme Court upended the constitutional separation of powers on Friday afternoon
with a brief order allowing Donald Trump to unilaterally cancel
$4 billion in foreign aid appropriated by Congress.
In an apparent 6–3 decision, the conservative supermajority greenlit Trump’s so-called “pocket rescission"

The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Constitution to Give Trump Terrifying New Powers
The conservative supermajority's lawless shadow docket decision let the president unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign aid.

Festgelände überfüllt - Angst vor Massenpanik: Wiesnchef gibt Fehler zu #News #Nachrichten

dpd lässt mich per Mail wissen, dass sie mich leider heute nicht angetroffen hätten und meine Sendung daher in einen "Pickup Paketshop" umgeleitet wird. Einziges Problem: Abgesehen davon, dass ich natürlich schon den ganzen Morgen da bin, ist das Paket laut live Tracking noch im Zustellfahrzeug im Nachbarort. Schon doof, wenn einen die eigene Technik beim Lügen überführt... 😒

Surface Optimisation Governs the Local Design of Physical Networks
Xiangyi Meng, Benjamin Piazza, Csaba Both, Baruch Barzel, Albert-L\'aszl\'o Barab\'asi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23431

Surface Optimisation Governs the Local Design of Physical Networks
The brain's connectome and the vascular system are examples of physical networks whose tangible nature influences their structure, layout, and ultimately their function. The material resources required to build and maintain these networks have inspired decades of research into wiring economy, offering testable predictions about their expected architecture and organisation. Here we empirically explore the local branching geometry of a wide range of physical networks, uncovering systematic violat…

"What do you lose by using Facebook", asked a friend who is keen to keep his account there for some reason.
What made me leave was the manipulation. I mean: they started hiding your friends posts in order to show you adverts instead! Feeding you slop from their promoted posts and "viral" messages (that aren't actually boosted by anyone, just picked out by their megaphone to show to everyone).
If you let the algorithm determine what you see than you let it determine what you are, who you become.
Even if you think it's better at finding shiny things than you, even if you think it builds the parasocial relationships that you want, even if you think it's saving you time to let the robot manage your reading-list: if you are letting Facebook, or any algorithm written by advertisers, do your reading selection then you are letting Facebook decide who you are.
On behalf of the advertisers who bribe them the most.
This is why you gotta use RSS. You gotta use the chronological timelines not the "for you" feeds. You gotta build follow relationships that you choose and understand because otherwise, you are letting the corporation and it's systems determine these things. You are abdicating some control of your very self to the machine.
Not to mention that we have to stop feeding money to the evil multi-trillion dollar companies built to control and manipulate us through our relationships with our friends. They have enough money, they need less participation not more.
#fediverse #algorithm

https://novaramedia.com/2025/09/21/israel-is-trying-to-smear-the-gaza-aid-flotilla-as-terrorists-we-must-not-let-it/

Read all about Chatcontrol and why we should resist it. This sentence is extremely scary.... "Specifically, this AI will have to be built by WhatsApp/Meta so they can monitor us on behalf of the EU" 😱
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/chatcontrol-in-brief/

Chatcontrol 2025 edition in Brief - Bert Hubert's writings
In short, led by Denmark, many EU member states are arguing for forcing WhatsApp/Signal/etc to inspect all our photos and links, using AI. If the AI is in any “doubt” if this might be child pornography, your photo, location, phone number & other details get reported to Europol and a local police force. What happens next is not specified, but your holiday in Cyprus might end up with you having to explain your photos over at the local police station.

The Supreme Court upended the constitutional separation of powers on Friday afternoon
with a brief order allowing Donald Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign aid appropriated by Congress.
In an apparent 6–3 decision,
the conservative supermajority greenlit Trump’s so-called “pocket rescission,”
ensuring that the money will expire before its intended beneficiaries receive it.
It offered a single page of vague, threadbare justification,
suggest…

The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Constitution to Give Trump Terrifying New Powers
The conservative supermajority's lawless shadow docket decision let the president unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign aid.