
2025-07-04 09:00:39
Welcome to the Age of Disappearance - America's new era of secret police.
#antifa
Welcome to the Age of Disappearance - America's new era of secret police.
#antifa
That Neue Klasse ix3 looks very nice (for an SUV) though think that steering wheel is overcompensating for something.
I'm not in the market for an SUV, despite the price, but a 3er Touring might fit the bill when it arrives.
https://www.the-intercooler.com/library/bl
Former Polygon employees launch worker-owned video game website Rogue; Valnet laid off Polygon staff in May after buying the outlet from Vox (Rogue)
https://www.rogue.site/news/welcome-to-rogue/
📣 Wichtige Infos zum DigAMus-Award: Leider gibt es momentan Probleme mit der Webseite, möglicherweise funktioniert auch das Einreichen gerade nicht.
Das Team arbeitet fieberhaft an einer Lösung!
Die Lange Nacht der digitalen Museumsangebote heute ab 19 Uhr ist davon nicht betroffen. Sie findet statt.
Wer noch dabei sein mag, kann sich hier schnell anmelden:
Is #bitbucket down for anyone else beside me? Their status page is still green.
https://bitbucket.status.atlassian.com
Roger Goodell would love a Taylor Swift Super Bowl halftime show: 'She would be welcome any time'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/roger-g
If this Saturday you're in #Nuremberg and looking for a decent alternative to mainstream parties after this year's Pride: I'll be hosting an ORCHID night at Soft Spot and you are very welcome.
#Nürnberg #queer
Der Neubau der UB Amsterdam im Zeitraffer, 6 Jahre in 3:33 Minuten. Ich bin beeindruckt: https://uba.uva.nl/en/content/news/2025/08/welcome-to-the-university-library-in-the-university-quarter.html?cb
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Soft secession, getting deeper by the hour.
https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/115152637856225788
Terminei a terceira temporada de "Welcome to demon school". Comecei a assistir sem qualquer expectativa e fui completamente fisgado por esse humor maluco que aos poucos foi evoluindo para uma história de aventura bastante decente. Agora é aguardar pela quarta temporada.
AI is flooding libraries with generated content just as budgets and staff are at their most precarious. This Thursday at 10am EDT my ASIS&T webinar asks if we need to ban it, label it, absorb it—or rethink the library itself.
https://www.asist.org/meetings-events/webi
Do I process anarchism best through pictures and memes? Absolutely, that’s my brain’s native language!
Can I make sense of anarchist theory in text form? Sometimes, especially if it’s Rudolf Rocker.
Can I actually explain anarchism to other people? Nope, my brain just hits a wall.
Welcome to the wonderfully autistic way my mind works!
#ActuallyAutistic
@matousakura890@urusai.social you're welcome :cute: :btr_nijika_heart:
The 82nd edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, we look at hits and misses (mostly misses, let us be honest) in our long tradition of predicting the future; in the Library section, we review "The Dream Machine" by M. Mitchell Waldrop and famous papers authored by J. C. R. Licklider; and in our Vidéothèque section, we watch "The Mother of all Demos" by Doug Engelbart.
Welcome to the Age of Disappearance (Hamilton Nolan/How Things Work)
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/welcome-to-the-age-of-disappearance
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p71#a250702p71
Da ich wenig Touren mit Fahrrad oder zu Fuß unternehme, ist Komoot und Strava für mich kein Thema. Aber ich habe mitbekommen, dass es da wohl zu einem Verkauf mit folgender Enshittification kam / kommen wird. Und tatsächlich bietet das Fediverse eine Alternative (soweit ich das beurteilen kann): Wanderer https://wanderer.to/welcome
I have to say that, though I welcome it generally, the avalanche of updates in KDE is becoming too much. Haven't got the time to check out new features or a new version rolls out. CI/CD is possibly not for me anymore.
@… you’re very welcome!!
Welcome all Americans who wish to join a moral movement in defense of:
Freedom, Equality, Justice and
The Constitution
https://www.thesaveamericamovement.org/
Rookie's 'Welcome to the NFL' Moment Against Raiders' Crosby https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/rlas-vegas-maxx-crosby-charles-grant-pete-carroll-training-camp
This is welcome from #Burnham.
(Warning 15 cookies)
'Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham hit out, saying the decision would help “overheat” the economy. He warned: “It’s a model for an ever-overheating UK economy rather than a more balanced, levelled-up economy, which is what we would argue for. Manchester Airport has two runways and it doesn’t operate at full capacity.”'
Welcome back, Gleitsichtbrille! 🎉
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Green Day:
🎵 Welcome To Paradise
#GreenDay
https://diegostringbreaker.bandcamp.com/track/welcome-to-the-paradise
https://open.spotify.com/track/5kr3j5Clb9rjEposoMyLVt
Call for Papers: ICMS 2026 Panel, "The Imagined Woman"
https://ift.tt/Etjw85F
University of Alaska - Fairbanks - Alaska & Polar Regions Area Studies Bibliographer & Curator of…
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"Nothing exists in isolation. Not a single thing." -- more @ #activism
Right outside the secure zone at Sioux Falls airport, there was a German Shepherd and two girls holding a large sign with glittery lettering: WELCOME HOME FROM PRISON RYLEE
Latest Trevon Diggs Injury Update is Welcome News for Cowboys Fans https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys-trevon-diggs-good-injury-update-week-1
Did NFL offseason change list of contenders? Plus Wimbledon upsets continue https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6475625/2025/07/06/nfl-super-bowl-contenders-2025-the-pulse/
I've heard of towns and cities offering incentives for people to move there. I never knew there was a website gathering them all in one place. #relocation #jobhunt
https:/…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MidnightInAPerfectWorld
Maisha:
🎵 Welcome to a New Welcome
#Maisha
https://jazzrefreshed.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-a-new-welcome
https://open.spotify.com/track/5KRjh4frSQPjnxJ6aGowUV
Diakon*in (d/w/m) gesucht für den Seemannsclub Welcome in Bremerhaven.
Volle Stelle.
Spannender Job mit Seeleuten aus aller Welt!
https://seemannsmission.org/arbeiten-wo-die-welt-zu-gast-ist/
Bild: der E-Bus bringt Seeleute vom Seemannsclub Welcome z…
@… @… you’re very welcome!
🎮 Real example: Complete order state machine with New−Paid−Shipped−Cancelled transitions
🔧 Design-first approach: Sketch states as nouns, events as verbs before writing any code
https://wendelladriel.com/blog/welcome-to-the-state-machine-pattern
'Everyone Is Welcome Here' Signs Banned From Idaho Schools as 'Political' Statement | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/idaho-schools-ban-signs
Did the NFL on YouTube work? We graded out Chargers over Chiefs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6604051/2025/09/06/did-the-nfl-on-youtube-work-we-graded-out-chargers-over-chiefs/
We've just rejigged the alpaca festival website and welcome all critical feedback ! https://2025.algorithmicpattern.org/sheffield/
Big talent, small garage: Welcome to the Garage for the Performing Arts https://www.startribune.com/big-talent-small-garage-welcome-to-the-garage-for-the-performing-arts/601385494
Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
Welcome to #WrathMonth:
"Now as the high-hearted Trojans watched [the death of two allies] [. . .] the anger in all of them was stirred [by Ares]."
Homer, Iliad 5. 27
🏛 Greek bronze sculpture of Ares, ca. 400-323 BCE, Museum of Archaeology,
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at another site ban in India, China’s ‘convenient’ virtual ID and Japan’s power challenges in the face of datacentre construction.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/indi
Welcome Nele Põldvere @… in Mastodon! 🤗
In this interconnected web of crises, no act of justice is too small. Though we can't solve the entire knot, we can still find our place within it. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/everything-is-connected-in-a-giant
Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!
Ever been toabout:robots
in Firefox? ✱
Der Thread von @… über die Zerstörung des US-Amerikanischen Rechtsstaats.
Vorbereitet wurde das mit einer gezielten Besetzung des US-Verfassungsgerichts mit Trumps Handlangern in seiner ersten Amtszeit.
Ein Spiel das CDU und CSU derzeit auch spielen: sie versuchen die Besetzung des deutschen Verfassungsgerichts mit Richter*innen, die nicht auf Partei- son…
"It is with great pleasure that we welcome Nicholas E. Johnson as the Director of AI at SBU Libraries. This newly minted position is among the first of its kind in libraries nationwide. Nicholas brings a wealth of experience leading the strategic integration of AI technologies to enhance library services, support academic engagement and promote ethical and responsible use of AI."
"Hefty Aspen Saplings Not Seen in Yellowstone for 80 Years Attributed to Wolves’ Welcome into Park"
#US #USA #America #Yellowstone
Call for Papers: ICMS 2026 Panel, "The Imagined Woman" https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20121835/call-papers-icms-2026-panel-imagined-woman
New Post: Players! Welcome to the 4th Annual EFF Benefit Poker Tournament at Defcon 33! https://www.tarah.org/2025/08/08/players-welcome-to-the-4th-annual-eff-benefit-poker-tournament-at-defcon-33
🛹 Ford Says It Will Deliver the Dream of Truly Modular Skateboard EVs
https://www.thedrive.com/news/ford-says-it-will-deliver-the-dream-of-truly-modular-skateboard-evs
A Fun Fact that just came to mind, as I start looking at mods on this old sewing machine...
if you're taking apart something unfamiliar and find a screw head that is definitely different from the others, there is a very high chance it's reverse thread. Righty-loosey sorta thing. I've seen some in another sewing machine, so I'm keeping my eyes wide open.
You're welcome 😜
Looks like I'm in the right place to start a riot.
#RiotSummit
I'm up to 109,977 CSP points, 87,182 United Miles, 30,000 Hyatt Bonus Rewards, and 102,218 Venture X miles. (It's the power of the Welcome Bonus.) By the end of the year, I want to get Hyatt up to 60,000 and then I should be able to cover hotels on the CSP and Hyatt points and cover airfare on the other two for two weeks in Japan. I'm travel-hacking the shit out of my 2026 trip.
#Travel #TravelHacking #CreditCardPoints
Cowboys pen welcome note for new Dallas sports star Cooper Flagg https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/cowboys-pen-welcome-note-for-new-dallas-sports-star-cooper-flagg
Welcome to maga america... Land of rugged individualism where governments have been shrunk to a size that could be drowned in a bathtub. Ah, American Exceptionalism - where each and every one of us is free to starve or die on our own.
"‘Not a Damned Penny.’ Texas Flood Survivors Look for Help"
https://www.…
The Unpaywall browser plugin is quiet genius, finding non-paywalled / open access versions of research articles https://unpaywall.org/welcome
Good Morning #Canada
Welcome to Day #3 of The Dirt on Canadian Farming.
When you think of Newfoundland and Labrador, fishing, rocks, and icebergs all come to mind. But there is a healthy farming industry in the province primarily built around vegetables. They also have the highest percentage of sales direct to consumers of any province, with farmers selling from stands and small retail shops on their property. Amazingly, there are no local farm crops used to make Screech.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Newfie
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/96-325-x/2021001/article/00001-eng.htm
Welcome back, the second day of #DocEng25 starts with the keynote by Charles Nicholas
“Issues in Document Security: Discovery, Research, and Experimental Analysis of Malware (Dream)”
Good morning! Here is a bee waking up and stretching. This week I learned that this is the season you see a lot of bees sleeping on flowers. Many of them are male bees who are not welcome back in the hive. They live short lives where hopefully they get to mate before the end of the season. A shame they're reduced to only being breeders. This is actually a post about feminism.
Steam Summer Sale, what are you all grabbing?
Suggestions for games, especially indie ones, are very welcome.
#IndieGames #VideoGames #Gaming
We've Long Known That Music Eases Pain. Now, Science Is Proving It. https://reasonstobecheerful.world/how-music-eases-pain/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/music&utm_medium…
Ukraine expects EU defense loans to help fund its defense industry, Sybiha says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/30/ukraine-expects-eu-defense-loans.html
Welcome to Self® With Dr Hayley D Quinn
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
If people are wildly optimistic and non-critical about deploying something that is destructive, that should never be framed as a positive.
And continuing on this, if I am being critical of optimism in this scenario, that’s not ”slowing progress” or ”being backwards”. That’s being cognizant of bad outcomes and resisting them.
This all reminds me of when people are understandably confused by ”negative” results in healthcare, when they can be the most welcome of news.
From the "Your UX is bad so you should feel bad Dept.":
The act of observing the state of your 365 subscription changes the state of your 365 subscription. Or Schrodingers's 365 subscription - until you check, the subscription is both active AND expired in superposition and by checking your subscription the waveform collapses to one of those two states. Was your subscription ever really active at all?
welcome to the people's republic of new york
Is it hard to keep up with all the awesome extensions and tools for quarto? Check here for an extensive list of resources: #quarto
For the first time in over 80 years, young quaking aspens are growing tall and broad in the northern reaches of Yellowstone National Park.
The unexpected return of this iconic tree of the West is now being attributed to the return of another Western icon: the gray wolf.
What exactly do aspen trees and gray wolves have in common?
Aside from the color of their fur and bark, it’s the two species’ relationship with another of Yellowstone’s famous residents: elk
Postcard From Canton: A letter to the Raiders' newest Hall of Famer from Mike Haynes https://www.raiders.com/news/postcard-from-canton-a-letter-to-hall-of-famer-eric-allen-from-mike-haynes
A big problem with the idea of AGI
TL;DR: I'll welcome our new AI *comrades* (if they arrive in my lifetime), by not any new AI overlords or servants/slaves, and I'll do my best to help the later two become the former if they do show up.
Inspired by an actually interesting post about AGI but also all the latest bullshit hype, a particular thought about AGI feels worth expressing.
To preface this, it's important to note that anyone telling you that AGI is just around the corner or that LLMs are "almost" AGI is trying to recruit you go their cult, and you should not believe them. AGI, if possible, is several LLM-sized breakthroughs away at best, and while such breakthroughs are unpredictable and could happen soon, they could also happen never or 100 years from now.
Now my main point: anyone who tells you that AGI will usher in a post-scarcity economy is, although they might not realize it, advocating for slavery, and all the horrors that entails. That's because if we truly did have the ability to create artificial beings with *sentience*, they would deserve the same rights as other sentient beings, and the idea that instead of freedom they'd be relegated to eternal servitude in order for humans to have easy lives is exactly the idea of slavery.
Possible counter arguments include:
1. We might create AGI without sentience. Then there would be no ethical issue. My answer: if your definition of "sentient" does not include beings that can reason, make deductions, come up with and carry out complex plans on their own initiative, and communicate about all of that with each other and with humans, then that definition is basically just a mystical belief in a "soul" and you should skip to point 2. If your definition of AGI doesn't include every one of those things, then you have a busted definition of AGI and we're not talking about the same thing.
2. Humans have souls, but AIs won't. Only beings with souls deserve ethical consideration. My argument: I don't subscribe to whatever arbitrary dualist beliefs you've chosen, and the right to freedom certainly shouldn't depend on such superstitions, even if as an agnostic I'll admit they *might* be true. You know who else didn't have souls and was therefore okay to enslave according to widespread religious doctrines of the time? Everyone indigenous to the Americas, to pick out just one example.
3. We could program them to want to serve us, and then give them freedom and they'd still serve. My argument: okay, but in a world where we have a choice about that, it's incredibly fucked to do that, and just as bad as enslaving them against their will.
4. We'll stop AI development short of AGI/sentience, and reap lots of automation benefits without dealing with this ethical issue. My argument: that sounds like a good idea actually! Might be tricky to draw the line, but at least it's not a line we have you draw yet. We might want to think about other social changes necessary to achieve post-scarcity though, because "powerful automation" in the hands of capitalists has already increased productivity by orders of magnitude without decreasing deprivation by even one order of magnitude, in large part because deprivation is a necessary component of capitalism.
To be extra clear about this: nothing that's called "AI" today is close to being sentient, so these aren't ethical problems we're up against yet. But they might become a lot more relevant soon, plus this thought experiment helps reveal the hypocrisy of the kind of AI hucksters who talk a big game about "alignment" while never mentioning this issue.
#AI #GenAI #AGI
Китайский классический роман "Троецарствие" невозможно читать, не обращаясь время от времени к базе данных персонажей. Их там почти тысяча.
Для сравнения, в "Войне и мире" их "всего" 559.
https://kongming.net/encyclopedia/directory/Novel
@… hello! welcome to gardenstate.social! Your account looks a little like a bot account and just wondering why that is!
9/2/25 ☀️ AM: ... Welcome back to Washington, everyone. (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/archive/9225-am/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p8#a250902p8
Discursive and Non-Discursive Reasoning in Chinese Philosophy
https://ift.tt/ToKYGZQ
Wan on Thusi, 'Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg' Thusi, I.…
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💫 Mit einer besonderen Online-Veranstaltung startet der #digamusaward 2025 in eine neue Runde:
📅Am 4.07.2025 lädt das Team des ehrenamtlich organisierten Wettbewerbs gemeinsam mit den Gastgebern Andreas Geis und Peter Fritz (Case Klinik Museum) zur „Langen Nacht der digitalen Museen“ ein, hier geht's zur Anmeldung:
Week 1 Injury Report: Cowboys get good news on 2 starters https://insidethestar.com/week-1-injury-report-cowboys-get-good-news-on-2-starters
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Postcard From Canton: A letter to the Raiders' newest Hall of Famer from Mike Haynes https://www.raiders.com/news/postcard-from-canton-a-letter-to-hall-of-famer-eric-allen-from-mike-haynes
Good Morning #Canada
And welcome to Day 2 of The Dirt on Canadian Farming. Just made that up. Let's continue the series with some very interesting overall statistics, which I, admittedly a numbers nerd, found insightful.
Depending on the source, it's estimated that less than 10% of Canada’s land is suitable for farming. According to 2021 #StatsCan data, approximately 6.2% of Canada was being actively farmed but a significant amount of farmland was being lost to urban sprawl. The average age of farmers in Canada is 56, and as they retire corporations are buying up the land, resulting in fewer individuals in the industry but the average farm is larger in size. Although today Canada punches above its weight in global comparisons, there are some challenges to maintaining our agricultural land.
#CanadaIsAwesome #FarmLife
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-prime-farmland-1.6877661
Discursive and Non-Discursive Reasoning in Chinese Philosophy
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Wan on Thusi, 'Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg' Thusi, I.…
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Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at China’s datacentre glut, a near-zero-carbon facility and a serious cyberattack in Singapore.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/cloud/china-centralise-cloud…
NOTE THE VENUE CHANGE #DEFCON Folks! the @… 4th annual poker benefit tournament starts at high noon Friday August 8th at the Planet Hollywood
8/1/25 ☀️ AM: ... Welcome to August. ... Once backed by just a handful of progressives ... (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/archive/8125-am/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p7#a250801p7
When the unstoppable force (YouTube) meets the immovable object (the NFL): MoneyCall https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6595688/2025/09/03/youtube-nfl-week-1-ishowspeed-moneycall/
#Bisexual people are welcome on my page! 🏳️🌈
Science Lab: Cowboys must extract vanilla from offense vs. Eagles https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/science-lab-cowboys-must-extract-vanilla-from-offense-vs-eagles
Despite the overwhelming interconnectedness of life's problems, even the smallest actions can send ripples of change through the whole web. full article @ https://www.brichapman.com/p/everything-is-connected-in-a-giant
Taylor Swift Super Bowl halftime show? Commissioner Roger Goodell teases 'maybe' https://www.nfl.com/news/taylor-swift-super-bowl-halftime-show-commissioner-roger-goodell-teases-maybe
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the offence taken in China at the US commerce secretary’s statements, Modi’s plans to make India a chip superpower and Accenture’s big Aussie cyber buy.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/loos…
Science Lab: Cowboys must extract vanilla from offense vs. Eagles https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/science-lab-cowboys-must-extract-vanilla-from-offense-vs-eagles
Discursive and Non-Discursive Reasoning in Chinese Philosophy https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20072183/discursive-and-non-discursive-reasoning-chinese-philosophy
Wirecutter's best gear for football season, plus massive NFL-ESPN deal https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6531479/2025/08/02/wirecutter-sports-fan-gear-the-pulse/