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Urban Diaspora VI 🏮
城市放逐 VI 🏮
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Dagens oppmerksomhetspunkt!
⭐ Les mer her: #NorskTut #Norge

When an Alaska Native group asked state law enforcement officials in June for a list of murders investigated by state police
— one of the most fundamental pieces of data needed to understand the issue
— the state said no.
Charlene Aqpik Apok launched
"Data for Indigenous Justice"
in 2020 after trying to collect the names of missing and murdered Indigenous people to read at a rally,
only to discover no government agency had been keeping track.

Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.

Arguing on the Internet be like...
(No, seriously, I am having this debate with a moderator on a Discord group right now.)

Björn Müller, researcher at #MPSGoettingen and #IMPRS at #UniGoettingen graduate, has been awarded the Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding achievements in his dissertation. The

Uh oh, does Kash know his agency is warning people about Trumpers?
“Parents in Marshall County, Mississippi are being warned of a satanic, neo-Nazi terrorist group that is targeting children online.”
https://www.f…

Starting off another promising week

One of the most fascinating but underexamined things is how "gamers" hate "AI". Because a lot of them don't seem to care about exploitation/crunch if it gets them their favourite game for example (some do of course).
But that's a big group of people and I wonder how prominent "AI" refusal is and what the reasons are. Does anybody know a study?

Avatars and Environments for Meetings in Social VR: What Styles and Choices Matter to People in Group Creativity Tasks?
Anya Osborne, Sabrina Fielder, Lee Taber, Tara Lamb, Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, Katherine Isbister
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21780

Avatars and Environments for Meetings in Social VR: What Styles and Choices Matter to People in Group Creativity Tasks?
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many professional entities shifted toward remote collaboration and video conferencing (VC) tools. Social virtual reality (VR) platforms present an alternative to VC for meetings and collaborative activities. Well-crafted social VR environments could enhance feelings of co-presence and togetherness at meetings, helping reduce the need for carbon-intensive travel to face-to-face meetings. This research contributes to creating meeting tools in VR by exploring the effe…

Urban Diaspora IV 🎈
城市放逐 IV 🎈
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Many people associate themselves with a profession or group in vague terms such as "researcher" (as I am guilty of doing). In a past life, I'd often hear criticisms of the title network engineer, but at least it was qualified.
Increasingly when I see people refer to themselves with seemingly prestigious, but vague titles, I think of a appropriate qualifier. In a world where 240 characters or less rule, nuance is hard and rare, but necessary to maintain an often needed s…

@…: Reform is spewing more lies. This time it’s using attacks against women as a cover for attacks on migrants. We can’t let it stand. Email Reform. #Goodlawproject

Tell Reform to stop exploiting women’s safety to fuel attacks on migrants
Reform UK is pushing racist claims that migrants are a threat to women’s safety. This toxic narrative paints an entire group of people as inherently dangerous. But there’s no credible evidence to back it up. Reform MP Sarah Pochin suggested that migrants have a “warped view of their right to sexually assault women”. She claimed that men from “predominantly Muslim countries like Afghanistan” hold a “medieval view of women’s rights” and that “women are at risk of sexual assaul…

Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
"""
Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
"""
All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.

come happen with the heads at the next heads happening, 9/11 at mama tried in #brooklyn, feat. geologist from animal collective (solo hurdy gurdy!), rare NYCing by tom carter/pat murano, & yr very own sloppy heads, plus dj sets by james mcnew! amazing flyer by abraham. #nyc

I see that agile is very consistent with Deming. Agile has all sorts of variants, so to different extents, they fit in. But one of the things I find really interesting is the agile folks, and of course the lean software folks, they much more than any other group of people I’ve seen traced the #agile ideas back to find Deming’s ideas.
So it seems to me many of the leading agile and lean folks h…

Went to see a Hoopla improv show at The Bell, a mix of half a dozen different groups doing different thin
gs. "Shuffle improv" were basing their scenes on a shuffled playlist built by the audience on the way in
and an interesting format from a improv-as-a-second-language group chatting about their experiences in a
foreign land and basing their scenes off it. The group called "twelve people" only had six but were good
chaotic fun.
Lots of stuff about cooking and food.
I found myself pondering optimum size for an improve group. In general the larger groups seemed more fun to me, with the exception of three-person "burn the script" who did excellent work. More than eight wouldn't fit in the tiny stage at that venue. In rehearsal I like to have the group split in half and perform for each other. Hard to do that with fewer than six. Still up in the air if our group will get off the ground or not. More people does mean more calendar clashes even if it makes for a cheaper-per-person room hire.
Everyone has instagram pages, which are no use to me. Won't link or visit there. Interesting that nobody has a Twitter profile any more and of course nobody seems to have just a damned website which still strikes me as madness. Imagine not wanting to own your own space on the web?
#improv #london

Gosh, I just can't imagine why people dislike people like MrBeast.
I guess it's a mystery.
▶️ MrBeast Takes Over Disneyland for $500K Date Night in Empty Park
https://people.com/mrbeast-shuts-down-disneyland-for-usd500-000-…

MrBeast Shuts Down Disneyland for $500K Date Night in Empty Park
MrBeast rented out Disneyland for a $500k private date night, he shared in a new video. The video creator, his fiancée Thea Booysen, and a group of friends enjoyed a night of the park all to themselves.

The language of my people (well-meaning white guys) is cringe.
In case anyone was wondering: “Are You A Person of Color ?” is not a question that should ever be asked in any context, even if you are asking because you are mostly white folks truly seeking to understand the diversity of your group. I’m pretty much there with sex/gender questions as well.
#SubberThanSubToot

So you have lots of questions then, do you? Keep them coming! That was a talk on Mars, many more talks still coming: https://www.goettinger-nacht-des-wissens.de/nach-format/vortrag/
@…

Hvis arbeiderklassen virkelig Ÿnsker reell forandring, kan den ikke komme gjennom å gi makt til en liten elite via valg. Endring må skje gjennom direkte handlinger som streik, protester, solidaritet og bygging av ekte folkemakt i arbeidslivet og lokalmiljŸene.
Anarkosyndikalisme handler om at makten skal ligge hos arbeiderne selv og deres lokalsamfunn, organisert gjennom selvstyrte, desentraliserte fagforeninger og kooperative nettverk, ikke gjennom staten, byråkratiet eller partipolit…

Social Identity in Human-Agent Interaction: A Primer
Katie Seaborn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16609 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16609

Social Identity in Human-Agent Interaction: A Primer
Social identity theory (SIT) and social categorization theory (SCT) are two facets of the social identity approach (SIA) to understanding social phenomena. SIT and SCT are models that describe and explain how people interact with one another socially, connecting the individual to the group through an understanding of underlying psychological mechanisms and intergroup behaviour. SIT, originally developed in the 1970s, and SCT, a later, more general offshoot, have been broadly applied to a range …

Fairness for the People, by the People: Minority Collective Action
Omri Ben-Dov, Samira Samadi, Amartya Sanyal, Alexandru \c{T}ifrea
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15374 https://

Fairness for the People, by the People: Minority Collective Action
Machine learning models often preserve biases present in training data, leading to unfair treatment of certain minority groups. Despite an array of existing firm-side bias mitigation techniques, they typically incur utility costs and require organizational buy-in. Recognizing that many models rely on user-contributed data, end-users can induce fairness through the framework of Algorithmic Collective Action, where a coordinated minority group strategically relabels its own data to enhance fairne…

Zarah Sultana, on #UKLabour under #Starmer.
"Here is a party that wants to impose cuts on some of the most marginalised people in our society in order to please investors. Here is a party that, for the first time in British history, is criminalising a non-violent activist group, using the most …

Zarah Sultana, The Alternative — Sidecar
On Britain’s new left party—3.

The New Druids.
Thousands celebrate summer solstice at Stonehenge,
#stonehedge

So I spent a lot of time writing a post...which I think was kinda irrelevant but I wrote it due to me being excited with a Mastodon feature.
This can be seen in this screenshot I'm adding here:
Not a complaint comment: It would make more sense to me if the Fedi users showing up were mutual follows...just saying! No judgement!
#Mastodon

Here’s your definition, asshole:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism
Now fuck off.
https://indieweb.social/@loui…

Sources: TikTok plans to launch a new version of its app in the US on September 5, ahead of the Sept. 17 deadline for the US to enforce the divest-or-ban law (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-building-n…

TikTok Building New Version of App Ahead of Expected U.S. Sale
TikTok is building a new version of its app for users in the U.S. ahead of a planned sale of the app to a group of investors. The company has developed a plan to launch the new TikTok app, known internally as “M2,” to U.S. app stores on September 5, according to two people with knowledge of the ...

I did a test run for riding down to Riverwest24 next weekend.
I've never done this route, and any previous rides to the lake have been in a group. (Hello Scrappy Hour!) Center was a bit better than North, even though North has some better bike lakes in some parts (and worse in others) but overall drivers on North were much worse than on Center.
See all you punks and bike people next Saturday!

This is a court order is a clear violation of the 1st amendment.
If the case were about misrepresentation than it makes no sense to order that the $$ not be sent out of state, but that those same $$ can be used within the state of Texas.
"Judge restrains Beto O’Rourke’s group from sending funds to Democrats outside Texas"

I was trying to package #FlexiBLAS for #Gentoo, and to be honest, it doesn't look that good.
The first red flag is lack of an open bug tracker. Apparently, there is the tracker on GitLab that's limited to "members of their group and selected external contributors", but it doesn't seem to be used much. So it's "send us an email", and wonder how many people sent us the same bug report before.
The git repository is currently at something tagged 3.4.80 that seems to be prerelease, and its build system is quite broken. Not exactly the best path to verify that the bugs you are hitting are still there.
Now, upstream seems to insist on either using vendored netlib #LAPACK, or statically linking to the system library (we don't install the static libraries). Apparently I can specify the shared libraries instead, but it doesn't work — and it's unclear to me whether it doesn't work because I'm using the shared libraries, or because it doesn't support my LAPACK version. If I build LAPACK without deprecated symbols, it refuses to load it at runtime because of missing symbols. And if I build it with deprecated symbols, it fails to find some symbols at CMake time.
Honestly, I feel like I've spent too much time on this project already, especially given that its future is entirely unclear to me — the current git is quite broken, I have no clue how many issues were reported already and whether my bug reports will receive any reply. It definitely doesn't fare well for a package that we might start to rely heavily on. We don't want a cathedral there.
https://www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/projects/flexiblas
https://gitlab.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/software/flexiblas-release

Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
AVON: [Avon looks at the screen] Not quite. I think I shall contain my enthusiasm here in the warm.
[Scene: A mutoid watches a guard below her position, then jumps him and after a brief struggle strangles him. Then she signals to various groups of mutoids with a morse-code like sender. The groups move through caves. A number of mutoids surround a group of people in a cavern. Travis is in the background.]

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

So I've found my answer after maybe ~30 minutes of effort. First stop was the first search result on Startpage (https://millennialhawk.com/does-poop-have-calories/), which has some evidence of maybe-AI authorship but which is better than a lot of slop. It actually has real links & cites research, so I'll start by looking at the sources.
It claims near the top that poop contains 4.91 kcal per gram (note: 1 kcal = 1 Calorie = 1000 calories, which fact I could find/do trust despite the slop in that search). Now obviously, without a range or mention of an average, this isn't the whole picture, but maybe it's an average to start from? However, the citation link is to a study (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32235930/) which only included 27 people with impaired glucose tolerance and obesity. Might have the cited stat, but it's definitely not a broadly representative one if this is the source. The public abstract does not include the stat cited, and I don't want to pay for the article. I happen to be affiliated with a university library, so I could see if I have access that way, but it's a pain to do and not worth it for this study that I know is too specific. Also most people wouldn't have access that way.
Side note: this doing-the-research protect has the nice benefit of letting you see lots of cool stuff you wouldn't have otherwise. The abstract of this study is pretty cool and I learned a bit about gut microbiome changes from just reading the abstract.
My next move was to look among citations in this article to see if I could find something about calorie content of poop specifically. Luckily the article page had indicators for which citations were free to access. I ended up reading/skimming 2 more articles (a few more interesting facts about gut microbiomes were learned) before finding this article whose introduction has what I'm looking for: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3127503/
Here's the relevant paragraph:
"""
The alteration of the energy-balance equation, which is defined by the equilibrium of energy intake and energy expenditure (1–5), leads to weight gain. One less-extensively-studied component of the energy-balance equation is energy loss in stools and urine. Previous studies of healthy adults showed that ≈5% of ingested calories were lost in stools and urine (6). Individuals who consume high-fiber diets exhibit a higher fecal energy loss than individuals who consume low-fiber diets with an equivalent energy content (7, 8). Webb and Annis (9) studied stool energy loss in 4 lean and 4 obese individuals and showed a tendency to lower the fecal energy excretion in obese compared with lean study participants.
"""
And there's a good-enough answer if we do some math, along with links to more in-depth reading if we want them. A Mayo clinic calorie calculator suggests about 2250 Calories per day for me to maintain my weight, I think there's probably a lot of variation in that number, but 5% of that would be very roughly 100 Calories lost in poop per day, so maybe an extremely rough estimate for a range of humans might be 50-200 Calories per day. Interestingly, one of the AI slop pages I found asserted (without citation) 100-200 Calories per day, which kinda checks out. I had no way to trust that number though, and as we saw with the provenance of the 4.91 kcal/gram, it might not be good provenance.
To double-check, I visited this link from the paragraph above: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022316622169853?via=ihub
It's only a 6-person study, but just the abstract has numbers: ~250 kcal/day pooped on a low-fiber diet vs. ~400 kcal/day pooped on a high-fiber diet. That's with intakes of ~2100 and ~2350 kcal respectively, which is close to the number from which I estimated 100 kcal above, so maybe the first estimate from just the 5% number was a bit low.
Glad those numbers were in the abstract, since the full text is paywalled... It's possible this study was also done on some atypical patient group...
Just to come full circle, let's look at that 4.91 kcal/gram number again. A search suggests 14-16 ounces of poop per day is typical, with at least two sources around 14 ounces, or ~400 grams. (AI slop was strong here too, with one including a completely made up table of "studies" that was summarized as 100-200 grams/day). If we believe 400 grams/day of poop, then 4.91 kcal/gram would be almost 2000 kcal/day, which is very clearly ludicrous! So that number was likely some unrelated statistic regurgitated by the AI. I found that number in at least 3 of the slop pages I waded through in my initial search.

Sources: TikTok plans to launch a new version of its app in the US on September 5, ahead of the Sept. 17 deadline for the US to enforce the divest-or-ban law (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-building-n…

TikTok Building New Version of App Ahead of Expected U.S. Sale
TikTok is building a new version of its app for users in the U.S. ahead of a planned sale of the app to a group of investors. The company has developed a plan to launch the new TikTok app, known internally as “M2,” to U.S. app stores on September 5, according to two people with knowledge of the ...

To conclude the first evening of Berlin Buzzwords, Gregor Bransky invites you to join a tour of c-base. Afterwards, you can unwind at one of its recreational areas, enjoying a refreshing beverage by the waterside of the Spree.
A travel group will form during the Get-Together.
📅 When: Today – 7 pm
📍 Where: c-base, Rungestraße 20 | 10179 Berlin
Learn more:

If any of you will be around the Burlington, #Vermont, waterfront this weekend, it is the Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival, where teams of 18-ish people will compete in a fun event that raises funds for supporting those with cancer. This afternoon are the serious races for people who are actually part of teams that practice to compete. Tomorrow is the “community day” where teams from business…

One of the main archetypes of lies for political gain are those where you pretend one group of people is actually a different, more criminal group, so that you can frame your subjugation of them as justice.
All the protestors at the No Kings rally are actually invaders, so sending the national guard is justified.
All Mexicans are actually rapists, so “border security”, deportations and now concentration camps are actually just protection.
All of the pro Palestine protestors…

"If one uses the word “fascism”, people accuse you of hysteria – but isn’t this precisely what fascism looks like? A minority group is unfairly demonised until public opinion sours sufficiently for lawmakers to impose restrictions on said group"
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

Juno Dawson: I had gender reassignment surgery – then the Supreme Court said I wasn’t a woman
I have the same choices over my life and body that I would want for every single person on earth. I’m not trying to make a statement about what a woman is, I just want to be one, writes Juno Dawson – who appears on The Independent’s Pride list 2025

Who Gets a “Right of Return”? https://jacobin.com/2025/08/right-of-return-arkansas-zionism/

Who Gets a “Right of Return”?
The parallels between a northern Arkansas group that is seeking to forbid Jews and people of color from buying on their adjacent tracts of land and Zionism are more significant than you might think.

Life on Different Paths III🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
生活诸多路径 III🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️FOMAPAN Action 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

⇢ The notion of “intelligence” in AI has always been very narrow, and I’d argue that even that of “general intelligence” remains a very narrow one, and like previous ideas of intelligence, it’s largely socially constructed, i.e., closely tied to a particular set of skills valued by a particular group of people.
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⇢ The notion of “intelligence” in AI has always been very narrow, and I’d argue that even that of “general intelligence” remains a very narrow one, and like previous ideas of intelligence, it’s largely socially constructed, i.e., closely tied to a particular set of skills valued by a particular group of people.
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nice coverage of new bus-stop benches kindly installed by some unidentified people!
https://sfist.com/2025/06/09/renegade-transit-activists-install-their-own-guerilla-benches-at-sf-bus-stops-that-do…

Renegade Transit Activists Install their Own ‘Guerilla Benches’ at SF Bus Stops That Don’t Have Benches
A rogue group of activists won’t stand for the lack of benches at many SF Muni stops, so they went and installed a bunch of their own unauthorized benches this past weekend. But we’ll see how this sits with SF Public Works.

Dagens oppmerksomhetspunkt!
⭐ Les mer her: #NorskTut #Norge

Shame on Greater Manchester Police: arrested 18 people on suspicion of supporting Palestine Action.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/19/protests-across-uk-supporting-banned-group-palestine-action-despite-arrests…

Protests held across UK supporting banned Palestine Action despite arrests
About 100 people have been arrested across the United Kingdom for holding demos in support of the group.

(Trying this again, only this time with the right threat group. It's only Monday 🤪)
I had always assumed Salt Typhoon hit Comcast.
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025…

US agencies assessed Chinese telecom hackers likely hit data center and residential internet providers
Data center giant Digital Realty and mass media titan Comcast were documented as likely victims of the Salt Typhoon cyberespionage group, people familiar say, marking a potentially major expansion of the group’s initial telecom hacking campaign discovered last year.

I didn't want to let the day go without posting a photo ;-) So I just grabbed one from last year when we visited #vienna in autumn.
A bit of context can be found on the blog: https://www.

What every citizen of BC should know about the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act is that at the end, it has a section that essentially argues that *any* and *all* government information *must* be disclosed if it is in the public interest.
“Division 4 -- Public Interest Paramount”
It has just one Section:
*Information must be disclosed if in the public interest*
25 (1)Whether or not a request for access is made, the head of a public body must, without delay, disclose to the public, to an affected group of people or to an applicant, information
(a)about a risk of significant harm to the environment or to the health or safety of the public or a group of people, or
(b)the disclosure of which is, for any other reason, clearly in the public interest.
(2)Subsection (1) applies despite any other provision of this Act.
———
#BCPoli #BCGov #IslandRail #FOIPPA #FOI

A lawyer who represented violent rioters charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol
-- and compared their prosecutions to the Nazi genocide
-- has been hired by the Department of Justice, where he is now working with the Trump administration's 💥"Weaponization Working Group."
"These prosecutors are evil people," said attorney Jonathan Gross during a January YouTube livestream prior to joining the administration.
"They will put y…

Our antenna array consists of 7 masts spaced about 80 feet apart. Numbers 2, 4, and 6 are 40; tall and have a tri-band beam antenna for 10m, 15m and 20m. Below that are the feed points of 80m and 40m dipoles.
Masts 1, 3, 5 and 7 are 32 feet tall and are used to hold up the ends of the dipoles.
Other bands are placed on tripods within the antenna zone (open only to authorized personnel).
#2025FieldDay

Machine Learning Experiences: A story of learning AI for use in enterprise software testing that can be used by anyone
Michael Cohoon, Debbie Furman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22064

Machine Learning Experiences: A story of learning AI for use in enterprise software testing that can be used by anyone
This paper details the machine learning (ML) journey of a group of people focused on software testing. It tells the story of how this group progressed through a ML workflow (similar to the CRISP-DM process). This workflow consists of the following steps and can be used by anyone applying ML techniques to a project: gather the data; clean the data; perform feature engineering on the data; splitting the data into two sets, one for training and one for testing; choosing a machine learning model; t…

Bob Vylan's official statement:
[sorry, had to edit as I mistakenly wrote Kneecap instead of Bob Vylan. <input coffee>]

You know the most amazing thing about successful bands?
It's that a group of people could work together long enough to make it. I've been a gigging musician since 1982 and never had any stable musical association longer than a year or so.
But then, I am a massive, massive cunt.

⭐ #NorskTut #Norge

whenever i hear people talk about ETSI i have to think - thanks to @… and john young - of this US Air Force intelligence lieutenant, who was heading the ETSI "lawful" interception working group in the late 2000s. the E in ETSI stands for European.

UK would rather arrest almost 500 people rather than admit or cease its complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
So I guess the next step is a 5,000-person protest.
They arrest 5,000? Time for 50,000.
Overwhelm the system until the system stops committing genocide.

UK police arrest at least 466 people at Palestine Action protest in London
Critics say ban on activist group stifles freedom of speech and assembly and aims to curb pro-Palestine demonstrations.

Looking forward to speaking at @… again – and especially with such an awesome group of people! 💙
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Let’s be clear:
The people saying “Alligator Auschwitz” are not blowing things out of proportion. They are not putting words in MAGA’s mouth. This is a clear and explicit endorsement of the mass murder of an entire identity group in the US.
And yes, obviously she is “joking.” Of course she is “joking.” But with quotation marks. She is not joking.

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The liberal obsession with optics serves the right and persuades no one. There is literally an active ethnic cleansing happening in the US right now, and the only thing that matters is making that as hard as possible to carry out.
Anarchists destroying intelligence assets saves lives. Every escooter thrown at a cop car is one less escort for a goon too afraid to kidnap random brown people without being flanked by a branch full of bad apples. Spray paint is not violence. Vandalism is not violence. Community self defense in all forms is legitimate.
Make no mistake, these raids are about changing demographics. Demographic trends have been shifting blue for a long time, and the right has, for a long time, been blaming "white replacement." Conspiracy theory aside, Democrats have also been relying on the growth of black and brown voters as a block. The nuances of whiteness as an identity are lost on the current administration and their supporters. They see that "white people will be a minority by 2050" and equate that with the "end of Western Civilization."
The only way to "save Western Civilization" is to change those demographics. Forced birth and forced removal are two sides of the same white nationalist objective. Of course they can't have due process, because they need to be able to kidnap anyone who they see as a threat to their demographic future.
They don't care about optics. The plan is to murder away any threat and flood everyone else with propaganda. There is no mythical middle. There's no one unconvinced. They know this, but they win when democrats buy that myth and save the police the work of policing the protests.
If your protest is 90% "peaceful," they'll take pictures of the 10% that isn't. If it's 99% peaceful, they'll shoot rubber bullets and teargas until someone throws a brick and take 100 pictures from a dozen angles. If its 100% "peaceful" and no one can be provoked, they'll generate pictures with AI or photoshop like they did during the George Floyd uprising and the pictures from the CHOP/CHAZ. Do you have literally no memory?
#USPol #FiftyFiftyOne #50501movenent #resistance #NoKingsDay #NoKingsDayOfAction

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i gotta hand it to them, if there's any group of users here slightly more suseptible to the types of scams tech literate people see through immediately, it's pixelfed users

Video description: a group of people running down a street away from a police charge, shot from a balcony. As the police catch a few stragglers who fall down they group up and beat them savagely with batons, even after they're incapacitated.
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"there is nothing whatsoever in the JTAC* assessment which backs up any of the claims being put out in a panic by government ministers."
*JTAC = assessment of the government’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre which forms the basis of the proscription of Palestine Action.
Yvette Cooper is Lying - Craig Murray

Yvette Cooper is Lying - Craig Murray
Yvette Cooper has continually lied about Palestine Action in a panicked attempt to defend the proscription of a direct action protest group which is opposing a Genocide in which Cooper’s government is deeply complicit. Cooper and other government ministers have repeatedly claimed: Palestine Action attacks people, not just weapons-making equipment Palestine Action is funded by […]

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
AVON: The explosion in the planet's atmosphere would have provided the rest.
BLAKE: Yes, I hadn't thought of that.
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Arbeidernes frigjŸring må være arbeidernes eget verk!
⭐ Les mer her: #Anarkisme #Syndikalisme

It is not AI that is driving tech layoffs. It’s the massive change in R&D writeoff rules that kicked in for TY2022, from the 2017 Trump tax bill.
The ability to “expense” R&D costs was in place for decades and arguably drove US innovation by making it cheap. Now R&D is amortized over 5 years for US work, 15 years for non-US work. The current reconciliation bill would bring back expensing of domestic R&D costs.

By midday, hundreds had gathered outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles,
where people were detained after earlier immigration raids.
Protesters directed chants of “shame” and “go home”
at members of the National Guard, who stood shoulder to shoulder, carrying long guns and riot shields.
After some protesters closely approached the guard members,
another set of uniformed officers advanced on the group, shooting smoke-filled canisters in…

National Guard troops arrive in LA to quell protests against ICE
National Guard troops faced off with protesters in Los Angeles as tear gas was fired at a growing crowd outside a federal complex hours after the federal troops arrived in the city on President Donald Trump’s orders. The confrontation broke out Sunday in front of the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles as a group of demonstrators shouted insults at members of the guard lined shoulder to shoulder behind plastic riot shields. Around 300 National Guard troops had arrived early …

There have been many instances documented, do a damn web search.
But forget that for a moment: What I’m doing is the same as what Netanyahu is doing? My opposing genocide is the same as a fucker perpetrating genocide?
Fuck you, Alfred.
Get some fucking perspective. https://mastodon.social/@amsz…

Fiat 500 and people ;-)

#NorskTut får en påminnelse så snart de våkner i dag!
⭐ Les mer her: #Anarkisme

“You can’t begin to understand why one party would pass a bill that is unbelievably unpopular for stripping health care from poor people unless you understand Citizens United,”
said Robert Weissman, co-president of the watchdog group Public Citizen, in an interview.
The case that the Supreme Court agreed to hear calls on the First Amendment in an attempt to dismantle one of the last remaining pillars of campaign finance law.
With Trump appointees among a solid conservative …

A New Supreme Court Case Could Give the Wealthy Even More Political Power
A GOP court challenge could lead to the biggest erosion in campaign spending limitations since “Citizens United.”…

TL;DR:
Observational study found DTP correlated to higher short term (~2y) death rates in children.
1. The original study was small (n=1000) and methodologically weak.
2. An attempt to reproduce the study failed to show any corelation.
3. It was 40 years ago, using the old DTP vax which has been redesigned/reformulated extensively.
That man would have people dying of lockjaw to weed out the weak.

Why experts are concerned about the vaccine study cited by RFK Jr.
RFK Jr. stunned the global health world when he said the U.S. would halt funding the group that helps provide vaccines to many low-income countries. The study he cited is seen by others as dubious.

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🇳🇴 En vennlig påminnelse for dagen: #NorskTut #Norge

Good people:
"At least 365 people have been arrested at a demonstration in London in support of proscribed group Palestine Action, police say.
"Scores of people simultaneously unveiled handwritten signs with the same message "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" at the protest, organised by Defend Our Juries at Westminster's Parliament Square."
Palestine Action protesters arrested by police at London demo - BBC News

Palestine Action protesters arrested by police at London demo
Protesters simultaneously unveiled signs with the same message "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" in Westminster's Parliament Square.

Greta Thunberg is awesome, I used to stay quiet, but having a leftist, climate activist, anti-capitalist like her is just so exciting, inspiring, and refreshing!
#GretaThunberg #ClimateChange

Witnesses reported a caravan of armored vehicles and unmarked police vehicles with masked men in plain clothes,
some wearing ICE or police vests,
and a group of people in military camouflage, all carrying weapons.
Additional reports state helicopters have been seen over the area as well.
“It looks like they’re going to war on our street,” one protestor stated
Unidentified masked and armed guards, presumed to be federal agents or military, in front of a crowd of…

NSF-IAA er et fagforbund som er helt uavhengig av politiske partier og myndigheter.
Hos NSF-IAA er det medlemmene som bestemmer gjennom direkte demokrati, og de tar avstand fra statlig og arbeidsgiverfinansiering for å beholde vår Ÿkonomiske frihet.
Forhandlinger og avgjŸrelser gjŸres av de berŸrte arbeiderne selv, uten bruk av mellommenn eller profesjonelle forhandlere.
⭐ Les mer her:

Good to see the Met keeping us safe from terrorism. What a waste of effort.
Met's Counter Terrorism Command: "We are also planning to send case files to the Crown Prosecution Service for the other 26 people arrested on the same day.
"I would strongly advise anyone planning to come to London this weekend to show support for Palestine Action to think about the potential criminal consequences of their actions."
Three people charged with supporting Palestine …

Three people charged with supporting Palestine Action
The charges come before a planned protest in support of the group on Saturday in London.

Gabbard’s team has sought spy agency data to enforce Trump’s agenda

The Director’s Initiative Group has expressed an interest in gaining access to emails and chat logs of the largest U.S. intelligence agencies to root out “weaponization,” according to multiple people familiar with the effort.

Gabbard’s team has sought spy agency data to enforce Trump’s agenda
A team created by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has sought access to emails and chat logs of the largest U.S. spy agencies to root out “weaponization.”

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Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos,
a pediatric infectious disease expert, was a co-leader of a working group on COVID-19 vaccines who advised experts on the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
She informed her ACIP colleagues of her resignation in an email on Tuesday.
"My career in public health and vaccinology started with a deep-seated desire to help the most vulnerable members of our population,
and that is not something I am able to continue…

Top CDC COVID vaccine expert resigns after RFK Jr. unilaterally restricts access
The expert said she could no longer help vulnerable people in her CDC role.

10:42—Good Morning #Fediverse!
Being #ActuallyAutistic, I am currently hyperfixated on this image. I have been staring at it for an extended period, analyzing every detail.
I keep noticing new things every time I look at it. My brain is in “info-dump mode” and I could pr…

The Trump administration has halted litigation aimed at stopping civil rights abuses of prisoners in Louisiana and mentally ill people living in South Carolina group homes.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-halts-lawsuits…

Trump Admin Halts Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses in Prisons, Group Homes
Biden’s DOJ concluded that Louisiana and South Carolina had failed to fix violations despite years of warnings.

En vennlig påminnelse for dagen: https://nsf-iaa.org – https://iwa-ait.org

Jet mener at @… fortjener mer oppmerksomhet, og som autist har jeg utviklet en sterk fiksasjon på dette bildet, samt anarkosyndikalisme og revolusjonær syndikalisme.
Les mer her: https://nsf-iaa.org

I don’t care what people think or say. I stand in solidarity with the @… and share their vision for a free, self-organized workers’ movement in Norway. Even if syndicalists are few, we’re here, and I proudly support their struggle for worker control and direct action.
I identify as a syndicalist because I actually enjoy working, but only when labor is organized…

Bruh, Norge trenger verken autoritære ledere eller republikk, ekte folkestyre skapes av arbeiderklassen og de lokale fellesskapene selv.
Les mer her: #NorskTut

Yes, https://nsf-iaa.org is the official website of the Norwegian Syndicalist Federation (NSF), a union that follows anarcho-syndicalist principles.
Please boost their visibility among other anarchists and syndicalists!
You can also find them on Mastodon: @…

Noen ganger kjenner jeg på frustrasjonen over at det er arbeidsledere og et hierarki som bestemmer over meg på jobben. Det er urettferdig at bare et fåtall har kontroll over viktige avgjŸrelser som former min arbeidshverdag, mens vi som faktisk utfŸrer arbeidet sjelden får si vår mening eller påvirke det som skjer.
Jeg Ÿnsker meg en arbeidsplass der alle oss arbeidere sammen tar de viktige avgjŸrelsene som angår arbeidsdagen og framtiden vår. For meg er det viktig at ingen enkeltperson…

I think it’s pretty notable that Greta Thunberg has openly blamed capitalism for the climate crisis we’re in.
She argues that the current system, driven by fossil fuel interests, colonialism, imperialism, and exploitation, is fundamentally responsible for environmental destruction and social injustice.
While she has been a prominent figure for several years, her media presence has fluctuated. Recently, she has received renewed attention, particularly after high-profile events lik…

Det finnes alternative samfunnsformer hvor mennesker ikke nŸdvendigvis må forvalte livet sitt etter arbeidsmarkedets krav om lŸnn og profitt.
I dagens kapitalisme er det vanlig at arbeidskraft og produksjonsmidler eies av noen få, og at Ÿkonomiske beslutninger ofte tar utgangspunkt i profittmotivet og eksisterende hierarki.
I slike alternative systemer kan mennesker i stŸrre grad selv bestemme over egen arbeidskraft og leve uten å være avhengige av penger som hovednŸdvendighet fo…

Jeg er #ActuallyAutistic, og partipolitikk er som å prŸve å fikse en evig feil i et system som aldri vil endre seg. Partiene i Norge later som de representerer meg, men mine virkelige problemer blir ignorert og knust under kapitalens og byråkratiets tyngde.
Jeg ser for meg et liv uten at alt styres av penger og profittjag. Jeg nekter å bli styrt av en sjef eller noen som tror d…

Norge trenger verken autoritære ledere eller formelle stater, for ekte frihet og folkestyre vokser fram når arbeiderklassen og lokale fellesskap tar styringen selv gjennom direkte handling og desentralisert selvstyre.
Jeg nekter å la noen herske over meg eller ta beslutninger på mine vegne, fordi makten tilhŸrer arbeiderne og fellesskapet gjennom selvorganisering og solidaritet.
FŸlg @…

Som autist kjenner jeg en intens fascinasjon for dette bildet. Jeg klarer ikke helt å forklare hvorfor, men hjernen min går i loop på alle detaljene. Fargene, mŸnstrene og alt sammen trigger noe i meg som gjŸr at jeg kan stirre på det i timevis uten å bli lei.
Det fŸles som om bildet har blitt min spesialinteresse akkurat nå. Hver gang jeg ser på det, oppdager jeg noe nytt og spennende som holder meg helt oppslukt. Det gir meg en slags ro og glede som er vanskelig å forklare for andre.…