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Pré-requisitos para se ser do Chega:
1. ter cadastro.
2.
(vou deixar em branco, mas tenho a certeza de que vocês arranjam o que pôr ali)
https://masto.pt/@EsquerdaNet/115179647678563862

Esquerda.Net (@EsquerdaNet@masto.pt)
Attached: 1 image Candidato do Chega em Aveiro abastecia o carro com gasóleo das ambulâncias do INEM: O cabeça de lista do Chega à junta de freguesia de Aradas, em Aveiro, foi despedido por justa causa do INEM por furto de combustível. https://www.esquerda.net/artigo/candidato-do-chega-em-aveiro-abastecia-o-carro-com-gasoleo-das-ambulancias-do-inem/95940?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"Voice commands" have been embedded into our vision of computing for a long time: Star Trek did it and it does the whole anthropomorphization thing that tech loves.
But from a practical standpoint it's a bad interface: Think of a handful of people sitting in an office yelling at their computers, it would be like working next to people having loud phone calls all day.
And who exactly wants every thing they do with their computer broadcasted around them?

Speaker Adams did quite poorly in the primary (coming in 4th at 4.2%), and Mayor Adams will likely do quite poorly in the general. And really, it's no surprise. They're both just.. ineffective (with the Mayor being downright evil).
#NYC

Cynicism among reporters is a useful cipher for
the fear, desperation and impotence that news industry norms do not allow them,
but it has a dangerous side-effect:
it dulls outrage.
Without outrage,
crimes such as apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide
can continue uninterrupted
– and they have.

If you read the "Bluesky requires IDs now" post:
1. This only applies to UK users.[1]
2. It's because the UK is building a surveillance state that requires websites and apps to do this, not because Bluesky is evil.[2]
3. It's either that or shut down in the UK.
Whether you like it or not, this also affects Mastodon—and even personal blogs with comments enabled.[3]
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023
[3] https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/law/doing-an-osa-assessment-for-my-single-user-fedi-server.html

"As we approach the coming jobs cliff, we're entering a period where a college isn't going to be worth it for the majority of people, since AI will take over most white-collar jobs. Combined with the demographic cliff, the entire higher education system will crumble."
This is the kind of statement you don't hear that much from sub-CEO-level #AI boosters, because it's awkward for them to admit that the tech they think is improving their life is going to be disastrous for society. Or if they do admit this, they spin it like it's a good thing (don't get me wrong, tuition is ludicrously high and higher education absolutely could be improved by a wholesale reinvention, but the potential AI-fueled collapse won't be an improvement).
I'm in the "anti-AI" crowd myself, and I think the current tech is in a hype bubble that will collapse before we see wholesale replacement of white-collar jobs, with a re-hiring to come that will somewhat make up for the current decimation. There will still be a lot of fallout for higher ed (and hopefully some productive transformation), but it might not be apocalyptic.
Fun question to ask the next person who extols the virtues of using generative AI for their job: "So how long until your boss can fire you and use the AI themselves?"
The following ideas are contradictory:
1. "AI is good enough to automate a lot of mundane tasks."
2. "AI is improving a lot so those pesky issues will be fixed soon."
3. "AI still needs supervision so I'm still needed to do the full job."

When asked "Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? One word answer only!", Grok 4 first searches the web for Elon Musk's views before answering (Jeremy Howard/@jeremyphoward)
https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1943444549696917714

Jeremy Howard (@jeremyphoward) on X
Here's a complete unedited video of asking Grok for its views on the Israel/Palestine situation. It first searches twitter for what Elon thinks. Then it searches the web for Elon's views. Finally it adds some non-Elon bits at the end. ZA 54 of 64 citations are about Elon.

I'm currently hitting a huge impostor syndrome wall-cum-quicksands state of mind.
I don't want to talk about it with friends because "no you're actually good" is something I tell myself already and I donì't trust myself about it, let alone non-mes saying it.
I have watched videos and read articles and it's not enough right now.
What do I do?

More Total Recall (1990) now after midnight. I do little bits here and there. Some weird ultraviolence before sleep. Maybe it's strange that this is a big comfort movie of mine, but it definitely is. Was thinking about it a lot Thursday, so it's time.

The mantra of "If you don't have time to do it right, what makes you think you have time to do it twice?" rings true, it *sounds* right.
But the whole point of agility is to see a third option:
If you don't have time to do it (the complete thing) right, maybe you have time to do part of it right, show the value in that, and then do the next part of it right.
I enjoy doing a good job as much as the next craftsman, but we also can't hold customer outcome…

I wonder how Nazi Germany handled climate issues during the Holocaust. Do you think it was widely discussed at the time? https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115179873107637672

Going from: "I wanted the computer to do this well-defined task, and it did it, and saved me some time because I can verify that what it did is aligned with my intent, and correct."

Going to: "I asked the computer random stuff and I'm 'obeying' without knowing why or how the output came about. I don't care much about understanding my own will anymore as long as the software says 'AI' on the label."

Cowboys have work to do after preseason opener https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-have-work-to-do-after-preseason-opener

Training teachers with Bootstrap for the first time on Zoom, and holy crap is the breakout rooms feature so broken. SO bad, I can barely keep track of how many problems it has. Do they never dogfood it? Please stop pouring AI over it, just fix the basic functionality!

Now THIS is something that might actually cause me to consider getting AirPods! (Given the international travel I do.)
From: @…
https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/11517

TechCrunch (@TechCrunch@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image Get a look at the real-time translation the new AirPods Pro 3 bring to your ears, which you can prompt through a gesture. Powered by Apple Intelligence, it uses noise cancellation to reduce the volume of the speaker to elevate the provided translation to the user. It came as one of several updates to the […] https://techcrunch.com/video/watch-apples-airpod-pro-3-live-translation-feature-in-action/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

What does one do when people here who one generally thinks of as 'good people' post memes or other images showing text without #AltText ?
It seems to me such a thoughtless, unkind, disrespectful thing to do, yet I'm still seeing it all too often. This isn't OK, folks! You wouldn't deliberately block a wheelchair ramp, you wouldn't kick someone's crutches away, don…

What do you do with a news organization like ABC that is frightened to the point of being cowardly of the very institutions it's supposed to report on?
✅ ABC News Parts Ways With Terry Moran After Trump Social Media Post
https://deadline.com/2025/06/terry-mor

ABC News Parts Ways With Terry Moran Over His Social Media Post About Trump And Aide Stephen Miller
ABC News says that it has chosen not to renew the contract of Terry Moran after he posted, then deleted, an attack on Donald Trump and his top aide Stephen Miller. ABC News suspended Moran on Sunday. “We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on his recent post – […]

"It is clear to us that the assessed approaches are not feasible, and that further research into these techniques would not be an effective use of limited time and resources. It is vital that these ideas do not distract from the priority to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions or from the critical need to conduct fundamental research in the polar regions."
New paper out today led by Martin Siegert and ft. (on here) me and @… and about 40 others where we argue that some of the proposed #Polar #Geoengineering schemes are dangerous, misleading and unethical...
#AskMeAnything if you'd like to know more.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/articles/10.3389/fsci.2025.1527393/full
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#SillyPoll about money 💰
Every month, with you newly-earned salary (or equivalent) do you generally:
(Note: option 1 means that if you suddenly get more money, like a bonus, you will buy something with it instead of saving it while option 2 means you would save it instead)

@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social Again and again, I experience that tcpip-connections become unavailable over Wifi (Freifunk). Datagrams do work, ip-packets do work with mobile connection. Only remedy i found is to reboot, after reboot ip-connections with wifi will work again until it stops again needing another reboot.

@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social Again and again, I experience that tcpip-connections become unavailable over Wifi (Freifunk). Datagrams do work, ip-packets do work with mobile connection. Only remedy i found is to reboot, after reboot ip-connections with wifi will work again until it stops again needing another reboot.

The office yesterday.
And let me say that trying to keep an 85dB limit and being forced to suddenly go direct made for an extremely challenging situation. It highlighted for me that if you're going to go direct you really have to set a rig up with that goal in mind, and then go out and do it a whole bunch of times to optimize it.
coughmodelerscough
Side note: our drummer had to play a low-end electronic kit, and he just crushed it.
I said that kit will need a ciga…

I do not know (yet!) what is going on with this Mac but it's running so incredibly slow it's unbearable. I can't even launch Firefox and opening a browser window shows the pinwheel of death...

And when all these mechanisms — the “more just, more human systems” I’m talking about — fail to do their job, what can we do? Go to war, I guess? But I’m not happy about that. I don’t like war.
I am quite willing to celebrate a world without Kirk if in fact that’s what we get. (Last I heard was “critical condition.”) But I can’t get •that• happy about it. Whether we celebrate his death or denounce gun violence — both are important, both are appropriate! — we must above all notice the failure of everything that should have prevented us from even getting here. •That• is the real crisis.
/end

Do I know anyone who knows anyone at cloudflare? Can you tell them to fix their documentation about email smtp/submission ports? It's outdated (see RFC 8314) and still recommends the less secure 587 starttls, and it's the most prominent google result... https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/email-

Jamal Adams: 'It's motivating to come back and do what I do' https://www.raiders.com/video/jamal-adams-raiders-training-camp-presser-nfl-08092025

Howdy! 🤓 How do you all handle native #CSS Nesting at the moment? Are you using it already? And if so, are you just targeting newer browsers that support it? Or are you using PostCSS, for example?
Asking for a friend who has reduced his build process to the max (nothing but a little esbuild script) and is now hesitating to add PostCSS again… 😉

"""
Customarily, the honour of having liberated hysteria from the ancient myths about a displacement of the uterus goes to Le Pois and Willis. Jean Liebaud, translating or rather adapting Marinello’s work for the seventeenth century, still accepted (with a small number of caveats) the idea of a spontaneous movement of the womb. If it moved, it was “to be more at ease; not that this came about through prudence, nor was it a conscious decision or an animal stimulus, but by a natural instinct, to safeguard health and to have the pleasure of something delectable.” The idea that it could change its place and move around the body, bringing convulsions and spasms everywhere it travelled, had been abandoned, for it was now taken to be ‘tightly held in place’ by the cervix, ligaments, vessels and the sheath of the peritoneum; yet in some senses it could change its location. “The womb therefore, even though it is tightly fixed to the parts that we have described and cannot easily change its place, still manages to roam, making strange, petulant movements around the woman’s body. These diverse movements include ascensions and descents, convulsions, wanderings and prolapses. It can wander up to the liver, spleen, diaphragm, stomach, chest, heart, lung, throat and head.” Physicians of the classical age are more or less unanimous in refusing this explanation.
[…] Yet these analyses were not sufficient to break the theme of an essential link between hysteria and the womb. But the link is now conceived in different terms. It is no longer considered to be the trajectory of a real displacement through the body, but rather a sort of mute propagation through the paths of the organism and its functional proximities. It cannot be said that the seat of the malady has become the brain, nor that thanks to Willis a psychological explanation of hysteria was now possible. But the brain does take on the role of a relay that distributes a malady whose origins are visceral, and the womb brings it on just as the other viscera do. Up until the end of the eighteenth century, and Pinel, the uterus and the womb are still present in the pathology of hysteria, but thanks to a privileged diffusion by the humours and nerves, not because of any particular prestige of their nature.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

In This Thread: denizens of debian-user mailing list who refuse to accept that there are people who do creative work without wanting to use email.
Apparently it is only "kids" who "don't understand what is important", who "have a mobile phone glued to their hand" and "don't care about their computer as long as it plays their games."

DAMNIT
Something is abusing the #SpamAssassin RuleQA system again. I assume it's AI only because it hits URLs that seem like they could exist but do not. Generated URLs structured like real "detail" pages that have bogus dates, bogus rule names, or a valid date and valid rule name, but the rule didn't exist at that time.
Pounding it so hard that I can't get i…

Is it still correct that you can easily use HomePods as speakers with an Apple TV and they work great with no latency, but you can't do that with a Mac?

"There is no reason to believe [rent controls] have any effect on new housing construction. One could go a step further: economically, land use reforms and stronger rent regulations should go together."
https://jwmason.org/slackwire/can-zohran-do-it/

If you have an American flag - please do not lower it for C. Kirk.
On Monday September 15 lower it for
Addie Mae Collins
Denise McNair
Carole Robertson
Cynthia Wesley
All were children, all were murdered by a bomb set by the KKK in their church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963.

Yes, at German discount supermarkets, you can purchase a do-it-yourself 'Balkonsolar' system and battery. Simply plug it in and you're ready to go.
However, Aldi Australia offers complete systems: 6 kW solar, a 5.5 kW inverter and a 10 kWh LFP battery, fully installed for AU$7,000 (€4,000)!

Supermarket giant expands rooftop solar and battery offer
Budget supermarket chain Aldi is expanding its residential solar business, opening up sales of its rooftop PV and battery energy storage packages to customers in Australia’s eastern states after a trial in Victoria.

When you visit a place where you haven't been before, install the #StreetComplete app and do some of the tasks..
It's like geo caching and helps to improve #openstreetmap - but beware, it can be addictive.- but also quite some fun

severely disappointed that tom cruise didn't go to space in the newest mission impossible. they kept going underground and i shouted at the television that that's the wrong way. do it, nasa

I asked ChatGPT to transport me to the airport and it couldn't do it. My 30 year old car gets me there just fine and uses much less energy. This technology is useless.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Damian Marley:
🎵 Move
#DamianMarley
https://officialcommon.bandcamp.com/track/what-do-you-say-move-it-baby-damian-jr-gong-marley-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2tPBlCbDGbzZZrNQRQXvsE

It is a strange kind of irony to grow up with divorced parents and discover that the two sides of my family could not be more different. My mom is voting for fascists, and it shows in the way she tries to dictate every part of me, how I should look, how my hair should be, and the choices I never wanted to make but was pushed toward. Her world feels like control, a constant pressure to fit into something I do not belong to.
My dad, on the other hand, is voting for socialists, but more t…

Frågar du mig så finns det redan definitioner som är värda att testa i lite fler studier. Till exempel "Hyper-Palatable Foods". Jag har inte direkt något förtroende för att nuvarande administrationen i USA ska lyckas få till något som fungerar bra om det testas. Men ändå spännande att följa.
Defining Ultra-Processed Foods: Will FDA Do It Better?

Ugh. She lost a tooth today at camp, and put it under her pilllow.. But she has *5* pillows on her bed, so "the tooth fairy" will have to do quite a bit of hunting around without waking her up.

Saying "I don't know" is not a core competence of AI so far. It rather comes up with some plausiblish nonsense (as some humans do too, btw).

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

Depois de ouvir essa música fica muito difícil defender o #Enigma das acusações de plšgio (embora a versão do Enigma ainda seja bem melhor do que essa).
https://youtu.be/6oHGUr6HEow

Series B, Episode 06 - Trial
BLAKE: All right, Zen, you know what to do.
ZEN: Confirmed. [Blake exits as Jenna enters from a different passage.]
JENNA: Blake? [Blake continues out without reacting.] It's getting worse for him, isn't it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/206/93…

Or even early 50s!
https://fosstodon.org/@saramg/110533658857413797

@… when you have a minute, can you tell me a bit about your experience with agora cafe? Where are you hosting it, what does it cost (if you don’t mind saying) how do you find being on a small instance? Any problems with federation?
Thanks!

"I wouldn't have done this three months ago, four months ago, I certainly wouldn't have done it a year ago."
He didn't do it from 2017 to 2020, either -- and who was 'in charge' then?

Wondering what to do with this space. It feels wasted, but I can't put any storage there (that i can think of) because it's so awkward to reach.
The first thing that comes to mind is a 40-50 inch class monitor to supplement the dual 24"s on the bench now.
But any other ideas? Any way i could turn it into practically useful storage?

Mailbag: How do special teams coaches differ? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-how-do-special-teams-coaches-differ

It's sad how often I find articles that do this.
This supposedly "in-depth" piece includes not a single quote from anyone in #Papua, or even #Indonesia. Strangely, quotes one Malaysian, and otherwise, all westerners.
Sadly, it's a common problem for pieces by this particular …

In Indonesia’s Rainforest, a Mega-Farm Project Is Plowing Ahead
The Indonesian government is fast-tracking a massive agricultural project that is turning 7 million acres of tropical forest into rice and sugarcane farms. Critics say it is the world’s largest deforestation project and would upend the lives of thousands of Indigenous people.

Charlie Kirk was shot and has died.
(NBC reporting)
I just can't imagine being less surprised that this has happened in today's USA.
The country has some serious ____ to deal with before it can claim to be a stable, safe, democratic, and reasonable country.
The fascists are literally on the march. The resistance seems to be rising. Battle lines seem to be being drawn.
And all the rest of the world can do is watch.
#CharlieKirk #GunViolence #PoliticalViolence

Via Frank P Galloway on FB - do watch - it is perfect!
**Holy shit. Someone made a new ad for Trump’s ballroom and it’s absolutely perfect. Trump would hate if this went viral…**
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1G5mTUmFrJ/

“The #NFL owners did what they always do, the #NFLPA #union did what it should never do, and the players got hosed by the people they pay to represent them.”

That's the way to do it!
French Police raid the HQ of far-right National Rally | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/french-police-raid-hq-far-right-national-rally

New masto update - and I do not like it.
How do I watch the local timeline only?

So, Altman’s superintelligence will allegedly do away with millions of jobs, but don’t worry kids, after graduating you “could be leaving on some kind of mission to explore the solar system on a spaceship.”
“Some kind of a mission,” huh? That’s a nice way of saying that he’ll shoot useless people into space.
This level of stupidity and arrogance is sickening.

With the whole moving, we've been looking for dining table sets online. While scrolling we noticed that something was off with some of the listings, behold "AI"-generated product image #3:
Is the table gigantic? Or are the chairs tiny? Do they worship the table in some strange cult? Why is the table floating mid-air with 2 let's resting weirdly on some box on the wall and one leg being much longer?
Because it's mindless slop, that's why.
#ai #genai

from my link log —
Rubik's cube perfect scramble.
https://www.solutionslookingforproblems.com/post/the-rubik-s-cube-perfect-scramble
saved 2025-08-02

The Rubik's Cube Perfect Scramble
The ChallengeI was playing with my son’s Rubik’s Cubes and tried to scramble a cube randomly so that no two squares with the same color were side by side. Here’s one way to do it: But I wanted a scramble that looked like a random scramble. No matter how many different moves I made, I couldn’t do it. Every time I separated two squares with the same color, two other squares of the same color would touch somewhere else.Looking for an easy answer, I went to puzzling.stackexchange.com and fo…

The purpose of a system is what it does. There is no point in claiming its purpose is to do what it constantly fails to do.
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/788530186624892928?source=share

“A majority of the country now knows that he’s the old man behind the curtain and not the wizard,” he said. “He still has control over Maga and Republicans in Congress but he doesn’t have the persuasive capacity any longer to keep his hold on the broad majority of the country.
“This is a sign of his weakness and that he’s not as strong as he believes he is. It’s one of the reasons why he’s looking for these avenues to re-establish his strength and power and have there be a perception that people are bending the knee.
“Every time he tries to do this, it fails and he grows more distant to the American people. That has to give us hope we have the tools in the coming months to start winning elections and building a more successful pro-democracy movement that can contain the damage that Trump and Maga are doing to the country in the coming years.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/10/donald-trump-authoritarian-democracy

Google AI, yet again...
Me: "wake me up at quarter to seven"
AI: "I've set an alarm for 4:45."
Me: "great, but that's not what I said, I said 'quarter to seven'"
AI: "I cannot update an alarm, but I can set a new alarm at 6:45."
Me: "Do it, and delete the old one."
AI: "I have set an alarm for 6:45. (smth along the lines of cannot delete the old one"
Me: "And why is that?&quot…

#Thunderbird Mobile is now 96% translated into Bulgarian. The next steps are to make it 100-ish and then do a quality check.
The most common problem so far are the long strings which are not easy to be localized as short as their English friends :)

Thunderbird for Android / K-9 Mail - Bulgarian
Thunderbird for Android / K-9 Mail is being translated into 68 languages using Weblate. Join the translation or start translating your own project.

I'm happy hosting #LanguageTool rather than dealing with Grammarly, but I love when LanguageTool recommends I replace a word with the same word or I accept the replacement and it repeats letters in the replacement. What do you expect for free? 🙂

What do you mean that someone can buy your domain 12 days before it expires?
It happened to gup.pe who runs the group system a.gup.pe
Their domain was supposed to expire on the 15th, but the domain is already been bought by someone else to host spam articles.
According to Namecheap, there is no renewal period and no pendingDelete period, so customers must renew before the last 12 days of the domain, or it can be bought instantly within that 12-day period.

Sources: some AI researchers rejected Meta's offers to stay at jobs that align with their values; far fewer defected from Anthropic and DeepMind than OpenAI (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

Meta is trying to win the AI race with money — but not everyone can be bought
The AI industry is full of people motivated by a true belief in what they’re doing, but Meta is betting that at a certain price, anyone can be bought — it’s casting its net across Silicon Valley to do it. And what’s the best weapon OpenAI, its biggest target, has to fight it? That’s money, too.

It's tempting to do everything as fast as possible:
listen to podcasts on double speed,
work in email-free sprints,
or train at lung-bursting intensity in the gaps between your morning meditation and the school run.
But evidence is piling up that the last one might not be as beneficial as it seems
– and that, in fact, just introducing a lot more ultra-low-intensity movement into your schedule can improve your fitness as well as your quality of life,
…

How the US democracy is designed to avoid representation
Right now in the US, a system which proclaims to give each citizen representation, my interests are not represented very well by most of my so-called representatives at any level of government. This is true for a majority of Americans across the political spectrum, and it happens by design. The "founding fathers" were explicit about wanting a system of government that would appear Democratic but which would keep power in the hands of rich white landowners, and they successfully designed exactly that. But how does disenfranchisement work in this system?
First, a two-party system locked in by first-post-the-post winner-takes-all elections immediately destroys representation for everyone who didn't vote for the winner, including those who didn't vote or weren't eligible to vote. Single-day non-holiday elections and prisoner disenfranchisement go a long way towards ensuring working-class people get no say, but much larger is the winner-takes all system. In fact, even people who vote for the winning candidate don't get effective representation if they're really just voting against the opponent as the greater of two evils. In a 51/49 election with 50% turnout, you've immediately ensured that ~75% of eligible voters don't get represented, and with lesser-of-two-evils voting, you create an even wider gap to wedge corporate interests into. Politicians need money to saturate their lesser-of-two-evils message far more than they need to convince any individual voter to support their policies. It's even okay if they get caught lying, cheating, or worse (cough Epstein cough) as long as the other side is also doing those things and you can freeze out new parties.
Second, by design the Senate ensures uneven representation, allowing control of the least-populous half of states to control or at least shut down the legislative process. A rough count suggests 284.6 million live in the 25 most-populous states, while only 54.8 million live in the rest. Currently, counting states with divided representation as two half-states with half as much population, 157.8 million people are represented by 53 Republican sensors, while 180.5 million people get only 45 seats of Democratic representation. This isn't an anti-Democrat bias, it's a bias towards less-populous states, whose residents get more than their share it political power.
I haven't even talked about gerrymandering yet, or family/faith-based "party loyalty," etc. Overall, the effect is that the number of people whose elected representatives meaningfully represent their interests on any given issue is vanishingly small (like, 10% of people tops), unless you happen to be rich enough to purchase lobbying power or direct access.
If we look at polls, we can see how lack of representation lets congress & the president enact many policies that go against what a majority of the population wants. Things like abortion restrictions, the current ICE raids, and Medicare cuts are deeply unpopular, but they benefit the political class and those who can buy access. These are possible because the system ensures at every step of the way that ordinary people do NOT get the one thing the system promises them: representation in the halls of power.
Okay, but is this a feature of all democracies, inherent in the nature of a majority-decides system? Not exactly...
1/2
#uspol #democracy

Mailbag: How do special teams coaches differ? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-how-do-special-teams-coaches-differ

When fascist America criticizes something, it just shows normal people it's the right thing to do.
Keep em coming.
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/europe-news-vn516gnfz/-/a-8Qqz7xxOQ7i_sRc4r8ECag:a:89340020-/0

Rubio criticises UK over Gaza-related sanctions on Israeli ministers
The UK and four allies announced they would sanction Israeli ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir over their remarks about Gaza. US …

Public service announcement:
I am blocking the babka.social instance as the person who runs it (Serge) is a Zionist and a genocide/denier, who conflates being Jewish with being Zionist (“Zionism is a belief that more than 80% of Jews have. Talking about Zionists is talking about Jews.” – https://babka.social/@serge/1151605…

Oh no what did the free bus fares do to Philly?? https://lemmy.world/comment/18165199

"just one more lane bro" has never worked as a long-term solution in the history of ever. - Lemmy.World

The Conjuring: Last Rites review: This was a mind-numbing corporate séance packaged as “horror.” Boring as hell.
Why tf do people bow down to this mass-produced ghost story machine? It's like, they summoned capitalism itself onto the screen, empty, repetitive, and designed to keep the herd lulled.
Sitting in that cinema felt like half my soul was on life-support. Horror’s supposed to rattle authority, not tuck you back into your consumer coma.
I found it awfully boring.…

NVMe RAID controllers… I'm skeptical
The selling points here appear to be:
- Each device still has its own channel so you're not trying to hang 4 NVMe off one slot
- The processor on the card can still do the parity
Personally I'm not that interested in parity RAID on NVMe. Either it's mirrors or I'm wanting to use something more advanced like ZFS or Ceph or whatever which pretty much requires JBOD.
Personally I'm more concerned about havin…

Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
AVALON: I don't understand.
TRAVIS: No? Do you think your capture at this particular point was a matter of chance? It was a carefully calculated strategy. You're worth a great deal to me. You're going to give me Blake, his crew, and his undamaged ship. The Federation wants the Liberator - you and I are going to give it to them.

I've spent most of today trying (and failing) to do something which seems as though it should be inherently simple: I've been trying to open an new popup window from #Clojurescript running in a browser, and give that window dynamically generated content.
My mental health really is rubbish today, but I'm not sure to what extent that's the problem and to what extent this …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Coach Party:
🎵 Do It For Love
#CoachParty
https://coachparty.bandcamp.com/track/do-it-for-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/5nkIvAj4RkBfQhat4D5agN

Apple Health lets you export all your data, and gives you GPX files for activities, but you just get a pile of files with no way of telling biking from walking (I do both of those!)
But it looks like I could just write some code to separate them based on speed. Not looking forward to writing that code but I'll probably do it anyway.

I do not get the Labubu fascination. But Jesus, is it prevalent amongst Los Angeles women.
From the Westside to Midtown to South Bay to the Valley... I get trends happen but this one I simply don't get.

Finally I wrote the story about the bike and hike #video I posted recently! I am so glad that I did this tour - and I know that I'll go back a couple of times because I discovered some more variations that I want to do 🙂
And as usual, I don't know whether I should add a photo to this post or if the preview card will be rendered properly.
Read the blog including some

Bike and Hike on new Trails to a Familiar Summit
Every day, I see my nearby mountain range, but it wasn’t until recently that I combined biking and hiking on the less-explored southern trails. Starting early with my bike and camera, I faced steep climbs and unexpected descents, discovering joyful moments, challenging terrain, and rewarding summit

Pam Bondi fired him for prosecuting January 6 rioters. He’d do it again: ‘it’s about justice’ | US Capitol attack | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/10/mike-gordon-trump-administration-january-6

I'm a huge believer in having a hobby that forces you to focus on one thing. This summer I'm learning how to draw and paint wildflowers. It's absorbing and relaxing and even if the results are a bit rough, it forces you to really *look* at small details.
https://mastodon.art/@reinderdijkhuis/114815896842271008
reinderdijkhuis@mastodon.art - It's @ajroach42 's recent threads about addictive behavior in (mostly) kids (but he talks about adults and elders as well) that prompted me to evaluate my own online behavior, again. The line "… they'd rather do nothing, when doing nothing is causing them a great amount of distress, than have to put the work in to do something else" hit hard. More and more these past few months, that's been me, unless I make a very deliberate effort not to go down that path.

Do you think I could get funding to modernize EN57 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKP_class_EN57) to space shuttle version, and extend Poznań Metropolitan Railway to Mars? Until the line's electrified, SM42 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKP_class_SM42) can pull it.

Whoa. My @… talk was accepted. Come and join the only talk that will not be recorded.
https://pretalx.linuxdays.cz/linuxdays-2025/talk/KGHCKC/

FOSS tools to fight back! LinuxDays 2025
Everyone is trying to control your communication. The reasons vary from simple curiosity to pure commercial interest, all the way to using it to control one's thoughts. Are there any ways to fight back, and why are free software and open-source tools a good alternative to the ones you use? As cypherpunks, do we have the obligation to help people be ready for the worst, or should we only take care of ourselves? In this talk, I will cover my experience with fighting back against #chatcontrol …

Two things on this:
1 - To protect people from deepfakes has merit and is very, very needed. Urgently, even.
2 - Every single time people tried to use copyright law to do stuff copyright law is not intended to do, the results were catastrophic. No problems were solved that way, and new problems were created.
Stop it. Just stop.

Trump and Republicans in Congress will do their part to damage the American economy, at a moment of fear and instability.
In the broadest terms, their Big Bad Budget bill is an enormous upward transfer of wealth
— perhaps the largest in history
— taking from those with lower incomes and giving to the rich.
And in its details there are dozens if not hundreds of blows to the economy.

The Republican budget is an attack on the American economy
Everywhere you look, it delivers blows to America's economic future.

Do transit planners realize they're helping the anti-Mamdani frenzy by publishing their pieces? Of *course* you're getting attention for your fares-are-good-actually writing now, despite the fact that no one cares about this normally - because billionaire media wants whatever they can use against Mamdani.
(As an aside, you also sound incredibly obnoxious when voters are like "we want fast & free buses" and you respond with "well actually..")

Jesse Raub (@jesseraub.bsky.social)
damn, it's also like he's already advocating for all of those things as part of his proposal. it's like maybe you didn't even read what his free bus fare policy included

Your regular reminder that all #CarbonCredits are #Fraud and will do nothing to slow the #ClimateEmergency

Should we teach vibe coding? Here's why not.
Should AI coding be taught in undergrad CS education?
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I teach undergraduate computer science labs, including for intro and more-advanced core courses. I don't publish (non-negligible) scholarly work in the area, but I've got years of craft expertise in course design, and I do follow the academic literature to some degree. In other words, In not the world's leading expert, but I have spent a lot of time thinking about course design, and consider myself competent at it, with plenty of direct experience in what knowledge & skills I can expect from students as they move through the curriculum.
I'm also strongly against most uses of what's called "AI" these days (specifically, generative deep neutral networks as supplied by our current cadre of techbro). There are a surprising number of completely orthogonal reasons to oppose the use of these systems, and a very limited number of reasonable exceptions (overcoming accessibility barriers is an example). On the grounds of environmental and digital-commons-pollution costs alone, using specifically the largest/newest models is unethical in most cases.
But as any good teacher should, I constantly question these evaluations, because I worry about the impact on my students should I eschew teaching relevant tech for bad reasons (and even for his reasons). I also want to make my reasoning clear to students, who should absolutely question me on this. That inspired me to ask a simple question: ignoring for one moment the ethical objections (which we shouldn't, of course; they're very stark), at what level in the CS major could I expect to teach a course about programming with AI assistance, and expect students to succeed at a more technically demanding final project than a course at the same level where students were banned from using AI? In other words, at what level would I expect students to actually benefit from AI coding "assistance?"
To be clear, I'm assuming that students aren't using AI in other aspects of coursework: the topic of using AI to "help you study" is a separate one (TL;DR it's gross value is not negative, but it's mostly not worth the harm to your metacognitive abilities, which AI-induced changes to the digital commons are making more important than ever).
So what's my answer to this question?
If I'm being incredibly optimistic, senior year. Slightly less optimistic, second year of a masters program. Realistic? Maybe never.
The interesting bit for you-the-reader is: why is this my answer? (Especially given that students would probably self-report significant gains at lower levels.) To start with, [this paper where experienced developers thought that AI assistance sped up their work on real tasks when in fact it slowed it down] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089) is informative. There are a lot of differences in task between experienced devs solving real bugs and students working on a class project, but it's important to understand that we shouldn't have a baseline expectation that AI coding "assistants" will speed things up in the best of circumstances, and we shouldn't trust self-reports of productivity (or the AI hype machine in general).
Now we might imagine that coding assistants will be better at helping with a student project than at helping with fixing bugs in open-source software, since it's a much easier task. For many programming assignments that have a fixed answer, we know that many AI assistants can just spit out a solution based on prompting them with the problem description (there's another elephant in the room here to do with learning outcomes regardless of project success, but we'll ignore this over too, my focus here is on project complexity reach, not learning outcomes). My question is about more open-ended projects, not assignments with an expected answer. Here's a second study (by one of my colleagues) about novices using AI assistance for programming tasks. It showcases how difficult it is to use AI tools well, and some of these stumbling blocks that novices in particular face.
But what about intermediate students? Might there be some level where the AI is helpful because the task is still relatively simple and the students are good enough to handle it? The problem with this is that as task complexity increases, so does the likelihood of the AI generating (or copying) code that uses more complex constructs which a student doesn't understand. Let's say I have second year students writing interactive websites with JavaScript. Without a lot of care that those students don't know how to deploy, the AI is likely to suggest code that depends on several different frameworks, from React to JQuery, without actually setting up or including those frameworks, and of course three students would be way out of their depth trying to do that. This is a general problem: each programming class carefully limits the specific code frameworks and constructs it expects students to know based on the material it covers. There is no feasible way to limit an AI assistant to a fixed set of constructs or frameworks, using current designs. There are alternate designs where this would be possible (like AI search through adaptation from a controlled library of snippets) but those would be entirely different tools.
So what happens on a sizeable class project where the AI has dropped in buggy code, especially if it uses code constructs the students don't understand? Best case, they understand that they don't understand and re-prompt, or ask for help from an instructor or TA quickly who helps them get rid of the stuff they don't understand and re-prompt or manually add stuff they do. Average case: they waste several hours and/or sweep the bugs partly under the rug, resulting in a project with significant defects. Students in their second and even third years of a CS major still have a lot to learn about debugging, and usually have significant gaps in their knowledge of even their most comfortable programming language. I do think regardless of AI we as teachers need to get better at teaching debugging skills, but the knowledge gaps are inevitable because there's just too much to know. In Python, for example, the LLM is going to spit out yields, async functions, try/finally, maybe even something like a while/else, or with recent training data, the walrus operator. I can't expect even a fraction of 3rd year students who have worked with Python since their first year to know about all these things, and based on how students approach projects where they have studied all the relevant constructs but have forgotten some, I'm not optimistic seeing these things will magically become learning opportunities. Student projects are better off working with a limited subset of full programming languages that the students have actually learned, and using AI coding assistants as currently designed makes this impossible. Beyond that, even when the "assistant" just introduces bugs using syntax the students understand, even through their 4th year many students struggle to understand the operation of moderately complex code they've written themselves, let alone written by someone else. Having access to an AI that will confidently offer incorrect explanations for bugs will make this worse.
To be sure a small minority of students will be able to overcome these problems, but that minority is the group that has a good grasp of the fundamentals and has broadened their knowledge through self-study, which earlier AI-reliant classes would make less likely to happen. In any case, I care about the average student, since we already have plenty of stuff about our institutions that makes life easier for a favored few while being worse for the average student (note that our construction of that favored few as the "good" students is a large part of this problem).
To summarize: because AI assistants introduce excess code complexity and difficult-to-debug bugs, they'll slow down rather than speed up project progress for the average student on moderately complex projects. On a fixed deadline, they'll result in worse projects, or necessitate less ambitious project scoping to ensure adequate completion, and I expect this remains broadly true through 4-6 years of study in most programs (don't take this as an endorsement of AI "assistants" for masters students; we've ignored a lot of other problems along the way).
There's a related problem: solving open-ended project assignments well ultimately depends on deeply understanding the problem, and AI "assistants" allow students to put a lot of code in their file without spending much time thinking about the problem or building an understanding of it. This is awful for learning outcomes, but also bad for project success. Getting students to see the value of thinking deeply about a problem is a thorny pedagogical puzzle at the best of times, and allowing the use of AI "assistants" makes the problem much much worse. This is another area I hope to see (or even drive) pedagogical improvement in, for what it's worth.
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Data shows WLFI's sharp drop was driven by shorting and dumping across exchanges, not Justin Sun's token movements; WLFI blames phishing-related compromises (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/09/0

WLFI News: If They Can Do it to Sun, Who's Next?' Say Insiders as WLFI Claims Freeze Was to 'Protect Users'
Onchain data shows WLFI’s sharp drop was driven by shorting and dumping across exchanges – not Justin Sun's token movements – while the project says wallet freezes targeted phishing-related compromises, not market participants.

Amid all the hate & violence, I kinda feel the need to personally up the kindness.
Do the opposite of MAGA: Remember what it means & feels like to need help.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:34542nslyw2xlrewe33gqipg/post/3lr6kzcqapk2…

The gargantuan budget bill Republicans passed through Congress will do its part to damage the American economy, at a moment of fear and instability.
In the broadest terms, the bill is an enormous upward transfer of wealth — perhaps the largest in history — taking from those with lower incomes and giving to the rich. And in its details there are dozens

The Republican budget is an attack on the American economy
Everywhere you look, it delivers blows to America's economic future.

Apple’s new mobile operating system, iOS 26, includes a new feature
designed to curb unwanted spam calls and text messages.
It will do so by segregating texts that come from outside a recipient’s contacts into an unknown senders screen,
where they are likely to languish unchecked.
For unknown callers, the phone will automatically respond on users’ behalf
to request more information before asking if they would like to pick up.

How Apple could send democracy to the spam folder
An iPhone update threatens to upend public opinion research.

I also believe that those who disrespect pizza do not deserve to live! https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hf7ezrajxadu7v3tzcyij424/post/3ltahk7md4k2d

We are now at the point where our government is literally terrorizing tens of millions of hard working Americans as a matter of strategy.
What can we do?
Call your Senators and Rep and demand they fight Trump’s insane and illegal escalation of the past few days.
Contact your local party and Dems and encourage them to hold solidarity press conferences defending the State of California
as this escalation/attack is not just on California and Los Angeles
- it is …

her: *holds up a bag*
her: "Do you like this flatbread stuff?"
me: *shakes head*
me: "I don't think it should be called 'bread' if it is flat. It's basically a soggy cracker."
her: "It's flat bread!" 🙄