@tante@tldr.nettime.org"Kids have a right to education" doesn't mean "right to learn to create content efficiently". It means the right to an environment and relationships and mentoring and resources that allow them to become their full self. It's about the human and not any output. FFS.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioGwen Snyder posted something on Saturday to the effect that “Fascists •need• the appearance of strength, and right now, Trump just looks weak.”
I think it’s easy for us evidence-hungry thinker types to underestimate just how much appearance matters. Massive rallies are not — •must• not be — the endpoint of resistance. However, neither are they purely symbolic. They have a real and concrete effect. They change perceptions, which change human behavior. Yes, they matter. They matter a lot.
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@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.socialKann euch das Buch "Opus. The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church" von Gareth Gore empfehlen. Sehr lesenswert. Der Zusammenhang zwischen der Besetzung des US Supreme Court und Opus Dei war mir bspw. völlig neu.
Tatsächlich sehe ich nach dem Buch Papst Benedikt XVI in einem etwas positiveren Licht und Johannes Paul II in einem noch negativeren.
@rberger@hachyderm.io"The one thing that can stop the rise of the far right is the one thing mainstream parties are currently not prepared to deliver: greater equality. The rich should be taxed more, and the revenue used to improve the lives of the poor. However frantically centrist parties avoid the issue, there is no other way."
#FightingOligarchy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/13/trump-populists-human-nature-economic-growth
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaWe live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. -- Ursula Le Guin
https://peertube.wtf/w/3BRv7a69sj3aPE35qYNxFm
@arXiv_csCE_bot@mastoxiv.pageExploring EEG Responses during Observation of Actions Performed by Human Actor and Humanoid Robot
Anh T. Nguyen, Ajay Anand, Michelle J. Johnson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10170
@bici@mastodon.socialBe Kind
Human kindness is amazing!
#kindness
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«What “win the center” pragmatists would have us believe is that the shock of the Missouri ladies over the shabby treatment of one of their “good ‘uns” means that they share our common value of universal human equality, even though there is scant evidence that this value is shared. This seems to be standard rhetorical practice when one is a pragmatic “win the center” type.»
Applies to all places where parties try to beat the fascists by moving towards the right
https://www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-middle/
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.socialThis is a good account of the ham-fisted use of AI in the MAHA report. AI has no understanding of science, and if it does get something right, it's because of the (human) choice of training materials. It's undisclosed use is dangerous and dishonest -like RFK Jr
https://www.washing…
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialSomeone in my LinkedIn network posted this, and I have no inkling if it is genuine or sarcasm (see: Poe's Law).
Full text of the post in the image Alt Text.
NOTE: Please do not dogpile this person due to my toot.
#LLMs #WorkerReplacement
@bici@mastodon.socialInside job
When an account gets hacked, social media giant Meta offers little support, spawning a shadowy network of brokers and Meta employees who profit from helping users get back online
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/art
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI honestly wonder how the famously right-wing leadership of Home Depot feel about having their workforce specifically targeted, terrorized, and (presumably) encouraged to seek work elsewhere. I doubt they care about these people as human beings, but surely they care about their labor costs. Have we heard any remarks from them? From their shareholders?
@samir@functional.computer@… @… Right! My goal with mentoring a human is to get them to the point where they don’t need me any more.
Not so with a word generator.
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialAnd this, people, is why Europe ABSOLUTELY NEEDS RIGHT FREAKING NOW its own human-graded space access system.
I'll never understand why nobody at #ESA thought of developping further the ATV in order to be also used to send people up instead of just cargo.
I know, the problem was mostly in bringing people down, as the ATV was designed to burn up in the atmosphere. But still. Now we…
@schoedland@digitalcourage.socialI just donated to the Tor Project because I support the human right to privacy. https://donate.torproject.org/
@outer@mas.toI'll test it on Apples.
I use the Orion browser on Apple computers. EFF's attempting to tell advertisers to USE EXPLICIT METHODS to control ads, and our privacy.
The Orion browser has its own "advanced" blockers.
But because it has Firefox extensions, it should "work" in Orion (the free browser by search engine company Kagi). Also, on iPads and iPhones, extensions work in Orion, but not Safari.
Privacy is a Human Right.
@nelson@tech.lgbtRealizing one reason I'm finding ChatGPT useful right now is it's (so far) relatively unsullied by ads. It makes all sorts of terrible mistakes but at least there's not a human adversary trying to trick me into buying things I don't want.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
ALIEN: [Her robes start blowing as if a breeze had sprung up] I thought you were the clever one. You're a fool, like Tarrant. The pain Tarrant is experiencing ... visualize that pain and much more. [Shot of Cally tossing her head back and forth.] You're as close to death as you have ever been. Think about human death, Avon. Irrevocable…
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesIn a week when the Canadian federal government strongly condemned Israel withholding aid and called human suffering in Gaza "intolerable".
City councillor Shelley Caroll of Don Valley North decided that it was the right week to publicly show her support to.. Walk with Israel. She thinks Israel is the country to support and must walk to support)
(Also present, Mike Colle, Brad Bradford, Rachel Chernos Lin, James Pasternak)
@kctipton@mas.toA Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
@blaise@mastodon.cloudRemember how banning guns because of one mass shooting in 20 years didn't reduce violent crime? Well, I'm sure if they just keep banning everything that ever gets used in a violent crime, human nature will just magically change, right?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyvxxd4knjo
@newsie@darktundra.xyzA Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social @blaise@mastodon.cloudThe government would *never* misuse their vast and terrifying domestic spying capabilities for evil. The people who *work* for the government, on the other hand....
https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-…
