@aral@mastodon.ar.alDear reply-and-block hasbara bot at @coffeebits@101010.pl (please feel free to report and block),
Zionism is not a race.
Zionism isn’t even a religion.
Zionism is a settler colonialist, genocidal ideology.
Not all Jews are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jews.
And it’s not libel if it’s true.
#israel
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThree precedent-setting court rulings in China have said that employers replacing workers with AI is voluntary cost-cutting that does not justify mass layoffs (Catie Edmondson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/busines
@aardrian@toot.cafeMore of their ongoing attack against “so-called experts” except now it’s a Christian expert. In this case, Vance has, what, continuing education credits in Christianity? And Trump, who’s never cracked a book, is going to essentially read from the textbook on TV?
https://www.theguardian.com/wor…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzJeremiyah Love NFL Draft profile: A home-run hitter with traits that justify a top-five pick
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/jeremiyah-love-nfl-draft-profile/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhy Callais Doesn't Justify Court-Packing (Ilya Somin/Lawfare)
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-callais-doesn-t-justify-court-packing
http://www.memeorandum.com/260610/p56#a260610p56
@cdarwin@c.im‘Popesplaining’ Vance is out of his depth in the argument over whether Iran is a 'just war'
The contrast in experience between the two men disagreeing over war and theology was striking.
⭐️On the one side was Pope Leo XIV, the first North American to head the Catholic church and the first cleric from the Augustinian order,
who this week visited the modern Algerian city where Saint Augustine once lived.
For Leo, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine’s ideas…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialCurrent AI, regardless it's capabilities, is simply to expensive and companies are noticing it...
https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andrew-macdonald-ai-token-spending-harder-justify-2026-5
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialRE: https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/116747637398171644
I'm getting the feeling this text wants to justify Amazon's data centres (or paraphrases their own blog post) but all it does is list more things that we can absolutely do without, like golf c…
@villavelius@mastodon.online"It becomes very dark when religion is used to justify immoral behaviour... "
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c070jxyjrmeo
Religion, the ultimate power tool for rulers.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“A country might justify that position if it used the proceeds to build something (anything!) like world-class public services, extraordinary infrastructure, or a society so well-functioning that the trade-off had a visible return. Ireland did… None of this. It extracted from others and failed to build anything for itself. That is the uniquely disgraceful aspect of the Irish model; not the extraction alone, but the total nothingnessthat followed it. The nothingness we live in.”
This is…
@ErikUden@mastodon.defuck man, kane parsons is actually 20 years old? the director of a franchise i've loved watching for years, now creator of a24's top grossing movie of all time, is actually two years younger than me? my understanding of growth and self worth is limited to a faulty capitalist logic of so-called meritocracy, ignoring all privileges, advantages, or even luck, fueling an inferiority complex in which i can only justify me being less successful than him by thinking of myself as lesser, despite tha…
@cdarwin@c.imPope Leo XIV has said that the world is being “ravaged by a handful of tyrants” who spend billions on war
“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain,
dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth,”
Leo told a gathering at Saint Joseph Cathedral in western Cameroon.
“They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation,
yet the resources need…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Madonna:
🎵 Justify My Love
#Madonna
https://chitoon.bandcamp.com/track/madonna-justify-my-love-chitoon-rmx
https://open.spotify.com/track/1cYs6km6tAzpPVk62WLpHn
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioIt’s why they hired all these bulletheaded chuds in the first place, why they didn’t really train them in much of anything except violence, why they gave them a sense of total impunity.
Well, white supremacy is the reason. But wanting to foment violence that would justify the suspension of democracy was the other reason. They •wanted• one of them to get themselves killed.
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@PaulWermer@sfba.socialThe lies told by racists& bigots to justify their abhorrent acts rarely get called out this clearly - and yet too many are unaware. Why?
And too few news organizations are willing to call out these murderous acts, and the lies, for what they are. And thus enable the #CrimesAgainstHumanity to continue.
The
@paulwermer@sfba.socialThe lies told by racists& bigots to justify their abhorrent acts rarely get called out this clearly - and yet too many are unaware. Why?
And too few news organizations are willing to call out these murderous acts, and the lies, for what they are. And thus enable the #CrimesAgainstHumanity to continue.
The
@curiouscat@fosstodon.orgAn attorney for ICE emailed Clayton’s office to say that the memo that prosecutors had relied on to defend the government in the lawsuit “does not and has never authorized” the arrests near the immigration courts, after previously claiming the opposite.
https://www.thegua…
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialIn the new episode of the YDS “Quadcast,” Professor of American Religious History Tisa Wenger discusses the early U.S. government’s use of Christianity to justify Indigenous land theft, the limits of religious freedom in America, and the importance of Yale’s new certificate in Native American and Indigenous studies.
https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic secretly limiting Claude's usefulness for LLM development strengthens the argument that Anthropic is using AI safety to justify monopolistic behavior (Dean W. Ball/@deanwball)
https://x.com/deanwball/status/2064665679307985244
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDOJ says it erroneously relied on ICE memo to justify immigration courthouse arrests (Chloe Atkins/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/doj-says-erroneously-relied-ice-memo-justify-immigration-courthouse-ar-rcna265206
http://www.memeorandum.com/260325/p153#a260325p153
@aardrian@toot.cafe[1/?]
Using SEO to justify accessibility was only ever a technique for bosses / clients driven by dashboards, money.
Ideally, you want to get past that ASAP to drive better outcomes for humans, not SERPs.
I get it as a foot-in-the-door tactic — hopefully no further.
But it also drove alt text keyword stuffing (among other bad practices).
So I was always wary of companies pitching accessibility *and* SEO in their marketing.
@ErikUden@mastodon.deWhen in history has it ever been about being a good person in a vacuum. It never mattered what you'd do if the time was right, you had infinite money, no status to lose, and no other hurdles to rush through. It was always about what you'd do given the circumstances you find yourself in.
Would you offer someone refuge with little to spare for yourself? Would you stop and help someone in need even if it meant having to justify being late to an event or not showing up at all? Would you he…
@chiraag@mastodon.onlineChina has problems, but at least their courts still do the right thing every so often:
https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/ai-termination-ban-why-chinese-184031008.html
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaBecause I need to justify my hardware endeavours I did a quickie on the Framework website. Forking out 1739 Trumpies for a laptop that I'll have to keep looking at eternally. Guess I'll skip this 😆 Sold out until September. You never hear people talking about e-waste anymore these days. Crisis, what crisis?
@marcel@waldvogel.familySpaceX blacklisted from a Danish pension fund:
"Akademikerpension said in a statement, adding that it was difficult to justify a market valuation above $1 trillion."
"Akademikerpension also said the governance structure of SpaceX was "extremely deficient", adding that Elon Musk is expected to control more than 80% of the voting rights while simultaneously serving as chief executive officer, chief technology officer and chair of the board."
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 139 - CXXXIX
O! call not me to justify the wrong
That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;
Wound me not with thine eye, but with thy tongue:
Use power with power, and slay me not by art,
Tell me thou lov'st elsewhere; but in my sight,
Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside:
What need'st thou wound with cunning, when thy might
Is more than my o'erpressed defence can bide?
Let me excuse thee: ah! my love well knows
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @aral@mastodon.ar.al“The vast majority of German political science scholars and the German international relations community have made virtually no analytical contribution to the discussion.
Either they refrained from taking a stance, or they went so far as to use their own academic authority to justify Israeli warfare or to endorse official Israeli perspectives on the conduct of the war. Such justifications were offered without any substantive engagement with the available analyses and documentation of wa…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioICE is still not out of Minneapolis-St. Paul, but I’m willing to say that we are no longer under •siege•. The Eye of Dumbass Sauron has moved elsewhere. Now it’s more an ongoing threat, usually background-level but sometimes not, that continues through normal life. You know…like the supposed criminal gang activity they used to justify their mass attack on immigrants in the first place.
It’s not over, but it’s not just MSP. It’s the whole country’s problem.
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@mxp@mastodon.acm.org @mxp@mastodon.acm.org
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @cdarwin@c.imDuring a Palm Sunday mass in St Peter’s Square, the pope said the conflict between Iran, Israel and the US was “atrocious” and that Jesus could not be used to justify war.
“This is our God: Jesus, king of peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war,” he told tens of thousands of worshippers.
“He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.”
Quoting a Bible passage, Leo added:
“‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not li…
@aardrian@toot.cafe“The Accessibility Problem Isn't Design. It's Engineering.”
https://gbbns.co/journal/accessibility-problem-isnt-design/
Looking at EAA as a compliance concern, with LLMs as the accelerant going the wrong direction.
@kurt@nelson.funI think it's time that we start thinking about how to bring the 76X Marin Headlands weekend route back if we are serious about tourism. Now with open-loop tap-to-pay, it's easy for tourists to take the bus. Combine with the incoming cable car fare changes that bundle a day pass, and I think we have the ridership to justify it.
@paulwermer@sfba.social @PaulWermer@sfba.social @NFL@darktundra.xyzThe argument for (and against) selecting Jeremiyah Love as top-five pick in 2026 NFL Draft
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/jeremiyah-love-2026-nfl-dr…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comChairman of the Joint Chiefs Struggles to Justify Trump's Threats (Greg Jaffe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/general-caine-iran-war.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p140#a260407p140
@smurthys@hachyderm.io @Techmeme@techhub.socialEpoch AI: Google controls ~25% of global AI compute, with ~3.8M TPUs and 1.3M GPUs; Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says demand and revenue justify the spend (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/2429f0f0-b685-4747-b425-bf8001a2e94c
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialYDS Professor Yii-Jan Lin discusses the Department of Homeland Security's "calculated provocation" of using scripture and military imagery.
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/26/nx-s1-5698511/h…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThree studies used by RFK Jr and allies to justify controversial vaccine policy changes facing new scrutiny (Michelle R Smith/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/04/vaccine-studies-rfk-jr
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p92#a260604p92
@cdarwin@c.imA lawyer for ICE provided
false information to federal prosecutors
to justify seizing thousands of people seeking asylum and lawful immigration status in the U.S.
at immigration courts, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
The extraordinary revelation was included in filings by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton’s office
in a lawsuit brought by the New York Civil Liberties Union and various civil rights groups and community organizations,
which challenges …
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsOkay, I'll give you that: LLMs aren't the root of the problem.
Capitalism is. The idea of infinite growth. The idea that people can't just live, they must with 40 hours a week to justify their existence, and they must be purchasing something all the time. Companies must keep selling new stuff. All the resources must be tapped into and exploited.
And companies are making software. They must keep selling new features and pointless complete redesigns nobody wanted. The code must keep being churned over and over again. Programmers must justify their existence by churning out absurd amounts of meaningless code. The companies must exploit them.
Then, companies are entering the #OpenSource "market". They are acquiring and enshittifying. They are hiring and exploiting. And then so many volunteers just jump on the bandwagon and keep cosplaying them. And they too churn out useless code, "sell" pointless complete makeovers, "profit" off their users (even if they actually aren't making any real profit).
And then come LLMs, perfect tools for the job. Perfect tools for exploitation, for churning out useless code, for creating addiction, and for turning everyone into mindless corpospeak bullshit machines.
#AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM #AntiCapitalism
@cdarwin@c.imTrump describes Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer whose 2024 Paris Olympics match became a flashpoint in the transgender athlete debate, as a man who transitioned to womanhood.
-- She was not.
Khelif is a woman who was assigned female at birth. The entire anecdote, used to justify policy, rests on a lie.
Similarly, Trump claims that Somali-Americans in Minnesota have 94% unemployment.
-- The actual labor force participation rate for that community is approximately 70% …
@cdarwin@c.imAs Christians around the world celebrate Easter Sunday,
we go to Palestine to speak to Reverend Munther Isaac,
pastor of the Lutheran Church in Ramallah and director of the Bethlehem Institute for Peace and Justice,
located in the city of Jesus Christ’s birth.
This year’s Easter preparations come against the backdrop of the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran,
which many Christian nationalists in the U.S., including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
are framing in ext…
@cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. military on Friday bombed another boat it claimed was smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean,
killing three more people in what experts say is an illegal campaign whose death toll has now topped 200
The Trump administration has tried to justify the strikes by claiming that the U.S. is in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels.
-- Many legal experts disagree.
Former longtime Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth wrote on X:
“Now more tha…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFox News-Pilled SCOTUS Invents Wild Hypotheticals to Justify Curtailing Right to Vote by Mail (Kate Riga/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-hypothetical-voting-by-mail-grace-period
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p101#a260323p101
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksIf you're a fan of using Mosquito Dunks in buckets to control mosquitoes, please join me in leaving a comment for the patronizing jerks at Saginaw County Mosquito Control Commission, a taxpayer-funded entity. These organizations operate all over the U.S.A. and justify their large budgets (for planes, fogger trucks, etc.) by promoting the use of insecticides even when there is no public-health emergency. #MosquitoDunks #saginaw #saginawbay #michigan #mosquitoes #bti https://www.instagram.com/p/DL5Jm3xODBz/
@cdarwin@c.imDemocrats on the House Judiciary Committee
have sent a letter addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel
demanding answers regarding a recent article in The Atlantic
that alleges he regularly engages in excessive partying, drinking, and travel
at the expense of taxpayers.
ht…
