There's so much going on that I can't post disapproving posts for every single thing. So here's just one blanket one.
It's all wrong. You know, everything. All of it. Not just in the US, but it's happening, or starting to, everywhere. The rule of law is abandoned and people are shipped off to uncontrolled foreign prisons. People's right to be who they are is removed. Institutions to help and better other people are disbanded.
We need to get back to caring about other people. Care about the next generation's ability to get educated. No matter the skin colour, no matter the social class, care about whether people can buy food. Care about people getting a fair trial. Care about people whether they are your gender or not, or have the gender you think they have, or even have a gender.
Care about other people, no matter what kind of 'other' they are.
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Hi, when I follow someone I usually do this from multiple accounts, with different servers and platforms. This is partially as backup. It’s also because different software has different features. E.g. at the moment of writing I mainly post from my Friendica server, but it doesn’t yet support polls, or account migrations. So I also follow from my Pleroma server, which does notify me someone has migrated.
I also sometimes use platforms that support nomadic identity, that allows my channels on multiple servers to be synced. From software that doesn’t support that, a follow request looks like multiple separate requests from those channels.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders have been on a Fight Oligarchy tour.
I think history is going to remember AOC's 'We are not powerless' speech. This is some watch:
youtu.be/1LQ8s8sKoXY?si=65GNYx…
Back home, Sanders made this 'Bad News / Good News' address:
youtu.be/70nHmlapu7w?si=YinCHQ…
#FightOligarchy #AlexandriaOcasioCortez #AOC #BernieSanders #Bernie #USPol
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Here's my experience, YMMV.
I'm also not much for doing weird things on the desktop I use everyday. I generally just want things to work.
While breakages used to be more of an issue, largely I don't have many problems when updating anymore. I have used Mint as my distro and cinnamon as my window manager for about the last 15 years and it generally just works. Generally I pair it with an older thinkpad business laptop.
Trump has turned his back on the foundation of US economic might
What made the US step back from the system that it profited handsomely from for decades?Faisal Islam (BBC News)
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I've yet to bother asking ShatGPT "How can we resolve our trade deficit"? But I'd hazard a guess as to what the answer might be.
But crashing the $ to force the use of (their chosen) crypto is another possible evil scheme behind this madness.
@GossiTheDog
"But surely they'll realise they're crashing the economy?"
"We have to raise awareness that these actions will burn the planet!"
"They'll stop once they see the impact on human lives, especially their own people."
We have to remember that the destruction is the point. They do want to reset everything, believing they are best placed to be the only survivors of the human race and the ones to start a new era. That's also why they amass so much more wealth than they need now.
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Just back from watching Jenna Ortega in Death of a Unicorn. I really liked it! There's also something about the combination of her acting with detailed realism and the story being like 'well, unicorns', and that is a combination that I weirdly really liked. I guess it adds to the multiple things her character is trapped in.
My review of Death of a Unicorn on Letterboxd boxd.it/9jRbqN
Jenna Ortega's film Death of a Unicorn is out tomorrow in The Netherlands.
Hurry Up Tomorrow...
...will be released in the US next month.
"LLM did something bad, then I asked it to clarify/explain itself" is not critical analysis but just an illustration of magic thinking.
Those systems generate tokens. That is all. They don't "know" or "understand" or can "explain" anything. There is no cognitive system at work that could respond meaningfully.
That's the same dumb shit as what was found in Apple Intelligence's system prompt: "Do not hallucinate" does nothing. All the tokens you give it as input just change the part of the word space that was stored in the network. "Explain your work" just leads the network to lean towards training data that has those kinds of phrases in it (like tests and solutions). It points the system at a different part but the system does not understand the command. It can't.
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Your so close to understanding! So many people fall for them *because* their rendition of thinking is indistinguishable from LLMs. It's all just language manipulation in pursuit of personal gratification. Unencumbered by meaning or logical consistency.
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@Gidi Kroon I hear you... News headlines of late are like political satire, only 100% true and terrifying.
It's really quite depressing.
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12 April, the second series of the re-re-boot-boot of Doctor Who on the BBC. Here's the second trailer:
youtu.be/_xuo_FvPI18?si=1ZR00i…
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Interview with a UK photographer and filmmaker, Edward Matthews, who went to Ukraine to help charities document their war effort. It also contains part of a documentary he made which is a very touching interview with a Ukrainian fire fighter.
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💥💥💥💥💥
Via Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
"Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too)."
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@Ditterwit
What we can do is donate and/or spread their actual words around (videos)
Bernie and AOC are fundraising through ActBlue on both their accounts:
secure.actblue.com/donate/aoc-…
Spread the word
berniesanders.com/
tiktok.com/@aoc
youtube.com/@AOC/videos
Denver yesterday: tiktok.com/@aoc/video/74847737…
#uspol
Donate to AOC.
Alexandria is fighting for progressive policies that can help create social, racial, and economic justice for all. That's why she's taking $0 from corporations and lobbyists and is relying on the grassroots to power her campaign.ActBlue
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A US judge on Monday ordered #Trump administration officials to explain whether the administration violated his order when they deported hundreds of *alleged* Venezuelan gang members over the weekend & potentially set up a constitutional clash between the president & the federal #judiciary.
#law #Constitution #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #immigration #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower
reuters.com/world/us/group-see…
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Judge James Boasberg in Washington set a hearing for 5PM ET (2000 GMT) on Mon & instructed the govt to provide details on whether the flights that transported the #Venezuelans to #ElSalvador took off after his order or were in the air at the time.
#Constitution #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #immigration
The hearing was scheduled in response to an overnight filing by the ACLU & other advocates seeking clarity on the flights.
The rapid developments represent a potential escalation in #Trump's challenge to the US #Constitution's system of #ChecksAndBalances & the #independence of the #JudicialBranch of govt.
At an emergency hearing on Sat requested…Boasberg issued a 2wk temporary block on Trump's use of the #AlienEnemiesAct of 1798 to deport 238 alleged members of Tren de Aragua….
#law
The judge said in court that any flights already en route should return to the #US. His written order following the hearing appeared in the court's online docket at 7:26PM ET….
WH press sec Karoline Leavitt issued a stmnt on Sun denying the #Trump admin had violated Boasberg's order, while also questioning his #power to issue it:
"A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft ... full of foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from US soil.”
#law
The flights suggest the #Trump admin may be growing more brazen in its defiance of judicial restraint. The #US #Constitution established the #judiciary as a co-#equal & #independent branch of government.
Trump has sought to *push* [illegally expand] the boundaries of #ExecutivePower since taking office in Jan, cutting spending authorized by #Congress, dismantling #FederalAgencies & firing tens of thousands of #FederalWorkers.
On Mon, #Trump's border czar, #TomHoman, said the flights were already in international airspace when the judge's orders came & that more flights would continue.
"Once you're outside the border, you know, it is what it is. But they're in international waters, already on the way south, close to landing. You know what? ... We did what we had to do," he told FauxNews…. [The law applied to the admin’s actions who were not in international jurisdiction; idiot.]
Asked what was next, #TomHoman said: "Another flight, another flight every day."
"We're not stopping. I don't care what the judges think," he added.
With the #Republican-controlled #Congress largely backing his agenda, federal judges have often been the only constraint on #Trump, putting many actions hold while they consider their legality. In several cases, the admin has refused to comply w/judicial orders.
#law #Constitution #DueProcess #immigration #AbuseOfPower #SeparationOfPowers
Non sequitur
What was the legal jurisdiction / flag those planes were flying under?
A cruise ship under N'th flag, is under N'th legal territory, regardless of where on the planet it is.
It's why they check your passport at San Diego when you board a Norwegian flagged ship to go spend 3 days in Oregon. You step out of California, into Norway, even when that boat is still tied to the docks.
Does ICAO need to have a chat, using crayons, with Bondi?
The planes were all labeled airline GlobalX flights (Global Crossing Airlines is an American charter airline). There were only three GlobalX arrivals to El Salvador’s international airport on March 15 & 16, according to the flight tracking site FlightRadar24.
First flight tail number: N278GX
Second flight tail number: N837VA
Third flight tail number: N630VA
#law #Constitution #DueProcess #immigration #Venezuela #CivilRights #Judiciary #AlienEnemiesAct #Trump
I wanted to see if I can recreate Ché Aimee Dorval's album cover for The Widow. I used my two Arri tungsten lights, one 300W with a blue gel, and one 650W with a red gel and a softbox.
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
👤 Wife
⚗ Spieker Film Lab
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat
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Jenna Ortega Shares Update On ‘Wednesday’ Season 3 & Teases Season 2: “There’s A Whole Episode Based Off Of Slashers”
#News #JennaOrtega #Netflix #Wednesday
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Jenna Ortega Shares Update On 'Wednesday' Season 3 & Teases Season 2: "There's A Whole Episode Based Off Of Slashers"
Jenna Ortega is spilling the tea on Wednesday's upcoming second season.Armando Tinoco (Deadline)
This is an interesting concept. That maybe when you as a content creator, or any other creative person, feel like you're stuck in a rut and don't know what too create next, maybe you're too stuck in your own head. Maybe you need to allow yourself to be inspired by others. Read a book. Listen to music.
New video by Tah:
youtu.be/Ix1TDb8DSiU?si=QAkrqy…
Another thing I'm thinking when watching her channel: why is she so worried about viewing numbers? She doesn't need viewing numbers to be an interesting channel, she already is. Ok, so only 816 people watched her previous video. I'm one of them. And I liked it. And even if nobody watches them, who cares, they're still interesting and worthy videos.
Sometimes I post photos on Instagram. I like taking them. The new analytics on Instagram show that these reach between 2 and 5 accounts. So I've long given up doing that for the numbers. I just like taking them and knowing they're out there or somewhere.
Google are breaking my mittens - Sonofa. Twelve years ago I knitted a pair of “self-replicating mittens” (web-goddess.org/archive/14046) with a QR code that pointed you to the pattern for the mittens, and I entered them in the Sydney Royal Easter Show. I was pretty proud of my cleverness. In the blog post (web-goddess.org/archive/11192) where I talked about making the mittens, I said:
I wanted my code to be as simple as possible, so I needed to use a URL shortener to mask my intended address. I settled on using Google‘s, reasoning that it was likely to be around the longest. (Though who knows these days, right?)
You can guess what’s happened, right? Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available (developers.googleblog.com/en/g…) as of August this year.
Bastards are breaking my mittens. Perhaps I’ll have to add some embroidery. web-goddess.org/archive/56383
Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.Sumit Chandel (developers.googleblog.com)
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Self-Replicating Mittens
After giving a talk on geek knitting in 2012, I was inspired to try my hand at knitting a QR code. The code on these mittens actually scans and points the viewer to the pattern on this page so they can make their own.web-goddess
Was explaining the whole self-hosted/small web movement to someone at work today, and they replied “Oh, so you’re like one of those preppers with a bunker, but digital.”
And I will not be taking any further questions at this time.
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For those in the Netherlands who follow F1 but don't want to pay a lot of money to Viaplay or F1 TV, and therefore can't see it live: due to a deal signed only yesterday it will be on delayed broadcast, for free, on Ziggo channel 13 (so not the normal channel 14). This means that today's qualifying session is repeated at 20:30 tonight and tomorrow's race at 21:15, tomorrow of course. This may not be in your tv guides yet.
The usual summary broadcasts on Ziggo Sport and NPO 1 have been cancelled for this year.
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Here's the "origin story" of Roxy Furman. She's a zoologist who makes the most gorgeous wildlife documentaries.
youtu.be/RGtGEsI7xiQ
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I don't know who will be back in the final season of You, but the trailer shows Amy-Leigh Hickman, so that's great already! 24 April on Netflix.
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#AmyLeighHickman #YouNetflix #You
YOU on Instagram: "all eyes on YOU 👁️ the killer final season of YOU premieres April 24th."
121K likes, 2,246 comments - younetflix on March 10, 2025: "all eyes on YOU 👁️ the killer final season of YOU premieres April 24th.".Instagram
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Fly-by.
Or how to be caught out with the wrong lens on. This was a manual focus 2x macro lens...
📷 Canon EOS R10
🔭 Laowa 65mm F2.8 2x macro
1/800 s, ISO 500. F2.8 I think. Cropped.
Cc-by.
#Photography #Plane #Moon
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I guess we'll have baby pigeons soon.
📷 Canon EOS R10
🔭 Canon RF 100-400mm
400mm, F9, 1/1600 s, ISO 3200, cropped
Cc-by.
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Interview in "Den of Geek" with Jenna Ortega and others about the film Death of a Unicorn, which was just premiered on the SXSW Film Festival.
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Death of a Unicorn: Exclusive First Look at Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd Going Medieval | Den of Geek
Exclusive: Jenna Ortega, Paul Rudd, and writer-director Alex Scharfman talk the dark side of unicorn mythology, eating the rich, and why purple blood is so hard to get out in the new A24 comedy, Death of a Unicorn.David Crow (Den of Geek)
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📷: Demonstrators rally during International Women's Day on March 8, 2025.
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International Women's Day to accent push for gender parity
UN secretary-general: Women today face 'age-old horrors' along with modern threats such as biased algorithmsVOA News (Voice of America (VOA News))
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For #InternationalWomensDay a short thread of my ongoing series of portraits of women in science through history. If you look for them, they’re there. I’m up to 67 now! Here’s to the day when a scientist’s sex is no longer remarkable in any field!
#IWD #IWD2025 #womenInSTEM #histsci #linocut #printmaking
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#DoctorWho
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New poster for Hurry Up Tomorrow, the film with Jenna Ortega in the lead.
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in reply to Gidi Kroon • •Waiting for someone to come back at me and mention that she doesn't actually say that slogan in this speech... Made you watch... But isn't misquoting historical speeches sort of the norm? The slogan is very much the theme of the speech however, it is in the caption, and she does say it in another version of this speech. Also, sorry, I misremembered.
What she does say however:
That we have to get rid of Big Money out of politics.
That we need a Democratic party that actually fights for people, that congress people who don't should be booted out, but that this means that voters should vote at every opportunity for those Democrats that will stand up for people.
That believing that a minimal wage should cover the cost to live, and that illness shouldn't cause bankruptcy, is common sense, not something out of a communist manifesto.
That she welcomes everybody who will fight for someone they don't know.
That the fabric of community is what can defeat fascism.
(Yeah, we're literally calling it that now)