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I think this particularly applies to liberals who generally seem to misunderstand a correlation for causation: Places tend to have a high turnout *because politicians/parties are offering them a message worth voting for* - regardless of where they are on the political spectrum. Continuing to […]

As glad as I am about the election outcomes in Brazil and Serbia, the people who claim that "voter turnout" is the panacea to defeating fascism/authoritarianism are just tiresome. And they seem to curiously forget how Germany's Sachen-Anhalt had a record voter turnout to elect the modern […]

«we live in a world that's deeply hostile to people who insist on thinking while demanding that they pretend to think. If the mind is an engine, while other societies have demanded the engine not be run, our one insists on trying to run the thinker's mind on fuel oil when it's tuned for gasoline […]

I think this particularly applies to liberals who generally seem to misunderstand a correlation for causation: Places tend to have a high turnout *because politicians/parties are offering them a message worth voting for* - regardless of where they are on the political spectrum. Continuing to […]

As glad as I am about the election outcomes in Brazil and Serbia, the people who claim that "voter turnout" is the panacea to defeating fascism/authoritarianism are just tiresome. And they seem to curiously forget how Germany's Sachen-Anhalt had a record voter turnout to elect the modern […]

i wrote down my current thoughts on AI, first draft, titled "AI is Fake People": https://minute.social/index.html what do you think?

I went to the desfile de catrinas yesterday evening and had a blast. A photo set is on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/gedankenstuecke/albums/72177720336355589 And I also started a WM commons category: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Desfile_de_Catrinas_in_Mexico_City_in_2026

Una caminata por el barrio en CDMX.

People who love using AI to code are absolutely losing their minds when AI-generated code is labelled so consumers can make a choice. What's hilarious is how they label this as "politics" because it doesn't align with their desires. If AI generated code is […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Wow, this is a súper fascinating, data-driven read about now the social dynamics of open source development have changed in the past years. Thanks @mpadge for all the effort! mp | Coding Alone https://mpadge.eu/blog/coding-alone.html #floss #opensource

TIL: Lima Airport, run by the same sleazy company as Frankfurt Airport, directly charges passengers with a US$ 12 "international connection" extortion fee. 🙄

«Radical innovations include performing interpretive dance routines on the steps of the Kennedy Center and holding aerobics classes outside ICE concentration camps, neither of which have liberated the masses quite yet.» Why Don’t Americans Protest Like the French? […]

tyranny of structurelessness? what's the big deal. I'd just make up some structures. problem solved

Was looking for a smaller thermos for mate, to bring on my trip to Mexico🧉🇲🇽. I found a small one that I used when going into the office back in Paris. Let's say times have changed and that there needs to be some more sticker bombing before I can use this one 🤣

Stop pretending like Sam Altman somehow fucking forced you to create, share or enable AI slop and trying to imagine your life fucking like, what, 40 months ago? You're not being BP-marketing mind-tricked into being a slopper. You chose to do it, and stop lying about it, you cowards 🥂 JFC

Generative AI is presented as "I have to drive an ICE car to work bc there's no public transport" but it EXTREMELY IS NOT It's way more like "I have to drive a hummer to buy shopping" / "I'm paying with Bitcoin" / "Private jet for 15min trip" / "I only drink bottled water". Cheating is tempting!!

My photo library sending a reminder of a visit to the BGI offices in Shenzhen 11 years ago - and seeing the most hilarious way of presenting seed collections I've ever seen.

Starting my trip today in the middle of the night. See hopefully some of you in CDMX! #SotMLatAm2026 #OpenStreetMap

Anyone knows of a tool like @inventaire, but for sharing tools (e.g. drill, wrenches, soldering iron, etc.) in a community? ¿Alguien conoce alguna herramienta tipo @inventaire, pero para compartir herramientas (ej., taladro, llaves, soldador, etc) en una comunidad? @maxlath? @douginamug? […]

Por qué la gente se endeuda? «Asimismo, sin desagregar por clases sociales, el 65,3 % de los encuestados, es decir, casi dos de cada tres, afirma que sus ingresos no alcanzan más allá del día 20.» https://www.dw.com/es/argentina-cuando-el-dinero-se-acaba-antes-que-el-mes/a-79745431

Depending on your fedi timeline the reaction to php2shell you might either have seen are: Either, celebrating an enormous and thankless effort to fix things, done by people who on average are probably paid close to zero for this. Or, the world's worst peanut galleries saying "Well, *I* would […]

Resumen de las últimas jornadas de trabajo en el Vivero Champaquí de Sembradores de Agua, un hermoso proyecto que busca restaurar el bosque nativo de tabaquillo en la base del cerro Champaquí en la provincia de Córdoba. Parte de Acción Serrana en la provincia […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Depending on your fedi timeline the reaction to php2shell you might either have seen are: Either, celebrating an enormous and thankless effort to fix things, done by people who on average are probably paid close to zero for this. Or, the world's worst peanut galleries saying "Well, *I* would […]

"This issue is not specific to the Wikimedia Foundation, but affects any website running PHP. This is a significant internet security vulnerability that many organizations are responding to right now. We are working to avoid downtime for our wikis, but we have deliberately taken many of our […]

The review time for @CoMaps on Google Play has also hit a new record time: 16 days and still counting… If our map updates would still be tied to app updates, Google Play users would get extremely outdated maps… #OpenStreetMap #FLOSS

The builders poured some concrete for our carport today – and we used the opportunity to get a permanent reminder of our dog pack ❤️🐶🐾

«ZA/UM’s new owners have taken the crystallized output of a decade of labor from a Marxist artists’ collective and repackaged it for private profit, garbling their message in the process.» “Zero Parades” is Missing the Politics That Made “Disco Elysium” Great […]

«qué ocurre cuando la ciencia encuentra datos incómodos para el modelo económico hegemónico»? Creo que los investigadores del clima podrían responder a esa pregunta 🙈 Plaguicidas, ciencia que revela y evidencia censurada | La tinta […]

The builders poured some concrete for our carport today – and we used the opportunity to get a permanent reminder of our dog pack ❤️🐶🐾

During my time at Turing we co-designed a survey to understand what patients' biggest concerns for fairness are when it comes to deployments of 'AI' in healthcare/clinical settings. The results are now out: We found that the biggest concerns for negatively impacting fairness were a lack of […]

Estoy preparando mi charla para #sotmlatam2026 sobre @CoMaps y gracias a @santiago y undernet.uy tuve que actualizar esta diapositiva sobre los nodos en nuestra red de servidores que sirven los archivos de mapas!

«Some of you may yet be thinking “what the hell? I mostly wanted to join the parent-teacher association and make a climate-friendly school. And now I’m hearing a term Lenin used?” But fear not, revolutionary discipline is still for you.» Many of these points are doubly the case if you really […]

«Some of you may yet be thinking “what the hell? I mostly wanted to join the parent-teacher association and make a climate-friendly school. And now I’m hearing a term Lenin used?” But fear not, revolutionary discipline is still for you.» Many of these points are doubly the case if you really […]

Estoy preparando mi charla para #sotmlatam2026 sobre @CoMaps y gracias a @santiago y undernet.uy tuve que actualizar esta diapositiva sobre los nodos en nuestra red de servidores que sirven los archivos de mapas!

Public housing in Singapore: 40-50 floor apartments on the left. Multi-storey parking on the right. Parking building has rooftop garden. Ground floor has daycare for children, and seniors. Bridge connects from residential to rooftop garden. Within walking […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

you know, I was hoping I already made this clear netbsd taking money from a relatively unknown fascist group doesn’t damn them. they likely didn’t know who FUTO was. most people don’t. if it runs ok on your hardware (and that’s a big “if”), netbsd is likely a more stable choice than any Linux […]

As folks might now increasingly start their migrations from the legacy @Codeberg pages server to the new `git-pages` setup: If you are trying to serve pages directly from a git repository without a build stage you might run into the problem of `git-pages` not supporting files stored in `git […]

If you are using @WoodpeckerCI@floss.social for your CI like me, I recommend https://woodpecker-ci.org/plugins/git-pages by @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social and @mahlzahn@nerdculture.de ​:blobcat_code:​

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During my time at Turing we co-designed a survey to understand what patients' biggest concerns for fairness are when it comes to deployments of 'AI' in healthcare/clinical settings. The results are now out: We found that the biggest concerns for negatively impacting fairness were a lack of […]

I somewhat dread the (understandable) question of "What made you move to Argentina?". Answering it needs to thread the needle for not being too depressing. "I don't see a future for (myself in) Europe" is typically not what people want to hear, as thinking about the cost of living, disappearing […]

«No Kings. No Demands. No Teeth.» People love to joke that Germans will never put up a revolution as it would mean stepping on the grass. Turns out much of the self-styled 'resistance' in the US is an even wetter blanket. No Kings. No Demands. What Happened? […]

”So our rule is simple: No AI generated articles or illustrations in the magazine! We are not going to feed you slop. And we think you should not give money to any publication that does feed you slop, because they’re both treating their audience with contempt, and avoiding paying workers so that […]

Acá en las sierras chicas: «la idea es juntarnos y prepararnos para luchar contra la destrucción que viene generando el Gobierno Nacional» En movimiento https://www.launionregional.com.ar/en-movimiento/

”So our rule is simple: No AI generated articles or illustrations in the magazine! We are not going to feed you slop. And we think you should not give money to any publication that does feed you slop, because they’re both treating their audience with contempt, and avoiding paying workers so that […]

this is one thing where it's gonna be hard for people doing this by hand to continue to derive meaning from AI is just automatically "solving" problems people have been working on in teams for years in a matter of hours + barging into open source repositories & stealing / "helping" their work

This whole thread about holding community is great, but the "atrophy of humility" really got me. I've seen so many projects (and people) fall into that trap over the years.

"Nerds would rather be slavers than admit that their stochastic token predictor is not intelligent" reveals way more about nerds and their views on other human beings than it says about Chatbots.

This is a great choice by the #Rstats project! https://www.zeileis.org/news/rforge_codeberg/ Moving to #Codeberg as a new software forge is an excellent choice when your current package host is retiring their software.