payment processors must be killed in the revolution I'm afraid, for the crime of putting their weird USian puritanism all over everything, and forcing people out of making a living doing things that aren't sanctioned by their weirdo fascist morality

648: Part of the Movement
https://atp.fm/648

Jeff Williams' retirement, Liquid Glass revisions, and our review of F1® The Movie. While supplies last. Terms apply.

The hardest disbelief to suspend about the show.

Last night I spent hours trying to figure out why my rpi zero 2W hates my Unifi APs. Turns out, AI was the reason. Had to turn off 'WiFi AI' in order to turn off the culprit, 'Auto-optimize network'. Goddamnit. #AI #internetofshit

Alt...

The options WiFi AI and Auto-optimize Network' in the Unifi Controller settings.

I found my stomach laugh of the day.

"Usenet, I have never heard of that VPN provider"

LOL

Alt...

"Usenet, I have never heard of that VPN..."

Someone had too much fun making this: https://github.com/W1LDN16H7/JPL

For those not up to speed with the latest AI jargon, I hope to clarify some things:

• AI: Actually Indians
• LLM: Low-cost Labor in Mumbai
• AGI: A Genius Indian
• GPT: Gujarati Professional Typist
• API: A Person in India

Every time a company promises a revolutionary “AI” product, they just exploit cheap labor from India.

Edward Teller is mainly famous as the "father of the hydrogen bomb". But he wasn't dumb. He was invited to speak in 1959 at a big party in New York for the 100th birthday of the oil industry - a party put on by the American Petroleum Institute. Over 300 government officials, economists, historians, scientists, and industry executives were there.

And this is what he said:

‘”Whenever you burn conventional fuel, you create carbon dioxide.... The carbon dioxide is invisible, it is transparent, you can’t smell it, it is not dangerous to health, so why should one worry about it?"

“Carbon dioxide has a strange property. It transmits visible light but it absorbs the infrared radiation which is emitted from the earth. Its presence in the atmosphere causes a greenhouse effect …. a temperature rise …. sufficient to melt the icecaps and submerge New York. All the coastal cities would be covered, and since a considerable percentage of the human race lives in coastal regions, I think that this chemical contamination is more serious than most people tend to believe.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jan/01/on-its-hundredth-birthday-in-1959-edward-teller-warned-the-oil-industry-about-global-warming

The unusual behavior of a handle spinning in space, suddenly reversing its orientation, a striking example of the tennis racket theorem (also called the Dzhanibekov effect).

Credti: NASA

#science #space #alt4me

A few years ago, at least twice a week someone posted the rotating, extending wooden table gif to the fediverse, because they saw it for the first time and were fascinated by it. It became a bit annoying, but it has recently disappeared from the fediverse, it seems. I kinda miss being annoyed by it. So. Here it is again :)

It’s known as a Jupe table, named after the inventor Robert Jupe, who patented it in 1835.

UPDATE: here’s a 11 minute video explaing how it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JFJSIJIe9A

Sorry I'm late. There was a CAT on my car.

Alt...

Photo of a CAT construction vehicle that has fallen off a truck bed onto a car parked on the side of the street.

Today I learned there are rules for Road Runner ... BEEP-BEEP!

(creator Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner)

Alt...

RULE 1. THE ROAD RUNNER CANNOT HARM THE COYOTE EXCEPT BY GOING "ВЕЕР-BEEP!" RULE 2. NO OUTSIDE FORCE CAN HARM THE COYOTE - ONLY HIS OWN INEPTITUDE OR THE FAILURE OF THE ACME PRODUCTS. RULE 3. THE COYOTE COULD STOP ANYTIME - IF HE WERE NOT A FANATIC. (REPEAT: "A FANATIC IS ONE WHO REDOUBLES HIS EFFORT WHEN HE HAS FORGOTTEN HIS AIM.' -GEORGE SANTAYANA) RULE 4. NO DIALOGUE EVER, EXCEPT "ВЕЕР-BEEP!" RULE 5. THE ROAD RUNNER MUST STAY ON THE ROAD - OTHERWISE, LOGICALLY, HE WOULD NOT BE CALLED ROAD RUNNER. RULE 6. ALL ACTION MUST BE CONFINED TO THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE TWO CHARACTERS - THE SOUTHWEST AMERICAN DESERT. RULE 7. ALL MATERIALS, TOOLS, WEAPONS, OR MECHANICAL CONVENIENCES MUST BE OBTAINED FROM THE ACME CORPORATION. RULE 8. WHENEVER POSSIBLE, MAKE GRAVITY THE COYOTE'S GREATEST ENEMY RULE 9. THE COYOTE IS ALWAYS MORE HUMILIATED THAN HARMED BY HIS FAILURES.

New drinking game while watching CSI Cyber:
Evey time they say the word "cyber," you drink. (Please dont attempt this, you'll unalive yourself )

Been horrifying teammates by referring to undocumented information that's held only in people's heads as "locked in meat storage".

Please use this with your teams/projects and report back on how they like it?

@da_667 @catsalad

have The Talk with your friends:

• no, artificial intelligence isn't real now, nor is it just around the corner
• we need laws to prevent capitalists using LLMs to try to circumvent labor laws; we don't need laws to stop "rogue AI" because that's sci-fi bullshit with absolutely no bearing on reality
• no, "ai" is not "inevitable" -- the bullshit word extruders that are being positioned as the next big thing right now are snake oil garbage, and not even profitable snake oil garbage, and there's no path to develop them into anything else because that's just how they work
• if you hear someone talking about how "ai" is going to change everything, treat them the same way you'd treat a scientologist talking about whatever the fuck scientologists believe in: it is bullshit cult nonsense for marks and rubes
• remind them to ponder the question of "cui bono" -- who benefits from the narrative that "ai" is the "next big thing"? the answer: mostly filthy rich american fascists, filthy rich chip manufacturers, filthy rich data center operators, and filthy rich silicon valley entrepreneurs

do your part to counter bullshit fucking propaganda from capitalist scumbags 👍

Edit: this seems to have resonated with a lot of people and I've rejected a lot of nonsense replies or people being contrarian and annoying I don't care if you disagree! Write your own post about it! :')

Perhaps a forked Dovecot is the way forward?

legit 10/10 display and curation practices here

Alt...

I went to this Northwest Passage museum once where they had the white explorers' journals on one side of the exhibit and the native people's accounts on the other side of the exhibit and the explorer journals were like "our canoe had almost sunk when we encountered some kindly Indians" and the native histories were like "we watched a bunch of strangers come down the river in the shittiest canoe you'd ever seen. Also, they had no rain gear"

407 years ago, the first slaves arrived in Virginia. They were from Angola.

162 years ago, Lincoln declared that all enslsved people in Confederate territories were free.

160 years ago (to the day!), on #Juneteenth, the last enslaved people in the USA were freed.

61 years ago, racial discrimination and segregation were outlawed by the Civil Rights Act.

60 years ago, black Americans finally secured comprehensive electoral protections through the Voting Rights Act.

But:

- 12 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that states no longer require federal approval for new voting policies. Since then, more than 100 voter suppression laws have been passed across states with histories of discriminatory practices.

- For every dollar earned by a white person in the USA, a black person earns 87 cents.

- White Americans hold 84% of the country’s wealth, while black people hold just 3%.

- Institutional racism remains a serious problem, with black people facing disparities in education, housing, employment, healthcare, and in the criminal justice system.

- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, three good things that help *everyone*, are under constant attack.

Today is Juneteenth, and it’s a day to celebrate. But I hope all of my white friends can take a moment to consider that however far we think we’ve come with civil rights in this country, it hasn’t been far enough. Every day we see more examples of people in power actively working to undermine fairness and decency while driving increasingly larger wedges between ethnic groups. We have to be better than this. We must refuse to accept this. There is so much work to be done, by all of us.

Gilead has announced that lenacapavir, the game-changing HIV prevention drug just approved by the FDA will cost $28,218 USD per person per year.

Researchers say a generic version could be made for just $25 per person a year.

Capitalism kills.

Alt...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/health/hiv-fda-lenacapavir.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P08.-77c.zGN5AEXC4wVS&smid=url-share

Alt...

Aids and HIV ‘HIV-ending’ drug could be made for just $25 per patient a year, say researchers As regulator prepares to approve lenacapavir in the US, campaigners are urging the manufacturer, Gilead, to make it ‘available and affordable for all who need it’

The cruel medical experiment on a black pregnant woman in Georgia will finally come to an end.

Adriana Smith was declared brain dead at 9 weeks pregnant after an ER sent her home with blood clots in her brain.

The hospital kept her body alive due to Georgia’s abortion ban

Adriana was a nurse who went to the ER due to severe headaches. She was dismissed despite blood clots in her brain and declared brain dead the next day.

Her body was placed on organ & tissue support due to the State’s strict abortion ban.

The family were not asked to consent. They had no say in the matter.

It’s generally not medically indicated to try and keep a body alive for a fetus of that age.

Only a handful of cases exist in the medical literature.

In the 35 cases studied, the median gestational age at time of brain death was 20 weeks, not 9.

27 neonates were born alive, only 8 were described as “healthy”

There was no medical precedent for what happened to Adriana.

In total she spent nearly 4 months on life support, all without her consent or the consent of next of kin.

The baby, Chance, has been born at 1lb 13oz and is in the NICU. Details about his prognosis are not yet known

The costs associated with both Adriana’s ICU stay and Chance’s NICU stay will be astronomical, and it remains to be seen if her family will be forced to pay them.

What we do know is the state forced this birth. The hospital forced this birth.

They won’t be the ones to care for the child, but they stripped Adriana and her family of their autonomy and dignity due to an abortion ban that seeks to control women.

They experimented on her to see if women can be treated as nothing more than vessels for fetuses.

Misogynoir killed Adriana, and then the State opted to experiment on her body.

That’s what happened here.

I’m glad that the baby has been born alive, and we should all hope for a good outcome, but we should be enraged this was allowed to happen in the first place.

My original article about Adriana Smith and medical misogyny looks at the policies of forced birth and what responsibility (if any) the government should have to provide to those it demands be brought into the world.

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/adriana-smith-misogyny-and-the-cruelty

#uspol #fascism #georgia #abortion #abortionishealthcare #roevwade #misogyny #misogynoir #adrianasmith

Found online years ago...

The entire Dune cycle is based on a terrible pun.
1. The spice is called melange.
2. The spice confers power and longevity.
3. Melange is a French word for variety.

In other words, variety is the spice of life.

Why does no one ever talk about this?

• Ranger’s Apprentice, John Flanagan
• Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan
• Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
• Narnia, C. S. Lewis

Consumer networking devices come in two varieties: Altar to a Dark God and Aromatherapy Machine.

Alt...

A set of white cylindrical TP-link mesh wireless devices

Alt...

A TP-link router that looks like a black slab bristling with sharp angular towers on three sides.

What makes OpenBSD so nice is that when you look up how to do a thing, the reaction upon finding out how to do the thing is almost always "oh right, that makes sense".

A spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as E/V Nautilus encounters the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.

Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D0eyl7-XQA

#ocean #nature #science

@georgetakei OMG please don't call them luddites! The real luddites were not anti technology, that is propaganda which is used to smear them! They were a pro-worker movement that was violently repressed by the capitalist government.

@paul_ipv6 k so not to totslly nerd out over this and possibly steer you down a cognitive linguistics rabbit hole, but there is a fascinating field of study surrounding acronym development, usage, and explosive popularity in recent decades

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-011-0175-8

whoami 🤣

Alt...

A funny but older tweet (X) screenshot from Bruno Borges that uses a series of Linux commands to describe nested computing environment, ending with 'No. Fucking. Clue.' when asked how it got there. This explains with the complexity of modern cloud infrastructure we all see and deal with every single day.