...my safeword? hang on, I've got it saved in my password manager.

wait, I need my Yubikey to unlock it, lemme get my trousers back real quick...

th-that's awkward, it seems that the database didn't sync haha, can I have your WiFi password?

oh my, it looks like your network is blocking my VPN, I'm so sorry, it's never happened before, I swear

Take a long hard look at this graphic, the longest continuous direct measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide. This is the famous Keeling Curve from the station atop Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
Trump and the GOP are closing the observatory.

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/bluemoon/co2_400/mlo_full_record.png

More to the point, I find DNA ancestry to be too fickle and inaccurate. Also, why the hell would you send your genetic data to a private company who is likely re-selling it to companies and governments without your knowledge?!‽ (I would like to think the recent "threat" of the sell-off of 23 and Me's data would have been a wake up call!)

Also, maybe those looking for the purity of the Aryan race should remember that the Aryans were Persian/Iranian and Indian, not Germanic/Teutonic.

They’re putting blue food coloring in everything

"Why is my burger blue?" I asked, innocently.

"Oh! We're making all of our food blue, all the best restaurants are doing it now." the waiter explained.

But I didn't want my burger to be blue.
↫ Luna Winters

"Blue" food isn't food.

https://www.osnews.com/story/142847/theyre-putting-blue-food-coloring-in-everything/

#ClownCar

ICE is offering a $132K to $185K per year for supervisory roles & $306K per year to concentration camp managers. Both jobs have ZERO education requirement.

Meanwhile the average starting salary is $46,526 for teachers and $68,485 for nurses. Both jobs require a Bachelors degree & often a graduate degree.

It's a lie that we can't pay teachers & nurses. An uneducated and sick populace is easier to control, creates higher crime rates, and feeds the prison industrial complex. This is by design.

You have been warned yet again, the US cannot be trusted...

Microsoft, under oath, admits the possibility that EU‑hosted data can be accessed by US agencies without any notifications

In sworn French‑Senate testimony, Microsoft’s legal chief for France(M. Anton Carniaux) conceded he cannot guarantee that data on French citizens stored wholly in EU Microsoft datacenters is safe from U.S. silent access and acknowledged that French or any EU authorities might not even be notified if access occurs.

Delivered under oath, this statement is an official legal recognition of the silent‑access risk inherent in relying on Microsoft’s infrastructure.

Recent comic: It's time to update the old binaries.

#cartoon #comic #uspol #science #humanrights

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TERMS for our TIMES LET'S FACE IT: THESE OLD BINARIES HAVE BECOME TIRED AND VAGUE. EVIDENCE-BASED vs. PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC CONSTITUTIONAL VS. UNCONSTITUTIONAL CORRUPT VS. FAIR IMAGINE IF THESE TERMS WERE INSERTED INTO TYPICAL HORSE RACE NEWS COVERAGE. Anchorman: THE CONSTITUTION IS DOWN IN THE POLLS. CAN IT APPEAL TO SWING VOTERS? TV reporter with Ice agent hauling away older woman in background: AND ANOTHER SETBACK FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TODAY. Pundit: PSEUDOSCIENCE IS VERY POPULAR AND WILL BE KEY TO WINNING THE MIDTERMS. Reporter: SOME SAY BARBARISM HAS BEEN WRONGLY EXCLUDED FROM OUR INSTITUTIONS.CONSERVATIVES VS. LIBERALS RIGHT VS. LEFT DEMOCRATS VS. REPUBLICANS MAYBE WE SHOULD TRY THESE INSTEAD: AUTHORITARIANISM VS. DEMOCRACY HUMAN RIGHTS VS. BARBARISM

(And a current web search shows no immediate results for midwestbroadcast in this context, but I know I have some references in old linguistic textbooks to this. Language is a living thing and constantly in flux.)

🥺

That's 5D-educational chess.

#FuckGenAI #ChatGPT #GenAIsucksCamelDong

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r/technology Al's Biggest Threat: Young People W... 4.3k upvotes + 442 comments | recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using ai, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong". Not only did the students discover that chatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realize that they should not use it as a primary source.

The hardest disbelief to suspend about the show.

I found my stomach laugh of the day.

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

LOL

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"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

America has always called it redemption:
Men wept for Lee but left the freedmen to starve.
They built statues to defeat but none to repair.
They praised the Union, then walked away from Reconstruction—
as if justice had already spoken.

We are a nation that learns through fire—
and then forgets the flame.

Not all pain is redemptive.
Not all suffering is equal.

#history #photography #histodons

Image: Flood at the Guadalupe River, Kerrville, TX, July 5, 2025. Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty.

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

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

WINNING EVERY DOMESTIC ARGUMENT BY WHIPPING OUT THE General Electric OFFICIAL DISHWASHER LOADING SPECIFICATION

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a screen shot of a page of a manual featuring black and white photos of the top rack of a dishwasher loaded with bowls, cups, and mugs

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same but the lower rack showing plates

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

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

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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 )

On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag first flew as a symbol of pride. It was raised at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day.

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A person stands supporting the bottom of a huge flag being hoisted. The flag is a rainbow with eight stripes of pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo and violet.

News out of New York has convinced me of the need to primary established leaders. I am therefore challenging my five-year-old for the governorship of our house.

@Viss @da_667 🦅

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If you wear a falconry glove to the park and frantically look around on the sky, everyone with a small dog will leave.

(I may personally disagree with @gruber@mastodon.social on many things, upon this I will agree.)

https://www.sun-ways.ch
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/can-floating-solar-panels-on-a-reservoir-help-the-colorado-river/

(Also, it appears solar can be beneficial to some agricultural purposes: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/09/crops-under-solar-panels-can-be-a-win-win/ )

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?

via @mikael

cute terminal font that doesn't look Like That

https://qwerasd205.github.io/AnnotationMono/

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.

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

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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’