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Is there anybody interested in old #Apple gear? I’d be sending it from Switzerland. I think that all of them need their batteries replaced. If you're a US citizen who wants Dems to come out swinging & kick Republicans off their little tin pedestal where they pretend they're the only people who "get real America"? It's a great time to put your money where your mouth is. NC is a battleground state that Trump has to win to get the White House. #ncpol And a strong state-level candidate with a NINE-POINT MESSAGE helps Dems here up & down the ballot. I'm ready to rip out & win this fall, LET'S GOOOOOOO @sarahtaber I'd like to add that Sara Taber is such a strong candidate that I she will attract more Dems to vote and thus help get votes for other NC Democratic candidates. Just made a small donation. Is there any volunteer work that people in other states can do to support your campaign? I'm also curious if you know of candidates in other states who are working on these issues as well. There are 2 things to know about US agriculture. 1. It’s very hard to make a living as a new farmer. 2. About half our farmland is owned by wealthy families, investment funds, & others who buy it up as an asset- but don’t farm themselves. There IS a fix to both problems!
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I'm sorry this sounds like nonsense to me eg, do you have any idea how $ a modern haybaler is ? but good luck to you @sarahtaber So very true. They're only going to make it worse on the average farmer and on the average person. Plus the climate Nazis want to abolish farming and backyard gardening, both of which contribute to making the world a better place, making food more affordable, reducing CO2, as well as keeping people healthier. “Free speech advocate. Proudly white.” Having this in your bio helps a lot, thanks! Instablock. 🚫 If a hypothetical racist were to ask me why I'm angry about people being proudly white since I am white as well, I'd remember that conversation I once had with my dad where he explained to me that my mother (last name Li) had to prove that she was white enough to count as white when we moved in South-West Africa for a year back when it was a protectorate of South Africa, under apartheid, before it freed itself from both these shackles and turned into Namibia. Fuck all the racists. I recently wrote about how Mastodon is DDoSing me every time I post a link to this site. I've managed to fix the problem...I think.
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 @kev nice write up, thanks for sharing the journey. Does this effectively mean that your site is a static site except there dashboard/control panel portions? Or just that each post page is "static" (due to cache) and the main page is still generated on each request (like it will fall over if you shared the top level link)?  @amoroso just linked to a paper describing the NoteCards application and when I started reading it, this jumped out to me: “NoteCards is currently being used by more than 50 people engaged in idea processing tasks ranging from writing research papers through designing parts for photocopiers.” More than 50 people! Those were indeed very different times. The Weak Turing test: subjects sitting at screens, chatting with real people or chat bots; the goal for the subject is to answer a particular question like “who was the first man on the moon?” If the subject believes the answer it receives, no matter whether it is true or false, the chat bot passes the test. This is where we are. This is just super crazy! Recently their books have been retracted by Springer for falsified papers & using them for writing the books. https://forbetterscience.com/2023/12/20/in-bed-with-hari-and-aruna/ How did YouTube acquire the culture of having the faces of overexcited young white men with bulging eyes and big teeth on their video poster images? It's now available the paper of the Medley talk Andrew Sengul gave at the European Lisp Symposium 2024. It outlines the history of Interlisp, introduces the Medley revival project, and presents the main features and facilities of the environment. The Medley Interlisp Revival @amoroso #lisp #interlisp #commonlisp @davidho There are plenty here right now who think very poorly of us. Future generations will be no more evolved than we are, and subject to the same manipulation that has made the majority apathetic or unbelieving - except in future generations they will likely be fed the lie that it was people’s fault rather than capitalism. The winner gets to write the history. June 2023 was the warmest June on record. Creating, yet not possessing. - Laozi, 6th century BCE, talking about open source Turned my thoughts about CC and AI into a blog post:  Like, heck, how am I *supposed* to rely on my code getting preserved after I lose interest, I die, BitBucket deletes every bit of Mercurial-hosted content it ever hosted, etc? Am I supposed to rely on *Microsoft* to responsibly preserve my work? Holy crud no. We *want* people to want their code widely mirrored and distributed. That was the reason for the licenses. That was the social contract. But if machine learning means the social contract is dead, why would people want their code mirrored?  @mcc I have generally come to the conclusion that this is an intended effect. All the things you feel compelled to do for the good of others, in an ordinarily altruistic sense, are essentially made impossible unless you accept that your works and your expressions will be repackaged, sold, and absorbed into commercialised datasets. The SoaD line "manufacturing consent is the name of the game" has been in my head a lot lately. "99 channels and nothing on!" – Bruce Springsteen singing about Cable TV or Alex Schroeder complaining about IRC!? Periodic reminder that I'll advertise your weird hobby website to my Improbable Island players for free, no catch, https://www.improbableisland.com/hobbysites.php Why? Because google doesn't like it when people give away what they're trying to sell, and fuck those guys lol
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@jensclasen I would presume that "Ich fress nen Besen" is just short for "Wenn das stimmt fress ich nen Besen" ("If that's correct, I'll eat a broom"), which does make a whole lot more Sense.  @jensclasen TIL: "Bock haben" actually comes from a Romani phrase (the language of Sinti & Roma people).   And that infighting is already visible in the comments. Divide and conquer always works and costs close to nothing. Unfortunately. @jwildeboer that's why it's being done. Also there's neither penalty nor deterrence to doing so... @jwildeboer Ads and advertising are (unfortunately) too much of a wedge. I see it with creative folks who argue that they need to eat. And they're not wrong but it's incredibly nuanced in social spaces. There's a big risk of losing a sense of any space where you just connect with other people when everything is just reaching into your wallet. Mutual aid and people sharing their work (which deserves compensation) is different but all money looks the same to people seeking to maximize profit. |
