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Personal growth is hard when you leave no room (time) for it.


Alight folks. I've had enough. It's time to take a social network break until the US election mess passes, whatever that looks like.

Yes, I know it's important, but I need to take care of my mental health. I can tell the constant stream of news, etc., is taking its toll on me and I need out. (It also won't change how I vote.)

Feel free to contact me on XMPP ( tk@msg.kawa-kun.com ) if you need to reach me. 👋


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The even harder truth: Americans don't trust self-interested billionaires.

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It get's even weirder when you consider that the Washington Post apparently got into trouble from Bezos for writing and nearly publishing an opinion article endorsing Harris, because it might conflict with his interests. So the Washington Post basically used their Satire YouTube channel to mock him and unofficially endorse her through that.

Why is a newspaper even allowed to explicitly endorse? The Streisand effect just happened because of this and what happened to the staff?

in reply to Flux

From what I can find, it seems to be a "Going out with a bang" moment, where staff are publishing the endorsement or actively writing about the problems (like the conflict of interest) of the Post their on their Washington post's own media then resigning or probably getting fired. Endorsements aren't known to have an affect on voting behaviour and the editorial board (Opinions & endorsements by extensions) are separated from the News team for obvious ethical reasons in most papers.
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@Flux
> Why is a newspaper even allowed to explicitly endorse?

Why do newspaper readers need an explicit endorsement? I mean, aren't they able to make informed decisions, based on neutral information presented by journalists?

If the answer is "no", there's yer problem, right there!

@Flux

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Honestly, if you’re in the US, please vote. Don’t let a fascist take control. Don’t think that it can’t possibly happen there. This might be your last chance to vote. Don’t waste it. Sitting it out won’t help your cause but it will definitely endanger a lot of lives. That’s my take on it.

#VoteEarlyDay #FederateTheVote

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Can we get the bad CW and filter cards fixed? After trying them for a few weeks, they're still a regression.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/22/high-russian-death-toll-fails-shift-opinion-ukraine-war

It seems that the Putin forces recruit 20,000 soldiers per month, while suffering casualties at about the same rate. They mostly recruit convicts and people from poor regions who join for the money. As a result, Russians in general don't feel upset about the high casualties. Russian generals don't care either.

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Because it doesn't affect those in power in St. Petersburg & Moscow, but ethnic minorities in the periphery...

  • That's the sad & inconvenient truth!

That's why they don't conscript folks there...

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With all sides lying about everything, all that can believed are the lines on the map. RF is seizing Ukrainian territory at an unprecedented rate. The UA is clearly attrited and being overrun.

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U.S. Consumer Watchdog Cautions Businesses on Surveillance of Workers
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says existing consumer protections apply to AI and other tools used to monitor workers

WSJ gift link

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-consumer-watchdog-cautions-businesses-on-surveillance-of-workers-8262bee3?st=kys68s&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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most of that shit is luckily illegal in my.juristiction, and it's sad it's not illegal around the world like Radium Water and White Phosphorous Matches...


At the moment, my #cycljng is mainly limited by my cardiovascular system and energy. All of that time sick from respiratory illness was not kind to my fitness. :'(

#bicycle #mastobikes #biketooter



You know I'm getting serious when working on something in the physical world because I take my glasses off. This is because pretty much the same reasond why many people get contact lenses, plus I get sweaty when working. :(

Why don't I wear contacts? It's because I need prism for my misaligned eyes that contacts can't fix. :'(

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I'm lucky enough that I can still mostly see my screen without my glasses though each day that gets a little more difficult. My contacts are strictly for outdoor activities.

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Next-gen Nissan Skyline takes shape in fresh renders: Hero performance car to be reborn as an electric SUV: Reports

https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-news/next-gen-nissan-skyline-takes-shape-in-fresh-renders-hero-performance-car-to-be-reborn-as

😬 what the hell is that ugly generic looking thing

#WeirdCarMastodon


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Reddit "Am I The Asshole" fiction and Twitter bait posts and YouTube pipelines and TikTok therapy/chad lifestylers making 20's men and women mutually insufferable unreflective unempathetic doomer coomers.

Yeah that's right I'm not a misandrist or a misogynist – I'm the 3rd, other thing.

Oh. Old.

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Kind of wild how video cards are this big again, or even bigger! :P (Source)




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What the hell is going on at WordPress?

WordPress forces user conf organizers to share social media credentials, arousing suspicions • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/28/wordcamp_password_sharing_requirement/

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Just realized that 知らん振り is short for 知らない振り. :P

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The thing they don’t warn you about bicycles is how much of your possessions will end up being things you picked up off the side of the street for free.

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right? The construction site dumpster near my house is a goldmine… people who don't want to pay for disposal dump stuff there all the time so as I'm riding by I'm like "oh yah, I'd love a new desk, perfect"


Remember back when the state asked voters:

  • If they wanted a new viaduct to replace the old Alaskan Way Viaduct or not.
  • If they wanted a tunnel to replace the old Alaskan Way Viaduct or not.

And when both were voted down, they were all "Tunnel it is!" >:(

#Seattle

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I also remember when buying the Mariners a new stadium was on the ballot and it lost so the State Government passed it and forced the costs on King County anyway.
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A story I like telling is how I ran the AV at a place and when I deployed adblock the detections fell off a cliff. I wish more people had this visceral "holy shit" moment. "It was this easy the whole time?" ~2012. I recently deployed uBlock Origin to an F500, on my insistence.

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To cover for his INSANE decision to not endorse a presidential candidate this year, WaPo owner Jeff Bezos announces it will never, ever endorse a presidential candidate going forward. WTF?? Source is MSNBC. #FuckWashingtonPost

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in reply to MicheleV_AK

Of course, never ever means not until he changes his mind.

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Here's your Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 4th lowest on record (JAXA data)...

• about 530,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,570,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,310,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,560,000 km² below the 1980s mean

More plots: https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/

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The sky is blue. The sky is green.

The serendiplty of social media timelines demonstrating the great failure of media coverage of the great divide in the USA with contrasting headlines covering the same rally in Madision Square Garden.

(You might need to click on the image to see the contrast)

#politics #media #journalism

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If the sky is green, might I suggest some kind of helmet to protect against head injury and seeking shelter in the lowest, most central place in a permanent structure? Usually that means there's a lot of ice or debris in the air and means getting hit with a hailstorm, tornado or derecho is imminent.

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TIL In the 1950’s, when General Electric opened Appliance Park in Louisville, KY, they persuaded lawmakers to bend the time zone boundary around the city so the factory would observe the same time as GE’s headquarters in Fairfield, CT.

https://archive.triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/made-in-america-makes-a-comeback-2/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gebea6/til_in_the_1950s_when_general_electric_opened/

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Dear Microsoft Edge,
You do know that keeping around 15 older versions of yourself after updating isn't polite, right?
Maybe don't do this?

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Ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver, WA were burned last night. The one pictured is in Vancouver and there were hundreds of ballots in there. There have now been 3 ballot boxes burned in the PNW recently.

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🧵 In #Moscow #Russia it's reported that a sewage system broke down spewing fecal matter 20 stories high.

https://t.me/operativnoZSU/161394

#Ukraine

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Russian Embassy Canada (Toronto fan Office)
@RussiaEmbassyTO
Westarnars are jellous they donut have sewage funtain in their depraeved citys lol
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Russia have most advanced sewage fountain in entire world! Russia pioneer in sewage fountain technology!

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Content warning: US Politics: how to get a replacement ballot in Washington state

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Content warning: US Politics: Hundreds of ballots possibly burned


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Hey, #Portland folx, looks like we have some criminals setting ballot drop boxes on fire. Things to do:

1) If possible, drop your ballot at an indoor box in a library. These are supervised by the librarians at all times and nobody is going to set them on fire.

2) If you know anyone who might have used either of the two ballot boxes, please alert them that they might need to get an emergency replacement ballot:

- PDX: Southeast Morrison & 10th ave.
- WA: Vancouver Fisher's Landing


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TIL legendary session bassist Leland Sklar put a switch on his bass that does nothing. He calls it the "producer switch" — when a producer asks for a different sound, he flips the switch (making sure the producer can see), and carries on. He says this placebo has saved him a lot of grief.

https://www.guitarworld.com/features/the-truth-behind-lee-sklars-custom-producers-…
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1geatxy/til_legendary_session_bassist_leland_sklar_put_a/

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When I used to do live sound, I always had a spare subgroup fader or two that weren't used. Whenever someone approached the FOH desk and had a "suggestion," I'd goose that fader and ask them if that was any better.

Worked every time.


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arg. I used to work for an educational publisher and we used to repackage a bunch of their texts, and then they kept taking them back to stuff into their own site WHICH WASN'T AS GOOD.

And then we'd get complaints from users who didn't understand why their textbook got shittier, and thought we did it.


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"#Alaska’s top education official relied on generative artificial intelligence to draft a proposed policy on cellphone use in Alaska schools, which resulted in a state document citing supposed academic studies that don’t exist.

The document did not disclose that AI had been used in its conception. At least some of that AI-generated false information ended up in front of state Board of Education and Early Development members"

https://alaskabeacon.com/2024/10/28/alaska-education-department-published-false-ai-generated-academic-citations-in-cell-policy-document/

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These People Drive Like Idiots,' Say 12,000 I-5 Drivers in Unison: https://theneedling.com/2024/09/10/these-people-drive-like-idiots-say-12000-i-5-drivers-in-unison/

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So with the 'ballot box burning' can we drop any pretense the people doing this have a legitimate grievance that needs to be aired and just call them the terrorists that they are?

#USPOL

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Billionaire-Owned News Is Not Our Only Option – Mother Jones

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/billionaire-owned-news-is-not-our-only-option/

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It's not fair that LLMs get to hallucinate all they want and they're somehow groundbreaking tech and The Future, but I ask just one undercover officer for magic mushrooms and suddenly I'm some kind of threat to society?

https://kind.social/@Keab42/113380030270132649


I think that fact that we're using AI to write emails because we find it hard and AI to summarise emails because we can't be bothered to read them suggests that we should take a look at how we communicate rather than boiling the oceans to have LLMs hallucinate at each other on our behalf.

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I recently found out that my department at work is being shut down, so I'm looking for a new position!

I spent the last 6 years building advanced security assessment capabilities around hardware/IoT, industrial, marine OT, and x86 platforms. Before that I spent 5 years as a pentester. I excel at weird and novel stuff where there's no template.

I'm based in the UK and I'm looking for a remote full-time role.

CV: https://poly.nomial.co.uk/graham_sutherland.pdf

Thanks!

#getfedihired #fedihire #fedihired #infosec

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