It's that time of year! I encourage all Boston area hams to sign up, it's a great event to support and is almost like the Super Bowl of public service volunteering because of how many hams are needed to pull it off successfully.
The more details that emerge about Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal - suspected of shooting two members of the National Guard last week - the more it becomes clear he was a critical asset to US forces in Afghanistan, and was, as a result, thoroughly vetted by the CIA. 1/4
Lakanwal, now in custody in Washington, DC, was revealed to have been part of the CIA's Zero Unit during the US's 20-year-long war in Afghanistan, and specifically part of an elite Afghan counterterrorism team called Unit 03 - the Kandahar Strike Force. 2/4
But between landing in the US in 2021 via the US-orchestrated evacuation programme called Operation Allies Welcome, and having his asylum application approved in April of this year, he reportedly struggled to adapt to life in the US.
The more details that emerge about Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal - suspected of shooting two members of the National Guard last week - the more it becomes clear he was a critical asset to US forces in Afghanistan, and was, as a result, thoroug…
Wherever America has gone since WW2 - a LOT of places! - it has left a trail of devastation. Are there ANY countries better off for having been invaded, plundered or bombed - or "helped" - by America? Any??
In some ways I get why Chernobyl gets such attention (Nuclear power!!! Radiation!!!) and why it gets more then maybe it should (Communist!!!) but honestly almost never hear about Bhopal and even this little "on this day" note makes it sound like a little accident instead of massive corporate and government failure due to greed of capitalism
We need a serious cultural reboot on ACCURACY as a core, aspirational, collective value. Bring back the societal norms of consensus reality and striving towards truth (scientific, journalistic, educational, computational), as imperfect as that effort may be.
Working with a small museum, local archive, or research project that has digitized images but little metadata?
I’m looking for small collections interested in testing a VLM-based image-enrichment pipeline we’ve been assembling (transcription incl. some handwritten, captions, summaries, entity extraction, IIIF).
If you can share 20–50 JPEG or IIIF images plus a short note on what you’d like to improve, I’ll run them through the pipeline and share a private preview. Happy to discuss what works and what doesn’t.
Anyone want one of these spiffy #retro #microcassette #Olympus PearlCorder transcriber cassette players, in box, with foot controller? They go for about $300 on eBay and about $225 on the used office equipment sites.
@eniko I know Kitsune Zero started out as a Bernie-themed Mario clone, but I love the graphics and it also gives me a lot of vibes of my personal favorite metroidvania platformer, Wonder Boy 3 The Dragon's Trap
I haven't played Kitsune Tales yet (I am not a PC gamer so I'm holding out hope for a console port) but it looks like it's a lot of the same fun.
I know you're working on Block Game right now, and am not trying to derail that in any way, but if you're ever wanting to do a Kitsune Three: Tokyo Drift, maybe you could get some inspiration from the Wonder Boy games too.
Dragon's Trap introduced a form change ability (as a curse, initially) that was unheard of in the 80s that I think could synergize with the Kitsune thing really well.
A deportation thug was required to write a "use of force" report, and submitted a report that was almost all bullshit, invented by a bullshit generator which had only the slightest information about what the thug actually did. That thug should be punished for submitting a
@colinstu I'm someone who intends to set up a good faith CLA: do you think this idea is misguided? Any recommended reading material? (I mostly want to ensure that people don't contribute LLM-generated code, because that's a copyright mess I want no part of)
@colinstu I'm pessimistic re the legal soundness of a CoC. But ultimately it's probably watertight enough to have a few mandatory checkboxes for anyone opening PRs.
Bike to the new light rail stations on the Federal Way Extension with me on opening day this Saturday (December 6 at 11 am)! We’ll ride from Angle Lake Station and visit all of the celebration festivals at each station https://cascade.org/rides-events/88163
In Colombia, an Instagram account called "White Elephant" exposes unfinished infrastructure (often referred to as “white elephants”), the waste of public funds and irregularities surrounding certain toll booths.
Nigel Farage and his cronies are a broken record with an imperial hangover that won’t shift. Reform is setting a deeply racist agenda with their only real policy focused on punishing migrants and people of colour. 1/5
Across the world, English is spoken by many as a second language only because British imperialism and colonialism forced it to become so prevalent. Glasgow has always been proud of its reputation as a welcoming city that supports immigrants. 2/5
And it is crucial for creating a strong, diverse society with a skilled workforce. Scotland can and should be viewed on the world stage as a friendly and welcoming country. 4/5
It is crucial that we reject Farage and Reform at the polls and every day, and that we show him that his anti-migrant rhetoric holds no place in a modern Scotland. 5/5
Totally agree with you on this. Like Brexit (another Farage production) Farage and Reform represent a severe threat to our society - I think this applies equally to Scotland as in England/Wales. We need to keep up the momentum of making people aware of the grifter's ultimate aims and, hopefully, dissuade them from supporting or voting Reform.
Fellow folks at the interest-intersection of "public transport" and "queer activism" (I know you're out there!): I had an idea for a t-shirt. Do I print it? Or give up on graphic design and go back to backend programming where I belong?
A friend of mine spotted another British street sign that lends itself to #sexuality #activism - this time, for us #bisexual folks - and I couldn't help but draw it:
*Vast swathes of Europe's water reserves are drying up.* This is due to global heating, and it is not limited to the south. It covers Poland and even parts of Britain. A few parts of Europe are becoming wetter.
#Portland #PDX, #Chicago, and #Charlotte have each demonstrated with effective means that, YES, it is possible to force out the #Sturmabteilung. All eyes on the #bigEasy - #newOrleans - all hearts with them, and take no bait. Stay safe, alert, noncombative, communicative, and have your neighbors' backs. "They" are us.
idk what you heard but ice is kidnapping in our streets, they have not been forced out at all, and I can confidently say that is the case in Chicago and LA too. The news just stopped talking about it, as if there were no jackboots to talk about. We have everything BUT the Nat guard. DHS. Geo group. PPB. Prison correction officers. on the street. we have not thwarted anything in #PDX except their narrative.
@foundseed All those places have different situations, and none are comprehensive wins for the communities having been invaded. One does read about tiny victories within some of the storms.
Can an empire go sideways? I feel like the decline/ascent dichotomy always tends towards king-of-the-hill scrambles. I think I'd prefer to go widdershins if it meant power gets spread out more equitably.
AIR7 flew over the scene, where it appeared that four vehicles were damaged in the crash. Firefighters were seen placing a tarp over a vehicle that was flipped upside down.
Answer: yeah, the driver driving at very high rate of speed and causing that crash was most likely a Tesla, based on photos of the undercarriage of the Tesla Model 3. I wonder why the TV station did not mention the model of vehicle 🤨
Tesla gets very litegeous when the news mentions negative things about a tesla. They were suing people harder then nintendo during the whole battery fire debacle. When you make nintendo's lawyers look like they are slacking you're on a special level and people avoid putting your name in thier mouth.
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in reply to Patrick W1PAC • • •Wow! Really? 300 hams volunteer for this? That's amazing and awesome!!
I thought that in order to get 300 hams out of their Lazy Boys in the shack you'd tell them that Harbor Freight is giving away Baofeng radios. 😂