If you’re thinking the protests are antisemitic, please read this opinion by a Jewish Yale student.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/27/opinions/yale-student-palestinian-protests-berlin/index.html
#Cornell #history professor invites suspended students to attend his classes for the rest of the semester.
#protest #FreePalestine
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/28/jimmy-carter-russia-investigation-trump-lost-1387634
Jimmy Carter says a full investigation would show Trump lost in 2016
By SARAH CAMMARATA
06/28/2019 11:20 AM EDT
Updated: 06/28/2019 12:40 PM EDT
“I think a full investigation would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf,” the former president, who served between 1977 and 1981, said at a panel hosted by the Carter Center in Leesburg, Va.
#JustFinished The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow.
This was a great book! Graeber and Wengrow integrate new archeological discoveries with anthropology and turn common belief on its side. In the same way that we used to think that evolution was a progressive march to new and improved species, we also thought that human development was on an upward arc to better things, with capitalism and
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The #Fediverse Report by @laurenshof is a great resource to keep up with how social media is changing.
What I especially like compared to more mainstream coverage is how Laurens keeps track of less "shiny" projects. Those are a fertile ground for new innovations.
Can Supreme Court justices be criminally indicted? Asking for 80M+ friends.
Honestly, the Supreme Court justices today sounded even more deranged and clueless than I even expected. They are just too worried about hypothetical future presidents to focus on the fact that we have a former president indicted for attempting to overthrow an election who is now running for reelection on an explicitly authoritarian, anti-democracy platform. 1/ #LawFedi
@lorihc
Yes! Very obscure. XD
It does seem to work, though.
It is evident from today's Supreme Court argument that several Justices have entirely abandoned any interest in the rule of law even in the face of the Trump-led insurrection.
The Court had an opportunity to restore its credibility by demonstrating, as it did fifty years ago in US v Nixon, that it stood unanimously behind the rule of law regardless of party loyalty. Instead, it seems poised to demonstrate the opposite: that it is dominated by political hacks.
American 18 year-olds stoked to vote in last presidential election
@lorihc
Darn wait that's wrong, lol. It's under "Following and Followers" or something like that, which is a *peer* of Preferences, but the only way I know of to get to it is via the Preferences menu. Then under that there's a "Following Hashtags".
Under "Preferences" there's a "Favorite Hashtags" which seems to be... something else.
@lorihc
(All of that is in the qoto web interface, which is all I use; in other clients, I dunno!)
I can help a little maybe! There's a "Preferences" section called "Followed Hashtags", which is what you want. "Preferences" always seems to open to the "Appearance" section, so it looks like that's all there is, but if you find the right hot-dog-menu thing to click, you can get the menu with all the sections.
https://reason.com/2024/04/24/she-only-served-10-months-behind-bars-florida-still-slapped-her-with-a-127000-bill/ Among very stupid ideas, there is this one from Florida... which probably makes crime worse. #HumanRights
Reverse-Engineering a Disposable Vape (Arm Cortex-M0)
Another excellent research by @mozilla ‘s Privacy Not Included team! ✨
Be very careful when
choosing and using a dating app:
“Data-Hungry Dating Apps Are Worse Than Ever for Your Privacy”
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/data-hungry-dating-apps-are-worse-than-ever-for-your-privacy/
I've had occasion to ask an AI about a thing twice lately (a recent online phenomenon, and a book recommendation). Both times I asked both Gemini and ChatGPT, and both times one gave a reasonable if bland answer, and the other (a different one each time) gave a plausible but completely fictional ("hallucinated") answer.
When do we acknowledge that LLMs, and "AI" in general, aren't quite ready to revolutionize the world?
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
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If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
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