Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

@AaronDavid

Una de las mayores mentiras que nos vienen colando desde la transición es que la convivencia de lo público con lo privado beneficia a ambas partes por igual.

Que las personas que pueden pagarse un seguro privado de salud contribuyen a descongestionar la sanidad pública y a reducir listas de espera. Que los colegios concertados permiten a las administraciones ahorrar en construir y mantener lo que serían escuelas públicas.

Es todo mentira. La única manera de dignificar la sanidad y la educación pública es obligar a los ricos a que tengan que usarlas. Porque los ricos pueden permitirse el privilegio de comprar las políticas que hacen que se deje de invertir en lo público (total, para qué, si no van a usarlo) mientras que consiguen que esos mismos fondos públicos se vayan a financiar sus chiringuitos privados dónde les curan y educan a sus hijes. Así tenemos la mafia de Quirón o las FP privadas llevándoselo gordo.

¿Pero si los ricos tuviesen que llevar a sus hijes a un colegio público? Veríais como bajaban las ratios y no faltaban recursos. Ídem con los centros de salud.

George Clooney is an actor.

Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.

Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.

This is a post about LLMs.

One of the scariest parts of this project was learning more about Starlink's orbital operations. I had always assumed they had some kind of clever configuration of the satellites in the orbital shell that minimized conjunctions, and we would see the number of conjunctions grow over time in our simulations. But no! It's just random! There's no magic here, it's just avoiding collisions by moving a Starlink satellite every 2 minutes. This is bad.

We are NOT Your Museum!

Recently, the Trump Administration released the new “National Security Strategy” paper for the USA. This document is horrific in quite a few different ways, but I want to focus on how it treats Europe.

They want to “restore Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity” (p. 9)
They want to “Promote European Greatness” (p 29) by supporting “unapologetic celebrations of European nations’ individual character and history.” Furthermore, “America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit, and the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism.” (p. 30)
Furthermore, they claim that “this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure”, including “loss of national identities and self-confidence”, and that “should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less.” (pp. 29)

Considering who wrote this, and what the actual policies of the Trump Administration have been since Trump has returned to office, the implication is fairly clear: They want Europe to revert to a fantasized past when “Mighty Whitey” strode across the world like a colossus, oppressing or slaying brown people as he pleased. European nations should abandon the project of European unification and instead revert to white ethnostates.

To which I say: NO!

We will NOT change who we are to appease a hostile foreign power – for that is what the USA is now, as they have made clear! We will NOT pretend to be a kitschy theme park to fit the notion of some American bigots what “the Old Country” should be like! We will NOT remain in stasis! We are NOT your museum!

I care about German history and culture – deeply so, and with a passion that would have surprised my younger self. And I am more than happy to share my knowledge and my appreciation with the world – which is one of the reasons I put in so much time and effort into translating German folk tales. But this is why I am appalled by such efforts seeking to destroy them – again.

How German history and culture are preserved and honored will be decided here, by Germans – “Germans” as defined by the German Constitution, not “Germans” as the Nazis defined it. We Germans – regardless of ethnicity – have a stake in the future of Germany, while the Trump Administration has not. Trump’s ancestor might have left Germany because he wanted to dodge military draft, but his descendant has no claim upon us. He and his followers have no true curiosity about German history and culture – a far cry from the many immigrants to Germany I have met over the years. They get a place at the table to determine Germany’s future, but Trump will not. And together we will try to build new ways of honoring our country, our history, and our culture, free of the racism and sexism and antisemitism and other bigotries of the past.

Of course, there are Germans who will disagree with me. And many of them are traitors to our country, who are just as willing to kiss MAGA ass as they are to lick Putin’s boots – selling Germany’s future for their thirty pieces of silver. But history will judge them just as history has judged the Third Reich.

#Germany #NationalSecurityStrategy #Trump #USA #USPolitics

Art: Demi Lee (thank you @drahardja)

Always wondered how they were made

🔥CROWDFUNDING LA FUERZA DE LA MAREA ERES TÚ🔥

Hace poco recibimos la primera demanda en casi 13 años por una de nuestras investigaciones. Preparar la respuesta nos ha exigido semanas de trabajo extra. Y lo que más nos han dicho es: “¡Fuerza!”.

Con esta idea de ganar tranquilidad y recursos para reforzar nuestro trabajo lanzamos una nueva campaña en Goteo.

👉🏼 https://www.goteo.org/project/la-fuerza-de-la-marea

¡Colabora y difunde!

🌊La fuerza de La Marea eres tú🐟

#lafuerzadelamarea

Yo lo veo a diario no solo como usuario de internet sino como profesor de adolescentes. El bombardeo es continuo y creciente. YouTube, Instagram, TikTok. Tu primer millón. Una y otra vez. Todos prometen que vas a ganar MUCHÍSIMO dinero (por supuesto, el secreto no te será revelado gratis, pero, ¿acaso no quieres ser millonario?)

Y, como son adolescentes, ni se van a parar a cuestionarse si lo que les proponen es mínimamente viable. Solo ven la parte de los lambos, los yates, los jets y las mujeres. Porque sí, la misoginia viene en el pack.

Y podréis decir que esto siempre ha sido así, todos los niñós "soñaban con ser futbolistas" y bla bla bla. Pero es que ahora hay toda una cultura en torno a esto potenciada por los algoritmos y que les bombardea cada segundo de su existencia.

A veces me invade la desazón y me pregunto si luchar contra esto no es completamente fútil, como querer poner puertas al campo. Porque hay TANTO dinero metido ahí que es como enfrentarse a un leviatán.

Pero bueno, supongo que al final hay que enfrentarse al leviatán, aunque solo sea para salvar a unos pocos.

/eof

@lamarea hicieron un movimiento muy arriesgado: fueron coherentes con lo que decían y se salieron de las redes privativas, dejaron de recoger cookies y apostaron por redes libres.

Ahora están en una situación crítica: necesitan dinero para afrontar la demanda de una empresa de gestación subrogada, y por eso han lanzado este crowdfunding.

Les queda el empujón final, y unas 30 horas. ¿Les demostramos que estar en el fediverso merece la pena?

https://www.goteo.org/project/la-fuerza-de-la-marea

we genuinely live in hell. https://www.copy.ai/

Timelinefund + BBesch

(sorry für den KI-Slop, aber wie gesagt nur gefunden und mit AltTxt versehen)

I feel that, during this holiday season, it is important to remind people of the true meaning of Christmas: ghosts terrorising wealthy people in the middle of the night until they agree to pay their employees a fair wage.

We've been receiving a lot of requests for us to answer this crucial question, and we are delighted to attempt to provide you with the information you need as to whether you can read braille with your clit.

Screenshot via @skinnylatte

Via https://toot.community/@Gooseu2/115709171891440761

Now with #AltText

#ICE