Rune @skalden@qoto.org

9 Google employees were arrested and two dozen were fired after an occupation of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office demanded the tech giant withdraw from Project Nimbus, an AI project to help streamline the operations of Israel's genocidal military.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/google-employees-sit-in-to-protest-project-nimbus-ai-tech-contract-with-the-israeli-military/

#WritersCoffeeClub 1. September: What have been your writing-related achievements in the last year?

How serendipitous! I have just today released The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe into the wild. More than two thousand pages of folkloric goodness, a significant proportion of it for the first time in English.

Take a look.

https://norwegianfolktales.net/articles/the-complete-norwegian-folktales-and-legends-of-asbjornsen-moe

Sorry I'm late, there was a huge DDoS attack on my alarm clock

Also, we all saw the injury to his ear, that bandage is far larger than necessary.

Whatever you think about the shooting, this is milking it like a factory farm dairy cow.

Via @Brandi_Buchman:

Oh so definitely we want AI writing the news then

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philip lewis:

McDonald’s is ditching its drive-through AI ordering system after too many customers wound up with totally incorrect orders like a handful of butter, hundreds of chicken nuggets, and ice cream loaded with bacon

During his 40 months in office, events have tested #Biden’s vision of American world leadership. #Alliances haven’t been enough to win a new European #war in #Ukraine. US #power & leverage haven’t prevented a #humanitarian catastrophe in the #MiddleEast, marked by alleged #WarCrimes. #Putin is trying to assemble an axis of #autocrats from #Tehran to #Beijing. In #China, the US faces an adversary potentially its equal in economic & military power intent on tearing down the American #GlobalOrder.

Japan’s push to make all research open access is taking shape

Japan will start allocating the ¥10 billion it promised to spend on institutional repositories to make the nation’s science free to read. #openaccess #research #science https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01493-8

The #gop Presidential candidate is a CONVICTED CRIMINAL

#verdict #vote2024 #trump #trumptrial

All of the jurors have individually confirmed their #guilty verdicts.

#Trump now looking at the jury as each juror is polled to confirm their decision of guilty on all counts.

Trump is unresponsive, sitting slack at the defense table.

He is largely expressionless, a glum look on his face, as “guilty” has just been heard 34 times.

#law #TrumpTrial

Donald #Trump has been #convicted of falsifying business records in the first criminal #trial of a former president

The 12 jurors have been deliberating for two days

The court heard from 22 witnesses over six weeks, including Stormy Daniels, whose alleged sexual encounter with Trump is at the centre of this case

Trump is accused of concealing a payment made by his former lawyer to buy the ex-adult film star’s silence shortly before the 2016 election

#TrumpTrial

I’m just gonna say it — this “Genocide Joe” thing is the dumbest fucking liberal shit I have seen in years.

Joe Biden can do more to *try* to rein in Israel, but Biden doesn’t run Israel. He isn’t CIC for IDF. He isn’t deciding what hospital to bomb. He isn’t deciding what border crossings to close.

You know who is pushing the Genocide Joe narrative? The fucking Russians and the Israelis. Why is that? Well, it’s an election year, and Trump is a hard right, pro-Israel puppet.

Anyone claiming the "tragedy of the commons" isn't a real issue has never see a picture of the Pacific or Atlantic gyre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch

65/ Phang:

HOFFINGER: “Describe if you would how—where you first encountered Mr. Trump inside the hotel suite” DANIELS: “I said hello”
met Trump right there and I said hello and he wanted to go into the living area, 👀👉🏼he was wearing silk or satin pajamas,
HOFFINGER: what was he wearing? DANIELS: Silk or satin pajamas, I made fun of him, said “does Hugh Hefner know you stole his pajamas?” I told him to go change, so he obliged, “very politely”