Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Tony Blair ‘offers to lead interim governing body of postwar Gaza’

It might be flippant, but haven’t people ion the Middle East suffer enough from Blair’s interference?

His ‘long standing interest’ refers to money making and power.

http://archive.today/2025.09.25-232934/https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/sir-tony-blair-offers-to-lead-interim-governing-body-of-postwar-gaza-wrm87gtc5

#Blair #Gaza #SupremeLeader

The Fascists just needed an excuse to start their genocide...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/25/transgender-americans-are-seeing-a-wave-of-hate-unleashed-by-charlie-kirks-killing

#CharlieKirk #TransRightsAreHumanRights #USPOL #LGBTQIA

RFK Jr cancelled mRNA research — but the US military is still funding it
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03093-6
The [US] Department of Defense is continuing to bankroll projects to develop vaccines against deadly pathogens.

Security updates for Thursday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1039528/ #LWN

Raspberry Pi just announced the Pi 500+

It has a quad-core CPU, 16 GB of RAM, 256 GB SSD (built-in NVMe), and an RGB backlit mechanical keyboard (Gateron KS-33 blue switches).

Cost: $200.

First thing I did was yank the SSD out and replace it with an M.2 to OCuLink adapter, so I could game and local-LLM on the thing, using an AMD RX 7900 XT with 20 GB of GDDR6 VRAM.

NASA launch three spacecraft to investigate Sun's influence

NASA successfully launches multiple satellites designed to get a better understanding of the Sun's influence on Earth.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-25/nasa-launch-three-spacecraft-sun/105815108

#SpaceExploration #Spacecraft

I'm just going to say it, the Fediverse is where all the folks who made the Internet cool in the 1990s are now located.

Well, well, well... as the retail banks in the UK try to steer us away from cash, by making getting & banking cash more difficult (and for businesses more costly) the European Central Bank is now advising people in the EU (but this is essentially general guidance) to have enough cash in the house to ensure they can access food & other essential services for three days.... to mitigate the threat of digital payment & accounting disruption - by failure or cyber-attack!

#politics #money
h/t FT

Italy and Spain have announced they are sending their military ships to protect the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is sailing to break Israel's illegal siege on Gaza and end the famine and genocide imposed by Israel.

Canada, UK, France, and Australia — all four of you have recognized Palestine as a state. Please now fulfill your oath and break Israel's illegal siege. End the famine and genocide in Gaza—both enabled by weapons you sold to Israel. Act Now. End This Injustice. Stop This Genocide.

"[W]orkers are using AI, but that they may not be leading to actual productivity gains for companies. The Harvard Business Review study proposes a possible reason for this phenomenon: Workslop.

The authors of that study, who come from Stanford University and the workplace productivity consulting firm BetterUp, suggest that a growing number of workers are using AI tools to make presentations, reports, write emails, and do other work tasks that they then file to their colleagues or bosses; this work often appears useful but is not: “Workslop uniquely uses machines to offload cognitive work to another human being. When coworkers receive workslop, they are often required to take on the burden of decoding the content, inferring missed or false context. A cascade of effortful and complex decision-making processes may follow, including rework and uncomfortable exchanges with colleagues,” they write.

The researchers say that surveyed workers told them that they are now spending their time trying to figure out if any specific piece of work was created using AI tools, to identify possible hallucinations in the work, and then to manage the employee who turned in workslop. Surveyed workers reported spending time actually fixing the work, but the researchers found that “the most alarming cost may have been interpersonal.”

“Low effort, unhelpful AI generated work is having a significant impact on collaboration at work,” they wrote. “Approximately half of the people we surveyed viewed colleagues who sent workslop as less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output. Forty-two percent saw them as less trustworthy, and 37% saw that colleague as less intelligent.”"

https://www.404media.co/ai-workslop-is-killing-productivity-and-making-workers-miserable/

#AI #GenerativeAI #Workslop #Productivity #Automation

I'm just running my own #Mastodon instance here, so I don't have a ton of reach.

I'd love it if any of you who are willing would boost/quote this post.

My current SRE role is coming to an end, and the current market is scary.

The most current project was getting 3 line-of-business applications (for a national retailer!) moved to AWS, with some infra design, and lots of Terraform and Ansible.

I've got some Python chops, too.

I'm looking for a new role, remote preferred, or local to the PDX area.

https://linkedin.com/in/akulbe

I'd love to get #FediHired

#Portland #PDX

"The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has put together a joint statement from many of the public package repositories for various languages about the need for assistance in maintaining these commons": Open Infrastructure is Not Free: A Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship https://lwn.net/Articles/1039127/

Interested in coding?

Software developers are first-class citizens with Linux.

You are not only able to contribute, but are encouraged to.

Imagine becoming part of a huge global team with the goal to make better software for everybody. You are part of something much bigger than yourself, and you often make friends in the process.

Not only that, you also learn how to work with other people in a community, which is a very valuable skill in any career.

Reason 5 To Choose Linux 😍

Education!

Learn how your technology works! #Linux 🐧 empowers anyone to learn their systems and experiment.

Linux is #FreeSoftware #OpenSource. The source code is open for all, and you are encouraged to explore and contribute.

With proprietary software, you need permission to access the code that runs your digital life.

Linux? The software is available to learn from and improve. For everyone. Always.

/5

#EndOf10 #FOSS #Microsoft #Windows #Windows10 #Windows11

The Mad King at the U.N.

"Trump Attacks U.N. and Lectures Nations in Address to General Assembly

Trump’s speech, filled with grievances and false claims, comes as the U.S. has withdrawn funding and support for U.N. programs.”

trump: “I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."

trump called climate change the “greatest con job” ever perpetrated on the world.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09/23/world/un-general-assembly-trump
#Politics
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