This Zohran Mamdani video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? It is the blueprint.

A question for folks out there who read fiction. I am an indie author with a new book. I do not use AI in my writing. Should I put a note or sticker on the cover which says something like "This story is entirely human generated" or "no AI was used in the making of this book." Would readers be interested / reassured by knowing it is all human-made? My covers are also designed using photos I took myself.

Edit: Please boost for reach.

#IndieAuthor #Bookstodon

@arstechnica This surely breaches copyright in many ways: modern day enclosure writ large!

@foto75862 How much better it is today without the cars!

California "No Secret Police" act introduced, would ban police from covering their faces

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/california-no-secret-police-act-introduced-sb627-ban-police-face-covering-wiener-arreguin/

#PoliceAccountability #cops #HumanRights

We've achieved the 3rd goal of our crowdfunding campaign for the #PeerTube mobile app! 🥳

Thanks to your donations, we will be able to develop a live broadcasting feature within the app!

Thank you very much! 🥰

👉 https://joinpeertube.org/news/crowdfunding-app-goal-3

@davidrevoy That makes sense! We have a long-running family joke about refridgerationating things - and "freezerate" is one of my most loathed verbs :-)

@hailey "Using LLMs turns your brain to mush"?

The governments of the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu have announced their commitment to create a massive multinational Melanesian Ocean Reserve. If implemented as envisioned, the reserve would become the world’s first Indigenous-led ocean reserve, covering an area nearly as big as the Amazon Rainforest.

By Shreya Dasgupta
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/pacific-islands-launch-plan-for-worlds-first-indigenous-led-ocean-reserve/

#News #Conservation #Environment #IndigenousPeoples #Oceans

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Framasoft is a French non-profit, based in Lyon.

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@davidrevoy It's a great and important campaign.

But OMG it uses the word "donator"!

Does a donator give a donatoration?

Can they toot about donatorationating?

@0xabad1dea Also, of you publish a print magazine, your readers almost all have failing eyesight... so tiny text is a huge turn-off...

Samoa has legally adopted a plan that designates 30% of its 120,000 km² ocean territory as fully protected.

The nine new MPAs are the first Samoa has created beyond its reefs, and ban activities that could harm marine life or damage marine habitat. Those fishing illegally could face fines of up to $361,400 or imprisonment. #samoa #ocean #oceans #environment #world #news

https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/samoa-protects-30-of-its-ocean-with-new-marine-spatial-plan/?ref=fixthenews.com

@PeterRu One of my first and most enduring memories of America - from my first visit in the mid 1980s - was the stunning national monuments. Since then, most presidents have expanded them - protecting more of America for today and generations to come. It is tragic to see this reversed... Nihilism at its worst...

Found online years ago...

The entire Dune cycle is based on a terrible pun.
1. The spice is called melange.
2. The spice confers power and longevity.
3. Melange is a French word for variety.

In other words, variety is the spice of life.

Why does no one ever talk about this?

Major US climate website likely to be shut down after almost all staff fired https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/climate-website-shut-down-noaa #Trumpadministration #Extremeweather #Climatecrisis #Environment #USpolitics #USweather #USnews

Protip if you're an EU citizen: If you want to ask for a refund at a company you bought an online service off, don't ever bother with their refund policy, which is designed to deny you a refund. Skip that step and immediately point to your legal rights under consumer law. If said company then points you to their refund policy, calmly repeat your legal rights, point out their refund policy is not in compliance with EU law, and ask for a refund.

This totally just worked for me.

🇩🇰 Minister is phasing out Microsoft in the Ministry of Digitalization

｢ Digitalization Minister Caroline Stage will begin phasing out Microsoft from her ministry starting next month. The plan is for about half of the employees to start working with computers running a version of #Linux instead of Windows and using #LibreOffice instead of Office 365 over the summer. If all goes as expected, the entire ministry will be free from Microsoft by autumn ｣

https://politiken.dk/edition/news/art10442448/Minister-is-phasing-out-Microsoft-in-the-Ministry-of-Digitalizatio

#opensource

CA Gov. Gavin Newsom: This is about all of us. This is about you. California may be first, but it clearly will not end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next."

The #Democratic Governors Association condemned #Trump’s decision to send #NationalGuard #troops into #LosAngeles over the objections of Governor #GavinNewsom as “an alarming abuse of power.” The association, which includes every Democratic #governor in the country, said in a statement that they stand with Newsom.

#law #Title10 #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #California #immigration