Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Don't talk to me about who is "illegal 🇺🇸"
WHEN YOU VOTED FOR A FELON

It is fascism.
At a journalism event I asked about using the word so journalism can cover and explain it. I was told that we can't call fascists fascists because it would put off the fascists.
This is fascism. Those who refuse to identify it are not doing journalism.

https://codingarret.dev/posts/bazzite/custom-sddm-theme/#creating-the-sddm-theme

For those of us running an immutable build such as #fedorakinoite and having trouble both installing new themes and getting them to even load. (I found instructions that enabled the former, but not the latter and this fixed it fully.)

Go forth, and customize!!

@caseyliss

Interestingly I can get it if I want, but I'm good with the extra features so I'll be keeping it until I can find good substitutes on Peertube that I can try to pitch in and sponsor directly.

@heidilifeldman

No no! Please continue! I wasn't aware that the Insurrection Act was written so broadly and this thread motivated me to check into it.

Fucking scary, pardon the language.

If I’m making a pan of brownies, how much dog shit in batter is too much?

That’s what people talking about “reaching across the aisle” are asking. The compromise position with fascism is still fascism.

#Via Steve Beynon / stevenbeynon
June 11, 2025, 6:44 PM

"Guardsmen deployed to LA aren't on formal orders, thus aren't set up to be paid or get healthcare yet.

Are you on the LA mission? Or any mission related to recent events? I want to hear from you. No one will know we talked, here's my Signal: SteveBeynon.28 "

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/11/guard-soldiers-deployed-trumps-la-crackdown-arent-getting-paid-yet.html

While there's no immediate copper shortage, there's the possibility of one in the future.

One way to address it: carbon nanotube wiring.

https://newatlas.com/technology/kist-cnt-cscec-carbon-nanotube-wire/

After hearing about the intensive tracking from Facebook/Insta apps, all the more reason I need to step away from the services. Especially now that the US Government is deploying the troops en masse.

Time to go as dark as I can whilst still being in contact with the events of the world enough to make a difference.

New from 404 Media: Customs and Border Protection confirms it is flying Predator drones above the LA protests. The agency explicitly says this is in support of ICE. Comes after we reviewed flight data/air traffic control audio which showed DHS Predator drones over LA https://www.404media.co/cbp-confirms-it-is-flying-predator-drones-above-los-angeles-to-support-ice/

@adfichter
Willkommen im Instance! Es ist mir eine Freude, Sie willkommen zu heißen. Ich bin kein muttersprachlicher Deutschsprachiger, daher hoffe ich, dass das Übersetzen gut funktioniert hat. Ich habe keine Vorschläge zur Beliebtheit von Ihrem Export, aber ich werde den Boost durchführen, in der Hoffnung, dass jemand anderes Ihnen helfen kann.

Liebe alle...Mein erster Toot auf der neuen Instanz. Super glücklich über infosec.exchange...

Mehr Zeichen, mehr Denkspielraum 😍 Hier wollte ich schon lange hin.

Und chaos.social wurde eine Zumutung. Verwarnungen wegen fehlender CW und die Entscheidungen am Wochenende gaben noch den letzten Rest.

Das mit dem Umziehen muss ich aber noch lernen. Hab zwar die Follower mitgenommen, jedoch nicht diejenigen, denen ich folge. Und das Archiv ist nur mit alten Logindaten zugänglich, die jetzt nicht mehr gültig sind. :blobcatfacepalm:

@gabesalkin @marcoarment

I didn't even watch WWDC this year, which says something about the direction Apple has taken overall from my perspective.

But I'm also a diehard Linux person, so I'm biased.

But I did go back and watch the macOS/iPadOS parts of the stream and wowzers. Very shiny, glassy, and an accessibility nightmare. It's pretty, no doubt about that. But I personally don't like the overall look. It may look great on VisionOS, but I don't have the means of affording one of those so it's a moot point.

The only things I liked were the fact that they made the iPad the Cellular Mac that @caseyliss and @marcoarment keep dreaming about except they can't run full Xcode on it. ;)

This is one of the best communicated responses I have ever seen against people trotting out "these are riots, not protests, look at the property destruction."

This is from a random post on /r/animeexpo.

You can find wisdom in the strangest places.

@ai6yr
But the original facility that caught fire was full of LG batteries, per the report. So while I intensely dislike Tesla for a number of reasons, let's be equal in the blame sharing here since there are two facilities in the same area with different manufacturers batteries.

The oppressive regime is escalating. It’s time to realize We the People applies to everyone, love thy neighbor means everyone; united we stand, divided we fall. There are no exceptions.

“I think that mistakes were made,” said Sahil Lavingia, who worked at DOGE for nearly two months, about the AI tool he developed. “I’m sure mistakes were made. Mistakes are always made.”

To see his work for yourself, here's our analysis of the prompts he used:
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ai-tool-doge-veterans-affairs-contracts-sahil-lavingia?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#AI #Technology #Tech #LLM

We obtained records showing how a DOGE staffer with no medical experience used AI to identify which VA contracts to kill.

His tool concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-veterans-affairs-ai-contracts-health-care?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #AI #DOGE #Veterans #Health #Healthcare #Government

@bbaugh First pass was level 2, and when that didn't show anything I ran a level 3 knowing it does a read/write.

Same results, no errors. Drive was still internal to the laptop when I did that.