Ah, I did notice that Black History Month somehow disappeared from my calendar.

Now I know why. Incredible.

https://www.theverge.com/news/608858/google-calendar-missing-events-holidays

via https://mamot.fr/@Khrys/113982030692186300

#news #TechNews #technology #google #diversity #erasure

There were so many great #SolarPunk quotes on #Andrewism 's updated video, I just had to meme a few of them.
https://youtu.be/u03hoO3QueM
1/5

Sabot in the Age of AI

Here is a curated list of strategies, offensive methods, and tactics for (algorithmic) sabotage, disruption, and deliberate poisoning.

🔻 iocaine
The deadliest AI poison—iocaine generates garbage rather than slowing crawlers.
🔗 https://git.madhouse-project.org/algernon/iocaine

🔻 Nepenthes
A tarpit designed to catch web crawlers, especially those scraping for LLMs. It devours anything that gets too close. @aaron
🔗 https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

🔻 Quixotic
Feeds fake content to bots and robots.txt-ignoring #LLM scrapers. @marcusb
🔗 https://marcusb.org/hacks/quixotic.html

🔻 Poison the WeLLMs
A reverse-proxy that serves diassociated-press style reimaginings of your upstream pages, poisoning any LLMs that scrape your content. @mike
🔗 https://codeberg.org/MikeCoats/poison-the-wellms

🔻 Django-llm-poison
A django app that poisons content when served to #AI bots. @Fingel
🔗 https://github.com/Fingel/django-llm-poison

🔻 KonterfAI
A model poisoner that generates nonsense content to degenerate LLMs.
🔗 https://codeberg.org/konterfai/konterfai

Btw, my articles are (finally) going up on Felix online which is cool! they're over here if your interested in the environment: https://felixonline.co.uk/environment/

Full warning: it is with a particular focus on my uni. I do put considerable work into the research etc. for them so hopefully interesting anyway.

#ClimateSoup #FelixPaper #ClimateChange

“it’s more of a hornswaggle” - QWERPLINE Ep 11
“you have a collect call from ⚡️ HELLO GRAHAM! ⚡️” - QWERPLINE at some point
“I’ve respectfully removed my hat… and my jaw” - Graham stark probably
“I’m just floating out here” - my friend L
“allow yourself the certainty of hope” - Ian Green (end of EXTREMOPHILE)
“con-based trap detection” - LRR probably
“you just destroyed your social life” “nah, i think i made it better” - Amity being the best in Owl House

“you don’t need to try. you’re right where you belong.” - LiS True Colours, Wavelengths, Cody to Steph in a flashback to when Steph was 14 at her first pride.
“you acan’t brag when you’re in the safe place and everyone else is on fire!” - FatT Spring Ep 24
“I’m very proud to say that Suella Braverman called me reckless and irresponsible.” - Chris Packham at VCO 2024
“What’ve we got on our side? Well, we’ve got our hearts and the fact that we’re right and they’re wrong.” - ditto Chris Packham

“acting sub-co-pilot” - Quinns Quest citizen sleeper thing
“we’ll save bad news for tomorrow” - FatT spring
“there’s meaning in everything” - Frieren ED 2
“it would be embarrassing when we met again” - Frieren in response to why do you not say longer goodbyes
“Books that can cannot be read because they’re too busy screaming”
“How can I survive with a car that only goes 300 miles per charge when I might need to go to the dry cleaner 4 miles away?!” - The Climate Denier’s playbook

My MS Teams meetings today...

this whole post is great but the last line KNOCKED ME OUT

"Can't afford food? Blame billionaires, not immigrants"
Poster spotted in Toronto

If Codeberg is trying to "compete" against GitHub and GitLab, why does it refuse to take a look at AI assistants? Apart from infringing on authors' rights and questionable output quality, we think that the current hype wave led by major companies will leave a climate disaster in its wake: https://disconnect.blog/generative-ai-is-a-climate-disaster/

Other _sustainable_ (and cheaper!) ways for increasing efficiency in software development exist: In-project communication, powerful automation pipelines and reducing boilerplate.

My latest video is live on Patreon and Nebula!

https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-how-american-fire-departments-are-getting-people-killed

One of the things that really pissed me off when I was an advocate was when a plan that was designed to make the streets safer was vetoed by the Fire Department. And that was it: whatever the Fire Department said was what we did, because nobody can question the Fire Department.

But when firefighting is objectively done better in other countries that have safer streets, there comes a time when we need to push back a little.

"I didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black and now she wants to be known as black," he said at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago on Wednesday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c06k07dn1zjo

Great piece on Environmental Voter Project — a group that works to GOTV of people who are already active on the climate but are lapsed voters. These people are GREAT to re-activate as voters, and EVP has proven success in doing just that.

WATCH THE VIDEO: https://abcnews.go.com/US/climate-advocates-solve-biggest-problem-us-turning-voters/story?id=109345683

SIGN UP TO HELP (donate or canvass): https://www.environmentalvoter.org

#GOTV #Harris2024 #ClimateCrisis

just a reminder that if you qualify for SNAP/WIC/any type of food assistance you should use it if able, please use tax dollars for good ✨

A woman stopped at my book table. She was interested in my hopeful climate fiction & mentioned she makes her own clothes. I told her I had a favorite t-shirt but it was too baggy—I could sew a straight line but I was afraid I’d ruin it.

She proceeds to give me a step-by-step tutorial on how to tailor my shirt without fear &how to avoid mistakes. I totally think I can do it now.

I gave her a book in exchange for this valuable information.

I think it’s the most #solarpunk thing I’ve ever done.

There is a pro-transgender Labour revolt against health secretary Wes Streeting. You can sign the letter.

https://trans-express.lgbt/post/756244126854512641/there-is-a-pro-transgender-labour-revolt-against

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA