I like this idea.

#ICE #immigrants

The Trump administration is setting a new norm, that wearing masks while being an armed law enforcer is normal.

Criminals will take advantage of this. It is nothing new that hardcore criminals disguise as police, but what is new is, this disguise can now be worn while being masked, and it will not look out of the ordinary.

Criminals will be able to abduct anybody anywhere while wearing police gear, guns, AND masks, and no one will be able to know if they are real or fake.

If your country's police force dresses like this, you may live in a military dictatorship.

Days?? They'll find glitter in their underwear 5 YEARS from now!

Also, please tell me this is true.

EDIT: a lot of people rejecting this because glitter is not eco-friendly, so I'm adding a link to biodegradable glitter. I'm sure other companies make such a thing.
https://fizzfairy.ca/collections/bio-glitter

ht: @PhoenixSerenity !! Also see her comments on this thread, she's done this before & has great ideas!

Edit2: also, feed your fucking mental health and just laugh without analysis once in awhile!

📅 Berlin | 10.7.
«Auf die Barrikaden!»
16. Queerempfang

Die Fraktionen Die Linke im Bundestag und Die Linke im Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin sowie die Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung laden euch ganz herzlich zum diesjährigen Queerempfang ein. 👇
https://www.rosalux.de/veranstaltung/es_detail/HP2JD

Die Ursache für den Blackout in Spanien aus dem April ist geklärt. Und es lässt die Rechten ziemlich dumm da stehen. https://www.volksverpetzer.de/faktencheck/spanien-stromausfall-geklaert/?utm_source=mstdn

@thomas It just felt like my Mastodon timeline became algorithmic when I saw this article pop up: https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/threads-adds-new-dedicated-feed-for-fediverse-content-174105370.html.
It answers most of my questions – all in all, still pretty much a one-way street: „fediverse engagement on Threads remains an “opt-in” feature, and replies you receive to posts shared in the fediverse are still not integrated into Threads.“

@thomas Do you know if boosts and likes you do at a post from a threads user is actually displayed to them? Can they even follow or find you?

I completely forgot that https://Threads.net still exists; and apparently some of my contacts seem to post there. What is actually the status on federation with the rest of the Fediverse and Mastodon? 🤔

Oh WhatsApp, you changed. Meta got the best out of you.

"No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow.”

"Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought.“

~ WhatsApp Blog, June 18th 2012
https://blog.whatsapp.com/why-we-don-t-sell-ads

Unter der Bundestagspräsidentin folgt eine anti-queere Geste auf die andere. Statt „verbindend und verbindlich“ zu sein, provoziert und polarisiert sie.
https://taz.de/!6091532

Photo dump May & June 2025
https://www.julianmair.com/2025/06/photo-dump-may-june-2025/

🚨 Meta announced today that it will introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This move further consolidates Meta's social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this.

https://noyb.eu/en/whatsapp-getting-ads-using-personal-data-instagram-and-facebook

Last stretch. Today’s journey is exceptionally exhausting 🥱

I wrote about how to turn in-person meetings into Signal groups, how to manage large semi-public Signal groups while vetting new members, and how to use announcement-only Signal groups, perfect for rapidly responding to ICE raids https://micahflee.com/using-signal-groups-for-activism/

Tell me you're in Bavaria without telling me 😅

Love it

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation
of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI
Assistant for Essay Writing Task https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

Fascinating paper. It's long, 200 pages; you can read the intro and the Discussion section and get much out of it already though, but they do their homework.

Effects of LLM usage on memory retention and task execution:

- LLM users do get judged well by human and LLM judges for their essays
- Can't remember them
- Low cognitive activation
- Essays are mostly the same

the problem with LLMs

https://bsky.app/profile/craigshackleton.com/post/3lrnweyuz2c2c