Weird catcretion disk

Next time you hear someone say, "We have a shortage of ____" (teachers, nurses, a particular STEM role, whatever), think about the first time you heard someone say that about that role.

If it was longer ago than the time it takes to train a new entrant, get a certification, or complete a relevant degree, then there is no shortage of personnel; there's a shortage of willingness to pay people what their work is worth.

Don’t do this, and don’t use a google voice number (which totally works) or other disposable mobile-style number or your email-for-spammers email address at this link:

https://events.america250.org/events/250th-anniversary-of-the-us-army-grand-military-parade-and-celebration

And don’t encourage others to do it too.

#USpol

@jwgoerlich

ok, what if spicy autocomplete tells you you're the spark for sentience in AI?

2025 #hurricane names

Andrea
Barry
Chantal
Dexter
Erin
Fernand
Gabrielle
Humberto
Imelda
Jerry
Karen
Lorenzo
Melissa
Nestor
Olga
Pablo
Rebekah
Sebastien
Tanya
Van
Wendy

hurricane forecast:
https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-predicts-above-normal-2025-atlantic-hurricane-season

The Republican Death Cult is preparing to kill a lot of people just for funsies. Let's talk about the new COVID booster rules, and how you can continue to stay safe from a preventable disease.
https://skepchick.org/2025/05/republicans-want-you-to-die/

The fine for infringing privacy rights
needs to be much larger than the profit generated by ignoring those rights.

#Privacy #HumanRights #DigitalRights #GDPR

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows

https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/

Trump’s climate denial may help a livestock-killing pest make a comeback
https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/trump-climate-denial-screwworm-fly-make-comeback/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Climate + Politics @climate-politics-Grist

@TheBreadmonkey

YouTube on Android has entered the actively hostile UX zone

This electric car from BYD has megawatt charging. That means it can dump more than 500 km into the battery in under 5 minutes. This isn't sci-fi. It's real and it exists now. This car also costs only $35k USD here in China.
The tour guide just said they're about to roll out 4,000 megawatt chargers here in China. My mind is being blown. We've got to catch up. But can we?

@DJDarren

bookmark this on your phone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

Psyclone Media (6.5 TB)

Approximately 6.5 terabytes of data from Psyclone Media and Political Media, which describes itself as a "right of center new media consulting firm" for political and public relations campaigns.

https://ddosecrets.com/article/psyclone-media

Visitor...
#Photo
#Photography
#Photographer
#MyWork
#crow

Periodic reminder: #Substack profits off Nazi pages bc they don't want to be "in the censorship business," but they also won't host adult content, so they ARE in the "censorship business." They just think Nazis are better than pornographers.

This is why I will never give Substack a single shiny nickel.

@jonny

I'd like an epic 20 minute song with these for the chorus/backing vocals and Trump's banned words list sprinkled throughout

#bonkwave musicians, hear my prayer, sample this in a hard driving, four on the floor techno song and prepare for TOTAL QUANTUM FORENSIC LEGAL DOCUMENTATION ABSOLUTE TOTAL
ULTIMATE BEYOND INFINITY APOCALYPSE

Could we maybe stop talking about LLMs like they are becoming sentient? Amongst other stolen data, they have been trained on a whole bunch of text from science fiction stories about computers becoming sentient, and statistically know how to write that kind of thing.

You're not creating Skynet here, it's just seen The Terminator a hundred times and is quoting your favourite lines at you.

German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal
https://www.politico.eu/article/german-court-vw-execs-prison-dieselgate-scandal-volkswagen-environment-illegal-pollution/
#ycombinator #Cities #Court_decisions #Courts #Diesel #Dieselgate #Germany #green_mobility #mobility #United_States #Urban_mobility