Searching a reporter’s home and seizing reporting materials is an extreme form of press intimidation. EFF joins press freedom groups in condemning the FBI’s search of a Washington Post reporter’s home. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/eff-condemns-fbi-search-washington-post-reporters-home

@drrjv @Strandjunker Historically incorrect, though. Only Gestapo office and command staff wore uniforms.

The actual field agents wore plain clothes, as their tasks were highly secretive: 'Gestapo' is a German abbreviation for Secret State Police. They became notorious, but definitely not for their public conduct and appearance.

@Strandjunker somewhat related Nazi cartoon

@Strandjunker

At least Hitler let athletes of color compete

U.S. denies entry to 14 Ethiopian athletes ahead of World XC Championships

According to a report from LetsRun.com, only four of the 18 Ethiopian U20 athletes had their U.S. visa applications accepted

https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/u-s-denies-entry-to-14-ethiopian-athletes-ahead-of-world-xc-championships/

Funny how the so called #privacy #european #browser that is @Vivaldi and their liar in chief @jon are dead #silent, on the fact they actually use #cloudflare and other US #middleman, and force you to run on an "official" android phone (as they only share the app on #playstore and no other store (like their own repo on fdroid like brave did))

And yet lie by saying it's the only one european when even the browser call dozen of #US url at the first launch

#eu #eupol #europe #europa

https://omenana.com/2022/07/18/omenana-issue-22-positive-visions-of-democracy/

#hopepunk #stories from #Africa

#bookstodon #books #speculativefiction #Futurism #Fantasy #fantasy #urban #MagicalRealism

..

so what happen to @delta if #Microslop #github is forced to close access to #EU

Also have you considered moving out this #slop #generator altogether ?

“It’s not just undocumented people, and not just people who committed crimes,” EFF’s Cooper Quintin told The Washington Post. “We’ve built a giant surveillance panopticon.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/15/ice-activists-doxing/

After committing one of the greatest thefts of all information known to mankind, ChatGPT started showing Ads to everyone while killing all independent websites,wikis, forums, journalism sites, artists' work, songs, and blogs. The circle of life is complete. All this talk of a "changing world" ends with selling your data to the highest bidder while destroying human creators and environments. What innovation.

https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/

@cstross I wrote an essay draft in my masters (early 2000s) against the Turing test as proof of intelligence. There I said that if a similar approach were taken to study life, we would be assigning life to strawmans as they seem alive enough to scare crows (at least to them). Instead, I proposed an #EcologyOfIntelligence where the key is not imitation but completariety/synergy between intelligences: individual, collective, human, non human, etc.

LLMs are spam generators. That is all.

They're designed to generate plausibly human-like text well enough to pass a generic Turing Test. That's why people believe they're "intelligent".

But really, all they are is spam generators.

We have hit the spamularity.

@decorrespondent "Donald #Trump is het grootste gevaar voor de wereld sinds Adolf #Hitler"

https://decorrespondent.nl/16657/donald-trump-is-het-grootste-gevaar-voor-de-wereld-sinds-adolf-hitler/f6184761-0a10-0fde-35e3-828244b6145f

#DeCorrespondent #Wijnberg

Terms I dislike: Expat. You are a migrant. Expat is the fancification of migration and another way to create societal gaps. There is nothing wrong about calling yourself a migrant, if you migrated to another country and live happy and comfortable there.
*Fancification is a word I invented or something.

Les dejo la Arepa del día (#dogsofMastodon) para sin ninguna pena hacerle promoción a mi convertidor a ASCII

https://www.yosola.co/ascii/

Hagamos un lunes de mascotas en caracteres.

The stop using non-deterministic technologies to do tasks requiring deterministic outputs challenge.

Let’s try that.

A significant difference between Hitler and Trump? Hitler doesn’t appear in the Epstein files.

"this new product from microsoft surprisingly doesn't suck!" did they start making vacuum cleaners

Why are US fascists fixated on Greenland? It's weirder than you think and only happening because a few nutjobs became billionaires (from April, but still relevant)

https://www.thenerdreich.com/tech-billionaires-want-to-build-a-network-state-in-greenland/

🤮🤮🤮
Les cuento que hace unas semanas había vuelto a oír la radio poniendo radioacktiva en las tardes.
Pero hoy lo puse en la mañana, y están en El gallo. No esperaba nada, pero en el primer momento que empiezan los locutores a hablar tocan el tema grok y las deepfakes.
Pues ellos opinan que deberían poder hacerlas, y que el que lo tipifiquen como delito como que no, dicen en tono de preocupación "este es el mundo donde ahora vivimos". Como si fuera su derecho divino sexualizar y acosar mujeres