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I make art that’s totally mine because I did it through AI. imgur.com/a/Rhgi0OC

Nightshade software to protect your art

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This is so on point and explains their anti-immigration policies perfectly.

Billionaire bets big on largest solar project ever proposed to deliver power across oceans: 'At the forefront of the clean energy transition' ( www.thecooldown.com )

The world is on the cusp of an energy transformation that could make the Industrial Revolution look minor. Mike Cannon-Brookes is banking on the Land Down Under to be a major driver of that change....

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This seems pretty cool. It's no crazier than putting a communication cable across the oceans and we already have the support for that. Is there something I'm missing?

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I agree. They've also come a long way since the original cable were put in for communication in 1858. Granted, it took almost a 100 years for tech to catch up. We're pretty innovative now though.

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Did you miss the /s or are you a nazi?

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Okay, let's pretend someone stole his api and made him look like a hypocrite, why would it matter and why would you point that out? Being honorable towards a nazi is usually a nazi protecting a fellow nazi.

Have you ever heard Fuentes speak? He is an admitted nazi, not someone who hides it.

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Friendly reminder, 5 out of 9 SCOTUS seem to have taken bribes:

Albuquerque Is Throwing Out the Belongings of Homeless People, Violating City Policy ( www.propublica.org )

Albuquerque has escalated this work in spite of a court order prohibiting it from destroying the possessions of people who live outside without providing an option to store them. In doing so, the city also has violated its own policies, including that personal property should be preserved even when the owner isn’t present. The...

21 Men Are Trapped Without Their Phones on Ship Involved in Baltimore’s Bridge Collapse ( gizmodo.com )

On board, the report describes “a sad situation” where sailors have had their mobile phones confiscated as part of an FBI investigation. The head of a non-profit organization that protects the rights of mariners tells the BBC that crew members have been unable to pay bills or send funds home to their families. The crew was...

pelespirit OP ,
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We're in Not the Onion territory here.

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To add to that, you'd be without your phone, you still have to work and you're not paying your family. This happened during covid too, there was a boat stuck out there for months with nowhere to go and no one cared. It's crazy.

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Llama

Meta owns that, so it's complicated.

Grok

Elon owns that one.

That's a nah.

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How does the metal detector work? I've never heard of a phone being able to do that.

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Floorp

That looks too good to be true, do you use it? I've been not as happy with Firefox lately. They keep a record of all my bookmark history and update so often it makes your head spin. I couldn't tell if the updates are because they're doing something or it's so popular that they need to do that for security.

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Thank you, I'll look into it.

Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook ( arstechnica.com )

The tool is nearly ready to be released, Zuckerman told Ars, but the University of Massachusetts Amherst associate professor is afraid that Facebook owner Meta might threaten legal action if he goes ahead. And his fears appear well-founded. In 2021, Meta sent a cease-and-desist letter to the creator of the original Unfollow...

pelespirit OP ,
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Meta (or similar) probably is already running one of our major instances. We don't know who actually owns all of them.

pelespirit OP ,
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Why not both being an issue? Why wouldn't they say who they really are if they're a major corporation.

pelespirit OP ,
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I'm pro-fediverse, that's why I think it's just as bad. There is one instance in particular, that has the vast majority of Lemmy, that is controlling the narrative for most Lemmy users and it probably will only get worse. I was banned from that one because an admin was curating what I said. Now I don't really have a voice over there because I'm not savvy enough to do an alt that they couldn't tell. So here I am, not being able to let people know that I've noticed them being curated and they've also banned my community in the biggest instance (that one I like).

This fact is rarely discussed but a major factor why the fediverse helps with democratization of the internet. Free information.

Absolutely, I want to keep it that way. I think corporations taking over one of the big instances would be subtle and will have terrible consequences for the fediverse. People sign up for it, not knowing, and then get curated just like on Facebook.

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Nice, it looks like you can do it manually too.

When I unfollowed everything for the first time, I did it manually. I spent hours using a Facebook-provided feature to click unfollow on each of my friends, groups, and pages.

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I think we're on the same page, I don't care if they read my feed in the slightest. Reddit made a shit ton off of me and my friends and I didn't care about that either. They were providing a free service and I used it, make money. My issue with reddit was/is, they think they're the product and treat everyone as such.

Be the change you want to see

Yep, that's one of the things I'm doing right here by getting the word out for everyone to spread out through the Fediverse. People were saying that when I joined, but I didn't understand what the ramifications were. Of course, I can't tell anyone on the largest instance, lol.

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I was wondering, but it should be more mainstream, yeah? Wasn't Hitler thought to be living in South America or something in the old school conspiracy theories?

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Yes, why isn't that one of the "good ones"?

pelespirit ,
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Is using starlink a good idea for Ukraine? I'm sure Zelensky knows about this, but just in case you don't.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-ukraine-russia-war-starlink-satellite-denied-major-act-of-war/

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I mean sure, if you're on Russia's side, he did a good thing? Musk should have never made that decision himself, he should have worked with Biden before shutting off anything. I'll give you more articles if you want.

A Pentagon spokesman said the department responds directly to members of Congress on such matters. “However, we can reinforce that we are aware of the reports that some Russian forces in occupied Ukraine have used Starlink terminals,” he said. “DoD has been working closely with SpaceX and the Government of Ukraine to investigate and address this threat.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/pentagon-needs-to-open-up-about-russia-s-use-of-starlink-senator-says/ar-BB1lUzkS

Robot Makers Try to Reassure Public They're Legit After Elon Musk Fudged Demo ( gizmodo.com )

Elon Musk became the butt of more than a few jokes after internet users pointed out Tesla’s robot demo wasn’t all it appeared to be. As it turns out, a video the billionaire posted of Optimus, the company’s much-hyped humanoid robot, was actually being controlled by a human slightly off-screen. And it’s interesting to...

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I was hoping you were over-blowing it, you were not.

“Basically ... what he got convicted for is what he was wearing, which is problematic for the First Amendment,” Curtis Briggs, White’s San Francisco-based defense attorney, told reporters outside the courtroom Friday. “Mr. White will definitely appeal after sentencing, and I think it’s an amazing appellate area that implicates the First Amendment.”

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We’re gonna burn our planet

We? Or maybe just a handful of tech bros with too much money.

Philips Agrees to Pay $1 Billion to Patients Who Say They Were Injured by Breathing Machines ( www.propublica.org )

After years of legal battles, Philips has agreed to pay more than $1 billion to settle lawsuits waged by thousands of people who say they were injured by breathing machines capable of releasing toxic particles and fumes into their noses, mouths and lungs....

Report: Taxing fossil fuel extraction could raise nearly $1 trillion for climate aid ( www.motherjones.com )

The authors say the levy could be easily administered within existing tax systems. They calculate that if the tax were introduced in OECD countries in 2024 at an initial rate of $5 a ton of CO2 equivalent, increasing by $5 a ton each year, it would raise a total of $900 billion by 2030....

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I'm all fr taxing fossil fuel extraction, but I don't think we can buy our way out of climate change.

Judge in hush money trial threatens Trump with jail after holding him in contempt for violating gag order ( www.nbcnews.com )

Judge Juan Merchan ruled Trump in contempt for nine violations of his gag order, with a fine of $1,000 for each instance. He warned in the decision that he would not tolerate further violations of the order and said "if necessary and appropriate under the circumstances," he would impose "an incarceratory punishment" on the...

A Doctor at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly. Cigna Threatened to Fire Her. ( www.propublica.org )

Still, he made it clear that transaction volume — the metric on the dashboard that was similar to a productivity score — was one of the factors “we use to determine merit raises, bonus” and stock awards. When asked about this, Cigna said that “any assertion that our Medical Directors’ compensation (cash or stock) is...

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Insurance companies shouldn't be allowed to decide who dies or lives. We need an overhaul and universal healthcare stat.

pelespirit OP ,
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I think this is super funny. Germans aren't really known for their easy going attitude, is it because they fell off a 4 story monkey bar set? Or maybe they're afraid of getting pushed off a giant torture swing? I will give you that we are probably over zealous in safety for our kids, but we don't have universal healthcare, our pocketbooks won't allow us to fall off a 4 story monkey bars.

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Thanks for talking about all this, I don't think I realized how much our safety culture is around being able to afford to help them either. I agree, kids should be able to climb on things and explore. I love this one at the Seattle Center, https://seattlecenter.com/explore/attractions/artists-at-play

The other thing at play in America is that the insurance companies promote "safety" and won't insure these playgrounds if they're not. I know Americans have a reputation for coddling, but here in Seattle, that's not really a thing. Probably because it's a very wealthy city and is surrounded by a lot of nature that will/can kill you. Nature really doesn't care about being safe.

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Dude, take cover.

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    The OP and a few in this thread are trying to buy an argument, I'm glad there are no takers.

    Utility that bribed Ohio regulators secretly bankrolled Republican Mike DeWine's 2018 gubernatorial bid, records show ( www.motherjones.com )

    In 2018, the Akron, Ohio-based utility FirstEnergy donated $2.5 million to a Republican Governors Association-affiliated dark money group backing GOP nominee Mike DeWine in a competitive race for Ohio governor, according to newly released records....

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