There's a new wildfire camera integration on Watch Duty (I believe paid membership required for this one).

Predictive policing is UNJUST.

It tramples on the presumption of innocence to reproduce existing discrimination.

With 16 other civil society groups, we say:

BAN biometric surveillance and the use of AI to ‘predict’ crime.

#SafetyNotSurveillance

Read our open letter ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/app/uploads/2024/07/SafetyNotSurveillance-open-letter-Jul-24.pdf

#AI #PreCrime #policing #humanrights #justice #ukpolitics

In 1988 the most popular programming language in the Soviet Union was #C under #Unix. But which Unix?? 🤔

I think we've all heard the "shoot somebody on 5th Ave", but we need to update it. I think we've reached the "rape somebody on 5th Ave and not lose any votes" stage. Continued support of this demented moron is in itself a form of insanity.

@Monolecte Bisous du vendredi 😘😘😘😘

Forcing people to pay for insurance in the form of Medicare Advantage would provide a huge boost to the insurance industry's bottom line.

"As for Medicare, Project 2025 proposes making Medicare Advantage, the bundled alternative to Original Medicare."

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/health/managing-health-insurance/project-2025-medicare-medicaid

Why Labour Pinned Its Hopes on State-Run GB Energy: QuickTake
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-26/gb-energy-why-labour-pinned-its-hopes-on-state-run-company?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Stories @all-stories-BloombergGreen

@cypher7th Bisous du vendredi 😘😘😘😘

@1pseudodeplus Bisous du vendredi 😘😘😘😘

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@GrangeBlanche Bisous du jeudi JM 😘😘😘😘

@scudery Bisous du vendredi ma Scudynette 😘😘😘😘

⚡️ 🇿🇦 A piracy suspect, Jurgen Johannes Potgieter, was arrested in Gauteng for selling login credentials and pirate devices. MultiChoice, along with other companies, is intensifying efforts to combat piracy in Africa. https://www.riskmap.com/incidents/2176001/articles/234878611/

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@LaKorin cuisine, ça fait biiiiiipppppp Bipppp C'est prêt !!!!

@Ju_ Bisous du vendredi mon Ju 😘😘😘😘

When did you start writing your #blog? Maybe in the current domain or in some other place.

Please share for more reach.

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We need to talk about the classism of #Moderate #liberals.

Oh, the moderate liberal. There is a profound lack of empathy amongst what we would call the mainstream of the #DemocraticParty.

So, here's the thing. You want everyone to have an #EV. Well, an #ElectricVehicle requires charging. That pretty much requires a garage.

What about #solar? Well, if you are renting, you can't install solar panels. Nor does the #landlord have any incentives to ever install them.

Banning #plastic bags? A tax on poor people who traditionally got multiple uses out of every single plastic grocery bag.

Time and time again you see the #Democratic party, often along with #MiddleClass and #UpperClass #leftists and #progressives argue in favor of policies without a hint of empathy for the lived day to day reality of people who are #poor, #InnerCity or #rural.

Can you really be surprised that #Newsom decided to attack #homeless encampments? In his worldview, homelessness is a defect of the system, not an inherent product of it.

Fewer roads, fewer cars. Sure, but it sounds frightening when you have to drive to a dockyard that's two miles from a transit station.

The reason that a lot of #poor people in the US view the #Democrats as traitors is because they have traditionally _been_ class traitors.

The loudest progressive voices are usually the most privileged voices. So, they just sound like more class traitors without a moment of reflection on the actual lives of actual working people.

@kawoua Bisous du vendredi ma kawouette 😘😘😘😘

@martinemartin Bisous du vendredi 😘😘😘😘

Matt Tebbe on how supremacy systems work: https://chrishubbs.com/2024/07/26/matt-tebbe-on.html

#deathmetaldad

https://open.spotify.com/album/1kuUhDYdYPDSBY1YhPF0Ip?si=nMKZWnufRpeqzc06wtOfHA

2 great albums in one day??

#nowplaying #newmusic #metal #postmetal #shoegaze #doomgaze #ambient #metalhead

@justafrog 2 for 2

MX Tools recent updates:

MX PackageInstaller (24.7.05): Performance improvements for search and filter change.

* Save and restore flatpak repo and user choices

* Make sure all checkboxes are cleared when switching filters for flatpaks

* Fix: don’t update interface when loading Enabled repos in the background

* Wait for displayPackages to finish before updating the interface

* Selected user by default when managing remotes

https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-ending-july-20-2024/

It’s rare that the interests of #history aficionados intersect with the realities of #data management.

#iOS: „Crowd-sourced“ WLAN- und Mobilfunk-Ortungsdienste. Falls die Option „Ortungsdienste“ aktiviert ist, sendet das iPhone in regelmäßigen Abständen die Positionen von nahe gelegenen WLAN-Hotspots und Mobilfunkmasten an Apple, um die Crowdsourcing-Datenbank mit WLAN-Hotspot- und Mobilfunkmastenpositionen zu erweitern.

Ist das abschaltbar oder muss man dafür komplett die Ortungsdienste deaktivieren!?

https://support.apple.com/de-de/102515

Park Fire increases to 164,282 acres early Friday | News | actionnewsnow.com

https://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/park-fire-increases-to-164-282-acres-early-friday/article_410b44b4-4b42-11ef-925d-ebe3969007f3.html

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Måneskin (23) Foo Fighters (22) Highly Suspect (21) Deep Purple (19) Muse (16). #myweekcounted 335 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue

@mxlinux

I've tried a lot of Ubuntu and Debian-based distros, and MX Linux is my favorite, hands down. From the installer to MX Tools, to the conky that you see on the default desktop, you can tell how much care went into this distro. It's turned my aging laptop into a viable workstation.

#linux #MXLinux #XFCE

trump tells his base not to vote.

trump refuses to debate.

trump will just say she is not a legal candidate and take it through his corrupt courts.

it is toys out the pram time.

https://www.europesays.com/1362099/ Drewniany Kościół p.w. Świętych Szymona i Judy Tadeusza
W ŁODYGOWICACH Z XVII W. – Malowany farbami wodnymi. #polska

https://open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/a-new-global-wave-of-anti-authoritarianism?r=2nggq&utm_medium=ios

“Nonviolent mass protest remains among the most important ways to show our support for democracy in situations of creeping authoritarianism; to protest injustices and advocate for policy reforms; and, in autocracies, to show the world the government does not speak for us.”

These protests have resulted in turnarounds progressing around the world.

‼️🇺🇦Explosions, fire reported at airfield in temporarily occupied Crimea (more) https://kyivindependent.com/explosions-fire-reported-at-airfield-in-occupied-crimea/ #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow

Via Elie Mystal:

Think about what kind of judges would write this and then remember they get to decide how voting rights apply in Ohio. 🙁

The Associated Press:

Chicken wings advertised as 'boneless' can have bones, #Ohio Supreme Court decides

“There are days when I am shocked that I am still alive. Like millions of disabled, chronically ill, & older people, I spend an extraordinary amount of effort just existing.” - Alice Wong.

I feel the exact same way. Keeping myself alive is a full time job - one that’s been filled with overtime since Covid.

As society decided to go full “you do you” and drop all Covid mitigations (and in many cases - dropped all reporting as well)… I found myself increasingly squeezed out of public spaces. I’m disabled and immune compromised and have been hospitalized from a cold - I’m not someone who can risk repeated COVID infections.

So I wear a respirator. Always. I endure the stares and hateful remarks from strangers and the quiet judgement from healthcare workers. I do what I need to do to survive. As long as people are knowingly spreading Covid people like me will never be safe. Masks are our single best accommodation tool.

Banning masks in public is wrong. It is absolutely a return to ugly laws and a blatant attempt to further erase and isolate disabled people. It will end lives.

The only question I have is whether the first deaths will be from forcibly infecting people with covid - or from brutality at the hands of people who feel empowered to harass and attack those wearing a mask.

There are many unknowns but one thing is for certain - we must push back. We must tell governments and lawmakers that we won’t stand for having an accessibility tool taken away from us. We won’t quietly be forced out of society any longer.

Disabled people have the same right to exist in public spaces as anyone else - and we’ve stayed home long enough. If you can wear a mask - now is the time. Help us normalize it as a medical device and push back against these bans. You may just save a life.

Read Alice Wong’s full mask ban article on Teen Vogue - I’m honoured to have made a small contribution to this incredibly important piece: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/mask-bans-disabled-people-protest

#CovidIsAirborne #CovidCautious #CovidIsNotOver #CleanAir #WearaMask #Disability #LongCovid #Ableism #Denial #CleanAir #Pandemic #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #N95 #Respirators #MasksWork #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #Dysautonomia #mecfs #pots #mcas #communitycare #wearamask #chronicillness #keepmasksinhealthcare #maskbans

This Fresh Air interview is fascinating, explores the situation on Israel's Northern border & the dangers of a war with Hezbollah & possible regional war. Lots of stuff I didn't know! Transcript incl.
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/g-s1-13320/israel-and-hezbollah-have-escalated-attacks-on-each-other-how-likely-is-war

The kremlin suffocates dissenting voices at home while amplifying lies abroad. Journalists face years in prison, NGOs are branded 'undesirable', and activists go missing. The latest #DisinfoReview exposes the grim reality of Putin's Russia. DontBeDeceived
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/moscow-gearing-up-for-us-elections-while-tightening-screws-at-home/

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia has begun including new, cheaply-made drones in its long-range attacks on #Ukraine, to try to identify air defences, film any damage and act as decoys, a Ukrainian military spy official said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-deploys-cheap-drones-locate-ukraines-air-defences-2024-07-26/