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Mary Hilton mastodon (AP)
The next heat dome will be coming in to the west and midwest next week.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/07/26/heat-wave-forecast-united-states/
It's not going to stop. That's what global climate change is going to do.
The Turtle mastodon (AP)
The Blorfington Post is not a reliable source of weather information.

Neither is Weather Channel.

Or Fox Weather.

Or Accuweather.

You know how to read a weather map.

You're telling me a alien weaved this Sigourney

Hold up, WaPo, what the fuck did you just say? You’re answering climate questions using fucking generative AI? Y’all, I don’t have the words to describe just how stupid that is.

All I can say is, I’m glad I’m not paying for this shit directly. (I get my WaPo access through the Los Angeles Public Library.)
A partial screenshot of a Washington Post article displayed in Safari for iOS. The following is boldfaced and at the top: “Ask your climate questions. With the help of generative Al, we'll try to deliver answers based on our published reporting.”
I realize I’m (mostly) speaking to the choir here. Most of you are well-versed in the myriad harms presented by generative AI. That said, in case you need proof of its adverse environmental impact, examples abound.

This one is from the MIT Technology Review:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/05/1084417/ais-carbon-footprint-is-bigger-than-you-think/

katharine mastodon (AP)
Are white women still buying porcelain dolls from magazine adverts? There are a lot of porcelain doll ads in this Disney Channel magazine.

https://archive.org/details/disneychannelmagazine_1989_januaryfebruary/mode/2up

Today I learned mastodon (AP)
TIL i learned that some sharks that have no visible gums launch their teeth out when they are about to bite

https://youtu.be/AjNX0J82L6o?si=5Zpmj4d6P2sdlXjY
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ed3yfn/til_i_learned_that_some_sharks_that_have_no/

Peter mastodon (AP)
Kinda looking forward to trying these. @potatochipwatch
Kettle "crafted collection" applewood smoked butter & sea salt potato chips
Joel Michael mastodon (AP)
ooooooooh!

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NO WAY!!!!!!!!!
Hedgewizard 🐈 mastodon (AP)
Dukes of Hazzard narrator's voice:
"Now ole JD, he always did have a shaky relationship with facts. But he was tellin' the truth about one thing: he was a dumbass, all right."

Flaming Cheeto mastodon (AP)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/26/peter-strzok-lawsuit-settlement-00171498

This should somehow count against Trump's deficit number and not Biden's

Timothy Andrew mastodon (AP)
Fastest in and out of a crowded store

#OlympicGamesForIntroverts
#HashTagGames

Mike Matessa mastodon (AP)
Zooms for Kamala #Harris:

44K Black women raised over $1 million
45K Black men raised over $1 million
136K White women raised $2 million

It's time for the #white dudes to show up this Monday at 8pm ET

https://bit.ly/whitedudesforharris
White dudes for Kamala Harris

BKM mastodon (AP)
CAREFUL JD!

IT'S A TRAP!!!
Couch hanging from tree
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and i figured out how to put text in the nav bar lol

ez


HobbitFoot lemmy (AP)
While sad, this seems like sad than the court ordered separation of a divorced couple's Beanie Babies collection.

Tengrain (🇺🇦) mastodon (AP)
News That Will Drive You To Drink https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/07/26/news-that-will-drive-you-to-drink-2137/

Happy Hour News


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I think we all have been holding our breath wondering what the callous Yutes of Today were gonna do during the 20204 Goat Rodeo when the choice was between two old dudes (one admittedly a monster), and they were not budging. And they described themselves as double-haters, and said they planned to turn to independent candidates if they’d bother to get off the couch at all.

They’ve budged:

The election just got a lot more interesting. It’s inspiring young voters to register.


Move over Taylor Swift. Vice President Kamala Harris may be one-upping you ‒ at voter registration anyway.

Last September on National Voter Registration Day, Swift set a record by encouraging more than 30,000 people to register in a single day.

But in the first 48 hours after President Joe Biden bowed out of his bid for reelection and Harris announced she was running in his place, more than 38,500 registered, according to Vote.org, a nonpartisan platform that encourages voter registration.

As of Friday morning, the figure had surged past 100,000.

Holy cow!
“An engaged electorate is the cornerstone of a healthy democracy, and this continued wave of voter enthusiasm shows that Americans are determined to make their voices heard,” Andrea Hailey, CEO of Vote.org, said in an emailed statement to USA TODAY. “The surge of youth engagement is a strong indication that the next generation is motivated to show up this November.”

As we’ve been saying all along this Goat Rodeo, it is going to be won and lost depending on getting more new people into our column than into Team Evil’s. And I gotta think —I just gotta!— that most of those under 35 voters are not signing up for the 4th Reich.

I might be hope scrolling these days, but this is nothing but good news for democracy (little dee).

https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/07/26/news-that-will-drive-you-to-drink-2137/


jimray mastodon (AP)
One consequence of the go-go Obama years and the reactionary Trump aftermath is there’s an entire generation of otherwise smart adults who never had to figure out why things are the way they are. So they end up, a full decade too late, mystified that the electric car rockets guy is a fascist or the sentient bowling balls who funded the app-based lifestyles of the 2010s are trying to reinstitute feudalism.

Turns out those liberal arts educations are worth something after all.
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Anybody know what's going on with proudrebels.me? Is it permanently offline or is it just a temporary thing? I've got over 2500 messages queued up for it on one of my other instances!


The Crowdstrike glitch that just took out Windows machines all over the planet, explained by Dave Plummer. Crowdstrike made a kernel driver that watched programs' behavior to try to detect viruses before a regular anti-virus would, but it depended on an external file for updates. A recent update downloaded a file full of all 0s. And that didn't work.



#solidstatelife #cybersecurity
Will diaspora
@David Bump The evidence does suggest MS is pretty much at fault. Here's a couple of comments on slash dot that supports that idea. MS knew about the vulnerability.
In Windows NT up until 3.51, drivers lived in user space. Because of perceived sluggishness of NT, in NT 4 drivers moved into kernel space. This gave a performance boost, but at the cost of system stability. In the book "Showstopper", Dave Cutler (architect of NT) railed against this sort of thing precisely because of the instability it allowed.

macOS absolutely prohibits anything other than Apple code running in kernel space, yet CrowdString's Falcon operates there just fine.

CrowdStrike caused the disaster, for sure. But Microsoft laid the foundation for this disaster back in 1994.

Crowdstrike did the excact same thing to Linux servers earlier this year, sending them into kernel panic. https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/crowdstrike-issues-go-beyond-windows-companys-security-software-has-reportedly-been-causing-kernel-panics-since-at-least-april

Also: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7068083


Heidi Li Feldman mastodon (AP)
I think @jztusk has a fun idea for how we might mark milestones along the way to our current target ($500,000). I pledge a further contribution to #Mastodon4Harris when we reach $400,000. To see where we are now, check out https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris. And while you’re there….
https://mastodon.social/@jztusk/112855583927215578

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Weekend lane closures on I-75 in Cobb County near the Cumberland area https://cobbcountycourier.com/2024/07/weekend-lane-closures-on-i-75-in-cobb-county-near-the-cumberland-area/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

katharine mastodon (AP)
Asking everyone to consider slugging the vote (coating your ballot with votes for local candidates) to wake up with a smooth, glowy legislature

unusual_whales mastodon (AP)
BREAKING: Kamala Harris will keep a Biden admin pledge not to raise taxes on anyone making under $400,000 if elected in November, per Politico.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options
unusual_whales mastodon (AP)
This makes taxes a key contrast point with former President Donald Trump, who passed a major tax cut package during his first term in office and has voiced support for further slashing the corporate tax rate.

Read more: https://t.co/sm5iVf49fA

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

Web search is useless. YouTube is useless. Social media, more like parasocial media. Knowledge hidden in Discord servers. Ads everywhere. LLM hallucinations everywhere. And people generally don't care. I don't see how this situation can be salvaged.
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Mary Hilton mastodon (AP)
WTF is on with the WAPO and the TImes?
They're both blindly denying that Harris is beating the fuck right out of Trump and the Republicans.
I think they're in denial because they're not dictating the stories any more.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/26/kamala-harris-strategy-beat-trump/
"Opinion
A new candidate is a start, but Democrats need a new strategy to beat Trump"
Steve's Place mastodon (AP)
They are right-wing activists now.


donni saphire mastodon (AP)
My love language is Danish, and I do NOT speak it
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Morten Grøftehauge mastodon (AP)
Garbage language for garbage people.
Brooklyn 99 screenshot. Swedes speak lots of languages. But not Danish. It is a garbage language for garbage people.

GayDeceiver mastodon (AP)
“I’ve always relied on the kindness of strangers.”

Narrator: He used his southern charm to receive the kindness of so many women, DNA testing for couples became mandatory in 3 states.

It’s been a long week, and #KittenJacques exemplifies the exhaustion that Friday brings. He does however wish everyone a good weekend and a reminds us that it’s #Caturday tomorrow.

#MastoCats #CatsofMastodon
Beige cat sleeping, with his face squished up against the back of a couch.
Callalily mastodon (AP)
Jacques is adorable.😻 happy caturday eve.
@Callalily thank you! 🙏 Happy Caturday Eve back to you.

UC Access Now mastodon (AP)
The Americans with Disabilities Act happened due to disabled activists taking huge risks to be heard, supported by allies such as the Black Panthers.

Repeated demonstrations, sit-ins, and lying down or sitting in their wheelchairs in front of inaccessible buses (for instance) built the momentum that led to one of those rare moments in time when politicians from both major parties agreed to actually do work and get ADA through.

If you're an abled parent enjoying elevators to BART, or an abled delivery driver using ramps and curbcuts, don't forget the disabled activists who risked so much for the infrastructure you take for granted.

In fact, JOIN disabled ppl in working not just for ADA compliance, but full accessibility & equity! Disability Justice!

Photos from this disability activism in the US: http://tomolincollection.com/

#ADA34 #UCAccessNow #Accessibility #Disability @disability @disabilityjustice
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The Continent mastodon (AP)
All Protocol Observed.

Welcome to Issue 169 of The Continent.

Dirty deeds done dirt cheap: Artificial Intelligence is not as artificial as it says on the box. In fact, programs like ChatGPT and Copilot rely on millions of data workers – actual humans – to do the grunt work. It’s tedious, underpaid, and often traumatic. No wonder much of the work is outsourced to vulnerable communities in the global south.
The cover of issue 169 of The Continent by Marc Pohl depicts a data worker with long hair, wearing a collared shirt and jeans, sweeping a globe covered in cellphones. The picture is drawn in black and white and shows the headline: "Doing Silicon Valley's dirty work"

I was once again mistaken for a bot, so here's a picture of me holding a snake. As far as I know, bots can't hold snakes. Not yet. We will be in deep trouble if they ever learn how to.
Me wearing a grey sweater with a black and gold snake wrapped around my wrist.
Cubelet mastodon (AP)
@GGMcBG you should check out birdsarentreal.com while you're at it!


Zelda 👑 mastodon (AP)
I could sleep for a week

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
Karine Jean-Pierre Roasts GOP for Needing to ‘Set Up a Meeting to Tell Republican Leaders to Stop Being Racist’

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/karine-jean-pierre-roasts-gop-for-needing-to-set-up-a-meeting-to-tell-republican-leaders-to-stop-being-racist/
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Ultra Verified mastodon (AP)
It's the GOP sensitivity training session, subtitled as "How to secretly be a bigot"
“…frankly disgusting”
I love it when political spokespeople don’t pull their punches

Dan Morgan :ksu: mastodon (AP)
The faceless French soldiers carrying the torch remind me of a Doctor Who baddie and I can’t shake it. Where’s Madame de Pompadour? Where’s my banana? #doctorwho #Paris2024 #olympics

Qasim Rashid, Esq. mastodon (AP)
BREAKING:
•UK has dropped plans to challenge ICC’s arrest warrant request against Netanyahu—meaning UK agrees to authorize his arrest if he enters UK
•UK is once again funding UNRWA after admitting Israel provided ZERO evidence of terrorism

This leaves USA as the only global power defending Netanyahu’s genocide & defunding UNRWA. A big step in the right direction. Keep the pressure on for accountability for Netanyahu & Justice for Palestine.✊🏽
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Gil Duran mastodon (AP)
JD Vance did not hump a couch.

But he will definitely fuck your freedom.

ICYMI: Here's my
@newrepublic piece about this dangerous extremist who is horny for dictatorship, hungry for power and owned by the WEIRDEST people in Silicon Valley. https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas
bk mastodon (AP)
@newrepublic
I stand corrected...thanks! (but laughed a lot)...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jd-vance-hillbilly-elegy-first-edition-couch-erotica/
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