George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Ronald Reagan is rolling in his grave.
Jimmy 🧙🏼♂️
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Nerd about politics, computers, weather, climate, finance, urbanism, to name a few. IT Professional. He/Him. 🇺🇸🧙🏼♂️
Brian Brettschneider🔥🔥🔥 BREAKING: The Global temperature in August 2024 tied with August 2023 for the warmest for any August on record according to ERA5 Reanalysis. Technically, if you go out to the 3rd decimal place, 2024 beat 2023 (16.822°C vs 16.821°C) - but it is effectively a tie. @AlaskaWx
George Lakoff
♿🔞 kon mutehi i'm intellectually disabled and so-called "AI" is making the world worse for me and people like me
the claim that being against using LLMs to do an art challenge for you is somehow ableist or shares a scope with ableism is, itself, an ableist claim
hiring a ghostwriter to do NaNoWriMo for me wouldn't mean i did NaNoWriMo either. this is not ableist to say.
it is not ableist for a challenge i cannot complete to generally exist within the world. that's not what ableism is about.
edit: this is getting a lot of boosts. i'm not a novel writer, but i'm an aspiring artist, among other things, and my disabled ass does require income, so i'd humbly ask that folks look at and/or boost this post: https://tenforward.social/@MindmeshLink/111903946369553399
♿🔞 Many, Round-Bottom Flask (@[email protected])
Content warning: disabled fundraising/mutual aid/buy stuff from me
Vissso we were all right, volume 2
https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-partner-phones-listening-microphone
https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-partner-phones-listening-microphone
Randahl FinkThis morning, Russia has bombed Kyiv, and as a consequence, the main offices of Danish humanitarian organisation DanChurchAid has been destroyed.
While Ukraine bombs the Russian military, Putin bombs the organisations who deliver food to civilians. It sounds terrible, but this is exactly why Putin will never win the hearts and minds of anyone.
Putin will lose this war.
Aral Balkan“Media giant Cox Media Group (CMG) says it can target adverts based on what potential customers said out loud near device microphones, and explicitly points to Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Bing as CMG partners, according to a CMG presentation obtained by 404 Media.”
https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-listening-ad-targeting/
#CMG #ActiveListening #surveillance #capitalism #adtech #SiliconValley #PeopleFarming #Facebook #Amazon #Google #Bing
Here’s the Pitch Deck for ‘Active Listening’ Ad Targeting
404 Media previously reported Cox Media Group (CMG) was advertising a service that claimed to target ads based on what potential customers said near device microphones. Now, here is the pitch deck CMG sent to prospective companies. Google has kicked CMG off its Partner Program in response.
Meanwhile in CanadaConservative politicians in Canada blame the price on pollution (carbon tax) for inflation. Meanwhile, Canada has a lower inflation rate than most of the world since the pandemic and Russian war.
They hope to fool the public with misinformation and seize power in 2025, then let their billionaire friends pollute our air and water.
Elections matter.
UFWWhile many of us are enjoying #LaborDay as a day off, farm workers are laboring in the fields. Yesi sent this pic while working in the sweet potatoes in Merced County CA. They work for minimum wage while bringing this vegetable to our tables. #WeFeedYou
Fesshole 🧻As a teenager in Neustrelitz (East Germany), I painted small stones purple and left them all over town. Did it for years. It drove the police and Stasi nuts. It meant nothing. It just felt good to do something they couldn't control or understand.