ubi

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Did you know that Microsoft just turns Copilot writing assist on for webpages in Microsoft Edge?
So like, if you type in edit boxes, it just... gets sent to Microsoft? Straight up?
And this is enabled by default?
So first, what the actual hell? Second, why is nobody talking about this? How the hell is right now the first time I find out about this?
This is what a human hand looks like under a microscope.
Detail of The Red Apple, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

#photography #streetphotography #abstractphotography #rotterdam
#architecturephotography

Our Statement in support of Francesca Albanese

We call upon academic institutions, governments & civil society actors around the world to publicly repudiate these unjustified sanctions & to uphold the independence & legitimacy of the UN human rights system.

https://tinyurl.com/hfbzmamh

It shouldn’t matter that H is a sweet dad, or my friend, or has two toddler girls, or is witnessing escalating massacres in his area. We should give our free, unconditional support to all Palestinians, including men.

Give / find his individual link here: https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their campaigns are extremely stagnant and wanted to find a way to direct steady help to them. We distribute your contributions equally every week for sustainable support.

Chuffed
I needed to do a word count on a PDF the other day (my work is so exciting).
It opened in Adobe Acrobat, and its AI thing popped up, wanting to help.
I had planned to copy paste the text into a 'word count' website, but this AI was asking what I needed, so I asked.
646 Words, it told me.
Fam, there were 512 words in that document. It wasn't even *close*.
How did we break computers so badly that they can't even count anymore 😢

Today, there is an average of 37 tonnes of road per inhabitant of the planet. The weight of the road network alone accounts for a third of all construction worldwide, and has grown exponentially in the 20th century. There is 10 times more bitumen, in mass, than there are living animals...

https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/how-much-does-your-road-weigh

How much does your road weigh?

The ways roads are used, with ever larger and heavier vehicles, have dramatic consequences on the environment – and electric cars are not the answer

The Architectural Review
"AI data centre" is the anti-library of alexandria, empty of value and burning everything else down

The impressive Holzgerlingen stela is the largest known pre-Roman Iron Age stone statue in central Europe, standing 230 cm tall. This double-faced, anthropomorphic figure—dating to the 4th century BC—features a horn-like headdress interpreted a so-called leaf crown, and is likely a representation of a deity

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg

#archaeology

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History is full of people who just didn't

'No' by Anne Boyer

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/featured-blogger/77342/no

@CiaraNi Brilliant!
@gerrymcgovern Agreed! Her piece struck me so much that I had to reread it straight away, slower.
@CiaraNi my own modest offering: https://nope.business
Nope Business | Get your nopes here

@emma That is excellent
@CiaraNi it is silly and also deadly serious and I actually use it ha!
@emma It is eminently useful!
@CiaraNi surfacing this bit for people who don’t click through 🙂

@CiaraNi

True words!

Thanks Anne Boyer.
And thank you for posting them.

@arya Seconded - thanks Anne Boyer for such striking insights and observations and words.
@CiaraNi wow. Just wow.
@LJ Agreed. That was my reaction too. Just wow.

@CiaraNi to all the white people who enthusiastically support this in the comments: this does not go for the most privileged.

We (specifically!) are required to speak up in the face of mountains of injustice in the current world. We are conditioned to stay silent instead. This silence is violence.

@CiaraNi nothing beats a direct unequivocal 'no' 😎
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vxfB3X0Unk
Looking For Eric - "No!"

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