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Are you guys ready for the buck-wildest agriculture story I've ever heard

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Supermarktkette warb in #Sachsen mit dem Slogan „Für Demokratie. Gegen Nazis“. Nach Kundenprotesten wurde die #Werbung zurückgezogen...

„Durch den Austausch mit unseren Kunden, habe ich gelernt, dass sich viel mehr Menschen mit dem Wort Nazi identifizieren, als ich dachte“

faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/sup

#Rechtsextremismus #Nazis #Neorechts #Supermarkt #Simmel #Deutungshoheit #Demokratie

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google has unleashed ungodly AI nightmares beyond my comprehension

so awhile ago, i've set up screen call on my android phone, because it's pretty useful for stopping robocalls from annoying me, since usually they just hang up, or google knows it is just a scam call.

well. i got another call in, but it couldn't get the transcript. so, i played the audio back.

to my fucking horror, GOOGLE IS USING MY OWN VOICE TO ANNOUNCE IT'S PRESENCE AS THE VIRTUAL ASSISTANT.

nowhere, i mean fucking NOWHERE did they ever tell me this was a thing they'd do. in fact, i'm not able to find a single fucking thing about this online!

i don't even have the fucking option set for them to preserve my voice history, the fact they have audio recordings of my voice, and enough of them to make a fucking AI-generated version of my voice, without my god damn consent, is... i don't even know how to put it.

google, i sincerely hope someone burns down all your data centers
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Linkedin auf. Oh, die kontinuierliche Erinnerung daran, dass ich echte Erwachsene kenne, die richtige Jobs haben. Und angestrengt glücklich auf Messeständen in Kameras gucken. Linkedin zu. Tiktok mach ich gar nicht mehr auf. Das ist Klick-Crack wo es draußen dunkel ist, bevor ich das wieder zu bekomme. Bsky auf, “wer von euch war das?” “was macht das mit dir” - Ah. Da ist Schmunzeltwitter hin. Gut. Bleibt da bitte.
Also… So alles in allem?
Wir habens hier schon echt kuschelig.

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“New study has doctors recommending you eat your weight in cheese every day.”

Ugh, another medical study funded by Big Parma

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"Atheist churches serve many of the same purposes as religious churches. Their growth is evidence that religious decline does not necessarily mean a decline in community, ritual or people’s well-being." theconversation.com/church-wit

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There are at least two clear reasons why #Vienna is so often voted one of the most liveable cities in the world:

1. the defining logic of the city is: 'is this good for children' in stead of 'is this good for property developers'?

2. When awarding planning permission Vienna's planners requires 50% 'affordable housing' in all new urban developments, not the much lower ratios elsewhere.

Our #housingcrisis & our #socialhousing might look different with such ideas in place.

h/t Kirsty Lang (FT)

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I think the Substack discourse is good and that we should really be asking "why are Nazis okay but sex isn't" for nearly everything involving our society.

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Es ist wieder Januar, und damit: Freier Eintritt ins Miniatur-Wunderland für alle, die es sich nicht leisten können.

miwula.de/leisten

youtube.com/watch?v=4PBHFJOZPh

😍 🚂

Die in meinen Augen ungewöhnlichste und unterstützenswerteste Aktion, die ich je von einem kommerziellen Anbieter gesehen habe. Mit der expliziten Bitte um Verbreitung an alle, die betroffen sein könnten - auch außerhalb des Fediverse...

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PSA #scihub has a new home:

Anna’s Archive
annas-archive.org/

Please avoid at all costs if you don't want access to scientific literature. It might be illegal and whatnot.

#academia #science

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Set of people who are all "We reverse engineered this CPU with an undocumented ISA and found a vulnerability that allowed us to flip a single bit in an HSE to obtain a key that allowed us to encrypt a payload that gave us arbitrary code execution on the ISS" and simultaneously also "It's literally impossible to prevent this single fucking guy from showing up at the event we run"

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i wish more people saw programming as a medium of expression tbh.

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one of the best things about calling committed partners wives even if legally only a subset of us are married:

coworkers (and similar) who hear statements like “my wife put out an RIAA platinum record” or “my wife is an extremely talented archer” roll all these ideas together into a concept of one Extremely Powerful Ultrawife

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This is an old project, but by some miracle it's still working and I woke up this morning wanting to celebrate the things I love more.

This Inkplate e-ink screen shows Conway's Game of Life, seeded from tarpits I have on the Internet. The tarpits are programs on my computer that superficially look like insecure Telnet and Remote Desktop services, but actually exist to respond super slowly and make bots scanning the Internet 'get stuck'.

When a bot connects to the tarpit, the data it sends gets squished into a 5x5 grid and 'stamped' onto a Game of Life board. Data from a bot at the IP address 1.1.x.x will get stamped on the top left corner, data from a bot at 254.254.x.x will get stamped on the bottom right corner.

Conway's Game of Life, a set of simple rules that govern whether cells should turn on or off, updates the display once per second. The result is that bot attacks end up appearing as distinct 'creatures', that get bigger and more angry looking over time (as their centre is updated with new data). After the attack finishes, the 'creature' eventually burns itself out.

Despite that description, it's a really chill piece of art that doesn't draw too much attention but I can happily watch for a long time.

Credit for the idea goes to @_mattata, I had been wanting to make a real-life version of XKCD #350 for years before seeing his Botnet Fishbowl project.

#projects #inkplate #esp32 #eink #infosec #tarpit
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