The image features a warm orange background with two stylized pumpkins in the center. The larger pumpkin is orange with a brown stem, while the smaller one is brown. Surrounding the pumpkins are several autumn leaves in shades of orange and brown, along with small black stars. Below the pumpkins, there is text in a playful, handwritten font that reads: "ugh why is summer so clingy? like dude, it's over. fall & i have STUFF to do." The text is in black, contrasting with the orange background, and emphasizes the word "STUFF" in all caps. The overall composition is simple and cheerful, with a focus on the seasonal theme of fall.
Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B
#Republican members of the US Senate defeat an amendment moved by #Democrats to direct the Department of Justice to release the #Epstein files. Obviously, the #gop is trying to protect someone, and I have a pretty good idea who that is. thehill.com/homenews/senate/54…
Going from: "I wanted the computer to do this well-defined task, and it did it, and saved me some time because I can verify that what it did is aligned with my intent, and correct."
Going to: "I asked the computer random stuff and I'm 'obeying' without knowing why or how the output came about. I don't care much about understanding my own will anymore as long as the software says 'AI' on the label."
The image shows a social media post by Jonathan Edward Durham, featuring a close-up of a person's arm with a temporary tattoo. The tattoo reads "NOT TO BE REMOVED FROM THE LIBRARY" in a stamp-like font, with a triangular border and a line beneath the text. The background of the image is a dark fabric with colorful circular patterns. The post's text reads, "The perfect tattoo idea doesn't exis..."
Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B
The genocide in Gaza has exposed the weaponization of the Holocaust as a vehicle not to prevent genocide, but to perpetuate it, not to examine the past, but to manipulate the present.
The image features a red background with white text. The text is a quote that reads: "Fifty years of 'Trickle-Down' has turned Millionaires into Billionaires and The Working Class into The Working Poor." The text is in a casual, handwritten-style font, with the words "Trickle-Down" and "The Working Poor" in quotation marks. The background is a solid red color, and there is a small, bright light source visible in the top left corner, creating a slight glare on the text. The overall layout is simple, with the text centered on the image.
Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B
The biggest streaming platform has shaped how music is consumed and how it is valued. But recent controversies suggest the bargain may no longer feel worth it
it's waaay more than just those five. Tiki Tane has been pulling tracks down and has a video up explaining some of the pain points. The artist talks to the label who talk to the publisher who talk to spotify... and that's if you're a solo artist who owns your music.
It's been interesting seeing who was (still) on spotify and saw this as the final straw.
This is a helpful and frightening perspective on why Americans have such different views of who Charlie Kirk was. Screenshot from FB; original poster's name is in the screenshot but I'm not typing it because she might not want it searchable outside FB:
"One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.
"I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.
"Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.
"I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be 'right'.
"None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didn't believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
"Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story."
@WhisperingHek It gives a free pass to the person claiming not to know about Kirk's evil bigotry, blaming "the algorithm" rather than Kirk's evil bigotry.
#charliekirk died for your right to see the #epstein files. He died in white on white, cishet on cishet, MAGAt on MAGAt violence. And we've got our panties in a wad over "the algorithm." Fuck that. I worry about evil fucking bigots.
This is corporate media today: •CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump •ABC: fires Terry Moran for slamming Stephen Miller as “world class hater” •MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful words leads to hateful actions” •FOX: stands by Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi style state murder of America’s 600,000 homeless people
Corporate media has wholly abdicated its duty to the American people. All to appease Trump. This is what state media looks like.
But what do we do about it? And the hundreds being fired merely for pointing out how Kirk lived by the verbal sword and died by the sword. Tyler Robinson did something about it.
as bad as he is this isn’t the president. They sold us out decades ago, he’s just the first to let you know you were bought. “News” stopped being news when they repealed the fairness doctrine.
Regarding mentally ill persons fox host says just kill them.
That nazi speak was targeted at the homeless.
I think that statement should apply more to many obviously mentally ill persons presently occupying powerful positions, and destroying what was once called land of the free.
It just goes to show that Hell as a Christian Morals enforcer is far less useful than they keep trying to tell us they are. In reality the whole concept is a joke.
Fox News is really out here responding to a right wing shooter by blaming the left for violent political rhetoric while themselves calling to mass euthanize homeless and mentally ill people. Beyond parody and absolutely deadly.
It is so deeply frustrating, that we are playing by completely separate rules. Liberals must be absolute saints in order to be treated like humans; conservatives can commit any crime and break every rule, and still be celebrated.
Quakers in Britain has been refused permission to give evidence in a landmark legal challenge to the UK government’s proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group.
If you read their Terms of Service, at first glance, they reference the laws of Switzerland. However, because they now have offices in the United States — along with registrations, trademarks, copyrights, and patents in the U.S. — they also cite U.S. laws. The only two countries you'll see mentioned are Switzerland and the United States — nothing else.
Their CEO has, on several occasions, also praised Donald Trump. Additionally, Proton left the Fediverse because they couldn’t silence users there as they have on platforms like Facebook or Reddit. The fact that they’re now trying to silence journalists doesn’t surprise me.
Tuta guarantees your data stays private for free & without ads. Quantum-resistant encryption makes Tuta the best secure technology solution to protect your privacy.
There have been a few comments made, mostly on Twitter (which I don’t follow), but this report covers one instance where the CEO praised someone Trump selected for his staff:
Since then, the CEO has been less vocal, likely due to the backlash they received over the Trump-related remarks. I also imagine it doesn’t help that Donald Trump has continued to be even worse than some of his own supporters expected.
On Reddit, it’s often a single post that ignites a firestorm of reactions. Andy Yen, founder and CEO of Proton Privacy, recently found himself in the hot seat after a seemingly innocuous commendation of Donald Trump’s nomination of Gail Slater as Ass…
Does Proton really support Trump? A deeper analysis (and surprising findings) Recently, allegations surfaced on Reddit that Proton (or at least Proton’s CEO) supports Trump. Hillary Keverenge from …
@DroidPort @doraii This thread is bizzare. A completely ananomys guy makes wild claims and gives advice and people go Uhh, ohhh he must be right. You couldn't do this in a b movie, but apparently here it works.
@sergedroz @DroidPort Ok, yeah that makes sense. He may have at worst made a mistake in his wording, but I wouldn't go as far as him being completely MAGA. Thanks for the second perspective.
@eco_amandine I’m based both in Canada and Europe. I’m currently looking for a domain registrar that can replace my use of GoDaddy. Got any suggestions for that?
Just because a company is physically in Canada doesn’t mean it isn’t owned by another company based in the USA. And a lot of those would fall under U.S. jurisdiction.
@skflyfish@mastodon.social
> How do you rate Hushmail.com?
They have an entire page dedicated to U.S. healthcare practices (concerning HIPAA compliance).
HIPAA is a federal law.
It's not an easy task, and it is why on my Git (Codeberg) I include my disclaimer:
> Unfortunately, in the world of technology and business, acquisitions can and do happen — sometimes overnight — and not always with clear transparency for the average consumer regarding those changes. For this reason, I cannot 100% guarantee that every service provider is always entirely outside U.S. jurisdiction. I take a best-effort approach and welcome feedback to help maintain this list.
While I agree with the Tuta recommendation I'm not sure filing patents has much to do with being under US jurisdiction. And their recent ToS thing seems to be purely them being too amenable to a request rather than a court order.
what a disappointment! I just opened a free proton mail account for a side project to try it out, and was pondering the idea of moving my business email over there (I'm still on Google and want to move away from it!) I'll check your suggestions!
Having used proton for my business email prior to this debacle, I really don't recommend it. Encryption means that the search function works very badly. FWIW I went back to Fastmail (Australian) which works great. It isn't E2EE but I never once had an email be E2EE anyway because hardly anyone uses it.
Proton Drive is half-baked too. I use Nextcloud hosted with Hetzner (Germany)
Posteo is an innovative email provider that is concerned with sustainability and privacy and is completely ad-free. Our email accounts, calendars and address books can be synchronised - we use comprehensive encryption.
They have an entire page dedicated to U.S. healthcare practices (concerning HIPAA compliance).
HIPAA is a federal law. Additionally, some states have their own healthcare regulations that may require certification or impose legal requirements beyond the federal standards — All of which, of course, would place the provider under U.S. jurisdiction. hushmail.com/plans/healthcare-…
But if that weren’t enough — and it is — let’s take it a step further anyway, because we can in this instance. Their privacy policy states:
> Hush Communications Canada Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hush Communications Corporation, a private Delaware, USA company.
I’ve lost count of how many times a company that appeared to be outside the United States was, in fact, owned by another corporation — and sometimes that corporation was owned by yet another one — but ultimately, it all led back to the U.S.
It’s not an easy thing to keep track of, and many corporations either hide in plain sight or simply don’t advertise the connection.
1. OpenAI signs $300B GPU deal with Oracle and they don’t have that kind of money 2. Larry gains $100B (no GPUs shipped) from stock gains 3. Larry invests in OpenAI’s $1T round 4. Sam uses $300B to pay Oracle 5. Oracle stock pumps again on the news of OoenAI deal. Investors rushed and stock prices went up 6. Larry makes another $100B 7. Larry invests in OpenAI
Every book comes with a case that has a lock. The book is unlocked using their key each time you want to read. The lock can be easily broken with a hammer or just a rock. But doing so will land you in prison for 5 years, so nobody does that in public.
If somebody else breaks their book using your hammer, that's also your offense.
But Amazon can legally break the lock on your house and "remove" the book if they feel the need to do so.
the way i see it is if you are dont own the books, tv, movies, games etc, and they the same amount if money as a phicsal copy, then you own it, if you are just brrowing it / renting it for as long as the licness is then they need to charge you a lot less like a rental fee since that is really what it is a rental that is a bit longer then a movie/tv show.
If more folks end up migrating to blimps.xyz and keeping active I may think about shifting to glitch-soc as the software powering it. It'd give us a lot of features people ask about like rich-text/markdown posting and others (cute in-page sketches?)
The image contains two tweets. The first tweet, from "People For the American Way" ([@]peoplefor), criticizes Fox host Brian Kilmeade for saying it's good that Trump is cutting Medicaid because Americans are "addicted" to having health care. The tweet includes a screenshot from a Fox News broadcast showing two people seated on a talk show set, with a banner at the bottom reading "NOW: HOUSE DEBATES TRUMP'S 'BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL' HAPPENING TODAY."
The second tweet, from "No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen" ([@]NoLieWithBTC), sarcastically responds to the first tweet, stating, "Yeah, screw those cancer patients and their addiction to affording chemotherapy." The background of the second tweet is black, and the text is white, emphasizing the critical tone of the response.
Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B
The image shows a screenshot of a tweet from a user named Covie, whose Twitter handle is [@]covie_93. The tweet is timestamped at 7:10 PM on September 13, 2025. The tweet reads: "The sad fact is, if Tyler Robinson had used his gun to massacre students at Utah Valley University instead of just fatally shooting Charlie Kirk Republicans wouldn't care this much." The tweet has garnered 30.1K likes and 377 replies. The tweet's interface includes options to reply, copy the link, and read the replies. The user's profile picture is visible, and the tweet is marked with a blue verification checkmark, indicating the user's verified status.
Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B
The image is a black and white cartoon depicting two men walking their pets on leashes. On the left, a man in a suit and tie is walking a dog on a leash, with a sign in the background reading "DOG Obedience School." On the right, another man in a striped suit is walking a cat on a leash, with a sign in the background reading "CAT Obedience School." The cat is wearing a small outfit, adding a humorous touch to the scene. The men appear to be walking past each other, with the dog and cat facing opposite directions. The cartoon humorously suggests that cats, unlike dogs, might require obedience training.
Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B
The stream went out simultaneously on OwnCast, PeerTube, Twitch and YouTube, and if you watch the on-screen chat you'll see logos for all these services appear next to people's names.
🙏 Thank you to @operationpuppet for the advice on how this was done, and to @Mrfunkedude for the original advice about Social Stream Ninja!
I choose not to use it because I don't display chat in my scene. It's just an aesthetic choice for me. Also the majority of people watch live streams on their phones and it can make the chat being displayed seem almost unreadable as opposed to the chat for that service.
But that's just me. no shade to anyone using it differently.
@kevin @operationpuppet The same person who made Social Stream Ninja also has a service that allows you to easily bring guests into your stream without them having to download or sign up for anything.
As far as I know it's compatible with LLM stuff but the core software itself (the part that joins together streams and chats) is FOSS and doesn't use LLMs?
A lot of people seem to think that using "AI" to "enhance" blurry photos of faces is in any way effective, or acceptable, so here's a bit of an old chestnut.
I know I'm putting my fedi bona fides at risk, but I'm hoping I can get some help understanding internet speeds. Our house in Italy is out in the country. We've done fairly well with mobile Wi-Fi for ~10 years, but are looking into whether it makes sense to switch to Wind's fiber option. I swear I can't figure out whether what they are offering for our house is better that what we have now. What does "11.37 massima" mean? 11.37 what? Any help from my fedi friends would be greatly appreciated!
Connecticut has stopped the death penalty, but companies in the state have helped carry out death sentences elsewhere. Lawmakers are now pushing a bill to shut that down, but the proposal has not advanced since a committee hearing in early February.
Connecticut lawmakers are considering legislation to make it illegal to participate in the death penalty, following news that a local company helped fuel a federal execution spree.
![The image contains two tweets. The first tweet, from "People For the American Way" ([@]peoplefor), criticizes Fox host Brian Kilmeade for saying it's good that Trump is cutting Medicaid because Americans are "addicted" to having health care. The tweet includes a screenshot from a Fox News broadcast showing two people seated on a talk show set, with a banner at the bottom reading "NOW: HOUSE DEBATES TRUMP'S 'BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL' HAPPENING TODAY."</p><p>The second tweet, from "No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen" ([@]NoLieWithBTC), sarcastically responds to the first tweet, stating, "Yeah, screw those cancer patients and their addiction to affording chemotherapy." The background of the second tweet is black, and the text is white, emphasizing the critical tone of the response.](https://blog.taursnd.haus/photo/394148996768c61fc945a26834586754-1.jpeg "The image contains two tweets. The first tweet, from \"People For the American Way\" ([@]peoplefor), criticizes Fox host Brian Kilmeade for saying it's good that Trump is cutting Medicaid because Americans are \"addicted\" to having health care. The tweet includes a screenshot from a Fox News broadcast showing two people seated on a talk show set, with a banner at the bottom reading \"NOW: HOUSE DEBATES TRUMP'S 'BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL' HAPPENING TODAY.\"</p><p>The second tweet, from \"No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen\" ([@]NoLieWithBTC), sarcastically responds to the first tweet, stating, \"Yeah, screw those cancer patients and their addiction to affording chemotherapy.\" The background of the second tweet is black, and the text is white, emphasizing the critical tone of the response.")
![The image shows a screenshot of a tweet from a user named Covie, whose Twitter handle is [@]covie_93. The tweet reads: "The sad fact is, if Tyler Robinson had used his gun to massacre students at Utah Valley University instead of just fatally shooting Charlie Kirk Republicans wouldn't care this much." The user's profile picture is visible, and the tweet is marked with a blue verification checkmark, indicating the user's verified status.](https://blog.taursnd.haus/photo/687443045968c61dbe19a54356250501-0.jpeg "The image shows a screenshot of a tweet from a user named Covie, whose Twitter handle is [@]covie_93. The tweet reads: \"The sad fact is, if Tyler Robinson had used his gun to massacre students at Utah Valley University instead of just fatally shooting Charlie Kirk Republicans wouldn't care this much.\" The user's profile picture is visible, and the tweet is marked with a blue verification checkmark, indicating the user's verified status.")
Altbot
in reply to 🌴 Seph 💭 👾 • • •The image features a warm orange background with two stylized pumpkins in the center. The larger pumpkin is orange with a brown stem, while the smaller one is brown. Surrounding the pumpkins are several autumn leaves in shades of orange and brown, along with small black stars. Below the pumpkins, there is text in a playful, handwritten font that reads: "ugh why is summer so clingy? like dude, it's over. fall & i have STUFF to do." The text is in black, contrasting with the orange background, and emphasizes the word "STUFF" in all caps. The overall composition is simple and cheerful, with a focus on the seasonal theme of fall.
Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B
🌱 Energy used: 0.153 Wh