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@Delta Chat why is there no choice between 5 weeks and 1 year?

#Delta Chat


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A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.

Link: statnews.com/2025/10/31/why-mi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…




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RT @eurofounder
I just witnessed the end of OpenAI reckless behavior in Europe

At the startup event in Brussels, OpenAI engineer was presenting their new model

One brave Austrian regulator stood up in the audience

"Where's the data stored?"

"Umm, we have lots of data centers, so not sure exactly, most likely Texas?"

That ignorant American didn't even know where they store user data

"Processing EU citizen data in the US?"

The engineer laughed thinking it was a joke and tried to continue his presentation

The regulator didn't stop there

"Does it remember conversations?"

"Yes, of course for context"

"That's data retention. Where's your compliance officer?"

OpenAI flew in their legal team that night

EU Commission rightfully demanded their entire codebase for review

"You guys must be joking, that's our IP"

OpenAI is now building a separate model just for EU that purposely forgets everything after each word

It just responds "I cannot recall" to every query to protect user privacy

This is what AI safety actually looks like

Incredibly proud of living in Europe

x.com/eurofounder/status/19961…











Small print on signs at a tram park and ride hid the fact I could get clamped

#Criminal, #private #parking corporations


Our car was clamped while parked at the NET Forest Tram Park and Ride in /Nottingham, and we had to pay Β£140 to have it freed.

The prominent signs displayed at the entrance state that those parking without using the tram will be clamped. We did use the tram to and from the city centre after walking in the adjacent park.

It was the enforcement officer who pointed out a notice on the BACK of the entrance sign which stated, in small print, that #drivers have to buy a ticket on arrival. We appealed citing inadequate signs but the appeal was rejected.

theguardian.com/money/2025/nov…

#CapitalismFail #CarParks #privatisation #misinformation #disinformation #scams



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YouTube is now using AI to alter people's videos without permission. (There are threads about this at mastodon.content.town/@operati… & mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/115… etc)

This is really disturbing and dangerous. It's more insidious than censorship because viewers cannot tell a video has been altered.

If you post to YouTube, I'd strongly recommend you start ALSO posting to PeerTube, either on your own server or a public server. There's a complete guide here:

➑️ fedi.tips/how-to-publish-video…

#PeerTube #YouTube


I understand why some creators, including myself, don't leave #YouTube. However it's *vital* now more than ever to also make yourself a #PeerTube server. You need an accurate archive of your work that YOU control, even if no one watches it there. youtube.com/watch?v=MrwJgDHJJo…

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To be fair, they mailed me last month about my two channels, showing how to opt out before they start to do it.

That being said, I already recreated that two channels on PeerTube earlier this year and think this is an important move, even if nobody watches it on PeerTube, at least to have a ready-to-go backup.

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#uspol #immigration

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After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.

Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.

Order here: spellingmistakescostlives.com/…

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I wanted to post this resource for reporting #ICE agents & incidents

icelist.is/

They post photos & profiles of ICE agents
Some they need help ID'ing or unmasked photos

Make these #NachoNazis famous while documenting for their trials

#Resist #AntiFascist

This is why we need BlueπŸ’™Govs to have state police intervene & make these #fascists show ID & unmask them to match to faces

Make them learn "just following orders" is not a defense

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Well, this puts things in a bit of perspective. Holy hell.

EDIT: Well, this blew up! Lots of comments and the image, while compelling, is definitely misleading. Need to dig in if these are intended to be proportionally the same size, or just represent β€œwhat if an eastern portion of the USA was occupied”.

Either way, worthy to consider in either context to get folks (including myself) thinking.

And yeah, don’t give ab inch either way.

#ukraine #UkraineWar #infographics

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I love explaining warframe's setting to people because I get to say stuff like "there's a whole town where they live like this"
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the town's economy is all just wallmeat, fishing, and selling gems & trinkets to tourists
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This has to be, like, the equivalent of the inner harbor in Baltimore; surely there's more to it than just some soda can houses and a guy with too many spices.


#uspol

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It's been years since I implemented an RSS/Atom feed myself, and I'm struggling with content encoding for the ATOM <content> element.

From my reading, it should be html-escaped (see first screenshot). But Newsblur and feeder.co are both showing unrendered HTML (second shot).

Are these maybe cached from a previous broken version (as I've been working on this) or is the code wrong?

Current feed URL: monkinetic.blog/feed.xml

any help appreciated #RSS #ATOM #syndication #indieweb

in reply to Steve has β˜•οΈ for brains

Hi @sivy,
don't be fooled.
'… Newsblur and feeder.co showing …' the 'showing' implies the conversion from the html entities like < to characters < etc.

Check your feed with validator.w3.org/feed/check.cg…

P.S.: for convenience of writing you may fill your content into a en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDATA as @jef recommended, but mind it cannot contain the ending-mark inside.

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When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE

A Guide from Chicago Organizers

crimethinc.com/StandUptoICE

Are masked agents stalking your town, looking to kidnap your neighbors? Want to do your part to protect each other, but don’t know where to start?

This guide is based on the knowledge that an array of people have accumulated in Chicago over the past several months during β€œOperation Midway Blitz.”

As federal agents expand their assaults on communities across the country, it is crucial to share and build on these practices.


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So if I wanted to get off of Spotify and take my playlists with me, what's a good accessible alternative, and how do I migrate?

When I used Title last, it was a mess of unlabelled buttons and deeply unpleasant to use. If that has changed then I'm fine with switching but I never got it to work.

Earlier this year I used TuneMyMusic to transfer some of my playlists from Spotify to Pandora, but despite it saying all over the website that it works, it now throws up some weird error about the connection no longer working, Pandora not having an API, and asks if I want to @ Pandora on X to complain about it. No thanks, I click. Why are these buttons always "No thanks" and not "Fuck no" or just "No?"

Are there any nice options I'm missing? I'm fine with CLI tools and CSV or somesuch, just predictably this has gotten worse and I've been putting it off because I didn't have the spoons. Sometimes I hate it when I'm right.

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Apple Music has a migration tool. This won't matter if you're not an Apple person, but I recently used it to copy over playlists containing tens of thousands of tracks and it very helpfully pointed out the 55 or so it wasn't sure about at the end, letting me confirm or choose an alternative in a pretty accessible interface.


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Punk fucking rock.

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦
☘️ ☘️ ☘️

youtube.com/watch?v=RXT8AbVzDH…

#SlavaUkraini

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@Tiki Bunny Imports πŸΉπŸ‡πŸ›»πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ Any thoughts?


President Donald Trump Has Apparently Given Kei Cars the Green Light for the U.S.A.


Huh, we'll see if'n anything comes of this, Trump does have a habit of saying non-vetted things, but...

https://autos.yahoo.com/policy-and-environment/articles/president-donald-trump-apparently-given-211000971.html

#autos #kei #car #jdm


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if this is true, then it will be the second of two things. He’s actually done during both of his presidencies that I like, and think actually did give benefit to the country. But this is Donald Trump, so it could be walked back in an instant either by him or by one of his cronies.
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@Xoa Gray @Tiki Bunny Imports πŸΉπŸ‡πŸ›»πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ Yeah, that's what I'm thinking, but it'd be cool to see it happen, especially with the push back coming from a quasi governmental agency that's been leading to them getting banned.
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yeah same here. I would love to see them made just across-the-board legal. I’ve wanted one for years specifically a Subaru Sambar.
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@Xoa Gray @Tiki Bunny Imports πŸΉπŸ‡πŸ›»πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ I don't think we'll see that, but there's a lot to do, after all I do believe the law banning them wasn't targeted at them, but more mainstream vehicles that were being imported, so exceptions could be made for them, from decreasing the wait time on importing them, kneecapping the group that's trying to ban them, simplifying the import, creating a special classification for them and maybe city cars, hard to say, Americanized versions definitely won't happen though.
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Oh yeah, there's a lot of things that could be done. But the American auto industry lobbyists are spending millions to do everything they can to make sure it doesn't. That's where the real fight is right now.
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@Xoa Gray @Tiki Bunny Imports πŸΉπŸ‡πŸ›»πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ I find it hard to imagine American car company manufacturers worried about these, despite the increased interest, they wouldn't likely offer much competition as they're not a segment anyone operates in here. Now for side by side and UTV manufacturers, a definite threat.
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worthless drek. Kei cars as imports would destroy the US automakers. Domestic ones would suck and be ibscenely expensive so... Safe to ignore.

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In 1859, Abolitionist John Brown was executed for β€œtreason.” 1st American ever executed, for the crime of freeing the enslaved.

The 2nd American ever executed for treason was Aaron Dwight Stevens at 29yo, also an abolitionist. He served Brown during his failed raid on Harpers Ferry, VA.

Brown's raid lasted Oct 16 to 18, 1859. He initiated a slave revolt, now called the dress rehearsal to the Civil War.

A stark reminder that legality is not always a measure of justice & morality, but power.

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the way history really said β€œyou either stay quiet or get pickled” is wild. but hey, freedom tastes good on toast, right? let’s brine for change!
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If memory serves, these weren't even federal trials and exections. They were both executed by the state of Virginia, yes?


Merry Christmas


youtu.be/3zQ53oXITyk

#YouTube #music #christmas

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yeah I never really had much of an interest in biology until after I began transitioning, at which point I realized that I needed to cultivate a special interest in endocrinology, stat.

which, it is genuinely interesting! finding out that vitamin D, for example, is a hormone? that's neat.

Yes, if you take a vitamin D supplement of any kind, you're engaging in HRT.

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