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Regular reminder that US users now have Mayhem Marketplace, an *ethical* alternative for Etsy and FB Marketplace, and it can even be used as a standalone website host! Mayhem is free to use for shoppers, and vendors only pay a miniscule monthly fee. They do NOT take a cut of artisan/vendor profits!
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#shopsmall #supportsmall #shoplocal #supportlocal #onlineshopping #fedigiftshop #etsy #handmade #ethicalalternatives
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A Man Filming in Public Was Told He Would Be Arrested to Prevent a Crime That Had Not Happened Yet β He Asked If This Was Minority Report
A video showed a UK police officer telling a man he could be arrested to prevent a breach of the peace while filming lawfully.Sayantan (The Daily Dot)
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π¬ 0Β Β π 48Β Β β€οΈ 137Β Β·Β Lazy Trump has a worthless piece of paper and a meaningless ceasefire. Thinks he is better than Obama. Classic white supremacy.Tumblr
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California returns stretch of coast to Indigenous tribes. 'This is beyond huge'
State transportation officials recently approved the transfer of Blues Beach and the surrounding bluffs to Kai Poma, a nonprofit founded by representatives of the Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians, Round Valley Indian Tribes and Coyote Valley Bandβ¦Alex Wigglesworth (Los Angeles Times)
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PRIDE TRAIN WON'T STOP! π 
This month we're showing movies free to the Fediverse for Disability Pride Month! Each movie will have subtitles for those that want/need them and will focus on different aspects of the disability community. With classics and new hits, we're sure you'll find something for your viewing pleasure!
All movies start at 6pm (PST). To catch when we go live follow @GrillChill or the hashtag #SusansCinemaStash. Hope to see folks tune in! 
#Disability #DisabilityPrideMonth
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Frederick Douglassβs Fiery 1852 Speech, βThe Meaning of July 4th for the Negro,β Read by James Earl Jones
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Frederick Douglass's Fiery 1852 Speech, "The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro," Read by James Earl Jones
Every year on this day, Frederick Douglassβs fiery, uncompromising 1852 speech, βThe Meaning of July 4th for the Negro,β gets a new hearing, and takes on added resonance in the context of contemporary politics.OC (Openculture.com)
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Masks, Flares and Climbing Statues: The #Protest #Bans That Quietly Came Into Force This Week
Acts That Were Never Crimes BeforeMajor restrictions to the right to protest in #England and #Wales were quietly brought into force on Monday.
The measures include a new offence of:
- Concealing your #identity (e.g. with a face #mask) in police-designated areas around protests
- Ban on #protesting outside the homes of public office-holders, including #MPs, peers and candidates
- Extra police powers to impose conditions on protests near places of worship
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Masks, Flares and Climbing Statues: The Protest Bans That Quietly Came Into Force This Week β Byline Times
New powers criminalise face coverings at demonstrations and ban protests outside politicians' homesJosiah Mortimer (Byline Times)
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There has recently been a wave of AI-generated accounts signing up pretending to be real people.
Server admins are trying to ban them as quickly as they are discovered, and some servers have temporarily closed sign-ups while they deal with it.
If you spot an account you think might be AI-generated, click β― on one of the account's posts and select "report". Remember to give your reason for reporting, so that the admin knows what to look for.
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p.s. Mastodon admins may want to switch off invitations entirely as the AI signups seem to be exploiting the invitation system. The setting for user invitations is a bit hidden but you can find it with this guide:
fedi.tips/inviting-people-ontoβ¦
Inviting people onto Mastodon and the Fediverse | Fedi.Tips β An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
p.p.s. Just to clarify, there are good bots and bad bots. Report the bad bots, but don't report the good bots!
β Bad bots are usually GenAI/LLMs and are disguised as people.
β Good bots *aren't* GenAI/LLMs. Good bots are labelled "automated" by the person who created them, so that people can see it is a good bot. Good bots do things like relay weather reports, play chess, post quotations from books etc.
Ah, that might be a bit optimistic. Anyone can flag their bot as a bot - that's all the flag means, as far as I know. The flag does not signify anything about the quality, ethics or any other characteristic of the bot. If definitely doesn't indicate whether it is AI or not.
If an account is behaving badly, or seems to be AI generated, or both - report it.
I'm mainly posting because a lot of people think the "automated" label is some kind of detection system rather than a self-applied label.
The flag means that the creator of the account is explicitly saying it is an automated account. This in itself shows that the creator is not trying to fool anyone about how the account operates.
The creators of the problematic accounts are disguising GenAI/LLMs as humans, so they aren't going to use the flag because it would give the game away.
@LordCaramac At issue is whether the account was generated by an AI, not whether its content is AI generated. The OP confused the two also.
If an account behaves badly (however that is defined on your server), report it.
If AI-generated accounts are not allowed on your server and you see one there, report it.
The "bot" flag is entirely irrelevant.
I have consistently had people ask me why accounts labelled "automated" are allowed to continue, because they think the label is a sign of something dubious. They don't realise it is self-flagged, they think moderators added it.
That's why I am trying to draw attention to the flag being a sign of honesty by the account rather than deception.
The particular issue in this thread is about LLM-generated accounts rather than human accounts that have used an LLM.
(I don't personally think LLMs should be used in descriptions if it can be avoided, but that's a totally separate issue.)
If someone needs autogenerated descriptions for accessibility, then it's good that they have that option. I would not criticise that, and as a sighted person it would be wrong for me to pass judgement anyway.
Also just to be totally clear, this thread isn't about that topic. This thread is just about fake accounts generated by AI that are pretending to be humans.
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Yeah, that looks about the way I'd handle it
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.youtube.com
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Imagine if Biden or Obama had made 327 stock purchases in a single day and then, the next day, announced a policy change guaranteed to boost those stocks, while announcing βGREAT TIME TO BUY!!!β
Any previous president would have been quickly impeached and convicted, by both parties.
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Trump discloses 327 stock trades a day before major tariff pause
Investment accounts owned by President Donald Trump made more than 300 undisclosed stock trades the day before he paused many of the βLiberation Dayβ tariffs.Steve Kopack (NBC News)
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Dear lazyweb,
Where does one find the official distribution release of ZSDOS 2.0, the banked-memory version of ZSDOS? It is a greatly improved CP/M BDOS replacement. The original version is found easily enough, but does not have the banked memory support.
All my searches for ZSDOS 2.0 instead hit disk 2 of the original non-banked ZSDOS.
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jcrabapple on MastodonWhere's Waldo: Freedom 250 edition
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Attached: 1 image Where's Waldo: Freedom 250 editionjcrabapple (DMV.Community)
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German Court Says Google Is Liable For False Claims In Its AI Overviews Because They Are Its Own Words
Legal systems have always struggled to keep up with rapid technological change, and things are no different in the world of generative AI. There are still relatively few rulings on the new issues tβ¦Techdirt
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I'm feeling nostalgic today, so here's a question for the furries out there, were any of you ever park of the eList (eGroup?)/Yahoo Group FurShore which was a Jersey shore based furry email list/group thing back in the 90's.
#Furry #New-Jersey #NJ
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Hey folks, Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale is on!
Do you have a book in the sale?
Drop a link in the replies so we can see what you got!
Don't forget to boost and support each other.
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I've got a bunch of queer fantasy and some 'how to' polyamory books on sale this month. Mix of Free and 25% off.
Check it out here: smashwords.com/profile/view/Jeβ¦
#Bookstodon #Polyamory #Queer #SFF
Jess Mahler
Jess' weird fish-out-of-water life has left them with an enduring love/hate affair with common tropes. The relationship counselor recommended they break it off, but they just keep coming back to play with tropes (and fuck them up) some more.Smashwords
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RUNNING ON DSA WORKING FAMILIES ISSUES ONLY WORKS IN THE NEW YORK CITY MAYORAL RACE!!*
*And NYC Congress (Lander, Valdez, Chevalier) BUT thatβs still NYC
*And NJ Congress (Mejia, Hamaway) BUT itβs right next door
*And Philly (Rabb) BUT itβs the same region
*And Denver (Kiros) BUTβ¦butβ¦butβ¦
These goal posts shift faster than the speed of light.
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"Name one time socialism has worked"
Okay, Cuba has a higher life expectancy than the USA, less unemployment than the USA, almost no homelessness, free healthcare and education, almost a 100% literacy rate, and has sent out hundreds of thousands of doctors to help combat disease around the world.
I wonder why the USA has put such devastating sanctions on Cuba, perhaps it has something to do with capitalists not wanting socialism to thrive, because that is a threat to their profits...
Β‘Viva la Cuba socialista libre! π¨πΊπ©
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If you recently moved to somewhere where a wildfire can get to your home, some advice:
Have a fireproof box with your passport, mortgage docs, birth certificates, etc. so you can grab them in a hurry, but hopefully wonβt lose them if you must leave them behind.
Have a go bag with a change of clothes, basic toiletries, and if possible, a few days of any key medicines you need.
Decide now that you are OK leaving everything to burn, because you donβt want to confront that as the house goes up.
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If you arenβt aware, when you evacuate for a fire in the US, sometimes you are out of your home for days. The power will usually go out during that time. You may not know if you have a home for days. If you left livestock behind, you wonβt know where they are. You wonβt know if you have fences or water or barns.
Plan now for those possibilities. If you donβt have a trailer, whatβs your evac plan for animals? Can you cut fences or open gates? Plan now. It is hard when ash is raining on you.
If you have to leave your home for a fire, donβt waste time trying to set up sprinklers or hoses if your home is on a pump. As soon as the power goes out, so does your water. Even without a pump, if everyone leaves hoses open, water pressure drops so much that even hydrants wonβt produce adequate flow.
If a fire is moving fast, just leave. People have died driving out of fire zones in multiple recent fires in the us. Cars are not fire proof, and when wind drives smoke and embers, you canβt see
All good info! Having been in this situation I'd also suggest:
Bottled water. Don't fool around with 12 or 20oz bottles, get a couple gallon jugs. Moving around in the middle of the night with smoke rolling in is thirsty work.
Face masks. Anything is preferable to nothing. Smoke arrives before fire; even if you get clear there's a risk of issues related to smoke inhalation (especially if you have breathing issues already).
Cash. Stick a hundred bucks in your go bag. Enough to grab some food/fuel if needed. There will be power outages; 50 miles away you may find businesses with no power (and no card reader).
Keep your vehicle in good repair. Tires aired up, washer fluid, good wipers, tank over half-full.
If you're really remote, get some dehydrated food. Throw a couple packs in the car. They last for decades and all you need is some of that water to have a quick (albeit very high sodium) snack.
Remember nothing you own is worth asphyxiating over (the most likely cause of death in this scenario).
@BlueDot Look for videos of people combing through the remains of their wildfire-burned house. There's not much left except concrete, ashes and thicker steel or iron pieces. Often aluminum is melted.
Fridges are a thin skin of sheet steel around a bunch of plastic. If the entire house burns, plus the heat of neighboring houses burning, it's going to burn.
Even a consumer level fire proof box is not really fire proof, just resistant. Stash it in a corner of the house so there's less stuff around it to burn.
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This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about βNATO not being there for Americaβ is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And youβve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
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in reply to gabboman the wafrn dev • • •would be funy, but would reveal too much info.
With bluesky you can get public blocks and is not "such a big deal". But wafrn side and fediβ¦. idk
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bsky? super simple
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