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Mike Morris<p>The point about DEI is that it's *how* you hire the best. It's not a charitable endeavour, it's a tool to stop your workplaces being dominated by mediocre people from the same background who know how to game the system.</p><p>But as far I can see, nobody is even making that argument. The worst thing about attacking DEI seems to be that it's vulgar. God it's bleak</p>
felix stalder<p>A message from Ubu!</p><p>UbuWeb<br>Founded 1996</p><p>February 1, 2025</p><p>A year ago, we decided to shutter UbuWeb. Not really shutter it, per se, but instead to consider it complete. After nearly 30 years, it felt right. But now, with the political changes in America and elsewhere around the world, we have decided to restart our archiving and regrow Ubu. In a moment when our collective memory is being systematically eradicated, archiving reemerges as a strong form of resistance, a way of preserving crucial, subversive, and marginalized forms of expression. We encourage you to do the same. All rivers lead to the same ocean: find your form of resistance, no matter how small, and go hard. It's now or never. Together we can prevent the annihilation of the memory of the world.</p><p><a href="https://ubu.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ubu.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Eniko Fox<p>Might switch back to saying LGBTQ instead of queer just to make sure everyone knows where I stand on the inclusion of the T</p>
Frank<p>19yo son who studies biomedical science shared this and titled it etheriophage. 💯 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>meme</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computervirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>computervirus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>infosec</span></a></p>
Kapitän Clownfeuer<p>Honestly, most of what&#39;s written here already explains large chunks of US Social Media companies 😜<br />From: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@Hex" class="u-url mention">@<span>Hex</span></a></span> <br /><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/113866797994495426" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kolektiva.social/@Hex/11386679</span><span class="invisible">7994495426</span></a></p>
Kapitän Clownfeuer<p>Been fever-dreaming about Dead Kennedys covers, but with AI RFK doing the vox, and.. along with &quot;Nazi Musk Fuck Off&quot;, we could also get &quot;Holiday in America&quot;</p><p>(Apologies to my American friends still existing there, you&#39;re in my thoughts in these difficult times)</p>
Mastodon Migration<p>Global Switch Day - February 1st, 2025</p><p>Switch to Public Social Media</p><p>Join Mastodon &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href="https://joinmastodon.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">joinmastodon.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Join Pixelfed &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href="https://pixelfed.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pixelfed.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Get Signal &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href="https://signal.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">signal.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Join Lemmy &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href="https://join-lemmy.org/instances" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">join-lemmy.org/instances</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Join Peertube &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href="https://peertube.tv/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">peertube.tv/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Join Friendica &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href="https://friendi.ca/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">friendi.ca/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>Join Loops &gt;&gt;&gt; <a href="https://loops.video/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">loops.video/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Pass it on!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PublicSocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicSocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GlobalSwitchDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalSwitchDay</span></a></p>
Simon Tatham<p>In the old <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ASCII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ASCII</span></a> days, you could change a letter between upper and lower case by XORing its character code with 0x20. Of course, if you tried this with anything that wasn't a letter, you'd get nonsense results.</p><p>If you try that with <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unicode</span></a> code points, it sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't. But Unicode can deliver much more impressive nonsense when it doesn't.</p><p>A fun example I just found: the "lower-case" version of CAR is NO PEDESTRIANS.</p><p>&gt;&gt;&gt; chr(ord('🚗') ^ 0x20)<br>'🚷'</p>
Kapitän Clownfeuer<p>It&#39;s getting very &quot;Time Flies and Airplanes Crash&quot; out there in the US lately :/</p>
lj·rk @ #FOSDEM<p>All hardware can be software if your heatgun is hot enough</p>
Kapitän Clownfeuer<p>A pair of Fighter Jets flying ESE overhead is always a good sign hey :/</p>
Jyoti Mishra
Kris Jenkins<p>You know how doctors struggle to take medical dramas seriously, because they know most of the medical dialogue is nonsense? And lawyers struggle with legal dramas because they know that&#39;s not how the law actually works? And don&#39;t get me started on &#39;hackers&#39; in films.</p><p>Sadly, that&#39;s been my experience with LLMs. They&#39;re great until they start talking about something I know the answer to, then they look like they&#39;re bluffing their way through a job interview with smart-sounding technobabble. 😒</p>
-Boulet-<p>Oldies but Goodies - French is Weird 01 - &quot;Cucul la Praline&quot;</p>
Fraser Cain<p>Japanese scientists have found that asteroid samples returned from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission contain the building blocks of DNA and RNA. The researchers have detected all five nitrogenous bases, which serve as the raw materials for the molecules needed for life. They had already discovered two of these bases in Hayabusa 2 samples from asteroid Ryugu, but Bennu had all five. This shows that the raw materials for life could have been delivered by asteroids.</p><p><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1071865" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eurekalert.org/news-releases/1</span><span class="invisible">071865</span></a></p>
Kapitän Clownfeuer<p>I think it would be hilarious if Taylor Swift sued Adolf-adjacent Musk for defamation</p>
Kapitän Clownfeuer<p>This type of cloud usage (or even provider choice), isn&#39;t top of the &quot;Winning Ideas&quot; list. IMNSFHO<br /><a href="https://chaos.social/@onepict/113895325407703876" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">chaos.social/@onepict/11389532</span><span class="invisible">5407703876</span></a></p>
da_667<p>500 billion dollars for project stargate and you can't be bothered to pay for the data you're using to build your models? Fuck every last AI company. Suffer.</p>
Kapitän Clownfeuer<p>This makes me smile ;)<br /><a href="https://narrativ.es/@janl/113910997371699113" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">narrativ.es/@janl/113910997371</span><span class="invisible">699113</span></a></p>
Debian<p>The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter. We took this decision since we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement. X evolved into a place where people we care about don't feel safe. You are very much invited to follow us on <a href="https://bits.debian.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bits.debian.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> , on <a href="https://micronews.debian.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">micronews.debian.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> , or any media as listed on <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity/otherSN" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicit</span><span class="invisible">y/otherSN</span></a> <a href="https://framapiaf.org/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>debian</span></a></p>