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About the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.

Rubio, fall guy?

Trump: “I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it. Other people handled it. But Marco Rubio’s done a great job. And he wanted them out, and we go along with that. We want to get criminals out of our country.”

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in reply to GaryRLundberg

Oh😯 THAT was the thing he didn't sign.🙄 Marco walked right into that one. Shame, that.

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#PięćPrzemian #PięćSmaków #KuchniaChińska #Tao

Czy #umami to #smak #ostry, czy po cichu zostały podmienione? Czy może od początku polskie źródła to źle tłumaczyły?

Ale kuchnia taoistyczna ma te 2000 lat z hakiem, a smak umami odkryto oficjalnie dopiero w 20. wieku.

To jak to jest?

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in reply to Anna-Maria 🐦‍⬛

@siwa Smak ostry to właściwie rodzaj bólu. W 1908 odkryto glutaminian monosodowy (powszechnie zwany vegeta) czyli substancję która smakuje umami, kuchnia azjatycka znała smak umami od praktycznie zawsze i uzyskiwała go dodając wodorostu który nazywa kombu (pl. Listownica Japońska) a nie proszku z fabryki. (dane z wikipedii)

8Petros [$ rm -rv /capitalism/*]udostępnił to.


Stay in the rainbow... "Capybara and the Storm" was painted to help me remember to find and stay in the rainbows despite all the storm raging around me. Hope it sparks some happiness in you, even it's just a little!

#capybara #rainbow #art #hope


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State of the Climate Report by the World Meteorological Organization WMO: More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024.
➡️ theguardian.com/environment/20…
in reply to Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf

Studies like this analysis of weather station data have shown that increasing heat and rainfall extremes are already far outside the historical climate.
Whether you like it or prefer to deny it.

nature.com/articles/s41612-021…

in reply to Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf

I've just watched a family on the morning news, talking about the recent floods in their area (not the first, either). They were saying the local council, the state govt, the federal govt weren't doing enough to support them.

Not a word about how about we stop burning fossil fuel? Nothing about we can't continue the way we are, because these events are happening more often with greater impact each time.

People just don't get it.
#ClimateCatastrophe #climatecrisis




Friendica -> RSS


!Friendica Support

Hello,
I am trying create an #RSS feed, showing public messages from selected sources. Its destination is a news aggregator set on a #Wordpress instance.
My thinking was to make a #channel and use "regular" feed syntax petroskowo.pl/feed/network?cha…
Unfortunately, browser shows me "User not found" and the RSS import plugin at Wordpress obviously see nothing either.

What am I missing?

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in reply to 8Petros [$ rm -rv /capitalism/*]

It possibly could work if you set up a dedicated channel user. That will have got a RSS feed. We "only" have to check if you can follow it.

8Petros [$ rm -rv /capitalism/*]udostępnił to.


Rather than make minor changes to lifestyle, we're studying refreezing an entire fricken glacier

#Climate #ClimateChange

technologyreview.com/2025/03/2…

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in reply to viq

@viq @8petros

I think the lifestyle changes needed *could* be fairly minor. But the longer we wait, the less minor the actual changes imposed on us by the planet will be.

and yes we're already a ways down that path to non-minor changes being imposed

in reply to Pusher of Pixels

@8petros I'm not sure whether 20 years ago it wasn't already too late for minor changes to be sufficient. Nowadays the only minor change that might do subsequent is to move out of areas that soon will be uninhabitable.

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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.

It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵

in reply to John Skiles Skinner

There is a quasi-religion in Silicon Valley that views AI as godlike. This faith has always been parallel to Evangelical Christianity: it has salvation (transhumanism), the rapture (the technological singularity), and demons (Roko's Basilisk)

Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.

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in reply to John Skiles Skinner

Together, these two faiths crave the end of American liberal democracy and government. You can smell it at GSA.

They won't replace us with AI because 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍. They want our work to end. DOGE is firing us as fast as possible, and that is the whole plan.

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in reply to John Skiles Skinner

Listen: maybe I'm wrong and this is just the worst software deployment of my career, not actually a conspiracy against democracy.

Maybe these guys just don't see they are frittering away all product and service design knowledge in the agency. And don't even know that they lack this knowledge.

in reply to John Skiles Skinner

Honestly: From the 2013 failure of healthcare.gov to today, the government *almost* learned how to build software. We were close. Then a bunch of white men in suits swooped in to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Maybe they are just incompetent. But I think it's worse than that.

in reply to John Skiles Skinner

On stage, Ehikian asked GSAi to "write me a plan to rewrite the FAR"

The FAR, Federal Acquisition Regulations, are laws that control how the gov't buys stuff. They are legendary in their complexity for a good reason: to prevent corruption. To protect taxpayer money from theft by beltway bandits.

in reply to John Skiles Skinner

The AI's "plan" to simplify the FAR was generic and unusable, of course. But it is a subject that Ehikian and DOGE keep returning to: Contracting. Acquisition. The money.

They want to file the corners off of the process that regulates government spending. They want to consolidate all government contracts in one place. And put AI in charge.

in reply to John Skiles Skinner

I believe the firings and the AI have the same purpose: to get humans out of the loop of evaluating contracts. To automate the process of spending government money. To rig up a computer that sends taxpayer dollars directly to the broligarchy. And to make sure democracy can't switch that computer off.
in reply to John Skiles Skinner

Yes yes yes!
(Said the bit in the movie Tron)

The point has never been to increase efficiency, it has been to eliminate AGENCY.

To remove the number of humans that would talk back. The chance someone has a good heart and would not serve, would not stop people getting needlessly hurt etc. To eliminate good conscience.

Why else would you think ”Christian Nationalists” are going on so hard about: ”The Sin of Empathy” right now?

#Ai #DOGE

#ai #doge
in reply to John Skiles Skinner

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Thank you for this account. You may certainly be correct in your suspicion that the objective here is simply to gut government purchasing. But I see a historical aspect to the religious conviction that you describe.

Twenty-five years ago I was part of an effort (sponsored by the UN) to develop a standard environment for the exchange of business documents called ebXML. It was an open-standards internet follow-on to EDI.

in reply to Jon Bosak

2/

ebXML was sabotaged by Microsoft as a threat to their proprietary systems, but the creation of something that would work with human business processes was also resisted by a faction of zealots within the project who were working for an environment in which all the actual business transactions were between machines, without the need for human businesspeople at all. I can't help seeing the current push for AI in this space as a continuation of that way of thinking.

in reply to Jon Bosak

@bosak Some people will never get over the fact that when they woke up on Jan 1, 2000, nobody showed up at their door with a jetpack.
in reply to Silkester

@silkester @ikt
Maybe wrongly, I took that as a sarcastic suggestion that by 2028, only white Americans will have the deciding votes.
in reply to John Skiles Skinner

when it comes down to the fourth or fifth time, goldfingerrs* law overrides Hanlon’s Law.
in reply to John Skiles Skinner

15 years ago I was the guy who wrote their "cloud transition plan," in which one of the major risks identified was "vendor will be unable to deliver.". One of the now-retired GSA old farts couldn't believe it.

" but they'll be OBLIGATED to!!"

Yeah, that doesn't fuckin' make them capable.

in reply to The Turtle

@the_turtle
In the 1990s, we had an amusing (by which I mean sad) conversation with a guy who had made his money providing cleaning services in the City of London. He wanted to start a training academy to teach secretaries how to use the advanced features of Microsoft Word. We patiently explained that was a bad plan: most of those features were so bug-ridden that they were unusable. ‘But’, he exclaimed, ‘if that’s true, they’d get sued’. We just shrugged.

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Odra osobą prawną? Trwa zbiórka podpisów na rzecz ochrony rzeki


Odra osobą prawną – taki status może uzyskać rzeka na mocy obywatelskiego projektu ustawy. 31 stycznia 2025 r. Marszałek Sejmu RP Szymon Hołownia podpisał postanowienie umożliwiające formalne rozpoczęcie zbiórki podpisów. Aby projekt mógł trafić pod obrad
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Odra osobą prawną – taki status może uzyskać rzeka na mocy obywatelskiego projektu ustawy. 31 stycznia 2025 r. Marszałek Sejmu RP Szymon Hołownia podpisał postanowienie umożliwiające formalne rozpoczęcie zbiórki podpisów. Aby projekt mógł trafić pod obrad


I am configuring a #WordPress site and hesitate if I should connect it to #Akismet service. It is about sending some information outside and I am not sure, how big #privacy breach it can be.
Will someone wise explain it to me, please?