@The_ERROR Mě to nepřekvapilo, jezdím každý den do práce 60 km, jsem připravený. Pneumatiky jsem měnil v čas a jsou nové. Jen bych čekal, že když je kolem nuly a a prší se sněhem, na autech to namrzá, tak aspoň dálnici by chtělo trochou posypat. Zase z Varů na hranice, to není zas tak dlouhý úsek. Chápu, když je kalamita, že se nestíhá, ale do té to bylo daleko.
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Being kind and compassionate requires a lot of effort in a society which emphasizes the self, be it personal gain, fame, or physical appearance. The mindset is very important, which is why selfhelp books work for many people.
Welcome to a Rogers/Shaw internet outage. USB tethering on two Android phones is not working reliably with my router, and only one of the two works on Windows, so I'm serving up 5G from two separate phones until cable comes back. This is probably because of bad weather, so the extra reminder to charge my stuff also doesn't hurt.
The Nazi regime during WWII forever gave the term #ConcentrationCamp a name symbolic of #atrocity, so when British #colonizers once again visited the idea of #ForcedRelocation of #IndigenousPeoples to isolate them they needed another name for the enclaves. They came up with #NewVillages. The New Villages were created under the Briggs Plan, which was developed to combat the communist insurgency in #Malaya during the 1950 #MalayanEmergency. The plan was prepared by Sir Harold Briggs, a British General who was the Director of Operations in Malaya.
#Britain lost the Malayan Peninsula and their fortress at Singapore to the Japanese during WWII and reoccupied their former dominion after the fall of Japan. Among the many difficulties the British encountered was the presence of roughly a half-million #Chinese in rural Malaya, most working as farmers working small plots of land for their own sustenance on land they did not own or lease. The British administration regarded these Chinese as squatters and found them a problem because they were physically distant from the machinery of British authority, which most of the Malayan population was not happy to see return to their country.
When the Malay #CommunistParty received support from armed #guerrillas from Malaya and #China, the British, intent on restoring #Imperial rule to the peninsula, looked with additional distrust upon these rural Chinese. While some of the Chinese were certainly sympathetic to the communists, most were indifferent. The British concern was that the communist #insurgents would receive support from the squatters in the form of food, neglecting the fact that the majority of the Chinese squatters were barely able to grow enough to support themselves. The Briggs plan required the forced relocation of the Chinese.
The New Villages isolated the Chinese, and they were guarded by Malayan police and British Military Police and some troops. The Chinese could not leave the villages except under escort and nobody was allowed in without the permission of the guards, making them effectively prisons. The villages were built with running water and electricity, amenities absent from most Malayan villages, and health care and some educational facilities were provided. This caused resentment towards the British from the Malay outside the villages, who didn’t receive the same amenities, and the Chinese, who resented the forced relocation settlement.
Although the New Villages, of which 450 were built, were an improvement over the forced detention camps of the Boer War, and death rates in the villages were roughly the same as for the rest of the country, there were racially motivated #CollectivePunishments directed towards the Chinese population in the villages. #Deportation without trial by the administration was a common punishment for the Chinese. Law within the villages was the decision of the British. Many of the villages are still standing and in recent years have been restored to serve as tourist destinations by the Malaysian government with support from China.
En cosas que no entiendo: Una empresa con muchos centros pequeños puede hacerles la vida imposible a sus trabajadores porque siendo los centros pequeños no pueden organizarse sindicalmente?
Las tres empleadas de la juguetería Afede en Ansoáin convocan una huelga indefinida
El paro comenzará el 25 de noviembre | Están abiertas a negociar con la empresa una mejora salarial, de jornada y de condiciones sociales | La dirección ha comenzado a embalar el producto de la tienda desde el pasado lunes
En empresas que tengan en la misma provincia o en municipios limítrofes dos o más centros de trabajo cuyos censos no alcancen los 50 trabajadores, pero en su conjunto lo sumen, se constituirá un comité de empresa conjunto. Cuando unos centros tengan 50 trabajadores y otros de la misma provincia no, en los primeros se constituirán comités de empresa propios y con todos los segundos se constituirá otro.
I find it hilarious that the only-renewables crowd are now actually trying to coopt the phrase "too cheap to meter" (which, for the record, was never a slogan in the nuclear sector, it was just said once by a guy somewhere), at a time when we're increasingly done with the 'easy phase' of installing solar and wind installations.
At less than 10% of total energy use in the West, solar and wind already cause price hikes and, consequently, deindustrialisation in countries like Germany. The 'hard part' is just beginning, and if we insist on only trying to do that with solar and wind alone, it'll cost at least an order of magnitude more than it already has.
We'll reevaluate this cooptation in a few years, but let me say that the 'cost argument' is a very silly line of defense to take.
It's nigh time we face the facts for once: fossil fuels are dirt cheap and using economics alone means we'll be using them in perpetuity. The other side of that coin is that a decarbonised energy system *will* be more expensive. How we deal with that cost will be a social question that we'll need to solve.
Pretending that this isn't true and solar and wind are the best thing since sliced bread, is driving people paying the energy bills to the right, towards climate denialism, towards the fossil lobby. Saw the meme of people voting Trump to save 10 cents on their eggs? Yeah, look in a mirror who is driving that.
Be careful what you wish for, "too cheap to meter" will bite you in the ass.
Interesting issue. To what extent are price hikes a direct consequence of the energy mix rather than the specific marginalist design of EU electricity market though? Genuine question, I don't know the answer to this, but I would think there's some increase that's necessary and some that's not.
Mastodon, if you have to do starter packs, *please think about consent* for people being added to starter packs. The bluesky starter packs may be great for new accounts trying to find their people, but it has not necessarily been fun for people who've been added to starter packs without their knowledge. I feel like a couple thousand people looking for a coffee shop have suddenly turned up in my living room.
As fun as this list is, I forgot one:
* Despite all this progress on Mastodon, even more innovation will happen in the Fediverse services outside of Mastodon.
El impacto es "enorme", advierten los especialistas, con un nuevo derecho a una "audiencia previa", que modifica el procedimiento para despedir y anticipa muchos litigios sobre sus detalles
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Mastodon should have a dedicated field where you can put all your defensive statements to prevent extremely predictable replies from reply guys. It shouldn’t count against your character limit and should only get shown when someone tries to reply.
the fucking audacity of white american latinos calling us Puerto Ricans gringos lost in an island so we can have the privilege to cleaning up their fucking fascist messes.
GO DEAL WITH YOUR ANTI-BLACK GWANABÍS DE MIERDA AND KEEP NUESTRA PATRIA OUR OF YOUR FUCKING MOUTHS
who they hell are you to call us gringos?
we Puerto Ricans are a nation. FULL STOP.
we aren't Americans. we have American Citizenship.
don't you go disrespecting us like that.
we aren't here to clean gringos' fascist messes.
And here's an hour of one of Larry King's interviews with Gork, president of the planet Fringas, who made several appearances on his show. The YouTube video mistakenly credits Gork as being voiced by Robin Williams. This is incorrect; Gork was voiced by Herb Cohen, one of King's best friends since childhood and the author of "You Can Negotiate Anything." This clip claims to have been recorded from WCAU, now WPHT out of Philly. WCAU started carrying the Larry King show around 1981 after it had been airing on WWDB. WWDB was not only one of Philly's all-talk stations but it was unusual in that it was also an FM station. I have recordings of this station from 1979, some of which I've already digitized and would like to share them with Philly talk radio enthusiasts.
oo radio history, I live in toronto ontario canada and miss listenign to regular physical radio. We used t get some of Philadelphia's stations like the big talker aroudn 1220 I think it was at night.
@robini71 @Angela2000 Yep, I have fond memories of WCAU back in the day. They did a lot of local talk as well as a long-running evening show called Radio Cllassics where they'd play several OTR shows. My dad and I both enjoyed that show and my dad won a few prizes from it by answering trivia questions. I think one of them might have been a tin of Riceman pretzels.
@Angela2000 Yep, WCAU was 1210 and I'm not surprised you picked them up from Canada. I remember picking up one or two Canadian stations; wasn't one of them 900 CHML in Hamilton?
@techsinger You're welcome. There were several stories from his life that he often played on his show. I once had all of them on tape but I have since found copies of them from the Internet Archive.
Thanks very much, once again. I did hear him in the 90s on radio for quite a few years, but it wasn't every day and I don't remember hearing the stories. I appreciate the chance.
Awww I totally understand that. I have a friend who, when remembering prior days would often say "I wanna go home." I always knew what she meant and now do even more so than when she used to say it to me. I wanna go back often on many levels.
Today is the birthday of Larry King, who was born on November 19, 1933. In my teen years, I listened to a lot of local talk radio in the Philly area but the Larry King show was one of the few shows that aired during that time which was national. There was something about that show that just captivated me. I loved Open Phone America, where he took calls about any topic from 3:00-5:30 AM Eastern time. He had a guest on for three hours and he was a master at interviewing. He could even interview his own daughter and made it so interesting. His daughter Chaia sadly also passed away. I even called Larry at his hotel when he was in Philly and talked with him for around ten minutes. I read both of his autobiographies. I wish more recordings were publicly available from his show on Mutual. He was my favorite radio talk show host and one of our best interviewers. Here's a link to a blog post that I wrote about him when I learned of his passing. davidgoldfield.wordpress.com/2…
Introduction After opening the Mail app on my iPhone this past Saturday the first email to greet me was from a good friend of mine who informed me that Larry King had passed away. I immediately ope…
Larry King was one of a kind. He was my middle of the night companion when I couldn’t sleep in college. I never did call into Open Phone America. Fun fact: Unless he got one toward the end, he never had a toll-free number. I’m a little embarrassed to say I still remember the call-in number all these years later.
@Thumper1964 Actually, in the early days of the Larry King show they had four call-in numbers. 703 685-2190 and 2180, one was for the Eastern time zone and the other was for the Central time zone; can't remember which one was which. 685-2177 was for the Mountain time zone and 685-2185 was for the Pacific time zone (99% sure of that but someone please set me straight if my memories are scrambled.) Eventually, he just had one number for everyone, which I think was 2177.
David, we recorded a lot of his shows most of them old radio guests and sports guests. It might take a while but, we can share them with you possibly by drop box?.
@JohnGassman John, that would be fabulous, but only when your time allows for it. There's absolutely no rush for it. The shows with guests from radio would be great.
"Empire of Death" epitomized RTD's approach to season finales that he deployed to popular (if not always critical) acclaim during his first stint as showrunner. What happened this time?
Remembering the late William Russell on what would’ve been his 100th birthday, who played one of the Doctor’s first companions, Ian Chesterton, in the very first Doctor Who adventure, An Unearthly Child, which originally aired on the BBC in 1963. #DoctorWho
NLS BARD is grouping their #DoctorWho novels into two separate series: Doctor Who and Doctor Who Library, and I don't think those two series list all of their novels. If they're going to have more than one series, they should be catalogued as Doctor Who TV Novelizations and Doctor Who BBC Books. Clearly, they haven't had a Doctor Who fan assisting them with this task. Perhaps I should offer my services to them? www.loc.gov/nls
@startrek2025 I'll be happy to reach out to them. I wonder how they've grouped their various Star Trek novels, as I know they've done quite a collection of them over the decades.
@startrek2025 Ah, those are the books where Riker is captain of the Titan. I may be wrong but I don't think that NLS has made any of those books available, but they're available on Bookshare and I'm sure they're still available to purchase on Kindle. I haven't read any of them but I wouldn't mind trying one of them.
Episode 2 of Access On is nearly here. This week, Samsung is working on a Meta Smart Glasses rival, the Blindshell Classic 3 is out, new BT Speak firmware, and Google Gemini stops by for an interview regarding its new iOS app. Jonathan Mosen speaks with Mike Buckley, CEO of Be My Eyes. They discuss the partnership that has led to deep integration of Be My Eyes on the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. Plus, what happened to that amazing real-time AI function from Open AI that was demonstrated in May?
There is plenty of listener engagement, including discussion about getting audio descriptions of the videos on your smartphone. All this, and more, in episode 2 of Access On, available wherever you get your podcasts. Be sure to follow today.
I hate this bullshit service, even more after reading their ableist response to this person: 'I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind' michaels.world/2023/11/i-was-b… #HCaptcha
Also known as: why you shouldn't trust a company who makes their product intensionally inaccessible with allowing you an accessibility workaround Update: I've been informed that hCaptcha now has a text captcha option.
Is there anyone among my followers using Audio Technica ATH M60X headphones? I am trying to match a 1-quarter-intch adapter to their cable but none I have fit. A customer supporter (LOL) from Audio Technica says that any should fit but this does not seem to be the case here. Should I be looking for a specific adapter on Amazon? Thanks for any advice! #audio #headphones #audiotechnica
According to the internet, all three cables terminate to a 3.5 mm male plug. You can probably connect any threaded female 3.5mm (eighth inch) threaded adapter to it which terminates to a 6.3 mm (quarter-inch) male connection, no?
@twynn Well, this particular cable needs to be screwed into the adapter, hence I am not sure it is a "normal" situation. If so, then I wonder if those kinds of adapters have a name I should be searching for?
I have honestly found it easier to replace the cable, which comes with an adapter, than finding an adapter with the right thread size and depth. I also ran into this with my AKG K371's. There are so many of them, and while they are all the same electrically, physically, that's just not the case. You can get a really generic adapter without a thread that isn't recessed, but that isn't great long term.
@BorrisInABox Thanks. Done just that and when the cable arrived earlier today, there was no adapter inside. When I called Audiotechnica, the guy told 'me that they do not sell with adapters and that any should fit. This answer I found rather strange, hence my asking here.
Oh, well that's dumb. I can tell you, because I'm sitting here looking at them, that I have at least three different adapters that aren't compatible with each other's mating threads. Either they're too deep, or the threads are the wrong size.
@BorrisInABox OK, I think I found a kindred soul here. Let me call them back tomorrow then. I certainly cannot confirm that any 1-quarter-inch adapter fits their cable.
Tune into our newest episode of the Nation’s Blind Podcast where our hosts are joined by Jonathan Mosen, former producer and host of the Bolotin award-winning Living Blindfully podcast and our incoming executive director for Accessibility Excellence. They discuss Access On, our new podcast that focuses on the role that technology plays in living the life we want. Jonathan also provided advice and tips for new podcasters: nfb.org/resources/publications…
A study asked 50 doctors to make six different diagnoses for medical conditions. "Doctors who did the project without AI got an average score of 74%, doctors who used AI got an average score of 76%, and ChatGPT itself got an average score of 90%." "AI didn’t help doctors using it as much as anticipated because physicians “didn’t listen to AI when AI told them things they didn’t agree. Most doctors couldn’t be convinced a chatbot knew more than them." #LLM #AI #ChatGPTqz.com/chatgpt-beat-doctors-at…
@vick21 They mentioned that the researchers intentionally used the cases that are never published specifically so that the ChatGPT can't cheat from training dataset.
@vick21 The research article was published on journal JAMA Network. I don't have access to that, but I think it's a pretty serious peer-reviewed medical journal.
Believe me, it does sound amazing. It’s just when you see all these articles claiming this and that with no easy way to verify what they say, the questions arise! At the end of the day though it matters little until we see an impact in real people’s lives.
This randomized clinical trial evaluates the diagnostic performance of physicians with use of a large language model compared with conventional resources.
@vick21 Maybe I'm not understanding the question. Isn't it the point of AI though? AI systems recognize patterns and draw conclusion from similar patterns they've seen before. They are not just capable of simply regurgitating exact pattern.
You did understand my question. I understand the premise. I just don’t want to assume, hence always asking… I’ll look at the article. Thanks for the link!
@vick21 Of course, Ask instead asume is always a great choice! :) Having said that, Jama is one of the most respected medical journals in the world with rigorous peer-review processes, so I'm sure if reviewers noticed anything suspicious, they would have raised red flags before publishing. :)
@vick21 From New York Times: "The cases intentionally have never been published so that medical students and others could be tested on them without any foreknowledge. That also meant that ChatGPT could not have been trained on them."
That’s cute… I wonder what sort of AI Jesus he/she/it is? Does their Jesus incorporates an encoder, decoder or both? I assume their Jesus is a multi-modal bot / agent? LOL mastodon.social/@Richard_Littl…
I give up. Now there's a Swiss church that has an #AI Jesus....
"Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing religious life at a small church in Lucerne, Switzerland, where a virtual Jesus is caring for the concerns and needs of the faithful."
Hold on... Isn't this from the film THX 1138?
Good god, we're living in a low-budget 1970s dystopia.
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in reply to The_ERROR • • •Mě to nepřekvapilo, jezdím každý den do práce 60 km, jsem připravený. Pneumatiky jsem měnil v čas a jsou nové. Jen bych čekal, že když je kolem nuly a a prší se sněhem, na autech to namrzá, tak aspoň dálnici by chtělo trochou posypat. Zase z Varů na hranice, to není zas tak dlouhý úsek. Chápu, když je kalamita, že se nestíhá, ale do té to bylo daleko.