A Legal Justification for Genocide
By expanding the human shielding charge to every inch of Gaza, Israel is using a familiar strategy at an unprecedented scale.Jewish Currents
"I’ve always been more 'Let’s just kick the fascists' asses' than 'Blue no matter who.'
But I will obviously support anyone Democrats nominate over Donald Trump. That’s the easiest choice of my life that doesn’t involve waffle fries.
When it all comes down to it, I’m a single-issue voter. My issue is that I’d like to keep voting."
~ Jason Sattler
#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
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Biden is out. Freedom must win.
A few thoughts on defeating the most obvious threat to democracy in American history.L O L G O P (The Cause)
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I agree with everything Scott Hanselman writes in this post.
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#crowdstrike #microsoft #dei #softwaredevelopment
Scott Hanselman on LinkedIn: #crowdstrike | 452 comments
Context - someone on the birdside are blaming #crowdstrike on DEI hiring Here’s the thing folks. I’ve been coding 32 years. When something like this happens… | 452 comments on LinkedInScott Hanselman (www.linkedin.com)
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#GUADEC #GUADEC2024
Hugging Face's SmolLM transforms AI with compact, powerful language models that outperform tech giants, bringing advanced capabilities to personal devices witho…
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Hugging Face’s SmolLM models bring powerful AI to your phone, no cloud required
Hugging Face's SmolLM transforms AI with compact, powerful language models that outperform tech giants, bringing advanced capabilities to personal devices without compromising privacy or performance.Michael Nuñez (VentureBeat)
We're excited to share that GUADEC 2025 will take place in Brescia, Italy! We look forward to working with the local team and we hope to see you all in Brescia next year!
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GUADEC 2024 – Day 3, track 1
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In case you missed it, #BookWyrm is the Fediverse's alternative to Amazon's Goodreads.
BookWyrm lets you keep track of what you're reading, publish book reviews and discover new books from other people's recommendations. It's part of the Fediverse, so you can follow BookWyrm accounts from Mastodon etc. More info at:
There are BookWyrm servers where you can sign up at:
You can also follow BookWyrm news at @bookwyrm
Join Bookwyrm
BookWyrm is a decentralized social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next.joinbookwyrm.com
I'm helping an open source project by stepping in for a bit, as the Interim Executive Director for GNOME. Looking forward to helping GNOME grow.
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Newsflash: other people exist!
For the love of God, don’t block the sidewalk for wheelchair users and people with strollers or suitcases or whatever. Some massive main character syndrome on display here.
#frustration #antisocial #ableism #accessibility
Joe Biden will go down historically as an extremely underrated president, especially if Trump is defeated again in November
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Joe Biden's underrated presidency
He's achieved a lot — with the notable exception of popularity.davidrlurie (Public Notice)
Ok, so I know Biden just resigned and all, but are you looking at the exciting stuff the GNOME design team has worked on this year?? youtube.com/live/2-hTw0bx6Sc
GUADEC 2024 – Day 3, track 1
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I know this is obvious, but I still decided to run through the following exercise. I asked OpenAI to analyze its own description of a photo. Here is what we came up with: The logical pattern of the description primarily follows a "concrete to generic" approach. Here's a breakdown of how this pattern unfolds:
1. **Concrete Details about the Main Subject**:
- The description begins with specific details about the man: his appearance and attire. (1/5)
- "The photo shows a man sitting at an outdoor café. He has short, light brown hair and is wearing a pink T-shirt with a black shoulder strap across his chest."
2. **Concrete Details about the Immediate Surroundings**:
- It then moves to the specific details of what is immediately around the man: the table and the coffee. (2/5)
this is a really nice pattern. I think this is why these descriptions sound so palatable:) And here is the picture itself! :) ! (5/5)
Politically, Biden's dropping out creates all sorts of uncertainty.
Procedurally, however, what happens how is extremely clear: The DNC will use its convention to officially designate its nominees for president and vice president, and those people will appear on the ballot in all 50 states, DC, etc.
A summary of state ballot access laws, from the officials who run the elections, is at nass.org/sites/default/files/r…
It would have been much more complicated if this had occurred after the convention.
Do Democrats have enough time to find a different path to victory?
It's actually not an unusual concept.
Until 1968, presidential candidates were always picked by party conventions.
And that process, though providing less public input, also produced some great nominees.
theconversation.com/until-1968…
#Biden #Election2024 #USPolitics #Histodons @histodons
Until 1968, presidential candidates were picked by party conventions – a process revived by Biden’s withdrawal from race
With President Joe Biden out of the presidential race, the Democratic Party will have to find another nominee. Past methods of choosing have had their flaws, but also their successes.The Conversation
I believe we will win.
(If we all work for it.)
I believe will will win.
IF WE ALL WORK FOR IT.
gregpak.net/2024/07/02/theres-…
There’s Always Something We Can Do
Tough week, huh? Hard not to feel a little overwhelmed with what feels like relentless, catastrophic political news. But I’ve volunteered for political campaigns for literally 40 years —…Greg Pak
Sources:
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#LLM #AI #ML
Meta Announces Llama 3 at Weights & Biases’ conference
In an engaging presentation at Weights & Biases’ Fully Connected conference, Joe Spisak, Product Director of GenAI at Meta, unveiled the latest family of Lla...YouTube
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#GUADEC 2024
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Z-Library: More Domains Seized Than Any Other Pirate Site in History
No other pirate site in history has had more of its domains seized by law enforcement than Z-Library, and it's not over yet.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
"Why am I posting about this", you didn't ask? Well, he announced it in a letter, contained in an image, with the alt text of "A letter from president Biden". So for anyone curious what that letter actually said, here's a transcription. I had GPT transcribe it since Windows OCR was mangling parts of it, and OneStep Reader was even worse, but Aira verified the accuracy of it.
slj.io/biden.txt
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 9.5 updated and 1 added apps:
* ShikiApp: an unofficial Shikimori mobile app
The .5 update is, urn, Update.Me which forgot to increase the versionCode. So if you use this app, you might wish to manually update by simply installing it again as if it were not yet there 🙈
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Chernobeer - Etheric Circles 11° - 1,0 litr (Wheat Ale) | PivkoDomu.cz
Etheric Circles 11° je pšeničný ejl s chutí citrusů a květin, inspirován tajemnými kruhy v obilí, ideální pro sdílení i chvíle samoty.www.pivkodomu.cz
William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"And a voter for an aspiring dictator backed by the world’s greediest fascists and oligarchs and enabled by a stolen and broken Republican Supreme Court is a vote for your vote never to matter again."
#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Biden’s announcement turns a time of discord and distress for the Democratic Party into a time of opportunity and purpose. Democrats should seize the moment and rally behind the Vice President as our nominee and not wait until the formal nomination at the convention almost a month away."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
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luciantruscott.substack.com/p/…
It's up to us now
Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"It’s too much time to waste, when the party needs to unify now and get on with the urgent business of running Donald Trump and his gaggle of discontents and fellow criminals into the river.
Joe Biden has taken the step so many have urged on him. We should thank him and unite, move forward, fight as a team and beat Trump."
#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"I will put on my boots and go to work day one. I will knock doors in rural spaces for a woman running to extend democracy for at least four more years. A qualified and vetted woman who will keep us on track.
We have to beat Trump, but after that, we need a reckoning in the party."
~ Jess Piper
#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
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POV: A Rural Democrat on Biden's Announcement
Jess Piper (The View from Rural Missouri by Jess Piper)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Even if she takes the nomination by acclamation, we will know much more about the prospects of an institutional defense against Trump by whether the media that once pushed Biden from the race now finds reason to dislike Harris, or to suggest she is an unworthy of a position she has spent the last four years preparing for."
~ Don Moynihan
#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats #media
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Biden Out: Why It Should Be Harris
Don Moynihan (Can We Still Govern?)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Democrats should lean on and reward Black leaders who have been the most loyal and staunch supporters of the Biden-Harris ticket. The Congressional Black Caucus, minus one individual, stayed united and steadfast in promoting the Biden-Harris ticket, and now they’re fully behind Harris. Black voters, especially Black women, are the strongest base of the Democratic Party."
~ Wajahat Ali
#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats #BlackVoters
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Biden, Harris, and the Test for American Democracy: Will We Rise to Meet the Opportunity?
THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Speaking of Black women, Kamala Harris should be fully unleashed now as President Biden finishes his term. She is the best one to prosecute the case against Trump and MAGA’s extremist Project 2025 agenda. Biden can govern but he can’t articulate the case in public as well as Harris, so let her do it, especially when it comes to GOP’s kryptonite: abortion and women’s rights. Trump and the GOP can’t run away from their misogyny and cruelty."
#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats #BlackVoters #women
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Biden’s decision has given the Democratic Party a window of narrative dominance. It’s the biggest story in politics, and most Americans will come to understand its significance on Democratic terms—that Biden did something fundamentally patriotic, when he realized his campaign, under his direction as an 81 year old man, had created an intolerable risk of allowing Donald Trump to become president again."
~ Brian Beutler
#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
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Joe Biden Has Given America A Fighting Chance
Brian Beutler (Off Message)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"I urge all of you to take the president’s lead and stand with Kamala Harris in the battle against Trump. President Biden has sacrificed for his country and we should honor his decision by looking forward to the race ahead and working for the Democrats’ success."
~ Steven Beschloss
#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
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americaamerica.news/p/for-the-…
For the Good of the Country
Steven Beschloss (America, America)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"For three and a half years, she has been the person the national-security apparatus would turn to if anything happened to the president. She’s become stronger and stronger as a public figure. The party doesn’t have the luxury of wasting time figuring out who else can gain support. For the party it’s time to mobilize behind her…."
~ James Fallows
#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
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Election Countdown, 107 Days to Go: Joe Biden Passes the Torch
James Fallows (Breaking the News)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The endorsements have continued to roll in since Biden led the way, with President Clinton, Secretary Clinton, and Representative James Clyburn, the South Carolina Democrat who launched Joe Biden’s successful run in 2020, following suit."
~ Joyce Vance
#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
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The Week Ahead
Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"And as one of my friends pointed out, this means that so many of Trump’s 'arguments' are gone in one fell swoop: President Biden’s age, Hunter Biden, the whole 'Biden crime family' corruption allegations. All out the door.
This is the poetic justice the country has been looking for and richly deserves: A highly qualified, talented Black woman, a former prosecutor, will be the one to take down Donald Trump."
#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Nothing says women refuse to accept second-class citizenship like electing one. I have no doubt she can do it, and I look forward to watching the support she receives from Hillary Clinton, her sorors, and pretty much everyone in America who loves democracy. We have work to do!"
#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Donald Trump and Chris LaCivita are about to hit Kamala Harris with an avalanche of racist and sexist attacks and a ton of slut-shaming. Democrats across the board need to be saying now what we all know, which is that this will bring out the very worst of Trump. Racism and sexism are his brand. Charlottesville is his brand."
~ Josh Marshall
#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
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A Small Matter of the Politics
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