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New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner"

404media.co/leaked-palantirs-p…


Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People

Internal Palantir Slack chats and message boards obtained by 404 Media show the contracting giant is helping find the location of people flagged for deportation, that Palantir is now a “more mature partner to ICE,” and how Palantir is addressing empl…
Joseph Cox (404 Media)
in reply to 𝕆𝕥𝕥𝕠 𝕧𝕠𝕟 𝕎𝕖𝕟𝕜𝕠𝕗𝕗 🐾🐐🐇🐔

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Archos

No jo, někdy se to tak povede. Děkuji 👍👍
Fakt to bylo super světlo, vstával jsem přes pátou a chtěl jet úplně jinam, ale pak viděl tu mlhu v ďolíku a šel se tam podívat. Kůň už byl jen bonus 😃
To tam na mě ještě hulákal majitel koně.

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Wow, yet another amazing book by Emma Donoghue, this time set on the express train in the 1896 France. I always wait until the author's note section, because with Emma you always learn something new connected with the plot and the heroes in it. Anyway, read for yourself! :)
audible.com/pd/B0D682RPDW?sour…

The Paris Express

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Emma Donoghue, the “soul-stirring” (Oprah Daily) nationally bestselling author of Room, returns with a sweeping historical novel about an infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station.
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I have made the Thrive Mastodon client code available on GitHub: github.com/G4p-Studios/Thrive
At this current stage, this literally is just the code for the mastodon client.

GitHub - G4p-Studios/Thrive: A multi-purpose messaging an social client (Mastodon for now)

A multi-purpose messaging an social client (Mastodon for now) - G4p-Studios/Thrive
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A Scanning Error Created a Fake Science Term—Now AI Won’t Let It Die
"...It’s the question on the tip of everyone’s tongues: What the hell is “vegetative electron microscopy”? As it turns out, the term is nonsensical."
gizmodo.com/a-scanning-error-c…

A Scanning Error Created a Fake Science Term—Now AI Won’t Let It Die

A digital investigation reveals how AI can latch on to technical terminology, despite it being complete nonsense.
Isaac Schultz (Gizmodo)

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Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People

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#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #ethics #corruption #maga #ice


Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People

Internal Palantir Slack chats and message boards obtained by 404 Media show the contracting giant is helping find the location of people flagged for deportation, that Palantir is now a “more mature partner to ICE,” and how Palantir is addressing empl…
Joseph Cox (404 Media)
#politics #News #ethics #uspol #MAGA #uspolitics #corruption #ice #gopcult

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Hey @chikim and anyone else interested in LLM'ing. My co-worker has written this little fun CLI game where you can try to accurately, or inaccurately, predict Gemma3's predictions from a pool of tokens. You give it a phrase, or pick a default one, and then pick from a multi-choice answer the best possible outcome to continue the sentence.
Feel fre to have a play at: github.com/clocksmith/gamma

GitHub - clocksmith/gamma

Contribute to clocksmith/gamma development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
@Chi Kim

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Can you believe it? I have 14 voices now on Jammable. jammable.com/@TomiG
The lowest-paid account gives you 30 credits.
Mac OS Fred, Quiplash Schmitty, DecTalk 4.3 Paul, Keynote Gold, Speak & Spell, Mac Alex, Eloquence Reed, Apple Echo II synthesizer, Orpheus TTS (US english, speech only), Amstrad Speech Synthesizer, Centigram TrueVoice TTS, Soft Voice TTS , Monologue TTS, Votrax_SSI263_v2. Whew. As always another shoutout to @rommix0 for helping source some of the more recent voice data for these older speech synthesizers in particular.
Think only the Quiplash voice would be questionable there as it is a person's voice, but then there's this weird gray area with gaming-specific voices, and someone may genuinely use it to say, create a modded Jackbox party pack for their community, rather than to blackmail the people behind those voices. But you never know, so that could get taken down if I'm asked, or find out that voice usage spikes quickly for the wrong reason.

TomiG on Jammable

@TomiG 0 Followers - Check out TomiG on Jammable!
Jammable AI
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@piegames solid background bathroom selfies continue to be praxis
RE: flausch.social/@piegames/11435…

piegames (@piegames@flausch.social)

Uhm, a new ChatGPT version just dropped and GeoGuesser is now a solved problem. PSA: When posting any outdoors photos, update your threat model from "someone skilled and dedicated could theoretically locate this" to "any stalker can do this for 20€/…
flausch.social
@piegames

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#PeteButtigieg
"The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before."

The Head of Our Country’s Government is in the Early Stages of Consolidating Total Power.
youtube.com/shorts/K7-lGvcw244…


The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power.

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#petebuttigieg

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#IHateThatItsTrue #DeanLewis #NewMusic
Hot off the presses! 🔥🎵🎶

Dean Lewis - I Hate That It's True (Official Video)
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Dean Lewis - I Hate That It's True (Official Video)

Official music video for 'I Hate That It's True' by Dean Lewis.Listen to more Dean Lewis: https://DeanLewis.lnk.to/MusicIDSubscribe to Dean's YouTube channel...
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#newmusic #ihatethatitstrue #deanlewis

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On this date in 2018, I started my US visa "journey" after they first had denied me to travel to the US and then denied me ESTA. It would eventually take 937 days until I got the visa.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/11/09…


a US visa in 937 days

Here's the complete timeline of events. From my first denial to travel to the US until I eventually received a tourist visa. And then I can't go anyway. December 5-11, 2016 I spent a week on Hawaii with Mozilla - my employer at the time.
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For #3dprinting folks and Americans in particular, this is a video of Polymaker's factory that is in Houston. They've been producing their filament there for over a year now and they are rather experienced as I am sure you will find. This is interesting content. youtube.com/watch?v=bS0hTtDYVu…

FIRST Look Inside Polymaker’s U.S. Factory – Built to Beat Tariffs

In this video, I take you on an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of Polymaker’s U.S. manufacturing facility—PolyMelt—in Houston, Texas. I was the first conte...
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#3dprinting

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Gajim 2.1.1 has been released 🥳

This release brings layout improvements to Gajim’s Start Chat dialog, an improved message search, and includes fixes for some issues with Message Displayed Synchronization.

Thank you for all your contributions! ❤️

Support Gajim's development: liberapay.com/Gajim

#gajim #xmpp #chat

gajim.org/post/2025-04-17-gaji…

Gajim's main window showing the new activity feed

Gajim's profile - Liberapay

Gajim is a fully-featured XMPP client.
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#xmpp #chat #gajim

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In French, we call foxes “renards”, although before the 13th century we used to call them “goupils”, from the Latin “vulpes”. It changed because of a famous character in medieval literature who was an anthropomorphic fox named “Renart”, which has the same origin as the German name Reinhard–he’s actually still called Reynard in English. The stories of Renart were so popular that the name replaced the original noun. It’s like if nowadays people called cats garfields.
rivals.space/@Meylody/11227446…

Mélodie (@Meylody@rivals.space)

C'est incroyable que le mot renard il vienne du Roman de Renart C'est comme si aujourd'hui on commençait à appeler les chats des garfields premier degré
RIVALS.SPACE

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Disability Rights UK (who do fantastic disability rights handbooks) have come out in solidarity with trans folk after yesterday's decision with a much better and stronger statement than Stonewall managed (they "share the deep concern")

This is what solidarity looks like at its most basic. Supporting each other, recognising the connections that are shared, and speaking the fuck out.

disabilityrightsuk.org/news/di…

#UKPol #Queer

Disability Rights UK opposes the UK Supreme Court ruling on

www.disabilityrightsuk.org
#queer #ukpol

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An update for JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion 2025 is now available! Download the April update and check out the "What’s New" pages to learn more:

JAWS - support.freedomscientific.com/…

ZoomText - support.freedomscientific.com/…

Fusion - support.freedomscientific.com/…

#JAWS #ZoomText #Fusion #FreedomScientific

#jaws #freedomscientific #fusion #ZoomText

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For anyone interested in immersive 3d #audio, would you mind giving this proposal some love for #Godot please? I am trying to convince whoever can be convinced to reopen and consider adding SteamAudio to Godot, which would greatly benefit everyone, developers and players alike. Thank you. Boosts are very much appreciated. github.com/godotengine/godot-p…

Add Steam Audio integration · Issue #9840 · godotengine/godot-proposals

Describe the project you are working on A first-person shooter game where players need to be able to hear things like footsteps in 3D. Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your proj...
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#audio #godot

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If you open @smashingmag, you might (or might not) recognize the name on the latest article. 😁

Apologies in advance, it’s a long read, and there’s not a single line of code. But I’m a little bit proud of this one! ☺️

What you think?! #accessibility

smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/f…


Fostering An Accessibility Culture — Smashing Magazine

While there’s no definitive playbook for building an accessibility culture, Dani shares lessons from his experience in shaping it through habits rather than mandates.
Smashing Magazine
#Accessibility @Smashing Magazine

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JJ and I are at it again, this time as guest hosts on the March 17 edition of AIRA’s Airacast podcast. We’re Talking Starbucks, the visuals, how they work from a customer’s perspective, and how AIRA can help you as a Blind person make a visit there and get your fix with the help of an AIRA agent. Check it out here! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…

Airacast

Education Podcast · Updated Biweekly · The official podcast of Aira, the visual interpreter service for people who are blind or have low vision. At Aira, we connect people, via our free app, to trained professionals who provide visual inf…
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We've recently seen serious spam attacks against Matrix, so we're introducing Policy Servers to recommend whether servers should accept or discard events *before* they get synced to clients. If your server participates in public rooms, see matrix.org/blog/2025/04/introd… to keep it safe.

Introducing Policy Servers

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Jim Mackenzie, VP Trust & Safety — The Matrix.org Foundation (matrix.org)

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