Great interview with #MichaelLewis & #GillianTett in the #IntelligenceSquared podcast episode — In Urgent Defence of Government.
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Great to hear the story behind the book - Who is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
Lots to reflect on in #YANSS 317 – "How to reimagine the marketplace of ideas by changing how, if, and when we talk about politics"
If we want new ideas to spread, what do we need to do now to make it a reality?
#Agora #PoliticalDebate #MarketplaceOfIdeas #ChangingMinds
Thanks again @davidmcraney for your work exploring these topics with us.
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Sarah Stein Lubrano tells us about her new book, Don’t Talk About Politics, which urges us not to lose hope or become frozen in frustration when it comes to polarization and faulty discourse …You Are Not So Smart
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
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Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Seems to me these guys have no concept whatsoever of what science is.
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"I'm doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it's vibe physics."Matt Novak (Gizmodo)
Mock a Trump bribe on Monday, get canceled by Thursday. The Late Show’s death reveals how billionaires and presidents are reshaping American media.The New Republic
> “It’s a security hole that endangers democracy itself.”
People will complain until they're blue in the face but when offered to experience money that isn't controlled by the government or payment processors they can't comprehend it
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NieR creator Yoko Taro comments on the series of instances of Japanese adult platforms being pressured by credit card payment processors.Amber V (AUTOMATON WEST)
I'm not the only one that sees {mosads} on this page right ? WTF is that about ??
I squealed my head off, I did.
LOOK AT THE BABY OH MY GOSH
You need this video on your feed. We all do.
#Capybara #Animals #cute #BabyAnimals
Do you post in more than one language?
Mastodon's web interface now automatically detects which language you are posting in and suggests switching to it in the posting language indicator.
For example, if you have your posting language set to English but you start writing in French, the language indicator notices this and starts glowing yellow. Also, French appears at the top of its language list
More info about Mastodon's language settings:
➡️ fedi.tips/setting-your-languag…
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
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Threading through the inner workings of Android's accessibility framework, this article describes the best techniques for defining an element's role.John Lilly (TPGi)
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Some people prioritize setting up a site and making logos rather than working with the community to address the issues using what we often refer to as "responsible disclosure".
(it's some ad for a talk coming in a few weeks which they insist will reveal something bad about HTTP/1)
I'm assuming this is limited to situations where front-end talk to back-end servers which allows an attacker to insert unauthorized HTTP requests after first sending a malformed HTTP request.
Apparently it affects companies using a certain CDN as well.
portswigger.net/research/talks…
При отправке формы хорошо бы выключить поля, чтобы на медленном интернете пользователь не пытался их изменить, когда уже отправка началась.
Но вместо установки disabled на каждое поле, можно поставить его на <fieldset> — так проще.
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The HTML element is used to group several controls as well as labels () within a web form.MDN Web Docs
@menelion а если легенды нет то никак не анонсирует?
Я просто против религиозного подхода к a11y, когда мы думаем про правила и ближе к UX подходу, когда мы реальные a11y-сценарии делаем удобнее.
South Korea’s Disability Discrimination Act is accelerating digital accessibility for kiosks, websites, and mobile apps.Melissa Morse (TPGi)
Stablecoins used for payment would be a monumental shift in commerce.Samuel O'Brient (Business Insider)
Six months after DOGE, six former federal workers reflect on losing their jobs, what they're doing next, and their advice for people in similar boats.Ayelet Sheffey (Business Insider)
With the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent and Perplexity’s Comet, generative AI is shifting from chatbots to web browsers. Industry insiders view this as the way to develop AI agents that can perform tasks on behalf of people.Alex Heath (The Verge)
A biodegradable coffin made from mushrooms has been used for the first time in the US. Loop Biotech’s mycelium “Living Cocoon” was one family’s choice for a green burial.Justine Calma (The Verge)
In the 250 years that the US Postal Service has been around, it’s been a quiet pioneer in modern technologies, helping to popularize things like commercial aviation, the ZIP code, and optical character recognition.Emma Roth (The Verge)
"Another farmworker, Gabriel, who came out to speak, brought a backpack full of yellow envelopes containing all his tax documents over the decades.
“These are my taxes. I have been paying my taxes for 19 years, without rights,” he said, as he pulled out each envelope and threw them on the ground in front of the podium. “I’ve been doing this year, after year, after year. For a promise that I would get my citizenship, this is my testimony that I am not a criminal. We are not criminals.”"
#farmworkers #food #farming #immigration #workers #labor #California #HumanRights
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Derek Huffman, 46, joined the military with hopes of becoming a Russian citizen. His wife said he was duped into a combat role.Josh Fiallo (The Daily Beast)
Yesterday was my first bad day on Mastodon, and what happened to me could happen to you, so let me explain what went down, and how I got blocked by a lot of people.
In March, I wrote a post critical of Musk (picture 1). I then asked another Mastodon user (Harriett) whom I have found friendly, if she would help me translate a Danish phrase to English, and linked to the Musk post where the phrase would be relevant.
But yesterday — 4 months later — that blew up in my face. Here is how…
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whoa.
This story made me discover the site aicodinghorrors.com/
One genuine question: how does this person / dev team not have automatic backups of the database on another server (that the rogue AI can’t access)?
AI Coding Horrors is a growing collection of real-world disasters caused by AI-assisted coding tools like sky-high bills, leaked secrets, broken apps,..AICodingHorrors
New Certified Open Source Hardware!
BrailleRAP has the UID FR000027.
BrailleRAP is:
Open source DIY Braille Embosser
Find it in the directory!
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Following on from a breakthrough human trial that reprogrammed the immune system to overpower an aggressive brain tumor, scientists have now used the same mRNA tech to attack any cancer. It could make chemotherapy, surgery and radiation redundant.Bronwyn Thompson (New Atlas)
A console screen reader for macOS and Linux. Contribute to tspivey/tdsr development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Make no mistake, Stephen Miller is flying the Trump plane. His influence now rivals that of any cabinet official. Important portrait below of an unwell man obsessed with power and infected with hate.
1/ Donald Trump's obsessive defensiveness about Jeffrey Epstein is causing a deep rupture within his far-right base.
It's an echo of the last time this happened, when he tried to tell MAGA to get vaccinated. They didn't listen.
This episode is also related to Elon Musk's chatbot Grok going into a "MechaHitler" rant.
Reactionaries have built an anti-epistemology and the leaders can't control it 🧵
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What happens when you really believe that reality is liberally biased?Matthew Sheffield (Flux)
Political scientist J. Eric Oliver on how ‘intuitionism’ is rebelling against ‘rationalism’Matthew Sheffield (Flux)
The family of a green card holder “was told he died in ICE custody. Then they learned he’s alive — in a hospital in Guatemala, they say.”
When this is all over—and I have to believe it will be over one day—there need to be trials.
@Seirdy I've just read in the #envs:envs.net matrix room, that some services will be shut down in the next few days/weeks, like the Mastodon/ActivityPub server and the matrix server, due to high server costs.
Is that true? Would be sad, because I really liked pleroma.envs.net... :(
If you don't know the universal hand signal for help, please check this out. I just learned myself, years after it was created. It could save a life. The fingers folding over the thumb is to represent being trapped. Please boost for everyone
#UniversalHandSignalForHelp
#Help
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