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Once, my father carried me into the surf. Now my arm steadies his steps back to the sea - Tim Baker
theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

Once, my father carried me into the surf. Now my arm steadies his steps back to the sea

Early morning swims were a daily ritual for my dad until age and illness took its toll. On a recent visit, I hatched a plan to get him in the ocean again
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)

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I'm halfway through this article and I like the points made thus far, which I very much agree with.

prospect.org/power/2025-03-25-…

But I want to have an aside on the level to which people uncritically use the term "foundation models" and discuss "reasoning" of these models, when it is very likely that the models literally memorized all these benchmarks. It truly is like the story of the emperor's clothes. Everyone seems to be in on it and you're the crazy one being like but HE HAS NO CLOTHES. 🧵


Bubble Trouble

An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.
Bryan McMahon (The American Prospect)
in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her).

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Timnit Gebru (she/her).

"Marcus is so confident current approaches cannot take us to the promised land of AGI that he bet Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei $100,000 that AGI would not be achieved by the end of 2027."

Lol but he signed the ridiculous "pause AI" letter with Muskrat and other billionaires and said that DAIR "went for blood" when we wrote this statement against it.

dair-institute.org/blog/letter…

Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the “AI pause” letter

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
www.dair-institute.org

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🕛Z #NowPlaying at the top of the hour, 2 hours of relaxing #NewAge, #ambient, and #meditationmusic on Northern Lights: The New Age Show, #live with Kelly Sapergia. More information is at ksapergia.net/northernlights/. Tune in either by visiting theglobalvoice.info and clicking on the Listen Live link, or go directly to theglobalvoice.info:8443/broad… #TGVRadio #audio #radio 📺🗣️📻🎶🎙️🌌🌈🫣🫰🩵🪬🫶

Welcome to The Global Voice - The Global Voice

The Global Voice brings together an international team of broadcasters, producers and radio journalists to present for you a wide range of entertaining and informative programs.
The Global Voice
#audio #radio #nowplaying #ambient #live #newage #meditationmusic #tgvradio

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Trump Boasts Economy Much Stronger Under Him Than It Was Under Administration of 10 Minutes Ago: thehardtimes.net/culture/trump…

Trump Boasts Economy Much Stronger Under Him Than It Was Under Administration of 10 Minutes Ago

President Donald Trump made the bold claim that his economy is “hugely much stronger” than that of the administration of about 10 minutes ago after a surge in the stock market due to the repeal of most proposed tariffs.
Dan Rice (The Hard Times)

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Yikes 🙄

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Thursday that the driverless vehicles will soon be allowed on the "car-free" part of Market Street, the two-mile stretch running from the Embarcadero to 10th Street.
abc7news.com/post/waymo-robota…
via ABC7 News App

Waymo robotaxis will soon be allowed to drive on 'car-free' section of SF's Market St., mayor says

ABC7 San Francisco

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To Americans, pharmaceutical healthcare is nothing but dollars. Eliminating human need is an attack on US billionaires and their exploitive profits.

The "insulin industry" is particularly disgusting when you realize that when Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent because he felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives, so Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1 since they wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it.

Americans profiteers then went on to patent every method of manufacturing this "free invention" for their own profit.

#healthcare #uspol

Dan Collins @DanCollins2011 The Chinese are trying to destroy our insulin industry. yahoo.com Chinese scientists cure diabetes using stem cells in world first 12:01 pm May 24 - 73K Views June-egbert-official May 20, 2024 Like to charge and reblog to cast Chinese scientists destroying the insuin industry attackdogz Nov 22, 2024 the original tweet is from May this year but there has been an update!! The procedure was a world first—no other type 1 diabetes patient had been treated with their own cells. Two and a half months later, the young woman started producing enough of her own insulin to not need injections of the hormone anymore. Now, more than a year has passed since the treatment, and in another world first, her ability to produce insulin has remained stable. The yay for the Chinese destroying the American insulin industry!!!!
#uspol #healthcare

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Good news if you're a super rich tax cheat!

In the rare cases when the IRS has enough resources to audit you and detect your fraud, there will still be no one to enforce the law. Trump's DoJ is shutting down the entire tax division.

"If you make more than, say, a million dollars a year, paying taxes is probably going to be voluntary going forward.

"It’s a new feature of billionairedom."

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/d…


DOGE to Shutter DOJ Tax Division

I didn’t know this until this morning. And I’m surprised it hasn’t gotten more press attention. We know that DOGE is in the process of gutting the IRS.
Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)

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How to Uninstall Samsung TalkBack and Install Google’s Version in Simple Steps accessibleandroid.com/how-to-u…

How to Uninstall Samsung TalkBack and Install Google’s Version in Simple Steps - Accessible Android

Since One UI 3.0 based on Android 11, Samsung has been using its own version of TalkBack on its devices. Although Samsung's TalkBack is built on Google's
John Dyer (Accessible Android)

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Summing up the #curl distro 2025 meet

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/10…

My kind of meeting.


Summing up the curl distro 2025 meet

On April 10 we ran the curl distro meeting 2025. A, by now, annual open meeting where maintainers from the curl project hang out with curl package maintainers for distros and other people who are interested.
daniel.haxx.se
#curl

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Just noticed that most shopping-list apps at PlayStore come with plenty of ad modules – how "fitting". One had 30 of them! Then I took a look at those served by F-Droid and IzzyOnDroid: no ad modules at all (often not even the Internet permission).

KYC: Know Your Choices. And choose wisely!

android.izzysoft.de/applists/c…


Einkaufslisten verwalten - Android App Übersicht

IzzyOnDroid
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅

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Axel

The one feature I'm missing with many free shopping list apps: Being able to
share different lists with different people.
One list that both my wife & I can edit and sync. So I can be sure to have the latest version sync'ed on my smartphone. And other lists that I can share & work on with e.g. a friend that I'm organizing a dinner with...

Android only would be OK, multiplatform would be a big plus, as I prefer to compile lists on my desktop computer...

in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅

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Sylvia

@tetrapyloctomist Not sure how helpful, it's probably enormous overkill if you're not interested in smart home stuff, but given I already have Home Assistant running I use a Home Assistant todo list as shared and syncing shopping list (active internet connection needed). I think Grocy can sync a shopping list too, but it also requires you to set up a server yourself. I don't know anything FOSS that needs less steps sadly.
@Axel
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@nmaggioni which reminds me of Markor, an Android Markdown editor with support for lists and more. Would then of course need something to sync those files, not sure how reliable the Nextcloud app is in that context (but any app that can sync via WebDAV should do; if you know a nice small FOSS app syncing via WebDAV *and* scp, I'm all ears)… @SylvieLorxu @tetrapyloctomist
@Axel @Sylvia @Niccolò Maggioni

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 5 updated (4 RB) and 4 added apps:

* BLEtoMQTT: Android BLE to MQTT bridging service 🛡️
* IPerf3Client: active measurements of the max bandwidth on IP networks 🛡️
* Stepsy: a simple and lightweight step counter app 🛡️
* LinkGuardian: Android client for Linkwarden

New milestone: we crossed the number of 1.300 apps available 🥳

RB status: 568 apps (43.7%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. 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
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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@simon In your recent blog post with your updated LLM pricing table (simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/10/…), I wonder why the table is an image and not an HTML table. You did provide alt text, but an actual HTML table, which can be navigated with specific screen reader commands, would be better.

LLM pricing calculator (updated)

I [updated](https://github.com/simonw/tools/commit/07c91d8b4fd31f4d460e6b0cd9c225af7e211112) my LLM pricing calculator this morning ([Claude transcript](https://claude.
Simon Willison’s Weblog
@Simon Willison

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Gajim 2.1.0 has been released 🥳

This release brings an all-new activity feed and adds support for Message Displayed Synchronization across group chats.

Thank you for all your contributions! ❤️

Support Gajim's development: liberapay.com/Gajim

#gajim #xmpp #chat

gajim.org/post/2025-04-08-gaji…

Gajim's main window showing the new activity feed

Gajim's profile - Liberapay

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

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Every single person on this platform needs a refresher:
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Calling in is a technique that does allow all parties to move forward. It’s a concept created by human-rights practitioners to challenge the toxicity of call-out culture. Calling in is speaking up without tearing down. A call-in can happen publicly or privately, but its key feature is that it’s done with love. Instead of shaming someone who’s made a mistake, we can patiently ask questions to explore what was going on and why the speaker chose their harmful language.

Call-ins are agreements between people who work together to consciously help each other expand their perspectives. They encourage us to recognize our requirements for growth, to admit our mistakes and to commit to doing better. Calling in cannot minimize harm and trauma already inflicted, but it can get to the root of why the injury occurred, and it can stop it from happening again
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learningforjustice.org/magazin…#callingIn


Speaking Up Without Tearing Down

A veteran human rights educator explains the value of teaching students to call each other in rather than out.
Learning for Justice
#callingin

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I've put all of my uBlock Origin additions into this gist:

gist.github.com/mhoye/dcc2c2fe…

It causes mild inconvenience on Google properties, and breaks Twitter and Facebook entirely which I consider a net benefit.

Beyond that: the web snaps into place for me. It's _fast._ Even on slow machines or ancient hardware. The web is insanely fast, if you cut out the sludge.

Works with Firefox+uBlockOrigin. If you're using Chrome or Safari, you should probably do something about that.

Feedback is welcome.


uBlock Origin Bonus Content

uBlock Origin Bonus Content. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Gist
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besides being useful, this is impressive, I can't even imagine how much time this took to put together. hackers.town/@lori/11430992838…

lori

2025-04-09 20:38:04

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Alright I've done it--here's a large collection of short beeps and boops from different video games suitable for using for notification sounds for your phone or whatever else. Over 500 tiny noises curated by me that aren't too long or too horrible to hear beeped at you all day. Enjoy!

d-shoot.net/files/Game_Notific…


in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

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Dickson Tan

I also use Miniflux as my feed reader of choice, its easily one of my most used applications.

How does kubo work? Is it similar to Dropbox? For file syncing and sharing links to other people, I use Seafile.

For uptime monitoring, I use Gatus. I like that it uses YAML to configure various endpoints, which is faster than having to use a GUI that may or may not work.

I've been looking for a notes solution, how's Joplin's accessibility?

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Dickson Tan

Seafile offers an app called Seadrive that you can download which integrates with explorer. The integration adds a seadrive submenu, one of which lets you generate direct links to files. Anyone that has the link doesn't need to install anything to download the file.

For cross-platform syncing, I would use Syncthing, except that it doesn't work on iOS. Hence why I'm still on Seafile for stuff like ensuring my KeePass database is available to all my devices.

in reply to Dickson Tan

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@neurrone Unfortunately I just use iCloud for syncing stuff to IOS. I'm part of an iCloud family, so there isn't really any cheaper option. What I mean about being intentional with sharing is: I don't really want explorer intigration. If I share a random file, now I have to remember that file is shared, and never move/change/delete it. If I upload a file to sharry, I can make the link expire in a month or a year or whatever, and then forget about it. I know the person gets there file, the file will get deleted to free up server space at a reasonable time, and if I want to update it, I can give them a new link, rather than modifying it, and then suddenly realizing I'm sharing modifications that I didn't intend to share yet.
@Dickson Tan

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Egg prices continue to increase despite bird flu outbreak slowing
https://apnews.com/article/egg-prices-bird-flu-cpi-b0ded420e9f7c0a707277c9c63396a76?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-AssociatedPress


Egg prices increase to record high despite Trump's predictions and bird flu outbreak slowing

U.S. egg prices increased again last month to reach a new record-high of $6.23 per dozen despite President Donald Trump’s predictions, a drop in wholesale prices and no egg farms having bird flu outbreaks.
Josh Funk (AP News)
@U.S. News

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"What #Trump demonstrates here is not a strategy but a mental illness. I’m not the first to observe the striking resemblance between Trump’s governing style, particularly on #tariffs, and Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another, more commonly known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy. It involves either pretending that a child is sick or inducing sickness so that you can luxuriate in restoring the child to health."
newrepublic.com/article/193834…

The Sick Psychology Behind Trump’s Tariff Chaos

This isn’t trade strategy. It’s Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
The New Republic
#Trump #tariffs

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An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.
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A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm Black people — and may even be unconstitutional.
propublica.org/article/tiger-a…

#News #Louisiana #Prison #CriminalJustice #CivilRights #Technology #Law


TIGER, the Algorithm Banning Louisiana Prisoners from Parole

ProPublica
#technology #News #law #civilrights #criminaljustice #louisiana #prison

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The March 2025 Android Progress is out! In our latest update, we have:

* news on team changes (including some new iOS hires!)
* our roadmap board
* account drawer improvements
* community contribution highlights and
* an easy way to get involved!

#Thunderbird #Android #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/t…


Thunderbird for Android March 2025 Progress Report - The Thunderbird Blog

This month, we cover recent changes to our team, our roadmap board on GitHub, and contributing via triaging GitHub Issues.
Philipp Kewisch (The Thunderbird Blog)
#android #opensource #thunderbird
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