We really need to get mainstream media talking about the insight explained in this article - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/30/europe-refugees-border-control-militarise-human-northern-ireland - that their focus on “border spectacles” - such as the UK's 'small boats' reporting - leads directly, inevitably to mob violence.
The BBC etc would say they are just reporting events - but they're not. They entirely miss the context - for example they do not report that almost all immigration is by air, and is people with tickets and documents, or that the vast majority of people arriving without documentation are in fact subsequently found to be legitimate asylum seekers.
But these non-televisual border and legal processes don't make good broadcasting, and oligarchs' right-wing rags aren't drumming up hate around them, so the mainstream 'impartial' media doesn't think they're news either.
I sure wish you wouldn't post LLM output.
Not even to make fun of it.
The fact that you're sharing it means that you're using it. The fact that you're using it means that you're counted as a user. The fact that you're a user means that you're helping extractive-capitalist con men steal money while simultaneously worsening the climate crisis.
A tsunami watch across the entire Pacific Northwest coast is a good reminder that if you're a public agency, you shouldn't be sending required comms via a social platform that requires people to log in.
Also that non-democracy destroying algormic social media exists and government can self host
Once this land was barren & we built a city on it out of pure HTML. Those that came after thought the city had always been here & that another could never be created but this was wrong. We built it. We can tear down & rebuild.
You can leave substack. You can leave twitter. We can make new things.
Worst of all worst case scenarios. A computer program based on secret, corporate "AI" technology surveils you at all times and then decides whether you lose the rights of a citizen
https://www.theverge.com/news/715343/youtube-age-estimation-ai-minor-account-restrictions
The scary thing about the data breach of the Tea app where people’s government IDs were leaked is that multiple governments are passing laws requiring people to provide their ID to random apps and websites to prove they’re 18.
We are going to see some incredibly embarrassing leaks in the future.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/07/26/tea-app-data-breach/85387035007/#
Saving an image to a bird
They converted an image to a waveform, played it to a young starling who imitated it well enough that it could be recorded and the waveform converted back to an image.
The linked video is full of info about bioacoustic monitoring too
Just saw someone whose Google account was shuttered. They’d been… using Sheets to track movies they’d watched.
A question people should ask themselves, but rarely do: What would you do if, tomorrow, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox, and every other cloud provider you use closed your account without warning? Then maybe spend some of today safeguarding against that eventuality.
@Linux_in_a_Bit Limiting the size of files people can share for free makes sense, but I am baffled at "speed at which you can invite others to a room". What does that mean?
Waffles the Cat, composing a song about flying with the birbs. And chomping them.
#cat #CatsOfMastodon #cats #mastocats #tripawed #ThreeLeggedCat #catstodon #fedicats
Here it is! Our metalhead.club public advert in Wacken!
Thank you very much @MountainWizard for checking it out!
If you're in Wacken today or in the next few days: Find our advert at Hauptstraße 33 and maybe take a selfie? 😉
(are we the first Mastodon instance that has publicly deployed an advert?)
