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I am ashamed of my country. "Germany’s unwavering support for #Israel is not only crushing the rights of those advocating for justice in #Palestine, but also violating the most fundamental principles of international #law" https://zeteo.com/p/germany-tried-to-silence-me-a-un

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Tired of sky-high infrastructure costs? Shrink the asphalt, add greenery, and give people more ways to move. It’s cheaper, safer, and your city looks like it cares about people instead of just cars.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

“A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the U.S., even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers.” […]

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Remember the Navajo Code Talkers, too. Don’t let future generations forget, no matter how hard the government tries. They were heroes.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Considering we are now in a trade war with the deranged lunatic fascist regime in the US, we in Europe need a real alternative to the American corporations Visa Inc. and Mastercard. This needs to be ordered by the Commission or the Parliament to the ECB asap. Also, a system this central & vital […]

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

You think you had a bad cab ride? How does this even happen? I don't think anyone was hurt. God bless the bollards I suppose.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Become an irreplaceable 10x developer in 30 seconds flat Why learn actual skills when you can just look impressive instead? Introducing rust-stakeholder - a CLI tool that generates absolutely meaningless but impressive-looking terminal output to convince everyone you're a coding genius […]

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

AI is fundamentally about colonialism. At its roots, what makes GenAI work is currency and hourly wage arbitrage. Pay data workers in Africa and Asia very low amounts of money to basically put the raw materials together. There’s no surprise why @timnitGebru, @abebab and others have called […]

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Norra Sverige måste kunna säga nej till ny kapacitet för att föra över el till andra elprisområden. Alternativet skapar bara högre elpriser här hemma. Får Skåne värna sina intressen kan också vi. (Obs sarkasm) https://www.dn.se/debatt/orimliga-elavgifter-for-skane-forhandla-om-eu-reglerna/

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Mentioning to the teachers during parent-teacher conferences that the kids spend 15 mins less time on the bus each day thanks to #CongestionPricing

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

”En jägare i Bollnäs överraskades av en björn under lodjursjakten på lördagen – och tvingades skjuta björnen i nödvärn, skriver Svensk Jakt.” Nödvärn betyder att björnen gjort ”brottsligt angrepp på person eller egendom”, att björnen ”med våld eller hot om våld eller på annat sätt hindrar att […]

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Denmark has donated 19 of the F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, and now Trump has ordered an end to US support for their onboard jamming equipment, thereby helping Putin destroy this USD 291,000,000 donation. This US administration is our enemy, and the sooner our politicians realize that, the […]

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

What's the most common feedback/comment I've received over the past month? "I used to like reading your stuff when you didn't write about politics all the time." My response: Me too. But they've left me no choice at this point. If you think tech isn't politics and vice versa, you probably […]

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

Turkey are testing helicopters in northern Sweden. The weather in northern Sweden and northern Kurdistan are similar. Why would Turkey test helicopters in weather similar to northern Kurdistan? Are there any reasons except the obvious? […]

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Due to the actions of the US government towards Canada, I will not be attending #PyCon US this year. https://snarky.ca/why-i-wont-be-attending-pycon-us-this-year/

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

🎉 New paper in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122 Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.

submitted 23 days ago • 11 comments

What's to stop Musk, who's already tried meddling with German elections, from seizing Zelenskyy's, or any other European leader's X account, and posting something with dire geopolitical consequences? We're way past the point where it's wise for European leaders and institutions to rely on a […]

submitted 27 days ago • 15 comments

I got a haircut today. Usually the chatter with the hairdresser is about the school or the construction work nearby etc. Today, it was about how she went through every shampoo and hairbrush and comb she buys and removed anything coming from the US. People outside Denmark often don’t realise how […]

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

My Mastodon client, @ivory changes its accent colour sometimes, automatically. There is, as far as I know, no setting for this, but presumably if I choose a colour it will stop changing. Now to the problem. One of the selectable accent colours is black, the same as the text colour. Black is […]

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment