Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

#Google removes official suggestion that content should be "written by people" -- so trash #AI content is now A-OK! - https://gizmodo.com/google-search-written-by-people-helpful-content-update-1850848956

GOOD GUYS GAIN!

Ukrainian troops successfully breached Russian defensive lines in the liberation of Andriivka and Klishchiivka in the Donetsk region. This achievement was confirmed by Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Syrskyi reported that Ukrainian forces effectively neutralized the 72nd Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, as well as the 31st and 83rd Separate Amphibious Assault Brigades, operating in the Bakhmut direction.

Alan Turing was a mathematician & cryptographer who was a leading code-breaker in the team that decrypted Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during WWII. He inspired modern computing & what became AI.

Instead of being hailed as a genius & hero, Turing was convicted as a homosexual & forced to endure chemical castration. He died by suicide at 41 in 1954.

The British government didn’t apologize until 2009 & Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned him in 2013. #history #science

Donald Trump's ominous warning to U.S. Jews sparks horror: "Full-on Nazi"

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ominous-warning-jews-1827703

#DonaldTrumpWarning #USJews #FullOnNazi #Horror #Newsweek #Ominous #Politics #News

Do not underestimate my willingness to bounce out

Antiabortion religious fascists are a terrorist group.

They want to commit violence against women, and Republicans are fine with that.

THEY’RE ANNOUNCING IT.

#HandsOffOurHealthcare #ProtectTheFACEAct #Abortion

Post-Roe, anti-abortion groups target law protecting clinics from violence

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/16/face-act-anti-abortion-threaten-clinics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Another racist fraud.👇

Thank you.

"#California lawmakers passed a bill known as Delete Act that would allow consumers, with a single request, to have every data broker delete their personal info. Data brokers incl a variety of businesses that gather & sell people’s personal info, such as their address, marital status & spending habits. Those companies incl credit reporting agencies, people-search sites & data analytic firms that work with political campaigns." https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-09-14/california-bill-delete-online-personal-data

California just sued:
- Exxon Mobil
- Shell
- BP
- ConocoPhillips
- Chevron
- The American Petroleum Institute

over #ClimateChange

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/business/california-oil-lawsuit-newsom.html

1836: A teenage girl with blue-grey eyes and an oceanic mind is bent over an astronomy book, preparing to revolutionize our understanding of the planet.

No university anywhere in the world would admit her.
No scientific society would grant her membership.

Still, Eunice Newton Foote would go on to become the first scientist to link atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to rising planetary temperature https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/12/eunice-newton-foote/

Hunter in the grass.

This tiny Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) was right outside the backdoor hunting in the grass. I had to take this shot through the storm door (in America, a storm door is an outer door made of glass).

"Blue-gray Gnatcatchers eat small insects, spiders, and other invertebrates. Prey species vary across their extensive range. In the Southwest, for example, prey include treehoppers, froghoppers, leaf hoppers, plant bugs, tree bugs, leaf beetles, weevils, wolf spiders, caterpillars, and grasshoppers. In the Northeast, adult and larval moths can provide up to half of prey taken. The smallest prey are swallowed alive. The wings are torn off larger prey and their bodies beaten on a perch prior to being eaten. Parents generally feed the young these same foods, offering progressively larger whole prey as the chicks mature." - allaboutbirds.org

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #BlueGrayGnatcatcher

"I'm rich enough, why should my kids get free school meals?"

1) Universal provision means for the price of giving food to a kid who "doesn't need it", kids who need it definitely gets it. No barriers. No forms. No questions or tests.

2) Your kids won't bully the "free meal kids".

3) You have an interest in ensuring that your kids are not just fed but fed well. This means you won't put up with the "poor kid gruel" that you might campaign for to "save money" if you're not using the service.

Keep quiet and appear uncaring, or ask if she's done being mad and die.

#DamnedIfIDoDamedIfIDont
#HashTagGames

@Green_Footballs

The whole Republican Party, as an organization, conspired with a foreign enemy to commit acts of war against the United States, and mounted a violent attempt to overthrow our government. One that is still ongoing.

I agree, these decisions are not reversible. Our democracy has no chance of survival, unless a new conservative party is formed. And, at the moment, nobody is even considering doing that.

Deliberate murders of #Ukraine children by russian soldiers reveal culture of impunity

The story is based on the documentary “Bullet Holes,”

Intro
On a cold March morning, the Mahdyk family bundled themselves into their minivan. Their village near Kyiv was occupied, and they couldn’t bear staying there any longer.

The family – mother Olha, father Valerii, and their two children, 16-year-old Anna and 12-year-old Vladyslav – decided to try to escape

Read more here📎 https://kyivindependent.com/deliberate-murders-of-ukrainian-children-by-russian-soldiers-reveal-culture-of-impunity/

So now SYPHILIS is raging through Texas.

IT'S FUCKING EPIDEMIC THERE.

OMG don't have sex with anyone in Texas.

What a fucking shithole.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/texas/2023/09/13/an-epidemic-syphilis-rages-through-texas-causing-newborn-cases-to-climb-amid-treatment-shortage/

Nice sub-woofers!

#dog #dogs #dogstodon #dogsofmastodon #humor #humour #funny

🙄 (Or... you can buy a traditional tag with your pet's name and address and your phone number on it, which DOES NOT REQUIRE someone to scan a QR code and doesn't advertise a company). Or, you could make your OWN QR code tag (which is dumb, as it puts technology in between yoiu and getting your pet back) #technology #excess

@ai6yr This is a perfect example of how tech is actually making our lives more complex and much worse. How is this offering (which I'm sure you have to pay for and have technology to use) any better than just printing a phone number on the tag!?

Had this Supercharger site been full several of us might have been tempted to attach a tow strap to this guy's tow hooks and shown him that a Tesla has enough torque and adhesion to drag a super-size Ram pickupm even with the brakes set, front hubs locked, and in gear or park.

Or perhaps this is the new Tesla model "A" - for A-hole?

#Tesla #ICEing