szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Did you know there are fun interactive bots on the Fediverse?

➡️ @dungeons - Simple Dungeons & Dragons campaigns with random encounters, vote on what to do next

➡️ @VoteChess - Chess game, humans vs computer: vote on which move to make next

➡️ @xyzzy - Interactive simulation of playing a text adventure, generates random locations & characters

➡️ @bbcmicrobot - Emulator of the Acorn BBC computer, toot it some BASIC code and it will reply with a screenshot or video of it running

This Daily Beast piece on DeSantis' security team tripping over themselves to keep a 15-year-old kid from asking difficult questions is pure gold. Getting big time Dead Zone vibes after reading this story, and this kid is my new hero.

His question should be the first that anyone asks every GOP candidate on the campaign trail for the next 14 months:

“Do you believe that Trump violated the peaceful transfer of power,” the teenager asked the governor, “a key principle of American democracy that we must uphold?”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-president-candidate-ron-desantis-is-afraid-of-questions-from-15-year-old-quinn-mitchell

@yngmar I have actually jumped my vehicles from my wheelchair more than once!

Being a civil servant is easy; being a good one is not. And most of the time, nobody tells you to be a good one.

Just when I thought Canada couldn't get any more Canada: there's a hockey stick in this beaver dam.

Oh, just lovely. Thanks, AI.

My partner - who is a teacher - went back to work after the summer holiday.

Their management team told them at a staff meeting that they were providing free school meals for TEACHERS suffering hardship. And a hardship fund for TEACHERS who don't earn enough money to survive.

My partner thought it was a decent thing to do. It just made me angry.

There is something beyond wrong when professional workers like teachers are unable to survive on their salaries. The answer isn't papering over the cracks and pretending this is a normal state of affairs. It's happening to so many workers, not just teachers.

Something's got to give. It will.

#uk #ukpolitics #ukschools #teachers #schools #hardship

I was often accused of being in a liberal bubble because I had no patience for right wing idiots and was quick to block not only Nazis and fascists, but racists, sexists, queerphobes, MAGAts, and pretty much everyone else whose views I found problematic or challenging.

After much soul searching, I decided that my accusers had a point. I was living in a liberal, mostly-white, picket-fence-LGBTQ bubble. So I decided I needed to expand my circle and expose myself to a broader range of views. Since last year, I have endeavored to get out of that white, liberal bubble.

Does that mean I’m following free-speechers and trump bros? Hell no. I now follow every BIPOC and queer account I can find, read what they have to say, and boost their posts frequently. I have also started following activists, anarchists, syndicalists, communists, environmentalists, and other people who are dedicated to change and to actually fighting the oligarchs who are looting our world. I am exploring topics that these communities have well-developed knowledge and scholarship on, but that have mostly been suppressed from mainstream discourse.

If you feel like all the posts in your feed are all saying the same thing, why not switch it up a bit? Get out of your comfort zone and follow people who you currently think are “too radical”. Maybe you will decide your bubble is big enough to encompass some of their ideals as well.

Let’s change the world together.

#CompostTheRich

#Covid19

A man in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to death for his tweets, and surprise: Elon Musk is NOT funding his legal bill as promised because there's a good chance that the necessary data to identify this man came from the second largest shareholder of Twitter: the Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

Musk has been awfully silent about this as you can't really make your “freedom of speech!!” argument when you assist with killing a retired teacher for the regime critic posts they made on your platform, only possible because that regime owns a huge chunk of “your” platform.

#CowsOfMastodon

Poradniki zbierania grzybów, które... mogą mieć tragiczne skutki:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/01/mushroom-pickers-urged-to-avoid-foraging-books-on-amazon-that-appear-to-be-written-by-ai

bo pisane przez sztuczną inteligencję, która za nic nie bierze odpowiedzialności.

#SztucznaInteligencja #AI #grzyby #zbieranieGrzybów #grzybiarze #książki #poradnik #poradniki

#software #unexplained