And exactly as I thought instead of education and simplifying workflows purposes these companies' "AI's" will be used to generate a "better" ads experience for you. Absolutely disgusting.
While they are still available use the Ad Blockers or FreeTube App if you want to see more sane and adequate ytb like it used to be long time ago.
Alle sind anders, alle sind gleich. Nein, zu Homophobie und Transphobie. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 und Solidarität!
#IDAHOBIT #IDAHOBIT2025
ive been forced to forward this to you, the unsuspecting victim, by circumstances beyond my control
with deepest apologies
Manchmal frustriert mich die Ignoranz meiner Mitmenschen in Bezug auf #Klima und "Aber warum fliegst du denn nicht auch einfach mal ein paar Tage nach Malle?" so sehr , dass ich mir fast wünsche, die Erde möge noch schneller verbrennen als ohnehin schon, nur um ihnen möglichst bald "I told u so" ins Gesicht schreien zu können.
Und ja, ich weiß, dass das nicht der Weg ist, der zum Ziel führt und versuche mich nur kommentarlos und geduldig als Vorbild. Aber es ist oft genug echt frustrierend. 🤬
The European Citizens' Initiative on banning conversion therapy has reached the goal of one million signatures! 🎉 I'm genuinely surprised how much it picked up pace this final week
That doesn't mean you shouldn't still sign it! It'll only be brought to the Commission if it has a million *valid* signatures, and some fraction is always found to be invalid. So let's give it some margin above one million!
These: Die Arroganz einiger „Nerds“, die denken „weil ich programmieren kann, checke ich den Code der Welt“ ist Teil des Problems. Und diese permanente Abwertung einiger von Nicht-Naturwissenschaften a la „Ja die waren halt alle schlecht in Mathe LOL“ ist einfach nur Kindergarten.
It is 7 AM CEST. The EU citizen initiative calling for a ban on "conversion therapy" (here meaning, pseudoscientific attempts to "cure" LGBTQs) is less than 250,000 votes from success. This is astounding, the votes have like, *tripled* in a week.
The page says voting ends "May 17", and I wish I knew if that meant "at midnight tonight" or "midnight tomorrow" or what. Uh. Do you know
Germany is ~6,000 local votes from endorsing it. Are there 6,000 Germans on this website
We are so close to succeeding in getting enough signatures on this petition to request to ban conversion practices in the EU, and we only have one day left.
Please sign it, even if you don't think petitions like these work. Because even if they don't work, signing it takes barely any time, and giving a signal to the EU that this should be banned in the entire union will at least remind the politicians that this is something their voters care about.
💲Paid
Friends from the EU. It doesn't matter which EU country you're from, it is very important that you sign the petition for ban on conversion therapy across the EU.
The threshold has been reached for number of countries but very far from the target on raw numbers of votes. It does not matter which EU country you're from. every vote counts.
When scholarly discussions happen in private Slack channels or get buried in Twitter threads, most researchers miss out. Sciety has secured funding from @nlnet to build something better. We're working with @bonfire, to develop a space for preprint discussion that is open, interoperable and will allow any preprint evaluation community to replicate and run themselves
Read more: https://blog.sciety.org/sciety-secures-funding-from-nlnet-foundation-to-help-build-discourse-around-preprints/ #Fediverse #Preprints #PeerReview
#GnuTaler released v1.0 🎉 – still considered a public beta, but hey! A step closer to have digital cash that is worth your money. 🤑
„Der deutsche Softwarekonzern SAP beendet einem Medienbericht zufolge seine Programme für Geschlechtervielfalt im Unternehmen.
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Das Unternehmen gibt in dem internen Schreiben dem Bericht zufolge als Grund die starke Präsenz von SAP in den USA an.“
Reaktionäre Waschlappen.
🎉🔬 More news this weekend.
@sciety (eLife's preprint evaluation platform) has secured funding from @nlnet to build a Bonfire flavour for federating preprint reviews and discussions.
This means federated, community-governed spaces for open discourse around scientific preprints outside traditional publishing gatekeepers.
Read the full announcement: https://blog.sciety.org/sciety-secures-funding-from-nlnet-foundation-to-help-build-discourse-around-preprints/
As we approach the release of Bonfire 1.0, this isn’t your typical launch announcement. Instead, it’s a moment to reflect on how we’ve built Bonfire, a roadmap of values, methods, and intentions – and an invitation to define what comes next.
In a world of “move fast and break things,” we’ve chosen a different tempo — one rooted in care, deep listening, and collective stewardship...
📣 Read our latest blog post:
https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/slow_software_for_a_burning_world/
Announcing Spritely Oaken: a project to build a secure language execution environment for Guile Scheme! Funded by NLNet and NGI Zero! https://spritely.institute/news/announcing-spritely-oaken.html
Blogpost by Oaken's lead author, @dpk !
Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI
It's becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand why people dislike AI. I will elaborate. I was recently made aware of the Jetbrains developer ecosystem survey, which included a lot of questions about AI. After I answered some of them negatively (and possibly…
http://soatok.blog/2025/05/04/tech-companies-apparently-do-not-understand-why-we-dislike-ai/
People who get upset over trans people are upset because they think it's dangerous for someone else to define who they are for themselves, rather than having society define who they are.
Transitioning is an act of taking control over one's life in a profound way, and authoritarian motherfuckers everywhere are pissed that we take their power away.
Our act of simply being ourselves effectively tells other people and society to shove their control over us right up their collective ass.