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Social - Alice Ice

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I think proper mental health must involve, on some level, respecting the fact that you are a very thin conscious layer over a mammalian brain structure shared with wild animals, and while your higher thought processes may override those needs in the short-term, over the long-term, you're still an animal with basic needs like food security, shelter, territory you control, exercise, socializing, being horny, etc. and trying to ignore them instead of just taking a walk sometimes will be seriously detrimental no matter how many spoons you have.

At the same time, it's silly to assume that a future civilization will grow "beyond" such "base impulses". As C.S. Lewis pointed out, the fear of being perceived as childish is, itself, a childish thing. I think a highly advanced society might give itself more control over ancient feral urges while still preserving and shamelessly indulging in some of them, because they know better than to be ashamed of such desires.

🚲 Fahrradstraße heißt: Radverkehr hat Vorrang. Eigentlich.

Ein Mitglied übt mit seinem 8-jährigen Sohn sicheres Radfahren – auf der Berliner Straße, Mannheims meistbefahrene Fahrradstraße. Die Kamera am Lenker (Loop-Modus) des Kindes zeigt: Ein Pkw überholt ohne die vorgeschriebenen 1,50m (Gerichte: 2m bei Kindern!) Abstand, drängt den 8-Jährigen Richtung Poller & biegt direkt vor ihm rechts ab. Geblinkt wird erst mittendrin. Nur weil das Kind geistesgegenwärtig bremst, passiert nichts.

Die Familie erstattet Anzeige. Die Staatsanwaltschaft leitet kein Ermittlungsverfahren ein – obwohl im Bescheid wörtlich steht, das Kind sei „zum Abbremsen genötigt" worden. Übrig bleibt ein Bußgeldverfahren.

Ein Kind. Eine Fahrradstraße. Ein Videobeweis. Trotzdem: keine Ermittlungen. 🤯

Petition 201482 will diese Schutzlücke schließen: Zu enges Überholen soll im Regelfall Straftat sein.✍️ Mitzeichnen bis 11.08.: https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/content/petitionen/_2026/_05/_26/Petition_201482.html

@m4rco @christin

H.P. ist eine fesselnde Geschichte, die J.K. Rowlings dazu befähigt trans* Menschen zunichte zu machen.

Also meiner Meinung nach kann die Geschichte noch so fesselnd sein. Sollte man trotzdem nicht noch unterstützen wenn einem andere Menschen nicht egal sind.

In his first 150 days, Mayor Mamdani has:
- closed a $12B deficit
- collected $9M in unpaid fines from Bezos
- recovered $5M in stolen wages for gig workers
- raised minimum wage to $30/hr
- drove violent crime to record lows
- marched for trans rights

I don't ever want to hear an excuse from a single Democrat ever again. Turns out the "radical leftist agenda" is just competent representation.

Literally just competent government doing its job. Zohran Mamdani marching at pride waving a trans flag over his head like the based BAMF he is.

@morpheus warum ausgerechnet Hogwarts? Wieso nicht Burg Hoenstauffen oder Schloss Neuschwanstein???

J.K. Rowlings verwendet all ihr Geld, das sie mit H.P. verdient, um trans* Menschen zunichte zu machen!

trifft viele von uns. Leider heißt es bei Anzeigen oft „kein “.
Helft uns das zu ändern. Unterzeichnet die Petition und verbreitet sie. Danke

https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2026/_05/_26/Petition_201482.nc.html

Die Europapartei der AfD verstößt gegen Grundwerte der EU und kann verboten werden. Das sagt die EU-Behörde für europäische politische Parteien. Politico hat den Bericht veröffentlicht. Hier das Anschreiben ohne Wasserzeichen.
https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/09/ESNpartyAPPFdocument-1.pdf
https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/09/ESNpartyAPPFdocument-2.pdf

The Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations ('Authority') registers, controls and, where necessary, imposes sanctions on European political parties and European political foundations, in accordance with
Article 8(1) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2025/2445 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 November 2025 on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations (recast) (the "Regulation").

Among the registration conditions for European political parties which must be upheld at all times, the legislator requires that the European political party observes the values on which the Union is founded as laid down in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union (Article 3(1)(d) of the Regulation) and, as recently introduced by the Union legislator, that the European political party ensures that its member parties do the same (Article 3(1)(e) of the Regulation).

Europe of Sovereign Nations ("ESN Party") is registered as a European political party. Certain facts came to the Authority's attention which cast doubt on the compliance by ESN Party with the conditions laid down in Article 3(1), point (d) and point (e) of the Regulation. As required by Article 13(4) of the Regulation under such circumstances, the Authority hereby informs you of those facts and provides corresponding documentation in annex to this letter, with a view to enabling a declaration, within two months, of your Institution's […]
In case the European Parliament, the Council or the Commission were to lodge a request for verification with the Authority according to Article 13(1) of the Regulation, the procedural steps that would still follow are:

(i) the Authority informs the European political party concerned, invites it to submit its observations and gives it the opportunity to introduce, in principle within one month, measures to remedy the situation;

(ii) the Authority submits the file, including observations of the European political party concerned and, where relevant, a description of corrective measures taken by that party, to the Committee of independent eminent persons referred to in Article 16 of the Regulation ('the Committee'), asking that Committee for an opinion on the subject to be given within two months; and

(iii) the Authority adopts a reasoned decision, taking into account the opinion of the Committee, whether to remove the European political party concerned from the Register in accordance with Article 13(6) and (7) of the Regulation. A decision of removal from the Register shall only be adopted in the event of a manifest and serious breach of the conditions in Article 3(1)(d) or (e) thereof. In case a removal from the Register were decided by the Authority, that decision would enter into force only if no objection is made by European Parliament and Council, which shall be reasoned and be made public, in accordance with Article 13(8) and (9) and (11) of the Regulation.

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Es geht los. Die Petition für ein gegen ist online.

Es kann nicht überall gute Radwege geben. Geltendes Recht muss auch für die Sicherheit von Fuß- und Radverkehr durchgesetzt werden!

https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2026/_05/_26/Petition_201482.$$$.a.u.html

Logo öffentliches Interesse gegen Autogewalt

NASA’s climate crisis visualization is a reality check

The planet is getting hotter. Fast.

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190/

TIL `C-c C-t` calls "doc-view-open-text", which renders the plain text version of documents.

It just opens a "pdf as text" and its insane as we can cook with this text comfortably.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Document-View.html

My partner just replaced the NVMe SSD in her Thinkpad and installed Linux Mint, and all I did was stand there and look pretty.

Boys can be pretty.

boobthink

tumblr post from crafty-butch

anyone else notice how when "digital assistants" were just supposed to do specific tasks when you asked for them we had Alexa and Siri and Cortana, but now that they're being marketed as smart enough to take actions and make decisions on their own they've got names like Claude and Devin

When you see the story
about how the world
now has its first trillionaire,
and when you see the story
about how laboratories
in Congo have run out
of supplies to test for Ebola,
it is important to understand
that in many ways
these are the same story.

@bastian

Klingt so als wäre das ganze *aktuell* noch günstiger weil die großen Anbieter den ganzen Kram subventionieren auf geliehenem Geld.

Bei allem was Computer so machen sind Hardware und Energie die Hauptkosten.

Hardware für AI ist definitiv teuer als "traditionelle" Hardware. Daher können also schon mal keine Ersparnisse kommen.

Bleiben also nur noch die Energiekosten.

Grundlegend benötigt eine Suche mit LLMs mehr Energie wie eine vergleichbare traditionelle Suche. Studien sprechen von bis zu zehn mal mehr Energie. [1]

Ich habe mir Vlads Erklärung durchgelesen, bin aber der Meinung, dass das nicht die wirklichen Kosten von AI darstellt.

AI kostet aktuell nicht so viel wie es kosten müsste um damit tatsächlich Geld zu verdienen. [2]

Meiner Meinung nach ist das also einfach gelogen, dass AI weniger kostet als eine traditionelle Suche.

Das ist nur alles so sehr von Venture Capital Geld subventioniert, dass es sich aktuell "rechnet".

Sobald da mal Profite rollen sollen sieht das ganze wieder ganz anders aus.

[1]: https://kanoppi.co/search-engines-vs-ai-energy-consumption-compared/

[2]: https://isaiprofitable.com/

@bastian

P.S.: Könntest Du mir mal zeigen worauf Du die Aussage basierst, dass Du mit Offline-KI einen kleineren Fußabdruck als mit einer klassischen Suche hast? Bisher habe ich dazu immer gegenteiliges gehört (die sozial-ethischen Aspekte mal außen vor gelassen)

@bastian

Klingt alles super. Ist nur leider eine Nazibar und absolut transphob.

Ich empfehle folgende Lektüre dazu: https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

Als Alternative empfehle ich momentan @MetaGer

Nutzt zwar leider auch die Indizes der großen Anbieter ( wer tut das nicht... ) kann dafur aber vollständig anonym genutzt werden.

Guenter GR: "The best Long Covid study to date has now been published, with surprising results that enable new therapeutic approaches. In simple terms: Long Covid is caused (in the areas studied) by autoantibodies in the blood, which then attack very important parts of the brain and can actually explain all the symptoms."

"Key insight: Long Covid patients must absolutely not donate blood, because it appears to be transmissible via those autoantibodies in the blood!"

Article: https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2026/06/02/autoimmune-long-covid-subset/

Study: https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(26)00509-X

X source: https://x.com/GrGuenter/status/2064237168898216176

SMD soldering using the sun.

it works astonishingly well. the trick is to de-focus the spot and light up the whole PCB. first we failed by heating the metal plate underneath with a highly focused spot. but that led to accidentally burnt PCB spots at corners and didn't melt the paste.

it works so much better than using a hot plate, so I officially declare it state of the art as of today.

Welcome to streamer school, based on having watched too many streams with sound FAR too quiet, and seen too many guides and articles that are wrong, *here* is where your audio should be.

Keep your voice within the red section on OBS without smashing the top end. Use a compressor to keep it there.

Don't let your game go into the amber section (or if it does, not often). If you use music instead of a game, put that a little lower than you would a game.

a simple MS paint graph matching an audio meter. Voice is in the red section. Game is at the absolute top end of the green section. Music is just a bit quieter than that.

As a KWin developer and KDE's accessibility engineer...

https://nocoffei.com/?p=451

This is a problem. We need to solve it. Fast.

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