Happy Friday, and happy #NoKings Day Eve!
No Kings
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to ...
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CrimethInc.
Staying Safe in the Streets
In view of the ongoing police violence in Ferguson, Missouri, comrades have requested that we post some new material about how participants in prot...
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American Civil Liberties Union
Know Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLU
The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allo...
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How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? – The Markup
Simple steps to take before hitting the streets
 ✊ #USPol #protest #organize #march #NoKingsDay #FiftyFiftyOne
"Research outfit Five Percent has published a new white paper analysing online content published between January 2020 and May 2025. The results indicate that material created with machine learning tools initially overtook human-written content late last year."
PC Gamer
AI content now outnumbers human-written articles on the internet, but the good news is that the slop seems to have plateaued, for now
Apparently, AI slop doesn
 #news #technology #TechNews #slop #AI #DeadInternet #DeadInternetTheory image
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The Mastodon 4.5.0 beta with quote posts, automated fetching of missing replies, and more improvements is out now! "If all goes well, we plan to r...
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The Mastodon 4.5.0 beta with quote posts, automated fetching of missing replies, and more improvements is out now! "If all goes well, we plan to release the final 4.5.0 version within the next 3 weeks."
GitHub
Release v4.5.0-beta.1 · mastodon/mastodon
WarningThis is a pre-release! This has not been as widely tested as regular releases, although it is still tested on mastodon.social and some other...
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Mastodon
Mastodon Engineering (@MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social)
The first beta release of Mastodon 4.5.0 is ready for testing! Quote posts are finally here, as well as automated fetching of remote replies and ...
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The Black Panther Party was founded #OnThisDay in 1966. From a 2016 article commemorating its 50th anniversary: "The work of the Black Panthers remains important for several reasons. First, they remind us that the problem of police brutality has long been with us [...] Second, the BPP offers a good model of grassroots activism and ideology in practice."
Remembering the Black Panther Party
More than five decades after its founding, the Black Panther Party's antiracist, anticapitalist vision remains just as relevant today.
Black Panther Party - Wikipedia
 #history #BlackHistory #BlackPanthers #BlackPantherParty
"Babbage saw the analytical engine as a mathematical device. After all, it primarily stored and operated on numbers. But Lovelace recognized that a machine de­­signed to crunch numbers could do much more if the numbers represented other things. “Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such ex­­pres­sion and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.”" Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Scientific American
Ada Lovelace’s 180-Year-Old Endnotes Foretold the Future of Computation
Ada Lovelace’s wisdom about the first general-purpose computer can be found buried in the appendix of another paper
Ada Lovelace Day - Wikipedia
 #AdaLovelace #computers #STEM #WomenInStem #AdaLovelaceDay
Heads-up, New Jersey: Tomorrow is the deadline to register to vote in the upcoming NJ gubernatorial election. You won't want to miss it.
NJ Voter Information Portal
NJ Voter information about the Elections.
7 Ways the Candidates for New Jersey Governor Would Differ on Day 1
The race has been heavily influenced by national politics. But in a debate on Sunday, the candidates, Jack Ciattarelli and Representative Mikie She...
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"On [this] day in 1964, Dr. Robert Moog introduced the world to a completely new type of instrument that would go on to change the course of music history and influence decades of future instrument design." (Video from 2014, marking Moog's 50th anniversary.)
Moog synthesizer - Wikipedia
 #moog #music #history #MusicHistory #anniversary #OTD #OnThisDay