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Tomorrow's general strike in Spain sees 160 actions planned in 131 cities in 16 territories controlled by the Spanish state.

Full list and more details in numerous languages here:

https://huelgaporlavivienda.org/movilizaciones/

#Spain #strike #GeneralStrike #HuelgaGeneral

Yeah, it’s an embarrassing shit stain that .ml is the “main” instance. Every other instance admin is forced to play nice if they want a place to get support, which sucks. Lemmy needs to be forked hard, but those devs are sucking in funding from about a half-dozen or more sources, so they have more incentive than most to do the foot work.

Stephen Miller diary entry ahhh reply

Unfortunately, a couple of them are lead devs for Lemmy :/

Brute force moderation is what killed it IMHO. Same shit that as happening to .world

One can take this lightly (I usually do), but in reality these people are a danger to the entire fediverse.

Getting a ban from lemmy.ml is a badge of honour that many like to collect.

I wasn’t on Reddit for long until I left for the Fediverse, but I didn’t get the feeling I had to hide who I was on it, because you had a bit of everyone on it. So it would be kind of balanced..

Here, people are really leaning on one side. It doesn’t mean that you don’t have really nice and helpful people on the Fediverse, but I feel like I have to censor myself more even if what I’m saying is nothing crazy.

Of course, I’m allowed to say what I want as long as it follows rules, but sometimes I don’t because I don’t want to have any hostility directed at me.

All of this to say, that a few things were better on Reddit even if most of them weren’t.

Saw a post saying some shitty Christian lemmy instance was spamming bullshit on one of their latest posts, I said something along the lines of “probably Russians”. Come to find out my comment was removed and I was banned… then to find out they effectively have a CCP agent running town… lol.

I’ve seen people mention they were a garbage instance, now I know why! They said I broke rule 1 … this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

Glad they did the work for me and made it easy to avoid them.

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

Reddit got bad long before they restricted API access. That's what was the final drop for many people, but it wasn't the beginning at all.

I agree that growing would be a benefit for Lemmy though. While I wouldn't dismiss the dangers of a growing community entirely, we can just defederate from or block problematic parts in theory. So I wouldn't say we're in quite the same danger as centralized platforms.

@stefan@akko.lightnovel-dungeon.de gut dass ich das bett vorher rungergeschubbst habe. jetzt liegst du wenigstens bequem

One of the problems with today's #AI isn't simply misinformation, bias or the occasional hallucination. It's something more subtle, the way AI quietly reinforces #mainstreaming by presenting the default worldview as neutral, objective and common sense.

AI is trained on the accumulated output of a society already shaped by corporate power, institutional thinking, commercial priorities and decades of #neoliberalism. It then reflects that culture back to us, often smoothing away the contradictions, dissent and messy alternatives.

This is the invisible hand - not always an agenda deliberately controlling the answers, but a common sense that normalizes the existing order simply by making it the easiest answer to generate, accept and repeat.

As AI becomes embedded in search, education, journalism, politics and everyday communication, this influence grows. It narrows the space for independent thought while giving the appearance of opening up access to knowledge. More information doesn't mean more understanding, and more technology doesn't automatically mean more freedom.

The danger is that we outsource not just the work of thinking, but the social processes through which we challenge, test and develop ideas together. This is more layers of the #deathcult: turning living human culture into managed, predictable and commercially useful output.

But this mess is compostable. We don't need to reject the technology; we need to challenge the power structures, ownership and assumptions shaping it. We need open data, open processes, collective oversight and, above all, independent grassroots spaces where different ideas can grow.

Grab your shovels, there's a lot of sludge to turn before we get fertile ground for a real #openweb.

#Bolivia: "On Tuesday, urban education workers are observing the second day of a 48-hour strike, accompanied by demonstrations, in opposition to a government draft bill that proposes transferring the administration of technical and technological institutes to regional governments (departmental administrations).

The teaching profession argues that this measure would fragment the public system and open the door to a covert form of privatization.

The protest, organized by 31 federations within the sector, includes marches in several cities, hunger strikes, and demands for an increased budget, adherence to the established teacher career structure, and better working conditions."

https://www.telesurenglish.net/bolivia-teachers-continue-strike-against-educational-decentralization/
#LaPaz #education #protest #strike #publiceducation #RodrigoPaz

@hacks4pancakes

I'm not defending him enthusiastically, I'm just sobbing into my coffee, thinking how I'm just like him (i.e. aged 63) but how come I don't have leather jackets or an attractive young lady partner?? 😢

@Floppy @Thayer @dracos hang on we have you to thank for the development of SplitSave?!?!? It’s amazing! Both for the money it saves and also for shining a spotlight on the absurdity of train pricing.

Getting started with robotics on Ubuntu? Try this.

This is how you install and run a physical robot with snaps: a pair of SO-101 arms on ROS 2 Jazzy, with the follower arm mirroring the leader in real time. You don’t need to build anything from source, and each snap gets only the hardware access you grant it.

Watch the full walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjG_Bjsyfw4

V Praze vznikne koalice STAN, Spolu a Prahy sobě, potvrdili dnes jejich lídři. Složení rady oznámí příští týden před jednáním zastupitelstva.