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  • It's great to hear that "every outcome is open science / open source" with permissive licenses for the common good instead of a patent.

    Continuing this theme, Liberapay would make sense as an option for contributing.

  • Greening Cities with Kotchakorn Voraakhom - Unf*cking the Future

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    <p>As the world heats up, our cities need to adapt. Today we speak with Thai landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom on how she's designing new, more resilient urban environments in her homebase of Bangkok.ย <br><em>Show notes from Chris:</em></p> <p>ย </p> <ul> <li>Sadly, our cities are increasingly...

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    The effect of safety attire on perceptions of cyclist dehumanisation (open access)
  • It's a difficult task but local bicycle advocacy groups are putting pressure on municipalities and making a difference. Whuch is why I always urge people to join the fine folks in ones' community pushing for positive change.

  • The Flowchart to Global Revolution
  • I like Anark's videos. Just a suggestion: consider linking to the original content or uploading to Peertube since I imagine the large video files take up lots of space on lemmy instances.

    Here's their patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Anark

  • The '15-minute city' might not be realistic for North America, researchers find
  • Contradiction: Copenhagen, notably walkable and bikeable city, was razed in the first half of the 20th century for parking and roads to make it more like an american city of today. They rebuilt before being the active transport friendly city that is now is.

  • 2040 a hopeful and realistic Solarpunk movie about our future
  • I had a similar observation when watching it, particularly around eco-modernism.

    As Giorgos Kallis put it,

    "eco-modernism โ€” that is, the idea that all environmental and social problems can ultimately be solved with the application of technology, and that the only solution to the problems of modern technology is more modern technology."

  • A Modest Proposal: /c/pleasantpolitics
  • Can you please comment on:

    1. What programming and/or scripting languages are used in your tool
    2. Whether is uses an LLM
    3. How the algorithm functions from a high level
    4. What user data is stored on your machine
    5. If 4 applies, then any measures taken to secure that data and maintain privacy.

    My intention is not to be pedantic, but to learn more about your proposed solution. I do appreciate your thoughtful answers in the comments here.

  • Mapping for people, not cars
  • In my experience, Europeans certainly have streets without sidewalks and areas with poor transportation infrastructure. So I understand why some can relate.

    However, it's truly on another level in many North American cities. Like in the heart of many densely populated cities, it can be nearly impossible to go to the grocery store without a car. Entire suburbs housing hundreds of thousands without a single sidewalk. High speed limit stroads, filled with full size SUVs and pickup trucks which carry twice the inertia and ability to kill and maime as a smaller car.

  • With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free.
  • I've actually noticed more GPL-licensed projects give attribution to not only the original author but all contributors.

    Whereas I can't tell you how many times I've worked on proprietary software where the company didn't give attribution for MIT-licensed code. Unlike GPL'd code, the author has no way of knowing that they weren't attributed since the code is proprietary.

    I believe GPL does have an attribution requirement btw:

    Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, for material you add to a covered work, you may (if authorized by the copyright holders of that material) supplement the terms of this License with terms:

    a) Disclaiming warranty or limiting liability differently from the terms of sections 15 and 16 of this License; or

    b) Requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal notices or author attributions in that material or in the Appropriate Legal Notices displayed by works containing it;

  • A Modest Proposal: /c/pleasantpolitics
  • I have some questions::

    1. Will there be discussion before banning or only after banning?

    2. Will the ban system be reviewed regularly and by whom?

    3. Are you open to discussing the technology you claim to have built for this? In my opinion, denying transparency and relying on security by obscurity of a closed-source algorithm makes me question the algorithm and also reminds me of moderation on Meta and YouTube.

    4. Have you attempted this method of tone policing with manual moderation in any communities first? If so, how did it go?

    5. Is this post satire?

  • breachmedia.ca Inside the โ€˜shockingโ€™ police operation targeting pro-Palestine activists in Toronto

    A heavily-resourced Hate Crimes Unit has engaged in surveillance, night raids, and โ€˜trumped up chargesโ€™ against the Palestinian solidarity movement A heavily-resourced Hate Crimes Unit has engaged in surveillance, night raids, and โ€˜trumped up chargesโ€™ against the Palestinian solidarity movement

    Inside the โ€˜shockingโ€™ police operation targeting pro-Palestine activists in Toronto

    "The arrest, she was informed, was for a peaceful sit-in she had attended at the Toronto office of Awz Ventures three months earlier, in January.

    Suzanne is not the protesterโ€™s real name, and The Breach has agreed to keep her anonymous for fear of professional retribution.

    Awz, an investment fund led by former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, is behind a facial recognition tech being used by the Israeli military to conduct mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza."...

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    breachmedia.ca Inside the โ€˜shockingโ€™ police operation targeting pro-Palestine activists in Toronto

    A heavily-resourced Hate Crimes Unit has engaged in surveillance, night raids, and โ€˜trumped up chargesโ€™ against the Palestinian solidarity movement A heavily-resourced Hate Crimes Unit has engaged in surveillance, night raids, and โ€˜trumped up chargesโ€™ against the Palestinian solidarity movement

    Inside the โ€˜shockingโ€™ police operation targeting pro-Palestine activists in Toronto
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    In Person Activism @slrpnk.net ๐—ง๐—ผ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ *๐‘ฃ๐‘’๐‘Ÿ๐‘ฆ ๐‘๐‘ข๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘‘ ๐‘‘๐‘œ๐‘ค๐‘› @slrpnk.net

    What are some unexpected items that are helpful to donate to a well-supplied Free Palestine university encampment?

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