"Thousands"'nWTF is wrong with the press.
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I saw that... what is going on at the BBC? The Guardian did it better.
The Guardian:Millions across all 50 US states march in No Kings protests against Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/18/no-kings-protests-events-states
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@petergleick Dozens, even.
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@petergleick Yeah, this is false reporting. They might try to hide behind "technically true", but that's just not how we communicate numbers. If a government program was projected to cost roughly $9 million, would the headline say it cost "thousands of dollars"?
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@petergleick
“There must be *thousands* of them!”
“*Hundreds* of thousands.”
“One million seven hundred seventy one thousand five hundred sixty one.” -
@petergleick yeah, y’know, like 1000 thousands times seven
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Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@lauramassera Hai assolutamente ragione, ma diciamo anche che nel 2025 è impossibile non riconoscere che la malvagità antisociale è il tratto distintivo di quelle Big Tech che spesso si presentavano eticamente candide.
L'unica eccezione è probabilmente quella di Apple che effettivamente ha deciso, sia anche solo per questioni di marketing e narrativa aziendale, di opporsi alle nuove tendenze del cattivismo trumpiano
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@mattwiebe.blog what a journey!
I’m really impressed by your plans... I don’t think I’d ever have enough courage to pull something like that off. I hope I’ll get the chance to try your pizza someday!
Would be a great reason to visit Mexico 🙂
...and thanks for all your work on the ActivityPub plugin, I really miss your contributions ❤️
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@OpenSoul era quello che mi stavo chiedendo anch'io. Il guaio è che è difficile fare una discussione seria, perché la maggior parte dei commenti che si leggono sono a tesi...
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@stefano I think, it had been like this for a while. Sites for lots of more or less big projects, especially if they have paid version of a product, are marketing and buzzwords. That why I usually go straight to Documentation->How to get started for some simple overview and examples.
Looks like they just added those AI buttons without changing a site much.
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The Mechanically Perfect Lie
A loud noise outside my window brings back a memory from 2002. The night I truly could have died.
https://my-notes.dragas.net/2026/01/11/the-mechanically-perfect-lie/
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La battaglia per la libertà cognitiva nell'era dell'intelligenza artificiale aziendale
La libertà di pensiero non è solo uno scudo contro le intrusioni, è il terreno su cui costruiamo tutto il resto: il diritto di esprimersi, dissentire, credere, imparare, amare. Richiede sia libertà negative (da manipolazione, sorveglianza, coercizione) sia positive (di immaginare alternative, di cercare la verità, di plasmare le nostre opinioni e preferenze).
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-battle-for-cognitive-liberty-in-the-age-of-corporate-ai/
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@Elizafox when I first saw the original post, I snickered*, but thought it wasn't worth boosting. Then I saw it a second time because of Mastodon timeline reset shenaningans, I snickered again, but this time I boosted it, because I felt that something that could make me snicker two times in a row was definitely worth boosting.
(* not sure if this is the right word?)
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@NocturneGames https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17033 here's the paper for the algorithm, i didn't spot a link to it in the article
