Curioso 🍉 🇺🇦 (jgg) @jgg@qoto.org

A supermajority of people in the US support trans folks' civil rights.

"In a new survey of over 1,000 respondents, 85% of Americans believe that 'transgender people should have the same rights and protection as everyone else.' The sentiment was agreed upon by 92% of Democrats, 76% of Republicans and 87% of independents. The survey was conducted by research firm SSRS and funded by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation."

https://www.them.us/story/transgender-rights-human-rights-campaign-survey-data-american-support

#trans #news #lgbtq #uspol

RE: https://mastodon.social/@niasoler/116318188463589635

Palantir hoy acumula una combinación de capital, datos, influencia política y capacidades tecnológicas que la convierten en la empresa más peligrosa y perversa del planeta. Los gobiernos no pueden depender de empresas así y menos aún delegar la toma de decisiones en sistemas automatizados que fueron diseñados desde el desprecio total por la democracia ⚠️ como afirma su fundador Peter Thiel.

#AI #IA #Palantir #PeterThiel #surveillance #europe #security #data #dataprivacy #military

#GiftLink

"Three ICE agents arrived. They first encountered Ms. Rickling and her husband in the lobby. They told us that they didn’t have a choice, they said they had to take Annie,” recalled Ms. Rickling. She said they apologized.

“I begged them not to take her,” Ms. Rickling said. “They said the higher-ups made them do it.”"

**ICE Agents Detain Newlywed Spouse of Soldier Training to Deploy** - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/us/ice-detains-military-wife-soldier-deployment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YlA.XKkT.blanaePOShOc&smid=url-share

JUST IN: Maine is about to become the first US state to ban new data centers.

And 10 other states are right behind it.

Maine wants to freeze massive construction projects until late 2027.

The bill passed the Democratic-controlled House (with Republican support). The Senate is expected to follow. Gov. Janet Mills backs it.

And right now, at least 10 states are advancing similar bans.

AI runs on electricity. MASSIVE amounts of it.

One large data center uses at least 20 megawatts of power. That's enough to light up 15,000+ homes.

And someone always pays for that power.

Right now? You do.

When data centers flood a state, power demand spikes. Utilities raise rates. Homeowners get the bill.

Data centers need land. They need water. They need MASSIVE amounts of electricity.

The next 18 months will decide whether the AI energy problem gets solved or gets worse.

It's no secret that I've been struggling, and my therapist said I need to find things to keep me busy, so I created the @cdnspace Artemis II dashboard.

I reverse-engineered the Unity Engine powering the NASA AROW visualization and found an absolute treasure trove of data to display.

Little did I expect that it's now being seen by anywhere from 200 to 600 people at any given time with 130,000 people having looked at it in the last 24 hours. People are even building projects around my API.

Yesterday, I received a message on LinkedIn from someone working in Mission Control in Houston... and they're using my dashboard! He even sent me a photo, but I can't share it until after the crew has splashed down.

Mind blown, and an absolute pick-me-up. The best part? It's being served from my basement.

https://artemis.cdnspace.ca/

#artemis #artemis2 #artemisII #nasa #csa

@az I think it's time to update this comic.

Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outrage…there is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.

And I’m not sure how, and I’m not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind of…something, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.

🧵

'Doesn't make any sense': Young Aussies can't justify fuel costs to get to work

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-05/high-fuel-prices-mean-young-australians-cannot-get-to-work-/106527196

> Young people are taking extraordinary steps to deal with the fuel crisis, including cutting back on work because the cost of fuel to get there is now higher than the money they will earn for the shift.

I'm someone who takes good care of (most of) my computers.
I am REALLY getting pissed at how much shit isn't right because getting parts is just... not gonna fucking happen right now.
My machines being in disrepair is really disregulating. 😠

Horrifying and eye-opening paper of the day: "Wait, There’s Torture in Zootopia? Examining the Prevalence of Torture in Popular Movies"

- in which the authors find that 60% of the 20 top-grossing films each year over a 10 year span (2008-2017; N=200) depict torture, including 45% of PG and 65% of PG-13 rated films; and that instrumental torture (torture used to obtain a specific outcome other than punishment) was depicted as effective 73% of the time.

https://www.erinmkearns.com/uploads/2/4/5/5/24559611/14._delehanty___kearns_2020_pop.pdf

"AI-Powered Tractor Startup Burns Through a Quarter Billion Dollars, Fires All Employees" https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/ai-tractor-startup-founders Anyone remember WebVan and Pets.com ?

Visto en bluesky:

Un señor de Egipto ha programado una web en memoria de las víctimas del genocidio palestino. Lleva mas de 72.000. Cada luz es un nombre, los ves al pasar el cursor por encima. Desde la esquina superior izquierda a la inferior derecha, por edad.

https://bkhmsi.github.io/i-am-not-a-number/

Since everyone seems to be all about space programs, here's a very silly joke device from 50 years back: The Zlotnian Calculator, "Official Digital Calculator of the Zlotnian Space Program"

While it was a joke, it was made by a very serious surveying instrument company, the Slope Indicator Company of Seattle, WA.

more info: https://www.mccoys-kecatalogs.com/SpecialSubjects/Zlotnian_Calculator/zlotnian.htm

re-created: https://www.printables.com/model/1672286-the-zlotnian-calculator-reproduction

«(...)las cajeras no son pobres ineptas a las que salvamos del desempleo dándoles un curro facilito que las malvadas máquinas les van a arrebatar. Son mujeres –y algún hombre– muy competentes, muy hechas polvo, con dolor crónico en las articulaciones y a las que no se les tiene ni el más mínimo respeto ni la más mínima consideración. Son gente a la que ya tratamos como a robots. No sé qué tiene de malo que sean, por tanto, los robots, quienes asuman por fin su trabajo».

El neoludismo o por qué a una excajera le parecen muy bien las máquinas de autopago
https://ctxt.es/es/20211201/Firmas/38140/cajeras-supermercado-maquinas-neoludismo-adriana-t.htm

#Maga #ICE

Street Art by Nme – A Collection (8 photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2021/08/30/street-art-by-nme/