#fz_links — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fz_links, aggregated by home.social.
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More details/context/deep-dive at my Tumblr blog:
🎭 https://www.tumblr.com/ferdifz/747899598110097408/ea-nasir-is-back?source=share
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#EaNasir #Meme #TumblrMeme #LowQualityCopper #CommoditiesTrade #AncientMesopotamia #fz_links #fz_funny #fz_thinkingOutLoud -
The mistery of 'Jia Tan', the mastermind behind the XZ-Utils backdoor supply-chain hack [WIRED News, April 2024]
https://www.wired.com/story/jia-tan-xz-backdoor/?ref=platformer.news
#OpenSource #security #fz_links #XZbackdoor #fz_currentAffairs
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KnowYourMeme dives deep into analysing the socio-cultural impact of Internet memes:
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Tim Berners-Lee writes an open letter on the occasion of the World Wide Web's 35th anniversary..:
✍️ https://medium.com/@timberners_lee/marking-the-webs-35th-birthday-an-open-letter-ebb410cc7d42
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Just a little over 15 hours ago, 800 sign-ups:
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Meduza English: "Russian anti-war presidential hopeful Boris Nadezhdin asks authorities for three more days to review claims of paperwork errors"
As expected, no way Putin's Kremlin is ever going to let Nadezhdin's nomination to go through.
...and if they did let him through, it'd be a grave mistake on their part.
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China's BYD officially overtakes Tesla as World's most popular Battery-EV car seller.
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If I were editor I'd title this:
“It’s Cold War II, and the enemies of cosmopolitan globalism are lining up to forge a new world order”
(Yes, enemies of ‘cosmopolitan globalism’, instead of enemies of ‘freedom’.)
…And these enemies, they too would delusionally imagine themselves the “true” defenders of “anti-colonial” “freedom”.
(Hint: They're not.)
#fz_links #fz_currentAffairs #Russia #Hamas #NorthKorea #Iran
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Cautious optimism on possible end of Hollywood strikes, as 3 consecutive days of negotiations between Writers+Artists and Studios+Streamers+Executives will continue for 4th day on Saturday (today)
#fz_links #WGAStrong #SAGAFTRAStrong #UnionStrong #FairWageForFairWork
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Current zeitgeist-y state of Internet Discourse nowadays:
via @laughingsquid : Old Timey Singer Performs an Acoustic Ukulele Version of His Forthright Ballad 'I've No More F***s To Give'
https://laughingsquid.com/acoustic-ukulele-ive-no-more-fs-to-give/
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#NaomiKlein on #NaomiWolf :
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/26/naomi-klein-naomi-wolf-conspiracy-theories
(excerpt from Klein's book, soon to be published on this upcoming Sept. 9th)
#fz_links #ConspiracyTheory #GreatResetConspiracy #RabbitHole #MirrorWorld #PublicDiscourse #InternetCulture #AttentionEconomy
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How to build a better search engine than Google (a case study of the defunct Neeva, which lived for only 4 years before going bankrupt) - July 2023
https://www.theverge.com/23802382/search-engine-google-neeva-android
#fz_links #WebSearch #InformationSystems #KnowledgeManagement
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"Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn't" - an informal, conversational qualitative report from Erin Kissane, July 2023
https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt
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The claimed room-temperature superconductor, LK99...
Research papers submitted to ArXiv; verification pending peer-review...
#fz_links #superconductor #MaterialPhysics #electronics #science
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"You need to watch Steven Soderbergh's secret new Sci-Fi Project ASAP."
“So secret no one knew it was even being filmed.”
I really am intrigued. Fair disclosure though I’ve not watched it yet.
✍️ https://www.tumblr.com/ferdifz/723657377496399872/steven-soderberghs-new-secret-sci-fi-project
#fz_links #IndependentFilm #StreamingSeries #WebSeries #NotOnStreamers #NotOnNetflixNorPrimeVideoEtc #OnItsOwnGoddamendWebsite
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How the phrase "No Agenda" to me has become synonymous with "I believe in debunked & completely discredited conspiracy theories":
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Via #BruceSchneier ±1 hour ago: "Operation Triangulation: Zero-Click iPhone Malware"
#fz_links / #VulnerabilityDisclosure #iMessage #iOS #Apple #infosec #malware
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BBC News feature article: "The rise of the 'no-wash' movement"
📰 https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230529-the-people-who-dont-wash-their-clothes
There's a growing cohort of people who believe in washing clothes less – or not at all. Matilda Welin for the BBC talks to the 'no-wash' and 'low-wash' believers.
#fz_links / #environmentalism #hygiene #WaterConsumption #Detergent #CapitalismEcology
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Hideo Kojima says Metal Gear Solid 2 had to make 300 changes and was almost cancelled in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks (3-minute read):
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Volkswagen Installs ‘Blind Spots’ With Shocking Scenarios You Don’t See Head-On:
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The Art Newspaper: More than 20,000 "degenerate" works were seized from German museums and sold on in an operation orchestrated by Joseph Goebbels—now the institutions want them back
#fz_links #ArtHistory #EgonSchiele #GermanArt #GermanExpressionism
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Do you still have any personal data & published works on #Ello that is not mirrored anywhere else? You might want to download your data as soon as possible, since apparently #Talenthouse AG (current owner of Ello and #EyeEm) are filing for bankruptcy...
https://tech.eu/2023/04/14/eyeem-once-europes-challenger-to-instagram-files-for-bankruptcy/
I've just initiated my Ello data download; hopefully I'll get word in 24 hours....
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AI Ethicists slam 'AI Pause' Letter: the letter ignores actual current harms.
📰 https://www.pcmag.com/news/ai-ethicists-slam-ai-pause-letter-for-ignoring-current-harms
Rebuttal to "AI Pause" open letter that was signed by (among others) Elno and Woz, the criticisms coming from actual AI ethicists and career academicians (including from the MIT AI Lab). The current harms being ignored includes (among others) worker exploitation, excessive energy consumption etc.
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Thought-bubble of the day: The International Criminal Court (ICC) *is not* the Interpol....
Somewhat unrelated: Xi visits Putin in Russia because the ICC warrant has effectively limited Putin's travel options.
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Okay okay hold up, what does Credit Suisse have to do with Silicon Valley Bank..? Completely unrelated, right? Right..?
Ugh, I *really*, really hope this isn't the start of a global financial domino. Damn stupid psychological economy. 😓
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For those currently unable to go past Apple News filtering or the Washington Post's registration-paywall, here's an alternative link/mirror:
#Russia #Ukraine #geopolitics #StandWithUkraine #StopPutin / #fz_links
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Setuju dengan sikap Komnas HAM Indonesia mengenai hukuman mati...
(...yang intinya menghormati putusan pengadilan, mengakui kejahatan Ferdy Sambo berat, namun berharap secara bertahap hukuman mati suatu hari dapat dihapuskan dari Indonesia)
https://www.antaranews.com/berita/3394137/komnas-ham-harap-hukuman-mati-dapat-dihapuskan