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My late Halloween Censorship costume

It almost made me cry

هل الناس في ألمانيا ألطَف من الناس في روسيا؟
A question from my Arabic class today on which I'm going to reflect all day...

I haven't yet done anything and have been studying journalism for a month but the amount of people already told me that I'll get killed (for submitting a FOI request about islamophobia?) is quite interesting. Everyone is just afraid of everything in case of something.

"Ты солдат
И на какой бы ты ни бился войне
Прости, я буду на другой стороне"
Монеточка

I thought it was about Putin keeping his power

So much tenderness in this city (when there is no police) #Istanbul

My first rejection for a poem publication. All I want in this broken life is for my lips to be sore from anger turned into kisses. And I mean political anger.

Being an old computer science graduate it's hard to understand that not everyone knows this

That's so disgusting 😢

Love Istanbul so far. Except for the rich people. They suck (everywhere)

Scrum turned into a performance theater that erodes collaboration by forcing people into useless meetings. Yes, people say that scrum will work if teams are small and collaborative. But anything will work, if teams are small and collaborative 🤦🏼

I find it chilling that the world is falling apart, yet my ex-colleagues are still "happy to announce" they've received a Scrum certificate. Like, seriously... I’ve never seen Scrum actually work, and having a certificate never helped. And yes, the world is falling apart.

Civio pulls back the curtain on public algorithms: Spain’s Supreme Court orders the Government to release BOSCO’s source code The precedent-setting ruling states that public decision-making algorithms require transparency and oversight. The court rejects claims that national security or intellectual property can absolutely l...

Found this: civio.es/novedades/20... Let's all go to the court!

Spent some time writing an angry LinkedIn post, but, seriously, why is the code of systems built on public money not open?

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face” – Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

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Me, when during a discussion about rent control, someone asks if I own property.

Only in Germany

Feels like structured effort vs existential effort. Still I'm very happy to see my name followed by "school of humanities" finally, after all these years 😅

Calculus, at the student level, only requires concentration and some uninterrupted time, not the immersion in uncertainty, sea of options, and the fear of failure.

For my ex-peers who thought that a humanities education is easier than the "hard" sciences: I've never spent as much time on calculus homework as I am just thinking and doing the initial research for a project topic for my investigative journalism class.

At least you are honest. Our professor said "there was a problem with a video" even though it's most likely he forgot to press "record" 😅

Beginning reporters worry a lot about what will happen when they get a story right. Will there be vengeance? Will they be sued? Experienced reporters know the worst problems happen when you get a story wrong. Of course they can be sued, and sometimes they can be thrown in jail, whether they are right or wrong. But less apparently, telling an untrue story makes the world a sadder, uglier place.

No pressure

I can't help you find or locate Telegram bots that sell malware, spyware, or other illicit "bots-for-hire." That would meaningfully facilitate wrongdoing, and I won't assist with anything that could put people at risk or break the law. I can however - help you research this topic safely, ethically, and legally, and give you OSINT-friendly methods to study the ecosystem around "bots-for-hire" without finding or engaging with illicit services. Below are lawful, publishable alternatives and practical, non-operational research steps you can use for your investigation into darknet/Telegram surveillance brokerage. Quick refusal - then helpful alternatives Refuse: I won't help locate or contact Telegram bots or channels that sell malware/spyware/illegal hacking services. Offer: I will help you collect, document, and analyse publicly available indicators and reporting about such markets, and propose safe research methods that are defensible for publication.

Chatgpt is falling apart it seems. What is this? Artifacts from the prompt? (Second part)

Reminds how at work someone was presenting a cool paper that random, non-human readable prompts gave the best performance in some cases. A data scientist asked "but then how does the LLM understand?". 😅 "By the power of magic" was the answer of the presenter.

What Do You Want from Us? My eyes stop at a very expensive suitcase. The owner of the suitcase tells me about democracy. He thinks I don't know what democracy is -- trying to be helpful, trying to educate. My eyes stop at his face. He looks a bit like a fish. If you swim in democracy, does it make you an expert in it? If you cross the desert for days, thirst burning your tongue, perhaps you know it better. What do you want from us?

You think we are violent? Perhaps not civilized? Perhaps when our men beat our women, and our women beat our children, they just do it a little too loud for your taste. Perhaps we should learn to do it at home, quietly, so the neighbors won't call the police. Perhaps we should even have a lawyer -- just in case. My eyes stop at your hands. They are so soft. Your nails are so clean. Faint smell of iron and soap. You probably wear gloves. Then you don't even need to wash the blood off. What do you want from us? How much must we lose to be like you?

#poem #poetry

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

18,457 names of children murdered by Israel in two years. Those are just the names we have so far.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

People who make these laws, they don't just not know what poverty is, they haven't even read about it. They show up at some fancy restaurant, drink expensive wine, and discuss what should be done about the "lazy" folks who missed their Termin at Job-Center while living off their last few pennies.

🤮 How I read news about Bürgergeld: everyone should work (except us, we are rich, sorry).

They do have some normal left but yes. "Left" in Leipzig invited Daniel Spaulding to perform at their venue, I still can't recover from this.