@benjojo Those are about different stations. Cambridge != Cambridge North.

@libreleah Please call a Libreboot release "Librebooted Bears" or "Agricultural Security" (or something like that). It is a pissnet meme. Always libreboot your bears for Agricultural Security or they will install ransomware on your tractors.

Thread: How fascist policies are destroying the research that's been studying my brain for 8 years

I've been part of a Stanford adolescent brain development study since I was a kid - 8 years of my life contributing to science. Yesterday I saw firsthand how Trump's authoritarian bullshit is literally erasing scientific knowledge.

For years, this study included questions about gender identity - because, you know, that's actually relevant to understanding how adolescents develop. This year? Completely gone.

The researchers explained that Trump didn't just gut NIH funding - he made it illegal for any federally-funded research to even mention gender identity. They can't use the word "gender" at all. Only "sex" with binary options.

I watched these scientists - people I've known for years, who've dedicated their lives to understanding human development - have to explain how politicians are literally censoring their research. They called it "awful" but they had no choice: comply or lose all funding.

This hit me hard because this study has been part of MY life for 8 years. Watching authoritarians destroy scientific knowledge that includes my own data, my own contribution to understanding adolescent development - it's personal.

And this is happening everywhere. Universities across the country are being forced to choose between scientific integrity and keeping their research alive.

What we need to do:

• Demand Democrats restore NIH funding WITHOUT ideological restrictions when they're back in power
• Support scientists and research institutions fighting these restrictions
• Recognize this as part of the broader fascist assault on education and knowledge
• Keep sharing these stories - people need to see the real impact

This isn't just about research funding. It's about whether we'll let authoritarians decide what scientists are allowed to study about human beings.

Fascism doesn't just come for marginalized people - it comes for knowledge itself.

@mcc It's good because it means that if you're lazy you can parse it with READ, as in https://codeberg.org/noisytoot/wasm2ps.

Also Lisp's parentheses are only bad if you don't have a properly configured editor. If you do have a properly configured editor, they allow for structural editing (e.g. paredit).

hi user agent Akkoma 3.15.2; https://berkeley.edu.pl <akkoma@berkeley.edu.pl> from Canada

@onelson @mcc "I could care less" really annoys me. It's an Americanism that I had not heard of until I read https://xkcd.com/1576/, and even then I didn't realize it was an actual idiom rather than a mistake.

@afreytes What exactly does a license banning any use of "AI" mean? Do you mean that the license would prohibit modifications to the program made by AI, or that it would prohibit AI-related uses? Both of these restrictions would make the license non-free and non-open-source. The former can be achieved in a free-software-compatible way by asking people not to submit AI-generated patches (for example, in a CoC or DCO). The latter cannot be achieved without making your program non-free.

@mcc systemctl status shows the path of the .service file

This "We simulated what it would be like if LLMs ran a vending machine biz" paper ends up with the same kind of insane emails that I sometimes get in my inbox, maybe they have emulated the true mind of the average vending machine operator after all

@nay I use (and self-host) XMPP, IRC, Matrix, and email.

I hate Matrix (because of very high server resource usage and everything being incomplete or broken in some way) but unfortunately other people use it and I host a heisenbridge to an IRC channel (which is also broken because I use conduit and for some reason heisenbridge can't get displaynames after being restarted if you're using conduit).

I much prefer XMPP and got my parents to use it.

@mcc I think PeerTube live chat is using XMPP. You can join using an XMPP client if your instance has that feature enabled.

@mcc @erincandescent @thisismissem I haven't used GoToSocial but it's not an issue with Akkoma (or Pleroma). The media proxy is optional and disabled by default.

@mcc Why not PeerTube?

@gcb @Em0nM4stodon @mastodonmigration @batist3 Bluesky also supports did:web, although few people use it.

@tomjennings @vyr It's an option in the file sharing menu, but for some reason it only appears for certain file extensions (you can share arbitrary file types if you rename them to a supported extension).

@tomjennings @vyr It does exist - I've used it. There is a "Bluetooth" option to share a file in Android and has been for quite a while (I can confirm that it's present in LineageOS 22.1 and Android 12 on a Google Pixel 3, but I remember using it years ago on older versions of Android from other OEMs too). It uses OBEX and is compatible with bluez-obex's implementation on GNU/Linux (which KDE supports with bluedevil-sendfile, even without KDE Connect).

The variety of content on Radio 4 never ceases to amaze.

The existence of Norway implies the existence of Nandway.

@jernej__s @mcc The Bluesky login-wall is enforced only in the AppView: https://pdsls.dev/at://did:plc:owmitio5o767p6qclyjxxx6g/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpwjx4rgo22q

@batist3 @mastodonmigration @Em0nM4stodon Can you avoid this by hosting your own PDS?