Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

US folks, maybe consider bookmarking this to send this to your families/friends and also *talk* about it and about free test to treat. People don’t know.

[Edited to add: Believe me, I know who this columnist is. But the information is fairly crucial and this is an accessible presentation for sharing with wider circles.]

https://wapo.st/3IpWavT

I very much wish that audiobook producers/performers would figure out that it really helps to demarcate lengthy quoted passages (particularly in nonfiction) by actually saying "quote" and "end quote". Sure that actual word might not be on the page but it's information lost purely due to medium.

Performers usually do try to change their voice but success can be pretty variable. I feel like the necessity of saying "end quote" is something podcasters have generally figured out but audiobooks haven't.

Who called it “intellectual property problems around the acquisition of training data for Large Language Models” and not Grand Theft ̶A̶u̶t̶o̶c̶o̶r̶r̶e̶c̶t̶ Autocomplete?

Germany: The Fight against the Tesla Gigafactory

https://crimethinc.com/TeslaGermany

For several years now, locals, anarchists, environmentalists, and others have been engaged in a struggle against a Tesla “gigafactory” in the small town of Grünheide, only five kilometers southeast of the Berlin city limits. Now, Tesla is seeking to expand the facility at further cost to local forest and groundwater.

After locals voted against the expansion, activists established an occupation in the forest that is slated for destruction. Saboteurs burned an electrical pylon, halting work at the Tesla factory and costing the company hundreds of millions of euros.

Here, we present an interview with a participant in the forest occupation and a translation of a statement from the group that shut down electricity to the Tesla plant.

how HEAD works in git https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/03/08/how-head-works-in-git/

Absolutely astounding bravery.
A woman held a speech in the packed metro/subway of Tehran for March 8, Intl Women's Day, on the rights that women are being deprived of and demanding that women should not be ignored.

Weird train. Also weird track construction on KRM today 🤔 ...

#OH: This burning police car does not reflect the opinions of my employer

The boss has been pestering me to attend a leadership conference so I, completely jokingly, said, "A true leader would never sit in an audience being told what to do" and now half this office is in existential crisis

Make sure to properly Spaget your PLA before feeding it to the printer

#nsfw #author #selfpub #queer #kink #kinky

I wrote up a detailedish retelling of the first 4 hours of my currently ongoing first longer term #chastity experience 10000 characters. I hope that i will get an extra ~10 followers on Mastodon. I am looking for places to put them online.
Restrictions:
-fast turn around time (r/gonewildstories requires being signed up for a day)
-It should be possible to tag myself as other/nb
...

"Behind every great man is a woman that actually did all the work and got none of the recognition."

Know the difference.

How do you find new #music?

I've seen some people compare the algorithm for different streaming services, since that is the main way they find music. But I'm curious to know other ways people find music. I tend to use the Staff Picks on Tidal and Pitchfork to find new stuff. I rarely let an algorithm find me new stuff.