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The Israelis are attacking UN positions in #Lebanon:

“BREAKING — Two UN peacekeepers in Lebanon injured when an #Israeli tank fired at observation tower, directly hitting it & causing them to fall

UNIFIL also says Israeli military fired at another position where peacekeepers were sheltering & deliberately fired at, disabled cameras.”

Timour Azhari/Reuters

"The publishers allegedly agreed to make peer reviewing an unpaid job, prevent academics from submitting manuscripts to more than one journal at a time, and bar them from freely sharing their findings during the lengthy peer review process." #HigherEd #publishing #academia #research
https://www.highereddive.com/news/6-major-academic-publishers-face-antitrust-lawsuit/727106/

Internet Archive hacked, 31 million users' data breached, including email addresses, salted passwords, and usernames

read more: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266419/internet-archive-ddos-attack-pop-up-message

ETA: A bit of a PSA here, apparently, email addresses are publicly visible on the Internet Archive anyway, so if you weren't aware of that, now you know. If you have any privacy concerns, you may want to consider getting an email specifically for your Internet Archive account.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41795324

#News #InternetArchive #WebArchive #CyberSecurity

Welp, I am homeless! The water got all the way above the counters after I took these. We are okay upstairs at the moment, pets are safe, I have not slept and need to start packing whatever I can up here.

For my next trick, we find a hotel that will let me bring all the animals.

https://ko-fi.com/ginnymcqueen/goal?g=5

http://paypal.me/ginnymcqueen

http://ko-fi.com/ginnymcqueen

http://patreon.com/ginnymcqueen

💸 http://pay.ginny.today

One day I'm gonna retire and become a full time slimegirl herder

Left analyses of imperialism must stand against ‘campism’
by @ayoub
https://www.redpepper.org.uk/global-politics/war/left-analyses-of-imperialism-must-stand-against-campism/

Here is a list of verified mutual aid/projects to support in Lebanon that are desperately in need of resources right now.
Please share and support if you can
https://fromtheperiphery.com/mutualaidlebanon/

Sometimes I like to throw on some Steely Dan and swap out my pumpkins. I call it the Change of the Gourd

Riotmuffin's guide to how to price your zines

First, consider your costs of printing/copying ▶️ I use the printer at my job, so that's $0.00

Second, consider how much your paper costs. ▶️ When I'm not using my job's plain copy paper, or finding other free paper, I get broken packages from a store that sells paper for approx $5 an inch. An inch is about 150 sheets, so that's $0.03 for each color cover sheet

Finally, consider your time spent on creating the zine and assembling copies. ▶️ For me, I enjoy both of these things, and also have another job, so the amount I need to charge to get by is $0.00

💸 This comes to a total of $0.03 per zine. However, since I like to get money to give to local mutual aid groups and also the occasional ice cream, I'm going to make these zines FREE OR PAY-WHAT-YOU-WANT, knowing that some people will give money and I will probably make more money this way and reach a wider audience than if I charged several dollars.

🍦 Like this handy guide? Tip me $0.03 on kofipaymoapptreon!

The Nobel committee out here doing the devil’s work. They've moved on from their specialty in awarding peace prizes to genociders, to now giving Hinton one in…physics?

So the news is gonna be "Nobel laureate" telling us that “super intelligent” text synthesis machines will render us extinct 🙄

This dude is now a "Nobel laureate."

"he said Gebru’s ideas “aren’t as existentially serious as the idea of these things getting more intelligent than us and taking over.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/amp/

today's #poketober prompt was... first evolution

gotta get that pod. that meta pod