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The word for May 02 is "Release"
Post and tell us about a #song with a title, lyric, theme or meaning related to the word.
Upcoming biweekly words are:
May 16 #Quasi
May 30 #Prove
Also, Join in the biweekly #AlternateFridayMusic next week.
Upcoming word are:
May 09 #Jerk
May 23 #Karate
Boisterously Bothersome:
@dgar @Bishopjoey @AqiDrago @alfvaen #music
Ronald Araujo determined to prove critics wrong after Barcelona’s defeat to Dortmund https://www.rawchili.com/4197706/ #after #araujo #barca #Barcelona #BarcelonaLaLiga #BarcelonaTeamNews #BarcelonaUefaChampionsLeague #blaugranes #critics #defeat #determined #dortmund #FrontPage #prove #ronald #s #Soccer #to #wrong
I have a suggestion: Why not link laws to the harm for people and environment on a scientifically verifiable measure for people only, meaning employees, CEOs and board members alike get in the bind personally.
#law #CrimeAndPunishment #Objectivity #Prove #Science
It doesn't mean breweries get in the bind, but mean drunks do.
It means thresholds for corporations. Like CO² emissions will gradually with emerging tech become criminal. No private jets anymore. It's coach or better yet trains..
Today's card is 8 of Swords
Our minds can play tricks on us, supposedly to keep us safe, but in reality it's to keep us stuck. Thinking you can't, is an invitation to prove you can.
#prove : to try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard
- French: preuve
- German: beweisen
- Portuguese: provar
- Spanish: prueba
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Fill in missing translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations
Scoop: The #databases powering #DOGE.gov are #insecure, and people outside the #government have already #pushed their own #updates to the #site to #prove it:
Via @jasonkoebler on Bsky
https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/
https://www.evshift.com/317384/electric-cars-are-cancelled-porsche-sports-cars-prove-it-this-car-pod-ep43/ Electric Cars Are Cancelled? Porsche Sports Cars Prove it! THIS CAR POD! EP43 #Cancelled #car #CARS #ELECTRIC #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #Ep43 #EV #Pod #Porsche #prove #Sports
Feedback a caldissimo su NOSTR:
a suo tempo @informapirata disse "occhio, Nostr è un protocollo interessante ma pieno di spazzatura".
Partendo dall'inizio: ho cercato sui motori di ricerca "come funziona Nostr" e il primo titolo è un video su un canale relativo alle criptovalute, di un tale Alessandro Mazza.
Alessandro lo spiega in modo abbastanza chiaro ma secondo me a un certo punto confonde, o almeno io mi sono sentita confusa quando ha parlato della chiave privata come "firma digitale", dicendo che è il modo di identificare un utente da un altro.
La "firma digitale" però è altra cosa - sempre crittografia ma ha valore legale e se uno si chiama all'anagrafe Severino Sparaballe, quella è legata al suo codice fiscale e (almeno in teoria) nessuno lo clona.
Nostr, invece, no.
Tu vai su un client che può essere SnortSocial o altri, ti crei la tua chiave pubblica e privata, gli dai un nome e stop! Ma puoi avere anche millantamila account con lo stesso pseudonimo.
Severino Sparaballe quindi ha la sua public e private key, associata a niente - nessun indirizzo email o altro dato e questo è interessante, specie se è uno che in rete parla di temi delicati e vuole tutelarsi da regimi e cose varie. Non si discute.
Poi però arriva Franco Onesti, rivelatore di segreti inconfessabili, si mette nome Severino Sparaballe, anche la foto del tizio in questione, chiave privata e pubblica nuove di palla, e manda in giro per Nostr l'opposto di quello che dice Severino reale, nessuno sarà in grado di distinguere chi sia quello vero da quello finto.
NIP-05: da quello che ho capito c'è modo di identificarsi con un nome "umanamente leggibile" con la chiocciola davanti, come quelli del Fediverso e c'è pure un plugin WordPress che ho installato per farlo. Non ho però idea se funzioni e come verificare se è andato davvero a buon fine.
Questione relay: se non ho capito male sono ancora più decentralizzati delle istanze, io del fediverso a volte ho perplessità perché non è detto ad esempio che i client mastodon funzionino anche con friendica, con nostr invece non hai problemi perché se ti colleghi a qualunque relay basta che tu abbia la chiave pubblica o privata, magari salvate in un'estensione browser, gli dici "login with extension" e vai dentro diretto.
Contenuti e spazzatura: io ho usato un client per iOS che si chiama Damus e mi sono trovata subito in home dei contenuti di estrema estremissima destra. Roba che manco l'algoritmo di Facebook mi fa.
Pazienza, sto studiando non ci sto interagendo; più che altro voglio capire quanto e se sia proponibile per trasmettere contenuti e le limitazioni, quanto e se siano pubblici, con la storia di Trump e Musk voglio capire con quali sistemi posso continuare a scrivere in modo libero in modo da avere meno probabilità di ricevere blocchi o oscuramenti "shadowban".
Fosse per me butterei su tutto su Nostr, curando i filtri; ma poi se uno ti deve seguire penso gli serva Nostr apposta.
The year is leaving us 
here's a rough draft for 2025:
Jan 03 #Asylum
Jan 17 #Battery
Jan 31 #Colour
Feb 14 #Denial
Feb 28 #Elevate
Mar 14 #Forever
Mar 28 #Gather
Apr 11 #Horrible
Apr 25 #Insect
May 09 #Jerk
May 23 #Karate
Jun 06 #Lies
Jun 20 #Myth
Jul 04 #Never
Jul 18 #Opportunity
Aug 01 #Pop
Aug 15 #Quiet
Aug 29 #Robot
Sep 12 #Simple
Sep 26 #Technique
Oct 10 #Universe
Oct 24 #Vast
Nov 07 #Work
Nov 21 #Xer (generation)
Dec 05 #Yank
Dec 19 #Zombie
Jan 10 #Zoo
Jan 24 #Youth
Feb 07 #Xeno-
Feb 21 #West
Mar 07 #Void
Mar 21 #Utopia
Apr 04 #Terror
Apr 18 #Substance
May 02 #Release
May 16 #Quasi
May 30 #Prove
Jun 13 #Omen
Jun 27 #Nowhere
Jul 11 #Movement
Jul 25 #Lounge
Aug 08 #Kick
Aug 22 #Jam
Sep 05 #Imagination
Sep 19 #Home
Oct 03 #Ground
Oct 17 #Fountain
Oct 31 #Electric
Nov 14 #Defend
Nov 28 #Captive
Dec 12 #Breakups
Dec 26 #Apathy
#prove : to try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard
- French: preuve
- German: beweisen
- Portuguese: provar
- Spanish: prueba
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Fill in missing translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations
"When a #new #project is getting #started, the most important thing is to just get going. Start #doing the thing you said #you were going to #do. #Prove that it #works. Prove that #people #care. Prove that the #mission and #purpose you've #chosen is one that #matters. When you #start out, few #people are #affected by your #decisions, and you're lucky if anyone #cares at all about what you're doing." #GhostBlog https://john.onolan.org/democratising-publishing/
With #racist #MadisonSquareGarden #rally, #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump and his #allies #prove #Democrats’ point.
Before Trump's event at the New York City arena, #Democrats drew #parallels to a #Nazi #event in 1939. After the gathering, the #comparisons were #unavoidable.
#ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump walks away #muttering ‘#takealook’ when asked to #prove #aid #denial for #HurricaneHelene's #victims.
#Critics blasted the ex-president for his "#PhotoOp." Some also noted someone took #bricks from a #collapsed #furniture #store to create a #makeshift #podium area for #Trump.
#VP #KamalaHarris Shouldn’t Have To #Prove Her #Blackness—#JanetJackson’s Recent #Comments Show Why.
Harris is one of the most #decorated, #educated, #experienced, and #knowledgeable #candidates in the #presidentialrace. So why are folks still #bickering over the #color of her #skin?
#Queer #girl, 15, ‘#traumatised’ after #airportsecurity in #Egypt made her #strip to #prove she’s #female.
#CaitlynDisley said she was travelling with the #family of her #girlfriend, #Liv, when she was forced to lift her #bra to prove she was a #girl, at #HurghadaInternationalAirport in #Egypt, a country where being #LGBTQ+ is #criminalised.
[Video] What #VicePresident #KamalaHarris Has to #Prove at the #DemocraticNationalConvention
The #presidential #race has been upended in the last few weeks, with Harris now at the top of the Democratic ticket.
#Fascist #MAGA #candidate for Missouri #AttorneyGeneral releases #unhinged #video to “#prove” that her #electric #car doesn’t make her #gay.
She didn't #convince all of her #supporters though.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Missouri #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
can you help me find an #amiga #ftp client and #tcp #bbs client that works on a 68020 system
ATC crashes, AmiFTP needs classact (i have MUI installed, so i kinda wanted not to have to install classact as well but that's just me being petty) and rnoxfer needs 8mb ram (impossible with PCMCIA)
it's impossible to use an #amiga system without talking to other #users i find, and often when i try i get a worse welcome than the #linux community telling me to just #look it up, please #prove me wrong
It's really hard to #prove a #negative.
No, really hard. And this is a problem.
If you want to prove that cows exist, all you really need to do is show someone a cow. Look, here's the cow. Touch it. Hear it moo. It's real.
Now imagine how you would go about proving that cows don't exist. Think about it for a little while.
Sean Kirkpatrick, Director of the Defense Department’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), just retired. And he has things to say about how much money is spent on "UFO" research programs that are basically created by #UFO cultists and conspiracy theorists working for the US government itself. He calls it "a self-licking ice-cream cone".
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/27/sean-kirkpatrick-pentagon-ufo-conspiracy-theory-myths
Now let's think about this for a minute. And let's start by ditching the stupid term "UFO", Unidentified Flying Object. Hear me out on this: UFOs are boring. ANYTHING you see flying is unidentified, until you identify it and know what it is. And if you're really bad at identifying things, anything flying can be a "UFO". A bird. Venus. An inflated garbage bag. The ISS.
Flying objects, or aerial phenomena, don't become interesting until you can identify them. And, bear with me here for a moment: The US government would absolutely love to identify actual alien technology. Seriously. Can you imagine the edge that would give us? And that's why the government has been looking so hard, for so long, at #anomalous #aerial #phenomena. Since the 1950s.
And all of that searching has found nothing that can be identified as alien technology, or a flying vehicle of non-terrestrial origin. 1950s missile casings ... parachutes ... weather-observation satellites ... skeletons of animals launched into space for research purposes. And a host of other things. But not one single piece of alien technology.
But ... you remember what I said about proving a negative?
Well, here's how it works when you're a UFO cultist. You search and search for evidence that "UFOs" are real. And if you find evidence, you WIN!!! You've just proved that UFOs are real!
But if you DON'T find anything, you ALSO win. Because in your mind, the fact that you couldn't find anything proves that there is a government #coverup. It's the only possible explanation. If there was no cover-up, you would have found something. And the government cover-up means there must be something to hide, which — AGAIN — "proves" that UFOs are real.
Either way, you "win". In your own mind.
This is the cultist/conspiracy-theorist mentality. If you are certain that something must exist, but you cannot find any evidence of it no matter how you search, this proves that it exists AND that there is a government cover-up. It's circular logic. Delusional, magical thinking.
You see how this works...?
