Well crap. I think I just realized that if my profile photo was a person it could vote in this year’s election. Probably time for a new default one.
Ignite Realtime Blog: Dan is voted in the XSF’s Council!
Our very own @danc was voted into the XMPP Standards Foundation Council not to long ago!
The XMPP Standards Foundation is an independent, nonprofit standards development organisation whose primary mission is to define open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF’s Extensible Messagin … ⌘ Read more
UK 2024 Election | Tactical voting ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net the going theory is that openAI announced a new product that pretty much blew up the project of one of the board members. So that board member got 3 others to vote to fire Sam.
Docker Acquires Mutagen for Continued Investment in Performance and Flexibility of Docker Desktop
I’m excited to announce that Docker, voted the most-used and most-desired tool in Stack Overflow’s 2023 Developer Survey, has acquired Mutagen IO, Inc., the company behind the open source Mutagen file synchronization and networking technologies that enable high-performance remote development. Mutagen’s synchronization and forwarding capabilities facilitate the seamless transfer of code, binary artifacts, and network […] ⌘ Read more
Spændende, lidt vildt, tiltag: https://www.techspot.com/news/99102-european-union-votes-bring-back-replaceable-phone-batteries.html
**RT by @mind_booster: #AIAct vote: #FreeSoftware is given safeguards, these rules must now be defended in the trilogue and transferred to the #CyberResilienceAct and the #ProductLiabilityDirective.
https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230614-01.html**
#AIAct vote: #FreeSoftware is given safeguards, these rules must now be defended in the trilogue and transferred to the [#CyberResilienceAct](https://nitter.net/search?q=%23CyberResilie … ⌘ Read more
you might be thinking: “aha! so I should vote in elections, since even though under do()-calculus, the decision has a miniscule impact, there are many agents that are logically correlated with me, which means my influence is much higher!” A tiny problem is that the number of agents that are logically correlated because they base their decisions on logical correlation is, ah, not that big…
NSW election: optional preferential voting ⌘ Read more
Please vote no 👎 for the Telemetry in the Go toolchain proposal 🙏 #golang #telemtry #justsayno ⌘ Read more
what are people’s attitudes towards others voting selfishly vs. not voting at all?
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth meets Scottish leader Sturgeon amid new independence vote push
The monarch met Nicola Sturgeon at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh a day after Scotland’s First Minister announced plans for a 2023 referendum. ⌘ Read more
Scotland takes fight for independence vote to UK’s top court
Scotland’s government drew the battle lines for a historic tussle with London as it announced plans to hold a second independence referendum on October 19, 2023. ⌘ Read more
Hong Kong’s largest public healthcare workers union opts to dissolve as journalism group lowers vote threshold to disband
Former chairman of Hospital Authority Employees Alliance confirms group voted to disband after special general meeting. ⌘ Read more
Why do Some Minorities Support the US Republican Party?
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In contemporary US politics, the Democratic Party is often regarded as the most welcoming to racial minority groups. Even so, each election cycle sees many members of these groups cast their vote for the Republican Party. In 2016, for example, Chinese Americans from the East Coast to Silicon Valley organised rallies for Republican candidates. Even thoug … ⌘ Read more
China’s coronavirus controls top concern for European firms, who may ‘vote with their feet’ if uncertainty persists
Beijing’s stringent approach to containing Omicron outbreaks is the biggest challenge for European businesses in China for the second year running, a new survey by a business lobby shows. ⌘ Read more
Colombia elects former guerilla Gustavo Petro as first leftist president
Petro beat construction magnate Rodolfo Hernandez with an unexpectedly wide margin of some 719,975 votes. ⌘ Read more
World swimming’s governing body bans transgender athletes from women’s events
Fina members voted 71.5 per cent in favour of its new ‘gender inclusion policy’ that only permits swimmers who transitioned before age 12 to compete in women’s events. ⌘ Read more
Apple workers vote to form tech giant’s first-ever US union
It wasn’t the first time employees at an Apple store had tried to unionise, but it was the first attempt that resulted in a vote. ⌘ Read more
Coronavirus: vaccine roll-out for American children under 5 close after CDC panel vote
US President Joe Biden’s administration plans to roll out the vaccines to the under-5 age groups as early as next week. ⌘ Read more
Red Line Through HTTPS
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Climate Change: China’s firms lag behind Asia, North America, Europe in net-zero targets with only 4 per cent adherence, study finds
Net zero target disclosure rules have gained significance as global fund managers have started to vote with their US$68 trillion of assets to persuade companies to embrace the climate change agenda. ⌘ Read more
We need to talk about how to vote | with Giordano & Ellen ⌘ Read more
How to Vote! ⌘ Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckg3Y6x-i3A vote : que faire à la prochaine election ?
if you believe that blue-collar republicans are voting against their own interest, well, what about white-collar democrats?
@movq@www.uninformativ.de
With those two (Message-ID, and In-Reply-To) the hashing could become superfluous, and no longer needed. I would vote for that!
Chatcontrol, searching messages for illegal content
On July 6 the EU parliament voted yes to a proposal from the EU\
commission (PDF) on a temporary law to allow services to automatically
search messages for suspicious content with a focus on child
exploitation.
We have quite strict confidentiality laws within EU even when it comes
to electronic communication. Its current basis is the … ⌘ Read more
i’m sure people have studied this: maybe strategically voting iteratively reaches a fixed point in which point report their actual preferences?
« Les classes dominantes ont financé les options politiques xénophobes, climato-négationnistes et sexistes qui ont conduit aux votes dits populistes » ⌘ Read more…
Commit your vote on election day! ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-11-02-commit-your-vote-on-election-day/
Vote, and contribute to democracy through open source ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-10-22-vote-and-contribute-to-democracy-through-open-source/
Voting | ContraPoints ⌘ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Vah8sUFgI
Dear America, Need some fresh air? Take your vote with you and ⌘ https://blog.opencollective.com/walkthevote/
On the blog: Voting as a Communal Activity https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/11/vote.html #politics #voting #rant
Ensure your neighbors have the right to vote: A software engineer volunteers at his local elections office ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-09-16-ensure-your-neighbors-have-the-right-to-vote-a-software-engineer-volunteers-at-a-local-elections-office/
Ready to vote in the U.S. 2020 elections? ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-09-01-ready-to-vote-in-the-u-s-2020-elections/
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: On Electability and Complicity https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/01/electability.html #politics #rant #voting
twitch plays ophelia in a new production of hamlet where every actor is actually a complete online community collectively voting on small muscle movements
Article 13 has been voted by the EU parliament. Shit
Bad idea of the day: make UBI contingent only on compulsory voting
Forget voting “ it’s time to start choosing our leaders by lottery | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/forget-voting-it-s-time-to-start-choosing-our-leaders-by-lottery
What universe does Marc Andressen live in, to call a group of wealthy upwardly-mobile careerists ‘extremely left-wing’ for voting Clinton? (Don’t answer that.)
Hot take: if you can ‘vote with your wallet’ that means you live in an aristocratic oligarchy, because some people inherit large numbers of extra votes & other people start out with negative votes.
Bad idea of the day: Current prisoners have mandatory voting while non-prisoners (including ex-prisoners) have the option to vote
Should People in Prison have a Right to Vote? | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXXZucuS7s4
Bad idea of the day: ‘twitch writes a novel’: the previous ~15 words are shown & the top ~20 next words based on a markov model of some corpus are voted on over a 2 minute period (going to the first item, if no votes are cast) until 50k words are written.
Why Did Some Countercultural Types Vote For Trump? - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/05/10/why-did-some-countercultural-types-vote-for-trump/
Bad idea of the day: Require a 60% majority in a state-wide popular vote for congressional redistricting.
Bad idea of the day: voting, except with a 30 year delay, to force people to actually think ahead.