France's Le Monde and MediaPart declare they are suspending all activity of their accounts on X.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/01/20/fighting-for-facts-in-the-era-of-trump-and-musk_6737224_23.html

https://blogs.mediapart.fr/mediapart-journal-independant-et-participatif/blog/190125/nos-lecteurs-et-lectrices-comment-quitter-x?at_medium=custom7&at_campaign=1047

#News #Twitter #LaMonde #MediaPart

Today we remember that the FBI, acting in its lawful and official capacity, tried to blackmail Martin Luther King, Jr. into committing suicide and we almost certainly would not know that for a fact if a bunch of hippies hadn’t literally burglarized an FBI office in 1971, an action which is definitely illegal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_letter

KGEI Transmitter Building, Redwood City, CA, 2024.

All the pixels, straight from the ionosphere, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54131707918/

#photography

Danielle Smith is betraying Canadians. https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-trump-danielle-smith-roundup/ #cdnpoli #polcan

Oh wow, wasn't expecting this!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/biden-commutes-sentence-leonard-peltier-native-american-activist-impri-rcna188331

#USPOL #LeonardPeltier

to really understand whats going on right now you need to know that Thiel published a book in 1996 about how women and black people ruined Stanford
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/276022.The_Diversity_Myth_

I'm re-reading the paper that got @timnitGebru fired from Google and I'm realising now how they foreseen every problem related to LLM we're facing now. It's always good to re-read good papers (and depressing sometimes)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922

If you have to order your soldiers to stop posting evidence of war crimes on social media, your attempt to cover up the war crimes already failed.

25-minute video
https://youtu.be/ymSJfDT5vHY

Nearly 400 New Brunswick residents suffer from what the province calls a “neurological syndrome of unknown cause...

Unknown cause? Nerve pain/damage, numbness, and necrotizing gingivitis, etc. are all KNOWN #COVID19 complications.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/new-brunswick/article/good-first-step-nb-mystery-brain-disease-patients-welcome-new-investigation/ #healthcanada #publichealthcanada

Bambu Lab has just released a beta firmware for their 3D printers that includes DRM: https://blog.bambulab.com/firmware-update-introducing-new-authorization-control-system-2/. it removes the ability to control your printer over the network from anything but Bambu software.

OrcaSlicer discussion: https://github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlicer/issues/8063

Bambu claims that the negative response to their DRM is due to confusion, but nobody is confused. this new firmware doesn’t offer any security benefits; it has already been trivially broken. its only purpose is to be a DMCA hazard.