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Plutôt que de criminaliser les usagers de drogues illicites, encadrons leur pratique Dépénaliser l'usage du cannabis et légaliser sa vente permettrait de désengorger les services de police tout en améliorant la prévention sanitaire. La prohibition est un échec et les pouvoirs publics ...

@kessaciamine1.bsky.social je suis très intéressé d'entendre votre point de vue sur cette article.

www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

Don’t worry Yvette and Keir, it’s only a bit of paint: the Stephen Collins cartoon It can be difficult to explain worrying events to your elected leaders …

Don’t worry Yvette and Keir, it’s only a bit of paint

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

London AI firm says Getty copyright case poses ‘overt threat’ to industry Photography agency alleges Stability AI trained its image generation model on archive of copyrighted pictures

What do they mean by "industry"? The industry [of stealing copyrighted work and reselling derivations of it without owner's consent]? 🤦

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust.

In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID.

This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC.

What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

I was thinking "How did he get the rock and the mountain in focus but not the rest?" the answer was time! Very beautiful 👏

The Heart and Soul Nebulae

Credit: Mario Zauner

If you are curious there are also these two links

rys.io/en/167.html

beige.party/@possibledog...

Overall I agree with their conclusion that Bluesky "is not meaningfully decentralized and that it is certainly not federated (à lá e-mail protocol)" but a good "Twitter replacement".

Who is Creating The Non-Human Army YouTube video by hankschannel

The analysis is a bit long but your recent video www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpOk... makes me think that you'd be interested in knowing more about the technical side of things.

I was under a similar impression but I am afraid bluesky (and AT protocol) doesn't aim to be decentralized.

Someone with much more technical knowledge and actual experience working with the protocol Mastadon uses (ActivityPub) has this analysis dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...