@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-05 16:05:41
Kristi Noem repeatedly declined to deny her widely-reported sexual relationship with her shadow chief of staff Corey Lewandowski,
twisting into all sorts of remarkable rhetorical shapes to avoid uttering the word “no” while under oath.
“I am shocked that we’re going down and peddling tabloid garbage in this committee today,”
Noem told Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-Calif.),
who pushed back: “You should be able to answer if someone asks if you or any federal official is …
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-01-04 22:30:44
Colonial nations didn't stop colonialism because they became moral. They stopped because it was untenable. The advancement of asymmetric warfare made it impossible to maintain colonial holdings and those empires crumbled.
The answer was neoliberalism and soft power. Trump had annihilated the financial systems that held that fragile order in place.
#Venezuela will probably end up trying to teach Trump the lesson everyone else learned in the 20th century, but since he's incapable of learning it may very well teach him the lesson Afghanistan taught the USSR.
We'll see how it goes.
It's still possible that we could end up with the US interfering so much that the only people left able to defend space are anarchists. South and Central America actually has some really interesting and advanced anarchist tendencies, so fucking with that could absolutely blow up in Trump (and every other authoritarian's) face.
I hope that the Venezuelan people can take advantage of the situation to get rid of both a shitty dictator and the shitty colonizers who want to replace him.
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-02-04 08:57:37
There's a Mail piece with a headline that seems like people are angry at the development work on Jony Ive's home, as though he's about to drop a giant translucent Bondi Blue structure in the neighbourhood.
But the quotes are like:
> 'Initially people were worried because it is a big project and they thought it was bound to disrupt the community but they have been perfect.'
@johl@mastodon.xyz2025-12-31 19:43:45
Bitte was??? „Wegner kündigt Nacht der Repression an“
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/liveblog/silvester-2025-in-berlin-im-liveblog-wegner-kundigt-nacht-der-repression-bei…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-13 23:45:53
Source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri features launching in spring and at WWDC, Apple can finetune Gemini, no Google branding, and more (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-using-gemini-give-chatgpt-like-ans…
@kctipton@mas.to2026-01-28 18:32:05
Angry and subtle folk singer Carsie Blanton has a new album out. #carsieblanton
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-01-06 12:58:28
this prompted me to see what https://anagramgenius.com might do, but sadly its anagram server is broken
iirc anagram genius originally came out in about 1990 … i never got a copy because it was a bit expensive for a toy and i wouldn’t have been able to learn from its unobtanium source code
anyway TIL the…
@wraithe@mastodon.social2026-02-25 20:17:49
“What’s your favorite…”
Let me just stop you right there;
I do, in fact, have favorite movies, books, scenes, comics, games; many of them!
I will NEVER be able to answer the above question, because the second you ask it/I read it, my mind goes completely fucking blank as they all vie for 1st
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-16 14:55:05
I'm with Kathy Sierra on this—just always think about "how does this make the user be able to kick more ass?"
If you can't come up with an answer it probably doesn't.
@pre@boing.world2025-12-06 12:43:08
You see a detective on the TV and he’s interviewing all the suspects asking them what they were doing on the night of the murder a month ago last Tuesday night.
And on the TV, the suspects all know. Right away.
If you asked me ten years ago though, I’d have had barely any clue. If you’re lucky it’d have been something planned in my calendar but mostly, dunno. Watching TV maybe? No idea what show. Was that a night I was in the pub?
As we all get older this problem increases I’m told. Eventually full on senility sets in.
But what if you have already built the habit to record what you’re doing? To be able to look back and revise and review how you spent your days? An external aid as a crutch to your own forgetful brain’s cortex?
So I started this Exocortex Log over a decade ago and now I can answer: Ten years ago on Tuesday I was having dinner with the guitarist from my band and his girlfriend and they burned the pudding.
The app has been half finished and barely able to even record let alone review for most of that time, but now it’s ready enough that someone else might use it too if they want.
Try it out: #lifeLog #app #memoryAid