@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-22 19:31:00
Google launches free SAT practice exams in the Gemini app, providing students with performance analysis and detailed explanations for incorrect answers (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/22/google-now-offers-free-sat-pr…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-03-24 15:11:22
This is actually not too far off from a pamphlet I wrote at my community college as an experiment in "turning assignments into creative writing." I was taking a religion class, so I decided to create one. I was working in a group and by the end we had developed 3 sects of the religion and we each talked about our sect and how it related and differed from the original text.
I also handed out pamphlets at a mall, half as part of a psychology class (because why not find a way to reuse my material) and part as an experiment to see how long it would take to get kicked out of said mall. (The answer was bout 15 minutes, if I remember correctly.)
Somewhere between there and here, the books "The Evolution of God" and "Non-Zero" came out (written, interestingly but probably unrelated, by someone who lived in the town with that mall where I handed out those flyers). These books both have heavily overlapping ideas with the original pamphlet (lost, which may not be the worst thing since it was full of spelling and grammar errors).
But both of those books had a decidedly theistic flavor, though, I think, they were more generally liberal. The whole #CultPunk thing feels like a missing piece to something that's been bouncing around in my head for... uh... some years. But not so much at the front of my mind.
It was actually in the hospital, on pain killers and ketamine, that this all came rushing back. Perhaps that's the right state of mind for such things.
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-03-24 15:11:20
This is actually not too far off from a pamphlet I wrote at my community college as an experiment in "turning assignments into creative writing." I was taking a religion class, so I decided to create one. I was working in a group and by the end we had developed 3 sects of the religion and we each talked about our sect and how it related and differed from the original text.
I also handed out pamphlets at a mall, half as part of a psychology class (because why not find a way to reuse my material) and part as an experiment to see how long it would take to get kicked out of said mall. (The answer was bout 15 minutes, if I remember correctly.)
Somewhere between there and here, the books "The Evolution of God" and "Non-Zero" came out (written, interestingly but probably unrelated, by someone who lived in the town with that mall where I handed out those flyers). These books both have heavily overlapping ideas with the original pamphlet (lost, which may not be the worst thing since it was full of spelling and grammar errors).
But both of those books had a decidedly theistic flavor, though, I think, they were more generally liberal. The whole #CultPunk thing feels like a missing piece to something that's been bouncing around in my head for... uh... some years. But not so much at the front of my mind.
It was actually in the hospital, on pain killers and ketamine, that this all came rushing back. Perhaps that's the right state of mind for such things.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-21 19:19:40
To be clear: I have no realistic expectation any Senator would actually attempt to zero out the DHS budget. I just want to set a baseline for them, move the Overton Window, give them a taste of how angry the population is.
Yes yes yes, Reply Armada, “oh those terrible Democrats yada yada,” I know, I know. I am •not• waiting for politicians to save us.
I am also, however, quite ready to exercise political leverage and use politicians as our tools whenever I think that has a nonzero chance of being useful. Make that call — then back to the rest of the work.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-03-21 12:05:22
I walked into this nice house yesterday, marched the family living there out at gunpoint, murdered all the neighbours, and took the whole block for myself.
Calm down, calm down, my name’s Israel.
Ah, right, no worries, you don’t have to apologise. I can see why you were confused and thought you might have had to get angry at me before you realised who I was. It was a silly mistake, think nothing of it. We both know you’d never criticise anything I do… you’re not antisemitic.
@shaman007@mastodon.andreybondarenko.com2026-01-22 17:09:58
The new level of scam hit me today. Got an e-mail: "Do you have a bounty program?" This would be fun, thought I, and I answered, "Yes!" The vulnerability they'd "found" was that you can use my domain in the FROM header of the email. How cool is that! So much spoofing!
After I described that that's how email works and the reason we have DKIM, DMARK, SPF, and all of those things, they asked for $20 for a heads-up as appreciation.
@trondc@social.linux.pizza2026-01-22 13:46:13
No matter how you twist or turn it, Mr Drumpf has done one good thing for the world.
It has made the rest of the world take a look at themselves and ask one very critical question: "Do we rely too much on USA?"
And I think that in most cases, the answer has been "Yes. Yes, we do", and many countries has already started the process of changing this.
So, credit where credit is due, I suppose...
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-02-15 14:15:31
Die Deutsche #Umwelthilfe unterstützt den Vorschlag von Bayerns Wirtschaftsminister Hubert #Aiwanger für eine Sonderausschreibung von 5000 Megawatt #Windenergie, um bereits genehmigte Projekte …
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-02-18 13:40:00
I woke up angry today.
ICE spokesperson Lindsay Williams is a liar, who is bad at lying.
“Asked if the ICE officers chased Lopez, Williams said: ‘Chased? I wouldn’t say that. They followed him until he crashed.’”
Wouldn’t say that? How about: ICE was committing crime (their standard procedure), someone died, they’re the killers. Your people killed a school teacher, Williams.
Have the day you deserve, you apologist scum.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-11 12:26:05
CNN and CCDH investigation: 80% of major AI chatbots gave guidance on weapons or targets to "teen" personas 50% of the time; only Claude consistently refused (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/03/11/americas/ai-chatbots-help-teen-test-user…
