"it is official U.S. policy to work toward regime change in European countries and to weaken or even destroy the European Union." — @…
I think this has been coming for a long time – since long before #Trump. The interests of the US and of an incr…
I reckon we need to shift the Overton Window prior to the coming election in Aotearoa NZ. We need to demonstrate the absurdities inherent it to show that it bears no useful relationship to the overall prosperity of a society. The fact that spending $billions to recover from a massive climate change-exacerbated storm looks like a 'GDP win' for the gov't, and climate change mitigation looks like a loss, is all you need to know.
Japan is a one party state. It's Liberal Democratic Party is now represented more in parliament than the Chinese Communist Party is in China.
GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 can handle the full app development lifecycle on their own, a sign of what's coming for most knowledge work within five years (Matt Shumer)
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
Progressive lawmakers are demanding that the Democrats use the upcoming government funding deadline to hopefully reduce the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to wreak further havoc.
“I just don’t understand how we provide votes for a bill that funds the extent of the depravity,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told CNNThursday.
“I know we can’t fix everything in the appropriations bill but we should be looking at ways we can put some commonsense limitations on their ability to…
wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
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Australia just hit a major EV milestone: electric vehicles captured 8.3% of the car market in December 2025, a record high.
Battery EVs reached 9% market share for the year, with plug-in hybrids at 4.6%. Chinese brands like BYD and Zeekr are leading the charge, with even more models coming in 2026.
This shift could reshape Australia's entire automotive landscape.
🥳 New Kitten¹ Release
• Fixed: Errors in a project’s _main.script.js_ now cause a hard crash without retry attempts. The errors are also now better classified and communicated.
• Housekeeping: Removed unmaintained dev dependency, updated supported ES versions to esnext and simplified jsconfig.json.
Full change log:
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116045913018556966
I understand where they are coming from but that is way too much of a technological framing. Even an encrypted open source Internet can be super unsafe to exist in.
Safety comes from social a…
Flipkart moves its headquarters back to India, more than a decade after it moved to Singapore, as it prepares for a potential IPO in India in the coming months (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/flipkart-moves-its-headqu…