@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2026-07-19 21:56:07
Some incredible shots in this year's International Aerial Photographer contest:
https://www.internationalaerialphotographer.com/
Awards book (preliminary):
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-20 16:15:55
Granta says it will stop publishing short story contest winners or join publishing partnerships it doesn't control after AI use allegations against a winner (Ella Creamer/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/20/granta-ma…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-20 16:31:27
In a significant victory for the party’s left wing, Chris Rabb took roughly 45% of the vote in Tuesday’s contest, comfortably ahead of early frontrunner state senator, Sharif Street, who fell to under 30%, and surgeon Ala Stanford.
Rabb addressed supporters, in an emotional victory speech, who had powered a grassroots campaign backed by the Philadelphia Democratic Socialists of America and the Working Families party.
“I have been critiqued along this campaign for being too radica…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-05-20 14:49:24
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116605858023186072
Google Search rests on a social contract: their bots can crawl our sites, they can index our sites, and they can show excerpts of our sites because
and •only because•
they send people to our sites. •Our• sites, our words, with our design, with our links, with our context and our aesthetics, shared the way we want to share them.
Google is announcing — unambiguously and with great fanfare — that they are now fully breaking that already-ragged contract. We should reciprocate.
1/2
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-19 16:45:38
A profile of ESPN analyst Matt Miller, who is accused of stiffing winners of his charity fantasy football leagues and was nearly killed in a car crash in June (The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7447251/2026/07/17/matt-miller-espn-ca…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-07-20 05:58:00
Contrary to Trump's bloviating gasbaggery, one of the strongest security features of U.S. elections is precisely the fact that they aren't conducted at the federal level.
✅ Here's what makes American elections so complicated and secure | PBS News
https://www.
@servelan@newsie.social2026-05-19 14:57:56
Russia holds massive drills of its nuclear forces
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia/russia-conducts-major-nuclear-drills-rcna345828
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-20 05:11:01
Singapore announces a National AI Partnership with Google and an MoU with OpenAI, which will set up an AI lab and commit $234M to the city-state's AI ecosystem (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/singapore-
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-20 23:26:19
The Pentagon has not formally briefed the press on the war since May,
reversing a series of triumphalist press conferences that Hegseth conducted earlier in the conflict.
Details of hidden American injuries come after a weekend of intense fighting between the U.S. and Iran.
The U.S. conducted strikes after an American service member was killed in Iraq during the “controlled detonation” of an Iranian drone, according to the Pentagon.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-20 20:31:24
The United States issued a federal criminal indictment against
Raúl Castro, Cuba’s former president,
and five others on Wednesday in a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s campaign to oust the country’s six-decades-old communist regime.
The 94-year-old political figurehead was charged in Miami, Florida, with conspiracy to kill US nationals, four counts of murder and two counts of destruction of aircraft.
Other defendants are a fighter pilot who was initi…