@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-07 16:33:54
"The wheels are coming off."
"The IRS and Social Security are now run by the same person, which I think is a red flag, right?" Don Moynihan says.
"These are like two huge, complicated federal agencies, and one guy is running both of them."
Moynihan notes that a recent Inspector General report found that the agency is collecting much less revenue than it should from its audits.
Elon Musk's DOGE fired scores of tax audit specialists, …
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-08-07 19:32:54
The EU is not on track to achieve the necessary filling level of its natural gas storages, making it vulnerable to timely delivery of LNG from Trump's US and the Persian Gulf this coming winter.
Germany and the Netherlands are to blame. Together, they have over 1/3 of the storage capacity.
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@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot2026-07-09 12:01:11
Interesting to compare the author Neal Stephenson's profiles on X/twitter vs. Bluesky.
He has 89,4 K followers on X, where he still posts, but just under 10 K on Bluesky, where he doesn't post at all.
He has many fans on the fediverse who discuss his books, but he is not here.
@adlerweb@social.adlerweb.info2026-09-07 20:27:11
Lake Mead (Hoover Dam) hat (yet again) den niedrigsten Wasserstand der seit der Füllung in 1937 erreicht. Das letzte mal wurde der "normale" Füllstand im Jahr 2000 erreicht. Seit dem waren bis auf ein Jahr die Abflüsse immer höher als die Zuflüsse.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mead
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-10-07 03:36:21
I'm not sure, but I think my feeling towards the coming election has shifted a bit towards... optimism!? Gulp. 😬 As Ren and Chinchilla say "I'm scared of feeling OK, 'cause all things change, all things change." (see their live Chalk Outlines video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35yALr_opeg
@relcfp@mastodon.social2026-07-09 09:40:23
H-Net reviews posted to the H-Net Commons 29 Jun 2026 - 06 Jul 2026
https://ift.tt/BJAMCRh
H-Diplo|RJISSF Roundtable Review 15-16 on Levine, _Allies and Rivals_ H-Diplo | Robert…
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-08 04:21:09
Nitter, the open source front-end for reading X Posts without signing up for an account,
is not going anywhere yet.
Weeks after X Corp's lawyers showed up demanding a permanent shutdown,
Hthe project's GitHub repository has come out of read-only mode
with an updated README that says:
UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue.
More details will be announced soon.
Now, the repository and the homepage carry the same messa…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-10-08 02:13:17
A tough first loss for the Raiders, now a quick turnaround at New England https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/a-tough-first-loss-for-the-raiders-now-a-quick-turnaround-at-new-england
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-07-27 11:10:24
Colts QB Daniel Jones 'feeling good' coming off Achilles tear, full-go for training camp https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-qb-daniel-jones-feeling-good-coming-off-achilles-tear-full-go-for-training-camp
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-01 17:25:51
A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactiv…
