@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-15 05:56:21
Court filing: Google says it is ready to add third-party app stores in Google Play in the US on July 22, as Google and Epic withdraw their joint motion (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/965792/google-ep…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-09-14 06:44:44
Electricity grid fees in the Netherlands up by 19% next year!
This was to be expected given the very high investments in increasing the grid capacity, and it will be followed by further increases in coming years. Cost reduction in the system should be a priority now.
https://www.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-08-10 23:00:11
3 Fearless Dallas Cowboys Predictions for the 2026 NFL Season You Didn’t See Coming https://insidethestar.com/3-fearless-dallas-cowboys-predictions-for-the-2026-nfl-season-you-didnt-see-coming
@relcfp@mastodon.social2026-08-12 17:00:41
H-Net reviews posted to the H-Net Commons 03 Aug 2026 - 10 Aug 2026
https://ift.tt/uoGTVLH
Call for Paper (CAA 2027 Annual Conference): From the Street to the Bedroom: Designing the Modern…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2026-09-11 14:17:58
I've been at The Firs, Elgar's birth place. As well as hearing Nimrod played on a 1927 wind-up gramophone (see @…'s post if you want to hear it) I learnt a lot about Elgar as a man and a polymath, and as the first composer to take the gramophone seriously. The odds were stacked against him but now he's a national treasure. My friend's gre…
@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.
@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, …
@servelan@newsie.social2026-07-14 19:45:05
"In January 2025, according to the court filing, a representative of the Betar "vigilante" group admitted to communications directly with Miller and Rubio to hand over a pre-selected list of Palestinian activists it wanted the Trump administration to arrest and deport."
'Sadistic savagery': Stephen Miller linked to 'vigilante force' in new court filing - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/stephen-miller-vigilante-conspiracy/
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-08-12 08:28:14
The Signal Rail: A Deterministic Motion Grammar for Communicating Conversational Agent State in Terminal Interfaces
Matteo Grella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10689 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10689 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10689
arXiv:2608.10689v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Terminal interfaces to conversational agents report rich internal state (listening, thinking, executing tools, awaiting input, failing) almost entirely through text, while the motion channel beside it, the one peripheral vision monitors without reading, carries a single bit: alive. We present the Signal Rail, a one-row terminal status instrument that gives that channel a grammar. Four ideas govern it: spatial semantics (input, processing, and output zones, with direction as meaning), a motion grammar (one kinetic rule per state, never color alone), determinism (frames as a pure function of explicit inputs, golden-frame testable), and honesty (no invented progress or activity). We contribute a 45-section normative specification and a reference implementation inside a working full-duplex local voice agent driven by real signals.
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-09 17:37:02
Unimaginable that any FBI Director is as shameless as Kash Patel
as well as incompetent and greedy.
Equally unimaginable are the Senators who confirmed his appointment.
https://bsky.app/profile/macfarlanenews.bsky.social/post/3mqa5ma2h5c2u…
