@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-30 15:15:53
AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/amazon-launch…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-07-30 17:19:17
Fernando Mendoza focused on the next rep amid ‘following role’ with Raiders https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/fernando-mendoza-focused-on-the-next-rep-amid-following-role-with-raiders-3857031/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-29 06:12:54
NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission.
The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.
NASA hired startup
Katalyst Space Technologies
to boost the Swift Observatory to a higher orbit
where it can continue hunting for some of the universe’s biggest explosions.
A three-armed spacecraft built by Katalyst will chase after Swift once …
@cyrevolt@mastodon.social2026-06-28 16:22:58
I'm trying to build a fork if Ghidra, and depending on what version of Gradle I use, I get different errors.
Using the minimum version gives me this:
https://discuss.gradle.org/t/could-not-open-cp-init-generic-class-cache-for-in…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-05-29 13:50:12
Texans QB C.J. Stroud on looming contract extension entering 2026: 'I think I've held my bargain up' https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-qb-c-j-stroud-on-looming-contract-extension-entering-2026-i-think-i-ve-held-my-…
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizza2026-07-27 16:32:42
Tearing families apart, so concentration camps can profit, targeting non-criminal people following the correct legal processes is a recurring theme in our fascist USA
Video Source
https://reddit.com/comments/1v7cus4
@bilbo_le_hobbit@mamot.fr2026-07-25 08:40:14
L'actualité brûlante me fait immanquablement penser Š "Ravage", le livre d'anticipation dystopique de René Barjavel. Un livre puant par son côté survivaliste fasciste, mais sa description de l’effondrement d'une société par les flammes d'un mégafeu global et universel ne m'a jamais paru aussi proche de ce que nous sommes en train d'assister. On y est presque. (sauf qu'on aura peut-être le fascisme avant l'effondrement mais ceci est une autre histoir…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-07-26 17:31:24
Semi-subtoot: there's a certain kind of anti-genocide narrative that draws comparisons between the Gaza genocide and the genocide of Jews, queer, and disabled people during WW2, with an incredulous overtone, the subtext of which is: if the good nations invaded Germany to stop the Nazis' evil in WW2, it's hypocritical for this nations not to take action to protect Gazan civilians now. There are a couple of problems with this line of reasoning, but the most obvious from an anarchist perspective (which sees "good nation" for the oxymoron it is) is that it's ahistorical. The reasons for the various allies' entrance into WW2 are varied, but they weren't about good and evil, and in fact the full depth of the evils of the Holocaust *was not known* in allied countries until after the war. Nations never really do things to "fight evil" like some humans might; they always act out of a kind of (imperfect) self-interest. The motivations for many of the allies were simply "we don't want Germany to conquer and destroy us" (and the imperfection in that motive is amply evident in the appeasement that preceded the war). America was of course not swayed by that motive, and it was the Japanese that (thinking the issue would have to come to a head eventually and that a surprise attack was worth speeding it up) put America in a situation where it joined for similar reasons.
Why is this extra relevant right now? Because neither the US nor any European country is existentially threatened by Israel (or threatened at all in fact, quite the opposite they're all benefiting economically from the situation in Gaza). The lesson of history isn't "brave, good nations will stand up to fight against anyone who commits genocide or other major evils", it's "nations act in their narrow and twisted and often mistaken self-interest (the interest of the national entity, which is often counter to the interest of it's citizens), and they always mythologize their actions after the fact as having been a fight against evil, which sometimes by luck is partially true."
To double down on this point: in the European theater the U.S. war actions were pretty good overall, defeating an evil opponent through military force and being a fairly gracious victor to the civilian populations there. In contrast, in the Pacific theater the U.S. was one of two evil empires duking it out for global dominance at the expense of civilians on both sides. The Japanese empire was a vile regime and perpetrated horrors in China, Korea, and across southeast Asia. The U.S. was barely better, between Japanese internment camps at home, and mass targeting of civilians on Japan, both with the firebombing of Tokyo and especially the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
So if your model of how we stop genocide is "convince the good guys to invade (or exert political pressure) and save the day", your model is wrong. That's not what happened in WW2. I'm not confident I know the perfect solution, but I do think it involves a mass of people making increasingly disruptive protest so that the cost *to rich companies and thus politicians* of falling to intervene is too high to stomach. That's a large part of what succeeded in South Africa, for example. Thankfully, there is already a vibrant protest movement to end the genocide in Gaza, and even though they haven't been fully successful yet, I'm optimistic that as things naturally (and through hard work) fall apart for various fascists politically, that movement will be able to succeed.
#gaza #genocide
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-21 01:56:34
A lot of the attention to changes in higher education has focused on cultural issues, such as debates over free speech.
“But there’s also a real economic and geopolitical dimension to what’s happening, in terms of the shifting away from the scientific enterprise and the leading global role that the United States has played for decades.”
Federal funding isn’t flowing to MIT as it typically has, Kornbluth said.
Some federal agencies are talking about taking geography — not …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-09 02:15:18
We need an agenda that working-class people and everyday Americans can rally behind.
Without one, far-right, fascist politicians are filling that void.
This fascist agenda redirects people’s rightful anger at our system’s failures to unjustly place blame on immigrants, low-income people, and people of color.
It’s time to acknowledge that failing to provide transformational policies and hope to the working class has allowed fascism to rise and hold on to power.
It’…
