@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-16 16:23:15
A Swiss canton has suspended its pilot of electronic voting after failing to count 2,048 votes cast in national referendums held on March 8.
Basel-Stadt announced the problem with its e-voting pilot, open to about 10,300 locals living abroad and 30 people with disabilities, last Friday afternoon.
It encouraged participants to deliver a paper vote to the town hall or use a polling station but admitted this would not be possible for many.
By the close of polling on Sunday, its …
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-03-16 10:22:41
On the first day of the #PTSD intensive, we talked about the shooting. I had felt like I was done with that, that it didn't have anything left for me. But there was something still that filled me with rage... that is still confusing and enraging.
It wasn't actually being shot. I wasn't even the possibility of death. I had been prepared to die. I always knew that was possible. It was something else.
I remember Marc Hokoana's face as he pepper sprayed pacifists, smiling and taunting, joyfully hurting people who he knew were refusing to respond. I remember their flags, the kek flag, literally a Nazi battle flag replaced in 4chan colors with the clover 4chan logo instead of the swastika. How many people have been tortured, have died? How much suffering, that these people not only welcomed but celebrated, joyfully participated in.
The cruelty was the point. It was the plan, the plan he posted to Facebook, the same plan as they have always had, of torturing people until someone responds and then murdering them. Inflicting trauma, responding with overwhelming force, showing how "big and strong" they are because they can always escalate.
Try to stop someone from peppers praying people, they shoot you. Shoot back, like Michael Reinoehl, and they send a death squad for you. But we keep standing up, so they keep escalating to the slightest imagined infraction. Now they just murder you for being in a car, for filming at a protest, for existing.
The bar for what justifies murder or torture will continue to move lower until there is no one left, or until they can no longer escalate.
The feeling of helplessness is still not the biggest thing though. It's the joy with which they inflict this on us. That's it. That's the thing.
CW: gun violence, abuse dynamics
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/the-creature-ptss-5-day-1
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-07 06:45:55
Chinese regulators fined Kuaishou $17.2M for failing to curb illegal content; pornographic content appeared on Kuaishou during its December 2025 cyberattacks (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-06/china-…
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-04-10 18:20:44
Krijgt GLPvdA gelijk, of de 50 lokale 'Pro-...' partijen? Wordt Pro landelijk mogelijk, dan blijft nog steeds een heel ongelukkige keuze voor die 50 gemeenten waar je twee Pro partijen zult krijgen.
Eigenlijk gewoon een flinke blunder (met een ook nog lelijke naam) wat mij betreft.
😵💫
Lokale 'Pro'-partijen willen bij rechter nieuwe naam GL-PvdA aanvechten
#politiek #pro
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-10 23:20:49
At a US Senate hearing on ownership caps for local TV stations, Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy opposed lifting the cap, while NAB CEO Curtis LeGeyt supported the move (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/02/fcc-ownership-cap-senate-hearing-newsmax-nab/
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-01-30 18:19:26
Vikings fire GM Adofo-Mensah after 4 seasons https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47779886/vikings-fire-gm-kwesi-adofo-mensah-4-seasons
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-03-04 23:25:41
So the new #Kreutz #comet #MAPS is *still* following the constant rapid rise in brightness it has shown since discovery: a dumb extrapolation - https://cobs.si/analysis/?comet=2688&from_date=2026-01-15 00:00&to_date=2026-04-30 00:00&observation_type=V&observation_type=C&plot_x_value=1&plot_y_value=1&fit_option=1&exclude_faint=on&exclude_issue=on&observer=&association=&country=&compare_values=compare - has it get 10,000-times brighter than the Sun at its extremely close perihelion which makes so sense at all, of course, physically.
"It must therefore be assumed that this increase in activity will level off significantly in the near future," writes https://fg-kometen.vdsastro.de/koj_2026/c2026a1/26a1eaus.htm: "More likely are parameters m m0=12.0 mag / n=4 (or even lower), which would still result in a (very short-term) maximum brightness of about –9 mag (but this would probably still be significantly too bright) – always assuming that the comet survives its perihelion passage unscathed."
For other views see http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005663.txt and https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17626 and https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10236580364221799 and https://cometografia.es/cometa-kreutz-2026-a1-maps-analisis/ - and the actual brightness is tracked at https://cobs.si/obs_list?id=2688 where it has reached ~11.5 mag. now.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-23 01:35:38
Kash Patel Faces Backlash For Flying To Winter Olympics, Partying It Up With Team USA (Ben Blanchet/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kash-patel-fbi-jet-team-usa-hockey-winter-olympics-2026_n_699b6be7e4b0f41da8d1f357
http://www.memeorandum.com/260222/p49#a260222p49
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-04-03 02:37:58
I got my spinal injection(s) today so I’m feeling hopeful. I know it can take a few days to kick in so I’m still expecting to wake up at 5am in extreme pain but fingers are firmly crossed that I feel better by next week.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-04-03 21:41:01
Netflix quietly unlocked Sony Pictures legacy titles and recent Pay-1 films for ad-tier subscribers for the first time and much earlier than expected (Kasey Moore/What's on Netflix)
https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/netflix-ju…
