@Kingu@sakurajima.moe2026-05-17 11:16:27
[Notice Regarding Member Graduation and Suspension of Group Activities]
Thank you very much for your continued support of Prankstars.
As announced today during the “Prankstars New System Debut Live,” the following four members will graduate from Prankstars effective today:
Aisu Mirai
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@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-20 18:01:26
Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/technology/amazon-antitrust…
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-05-01 18:28:45
This was a nice ride. Some sections involved pushing the bike. And some steep parts came a bit surprising. But overall it was nice with some quite challenging sections. It was a loop that I wanted to try since quite a while.
And it's a new elevation record since I own the Garmin 🎉
Just my #garmin now suddenly refuses to connect to my phone. 😵💫 Factory reset, all suggestions fro…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-22 14:53:26
Greeting Andy Burnham after he was sworn in as an MP were a slew of cabinet ministers
- including the chief whip Jonathan Reynolds and the energy secretary Ed Miliband
- who came in flanked by two Treasury ministers, Torsten Bell and Dan Tomlinson.
Around 200 MPs were in the hall to greet Burnham, now officially the MP for Makerfield.
He arrived with Lucy Powell, the deputy Labour leader and the MP Jo Platt
- who holds Burnham’s old constituency of Leigh.
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@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-05-28 13:45:44
Commanders' Jayden Daniels loves new OC David Blough's offense, aims to avoid injury in Year 3 https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-jayden-daniels-loves-new-offense-aims-to-avoid-injury
@hippyjo@c.im2026-06-25 18:08:15
Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli: Belarus and the strategic depth of Moscow.
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@pre@boing.world2026-05-07 15:33:25
All the talks in sync at 30 minute intervals. This is too short really. They either have to dive in with jargon I don't get to explain in depth, or barely manage to summarize before the time runs out. No time for Q&A at all which leaves you wondering why not just watch it on youtube?
There's a hall full of stands from corporations of varying evilness giving out useless tat with trademarks on it. People go mad for the loot. Seems to make people quite excited to get a pair of socks or a fidget toy. I leave them to it. Don't like talking to salespeople even if you get free socks with trademarks on them. I don't wear logos in general anyway.
The AI bootsterism is strong, but not omnipresent. Plenty of talks on team management or deployment or progress in non-amazon cloud systems or whatever. Even if they can only be quite surface-detail and lacking depth due to shortness.
It's like being in school really. Flowing from lesson to lesson. Mostly being taught things that will be irrelevent or are boring or are unlikely to ever really come up.
Short break before street party now.
#devWorld
@pre@boing.world2026-05-08 22:20:48
In my ward the greens seem to have got about a third of the vote vs Labour with the rest. 2:1
Which is a big improvement. 300 or so neighbors to turn.
In the borough we've gone from unanimous Labor to about a third Green. Which is oddly proportional to my ward. Not really sure I understand the actual counting system with the three votes I had or if it's PR or not.
Nationally its awful for Labour but also worse for the country since outside London they lost mostly to the Reform (nee Brexit) party/private-company.
Conservatives seem irrelevant, even Lib Dems more important.
I've been casting doubt upon the idea of an imminent Reform government, saying it'd be unprecedented for Reform to go from one ever elected MP to 400 MPs in a single election. But these elections feel pretty close to that kind of swing.
Starmer says he'll stay on. He has no concept of what government should do other than give tax breaks to businesses to try to get economic growth, and crack down in authoritarian ways with increased surveillance and ID checks and prosecuting protestors.
He doesn't seem to realize that government can just do things, especially after Brexit. It can just pay people to build infrastructure owned by and giving profit to the state. It does not need private investment. Isn't that supposed to be the point of a Labour party?
So things will continue to get worse and Labour will continue to chase Reform policies (and so validate them). So Reform may well win.
There is one hope. Burnham could resign as mayor, a safe-seat MP could resign, and Burnham stands there. Assuming he wins he could then stand for leadership. And then if he wins and then actually does something despite the protest of the right wing of his own party, maybe things could get better.
That's a lot of conditionals. You'd want good odds to place a bet on that.
Or the greens of course. These elections have seen hundreds of new green councilors. The momentum is good. Probably take the council here next time unless that Burnham things happens.
So good for Greens, but better for Reform, and we could do with a Labour party which wasn't failing.
Oh well. Fingers crossed I guess. Few more years till the national ones.
#ukpol