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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-20 21:01:38

The US DOJ says at least two DOGE employees accessed Social Security data that was off-limits under a court ruling and shared agency data on third-party servers (April Rubin/Axios)
axios.com/2026/01/20/doge-empl

DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says
It's a stunning admission from the Trump administration, after it battled in court over DOGE's rights to access and use Social Security data .

@mikeymikey@hachyderm.io
2026-03-21 18:09:10

I know that following a hashtag is part of the Mastodon protocol itself, but since I'm in @… the majority of the time - it feels like it would be cool to:
- Offer a "follow for a week" / month option
- "We'll ask you when time's up"
mechanism (maybe the ask part is configurable? maybe the client could also just handle it when next it runs?)
I hit this time and time again for moment in time events where during the thick of it, I'm invested and interested - conferences, world news, etc - but after which there's no more signal in the hashtag and it's just detritus putting load on a server somewhere.
Ideally this is something that should be in the protocol itself, but it feels like similar to quote replies that @… could bring a better user experience in advance of adoption of something like that

@sean@scoat.es
2026-01-22 18:31:14

Imagine being Discord…
…and seeing that a user has joined a new Discord “server”
…and immediately sends the same message to all channels they can access
…and not feeling the responsibility to automatically ban these spammers
…and instead relying on your moderators/users to do these kinds of platform-heuristic tasks… to act as human firewalls.
I have a fundamental professional disconnect with treating this as anything other than a high priority to fix this for the he…

@randombaywatch@mastodon.social
2026-02-22 12:42:02

a bit surprised
#DavidHasselhoff
Season 2 Episode 15 "Sea of Flames"
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx

@axbom@axbom.me
2026-01-19 06:14:48
”My argument is that the current structure of public conversation has the same effect on human cognition that a botnet has on a web server. It's simply exhausting you. And an exhausted mind defaults to heuristics and tribal allegiances, aka whatever position allows it to conserve the most cognitive energy.”

”What I do know is that the feeling of being overwhelmed, of never being able to keep up, of having strong opinions about everything and confident understanding of nothing, is n…
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-19 18:19:29

One month after the justice department’s congressionally mandated deadline to
👉release all Jeffrey Epstein investigative files went unmet,
victims’ advocatesare expressing outrage over the department’s failure to comply with federal law.
Advocates have also indicated that they are not surprised,
describing the justice department’s noncompliance with the
"Epstein Files Transparency Act"
as yet another example of US officials failing to hold wrongdo…

Epstein victims’ advocates express outrage over slow release of files
Deadline mandated by Epstein Files Transparency Act long past, but millions of documents have still not been released

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-17 15:44:52

Yay, first shot of Auto Encrypt¹ running a HTTPS web server at a Web Number (IP address).
ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
Next step: find out why some of the tests are failing on the Linux box, fix, and implement Web Numbers support in Kitten² and Catalyst³.
¹

Screenshot of a browser showing a Hello, world! Page at https://91.98.66.193
@floheinstein@chaos.social
2026-03-19 11:42:19

Looks like someone broke @… again
web.archive.org results in a 503 error.
It's almost as if someone might be interested in people not remembering things from the past...
#webarchive

https://web.archive.org/ 503 Service Unavailable No server is available to handle this request.
@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-02-14 12:00:06

"Tree planting can combat urban heat, but some neighborhoods are falling behind"
#Trees #Environment

Tree planting can combat urban heat, but some neighborhoods are falling behind
Sydney communities may be missing out on crucial tree planting projects intended to combat urban heat, leaving western and eastern parts of Greater Sydney with less protection from extreme heat, a University of Sydney-led study has revealed. In a surprising finding, the researchers found that while Greater Sydney's total tree canopy increased by 4.2% from 1.514 billion square meters to 1.578 billion square meters between 2016 and 2022, this growth was not evenly distributed.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-16 13:35:41

Sources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to oversee Stargate after deciding to rent more AI servers from cloud providers, and splits its computing effort in three (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Names New Infrastructure Leaders Following Stargate Strategy Shift
OpenAI has appointed new leaders to oversee its Stargate computing initiative after deciding to rent more AI servers from major cloud providers rather than build its own data centers, according to two people familiar with the changes. As part of its reorganization, OpenAI has divided its ...