US House advances a trio of cryptocurrency bills following over nine hours of private talks on Wednesday, a day after Trump intervened to save the initiative (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-house-clears-p…
🤯 Been working for hours and missed the newest eruption 🌋🇮🇸
#Iceland
New site from the GSA "GO.gov will serve as a single travel management solution for all civilian Federal agencies [...]"
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/114863580250597448
It's time to organize, no heroes are coming!
⭐ Read more here: #Anarchism #Syndicalism
Efficacy of Galaxy Catalogues for following up gravitational wave events
Tamojeet Roychowdhury, Harsh Choudhary, Varun Bhalerao, David O. Cook, Viraj Karambelkar, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Harsh Kumar, Surhud More, Gaurav Waratkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11635
As usual we watched the "Stoertebekker" stage play at Ralswiek on Rügen Island. The stage setups and wardrobes were as awesome as always. They really try to improve on that every year and come up with clever mechanisms to transform the building for the various acts of the play. The script this year left room for desire ;) Nevertheless a happing worth attending
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The UK's Reach is hiring an overnight team in Australia for the first time to deliver "what UK news audiences want to see", following its expansion in the US (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-
Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC
36 hours without food, and I’m feeling pretty good. I kind of want to keep going, but I’m running a workshop this afternoon and I don’t want to crash halfway through it.
I guess I should eat some breakfast.
(I have been drinking coffee, of course. I’m not an animal.)
I've noticed more Russian propaganda bots that just appear and get reported and banned within a few hours. The accounts tend to be around for a few days. They often have super obvious AI generated avatars, no posts of their own, and copy and paste replies with little to no actual content. The propaganda doesn't even seem like it's trying. Just the same painfully obviously false stuff about #Ukraine.
Meanwhile, LLMs exist that can make those types of attacks far more subtle. Has anyone seen an analysis of Russian bot behavior over time? It seems like they're getting worse, but it's hard to know if there isn't something else going on.
From my perspective, it just kind of looks like the whole machine is falling apart. It's really pathetic to see how even Russian propaganda, which is like... their main thing, seems to have collapsed. They used to try, now it seems like even the troll farms are phoning it in. At some point you gotta wonder how long Putin has left before he gets the Gaddafi treatment.