@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-25 14:51:35
Instead of the Union Jack, passersby were greeted with Australia’s flag, a detail that might be technically defensible
—Charles is also Australia’s head of state
—but not diplomatically ideal.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dc-flubs-royal-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-03-17 16:50:44
Vurt, a mobile-first vertical streaming platform designed for indie filmmakers to upload their micro series or feature films, launches with 100 episodes (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/vurt-mobile-first-v…
@pre@boing.world2026-02-26 20:29:42
The federal government’s revenue base is essentially a tax on human time. People work, firms pay them, the government takes a cut. Individual income and payroll taxes are the spine of receipts in normal years.
Indeed. Collapse in the labour economy causes a financial state collapse when the state is funded by a tax on labour.
Productivity is surging, but the gains are flowing to capital and compute, not labor.
Which would ideally mean you tax compute and capital but how's that work when compute and capital own the government already?
The output is still there. But it’s no longer routing through households on the way back to firms, which means it’s no longer routing through the IRS either.
@jake4480@c.im2026-04-20 01:17:08
In Rogue-FP on Steam, EVERYTHING is made of letters. When you kill a monster and come back later, there will often be flies (capital 'F' letters) flying around the remains 😂
#Rogue #Steam #SteamDeck
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-19 09:45:52
Filing: Samsung says it plans to spend ~$73.3B on capital expenditure and research in 2026, up from ~$60B in 2025, and pay ~$6.5B in regular dividends (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/samsung-electronics-plans-over-7…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-02-20 20:34:38
Is building an LLM inherently problematic? Not necessarily, but there's no good way to do it under capitalism. Is using an local LLM funding these evil companies? No. It's not.
Spelling and grammar checking is one of the few uses of LLMs that is not based on fundamentally failing to understand what an LLM actually is. A statistical model is gonna be *really good* at flagging things that are probably typos (low probability areas). There will be false positives, which is fine if you're actually paying attention...
@crell@phpc.social2026-03-09 17:05:07
Capitalists are the reason people become socialists.
https://www.ign.com/articles/ea-lays-off-staff-across-all-battlefield-studios-following-record-breaking-battlefield-6-launch
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-19 19:15:50
Bluesky raised a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto in April 2025, following a $15M Series A in 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023; it now has over 43M users (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-af…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-11 06:11:38
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing the Justice Department of
covering up the names of co-conspirators of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
as fallout from the Epstein files grows across the globe.
Millions of pages remain unreleased.
As many prominent U.S. figures evade accountability following mentions in the Epstein files,
a number of European figures have resigned for their relationships with Epstein.
“The most extraordinary and worrying …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-17 21:51:24
Trump administration deepens quest to stamp out the events of Jan. 6
Trump’s effort to reframe what happened on Jan. 6 appears, in many ways, to be an attempt to shape public perceptions.
The details of what happened that day remain accessible and documented in an expansive universe of videos, accounts and court filings.
The day he was inaugurated last year, Trump pardoned most Jan. 6 defendants, some of whom are now seeking elected office.
The president also commu…
