@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-02-02 10:03:15
Wow… Google fined a whopping $68 MILLION DOLLARS for eavesdropping on people’s spoken conversations. That’ll teach them! It’s going to take Google a whole hour and a half to make that money back. I guess they won’t be pulling shit like this anymore after feeling that sort of pain. We really showed ‘em this time, eh? https://
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-02-03 21:12:16
With the currently released things about Bill Gates in the Epstein files (he had sex with the women and girls Epstein provided and asked Epstein for antibiotics to secretly give to his then-wife to treat the STI he gave her) how are we feeling about the Gates Foundation funding ... anything? Why should that creep (through his foundation) get to use that kind of power to shape what scientists and NGOs can do?
(Nobody should have that power, most foundations are politically a net negativ…
@anildash@me.dm2025-12-02 22:33:14
I sat for a long while with my complicated feelings about "vibe coding". It is _genuinely_ empowering for many — opening a door to creating with code that otherwise would never exist. Also? It enables a dangerous dependency that could be a path to serfdom for coders. https://www.…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-01-03 08:00:21
twitter: Twitter followers (2010)
A directed network of following relationships from Twitter, from a snowball sample crawl across "quality" users in 2009. A directed edge (i, j) indicates that user i follows user j.
This network has 465017 nodes and 834797 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://network…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-03 07:49:45
#Explosions, loud noises and low-flying aircraft have been heard in the #Venezuelan capital of #Caracas,
amid reports that Donald Trump had ordered strikes against the South American country.
In the early hours of Sat…
@rachel@norfolk.social2025-12-03 12:33:06
Why do I get the feeling that there is an org going around offering “free legal advice” on this that might be somewhat biased?
#ukpolitics #trans
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2026-01-01 12:00:05
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@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2026-01-02 22:58:09
That is us deChristmassed and it feels good. I thought the house would feel bare without it all but actually it feels clean and tidy. We moved the sitting room round and I really like it. Despite all the dross going on I'm feeling optimistic.
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-12-02 16:36:33
back on sweet @… tonight from 7-8pm ET, filling in for micah's music of mind control, with a more frow show-y bent on what that entails! weird (& pretty) vibrations ahead. #radio
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-02 20:11:36
#Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday
🔸as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics,
🔸expiring U.S. tax breaks for buyers
🔸and stiff overseas competition
pushed sales down for a second year in a row.
🔥Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025 -- down 9% from a year earlier.
Chinese rival
