@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-05 17:19:44
Donald Trump’s legal team has rejected a request by the BBC to hand over financial information as part of his $10bn defamation case against the broadcaster.
The US president’s lawyers accused the BBC of a “fishing expedition”, according to court filings, after the broadcaster’s representatives asked for details to get evidence on Trump’s claims he suffered reputational and financial damage because of a Panorama documentary centred on the US Capitol riots.
Trump’s lawyers have pre…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-06-03 23:31:32
Some of the rats are too big for the traps...
Rat infestation in IRS building leads to staff sitting on their desks, report says: ‘Falling out of ceilings’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/irs-rat-infestation-georgia-office-whistleblower-b2989112.html
@crell@phpc.social2026-05-05 15:32:59
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-06-02 07:51:18
While I wouldn't support all the Spanish government's economic policies, given that like everywhere else, they are GDP growth oriented, it is interesting to see how unemployment, including youth unemployment, in all sectors, keeps falling. And it's not done by limiting workers' rights
El paro se reduce en todos los sectores en mayo y el empleo marca nuevo récord
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-29 15:27:03
Seven families of victims in the Tumbler Ridge shooting in Canada sue OpenAI, accusing it of failing to warn authorities about the suspect's ChatGPT activity (Clare Duffy/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/tech/openai-tumbler-ridge-canada-shooting-lawsuit…
@danyork@mastodon.social2026-05-30 12:01:03
Many years ago, a friend said he was following “The S Diet”. It was very simple and memorable:
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No Sweets or Seconds, except on Saturday and Sunday.
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Simple… easy… and it actually worked for me as a way to help maintain or reduce weight (along with some mild level of exercise).
My challenge is that in the intervening years, my brain fought that and changed it to:
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No Sweets or Seconds, except on days ending in ‘y’.
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🤣🤦♂️
Un-doin…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-28 17:12:47
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Crazy Horse:
🎵 Dirty, Dirty
#CrazyHorse
https://prfmonthlytributeseries.bandcamp.com/track/dirty-dirty-crazy-horse
https://open.spotify.com/track/0dF9GjoF4OWwLi5MEcfraL
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-05-30 17:44:13
thinking abt this carel willink. its just liminal space pics from a century ago. the emptiness of this public space left this one german guy uneasy 100 years ago. what's your favorite historical archive of this feeling
@samvarma@fosstodon.org2026-04-27 03:23:57
Octopussy: felt like it might be classic for the first half hour, then devolved into the same bland mush as the other Moore films. Man, the rewatch of the catalogue is completely changing my relationship to the memories of these films.
And I don't remember them ever actually improving from here...
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-27 16:20:59
Tensormesh, whose inference platform uses KV caching to reduce costs, raised a $20M seed extension, bringing its total funding to $24.5M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/05/27/ai-inference-tensorm…
