@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-30 16:01:39
Imgur blocks UK access after the ICO notified it of a possible fine over its handling of kids' data; the ICO calls Imgur's move a "commercial decision" (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/imgur-pulls-out-of-uk…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-09-30 17:55:49
Imgur blocks UK access after the ICO notified it of a possible fine over its handling of kids' data; the ICO calls Imgur's move a "commercial decision" (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/imgur-pulls-out-of-uk…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2025-08-30 22:16:54
Have a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"Dionysos mingles in the wine new powers,
Sending high adventure to the thoughts of men."
Bacchylides, fragment "For Alexander son of Amyntas", from a 1st century papyrus
🏛 Roman bronze figure of Dionysos, dated 1st century CE, now in private collection
@…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-01 00:41:27
Here’s the lightning sketch of Paul’s Treatise Against Efficiency that I’ve never written:
1. Efficiency is asymptotically inefficient: as costs approach zero, the cost of further reducing them approaches infinity.
2. Efficiency prioritizes the measurable over the difficult-to-measure.
3. Efficiency prioritizes what those in power see (or imagine) over on-the-ground reality.
4. Following from 2 and 3, efficiency reduces the amount and quality of information flowing into a human system.
5. Efficiency foments institutional inflexibility.
6. By removing slack, efficiency causes small failures to cascade more readily and increases the risk of catastrophic failure.
7. Following rom 4, 5, and 6, efficiency trades small costs for massive risks: from failures, from missed opportunities, and from inability to adjust.
8. Efficiency, when pushed, strangles the emergent phenomena that in the long term create all new things of value.
9. Thus, although it can be a by-product of evolution, efficiency as a goal in itself strangles evolution.
10. Efficiency as a goal strangles joy.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 02:11:37
The Trump administration is going to restrict the number of refugees it admits into the United States next year to the token level of just 7,500
– and those spots will mostly be filled by white South Africans.
The low number represents a dramatic drop after the US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people
fleeing war and persecution from around the world
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2025-08-01 13:01:28
Whenever someone calls it “unfair” to expropriate and reimburse the wealth made through now frowned upon horrors, such as the holocaust, slavery, or colonialism, because the people who inherited that wealth today aren't responsible for the actions of their ancestors, ask them the following:
Do you think it's fair to expropriate the modern day private prison owners, corporations who engage in neocolonialism or companies that profit off of the illegal occupation of the West Bank …
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-10-31 22:04:22
UN sees world's emissions falling 10% by 2035, far short of 60% goal #environment
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-09-30 18:30:41
Good evening folks! these are the last two #photos from our hike in the #schwarzwald (seen on my blog).
I saw that little stream next to our route and stepped down there to take some photos. The strong highlights in the back made it very hard to take the photos that I had intended. I guess …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-30 23:40:51
An inside look at how Netflix's use of data led to generic "algorithm films" intended for broad appeal, with AI set to further entrench the production style (Phil Hoad/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-30 15:10:50
Filing: StubHub, which is planning a September IPO, says revenue grew 3% to $828M in H1, missing its earlier projection of $885M, with adjusted EBITDA down 7% (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/stubhub-missed-financial-t…
