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@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-05-22 16:41:00

Politico shuts down two AI-driven products following a November 2025 arbitration ruling that found they violated the union's collective bargaining agreement (Kathleen Floyd/Washington-Baltimore News Guild)
wbng.org/2026/05/22/politico-a…

VICTORY: POLITICO agrees to shut down both AI tools at center of landmark arbitration - Washington-Baltimore News Guild
The POLITICO and E&E News Guild (PEN Guild) members have earned a resounding final victory in one of the most significant labor-AI disputes in American journalism: following months of negotiations between PEN Guild leadership, WBNG, and POLITICO management, the company has agreed to shut down both artificial intelligence products at the heart of last November’s landmark arbitration ruling.

@seav@en.osm.town
2026-06-19 22:23:12

Happy 5th birthday to #Wordle!
According to Wordle’s stats, I’ve played 1601 times. And because I first started playing on 5 January 2022, I missed playing 26 times.

Screenshot of Wordle’s 5 for 5 Challenge badge featuring a green shield with five haphazardly arranged stars on it and the text “5 Years” at its top, the text “Earned Jun. 19, 2026” above, the title “5 for 5 Challenge” below, followed by the following sentence “You earned this badge by successfully completing all 5 Wordle puzzles from June 15 - June 19, 2026, in celebration of 5 years of the game.” Finally, there’s a button below with the label “View all badges in the Game App”
@floheinstein@chaos.social
2026-06-19 12:18:47

Yesterday, I ordered a new pair of hemp shoes from 8000kicks.
UPS says they had in in Leiria, Portugal 2 hours ago - and plan to deliver it to me BY END OF DAY. That's about 2000km in less than 12 hours.
I'm not sure if that means I have to clear the field outside our house for landing of a freight plane or a helicopter - or if I just should expect a giant crater.

Tracking details of a parcel with UPS, showing it was scanned in Portal at 12:15, Estimated delivery: Friday, June 19 by End of Day in Winterthur, Switzerland
@Schrank@phpc.social
2026-07-20 06:37:17

Shopware 6 Hidden Gems #3: sw-expect-packages — let your integration fail fast
Here is a support ticket I have seen in about five different costumes: a middleware pushes orders into Shopware via the Admin API. One day the payloads start failing — or worse, they don't fail, they just silently write incomplete data. After an hour of digging it turns out someone deactivated a plugin on the shop side, or updated it to a version with a different custom field layout.

Shopware 6 Hidden Gems #3: sw-expect-packages — let your integration fail fast - Winkelwagen GmbH
Here is a support ticket I have seen in about five different costumes: a middleware pushes orders into Shopware via the Admin API. One day the payloads start

@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2026-07-19 00:30:00

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Lucky LUCKY SHD 400 (FF) English A black-and-white photograph of a serene pond surrounded by dense foliage. Tree branches with sparse leaves extend over the water, creating a partially shaded surface. The water is calm, with scattered light reflections and floating debris, possibly leaves or petals. The background is filled with thick vegetation, giving a sense of a secluded, natural setting. 中文 一张黑白照片，展现了一个宁静的池塘，周围环绕着茂密的植被。树枝上稀疏的叶子延伸至水面上方，形成部分阴影。水面平静，散落着光线的倒影以及漂浮的碎片，可能是叶子或花瓣。背景充满浓密的植被，营造出一种隐世…
Lucky LUCKY SHD 400 (FF) English A black-and-white photograph of a clothing store interior. The shop is filled with racks of traditional dresses and garments, displayed on mannequins and hangers. A person is seated on a chair in the background, partially obscured by the clothing. The foreground features tables with various items, possibly accessories or decorative objects. The store has a rustic, wooden structure, and hanging lights illuminate the space. 中文 一张黑白照片，展示了一家服装店的内部。店内摆满了传统连衣裙和服装，陈列在…
Lucky LUCKY SHD 400 (FF) English A black-and-white close-up photograph of intricately carved wooden doors. The doors feature multiple panels with detailed relief carvings depicting scenes of people, animals, and nature, such as trees, flowers, and vases. The carvings are highly detailed, showcasing traditional craftsmanship. A lock is visible in the center of the doors. 中文 一张黑白特写照片，展示了精美雕刻的木门。门上有多个面板，上面的浮雕精细地描绘了人物、动物和自然场景，如树木、花朵和花瓶。雕刻非常细腻，展现了传统工艺。门的中央可见一把锁。
Lucky LUCKY SHD 400 (FF) English A black-and-white photograph of a narrow waterway, flanked by dense bamboo and other vegetation. The path appears to lead to an overbridge with a glass facade in the background, partially obscured by the foliage. The scene is dimly lit, with shadows cast by the surrounding plants, creating a mysterious and secluded atmosphere. 中文 一张黑白照片，展现了一条狭窄的水路，两侧是茂密的竹子和其他植被。小径似乎通向背景中一个玻璃外立面的横跨桥，部分被植被遮挡。场景光线昏暗，周围植物投下的阴影营造出一种神秘而隐世的氛围。
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-06-18 01:55:36

Giants' Cam Skattebo won't alter approach after injury: I'm going to get back to 'running people over' nfl.com/news/giants-cam-skatte

Giants' Cam Skattebo won't alter approach after injury: I'm going to get back to 'running people over'
New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo already declared he'll be ready to go Week 1 following last year's season-ending ankle injury. Now, he's made it clear he'll be the same old Skattebo when he retakes the field.

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2026-06-19 08:05:19

Bit into a chocolate truffle from a local candy shop that was a kind of hemispherical shape, perhaps made from a flat chocolate base that had a blob of filling put on it and then encapsulated in more chocolate.
And as I'm looking at the seam between the two segments the first thing that comes to mind is... Wouldn't it be cool to freeze one of these in LN2, cross section, polish, maybe ion mill, then do like SEM/EBSD to look at the cocoa butter grain structure around the weld li…

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2026-08-22 00:59:57

People who don't mind driverless cars will find all sorts out reason to brush off this kind of news:
flipboard.social/@TechDesk/117
It was moving slowly already to be safe, it did brake before the collision, the injuries were minimal, the child is at fault, etc.
In the end, a lot of people will shrug and say: human drivers also make mistakes like this, so what's the big deal if a robot does? Maybe the robot even has a better safety record on average than humans. You can't ask for perfection!
Here are three related reasons why you shouldn't buy these arguments:
1. The crash statistics for the "average human driver" include (and are probably significantly driven by) impaired human drivers, like drunk drivers or people on their phones. When driverless car companies put "as good as the average human driver" as the goal, they're saying that they're okay with their systems being just as bad as drunk or distracted drivers sometimes. That's not the right goal at all! We should demand that driving robots perform at least as well as non-distracted human drivers, which is significantly *better* than the average human driver when it comes to things like crashes.
2. Mistakes made by a robotic system are fundamentally different in nature from mistakes made by humans, because the robot mistakes ate *systematic* across all robots in similar-enough situations. If a human looking at their phone slows down too late and hits a child, that's tragic, but it doesn't mean that *every* human driver put into the same situation would make the same mistake. In fact, many of them probably wouldn't be looking at their phone and thus would avoid the accident, *even given the exact same situation in which to react.* In contrast, *every Waymo taxi running the same software* will make exactly the same mistake in that situation. In other words, this kind of event will definitely repeat whenever a similar-enough situation arises around a Waymo taxi. That's why news like this should be scary, even though the accident was a minor one.
3. Some might claim that it's good that a software upgrade could potentially fix the issue that caused this accident. It's sort of true that there's an upside there (although any behavior updates can cause errors in other situations). But the question we should be asking is: why wasn't this already fixed before the vehicle was approved for testing on real roads with real children and people in harm's way? Why wasn't there a stimulation scenario for this exact kind of situation, so that the system already knew what to do? Why should it take a child getting injured for a fix to be developed v(if one in fact will be)? In theory, of course, it's possible that this was a truly exceptional situation where even an alert human couldn't have done better. I'm sure what's what the company is telling the investigators. It's also possible that the designers are following the Silicon Valley motto of "move fast and break things", which reaches an entirely new level of frightfulness when the thing that's moving fast is a car and the thing being broken is a child. "I'll just deploy it now and as test cases when I see what really breaks in production" is an attitude I've been guilty of, but then I make videogames, not deadly robots.

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-06-12 11:42:02

Since falling in love with soccer during Euro 2000, I've never been so physically close to the World Cup (the first match in Toronto is later today). But I've never felt so distant from the competition. Few organizations are as good at finding new ways to disgust as FIFA and the US regime's actions - not just those focused on the World Cup, but those are bad enough - fill me with rage. In the past, I've plugged my nose and enjoyed the matches (I'm not proud). I can't …

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-06-18 01:15:28

Giants' Cam Skaettbo won't alter approach after injury: I'm going to get back to 'running people over' nfl.com/news/giants-cam-skaett

Giants' Cam Skaettbo won't alter approach after injury: I'm going to get back to 'running people over'
New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo already declared he'll be ready to go Week 1 following last year's season-ending ankle injury. Now, he's made it clear he'll be the same old Skattebo when he retakes the field.