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Billie Eillish en a rêvé, Bruce Springsteen l’a fait.
Ce dernier s’insurge des pratiques de l’« armée privée du roi Trump » Š Minneapolis dans une chanson en hommage Š Alex Pretti et Renee Good.

Starting in January, the Trump administration says it will
garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven’t been able to make their payments for at least nine months.
“It’s cruel and hostile to working people to turn the system on before we’re sure that we can run it in a compliant manner,”
says Julia Barnard, higher education team lead at the Debt Collective and former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
To student debtors fac…

Trump Set to Garnish Wages for Student Loan Defaults; The Debt Collective Lays Out Other Options
Starting in January, the Trump administration says it will garnish the wages of student loan borrowers who haven’t been able to make their payments for at least nine months. “It’s cruel and hostile to working people to turn the system on before we’re sure that we can run it in a compliant manner,” says Julia Barnard, higher education team lead at the Debt Collective and former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. To student debtors facing financial hards…

Sadly couldn't join myself (wife wasn't feeling good and wanted me to stay home and help parent while she napped) but my SAR team participated in a great inter-agency training this past weekend.
It's always nice to practice alongside volunteers from other teams that we work with on real incidents and get to know each other without the pressure of a real emergency.
One note: I half feel like there should be a CW on this post for mentioning law enforcement in a positiv…

An iconic story and idea that sticks with me over the years is Isaac Asimov's classic tale that introduces the 3 Laws of Robotics, "Runaround"
I'm about to spoil the dilemma (not the solution), but it doesn't ruin the value of the story
Robots must obey orders, and secondary to that, robots must protect themselves. This particular robot is ordered to retrieve selenium to fix a human life support system for a facility on Mercury. Unknown to the humans, the s…

»Social-Media-Alternative Fediverse — Ein Universum mit 12 Millionen Bewohnern:
Keine Datensilos, dafür offene Protokolle und unabhängige Instanzen – wir erklären alles Wichtige rund um das Fediverse«
Ach guck, es ist wider soweit, das Fediverse ist wider in den populären Medien. Mich freut das aber weshalb reagieren die üblichen Medien meistens erst wenn es hoch aktuell ist?
:mastodon:

Social-Media-Alternative Fediverse: Ein Universum mit 12 Millionen Bewohnern - Golem.de
Keine Datensilos, dafür offene Protokolle und unabhängige Instanzen - wir erklären alles Wichtige rund um das Fediverse.

Neue AirTags: Apple macht nur Dienst nach Vorschrift
Die Tracker mit UWB- und Bluetooth-Funk gehören zu den beliebtesten Apple-Produkten. Fast 5 Jahre dauerte es bis zur Generation 2. Und die enttäuscht.
https://www.…

An FBI operation to capture former Olympian turned suspected cocaine trafficker Ryan Wedding in Mexico
has shaken relations between the U.S. and its southern neighbor.
⭐️Last week, the U.S. deployed the FBI’s "Hostage Rescue Team" to Mexico to capture Wedding,
who once was protected by the powerful #Sinaloa #cartel

Kash Patel Sets Off Diplomatic Incident With FBI Operation in Mexico
The FBI director couldn’t stop himself from posting news that shouldn’t be public.

Despite the small team size,
Mastodon operates two large, production Mastodon instances:
mastodon.social
Runs on Kubernetes with autoscaling between 9 and 15 nodes (16 cores, 64 GB RAM each). Web frontend scale between 5 and 20 pods, while various Sidekiq worker pools scale between 10 and 40 pods. On average, mastodon.social has 70–80 pods running at any given time. This platform handles up to 300,000 active users per day and approximately 10 million requests per minute.
ma…

How Mastodon Runs OpenTelemetry Collectors in Production
At the beginning of 2025, the OpenTelemetry Developer Experience SIG published the results of its first community survey. One of the strongest themes was clear: teams want more real-world examples of how the OpenTelemetry SDKs and the OpenTelemetry Collector are actually used in production. To help close that gap, the SIG began collecting stories directly from end users—across industries, architectures, and company sizes. This post kicks off a new series focused specifically on organizations�…

Taking up all the remaining oxygen in the room right now is AI hype,
exemplified by Jared Kaplan, who is quoted in this article:
-- ⭐️ --
"I spoke to Jared Kaplan, co-founder of Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot Claude.
He was a physicist the last time we spoke.
As a grad student at Harvard in the 2000s, he worked with the renowned theorist Nima Arkani-Hamed to open up the new directions in amplitude research that are being actively pursued today.

Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard? | Quanta Magazine
Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.