@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-26 06:41:36
A newly expanded policy from the Trump administration could require travelers from five World Cup-qualified countries to front a bond of up to $15,000 in order to enter the United States for the tournament.
Visa bonds operate like security deposits:
a one-time payment meant to be refunded after a traveler exits the US under the terms of their visa.
The amounts generally run between $5,000 and $15,000, and are required for passport holders from certain countries to enter the…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-05-26 06:23:02
Gunnar Sohn antwortet auf René Pfisters Spiegel-Kritik an der #rp26: Wer 670 Sessions auf 27 Bühnen durch das Rechts-Links-Sieb drückt, verliert alles, was interessant ist. Netzpolitik als Arbeit am Staat — nicht als Milieu-Folklore. Ein lesenswerter Gegenentwurf zur Lagerlogik.
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-04-26 09:28:56
OK, the Arch runner is now set up and working after my rather annoying tangle with llvmpipe.
The entire six-job build ran for 17 minutes. I could probably optimize it further: right now the Windows and Ubuntu 24.04 builds are among the slower ones and they share the same GPU forcing them to run sequentially. If I shuffled around which VM ran which job, I could probably fine tune a bit.
Max concurrent jobs was four, three using nvidia cards plus the Ubuntu 26.04 using llvmpipe. I …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-26 12:15:55
Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languages, including Hindi and Arabic, based on Ministral 3B (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/mistral-releases-a-new-open…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2026-03-26 11:24:49
Are these gaming pieces or locker room tokens at the Roman baths?
The term "spintria" to describe these erotic, coin-like tokens is a modern term from scholarship. We don't know what the Romans called them. In #ancientRome, a spintria was a male prostitute.
#PhallusThursday
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-03-26 22:31:00
Far from Hormuz, a second Middle East strait enters the crosshairs (Scott Waldman/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/26/iran-war-strait-mandeb-energy-00845751
http://www.memeorandum.com/260326/p132#a260326p132
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-03-25 12:25:44
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski say they have re-signed their Morning Joe contracts with MS NOW through the end of 2029, as their show enters its 20th year (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/25/morning-joe-scarborough-brzezinski-msnbc-contract…
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-03-26 21:51:59
The way Dodford pulls off a narrative arc for a half-hour-long biopic almost entirely out of quotes and clips never ceases to amaze me.
The Vanishing of Ryan Gosling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12GADjataDQ
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-25 03:50:28
The driver of a lifted Chevrolet Silverado was so oblivious behind the wheel of a three-ton truck that she missed an entire Lamborghini Huracan,
drove onto it, and then put it in park to see what was going on.
From the footage, the Lamborghini appears to be moving slowly through a parking lot, likely searching for a space.
The Silverado enters with noticeably more speed than the setting calls for.
There’s no meaningful correction, no obvious braking in time, and then C…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-25 01:35:56
Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launches Abundance, a hedge fund that aims to have AI agents run the entire fund, with $100M in seed funding (Hema Parmar/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/instac…