
2025-08-21 20:02:35
Puy Netanyahu, it is hard to convince people that genocide is kosher. https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/115068506887487160
Puy Netanyahu, it is hard to convince people that genocide is kosher. https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/115068506887487160
@… I put on my robe and wizard hat
…wait
(thank you!)
Trump attacks Watergate laws in massive shift to ethics system - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/21/trump-watergate-presidency-congress/
»Die deutschen Versicherungsgesellschaften haben sich z. B. […] darauf verständigt, unterschiedliche Computer für Testläufe und für den echten Betrieb anzuschaffen. Es könnte ja sein, daß ein Programmierer, der seinen Testlauf mit echten Daten macht, auf die Idee kommt, diese Daten unbefugt zu kopieren. Eine Bandkopie, die […] alle fälligen Auszahlungen […] samt Name und Anschriften der Empfänger enthielte, wäre ein gefundenes Fressen für die Unterwelt.«
Aus: Werner Heine - Die Hacker …
Do it.
And relocate the rest to Mexico.
https://ohai.social/@MeanwhileinCanada/114887199534440658
from my link log —
What's higher-order about so-called higher-order references?
https://www.williamjbowman.com/blog/2025/06/02/what-s-higher-order-about-so-called-higher-order-references/
saved …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
High Fidelity:
🎵 Magic Carpet
#HighFidelity
https://sfbdhq.bandcamp.com/track/high-fidelity-magic-carpet
https://open.spotify.com/track/4HYZGFUdWl9dpjK5QQZQr9
Series D, Episode 07 - Assassin
PIRI: [Puzzled] What? Oh, yes, I suppose so. I'm sorry, I just can't stop thinking about that awful man at the end of the corridor.
NEBROX: Everything is going to be all right. We're all here to look after you. [Piri sobs] Would you - would you like me to go and take a look at him?
https://
US-Regulierer erinnert Tech-Konzerne an Datenschutz im Ausland
Keine Hintertüren für ausländische Spione, keine Zensur von Amerikanern - darauf pocht der Chef der US-Behörde FTC. Er lädt US-Konzerne vor.
http…
A friend celebrated her birthday yesterday. So many of her fans showed up. Very useful in the heat.
Complex three-dimensional rearing environments amplify compensatory plasticity following early blindness (in opossums) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.02.651847v1 "underscoring the role of experience in directing compensatory plasticity following early s…
🆓 Government gestures leave roots of Indonesia protests intact
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/02/asia-pacific/politics/indonesia-protests-root-problems-intact/
can we please chill with all the war and stuff because nasa probably just found life on mars let us not fumble this 😭😭😭
In which I spend months in apparently unexplored parts of the nondeterministic-finite-automaton territory and get a good result. Once again, of interest only to people who care about ε-closures. (Those people are my people.)
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20
Tonight's the night for a Retro Pixel Party! We're diving deep into nostalgia with The Settlers (1993), streaming live from my Linux PC. Get ready for some classic resource management and pixelated perfection! Hope to see you there! #RetroGaming #TheSettlers
Having gone through the paper a second time it's really weak. it's not presenting an actual argument but a gish gallop of random terms from random disciplines to be just boot licking.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114896761722068724
Karriereleiter oder Aufzug?
How Seattle, transformed into a tech hub by Amazon and Microsoft's explosive growth, is grappling with the companies' layoffs affecting local economy (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/seattle-tech-amazo…
Je viens de découvrir l'excellente série d'articles "Nouvelles de l'IA" de @…
https://notes.sklein.xyz/2025-06-22_1502/
And this fuckwit, of course
(though to be fair, I’m not sure Maureen Dowd really •believes• things; actual belief would just clog her firehouse of catty quippery that pays the bills)
https://sfba.social/@drahardja/114724137250504241
Anerkennung, Widerstand, Reparationen – Jeden Kolonialismus beenden!
Vom 02. bis 05. Oktober 2025 findet der BUKO 40 in Kassel statt! Beim Kongress wollen wir über verschiedene Aspekte des Kampfes gegen Kolonialismus diskutieren, vernetzen und streiten. Seid auch ihr dabei, disk
https://
Finally back from holiday first task (after rescuing houseplants & fussing over pets), is filling the fridge. I was (re)inspired by the #Antigaspi boxes in French supermarkets to try the groceries bags from @… : not bad for less than €4 (29dkk) from my local supermarket
Civilians butchered, babies left to die, aid workers and journalists deliberately targeted by Israel:
KEIR STARMER - This all seems fine to me. Carry on!
Pop group says something about genocide:
KEIR STARMER - This is an outrage! Ban them! Pull all their gigs! They're TERRORISTS!
#IsraelIsATerroristState
"Der Kulturkampf findet vor allem im Westen statt. Besonders in der Spielebranche gibt es eine Menge Widerstand gegen #Vielfalt und #Inklusion. Ich finde es seltsam, dass dieser Kulturkampf einem afrikanischen Studio, das ein Spiel über Afrikaner*innen macht, aufgezwungen wird. Außerdem: …
Cowboys’ Micah Parsons says peace out to Dallas with fitting Bible verse after trade request https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-micah-parsons-peace-out-dallas-bible-verse-…
Making progress on this 3D printed handlebar clamp for the Beat Bike…
#diy #maker #3DPrinting
"AI Generated Algorithmic Virality"
https://aiforensics.org/work/gen-ai-slop
A recent report by
@…
🔹 "25% of…
Gelebte Altersdiversity im Team: „Was meint ihr denn immer mit Meme, das ist für mich ein Bilderwitz!“
Moscow's 2022 'Teacher of the Year' killed while fighting in Ukraine, Meduza reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/moscows-teacher-of-the-year.html
O grande problema da ditadura do proletariado é que se esquecem rapidamente do proletariado e fica só a ditadura.
Die Knoff-hoff-Show, wisstanoch? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoXAVTGCNbE
from my link log —
Unification-free ("keyword") type checking.
https://www.haskellforall.com/2024/02/unification-free-keyword-type-checking.html
saved 2025-09-01
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Universal Togetherness Band:
🎵 Dreamality (long version)
#UniversalTogethernessBand
https://eccentricsoul.bandcamp.com/track/universal-togetherness-band-dreamality
https://open.spotify.com/track/3zUFgcZJ8jXNcyqZcT5uKb
Zionists must think that once their genocide is over, we’re all going to forgive, forget, and move on.
To that I say: not this lifetime, assholes.
Karma is a bitch.
Now all the videos about U.S. soldiers getting surprisingly nice meals by the military make a lot of sense.
(YouTube, Chinese w/o captions but graphical English subtitles) Blind patient treated with ZM-02 optogenetic gene therapy #RP
Videospieleentwickler*innen hier?
Neuer Förderaufruf für Euch draußen: https://www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/Games/computerspielefoerderung-zweiter-aufruf1.html
Sources: Meta has poached Frank Chu, an Apple exec who led AI teams focused on cloud infrastructure, training and search, despite Meta's plans to slow hiring (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@… ah my Windows machine is packed up at the moment due to some flooding in my basement but my hunch is that you need to use Windows directory separators \\ for that path to the eleventy bin — if that isn’t it, it might be a deeper bug outside of my control — I don’t think that error message is 11ty code 😬
@… おもしろそうだからPerplexityで調査してみたけど、実際に効率良くできそうだねえ。
https://www.
What’s truly embarrassing is not that Trump, pathological liar and lifelong con man, said this.
What’s embarrassing is how many people who should have known better — isolationists, business-first types, even some leftists— actually kind of believed it.
https://mstdn.social/@ElleGray/114724501680343975
Hurting people until they like you doesn't work. Neither in a direct relationship nor on a global scale. The global scale doesn't exist. It's always people.
I petted 7 cats today!
Ukraine strikes back: burning oil pipeline, “Flamingo” missile, and Kremlin panic: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/ukraine-strikes-back-burning-oil.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
The Horne Section:
🎵 Anxiety
#TheHorneSection
Hey everyone, if you can, please help. 👇 https://mas.to/@Aseelsehwel/115055608428455170
Gonna go on MH break from social media
No, writing _is not_ thinking. But writing is an activity that pushes you to think in a way that gets results you can actually put into words.
Clothing subscription service Rent the Runway gives up around 86% ownership to three lenders in exchange for $240M in debt relief and $20M in fresh financing (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-21/rent-the-…
@… “Eleven hooks and splices” …alright everyone, close up shop we have a winner for today
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Manolo Badrena:
🎵 The One Thing
#ManoloBadrena
I like cats :3
予約投稿がようやく
🚀 “Flamingo”: Ukraine has created a missile that can reach the heart of Russia #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/flamingo-ukraine-has-created-a.html
“We kissed Trump’s ass and kowtowed to a fascist.” https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115067151811326127
Microsoft Research is at it again:
Advait Sarkar, a Microsoft Research employee got a paper published at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in computing systems:
"AI Could Have Written This: Birth of a Classist Slur in Knowledge Work"
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706599
Every time I do anything with emulating old Macs and I want to "just create a disk image" it's like pulling teeth; literally all the emulation software and utilities are endlessly janky and it feels like they're deliberately made to be obtuse and gate-keepery.
Zoom reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $1.22B, Enterprise revenue up 7% to $730.7M, vs. $716.7M est., raises FY 2026 forecast above est.; ZM jumps 6% after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Nilton Castro:
🎵 Segura o Sambura
#NiltonCastro
https://open.spotify.com/track/50PkWIVxCWCabhD1UFLQYS
Expect even more cat memes and photos from me. The news is important, but kitties are importanter! :neocat_floof_cute:
Estonia signals readiness to send peacekeepers to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/estonia-signals-readiness-to-send.html
“US signals a willingness to renew talks with Iran and avoid a prolonged war”
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/06/22/us-signals-a-willingness-to-renew-talks-with-iran-and-avoid-a-prolonged-war/
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Max-B:
🎵 Super Bwana
#MaxB
Who has already way too much to do and got an important idea for something that would take a fuckton of work but would be very important to do ASAP? This guy.
Please tell me that organizing a conference is a dumb idea.
Source: the Trump administration considers taking equity stakes in CHIPS Act recipients but not in firms that are increasing US investment, like TSMC and Micron (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/chip-makers-us-go…
Source: Meta has signed a deal with Google, worth more than $10B over six years, to use Google Cloud's servers, storage, networking, and other services (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-signs-10-billion-plus-cloud-deal-goo…
As much as I try to be an optimist, I don't see the "AI" bubble popping soon. Too many people's wealth/stock valuation rests on its continuation.
Anthropic says it worked with the US National Nuclear Security Administration on a classifier to block concerning chats, like those on building nuclear reactors (Morgan Chalfant/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/08/21/2025/anthropic-develops-anti-nuke-a…
Russia orders that state-backed messenger app MAX, which critics say could be used to track users, must be pre-installed on phones and tablets from next month (Andrew Osborn/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-
Trump signs an EO creating the National Design Studio to improve "websites and physical sites"; sources say he's tapping Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia to lead it (Gregory Korte/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
a16z hires Anne Neuberger, formerly a senior cybersecurity official in the Biden White House, as a senior adviser to work on "American Dynamism, AI, and cyber" (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Google will provide Gemini for Government to US federal agencies at $0.47 per agency through 2026; OpenAI and Anthropic are offering their products for $1/year (Julia Shapero/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5463428-google-ai-cloud-services-fede…
On its 10th anniversary, YouTube Music gets new features, including "Taste Match" playlists similar to Spotify Blend and event notifications through Bandsintown (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/yout
Pattern, an e-commerce firm that resells goods on online marketplaces, files for a US IPO, reporting net income of $32.1M on revenue of $1.1B for H1 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-22/e-commerce-…
Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/bluesky-blocks-serv…
Ether surged 15% late Friday, rising as high as $4,885 and surpassing its November 2021 record of $4,866.01 after Fed Chair Jerome Powell hinted at rate cuts (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/crypto-market-today.html
Apple sues ex-staffer Chen Shi for allegedly stealing trade secrets to benefit Oppo before leaving Apple in June, claims Oppo knew of and encouraged his actions (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
Intel says the US will make an $8.9B investment by purchasing 433.3M primary shares of Intel common stock for $20.47/share; INTC closed on August 22 at $24.80 (Intel)
https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail…
Meta announces a partnership with Midjourney, to license the startup's "aesthetic technology" for Meta's future models and products (Alexandr Wang/@alexandr_wang)
https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1958983843169673367
Howard Lutnick says the US took a 10% stake in Intel; he said earlier that the US won't be on the board or play a role in Intel's governance; INTC closes up 5% (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-to-announce…
Sources: Meta plans to launch its first glasses with a display and a wristband that lets users control the glasses with hand gestures, at Connect in September (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/meta-hypernova-ar-glasses-wristband.html
Sources: Beijing's Nvidia H20 curbs were triggered by US Commerce Secretary Lutnick's not selling China the best stuff remark, which officials found "insulting" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b8e30c54-b71c-4113-8b3e-8f54bc36587d
OpenAI and the UK government announce a partnership to explore AI use in justice, defense, security, and edtech, and possibly expand OpenAI's London office (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-chatgpt-maker-openai-sign-new-stra…
Dating apps are encouraging users to meet in person to address concerns about "dating fatigue" among Gen Z and reverse a post-pandemic slowdown in growth (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6d383cc2-0256-423e-8bf9-e85c20607e25
Ethereum's "low-risk DeFi" applications like payments and savings could drive the chain's revenue in a similar way that search and ads sustain Google's business (Vitalik Buterin/Vitalik Buterin's website)
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/09/21/lo…
Dell confirms extortion group World Leaks breached its Solution Centers platform, used for demos, earlier in July, stealing mostly synthetic or public data (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu