@scott@carfree.cityNice day in the #OakWoodlands of Golden Gate Park where along with oaks I saw bush monkeyflower, California sagebrush, hummingbird sage, coast buckwheat, beach strawberry, common yarrow, Hooker's evening primrose, and even a little rooreh by the path.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle launches Veo 3.1 Lite, costing <50% of Veo 3.1 Fast and meant for "high-volume video applications", and affirms its commitment to video generation tools (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/03/31/veo-3-1-lite/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialGoogle launches Veo 3.1 Lite, costing <50% of Veo 3.1 Fast and meant for "high-volume video applications", and affirms its commitment to video generation tools (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/03/31/veo-3-1-lite/
@aral@mastodon.ar.alSo Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.
Totally trustworthy people.
(Any open source project that at the very least requires disclosure of AI-authored contributions should immediately ban Anthropic employees on principle.)
#AI
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Emoji wird offizielles Satzzeichen", vermeldet der Duden!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWlHPUPiFTn/?img_index=1
🙃
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026 NFL Draft aftermath: Will any rookie quarterback start in Week 1? https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-draft-aftermath-will-any-rookie-quarterback-start-in-week-1
@alm10965@mastodon.socialVia @…
#TazZahlIch
1. Mai in Berlin: Raver, vereinigt euch! | taz.de
https://taz…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Mehr als 1,4 Gigawatt: Riesige Batteriespeicher am ehemaligen AKW Grohnde
@ebinger@bildung.socialWir drehen einen Stop-Motion-Film: Jona wird vom Fisch verschluckt Mit der Stop-Motion-Technik kann man spannende Filmprojekte machen. Die Geschichte in der Bibel findest du hier: https://www.die-bibel.de/bibel/BB/JON.1.1-JON.1.16 (wir lesen noch bis Kap. 2,2 wo Jona anfängt zu beten…
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.deMutig von der NASA. Wenn sich das DLR so was erlauben würde… 👀
https://science.nasa.gov/specials/your-name-in-landsat/?img1=l_2&img2=e_1&img3=c_0&img4=k_1&img5=e_0&…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz‘Wait, see’ may be Cowboys approach as June 1 arrives, but is it wise? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/05/31/dallas-cowboys-wait-see-june-1-deadline-2026/90330087007/
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineAm 1. Mai könnten #Strompreise von bis zu minus 50 Cent pro Kilowattstunde erreicht werden.
Viel #Photovoltaik, leichte #Windkraft und geringer Feiertagsverbrauch treiben die Entwicklun…
@pgogl@troet.cafeGut, daß neue Pressemeldungen uns mit immer mehr konkreten Zahlen von Energiespeicheranlagen versorgen. Diese ist so eine, danke #heise
https://www.heise.de/news/Mehr…
@bourgwick@heads.socialthe good ol’ grateful deadcast is back! we open season 13 with part 1 of our bobby weir tribute, with lots of archival audio, teen letters to john perry barlow, water balloons, the mccoy tyner influence, firing tape & glorious redemption arc. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/bobby-weir-part-1
@funkvolk@mastodon.socialSchöne Recherche-Doku-Serie von den Kolleg*innen von @…. Im Stil einer Podcast-Serie, aber bebildert. Manchmal ein bisschen bemühte Gags, aber insgesamt trotzdem spannend zu gucken.
#Recherche #Scam
@hippyjo@c.imUkraine update from Dylan Combellick.
Friend link bypasses the paywall and makes a corporate piggy cry: https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/ukraine-update-may-1-81818d65c077?sk=2655381a44cd5ba695823a78c049a107
@servelan@newsie.socialTennessee Will Make It Illegal To Sell THCA And Other Hemp Products Starting On July 1 Under Newly Finalized Rules - Marijuana Moment
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/tennessee-will-make-it-illegal-to-sell-thca-and-other-hemp-products-starting-on-july-1-under-newly-finalized-rules/
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeStarting April 1, 2026, the Indian government will effectively ban Chinese video surveillance giants, including Hikvision, Dahua, and TP-Link, from selling internet-connected CCTV cameras in the country.
https://cybersecuritynews.com/india-ban-cctv-products/?mid=1#cid…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialAsk Sweden to Ban Fur Farms #AnimalRights
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump demands Republican-only immigration bill by June 1 (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/01/trump-demands-republican-only-dhs-bill-by-june-1-00854042
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p62#a260401p62
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-27 NFL Odds: Which Quarterbacks Will Start Week 1? https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-27-nfl-odds-which-quarterbacks-will-start-week-1
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialOne in three cars in Norway🇳🇴 is electric⚡🔌. And in some regions, more than half of the cars are already electric: in Bergen and Oslo and the surrounding municipalities.
By the time of the summer solstice, the country will have reached the milestone of 1 million EVs.
https://www.ti…
@tgpo@social.linux.pizza @Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenRouter is in talks to raise $120M led by CapitalG at a $1.3B post-money valuation; it now has $50M in annualized revenue, up from $10M in Oct. (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/startup-helps-de…
@islamoyankee@mastodon.socialVideo: Representing Religion in Museums
The video from my WebinAAR, a webinar for the American Academy of Religion, has posted and is embedded below.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/1171118173?dnt=1&app_id=122963#embed
@davej@dice.camp
@jdrm@social.linux.pizzaPues nada, que unos piratas han secuestrado a casi 200 personas en alta mar abordando unos barcos con bandera de países de la Unión Europea. Vamos a esperar las reacciones de la Comisión Europea. Pero mejor esperamos sentados. https://www.eldiario.es/internacio…
@neverpanic@chaos.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al
@cdarwin@c.imFormer Vice President Mike Pence broke with the Trump administration Sunday
over the $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund,
calling it a "deeply offensive"
and a "bad idea"
and urging the White House to abandon it entirely.
https://www.rawstory.com/mike-pence-267697
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyToday, the filling level of Dutch gas storages reached a new historic low: 4.95%. Currently, the forward market prices give no incentive to fill up for winter, but government has previously concluded that by 1 November, we'll need a filling level of 80%.
That's going to be a challenge.
1/x
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Zum 45. Geburtstag — Microsoft stellt MS-DOS 1.0 als #OpenSource bereit:
Zum 45. Jahrestag des Betriebssystems hat Microsoft den Quellcode der allerersten MS-DOS-Version für den #IBM PC freigegeben. Dieses wurde zum Zeitpunkt seines Erscheinens offiziell noch als 86-DOS 1.00 bezeichnet und
@scott@carfree.cityNot April Fool: okay, I think that clinches my vote for Chakrabarti over Chan unless there are major surprises. You can't be mealy-mouthed on enabling a genocidal regime. (Of course, Wiener is much worse on this issue, and I will vote for Chan in the general if it's those two who advance.)
https://
@vosje62@mastodon.nlJetten in Nieuwsuur: 'we gaan later deze maand...'
Dat was dus nog maar 1 avond... Morgen is het 1 april. (Geen grapje)
@geant@mstdn.social🤝 Meet the #TNC26 partners – Part 1!
From Platinum to Bronze, we're excited to welcome all the organisations supporting this year's edition in Helsinki 🇫🇮
What’s coming back this year?
🔸 The TNC Exchange – a lively, open space with partners’ booths, cosy meeting corners, and plenty of opportunities to connect, catch up and even get a taste of some Finnish treats!
@krone@frawas.deAlarmglocken schrillen - Formel-1-Chaos: Wird das Rennen in Miami abgesagt? #News #Nachrichten …
@NFL@darktundra.xyzQB Mendoza puts on show at Indiana pro day https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48372927/expected-no-1-fernando-mendoza-puts-show-indiana-pro-day
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia unveils DGX Station, a desktop Windows PC powered by its GB300 Grace Blackwell chip with up to 748 GB of memory, capable of running 1T-parameter models (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/01/nv
@heiseonline@social.heise.dePowerToys 0.98.1 bringen „wichtige“ Stabilitätsverbesserungen
Microsofts Entwickler haben die Hotfix-Version 0.98.1 der PowerToys veröffentlicht. Sie soll Stabilitätsprobleme beseitigen.
https://www.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz1 Cowboys Rookie Remains Unsigned Ahead Of Minicamp But It's Not Caleb Downs https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/1-dallas-cowboys-rookie-unsigned-ahead-minicamp-not-caleb-downs
@aral@mastodon.ar.al🥳 New Kitten¹ Release
• Added: Database table event introspection.
Use the new `__showEventsOnTable()` introspection API call on the global `kitten` object to have events on that table logged out to the console.
Full change log: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/br
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThree independent journalists experiment with a 30-day bundle of their newsletters for $8.50, half the normal price, using a service called Trustfnd (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/three-ne
@scott@carfree.cityEveryplace a trail has this sign, there should be bike racks. When there’s no rack anywhere near, you’re blocking people who biked here from locking up and exploring on foot, too.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDemocrats plan to put Republicans in the hot seat with Trump's $1.8 billion fund (Jack Fitzpatrick/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/democrats-republicans-hot-seat-trump-1-8-billion-fund
http://www.memeorandum.com/260601/p9#a260601p9
@aral@mastodon.ar.al🥳 New JavaScript Database (JSDB) release
• Fix: Now properly handling array indices on `JSTable.PERSIST` events in the `keypath` property that’s passed to the event handler.
Just noticed that the pretty keypaths of the JavaScript deltas written to the append-only log were ignoring array indices while playing with a new database introspection call I’m adding to the Kitten Interactive Shell (REPL) and fixed it.
I’ll be updating Kitten shortly to use this version of JSDB and I…
@hippyjo@c.imUkraine update from Dylan Combellick: stupidity and cruelty result from the frustrations of a flatworld mind stumbling through a 3D reality...
Friend link to bypass the paywall: https://medium.com/@dylan_combellick/ukraine-update-a…
@scott@carfree.cityKaren Tei Yamashita has a new novel out!!! I’m constantly recommending I Hotel. Also this book by Julia Alvarez sounded up my alley
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeLittle by little, the world is trying to break free of American technology.
Inside the German state trying to break free from Microsoft
https://www.ft.com/content/95bd87c8-a112-49a5-9b80-c280a6bb4283?syn-25a6b1a6=1
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCaleb Downs' Genius Expected to Be on Full Display From Day 1 for Cowboys https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/caleb-downs-genius-expected-on-full-display-from-day-1-dallas-cowboys
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA US appeals court pauses a lower-court order that would have reinstated around 1,000 Voice of America journalists and staff who had been put on paid leave (Minho Kim/New York Times)
https://www.
@ebinger@bildung.socialWir drehen einen Stop-Motion-Film: Jona wird vom Fisch verschluckt Mit der Stop-Motion-Technik kann man spannende Filmprojekte machen. Die Geschichte in der Bibel findest du hier: https://www.die-bibel.de/bibel/BB/JON.1.1-JON.1.16 (wir lesen noch bis Kap. 2,2 wo Jona anfängt zu beten…
@servelan@newsie.socialDonated milk reaches Cuba amid deepening shortages | Food News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/6/1/donated-milk-reaches-cuba-amid-deepening-shortages?traffic_source=rss
@cdarwin@c.im#Retatrutide,
An experimental GLP-1 drug pushes the limits of weight loss.
There are risks.
Eli Lilly this month unveiled startling new data that showed an experimental weight-loss drug caused people with obesity to shed, on average, 28 percent of their body weight
— a substantial step up in potency from the existing crop of GLP-1 medicines.
But that breakthrough also is …
@aral@mastodon.ar.alJust made a little correction to the JavaScript Database (JSDB) Table Events section:
Previously, the example that listens for the JSTable.PERSIST event was erroneously stating that the table was deleted when the `type` property in the event handlers parameter object was JSTable.DELETE. It now correctly states that the value at `keypath` was deleted.
I also documented the JSTable.PERSIST types so they wouldn’t be confused with the JSTable event types (persist and delete; the latt…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzUFL Power Rankings: Which Week 1 winner tops the list, plus each team's MVP https://www.espn.com/united-football-league/story/_/id/48350506/ufl-week-1-power-rankings
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTwilio reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.41B, vs. $1.34B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; TWLO jumps 17% after hours (Reinhardt Krause/Investor's Business Daily)
https://www.investors.com/news/technology/twilio-stock-twlo-twilio-earni…
@scott@carfree.cityThe answers to this question are, for D4, relative to expectations, refreshingly reasonable. I'm glad even the candidates with a track record of being quite car-brained (lookin' at you Albert Chow) at least feel the need to talk about balance and aren't all, "Yes, there is a war on cars, bicycles are ruining everything and only white people ride them" or something.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/116494363875867973
@…, you sleeping, bro? Or complicit?
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @scott@carfree.cityI sometimes griped about my former supervisor Hillary Ronen, but cheers to her for joining a nonprofit that protects immigrants after leaving office, rather than go to a cushy lobbying gig.
The contrast is especially stark with her would-be "moderate" successor who, after losing his election, immediately joined ICE-collaborating Flock Safety as a lobbyist.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRoblox reports Q1 bookings up 43% YoY to $1.7B, vs. $1.73B est., and DAUs up 35% to 132M, below analysts' estimates of 143.8M; RBLX drops 16% after hours (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL news roundup: Free-agent WR Chase Claypool trying out for Packers https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-friday-may-1
@aral@mastodon.ar.alYeah, so, please don’t buy this. @… https://social.vivaldi.net/@cmthiede/116217178590076213
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialKane Parsons' Backrooms joins a wave of breakout films from young directors who got their start on YouTube; the film is on track for a $60M weekend box office (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzPost-June 1 Cut Candidates the Dallas Cowboys Could Target https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/post-june-1-cut-candidates-dallas-cowboys-could-target
@scott@carfree.cityThis wasn’t a headline I expected to read, but it kinda makes sense. Connie Chan has been milquetoast in her criticism of Israel compared to Saikat. She supports the Block the Bombs Act, but conspicuously left open the option of supporting so-called “defensive” aid like Iron Dome. Makes sense AIPAC would want the general election to be her and Wiener, not Saikat and Wiener.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAtlassian reports Q3 revenue up 32% YoY to $1.79B, vs. $1.69B est., and raises its annual revenue forecast; TEAM jumps 17% after hours (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/atlassian-beats-quarterly…
@scott@carfree.city"Karen Hao says that in 2025 resistance to data centers stalled over a $100 billion worth of these centers... This is class struggle, just like smashing the conveyor belts on the assembly line."
https://jodi7768.substack.com/p/ai-is-capital
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBoston's GBH and New England Public Media plan to merge operations, keeping separate branding and headquarters; Susan Goldberg will remain GBH's top executive (Julian Wyllie/Current)
https://current.org/2026/05/gbh-new-engl…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al @Techmeme@techhub.socialAustin-based Saronic, which builds military autonomous ships, raised a $1.75B Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $9.25B valuation, up from $4B in Feb. 2025 (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/autonomous-boat-startup-saronic-ra…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alMeanwhile, me trying to find the one USB-C cable in my collection that works when I connect my laptop to my monitor. @… https://ec.social-network.europa.eu…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de1&1 kommt beim Ausbau seines Handynetzes voran
Der Ausbau des Handynetzes von 1&1 ist teuer. Lohnt sich das oder wird die Firma verkauft? Der 1&1-Chef schüttelt den Kopf und freut sich auf eine Party.
https://www…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic says it has confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/confidential-draft-s1-sec
@scott@carfree.cityGot three enormous full-color mailers today:
1. Yes on Prop A, the earthquake resiliency rebuild Potrero Yard bond
2. Yet another one from Scott Wiener's backers attacking Saikat Chakrabarti
3. Yet another one from Saikat promoting himself as the one to keep AI companies in check
If you were newer to SF and not that engaged, you'd just think this enormous amount of money being dropped in races is normal. You wouldn't know Connie Chan is even in the race.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at the Seckinger school cluster in Georgia, including the US' "first AI-themed educational institution", as parents say AI integration is often sparse (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/opinion
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Microsoft is in talks with Chevron and investment fund Engine No. 1 over a $7B Texas power plant that would initially generate 2.5 GW of electricity (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alJust saw someone asking how to do “SEO for LLMs” and I swear I threw up a little in my mouth.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInternal documents: Chinese company Geedge is working to build AI tools to predict those who could pose a political risk, but US chip controls hampered its work (Julian E. Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe persistent notion that AI disruption could create a permanent underclass signals how much collateral damage AI companies might tolerate in pursuit of AGI (Jasmine Sun/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://indieweb.social/@alineblankertz/116668813007916370
This sounds compatible with what I was suggesting at the EU Parliament and what we’re working towards with Small Tech and Small Web.
Thoughts?
@scott@carfree.cityNepo-baby Mayor Lurie has launched his website promoting his executive power grab.
And it prominently features coverage from the SF Standard - the outlet funded/created by billionaire Michael Moritz, who has also donated $2 million to the measures.
This is the new billionaire playbook: parallel media they control to support their anti-worker agenda.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBernie Sanders says the wealth AI creates "must benefit humanity", calling for a sovereign wealth fund that would hold ownership stakes in the top AI companies (Bernie Sanders/New York Times)
https://www.nytim…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://fosstodon.org/@healthiswealth/116668432151170589
If you want to rape people without consequence, join the IDF: “the most moral army in the world”.
“Welcome to Israel, you’re going to really enjoy this.”
Fucking barbarians.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSEC filing: quantum computing company Quantinuum upsizes its IPO, selling 26.5M shares for $53 to $55 each to raise up to $1.46B at an up to $14.3B valuation (Liana Baker/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIdea: Mastodon should allow adding rel=me links to Mastodon profiles to allow an account to verify other accounts.
(Or maybe a specific rel=trust?)
This can be used to create a web of trust.
e.g., For Gaza Verified, we have verified about ~250 accounts so far using video interviews. But that sort of verification doesn’t scale. And if we trust these accounts to be people from Gaza, we should trust them to verify people they know from Gaza. So Gaza Verified and the 200 verif…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://mastodon.social/@climatenewsnow/116669783969523351
Remember folks, when the bees go, we follow.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alDo you oppose genocide? Have you criticised Israel? Be careful, you might just get banned from the UK.
#UK
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/116671713458609064
Well, it’s called capitalism not workerism for a reason.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://mastodon.social/@gwire/116673988798109321
“Anticipatory repression rests on a tacit recognition that the structural conditions generating protest will persist, and that those conditions cannot or will not be addressed at their roots. Rather than …
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: #ireland shelters Big Tech from regulation.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIf you oppose Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine but support Israel’s genocide in Palestine, you might be suffering from racism. Talk to your doctor about racism today.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al @aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/116497719012673276
“The realistic threat chain looks like this. An attacker exploits a known WordPress plugin vulnerability and gets shell access as www-data. They run the copy.fail PoC. They are now roo…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/116498037651400809
And this is why Trump is president.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“And what are you going to do differently this time?”
“Uh… nothing. We love you, Israel! Keep committing genocide, you zany things.” @… https://bird.makeup…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alOne of the beautiful things about Sublime Merge¹ (and git/diffs) is that you can see exactly what has changed in complex expected values in tests to ensure that you’re updating the tests without overlooking regressions.
(This is from the Markdown page loader tests in Kitten², as I’m refactoring to implement the upcoming breaking change in the stateful components API³ as it affects the generated code for stateful layout components in Markdown pages.)
¹ Which I always have running,…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
