@crell@phpc.social2026-01-31 01:00:01
When you say what a word "means", what do you mean by "mean?" It's actually not a trivial question.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/bounded-vs-centered-sets
@crell@phpc.social2026-01-31 01:00:01
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-02 09:30:39
SEC complaint: a whistleblower alleges Google broke its ethics rules in 2024 to help an Israeli military contractor use AI to analyze drone surveillance video (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-31 21:42:52
Precedented, but not the same:
If ICE and CBP are basically the reincarnation of the KKK, it’s the KKK with a budget the size of Russia’s entire military.
Literally. In the literal sense of “literally.” The incoming ICE CBP budget is ~$140 billion.[1] Russia’s military budget is ~$145 billion.[2]
(If I’m misreading these numbers, please correct me.)
[1] https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy26_homeland_security_conference_bill_summary.pdf
[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-hikes-national-defence-spending-by-23-2025-2024-09-30/
12/
@publicvoit@graz.social2026-03-03 07:53:52
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-01 05:30:52
A good thing the republicans just gerrymandered texas assuming theyd keep the latino voters they picked up in 2024 forever!
https://bsky.app/profile/isilanor.bsky.social/post/3mdrjno2ngs2f
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-06 17:18:06
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-04-02 21:23:01
🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Retröt: Mit #Steckersolaranlagen kannst Du selbst auf Deinem #Balkon Teil der #Energiewende werden, Deine
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-31 00:30:31
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: Mahler's Fifth Symphony
The Hallé family of orchestra and choirs perform James MacMillan’s Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia and Mahler’s life-affirming Fifth Symphony. Penny Gore presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qb5z
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-02 11:30:39
How food delivery is reshaping US mealtimes, as some users spend thousands; NRA data shows nearly 75% of 2024 restaurant orders were not eaten in a restaurant (Priya Krishna/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/d…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-30 09:33:13
The Italian tech holding company Bending Spoons, has developed a reputation for buying tech companies past their peak and aggressively cutting costs.
The firm acquired Evernote in 2022, followed by Meetup and WeTransfer in 2024, and AOL and Eventbrite in 2025.
Layoffs followed many of those deals. In September 2024, just months after being acquired by Bending Spoons, WeTransfer laid off 75% of its staff.
Just months after Bending Spoons bought Vimeo for $1.38 billion last ye…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-03-30 09:19:03
Südhessen bleibt zum 8. Mal in Folge sicherste Region in Hessen — 43.421 Straftaten, -6,7 % gegenüber 2024. Darmstadt als Großstadt liegt dabei über dem Regionsdurchschnitt, was für Städte typisch ist. Schattenseiten: Angriffe auf Polizisten 28 %, Cybercrime seit 2020 fast verdoppelt. Laut FR. #Darmstadt
@mro@digitalcourage.social2026-01-27 09:12:20
What is a #platform after all?
In our case it’s a part of the www having one owner and many users usually not affiliated otherwise. The owner being the sole source of rules and execution thereof, covering financial loss or benefit. Usually without a democratic process, but arbitrary, self-invented rules and policing.
They have in common a
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-02-28 21:51:08
Arkansas RB Mike Washington Jr. sheds tears after 4.33 40 at NFL combine https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7077890/2026/02/28/nfl-combine-mike-washington-40-time/
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-01-09 06:36:41
TFW you notice that your Synology-local-backup to cloud-backup hasn't been working since you moved in October 2024 because you’d stupidly hardwired the Synology DNS to the former residence’s now-wrong 192.168. Would have been sad if the house burned down. Would have been nice if the Synology had complained.
Discovered this in the course of a search for a non-US (ideally Canadian) Synology-friendly cloud backup. Promising: eazyBackup and ionos.ca HiDrive.
@Carwil@mastodon.online2026-02-26 12:43:50
ICE detention facilities in FY 2026.
Colors are by type of contract, though many of the "jails" are themselves state facilities operated by private prison corporations, Bolded names indicate facilities opened or reactivated since October 1, 2024.
#ICE #immigrationdetention
@gray17@mastodon.social2026-01-24 20:09:39
It's What's Inside (2024) - Eight friends with somewhat messy relationships spend a night screwing around with mind swaps (or body swaps). It's cleverly constructed, and it does a lot to help you keep track of who's who, but I still got confused at a few points (mild face blindness doesn't help). It did all make sense on 2nd viewing.
Thrash pointed out that fursuiters can actually do this type of identity swap, but this movie does a few things that does need the mag…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-09 16:50:54
Putin sends warning to Ukraine and West with weapon not used since 2024 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/putin-sends-warning-ukraine-west-with-weapon-not-used-since-2024-2026-01-09/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p53#a260109p53
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-14 10:55:54
In an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil, President Trump criticizes Kamala Harris and says "You wouldn't have a job right now, if she got in" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/trump-cbs-news-tony-dokoupil-1236682222/
@holger_moller@bildung.social2026-01-24 19:15:07
Ich hoffe inständig, dass wir uns nicht an der #FußballWM in den #USA beteiligen.
Es braucht starke Signale.
#uspol
@jby@ecoevo.social2026-02-09 15:19:01
Accounting for the effects of year-to-year climate variation on population growth rate can substantially decrease the size of a species' expected geographic range— by an average of 22% in this simulation study with a new method for range modeling
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.30.621023
@rmdes@mstdn.social2026-01-11 18:12:27
Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-27 23:01:41
Dell stock closes up 22%, its biggest single-day gain since March 1, 2024, after the company gave an outlook for sales of its AI servers that exceeded estimates (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@bthalpin@mastodon.social2026-01-08 09:21:06
Total Cohort Fertility Rate and Total Period Fertility Rate for Ireland, using birth data up to end 2024. Consistent downward trend in both, the relative pause in the middle of the TPFR decline is associated with large net in-migration (including of young women) during the Celtic Tiger.
#mastodaoine
@krone@frawas.de2026-01-23 23:09:54
Dämpfer bei CO2, aber: - Österreicher fahren immer öfter elektrisch #News #Nachrichten
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-09 12:44:10
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Gits:
🎵 Social Love II
#TheGits
https://thegits.bandcamp.com/track/social-love-ii-2024-remaster-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/3lr14TQfQlHs5b67d1EtSI
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-01-11 19:51:03
On Website Technicals (2024-09) - Tech updates: anticipating the heat pump, BibTeX crossref, ETag clean-up, APFS defrag, Gallery traffic trim. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-88.html
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-02-17 19:53:09
"Austria’s military has already dumped Microsoft and moved to open-source services hosted in Europe, and some German regional governments have done the same. Danish schools were told to abandon Google laptops by the Danish data protection authority in 2024. The new Dutch government says digital sovereignty will be a national priority"
#DigitalSovereignty
@carloshr@lile.cl2026-03-21 18:45:58
Volvamos a los estrenos musicales.
Kim Gordon vuelve como solista después del tremendo The Collective (2024) con un disco que parece continuar el mismo camino, pero sin perder originalidad. Muy buen trabajo de la ex Sonic Youth.
«PLAY ME»
https://album.link/s/04tCM2W8CvOXQBy4bBHlXk
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-04-01 13:05:42
DeMeco Ryans on expectations for Tank Dell's Texans return: 'It's going to lift our team' https://www.nfl.com/news/demeco-ryans-on-expectations-for-tank-dell-s-texans-return-it-s-going-to-lift-our-team
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-01-09 18:55:45
Cowboys' Flournoy measuring up well versus the rest of the 2024 draft class https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-flournoy-measuring-up-well-versus-the-rest-of-the-2024-draft-class
@buercher@tooting.ch2026-03-01 19:21:29
Donald Trump on Saturday appeared to link the massive attack he ordered against Iran to his persistent claims about his 2020 election loss to former president Joe Biden, in a social media post about allegations that Tehran’s government interfered in the US president elections.
“Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump,” his Truth Social post said, “and now faces renewed war with United States”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/01/trump-iran-attack-2020-election-loss?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-01-08 02:18:25
January 2025, because Billy was put to sleep on 31st December 2024.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Community/Cats#grahamperrin
😢
@annsev@troet.cafe2026-03-22 14:57:40
Gerade eben habe ich mich an meine Begegnung mit Jürgen #Serke erinnert, 1987. Wir waren gemeinsam in kleiner, feuchtfröhlicher Runde unterwegs und hatten einen sehr unterhaltsamen, anregenden Abend. 2024 ist er gestorben.
Ihm verdanken wir "Die verbrannten Dichter" und die "Bömischen Dörfer"
Die Begegnung mit ihm hat mich sehr inspiriert. Leider bin ich ihm später nicht …
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizza2026-01-15 15:34:10
Content warning: USPOL
Just a reminder that the difference in popular vote in the 2024 election was only 1.5%, with a piss poor voter turnout of 64%. I think that if the democrats had a real primary and a candidate that more period could get behind it would have easily gone the other way.
Maga has no clear mandate. You see a lot of loud voices online that make it seem like the country is behind Trump and his agenda, but that isn't the case. The latest polling indicates that only 42% approve of his presid…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-21 07:01:14
Just 32 fossil fuel companies were responsible for half the global carbon dioxide emissions driving the climate crisis in 2024,
down from 36 a year earlier, a report has revealed.
Saudi Aramco was the biggest state-controlled polluter
and ExxonMobil was the largest investor-owned polluter.
Critics accused the leading fossil fuel companies of
“sabotaging climate action” and
“being on the wrong side of history”
but said the emissions data was increasing…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-02-07 22:11:01
Last Wednesday, the village of Grazalema (southern Spain, 900 m altitude) received 577 mm of rain in one day: the second highest ever recorded in Spain, only behind the deadly downpour in the Valencia region of 29 October 2024. https://malagaldia.es/2026/0…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-20 12:40:43
Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50% of all Instagram ads in 2025, up from 35% in 2024; Reels accounted for 46% of time spent on Instagram in the US in 2025 (Zach Vallese/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/20/most-of-instagrams-ads-ran-on-reels-i…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-09 12:51:02
Filings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profits fell from £2.2M in 2023 to £767,000 in 2024 (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@johnm@social.tchncs.de2026-01-13 09:08:40
Apple bestätigt: Google Gemini wird neue Siri! Was das bedeutet
#Apple
@candide@vis.social2026-01-07 03:38:17
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-01-09 14:15:26
Trotz Herausforderungen setzt #SchleswigHolstein konsequent auf #OpenSource in Verwaltung und Justiz.
Seit 2024 werden Systeme wie #LibreOffice,
@avalon@jazztodon.com2026-01-09 22:34:57
#MarshallAllen interview (2024):
“the space age is here to stay,
there’s no place you can run away.
Run to the rock to hide your face,
rock cried out ‘no hiding place.’
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-01-09 01:01:19
Saquon Barkley says Christian McCaffrey is 'one of the best to ever do it' ahead of Eagles-49ers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6955944/2026/01/08/saquon-barkley-christian-mccaffrey-running-back-eagles-49ers/
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-12 09:11:23
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Max Roach:
🎵 Tears
#MaxRoach
https://maxroachmusic.bandcamp.com/track/tears-for-johannesburg-mono-2024-remaster
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-09 12:56:00
Filings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profits fell from £2.2M in 2023 to £767,000 in 2024 (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-01-09 07:08:30
Die Deutsche #Umwelthilfe hat erneut vor Gericht gewonnen: Die Berliner Senatsverwaltung muss Akten zum gestoppten #Radweg in der #Stubenrauchstraße offenlegen.
Das Oberverwaltun…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-02-11 09:34:00
This is genuinely important and good news: as I expected, no British jury is going to convict #PalestineAction activists of non-violent protest.
Of course, this is why the UK government is trying to get rid of jury trials, but ...
Will the proscription of Palestine Action as a 'terrorist organisation'(!) also fall?
@life_is@no-pony.farm2026-01-30 18:11:36
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-20 13:20:47
Nielsen: Christmas Day 2025 set a record for US streaming usage with 55.1B minutes, or 54% of all TV viewing for the day, up by 3.9B minutes on Christmas 2024 (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-08 16:32:10
Then-candidate Donald Trump famously remarked two weeks before the Iowa caucuses in 2016 that he could
"stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody"
and he "wouldn't lose any voters."
Last year, Trump's lawyer suggested in federal court that a president could order SEAL Team Six to assassinate a political rival and — unless he was impeached and convicted by Congress — be immune from criminal prosecution
Increasingly, Trump's …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-09 10:01:11
A profile of Nscale founder Josh Payne, a former coal miner in Australia who moved to London and started the data center developer in 2024 amid the AI boom (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/business/nscale-ai-data-center-boom.html
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-02-19 12:13:01
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-03-08 23:26:09
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-02-19 11:12:01
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-25 07:29:31
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Lex Amor:
🎵 Beg (6 Music Session, 24 Sep 2024)
#LexAmor
https://lexamor.bandcamp.com/track/beg-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1IPLicvitfuMtAaAka9XCV
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-13 22:01:37
Sources: Grafana Labs, which makes cloud and AI monitoring tools, is in talks to raise at a $9B valuation, up from $6.6B in 2024; its ARR hit $400M in Sept. (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/grafana-labs-talk-raise-9-billion-valuati…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-08 00:35:33
Will Lewis,
the Murdoch media veteran who took over as publisher and chief executive of the Washington Post in early 2024,
announced abruptly on Saturday evening that he is leaving the company.
His departure comes just three days after the Post laid off nearly one-third of its entire staff,
citing the need to cut costs and reposition the money-losing publication.
Lewis, who did not appear on the all-staff meeting during which the cuts were announced, has faced c…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-25 07:24:33
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Lex Amor:
🎵 Beg (6 Music Session, 24 Sep 2024)
#LexAmor
https://lexamor.bandcamp.com/track/beg-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1IPLicvitfuMtAaAka9XCV
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-11 01:46:14
California voters are receiving mailers promoting a 'poison-pill' ballot measure aimed at nullifying a proposed one-time 5% tax on billionaires' assets. The countermeasure, backed by Silicon Valley billionaires including Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt, would override the tax even if both pass in November. The clash reflects a broader surge in billionaire political spending, which reached $3 billion nationally in 2024 and is reshaping policy battles at state and federal levels
…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-03-14 05:06:01
