2024-04-14 21:11:38
Ukraine war latest: Russia aims to capture Chasiv Yar by 'Victory Day' on May 9, Syrskyi says: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/14/ukraine-war-latest.html
Ukraine war latest: Russia aims to capture Chasiv Yar by 'Victory Day' on May 9, Syrskyi says: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/14/ukraine-war-latest.html
KI-Update kompakt: KI-Kosten, Musikgenerator Udio, Grok-1.5 Vision, KI-Schadcode
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
ht…
Glencore’s Hail Creek open cut coal mine released more methane pollution in 16 days than the company reported over an entire year.
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2024/04/16/coal-gas-giants-notice-methane-plume…
A post about Old Bay with a sketch of an Old Bay container because that's the sort of thing I do...
➡️ #art
But will it ask you to try out Arch every time you squeeze it https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/112276638475133265
Leonard Leo isn’t above the law. He is the law!
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/04/14/leonard-leo-rejects-subpoena-project-2025-supreme-court-corruption/
📰 New Article from EchoFeed 📰
Pixel 8 Pro and Fold back on sale at the Google Store
https://9to5google.com/2024/04/14/google-store-sale-april-2024/
Journalism elder statesman @… is retiring.
Just kidding. He is only pretending to retire, as he outlines here. https://dangillmor.com/2024/04/14/what
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Don Wright, who drew cartoons for The Miami News and The Palm Beach Post, died on March 24 at age 90 (Sam Roberts/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/busine…
(しまった、豚汁と豚汁が被ってしまった……)
Jack Smith on court repeatedly granting Trump delays in Florida federal docs case: "That must stop" - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/04/15/jack-smith-on-court-repeatedly-gr…
Small-business owners and activists who rely on TikTok say the US House measure forcing a sale or ban would damage their livelihoods and harm their communities (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/13/tik…
'Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content'
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/13/google_ai_spam/
Via @…
何にもいいところがないと思ってた「ひやっしー」だけど、こんなドキュメンタリーに繋いでくれた。
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/special/senseki/article_13.html
A call for essays is always fun! https://2024.splashcon.org/track/splash-2024-Onward-Essays#Call-for-Essays
Installer Dotclear sur FreeBSD 13
#blog
FFS. 'For every £1 earned by men working in the arts, museums and libraries, women are paid 85p, figures show' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/06/women-are-all-over-the-big-screen-but-pay-gap-persists-in…
Musk doesn’t know how to stop the onslaught of bots? The only way is to charge a $1 fee?
Gee, if only you hadn’t fired and turned away your best developers.
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/15/musk-charge-new-x-users-fee/#more-942908
Trump’s hush money trial strategy: Deny, delay and denigrate
The opening of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial on Monday will put to the test a defense strategy his lawyers have been honing for a year
— a confrontational gambit that has angered the judge and could cost the presidential candidate dearly when it comes to a verdict.
Fight for every scrap of evidence. Push for every possible delay.
The approach has succeeded so far in Trump’s three other pending crimina…
Anyone ever see Conspiracy (2001)? Spooky shit, dude
MLBTR Live Chat
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors
Attention, everyone. Because of how bored I am at the local coworking space watching my fiancée work on a Sunday, I have decided to BECOME AN ARTIST.
BEHOLD MY AMAZING ARTISTIC CREATIONS WHICH YOU CAN PURCHASE AS INCREDIBLE NFTs.
All will be added in due course to this🧵:
vscode plugin idea: every time you type a character in a Verilog file, get the github copilot suggestion at the cursor and spawn a new copy of Vivado building the bitstream
this will surely radically improve productivity!
Boggling, and yet completely unsurprising.
ComReg reveals Eircom manual instructing staff how to give customers the run-around so they couldn’t have complaints logged.
https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2024/0415/1443631-courts-eir/
increasing... for 15 years... i mean really.
This is not new.
#dumpFacebook #dumpMeta #dumpZuck
this charming investigative piece on pitchfork's infamous monkey-pissing-in-its-own-mouth.gif review of jet gets to some nice inside-baseball meditations on the much more fun pre-corporate/pre-poptimist pitchfork, like this bit about how the dreaded rating system was actually playful & experimental before being coded into the CMS.
Which important topics would you like to see addressed at the #EOSCSymposium 2024, taking place on 21-23 October in Berlin?
The #EOSC community is invited to participate in shaping the programme!
Vote to choose up to 6 topics to be featured at the Unconference:
"Coalition to store energy with electric vessels on River Thames"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy
Getting mocked by Mozilla employees for my post.
This is a good thing. Mocking is a sign of hitting a nerve.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112272574639590866
Leonard Leo isn’t above the law. He is the law!
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/04/14/leonard-leo-rejects-subpoena-project-2025-supreme-court-corruption/
Russian attacks against Ukraine kill 3, injure 8 over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/16/russian-attacks-against.html
Hamas rejects Israel's ceasefire response, sticks to main demands
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-rejects-israels-ceasefire-response-sticks-main-demands-2024-04-13/
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Don Wright, who drew cartoons for The Miami News and The Palm Beach Post, died on March 24 at age 90 (Sam Roberts/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/busine…
📰 New Article from EchoFeed 📰
Pixel 9, Fold 2, Tablet 2 with 5G reportedly get new Samsung modem with satellite connectivity
https://9to5google.com/2024/04/14/google-pixel-9-fold-2-tablet-new-samsung-modem/
Ok friends how are we gaming duolingo? Do I need to wait until tonight at 11pm to join?
The Government Isn’t Ready for the Violence Trump Might Unleash - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/biden-trump-january-6-preparedness/677995/?gift=Q6t2rABpJi…
Unstructured, which helps companies prepare "really messy, sloppy data" for AI training, raised a $40M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $230M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast
if you're a guy getting drunk and coding you're aiming for ballmer peak
if you're a gal getting high on progesterone and coding you're aiming for noballmer peak
Typewriters are amazing machines and it's a shame that many people have never even used one. I was an at event where they had a dozen typewriters for kids to use and they loved them.
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2024/03/13/typewriter-sketch/
Boggling, and yet completely unsurprising.
ComReg reveals Eircom manual instructing staff how to give customers the run-around so they couldn’t have complaints logged.
https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2024/0415/1443631-courts-eir/
As you may have heard,mainstream news organizations are facing a financial crisis.
Many liberal publications have taken an even more severe beating.
But the most dramatic declines over the past few years belong to conservative and right-wing sites.
The flow of traffic to Donald Trump’s most loyal digital-media boosters isn’t just slowing, as in the rest of the industry;
it’s utterly collapsing.
Wish filtering in Mastodon could also be done by handle (to wildcard mute servers without block them, while still seeing posts from people you follow)
Russia is sure to lose in Ukraine, reckons a Chinese expert on Russia: Feng Yujun says the war has strained Sino-Russian relations
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2024/04/11/russia-is-sure-to-lose-in-…
Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles take minority stakes in The Daily Beast; Sherwood will be CEO and publisher, and Coles will be chief creative and content officer (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/busines
Filling to the Brim: 2024-03-15: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/filling-to-the.html
🤔 "Every time I buy more, the price drops more": Trump supporters grapple with Truth Social losses | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/15/every-time-i-buy-more-the-price-drops-more-supporters-…
Write #PostcardsToVoters for Democrat Tim Kennedy for US Congress from New York's 26th District.
#NY26 #NewYork
i have no address and i must ping
I find it amusing that I post my work on Art Share and always seem to get one "reduce" (or "downvote"). I don't know if it's one person who doesn't like my work each time or what...
➡️ https://fedia.io/m/artshare@lemmy.world
People, always: Mozilla, please just make a web browser
Mozilla, 2014: here’s a phone!
Mozilla, 2018: all in on VR!
Mozilla, 2022: let’s do crypto!
Mozilla, 2024: hurrah AI!
Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles take minority stakes in The Daily Beast; Sherwood will be CEO and publisher, and Coles will be chief creative and content officer (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/busines
Yeah but nuclear is the future! Nuclear expert fears flooded radioactive dump sites in Siberia can threaten Arctic Ocean: Floodwaters in Tomsk region threatens to submerge the riverbanks in Seversk where highly radioactive liquid waste from the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons program for decades were injected into two unprotected underground reservoirs.
"The Daily Caller lost 57 percent of its audience; Drudge Report was down 81 percent; and The Federalist lost a staggering 91 percent."
Atlantic: Traffic To Cultist Sites Has Cratered Since 2020 - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/04/atlantic-<…
Der Spiegel: German FM is trying to persuade Scholz to hand over Taurus missiles to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/16/der-spiegel-german.html
Write #PostcardsToVoters for Democrat Tim Kennedy for US Congress from New York's 26th District.
#NY26 #NewYork
Getting mocked by Mozilla employees for my post.
This is a good thing. Mocking is a sign of hitting a nerve.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112272574639590866
Interesting perspective: The Israel-Iran endgame
[not sure it takes enough account of the Israeli settler/imperialist culture in all of this though]
https://www.newstatesman.com/international-cont…
CNN axes King Charles, its weekly one-hour primetime show launched in fall 2023 by Chris Licht with hosts Gayle King and Charles Barkley, due to low ratings (Ariel Zilber/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2024/04/15/media/cnn-…
Governor: Russian shelling of Zaporizhzhia Oblast village kills woman: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/governor-russian-shelling.html
Ireland and the Magdalene laundries:
The Country That Tried To Control Sex | Portside
https://portside.org/2024-04-14/country-tried-control-sex
CNN axes King Charles, its weekly one-hour primetime show launched in fall 2023 by Chris Licht with hosts Gayle King and Charles Barkley, due to low ratings (Ariel Zilber/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2024/04/15/media/cnn-…
One for the books! Serbia to buy French fighter jets in pivot away from Russia: One of Moscow’s strongest allies in the Balkans is purchasing more European and US weapons
https://www.ft.com/content/fa26d185-6b54-481a-b5b8-1ff41a0ab724
Investigation: Leading Polish fashion retailer fakes exit from Russian market: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/investigation-leading-polish.html
Israeli Massacres Continue in Gaza, as Returnees to North are Targeted and Refugee Camp is Bombed
https://www.juancole.com/2024/04/massacres-continue-returnees.html
“Every single project they did that wasn’t their browser failed, so the next of these projects will surely succeed!” is an interesting take
Sources: Instagram is in the early stages of testing "Creator AI" chatbots for top influencers, which would automate DM responses to fans in a creator's "voice" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/technology…
Wish filtering in Mastodon could also be done by handle (to wildcard mute servers without block them, while still seeing posts from people you follow)
Israel kills two Iranian generals. Iran retaliates with drones, **99% of which are intercepted**.
Israel hasn't said when it will respond, but there's no doubt it will.
Who's being provocative?
I don't think it's Iran.
Leaders Urge Restraint as Israel Considers Retaliation Against Iran - The New York Times
I hate Miro boards. What is a nicer alternative?
EU to transfer 4.5 billion euros to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/16/eu-to-transfer.html
Sources: Instagram is in the early stages of testing "Creator AI" chatbots for top influencers, which would automate DM responses to fans in a creator's "voice" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/technology…
Tesla layoffs: 10% of employees impacted, read the Elon Musk memo
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/15/tesla-shares-dip-in-premarket-trade-on-global-layoff-reports.html
World's most microscopic violin 🎻 😂 Bruce Lehrmann faces crippling legal costs after rape finding
https://www.9news.com.au/national/bruce-lehrmann-defamation-verdict-now-facing-legal-c…
Russia attacks 14 communities in Sumy Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/16/russia-attacks-communities.html
As Netflix's new film chief Dan Lin takes charge, the company aims to shift its film strategy to focus on audience appeal and cost efficiency (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/14/bus…
On the front line of ammunition shortage in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/on-the-front.html
As Netflix's new film chief Dan Lin takes charge, the company aims to shift its film strategy to focus on audience appeal and cost efficiency (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/14/bus…
"Putin 100% believes Russia's distorted history": https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/putin-believes-russias.html
The Intercept is losing ~$300K/month and could run out of cash by May 2025, according to data from March; its CEO says the projection was a worst case scenario (Ben Smith/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/04/14/2024/left-wing-media-meltdown<…
The Intercept is losing ~$300K/month and could run out of cash by May 2025, according to data from March; its CEO says the projection was a worst case scenario (Ben Smith/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/04/14/2024/left-wing-media-meltdown<…
Amid the War, Russian Arms Sales Have Dropped Even More: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/amid-the-war.html
Sweden to supply Ukraine with 9 coastguard watercrafts: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/sweden-to-supply.html
Taylor Swift's music returning to TikTok highlights her power over UMG and its CEO Lucian Grainge, who must now hope other music groups join his TikTok fight (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-…
EU allocates $544 million to ramp up ammunition production: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/eu-allocates-million.html
Taylor Swift's music returning to TikTok highlights her power over UMG and its CEO Lucian Grainge, who must now hope other music groups join his TikTok fight (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-…
20 People Killed in a Vicious Double Missile Strike on Odesa: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/people-killed-in.html
The AP, ABC, Fox, and other news orgs issue a joint statement urging President Biden and former President Trump to do televised debates ahead of the election (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.nyt…
European, US officials condemn Russia's deadly attack on Odesa: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/european-us-officials.html
The AP, ABC, Fox, and other news orgs issue a joint statement urging President Biden and former President Trump to do televised debates ahead of the election (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.nyt…
New-type military recruitment center to open in Zaporizhzhia: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/newtype-military-recruitment.html