2025-11-24 01:03:46
Well, idk, maybe MAKE SOME FUCKING PHONES THAT ACTUALLY HAVE NEW FEATURES AND AREN'T JUST FLATTER
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html
Well, idk, maybe MAKE SOME FUCKING PHONES THAT ACTUALLY HAVE NEW FEATURES AND AREN'T JUST FLATTER
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html
Investors have pulled $3.5B from US-listed bitcoin ETFs so far in November, almost equaling the previous monthly record for outflows of $3.6B set in February (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-24/…
Ya wanna know what is a bad idea? “AI-directed experimentation and manufacturing” is.
potus should have just called it a hand out for Oracle.
It is a solution searching for a problem. It literally gives 90 days for them to identify 20 problems it might solve.
It uses public funds for private research.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/115604184530371368
i've worked at SCI for a few months and it's a very nice place to be at
@… the last time I tried to do a CSS in Tailwind it had that same look
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En die uiteraard vergelijken met de eerste aflevering van de oude Bergerac serie met John Nettles
Bergerac Season 1 E1 Picking It Up - Video Dailymotion
#Bergerac
コミティア、みんなのスペースか遠いという難がある(今回、大きく3カ所に分かれている)
heise | Mehr Komfort, niedrigere Kosten: Warum sich Smart-Home-Technik beim Heizen lohnt
Programmierbare Thermostate drücken die Heizkosten und rentieren sich meist schnell, gleichzeitig erhöhen sie den Wohnkomfort.
Vegan (plant-based) diet beats Mediterranean for weight loss even with potatoes and grains #nutrition <…
Yikes, this is about as Nazi as Nazi can get... El Cheato is demanding to know who is "jewish" and who is not.
"Federal Suit Seeking Names of Some Jewish Employees at Penn Sparks Backlash"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/eeoc
Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept. (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1
Apple is nearing a deal with Google that would see the iPhone maker pay the tech giant roughly
$1 billion a year for a custom version of Google’s Gemini AI model
to power its overhaul of Siri.
The move is a big one for Apple,
which has traditionally relied on its own technology
but plans to use Google’s model as a temporary solution until its own AI becomes powerful enough,
including to power a slate of upcoming features for the voice assistant.
The…
… and after one month, we now have a rotten zombie pumpkin in our garden. 🎃🧟♂️😂
Is Russia preparing Europe for war? Kremlin propaganda has crossed the line: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/is-russia-preparing-europe-for.html
Trump administration moves to reinterview refugees admitted to US under Biden (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/11/24/politics/trump-refugee-program-interviews-biden
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p109#a251124p109
@… encoding_rs needs some maintainer attention
It's the last week of classes so rather than grading, I'm baking cookies for my students. It's better this way.
Der deutsche #Emissionshandel erzielte 2023 #Rekordeinnahmen von über 18 Milliarden Euro. 💶🌍 Diese Gelder fließen in den Klima- und #Transformationsfonds, der klimaneutrale …
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#HowTurkeysLikeToParty
NBC News: Meet the Press: Zohran Mamdani says he still believes Trump a ‘fascist’ after meeting: Full interview
#uspol
While under the influence, I made a terrible mistake — I've installed, Windows 11
RE: https://piaille.fr/@bisonrimant/115605309183927448
OMG, how gorgeous is this cutie!
I am wondering how easy it is for a bigtech company to collect all fediverse data for AI training? Are there signs that they are doing that? In my personal opinion it is fine dat AI models train on public posts but i was just wondering if it happens...
#AI #trainingdata
Yesterday shortly before reaching the summit. - I need warmer socks and maybe a warm inlay-sole.
#hiking
"We are now at a critical juncture. We are at or very close to human caused environmental change that will fundamentally unpick the life-sustaining systems on Earth. These risk triggering feedback loops...
Ultimately that could cause the planet to drift away along the pathway to “hothouse Earth”, a scenario where even if emissions were reduced, self amplifying feedback loops would drive global temperature increases up to or even beyond 5°C"
VA Dept Bans Abortion And Abortion Counseling - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/va-dept-bans-abortion-and-abortion-counseling/
Unveiling a Population of Strong Galaxy–Galaxy Lensed, Faint Dusty Star-forming #Galaxies: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adfa88 -> James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Helps Discover 13 Distant, Dusty Galaxies: https://www.maunakeaobservatories.org/stories/james-clerk-maxwell-telescope-helps-discover-13-distant-dusty-galaxies
@… Yes, indeed! You too?
Convention organizer to Linus Torvalds: "You might like to come with us
to some licensed[1] place, and have some pizza."
Linus: "Oh, I did not know that you needed a license to eat pizza".
[1] Licenced - refers in Australia to a restaurant which has government
licence to sell liquor.
-- Linus at a talk at the Melbourne University
Cancel Culture scheint ok zu sein, solange sie den politischen Gegner betrifft …
AL fordert Werbeverbot und erhält von Goldbach Neo Korb für eigene Plakate https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/alternative-liste-fordert-werbeverbot-nu…
I do wish the media would stop confusing ebikes with motorbikes that have an electric motor. The first bike photo in this story is obviously a motorbike with a throttle
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-23/e-bike-safety-program-takes-off…
Damit ihr schnell bei Mastodon interessante Accounts findet, hier meine Lieblings-Starterpacks aus #Klima und #Medien
Helmholtz https://fedidevs.com/s/OTI/
from my link log —
Container security: a developer guide.
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/07/18/container-security-a-developer-guide
saved 2019-07-31
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115601979925351548
hear me out, how about NOT CRAMMING EVERYTHING INTO ONE DEVICE that just works mid for everything, but instead, you know, do some actual innovation here and there
for example, make devices specifically tailored for certain tasks
like if you're Apple why in the fuck don't you make devices with e-paper screens for people who don't want to be terminally online
An in-depth look at the humanoid robotics industry, which currently relies heavily on hype to rally interest and investors, as AI fuels the humanoid boom (James Vincent/Harper's)
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/12/kicking-robots-james-vincent-humanoids/
@… あべるおはよー!
who would actually pay openai for queries when you can just search github for sk-proj-?
The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 along party lines on Thursday
to scrap rules that required U.S. phone and internet giants to meet certain minimum cybersecurity requirements.
The FCC’s two Trump-appointed commissioners, chairman Brendan Carr and his Republican colleague Olivia Trusty,
voted to withdraw the rules that require telecommunications carriers to “secure their networks from unlawful access or interception of communications.”
The Biden administ…
Pew: 57% of US adults ages 65 prefer to watch their news, while among adults under 30, 45% prefer to get news by reading, 31% by watching, and 23% by listening (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20
Scoop: Trump ready to talk with Maduro over Venezuela gunboat strikes (Marc Caputo/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/trump-maduro-talks-meeting-venezuela-boat-strikes
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p95#a251124p95
A bit of #mountainMonday ! I took this in January 2024.
I hiked that mountain and decided not just to hike to the summit but to spend some considerable time and try to capture some photos that express cold & #winter.
I layed down to the ground and waited for the wind to blow s…
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Woordle6 1415 X/6
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Oeps ...
<KatanaJ> Note on a chem lab fridge- "This refrigerator is not explosion-
proof".
Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,151 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 4.9 %
from my link log —
Container security: a developer guide.
https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/07/18/container-security-a-developer-guide
saved 2019-07-31
and maybe devices decidedly NOT having "AI"
Model ML, which aims to use AI agents to automate grunt work done by investment bankers like making pitch decks, raised $75M, after raising $12M earlier in 2025 (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
おはようございます(本日はコミティア154)
Waymo already operates in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Austin, and Phoenix.
But maps published by California’s Department of Motor Vehicles showed that the company can now test and deploy its autonomous vehicles across a much larger area in both the Bay Area and Southern California.
In the Bay Area, Waymo’s approved areas of operation now include most of the East Bay and North Bay (including Napa/Wine Country), as well as Sacramento.
In Southern Cal…
As US government cuts weather forecasting, vulnerable places like Puerto Rico risk losing vital early warnings https://phys.org/news/2025-11-weather-vulnerable-puerto-rico-vital.html
Source: the BBC plans to expand its editorial standards committee, diluting conservative board member Robbie Gibb's influence, and create a deputy DG position (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov
Consumer Bureau's Bank Examiners Criticize New 'Humility Pledge' (Stacy Cowley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/business/consumer-bureau-humility-pledge.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p107#a251124p107
Internal documents: Amazon's data center operations total 900 facilities in 50 countries, including AWS colocation facilities, higher than commonly understood (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
If mathematically you end up with the wrong answer, try multiplying by
the page number.
Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,192 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 4.91 %
Stephen Miller, who has overseen Trump’s hard-line agenda on drugs and immigration, and other top advisers never lost sight of their goal of crushing the cartels.
And in pursuing this goal they were aided in part by a personnel restructuring that removed potential obstacles.
Many of the lawyers and other career officials at the White House National Security Council, Pentagon and Justice Department
who had over the preceding months raised concerns about using lethal force a…
Is the Comey case gone for good? And other questions after Halligan's cases crumbled (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/24/halligan-dismissed-james-comey-cases-00667735
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p105#a251124p105
for science's sake also have some fun with your device design and don't just make rectangular slabs of various sizes
Filing: Meta axed research based on a Nielsen survey in 2020 that found evidence of social media harms, claiming the survey was tainted by the "media narrative" (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustain…
Bergerac | NPO Start
#Bergerac
Changes to CISA have left some states without support during elections; California said CISA provided little support during the Nov. 4 election on redistricting (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/election-security-…
🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Wie gelingt es mächtigen Akteuren, den #Klimaschutz systematisch zu verzögern?
Mit rhetorischen Tricks, falschen Hoffnungen und strategischem Pessimismus werden #Klimaschutzmaßnahmen blockiert und Verantwortung verschoben. Die bekannten A…
The U.S. attorney in Miami, who is running a sprawling investigation into former officials who investigated President Trump,
has been granted an unusual request to convene an extra grand jury at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Fla.
The location ensures that just one judge can oversee it: Aileen M. Cannon.
That raises a question with intriguing political and legal overtones.
Judge Cannon could again end up as a key player in a Trump-centric case,
this one…
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115602153224142336
unsurprisingly getting replies that claim or at least imply differently
sigh
Marjorie Taylor Greene is staying out of the election to replace her (Aaron Pellish/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/24/marjorie-taylor-greene-election-replacement-00667787
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p110#a251124p110
[Thread] Politico is ending its print newspaper, which had been publishing three times a week while Congress is in session, at the end of the year (Scott Nover/@scottnover)
https://x.com/scottnover/status/1993035321932759144
A researcher details an LLM-based AI agent that "demonstrated a near-flawless ability" to bypass bot detection methods while answering online survey questions (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/a-researcher-made-
Bundesvibe: Wehrdienst oder Wehrpflicht - zwischen Angst und Verantwortung - #ARD
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/bundesvibe/wehrdienst-oder-wehrpflicht-oder-doku/ard/Y3JpZDovL3N3ci5kZS9hZXgvbzIyODE0NjA
Duitsland voert opnieuw de algemene dienstplicht in. Redelijk vergelijkbaar volgens mij met de manier waarop wij het ook deden. Zij het dan 'vrijwillig zolang er genoeg vrijwilligers zijn'.
Wat dat betreft vind ik Nederlandse oplossing meer doordacht en levert, denk ik, een hogere kwaliteit op de lange termijn op.
In Duitsland begint de discussie nu pas ...
Little in Dan Driscoll’s résumé – past or present – suggests he has the qualifications to understand the often-tortured and bloody history of relations between Russia and Ukraine.
A former investment banker with a degree in business administration, the current US army secretary’s main calling card for a prominent role in the Trump administration may be a friendship with JD Vance dating from when they were at Yale Law School together.
Against that thin backdrop, Driscoll now finds h…
They should have an article about what’s real and fake about what’s in the Washington Post
https://mastodon.social/@tvaziri/115605669765801191
U.S., Ukraine move closer together on peace plan after lengthy talks (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/24/ukraine-peace-plan-europe-russia/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p98#a251124p98
Chip companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and China have been raising pay and bonuses as global competition intensifies for a limited pool of chip engineers (June Yoon/Financial Times)
https://on.ft.com/3K5zVj1
Ouders delen foto's en contactgegevens kinderen vanwege Sinterklaaswinactie
#Intertoys #sinterklaas
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115605216261158113
As my good deed for today, I updated the FlashPath Wikipedia page as it was missing references and had a wrong announcement date (FlashPath was announced in March 1998, not May 1998).
Former baseball star Darryl Strawberry thanks Trump for pardon during sermon at Tulsa church (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/23/darryl-strawberry-trump-pardon-00666556
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p68#a251123p68
Sam Altman and Jony Ive say they have settled on a design for OpenAI's device, speaking to Laurene Powell Jobs; Ive says it could debut in "less than" two years (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/827607/openai-h…
What the White House is calling the
"Genesis Mission" is to speed research and scientific discovery
by analyzing massive science, engineering, energy and health care data sets in the federal government, university and private sector
with supercomputing technology.
It's an AI initiative the White House hopes will result in quicker breakthroughs in areas of research including disease therapies.
Michael Krastios, science adviser to the president, t…
AOC email seeks donations for turkey giveaway -- but money goes straight to her campaign coffers (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/22/us-news/aoc-email-seeks-donations-for-turkey-giveaway-but-money-goes-straight-to-her-campaign-coffers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p78#a251122p78
Starlink says it has reached 9M "active customers" across 155 countries, territories, and other markets, up from 8M on November 5 (Polly Thompson/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-customer-number…
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Uit het interview met Sigrid Kaag
The Mouse That Roared (1959) Film in English, Jean Seberg, Peter Sellers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU8UEinOZWo (1959, 83min)
The Mouse That Roared (film) - Wikipedia
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared_(film)
Trump administration orders review of Biden-era refugees, memo shows (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-orders-review-biden-era-refugees-memo-shows-2025-11-24/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p104#a251124p104
Over de geopolitieke verhoudingen na een jaar Trump | Sigrid Kaag | #Buitenhof
#NLpol
Designation of Certain Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/11/designation-of-certain-muslim-brotherhood-chapters-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations-and-specially-designated-global-terrorists/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p103#a251124p103
Saying it again, anthropomorphized "chatbot" user interfaces to LLMs should be illegal.
There's zero reason these interfaces have to be like this—other than companies making people addicted to them.
This is wrt to a WaPo article (tw:child abuse, child suicide) , here w/o paywall: https://archive.is/GUIEF
Crypto Crash Is Eroding Wealth for Trump's Family and Followers (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-23/bitcoin-crash-hits-crypto-wealth-of-donald-trump-s-family-and-followers
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p67#a251123p67
You'd think with idk 200 million people in the US who are eligible to be elected president they'd find one who isn't [points to everything]
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Begins Process to Designate Certain Muslim Brotherhood Chapters as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/11/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-begins-process-to-designate-certain-muslim-brotherhood-chapters-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations-and-specially-designated-global-terrorists/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p102#a251124p102
Noem ends temporary protected status for Myanmar migrants (Jeff Arnold/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/5620883-myanmar-tps-termination-january/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251124/p111#a251124p111