@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple removes controversial dating safety apps Tea and TeaOnHer from the App Store for failing to meet requirements around content moderation and user privacy (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/appl
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@aral@mastodon.ar.al🚨 Help Evacuate Joy to Milan 🚨
Folks, I need your help once again. This time, it’s for our very own @…
As you know, Joy has been suffering through genocide and famine in Gaza and still helping others through her work with Gaza Verified. Now she has a chance at freedom as she’s been accepted for a Bachelor’s degree at the University of Milan and w…
@ErikUden@mastodon.de“You didn't give me the cheat codes to 100% manipulate women into liking me, therefore I became a misogynist bigot who hates women and it's YOUR fault.”
@benb@osintua.euKyiv Independent’s community has raised over $100,000 for Ukraine in 2025: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/22/kyiv-independents-community-has-raised.html
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioFloppy Disk Christmas
Sony Mavica MVC-FD85 (1.3MP, 2000)
#ShittyCameraChallenge
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeIt's good to drink water, but don't drink too much (or you'll have to pee a lot) :ablobcatnod:
@timbray@cosocial.ca
@cdarwin@c.imAmericans with four-year college degrees now comprise a record 25% of total unemployment,
underscoring a sharp slowdown in white-collar hiring this year.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/22/us-degree-holders-unemployment-rate/
@Life_is@no-pony.farm
@noellabo@fedibird.comMisskeyやMastodon 4.5以降なら引用できるから、マルチポストする代わりに自分のメインアカウントの投稿を引用した方がいいんじゃないかとは思うのだわ。
未対応だとURLだけ出たりするけど、それでいいんじゃないかとも。
私自身、XにメインのMastodonのURLしか貼らないっていう運用しているアカウントもあるよ。
BlueskyやThreadsへの同時投稿はしょうがないねえ。
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialFor objective news about Ukraine, read ISW.
https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-november-22-2025/
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialTimmermans deed het erg goed op #Nieuwsuur gisterenavond. Als je het niet gezien hebt, even terugkijken.
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online‼️Die #Petition
"Erweiterung des Leistungsumfangs der GKV im Zusammenhang mit Prostataerkrankungen vom 22.06.2025"
hat bisher 38 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29962 Unterschriften bis zum 20.10.2025.
@whitequark@mastodon.socialim going to bed
edit: i did not find this one, i am just exasperated
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJasmine Crockett "strongly" considering U.S. Senate bid (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/22/jasmine-crockett-us-senate-texas-paxton-cornyn
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p89#a251022p89
@publicvoit@graz.social"#Austria’s Democracy on the Decline"
“The Situation is Serious”: #Democracy Index with Sobering Result for Austria
https://www.europesays…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgPretty good analysis from @… but subtleties make it difficult to translate Danish model elsewhere. It's a PR system, so always coalitions many different flavours to vote for; Danish Peoples Party are left on welfare but not on immigration
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/22/danish-model-centre-left-parties-labour-doesnt-work
@dennisfaucher@infosec.exchangeI guess, not surprisingly, this "peace plan" only benefits Russia and the US. Horrible
November 21, 2025 - by Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-21-2025
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialTaba Squishy
@servelan@newsie.socialEU convenes emergency summit on Ukraine as Trump's 28-point plan triggers European pushback - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/22/eu-convenes-emergency-summit-on-ukraine-as-trumps-28-point-plan-triggers-european-pushback/
@scott@carfree.city"In a safety culture, you look at the system, you don't just thump the individual who screwed up." https://sf.streetsblog.org/2025/11/21/commentary-munis-near-disaster-is-about-more-than-a-sleeping-train-ope…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialPortugal’s far-right Chega party ordered to take down posters targeting Roma people | Portugal | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/22/portugals-far-right-chega-party-ordered-to-take-down-pos…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»"Alle Systeme blinken rot" – Klimaschutz laut Studie zu lahm:
Die Subventionen für fossile Energien sind gestiegen. Drastische Schritte sind laut einer Studie nötig, um die Pariser Klimaziele noch zu erreichen.«
Überaschend ist dies nun nicht aber die Kapitalgläubigen hecheln bloß ihrer Gier hinterher und sehen nicht mal einen Schritt weiter positiv für die Allgemeinheit.
🏭
@mela@zusammenkunft.netReaktionen auf den Rant über Özdemir:
Bluesky/Mastodon: Zustimmung, Widerspruch, Nachfragen, Diskurs, normale Konversation.
Threads: Forderungen mich zu erklären, Beleidigungen, Unterstellungen, kritiklose Fankultur, (wenig) Zustimmung.
@jake4480@c.imIt's Wolfenstein 1D. A thrilling run, beating episode one in like, a minute 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSvECzuaYn0
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangectrl-alt-JIS
@axbom@axbom.me
@Jyoti@mas.toI'm making a commitment to myself to be at least 68.9% randier in 2026.
WHO'S WIV ME?
#WellYouTriedItJustForOnceFoundItAllRightForKicks #ButNowYouFoundOutThatItsAHabitThatSticks
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.socialI’m so glad I’ve always hated Kiss.
@bourgwick@heads.socialwonderful & useful scholarly chapter on the 1967 levitation & exorcism of the pentagon by the fugs, allen ginsberg, abbie hoffman, kenneth anger, & co., very coincidentally 58 years ago today, taking it seriously historically/ritualistically/poetically. https://gwern.net/doc/history/2011-lay
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialLast week I was able to test #GenAi video creation - but it seems I'm always cornering around in edge cases 😒
https://www.locked.de/i-break-things-google-veo/
@Dragofix@veganism.social13 years of detailed US CO₂ emissions data released #UnitedStates
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialAndrea Valls. What a superb actor. This is Winter taking over from Autumn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHVckMOXCUQ
@eichkat3r@hessen.socialpro-tipp: jetzt schon das kabel für den raclettegrill suchen
nicht erst 5 minuten bevor die gäste kommen
ihr werdet es mir danken
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialComedian Ben Palmer sets up a fake ICE site to report "suspicious" people.
Here's one woman from Florida.
▶️ She thinks I'm with ICE - Ben Palmer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aJtZXfZZva8&si=G1ZO1SP0ng0ccFP2
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.socialManchmal denke ich, die Click-baiter machen sich über uns lustig...
Wer kommt auf so ein bescheuertes Motiv?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTinder plans to expand its facial verification feature to all new US users in the coming months, following its rollout in seven countries and in California (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/tinder…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @ErikUden@mastodon.deWe watched the Joker ironically and then went on YouTube to watch whatever people made about the movie there back in the day, landed in the worst slop bubble, and dug so deep until we hit “JOKER QUOTES ABOUT WOMEN” and these videos could be classified as performance art, they're pure gold
@cdarwin@c.imAmericans with four-year college degrees now comprise a record 25% of total unemployment,
underscoring a sharp slowdown in white-collar hiring this year.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/22/us-degree-holders-unemployment-rate/
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online @memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's multi-million request puts DOJ integrity to the test, legal scholars say (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/22/trump-justice-department-payment-ethical-concerns
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p91#a251022p91
@scott@carfree.city"She’d seen a guerilla bench effort take off in Berkeley, Calif. and wondered if they could pull off something similar in Nashville. They built a dozen or so benches based on a simple design and put them at bus stops."
https://nashvillebanner.com/2025/09/22
@servelan@newsie.socialKushner's fantasy Gaza redevelopment plan not unrealistic enough - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/12/22/kushners-fantasy-gaza-redevelopment-plan-not-unrealistic-enough/
@jake4480@c.imChristopher Walken and Bugs Bunny https://animatedtvblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/christopher-walken-and-bugs-bunny
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialI believed I could spend the week turning Croissants and Donuts into low-calorie, healthy foods through “positive vibes”. Reality on the scale would beg to differ.
@Jyoti@mas.to @hikingdude@mastodon.social✅ order extra HDD for a cold backup
Todo: best way to execute it
@Dragofix@veganism.socialFossil fuel industry's 'climate false solutions' reinforce its power, aggravate environmental injustice, study suggests https://phys.org/news/2025-12-fossil-fuel-industry-climate-false.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI details efforts to secure its ChatGPT Atlas browser against prompt injection attacks, including building an "LLM-based automated attacker" (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/22/openai-say…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Visa-Verzögerungen: Apple und Google warnen US-Mitarbeiter vor Reisen
@memeorandum@universeodon.comArts & Sciences Dean says WashU will not sign Trump's higher ed compact as-is (Riley Herron/Student Life)
https://www.studlife.com/news/2025/10/22/arts-sciences-dean-says-washu-will-not-sign-trumps-higher-ed-compact-as-is
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p92#a251022p92
@cdarwin@c.im$473 million of hard earned tax dollars!
💰$172 million spent in Los Angeles since June
💰 ~$270 million for D.C. since June
💰 ~$15 million for Portland since September
💰>$3 million for Memphis since October
💰 ~$13 million for Chicago since October
https://…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Gutachter: EU-Kommission will eine "uferlose Sonderrechtszone" für KI
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFederato, which provides AI-powered insurance lifecycle software, raised a $100M Series D led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, taking its total funding to $180M (InsurTech Analyst)
https://insurtechanalyst.com/2025/11/18/federato-launches-ai-n…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineDie #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,211 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 5.06 %
@servelan@newsie.socialThe Trump Administration Wants To Whitewash History. These Black Historians and Activists are Memorializing the Sins of an Infamous Gynecologist
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/12/22/trump-smithsonian-sims-history-gynecology/
@scott@carfree.cityIf you're free Wednesday night in SF, check out this panel on social housing at 518 Valencia. Sounds like it'll be good (I unfortunately can't make it):
Wed, Oct 22, 7:30pm
Social Housing: Challenging YIMBYs and NIMBYs
"What we’re doing on housing isn’t working. We’ve upzoned, streamlined, deregulated. And still, the crisis deepens. There is a movement waiting to be built—...rooted in care, solidarity, and the belief that everyone deserves a place to live.&qu…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @cdarwin@c.imShooting by ICE officer in Los Angeles wounds a U.S. marshal
and a motorist
Both of the injured people were taken to a hospital, authorities said.
The marshal sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was in stable condition. Authorities did not disclose the condition of the motorist.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWaymo resumes robotaxi service in San Francisco after a blackout, and says most active trips were completed before vehicles returned to depots or pulled over (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/21/waymo-robotaxi-san-francisco-blackout.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThune meets with GOP senators on post-shutdown path (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/22/congress/shutdown-thune-meeting-health-care-00619013
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p122#a251022p122
@servelan@newsie.socialComer threatens Clintons with contempt over Epstein files - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/11/21/comer-threatens-clintons-with-contempt-over-epstein-files/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with iRobot co-founder Colin Angle on the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, regulatory pressure that killed Amazon's deal, his new robotics startup, and more (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/20/it-f
@cdarwin@c.imNearly half of rural hospitals now operate at a loss.
As new federal budget cuts take effect, analysts warn that hundreds of rural hospitals more may close.
-- threatening to turn vast stretches of the country into health-care deserts.
At the center of this growing crisis lies a rollback in federal health-coverage spending.
Nonpartisan analyses show large Medicaid reductions over ten years.
-- the total is on the order of eight to nine hundred billion dollars f…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFederal Agents Stage Raid on Canal Street in New York City (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/nyregion/nyc-raid-canal-st-agents-ice.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p90#a251022p90
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNetflix: Auf Kurs zu einer Milliarde Zuschauer
Netflix ist die klare Nummer eins beim Videostreaming – und hat einen Meilenstein bei der Zuschauerzahl vor Augen.
https://www.heise.de/news/Netflix…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSome experts in the human-computer interaction field say making AI chatbots act humanlike creates cognitive dissonance for users over how much to trust them (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/technol<…
@cdarwin@c.im @heiseonline@social.heise.deEin siebenjähriges Kind hat im Google Play Store Spiele und In-App-Inhalte im Wert von fast 34.000 Euro gekauft. 💸
Doch die Rechnung bezahlt nicht der kleine Gamer, sondern sein Vater – so entschied das Landgericht Karlsruhe.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdam Mosseri says "maybe we'll need" premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/21/2025
@memeorandum@universeodon.comICE arrests Chicago man whose teenage daughter is fighting cancer: 'He belongs with her' (Gregory Royal Pratt/Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/ice-arrests-chicago-man-teenage-daughter-cancer/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p7#a251022p7
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUber plans to trial driverless taxis in London using Baidu's Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis, starting in H1 2026 with services available by the end of 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-22/uber-teams-up-wit…
@cdarwin@c.imWhat the movement sorely needs is a bipartisan imprimatur.
There must be Republicans who still believe in the democratic values that Bush voiced in his second Inaugural, 20 years ago.
“Did our generation advance the cause of freedom? And did our character bring credit to that cause?”
Their continued silence puts sand in the movement’s gears
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Telekom und Vodafone müssen Pornhub und YouPorn vorerst nicht sperren
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFigure AI's former head of product safety sues the humanoid robot startup, alleging he was unlawfully terminated after warning executives about product safety (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/figure-ai-sued.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWe Will Tear Down the Trump Palace Ballroom and Casino (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/we-will-tear-down-the-trump-presidential-ballroom-casino-dissident
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p88#a251022p88
@cdarwin@c.imPentagon press secretary
Kingsley Wilson called Netflix’s programming “woke garbage”
He was asked about “Boots,”
a dramedy about a closeted gay man in the Marines,
which has drawn critical acclaim and strong viewership
-- at the time of writing, it’s one of the most streamed shows on the platform.
…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Digitaler Rückfall in die 90er: US-Sanktionen treffen französischen Richter
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI launches ChatGPT Go in Indonesia for ~$4.50 per month, expanding its budget-friendly ChatGPT subscription plan after debuting it in India in August (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/after-india-openai-l…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @Techmeme@techhub.socialIndian AI app development platform Rocket.new raised a $15M seed led by Salesforce Ventures; it has 400K users, including 10K paid subscribers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/rocket…
@cdarwin@c.imProponents of a cut in interest rates by the Federal Reserve in December gained a powerful backer on Friday,
when a top official said the central bank had scope to lower borrowing costs “in the near term.”
John C. Williams is president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a close ally of Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair.
He emphasized in a speech that he was more concerned about the labor market weakening
than that rising inflation because of Trump’s tariffs wou…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEtwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Kollision mit der Erde vor 4,5 Milliarden Jahren: Theia war vorher ein Nachbar
@Techmeme@techhub.socialKargo, which uses cameras and sensors to inspect pallets in a warehouse and provide accurate inventory data, raised a $42M Series B led by Avenir (Colin Campbell/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/supply-chain-deals/2025/12/22/warehouse-tech-kargo-42m-…
@cdarwin@c.imAn older adult with underlying health conditions is believed to be the first person to die from a rare strain of bird flu,
but Washington state health officials said on Friday the risk to the public is low.
The person – from Grays Harbor county, about 78 miles (125km) south-west of Seattle – had a backyard flock of domestic poultry that had been exposed to wild birds.
The person was treated for the H5N5 bird flu strain after becoming seemingly the first known human infected…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNew York-based emergency alerts platform RapidSOS raised $100M led by Apax Digital Funds, a source says at a $1B valuation, for US and international expansion (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/rapid…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSesame, which is developing an AI agent with a natural-sounding human voice and smart glasses, raised a $250M Series B and opens an early beta of its iOS app (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/sesa
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the White House has put on hold a draft executive order that would seek to preempt state AI laws, following bipartisan backlash (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-pauses-execut…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialItaly's competition authority closes its July 2024 probe into Google's alleged unfair practices over users' personal data after Google adopted remedies (Gianluca Semeraro/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCoinbase agrees to acquire prediction markets startup The Clearing Company for an undisclosed sum; the startup was founded in 2025 and raised a $15M seed (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/383497/coinbase-to-acquire-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSTMicro reports Q3 revenue down 2% YoY to $3.19B and operating income down 53% YoY to $180M, missing est., and forecasts Q4 revenue of $3.28B, below $3.35B est. (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: China's Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi models, is raising several hundred million dollars at a ~$4B valuation and is aiming for an IPO in H2 2026 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tec…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWaymo says California authorized it to operate across the entire Bay Area and Sacramento, and between LA and San Diego, where it plans to expand to in mid-2026 (Aidin Vaziri/San Francisco Chronicle)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/california…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUEFA joins the MPA-led anti-piracy coalition Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, the first sports governing body to join the group, which has 50 members (Adam Leventhal/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6736306/2025/10/21/uefa-champi…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Atlanta Fed estimates delays faced by claimants in COBOL-based unemployment insurance systems cut US GDP by at least $40B between March 13 and year-end 2020 (Bryce Elder/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7610a755-27e3-4792-a337-27d9b301000b
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCrypto trading firm FalconX agrees to acquire 21shares, one of the main crypto ETF managers, for an undisclosed sum; 21shares had $11B in assets in September (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/fin…
@Techmeme@techhub.social
