2025-09-25 06:09:43
O rly?
“Spain's PM says he will send warship to protect Gaza aid flotilla”
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/spains-pm-says-he-will-send-warship-protect-gaza-aid-flotilla-2025-09-24/
O rly?
“Spain's PM says he will send warship to protect Gaza aid flotilla”
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/spains-pm-says-he-will-send-warship-protect-gaza-aid-flotilla-2025-09-24/
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Frohe Weihnachten: Wir wünschen von Herzen erholsame und besinnliche Feiertage!
Taiwan suspends chip export controls on South Africa after just two days, signaling discomfort with using the key tech export as a weapon in diplomatic disputes (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-25/tai…
The only flavour of decentralisation there’s no room for at FOSDEM is the kind that won’t speak at a conference that allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes, a surveillance capitalist like Google that is complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
ht…
I also don’t get why people still give DHH and Tobi the “benefit of the doubt” after they (yes both of them) have been awful for years. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ukraine shoots down Russian Su-34 bomber over Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Air Force says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/ukraine-shoots-down-russian-su.html
So after the AI bubble pops and the hype dies down, the next Big Thing™, I assume, is quantum whatever. Wonder what's after that? Biotech? Cyborg cats? 3d NTFs?
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2025/11/22/campbell-soup-exec-caught-on-secret-recording-slamming-product-people-who-buy-it/
The exec caught on the recording was Campbell’s CISO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z02PlMGIAVU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z02PlMGIAVU
Sometimes I consider myself mildly successful because people read blog posts like this and still want to buy things from me...
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/01/29/giant-usb-button/
Again drones above Denmark, it is so strange they are not shooting them down, or at least one....🤔
Even if they don't pose a threat you have to sent a signal to the people that control them or collect evidence from the wreckage. Is there no air defence?
The drones don't drop bombs but cause damage and inflict costs, besides the psychological aspects.
from my link log —
Implementing dependent types: how hard could it be? (Part 1)
https://jerrington.me/posts/2025-05-23-depty-impl.html
saved 2025-11-25
This Week in Sports Trivia: September 25, 2025 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6660002/2025/09/25/this-week-in-sports-trivia-september-25-2025/
"I was elected mayor of Istanbul, but I write this from jail: Turkish democracy is under grave threat"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/24/mayor-istanbul-jail-ekrem-imamoglu-turkey-democracy
I often disagree with Carville, but I think he nails it here. 🎯https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/opinion/democrats-platform-economic-rage.html?unlocked_article_code=1.308.pyNw.LEIZRTDElS_g&smid=u…
Seven days ago... At 2200m, enjoying some of the last blueberries of the year (and the colors of their bushes/environment)
#ThrowbackThursday #NaturePhotography #Photography
Guten Morgen! Es ist Dienstag und damit #DNIPBriefing-Tag mit dem subjektiv digitalpolitisch Wichtigsten der letzten Tage.
1️⃣ Dass die Nachfrage nach KI-Infrastruktur allen Bubble-Bedenken zum Trotz weiter steigt, dürfte nicht überraschen. Überraschen dürfte hingegen, mit welcher Geschwindigkeit dies offenbar geschieht. Massgebend dabei sind für einmal nicht die Zahlen mit den viele…
Listening to this just a few more times before 2025 is over, as should perhaps be customary, or just as much as possible during the year
https://youtu.be/uq-gYOrU8bA
Trump tariff threat looms over robotics and medical devices
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/25/trump-tariff-threat-looms-over-robotics-and-medical-devices-section232-import-investigation.html
"Vomit first. Then try to make something pretty with it."
—Tatiana Maslany
#acting #coaching #inspiration
If you ever wondered what people thought about live coding 21 years ago you can read the livecode mailing list archive here: https://slab.org/tmp/livecode.txt
There was more moaning about AI hype in 2004 than I remember..
Encore un excellent remontant au moral concocté par @…
https://framablog.org/2025/11/24/khryspresso-du-lund…
@… 一回、間違えてアンケートボタンを押して候補が消えてしまい、書き直したのだよ! そしたら(あほ)
ich muss durch den monsun
Hoe groot de Epstein zaak eigenlijk was heb ik me nooit gerealiseerd...
Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social€):
'Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: Many survivors came forward, and we began comparing notes and working with people in Congress.
As we started connecting the dots, we realized that some of us were sent to the same person in Hollywood for movie auditions. Some of us went to the same modeling agency…'
De bodem lijkt nog niet in zicht...
📽️
#EpsteinFiles
#FotoDerWoche mit Effekten des Herbstnebels auf organische Strukturen.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2025/10/photo-of-the-week-spider-web-i/
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God (Joshua McElwee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-leo-christmas-eve-says-denying-help-poor-is-rejecting-god-2025-12-24/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251225/p1#a251225p1
👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„#Holzschneidbretter sind unhygienisch“.
Schonmal gehört? Warum das ein Mythos ist und wieso
the ten pillars of fascism
1.The mythic past: Fascists draw on a mythical past to justify a glorious future.
2.Propaganda: Propaganda in fascist politics often operates through inflammatory speech, stirring hostility and manipulating emotions, and displacing reasoned public debate with fear and division.
3.Anti-intellectual: Fascist politics attacks education, expertise, and language, weakening the tools necessary for informed public debate and leaving power and group ident…
@… the last time I tried to do a CSS in Tailwind it had that same look
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
US-Regierung verhängt Einreiseverbote gegen „Ideologen in Europa“
How a Microsoft-backed $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya faced construction delays due to uncertainty over its value for local businesses (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/22/2025/kenya-us-china-tech-war-ai-data-center
“Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece.”
Finally! Thank you!
This is what we need. This is the only language Israel understands.
Now, let’s start talking about a UN peacekeeping mission to Palestine. Or, if the UN is no longer fit for purpose, a coalition of countries that will use military inter…
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,105,490 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
They didn’t even bother to go through a round of “but civility”, which is normally the biggest hobby of bigots
Check out my new vibe AI quantum bitcoin... uh NFT blog!
http://2130706433/cgi-bin/java.asp
Apple CEO Cook isn’t pulling an iger and being a coward, is he?
Of course he is.
The Real Reason Apple Postponed New Jessica Chastain Series 'The Savant'
https://parade.com/tv/the-real-reasonjessica-chastain-apple-show-the-savant-p…
Educators Sue After Being Fired For Posts About Kirk - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/09/educators-sue-after-being-fired-for-posts-about-kirk/
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Auilding A Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
🔗 #postdemocratic
Der Babelfisch übersetzt alles, was jemand hört - und hat mehr und blutige Kriege verursacht als jedes andere Lebewesen. Ganz so dramatisch sind automatisierte Übersetzungen im Web noch nicht, geärgert habe ich mich trotzdem.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2025/10/sprachverwirru…
#Steady
Wie bringt man Temperatur- und Luftfeuchtigkeitsmessung in den #Balkongarten, ganz ohne Cloud und Bastelchaos?
Für Leute mit WLAN, Cloud-Aversion und App-Abneigung wie mich, lässt sich da tatsächlich etwas feines finden. Ich mag es eben datenschutzfreundliche.
Meine ers…
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says
“all orders” from President Trump are “lawful orders,”
and troops have no right to question him.
Leavitt’s comments came as Defense Secretary
Pete Hegseth weighs court martialing former astronaut, retired Naval officer, and now-Democratic
Senator Mark Kelly
for his role in a video that the right is claiming to be “seditious.”
Unfortunately for the White House’s arguments,
there have been illegal…
@… this is also why I feel like Google’s stated mission of “Organizing the World’s Information” feels particularly barbed lately
Hey everyone,
@…’s mom needs your help:
“My mother has been suffering from chronic diabetes, and some time ago, one of her toes had to be amputated. During the war, her condition has worsened, and she now relies on a walker to move. 💔
Today, she fell inside our tent, and her foot got injured again – it’s swollen and bruised badly…
How Changpeng Zhao's pardon frees him to refocus on reclaiming ground in the US market, where Binance.US only has a 0.75% share of bitcoin trading volume (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-24/bina…
Trump 'growing incredibly impatient' with Russia, Vance says as Moscow refuses to end fighting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/trump-growing-incredibly-impatient-with.html
The most telling thing?
They’re absolutely not trying to hide who they are.
And as “rebuttals” they’re not defending or relativizing what they’re doing—they just straight out dehumanize their critics as “clowns” or “hysterical”*.
*oh hey it’s not only an hominem but also a misogynistic term
Sometimes fire is the answer :3
https://mastodon.art/@thelatestkate/115431129466065421
"Mobitracker": Kein Ortungsdienst, sondern Abofalle
Eine vermeintliche Handyortung entpuppt sich als teure Abofalle: Wie Betroffene in dieser Situation reagieren sollten und worauf Verbraucherschützer hinweisen.
…
»Datenschützerin warnt vor US-Clouds — Risiken für Behörden:
Datenschutz & Cloud - Zürcher Datenschützerin warnt vor US-Clouds für Behörden«
Endlich wird das Thema Datenschutz bei Microsoft in den populären Medien in der Schweiz aufgegriffen. Und doch werden viele behaupten nichts zu verbergen zu haben und M$ ist ja anscheinend die einzige (bequeme) profi Lösung.
🔊
👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„#Holzschneidbretter sind unhygienisch“.
Schonmal gehört? Warum das ein Mythos ist und wieso
@… @… as long as the road is paved well, should be fine
Honest government ad: AI
#AI #HonestGovernmentAds
Do people really no longer understand the difference between a political opinion and instigation to crime anymore?
Xiaomi says surging memory chip prices have raised the cost of making smartphones, after pricing of its new Redmi K90 series disappointed Chinese consumers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telec…
#heiseshow: Flughafen-Attacken, KI-Blase, Elektroauto-Ladepunkte
In der #heiseshow: Turbulente Woche für Flughäfen durch Cyberattacken und Drohnen, Zuckerberg hält KI-Bubble für möglich und Kommunen ohne E-Auto-Ladepunkte.
20 points of peace: chance for Ukraine or step toward dangerous compromise?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/24/points-of-peace-chance-for.html
Folks, Joy carries out the verification calls for Gaza Verified everyday as a volunteer.
Please help support her work and help her take care of her family in Gaza by donating to her fundraiser.
https://www.chuffed.org/project/evacuate-joy
»Zürcher Kantonsrat will Gesichtserkennung im öffentlichen Raum:
Der Zürcher Kantonsrat will, was der eigene Regierungsrat abgelehnt hat.
Der Zürcher Kantonsrat hat sich dafür ausgesprochen, automatische Gesichtserkennung zu ermöglichen. Die Revision des Informations- und Datenschutzgesetzes diskutierte er ausführlich«
Aargh… ich ärgere mich! Sicherheit gibt die Videoüberwachung nicht, sondern Verängstigung der Bevölkerung.
😠
Dichte der #Windkraftanlagen je #Bundesland pro 10 km² in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Nur in Betrieb befindliche Anlagen berücksichtigt.
Die „Ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone“ (Offshore) ist ausgenommen.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Was
@… …oh no
Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-struck-20-billion-megadeal-gro…
"Anders als Enron": Nvidia weist Vorwürfe von bekanntem Investor zurück
Michael Burry wurde bekannt, als er vor der Finanzkrise 2008 auf den Kurssturz gewettet hat. Jetzt hat er sich mit Nvidia angelegt und der Konzern reagiert.
They should have an article about what’s real and fake about what’s in the Washington Post
https://mastodon.social/@tvaziri/115605669765801191
What life is like for Palestinians from Gaza on centralised, US-based, Big Tech networks like Bluesky (yes, it’s all those things… did something about them make you think otherwise?)
#Bluesky #complicity #genocide
Entwicklung des Rotordurchmessers von #Windkraftanlagen an Land in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Der kleinste registrierte #Rotordurchmesser misst 0.2 m.
Der gr…
@… I’m so tired of Big Matchstick! Everyone should move to Big Flint and Steel, they only do half of the lobbying and sabotage of Big Matchstick
The UK's Cabinet Office says its Fraud Risk Assessment Accelerator AI tool helped the government recover £480M from fraud in the 12 months from April 2024 (Jack Fenwick/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd92gpld0go
Hey everyone,
@… and I had the honour of speaking to three families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Dania (@…)
• Heba & her husband Tareq and t…
participating in the JavaScript ecosystem continues to feel like living in a house that’s on fire and all of your roommates are just buying their own fire extinguishers and pretending that it’s just a temporary bout of really hot weather
Like there's no leak or anything, I think the pump just stopped working?
Wonder why that's failure point, perhaps over time there is some out-diffusion liquid and eventually it starts to cavitate?
USA sanktionieren HateAid-Chefinnen und Ex-EU-Kommissar Thierry Breton
Die US-Regierung kritisiert „Ideologen in Europa“, die US-amerikanische Plattformen zensieren wollten. Jetzt verhängt sie Einreiseverbote – auch gegen Deutsche.
RE: https://c.im/@Opfoss/115770673278142264
My shorter, non-lexical analysis: If you’re arresting Greta Thunberg, you’re the baddie.
Pricempire: after Valve updated the exchange rate of Counter-Strike digital items, the market fell by $1.75B, or 25%, on October 23; in 2024, a gun sold for $1M (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Gegen die Cookie-Banner-Flut: Erster „Einwilligungsagent“ geht an den Start
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/115770772712198049
That feeling when you unintentionally make the case for Scottish independence.
Alibaba says its Qwen app drew 10M downloads in the week after its relaunch, one of the fastest app adoption rates behind ChatGPT, particularly in China (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-24/alibaba…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Meta-Scraping-Urteil: OLG München stärkt Nutzerrechte bei „Kontrollverlust“
Lenovo CFO Winston Cheng says the PC maker is stockpiling memory and other critical components amid a supply crunch, holding inventories ~50% higher than usual (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-24/lenov…
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Fahrradhersteller Woom: IT-Einbruch durch Cybergang INC Ransom
Gesundheitsakte & Co: Warken verspricht Betriebsstabilität und Ausfallsicherheit
Warken verspricht auf der Digital Health Conference nicht nur eine bessere Stabilität von E-Rezept und Patientenakte, sondern auch digitale Souveränität.
Amazon-backed nuclear reactor developer X-energy raised $700M led by Jane Street, taking its total funding to $1.4B, to build 150 SMRs in the US and the UK (Jamie Smyth/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/59d9b7d5-e34b-4131-b80f-815208a2d4cc
Forschung in China: 1000 spezielle Drohnen könnten Taiwan von Starlink abklemmen
In China wird weiter überlegt, wie Taiwan im Falle einer Auseinandersetzung von Starlink abgeklemmt werden könnte. Die jüngste Idee setzt auf tausende Drohnen.
Researchers detail popEVE, an AI model to predict the disease-causing potential of unknown human genetic mutations, and says it beats Google's AlphaMissense (Michael Peel/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/bc49e334-776b-41d0-a9be-fb0c29c54853
Länder wollen Urheberpauschale für KI
Die Länder haben sich auf Eckpunkte für einen Staatsvertrag zu digitalen Medien geeinigt. Die Nutzung geschützter Werke für KI soll vergütungspflichtig werden.
https://www.
With an influx of Meta alums, some OpenAI staffers worry it is adopting Meta's tactics, like using social media dynamics with Sora and a softening stance on ads (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-readies-facebook-era
KI-Müll in US-Urteilen aufgeflogen
KI-Müll in Gerichtseingaben ist eine Plage. Nun sind auch Entscheidungen zweier US-Gerichte aufgeflogen. Ein Praktikant sei schuld, sagt ein erwischter Richter.
https://www.