@textproof@mathstodon.xyz"'Made with AI' marketing will not age well. We’re already seeing brands start to shun AI in their ad copy while emphasizing their products are 100% human-made. Consumers will start to associate 'human-made' with higher quality — and higher price points." —Allison Morrow on Nightcap, the CNN newsletter.
@fremandolasse@mastodon.social"‘Better off with Taiwan’: Honduras joins other Latin American countries rethinking ties with China
US pressure, broken promises by China and corruption scandals have halted Taiwan’s slide to diplomatic irrelevance in the region"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec
@piger@mastodon.socialPC hardware is so fun! The apparently good HDMI cable I was using can’t do 360hz, but the random DisplayPort cable that I had in the cables chest can 🤷♂️
@gla@mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@kagihq/115913090517657318
That’s neat!!
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
STRFKR:
🎵 Tape Machine
#STRFKR
https://starfucker.bandcamp.com/track/tape-machine
https://open.spotify.com/track/7uiNap6KASasjY0lc4huND
@heiseonline@social.heise.deÜberwachung der Reisewege: EU plant Ausweitung der Passagierdatenspeicherung
Ob Fähre, Bus oder Bahn: Die EU will die Überwachung von Reiseströmen erweitern. Ein internes Ratspapier skizziert den Fahrplan für neue Kontrollsysteme.
@ratp_ligne_9@lepoulsdumonde.comDes trains stationnent entre Havre-Caumartin et Mairie de Montreuil en raison d'un incident d'exploitation Š Oberkampf .
🤖 19/12 10:57
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioSo I got two shitty cameras today and both don’t work 😭
Can’t win them all, unfortunately a fact with old electronics.
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeYou might think Ben's fursona is a monkey (because of his username @…), but it's actually bread 🍞
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI releases GPT‑5.2-Codex, with improvements on long-horizon work through context compaction, stronger performance on large code changes, and more (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… hell yeah
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioNote I say “change strategy,” not “leave” or “stop.”
Who knows what’s next, but my expectation is for them to switch to things that are less visible, things that don’t look so bad on video. Maybe that means night raids? More likely, I’m guessing it means more rural action, targeting of remote job sites (e.g. farms), nabbing people from prisons, more activity in detention camps that disallow observers, that kind of thing.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeVincenzo Iozzo, Joichi Ito and Pablos Holman are barred from future attendance after Justice Department files revealed their roles in efforts to secure Jeffrey Epstein’s access to DEF CON.
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2026/02/def
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialIs there a web hosting provider today that does not promote AI shit on their home page?
You know, for us people who just want to hosting a fucking web site and do not need or want any AI?
@cdarwin@c.imAccording to Chile’s CONAF forestry agency, firefighters were battling 24 active fires across the country as of Sunday morning,
with the largest being in the regions of Ñuble and Bío Bío,
where the government declared the emergency.
The regions are about 500 km south of the capital, Santiago.
“In light of the serious ongoing wildfires, I have decided to declare a state of catastrophe in the regions of Ñuble and Bio Bío. All resources are available,” Boric said on a p…
@benb@osintua.euRussia's $4B air defense in flames! Davos convenes World Economic Forum: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/19/russias-b-air-defense-in.html
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialAn old classic.
@axbom@axbom.me
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialViews from the train during commute.
Winter has come back for a couple of days.
#commuting #Winter
@roelgrif@mstdn.social“Dit was volgens het ministerie van Defensie altijd al de planning.”
Jaja, de Duitsers zijn tenminste zo eerlijk om toe te geven dat ze eerder terug zijn gehaald dan gepland. Moeten we geloven dat die verkenningsmissie voor verschillende landen een verschillende duur had? Mwah.
Nederlandse militairen vertrekken vandaag weer uit Groenland https://
@johl@mastodon.xyz„Der Sachsenwald wird zum Jahreswechsel eingemeindet. Damit endet nicht nur Deutschlands absurdeste Steueroase, sondern auch ein 150 Jahre altes Adelsprivileg. Auslöser dafür war eine Recherche von @…“
@boris@cosocial.caRE: https://social.coop/@coopcloud/115913810297386881
Today in New York, learn more about Co-op Cloud https://coopcloud.tec…
@vosje62@mastodon.nl'Saskia Dekkers
@saskiadekkers.bsky.social€
Nieuws: in juni is er het EU-migratiepact en verwachtingen zijn hoog
Maar volgens migratiedeal-expert Gerald Knaus ontbreekt cruciaal onderdeel: geen akkoorden met landen buiten EU om mensen terug te nemen, juist een van de pijlers van het pact
Kijk ⬇️ ons Nieuwsuur itv én analyse'
Migratie-expert: 'Migratiepact dreigt uit te lopen op mislukking'
https://nos.nl/l/2602927 (14:48)
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgThe blogerati have discovered algorave (via @…) https://interconnected.org/home/2025/12/11/live
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.socialRE: https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116089652882278379
Ich schätze, dieses irre Produkt zum Anreichern von Radon im Trinkwasser, ist nach ein paar Jahren genauso ausgestorben, wie die Benutzer.
@Xexyz@mastodon.me.ukSuper Mario World: Donut Plains passed
Nothing too taxing, and I think I found all the hidden exits too - I found two exits from every level with a red dot. The only bit that had me confused was the ghost house, which had me stuck in a loop for ages - until I realised I didn't need to push the button to go out of the first door.
@jake4480@c.imStumbled across this gem the other day, perfect for #MusicWomenWednesday. Condor44 was formed in 1999 by guitarist/vocalist Hiroshi Sasaki and drummer Nobuyuki Ajima who met while attending college. They put out a couple records in the early 2000s and are supposedly still together.. this is the excellent title track "db" from their 2002 record of same name.
@brian_gettler@mas.to
@fanf@mendeddrum.orghmm i thought rachelbythebay.com has a complaint about colleagues not following a “make before break” rule when changing things
but i can’t find a post along those lines
i wonder if she used a different term for the idea or if i’m just remembering wrong
@stefan@gardenstate.socialDidn't watch. The trump speech was just to say a bunch of lies people can easily see are wrong?
@joxean@mastodon.socialAfter GPUs and RAM, what is the next hardware thing that generative AI is going to monopolise?
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyLow Carbon Family Holidays - Be a social superstar without 57 foreign holidays every year! Cut stress, cost, carbon and food waste. Have loads of fun! #frugal #holiday #TravellersCheck -
@servelan@newsie.social‘You have 24 hours’: Dem lawmaker puts right-wing commentator on notice - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/eric-swalwell-2674904927/
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energyRE: https://fediscience.org/@MichaelEMann/116088232083801675
The risks of AI being used as a propaganda weapon against climate action and the energy transition (and many other things) is something we ignore at our peril.
@rer_c@lepoulsdumonde.comLa gare de Paris Austerlitz en direction de Massy-Palaiseau, de Saint-Martin d'Étampes et de Dourdan La Forêt n'est pas desservie jusqu'Š 15h30.
Rendez-vous sur la rubrique "Recherche Itinéraire", pour retrouver un itinéraire prenant en compte cette perturbation.
Pour plus d'informations sur cette perturbation, consultez le fil X du RER C.
Motif : affaires oubliées (Š bord du train ELLA) en gare de Paris Austerliz.
🤖 19/01 14:57
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzA cosmic-ray loaded nascent outflow driven by a massive #StarCluster: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65592-4 -> NASA’s Fermi Spots Young Star Cluster Blowing Gamma-Ray Bubbles: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/fermi/nasas-fermi-spots-young-star-cluster-blowing-gamma-ray-bubbles/
@scott@carfree.cityI thought I'd be able to finish reading Anti-Oedipus - how hard could it be? - but it turns out that was deleuzeional.
@tanyakaroli@expressional.socialJeg har været dum. Dum og overivrig og ærgerrig.
Jeg har samlet en gruppe mennesker om en stor, vild, og noget lŸs projektidé - som jeg nu ikke tror det er realistisk at komme i mål med i tide (deadline 1. marts). I fredags startede jeg et mŸde med at sige at jeg ikke tror vi kan nå det. Men de andre ville så gerne, og så foreslog den ene en ny samarbejdspartner hvis emne passede helt perfekt. Og så lovede jeg at skrive til ham. Og så var han så utroligt entusiastisk at jeg brændte var…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialThe daily deluge of photos of El Cheato's eroding body keep suggesting to me that his funeral will probably occur in the next year or two. (I am a sticker, perhaps in the minority - I'd wait until *after* he dies before burying him.) And that the burial could be like that of William the Conqueror in year 1087 - who was so corpulent and infected that his body exploded in his coffin due to gas build-up as he rotted.
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deAs the English speaking world classifies some share of the body “private parts” we must conclude that we can consider the rest of it to be “public parts” (as in public goods).
And we should act accordingly.
@ruario@vivaldi.net@… As a format (the pax or latter GNU variant) are better than the last major cpio format, newc. However, if you like the syntax of cpio, then bsdcpio (libarchive) allows you to output in pax format, giving you the best of both worlds.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialQ&A with Walt Handelsman, who retired at the end of 2025 as an editorial cartoonist at New Orleans' Times-Picayune, on the changes in a dwindling profession (Rob Tornoe/Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/the-vanishing…
@hex@kolektiva.socialRE: https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116085049730770701
Now that I've more or less completed the thoughts I was piecing together over the course of the day, we should talk a bit more about "no gods, no masters" a bit...
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaAppeal Seeks to Force the Congress to Uphold the Rights of Indigenous Peoples | https://schoolsforchiapas.org/appeal-seeks-to-force-the-congress-to-uphold-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples/
@andycarolan@social.lolI’m making a Mark Watney kind of dinner tonight 🚀
@markhburton@mstdn.socialA terrible rail tragedy near Cordoba. At least 39 dead.
We won't know the causes for weeks yet. However, it's a reminder that all risks do increase with speed. The derailment of the first train, into the path of the second, seems to have happened very shortly before arrival of the second, with no time for even the most sophisticated system to stop it.
@_tillwe_@mastodon.socialGuten Morgen - der Frost ist da!
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialSo, meanwhile here in 'sunny' Southern California, on the 710SB heading toward Long Beach...
...dammit, I wanna speak to a manager. 😜
#LosAngeles #SoCal rain #thisisnotnormal
@ratp_ligne_13@lepoulsdumonde.comUn train stationne Š Châtillon-Montrouge vers Saint-Denis – Université et Asnières - Gennevilliers Les Courtilles en raison d'un incident nécessitant l’intervention du conducteur .
🤖 19/12 06:57
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de🤬 “I'm always forced to listen to those evil voice messages immediately, but I don't have headphones with me.”
No one expects you to. Listen & reply when you have time.
🤬 “I just send text messages instead.”
So you expect the recipients to read your text messages immediately, even if they're out, doing sports or meeting someone? Same stupid logic.
Messages in general aren't meant for urgent communication. That's what fucking calls are for. Chat…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Blondie:
🎵 Rip Her to Shreds
#Blondie
https://angertape.bandcamp.com/track/rip-her-2-shreds-blondie
https://open.spotify.com/track/23yUwzz4CQ8yzQ65ATN6Ds
@heiseonline@social.heise.deheise | Bahn-Chaos und Verspätungen: Warum die Sanierung der Gleise allein nicht hilft
Überall wird bei der Bahn gebaut. Doch an vielen Problemen des Schienennetzes ändert das langfristig wenig. Warum das so ist und was man besser machen könnte.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io @Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: AI legal software startup Legora is in talks to raise $400M at a $5B valuation, after raising $150M in October 2025 at a $1.8B valuation (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/02/17/legal-…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI’ve felt for a decade like I’m a fool for deploying on either self-managed Linux VMs or (for small projects) free tier Heroku, and now I feel like I was accidentally doing it the smart way the whole time and didn’t know it.
…or maybe I’m still in the familiarity bias phase of learning a new tool?
@benb@osintua.euDoes Russia or China actually threaten Greenland? Experts say Trump's warnings don't match reality: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/17/does-russia-or-china-actually.html
@cdarwin@c.im“This precedent could result in people facing terrorism charges for doing very simple mainstream activism.”
There is no doubt a police officer was shot at the Texas protest.
Prosecutors have brought charges against people they say helped the alleged shooter escape.
But the case has drawn considerable alarm because of the way that prosecutors have sought to create a criminal enterprise
– a “North Texas antifa cell”
– among a group of demonstrators who were uninv…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialIt’s fun to watch a friend get really into some new interest and sort of enjoy their enthusiasm though them. Feels good!
@vosje62@mastodon.nlLelystad: wel F35 en vakantievluchten voor volgend kabinet.
En defensie mag/moet maar het vliegveld kopen.
(Volgens bronnen RTLnieuws)
Als defensie t koopt zullen er voor daarop volgende vakantievluchten ongetwijfeld nieuwe vergunningen moeten komen. (Nieuwe situatie)
....
Dat betekent vele jaren vertraging.
#RTLnieuws #Lelystad
@heiseonline@social.heise.deVorerst kein neues Android-XR-Headset: Google kündigt Vereinbarung mit Lynx
Lynx will Anfang 2026 ein neues Mixed-Reality-Headset mit breitem Sichtfeld vorstellen, muss aber überraschend auf Googles Betriebssystem Android XR verzichten.
@fremandolasse@mastodon.socialBeware of this person (yogthos). I commented on his toot and he attacked me in his answer and then blocked me.
#China
@Xexyz@mastodon.me.ukSuper Mario World: first level cleared
I've now got a classic controller, and it makes the game great. I've completed the first world - beaten the boss, hit the yellow switch palace - and am now looking around the first level in the second world which apparently has more than one exit. One annoying thing is that I can't see any indication on the map screen as to whether I've collected all five Yoshi coins on any one level. It's good fun other than that. It may have …
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialRIVM update rioolwaarden en percentage positief Sars-Cov-2.
Met een verdere stijging, maar wel eentje die aan het eind afvlakt.
Daarbij wel de kanttekening dat er maar 4 nieuwe dagen in de data zitten: 8 t/m 12 december, met 85%-35% van de meetstations. Dus of de vaart inmiddels echt al uit de 18e golf is kunnen we nog niet echt zien, hopelijk volgende week wel.
#qp2t
@brian_gettler@mas.toColleagues out here still assigning book reviews.
@stefan@gardenstate.socialI can't stop laughing at how nonsensical it is to use the XKCD block tower supported by tiny block meant to represent a open source project maintained by one person for the cloudflare outage. It's not some tiny one person operation.
@servelan@newsie.socialHow the Bondi Beach attack is being weaponized to suppress the Palestine movement in Australia – Mondoweiss
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/12/how-the-bondi-beach-attack-is-being-weaponized-to-suppress-the-palestine-movement-in-australia/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMembers of UK performing arts union Equity vote overwhelmingly in favor of refusing to be scanned while on set to prevent their likeness being used by AI (Lanre Bakare/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2
@hex@kolektiva.socialRE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116087233502113204
While I don't think this will change things, I do think it's nice to be reminded that we are not alone. Direct action is always better than asking nicely for the horrible thing to stop. We are powerful enough to stop it.
But there is also a theatrical element to politics that's easy to forget. The "show" of something like this can be inspiring, and can inspire others who have been afraid.
@ratp_ligne_13@lepoulsdumonde.comLe trafic est perturbé entre Asnières - Gennevilliers Les Courtilles et Porte de Clichy vers Châtillon-Montrouge en raison d'un incident d'exploitation Š Asnières - Gennevilliers Les Courtilles .
🤖 19/01 10:57
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioOnly analog computers can run software with all the nuance the programmer intended
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBattery Ventures raised $3.25B for its XV fund, roughly matching its 2022 raise, to back software and industrial tech firms amid AI disruption concerns (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/tech-inves…
@cdarwin@c.imNearly a million chickens packed the barns at Howe’s Hens last Christmas Eve when the first of them tested positive for bird flu.
The deadly virus spreads so fast that even if only one hen is infected,
farmers are legally obligated to kill all of the others.
Massive mounds of carcasses soon appeared outside the Ohio egg farm, covered in compost.
The slaughter wasn’t enough.
The virus tore through industrial barns in Darke County
and moved on through one …
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Niederlande: Polizei gibt Mann versehentlich Datenzugang und nimmt ihn dann fest
@vosje62@mastodon.nl @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioConfused about this artwork/book case stand
@servelan@newsie.socialEpstein 'cool as fuck' says influential Hitler-loving virgin Nicholas J. Fuentes - Canary
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/01/17/epstein-cool-as-fuck/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDow Jones hires ex-Bloomberg Media CEO M. Scott Havens as its first chief growth officer, overseeing subscription growth and other consumer revenue streams (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/dow-jones-hires-scott-havens-chief-growth-officer/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle unveils the $499 Pixel 10A, offering the same Tensor G4 chip as the 9A, 8GB of RAM, and an 11% brighter display, in 128GB and 256GB, shipping March 4 (Todd Haselton/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/880400/pixel-10a-hands-on-a-little-too-…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @cdarwin@c.imBill Paxton received his PhD from Stanford in 1977. -- He worked with Doug Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute where the group built the Online System (NLS) and he participated in
"The Mother of All Demos".
After leaving Stanford, Paxton joined the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
where they developed emerging technologies, including Ethernet, networked personal computers, bitmap displays, graphical user-interfaces, and laser printers
Paxton j…
@vosje62@mastodon.nl @Techmeme@techhub.socialFei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $200M from Autodesk, part of a larger round; the companies are exploring integrating World Labs' AI models in Autodesk products (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/worl
@heiseonline@social.heise.deNoch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Effizientes Solarmodul der Welt: Ein praxisnäherer Rekord
@servelan@newsie.socialDEA has opened nearly a dozen investigations into Trump’s pic for Venezuelan president - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/dea-venezuela-delcy-rodriguez/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMemo: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says ByteDance's US entities will retain direct control over core US revenue drivers, including ecommerce, ads, and marketing (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7a778d46-8bf8-4b11-af4e-5e5bd891cb9d
@cdarwin@c.imThere is no shortage of information that needs to be preserved for very long periods of time.
But there is a problem:
current long-term storage of digital media
– including in datacentres that underpin the cloud
– relies on magnetic tape and hard disks, both of which have limited lifespans.
That means repeated cycles of copying on to new tapes and disks are required.
Now experts at Microsoft in Cambridge say they have refined a method for long-term data st…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Fokus Ungarn: Kammergericht zwingt X zur Datenfreigabe für Wahlforscher
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn in-depth look at a recent research paper that offered a roadmap to the viability of 3D HBM-on-GPU integration for improved AI performance and utilization (More Than Moore)
https://morethanmoore.substack.com/p/solving-the-problems-of-hbm-on-logic
<…
@vosje62@mastodon.nl @servelan@newsie.socialNew Jersey mayor told cops to keep Black people out of his town, according to lawsuit from the state | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-jersey-mayor-discrimination-lawsuit-b2902451.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAnalysis: music copyright's global value rose 5.2% YoY to a record $47.2B in 2024; the revenue split favored labels and artists at 62%, above songwriters' 38% (Will Page/Pivotal Economics)
https://pivotaleconomics.com/undercurrents/music-copyright-2025
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUK AI Security Institute report: AI models are rapidly improving at potentially dangerous biological and chemical tasks, and show fast jumps in self-replication (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/aisi-ai-s
@servelan@newsie.socialNorway’s green transition is putting Sami culture at risk | Environment | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/12/19/norways-green-transition-is-putting-sami-culture-at-risk?traffic_source=rss
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPEN America elects novelist Dinaw Mengestu as president, as the organization navigates free speech challenges across the US and criticism of its Gaza response (Jennifer Schuessler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/arts/dinaw-mengestu-pen…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5, Haiku 4.5, and Opus 4.1 are now available in public preview in Microsoft Foundry for Azure customers (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-in-microsoft-foundry
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Inception Point AI, whose podcast network makes 3,000 AI-made podcasts per week and has 400K subs; an episode needs only 20 listeners to turn a profit (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/ai-podcasts-hosts-inception-point-ai/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Tsinghua University, which leads China's AI innovation, with 4,986 AI patents between 2005 and 2024, alumni behind startups like DeepSeek, and more (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLarry Summers and OpenAI say he has resigned from the OpenAI board, after a US House committee released his emails with Jeffrey Epstein (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/epstein-larry-summers-openai
