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Neue Bahn-Groteske - Trotz zweier Klimatickets: Steirerin zahlt extra #News #Nachrichten

Smygstartar med veckans drink redan idag, ”Dirty Martini” 🍸 Skål #Drinkklubben

"If Leo were irrelevant, he would not be worth a sentence on Truth Social.""
Uh, have you _seen_ the things [redacted] posts about there?

Alternativer App-Store: Aptoide reicht Kartellklage gegen Google in den USA ein
Der alternative Android-App-Store Aptoide hat in den USA Klage gegen Google eingereicht. Dem Konzern wird vorgeworfen, den App-Markt zu monopolisieren.

if the democratic party make Gavin Newsom their presidential candidate they can't ever argue they tried to prevent fascism

There's a relatively wide-spread opinion that even when you know something isn't alive or sentient (like an LLM) that you should be nice to it for your own sake—I think this is misguided because some of these things are deliberately made to be deceptive, extractive or even to injure you.
I think this is just a new iteration of good old "nice vs. kind".

Zug wurde evakuiert - Person von Bahn erfasst, dann spurlos verschwunden #News #Nachrichten

AWS launches Amazon Bio Discovery, a new AI-powered application designed to speed up drug development, giving scientists access to biological foundation models (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcar

After nearly a week of hearing the maddening piece every single day, one of the kids walked up and said, “Mr. Harper, I…think I’m actually starting to like it.”
“Of course you are!” he said. “Why do you think popular music is popular? It’s because they play it •all the time•!”
Kid’s mind completely blown.
3/

Another day, another Trump trollsuit bites the dust.
This time it was his $10 billion defamation claim against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch
for an article describing a “bawdy” drawing he penned — allegedly! — for Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003.
Just one day after the story was published, Trump’s lawyer Alejandro Brito filed suit in Florida alleging
“overwhelming financial and reputational damages to President Trump,
expected to be in the…

Trump's litigation extortion machine
You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride.

hatte eigentlich nie den eindruck dass die FDP ihre glaubwürdigkeit unter beweis stellen müsste
man wählt neoliberale politik für rich kids und bekommt neoliberale politik für rich kids
aber ja lustig das mit der wette hehe
https://www.

#USpol #fifa

Starting bringup on the STM32MP2 test board.
Hmmmm. I2C generally works better if you have pullups on SDA and SCL, right? Not entirely sure how *that* slipped through review.
There's two I2C buses on the board, I probably saw the pullups for the one and checked "I2C pullups" off my list and forgot to do the other...

Spent some time fiddling with my experimental crackle weave operation in #adacad, and am thinking of trying to thread this one
I'd have thought that the square patches of different patterns would give it an interesting woven structure? #weaving

In Lansingerland deelt D66 ontbijtjes uit ihkv de campagne, weer eens wat anders als flyers.
#D66

#silentSunday
Boulder Brook, #RockyMountainNationalPark September 2003

Sometimes I try to alleviate the pain by lying face down on a bed. Lately as soon as I do this there’s a cat on my back providing pressure and heat therapy. (And occasional acupuncture!)
#caturday #catsOfMastodon

Idle thought: I wonder how much salary $ is spent on the role of 'software license compliance' management across the world. Talk about an unsatisfyingly bullshit job contending with arbitrary marketing decisions of colossal tech corporations, wow. Soul destroyer.

Ukraine integrates international defense legions into assault units: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/14/ukraine-integrates-international-defense-legions.html

RE: #orgmode

Wait until she looks up the exchange rate.

Grenzüberschreitende Cloud-Zugriffe: E-Evidence-Gesetz tritt in Kraft
Ein neues Gesetz beschleunigt den Zugang zu Cloud-Daten in der EU. Anbieter müssen binnen Stunden reagieren. Das Bundesamt für Justiz überwacht die Einhaltung.

Update
Please fucking bubble, pop already.

Champions League - Barcelona siegt – aber fliegt gegen Atletico raus #News #Nachrichten

Q&A with ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski on how audio models work, the company's business model, the conversational Turing Test, voice agents, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/the-world-of-voice-ai-with-mati…

The world of voice AI, with Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs
Description

An election clerk in a far-right Michigan county has been purging voter rolls without authorization
According to the report, the Michigan Bureau of Elections "sent a letter to Antrim County Clerk Victoria Bishop on Tuesday saying it had received information suggesting she had made voter registration changes 'that fall outside the scope of your statutory authority and fail to comply with the law.'"

Far-right election clerk caught illegally purging voter rolls: report
An election clerk in a far-right Michigan county has been purging voter rolls without authorization, Votebeat reported on Tuesday.According to the report, the Michigan Bureau of Elections "sent a letter to Antrim County Clerk Victoria Bishop on Tuesday saying it had received information suggesting s...

UKRAINE will win on ONE condition: GLEN GRANT has announced IT! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/14/ukraine-will-win-on-one.html

#Caturday

Drama um Caro A. (20) - Freispruch nach rätselhaftem Tod bei Fettabsaugung #News #Nachrichten

Widespread chatbots are perhaps the ultimate expression of the ruling class to prevent the plebs from waking up.
A holodeck for the mind, holding you captive.
A Matrix pod to keep you subdued.

Nadelöhr Hormuz - USA blockieren sechs Tanker, zwei brechen durch #News #Nachrichten

The EU unveils an open-source age verification app that requires legal ID to shield minors from harmful content, aiming to standardize verification in the bloc (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans
- facial recognition through the glasses' camera.
You look at someone, AI tells you who they are.
In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good
because civil society groups are busy with politics
and won't cause problems.

Lukasz Olejnik (@lukaszolejnik.bsky.social)
First they'll give it to blind people, because who's going to attack technology for the blind, or people with hearing problems (like me)? I admit that! Privacy risk review procedures have been loosened. 15, 10, 5 years ago this would have been a major controversy. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html

Sometimes the bullet circles back at the shooter.

Behörde untersucht - Spritpreisbremse umgangen: Diese Strafe droht OMV #News #Nachrichten

Analysis: nearly 90 schools and 600 students globally have been impacted by AI-generated deepfake nudes; North America had nearly 30 reported cases since 2023 (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/deepfake-nudify-schools-global-crisis/

The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought
An analysis by WIRED and Indicator found nearly 90 schools and 600 students around the world impacted by AI-generated deepfake nude images—and the problem shows no signs of going away.

IWF verliert Hoffnung - Wirtschaft erzittert: Alle Szenarien deuten bergab #News #Nachrichten

Koch’s "Americans for Prosperity" political operation is attempting to shape and help implement a U.S.
AI technology agenda, which could ultimately profit Koch’s traditional oil and gas business.
Despite the Koch network’s ongoing disagreements with Trump on issues including tariffs,
the vast political operation appears to have found common cause with the administration on
ensuring that fossil fuels, and not renewable energy sources, are central to AI develo…

The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show
Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116074874092696186
I think this cultural shift actually started around 2008–2010, with the advent of crypto and the metastasizing of complex web frameworks that started to replace native apps.

Heiliger Zorn - Papst-Angriffe könnten Trumps Anfang vom Ende sein #News #Nachrichten

Google launches a Gemini Mac app, featuring a keyboard shortcut, screen sharing for better context, image generation with Nano Banana, and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/04/15/gemini-app-mac/

Google launches native Gemini app for Mac
Gemini now has a native Mac app in the first expansion beyond Android and iOS. This “native desktop experience” is launched...

Drama auf Donauschiff - Deutsche stürzt über Steg ins Wasser – tot! #News #Nachrichten

“The transformation has been bewildering. It feels like the blink of an eye, though I guess it’s been about three years. The culture has changed immensely in that short time. When I identified with the programmer culture, it was about programming. Now programming is a means to an end ("let’s see how fast we can build a surveillance state!") or simply an unwanted chore to be avoided.”
https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

From claims that Jews kill children to make matzo, to accusations that immigrants in Ohio are devouring neighbors’ pets,
the myth of the blood libel is a nightmare that never ends
https://www.openmindmag.org/articles/the-worst-story-ever-told

The Worst Story Ever Told
From claims that Jews kill children to make matzo, to accusations that immigrants in Ohio are devouring neighbors’ pets, the myth of the blood libel is a…

„Brauch‘ das nicht“ - Wien-Flug abgesagt! Gruen kauft Ticket um 4000 € #News #Nachrichten

The US Energy Information Administration plans to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-to-ask-data-centers-how-much-power-they-use/

The US Government to Ask Data Centers How Much Power They Use
In a letter obtained by WIRED, the Energy Information Administration tells two senators that it plans to develop a mandatory assessment of data centers' energy use.

Im Umgang mit FPÖ - Grüne warnen ÖVP vor „steirischen Verhältnissen“ #News #Nachrichten

The Justice Department is investigating whether two immigration officers lied under oath about a shooting last month in Minneapolis,
after federal prosecutors dropped criminal charges against two men accused of attacking them,
citing new evidence that contradicted the officers’ testimony.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched a joint probe with the Department of Justice

NY-based Auctor, which uses AI to curate resource plans and process flows to help companies adopt new software, raised $20M in a combined seed and Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026…

Exclusive: Auctor snags Sequoia investment for software implementation
The new funding includes backing from Sequoia Capital and Microsoft's M12.

Massiver Sparbedarf - Glawischnig: „Pensions-Antrittsalter nach oben“ #News #Nachrichten

Parkhaus in Flammen - Inferno bei chinesischem E-Auto-Giganten BYD #News #Nachrichten

Former Mercor staffers describe "operational mishaps" at the $10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbe…

Inside Messy, Fast-Growing Mercor, Run By Youngest-Ever Self-Made Billionaires
Founded in 2023 by 20-somethings, data labeling startup Mercor exploded to $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate in September. Now it's confronting a wave of challenges, including an employee stealing money, security blunders and cultural growing pains.

The racist online video that Donald Trump recently shared and then deleted generated a bipartisan furor
-- because of its portrayal of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.
-- What was little remarked on was how it presented Trump himself — as the “King of the Jungle.”
After a year back in the White House, Trump’s efforts to promote himself as the singularly dominant figure in the world have become so commonplace
that they no longer seem surprising.
He regularly d…

Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality
President Trump has engaged in a spree of self-aggrandizement unlike any of his predecessors, fostering a mythologized superhuman persona and making himself the inescapable force at home and around the world.

Nach zwei Jahren - „Höhen und Tiefen“: Gritsch beendet Zusammenarbeit #News #Nachrichten

Ort „geht es schlecht“ - Kirche entging Seefeld-Inferno nur um Haaresbreite #News #Nachrichten …

Amazon launches its first smart warehouse in Shenzhen, aiming to cut local merchant storage costs by up to 45% as competition with Shein and Temu intensifies (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3350199/

Amazon bets on Shenzhen smart warehouse to cut merchant storage costs by 45%
Amazon expands China push with smart warehouse model, aiming to retain sellers amid rising competition from Temu and Shein.

Machtkampf im Pazifik - Wie China binnen Wochen neue Inseln aufschüttet #News #Nachrichten

Anthropic partners with CodePath to help redesign computer coding curricula at hundreds of US community and state colleges, integrating Claude AI tools (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-take…

Wirt unbeeindruckt - Warum dieser Heurigenbesuch viele Tierleben kostet #News #Nachrichten

Frisch vergeben - Conchita im Beziehungsglück: „Bin sehr verliebt“ #News #Nachrichten

Viel mehr als bekannt - Benko: Die üppigen Gagen von Altkanzler Gusenbauer #News #Nachrichten

Islam-Zentrum - „So etwas hat in unserem Bezirk keinen Platz!“ #News #Nachrichten

SPÖ ortet „Skandal“ - Spritpreisbremse gelockert: Sonderprüfung bei OMV #News #Nachrichten

Neues Gesetz ab 2027 - Damit soll sich Arbeiten für Pensionisten lohnen #News #Nachrichten

Trump wütet weiter: - „Kann jemand Papst Leo sagen, dass der Iran …“ #News #Nachrichten

Unheimliche Serie - Die schwierige Jagd auf die dreisten Grabräuber #News #Nachrichten

Entblößte sich - Kundin belästigt: Lieferant gefeuert und flüchtig #News #Nachrichten

Täter gefasst - Helfer bei Axt-Attacke in Linz schwer verletzt #News #Nachrichten

Auch bei uns verankert - Gigantisches Netzwerk der Hisbollah in Europa #News #Nachrichten

Brand neu aufgeflammt? - Schockmoment: Wieder Feueralarm bei Luxushotel #News #Nachrichten

Reserven für 3 Wochen - Vor Sommer: Fluglinien warnen vor Treibstoffmangel #News #Nachrichten

„Ich weigere mich ...“ - Pikante Fotos mit Coach! Reporterin kündigt Job #News #Nachrichten

Tochter durchgefallen - Top-Polizist nach Eklat in Fahrschule vor Gericht #News #Nachrichten

Parkplatz-Abzocke - Jetzt nehmen Anwälte ihren Kollegen in die Mangel #News #Nachrichten

Rückzieher in Sitzung - Paukenschlag: Zweikampf in der SPÖ abgesagt #News #Nachrichten

500 Polizisten - Mega-Razzia in München vor CL-Kracher gegen Real #News #Nachrichten

Nach Trump-Ausfällen - „Niemand hat das Recht, den Papst zu kritisieren“ #News #Nachrichten

Eltern schlagen Alarm - Pornos im Klassenzimmer: Projektwoche gestoppt #News #Nachrichten

Misstrauens-Votum - Aufstand der ORF-Redakteure gegen Stiftungsrat #News #Nachrichten

TV-Serie ab Mai - Ralf Schumachers Hochzeit wird zum Medienereignis #News #Nachrichten

Vorbild Russland? - US-Blockade von Hormuz: Geisterrouten florieren #News #Nachrichten

Ökologischer Albtraum - Hunderte Goldfische einfach in Teich gekippt #News #Nachrichten

Forenecho - Pensionen: „Weg von diesem fixen Antrittsalter!“ #News #Nachrichten

Millionen-Steuerbetrug - Ausgeraucht! Finanz sprengt illegale Tschickfabrik #News #Nachrichten …

„Es bringt uns um“ - 20.000 Seeleute rufen um Hilfe: Kaum Wasser, Essen #News #Nachrichten

Neue Idee geboren - Bürger wollen Wirtshaus kaufen! Heute ist Zahltag #News #Nachrichten

Enormer Anstieg - Drei Viertel der Sozialbetrüger keine Österreicher #News #Nachrichten

Chaos nimmt kein Ende - Verliert Red Bull nun auch geniale Chefstrategin? #News #Nachrichten

Aufschub durch VfGH - Rückführung von afghanischer Familie gescheitert #News #Nachrichten

„Zukunft an der Front“ - Kiew jubelt: Roboter eroberten russische Stellung! #News #Nachrichten …

Millionenprozess - Gusenbauer: „Ich war ein Aushängeschild der Signa“ #News #Nachrichten

Champions League - LIVE: 5 Tore in Hälfte eins! Real führt in München #News #Nachrichten

„Sofort eliminiert“ - Trump blockiert Straße von Hormuz mit Militär #News #Nachrichten

Untersuchung läuft - „Vorwürfe“: ORF-Werbechef Oliver Böhm beurlaubt #News #Nachrichten

Beschwerde über U-Haft - Schwerer Schlag: Benko blitzt auch vor dem OGH ab #News #Nachrichten

Gab kein Halten mehr - Die besten Bilder: Jubelrausch nach Orbšns Abwahl #News #Nachrichten

Gehörloser vor Gericht - War ein Schritt Richtung WEGA-Beamte Mordversuch? #News #Nachrichten