@benb@osintua.eu2024-05-01 19:02:08
Zelensky dismisses SBU cybersecurity chief following media investigation: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/01/zelensky-dismisses-sbu.html
@drahardja@sfba.social2024-05-02 16:59:18
@Defiance@sfba.social2024-04-02 20:54:26
Wait. Magic isn't real? 😂
Seriously, did anyone really think this was some kind of AI or "disruptive tech"?
I've always suspected this was more Flinstones technology than modern innovation.
"Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped."
@SafeStreetRebel@sfba.social2024-04-30 05:04:07
This Mothers' Day (Sunday May 12)... join us for a Special Edition Slow Ride to a truly-car-free space in our own back yard: Angel Island!
Meet at the Ferry Building Gate B at 11:30AM, roll at 12PM (SHARP!). The ferry costs $9.50 each way and accepts clipper card.
@cdarwin@c.im2024-05-02 05:46:49
The vast new ‘whaling ship’ that Japan hopes will revive a shrinking industry
In the new vessel, the whaling industry envisions an age of prosperity and rising demand, ultimately guaranteeing the future of the most controversial ingredient in Japan’s culinary repertoire
The new vessel’s range of 13,000km is fuelling suspicion that,
five years after Japan abandoned its controversial “scientific” hunts in the Southern Ocean and resumed commercial whaling along its own coastl…
@drahardja@sfba.social2024-04-01 19:02:13
@Defiance@sfba.social2024-03-01 20:19:43
#OTD March 1, 1994
Sublime release their second album, “Robbin the Hood”
I love this album for its raw authenticity and chaotic flow. Two years after their debut album, this one is more experimental and eclectic, with lots of free flowing dub jams and weird spoken word soliloquies. You can even hear pieces of future Sublime songs here and there. Probably the best example of the band’s collect…
@drahardja@sfba.social2024-05-02 17:56:03
Nothing makes you feel older than having a really old dental crown fall out, and finding a museum of obsolete dental tech underneath it.
My dentist and I discovered that the crown is a porcelain-on-metal type, a technology still used a little today, but is basically considered obsolete. He also discovered that I had mercury-amalgam fillings underneath it, something that has been phased out since the 1970s.
I got new resin fillings put in, and I have a brand new ceramic crown put …
@Defiance@sfba.social2024-04-02 20:11:37
I'm still learning about health vs body size and this article does a good job addressing the complexities revealed by the popularity of Ozempic and similar drugs.
"By treating obesity as a disease rather than as a moral failing, these drugs and the doctors who champion them do bolster the more righteous aims of fat activists to divorce size from moral judgment. But these drugs also exist for weight loss, and their entire justification is the argument that obesity is a health …
@drahardja@sfba.social2024-03-02 00:14:55
How the mighty have fallen.
I remember c|net as a standard-bearer of tech journalism back in the 1990s. Theirs was one of the few bookmarks I opened regularly to read about tech news.
Red Ventures has destroyed its reputation, along with all their other properties’ like ZDNet (the other fantastic tech news site). RV’s decisive pivot to AI is likely fatal; they will accelerate the descent of all their outlets into a content swill mill fit only for your blocklist.
