@Techmeme@techhub.socialMastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko is stepping down from the decentralized social network as part of its shift to a nonprofit structure overseen by a board (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-t…
@UP8@mastodon.social🧂 Cocaine trafficking in Colombia moves as much money as the construction industry
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-19/cocaine-trafficking-in-colombia-moves-as-much-money-as-the-construc…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko is stepping down from the decentralized social network as part of its shift to a nonprofit structure overseen by a board (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-t…
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decaida_as: CAIDA AS graphs (2004-2007)
A sequence of 122 network snapshots denoting Autonomous System (AS) relationships on the Internet, from 2004-2007, inferred using the Serial-1 method from RouteViews BGP table snapshots and a set of heuristics.
This network has 24454 nodes and 99660 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal
@servelan@newsie.socialCesar Romero - "Joker" from 60s Batman - lived as "authentically" as he could for a gay man - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/cesar-romero-joker-from-60s-batman-lived-as-authentically-as-he-could-for-a-gay-man/
@dp@bonn.social
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe implications are interesting enough when we apply this to systems like capitalism or national governments, but there are other very interesting implications when applied to systems like race or gender.
Like, as a cis man the only way I can be free to express and explore my own masculinity is if the masculinity I participate in is one which allows anyone the freedom to leave. Then I have an obligation to recognize the validity of nom-masculine trans identity as a necessary component of my own. If I fail to do this, then I trap myself in masculinity and allow the system to control me rather than me to be a free participant in the system.
But if it's OK to escape but not enter, that's it's own restriction that constrains the freedom to leave. It creates a barrier that keeps people in by the fear that they cannot return. So in order for me to be free in my cis masculine identity, I must accept non-masculine trans identities as they are and accept detransitioning as also valid.
But I also need to accept trans-masc identities because restricting entry to my masculinity means non-consensually constraining other identities. If every group imposes an exclusion against others coming in, that, by default, makes it impossible to leave every other group. This is just a description of how national borders work to trap people within systems, even if a nation itself allows people to "freely" leave.
So then, a free masculinity is one which recognizes all configurations of trans identities as valid and welcomes, if not celebrates, people who transition as affirmations of the freedom of their own identity (even for those who never feel a reason to exercise that same freedom).
The most irritating type of white person may look at this and say, "oh, so then why can't I be <not white>?" Except that the critique of transratial identities has never been "that's not allowed" and has always been "this person didn't do the work." If that person did the work, they would understand that the question doesn't make sense based on how race is constructed. That person might understand that race, especially whiteness, is more fluid than they at first understood. They might realize that whiteness is often chosen at the exclusion of other racialized identities. They would, perhaps, realize that to actually align with any racialized identity, they would first have to understand the boot of whiteness on their neck, have to recognize the need to destroy this oppressive identity for their own future liberation. The best, perhaps only, way to do this would be to use the privilege afforded by that identity to destroy it, and in doing so would either destroy their own privilege or destroy the system of privilege. The must either become themselves completely ratialized or destroy the system of race itself such being "transracial" wouldn't really make sense anymore.
But that most annoying of white person would, of course, not do any such work. Nevertheless, one hopes that they may recognize the paradox that they are trapped by their white identity, forced forever by it to do the work of maintaining it. And such is true for all privileged identities, where privilege is only maintained through restrictions where these restrictions ultimately become walls that imprison both the privileged and the marginalized in a mutually reinforcing hell that can only be escaped by destroying the system of privilege itself.
@benb@osintua.euRussia weighs tax increase as economic pressures mount, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/18/russia-weighs-tax-increase-as.html
@cdarwin@c.imOn an island in the Arctic Ocean, in a region that is warming as much as seven times as fast as the rest of the planet, the food chain is being turned upside down.
Underwater kelp forests are surging into once-frozen waters, replacing other native species.
Reindeer, cut off from traditional foraging routes over vanishing sea ice, now graze on seaweed when they cannot reach inland grasses and lichen.
And polar bears, deprived of the ice platforms they once used to hunt seals, …
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialBursting AI bubble may be EU’s “secret weapon” in clash with Trump, expert says:
Spotify and Accenture caught in crossfire as Trump attacks EU tech regulations.
The US threatened to restrict some of the largest service providers in the European Union as retaliation for EU tech regulations and investigations are increasingly drawing Donald Trump’s ire. […]
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@nohillside@smnn.chAnders gesagt: Seit Trumps Amtsantritt (und dem Jubel der Cryptobros über goldene Zeiten) ist Bitcoin um 22% gefallen.
Bitcoin Erases Year's Gain as Crypto Bear Market Deepens - Slashdot https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/17/024…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"China’s exports of electric vehicles doubled in September as competition at home intensifies"
#China #EV #ElectricVehicles
@pgcd@mastodon.onlinehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/german-far-right-setting-agenda-as-opponents-amplify-its-ideas-study-finds
Now that proper researchers say what we've been repeating for at least a decade, wi…
@cheryanne@aus.socialQueer As... A Podcast
we're yarning with queer Indigenous artists and creative practitioners about their work across the public imaginary...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/queer-as-a-podcast/
@markhburton@mstdn.social“For voters opposed to Reform UK, tactical voting represents the most obvious counterstrategy – one of the explanations for the lopsided result in the Caerphilly byelection (which used FPTP). But to be effective, tactical voting requires clear information: voters must know which party has the best chance of defeating Reform UK in their own constituency."
Reform holds 11% lead over Plaid Cymru in Westminster election poll, as centre left vote fragments in Wales
@egallager@social.treehouse.systemsAll of the following are appropriate protest attire:
- Yellow, as per request from No Kings organizers
- Nudity, as per Portland Naked Bike Ride
- Frog suits and other inflatables, as per Portland again
- Formal attire, as per 60s Civil Rights Movement
- Black Bloc attire, for those concerned about privacy
- Military attire, e.g. camo fatigues etc.
- Clerical attire, for those ordained
- Anything else you can think of that fits the theme
Wear what makes you feel comfortable!
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to"At the same time, we remain committed to this new chapter for Trello."
so, "lolz, fuck you; can't hear you over the sound of all these dollar billzzzzz - Atlassian"
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/06/trello_redesign_as_bad_as/…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe complexity and effort that went into this scam are amazing.
Inside a Wild Bitcoin Heist: Five-Star Hotels, Cash-Stuffed Envelopes, and Vanishing Funds
https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-scam-mining-as-service/
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaYou should give the Skate Story demo on Steam a spin. It is as intense of an experience as something like Sayonara Wild Hearts or Rez, and you are a skateboarding demon made of glass who wants to eat the moon. It is exactly as insane as it sounds. #gaming #SteamNextFest
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWell it sure does sound like Eugen exited for a measly €1M and Mastodon is left with the co-founder of Twitter in a leadership position. I mean, is it too much to ask for for the alternatives to not be run by the same people who built the things they purport to be an alternative to? I guess we should count ourselves lucky it’s not Elon Musk. 🤷♂️ http…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzTrevon Diggs pops up with new injury as Cowboys prepare for Week 16 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/trevon-diggs-pops-up-with-new-injury-as-cowboys-prepare-for-week-16
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
In 1905, when Alberta joined Canada, a temporary provincial legislature resided in Edmonton and they were given the task of choosing the capital. Edmonton, by a vote of 16 to 8, was selected over their southern rival Calgary. This choice was despite Calgary's larger size and incorporation as a city a full decade before Edmonton. But the new capital had used their history as an important trading post established on the fur trade route and federal relationships to secure their status as the capital. In 1941, Edmonton was still a relatively small city, ranking 9th in population in Canada. Oil would transform the entire province, and Edmonton would rapidly grow as the gateway to the resource rich Alberta north.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/edmonton
@NFL@darktundra.xyzVikings' Carson Wentz drawing rave reviews as he prepares for his first meaningful start in nearly three years
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/v…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzContractor Used Classified CIA Systems as ‘His Own Personal Google’ https://www.404media.co/contractor-used-classified-cia-systems-as-his-own-personal-google/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deas_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMost see the federal shutdown as a problem and think there is plenty of blame to go around (AP-NORC)
https://apnorc.org/projects/most-see-the-federal-shutdown-as-a-problem-and-think-there-is-plenty-of-blame-to-go-around/?doing_wp_cron=1760630978.8367290496826171875000
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p150#a251016p150
@raiders@darktundra.xyzVersus: Raiders must find an answer in the trenches as they go up against the league's No. 1 defense https://www.raiders.com/news/versus-raiders-must-find-an-answer-in-the-trenches-as-they-go-up-against-the-league-…
@cjust@infosec.exchangeI should probably take a break as the holidays approach. As they say "All work and no play make jack a dull boy"
Okay Hallmark channel - I'm listening.
#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore
@teledyn@mstdn.caAnyone remember the game where you had to search just two words to get one single search result?
Today's equivalent is "any prompt, as verbose as you like, that returns a given target page as top result."
@samvarma@fosstodon.org#GoodNews
This New Superwood Is as Strong as Steel and 6 Times Lighter https://gizmodo.com/this-new-superwood-is-as-strong-as-steel-and-6-times-lighter…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgRight tea break time - then we can start optimising the desktop and all the programs as well as moving over the files.
I guess that is where we will start to run into different problems.
This linux install is taking a lot longer than I'd hoped (which was probably unrealistic to be fair), but has been pretty smooth so far (once we left microsoft world at least)
14/n
@georgiamuseum@glammr.usWe're happy to be teaming up with the Athenaeum at the Lamar Dodd School of Art (#UniversityOfGeorgia), on a pair of exhibitions focusing on #BeverlyBuchanan. Known nationally as a bold experimental artist who worked in land art and video as well as more familiar forms, she lived in Athe…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "I'm Awful, Thanks" by Lara Pickle. A good story that serves as a guide to managing emotions, although it's actually a cute story too, not just framing for the mental health discussion.
That said, I feel like it doesn't get far enough into the details of accepting self-control as our only form of real control vs. understanding that some events outside our control aren't fair or are others' attacks, and trying to manage our own emotions as our only response is a disservice to ourselves and others. Even further, I suspect that the HR resolution depicted here, while not impossible, is less frequent than much worse outcomes, which is part of a larger pattern of systemic assaults on our mental health that aren't totally solvable with individual emotional regulation.
Sure, leveling up one's control of ones own emotions and learning to accept and manage a range of emotions is super useful and it's a good thing overall, but the systemic problems of late stage capitalism are real, and making it seem like everyone is responsible for managing their own mental health in the face of these problems helps avoid confronting them.
Still, it's a good book overall, with vibrant art and a well-structured plot.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeMy body is a machine that turns cats into kissed cats. 💋
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"Truth is, on his smartphone, neither of these things were visible. Nor a push button, nor a shirt button, not a light switch, not a calculator button, not a door knob, not a push lever, nothing. What was visible was, instead, the blue word “Done” eerily floating in the top-right corner of the screen.
As my father said, there was no button."
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.pageCybersecurity AI: Humanoid Robots as Attack Vectors
V\'ictor Mayoral-Vilches
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14139 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14139
@Techmeme@techhub.social @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBBC News hires Lindsay McIntosh, previously Head of News at The Sunday Times, as its Executive News Editor (BBC Press Office on LinkedIn)
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7407013484615409664
@fremandolasse@mastodon.social"German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers"
https://www.theguardian.com/world…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 131 - CXXXI
Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art,
As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel;
For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart
Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.
Yet, in good faith, some say that thee behold,
Thy face hath not the power to make love groan;
To say they err I dare not be so bold,
Although I swear it to myself alone.
And to be sure that is not false I swear,
A thousand groans, b…
@benb@osintua.euExplosions reported in Kyiv as Russian drones attack Ukraine's capital: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/explosions-reported-in-kyiv-as.html
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump is worried that Republicans aren’t as afraid of him as they used to be.
Despite his self-billing as a dealmaker,
the president has only ever had one tool to control his party: fear.
GOP politicians have been afraid of career damage and literal physical harm if they crossed him.
Trump is not above reminding elected officials that he has unhinged followers who are known to be violent.
But as his approval ratings fall and the 2026 midterm elections …
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deas_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…
@UP8@mastodon.social🧽 Indoor surfaces can act as massive sponges for harmful chemicals
#airquality
@hex@kolektiva.socialI think we can actually prove that this constraint is the *only* constraint that can preserve freedom:
1. There will exist actors in a system who will wish to take advantage of others. Evolution drives survival and one strategy for increasing survival in an altruistic society is to become a parasite.
2. Expecting exploitative dynamics, a system needs to have a set of rules to manage exploitation.
3. If the set of rules is static it will lack the requisite variety necessary to manage the infinite possible behavior of humans so the system will fail.
4. If the system is dynamic then it must have a rule set about how it's own rules are updated. This would make the system recursive, which makes the system at least as complex as mathematics. Any system at least as complex as mathematics is necessarily either incomplete or inconsistent (Gödel's incompleteness theorem). If the system is incomplete, then constraints can be evaded which then allow a malicious agent to seize control of the system and update the rules for their own benefit. If constraints are incomplete, then a malicious agent can take advantage of others within the system.
5. Therefore, no social system can possibly protect freedom unless there exists a single metasystemic constraint (that the system must be optional) allowing for the system to be abandoned when compromised.
Oh, you might say, but this just means you have to infinitely abandon systems. Sure, but there's an evolutionary advantage to cooperation so there's evolutionary pressure to *not* be a malicious actor. So a malicious actor being able to compromise the whole system is likely to be a much more rare event. Compromising a system is a lot of work, so the first thing a malicious actor would want to do is preserve that work. They would want to lock you in. The most important objective to a malicious actor compromising a system would be to violate that metasystemic constraint, or all of their work goes out the window when everyone leaves.
And now you understand why borders exist, why fascists are obsessed with maintaining categories like gender, race, ethnicity, etc. This is why even Democrats like Newsom are on board with putting houseless people in concentration camps. And this is why the most important thing anarchists promote is the ability to choose not to be part of any of that.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with investors about raising tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100B, at a valuation of around $750B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-discuss…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"MPs condemn badger cull as ineffective – Badger Trust urges cattle-focused TB measures"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Badgers #Animals
@benb@osintua.euExplosions rock occupied Crimea as Ukrainian drones hit oil depot and ammunition site: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/17/explosions-rock-occupied-crimea-as.html
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMatt Eberflus 'grateful' for experience as Bears HC, lessons he learned https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/matt-eberflus-grateful-for-experience-as-bears-hc-lessons-he-learned
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWestern countries can watch this genocide unfold without lifting a finger. That is their prerogative. But what they cannot do – what they will never again be able to do – is to pretend that they give a damn about human rights or democracy or international law. What they cannot do is claim to be civilised.
If you cannot or will not stop genocide, you are not a civilised society.
You cannot lecture anyone on ethics or morals or values. You are barbarians who have accepted the law o…
@servelan@newsie.socialRad Power Bikes files for bankruptcy protection as Seattle e-bike maker pursues potential sale – GeekWire
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/rad-power-bikes-files-for-bankruptcy-protection-as-seattle-e-bike-maker-pursues-potential-sale/
@cdarwin@c.imThe language in NSPM-7 is culture war language bleeding into operating law,
and the problem with that is, culture war stuff isn’t describing anything real
https://therealnews.com/no-kings-protests-to-sweep-us-as-trump-attacks-activists
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 11 winners and losers: Josh Allen plays Superman for Bills as Bengals, Falcons flop yet again
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee
@markhburton@mstdn.socialA sound move by Jamie Driscoll.
Thrown under a bus by the Starmer clique.
Appears to see YP as too much of a mess to be realistically considered.
Former Labour mayor Jamie Driscoll joins Green Party - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrnm56xdr5o
…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Airs Frustration With Latin America as Forces Assemble (Skylar Woodhouse/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-17/trump-airs-frustration-with-latin-america-as-forces-assemble
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p130#a251117p130
@raiders@darktundra.xyzVersus: Raiders must find an answer in the trenches as they go up against the league's No. 1 defense https://www.raiders.com/news/versus-raiders-must-find-an-answer-in-the-trenches-as-they-go-up-against-the-league-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialForbes launched an AI-powered dynamic paywall on November 14 to help drive subscriptions; print and digital subscriptions make up 9% of its commercial revenue (Jessica Davies/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/forbes-launc
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMatt Eberflus 'grateful' for experience as Bears HC, lessons he learned https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/matt-eberflus-grateful-for-experience-as-bears-hc-lessons-he-learned
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNetflix hires ESPN anchor Elle Duncan as its first on-air host for live sports and cultural events; she has appeared on SportsCenter, College GameDay, and more (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-hires-espn-elle-duncan-sp…
@servelan@newsie.socialAs Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/17/summers-epstein-wing-man-woman-described-as-mentee/
@hex@kolektiva.socialActually, I do want to come back to masculinity under patriarchy and whiteness under white supremacy because I think it's worth talking more about. The "man" under patriarchy (at least "Western" patriarchy) is represented as power and independence. The man needs nothing and thus owes nothing to anyone. The man controls and is not controlled, which is intimately related to independence as dependence can make someone vulnerable to control. The image of "man" projects power and invulnerability. At the same time "man" is a bumbling fool who can't be held accountable for his inability to control his sexual urges. He must be fed and cared for, as though another child. His worst behaviors must be dismissed with phrases such as "boys will be boys" and "locker room talk." The absurdity of the concept of human "independence" is impossible to understate.
Even if you go all Ted Kaczynski, you have still been raised and taught. This is, perhaps, why it is so much more useful to think in terms of obligations than rights. Rights can be claimed and protected with violence alone, but obligations reveal the true interdependence that sustains us. A "man" may assert his rights. Yet, on some level, we all know that the "man" of patriarchy acts as a child who is not mature enough to recognize his obligations.
White violence and white fragility reflect the same dichotomy. "The master race" somehow always needs brown folks to make all their shit and do all the reproductive labor for them. For those who fully embrace whiteness, the "safe space" is a joke. DEI shows weakness. Yet, when presented with an honest history adults become children who are incapable of differentiating between criticism and simple facts. *They* become the ones who must be kept safe. The expectation to be responsible for one's own words and actions, one of the very core definitions of being an adult, is far too much to expect. Their guilt needs room, needs tending, needs caring. White people cannot simply "grow the fuck up" or, as they may say of slavery, "fucking get over it."
And again, interestingly, it is *rights* that they reference: "Mah Freeze PEACH!" I find it hard to distinguish between such and my own child's assertion that anything she doesn't like is "not fair!" No, these assertions fail to recognize the fundamental fabric of adult society: the obligations we hold to each other.
At the intersection of all privilege is the sovereign, the ultimate god-man-baby. Again, referencing the essay (https://hexmhell.writeas.com/observations-on-domination-and-trump)
> This is where it becomes important to consider the ideology behind the sovereign ritual. Participation within the sovereign ritual denotes to the participants elements of the sovereign. That is, all agents of the sovereign are, essentially, micro dictators. By carrying out the will of the sovereign, these micro dictators can, by extension, act outside of the law.
While law enforcement is the ultimate representative of sovereign violence, privileges allow a gradated approximation of the sovereign. Those who are "closer" in privilege to the sovereign may, for example, be permitted to carry out violence against those who are father away. The gradation of privilege turns the whole society, except for the least privileged, into a cult that protects the privilege system on behalf of the most privileged. (And immediately Malcolm X pops to mind as having already talked about part of this relationship in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7rsCAfQCo.)
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRams terrorize Sam Darnold again, take control of NFC West race over Seahawks as defense leads way
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-te
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFitzpatrick declines to turn off ACA discharge petition as amendment talks drag on (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/16/congress/fitzpatrick-declines-to-turn-off-aca-discharge-petition-as-amendment-talks-drag-on-00694065
http://www.memeorandum.com/251216/p142#a251216p142
@raiders@darktundra.xyzQuinnen Williams showcases his dance moves after notching his first solo sack as a Cowboy https://www.nfl.com/videos/quinnen-williams-showcases-his-dance-moves-after-notching-his-first-solo-sack-as-a-cowboy
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depetster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
@cdarwin@c.imNowhere was quite as hard hit as Santa Barbara,
which experienced the soggiest three-day stretch of November rain in the county's recorded history.
According to data from the National Weather Service, the Santa Barbara Airport received 6.67 inches of rain between Friday and Sunday,
breaking the location's previous three-day total set in 2002 when it received 5.66 inches.
The downpour was so heavy because it pulled in moisture all the way from Hawaii as it rotat…
@benb@osintua.euMoscow expands censorship as Ukrainian strikes reach deeper into Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/18/moscow-expands-censorship-as-ukrainian.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRex-Osprey launches the first spot dogecoin and XRP ETFs in the US after the SEC approved generic listing standards, paving the way for speedier ETF listings (Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/crypto/sec-paves-way…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNetflix hires ESPN anchor Elle Duncan as its first on-air host for live sports and cultural events; she has appeared on SportsCenter, College GameDay, and more (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-hires-espn-elle-duncan-sp…
@servelan@newsie.social“I would suggest the intent is to ensure that any individual person who’s acting under color of law or as an agent of the state has as much leeway to act out their personal bigotry as they want, without any concern about consequences”
DHS Orders Airlines To Disregard "X" Passport Markers - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/dhs-orders-airlines-to-disregard-x-passport-markers/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Headlines: Dallas navigates injuries; Jerry Jones honored https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/12/18/cowboys-back-on-the-field-as-injuries-mount-and-chargers-loom/87818597007/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depetster: Pet owner social networks (2016)
A network of friendships among users on catster.com and dogster.com. Node represents a user, and edge exists if two users self-identify as friends on either website. The dogster/catster network also contains family links between dog and dog, cat and cat, as well as dog and cat.
This network has 623766 nodes and 15699276 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
@cdarwin@c.im‘The dungeon’ at Louisiana’s notorious prison reopens as Ice detention center
The Louisiana state penitentiary at Angola – the largest maximum security prison in the country – was out of bed space for “violent offenders” who would be “transferred to its facilities”,
the governor warned in an executive order.
The emergency declaration allowed for the rapid refurbishing of a notorious, shuttered housing unit at Angola formerly known as Camp J
– commonly referred to by p…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTokyo-based Sakana AI becomes Japan's most valuable unicorn at a ~$2.6B valuation, following a ~$130M raise from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial and US VC firms (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/a…
@hex@kolektiva.socialThere are 3 fundamental freedoms outlined in Dawn of Everything:
(1) the freedom to move away or relocate from one’s surroundings;
(2) the freedom to ignore or disobey commands issued by others; and
(3) the freedom to shape entirely new social realities, or shift back and forth between different ones.
I think these can all be captured in one statement when reframed as a system constraint: for a system to be free, participation must be optional for all members.
People must be part of *some* system. Even individualistic survivalism is itself a system (if not a very good one). Then there is a corollary as well: any system that is not free, that is not optional, can turn optional systems into mandatory ones, and thus (adopted from the MLK quote) un-freedom anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.
Edit:
I'm gonna drop the #Philosophy tag on here because apparently that's where I went with it. Challenges and push-back welcome.
Edit:
Aaaaand Its a blog post
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/an-algorithm-for-liberation
As usual, comments, typos, and questions are always welcome.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAgentio, which uses AI to help brands automate and scale campaigns with YouTube creators, raised a $40M Series B led by Forerunner at a $340M valuation (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/agen
@servelan@newsie.socialStudy Warns of “Ultimate Extinction” as Dolphin Lifespans Plummet
https://scitechdaily.com/study-warns-of-ultimate-extinction-as-dolphin-lifespans-plummet/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAgentio, which uses AI to help brands automate and scale campaigns with YouTube creators, raised a $40M Series B led by Forerunner at a $340M valuation (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/agen
@cdarwin@c.imCars and RVs surged into Yosemite national park throughout the weekend,
as visitors from around the world came to enjoy the crisp autumn weather,
undeterred by a lack of park services and the absence of rangers.
National parks have largely been kept open through the lapse in US federal funding that has left workers furloughed and resources for the parks system more scarce than usual.
But as the US government shutdown enters its third week and legislators warn that the…
@hex@kolektiva.socialI keep saying the same thing over and over with my kids: you don't make decisions with your voice, you make them with your body.
"I want to go to the park."
"Ok, put your shoes on."
"I want to go on my play date."
"Put on a jacket and get in the bike."
"I don't want to be late to school."
"I don't control time, if you don't want to be late you have to brush your teeth."
There's a fundamental truth underlying this concept though, one that I hadn't really thought about. On some level, I feel as though, any choice you can't make with your body isn't a real choice. If you're begging someone to do something for you, it's ultimately not something you control.
As I'm compelled, by threat of violence against my family, to pay for war against my comrades and to kill people I don't even know, I think about that. How far is our concept of freedom from the police state we are taught to imagine as the global beacon of liberty. My participation in the violence had always been compulsory.
Perhaps we could do better than just #NoKings.
#USPol
@benb@osintua.euAs Ukraine hopes for Tomahawks, what to expect from Zelensky-Trump meeting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/16/as-ukraine-hopes-for-tomahawks.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deas_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…
@cdarwin@c.imTwo Democratic senators have announced that they will attempt to block any pending civilian nominations before the Senate
in response to what they describe as the Trump administration’s “failure to provide a briefing to lawmakers” on the release of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Senators Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Ben Ray Lujšn of New Mexico, who both sponsored the Epstein Files Transparency Act,
said in a statement on Tuesday that “there can be no business as usual …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Tencent tells staff that Yao Shunyu, an ex-OpenAI researcher who joined in September, is now its chief AI scientist, reporting to President Martin Lau (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/tencent-name…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIndian startup Kuku, which offers audio content and vertical dramas, raised an $85M Series C led by Granite at a $500M valuation and has 10M paid subscribers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/indias-kuku-snags-85m-as-mobil…
@cdarwin@c.imDozens of white clergy are signing up to run as Democrats in 2026,
as progressive faith leaders push back on the political dominance of the Christian right.
Democrats have a track record of Black clergy running for office, but
when white pastors have run, it's usually been as Republicans.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIndian startup Kuku, which offers audio content and vertical dramas, raised an $85M Series C led by Granite at a $500M valuation and has 10M paid subscribers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/indias-kuku-snags-85m-as-mobil…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dewiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.
This network has 138592 nodes and 740397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Indian digital payments company Pine Labs aims to raise as much as $700M from an IPO in the second half of October, down from an earlier $1B target (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-18/paypal…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCrypto exchange HashKey closed flat in its Hong Kong debut, after rising as much as 6.6% before falling 8.4% intraday, amid a weakness in digital assets (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/crypto-exchange-hashke…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNiamh Sweeney, Facebook's former head of public policy in Ireland, is appointed as Ireland's new Data Protection Commissioner, starting October 13 (Peter Flanagan/The Irish Times)
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/09/17/ex-t…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTim Sweeney says Fortnite will not return to iOS in Japan in 2025, as Apple is "charging a competition-crushing 21% junk fee on third-party in-app payments" (Tim Sweeney/@timsweeneyepic)
https://x.com/timsweeneyepic/status/2001494517996732598
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSoftBank Group Corp was among the Japanese tech stocks that fell on Dec. 18, as AI infrastructure spending worries on Wall Street crossed into the Asian markets (Lim Hui Jie/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/japan-tech-stocks-plun…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBNPL use in the US has grown to 91.5M users, with 25% financing groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans aren't reported, creating "phantom debt" (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/16/bnpl-is-expanding…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInvestigation: $28B in crypto tied to illicit activity flowed into crypto exchanges like Binance over the last two years, as President Trump embraces crypto (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technology/crypto-exchanges-dirty-money.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWindows 11 Copilot AI hands-on: despite Microsoft advertising the feature as able to "understand you", it delivers inconsistent and often incorrect responses (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/822443/mic
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe AI boom has pushed SF's residential rents up by the most in the US over the past year, as AI companies lease apartments and offer rent stipends to employees (Natallie Rocha/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLarry Summers steps back from public commitments after his Jeffrey Epstein emails were released; OpenAI still lists Summers as a board member and didn't comment (Raquel Coronell Uribe/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta say it has frozen its third-party Horizon OS headset program, announced in 2024 with Asus and Lenovo as the first partners to build headsets (Ben Lang/Road to VR)
https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-horizon-os-third-party-headset-cancelled-asus-lenovo/
