@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-09-16 16:36:49
"Starmer’s disgrace over Israeli visit grows as UN names Herzog as genocide-inciter
The PM has blood on his hands, and everyone knows it."
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/09/16/starmers-disg…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-09-16 16:36:49
@samvarma@fosstodon.org2025-10-15 20:50:20
#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…
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-10-16 21:51:13
2/2 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.de2025-09-16 02:00:04
caida_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 21245 nodes and 84962 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-16 05:20:49
OpenAI hires former xAI CFO Mike Liberatore as business finance officer, reporting to CFO Sarah Friar, to oversee infrastructure spend; he left xAI in July (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/15/openai-hires-former-xai-cfo-a…
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-16 08:24:42
Actually, 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.)
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-16 17:29:57
Dozens 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.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-09-16 10:14:23
NFL teams don't use game-day roster flexibility with emergency QBs as often as one would think https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/nfl-teams-dont-use-gameday-roster-flexibility-with-emergency-qbs-as-often-as…
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-09-16 23:40:36
😮💨 Diagnosing diabetes may soon be as easy as breathing into a bag
#sensors
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-10-16 09:15:50
Indian 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…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-09-17 08:36:34
Strong words at #ag2025goerlitz as the war against science by the current White House is also affecting German astronomy big time: in space as shown here as well as on the ground with dramatic cuts to the NSF.
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-10-17 13:00:40
"China’s exports of electric vehicles doubled in September as competition at home intensifies"
#China #EV #ElectricVehicles
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-10-16 00:40:42
Some ultra-processed foods are as addictive as cigarettes and cocaine #nutrition
@degrowthuk@mstdn.social2025-09-17 09:25:50
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-09-15 22:04:34
And she fucking needs it, because she's been terrible so far. The Mamdani endorsement is a tiny bright blip.
https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z/-/a-sHmgYv0uTrSfJu1qBmy-8g:a:3807498986-/0
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-11-16 12:05:17
Content warning: "long" rant about american sci-fi tv series and "neuro-archy"
I have the distinct impression that we could use most American "sci-fi" TV series (which seem to have a kink for post-apocalyptical scenographies) as a diagnostic tool for the autism spectrum.
For a moment, let's leave aside the tons of right-wing propaganda "hidden" in plain sight, and their excessive reliance on boring & worn out tropes (religious & cultish bullshit, irrational lack of communication & excess of anti-social behaviour, all vs all, ultra-low-iq characters*, psychotic & irrationally treacherous characters*, ultra-inconsistent character development used to justify "unexpected" plot twists, rampant anti-intellectualism...).
What could be used as a diagnosis tool is the incredible amount of strong inconsistencies that we can find in them**. It throws me out of the story every single time; and I suspect that it takes a certain kind of "uncommon personality" to feel that way about it, because otherwise these series wouldn't be so popular without real widespread criticism beyond cliches like "too slow", "it loses steam towards the end of the season", etc.
Many of those plots start in a gold mine of potentially powerful ideas... yet they consistently provide us with dirt & clay instead, while side-lining the "good stuff" as if it was too complicated for the populace.
Do you feel strongly about it? Do you feel like you can't verbalize it without being criticised as "too negative", or "too picky", or an "unbearable snob"? Do you wonder why it seems like nobody around shares your discomfort with these stories?
* : I feel this is a bit like the chicken & egg problem. Has the media conditioned part of American society to behave like dumb psychopaths as if it was something "natural", or is the media reflecting what was already there? Also, could we use other societies as models for these stories... just for a change? Please?
** : Just a tiny example: a "brilliant" engineer who builds a bridge out of fence parts and who doesn't bother to perform the most basic tests before trying it in a real setting and suffer the consequences: the bridge failing and her falling into the void. Bonus points for anyone who knows what I'm talking about.
@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-09-17 15:46:23
‘Push back – or they’ll eat you alive’: James Cromwell on life as Hollywood’s biggest troublemaker https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/17/push-back-or-they-will-eat-yo…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-09-16 04:16:34
Tom Brady joins Raiders coaches in booth on 'MNF' as involvement in offensive game planning comes to light
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/tom-br…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-17 13:00:05
caida_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
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-17 10:20:46
The 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/
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-17 10:28:10
Black-box Model Merging for Language-Model-as-a-Service with Massive Model Repositories
Shilian Chen, Jie Zhou, Tianyu Huai, Yujiang Lu, Junsong Li, Bihao Zhan, Qianjun Pan, Yutao Yang, Xin Li, Qin Chen, Hang Yan, Liang He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12951
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-11-16 10:03:42
Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
AVON: We'll take it with us. [As Tarrant enters, Atlan trips him, grabs Soolin and uses her as a shield as he backs towards the door. He shoves her away and runs off.]
DAYNA: The door control. [Runs after Atlan.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/382
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-16 19:10:58
PSA about food labeling in the US
We have a gluten detection service dog because many things that should be gluten free/say they’re gluten free are not actually gluten free.
Stuff gets contaminated when growing (e.g. next to wheat field), by shared equipment, in factories, from packaging, during transport and in-store.
Every US consumer should know:
1. The list of ingredients on food isn't exhaustive
2. Allergen labeling:
a) limited to just some allergens
b) manufacturers don't actually have to test
c) "certified" foods are tested—but not continuously
d) testing only works with enough contamination
Some certifications may require batch-testing, but usually they don't.
A "certified gluten free" product may e.g. contain oats which sometimes are contaminated with gluten—but as not every batch is tested it's impossible to know unless you test yourself (hence the service dog).
Even if the product is properly batch-tested, you might get a part of the product that has the allergen in it, whereas the tested part didn't.
Or the threshold was too low (our dog can detect gluten better than any available lab testing equipment; yes, dogs are amazing).
Food products also contain ingredients that do not have to be included on the label when they're "incidental" (included in an another ingredient) or if they're considered part of the manufacturing process but not of the final product (e.g. various coatings on factory equipment).
Don't need to list flavors or specific spices either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As for allergens, only those responsible for ~90% of food allergies* have to be specifically declared, and they're not tested for as it's simply based on the ingredients list.
Good luck if you have other allergies.
*milk, egg, egg, fish, Crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, soybeans
@trezzer@social.linux.pizza2025-10-17 18:41:37
You 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
@villavelius@mastodon.online2025-09-15 21:07:43
The biggest problem many a media outlet – and the world at large – struggles with is the trap of “both-sides-ismt”. As if equivalence were a given. As if statements such as “the moon is made of cheese” and “the moon is not made of cheese” should be presented as equally valid opinions.
Just about every news program and talk show again.
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2025-09-17 16:50:41
"Thousands of anti-Trump protesters march in London as king and senior royals host US president in Windsor"
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/17/donald-trump-uk-state-visit-k…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-16 09:40:37
Indian 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…
@stefan@gardenstate.social2025-08-17 14:52:27
Just updated Tvmarks to 3.0 as I finally transition it to typescript.
I avoided typescript before as Postmarks was not and Glitch really struggled with the build step needed for typescript.
Typescript will only make adding new features easier as adding bugs will be harder.
I continue to love Tvmarks and I use it every day!
https://
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-09-16 16:40:33
Israel says ‘Gaza is burning’ as it begins ground offensive
Ground offensive begins after UN probe finds Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-qatar-strikes-n…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-09-16 16:18:04
Trump wants to label Dems as “terrorists.” Here’s what happens next.
https://www.treason.io/p/read-trump-wants-to-label-dems-as
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-08-17 00:06:03
Hundreds arrested as Trump's Washington, DC, crime crackdown hits full stride (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hundreds-arrested-as-trumps-washington-dc-crime-crackdown-hits-full-stride
http://www.memeorandum.com/250816/p67#a250816p67
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-16 10:15:27
Tracer: A Forensic Framework for Detecting Fraudulent Speedruns from Game Replays
Jaeung Franciskus Yoo, Huy Kang Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10848 https://
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social2025-10-16 14:55:46
When you are a MacOS developer or a Frank Krueger fan, every day is Xmas!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cleanroom/id6753881178?mt=12
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizza2025-11-16 18:38:29
The Talos Principle 2 (Multi, XPd on a Linux OS PC) As 1k, the newest (and perhaps last) member of the reborn humanity, you set off on an expedition to explore a Mega Structure on a remote island. What you find could alter humanity's course forever.
So, (spoilers) as a direct sequel to the now 11yr old 1st game, you play as a new "human" that has left the Simulation and been incorporated into a body in the Real World. As human number 1000, you are the culmination of "…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2025-08-17 16:28:16
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-09-17 04:41:00
📈 Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 Hits Record Output as Ice Conditions Ease
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Russias-Arctic-LNG-2-Hits-Record-Output-as-Ice-Conditions-Ease.html
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-17 08:52:05
The 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.
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2025-09-16 18:40:44
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-16 15:08:56
The idea I’m rambling toward: when we talk about our current lack of “shared reality,” let’s not think of that as a fixed set of walls; let’s think of it as a •process that’s failing•.
It’s not that we can expect people to never be mistaken; it’s that we want time to counteract our mistakenness. It’s not just about walls (ideological “space”); it’s about time.
4/
@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-16 10:11:16
Pristine and transition metal doped 2D AlSb as high performance electrocatalyst for selective CO2 reduction: A first-principles study
Md. Mostaqul Islam, Ahmed Zubair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11325
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-16 07:22:11
Day 23: Thi Bui
Indirect CW: parental neglect, war, intergenerational trauma
Bui is the author of "The Best We Could Do", a graphic memoir which explores her relationship with her parents and unpacks some of the intergenerational trauma coming out of the Vietnam War. It has a lot of wisdom to offer about both dealing with troubled parents as a 1.5th-generation immigrant, and it delves deeply into her parents' histories in Vietnam and the complexities of the situation there both in the north and in the south. It's beautifully illustrated and very nicely plotted together given all the disparate threads it is working with.
I haven't read any of Bui's other work, but it looks like she's published a picture book for kids as well as a series of short comics during the pandemic. Besides Oseman who also writes non-illustrated fiction and the two manga artists Ice mentioned, Bui is the first graphic novel author I've included here, but I've actually got quite a few of them in my longer list, one of whom may make it into the 30 I'll include in this thread. These days I'm reading a bunch of graphic novels since they're easy to get through, and the variety of stories and perspectives in that space is wonderful these days, with a huge array of indie stuff that probably never would have gotten off the ground in traditional publishing/comics spaces.
#30AuthorsNoMen
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-09-15 03:18:30
This is so weird, I literally had to look this up.
✅ Emmys 2024: Why Is ‘The Bear’ Counted As A Comedy?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonifitzgerald/2024/09/15/emmys-2024-why-is-the-bear-counted-as-a-comedy/
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-09-16 19:19:16
Time to continue my #rail travel stories. It's a few years since I was at the seaside last, since the travel's too long for me now. Before, I used to visit Świnoujście and Kołobrzeg a few times. The route to Kołobrzeg is quite straight, whereas Świnoujście gets interesting because of Szczecin on the way there.
So over all these years, using regional Poznań – Świnoujście trains, I've made all these variations:
• a direct train that reversed on Szczecin Główny station (i.e. the main station in Szczecin)
• a direct train, except that I got off at Szczecin Dąbie to stretch my legs, and then entered the same train 40 minutes later as it stopped at the same station again
• a direct train that passed through Główny and used a roundabout track to reverse
• a direct train, except that I got off at the first stop at Szczecin Dąbie, and changed trains to "Błękitny" that went faster from Szczecin to Świnoujście
• the "Orkan" train that used the rail bypass to go straight from Szczecin Zdunowo to Szczecin Załom, and skip all the other Szczecins (except I only went as far as Goleniów back then)
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-11-16 15:42:58
good grief those are large animals 😬
It always make me laugh (nervously) that they are as happy plucking berries from a bush as they are killing a black bear. 🐻
#banff #grizzly #bear
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/the-boss-bow-valley-grizzly-bear-split-lip-9.6979193
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-17 20:41:37
On 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, …
@hynek@mastodon.social2025-09-16 14:07:40
i choose to believe that i’ve sold out a theater https://fosstodon.org/@PyConUK/115214349583768453
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-17 08:52:19
LLM-Based Approach for Enhancing Maintainability of Automotive Architectures
Nenad Petrovic, Lukasz Mazur, Alois Knoll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12798 https://
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-16 14:00:36
as_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…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-17 05:55:44
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-10-17 10:00:40
"MPs condemn badger cull as ineffective – Badger Trust urges cattle-focused TB measures"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Badgers #Animals
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-17 15:40:04
The 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
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-08-17 15:47:31
Should the Dallas Cowboys be concerned about Joe Milton as their backup QB? https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/should-the-dallas-cowboys-be-concerned-about-joe-milton-as-their-backup-qb
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-16 22:31:27
NFL 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
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-16 23:36:00
Most 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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-10-16 13:20:56
CNN plans to launch its All Access streaming subscription tier on October 28 for $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year in the US (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/10/cnn-subscription-service-launch-1236588685/
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-09-16 18:05:39
You know, I’m sorry, I really appreciate that at least Spain and a few other countries are doing something now but if you’re a fucking whole-ass country, your “threat” in the face of genocide being committed as we speak if you want to stop said genocide being committed isn’t to pull out of a fucking song contest. It’s to send your damn army – ideally along with a few others – as a peacekeeping force to stop the sons of bitches who are committing genocide.
But hey, pulling out of a song…
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-15 20:50:35
I keep coming back to the mirror dualities of the oppressed and oppressor under authoritarianism.
The oppressed is portrayed as both weak and godlike. The stereotypes are always some variation on sloth and incompetence, but yet somehow also a menace capable of destroying the "pure" society. To use the most relevant current example, Antifa being both little femme soy boys who would always get beat up by "real men" while also being an international terrorist organization on the brink of overthrowing the US government, the unarmed presence of whom makes the heavily armed agents of ICE flee for their lives. Antifa is both having absolutely no impact on ICE, and also having such an impact on ICE that the military needs to come in to protect them. The contradiction is obvious but never seems to occur to those who hold both to be true at the same time.
But few talk about the duality of the oppressor. The sovereign throughout history has always been both a ruler above the law, sometimes even the representative or incarnation of a divine force. Yet, this same superhuman/god-man is also a baby who needs constant care. This is absolutely a through line from the very earliest records of sovereign cults to modern cult leaders, CEOs, and Trump today. Power, for these people, is expressed both as the ability to force others to enact their will and in the ability to compel others to care for them. Can any of these "men" cook? Can they fix anything themselves? They are driven everywhere, cooked for all the time, constantly protected from danger. Kings are still dressed, at least for rituals. I could dissect masculinity here, but that's a whole thing.
It is as though the drive to care for our children, who must be taught to behave within acceptable norms, is hijacked by "leaders" who demand our care and attention... even at the expense of our literal children. And recently we've seen some of those very CEOs, with LLMs and return to office demands, show that their judgment is also little better than children, making decisions while pretending to understand a subject.
The oppressed are portrayed as both god-like and impotent and are, in fact, neither. Meanwhile the rulers portray themselves only as invulnerable and are, in fact, childish in their ability to survive without constant support. Their greatest fear from the collapse of society is figuring out how to make sure people keep taking care of them.
It just keeps rattling around in my head.
#USPol
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-11-16 19:11:13
Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
[They run out door. Gan slams it shut and holds it]
BLAKE: Gan, can you hold them?
GAN: As long as the door doesn't break.
VILA: Did you see? They killed Arco.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/103/541 B7B5
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-16 20:55:46
"Terrence and Lesley Bridges have seen their energy bills drop dramatically, from £375 a month down to as low as £40, since they swapped their gas boiler for a HeatHub – a small data centre containing more than 500 computers."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rpy7en
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-16 15:17:13
This framing doesn’t even touch the crucial forces of ego and identity formation and craving for belonging that are the bedrock of fascist movements like MAGA. Others are thinking productively about that, and it’s at least as important here!
That belief-as-identity phenomenon is also time-based. Somebody posted about those Young Republicans and their Telegram messages grooming and being groomed for fascism, and that’s right: it’s not just the existence of the fascist space; it’s the sustained process of drawing people in over time.
5/
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-10-17 01:06:51
🧽 Indoor surfaces can act as massive sponges for harmful chemicals
#airquality
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-09-14 21:19:47
Aubrey ends wild Prescott-Wilson duel with FG as time expires in OT as Cowboys top Giants 40-37 https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/aubrey-ends-wild-prescottwilson-duel-with-fg-as-time-expires-in-ot-as-cowboys-…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-16 21:05:40
Tokyo-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…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-09-17 20:41:48
Brock Purdy injury update: 49ers QB has 'chance' to play vs. Cardinals as he works back from turf toe
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/brock-p
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-08-17 00:11:12
FBI Director Fast-Tracks New Agents as Firings and Departures of G-Men Tied to January 6 and Trump Prosecutions Accelerate (Daniel Edward Rosen/New York Sun)
https://www.nysun.com/article/fbi-director-fast-tracks-new-agents-as-firings-and-departures-of-g-men-tied-to-january-6-and-trump-prosecutions-accelerate
http://www.memeorandum.com/250816/p68#a250816p68
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-17 06:11:16
I 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.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-17 05:13:06
Cars 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…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-09-16 06:08:29
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
ZUKAN: Insofar as we on Betafarl have always sought to protect ourselves and our borders, there are some here who would not be unjustified in regarding us as aggressors, but if it is aggression to protect oneself by ensuring that the others remain weak, then we have been aggressors.
BOORVA: Ah.
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-17 08:06:45
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/
Omg
Hackers steal maternity ward CCTV videos in India cybercrime
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-10-16 15:25:14
Of course we humans have never had a single “shared reality,” and we never will. But there are times places when we’ve had more robust ongoing sharing and boundary-crossing and comfort with the limits of our own understanding — “shared reality” not as a fact, but as a direction.
These thoughts are still forming, and I think that’s where my thread ends for today: no answers, but yet another plea for systems thinking.
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@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-10-16 19:24:26
Daniels and the Commanders want out of a rut in visit to Dallas as Cowboys try to stay positive https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/daniels-and-the-commanders-want-out-of-a-rut-in-visit-to-dallas-as-cowboys-t…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-09-17 20:41:46
Ben Johnson not worried about pregame production meeting with Tom Brady as Bears-Raiders in Week 4 looms
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ben-joh
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-09-16 12:40:56
Former Republican Geoff Duncan enters Georgia governor's race as Democrat (Greg Bluestein/Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
https://www.ajc.com/politics/2025/09/former-republican-geoff-duncan-enters-georgia-governors-race-as-democrat/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250916/p36#a250916p36
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-16 07:08:26
There's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-17 14:32:49
Over 100 liberal philanthropies,
including those that are being targeted by the Trump administration as part of an expected crackdown after the killing of Charlie Kirk,
are banding together to try and stave off attacks on the nonprofit sector.
The institutions, including the Ford Foundation and George Soros’s Open Society Foundations,
on Wednesday pushed out an open letter that forcefully defended the philanthropy sector,
even as its list of signers doubled as a…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-10-17 14:00:10
wiki_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
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-09-15 22:39:24
Ben Johnson facing challenges on both sides of the ball in his first year as Bears coach https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/ben-johnson-facing-challenges-on-both-sides-of-the-ball-in-his-first-year-as-bears-coach…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-17 03:11:25
Rams terrorize Sam Darnold again, take control of NFC West race over Seahawks as defense leads way
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-te
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-17 10:39:14
"In 19 transactions starting last October, Ms. Handeland deposited $98,300 into the machines. All of it vanished — as did Mike, who turned out to be a fiction."
How Fraudsters Use Cryptocurrency A.T.M.s to Target Victims
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technol
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-09-15 23:40:48
NJ surgeon who 'cheered' Charlie Kirk's murder resigns -- as suspended nurse who called him out is reinstated (Catherine Zini/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/09/15/us-news/nj-surgeon-who-cheered-charlie-kirks-murder-resigns-as-suspended-nurse-who-called-him-out-is-reinstated/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250915/p142#a250915p142
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-15 03:44:18
Sources: Apple is intensifying CEO succession planning as Tim Cook, now 65, may step down as early as next year, with John Ternus seen as the likely successor (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0d424625-f4f8-4646-9f6e-927c8cbe0e3e
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-15 23:00:07
wiki_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
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-09-14 22:31:39
Kevin Stefanski says Browns not considering QB change from Joe Flacco: 'We win as a team, we lose as a team'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/kevi…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-16 02:55:51
EXCLUSIVE: Trump May Launch Missiles from Warships into California this Friday and Saturday as Part of "Vanity Parade" (Aaron Parnas/MeidasTouch News)
https://meidasnews.com/news/exclusive-trump-may-launch-missiles-from-warships-into-california-this-friday-and-saturday-as-part-of-vanity-parade-
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p163#a251015p163
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-17 00:50:52
BNPL 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…
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-16 21:08:22
There 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.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-16 03:48:03
FIRST KNOWN LIFE ON EARTH
Dating back as far as 3.9 billion years ago,
these simple prokaryotic organisms were made up of a single cell that lacked a
nucleus and other organelles.
https://static.scientificamerican.com/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-15 22:40:49
The now-removed video from Meta also showed the rumored Oakley Meta Sphaera glasses with a centered camera, highlighting their use in skiing and running (David Heaney/UploadVR)
https://www.uploadvr.com/oakley-meta-sphaera-design-leaks-ahead-of-connect-too/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-17 11:05:40
Investigation: $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.social2025-11-15 22:31:14
Some experts question Anthropic's claims of cyberattack breakthroughs using its tools, noting that white-hat hackers report modest gains from AI-aided hacking (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-17 05:25:53
Ex-Intel engineer Varun Gupta was sentenced to two years' probation and a $34K fine for stealing trade secrets and sharing them with his new employer Microsoft (Maxine Bernstein/Oregonian)
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2025/0
