@StephenRees@mas.to2026-10-07 18:20:17
Today in The Conversation Canada, Jeremy Wildeman of Carleton University and Aisha Ahmad of the University of Toronto explain that while a U.S. military strike on its northern neighbour sounds like an extreme “tail-risk” scenario, Prime Minister Mark Carney and top defence officials aren’t taking any chances. With the Canadian Armed Forces expanding reserve forces to 400,000 for homeland defence, Ottawa is actively scenario-planning for the unthinkable.
From Ukraine’s high-tech asymmet…
@phpugmrn@phpc.social2026-10-06 14:45:48
Symfony Meetup Mannheim - Save the Date!
We're excited to announce that the Symfony Meetup Mannheim is just around the corner, taking place on October 22nd! 🎉
Join us for another special-themed PHP meetup in Mannheim, this time in collaboration with our friends from @… / @…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-10-31 23:11:27
Tokyo’s TeamLab, creator of popular immersive art wonderlands, to open SoCal location
TeamLab,
the Japan-born, tech-heavy immersive art collective,
is plotting its first permanent U.S. exhibition in Anaheim.
The group, stylized as teamLab, is moving into a 110,000-square-foot space at OCVibe,
the 100-acre mixed-use entertainment district currently in development near the Honda Center.
Details are scant, as the TeamLab spot is not estimated to open until…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-10-29 16:15:52
Memo: People Inc. is laying off 195 employees, or ~6% of its headcount, mostly in print and legacy web, and says it has added 320 employees so far in 2026 (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/people-inc-lays-off-195-employees-around-6-of-h…
@ncoca@social.coop2026-09-29 10:43:43
So here's #Greenpeace, responding to a data release by the Chinese government with...nothing but praise.
Zero mention of any issues related to #labor or #humanrights issues in
@avstockhausen@fedihum.org2026-10-31 10:14:46
Playing around with a new #collation app for the #PTA which will be much more flexible and more potent than our current approach with #CollateX and a JupyterNotebook.
@patrickquin@furry.engineer2026-11-01 04:56:30
Wish I could trace down that thread by Casey Explosion about how app driven gig economy parasites start out as loss leaders to engage in predatory pricing. How they are able to burn through cash for so long because such apps are still seen as “the future” and a cargo cult of venture capital forms around them.
There are other examples of this happening, even if predatory pricing is not part of the formula, rather “the future” of tech being seen as sci-fi being made real leading to the v…
@simoncox@seocommunity.social2026-10-30 11:31:07
Whatever you do, don't tell anyone.
Had a song spinning around in my head this morning. Could not remember the songs title or the band. Had to crawl back through a few days of Mastodon posts to see an image to remind myself – that Queens of the Stone Age have a new album out today.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-10-31 17:06:54
Pete Hegseth has always assumed that experts are idiots,
believed he’s the smartest guy around,
and as a result ignores them and ends up breaking stuff (and failing in the process).
The entire Trump administration’s motto mirrors Mark Zuckerberg’s adage to
“move fast, break things,”
in this case literally.
Hegseth’s aggression, recklessness and blatant disregard for expertise is nothing new.
When he served as a 1st Lieutenant in Iraq in 2005-2006, …
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-10-06 18:34:42
Only 6 months after the paper came out - but I was too exhausted after #Antarctic #Fieldwork to write this then!
Apologies if you've already seen it...
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/117392507008643669
Ruth_Mottram - Antarctic snows
For most of this century, the Antarctic Ice Sheet has been losing mass at a pretty steady rate of around 100 Gigatonnes a year, pushing up global sea levels a small amount (about one third of a millimetre per year in fact, a little less than half the Greenland contribution for example). Antarctica is by far the biggest potential contributor to future sea level rise, so this is the number we all watch rather closely, as we also discussed the other week…
http://sternaparadisaea.net/2026/10/06/antarctic-snows/