@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-23 15:40:43
Why Conservatives Defend ICE (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/ice-conservatives-minnesota-dhs-protests/685705/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p41#a260123p41
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-23 15:40:43
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-22 19:22:24
The 28-point "peace plan" that the United States and Russia want to impose on Ukraine and Europe is misnamed.
It is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe,
preparing the way for a larger war in the future.
In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
The plan was negotiated by Steve Witkoff,
a real-estate developer with no historical, geographica…
@mela@zusammenkunft.net2025-11-22 19:18:22
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-12-23 13:48:57
I told my daughter it hurts the least when I lie flat on my back. She suggested a “lie down desk” so I can get some work done so now I’m trying to imagine how that would work so I can use a computer while lying on my back. (Ideas welcome!)
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-11-24 08:25:36
#WritersCoffeeClub 24 Nov
How do you make sure a reader has room to process and absorb ideas?
I think it's perfectly OK to include things in stories that 90% of readers won't pick up on -- because the delight of discovery for the 10% of readers who do is worth it, I think.
In some of my writing I use a lot of subtle intertextual references -- which readers who kn…
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social2025-11-23 10:52:36
"Why is the Trump White House pushing Ukraine to accept a Russian plan that paves the way for another war? The document offers some hints, declaring that the U.S. would also somehow take charge of the $100 billion in frozen Russian assets, for example, supposedly to invest this money in Ukraine and receive “50% of the profits from this venture.” Europeans, whose banks actually hold most of these assets, would receive nothing."
@danyork@mastodon.social2026-01-22 21:29:52
For decades now, the traditional telcos keep trying to find ways to get newer companies to pay them... whether it is dressed up as " #FairShare " or #NetworkFees or "dispute resolution" or whatever... in the end they are flawed ideas that are solutions trying to find proble…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-22 17:40:39
CBS and CNN Are Being Sacrificed to Trump (Franklin Foer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/trump-paramount-netflix-cnn-cbs/685349/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p58#a251222p58
@shriramk@mastodon.social2025-12-19 18:43:13
The perfect confluence of expertise and location: ex-cop and now Brown professor Brandon del Pozo in The Atlantic on the Brown shooting. Worth reading as an antidote to the hustlers, influencers, and agenda-pushers on social media.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-12-20 23:22:58
So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.
@j_honegger@swiss.social2025-10-24 11:22:57
From #TheEconomist @The Economist@youtube.com
🧵 👇
At The Economist, we believe it is important to engage seriously with people whose ideas challenge our own. In keeping with that belief, our editor-in-chief, #ZannyMintonBeddoes, and our deputy editor,
@anildash@me.dm2026-01-22 14:52:11
Amidst all the buzz around things like Gas Town and Ralph, etc. there are some bits of actual substance that promise to actually empower coders — and potentially shift the power dynamic away from Big AI, while making it easier to create software just by describing ideas in plain text. I've been thinking of the idea as "codeless" software creation, for lack of a better term (the jargon doesn't matter, I just needed a name to talk about it) and would love your thoughts!
@ToneMilazzo@mastodon.cloud2026-01-23 16:44:03
I've been brainstorming a weird west series; Judas Jones. The pitch is "Michael Moorcock's Gunsmoke."
Using
@… allows me to organize my ideas and fiddle with technology, my two favorite things. Like using a canvas to create this relationship chart.
I'm not sure if it's going to be a comic or a series of short stories.
I've …
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2026-01-19 23:20:16
The Avi Lewis AMA on Reddit this afternoon was interesting. He didn't answer my question, and I'll eventually get over it, but he was swinging for the fences with his ideas. His responses would resonate I think with MastoCanucks as they pretty much call for the government to get more involved in providing real solutions. Including building 1M public homes, tackling U.S. ownership of our media, getting rid of FPTP with electoral reform, guaranteed income programs, publicly owned options for major business categories (banks, grocery, phones, etc). Those big ideas could wake up and excite voters while at the same time facing huge opposition from big businesses and wealthy Canadians who would face a new wealth tax.
I hope he wins the leadership. At the very least he'll push the Liberals to be bolder, and maybe even lead a minority government that could bring some of his ideas to fruition.
#CanPoli #NDP
https://www.reddit.com/r/onguardforthee/s/fwKRmDPSvd
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-15 09:40:42
Scientists say that AI has become a powerful and rapidly improving research tool, and that whether it is generating ideas on its own is, for now, a moot point (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/technol
@kctipton@mas.to2026-01-19 23:44:45
Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3rpNrLbDmyZux5B6U-o115Y
@annsev@troet.cafe2025-11-21 19:29:52
There are early signs that Darth #Trump may be approaching a tipping point. Much will depend on voters' reaction to the Eppstein Files.
He also seems exhausted and is obviously struggling to maintain his initial momentum. Mistakes are piling up on an even larger scale, and he can see that things are slipping away from him.
Now all he wants is to win the
@marcel@waldvogel.family2025-11-22 11:16:47
"There was no choice, there is no choice: either submit to capital or watch your ideas wither and die. There are no other practical ways to raise significant capital. Real Angels don’t exist"
On the Feudal-like structures in Silicon Valley. Written in 2018, but not much has changed.
https://<…
@vrandecic@mas.to2025-11-18 11:38:55
@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.place2025-12-23 04:42:05
Concept artists give informed critiques of using GenAI to concept. Fav quote:
“When I show someone a rough sketch they see it differently than I do. They’re not seeing the sketch, they’re seeing the potential for what the sketch could be through their own taste and experiences, and it sparks all kinds of wonderful ideas that I would’ve never thought of on my own.”
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
@roland@devdilettante.com2026-01-21 22:20:57
"The President of the USA is a dictator, how to tell." <-- There I fixed it for you Atlantic :-)
https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115935370334290240
@johnhobbs@mstdn.ca2026-01-22 20:04:52
Immersed in the world of big band music and cinematic scores, I discover how these vast compositions can transform a mundane workday. The RIGHT PLAYLIST not only sharpens focus but also ignites innovative ideas by offering fresh perspectives. 🎶 Which soundtrack enhances your creativity? 💼
@dnddeutsch@pnpde.social2025-11-21 21:26:45
@… you should check out #7IdeenUm7 where @… posts a lot of pirate ideas. It's all in german language though
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2026-01-19 17:40:51
Sources for my claims!
🧵1/ (Diplomatic tension = interpretation based on below sources)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK36YjEx6PWcaiwVCToEIk3KY
@joe@toot.works2025-12-22 14:50:22
I spent some time this weekend sitting at a proper coffee shop with a proper cup of tea, working on writing code examples for @… and it makes me happy to know that there are at least a dozen more ideas in the hopper for future weekends.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2026-01-19 15:41:58
I keep on thinking about this so often, now mostly about how the word has been co-opted & abused by contemporary "AI"... Just refound the link (from 2012):
Generative vs generated
https://www.anomalogue.com/2012/05/01/generative-vs-generated/
@rberger@hachyderm.io2026-01-19 23:02:02
"Yet what matters isn’t the specific phrases, but the overall message: Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, not the Norwegian government and certainly not the Danish government, determines the winner of that prize. Yet Trump now not only blames Norway for failing to give it to him, but is using it as a justification for an invasion of Greenland."
#GiftArticle #USPolitics
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/?gift=E9o0y7Rlfcfv2OQ1sSVCEm2HqWTlvBG_uUPQ_7tcOpI&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.social2025-12-22 12:26:05
Want to speak at Berlin Buzzwords but haven't before? Submit your proposal! We actively seek new speakers and fresh ideas to keep our community vibrant.
Learn more and submit: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/call-for-papers/
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-11-11 01:41:25
This episode of Ideas is powerful. Still - and not to minimize the experience of veterans - I'd really love a parallel series focused on the moms and dads, partners, and kids who stayed behind.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/canadian-war-museum-v…
@wwwgem@social.linux.pizza2025-12-21 21:19:28
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-21 14:10:47
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan publishes his annual letter, saying the platform wants to fight "AI slop" and strengthen parental tools, and touts new AI Shorts tools (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-19 02:51:45
Donald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House
This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/what-presidential-panic-looks-like/685307/
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-01-21 08:24:30
Anthony Burke's By Design
Explores the clever ideas and human stories behind the spaces, systems, and objects shaping our everyday lives...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/anthony-burkes-by-design/
@galaxydinodragon@social.linux.pizza2025-12-21 20:26:36
Is there an easy way for devices to automatically get certificates on a network?
I have various local sites I want to put https on to shut browsers up but don't really want to have to go around every device and install a certificate if possible.
If anyone has any ideas, it'll be very helpful!
#https
@ThatHoarder@mastodon.online2026-01-22 15:29:03
Especially relevant at this time of year, but really applicable every day. Have a listen to Dr Jan Eppingstall talking about how to understand over-acquiring behaviours, complete with ideas on how to curb it
@barijaona@mastodon.mg2026-01-20 02:46:37
"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw - The Atlantic
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-01-20 05:25:26
Some Starfleet academy pilot ideas:
- Different mating rituals can be hard to learn
- Does anyone have a 21st century pencil?
- Someone thinks they failed a test!
- Oops, a cadet lead the chef to believe they love to eat Gagh and doesn't want to insult them!
#startrek
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-11-11 10:15:35
It is Judge Mark L. Wolf, who retired in protest, explaining why: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/federal-judge-resignation-trump/684845/?gift=Kjaw0NITl7f2TdiJgnhQhTU81T1TbxegoH4x33GvLqc
…
@dichotomiker@dresden.network2025-11-05 13:16:57
@seedling@dice.camp2025-11-20 02:30:11
I have ideas for o/u likes that would cap at like 20-30 people and be a bit more wargame focused
More like halfway between O/U and cataphracts
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-11-17 15:41:26
That’s the key problem. People have very vague ideas that can easily and accurately be expressed in natural language and LLMs operate in the vagueness. A programmer will demand specificity before starting to code anything, which is a real nuisance to people with vague ideas about wanting some sort of app. https://in…
@hakona@im.alstadheim.no2025-12-12 17:36:20
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social2025-11-10 23:30:50
I Invented Gilead. The Supreme Court Is Making It Real.
I thought I was writing fiction in The Handmaid’s Tale.
By Margaret Atwood
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/supreme-court-roe-handmaids-tale-…
@alexanderadam@ruby.social2025-12-11 12:13:23
Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of #CSS:
https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes
@kctipton@mas.to2026-01-18 17:26:53
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-21 14:11:01
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan publishes his annual letter, saying the platform wants to fight "AI slop" and strengthen parental tools, and touts new AI Shorts tools (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-12-31 08:20:52
👣 Investigation shows large support for core ideas of degrowth—but not the label
#degrowth
@datascience@genomic.social2026-01-19 11:00:01
Video tutorials for modern ideas and open source tools. #python
@Nathan@social.lostinok.com2025-11-12 03:27:09
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-11-18 15:53:50
The manager herself I found peevish and difficult to work with on that project. She complained a lot, and was dismissive of my ideas.
In hindsight, I now realize she was dealing with sustained psychological abuse on a daily basis, just trying to hold it together. Of course she was peevish. She didn’t want my input. She wanted to survive. And I was oblivious.
3/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-20 17:20:43
Trump's Attack on Democracy Is Faltering (Quinta Jurecic/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/american-democracy-signs-life/685678/?gift=mTq34Ny-ZVr996jdTJS9ThMkDXmwXvrSUQTDHU2TaTY&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p67#a260120p67
@rperezrosario@mastodon.social2025-11-19 01:27:57
PVS-Studio blog writer Georgii Tormozov summarizes a long list of improvements made to Microsoft's next LTS (and anniversary release) .NET 10. This overview highlights support for C# 14, performance enhancements, new libraries (including post-quantum crypto.), runtime and SDK. A good read to keep up with the latest and greatest in .NET.
"What's new in .NET 10"
@gray17@mastodon.social2025-11-18 23:28:38
> Eventually investment bankers are going to meet with companies with ideas for how to get their stock prices up, and the bankers will heave a long sigh and say “you have to do something with 69 and 420,” and the executives will heave a long sigh and say “really,” and the bankers will say “yes,” and they’ll all stare at each other dead-eyed for a minute, and then the company will wearily announce a new $420.69 million bond deal and investors on Reddit will cheer and the stock will go up.<…
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2025-12-18 16:28:36
It’s strange thinking about how much pain I’ve grown to accept and have just learned to live with.
I love writing by hand too much to give it up - with my ADHD it helps me focus, remember thins better, think through complex ideas. Journaling has been a great way to manage my mental illnesses. I love paper, I love collecting notebooks.
Not to mention that I am a hobbyist artist and draw on a regular basis. (Somehow that has been less painful for me than writing… but if writing cramped my hand then drawing would be agonizing too and I’d have to take weeks off on a nearly constant basis).
So suddenly purchasing a new kind of pen and realizing it MADE THE PAIN DISAPPEAR feels like magic. I literally feel less disabled.
I just wish I bought a fountain pen years ago 😅
@seav@en.osm.town2026-01-19 09:54:55
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-22 03:49:35
Tech journalist Gil Duran outlines a disturbing theory
that a growing number of Silicon Valley elites are pursuing a vision of power
not rooted in the common good,
but in profit, feudal hierarchy, and total control of the platforms that define daily life for hundreds of millions of people.
Duran dubs this emerging ideology the “Nerd Reich”
— a slurry of right-wing ideas championed by ruthless tech overlords like
Palantir founder Peter Thiel,
Tesla an…
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-25 20:09:56
There are new ideas on how to bring real peace closer, – Zelenskyy on conversation with Americans: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/25/there-are-new-ideas-on.html
@kazys@mastodon.social2026-01-18 18:17:28
The Trump era will end soon, in three years if not earlier, given his advanced age. Democrats obviously hate him like no other president. Moreover, Republicans absolutely hate their past presidents, and the purge of their ideas, staunch supporters, and projects will be as wild as the ride this year.
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social2025-11-18 17:15:10
I’m on board the Northwood Express bus 🚌 to North Campus to hear Todd Austin talk in the security reading group about his latest ideas.
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-10-28 16:20:38
"Eliezer Yudkowsky is confusing a very human obsession with death and a very modern fear of a techno-deity"
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/10/the-guru-of-the-ai-apocalypse
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-01-16 21:04:22
aus der reihe "warum erscheint dieses buch nicht open access?!" heute: "Information Science: History, Ideas, Applications" von Michael Seadle: https://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/information-science/?k=9781783306947
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-11-21 17:02:26
Lately, I’ve been feeling burned out by how much people in my life assume things about me and my beliefs, so let's talk about it.
I spend some parts (not all) of my evenings online, usually from around 20:00 to 22:00 or sometimes even until midnight (00:00), not because I am consumed by politics but because I like to learn and reflect on how society could be better. I enjoy exploring ideas about justice, solidarity, and human rights in a way that feels meaningful to me. For me, spe…
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-01-11 20:35:52
"It’s a matter now of humanity getting to the point where it’s now qualifying to make some of its own decisions in relation to its own information. That’s why we’ve come to a new moment of integrity."
#buckminsterfuller
https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/only-integrity-is-going-to-count/
@thijs_lucas@norden.social2025-12-14 20:11:40
Hey there, ideas for #Copenhagen #København with camera and baby? Best christmas market, cafe, Fuji-cameraplace, coffee and cycling culture?
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-12-07 10:48:46
The current AI models let you easily experiment with application ideas like never before. For experimentation, quickly trying out ideas, they are great. That is something completely different from serious/professional use I am fully aware. Still your creativity is now the limit, not your knowledge of python, jscript etc and that is fascinating .
#AI
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social2025-10-27 17:47:45
The problem with "you can just do things" is that other people can also just do things. You can get into an arms race of just doing things, or learn how to build shared intent.
One of those approaches is masculine and exciting. The other one actually works.
Guess which one AI-powered design & development tools encourage?
@geant@mstdn.social2025-12-17 09:25:23
Want to learn presentation skills, network with international peers, and take to the #TNC26 stage?
That’s exactly what the Future Talent Programme (FTP) 2026 is designed for.
FTP26 gives students & early-career professionals the space, skills, and confidence to shape their ideas and share them with the GÉANT community.
📷 Photo from
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-21 23:30:33
The people who succeed in the new media environment
are the people who figure out how to work its mechanics,
which selects for skills that are only loosely correlated with genuine intellectual originality.
🔸You need to be good at social media,
🔸good at building a personal brand,
🔸good at identifying topics that will generate engagement.
These are real skills,
-- but they're not the same skills that lead to developing genuinely new ideas.
@egallager@social.treehouse.systems2025-11-15 23:39:02
Updated with additional ideas:
- White Park
- around the Centennial
- around the backside of CHS
- along Bow Brook until it joins the Turkey River
- up to the Heights and around the Concord Municipal Airport
- along that new trail going in on the other side of the river
- to Granite State Candies and back
- watch a movie at Red River Theater
- to the Post Office on the other side of the river
- to the bus station... take the bus to Boston?
@cobordism@berlin.social2025-11-11 14:41:01
"Those who objected could be divided into two categories: people who found the simpler and more flexible game to be bland; and people who didn’t like the game getting “woke.” This is a slippery term, but it often boils down to things not being quite as racist or sexist as they used to be."
https://www.…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-12-18 16:42:04
I’ll just say this: For the very most part, the systems of our society do not reward creators. They reward people who have power over what is created.
A deep part of our society’s mythology is that we reward people with great ideas, people who make great things — and therefore those who are rewarded must somehow be great.
That is false. If you see someone rewarded, the most likely explanation is that they had power to reap rewards.
3/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-19 03:59:28
While fascist ideas never found a foothold among the majority of Americans,
they exerted considerable influence during the period between the first and second world wars.
Extremist groups like
the Silver Shirts,
the Christian Front,
the Black Legion and
the Ku Klux Klan claimed hundreds of thousands of members.
Together they glorified a white Christian nation purified of Jews, Black Americans, immigrants and communists.
During the 1930s and …
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-11-17 08:37:27
I am working on my next article, and so far its title is, “The Case for Local Law Enforcement to Arrest Feds.”
You can read it first by subscribing (for free) to my ghost at: https://stuff.davidaugust.com/
Thank you in advance!
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-11-02 17:57:47
🤼♂️ Japan's sumo association turns 100, but the sport's rituals have a much older role shaping ideas about the country
https://theconversation.com/japans-sumo-association-turns-100-but…
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-30 15:44:02
😱 Old IDEAS in a NEW wrapper: PUTIN threatens with NUCLEAR WEAPONS #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/30/old-ideas-in-a-new.html
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-01-17 21:18:19
I'm going to go back to my social media break, but before I do I'm going to leave you with a thought experiment.
Imagine we're in the middle of the second American Civil War. What do you wish you had done to prepare? What do you wish you had done to bring the regime down faster? What do you wish you had done to avoid this ever happening?
Got some ideas? Think about them. Talk them over with friends. Ok... Now what can you do right now? Ok, now do it.
#USPol
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-12-16 23:50:31
Mycelial
A podcast embodying mycelium, threading together wisdom, movements, practices, technology and ideas, old and new, to help in weaving an emergent world centring Earth and Humanity...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mycelial/<…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-17 14:50:38
a16z releases a nine-pillar AI policy framework for Congress, including restricting AI use for under-13s without parental consent and keeping a role for states (Punchbowl News)
https://punchbowl.news/article/tech/a16z-ai/
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social2025-12-15 13:34:34
No one wants to build bad products. But in an industry where programmers implement features to order, it can be hard to shake that feeling.
This is how orgs see the ROI of UX: as a soothing function to tell everyone they're doing a good job. And as a scapegoat, when we finally learn otherwise.
UX cheerleading is doing the industry no favors.
#UX
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-01-15 20:25:59
I always use some of the funds from the gardenstate.social patreon to hire illustrators to make art for our instance.
Anyone have good ideas of what kind of art we could commission next?
#gardenStateSocial #newJersey
@Nathan@social.lostinok.com2025-11-12 03:19:47
Glad to see that everything comes full circle, though I do prefer notebooks to binders.
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/11/mike-johnson-proudly-announces-notebooks-full-of-ideas-describes-none.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-06 04:25:31
Trump-related nonfiction book sales have sharply declined, with weak sales over the past year compared to his first term, when 20 titles became NYT bestsellers (Paul Farhi/The Atlantic)
https://www.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-15 23:20:43
'The More I'm Around Young People, the More Panicked I Am' (Yair Rosenberg/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/american-anti-semitism-youth/685261/?gift=201cWZnM2XBz2eP81zy0pKzalIF1o9O62TXPXN_SOP8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p109#a251215p109
@seav@en.osm.town2025-12-15 11:51:45
We’re still collecting more program and session ideas from across the #ESEAP community for the #Wikimedia ESEAP Conference 2026 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan 🇹🇼 (15–17 May 2026)!
🔗 More info and submission form:
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-20 02:45:57
The United States is a global superpower,
and its military trains for war in every domain.
During my years as a military educator, I saw American officers wrestle with any number of scenarios designed to challenge their thinking and force them to adapt to surprises.
One case we never considered, however, was how to betray and attack our own allies.
We did not ask what to do if the president becomes a threatening megalomaniac who tells one of our oldest friends, Nor…
@marcel@waldvogel.family2026-01-14 07:06:51
"But they stop short of examining the forces that may be actually driving the minerals agenda: tech billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, who see Greenland not just as a source of rare earths, but as a laboratory for their libertarian economic and social experiments. These tech-billionaires envision unregulated “freedom cities” in Greenland, free from democratic oversight, environmental laws, and labor protections."
@kctipton@mas.to2026-01-08 18:32:36
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-16 07:14:44
This is especially ambitious in the amount of area I'm trying to cover and number of ideas I'm trying to pull together. Editing feedback (typos and grammar) always welcome, as are any questions about the subject, and any other feedback.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-11-15 19:15:21
Anyone who supports or sympathizes with anarcho-syndicalist ideas is welcome to join and help build a friendly, inclusive space for memes and or even meaningful real discussions.
My new Steam group:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Anarcho-syndicalist
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-19 16:36:13
Let's begin by quoting, in full, a letter that the president of the United States of America sent yesterday to the prime minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr StŸre.
The text was forwarded by the White House National Security Council to ambassadors in Washington, and was clearly intended to be widely shared.
Here it is:
"Dear Jonas:
Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to …
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social2025-12-12 22:17:50
Low-maturity #tech orgs fetishize ideas.
Their process goes like this: a senior stakeholder has an idea, then the engineers build it. Only then can the team go and "validate" it.
The main outcome of this process is ANXIETY, because people know they are making a huge bet, but the risks aren't being acknowledged.
Subscribe to the Product Picnic, and be the first to rea…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-13 00:06:00
The Indiana Vote Is an Inflection Point (Jonathan Chait/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/indiana-gerrymandering-trump-midterms/685242/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251212/p121#a251212p121
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-18 23:18:01
As the government continues to pursue mass deportations, Section 111 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code has become a favored tool of the Justice Department for painting opposition to immigration enforcement as a corrosive, lawless force.
The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security often describe these cases in exaggerated language, even referring to defendants as “domestic terrorists,”
though the law has nothing to do with terrorism.
Across the country, prosecutors have ch…
@kctipton@mas.to2025-11-07 05:03:35
Conflict is expanding between Trump’s immigration policies and the Catholic faith, @ebruenig writes. “The religion’s call to radical love can’t countenance this much cruelty.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-08 14:50:55
The Mafia Presidency -- Trump is saying, essentially, If you don't want to get hurt, you'll do what I say. (Adam Serwer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/mafia-style-american-politics/684863/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8NIarPvCeUj25UaIYduNEMw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251108/p6#a251108p6
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-29 19:08:22
The Constitution inarguably applies to federal immigration agents
—but the Supreme Court has taken away the hope of ever holding them to that standard.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/ice-scotus-impunity/685298/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-15 01:56:28
"We don’t really think about our future – we remember it",
said Dr Hal Hershfield, who studies how humans think about time and how that influences our emotions and behaviors.
When we daydream or envision ourselves at a later point, we essentially create a memory.
We then use these memories to construct our ideas about the future.
This process is called “episodic future thinking”;
it supports our decision-making, emotional regulation and ability to p…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-12 23:53:28
The Trump administration is today’s comprehensive belittler of conservative ideas.
Its solicitude for “conservative ideas” will not encompass this one:
-- Many things are beyond government’s proper scope and actual competence.
Watching today’s politics toy with an institution of MIT’s complexity and importance is like watching a toddler play with Sèvres porcela
