@a@paperbay.org2026-04-26 13:36:00
@a@paperbay.org2026-04-26 13:36:00
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-03-27 05:02:47
Raiders GM Makes Feelings Clear on Maxx Crosby Situation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/john-spytek-maxx-crosby-situation-update/
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-04-25 07:38:30
I fear that the proliferation of expert panels on #ClimateChange is a bit like Randall Munroe's famous cartoon about the proliferation of standards. We don't need more panels, we need to pay more attention to the ones we already have
#ClimateEmergency
@lpryszcz@genomic.social2026-03-26 20:29:16
"As you can tell, I think this was a bad gamble: it was very unlikely to succeed but instead always very likely to result in a significantly worse strategic situation for the United States, but only after it killed thousands of people unnecessarily. If you do a war where thousands of people die and billions of dollars are spent only to end up back where you started that is losing; if you end up worse than where you started, well, that is worse."
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-03-26 18:06:37
Cowboys’ George Pickens Situation Gets Hit with Harsh Truth from Insider https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/george-pickens-contract-situation-harsh-truth/
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-02-26 03:09:40
Vibe coding provides a tantalizing answer in that situation: maybe it’s too varied to •abstract•, but not too varied to •plagiarize• and call it good.
This is something subtly different from abstraction. It’s not “do this in the standard way.” Instead, it’s “just rip off whatever other people are doing right now.”
A lot of people really want that — and tbh, a lot of them are not wrong to want it. I personally love the craft of programming, but let’s face it, a lot of software out there just needs to look like everything else and be done with it.
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-02-25 21:42:56
@jtk@infosec.exchange2026-02-24 14:14:14
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza2026-03-25 18:32:16
Content warning: Usa politics, not serious
This is the moment for the usa to go full anarchy and have a guaranteed improvement of the situation
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-23 02:43:06
Middle East crisis live: IEA chief says Iran war energy crunch worse than 1970s oil crises and Ukraine war combined
The head of the International Energy Agency is addressing Australia’s national press club now and says the public needs to understand the “depth of the problem” facing the globe.
Fatih Birol starts by saying the situation is now “very serious”,
more so than the two oil crises in 1973 and 1979, and more serious than the gas crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion …
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-03-25 13:01:57
Puka Nacua's attorney denies allegations he bit a woman, made an antisemitic remark
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/puka-nacua-allegations-antisemitic-remark-biting/…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-04-24 16:41:09
RE: https://mastodon.social/@samiamsam/116459688263848899
Rights are things you defend with guns. If you don't have guns, are not organized enough to defend them, or are unwilling to "go that far," then you don't have rights.
But I ultimately challenge the logic of "rights." The entire framing of "rights" is somewhat individualist though. Once you have the power to assert your rights, you really have no reason to support others... Which is exactly the situation we're in now.
I actually think it's worth throwing out entirely. Instead, I like the concept of "obligations." We all owe obligations to each other by way of all of our existences being intertwined. You can ignore your obligations, just like you can ignore any debt, but you can't really escape them.
They also don't require anything to exist. They exist on their own. You choose to act on those obligations or not, which again comes back to what you're willing to do... But from a different angle, and for *others* not for yourself.
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-03-21 03:47:39
Learning how to psyop Third World populations with Manual of The Mercenary Soldier
https://archive.org/details/PaulBalorManualOfTheMercenarySoldier
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-03-25 02:16:45
Everyone is missing the most important detail about the Maxx Crosby situation https://raiderramble.com/2026/03/24/everyone-is-missing-the-most-important-detail-about-the-maxx-crosby-situation/
@shriramk@mastodon.social2026-03-20 11:31:55
This piece from the LRB blog, "It cannot read the human heart", about a (Chinese) plagiarism scandal, has total «Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote» energy, which is both particularly fitting and ironic in this situation.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/february/i
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-03-23 14:05:37
We're All Just 'Monitoring the Situation' -- Vibe-coded dashboards elevate the online news scroll to a different level. (Amanda Mull/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-23/iran-war-epstein-files-betting-markets-why-we-re-monitoring-the-situation?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3NDI3MjY0NiwiZXhwIjoxNzc0ODc3NDQ2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUQ0NKUzZLSVVRQkswMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI3MDQyN0U3REVGMkM0MDEzODNCNDUzRjAyNUE2NDc3NyJ9.yD0wi_MGJSUhvavqGVbjToDZgkF5SWEdhD72NvY9HyQ&leadSource=uverify wall
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p32#a260323p32
@servelan@newsie.social2026-04-26 01:05:12
President Trump flees stage as gunshots fired at White House Correspondents' Dinner as security situation unfolds in DC - The Mirror US
https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/breaking-trump-flees-stage-shots-1807927
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-20 17:05:47
A new media company called MTS launches for "monitoring the situation" across tech, business, politics, and culture, with backing from a16z and others (a16z)
https://www.a16z.news/p/monitoring-the-situation
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-02-21 07:14:30
You strangle us for forty years and then criticize us for the way we breathe.
A quote often attributed to Fidel Castro regarding the state of Cuba, yet there being no official record of him ever saying it. One way or the other, it's a perfect summary of both Cuba's situation under imperialist oppression, as well as the 'egoism' workers develop in a capitalist state. We are products of our environment, shape the environment, shape the people and the countries th…
@rafa_font@mastodon.online2026-03-19 07:51:21
The Incoming Energy Crisis
What the Closure of the Strait of Hormuz Means for Europe and the World
A very good summary of the situation in the ground plus the geopolitical factors at play, by "European Geopolitical Journal"
https://europeangeopoliticaljournal.su
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-04-20 17:01:50
A new media company called MTS launches for "monitoring the situation" across tech, business, politics, and culture, with backing from a16z and others (a16z)
https://www.a16z.news/p/monitoring-the-situation
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2026-03-20 17:21:18
So, now the nutz are thinking of invading and occupying Kharg Island, Iran's main oil export terminal.
I wonder if the nutz - cheato and baby bibi - recognize that they have placed Iran in a life-and-death situation.
And when faced with national death Iran may well choose to destroy the facilities on the island and the undersea pipelines leading to the island.
Iran knows that the main issue on the mind of many isn't the war itself - we are, after all, a country made…
@pre@boing.world2026-02-26 19:56:10
Content warning: re: AI Economics
Subscriptions and memberships that passively renewed despite months of disuse. Introductory pricing that sneakily doubled after the trial period. Each one was rebranded as a hostage situation that agents could negotiate. The average customer lifetime value, the metric the entire subscription economy was built on, distinctly declined.
...
Any category where the service provider’s value proposition was ultimately “I will navigate complexity that you find tedious” was disrupted, as the agents found nothing tedious.
😆 Disenshitification by AI would be quite a reversal of the current trends.
[...Door-dash is disintermediated by AI...]
This was oddly poetic, as perhaps the only example in this entire saga of agents doing a favor for the soon-to-be-displaced white collar workers. When they ended up as delivery drivers, at least half their earnings weren’t going to Uber and DoorDash. Of course, this favor from technology didn’t last for long as autonomous vehicles proliferated.
😆
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-21 23:15:46
A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran,
who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian,
is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and now on the brink of war with the United States.
She is one of thousands adopted from abroad who were never granted citizenship because of a fracture at the intersection of adoption and immigration law.
The woman, who The Associated Pres…
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social2026-04-23 20:01:30
this is the secret bluesky development process
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-04-03 00:23:07
My moment of clarity in the last few weeks was coming back to “Oh right, copyright is a hack, and one that is not serving us, particularly us on the margins”
The moral rights of authorship and the way we situate our legal process of ownership are, actually, kinda at odds. And it entirely misses the idea of a commons, both as community and as a cultural base to draw from.
I've long believed that we, collectively, should own our culture — to have modern myths be Copyright 1972 LucasFilm, the traditional songs we sing Copyright 1922, now owned by Warner/Chappell Music is one of the things I find repugnant about the situation we find ourselves in.
That said, reconciling that with the behavior of the AI companies, _particularly_ the American ones? It's hard. Google abuses its monopoly position; Microsoft has forced harmful and terrible tooling on people at every turn; OpenAI is run by someone who actively despises art and does not understand it; and Anthropic is run by a guy who is trying to make sure the apocalypse has a pleasant demeanor and doesn't offend any corporations on the way. All of the above have scraped the web with no active consent — and that's largely fine, that's what putting things in common _is_, that's the beauty of the open information world we have the remnants of — but also actively evading measures people put in place to stop it and with absolutely no willingness to engage with the process. Extracting from the commons _is_ the tragedy of the commons.
It does not mean that enlarging the commons with the resulting tools is bad. The doctrine of original sin is a Christian concept I do not subscribe to. The concept of 'fruit of the poisonous tree' is a legal tool to fix power relations not a moral stance. They're worth understanding, but they are not absolute moral stances that are self-evident.
These are not harmless tools, but so too putting hard regulation and corporate, legalistic scrutiny on everything has a vastly negative impact: it is a yoke on human creativity and community to the reins of capital.
And, so too, disruption has huge costs. We are, apparently, committed to doing things the worst possible way. One can just hope that we capture the good too, because the ride has started and it's rather late to get off.
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-04-24 09:17:42
Kirk Morrison Issues Clear Statement on Raiders QB Situation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/kirk-morrison-clear-statement-qb-situation/
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-03-24 12:24:24
The trade that wasn't: Inside the Maxx Crosby saga between the Raiders, Ravens https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48287941/las-vegas-raiders-baltimore-ravens-maxx-crosby-trade
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-02-21 22:08:39
One more thought...
One of the more toxic elements of the whole "manosphere" thing relative to dating is the application of game theory to relationships. They've got people trying to "maximize their dating potential" or whatever, trying to find the "most attractive march" (which is it's own fucked up thing I'm not even going to dig in to). But that whole mindset is basically going to always leave you miserable.
Oh, you're single? You need a partner. Oh you have a partner? Could you get a "better" one?
It turns relationships into the endless pointless grind of capitalism. Fuck that. None of that shit makes sense. No matter how "well" you do in that game, you always feel like a loser. Everyone does. Fuck that game. Quit.
The constant desire makes you miserable and your misery makes you unlikable. When you let go of it, you leave room to experience what is instead of constantly imagining what could be.
You will always be able to imagine a better "could be" than what is now. By comparing your situation now to that "could be" you will always see your situation as bad because it's worse than your yardstick.
Is your situation good for you? Is it serving you? It can be good and it can also be possible to make it better. When was the last time you just experience your life instead of trying to strategize your way into "something better."
Throw away the yardstick. Something something Buddha.
Edit: all this is of course aside from the whole objectification thing, which is it's own whole set of fucked up. But yeah... All that shit is real bad news.
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-01-31 12:23:37
Cyberattack was not the cause of the emergency situation in the energy system - Ministry of Digital Transformation
https://unn.ua/en/news/cyberattack-was-not-the-cause-of-the-emergency-situation-in-the-ene…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2026-02-20 06:16:18
“How many people does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
The answer – in SAPN’s case study – is an electrician, a plumber and software techs, who now all need to work together to ensure the home management system can control the proverbial lights.”
https://
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-04-15 12:34:25
It seems the President of the United States is hitting on or trying to date (?) perhaps the President of China, and potus also believes that one must block the Strait of Hormuz in order to open it (big destroy-the-villiage-to-save-the-villiage energy here), and finally potus would rather hug things out but also might get violent and wants you to know that he is a violent man.
Rabies-like logic.
#USpol
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-04-22 08:03:02
If the situation becomes dire, Putin could start with laying bombs in europe, for example at munitions factories, drone production facilities etc. If the attacks are only just a little bit deniable, Trump will not lift a finger, no art.5 NATO will be involved. I am wondering if people in Europe are mentally prepared for that.
#geopolitics
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-02-25 16:07:37
Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[1/6]:
- Towards Attributions of Input Variables in a Coalition
Xinhao Zheng, Huiqi Deng, Quanshi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13411
- Knee or ROC
Veronica Wendt, Jacob Steiner, Byunggu Yu, Caleb Kelly, Justin Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07390
- Rethinking Disentanglement under Dependent Factors of Variation
Antonio Almud\'evar, Alfonso Ortega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07016 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/112959235461894530
- Minibatch Optimal Transport and Perplexity Bound Estimation in Discrete Flow Matching
Etrit Haxholli, Yeti Z. Gurbuz, Ogul Can, Eli Waxman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00759 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113423933393275133
- Predicting Subway Passenger Flows under Incident Situation with Causality
Xiannan Huang, Shuhan Qiu, Quan Yuan, Chao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06871 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113632934357523592
- Characterizing LLM Inference Energy-Performance Tradeoffs across Workloads and GPU Scaling
Paul Joe Maliakel, Shashikant Ilager, Ivona Brandic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08219 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113831081884570770
- Universality of Benign Overfitting in Binary Linear Classification
Ichiro Hashimoto, Stanislav Volgushev, Piotr Zwiernik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10538 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113872351652969955
- Safe Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Engine Control
Julian Bedei, Lucas Koch, Kevin Badalian, Alexander Winkler, Patrick Schaber, Jakob Andert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16613 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113910356206562660
- A Statistical Learning Perspective on Semi-dual Adversarial Neural Optimal Transport Solvers
Roman Tarasov, Petr Mokrov, Milena Gazdieva, Evgeny Burnaev, Alexander Korotin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01310
- Improving the Convergence of Private Shuffled Gradient Methods with Public Data
Shuli Jiang, Pranay Sharma, Zhiwei Steven Wu, Gauri Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.03652 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113961314098841096
- Using the Path of Least Resistance to Explain Deep Networks
Sina Salek, Joseph Enguehard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12108 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114023706252106865
- Distributional Vision-Language Alignment by Cauchy-Schwarz Divergence
Wenzhe Yin, Zehao Xiao, Pan Zhou, Shujian Yu, Jiayi Shen, Jan-Jakob Sonke, Efstratios Gavves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17028 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114063477202397951
- Armijo Line-search Can Make (Stochastic) Gradient Descent Provably Faster
Sharan Vaswani, Reza Babanezhad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00229 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114103018985567633
- Semantic Parallelism: Redefining Efficient MoE Inference via Model-Data Co-Scheduling
Yan Li, Zhenyu Zhang, Zhengang Wang, Pengfei Chen, Pengfei Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04398 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114120014622063602
- A Survey on Federated Fine-tuning of Large Language Models
Wu, Tian, Li, Sun, Tam, Zhou, Liao, Xiong, Guo, Li, Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12016 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114182234054681647
- Towards Trustworthy GUI Agents: A Survey
Yucheng Shi, Wenhao Yu, Jingyuan Huang, Wenlin Yao, Wenhu Chen, Ninghao Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23434 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114263024618476521
- CONTINA: Confidence Interval for Traffic Demand Prediction with Coverage Guarantee
Chao Yang, Xiannan Huang, Shuhan Qiu, Yan Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13961 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114380404041503229
- Regularity and Stability Properties of Selective SSMs with Discontinuous Gating
Nikola Zubi\'c, Davide Scaramuzza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11602 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114538965060456498
- RECON: Robust symmetry discovery via Explicit Canonical Orientation Normalization
Alonso Urbano, David W. Romero, Max Zimmer, Sebastian Pokutta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13289 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114539124884913788
- RefLoRA: Refactored Low-Rank Adaptation for Efficient Fine-Tuning of Large Models
Yilang Zhang, Bingcong Li, Georgios B. Giannakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18877 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114578778213033886
- SuperMAN: Interpretable and Expressive Networks over Temporally Sparse Heterogeneous Data
Bechler-Speicher, Zerio, Huri, Vestergaard, Gilad-Bachrach, Jess, Bhatt, Sazonovs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19193 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114578790124778172
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-02-21 13:09:54
Where do y'all get your random SMT breakouts from? I'm running low on SOIC8 to DIP8 ones and adafruit seems like they're no longer a good option. And I'm not in the mood to DIY every variant I need in kicad and send to oshpark.
There's a ton on aliexpress but I'm not sure how bad the tariff situation is for random one-off small items from China to the US these days... I know at one point there were threats of like $100 per low-value shipment once de minimis was …
@Carwil@mastodon.online2026-03-11 18:38:08
The opening salvo of a war is not "a fast-moving situation." It is the deployment of a pre-assembled target list under zero pressure to outpace an adversary. #minabstrike
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-02-16 21:38:43
Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea could reshape sea's physical conditions #Baltic
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-02-13 07:18:55
'Tierische Begegnungen' #FotoVorschlag
'animal(ic) encounter'
I wasn't sure if I have a good or funny one to share with this topic. But I remembered visiting a wildlife park nearby at an autumn day.
It was a beautiful stroll through the park, watching the wildlife there when this situation came to be. Unplanned, just by pure luck.
And well.. I thin…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-01-27 04:17:48
Raiders Receive Blockbuster Trade Take About Maxx Crosby https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/49ers-blockbuster-trade-take-maxx-crosby/
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-04-15 07:50:17
“President Trump exhibits what forensic mental health experts have, across dozens of independent assessments, identified as the ‘Dark Triad’ of personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy … Rather than constituting a clinical diagnosis, this trait-based assessment is grounded in behavioral observation and is particularly useful for assessing the level of danger an individual poses in a political leadership position. We do not offer this as a clinical verdict. We offer i…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-24 10:40:41
BAFTA says it takes "full responsibility" for putting its "guests in a very difficult situation", after a Tourette's campaigner made several offensive comments (Alex Ritman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/b
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-02-14 15:00:07
"Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea could reshape sea's physical conditions"
#BalticSea #Oceans
https://…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-03-24 20:50:48
An Evening at Polymarket's Totally Broken Pop-up Bar (Joe Perticone/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/an-evening-at-polymarket-totally-broken-popup-bar-situation-room-prediction-market
http://www.memeorandum.com/260324/p116#a260324p116
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2026-04-20 19:34:25
I'm lucky I haven't had a lot of health issues myself in my life... but what I got a lot of experience with is health issues for the 2 cats I've had.
I can't stress enough the importance of doing your own research to complement what you hear from your vet.
There has been too many cases where what the vet said wasn't fully consistent or incomplete VS what the real situation was with my cat.
If you care about your little friend, have a vet, but also, be s…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-02-21 18:50:29
6 seems generous.
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social2026-03-14 16:15:28
"To confront the Iranian regime was to walk, with a lit match, towards a tinderbox soaked in gasoline. If it were to be done at all, whether by military or other means, it had to be done with the greatest care. But Trump has blundered in, crushing and trampling all before him, making a bad situation worse. He does not deserve the benefit of the doubt. He does not deserve his war to be assessed charitably. He deserves our contempt."
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-02-24 15:26:35
Every NFL team's biggest need entering the combine; Darryn Peterson's camp breaks silence on Kansas situation
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-team-needs-scoutin…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-03-20 04:04:01
Mike is right: The Baltimore Ravens are untrustworthy, unethical trash.
And Maxx Crosby is better off staying with the Raiders.
▶️ The Maxx Crosby Situation is Worse Than We Thought
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PC4ZH9FIV2I&si=D8wXwa_u3bEp6UR9
@jos@social.linux.pizza2026-04-14 03:34:23
Saving The World did not happen all at once. It happened in fragments, over days, with AI-generated scripts running quietly in the background while life continued elsewhere…
https://josvelasco.com/ai-cant-save-the-world-but-it-saved-one-i-know/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-21 19:30:50
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) is suggesting that a recent report on President Donald Trump’s involvement in the Situation Room (or lack thereof) during the extraction of U.S. military airmen in Iran should prompt his cabinet members to consider removing him from office.
The Wall Street Journal report in question details that Trump, upon learning that the two airmen’s plane had been shot down, reportedly screamed at his aides for many hours and was later kept from r…
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-02-20 21:48:55
Which province's universities will fail first? Here's the case for Quebec. Still, one could probably write a carbon copy of this article for all the others too.
https://www.ledevoir.com/actualites/education/957789/manque-gagner-majeu…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-02-21 08:05:16
Bad Bot Problem
Following a report on the situation with Social Media and bots, Lewis Stuart of University of Nottingham is inspired to see just how easy it is to fire up his own botnet and puts them to work on a fake social media site: 'scroll hole.'
📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjQNDCYL5Rg
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-03-06 13:11:02
News articles complaining about the state of the navy, during a time of conflict, are like news articles that wait until heavy snow to complain about the lack of investment in snow plows.
The UK's previous government took a bet that they wouldn't actually need a full navy before the 2030s - hence the "frigate gap".
@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.social2026-04-05 11:25:39
"The most powerful thing you can do in this situation doesn’t concern your attachments, or even your beliefs. It’s giving up on the idea that there is such a thing as safe territory. A kid’s book, a magic wand, even the idea of joy itself can be a tool used to club a kid back into the closet. Act accordingly."
https://
@niklaskorz@rheinneckar.social2026-02-17 08:33:41
I think what irks me the most about the understaffed darwin (= macOS) maintainers situation in #nixpkgs is not only that it forces pure Linux users to look out for darwin quirks and thus invest a significant amount of time in darwin maintenance, but also that a significant amount of the business value of DetSys, Flox and similar
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-02-20 21:06:46
Cowboys, George Pickens Situation Lands Bold New Prediction https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/george-pickens-situation-bold-new-prediction/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-20 13:20:39
Sources: Google has created strike team to improve its coding models; Sergey Brin told DeepMind staffers that they must aggressively pivot to catch up on agents (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-creates-strike-t…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-03-06 16:39:31
Lulu the #cat is lying on my mattress. I lie next to her. I gesticulate to her to climb on my chest, so I would get more space. She looks at me like I was some moron. In the meantime, Ruh notices the gesture and jumps on my chest.
Situation: I'm lying on half of the mattress. On one side, Lulu is stretching next to me and pushing me down. On the other, Ruh is lying on my chest, counterweighing me to the floor. I push my elbow against the bedside table not to fall.
But miraculously, they don't fight, so I ensure. Lulu started washing Ruh, and Ruh doesn't mind. I'm flabbergasted.
To the moment when Ruh suddenly starts sliding down, so she pushes all her claws into my chest. I shriek painfully, and both cats run away.
#LifeWithCats
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-04-02 03:02:04
For those wondering about the bizarre Apache helicopter flyover of a No Kings rally and "spontaneous" visit to Kid Rock's mansion, whether it was intentionally orchestrated (seems likely to me) or not, the effect was to send a public signal to the military that acts of allegiance to Trump and his supporters will get rewarded and shielded with impunity, even if they're flagrant violations of military codes and procedures.
It's another step in the fascist playbook of getting the military in line to support tyrannical acts, so it's very much not a "no harm no foul" situation.
As for why I think it's more likely quite deliberate: those helicopters don't fly without thousands of dollars of fuel, air traffic control (or you're creating some *serious* danger going without), and other logistical support. There's no way that level of risk makes personal sense to some random army helicopter pilots, just for the benefit of pulling a public stunt? These aren't random rookies in basic training, it takes serious skill and many hours of training to successfully pilot a helicopter at all. Why risk your entire military career on a stunt, and how did you convince an entire ground crew and air traffic control tower to get in on it? Having some kind of orders/encouragement/guarantee of impunity from above makes the most sense. I'd be 0% surprised if Hegseth directly gave the orders/go-ahead and the show of an "investigation into insubordination" that gets publicly cancelled by Hegseth personally is an entirely intentional result if not the main objective.
Also buzzing the No Kings rally was 100% intentional.
#NoKings
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-02-24 23:31:27
Could Trent Williams hit free agency? 49ers, star tackle working through contract situation as cap hit looms
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/trent-williams-49ers-tackle-contract-…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-16 18:40:50
Europe has “maybe six weeks or so” of remaining jet fuel supplies,
the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday in a wide-ranging interview,
warning of possible flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war.
IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol painted a sobering picture of the global repercussions of what he called
“the largest energy crisis we have ever faced,”
stemming from the pinch-off of oil, gas and other vital suppl…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-02-24 19:06:22
Raiders expect Maxx Crosby to return in 2026, general manager John Spytek says https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7067971/2026/02/24/raiders-maxx-crosby-return-john-spytek/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-02-18 13:21:27
Many people seem to think that war with Iran is close... It is may be a bit cynical but Trump could use a diversion with the dramatic situation inside the US and his terrible approval ratings....
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/18/iran-war-trump-military-strikes-n…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-21 00:22:17
Trump’s economic agenda has created a new level of volatility for the federal budget,
as the Supreme Court ruling against many of his tariffs appeared to create a trillion-dollar hole on Friday morning that Trump quickly said he could fill.
Mr. Trump has reshaped the country’s fiscal situation since he took office last year.
He passed an expensive income tax cut that economists warned could put the already-indebted nation on an even more perilous path.
But he also ins…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-18 13:21:02
Sources: Apple stops vibe coding apps from pushing updates, citing rules on running code; Replit thinks Apple may approve opening AI-generated apps in a browser (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-cracks-vibe-coding-apps
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-04-13 08:47:30
RE: #enshitificaton of software, hardware, and services and the austerity to fascism pipeline. The state is just an older type of walled garden. The solution isn't to improve the walled garden, but to leave it forever.
When we build systems, together, that cannot be shut down, that exist outside of these political systems, then we are opting out. Anarchism is the open source option of political ideologies.
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-02-21 22:59:26
Hill: Raiders hold the cards with Maxx Crosby situation looming over combine https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/adam-hill/hill-raiders-hold-the-cards-with-maxx-crosby-situation-loomi…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-02-17 19:50:41
“I can easily imagine a situation where the USA will demand #Greenland from Denmark and will threaten to deactivate our weapons and let #Russia attack us when we refuse. Buying American weapons is a security risk that we can not run.” -- Rasmus Jarlov. Chair, Danish parliament’s defence committee.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-02-19 14:32:33
RE: https://mastodon.social/@aseelfromgz/116097728946124841
Aseel is one of our Gaza Verified team of volunteers. She helps verify other Palestinians from Gaza while suffering through the same situation.
Please help her and her family – who are s…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-04-25 02:14:34
Cards draft Beck, add ex-Canes star to QB room https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48585293/cardinals-select-qb-carson-beck-third-round-nfl-draft
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-02-24 19:04:15
Raiders expect Maxx Crosby to return in 2026, general manager John Spytek says https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7067971/2026/02/24/raiders-maxx-crosby-return-john-spytek/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-19 15:05:31
Drones over base where Rubio, Hegseth live raise security concerns
U.S. officials detected unidentified drones above the Washington Army base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live,
according to three people briefed on the situation.
Officials have not determined where they came from, two of the people said.
The military is monitoring potential threats more closely because of the heightened alert level as the United States and …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-14 16:16:29
Sources: ByteDance suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0 amid copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streamers; it was launched in China last month (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bytedance-s…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-02-24 15:33:17
Raiders GM John Spytek Has Two Word Response to Maxx Crosby Trade Rumors https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-john-spytek-trade-rumors/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-04-22 21:11:22
Cowboys in dire defensive draft straits due to continued fails in FA https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/04/22/defense-or-die-free-agent-failure-dallas-cowboys-draft-2026/897220…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-13 16:54:04
The White House is forcing countries to choose between opening up a potentially unbridgeable rift
or playing down the climate crisis and trying to squeeze in green priorities by the back door.
Last autumn, the US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, demanded the removal of some climate finance targets from the World Bank’s aims
and insisted it must “finance all affordable and reliable sources of energy … [with] an all-of-the-above approach to energy that includes financing fo…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-03-03 10:12:39
In all seriousness, there are a ton of possible scenarios. The Iranian regime is weaker than it has ever been. I deeply hope for the liberation of Iranian people, especially oppressed minorities. Meanwhile, the US is lead by the most incompetent leadership ever (which is really saying a lot).
The Kurds, who could be the keystone ground forces needed to collapse the regime have been betrayed by the US so many times that they may not rise up (correctly) predicting that the US will stab them in the back at the fist chance.
But they are also a highly oppressed group in Iran, and may well take this opportunity. I don't know enough about this region to make any kind of reasonable prediction.
There are a huge number of unknowns, which is really *not* what anyone wants when starting a conflict.
To Iranian people, I wish you freedom and self-determination against all actors. To the US military, I wish you the best of luck getting your whole behive-dick situation.
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-03-19 20:52:01
Raiders’ Jalen Nailor Doesn’t Hold Back on Maxx Crosby https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jalen-nailor-maxx-crosby-ravens-situation/
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-04-17 09:07:14
Chad Johnson Shares True Thoughts on Raiders’ QB Situation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/chad-johnson-true-thoughts-qb-situation/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-02 22:35:57
Source: SpaceX acquired xAI for $250B; the announcement about the acquisition focuses on SpaceX's plans to launch data centers into space (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/elon-musk-says-spacex-acquired-xai
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-19 06:20:02
That was fast!" Tom Miller said.
"You're seeing that Trump's strategy is just making a bunch of claims and hoping that they come to fruition,"
Miller added that the Strait's closure could compel Trump to make further concessions to the Iranians as negotiations continue.
"I think obviously that Trump will continue to offer more and more concessions in the hope that the Strait can get reopened,"
"But the situation is a lot dic…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-18 23:09:17
Trump convened a situation room meeting on the negotiations with Iran with Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, Wiles, Ratcliffe, Bessent, Witkoff
( not Gabbard )
Mike Vlasic said:
... none of them could find the room, and they ended up drinking with Kash
https://bsky.app/profile/onestpress.on
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-02-24 15:21:20
Raider Nation Chatter: Is Maxx Crosby following Josh Jacobs’ Raiders playbook? https://raiderramble.com/2026/02/24/raider-nation-chatter-is-maxx-crosby-following-josh-jacobs-raiders-playbook/
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-04-13 17:26:44
Cowboys make mock draft trade into top 10, plus explaining the Rueben Bain Jr. situation
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-make-mock-d…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-04-15 03:12:30
Raiders GM Shares Big Decision on QB Situation Before NFL Draft https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/gm-shares-big-decision-qb-situation/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-12 19:08:19
A man armed with a rifle rammed a vehicle into the nation's largest Reform synagogue, in a Detroit suburb,
and was fatally shot by security, The Associated Press has learned.
That's according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday.
The vehicle caught on fire after crashing into the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, the person said
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-10 15:11:34
The Gulf countries are in a no-win situation,
stuck between a belligerent Israel that has no qualms about using violence to achieve its strategic aims
and a desperate Iran lashing out against U.S. allies in the region as it tries to survive.
"No matter which side prevails, Gulf states have realized how vulnerable they are despite U.S. security guarantees.
“In either scenario, I don’t think that the Gulf states will be happy with the outcome,”
says Kareem …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-10 15:29:55
Britain's Keir Starmer has agreed with Germany’s Friedrich Merz and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni to “work closely together” in navigating commercial shipping through the strait of Hormuz.
A spokesperson for Starmer said the prime minister spoke to the leaders of Germany and Italy on Monday night “about the situation in the Middle East, discussing the strait of Hormuz.”
He said:
They agreed on the vital importance of freedom of navigation for vessels through these waters. They ag…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-02-18 00:02:20
Why the Raiders, Crosby Situation Is More Complicated Than It Seems https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-maxx-crosby-situation-is-more-complicated-than-it-seems
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-03-22 19:02:49
Aaron Donald Shares Troubling Reality About Current Raiders Situation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/aaron-donald-maxx-crosby-trade/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-10 23:04:55
Zeteo’s Asawin Subsaeng reported this week that Trump is directing a furious hunt for people who leaked info to The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan for that huge piece about how Trump decided to start this war.
The piece is actually an excerpt from their upcoming book, which is expected to contain still more embarrassing details about the Trump regime.
“In conversations with close aides and advisers, President Trump has loudly demanded to know who in his Cabin…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-13 01:27:42
An American military refueling plane taking part in the operation against Iran crashed in Iraq -- and rescue efforts were underway, U.S. Central Command said Thursday.
It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties.
A U.S. official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the developing situation, said the KC-135 aircraft that crashed had at least five crew members aboard.
The crash was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire, the mi…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-10 06:33:25
The Defense Department burned through $93 billion in September alone, signing checks left and right
-- in order to dry up its congressionally allocated budget, according to a recent analysis by the government watchdog Open the Books.
There is pressure to spend:
If federal agencies don’t use the entirety of their budgets by the end of the fiscal year,
then they lose access to that cash forever,
potentially putting themselves in a situation where they have to requ…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-02-18 08:42:15
Gary Kubiak Doesn’t Hold Back New Raiders HC Klint Kubiak https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/gary-kubiak-admission-about-klint-kubiak/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-02 15:07:16
“Of all the possible Middle East scenarios, 🔥the current state of play is one of the worst for the global economy,”
says the Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s head of global economics, Joseph Capurso.
He added: 💥“We expect the situation to escalate before it de-escalates.
“Iran’s leadership and military capabilities have been significantly degraded.
However, what is unknown is their intent and capability to block the
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-03-15 00:02:24
Raiders, Maxx Crosby Get Compelling Outlook for 2026 Season https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-compelling-outlook-2026-season/
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-04-16 17:22:32