@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta says Meta Glasses are its first AI glasses to launch with Meta AI powered by Muse Spark from day one, and come in 26 styles across a range of colors (Meta Newsroom)
https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/meta-essilorluxottica-partner-launch-meta-glasses/
@cdarwin@c.imThe Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the 6 January 2021 Capitol attack, -- calling the information about the prosecutions “partisan propaganda”.
The purge of news releases documenting criminal charges, convictions and sentencings is the latest step by the Trump administration to dramatically 💥rewrite the history of the assault on the US Capitol,
when hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump stormed t…
@jensilber@mastodon.social
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSean McVay: Aaron Donald 'thinking about' potential return but still going 'through his process' https://www.nfl.com/news/sean-mcvay-aaron-donald-thinking-about-potential-return-but-still-going-through-his-process…
@vosje62@mastodon.nlWhat China can learn from Japan about escaping deflation - #theeconomist
https://www.economist.com/china/2026/05/21/what-china-can-learn-from-japan-about-escaping-deflation
Archive https://archive.ph/4plgc
@servelan@newsie.socialCritics fiercely appalled as Eric Trump brags about scoring $24 million Pentagon deal - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/absurd-corruption-disgust-as-eric-trump-brags-about-scoring-24-million-pentagon-deal/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Supreme Court Is About to Decide Four Cases Defining Trump's Power (James Romoser/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/the-supreme-court-is-about-to-decide-four-cases-defining-trumps-power-e27324fe
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p53#a260622p53
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialWhen ICANN updates the internet’s root cryptographic key this year it should be an invisible process for consumers, but IT teams must be prepared to take action.
https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/…
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe first record of the parable commonly known as the "Blind Men and the Elephant" showed up around 2500 years ago, in a Buddhist text from India. At this point it's pretty commonly known. I assume that most folks reading this will be familiar with some variation of it.
If not, it's essentially a story about people who have limited information making assertions about something: one man grabs a tail and says, "it's like a rope," another the trunk and says, "it's like a snake," a third the leg saying, "it's like a tree," and so on. Later variations are less kind to the men, having them not simply report their findings, but fight over them. The first English translation draws a parallel to religion.
This comes to mind for me, because social media has a tendency to incentivize us to make those hard assertions, to dig in, to argue our perspective as part of a spectacle. Free and federated social media isn't structurally that different from corporate media, so the incentive models built to maximize engagement by maximizing conflict tend to leak through the similarities in the user experience and the conditioning of other platforms.
I didn't really come here to critique the fediverse, but rather to remind everyone, "no one sees the whole fucking elephant." We are limited and there are necessarily some things so big they will never be individually comprehensible. Any system that relies on us all agreeing cannot possibly respond to those big things.
We can see that concretely if we look at the difference between "democratic unity" and "diversity of tactics." In the first model, everyone either agrees or gets forced to behave as though they agree (at least on some issues). That's how liberal democracy works. Diversity of tactics (which systematically described, for example, in the "St Paul Principles"), on the other hand, let's people align on goals without needing to agree on exactly how to achieve them. The reality being that often there are multiple "correct" paths, and sometimes those paths can only work if multiple paths are taken in unison.
No one sees the whole elephant. We won't even see the elephant later. People will still be arguing about the elephant long after it's gone. But if you want to get rid of the elephant, you're gonna need to accept that you can't comprehend it all and you're gonna have to figure out a way to work together that doesn't require a unified approach.
@lpryszcz@genomic.socialGreat move, Spainish tv is also boycotting Eurovision over Israel participation.
#boycott #eurovision
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioHey, Twin Cities folks! I'm in an upcoming show that I'm excited about.
It’s visual art, it’s theater, it’s music, it’s ritual, it’s community meditation, it’s one of those •experiences• that defies categorization. It's the brainchild of Summer Hills-Bonczyk, who runs the cermics studio at Macalester, and I'm working with her brother to create music for the show.
I have a good feeling about this. I think it's going to be really cool!
#MSP #StPaul #Minneapolis
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineBrazil’s President Lula has hit the treadmill to ease voter concerns about his age. DJT heard the word “treadmill,” had someone explain what it meant to him, and then needed to be rushed to Walter Reed Medical Center. As before: he’s in unstable condition.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/b…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialCryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum and Rust Edition
[…] Cryptography is everywhere and as a developer you will need to upgrade your projects with post-quantum algorithms, whether because you care about the security of your users, or for compliance reasons. […]
🦀 https://kerkour.com/post-qua…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alEnglish is a funny language… terms and phrases can mean more than one thing based on usage.
Take “I’m apolitical”, for example.
When it expresses that you only care about this quarter’s profits while the planet burns, it means “I’m stupid.”
When it’s that you can’t be bothered about the plight of people less fortunate than you, it means “I’m privileged” and “fuck you, I got mine.”
And when it shows that you’re neutral about – and thus actively complicit in – genocide,…
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesNew Canadian privacy focused website
https://dontsurveil.me/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA study of 11,989 Polymarket users finds 61% placed fewer than 100 trades over a six-week period, with 58% making or losing less than $100 during that period (Kaitlyn Radde/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/07…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFCC Chairman Brendan Carr says ABC's decision to not carry Trump's July 16 speech about elections live will be part of its review for ABC-owned station licenses (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/fcc-abc-trump-speech-rev…
@floheinstein@chaos.socialSomeone living just a short drive from our new home is selling a trebuchet with a 5 m throwing arm. For just about 600 Euro...
I think I have to talk to my wife about things this house still lacks. Like a moat. And this.
https://www.ricardo.ch/de/a/1309843354
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzWhile there was no #Starship launch the #SpaceX webcast contained two unexpected segments, one about a vague plan of a space tourist flight - #Starlink Stargaze system described in https://starlink.com/updates/stargaze and https://breakingdefense.com/2026/01/spacex-unveils-stargaze-space-tracking-system/ and https://smallsatnews.com/2026/02/18/spacex-unveils-stargaze-system-to-revolutionize-space-traffic-management/: apparently there are numerous unlisted satellites in LEO which come so close to the Starlinks that cameras on the latter see them as bright objects. How could those objects have been missed by all space surveillance from the ground?
@NFL@darktundra.xyzCardinals' Jeremiyah Love setting no 'personal goals': 'It's all about the team at the end of the day' https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-jeremiyah-love-setting-no-personal-goals-it-s-all-about-the-te…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyScottish pro-Palestine activist arrested for reading poem about Gaza. In a threatening way...
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26290837.scottish-pro-palestine-activist-arrested-for-reading-poem/
@wraithe@mastodon.socialThis is a great thread on remote work. The notes about having to be 💯 while on camera made me realize that all my clients are fine if people have their cameras off (mine is almost always off), and how much that really makes doing meetings easier.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:svvjd
@cdarwin@c.imThe share of people who give a shit about whether a given piece of writing, art, or code was produced with AI is going to fall off a cliff, and that fall has already started.
Five years from now, asking “Is this AI?” will feel about as urgent and meaningful as asking whether a photo was taken on film or digital.
A few specialists will care intensely. Everyone else will have moved on.
I’m not making a values or morality-based call on whether this is a good or bad thing.
@deepthoughts10@infosec.exchangeOne of the best detailed descriptions of cybersecurity program essentials I’ve seen. From JP Morgan’s #cybersecurity team
https://www.j…
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org"This post is about a found mural, a lost artist, and a conference talk. It’s the full story of Wes Cook and The McDonald’s Mural. Grab a beverage, sit back, relax, and thank you for joining me..."
https://cabel.com/wes-cook-and-the-mcdonalds-mural/
@cdamian@rls.socialFriday Links 26-17
Two weeks of links again!
Three podcast recommendations from me, if you got the time: Dadaism, Cow Resistance, and Desert Island with Si King.
The post by Rands about being overwhelmed as a leader is also great.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/05/fr
@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizzaFrom all the AI stuff thats been talked about here at KotlinConf this is the most honest slide
#Kotlin #KotlinConf #AI
@markhburton@mstdn.socialIs Trump about to attack Cuba? - by Christina Pagel
https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/is-trump-about-to-attack-cuba
@stefan@gardenstate.socialHow you feel about AI’s energy use might change how you feel about computers entirely.
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/937356/ai-data-center-gpu-environmental-impact
@ErikUden@mastodon.dewait, google is legally liable for other people writing negative reviews about businesses possibly being “defamatory” and hence way too generously delete them, but google isn't responsible for what their own ai says on their own platform??
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom The Narwhal
Near Tofino, a push for gold is colliding with efforts to protect a rare coastal ecosystem
Unpublished documents and a helicopter flight into the Tranquil Creek watershed reveal details about renewed exploration at a long-dormant mine, raising concerns about B.C.’s mining laws, water and Indigenous Rights
In February, Canadian mining company Imperial Metals received a permit to explore for gold at the long-dormant Fandora mine site on Vancouver Island’s w…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeSTMicro finally released a security advisory related to a silicon errata I found last year so I can talk more freely about it https://www.st.com/resource/en/security_bulletin/sb0070-risaf-limitation-about-p…
@wvmierlo@zirk.usInteresting take on the Granta / Commonwealth Prize GenAI controversy.
#AI GenAI
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeI can cry on demand by thinking about how I'll never be able to pet all of them 😭
@jswright61@ruby.socialiOs 26.5 (latest). I have chosen to have messages from unknown callers segregated to their own list. Why are you showing this badge on the list selector glyph. For almost 20 years you’ve trained me that badges warrant my attention. In this case I have expressly indicated I don’t want to know about these. So why are you brining it to my attention?
If I’m expecting a message and I don’t see it, trust me, I’ll seek it out. Until then, let it die in obscurity.
@hippyjo@c.imHey all you Californians who care about privacy and government over-reach!
AB 2047 will criminalize an entire class of people who own 3D printers and don't update them to allow government snooping and throttling.
They say they are worried about guns, but it is not an effective way to go.
California deserves better. This will have undue impact on individuals, education, and industry. It is a stupid idea, it is not thought out, it is unfunded, and it won't accomplish…
@servelan@newsie.socialLibrary board members refused to ban a book about a trans boy. The county fired them all. - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/library-board-members-refused-to-ban-a-book-about-a-trans-boy-the-county-fired-them-all/
@anildash@me.dm"Mozilla's PR team told me they want to be both the best browser for people who hate AI and the safest browser for people who love AI. " In an article where the plan to win over users is: build a better browser. Well! https://www.pcmag.com/news/firefox-ajit-varma-m…
@cheryanne@aus.socialIn Conversations About Family Violence – You Do Not Have To Put Up With It!
This series is designed to inform, empower, and support anyone affected by family violence — as well as the professionals and community members who walk alongside them...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhat has Andy Burnham, Britain's likely next prime minister, said about President Trump? (Frank Andrews/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uk-andy-burnham-what-he-says-about-president-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p77#a260623p77
@frankel@mastodon.top#ProgrammingLanguages, targets, and platforms
I started as a #Java developer, but for some time now, I have broadened my horizons. Recently, I thought about how early languages were dedicated to a single target and platform, and now they are broadening their focus. In this post, I want to …
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgJudging from comments around and about, it's probably time to post this again.
We will shortly be changing out our roof and installing solar panels and aircon for use in summer in Copenhagen.
Climate is changing - it's time to adapt.
How did air conditioning become a heated debate? - https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/39e6beb5-98f5-47ca-9914-cf5f8294a947 via @FT
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioNote, these are all super-heavy-ish launch vehicles.
(The cargo capacity of the Space Shuttle was a lot lower than “super heavy” because it has to lift itself up into orbit as well; but all these vehicles are in about the same ballpark as for their total power.)
@ocrampal@mastodon.socialhttps://ocrampal.com/when-the-question-itself-was-the-problem/
Most philosophical debates don't need better answers. They need a different starting point. This dialogue explores a framework in which paradoxes about mind and body and reality stop arising.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Sundar Pichai on the future of Google Search, Google's place in the AI race, public skepticism toward AI, AI agents, AI safety, TPUs, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/podcasts/sundar-picha…
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… there is something about the lack of an overt brand that seems very cool and memorable to me
@fennek@cyberplace.socialI do understand that there are vast differences between the reactions to user feedback so I am not replying to this post directly, but I do now feel the need to leave this somewhere:
The usual reply I get from 1 man teams is "works as intended, won't fix" while community projects (nextcloud, CoMaps, ...) on the other hand have discussions over months and years that seem to be going nowhere until I don't even care anymore - and either have a workaround or use another a…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzJalen Moreno-Cropper: Five Things to Know about new Saints wide receiver https://www.neworleanssaints.com/news/jalen-moreno-cropper-wide-receiver-saints-roster-five-things-to-know
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukPleasantly surprised I can measure this timing difference on my cheap scope; In both cases this is a chain of a pair of inverters in a 74LS04 package; the difference between the two captures is just the length of breadboard wire between the 1st and 2nd inverter; the first is about 1cm and the 2nd is about 20cm; so that's about 0.5ns difference measured which is reasonable - and surprisingly good for a 500MS/s scope.
(The yellow is input from a sig gen, blue is op of 2nd inverter).
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Snake-Eater" by T. Kingfisher (@…). I'd read and thoroughly enjoyed her "Digger" webcomic, and found this book to be quite enjoyable too. There's something indelibly heartwarming about an anxious character growing to feel more comfortable and self-assured, especially when escaping and unlearning emotional abuse, and I'm certainly a sucker for heartwarming characters. I like the way that Kingfisher has taken time to talk about and try to avoid cultural appropriation, in a way that I feel is reasonable, although of course I'm not an expert judge of the nuances and I'm biased by having liked the book, so I'm willing to be told things are complicated in that regard it others judge differently. I also really liked the window dressing of a vaguely solarpunk future society, in a book that's not at all about that society. I'd love to see Kingfisher write something focused on how that society could work (or maybe she already has?).
Probably going to look up some of Kingfisher's fantasy books soon.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@jdrm@social.linux.pizzaThe EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel https://edri.org/our-work/the-eu-is-about-to-sell-our-most-sensitive-data-to-the-us-for-visa-free-travel/
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngFascinating video by Rob Butler about analyzing & visualizing geological folds (also one of my current research topics)
#Geology
@laf0rge@chaos.socialInteresting and comprehensive report about sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns involving mobile operator signaling infrastructure https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exploitation-by-covert-surveillance-actors/
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgWent shopping for a new phone for my daughter who is turning 16. All she knows about her phone is the screen size and that it was a 15 Plus. Not the amount of storage or any other details. Doesn't care about the camera at all. Random anecdata from the experience:
⁃ The only phone with the same screen size is this pro Max. I asked about the Air and the T-Mobile salesperson said "90% of the ones we sold were returned due to the poor battery life so we don't even bring them u…
@danyork@mastodon.socialI admit that I knew absolutely nothing about #FeralHogs until… #JohnOliver !
https://youtu.be/pGazYSkFFMw …
@metacurity@infosec.exchange @cdarwin@c.im#Polymarket has been paying online creators to post deceptive videos that show them making lucrative bets on the prediction market,
according to a new investigation in the Wall Street Journal.
The WSJ said that it analyzed 1,100 videos about Polymarket
and also viewed instructional materials that the company provided to creators.
Many of those videos were reportedly filmed on “n…
@servelan@newsie.socialFCC wants to "gender police" kids' TV shows by adding warnings about trans characters - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/fcc-wants-to-gender-police-kids-tv-shows-by-adding-warnings-about-trans-characters/
@hex@kolektiva.socialPopular Front recently did a piece on the current conflicts in Ethiopia:
https://popularfront.substack.com/p/everything-you-didnt-know-about-the
It's a good primer for anyone who's unfamiliar, but is definitely lacking if you know any Ethiopian folks or pay attention to much news out of the Horn of Africa.
The interplay between authoritarian liberal nationalism, as represented by Abiy Ahmed and his government, and tribal federalism , represented by various tribal factions, reads to me very similarly to the liberalization of Europe (enclosure of the commons, a push to sacrifice ethnic identities for nationalist ones, etc). Like the liberalization of, say, France, it's a lot more complicated than "old thing bad, new thing good."
Liberalism was violent and authoritarian. It often sacrificed leftists. Liberalism's focus on borders and national identity led directly to pogroms and Nazism. Similarly, liberalization of Ethiopia has led to genocide and ethnic cleansing.
People think of "the terror" in France as a leftist thing, but it wasn't. It was a Liberal thing, centrist extremism, carried out against right and left.
I understand that tribal federalism is also not a good system, but I don't have a ton of depth so I'm not going to try to explain it. During the European Liberal revolutionary period of 1848, ethnic minorities would often side with some monarch or emperor against liberalism out of fear of liberal nationalism. It makes sense to support a system that's bad if your other option is a nationalism that erases your identity.
But even in Europe at that time, anarchism offered an alternative but that alternative often also drew from simply a different branch of liberalism that also suppressed culture and identity. Today the world is different. Democratic Confederalism offers a solution to *exactly* this problem, tested for more than a decade in Syria and developing now in Myanmar.
But the cross pollination between Syria and Myanmar in terms of fighters really made the ideological cross pollination possible. I don't think anything like that is happening now in Ethiopia.
Eurocentrism makes it easy to ignore what's happening now, but Addis Ababa is the seat of the African Union Commission. Ethiopia is a major military power in the region, so these developments carry a lot of weight. Especially as the US collapses and the world becomes more multipolar, the development of regional powers like Ethiopia will have a big impact on how that part of the continent develops.
If any folks are more familiar with Ethiopia than I am (which shouldn't be hard since I'm basically not), please correct me or add context if anything is missing or wrong.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzNo, this isn't concept art for Dune 3 - it's the British design for a planned vast #astrotourism center in the #SaudiArabian desert near #AlUla: see https://heatherwick.com/studio/news/where-earth-meets-the-stars-heatherwick-studio-reveals-design-for-astrotourism-visitor-centre-and-masterplan/ and https://www.experiencealula.com/en/about/features/a-new-frontier-in-astrotourism and https://darksky.org/places/alula-manara-and-algharameel-nature-reserves/ and https://www.euronews.com/travel/2026/06/21/show-stopping-astrotourism-centre-with-stargazing-lodge-to-open-near-saudi-arabias-alula and https://parametric-architecture.com/heatherwick-studio-observatory-alula/ and https://www.designboom.com/architecture/heatherwick-studio-observatory-astrotourism-saudi-arabia-desert-alula-manara/ and https://www.dezeen.com/2026/06/19/alula-manara-space-observatory-heatherwick-studio-saudi-arabia/ for various aspects of the endeavour which involves a 4-meter (!) telescope among numerous other attractions.
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesThis never gets old
(Stolen on Reddit)
#TheOffice
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLe Monde is considering ways to grant access to AI agents of paying readers while maintaining its block on crawler bots and other unlicensed non-human traffic (Jessica Davies/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/le-monde-blo
@servelan@newsie.social"‘Nice career your husband has. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it”"
‘Holy Cow’: Trump Sparks Panic on Live TV, Sends Chilling Warning to Republicans in Congress About What He’ll Do to Their Families If They Cross Him
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/05/21/smh-trump-sparks-shock-on-live-tv-after-sending-chilling-warning-to-republicans-in-congress-about-what-hell-do-to-their-families-if-they-cross-him/
@aral@mastodon.ar.alI see Proton are back on Mastodon after leaving in a huff last year after being criticised for praising the fascists running the USA.
Just a reminder their CEO thinks (I’m using the term very loosely here) that Trump and the Republicans will save us from Big Tech.
(They’re right about the corporate Democrats being shit. The solution to that is to flush the toilet, not jump headfirst into the sewer.) @…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSpaceX announces a senior unsecured notes offering and discloses that it has about $100.8B in cash; SPCX drops 8% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/22/spacex-spcx-bond-sale-ipo.html
@markhburton@mstdn.socialTrump 'science' versus climate science.
A modern Vatican versus Galileo.
Factcheck: Trump’s false claims about the IPCC and ‘RCP8.5’ climate scenario - Carbon Brief https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-trumps-false-claims-ab…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzEagles coach Nick Sirianni not worried about putting inexperienced Sean Mannion in charge of offense https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-coach-nick-sirianni-not-worried-about-putting-inexperienced-sean-mannion-in-charge-of-o…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyBit of a detour:
Can the Suez save Asian oil consumers after Houthis shut Bab al-Mandeb?
https://aje.news/wm6rvs
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgThe US special envoy sent to negotiate with Greenland and Denmark, used the occasion of Greenland's National Day to suggest that already next year they will be the 51st state.
I cannot express my feelings about this without swearing very very loudly.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/jeff-landry-maaske-kan-groenland-blive-usa-s-51-stat-allerede-naeste-aar
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialInteresting article about drone tactics.
#drones
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineWe can breathe easy, for there is absolutely nothing to worry about.
#USpol
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzSean McVay’s BWTB interview revealed everything Rams fans could’ve possibly wanted to know. About everything. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/los-angeles-ram…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeNot sure if this is relevant to Infosec Exchange followers, but it seems that Gmail was serious about ditching the POP3 format, and I've had to quickly set up a new email system today for all my accounts. Some emails may have been lost or misdirected.
When all else fails, use Signal (in my bio).
@cdarwin@c.imBernie Sanders has made his decision >>
Hey folks, I’m Democrat Trey Martin, and I couldn’t be more excited to be endorsed by 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 in my race for Congress in Oklahoma's Fifth Congressional District!
Senator Sanders inspired me to get involved in public service because he was the only politician who seemed to give a damn about the working-class.
His presidential campaign in 2016 motivated me to become a union leader for Oklahoma Ironworkers and fi…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJamie Raskin Continues to Lie About President Trump's Charlottesville Remarks (Amy Curtis/Townhall)
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/05/20/jamie-raskin-continues-to-lie-about-president-trumps-charlottesville-remarks-n2676404
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p113#a260520p113
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://todon.eu/@regendans/116620459185557667
Nice… now, about the little matter of the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza…
@cdarwin@c.imIn the Senate today, lawmakers plan to question US trade representative Jamieson Greer.
Ron Wyden, the Senate finance committee’s top Democrat, said that
Donald Trump’s “tariff spree” has “hammered” farmers and small business owners in his home state of Oregon
– particularly in communities which voted for the president in 2024.
“Like so many other promises, Donald Trump has made to working people, The second he set foot in the White House, he did nothing to put Americ…
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineWith the acting Attorney General by his side, FBI Director Kash Patel publicly addressed allegations about his conduct, saying, “I’m not as think as you drunk I am,” and “let’s go do karaoke!”
#satire #USpol #KashPatel
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL fifth-year option tracker: Full list of every team's decision about first-round picks from 2023 NFL Draft
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-fifth-year-option-tracker/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA speculative scenario titled "Europe 2031" projects economic and political instability in the EU if it fails to keep pace with the US and China in the AI race (Aisha Down/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/20/e…
@cdarwin@c.imThe historian Kim Phillips-Fein’s new book "Country of Lords" is a history of Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America.
Phillips-Fein studies conservatism and “questions about capitalism and democracy”.
Her first book "Invisible Hands", was a study of businessmen who fought the New Deal of the 1930s.
Her second, "Fear City", about the New York economic crisis of the 1970s, was a finalis…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alYou know those Nazis people were living next to in Germany, back in the day? You’re living next to them right now. And they have those lovely families and the house next door and every day they go to work at corporations that are complicit in genocide. And if you’re wondering what you would have done about it back then… well, you’re doing it now. And, more than likely, it’s exactly what most folks did in Nazi Germany. Which is absolutely fuck all.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzMalik Nabers' return uncertain: Should Giants be worried about Jaxson Dart's supporting cast?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/malik-nabers-injury-update-jaxson-…
@servelan@newsie.socialVirginia Governor Explains Marijuana Veto, Saying She Worried About 'Rushed Timeline' And Too Many Dispensaries - Marijuana Moment
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/virginia-governor-explains-marijuana-veto-saying-she-worried-about-rushed-timeline-and-too-many-dispensaries/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenAI generated about $5.7B in revenue in Q1, nearly $1B more than Anthropic (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-held-1-billion-revenue-lead-anthropic-first-quarter
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: SpaceX, which is seeking to raise between $20B and $25B in its debut US bond sale, has drawn about $89B of demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-23/spacex-draws-89-billion-demand-for-debut-…
@cdarwin@c.im“I only care about one thing,” Trump said. “Will we be No. 1 in crypto?”
-- You might say the corruption is the point.
NBC sought to calculate the amount of fines and fees owed by Trump’s wealthy pardon recipients and found:
The 87 people and one corporation pardoned by Trump in the last year had been ordered to pay more than
$298 million in fines and restitution
—$20 million more than the total owed by all of the pardon recipients in his entire first term,
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Cash App founder Bob Lee's 2023 killing fed into a narrative pushed by tech leaders like Elon Musk about SF's decline until an acquaintance was convicted (Shawn Wen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
@cdarwin@c.imWhen we later asked them about their stances on hybrid and remote work, manager's answers didn't correlate with how much they trusted their employees or how much they loved being around people.
The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism
https://bs…
@Techmeme@techhub.social @cdarwin@c.imStaying in a job for the health insurance?
About 1 in 4 Americans do,
a survey says
The survey from West Health-Gallup Center on Healthcare in America
finds that approximately
23 million adults are in what the report authors call "job lock."
In 2021, 16% of those surveyed were in job lock.
"Anybody having to stay in a job just to keep their health insurance,
knowing that they want to leave, is crazy,"
says Ellyn Maes…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Meta internally exposed data from its employee-tracking program meant to help train its AI models, including full prompts and private conversations (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-accidentally-let-employees-access-each-others-k…
@cdarwin@c.imThere is a WILD ONE out of the 8th Cir. today about a man who stole another man's identity 30 years ago, lived all those years under the other man's identity including getting married and having a kid, who then got the other man prosecuted for identity theft.
https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI unveils an updated GPT-5.5-Cyber model, launches the Patch the Planet initiative in partnership with Trail of Bits to fix open source bugs, and more (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-launche
@cdarwin@c.imThe result that should really cause you to update your beliefs about this year’s midterms is not in the topline or the Times’ official reporting, but hidden deep in the poll’s crosstabs.
A big story of the 2024 election was that Donald Trump made inroads with non-voters who traditionally leaned Democratic, and even got some of them to turn out for him.
But now it’s looking like he has squandered those gains and put his party on the path to midterm defeat in the House
— an…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Senate's Clarity Act, a crypto industry-backed bill set for a vote this summer, is mired in debate over rules to stop Trump from selling digital currencies (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/t…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Abu Dhabi's MGX has raised close to $50B from regional sovereign wealth funds, global pension funds, and others to accelerate spending on AI deals (Dinesh Nair/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@Techmeme@techhub.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialTexas AG Ken Paxton sues Meta, accusing WhatsApp of marketing its services as secure but failing to "deliver on those promises" by accessing encrypted messages (Ryan Autullo/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-
