2026-03-11 23:26:14
Superhuman faces a proposed class action lawsuit from Julia Angwin, founder of The Markup, alleging Grammarly's Expert Review tool involved "misappropriation" (Miles Klee/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/grammarly-is-f…
Superhuman faces a proposed class action lawsuit from Julia Angwin, founder of The Markup, alleging Grammarly's Expert Review tool involved "misappropriation" (Miles Klee/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/grammarly-is-f…
"Encouragement boosts people’s likelihood to take climate action"
#Climate #ClimateChange
UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule.
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/13/uk-ban-palest…
Superhuman faces a proposed class action lawsuit from Julia Angwin, founder of The Markup, alleging Grammarly's Expert Review tool involved "misappropriation" (Miles Klee/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/grammarly-is-f…
Hallelujah! Hallelujah Halle-e-loo-jah!
"UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule"
#UKPol
#RightToProtest
#PalestineAction
Neue PC-Spiele im April 2026: „Pragmata“
Im April erscheint das SciFi-Action-Adventure „Pragamata“. „Samson“" und „Replaced“ gehen ebenfalls an den Start.
https://www.heise.de/news/Neue-PC-Spiele-i
Seeing members of the Iranian women's football team get asylum in Australia reminds me of this in the UK: Lift the Ban: Why People Seeking Asylum Should Have the Right to Work - Refugee Action https://www.refugee-action.org.uk/lift-the
A follow up here on action items (assuming you’re already using trusted publishers OIDC to scope releases to a single GitHub Action workflow):
1. Look for any `pull_request_target` GitHub Actions workflows! (this allows external forks/code to run your actions with write access ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️)
2. Look for use of `cache` in your GitHub Actions release workflow (cache was poisoned/compromised by `pull_request_target` trigger)
Learn more about `pull_request_target`:
ACLU California Action asked California's gubernatorial candidates where they stand on the most vital civil rights and civil liberties issues facing Californians today.
Here’s how they responded
https://aclucalaction.org/2026-election-guide/gubernatorial-ca…
Best roundup of the effects of Trump's war on Iran on the global energy system so far is from Carbon Brief (no surprise there): https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-does-the-iran-war-mean-for-the-energy-transition-and-climate-action/
Trump and Rubio's escalating rhetoric show a Cuba invasion could be imminent (Josephine Walker/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/11/trump-cuba-pressure-military-action-talk
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p3#a260512p3
„Pragmata“: Packendes Mondabenteuer
Originell und spektakulär. Capcoms SF-Action-Abenteuer „Pragmata“ zeigt ein ungewöhnliches Duo auf tödlicher Mond-Mission.
https://www.heise.de/tests/Pragmata-Packen
Submit Your Song to the Second General Strike Song Contest - Labor Heritage Foundation https://laborheritage.org/content.aspx?page_id=5&club_id=533040&item_id=132879&action=view&al=y&actr=3
The Department of Government Efficiency ( #DOGE )
tagged Jewish themes as “#DEI” (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in ChatGPT
when searching for federal humanities grants to cancel last year,
according to a class-action lawsuit.
The methodology contributed to the cancellation of National Endowment for t…
The Culture Standard
This is where wisdom meets action. We dive into the best books, podcasts, and minds out there, pulling out the real, practical takeaways you can actually use...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-culture-s…
When, oh when will the GOP take a stand against the woke Amish who refuse to assimilate? Take action now, before they impose ordnung law on us all.
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told lawmakers again on Tuesday that congressional authorization is not required for the military operation against Iran, arguing that President Trump has sufficient executive authority to take whatever action he chooses."
Pete Hegseth: No congressional nod needed for Iran operation
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5874674-congress-debate-iran-war-hegseth/
La Serbie, principale plaque tournante des opérations de déstabilisation russe en Europe
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/03/13/la-serbie-principale-plaque-tourna…
Say, #GavinNewsom , isn't California supposed to be a leader in climate action? And yet we cannot do this in California yet?
Virginia to become second state that allows balcony… | Canary Media
https://www…
Say, #GavinNewsom , isn't California supposed to be a leader in climate action? And yet we cannot do this in California yet?
Virginia to become second state that allows balcony… | Canary Media
https://www…
People Before Profit to Host Public Meeting in Ballybane on housing!
We won't be evicted into homelessness. Organise and fight back!
https://www.pbp.ie/people-before-profit-to-host-public-meeting-in-ballybane/
Help us save North Atlantic right whales from extinction #AnimalRights
Anthropic says its $20M donation to Public First Action can't be "used to influence federal elections" and is to educate the public on AI policy (Veronica Irwin/Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/anthropic-su…
Palestine Action have never been a terrorist group, have never tried to terrorize the British public. The attempt to classify them as one was unjust, authoritarian, and motivated by support for a foreign state committing war crimes.
I'm mostly just surprised that judges appointed by the British state operating in secret agree. Usually they back the corrupt British state entirely.
Yvette Cooper should be resigning in disgrace, suspected of treachery. Every MP and Lord that waved the proscription through through should be ashamed and probably also fired.
#ukpol #palestineAction
Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250 million for not delivering AI Siri https://www.theverge.com/tech/924706/apple-iphone-siri-intelligence-class-action-lawsuit-settlement
Is GitHub action cron schedules now just a suggestion? It's just running stuff randomly 5 hours late.
Such shit.
While I'm talking about new ways to structure computer programs, what does it look like to _push_ data into an LLM? Instead of making it natural language fetching, with huge privilege to do stuff, can we structure things to, say, have one system supply some data context, and push it into an LLM to arrange processing, and that in turn pushes to other systems for action? It's not quite “code and data are separate", but I think the inversion might help mitigate a lot of the lethal trifecta. It also puts humans in the artisan-director seat, rather than the wannabe slave-master's seat, metaphorically.
Frank Munz (Databricks) is bringing Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines to #bbuzz26, a hands-on look at how the new declarative approach in Spark 4.1 changes the way you build data pipelines.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/apache-spark-declarative-pipelines-in-action/
Get your ticket: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU will take action against "addictive design" on TikTok and Instagram, including "endless scrolling" (Sawdah Bhaimiya/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/tiktok-instagram-s…
Rewatching the Brosnan Bonds (don't judge me, I'm sick in bed), and so far GoldenEye was good, Tomorrow Never Dies is ok but The World Is Not Enough is basically unwatchable; I literally didn't understand what was going on or why I should care about any of this (and even the action sequences were boring).
Anyway, one more (Die Another Day) to go.
Microsoft, your climate plan ran into a problem and needs to restart. Read the coalition's open letter and add your name.
https://microsoftlies.com/?utm_source=ensocial
Microsoft, your climate plan ran into a problem and needs to restart. Read the coalition's open letter and add your name.
https://microsoftlies.com/?utm_source=ensocial
Lately I've been thinking about how #Gentoo is perceived by people. So often they're stuck in the "ricer" mindset: Gentoo is being built from source, so it must be ZOMG fast. And if it isn't, then what's the point?
If I were to make four points for Gentoo (to stop myself from making more), they would be:
1. Gentoo is independent.
There is no company behind Gentoo. There is no business plan. It's made and maintained by volunteers. Driven by passion and not profit incentive. And we want to keep it that way.
2. Gentoo aims to be secure.
We are maintaining our own infrastructure to reduce the risk of being hijacked. We're securing our distribution channels and mirrors using OpenPGP. We're only using Codeberg (which we really appreciate) and GitHub as mirrors (with OpenPGP commit signatures) and contribution channels. We have a dedicated security team, who works with the developers to keep packages free of vulnerabilities and our users informed.
3. Gentoo is made by humans.
We banned LLM contributions two years ago, and never regretted it. We didn't "wait and see", we took decisive action, and if we got left behind, it's only for the better. Unfortunately, in today's LLM-ridden world we can't stop slop software from being packaged in Gentoo without sacrificing our commitment to keep packages up to date, but we try to keep the worst offenders (like copywashed chardet) at bay.
4. Gentoo supports sustainability.
This may sound ironic when so many of us build everything from source, but we're actually trying to make computing sustainable. Gentoo's source-first nature makes it inherently flexible. We try our best to support a plethora of older and less common hardware. We go against the flow and still try to provide a workable system on hardware that is not supported by Rust or V8. And on top of that, we do our best to provide binary packages for a variety of configurations.
Of course, that's not all. I want Gentoo to be reliable and stable, to be oriented towards privacy by default, to be welcome and respectful.
And all these things ultimately depend on people working on Gentoo, and contributing to Gentoo. We always need more people that share these principles and want to help us achieve them.
What do you appreciate in Gentoo?
I'll never miss a chance to bump this shit one more time for the folks in the back: https://crimethinc.com/2019/07/14/on-willem-van-spronsens-action-against-the-northwest-detention-center-in-tacoma-including-the-full-text-of-his-final-statement
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…
„Directive 8020“ angespielt: Tod im All
In „Directive 8020“ kämpft eine Astronautencrew gegen ein Alien. Das Spiel von Supermassive Games setzt auf interaktive Entscheidungen statt auf Action.
https://www.
Okay, so I've been talking about the ways that Big AI directly harms kids. But what can we *do* about it? Here are some things you can do, at work and and your kid's school, to take action today, complete with scripts to follow: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/23/taking-action…
#Rant
Rob Shaw is solidifying his position as the new Dean of Right Wing, anti-Worker Legislative Reporters in British Columbia.
With these gems, it's incredible that he has an education or goes to a doctor at all…
"The BCTF is typically one of the most militant unions, and quickly prone to job action.”
BCTF Strikes since 2000:
2005
2014
phew! almost got to three!
Remember that this was at the time of a union-busting BC Liberal government that had to go to the Supreme Court of Canada to get told that they ripped up union contracts unconstitutionally and were *forced* to compensate many years later.
"The ratification is a win for a New Democrat government. And extraordinarily expensive for taxpayers, too."
“extraordinarily expensive. Really? How is a wage increase that is *barely* in line with inflation after literally decades of below-inflation increases, “extraordinary”? I'll wait.
"Teachers can thank the BCGEU for turning what was an initial 3.5 per cent wage offer over two years by government, into a more than 12 per cent increase over four that is now forming the baseline for all other union deals."
Indeed! For those who can do math, that means 3% each of 4 years instead of 3.5 over two. But thanks Rob for making it seem like 4 times more!
Thanks BCGEU members for your solidarity and perceverence! I have been on strike. It sucks HARD. But it was worth it and it works.
"The ratification by the BCTF means roughly half of the 450,000 public sector employees now have deals of some sort with the province. Two majors left on the table are nurses and doctors.”
Oh no! Let’s not pay doctors and nurses! Surely they'll stay regardless in our incredibly overworked and under resourced healthcare system!
Like how does Mr Shaw believe we are to stay competitive or attract people. Or is he just not worried about getting sick….
"The skyrocketing deficit has the NDP government inking sweetheart deals with organized labour on the one hand, while pledging to cut public sector jobs with the other.”
Ya, we could have kept those public sector jobs if it weren't for fools like you who demanded governments cut taxes over the past 20 years instead of reasonable rises to... again…keep up with inflation and retain service!
It is a crappy balancing act that the NDP is doing and I do not like a lot of it. At the same time as Mr. Shaw complains about "sweetheart deals" for people in post-secondary, I am seeing historic cuts in that same sector. It's a blood bath actually. So the potential wage increases are going to be welcome, but feel pretty hollow as so many collegues have left.
Rob Shaw would have had us all lose our jobs and take a pay cut at the next one for good measure.
Thanks but no thanks Rob, your world view sucks.
https://www.nsnews.com/economy-law-politics/rob-shaw-ndp-deal-with-bc-teachers-sets-another-costly-precedent-for-public-sector-talks-11966874
About 120 journalists and broadcast staff are expected to participate in a strike at Scotland's STV over pay on Friday, as election results are counted (Severin Carrell/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/07/stv-scot…
Inside the NFL's reaction to Ravens backing out of blockbuster Maxx Crosby trade with Raiders
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfls-reaction-to-ravens-backin…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Flamin’ Groovies:
🎵 Shake Some Action
#FlaminGroovies
https://flamingroovies.bandcamp.com/track/shake-some-action-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Afai8u1STCaDyTTm1gEZf
Kamala Harris says she might run for president in 2028: "I'm thinking about it" (Anne Bryson/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-2028-president-national-action-network/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260410/p73#a260410p73
Thinking Machines Lab details interaction models, which can think and respond in real time, letting users and AI interact continuously for better collaboration (Thinking Machines Lab)
https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/
We leftists have a bad habit of demanding that people specify which grand explanatory theory they subscribe to (even if they don’t have one), hyperfocusing on it, and then judging them for it. To the extent Attenborough under-considers systemic forces and over-focuses on population, well, yes, his theory of environmentalist action may be flawed. But to view that as his distinguishing feature completely misses the boat. He helped teach us to care. We need to take it from there, leaving him behind if need be.
I'm not proud about that but I have had to use Debug Mode to spawn an semi-essencial item to kill one dragon.
I repeat... I'm not proud of this action but I don't get stuck until infinite...
Now I am feeling bad for this... Ouch! 😭
#DnD #neverwinter_nights…
Two months ago today:
Trump Demands ‘Unconditional Surrender’ by Iran, Shifting U.S. Objectives Again https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/us/politics/trump-unconditional-surrender-iran.html
The Fascist Paramilitary is Hiding Kids From Elected Officals And Giving Guards Scripts To Read At The Dilley Texas Concentration Camp. (Action Guide Inside)
Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1sgecfh
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If this angers you, organize to fight fascism.
Action Guide:
Since March the K-Cor coronagraph is finally back in action on #MaunaLoa - and at the #coronagraphs symposium in Boulder the value of a ground-based instrument was highlighted by Tom Berger: it catches a beginning #CoronalMassEjection almost an hour earlier than all existing coronagraphs in space which have to cover more of the surroundings of the Sun.
Happy International Women's day — I'm currently in Luxemburg and will participate in the women's march with ~5000 participants expected. The political party déi Lénk has achieved a historic win in making abortion a right just this week!
Still, there's lots to do: Luxemburg's minister of defense will participate in this protest, despite her version of feminism being that black women can now be in the military too. A larger action to protest white, western “feminism” is planned.
N…
Hundreds of unionized University of California workers circled the Arbor,
in front of the Library at UC Santa Barbara on Thursday
at what organizers called a “last chance” practice picket
— a visible warning that a strike could be days away if contract talks continue to stall.
…
Help Calves and Sheep Beaten for Car Interiors #AnimalRights
Which side of history will you be on?
The Met: "The wrong side of course!"
Palestine Action supporters arrested as London’s Met Police reverse policy | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.
The Senate returns to work today, while the House will hold a brief procedural session before getting back to regular business on Tuesday.
Lawmakers have still not passed a funding bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) subagencies affected by the record-breaking partial government shutdown, now in its ninth week.
During the two-week recess, House Republican speaker Mike Johnson took no action to advance a Senate-passed measure that would reopen agencies like th…
Exclusive: Cuba's President Vows to 'Fight' if US Launches Military Action (Newsweek)
https://www.newsweek.com/miguel-diaz-canel-cuba-president-vows-to-fight-if-us-launches-military-action-11786924
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p124#a260407p124
I hadn't even heard the story that the US military has been threatening action to force regime change... at the Vatican?!
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thereligioushistorynerd/2026/04/what-was-the-avignon-papacy-a…
Action Needed! Sign Open Letter Calling for a Crackdown on Animal Experiments for Chemicals #AnimalRights
Jets 2026 NFL draft odds: Ohio State pass-rusher Arvell Reese favored pick at No. 2, taking big action there
https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/jet…
Belgium says US-Israel action on Iran 'does not meet' international law standards
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/belgium-says-us-israel-action-on-iran-does-not-meet-international-law-standards/3846552
Thune eyes action on SAVE America Act next week -- without a 'talking filibuster' (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/10/congress/save-america-act-senate-vote-00821365
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p93#a260310p93
Forbes Media preliminarily agrees to a $10M settlement to resolve a California class action lawsuit alleging unauthorized user tracking via its website (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/forbes-agrees-10-million-settlement-privacy-class-acti…
US military 'drawing up additional options' to keep strait of Hormuz open, says White House
Karoline Leavitt said that Donald Trump is committed to allowing the free flow of oil through the strait of Hormuz,
and reiterated that the US president has offered for the navy
“to escort tankers when necessary”.
“The US military is drawing up additional options following the president’s directive to continue keeping the strait of Hormuz open,” Leavitt said.
I wil…
Fired judges say Trump team purged courts and threatened disciplinary action if they didn’t deport fast enough | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-deportation-immigration-court-judges-b2954665.html
A coalition of 41 press freedom groups writes an open letter condemning the arrest of Nashville journalist Estefany Rodriguez by ICE and urging her release (Free Press Action Fund Feed)
https://www.freepress.net/news/coalition-4
Marineland Permits: Demand ‘No Breeding’ Guarantees for Exports of Whales & Dolphins #AnimalRights
U.S. Military Action Against Iran: Over Half Of Voters Oppose It, 74% Oppose Sending Ground Troops Into Iran, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds ... (Quinnipiac University Poll)
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3952
http://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p111#a260309p111
This weekend all across the country proud patriots will be joining
"Stand Up For Science’s"
✅ National Day Of Action.
Events are planned in more than 50 cities
- check here to see if there is a rally or protest you can join tomorrow.
https://www.hopiumchronicles.…
Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, alongside novelist Scott Turow, file a class-action copyright lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/books/publisher…
"My Barbies would have instantly formed up and yeeted this shitbird out of their cardboard box house."
Sec. Felcher Depicts Himself As Action Figure [VIDEO] - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/03/sec-felcher-depicts-himself-as-action-figure-video/
Take Action to Ban Animal Torture Videos #AnimalRights
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece will ban children under 15 from accessing social media starting January 1, 2027, and calls for coordinated EU action (Antonis Pothitos/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/gr…
Urgent National Action to Save College Sports (The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/04/urgent-national-action-to-save-college-sports/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p125#a260403p125
The Voting Rights Act ended Jim Crow. But now the Supreme Court — Chief Justice John Roberts’ Court — has effectively ended much of what’s left of the Voting Rights Act — setting the stage for voters of color to be silenced.
Now it’s up to us to defend the freedom to participate in our democracy. The actions we take now will help determine whose voice gets heard and which communities get locked out of political power.
Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, integrating Anthropic's Claude Cowork tech into Microsoft 365 and using Work IQ to ground actions in organizational data (Charles Lamanna/Microsoft 365 Blog)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-
Fox News Poll: Views are divided on US action against Iran (Dana Blanton/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-views-divided-us-action-against-iran
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p133#a260303p133
Tax the rich for a fairer Britain #Britain
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Takes Urgent National Action to Save College Sports (The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-takes-urgent-national-action-to-save-college-sports/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260403/p112#a260403p112
They promised climate action for years, but what these meat and dairy giants were really selling was something else https://phys.org/news/2026-04-climate-action-years-meat-dairy.html
Help Protect Polar Bears and Walruses from Arctic Drilling #AnimalRights
AOC says Trump is willing to
‘risk world war’ by using Iran attack
as #Epstein files distraction
The Progressive Democrat accuses Donald Trump of ‘impulsively’ launching military action overseas
with no exit plan
Ask Sweden to Ban Fur Farms #AnimalRights
Ambitious climate action could save 1.32 million lives a year by 2040 #climate
Mirra Andreeva, the 18-year-old who surprised many by winning this event last year,
torched Solana Sierra of Argentina in 50 minutes
winning 6-0, 6-0.
She won 54 of the 75 total points.
Andreeva advances to play either Leylah Fernandez or Katerina Siniakova in the third round Monday.
Other top 10 women required a little more time on court Saturday.
No. 2 Iga Swiatek only had room for one bagel but then battled past Kayla Day 6-0, 7-6(2).
No. 3 Elena …