@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-22 14:53:00
Acer und Asus verkaufen wieder PCs und Notebooks in Deutschland
Die beiden PC-Hersteller Acer und Asus einigen sich mit Nokia auf einen Patentrahmen. Dadurch darf der Verkauf wieder anlaufen.
https://www.
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-05-22 11:23:07
Restoring CISA is one issue many lawmakers can agree on
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2026/05/restoring-cisa-is-one-issue-many-lawmakers-can-agree-on/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-21 12:50:49
Microsoft and Mistral sign a multibillion-dollar deal to build European data centers and integrate Mistral models into Foundry, Copilot Studio, and Azure Local (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-22 20:05:00
Turkiye has revoked the operational licence for a top private university with liberal values,
effectively forcing it to close in the middle of the academic year,
after the institution was seized by the state in a criminal investigation last year.
In a presidential decree, published in the Official Gazette on Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revoked the operating licence for Istanbul Bilgi University,
which has an estimated 20,000 students from Turkiye and acr…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2026-06-21 23:49:16
#ScribesAndMakers June 20: How difficult is it for you to receive criticism of your creative work?
I usually love receiving feedback on my work. Of course it can hurt if it was a work that I was emotionally invested in and people don't like it. But most often, the criticism is there for a reason and I can decide I either don't care, I don't agree, or I see their point …
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-05-21 23:50:33
Report: Rams, QB Matthew Stafford agree to one-year, $55 million contract extension https://www.nfl.com/news/report-rams-qb-matthew-stafford-agree-to-one-year-55-million-contract-extension
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2026-05-22 00:30:01
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@hex@kolektiva.social2026-06-22 04:44:36
The 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.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-21 13:15:45
Sources: Anthropic is in talks to rent servers powered by Microsoft-designed chips; source: Anthropic has steadily increased its Azure usage since November 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-use-microsofts-ai-chips…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2026-05-23 02:05:47
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