2026-03-27 09:57:00
Xiaomi launches the €15 Xiaomi tag, an AirTag-like device that works with both Apple Find My and Android Find Hub, and the €300 Xiaomi Watch 5, in Europe (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/28/xiaomi-launch…
Not sure how I missed this crazy story...
Exclusive: Anthropic left details of an unreleased model, invite-only CEO retreat, sitting in an unsecured data trove in a significant security lapse
https://fortune.com/2026/03/26/anthrop
As salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.
“begging stochastic systems to be good boys is not a security strategy” exhibit ♾️
What really grinds my gears is how a whole industry chose to forget the 101 of ops security. This is not an “AI" problem, this is gross negligence by cloud providers like Raleway pretending "having evals" is an acceptable defense against catastrophic data loss & users having production tokens of any kind lying around such that an attacker (or misguided agent) can find it.
An Inside Job With Rose
If your outer life looks fine but inside you feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or quietly unsure who you are anymore, this space is for you...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/an-inside-job/
"Politik der Einschüchterung": ICE arbeitet an Datenbank von Protestierenden
US-Regierung spricht von "inländischen Terroristen". Bei Mitarbeitern der involvierten Software-Firma #Palantir regt sich Widerstand
📢 EU-Kommission kündigt vorläufige Anwendung von Mercosur-Abkommen an
Das Freihandelsabkommen zwischen der EU und südamerikanischen Mercosur-Staaten wird trotz einer noch ausstehenden Überprüfung durch den Gerichtshof der Europäischen Union in Kürze angewendet. Das kündigte EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen an.
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"Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films."
—Jason Bateman
#acting #coaching #inspiration
An Answer to Auden: The Truth About Love, 1937 to 2026
In 1937, W. H. Auden published "O Tell Me the Truth About Love" inside a sequence called Twelve Songs. The poem is a list of comic guesses about what love might look like, smell like, sound like, do. Each refrain stanza ends in the same plea: tell me. The song is a young man's question asked across a noisy room, hoping someone older will answer.
»Systematische Verfolgung — "Politik der Einschüchterung" - ICE arbeitet an Datenbank über Protestierende:
US-Regierung spricht von "inländischen Terroristen". Bei Mitarbeitern der involvierten Software-Firma Palantir regt sich Widerstand«
Nur eine Frage der Zeit bis dies populär aufkommt, denn Palantir ist seit jeher umstritten und misteriös. Nun sind sie ein der profitierenden Diener der Faschisten.
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Nach Übergriff an Grundschule: Polizei sucht mit Phantombild
https://www.antenneac.de/artikel/nach-uebergriff-an-grundschule-polizei-sucht-mit-phantombild-2610504
The Second Amendment Absolutists At WallBuilders
Suddenly Find An Exception
After The Latest ICE Shooting
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/second-amendment-absolutists-wallbuilders-suddenly-find-ex…
Q&A with Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about OpenAI's new partnership with AWS, Bedrock Managed Agents, Trainium chips, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-with-o…
Belichick's snub is an embarrassment, plus an Australian Open upset https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7002074/2026/01/28/bill-belichick-hall-of-fame-the-pulse/
An Unpopular, Doomed, Bloody War (Paul Musgrave/Systematic Hatreds)
https://musgrave.substack.com/p/an-unpopular-doomed-bloody-war
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p26#a260228p26
PocketOS maker says an AI agent “deleted our production database in 9 seconds.”
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/919240/pocketos-maker-says-an-ai-agent-deleted-our-production-database-in…
Warum die Querung an der Antwerpener Straße Sorgen macht https://weddingweiser.de/warum-die-querung-an-der-antwerpener-strasse-sorgen-macht/
I'm going to have to disagree. You should know not to get "smart" appliances at this point. Your fridge with a touch screen is going to show you ads, your vacuum with 'smart' features is going to stop working when the company shuts off its servers, and your wifi-enabled oven is going to do abusive stuff if you put it online. Which this genius did.
I'm sure algorithms designed by people with biases and an agenda, based on data from people with biases and an agenda, marketed by people with biases and an agenda and used by people with biases and an agenda will act perfectly neutrally!
Anyway here's a good read on epistemic vigilance in [commercial] LLMs (tl;dr it's not possible) https://bsky.app/profile/mjcrockett.bsky.social/post/3mfrbukoy5c2s
POL-WHV: Eierwürfe an Mehrfamilienhaus in der Papingastraße Wilhelmshaven (ots) - Am 26.02.2026 gegen 16:00 Uhr wurden in der Papingastraße in Wilhelmshaven Eier an die Fensterscheibe sowie an die Außenfassade eines Mehrfamilienhauses geworfen. Der Geschädigte stellte im Nahbereich mehrere Kinder bzw. ... https://www.pre…
I have trying to fix an issue for 5 months, that I managed to solve within an hour with an LLM. I would never have resolved it myself and I don't think any 'forum threads' or 'Join the Discord' was going to fix it.
I might be getting AI-pilled....
#noxp
A Cool Earth-sized #Planet Candidate Transiting a Tenth Magnitude K-dwarf From K2: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19870 -> Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth? https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/discovery-alert-an-ice-cold-earth/
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Schlappe für WhatsApp: Landgericht Berlin verbietet Datentransfer an Facebook
🚨 BUND-Eilappell: Geschenk an Gaslobby stoppen! Jetzt unterstützen 💯
👉 Infos:
https://www.bund.net/service/presse/pressemitteilungen/detail/news/bund-eilappell-geschenk-an-gaslobby-stoppen/
✏️ Direkt zur Pe…
“Writing an OS in Haskell”
https://old.agniv.me/blog/haskell-os/
udm14.com: An easy-to-use shortcut for an AI-free Google search. (Try it!) https://udm14.com
dutch_criticism: Dutch literacy criticism (1976)
A network of criticisms among Dutch literary authors in 1976. The directed edge (i,j) denotes that an author i passed judgment on author j's work in an interview or review.
This network has 35 nodes and 81 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted
https://
Did a Time Traveling Superintelligent AI Try to Warn About White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting? An Investigation https://www.404media.co/did-a-time-traveling-superintelligent-ai-try-to-warn-about…
Today’s server message was “Boot pool status is ONLINE: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error.” and I have this fear I may need to buy a new SSD.
As an editor, I love it when an author takes the feedback we provide and engages deeply with it. This doesn't necessarily mean doing everything we ask - there are sometimes very good reasons for pushing back. I appreciate the humility involved in the exercise but watching a piece turn from not bad into something smarter, more incisive, better informed, and ultimately good if not great is the best part.
After an unfortunate finger slip, I briefly tried to call the arse_url() function in PHP.
Now I kinda want to write an RFC to add it..
#PHP #Silliness #Programming
#BMW entwickelt gemeinsam mit der Universität #Zagreb im Projekt Insight KI-Modelle für die #Batteriezellfertigung.
Im Battery Cell Competence Center analysieren Algorithmen Versuchs- und…
Spotify bietet mit Peloton Fitness-Kurse an
In Zusammenarbeit mit Peloton bietet Spotify jetzt Fitness-Programme für seine Premium-Nutzer an. Auch für Gratis-Nutzer gibt es Workouts.
https://www.he…
»So schädlich? Erster Kinder-Prozess gegen Facebook und YouTube läuft in LA an:
Tausende Kinder-Klagen sind gegen Soziale Netze anhängig. Der erste US-Prozess geht los. Snap und Tiktok zahlen, Facebook und YouTube hoffen auf Geschworene.«
Die Social-Media's sind schon lange nicht mehr sozial sondern eine mentale Abzocke jeglichen Alters durch deren mentale Abhängigkeit.
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GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on "availability first, then capacity, then new features" (Vlad Fedorov/The GitHub Blog)
https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-…
So…ice tried to go into the Ecuadorian Consulate, an act of war, today.
https://apnews.com/article/eeuu-minnesota-redadas-migratorias-ice-trump-5b98291d7dede89494b79daae50f887b
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Apple-Chef Tim Cook kündigt „große Woche“ an
Auf seinem X-Profil hat sich Apple-CEO Cook zur kommenden Woche mit neuen Geräten geäußert. Auch wann der „#AppleLaunch“ beginnt, ist nun klar.
Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards says the company is overhauling Terminal with a new chatbot-style interface called ASKB, currently open to ~125K users in beta (Joel Khalili/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-bloomberg-terminal-is-getting-an-ai-mak…
Native Instruments meldet Insolvenz an
Das Berliner Musiktechnologieunternehmen Native Instruments, auch Muttergesellschaft von iZotope, Plugin Alliance und Brainworx, hat Insolvenz angemeldet.
https://www.
So viel verdient der Weltmarktführer an der Speicherkrise
SK Hynix verdoppelt seinen Betriebsgewinn und schafft so ein Rekordjahr. Davon profitieren primär die Anleger.
https://www.h…
Source: OpenAI expects to raise an additional $10B from financial investors by the end of March 2026, bringing its post-investment valuation to $850B (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-…
The birthright citizenship IS an easy case.
That’s the point.
That’s the flex.
“No matter what rights you think you have, no matter how universally acknowledged you think they are,
no matter how central to American values those rights are,
WE decide whether or not you have those rights”……
https://
Seeing an #acting #coaching client connecting with new material from the first ice cold read is really good. Excited to see them build the character and flesh out things from an already solid place.
#ActingCoach
RTL meldet Sky-Deutschland-Übernahme bei EU-Kommission an
RTL hat die Übernahme von Sky Deutschland bei der EU-Kommission angemeldet. Nun wird Brüssel prüfen, ob der Deal wettbewerbsrechtlich zulässig ist.
https:…
When it becomes operational, the Roman Space Telescope is expected to offer scientists an unprecedented look into the cosmos,
boasting an 8-foot (2.4-meter) mirror similar to the Hubble Space Telescope,
but with a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble's.
Roman is also outfitted with a coronagraph that allows it to block the light from distant stars, enabling it to see planets that might be orbiting around those stars.
If all goes according to plan, Roman will …
OpenAI fired an employee for insider trading on prediction markets like Polymarket; Unusual Whales has flagged 77 suspected insider trades around OpenAI events (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-fires-employee-insider-trading-polymarke…
Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history
The US president upended half a century of US foreign policy in an eight-minute video with another act of Middle Eastern regime change
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/…
So schädlich? Erster Kinder-Prozess gegen Facebook und YouTube läuft in LA an
Tausende Kinder-Klagen sind gegen Soziale Netze anhängig. Der erste US-Prozess geht los. Snap und Tiktok zahlen, Facebook und YouTube hoffen auf Geschworene.
Sam Altman says OpenAI reached an agreement with the DOD to deploy its models in DOD's classified network and asks DOD to extend those terms to all AI companies (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2027578580159631610
The US has announced plans to hold multi-day military exercises in the Middle East
as it deploys what Donald Trump has called an “armada”
led by the USS Abraham Lincoln to the region as part of a tense standoff with Iran.
The display of US air power was announced as the White House has suggested it could launch new strikes on Iran
after the government’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters that has left thousands dead and many more in detention with their fates uncer…
Anthropic says it's testing an AI model that's a "step change" in performance after a draft blog in an unsecured data store revealed the Claude Mythos model (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2…
Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
So schädlich? Erster Kinder-Prozess gegen Facebook und YouTube läuft in LA an
NY-based Blossom Health, which makes an "AI copilot" to augment psychiatrists' clinical decisions and automate office tasks, raised $20M in seed and Series A (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/26/exclusive-blossom-…
Lithuania-based Vinted says it completed an ~€880M secondary share sale led by EQT, Teachers' Venture Growth, Schroders at an €8B valuation, up from €5B in 2024 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8410967c-c713-46d1-a5e6-42cfc3b6528c
Anthropic adjusts Claude session limits and says users will use up their limits faster during peak hours, amid compute strain due to Claude's new popularity (Brent D. Griffiths/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/claude-usage-caps-chang…
Klimaschutz verliert in Unternehmen an Priorität
Trotz Klimazielen stockt die Transformation in Unternehmen und Banken in Deutschland. Unsichere politische Vorgaben und fehlende Anreize bremsen den Wandel.
https://www.
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Signal: Messenger erobert finnischen Play Store
https://ww…
Archaeologists and researchers at Pompeii used AI for the first time to digitally reconstruct the face of a man killed in the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius (Giada Zampano/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/italy-pompe
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Signal: Messenger erobert finnischen Play Store
https://ww…
Wir hoffen an die Faxanbindung wird auch gedacht!
Digitalminister Karsten Wildberger hat bei einer Veranstaltung des Handelsblatts in Berlin große Pläne angekündigt: Eine bundesweite Bürger-App soll als zentrales Serviceportal für staatliche Dienstleistungen dienen.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11192475
WhatsApp bereitet eigenen Cloudspeicher für Backups vor
WhatsApp arbeitet an einem eigenen Cloudspeicher für Backups, um unabhängiger von Google Drive und iCloud zu werden und die Interoperabilität zu verbessern.
h…
Nvidia ist als erste Firma über 5 Billionen US-Dollar wert
Halbleiterfirmen geht es an der Börse prächtig. Nvidia ist die wertvollste Firma der Welt, aber auch AMD und bedingt Intel erzielen Allzeithochs.
https:…
Lithografie-Systeme: Rekordbuchungen für ASML wegen KI
Der weltweit wichtigste Hersteller von Lithografie-Systemen, ASML, kratzt an 10 Milliarden Euro Umsatz. Die Speicherkrise spielt künftig eine wichtige Rolle.
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Waffenruhe am AKW Saporischschja: Reparaturarbeiten können beginnen
Durch eine Waffenruhe sind nun bald dringend notwendige Reparaturarbeiten an der Stromversorgung des AKW Saporischschja möglich.
https:…
Erstes Produkt seit über einem Jahr: Sonos stellt Amp Multi vor
Sonos hat den Amp Multi vorgestellt: Der große digitale Verstärker richtet sich primär an fortgeschrittene Nutzer und Profis.
https://www.
Prozessormangel soll in den nächsten Monaten akut werden
AMD und Intel verlagern ihre Produktion offenbar zu Server-CPUs. Bei Desktop-PCs und Notebooks stehen Preiserhöhungen an.
https://www.
Ulmen wehrt sich gegen Deepfake-Vorwürfe
Christian Ulmen weist über seinen Anwalt Deepfake-Vorwürfe zurück – und kündigt erneut rechtliche Schritte gegen die Berichterstattung des Spiegels an.
https://www.
Datev: Anwendungen seit Dienstagmittag gestört
Die Datev weist auf ihrer Webseite auf eine Störung der Datev-Anwendungen hin. Die dauern seit den Mittagsstunden an, Lösung ist in Sicht.
https://www.