Tootfinder

“I’m usually fine with surveillance capitalism but this is too much, even for me.”
#surveillance #capitalism #BigTech

Filippo Valsorda :go: (@filippo@abyssdomain.expert)
Attached: 1 image I usually get where big tech is coming from, but this is just malicious tracking. If you're an engineer and you're asked to implement something like this, it's time to whistleblow. I hope the IE DPA will look into it. Anyway, Local Network Access (https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/local-network-access) can't come soon enough. https://localmess.github.io

Interface für die Welt: Forscher zeigen innovatives AR-Interaktionsmodell
Forscher haben mit "Reality Proxy" ein AR-Bedienkonzept entwickelt, das die Ferninteraktion mit realen Objekten erleichtert.

Right now in Bray: protest outside Simon Harris’s office. “Free, free Palestine” “Pass the occupied territories bill”
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

Get this right: people in Gaza aren’t starving. People in Gaza *are being starved by Israel* in the genocide Israel is committing against the Palestinian people.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AR/new
[1/1]:
- Need for zkSpeed: Accelerating HyperPlonk for Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Daftardar, Mo, Ah-kiow, B\"unz, Karri, Garg, Reagen

Rapporterar från den stora branden i sydvästra Frankrike tillsammans med Alexander Mahmoud. https://www.dn.se/varlden/mina-20-hektar-ar-aska-nu-brandbilarna-kom-aldrig-jag-har-forlorat-allt/

Största skogsbranden på över 70 år i Frankrike
Lågorna slickar stammarna på träden, ett par hundra meter från vinodlingarna och den stora slottsbyggnaden. – Där borta, snabbt!

@… Labas, kokio senumo istoriniai duomenys dar yra prieinami?
Ar pats apsiribojai senesnių neimt, ar API neduoda, ar yra kokių kitų priežasčių?

Breaking the Plane: Exploring Real-Time Visualization of 3D Surfaces in Augmented Reality with Handwritten Input
Liam Franco Esparraguera, Kristoffer Selberg, Brian Lou, Jenny Sun, Beza Desta, Andr\'es Monroy-Hern\'andez, Parastoo Abtahi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05616

Breaking the Plane: Exploring Real-Time Visualization of 3D Surfaces in Augmented Reality with Handwritten Input
We introduce Breaking the Plane, an augmented reality (AR) application built for AR headsets that enables users to visualize 3D mathematical functions using handwritten input. Researchers have demonstrated overlaying 3D visualizations of mathematical concepts through AR enhances learning motivation and comprehension, and equation parsing makes the authoring of teaching materials more time-efficient for instructors. Previous works have developed AR systems that separately employ equation parsing…

Meta found a new way to violate your privacy. Here’s what you can do.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/meta-found-a-new-way-to-violate-your-privacy-here-s-what-you-can-do/ar-AA1GecPs

Not enough dead Palestinian children for you, asshole? https://chaos.social/@e_es/114648448797778490

I don’t know, asshole, was 1947 worth it? Was close to 80 years of settler colonialism and apartheid worth it? Is the current genocide of the Palestinian people being committed by israel worth it? https://ravenation.club/@welkin7/114652095075122736

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AR/new
[1/1]:
- RACE-IT: A Reconfigurable Analog Computing Engine for In-Memory Transformer Acceleration
Zhao, Natarajan, Buonanno, Gajjar, Roth, Serebryakov, Moon, Ignowski, Pedretti

Apropos of nothing, AR-15s fire little bullets that can be thrown around by the wind. They're basically high velocity 22s, which makes them garbage for accuracy at range. Snipers use big heavy ammo like 30.06, which are incredibly common for hunting.
To bring down a big animal like a deer, you use a big round and aim at the center of mass.

Kent State may have figured prominently in Nixon's fall from power, but do not forget that Trump's base actively seeks such an incident. They own AR-15s precisely because they harbor blood fantasies about killing "libs."

The Observations of Magnetic Reconnection During the Interaction Process of Two Active Region Filaments
Zongyin Wu, Zhike Xue, Xiaoli Yan, Jincheng Wang, Liheng Yang, Zhe Xu, Qiaoling Li, Yang Peng, Liping Yang, Yian Zhou, Xinsheng Zhang, Liufan Gong, Qifan Dong, Guotang Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05659

The Observations of Magnetic Reconnection During the Interaction Process of Two Active Region Filaments
We investigate the interaction between two filaments (F1 and F2) and their subsequent magnetic reconnection in active region (AR) NOAA 13296 and AR NOAA 13293 on May 9, 2023, utilizing high spatial and temporal resolution and multi-wavelength observational data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, the New Vacuum Solar Telescope, and the Chinese Hα Solar Explorer. The movement of F1 from the southeast toward the northwest, driven by the motion of the positive magnetic polarity (P1), leads to a …

Who's Running American Defense Policy? (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/07/trump-colby-defense-policy/683455/?gift=tsy95zCkAst2zG_yntlnGBCNgkDPeJg1GuVrezSck2Q&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p39#a250708p39

Either “the West” stops this bullshit right fucking now or they live with the blood of 2 million Palestinians on their hands. And more so with zero moral standing on any issue ever again. “European values?” You can’t even stop a genocide. Don’t make me fucking laugh.
https://www.

Shock and fear in Gaza after Israel announces occupation plan
Palestinians in Gaza City are fearful of being displaced yet again after Israel announced plans to occupy Gaza City.

Light Pipe Holographic Display: Bandwidth-preserved Kaleidoscopic Guiding for AR Glasses
Minseok Chae, Chun Chen, Seung-Woo Nam, Yoonchan Jeong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04374

Light Pipe Holographic Display: Bandwidth-preserved Kaleidoscopic Guiding for AR Glasses
In this paper, we present a holographic display using a light pipe for augmented reality, and the hologram rendering method via bandwidth-preserved kaleidoscopic guiding method. Conventional augmented reality displays typically share optical architectures where the light engine and image combiner are adjacent. Minimizing the size of both components is highly challenging, and most commercial and research prototypes of augmented reality displays are bulky, front-heavy and sight-obstructing. Here,…

Per Svensson var en briljant journalist och författare, en intellektuell i ordets bästa bemärkelse. Sorgligt att han inte längre finns bland oss. https://www.dn.se/kultur/journalisten-per-svensson-dod-blev-68-ar/

Journalisten Per Svensson död – blev 68 år
Journalisten, författaren och tidigare DN-medarbetaren Per Svensson har avlidit vid 68 års ålder. Han var en av Sveriges mest tongivande kulturskribenter

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AR/new
[1/1]:
- FAMOUS: Flexible Accelerator for the Attention Mechanism of Transformer on UltraScale FPGAs
Ehsan Kabir, Md. Arafat Kabir, Austin R. J. Downey, Jason D. Bakos, David Andrews, Miaoqing Huang

“Israeli Security Cabinet approves PM Netanyahu's plan to occupy Gaza City”
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-863628
Fuck these people, man. Genocidal assholes. I don’t know what else to say. Does it even matter what we say? The fuckers are going to do whatever …

Tell me the UK is a dystopian police state without telling me.

Pulp y la historia de ese héroe de la clase obrera llamado Jarvis Cocker
https://sonambula.com.ar/pulp-y-la-historia-de-ese-heroe-de-la-clase-obrera-llamado-jarvis-cocker/

Nine-year-old relative of Chiefs owner Clark Hunt among those dead in Texas flooding

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nine-year-old-…

The UK and Keir Starmer are complicit in genocide (and, it would appear, in the murder of British aid workers).
(And Keir, please feel free to sue me for libel under your country’s ridiculous libel laws because I would *love* the chance to run discovery on this.)
https://

UK-funded spy flights over Gaza linked to attack that killed British volunteers: Report
London has refused to release aerial footage of the deadly strikes that killed British aid workers

We allow psychopaths and sociopaths to chart the course for humanity and then wonder why we live in a dystopian hellscape.

America being America in America instead of in some foreign country.
What’s that saying about leopards and faces again?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/8/trump-deployed-national-guard-arrives-in-la-to-cr…

Trump-deployed National Guard arrives in LA to crush immigration protests
The move sparks sharp rebuke from California’s Democratic leadership after wave of US immigration raids.

Bans Are Driving Up Later Abortions
https://jessica.substack.com/p/bans-are-driving-up-later-abortions

Thank goodness opposing genocide doesn’t mean you’re antisemitic otherwise it would be the moral duty of any person of conscience to be antisemitic.

Freedom Flotilla organiser Huwaida Arraf shortly after she and the rest of the ship’s support crew lost contact with the Madleen:
“All those on board have been abducted. They have been taken against their will while they were sailing peacefully and lawfully in international waters…
They were in international waters, sailing towards Palestinian territorial waters, not getting near Israeli waters…
It needs to be made very clear that Israel has absolutely no jurisdiction, no l…

Madleen Gaza flotilla live: Ship, activists being taken to Israel
The Madleen crew is being detained by Israeli forces after their ship was stopped close to 160km (100 miles) from Gaza.

Sonify Anything: Towards Context-Aware Sonic Interactions in AR
Laura Sch\"utz, Sasan Matinfar, Ulrich Eck, Daniel Roth, Nassir Navab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01789 https…

Sonify Anything: Towards Context-Aware Sonic Interactions in AR
In Augmented Reality (AR), virtual objects interact with real objects. However, the lack of physicality of virtual objects leads to the absence of natural sonic interactions. When virtual and real objects collide, either no sound or a generic sound is played. Both lead to an incongruent multisensory experience, reducing interaction and object realism. Unlike in Virtual Reality (VR) and games, where predefined scenes and interactions allow for the playback of pre-recorded sound samples, AR requi…

Live updates – Madleen Gaza flotilla: Ship, activists being taken to Israel
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/4/madleen-gaza-flotilla-live-greta-thunberg-activists-to-arrive-on-june-7

Madleen Gaza flotilla live: Ship, activists being taken to Israel
The Madleen crew is being detained by Israeli forces after their ship was stopped close to 160km (100 miles) from Gaza.

“If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel.”
– Greta Thunberg
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/08/middleeast/freedom-f…

Israel intercepts Gaza-bound aid ship, detaining Greta Thunberg and other prominent activists
Israel has intercepted a Gaza-bound aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg and other prominent activists and is escorting the boat to Israel, the foreign ministry said early Monday.

“The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) confirms that its civilian ship, Madleen, carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, has been attacked/forcibly intercepted by the Israeli military at 3:02 am CET in international waters at 31.95236° N, 32.38880° E. The ship was unlawfully boarded, its unarmed civilian crew abducted, and its life-saving cargo—including baby formula, food and medical supplies—confiscated.”

Warum Augmented Reality auf der Stelle tritt
Was hält Augmented Reality zurück? Der AR-Pionier Kharis O'Connell hat der Technologie den Rücken gekehrt und spricht offen über seine Desillusion.
https://www…

Trump demands new US census excluding undocumented immigrants
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/united-states/article/2025/08/07/trump-demands-new-us-census-excluding-undocumented-immigrants_6744162_133.html

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AR/new
[1/1]:
- GainSight: A Unified Framework for Data Lifetime Profiling and Heterogeneous Memory Composition
Li, Hung, Tan, Ho{\ss}feld, Jiajun, Liu, Yan, Wang, Levis, Wong, Tambe

What does it mean when someone who is silent on condemning Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people has no end of words to malign those of us speaking out against it?
🤔
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

What is it that makes some Germans love genocide so much? Any ideas? First the Holocaust and now Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people… It’s like they just can’t get enough of it.
#israel #germany #Holocaust

Demokratiuppdraget innebär ”att man inte ska vara opartisk när det gäller de demokratiska värderingarna, till exempel i fråga om alla människors lika värde. Det är rimligen en typ av partiskhet som vi bör vara rädda om, även om den inte uppskattas av alla.”
https://www.

Åsa Wikforss: Mediernas uppgift är inte att vara neutrala
Det må vara vara en effektiv politisk strategi att utmåla faktagranskning som partisk, men det hotar fundamentet för demokratin: kunskapen, skriver Åsa Wikforss.

A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/06/09/a-gaza-bound-aid-boat-carrying-greta-thunberg-and-other-activists-has-been-diverted-to-israel_6742140_4.html

When the Nazi start supporting you, it’s not because they stopped being Nazi, it’s because you’ve become Nazi.
#germany

Efter 100 år badar man igen i Seine – och långsamt övervinns misstron #Paris https://www.dn.se/varlden/efter-100-ar-badar-man-igen-i-seine-och-langsamt-overvin…

Efter 100 år badar man igen i Seine – och långsamt övervinns Paris invånare misstron
Efter 100 år badar man igen i Seine – och långsamt övervinns Paris invånare misstron mot flodens vatten

Kitten’s installation server was down for the last two days. In case you tried to install it and it failed, that’s why.
Issue’s now been fixed.
#Kitten

Replaced article(s) found for cs.AR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AR/new
[1/1]:
- RACE-IT: A Reconfigurable Analog CAM-Crossbar Engine for In-Memory Transformer Acceleration
Zhao, Natarjan, Buonanno, Gajjar, Roth, Serebryakov, Moon, Ignowski, Pedretti

If you’re neutral on Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, that’s ok. Lots of people were neutral on The Holocaust and the Nazis too.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

Att vara Sida-chef är alltså att vara en simpel mellanchef nuförtiden, om man ska tro generaldirektören. https://www.dn.se/sverige/granit-om-stormen-pa-sida-det-ar-regeringen-som-styr/

Sidas Jakob Granit om turerna med Diana Janse
Sidas generaldirektör Jakob Granit har ändrat hur biståndspengar ska ges till organisationer och FN. Beror generaldirektörens agerande på påtryckningar?

“The modern-day system of colonialism and sharecropping being constructed by the new East India Company that is Silicon Valley isn’t uncouth or stupid enough to put people in physical shackles. It doesn’t want to own your body, it is content with owning your simulation. And yet, as we have already seen, the more data they have about you – the higher the fidelity of your simulation – the closer they are to owning you.
…
If this doesn’t sound like democracy, it is because it is not…

Genocide denial is considered the final stage of the genocidal process. If you’re denying Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, you are literally complicit in genocide and part of the genocidal process. And history is taking notes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_denial

“We don’t take lessons in democracy from those who kill civilians and children standing in food lines.”
– Athens Mayor Haris Doukas
https://qudsnen.co/israeli-embassy-staff-evacuated-from-greece-as-protests-intensify-over-gaza-ge…

Israeli Embassy Staff Evacuated from Greece as Protests Intensify over Gaza Genocide
Athens (Quds News Network)- Israeli embassy staff in Greece have been evacuated from their homes in Athens. The decision follows protests and rising anger over Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A senior Isra

Off to Dublin to get interviewed for an upcoming documentary called The Privacy Paradox that will be airing on Al Jazeera.

“Innovation” https://mastodon.social/@appleinsider/114802683878143883

Why’d they call it “agentic AI” when Russian roulette was right there?
(Ah, because Russian roulette doesn’t destroy our habitat, drink all our water, and doom our species. I get it now, my bad.) https://front-end.social/@ariel/114675226611700916

Ariel Salminen (@ariel@front-end.social)
Attached: 1 image “Cursor […] tried to delete some old files, didn’t work at the first time and it decided to end up deleting everything on my computer, including itself.” 😶‍🌫️ https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yolo-deleted-everything-in-my-computer/103131

Wow such AI https://social.lol/@keenan/114801484115645305

Keenan (@keenan@social.lol)
Attached: 1 image iOS 26 beta broke the only thing that Siri has ever been reliably good for. “Set a timer for X minutes” now results in this, rather than a timer being set.

People on the right side of history don’t do such things. https://mastodon.social/@7sleepersmusic/114636247251864809

Please help Aseel and her family eat this week if you can.
(I have spoken with and am in touch with Aseel over Signal and I can vouch that the account and campaign are real and your donations go to a family in need in Gaza.)
#gaza #aid

There have been many instances documented, do a damn web search.
But forget that for a moment: What I’m doing is the same as what Netanyahu is doing? My opposing genocide is the same as a fucker perpetrating genocide?
Fuck you, Alfred.
Get some fucking perspective. https://mastodon.social/@amsz…

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
– Frank Zappa
#capitalism

Isn’t genocide denial a crime in Germany? Does that only apply to one genocide? (The Holocaust?) Or does it also apply to, say, the Armenian genocide too? And, if so, does that it mean that the only genocide it doesn’t apply to is Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people?
#israel #genocide

Right, it’s time we started an initiative to find and call out (with receipts) accounts on the fediverse engaged in genocide denial and genocide apologism in support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
There are accounts (and even whole instances, it would seem) that are engaged in this and, further, attempts to silence the voices, not to mention threaten the livelihoods of, those of us speaking out against Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people and attempting …

Alternative title: how one company knows where all Dutch people who use it are at all times.
And to think, poor Hitler just had census records to work with… https://mastodon.green/@HelgavanLeur/114981026302320384

Helga van Leur ☀️ (@HelgavanLeur@mastodon.green)
Attached: 1 image De kracht van grafische weergave... Waarheen gaat de Nederlander met de auto op vakantie? (én heeft daarbij Flitsmeister aan staan). 🚗 via https://www.instagram.com/p/DMNVI35Nqv-/

GitHub CEO: Embrace AI or get out.
https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8
PS. Here’s where to go: @…

GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out
Thomas Dohmke wrote that humans are often resistant to change. He said that's okay, but these people should probably find another profession.

At this point, I’m not sure whether it’s better to warn people about buying a Tesla or not. Sure, people die horribly in them. But also, the only people buying a Tesla today are either full-on Nazis or people for whom fascism isn’t a deal breaker, so… 🤷‍♂️ https://raggedfeathers.com/@lilithsain

A precautionary warning about the @… Mastodon account at https://mas.to/@doaaalbaz0 that claims to be a journalist in Gaza.
The account followed me and immediately sent a DM. It appe…

Doaa Albaz (@doaaalbaz0@mas.to)
11 Posts, 610 Following, 66 Followers · PALESTINE JOURNALIST BASED IN GAZA 🇵🇸 🎥

Please, tell me again how anarchism is chaos.
If this whole sorry episode of human history shows us one thing, it’s not that “we don’t need leaders” but that the very concept of “leaders” is incompatible with the future of our species. Advanced civilisation cannot survive under these primitive hierarchies that concentrate inordinate amounts of power in the hands of a relative handful of individuals. Look at the sorry state of these danger clowns.
Either we find ways to devolve po…

Robert Reich (@rbreich@masto.ai)
Attached: 1 image Musk vs. Trump https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-ab9?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

If you’re against Nazis, and billionaires, and bigots, and pro LGBTQ but look the other way as Israel commits genocide in Palestine, or, even worse, support Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, I have news for you: You’re not progressive; you’re selectively fascist.
#israel #genocide

Meanwhile… https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/114971573848166325

Fabio is the opposite of a Nazi and I am sick and tired of people WHO ARE OPPOSING A LITERAL GENOCIDE being perpetrated by Israel constantly having to defend themselves from accusations of antisemitism.
The dregs of humanity who are supporting, apologising for, and complicit in Israel’s genocide are the people and instances we should be blocking here not antifascists like Fabio who is spending his time trying to get aid to Palestinians on the ground in Gaza.
Ask yourselves what k…

Fabio Manganiello (@fabio@manganiello.social)
A quick heads up to my followers: after threatening to get me fired @8124 has reported me to the staff of mastodon.social demanding the defederation of my instance accusing me of being a Nazi https...

“Netanyahu decides on full occupation of Gaza Strip”
Just like Hitler decided “full occupation of Western Poland.” Oh, no, we called it “invasion” back then, didn’t we?
Then again, we also used to call genocide, “genocide.”
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-863225…

According to capitalists:
✅ Working for a company like Google or Microsoft that is complicit in genocide.
❌ Displaying images of the genocide.
Maybe if the consequences of your work are considered “Not Safe For Work”, you shouldn’t be doing that work in the first place.*
But, no, it’s just much easier to look away, isn’t it? After all, you’re just following orders, right?
* Update: because I just *know* that someone will pipe in maliciously with “oh, so you mean…

Ah, our democratic ally, Erdoğan, loved (and generously compensated) by the EU for keeping the Brown people away from our borders.
EU: we’re leading the world with our single market for hypocrisy.
CC @… …

FRANCE 24 English [🤖] (@france24_en@amicale.net)
Attaché : 1 image Turkey detains three more mayors in latest opposition arrests ➡️ https://go.france24.com/snI

“Just as Nazi Germany’s crimes could not have been committed without the technology IBM provided to track, round-up and murder Jews, Romani people and the disabled, Israel’s apartheid and genocide of the Palestinians would not be possible without Microsoft.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/05/23/mi…

How Microsoft became a hub for Israeli intelligence - The Grayzone
News and investigative journalism on empire

Thread 👇 https://hachyderm.io/@shanselman/114792483463312848

Again, learn from Turkey, because Trump sure is. Erdoğan did the same thing, cleaning out the ranks… and he’s managed to cling onto power for decades because of it. https://infosec.exchange/@Nonya_Bidniss/114797134888601938

You mean to tell me the folks carrying out the genocide of the indigenous Brown people whose land they occupy are racist? No, never!
#israel #racism #ChrisSmalls

Farhad (@faab64@freefree.ps)
Attached: 1 image US Activist Chris Smalls Assaulted by Israeli Forces While Held Hostage After Gaza Aid Mission Chris Smalls, co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union and part of the #Handala Gaza aid mission, was reportedly assaulted by seven Israeli officers while held hostage after the ship was intercepted and taken to Ashdod. He was choked and kicked, with visible injuries to his neck and back, treatment not applied to other hostages. #Gaza #FreedomFlotilla @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel@a.g…

Be so ashamed…
#israel #genocide

Congratulations, UK, you’ve won the Orwell award.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/02/uk-mps-vote-to-proscribe-palestine-action-as-terrorist-group

And there you have it, just took someone stupid enough to say the quiet part out loud… Kemi Badenoch, leader of the Tories : “Israel is fighting a proxy war on behalf of the UK.”
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=m9XdN0ME9o0

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
– Maurice Switzer https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114789191589954642

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image As temperatures soar, here is something cool for Europe’s future. ⚛️ Introducing the Quantum Europe Strategy: A plan to bring together EU countries, industry, academia and society to unlock the full power of quantum tech. Europe is well-positioned to lead the ongoing quantum revolution, focusing our strategy on: 🔬 R&I 🏗️ Infrastructures 🛰️ Space and Dual-use 🎓 Skills 🌐 Quantum ecosystem Quantum will transform key sectors and Europe will lead the…

Tech bros: “Why does everyone hate us?”
Also tech bros: https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/114782913349454383

“On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri approved the proposed purchase of all of the assets of 23andMe by TTAM Research Institute (“TTAM”) … TTAM is a nonprofit medical research organization founded by Anne Wojcicki (Co-Founder and former CEO of 23andMe).”
– 23andMe bankruptcy notice
Well this all sounds above board…
#DNA

Bullshit or water, humanity, the choice is yours. Choose wisely. https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/114783392100794507

“International Business Machines, and its president Thomas J. Watson, committed genocide by any standard. It was never about the antisemitism. It was never about the National Socialism. It was always about the money. Business was their middle name.”
– Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust
The more things change…
https://www.…

IBM's Role in the Holocaust -- What the New Documents Reveal
Newly-released documents expose more explicitly the details of IBM's pivotal role in the Holocaust.

OH – food for thought: “They've found ways to be successful critics – emphasis on successful. They get invited to conferences, win awards, maintain influence … that success might come from never truly threatening the system.
Maybe aggressive rhetoric and a bridge-burning approach isn’t a bug but a feature. When the house is on fire, you don’t negotiate with the arsonists about fire safety regulations. You sound the alarm, loudly and repeatedly.
In a truly existential fight, w…

“As design ethicist Aral Balkan explains: ‘Dark patterns might boost short-term metrics, but they ultimately corrode trust and damage brand reputation. Ethical design creates sustainable relationships rather than one-time transactions.’”
https://ui-deploy.com/blog/e…

Ethical Dark Patterns: Identifying and Avoiding Manipulative Design
Learn to identify and avoid manipulative dark patterns in favor of ethical design that builds long-term user trust.

Had my talk on Small Web accepted at #why2025 but I hadn’t realised (my bad) that not only do you have to cover your own travel and accommodation but you also have to buy a ticket to speak. I’m sorry, as part of a tiny two-person not-for-profit working for the common good, I can’t afford to pay to speak at events. I’m not Deloitte. So I sadly had to withdraw my talk.
If any conferences do w…

Introducing Web Numbers
Domains? Where we’re going, we don’t need domains!
Get ready for an exciting new (old?) way to address (small) web sites in 2026.
https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
💕
(Thanks to @…

Web Numbers
Domains? Where we’re going, we don’t need domains! Until the end of this year, the only way to have a secure web site is to have it accessible via a domain name. That, however, is changing. And the design of the Small Web will be changing along with it. IP addresses are about to make a comeback on the web in a big (ok, small) way, thanks to upcoming support for security certificates for IP addresses by Let’s Encrypt.

The real question is why is a fucking sociopath allowed to teach a class at a university? Oh, it’s Stanford. As you were. https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113022749498944409

Turns out the social contract was a con.

Attacks by…? Come on, you’re so close… you can say it: israel. The murderous regime that’s carrying out a genocide. https://amicale.net/@france24_en/114608756066114347

Dear Israelis, do not fucking contact Gazans on here asking them to help you “understand about people living in Gaza”. And don’t fucking use my name when doing that (“saw that you had a call with someone else I follow on Mastodon (aral)”).
The fucking privilege, man.
Your country is committing genocide. Do you understand that? Do you understand that Palestinians in Gaza are trying to fucking survive right now as your country starves them and shoots them and bombs them and they do…

🥳 New Kitten release!
Markdown and general renderer fixes.
Fixed:
• Nested Markdown sections rendering bug.
• Detection of components in Markdown where the opening tag spans multiple lines.
• Support for returning a component as a top-level object in a page.
• Slots in Markdown now work as they should (make sure you add them as block-level items, so with a leading and trailing empty line)
Enjoy!
:kitten: 💕

“I’m not political” (phrase):
The policies of the people in charge don’t affect me negatively (at least not yet) and I don’t care if other people are suffering because of them.

Bullshit, authoritatively uttered.

Windows 11 Start Menu uses – get this – React Native.
(No this is not parody.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/1ctuz4w/the_recommended_section_in_start_menu_is_actually/
Via

Creative Commons jumps the shark.
*smdh*
#AI #CreativeCommons https://mastodon.social/@creativeco…

No, not Meta! Meta? Really? The same Meta that’s Mastodon gGmbH’s partner at the Social Web Foundation?
#meta

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