@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational feature for iOS and Android in the US and India that lets users ask "complex, real-world questions" (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/893262/google-maps-gemi…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAsk not what your country can do for you – ask what the fuck your country is doing bombing innocent Brown people halfway around the world.
@servelan@newsie.social(3) ‘You’ll Have To Ask The President’: Senior Republican Walks Away From Congressional Oversight
https://washingtoncurrent.substack.com/p/youll-have-to-ask-the-president-senior
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDemocrats ask Pentagon about Iran school strike and role of AI (Courtney Kube/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/democrats-ask-pentagon-iran-school-strike-role-ai-rcna263083
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p57#a260312p57
@fortune@social.linux.pizza"Ask not what A Group of Employees can do for you. But ask what can
All Employees do for A Group of Employees."
-- Mike Dennison
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116397839314462241
these techbros literally get up in the morning and ask themselves how to cause the most collective damage and grief possible
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioMy own addition to the list, which I’d put near the top:
If you’re not sure •why• you or your team is doing something, ask. Keep asking, gently but stubbornly, until you are sure.
(Sometimes nobody else knows either. Sometimes just asking will stop you from spending a lot of time and energy building the wrong thing.)
@cdarwin@c.imDemocrats ask what happened to millions earmarked for Trump’s library
Congressional Democrats are opening a probe into millions of dollars private companies pledged to Donald Trump’s planned "presidential library",
asking what happened to the money
👉after the original fund was dissolved last year.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts) and Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut) and Rep. Melanie Stansbury (New Mexico) wrote Monday to the leaders of
ABC, Meta…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialRinse out that bathtub!
[may ask for registration, you can ignore it.]
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr/11/appeals-court-ruling-home-distilling-ban-unconstitutional
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca"The council says exports to Canada fell 63 per cent last year. "It has been devastating," said Swonger.”
They didn't think to ask him if he voted for Trump in the last election?
And to think some Democratic and 'NeverTrump' (haha) Republicans believe AOC running for President would lead to a Republican win.
The same Republican party that has decimated the American liquor industry, destroyed American leadership in the world, and cratered the economy.
2028 Presidential Election:
No Liquor Industry Neo-Facist Theocracy
or
Black Progressive Woman Democracy
Hard choice, amIRite, America?
But oh ya, I'm not being “realistic” 🤯
#FAFO #TheAmericanFascist #USA
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/american-alcohol-boycotts-bans-canada-trade-war-nslc-nova-scotia-9.7194289?cmp=rss
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineI heard this joke long ago, about accountants, but now feels maybe it's about AI agents.
Firm was hiring new person. Call in an engineer. Resume is great, love their experiences, and at the interview's end, ask, "what's 1 1?"
Engineer says, "tests out between 1.99999999 and 2.00000001."
Thank them. Then interview a statistician. Great training and references. They ask "what's 1 1?"
Statistician says, "it's within …
@frankel@mastodon.topTaming #Maven Version Ranges
https://maveniverse.eu/blog/2026/04/17/taming-maven-version-ranges/
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeIf you submit a game to a store and they ask "Was AI used at any point in the making of this game?"
Remember, when about to click "NO", that we, reviewers, are not complete morons.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialFor this year's #MerMay, my patrons voted for porn WITH plot, a continuation of my story Milky Sea, where Amphitrite's brother Nerites ends up being turned into a sea snail.
In the sequel, his sister Amphitrite is going to ask Hekate for help do undo the curse. With some magic-enhanced sex, of course ✨ 😉
Read Milky Sea here:
@Dragofix@veganism.social10 March, Westminster debate: Ask your MP to support a ban on fur https://respectforanimals.org/10-march-westminster-debate-ask-your-mp-to-support-a-ban-on-fur/
@vrandecic@mas.to@… I'm sure you're getting this question all the time, but I couldn't find it. My daughter's asking me to ask: any time frame for the sequel to the wonderful Bea Wolf?
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… Yeah, if you’re married, and you’re “P2,” your spouse does your taxes, but if this were relevant, they’d have to ask for this information.
P2 = the person that lets P1 declare their common taxes ;-)
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org@… Yeah, if you’re married, and you’re “P2,” your spouse does your taxes, but if this were relevant, they’d have to ask for this information.
P2 = the person that lets P1 declare their common taxes ;-)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAfter a backlash, Google adds a toggle to let Google Photos users return to the "classic" search experience instead of the newer AI-powered "Ask Photos" option (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/goog
@vform@openbiblio.socialHm, #hypotheses hat hier wohl leider keinen Account mehr. Weil ich krieg das "Internal Server Error: administrator has misconfigured Anubis. Please contact the administrator and ask them to look for the logs around: fast."
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialA great way to boost your token use is to reply to any answer and ask it to explain in detail. It’s completely defendable as a way to understand what it is telling you, to help you determine if it’s based on reality, to see if there’s anything salvageable in the web of bullshit it heaped up for your review.
#OfficeWorkerGripes
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIs it too much to ask to live out the rest of my life without hearing some guy in a video utter “so, let’s get into it” ever again?
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Vicious Pink:
🎵 Ask Me To Stay (12" Version)
#ViciousPink
https://open.spotify.com/track/2046tFWIolvLPrPV9p9tpC
@trogluur@social.linux.pizzaWhy are all the "spiritual" people and other pseudo science quacks always talking about vibrations?
When I meet someone who believes that stuff I often try to ask them what it is that they believe is vibrating, but I've never gotten an answer.
I have a friend like this (I know they believe in astrology and telepathy, probably other things too), but I try to avoid this topic with them because as soon as we talk about anything pseudoscience-related it just turns into a…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deqa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzDak Prescott Misses Ring Again after Reported Break-Up https://insidethestar.com/dak-prescott-misses-ring-again-after-reported-break-up/
@inthehands@hachyderm.io(The underlying logic here is that LLMs embed biases, so you take advantage of that fact by prompting an LLM to take on a spectrum of different demographic biases that correspond to population demographics, then ask the LLM a polling question in the context of each of those demographically weighted biases.
So yeah, from my OP it might sound like they’re replacing polling with stabbing themselves in the face, but •actually• they’re juggling a bunch of knives and •then• stabbing themselves in the face.)
@ErikUden@mastodon.deWhen my parents ask me why I'm jobless and I have to EXPLAIN to them who Sam Altman is.
@cdarwin@c.imThere are a couple of other tricks you could try if have any doubts that the voice you are conversing with might not be human.
You could, for example, ask it to scream.
Many Al-voice programs struggle to speak outside the normal range, unless they have been specifically trained to, said Nicoletti.
I asked ChatGPT to do it and it told me it couldn't.
@servelan@newsie.socialSeriously? If you have to ask...
Is Lindsey Graham gay? Let's take examine his words & the nonstop accusations - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/is-lindsey-graham-gay-lets-take-examine-his-words-the-nonstop-accusations/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLetter: 200 Thomson Reuters staff ask the company not to renew its ICE contract when it expires in May; Thomson Reuters' Westlaw service is Minneapolis-based (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/technology/thomson-reuters-ice-…
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deWhat my problem with AI is, you ask?
It's not the math, or the science¹ or the technology, it's not even the data collection.
If you want one word: Techbros.
It's the way AI is applied and promoted and forced upon people, how it damages society and culture, how it exploits.
It is capitalism.
__
¹I am working at an AI chair, we do ML on our machines and discuss CNNs in our meetings and papers
@memeorandum@universeodon.comVirginia Officials Ask Supreme Court to Restore Voting Map Drawn by Democrats (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/politics/supreme-court-virginia-redistricting.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260511/p110#a260511p110
@ruario@vivaldi.net@… Not aware of that at all. I hate to ask as it seems obvious but just to get it out of the way.
You haven't run out of disk space, right?
@…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deSuchmaschine ask.com endgültig abgeschaltet
Der als „Ask Jeeves" vor der Jahrtausendwende gestartete Dienst war eine der ältesten Internet-Suchmaschinen. Am 1. Mai hat der Betreiber ask.com aufgegeben.
https://www.…
@audiodump@podcasts.socialAsk us anything.
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
@cheryanne@aus.socialBetween Us Mums
A bold, no-fluff podcast that gets real about the childcare stage of life - the stuff you wish someone had told you, the questions you didn't know you could ask, and the support you didn't know you needed...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.co…
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialI always ask people who want to build some nonsense:
- how will you know that it worked?
- what can you do if it didn't?
The answer is usually: we won't, and nothing. It never occurs to them that the idea might not be an inevitable success, despite ALL prior experience to the contrary.
@mela@zusammenkunft.netBlender mögen sinnentleerte Phrasen. Jetzt auch wissenschaftlich belegt: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWRlF4clBEO/?igsh=MXc3YzgxbzZiejM5dA==
@joe@toot.worksRIP, Jeeves. 😥
"After 25 years of answering the world's questions, Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026."
#Ask #Askdotcom
@NFL@darktundra.xyzMemo: Tisches ask to move Giants stake to trusts https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48174929/tisch-family-looks-transfer-giants-stake-children-trusts
@lpryszcz@genomic.social'Back in the 70's a researcher named Philip Brickman studied lottery winners and found that people who won big were no happier than anyone else within a few months. He called it the "hedonic treadmill." You get the thing, the feeling fades, you chase the next thing.
The Strive is the hedonic treadmill all over again, but it comes with a mandatory pair of white sneakers and a Claude Max subscription.'
@Lucy@social.linux.pizzaSometimes people have such a great sounding keyboard that I want to ask them all about it, but then their stream is about something so completely different, it would be very weird for me to do so
@cdarwin@c.imHow college students who study war view Trump’s Iran taunts
For Politics 226: "Introduction to Peace Studies"
this was a week when treaties, rules and theories slammed into the reality of a U.S. president who says he
“doesn’t need” international law,
doesn’t ask God for forgiveness
and is limited solely by his own ideas about morality.
Even for Trump, his Tuesday post casually threatening to level Iran,
in a way that seemed to suggest the …
@Demirramon@cyberfurz.socialI love editing videos and adding dumb shit every 5 seconds
@memeorandum@universeodon.comExclusive: How the White House is justifying its $1B East Wing ask (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/12/white-house-ballroom-east-wing-secret-service
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p85#a260512p85
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafe"Disable your mobile advertising ID (see instructions for iPhone/Android). Apple and Google assign unique advertising IDs to each of their phones. Location data brokers use these advertising IDs to stitch together the information they collect about you from different apps."
https://www.…
@servelan@newsie.social"Representative Nicole Malliotakis’s lawyers have asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on a lower-court ruling that found that her district lines were unconstitutional.Credit"
Republicans Ask Supreme Court to Intervene in N.Y. Redistricting Case - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/nyregion/redistricting-supreme-court-ny.html
@grumpybozo@toad.socialRE LB: “Double Opt-In” isn’t really double. It’s 2-factor. Or mutual handshake, if you prefer. You ask to subscribe an address, and the sender emails you a request to confirm that before they send anything else.
There ARE other ways to handle subscriptions ethically, but they ALL include a mechanism confirmingin a reliable way that the user knows what they are asking for and is in control of the subscribed address.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeAsk.com Goes to the Great Beyond - FOSS Force
https://fossforce.com/2026/05/ask-com-goes-to-the-great-beyond/ @…
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialWith all the automation and digitization here in China, daily life doesn't feel impersonal. They still have people available for everything. Every metro station had staff for the security checks, ticket counters, cleaning, safe guards etc. So if you get stuck there is always a human in reach you can ask instead of fumbling for quirky apps on your phone.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgIf you have to ask, you probably don't need to know.
https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/116194362647840674
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRE: https://mas.to/@Ask_aubry/116201990578968401
mention of sexual assault, but in the context of good news
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAsk.com shutters, as its owner IAC "continues to sharpen its focus"; a dot-com era icon, Ask Jeeves launched in 1997, a year before Google (Chase DiBenedetto/Mashable)
https://mashable.com/article/ask-jeeves-shut-down
@al3x@hachyderm.io@… I just installed Tapestry last night and I’m fascinated by the idea.
If this is not the right place to ask please direct me to the best way to contact.
Does it require subscription for handling Mastodon operations like reply/bookmark/etc? (I get an error for each of these)
Does it refresh RSS feeds normally like any other readers?
Does accessing Bluesky require any special setup or sub to work? (Getting an authentication error related to a token)
🙏
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.comSay I wanted to buy an SSL certificate— where would I go and what are important questions I should ask?
Edit: I’m hearing a strong consensus to stay with letsencrypt
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksFor anyone in the United States making mosquito-killing buckets, Trader Joe's will give black florist's buckets away for free if you ask nicely. Talk to the person in charge of cut flowers. (Just add water, dried tree leaves, and 1/4 of a Mosquito Dunk.) #mosquito #mosquitoes
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialAsk why, and know the answers are unsatisfying and contingent. It made sense at the time. Because we didn't understand yet. Because changing it would certainly break something else and we didn't know what yet and didn't have time to understand it. Yet.
Computers can be understood. Everything that is going on can be peeked at, prodded at, taken apart to know what is going on. Inside every complex system are simpler parts. The complexity comes from the combination of them, not mystery.
I cannot emphasize that enough. Just because you don't know, or nobody you know knows why something is how it is does not mean it is unknowable.
@raiders@darktundra.xyzEx-Raiders GM Doesn’t Hold Back on Maxx Crosby’s Future https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/mike-mayock-maxx-crosby-comments-future/
@brian_gettler@mas.toEvery day, we listen to the local morning show from a national public broadcaster. And every time, the segment from the econ reporter makes me nuts. The talk is always about market instability/opportunity and public policy. What drives me crazy isn't the topics, it's how they're universally framed to avoid calling any aspect of the system into question - the economy is natural and we can only uncover its laws. What's the point if even public media refuses to ask inconvenient,…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzFrom Flock to ICE, Here’s a Breakdown of How You’re Being Watched https://www.404media.co/flock-ice-surveillance-technology-reddit-ama/
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@geant@mstdn.socialThis #WomensHistoryMonth, we're keeping the spotlight on the next generation of #WomenInSTEM.
Meet a biomedical student who knows the field she's walking into will ask her to prove herself. She's stepping in anyway.
"If you can see the spark in yourself, don…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialAsk your MP to support a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy https://action.openrightsgroup.org/protect-britain’s-digital-backbone-—-ask-your-mp-act
My MP won't sign EDMs (waste of public money he claims!) but …
@hex@kolektiva.socialWillem challenged us to ask ourselves what we would do if we were living under Nazi occupation. Before all of this, I doubt anyone thought they would be complicit. I doubt anyone said to themselves, "nothing. I would cower in fear and do nothing."
But for 4 years or so we all answered that question again and again with our lives. Now here we are, answering it again... Every day. But it's no longer "what would you do during the rise of Hitler?" It's now, "what would you do after the invasion of Poland," and "what would you do after you knew about the concentration camps?"
For some people, the answer is still, "nothing."
But a lot of people have been brave in the face of it all. A lot of people have died, and a lot more will die. He will die, perhaps after a ruling by some court or other but, honestly, probably not. That's just how these things work out. Lots of people die, some for no reason, some because they stood up against injustice. A whole lot of people do nothing, until it's safe to claim victory... Until it's no longer safe to be on the other side.
That's just how these things go. Fascism is self-defeating, but it causes incredible harm on it's path of self-destruction. The more people who stand up, who risk themselves, the faster it collapses and the fewer it can hurt. That's also just how these things go. It's incredibly dangerous for everyone until enough people take some extra risk and make it safe for everyone again.
But that question still stands... Which one of those groups are you in? Are you proud of what you are doing, or will you look back with shame? Some of y'all have a lot to be proud of, but, if you're not, it's never too late to earn your way into that proud group.
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgRE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116199125374213202
Something to ask @…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116377687987470957
It’s amazing how many people feel the urge to reply to this when I didn’t ask for help with anything whatsoever with irrelevant and frankly bad takes like “just buy real books!”
@bici@mastodon.socialDavid Attenborough: Happy 100th!
@shriramk@mastodon.social@krismicinski@types.pl @…
I've actually done some useful soul-searching on this. 10 years ago if someone had asked what PhD students are for I'd have *joked* "to write code". But they *also* did that. If that is no longer a concern, it's a useful question to ask what they are really for.
I have really great students who are much m…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAsk A D.C. Native: Why does everyone ask what I do for work? (Rhonda Henderson/The 51st)
https://51st.news/ask-dc-native-what-do-you-do-for-work/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260507/p78#a260507p78
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz@… & I (along with a few others) are running #InstallFest #2 for folks in/near Ōtautahi/Christchurch who're feeling uncomfortable in their digital existences and want to free themselves from a dependence on US Big Tech &/or become more self-sufficient. …
@stefan@gardenstate.socialWhen working for a salary at a company there are many things you end up doing that you tell the org about the downsides and they say thanks but do it anyway.
Some can take a stand a quit. some can't. But hard to find a company where you are never ask to take actions you think is bad or ineffective.
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesRead in my local #Willowdale facebook group. So glad those people can't block... fourplex anymore.
Imagine the outrage if a 3 million dollar home was to be built and would require letters, public consultations, etc, etc. But yet, when it's 4 families moving in, they would LOVE the opportunity to join a meeting and scream at this idea.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialPro tip: If you ping me on text/IM & I ask, "what do you need", don't be rude & ask for a "quick call". Type what you need & let me be the judge of whether it warrants non-async communication.
...or don't be surprised if you get ghosted.
#petpeeves
@matthiasott@mastodon.socialHonestly, as a professional who has spent their entire career working on the web, honing their skills, learning design, coding, best practices, and the intricacies of the web platform, it kind of sucks to get sent a Claude Design prototype by a client with the ask to implement it right away.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeHmmm... How likely are platform specific memory safety issues in ngscopeclient/libscopehal? I'm thinking "not very" since almost all of the OS-specific stuff code is in third party portability libraries.
I ask because right now we do all of our CI builds as optimized release builds with the intention of creating nightly builds other people can download and play with.
But I want to do ASAN debug builds to catch memory safety issues during tests (there was at least on…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe 90-day vulnerability disclosure policy is dead, as LLMs compress bug finding and exploit development time, and critical issues must be patched immediately (Himanshu Anand)
https://blog.himanshuanand.com/2026/05/the-90-day-disclosure-policy-is-dead/…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialGoogle launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search "experiment" that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/919441/google-ask-youtube-ai-chatb…
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.comI can communicate pretty okay, and I can think good! But don’t ask me to do both at the same time!!!
@servelan@newsie.socialEnvironmentalists ask to block Trump grant cuts tied to DEI | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/environmentalists-ask-to-block-trump-grant-cuts-tied-to-dei/
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialLearn in public. Write and talk about what you learn. Discover it like archaeology even though it's barely six seconds old. Talk to the people who were there before you, and ask them what they were thinking,
Don't take for granted that people are oracles who will tell you what's good or not. That ship sailed long ago with everyone wanting us to make them an app and make them rich while they gave us only ideas and expected us to do the work.
Instead you have to want to learn and show that you're doing it, and be willing to make messes and mistakes and own them. Because if you're just vibing, you won't get it.
@Dragofix@veganism.socialAsk Sweden to Ban Fur Farms #AnimalRights
@aral@mastodon.ar.alMe: Let’s see how the FairPhone folks are doing… maybe I was overly harsh on them and they’ve used the time to wean themselves off of Google… what with being Waag and all…
Also me: fucking what the fuck now?
*sigh* 🤬
@cdarwin@c.imThe California Values Act (SB 54) ensures that no state and local resources are used to assist federal immigration enforcement and that our schools, our hospitals, and our courthouses are safe spaces for everyone in our community.
SB 54 was signed into law on October 5, 2017 and went into effect January 1, 2018.
POLICE AND SHERIFFS:
Cannot ask about your immigration status.
Cannot arrest you only for having a deportation order or for most other immigration violations.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search "experiment" that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/919441/google-ask-youtube-ai-chatb…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comU.S. negotiators to ask Iran to release detained Americans (Adam Taylor/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/10/trump-iran-detained-americans/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260410/p49#a260410p49
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialRE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116533120069023831
The quoted toot is dismal and true
But know that if you want to learn, people are willing to show you. You have to bring the will to learn because the temptation to skip learning will be everywhere. But if you're curious when the curmudgeonly old techie who's holding the system together says something surprising, ask them about it. We will tell you.
If you want to learn and you're not employed, I cannot state this enough, _build something_. Start with AI, that's fine, but _get under the hood_. Get your hands dirty. Understand what's going on. Your curiosity is the ONLY thing that will get you that experience now.
@cdarwin@c.imJames Fallows:
This week I realized that over the past 45 years I’d been preparing for the news of the past nine days.
I’ll list the reporting steps I’ve taken, because they set up the questions and reactions I have now.
-In 1981 I published a book called "National Defense", which was serialized in the Atlantic.
Its purpose was to interview people who’d spent their lives waging war, or studying warfare,
and ask what realities of combat they think the…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io“OK, but what then?!” you ask me, “What are we supposed to do? What is your grand plan for ending this?? What more am I supposed to do?!”
I want you to know that I spent all of December and January here in Minnesota racking my brains with this very question, and I never found an answer. Nothing could possibly be enough. I had no idea what to do. We had no idea what to do. And we were already doing it.
The whole time, we were lost — and we were already doing it.
8/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialElon Musk amends his OpenAI lawsuit to ask that damages he might win be awarded to OpenAI's charity arm and that Altman be removed from OpenAI's nonprofit board (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com"The Court Interred the Voting Rights Act Without the Dignity of a Funeral" (Daniel Nichanian/Bolts)
https://boltsmag.org/scotus-callais-voting-rights-act-ask-bolts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p63#a260505p63
@cdarwin@c.imAdvertising Surveillance Enables Government Surveillance
We've all had the unsettling experience of seeing an ad online that reveals just how much advertisers know about our lives.
You're right to be disturbed.
Those very same online ad systems have been used by the government to warrantlessly track peoples' locations, new reporting has confirmed.
A new report gives us direct evidence that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has used location data taken …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon launches "Join the chat", an AI-powered feature that allows users to ask questions about products and receive conversational audio responses in real time (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/28/amaz
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFord Asks Trump Administration for Relief as Tariffs Pummel F-150 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/ford-asks-trump-administration-for-relief-as-tariffs-pummel-f-150-b6e76fed?st=dwnBjC&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p79#a260408p79
@memeorandum@universeodon.com'You'll have to ask my husband:' House Republicans say Hillary Clinton punted questions on Epstein (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/youll-have-to-ask-my-husband-house-republicans-say-hillary-clinton-punted-questions-on-epstein-00802742
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p121#a260226p121
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI sends a letter to the California and Delaware AGs, urging them to investigate "anti-competitive behavior" by Elon Musk, ahead of a trial in April (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/06/openai-asks-california-ag-to-prob…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US Energy Information Administration plans to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-to-ask-data-centers-how-much-power-they-use/
