@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-09-22 15:24:04
“If you have to ask, is it accessible?”
https://webaim.org/blog/if-you-have-to-ask-is-it-accessible/
Added to my own post about what you can do *before* asking:
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-09-22 15:24:04
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-22 22:35:38
Texas Democrats ask for investigation into Ken Paxton voter registration
The complaint comes after The Texas Tribune and ProPublica found the Texas attorney general repeatedly voted while registered at an address where he no longer lives.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/07/16/de…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-09-22 20:44:11
Flying to the Czech Republic next week to speak at Dark Prague.
If you’re going, do come by and say hi (and ask for a Kitten sticker) :)
#SmallWeb
@anneroth@systemli.social2026-07-22 08:42:22
„Let's be clear: it is theoretically possible that AI will take over the world. I'm no fortune teller. But ask yourself, does that idea sound similar to other stories you've heard out of Silicon Valley in the past?
Weren't we all supposed to be living in Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse by now? Wasn't Bitcoin going to replace all the world's currency?“
Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-23 02:35:55
Anthropic may ask Claude users to verify their age and identity
by uploading their government-issued documents,
according to a new version of the company’s privacy policy.
The AI giant says the move was to allow users to appeal having their account flagged for potentially fraudulent activity
rather than outright banning them,
-- but comes at a time when Anthropic seeks to placate the Trump administration
amid an ongoing standoff over who gets access to th…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-22 15:10:51
Kalshi Klear, the company's internal clearing house, files for CFTC approval to add margin trading as it seeks to attract institutional liquidity (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/22/kalshi-ask
@matthiasott@mastodon.social2026-08-22 20:12:43
“OpenDAW is an impressive undertaking from @…, and I hope to see it go from strength to strength.” Whoop whoop! 😉🙌https://bedroomproducersblog.com/2026/
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-07-22 11:53:56
It's important to lower the lid before flushing the toilet.
It's also important to wait till the lid actually falls down.
Alternatively, it's important to have spare trousers on you.
Don't ask.
#rail
@david@boles.xyz2026-09-22 13:20:58
Love’s Best Habit: On Shakespeare’s Sonnet 138
Ask a room of readers which of Shakespeare's sonnets is the greatest and the same three answers come back every time: Sonnet 18, the summer's day; Sonnet 116, the marriage of true minds; Sonnet 73, the yellow leaves....
https://bol…
@KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.de2026-06-23 12:19:35
I regularly ask myself if I'm really a good person or if I'm just scum cosplaying a kind soul.
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2026-07-23 03:02:31
This never gets old
(Stolen on Reddit)
#TheOffice
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-08-23 07:20:11
Well I didn't ask Signal to send my location, so bugger off
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-08-23 16:00:09
qa_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…
@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.place2026-08-22 20:30:47
When your kids ask how long it takes to count to a million or you just try to help them understand the size of a billion, try this site. Uses syllable pronunciation speed to determine how long it takes to count to some big numbers.
https://engaging-data.com/count-to-one-million/…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-07-21 02:39:33
Jethro Tull was the first concert I went to, in Detroit in 71 or 72 I think. I had to ask the friend I was with which one was Jethro. 🤣 Here’s a recent interview. https://youtu.be/-vZCnbWFr4I?is=uckVsCmM98hdYTo1
@kurt@nelson.fun2026-09-19 23:50:13
We live in a time where I can ask the robots to correlate my McDonald's orders with my Spotify listening and ask it to make a "tweetable info graphic".
@deabigt@universeodon.com2026-08-22 16:48:49
ICE Agents Ask Airport Gate Workers to Help Identify and Detain Passengers https://aeroxplorer.com/articles/ice-agents-ask-airport-gate-workers-to-help-identify-and-detain-passengers.php
@david@boles.xyz2026-07-22 12:19:52
The Lemurians of Mount Shasta: A Visit to the Hidden Country
California's mystic volcano has tenants no census has ever counted. An inquiry into where they live, how they live, why they live, and what happened when I went up to ask. ...
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/0…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-08-22 05:17:07
Sounds like this is the story that is going to stick.
Trump is not a reliable partner in anything.
Carney: “last-minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal”
Ask Ukraine. Ask Iran. Ask NATO.
The American Century is over.
#canpoli #cdnpoli
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-20 19:38:47
Mathematician Paul Erdős had a fantasy that he'd die giving a lecture.
He'd prove a result,
someone would ask about a generalization,
he'd respond "I'll leave that to the next generation," and then he'd die.
He passed away at a conference in Warsaw #OTD in 1996,
just after proving a new result. 🧪 🧮
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-07-20 12:58:54
If models like Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2 are getting close to what Anthropic, OpenAI and Google can offer, what is their competitive advantage? Isn't then the only important "resource" compute and who can use it for what? (because those large chinese models also ask a large inference infrastructure). Is there enough inference hardware available for companies to run those models local? (probably not)
🤔
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-21 10:40:53
Memo: the Army CIO reinstates limits on Army members' AI token usage; docs show the DOD's Ask Sage tool can access 100M tokens via an annual "enterprise pack" (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-army-is-burning-through-its-ai-toke…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-07-21 20:00:08
qa_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…
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-08-11 12:16:57
Ask The Author With Jodi Gibson
A podcast answering all your writing and publishing questions in a no-frills, easy-to-understand way...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/ask-the-author/
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-09-18 20:30:45
Don't get stuck high and dry with a noncompliant swamp. To ensure proper interoperability, always ask your suppliers if they ensure compliance with ISO 414141 "Standard for Swamps, Wetlands, Marshes, and Bogs".
Better known simply as "the bog standard"
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-22 16:31:00
Donald Trump has approved an agreement with Saudi Arabia that could provide the kingdom with uranium enrichment capability, according to news reports citing people familiar with the matter.
Trump is expected to announce that he will ask Congress to approve the agreement with Saudi Arabia.
The timing of the announcement is controversial as the US’s war with Iran is being fought in part to prevent Tehran enriching uranium domestically and make it near-impossible for Iran to build a…
@fortune@social.linux.pizza2026-09-19 03:00:01
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for
even the greatest fool may ask more the the wisest man can answer.
-- C. C. Colton
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-08-20 18:14:37
Vea dismisses trade ask: Want to be 'Buc for life' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49672527/vita-vea-dismisses-trade-drama-want-buc-life
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-09-21 20:23:01
RE: https://indieweb.social/@jbz/117307751875743641
❝It's a gambit for regulatory capture. They're hoping to be appointed to some position in the market where their word is unassailable and everyone else has to ask them for permission to do things. It's frankly kind of ridiculous to commercialize this tool while saying people have to ask them for permission to use it.❞
So glad these thoughts are increasingly seeping into the nerd-mainstream and even the mainstream-mainstream.
1/2
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2026-09-20 09:59:50
Next to enshittification I'd like to introduce 'enstupidification'. That one bothers me waaaayyy more. Phone:'Please enter your passcode, so you can't forget' Tablet: 'Every 24 hours we ask you to enter your pin, so you don't forget ' Banking app 'We noticed you have KDE Connect installed. Please uninstall, so you can use our mobile banking app'. 'You cannot use this service, without signing up'.
Astonishing stupidity, wrapped in a, su…
@ncoca@social.coop2026-09-18 05:32:49
Some news - I'll be speaking at the virtual tbd/Con organized by Gazzetta next week
My focus - the scale of #digital #surveillance and censorship in #Tibet, a relevant topic due to the information bla…
@trezzer@social.linux.pizza2026-07-19 10:46:35
I was about to ask if anyone has a good list of terms to block ALL talk of AI whether for or against, and I realized the person wouldn’t be able to see my question.
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2026-07-18 09:25:28
#Neuroscientists of the world - do you sometimes have questions about a new technique you're trying to setup in the lab? Or getting too much noise in your system and wondering why? Not sure why your rats / flies / humans are not learning? Which virus to get for your optogenetic experiment? How to stain brain slices? Whether an expensive piece of kit is worth buying? ...
The
@crell@phpc.social2026-07-17 14:35:01
Tell your representatives to support the Fair Choice Act, and support #RankedChoiceVoting
https://fairvoteaction.quorum.us/campaign/VCA2026/
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-07-17 21:34:07
Content warning: Lightweights in Ōtautahi
For those here in Ōtautahi Christchurch, my band, 3kg, is playing tonight at A Rolling Stone (Colombo St) from 8:30. We're a 7 piece rock, funk, swing band with lots of singing and a bit of brass. No cover (though the pub might ask for a koha at the door). All welcome! Might be some swing dancers in attendance, too, if you like that sort of thing!
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-07-18 14:57:31
@… hello! I got to ask! What made you fav this post? I'm just super curios!
https://gardenstate.social/@stefan/116941538327017069
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-07-21 17:20:40
Voting rights groups ask federal judge to again block Trump's mail voting restrictions (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/voting-rights-groups-ask-federal-judge-to-again-block-trumps-mail-voting-restrictions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260721/p77#a260721p77
@fathermcgruder@jorts.horse2026-07-15 20:48:29
It's great when the project is behind and when I ask for ETAs everyone's first response is to ask when the other group is going to be ready with their part. People just love to finish last I guess lol. #ProjectManagment
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-08-18 05:05:38
A look at Azad, an Iranian YouTube show that airs views critical of Iran's government and facilitated Tucker Carlson's 2025 interview with Iran's President (Yeganeh Torbati/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0…
@jae@mastodon.me.uk2026-07-17 21:11:04
I went down a rabbit hole of reading plot synopsis of gay porn movies. Don’t ask me how I got started on that… but I will say they are very creative.
@avalon@jazztodon.com2026-09-19 18:27:57
"People ask me (about) my influences, I would have to say Patty Waters. They say other people and I say, Nahh, Patty Waters, listen to Patty Waters. I listened to her twice. That's all it took for some grain of inextricable influence." -Diamanda Galas, 1998
https://www.furious.com/perfect/pattywater
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social2026-07-17 17:14:41
Started Alan Wake 2 last night, only for my wife to ask, "Why are you controlling a naked middle-aged Swedish man?”
Me: 🤷♂️
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place2026-07-19 16:11:26
Just for the record: Spain is a great team. Argentina is a great team. Both coaches are incredible. Can’t ask for a more perfect match. Whoever wins is a worthy world champion!
I want to see the little Magic Man from Rosario take home another trophy with his mates *a bit more*.
So I will cry if Argentina wins and I will cry if Argentina loses. Overall big sob fest whatever happens.
Extremely hyped for the game! 3 hours left in waiting mode.
@yeold@social.linux.pizza2026-07-19 13:27:45
Why did I integrate spotify to xmms? You ask?
Why not?
@SteveFoerster@social.vivaldi.net2026-09-17 21:54:55
@… @… You'd have to ask each one individually since it's not like they all vote identically.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-07-18 15:50:32
Create Word, Excel & PowerPoint files. Generate interactive HTML reports. Organize files & folders, share files, orchestrate approvals...
Big month for #Copilot for #SharePoint!
✅ What’s New in Copilot in SharePoint: July 2026 | Microsoft Community Hub
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2026-07-17 16:24:37
"What's your favourite emoticon or emoji and why?" - How can you ask me to choose amongst my babies??! 😭😭😭
There are some emojis I actively avoid for visceral reasons (couldn't explain why) and I'm partial to 😅 , 💪 , and 🤷♀️ , because they're just so useful. But I'd probably pick the otter floating on its back, because I think that's just design genius 🦦 :aawwww: #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchange2026-09-22 19:41:31
Ask five questions before accepting an Al conclusion. What exactly is the claim? What evidence supports it? Is that evidence an artifact, a capability, or observed behavior? What failed, contradicted the claim, or remains unknown? What should a human verify before acting? "Teaching Al to Analyze Malware: How to Encode Practitioner Expertise into an MCP Server" by Lenny Zeltser at #blueteamcon (11/n)
@niqdanger@social.linux.pizza2026-08-19 13:22:04
Its amazing to me how much different journal access is from college to college. I've been working on homework for a program at one University but often can't get journal articles, so I ask my wife who works at an Ivy. She gets them in seconds.
@eyebee@mstdn.social2026-08-18 20:31:58
A sign of getting older? I had to ask my wife if she would cut my toenails.
2026-07-18 22:51:54
殺伐としたアメリカに創英角ポップ体がっ！
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-07-20 20:32:15
CW: regenerative farming / FYI animals die so you can have meat, do with that what you wish
----
I now have to drive a total of 1340km INSIDE OF IRELAND to have organic, pasture-raised chickens legally slaughtered and packed, so you can add that to the price of your chicken in answer to the question "why do you ask €25 for a 2.5kg bird?"
Why? Because the local authorities decided they'd demand rates exceeding €1000/mo from my more-local slaughterhouse that ope…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-08-18 08:06:55
Next time someone tells you they support Israel, ask them “What the fuck is wrong with you? What kind of monster supports genocide?”
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-06 12:42:55
Google is expanding its Gemini-powered Ask Maps feature in English to 130 countries and adds agentic food ordering, hotel booking, and attraction searching (Jada Jones/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-new-ask-maps-fe…
@tomkalei@machteburch.social2026-07-22 18:18:45
New blog post with Mateusz Michalek!
Impressed by the recent multiplication of great mathematical results we ask what this means for the community, e.g. prize or hiring committees.
Before AI a breakthrough paper also testified that the authors are experts in a certain area. That is certainly gone and it will have possibly disastrous consequences for the merit system of mathematics.
We are very curious to hear your thoughts on how to assign academic credit nowadays!
https://thomas-kahle.de/blog/2026/just-42-tells-us-nothing/
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-23 05:30:29
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
holybones:
🎵 Did you ask for this?
#holybones
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://open.spotify.com/track/5ytBJVsVok9yWBQca56Ewx
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-07-15 05:04:00
"Ever more people are annoyed by the climate being so pushy these days, with all its heatwaves, wildfires, and floods. KLM agrees: Freedom of expression is valuable, but if we can't do our work because people get hesitant to book flights to Italy, we have to ask whether we can still tolerate this." /s
@grist@fosstodon.org2026-09-18 02:11:53
Nobody who depended on Log4j had budgeted for that moment, because nothing about using a free logging library had ever felt like a financial decision. It was one anyway. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/stop-saying-open-source-sustainability/
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-09-02 23:19:24
Raiders’ $75M public funding ask for stadium plaza project approved https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-75m-public-funding-ask-for-stadium-plaza-project-approved-3873776/
@bici@mastodon.social2026-07-17 16:00:25
Hope For The Future:
How the World Cup made an 'NFL-obsessed' American a football fan
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0n22eprzpo
PS Much of the Americas are already Football fans. Good to see
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-07-19 08:29:03
The fact that an autocratic, corrupt and in some ways fascist republican administration only leads to a relatively small lead of the democrats in the polls, is food for thought. People in the US are farther removed from European and democratic values than ever it seems.
https://www.
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu2026-09-10 13:39:06
#PennedPossibilities 1124
MC POV: What stupid question have you heard someone ask (or asked yourself)?
'I'm sorry, but questions are rarely stupid. They might be uninformed, ill-conceived, half-digested or perhaps even malicious. But plain stupid rarely ask questions. Stupid is content with what little they know. Asking a question shows, in most cases and to some exten…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-08-22 00:59:57
People who don't mind driverless cars will find all sorts out reason to brush off this kind of news:
https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/117135628617386440
It was moving slowly already to be safe, it did brake before the collision, the injuries were minimal, the child is at fault, etc.
In the end, a lot of people will shrug and say: human drivers also make mistakes like this, so what's the big deal if a robot does? Maybe the robot even has a better safety record on average than humans. You can't ask for perfection!
Here are three related reasons why you shouldn't buy these arguments:
1. The crash statistics for the "average human driver" include (and are probably significantly driven by) impaired human drivers, like drunk drivers or people on their phones. When driverless car companies put "as good as the average human driver" as the goal, they're saying that they're okay with their systems being just as bad as drunk or distracted drivers sometimes. That's not the right goal at all! We should demand that driving robots perform at least as well as non-distracted human drivers, which is significantly *better* than the average human driver when it comes to things like crashes.
2. Mistakes made by a robotic system are fundamentally different in nature from mistakes made by humans, because the robot mistakes ate *systematic* across all robots in similar-enough situations. If a human looking at their phone slows down too late and hits a child, that's tragic, but it doesn't mean that *every* human driver put into the same situation would make the same mistake. In fact, many of them probably wouldn't be looking at their phone and thus would avoid the accident, *even given the exact same situation in which to react.* In contrast, *every Waymo taxi running the same software* will make exactly the same mistake in that situation. In other words, this kind of event will definitely repeat whenever a similar-enough situation arises around a Waymo taxi. That's why news like this should be scary, even though the accident was a minor one.
3. Some might claim that it's good that a software upgrade could potentially fix the issue that caused this accident. It's sort of true that there's an upside there (although any behavior updates can cause errors in other situations). But the question we should be asking is: why wasn't this already fixed before the vehicle was approved for testing on real roads with real children and people in harm's way? Why wasn't there a stimulation scenario for this exact kind of situation, so that the system already knew what to do? Why should it take a child getting injured for a fix to be developed v(if one in fact will be)? In theory, of course, it's possible that this was a truly exceptional situation where even an alert human couldn't have done better. I'm sure what's what the company is telling the investigators. It's also possible that the designers are following the Silicon Valley motto of "move fast and break things", which reaches an entirely new level of frightfulness when the thing that's moving fast is a car and the thing being broken is a child. "I'll just deploy it now and as test cases when I see what really breaks in production" is an attitude I've been guilty of, but then I make videogames, not deadly robots.
@nohillside@smnn.ch2026-09-03 09:46:26
Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password? | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546432
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.de2026-07-14 22:00:21
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2026-08-14 11:14:19
Content warning:
Yesterday I was giving a training in my non-sexy other life and there was a young person there who was gender-ambiguous to me. This person was young and wore their hair in a pony tail and therefore looked feminine but they were also tall and had a deep voice and it was 50:50 for me, honestly, could be a cute tall woman with a deep voice or a cute guy with a pony tail. And I kept dreading having to ask them because when you're young it feels extra bad if someone can't tell or misgende…
@arXiv_qfinTR_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-07-21 07:52:16
Optimal Market Making in Prediction Markets
Dominik Feil, Max Nendel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17991 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.17991 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.17991
arXiv:2607.17991v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Prediction markets are attracting growing attention as trading volumes rise and their practical relevance increases. To ensure efficient price discovery, liquidity provision becomes ever more important. Due to the binary settlement structure in prediction markets, optimal market making leads to an optimization problem that is fundamentally different from the ones studied in classical settings. In this paper, we develop a stochastic control framework for prediction markets in which the market price is modeled as a conditional probability of the outcome that is generated by a transformed latent belief diffusion. A market maker selects bid and ask quotes to maximize expected terminal wealth while controlling both mark-to-market inventory risk and the settlement risk of remaining positions at resolution. We derive the associated Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equation and characterize the unique optimal bid and ask quotes. By transforming the equation to the latent belief space and using a fixed-point argument, we prove existence and uniqueness of a classical solution and verify the resulting optimal quoting strategy. In addition, we provide a numerical analysis, which reveals how optimal liquidity provision in prediction markets depends on inventory, market beliefs, time to resolution, and risk aversion. Further, we demonstrate that the optimal quoting strategy substantially improves downside protection while preserving most of its expected profit relative to a myopic benchmark that maximizes the instantaneous expected mark-to-market profit.
toXiv_bot_toot
@laimis@mstdn.social2026-08-16 04:12:40
I like to shit on LLMs being promoted and companies always adding chat interfaces to their products. Yet I added it to my product due to user requests and I have to say I find it very useful. I am finding a single interface where I ask for things much easier to use than clicking tabs and reading things through to find what I was looking for. Now I kind of get it why everyone is transitioning to that mode.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-20 23:57:42
The people have moved on.
Americans are not just fed up with pandering to Israel by politicians beholden to funding from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
The people have moved on from this notion that things need to move slowly or worse yet, nothing can be done at all.
The current fear-mongering about democratic socialists overshadows the fact it started in the early 1980s,
a time when Americans struggled to make ends meet.
And the current scare f…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-08-16 11:11:06
How do Bears fans feel about the team moving? Depends on who you ask https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7515752/2026/08/16/bears-fans-stadium-relocation-plans/
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-07-18 18:01:19
You don't have to be good in everything. You can ask for help. You can also just start doing it in such a horribly bad way that someone will decide they can't look at it, and will do it for you.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-13 06:30:44
Over 30 crypto companies, including Coinbase and Block, say frontier AI safety guardrails hinder legitimate security work while attackers use stronger tools (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/08/13/bitcoin-firm…
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-08-06 22:00:00
Depends Who You Ask
I'm Caitlin. I colour-code my wardrobe, read before bed every night, and think accessories solve most problems. I'm Stef. I'd happily live in sneakers...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/depends-w…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-20 23:39:45
It’s John Grisham,
and I’m reaching out on behalf of a fellow Mississippian – Cliff Johnson.
Cliff is a civil rights lawyer and law professor with a long record of fighting for what’s right, battling injustice, and protecting the rights of all people.
I’m personally asking you to join me in making a financial contribution to Cliff.
I would not ask you if I did not believe myself that electing Cliff is so important to my home district and crucial to the future of our …
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-08-16 02:40:27
#Truthiness: “the quality of seeming or being felt to be true, even if not necessarily true.” Stephen Colbert gave us the word in 2005, on The Colbert Report. Does anyone know if he’s written about how the word came to him? Does anyone know how I can ask Stephen about it? I’m guessing his cbs.com email won’t work.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-08-20 10:35:53
Build First, Ask Questions Later: Trump's Ballroom Puts Supreme Court in a Bind (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/build-first-ask-questions-later-trumps-ballroom-puts-supreme-court-in-a-bind-2c7ebe63
http://www.memeorandum.com/260820/p9#a260820p9
@grist@fosstodon.org2026-09-18 00:11:53
The words “open source sustainability” seem to imply that the whole open source ecosystem has a systemic problem. #business
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-08 01:05:40
Documents: Oregon's attorney general plans to ask a court to order Paramount to comply with investigative demands for records related to its bid to acquire WBD (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/oregon-ag-ask-court-or…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-20 15:24:27
I ask Laura Grego now, what is it that we should all know?
Well, she says, the average person’s experience of space is about to change.
If, so far, that has been “looking at the stars and being full of wonder, full of connection with the universe”,
perhaps noticing the occasional streaking object that was not a shooting star,
now “there are plans for tens of thousands more satellites, which would really change your relationship with what you see in the sky”.
Sp…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-08-13 10:08:19
What happens when you drop a fairy-tale QB into Sin City? Ask Fernando Mendoza https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7509793/2026/08/13/fernando-mendoza-raiders-rookie-season-pressure-playbook/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-09-18 21:00:07
qa_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…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-08-13 10:11:26
What happens when you drop a fairy-tale QB into Sin City? Ask Fernando Mendoza https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7509793/2026/08/13/fernando-mendoza-raiders-rookie-season-pressure-playbook/
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-09-13 07:09:25
Gaza Verified verifies, through video calls, that people are from Gaza and facing genocide.
Why do you think they’re forced to ask for help?
I’ll tell you:
Because the rest of the world has failed in its moral duty to stop Israel’s ongoing genocide and help them.
Because the US (#1 arms dealer to Israel) and Germany (#2 arms dealer to Israel) and other “Western” countries are complicit in this genocide.
So maybe think about that. And then think about what you j…
@grist@fosstodon.org2026-09-18 14:11:52
Stop saying “open source sustainability” #business
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-09-23 04:30:42
Kalshi asks CFTC to allow margin trading on its platform, letting users buy with borrowed funds (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/22/kalshi-asks-cftc-to-allow-margin-trading-on-its-platform-letting-users-buy-with-borrowed-funds.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260923/p2#a260923p2
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-08-18 11:19:19
How important is pass protection for a running back? Ask Jaxson Dart https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49640128/running-back-pass-protection-jaxson-dart-tyrone-tracy-giants-bengals-samaje-perine-v…
@grist@fosstodon.org2026-09-18 12:58:53
Lumping together behemoth projects like Kubernetes with VLC and XZ Util is a mistake that confuses users and customers: the differences cannot be ignored. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/stop-saying-open-source-sustainability/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-15 09:41:11
Apple rolls out child safety tools with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, such as blocking gore and violent content in FaceTime calls and Safari's Ask to Browse (Apple)
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apples-new-child-safety-features-now-avail…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-17 20:35:45
Kushner predicts Hamas disarmament progress in about 30 days
Trump approval falls to 33%, lowest of his presidency, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
Texas parents ask US supreme court to hear Ten Commandments in classrooms case
House ethics committee investigating Jimmy Gomez over sexual misconduct allegations
Trump says Kim Jong-un has responded to his overtures but doesn't offer details
Trump blames 'vandals' for damaged grass in the spot where he held his…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-12 06:37:54
The best leaders do not ask, “How do I get people back where I can watch them?”
They ask, “Which work improves when we are together, and which work improves when people have focus and control?”
That question turns flexible work policies from a perk into an operating system.
It forces organizations to define the purpose of office days,
the norms for remote days,
the rituals for learning,
and the metrics that actually matter.
@grist@fosstodon.org2026-09-17 18:11:53
So if you’re the one inside your organization who gets to decide whether to adopt an open source tool for something that matters, the question was never “is this free?” It’s who is going to own those three jobs (features, security, continuity) for as long as we depend on this thing? https://www.getgrist.co…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-13 18:37:26
With all the suspicion going on for weeks,
if McConnell had the ability to call in to Fox News and talk for 5 minutes
he would have done so.
Which means he cannot do so.
Why not ask Beshear or Schumer to come say hi?
I call BS.
He’s on a ventilator or deceased.
-- @wolfeman44
https://…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-11 17:51:04
@… :
The most reliable way to lose in politics is letting your adversary set terms.
For example, if you're an artist and you let your boss define the fight over AI,
he'll make it all about
"Intellectual Property" (not labor)
and ask you to help secure a victory that will make him richer and you poorer:
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-04 19:46:15
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
You know the drill by now. I don't like talking about Black history. Americans know Black history.
I want to talk about white American history. In other words, racism, and the erasure of both positive achievements of, and injustices suffered by, non-white people.
That's what people don't know.
Try this: Ask your white US friends wha…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-15 22:48:03
Every time I’m told that the economic statistics are good,
that people’s discontent is based more on “vibes” than material reality,
my reaction is the same:
Go out and talk to people.
And don’t just ask them superficial questions (“Are you happy?”)
Get them to tell you about their lives.
I don’t think D even really saw his situation as outrageous or exploitative;
he seemed surprised when I told him that it sounded really fucked up, although he a…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-16 17:25:35
US attorney general Todd Blancheon Sunday declined to assure that the federal justice department he helms would always act independently of the White House and Donald Trump.
“No, I’m not going to pledge that,” he said when asked about the topic by NBC’s Meet the Press host, Kristen Welker. “And no attorney general should ever pledge that.”
Blanche also claimed Trump would never ask him to do something that crosses an ethical or legal line
– after the president dismissed his…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-15 14:57:32
When the conservative American commentator Tucker Carlson sat down last year for a buzzy interview with Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian,
the unlikely encounter would most likely never have happened without the involvement of a tiny, independent Iranian outlet.
Mahdi Ahmadi, the founder of Azad, a six-person team that hosts debates in Tehran and publishes them on YouTube, pitched Mr. Carlson on the idea, he said, and then connected him with the president’s team.
This med…
