@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-05-21 21:30:25
New Eagles OC Sean Mannion: Jalen Hurts 'can do anything we ask of him' https://www.nfl.com/news/new-eagles-oc-sean-mannion-jalen-hurts-can-do-anything-we-ask-of-him
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-05-21 21:30:25
@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…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-22 11:10:29
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Bridget St. John:
🎵 Ask Me No Questions
#BridgetStJohn
https://broadsidehacks.bandcamp.com/track/ask-me-no-questions
https://open.spotify.com/track/5KLIxkbEngfMKTZ3KkMetY
@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
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-22 09:45:51
Meta releases Forum, a Reddit-like standalone app for Facebook Groups, with a feed showing Group conversations and an AI-powered "Ask" feature, on iOS (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2179165/meta-forum-groups-app/
@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…
@carl@heath.social2026-05-23 06:08:36
Medaljen på skrivbordet fick mig att tänka tillbaka på arbetet med Ukraina som jag har haft möjlighet att delta i under de senaste åren tillsammans med kollegor. Jag har skrivit några rader om vad jag tagit med mig från det arbetet. Särskilt om tempo, om lärande och om förmågan att omsätta erfarenheter i handling. Det handlar om kriget, om teknikens hastighet och om varför vårt stöd till Ukraina också hjälper oss att förstå mer av den tid vi själva står i.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-05-23 04:58:37
"a lot of people ask, what's democratic socialism?" lol
#ZohranMamdani
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-04-23 13:44:18
Quick health update. It’s been three weeks since my steroid injections into my spine.
I’ve had a few good days. Not “great” days, not “normal” days, but days of much lower pain levels.
Today I awoke to pain that matched the levels of before the injections. Today is terrible. It’s been three weeks, so I emailed my doctor to ask what’s next.
Just… 😩
@pgcd@mastodon.online2026-05-23 16:31:38
If you ask a question anywhere and DARE to add context, your question will not be answered and everybody will exhaustively wellakchually your context until your eyes bleed.
@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
@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
@groupnebula563@mastodon.social2026-05-23 08:20:43
RE: https://ohai.social/@asokel/116622910450672030
it was absolutely his fault. just ask ena
@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…
@fgraver@hcommons.social2026-06-21 17:59:23
Ethical AI Companies | Ethical Consumer https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/technology/shopping-guide/ethical-ai-companies-llms
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-05-20 06:14:59
EU dependence on gas from the US (LNG) showing up in climate policy:
US gas exporters ask to push back EU methane regulation (requiring monitoring and verification of methane emissions) until 2028.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us
@ginevra@hachyderm.io2026-05-22 22:15:19
Are there any good books (or articles) explaining how neurotypical people think/behave that are intended as explainers for neurodiverse people? I'll ask #ActuallyAutistc
*written material preferred, but if you think a video is the best explainer for this topic, I guess I'll have to watch
@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…
@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
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-05-20 18:11:16
I sooo often don't have photos of the summit cross when I go to the #mountains . Don't ask me why. Maybe because I usually have people in the photo?
It was the same that day: I almost left without that photo when I stepped over the flowers and thought that they might be a cool foreground for the summit. And by focusing on the flowers and blurring the people, I also don't hav…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-05-04 03:05:00
Suchmaschine 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.…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-05-20 15:03:21
Eric Schmidt: "If someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat, you just get on.”
Just for your edification, and this is important:
YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT GET ON ANY ROCKET SHIPS UNLESS YOU MADE SURE, OVER SEVERAL YEARS OF INTENSE STUDY AND TRAINING, THAT IT IS SAFE TO DO SO.*
*hint: it's not safe to go to space
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-05-19 13:20:43
A year after Trump fired a top ethics watchdog, there's still no leader (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/19/democrats-ask-white-house-explain-ethics-office-plan-after-trump-firing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p23#a260519p23
@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…
@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)
🤔
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org2026-05-20 16:07:45
"Our Constitution begins with an aspiration: “We the people”—a promise to secure liberty and justice for everyone. That promise endures and survives only when our institutions act to defend it. If local police hold the line, our democracy still has a chance. If they do not, erosion and fear will accelerate. And history will not ask whether this moment was comfortable. It will ask whether our local police leaders did their duty when it mattered most."
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-18 11:35:18
Oh, here it is (July 2018). It's nice that this report back didn't include any names or initials so I didn't need to sanitize it:
Meeting Notes:
Table-top exercise scenario topic was state and far-right repression.
Responses:
Strong networks require redundancy, so no one person is a social connection, skills, or resource gatekeeper. These people are often targeted by the state, and if they get burned out and leave, it also weakens and jeoprodizes groups.
Ways to strengthen our networks:
Mentoring/sharing responsibility. Creating a culture of mentorship and support so new people learn skills, take on responsibilities, and are introduced to other folks. Reducing burden on a few key people too.
Chaos Monkey exercise: ask central people to step back from communications/organizing to see what happens.
Regular check-ins! & Delegates check-in with new members they sign up
Ask well connected folks to introduce people to build social redundancy.
Gaming (D&D, board games, etc) committee could support a more fun, and socially robust network.
Practical safety tool:
Burner phone. Not everyone needs one, but good to have access to.
TO DO LIST:
Make regular announcements at each meeting for people to check-in with folks they know (especially those they haven’t heard from in awhile!)
Start google doc for disaster preparedness zine
Why you should prepare (ideological argument)
What people should have (the basics)
How to prepare
Frame as questions, so people can find the answer that best suits themselves.
Such as “what are you preparing for?”
Where do you spend most of your time? (home? Office? car?)
Make it as easy as possible for folks to get the basics (list locations for supplies, etc.)
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-05-19 22:44:06
Since when did autumn become dangerous?
Anyway, one of a myriad reasons I don’t log into LinkedIn (except, apparently, to self-promote, which is the whole reason it exists).
@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…
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2026-06-20 11:10:56
#Dentist -related question, if given the choice with "amalgam" fillings or "white" fillings which one is better? 🦷
I would ask a dentist but since they get more money for using the white filling they don't seem completely unbiased..
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-06-21 11:33:50
Finally got off my ass and listed my ThinkPad P14s and RAM for sale. Following neighbor's advice, listed for more money than I actually want for it. ("This isn't England or America!", he said.) Apparently in Ireland you're expected to do a little dance where you ask an absurd price and then the prospect offers you a sub-reasonable price and then you both settle on market price; and if you do indeed list for market price, you'll still be expected to give a 15% discou…
@nohillside@smnn.ch2026-05-20 06:28:31
I have some ideas about candidates for this offer. The sooner the better.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:37m5h6wl2dh2wqiyncbpzpmo/post/3mmakm6pfls2l
@servelan@newsie.social2026-06-17 16:22:14
Pulitzer Prize board members complain about Trump in court
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/yet-to-produce-a-single-written-response-frustrated-pulitzer-prize-board-members-tired-of-trump-acting-like-hes-above-the-law-in-discovery-ask-judge-to-act/
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-06-19 19:46:44
Friday Night, a hotel room in London.
What am I doing you might ask?
SSHing into my Mastodon server from my iPad to upgrade it, of course.
You can remove the nerd from the computer, but you can’t remove the computer from the nerd.
@david@boles.xyz2026-05-20 12:50:03
Stored Sun: What a Book Actually Is
Ask ten readers what a book is and you will get ten metaphors and no definitions. A mirror, they say, or a door, or a passageway with footfalls behind it. The metaphors flatter the reader and obscure the object. None of them tell you what is sitting on your shelf, dark and patient, while you sleep. Here is the answer. A book is stored sun.
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-06-19 20:06:48
The GGNRA Superintendent, David Smith, is having one of his public Office Hours at the Presidio Visitor Center tomorrow to talk about the NPS commemoration of America's 250th birthday. (And answer other park related questions,).
11am - noon, Sat, June 19
Presidio Visitors Center, 210 Lincoln Blvd, San Francisco,
If you're a fan of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, this is a good chance to meet the Superintendent, hear about what's happening, and ask qu…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-06-19 20:06:48
The GGNRA Superintendent, David Smith, is having one of his public Office Hours at the Presidio Visitor Center tomorrow to talk about the NPS commemoration of America's 250th birthday. (And answer other park related questions,).
11am - noon, Sat, June 19
Presidio Visitors Center, 210 Lincoln Blvd, San Francisco,
If you're a fan of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, this is a good chance to meet the Superintendent, hear about what's happening, and ask qu…
@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: 🤷♂️
@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.
@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/
@pixelpusher220@dmv.community2026-06-18 22:31:01
My wife's mom passed away this week after a year long battle with pancreatic cancer.
In home hospice workers are true angels.
On the subject of angels, is it normal for a woman to start nesting after her mom passes?
(I ask covered in sweat, saw dust and a few splinters...lol)
@joe@toot.works2026-05-02 14:47:15
RIP, Jeeves. 😥
"After 25 years of answering the world's questions, Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026."
#Ask #Askdotcom
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-05-19 15:01:11
Some of these are pretty reasonable! If you allow them for anyone, you probably make it so to compete at all requires everyone to follow suit. That's bad when those things have life-altering health implications.
But all of these things ultimately shape who is allowed to compete at the peak levels.
it's not always good! Honestly baseball is way less interesting to watch in the majors because everyone's great, all the plays are maximal capability, and it's kinda predictable. You don't end up with many of those "holy shit what just happened? that was awesome!" plays that are so much fun to watch. So as a spectator, these rules aren't always great. Sometimes you want to nerf the peak performance until the game is interesting. Sometimes you don't.
In F1, a huge part of the game is the nerding out about the rules and how to evade them cleverly to get peak performance. And the inside baseball on that is way more fun to watch than the race. The race is just cars going zoom and occasionally crashing, interrupted by amazing choreography in the pits.
There's a reason women's soccer is so much more fun for me to watch than men's. It's not been optimized so hard that the game isn't predictable in kind if not outcome. Plus the camaraderie shown is great.
But looking at all this, we gotta ask, what's sport's function in our societies? Why do we do this?
@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
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-05-11 18:20:01
I 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 …
@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.
@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.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-05-18 18:13:07
maybe he should ask his AI how not to melt
@mia@hcommons.social2026-06-05 18:57:33
Via Mylee Joseph
@mylee.bsky.social€
5 Questions to Ask Your Vendors about #AI products #libraries
@yeold@social.linux.pizza2026-07-19 13:27:45
Why did I integrate spotify to xmms? You ask?
Why not?
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-07-17 22:15:00
@… I didn't ask them to comment on my opinion.
They expressed concern about AI, I drew attention to AI-related commits in FreeBSD.
@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
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-05-16 05:07:17
I almost cringe to ask this….. A few years ago there was this wave of American and Canadian, and probably a bunch of our “western” country citizen, families who moved wholesale to Russia and started YouTubing or otherwise social media-ing…
What happened to them? I fear for their kids, mostly.
#youtube #russia #brainwashed
@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
@fell@ma.fellr.net2026-05-18 12:07:57
I made a little very specific program that you probably only need if you are me.
I keep getting sidetracked during work. With nobody to judge me and nothing to interrupt my tangents I do a lot of interesting things throughout the day but none of them are the work I am supposed to do.
This little message will pop up at regular time intervals and ask me if I'm doing work right now. I have to answer honestly. The time interval is shortened/lengthened based on my answer.
@lornajane@indieweb.social2026-06-16 20:07:49
Is there a danger that working with coding agents will improve the quality of git practices? I hope so! Ask your agent to read this excellent post #linkTuesday
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-04-28 12:10:41
Google 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…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-05-04 04:18:00
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-05-17 03:42:37
PayRise With Clare Ferguson And Simon Rutten
We unpack the quiet questions people ask behind closed doors about loyalty, negotiation, promotions, and when it might be time to move on...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/payrise/ …
@mlawton@mstdn.social2026-05-18 14:41:39
Encouraging my parents to get a gentle leader for their lab. One of them is recovering from a hip replacement and the other is not physically up for it. I close with this:
"Some people will ask if it's a muzzle and the correct answer is 'yes' even though it's not. Those people are too daft to want to engage with and that knowledge will keep them at bay. An ancillary benefit, but very useful."
@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…
@bthalpin@mastodon.social2026-06-17 12:14:42
I'm exploring installing R and other stuff on Windows for planning teaching, and I found an answer to a question I didn't know I needed to ask: Don't install R, RStudio, Python, Julia etc on OneDrive
https://tclark89.github.io/quarto-blog/posts/2022-09-20-…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-05-13 17:36:26
Everything you want to know about AMOC changes but were afraid to ask?
The Nordic council report on the impact of #AMOC slowdown has some very powerful but immensely illustrative stories.
https://pub.norden.org/temanord2026-504/storylines.html
@shriramk@mastodon.social2026-06-15 16:53:11
What even are we doing here. I'm not even sure what the ask is. This company wants me to pay them to run an AI that is going to feed my soundbites to…who exactly? No need, my soundbites are available for free right here. (-:
@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
@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…
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks2026-06-08 14:53:20
By the way, some towns in the United States give away Mosquito Dunks to residents who ask for them. Contact your officials to ask, and nudge them to do so if they have no idea what you're talking about. Free Mosquito Dunks can translate into fewer mosquitoes and, ideally, less demand for costly municipal pesticide applications during the summer.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-03 03:32:04
Ask.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
@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.
@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.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-05-15 13:30:54
Trump Says He Didn't Ask Xi to Pressure Iran on Strait of Hormuz (Josh Wingrove/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-15/trump-says-he-didn-t-ask-xi-to-pressure-iran-on-strait-of-hormuz
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p33#a260515p33
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-18 17:51:22
The thesis I was reading spent the majority of it's time focused on John Boyd's OODA loop as a tool for critical analysis in high pressure or constrained situations. Table top exercises could also benefit from using these steps to slow down the thought process, expose what's actually happening, and sharpen these tools.
So each step could start by observing (which is generally what the GM will tell you, but you may ask additional questions to refine observational thinking). What do you look for in any given situation? How do you gather data? What sources do you use?
Next you would orient. Talk through this out loud. What does that data mean? How this fit what you already know, or does it challenge your assumptions? Are you observing something related to a previous action? What does that tell you about your previous action or actions? How do you turn the data you observed into intelligence you can act on? How do your observations narrow the options for the next possible action?
Then you decide your action. But you're not simply deciding, you're coming up with a hypothesis that your action will test. Anything you do is an opportunity to learn something about the world, about your situation, about the accuracy of the model you're using to make decisions. What belief does your next action imply? How will you know if that action was correct or incorrect? What observations would challenge your hypothesis? What observations would confirm it? Are those mutually exclusive, or are there additional observations or actions you must make to clarify things?
Then act. Finish your turn by choosing your action or actions (individually or collectively). Perhaps take a moment to write down notes, like what your observations, your hypothesis, and if you think your previous hypothesis was confirmed or refuted. You can review these all later to refine your thinking.
By exploring these ideas in a safe environment, you can train your brain to run through the process at high speed when under pressure. This helps you avoid panic. It's a lot like slowly practicing marshal arts moves until they become muscle memory, which then just happen without thought when needed.
@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? ...
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-21 03:13:10
Women should have to prove they were raped in order to get an abortion.
That’s what my opponent, Republican Rick Jackson,
believes, according to new audio obtained by the Daily Beast just hours after his election victory.
I’m not going to take the time to tell you how terrible this man will be to the women in our state if he’s elected.
What I am going to do is ask you to join me in this fight.
Rick Jackson is a billionaire who spent over 100 million dollars…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-06-17 15:44:53
Activists targeted by DOJ ask judge for special counsel to investigate prosecutors - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/broadview-six/
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-05-17 00:34:01
Just heading to the 2nd installfest... details for those in or around Ōtautahi: https://events.installfest.nz/events/da09b0a4-2e8f-4542-90b1-3bdd58534f7d
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-05-20 12:00:21
I had to complete two captchas to be able to ask Google to try and fail to summarize a page for me (while promoting the signup for their spam list). Truly, this shit offers an end user zero value whatsoever.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-05-04 17:12:02
Ask.com Goes to the Great Beyond - FOSS Force
https://fossforce.com/2026/05/ask-com-goes-to-the-great-beyond/ @…
@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…
@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
@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…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-05-07 19:05:49
Ask 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
@servelan@newsie.social2026-06-04 04:35:49
Feds ask Ninth Circuit to reverse block on logging project in Idaho forest | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-ask-ninth-circuit-to-reverse-block-on-logging-project-in-idaho-forest/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-28 11:25:49
Google 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…
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-06-16 15:47:34
A ThinkPad X230 (2012) is all the computer you need and if you need more computer then a ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook (2020) is all the computer you need and if you need more computer than git gud and if you're unable to git gud for any reason then ask Claude to git you gud and if you're unable to ask Claude for any reason then idk mate consider moving to a tiny house in Montana or sth or maybe find your nearest Jacquard loom and give it the ol' percussive tune-up
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-06-08 16:30:35
Trump's lawyers tell SCOTUS that he intends to ask for the revival of his $475M defamation suit against CNN over use of the term "Big Lie" in its 2020 reporting (Erik Larson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-19 02:02:33
Plastics
“And these guys were very common,” [Gibson] went on, taking down a small plastic spaceman:
red, wearing an elaborately earmuffed helmet with an antenna on top.
“These spacemen were dime-store toys at a time
— which I can actually remember!
— when cheap plastics were still weirdly novel.
Like Gore-Tex or something.
You’d ask, ‘What is it made of?’ ”
He looked wistful, then thoughtful.
“I’ve decided that one of the most signif…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-05-15 16:26:35
“Those holding out in support of Trump’s war should be forced to answer how much pain will they ask their constituents to endure for a war that is wrong morally, strategically, and politically.”
He's Just a Bad Person': Lone Democrat Jared Golden Joins GOP to Block Iran War Powers Resolution | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/jared-golden-iran-war
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-18 00:31:59
A group of six immigration rights activists and local political figures known as
"The Broadview Six" are calling on a judge to appoint a special counsel to investigate the Justice Department for criminal contempt.
They
According to the Chicago Sun Times federal courts reporter Jon Seidel, the lawyer for the six made the request to U.S. District Judge April Perry, a former federal prosecutor herself.
The six were targeted as part of the arrests around the im…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-06-03 21:30:47
Senators Privately Ask Platner Whether New Allegations Will Emerge (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/senators-privately-ask-platner-whether-new-allegations-will-emerge-412891de
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p92#a260603p92
@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.im2026-06-17 19:10:57
When asked by Doocy, Trump answers with candor, admitting that the MOU with Iran is nothing,
that he doesn't want to put his signature on it,
and that all of this is a trumped up attempt to move on from war with Iran . . .
for which he will throw someone else, Vance, under the bus.
(JD, he's not kidding.
Ask Mike Pence.)
@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…
