@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itRepublicans fear their MAGA base. Like, they're not afraid of Trump - they're afraid of his *supporters*.
I don't see Democrats ever being anything other than collaborators until they fear their base as well.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at the fundamental questions facing OpenAI: its models have a very large user base but very narrow engagement, incumbents are matching its tech, and more (Benedict Evans)
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/2/19/how-will-openai-compete-nkg2x
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social"Slavery was real"
Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.
Presidents House, Philadelphia.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/archaeoscape.bsky.social/post/3md3yxmvl…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyIt's a bit hard to find, but Dutch PBL Agency (@leefomgeving.bsky.social) estimates that the new coalition agreement has a positive effect on greenhouse gas emission reduction. Current policies would lead to -65% by 2040, and the new policies would bring that to -70 .. -75%.
However PBL doesn't tell us whether we'll catch up on the -55% goal for 2030 in the Climate Law; last year, it estimated that we're on a course for -50% (-45 .. 53%).
@cdarwin@c.imWith the public outraged over the US-Israeli war with Iran, the Epstein Files coverup, and a cost-of-living crisis,
even Donald Trump’s base of supporters is fracturing,
and Republicans are fixing to get slammed in the upcoming midterm elections.
Perhaps that explains why Trump and MAGA Republicans are obsessively focused on attacking voting rights,
taking federal control over the electoral system,
and preemptively casting doubt on the midterm election results…
@joxean@mastodon.socialCan you recommend me some tool for performance testing of native applications to integrate into CI/CD? The idea is that I would like to test the performance change of specific changes to a code base. It's trivial to write, but I'm 99% sure something must exists, alas, I cannot find such a project.
#PerformanceTesting
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social"Pod is now scaling its smart charging capabilities across its existing customer base and extending access to rewards beyond early trials and subscribers to its all-inclusive Pod Drive charging service. Available to thousands more #EV drivers across the UK, Pod could pay out well over £1m in rewards by the end of the year."
@carloshr@lile.clNoche de vinilos con los Héroes del Silencio. Una institución del rock español.
«Avalancha»
#HéroesDelSilencio #Vinilos #VinylRecords
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaDiplomaci
@vosje62@mastodon.nlNetanyahu and His Son Join Europe's Far-right at CPAC in Hungary to Rally Against Migrants and the 'Woke Virus' - @…
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2026-03-22/ty-article/.premium/netanyahu-and-son-join-europes-far-right-at-cpac-hungary-to-rally-behind-orban/0000019d-16f2-d362-a7fd-1ff24cb20000
Archive
https://archive.ph/i1RqE
Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbšn, facing his toughest re-election bid since 2010, called the illiberal right-wing movement 'the greatest political realignment in 100 years of the West, the U.S. as its epicenter, with Hungary as its forward base'
So time to better protect Europe.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 12 - Warlord
ZUKAN: No, no, you're on Betafarl.
ZEEONA: [V.O.] I was teleported back to the base, father.
ZUKAN: No, no, you were seen on Betafarl.
AVON: [V.O.] That was Soolin. You are murdering your own daughter, Zukan,
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/412/444
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… thanks. I could make any number of points, I'll cherry-pick just two.
First, in Reddit:
＂Bear in mind, the audience is far broader than the existing FreeBSD user base. For someone who is aware of Linux but not FreeBSD, or for someone who is unreasonably prejudiced against FreeBSD, the article is an effective eye-opener.＂
Second,…
@45names@mastodon.social
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialSome City Some Nature 🏙️
一些城一些自然 🏙️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaPractically finished setting up Universix-Saigon, my Cosmic bootc image based on a solid Bluefin base. It's live on github at thesaigoneer - universix-saigon.
Many edits in applications, flatpaks and QoL, read up on it in the readme.md. Or just give it a go!
#cosmic #cosmic_de …
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineThe closure of the Strait of Hormuz, due to potus’ war of choice, cuts off sulfur shipments, and so endangers *checks notes* the United States’ ability to wage war. Behold: the self defeating military!
“Chemicals like sulfuric acid…can determine whether the US military can maintain industrial base production of electrical and digital systems needed to sustain the fight as munitions are expended and combat losses mount.”
@memeorandum@universeodon.comIran targets British-US base and its main nuclear enrichment site is struck again (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-trump-lebanon-march-21-2026-260bac76e5554ff31aaf5a3a30c92a2e
http://www.memeorandum.com/260321/p67#a260321p67
@cdarwin@c.imAs the temperatures soared to 105 degrees on Saturday in Phoenix, Ariz., the third-straight day the weather has topped the 100-degree mark,
more than 400 people attending an airshow in nearby Glendale were treated for heat-related illnesses, authorities said.
At least 25 people attending the Luke Days Airshow at Luke Air Force Base were overcome by the sweltering weather and had to be hospitalized for various heat-related illnesses
@nohillside@smnn.chApple might be in a better position than others to launch this successfully because it can build it on an established base (all iPhones out there). Still don‘t see the use cases though. And don‘t even mention privacy issues 🙄
Apple Developing AI Wearable Pin - https://apple.slashdot.org/s…
@benb@osintua.euNEW MILITARY BASE of Russians near MELITOPOL – declassified #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/11/new-military-base-of-russians.html
@drgeraint@glasgow.socialIs it even remotely plausible that Trump would take Greenland and then not move on immediately to Iceland?
"Iceland: The North Atlantic island is a NATO member but has no military, only a coastguard service."
"It hosts U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime-patrol aircraft in a rotational deployment, based at Keflavik air base, near Reykjavik."
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… @… @… FreeBSD 15 has three package repositories preconfigured:
FreeBSD-base
FreeBSD-ports
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
ORAC: Correction. Dependent on one action. [Tarrant and Dayna approach over the footbridge.]
SOOLIN: Help me get Avon back to base.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/615
@45names@mastodon.social
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe document also notes that intelligence and counter-intelligence form the base of all operations. As I've noted this is exactly the area where authoritarianism is at it's weakest.
Authoritarianism is extremely weak at information collection and processing. To counter this weakness, it floods the information environment so that intelligence becomes more difficult for *everyone*.
What folks don't tend to realize, what is covered in the book "To Catch a Fascist," is the fact that "antifa" is really a big decentralized intelligence network.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialIn case anyone was wondering about the relevance of #LandBack in the current moment, via CrimeThinc an article on the Minneapolis resistance states:
"""
The Whipple, a federal building in Fort Snelling on the outskirts of the Minneapolis and St. Paul, has long been a regional headquarters for ICE, having previously housed other federal agencies. The complex is located across the street from a National Guard base, down the road from a military base, and next to the preserved fort itself. The fort sits on the sacred site of the convergence of two rivers. It was one of the earliest sites of colonization in the area; at one time, it was a concentration camp holding native Dakota people.
"""
If at any point in the past you ever felt that maybe Native soverignty was a niche issue, or so far from being realized that other causes were more important or relevant, things like this are a good reminder that that cause: overturning the colonial order, is the *same* cause as any meaningful change from the fascist status quo. Things like a "return to democracy" aren't necessarily bad, but the rot runs to the root of this nation, and any intervention that doesn't go that deep is going to leave us right back in this situation again later on.
The fact that ICE is detaining Native Americans is not at all a mistake given their white supremacist aims.
Article link: #ICE #LandBack
@lornajane@indieweb.socialMy colleague set me up for success by telling me that the big event we do in a reasonably warm country? Is in a venue with Arctic level Aircon.
Genuinely taking care of the base of the pyramid of needs here.
@cdarwin@c.imDrones over base where Rubio, Hegseth live raise security concerns
U.S. officials detected unidentified drones above the Washington Army base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live,
according to three people briefed on the situation.
Officials have not determined where they came from, two of the people said.
The military is monitoring potential threats more closely because of the heightened alert level as the United States and …
@aral@mastodon.ar.al🥳 New Kitten¹ Release
• Fixes: Page infinitely refreshes if class does not extend `kitten.Page`
Kitten now shows a helpful error message for this authoring error.
(The issue was due to the page getting rendered without the necessary scaffolding provided by the base class for maintaining the web socket connection,. leading to Kitten thinking the socket connection had failed and triggering a reload to reestablish it.)
Full changelog of today’s updates:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGlobal installed base of active smartphones grew 2% in 2025; eight OEMs had 200M active devices each, and nearly one in four active smartphones is an iPhone (Tarun Pathak/Counterpoint Research)
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/in
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
@carl@heath.socialDet kanadensiska samtalet om digital suveränitet är i full fart. Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives skriver under rubriken "Every data centre is a U.S military base".
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is…
@45names@mastodon.social
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzProbing jet base emission of M87* with the 2021 #EventHorizonTelescope observation: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/02/aa57022-25/aa57022-25.html -> Probing the jet base of M87's supermassive black hole: https://eventhorizontelescope.org/news/2026/01/probing-jet-base-m87s-supermassive-black-hole-0 / https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2026/probing-the-jet-base-of-the-supermassive-black-hole-in-m87 - observations with the Event Horizon Telescope enable researchers to localize the likely base of the central outflow in a massive galaxy.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCNN Data Guru Reports War in Iran 'Tremendously Popular' With Trump's MAGA Base: 'Tucker Carlson Be Darned' (Sean James/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/cnn-data-guru-reports-war-in-iran-tremendously-popular-with-trumps-maga-base-tucker-carlson-be-darned/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p61#a260317p61
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukRight, that's the record player in place and running! Anyone suggestions on the right (non-poncy) way to clean records and keep it happy? Some, like this one have been in jackets for a long time but are relatively clean; but I also have a big box of singles that probably more careful attention.
Now, the only bit of highfi equipment I need to look at is the Reel-to-reel player (which there's no longer room in that cabinet for)
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeUpgrading a base package install from 15.0-RELEASE to 16.0-CURRENT
Simple.
<https://people.freebsd.org/~dch/posts/2026-01-18-upgrading-base-packages-to-current/> @…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialRE: https://masto.pt/@EsquerdaNet/115922358180128050
Sim, eu espero bem que as nossas forças armadas tenham planos preparados para tomar o controlo total da base das Lajes. À força, se for necessšrio.
@davej@dice.campThis week’s #ThursdayFiveList—courtesy of @…—is #ForeignAffairs: songs in a tongue that isn’t my own.
1. Adriano Celentano, “Prisencolinensinainciusol”—
@zack@mamot.frRE: https://mediapart.social/@mediapart/115929297814349351
Celui qui dépose cet amendement, Š la base, c'est le Sénateur Union Centriste Michel Canévet, du Finistère.
Le Ministre du logement, qui défend cet amendement, au nom du gouvernement, c…
@45names@mastodon.social @cdarwin@c.imWhat is the Chagos deal?
Last year, Sir Keir agreed a deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius,
while retaining control of the UK-US military base on the island of Diego Garcia.
In return, the UK has been promised a 99-year lease on the base,
in return for an average annual fee of £101m in current prices.
The government estimates this will mean a total cost of £3.4bn.
These islands are currently governed by the UK as the
"British India…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeSummary of the recent optimization work in ngscopeclient (not counting core/driver stuff, just filters)
I'm now making a pass through the entire filter library in alphabetical order removing some deprecated APIs, adding error reporting, and doing trivial GPU optimizations where I find them but not spending more than a few hours on a filter unless it's something like the CDR or eye that is really critical.
None of these are what I would consider "done". I'm f…
@UP8@mastodon.socialFace-painted cosplayer at Fairy Fest
#photo #photography #portrait #cosplay
@rmdes@mstdn.socialsi quelqu’un veut tester les DM chiffré base sur Bluesky/Atproto j’ai une invitation #Germ mais faut un iPhone …
https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/02/06/germ-invitation
@denmanrooke@mastodon.ie
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeRE: https://mastodon.art/@weirdsatellite/116236345822822852
My base of operations!! 🙀🥗
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgMaybe we should establish a "maintenance.md" practice just like "readme.md" or "LICENSE" where you just clearly outline the amount of maintenance the project/development team are planning to put into the code base and under which conditions.
I have seen that a few times but maybe it should be more of a standard.
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaA proposed Linux logo dated 6-Nov-1994
@servelan@newsie.social#GiftLink
Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/world/middleeast/iran-school-us-strikes-naval-base.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RFA.Cl3e.OATWk92DfpHR&smid=url-share
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialMundane Things 🌀
普通物件 🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 034 - XXXIV
Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
And make me travel forth without my cloak,
To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,
Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?
'Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,
To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face,
For no man well of such a salve can speak,
That heals the wound, and cures not the disgrace:
Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief;
Though th…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Cursed engineering: jumping randomly through CSV files without hurting yourself.
https://github.com/medialab/xan/blob/master/docs/blog/csv_base_jumping.md
saved 2026-02-23
@45names@mastodon.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialJensen Huang proposes a compensation model where engineers receive an AI token budget on top of their base salary, to deploy agents as productivity multipliers (Anniek Bao/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/20/nvidia-ai-agent…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialKhaby Lame, the world's biggest TikToker, partners with Nasdaq-listed Rich Sparkle in a $975M, 36-month deal to monetize his fan base, including an AI version (Katarina Hoije/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@wraithe@mastodon.socialElon Musk: “I was inspired to build a base on the Moon by the classic Heinlein story about a base on the moon…no, not ‘Moon is Harsh Mistress’, the other one.”
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchangeMy winter sowing lettuce seedlings sprouted too early (my fault) so I've planted them at the base of the indoor avocado tree. Felt bad to throw all the seedlings into the compost. #gardenthoughts
@hex@kolektiva.socialI also think it's worth just doing the math here. There aren't enough ICE agents to remove an occupation of more than a couple of facilities. They would have to rely on local police. A lot of police departments have been ordered not to support ICE activities. This means Trump would have to activate the military. If an occupation was peaceful, especially playful like Portland, deployment may not even be possible. Meanwhile, if ICE agents continue to be as violent as they are Governors may be forced to activate the national guard to protect citizens against ICE.
Forcing conflict when Trump is at his weakest, in a way that is non-violent, puts resistance in the best possible position.
At the same time, we are at a strange time of unity. Trump supporters are leaving over Epstein, some are even mad about the deportations, and he's otherwise systematically alienated basically his whole base (except literal Nazis working for ICE).
The AI bubble is, in a lot of ways, a fun house mirror reflection of the 2008 financial crash. The whole economy is held up by loans secured with "compute." Everyone hates this, and Trump's policies have made everything far worse.
#OccupyICE could actually have a lot of momentum and be difficult to stop, especially if folks went to ICE facilities in frog suits and Luigi bloc with banners demanding the release of the Epstein files.
At least, that's my impression from out here.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialIt was a terrible mistake or maybe even a warcrime, but there are no excuses in these days of relative precise weaponry, satellite images, other intelligence. The USA killed innocent children and it could have been prevented.
https://www.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comU.S. Planes Land at Jordan Base, a Key Hub for Planning Possible Iran Strikes (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/us/politics/us-military-jordan-iran.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p132#a260220p132
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaStop speaking on Venezuela like they got cold hands clasped together in new child rape clubs as Deep State Siri lists potential 0.0001% profit gains off their oil. Its not financially justifiable at the current oil price or even a slightly higher one to go get that oil. None of these execs have anything close to the brainpower it takes to deliberately orchestrate American financial dominance. Elon wouldnt be a trillionaire if there were still firm consequences beyond base physical revolt. It…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
DAYNA: Don't, Tarrant.
ZEEONA: Why hurt him for speaking the truth? [tries to lead him away] Come on.
AVON: [V.O.] Scorpio to base. Scorpio to base. Come in base. [They all rush back to the comm room.]
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEdra, which says it helps companies automate workflows by turning their operational data into a living knowledge base, raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/18/two-
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump officials plan to build 5,000-person military base in Gaza, files show (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/trump-gaza-military-plan
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p33#a260219p33
@45names@mastodon.social @grahamperrin@bsd.cafe @cdarwin@c.imThe closure of the strait of Hormuz
is causing a “paralyzing, real-time problem”
for any prospective manufacturing surge in the US defense industrial base,
and even for the repair of defense equipment damaged by Iranian attacks,
according to analysis published by West Point’s Modern War Institute.
In particular sulphur, a vital upstream input in the extraction of critical minerals including copper and cobalt,
has seen a “near total” disruption of seaborne …
@45names@mastodon.social @leftsidestory@mstdn.socialUS CHILDREN II 🧒
我們這些孩童 II 🧒
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@45names@mastodon.social @cdarwin@c.imWhen a company moves its headquarters, it's making a statement
— whether leadership spells it out or not.
That's the case with #Palantir's surprise announcement Tuesday
that it has relocated its home base to Florida from Colorado.
The defense-tech contractor disclosed the change in a one-sentence press release citing a new address just outside Miami.
Palantir, le…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDrones over base where Rubio, Hegseth live raise security concerns (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/18/hegseth-rubio-drone-targeting-iran/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p135#a260318p135
@45names@mastodon.social @45names@mastodon.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic appoints Irina Ghose, a former Microsoft India managing director, to lead its business in India, which has the second-largest user base for Claude (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/anthropic-taps-for…
@45names@mastodon.social @cdarwin@c.imRep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social :
“These politicians want a Christian nation
— unless it means providing health care to the sick.
Or funding food assistance for the hungry.
Or raising the minimum wage.
It seems like they want to base our laws on the Bible…
until they read the words of Jesus.”
h…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThreat level for Al Udeid US Air Force Base lowered (Kevin Bohn/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5693739-threat-level-al-udeid-lowered/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p155#a260116p155
@cdarwin@c.imSome 1,500 active duty Army paratroopers have been put on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota, according to two defense officials.
The soldiers are from the 11th Airborne Division,
based at Joint Base Elmendorf--Richardson,
one of the Army's premier infantry formations and a frontline force in the U.S. military presence in the Pacific, positioned to help deter China.
The division is also the military's leading formation for Arctic warfare.
One…
@45names@mastodon.social @memeorandum@universeodon.comIranian Missile Strikes Biggest U.S. Air Base in the Middle East, Qatar Says (Alyssa Lukpat/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-israel-us-strikes-2026/card/iranian-missile-strikes-biggest-u-s-air-base-in-the-middle-east-qatar-says-yKI2wRCWxfnRaSBSWyxg
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p107#a260304p107
@45names@mastodon.social @45names@mastodon.social @memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's MAGA base wrestles with Iran strikes launched by an 'America First' president (Matt Dixon/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trumps-maga-base-wrestles-iran-strikes-america-first-rcna261206
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p122#a260303p122
@45names@mastodon.social @cdarwin@c.imThe people who actually decide elections aren’t in the base
— and they’re turning.
Political independents and soft partisans — voters Trump converted in 2024 to beat Harris — are more loosely attached to Trump and support his policies less.
When political conditions deteriorate for the GOP, it’s these voters who are the first to leave.
What MAGA elites think might matter to other elites (people who have dinner with Steve Bannon),
-- but when it comes to electi…
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