@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-23 23:30:42
Dak Prescott moves past Tony Romo to become Cowboys’ all-time leading passer https://www.nfl.com/news/dak-prescott-moves-past-tony-romo-to-become-cowboys-all-time-leading-passer
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-23 23:30:42
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-23 02:35:28
We are not in an era where democracy is “challenged.”
We are in an era where democracy is under siege.
Authoritarianism isn’t knocking…it’s battering the door.
Propaganda isn’t creeping…it’s flooding.
The public isn’t outraged…they’re exhausted.
This isn’t a moment for:
“Be Inspired.”
“Stay Hopeful.”
“Vote Blue.”
“We’ll Be Fine.”
This is a moment for:
“DO. NOT. LET. GO. OF DEMOCRACY.”
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-12-22 16:38:39
☿️ Victoria could become first Australian state to ban unnecessary surgery on intersex children
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/01/victoria-may-ban-unnecessary-surgery-intersex-children
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-20 04:41:06
AI academic research hub alphaXiv, which lets users comment on, annotate, and discuss arXiv papers, raised a $7M seed co-led by Menlo Ventures and Haystack (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/19/alphaxiv-raises-7m-funding-be…
@hippyjo@c.im2025-10-23 17:46:26
In a world which has become quite insane, it is perhaps most shocking to witness how society moves on with business as usual while monsters are destroying our cities, killing our children, eating our future and all the potential for greatness we once had.
We have become accustomed to entirely too much cruelty and fuckery. Like frogs in a pot of water being slowly brought to boil.
Glory to the heroes who fight, glory to the heroes who dare to venture into warzones and report the t…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-11-22 21:55:02
📰 Vielen Dank für Eure Spenden zur Unterstützung von #Klimakommunikation und #Wissenschaftsnews. Gemeinsam können wir mehr Informationen auf Deutsch liefern und die englischdominierten
@shriramk@mastodon.social2025-09-24 00:31:32
We've watched the two weeks of the World Athletic Championships and midway my kid decided to classify hammer-throw, javelin, and shot-put as "yeeting events", and I really think this should become their official collective name.
@andycarolan@social.lol2025-11-23 08:25:42
I do find value in Shazam when I go out. It's become one of the main ways I find new music.
It also links music to an experience for me, so if I discover something new when I'm in my happy place, like a coffee shop, I can re-live that moment when I listen again.
Currently, I'm listening to CloZee... I picked up a track (Revolution Sixis Remix) from this album yesterday. #Shazam #AppleMusic
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-22 14:10:36
Israel's cabinet votes to shut down popular national radio station Army Radio, saying it has become a platform for views that "attack" its armed forces (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-12-23 17:47:17
From a small business perspective it is amazing to me how sick the US government has become - not just under El Cheato, but in general.
We have to update our SAM registration. SAM is a system used by the Federal GSA to know something about vendors selling things to the Feds. That's a good idea.
But the implementation is a nightmare for a small business.
Even something as simple as an address change triggers long forms, and more forms from other agencies, and a hell of…
@jby@ecoevo.social2025-12-22 14:17:02
Modeling European Beech masting events shows (1) conditions that trigger masting are becoming more frequent, (2) this is reducing viable seed production, and (3) "Severe disruptions to masting are projected to become the norm, with the greatest reductions (up to ~83%) at colder margins."
https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70284
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-11-23 21:11:24
Looks like the Danakil Depression is trying to become a bay…
I’ve always wanted to live through a major geologic event. I missed the Zanclean Flood, the filling of the Black Sea, and the glacial outbreak of Lake Bonneville, but hopefully NatGeo or someone will get some cameras out to that Hell-on-Earth location. It could be really big…
(keep it to yourself if you just want to tell me it’s not happening. Do you think I don’t know?)
@floheinstein@chaos.social2025-11-22 15:38:35
Which version best conveys the message "ISO 8601. Every over date/time format is inferior"?
Based on different versions of the original logo I made multiple attempts. One of them will become a sticker. White on red, Blue on White or White on Blue?
#iso8601 #iso8601ultras
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-12-23 16:00:19
"Saudi Arabia connects 7.8 GWh battery storage project to grid"
#SaudiArabia #Batteries #Energy
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk2025-11-23 17:56:54
Just discovered 'stdbuf' - a program in coreutils that lets you change the output buffering of a command; e.g. to force linebuffering in a pipeline of a program that would otherwise have become larger buffered, for when you want the output immediately.
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to2025-11-22 11:38:28
"In Phrack Magazine, this author learned at the end of the 1990s the subtle art of smashing the stack, an exploit that would become the starting point of many a computer security book afterward.
There is one magazine that has been around for a decade: the “International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out”, or “PoC||GTFO”.
(I should have probably warned readers about the profanity in the title, but nah, I assume them to be adults at this point.)"
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-12-22 23:28:39
Century-old corals reveal the Pacific Northwest is acidifying faster than expected https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/century-old-corals-reveal-the-pacific-northwest-is-acidifying-faster-than-expected/
@mlawton@mstdn.social2025-11-22 15:58:36
Konate’s defending on the wrongly disallowed goal was very poor. He got wrong sided and lunged in effectively. Earlier, he panicked and scuffed the ball out for a corner that would become the wrongly allowed goal. (Yes, I’m petty.)
It’s not solely his play that is sinking #LFC this season, but the inability to replace him might well be. Shipping goals to team that have no real attack and having t…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-12-23 13:11:20
I'm building webkit-gtk right now. It's one of these messy packages where a few source files need a lot of memory to compile, and ninja can randomly order jobs so that all of them suddenly start compiling simultaneously. So to keep things going smoothly without OOM-ing, I've been dynamically adjusting the available job count via steve the #jobserver.
While doing that, I've noticed that ninja isn't taking new jobs immediately after I increased the job count. So I've started debugging steve, and couldn't find out anything wrong with it. Finally, I've looked into ninja and realized how lazy their code is.
So, there are two main approaches to acquiring job tokens. Either you do blocking reads, and therefore wait for a token to become available, or you use polling to get noticed when it becomes available. Ninja instead does non-blocking reads, and if there are no more tokens available… it waits till one of its own jobs finish.
This roughly means that as other processes release tokens, ninja won't take them until one of its own jobs finish. And if ninja didn't manage to acquire any job tokens to begin with, it is just running a single process via implicit slot, and that process finishing provides it with the only chance to acquire additional tokens. So realistically speaking, as long as there are other build jobs running in parallel, ninja is going to need to be incredibly lucky to ever get a job token, since all other processes will grab the available tokens immediately.
This isn't something that steve can fix.
#Gentoo #NinjaBuild
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-23 23:56:30
Giants become first NFL team in 2025 to be eliminated from postseason contention https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6831801/2025/11/23/ny-giants-eliminated-playoffs-week-12/
@gray17@mastodon.social2025-10-23 21:32:07
Content warning: uspol white house
all the jokes are about the Epstein Ballroom, but I'm more curious what they're planning to do with the secure bunker under the East Wing. Trump will probably be dead by the time it's finished, so when the nukes start flying it'll be Vance with his favorite couches until the MREs run low and Miller starts the cage fights where the losers become pet food and upholstery
@rae@bne.social2025-11-23 08:15:38
I do wish the media would stop confusing ebikes with motorbikes that have an electric motor. The first bike photo in this story is obviously a motorbike with a throttle
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-23/e-bike-safety-program-takes-off…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-12-23 07:01:33
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Placid Angles:
🎵 You've Become Everything I Hoped You Would
#PlacidAngles
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-10-22 11:54:25
Good Morning #Canada
In July 1871, the City of Victoria officially became the capital of British Columbia, when the province joined the rest of Canada. At the time, the city was larger than Vancouver and had served as the most important settlement in the area for decades. The Colony of Vancouver Island also stamped their little feet and demanded that Victoria be designated as the capital in return for the island to join with the mainland to become part of Canada. Captain James Cook was the first British person to set foot on Vancouver Island in 1778, and in 1843, Fort Victoria was established by the Hudson's Bay Company. There is a long history of Vancouver Island serving as a naval base, and today, Victoria is the home of Canada’s Pacific Coast naval and military headquarters in nearby Esquimalt. Victoria is a top tourist destination and is regularly rated top 5 worldwide as an awesome place to live.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria-bc
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2025-12-23 09:54:16
Where's the fun in using a mid to high [and at that, an AMD] GPU for Linux gaming? 🙂 Even now, most gamers are broke by default, so I am using my second budget build that I had set aside for Win11 to do my Windows chores, but have completely migrated to Linux now, to showcase how real™ men™ overcome difficulties and optimise settings even on garbage PCs 😃
Linux Budget Gaming - Detroit: Become Human - GTX 1650 GDDR6 4GB ( i5-13400F)
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-23 01:05:53
Kargo, which uses cameras and sensors to inspect pallets in a warehouse and provide accurate inventory data, raised a $42M Series B led by Avenir (Colin Campbell/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/supply-chain-deals/2025/12/22/warehouse-tech-kargo-42m-…
@lilmikesf@c.im2025-11-19 00:50:11
Quiet Piggy
'Quiet, Piggy': Drumpf;s viral press gaggle insult has already become an anti #MAGAT clapback
https://www.fastcompany.com/91444310/quiet
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-10-22 20:55:01
📰 Für uns alle ist es wichtig, informiert zu sein. #Nachrichten, die vor #Gesundheitsgefahren und #Vermögensrisiken warnen und Fortschritte in
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-22 07:09:46
MIT Provost
Anantha P. Chandrakasan told an audience of about 300 undergraduates from the Class of 2029:
“The goal is for MIT to become one of the world’s most prolific, collaborative, and interdisciplinary sources of technological, behavioral, and policy solutions for the global climate challenge over the next decade...
It is something we need to do urgently, and today is your opportunity to play a role in that bold mission.”
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-10-23 17:21:39
Raiders Nation Origin Stories: Meet James Ramey, known for his postgame 'Victory Plunge' https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-nation-origin-stories-meet-james-ramey-known-for-his-postgame-victory-plunge
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-23 12:24:28
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-21 13:05:45
Sanae Takaichi wins historic vote to become Japan's first female prime minister (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cy0ypj0nrgkt
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p20#a251021p20
@bici@mastodon.social2025-10-20 17:35:37
Dear #Apple. I am curious to know what the top priorities of the company is going forth. I ask because there are many of us who are confused about where this company is headed. We are concerned, as the more successful you have become, that more diluted your core mission has become. Example : Liquid Glass UI? really?
Form over function? no! ... gives us back "It Just Works"…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-22 07:02:09
Streaming provides some movie stars like Mark Wahlberg with guaranteed paydays they wouldn't be able to command in the turbulent theatrical marketplace (Matt Craig/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/2025/11/19/how-mark-wahlberg-…
@pre@boing.world2025-11-21 14:01:59
Panel asking what nostr doesnt fix?
Relay centralisation could enable censorship, and the UI asking users to manage private keys is tricky.
Could one app become a centralisation choke point? They say no. Agreed. Nostr has very good migration here, if one app goes bad it's easy to move.
Privacy is not solved here, since almost all content is public anyway, by design. But since so users have public keys, it's a step towards enabling privacy. Agreed, and at least clients won't generally spy on every mouse click and scroll pause.
No mention of the thing I think most important, that censorship resistance means poor moderation that means bullying, spam, and harassment. That's tricky to solve I think. The fediverse model seems more suitable for good moderation.
#nostr #nostrshire
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-10-21 09:49:58
Listening to #InOurTime on the Time Machine, I am asking myself whether #AI #LLM users are choosing to become Eloi, are choosing to let their intellects atrophy, by delegating their creative and critical faculties t…
@bthalpin@mastodon.social2025-10-21 22:33:13
Maybe this sort of experience will mean the Gardaí will become a little less tolerant of the far right.
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/10/21/citywest-hotel-protest-public-order-gardai-at-scene/
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-12-23 18:00:21
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-12-20 20:59:17
What a charming story.
Even Its Author Is Shocked by How Fans Have Embraced “Heated Rivalry,” the Gay Hockey Romance Series
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books/heated-rivalry-rachel-reid-hockey-romance.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-23 11:30:43
Chinese automakers delay plans to mass-produce self-driving vehicles as Beijing becomes more cautious, after a fatal Xiaomi crash in March caused public concern (Keith Bradsher/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/business/china-autonomous-cars-dr…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-11-05 06:05:09
Outspoken Democrat Zohran Mamdani beat Trump-endorsed serial sexual harasser Cuomo to become New York City Mayor.Outspoken Democrat Zohran Mamdani beat Trump-endorsed serial sexual harasser Cuomo to become New York City Mayor.
https://abcnews.go.com/Po…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2025-12-21 03:35:50
Somebody asked google.AI how long it’d take for it to become fully #enshittified. He wrote about it on boingboing. https://boingboing.net/2025/12/19/googl…
@steve@s.yelvington.com2025-11-19 00:34:44
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-20 10:32:44
Alice Guo, Chinese national who ran huge scam centre while Philippines mayor, sentenced to life in prison
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/20/alice-guo-chinese-nat…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-23 13:57:49
Some metaphors, just write themselves.
Jonathan Alter, a presidential historian, commented:
“It’s the perfect symbol of the Trump administration and that’s why they didn’t want this photograph
and that’s why it will become iconic and be used in history books for hundreds of years.
“It’s not the worst thing that he’s done but there’s a perfect alignment between the visual image and the major theme of the Trump second term.
Early on with Elon Musk it was a chainsa…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-15 04:55:33
Digital 2026: Internet users pass 6 billion, social media users become a 'supermajority', and AI use tops 1 billion | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/globe-newswire/digital-2026-internet-users-pass-6-billion-social-media-users-become-a-supermajority-and-ai-use-tops-1-billion
@benb@osintua.eu2025-12-09 17:02:38
'We will become homeless' — Russians protest in Kursk Oblast over loss of compensation payments for property lost during Ukraine's incursion: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/09/we-will-become-homeless-russians.html
@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc2025-11-20 19:59:12
RE: https://mastodon.world/@afouxenidis/115583740362305127
Marx's metaphor of vampirism has itself become the subject of reflection in journals that are part of this system.* I now find it difficult to use. It is much more important to make clear wh…
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-12-22 10:34:50
Regularized Random Fourier Features and Finite Element Reconstruction for Operator Learning in Sobolev Space
Xinyue Yu, Hayden Schaeffer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17884 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.17884 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.17884
arXiv:2512.17884v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Operator learning is a data-driven approximation of mappings between infinite-dimensional function spaces, such as the solution operators of partial differential equations. Kernel-based operator learning can offer accurate, theoretically justified approximations that require less training than standard methods. However, they can become computationally prohibitive for large training sets and can be sensitive to noise. We propose a regularized random Fourier feature (RRFF) approach, coupled with a finite element reconstruction map (RRFF-FEM), for learning operators from noisy data. The method uses random features drawn from multivariate Student's $t$ distributions, together with frequency-weighted Tikhonov regularization that suppresses high-frequency noise. We establish high-probability bounds on the extreme singular values of the associated random feature matrix and show that when the number of features $N$ scales like $m \log m$ with the number of training samples $m$, the system is well-conditioned, which yields estimation and generalization guarantees. Detailed numerical experiments on benchmark PDE problems, including advection, Burgers', Darcy flow, Helmholtz, Navier-Stokes, and structural mechanics, demonstrate that RRFF and RRFF-FEM are robust to noise and achieve improved performance with reduced training time compared to the unregularized random feature model, while maintaining competitive accuracy relative to kernel and neural operator tests.
toXiv_bot_toot
@marcel@waldvogel.family2025-12-20 05:30:35
"The partial, obscured release of these [Epstein] files has been billed by the Trump administration as an act of bold transparency. But what it actually reveals is how, in an environment of broken trust, in an age where conspiracy theorizing has become the lingua franca of American politics, no amount of information may ever be universally satisfactory."
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-20 22:27:26
After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2025-11-16 10:01:06
Every 24 hours become a new person
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-10-18 20:29:56
It's amazing how radicalized conservatives have become in the last 20 years.
Full-on story arc from fiscal conservatives to outright Nazi shit, and they don't see anything wrong with this.
They completely pickled their brains slurping up non-stop hate online and offline.
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie2025-10-19 20:24:23
Pfft. Twenty past nine and I haven’t even got to today’s Gist on the Campaign to become President and also say unhinged things.
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social2025-12-20 14:30:45
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Bdelloid rotifers are a microplankton that reproduce using parthenogenesis (female clones), but when environmental conditions become adverse (e.g. pond dries up), they can turn themselves into an extraordinaryly resistant inert "tun" through a process called cryptobiosis (like brine shrimp). Recently, Russian scientists thawed out
@anildash@me.dm2025-11-18 21:09:52
This is a great milestone to see for Mastodon, in evolving towards its new community-focused governance structure. I’m optimistic about what this portends for the platform and how its features & future evolve. (And it’s fun that I was there for the photo being taken!) https://
@dp@bonn.social2025-11-18 18:11:32
@knurd42@social.linux.pizza2025-10-20 10:26:22
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-11-21 14:29:04
The future doesn't move in straight lines we can anticipate.
It folds, detours, and forgets its own script. By the time we think we've seen what's coming, it's already become something else.
How can we embrace possibility over prediction as we navigate our uncertain future?
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2025-11-20 21:46:53
@donelias@mastodon.cr2025-10-19 17:45:28
El Instituto Meteorológico Nacional de Costa Rica #IMNCR avisa que la onda tropical #40 podría convertirse en ciclón (ya sea tormenta tropical o incluso huracšn) y que viene hacia Centroamérica
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-12-12 01:09:38
Content warning: parenting realities
Little kids are gross (poop and snot and vomit and food smeared everywhere..), but then for a brief period they become not-gross... then they become teenagers and they become gross again ("hey dad, look at how much pus came out of this pimple I just popped!") 😩
@bici@mastodon.social2025-10-21 16:01:24
History making in a bad way :
"Nicolas Sarkozy has become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi."
who is next?
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-23 23:11:34
Giants become first NFL team to be eliminated from playoff contention
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/giants-historic-playoff-elimination-week-12-odds/
@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-20 05:29:52
The GOP's 'nazi problem' is one of being too obvious...people good at nazi-ing would not reveal their true views. Laura Loomer hates Muslims with a passionso has a lot in common with the people she's calling out. Those that are not as obvious will become even less obvious as the purge of obvious nazis commences.
@benb@osintua.eu2025-10-07 04:48:59
Berlin must become a leader in the drone industry, support Ukraine, German Economy Minister says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/07/berlin-must-become-a-leader.html
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-21 06:07:30
Over the last decade, America’s roads have become more dangerous,
with serious crashes increasing by nearly 20 percent since 2013.
Approximately 94 percent of crashes are the result of driver behavior
like speeding, impairment or distraction
— behavior that can be detected and corrected by a new generation of machine learning-enabled dash-cams.
Seamless integration between machine learning, IoT management and the cloud allows these cameras to improve safety in r…
@marcel@waldvogel.family2025-12-11 19:10:16
Paul Krugman compares the current US policy on digital media to a country trying to sell you illegal drugs: They know that what they sell harms people, but they have the money and power to make sure you will not intervene.
Very powerful comparison. #MustRead
"America has, in practice, become a digital narco-state."
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-23 23:39:36
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-12-15 17:14:49
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Twilight Sad:
🎵 That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy
#TheTwilightSad
https://thetwilightsad.bandcamp.com/album/that-summer-at-home-i-had-become-the-invisible-boy
https://open.spotify.com/track/0C7NHWD5h4zRk5IlPRqPp5
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-19 16:21:02
FDA voucher program has become vehicle for political interference in drug review decisions, staffers say (Lizzy Lawrence/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/fda-voucher-program-political-interference/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p47#a251219p47
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to2025-11-20 16:15:52
"PHP is the lingua franca of affordable web hosting options; or, in other terms, the Toyota Corolla of programming languages: boring, solid, easy, and affordable. You can find, almost anywhere in the world, an affordable web hosting with the saint quadrinity of LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP; an OS, a web server, a database server, and a scripting language, in an inexpensive package, enabling the masses to go further. Paraphrasing George Clooney, what else?"
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-19 05:03:09
I just woke up from a dream. For every parent there is a time when, with shame, we have to explain how the world actually works... when they become a little too old to keep saying, "I'll explain it when you're older."
Amsterdam is full of reminders of the occupation, of the Holocaust. It's impossible to pretend there hasn't been a great evil here... One that's not in the past, but still very alive in the present.
At some point things will have to change because fascism can't last forever. It is a thing which necessarily contains its own downfall. We will, at that point, have an opportunity to make the world one that we can be proud to tell our children we created. We can stop short and reestablish the status quo that got us here, or we can build a world that we will no longer have to explain to each new generation in shame.
What would it look like?
(Shout out to the comrade who prompted me to be thinking about this.)
There was also a sign in my dream that said, "we created the bike, therefore we can do anything." This may or may not be related.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-23 10:36:19
Reviewing NFL broadcasts: Where do Netflix, Prime, YouTube fit in with traditional networks? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6911372/2025/12/23/nfl-broadcast-reviews-netflix-youtube-prime-espn/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-11 21:15:53
Threads adds new features for podcasters, as it tries to become the de facto place for people to talk about shows and engage with creators (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/11/threads-targets-…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-19 15:38:00
Protesters and agents have clashed outside an ICE detention facility in Broadview,
where residents have become familiar with the burning sensation of tear gas on their skin.
A single father with no known history of violence was fatally shot by an ICE agent who said the man was trying to run him over.
The sight of agents chasing people and loading them into unmarked vehicles has become common throughout Chicago.
With no immediate regard for citizenshipor legal status…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-10-23 12:30:47
Giants' Darius Slayton: Rookie QB Jaxson Dart to 'get introduced to all' of his 'haters' in Philadelphia https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-darius-slayton-jaxson-dart-introduced-to-haters-philadelphia-week-8
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-17 00:15:37
A look at The Stranger, an influential Seattle alt-weekly newspaper whose endorsements have become a must-have for some progressive politicians (Karen Weise/New York Times)
https://www.
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-11-19 21:55:02
📰 Forschung kann Leben retten oder verlängern – durch Warnungen vor #Risiken und Fortschritte in #Klimaanpassung, #Energiewende und
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-20 07:26:14
Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders as VP of hardware engineering, as Demis Hassabis envisions Gemini to become a sort of robot OS (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-hires-cto-boston-dynamics-demis-hassabis-…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-10-23 20:56:32
Ex-Alabama QB AJ McCarron announces bid for lieutenant governor, cites Charlie Kirk shooting as motivation
https://www.cbssports.com/college-f…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-19 04:55:53
"Quiet Piggy!" -- Subscribe to Civil Discourse and become part of a community that believes ... (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/quiet-piggy
http://www.memeorandum.com/251118/p167#a251118p167
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-22 02:50:03
Opus Dei’s story is less about religion than about the weaponization of belief
— the transformation of faith into infrastructure.
When devotion becomes a strategy for power, and purity a currency for control,
democracy itself becomes collateral damage.
The deeper question is no longer whether a group like Opus Dei is religious or political
— it’s how long societies can endure when the two become indistinguishable.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-20 06:55:55
YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-11-20 01:02:22
Stadtlebende #Waschbären in den USA zeigen Anzeichen von Selbst-Domestikation.
Forschende fanden heraus, dass ihre #Schnauzen kürzer sind als die ihrer ländlichen Artgenossen, ein typisches Merkmal des sogenannten
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-20 03:25:57
Seattle Times Publisher Frank Blethen plans to step down December 31 after four decades, to be succeeded by his son, Ryan Blethen; Alan Fisco will become CEO (Paul Roberts/Seattle Times)
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/nov/19/seattle-t…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-19 02:47:52
Mastodon’s creator, Eugen Rochko,
is stepping down as CEO of the open source, decentralized social network and X riva
as part of the organization’s transition to a nonprofit structure,
announced at the beginning of the year.
The change is Mastodon’s most significant leadership overhaul to date, and one designed to ensure Mastodon’s longevity
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-20 21:41:27
Three women become choked up as they deliver news in a video posted to social media.
“We did it, everybody,”
says Leslie Manookian,
the woman in the middle.
She is a driving force in a campaign that has chipped away at the foundations of modern public health in Idaho.
Her group had just gotten lawmakers to pass what she called the first true “medical freedom” bill in the nation.
With Manookian in the video are
two of her allies, the leaders of H…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-19 07:06:00
YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-17 17:03:27
A protest does not become a rebellion merely because the protestors advocate for myriad legal or policy changes, are well organized, call for significant changes to the structure of the U.S. government, use civil disobedience as a form of protest, or exercise their Second Amendment right to carry firearms as the law currently allows.
Nor does a protest become a rebellion merely because of sporadic and isolated incidents of unlawful activity or even violence committed by rogue particip…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-21 11:51:34
Cowboys' Dak Prescott 'humbled' to near passing Tony Romo as Dallas' all-time pass yards leader
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-18 21:35:51
US military has adopted an aggressive push to embrace AI; the top US Army commander in South Korea says "Chat and I" have become "really close lately" (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/even-top-generals-are…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-20 15:43:02
The technology offers hope to people with an advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), called geographic atrophy (GA),
which affects more than 250,000 people in the UK and five million worldwide.
In those with the condition - which is more common in older people - cells in a tiny area of the retina at the back of the eye gradually become damaged and die,
resulting in blurred or distorted central vision.
Colour and fine detail are often lost.
T…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-18 11:30:58
Mastodon founder and CEO Eugen Rochko is stepping down from the decentralized social network as part of its shift to a nonprofit structure overseen by a board (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-t…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-19 22:28:35
Less than 48 hours after joining Bluesky,
the White House has already become one of the most blocked accounts on the social network.
According to ClearSky, which tracks Bluesky blocking stats,
the White House account is blocked by around 91,000 accounts, while being followed by only 10,000.
The only account that’s been blocked by more Bluesky users belongs to Vice President JD Vance, who joined back in June.
While the various new government accounts hadn’t qu…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-20 00:42:15
Alan Dershowitz, a former lawyer for Trump, recently said in an interview that he and Trump have discussed the possibility of Trump running for a third term in office
— an action that would violate the U.S. Constitution.
“I said ‘it’s not clear if a president can become a third-term president and it’s not clear if it’s permissible,'”
Dershowitz recounted of his conversation with Trump.
Dershowitz, who was part of Trump’s legal team during his first impeachment tri…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-19 21:08:51
Chen-Ning (Frank) Yang 1922-2025
Yang Zhenning dies at 103
•Not Even Wrong / by Peter Woit /
Oct 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Chen-Ning Yang (often known in the US as “Frank”) passed away in Beijing yesterday at the age of 103.
He was the last of the great figures of 1950s high-energy particle physics still with us.
His name is associated with two of the central ideas of what was to become the Standard Model.
In 1953, together with Robert Mills, he wrote down…
