@kurtsh@mastodon.socialTrump's 'Two weeks' = "You idiots will believe anything I tell you & the media will trumpet it no matter how stupid."
✅ 'Two weeks' has become Donald Trump's most used phrase - and people aren't buying it anymore | indy100
https://www.indy100.co…
@cdarwin@c.imHow 10-minute procedures and routine scans become five-figure medical bills
Health care prices are on the rise,
and patients are flummoxed that
even insurance companies aren’t doing more to control costs
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026
@markhburton@mstdn.socialCuba:
"It is a disgrace that Western governments refuse to condemn this criminal strategy of starvation. By looking away, they make themselves complicit in the destruction of a people."
Bend or break: will Cuba become Donald Trump’s next trophy? | Morning Star
https://
@raiders@darktundra.xyz
@Techmeme@techhub.social
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzThis is compelling for the 'electrification' movement. #Batteries
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgMaybe one of the more surprising things about the current live coding waves is how queer-lead it has become. I wouldn't have said it was ever particularly masculine/macho, but live coding was very cis male-dominated and hetronormative in the early days. Now as far as I know all the people blowing up on tiktok and instagram are LGBQT, and the most active live coding software and community platforms for music and visuals include LGBQT people leading core development (I say leadership here …
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyLast Tuesday, a spokesman of Dutch state-owned Gasunie said that the historical low in gas storage filling (11% of capacity) was no problem. But, he added, 'we wouldn't want a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz'.
Now, Gasunie says that the attack came at an unfortunate moment, and that our gas may become very expensive once more.
https://
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaHow do i become your favorite person
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social“[…] human beings become … ‘the sex organs of the machine world’ as McLuhan wrote in … Understanding Media.” Our essential role is to produce ever more sophisticated tools—to “fecundate” machines as bees fecundate plants—until technology has developed the capacity to reproduce itself on its own. At that point, we become dispensable.
The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr, 2010 #AI
@danyork@mastodon.socialWith a 9-hour plane flight ahead of me… I just discovered the “Locally AI” app for my iPad! 🤯
Just downloaded a couple of models… this flight could have just become a bit more interesting!! 🤔😱😆
#AI
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeNVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says growing hostility toward AI has become “extremely hurtful” and warns that misinformation and fear around the technology may slow innovation and progress
Poor baby 🤣
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPeter Attia 'Ashamed' After Epstein Emails Become Public (Maggie Astor/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/well/peter-attia-epstein.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p155#a260202p155
@seav@en.osm.townMany of my fellow Filipinos hoped that Cardinal Tagle would become the first far eastern and Filipino pope in last year’s #conclave, but a new book claims that he was never a serious contender.
“Tagle, while charismatic and from the Philippines [...] was considered not to be a strong enough administrator, the book says. He also suffered harsh social media attacks which damaged his candidacy. …
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaThe perfect friend sees the best in you -- sees it constantly -- not just
when you occasionally are that way, but also when you waver, when you
forget yourself, act like less than you are. In time, you become more
like his vision of you -- which is the person you have always wanted to be.
-- Nancy Friday
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzMoon rising and #Venus und #Saturn setting from #Bochum, Germany, today: the 2nd image coincided with 1.0-mag.-Saturn just having become visible to the naked eye, at an elevation of 6 3/4° with a solar depression of 9 3/4°. More pictures in the album https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=dan.fischer.393&set=a.10233358390356655 from image 45.
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialDon't let the Epstein Files become lost in all of the intentional distraction.
#editorial #cartoon #EditorialCartoon
@Dragofix@veganism.social
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialSeeing Iran appoint new leaders and continue to fight is seeing the more literal kind of necropolitics in action, as a hierarchical system continues to function while replacing the expendable human parts that it lost. The system is of course changed and influenced (and ultimately was built) by humans, but it has become something undying, or at least almost as hard to kill as an idea, and it maintains a terrible inertia in it's destructive tendencies (e.g., "Morality Police" continue to patrol the streets).
Lest anyone think this somehow expresses approval of US actions, the same logic applies here too: what once had a (thin) verneer of democracy, a system which loudly proclaimed to be controlled by "the people" (but which never was nor was ever intended to be) has lost its paint job, exposing the inhuman machinations beneath. Trump is a symptom, not cause, of an institution built on blood and spoils, whose alignment with the Epstein class (and moreover, their institutions) is ever more apparent with each disregarded law and principle.
Stepping back for a moment, this systems/necropolitics perspective is just a perspective, with its own distortions and blind spots. To paraphrase LeGuin, any institution built by humans can also be changed or destroyed by them. But I think it's very useful to put on the systems goggles in this moment, especially when some are fond of preaching about the dangers of "overwhelmingly powerful systems unaccountable to humans which pursue destructive ends" without actually examining the plethora of existing systems that do just that.
P.S. yes, United Healthcare is another good example of this.
P.P.S. yes I bending the meaning of necropolitics here, but the two are related: these systems would not be so free to profit from human death and suffering if they were more vulnerable to the deaths of their constituent parts. Necropolitics of the standard variety is of course present as companies like Raytheon and Lockeed Martin profit from the carnage. The F-15 caught by friendly fire? Just as profitable for Beoing to replace as one downed by the enemy.
@bici@mastodon.social
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialGood monitoring tells you when something is bad. But what about the problems that never trigger an alert? Diana Todea (VictoriaMetrics) is at #bbuzz26 to talk about finding those anomalies before they become incidents.
Learn more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/observabilitys-sixth-sense-detecting-anomalies-in-metrics/
Get your ticket: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/tickets/
@almad@fosstodon.orgJust 6%, what have I become
https://amiatechbro.com/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzUndrafted Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia could become a Baltimore Raven ... or Winnipeg Blue Bomber https://www.nfl.com/news/undrafted-vanderbilt-qb-diego-pavia-could-become-a-baltimore-raven-or-winnipeg-blue-bomber
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaSounds about right. In the morning the bus going downtown is packed and trying to disembark at my transfer point is difficult as it is packed. They used to run an articulated bus, but since January it is a regular bus and much too small.
https://flip.it/Bbm6rq
@raysofred@discordian.social"this coded" "that coded" I think you all need to become shower-coded
@kctipton@mas.toOpposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life | WIRED #antifa
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOfcom: the share of adult UK social media users actively posting, sharing, or commenting falls to 49%, down from 61% in 2024, as users become more selective (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Covid-19 will never become endemic.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2022/01/15/why-covid-19-will-never-become-endemic/164216520013155
saved 2022-01-16
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzJerry Jones eyes record contract for George Pickens — with one major condition https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/jerry-jones-george-pickens-record-contract-condition/f37ee65826521da00e10aec7…
@cdarwin@c.imLess Than a Third of US Voters Say They Approve of Trump’s War on Iran
A Reuters/Ipsos poll found 27 percent of respondents approved, 43 percent disapproved, and 29 percent weren’t sure.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-iran-attack-poll
@brichapman@mastodon.socialAnxiety is a Form of Futurism — https://www.brichapman.com/p/anxiety-is-a-form-of-futurism?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn
@hanno@mastodon.socialPSA: that linux root exploit is significant. Nobody cares about the number of bytes of the exploit. It's about as meaningless as the also popular "this attack takes only xx seconds / xx minutes". If attackers want to become root, they really don't care if you need 700 or 7000 or 70000 bytes. Or if it takes 2 seconds or 5 minutes. Irrelevant metrics for impact.
Relevant Qs are: how reliable the exploit is, how widespread the vulnerability, etc.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThe #UKLabour party have become a deeply sleazy and unethical organisation. No wonder #Mandelson felt so at home there.
#Labour
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaIf you make a joke about something it wil become very popular with young peoples
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialSo I see where gas prices are going up already. Pretty soon we’ll be hearing about the need to open up the strategic reserve to help with that, and soon also oil fields that are not currently profitable will become more profitable, and the oil & gas billionaires will be happy. Is this a great country or what?
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFor Reach's Daily Star, MSN syndication is one of its biggest sources of ad revenue; Daily Star has an editor dedicated to tailoring content to the aggregator (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d…
@outer@mas.toI hope you can embrace my big takeaways: Love yourself, love yourself, love yourself. Growing up doesn’t end when you become an adult. Outrage is the appropriate response to deception and betrayal.
The way out is through. Make peace with what hurts and head toward joy. Run with the people who love you, lift you, and make you laugh. Write your future with the ink of today. May you go farther sooner.
Xx Moon
-- From "Earth to Moon: A Memoir" by Moon Unit Zappa
@njamster@mastodon.gamedev.place"Grime II" just released – and if it's anywhere near as good as the first part, then we're in for an absolute TREAT of a #Metroidvania! I rarely buy games on release, but for this one I'll make an exception.
https:/…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it @markhburton@mstdn.social"The Mandelson who bragged of doing something “every day” to undermine Jeremy Corbyn and the movement he led..."
The twice disgraced minister when appointed by Starmer.
And now we know he was personally corrupt, leaking privileged national information to allow the markets to be played against the country.
The Mandelson scandal reaches to the rotten heart of what Labour has become | Morning Star
@sherold@mastodon.onlineHelp! I've been thinking so much about decentralized platforms and open protocols lately that my brain has become completely decentralized itself. 🙃
Time to go touch some grass.
#Fediverse #Mastodon
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Palmer Luckey and his startup Anduril, which has more than $6B in global contracts, had roughly $2B in revenue last year, and is valued at ~$31B (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/technol…
@fgraver@hcommons.socialHas anyone here given Inkwell (https://inkwell.social/) a try? Seems like a preferable newsletter platform to Substack and the like, but we’ve been burned so may times I’ve become wary…
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialBecome a 10x Reverse Centaur with this one simple trick!
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Web of undersea cables poised to become marine observatory"
#Oceans #Environment
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialFixing our own problems in the Rust compiler
In our data compression projects, we use Rust where C is traditionally used. During the work, we've hit limitations in Rust itself and in the surrounding tooling. Over the years, we've become increasingly comfortable with fixing these issues ourselves. […]
— by @…
🦀
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSeattle's Kubiak 'all in' on LX amid Raiders buzz https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47813482/seahawks-oc-kubiak-raiders-reports-focus-super-bowl
@saraislet@infosec.exchangeThe best description of a kitten I've ever read:
"you need to imagine that you have a toddler who can fly!"
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialOlder paper but worth reading: "Our findings reveal that mechanisms embedded in modern E2EE messaging architectures – such as delivery receipts and multi-device support – can have significant implications on user privacy. Consequently, it is essential to balance functional requirements, usability and convenience with privacy and security, particularly in E2EE applications that are inherently privacy-sensitive per design."
@hex@kolektiva.socialAs salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialENGIE has acquired UK Power Networks. Does this mean that the UK’s energy infrastructure is now more integrated with the EU than it was before Brexit?
https://en.newsroom.engie.com/news/eng
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeWhen I become the Overlord of Earth, I'm banning all emails.
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialSeeking a shortcut to becoming exceptional is the best guarantee of remaining mid forever.
“The organizations believe that through a combination of online learning and AI tutoring, average performers can become exceptional in a compressed amount of time.”
https://www.…
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.socialIf you're going to doom scroll, maybe you should learn something in the process.
This is an experimental interface for Wikipedia that resembles X.
I have become addicted.
https://xikipedia.org
@david@boles.xyzWhen Does AI Fakery Become AI Reality?
We are living in the precise historical moment when the question "Is this real?" has become unanswerable in real time, and the fact that nobody seems particularly alarmed by this should alarm us all. The case study arrived this month with the force of a wartime broadcast, which is exactly what it was: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose physical whereabouts and physical condition have been the subject of intense…
@deabigt@universeodon.comMaybe jobs will become artisanal as AI takes over, according to this article.
What will be scarce? https://aleximas.substack.com/p/what-will-be-scarce
@comex@mas.tohttps://youtu.be/oOzDI3mCv58
Somehow, the title “BCacheFS Has Become A Vibe Coded File System” was actually underselling this video. Wild.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialFor #TerryPratchettDay I want to share one of my favourite quotes. There are many, but this one just resonates with me as a writer. Sir Terry Pratchett's work is about how important stories are to humans and as a storyteller who grew up loving his books, unsurprisingly I feel the same way. He was the first celebrity where I was truly gutted when he died. Much love to everyone who w…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al[Pledged: $100 of $600/month. $500 to go. Patrons: 2]
Let’s try something different: Looking for pledges to become patrons for one of our volunteers at Gaza Verified*, @…, so we can move her and her family out of living in a damp, unsafe tent and into an apartment.
Aseel’s family needs to pay $600/month rent if they’re to afford the apartment …
@pgcd@mastodon.online"Kill baby Hitler" is bullshit.
If I could go back in time, I'd leave baby Hitler alone, poor child. I'd rather make sure that Adolfchen does not go on to become Hitler.
Should I fail, I'd make sure he does not get to collect a bunch of other pariahs and psychos but rather goes on to become just another guy with racist ideas.
It takes a village to raise an *evil* child as well, you know.
And now we're all raising so many, so fucking many evil…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzAn Adrenaline Junkie Billionaire’s Quest to Become a Cocaine Kingpin https://www.404media.co/an-adrenaline-junkie-billionaires-quest-to-become-a-cocaine-kingpin-marty-tibbitts-ylli-didani/
@Treppenwitz@sfba.socialTo become a #billionaire, you have to prioritize money over all else, or be the heir of someone with that sickness.
Theoretically, a non-evil billionaire could exist, but they'd have to have really lucked into their fortune.
Behold! The sane billionaire!
https…
@niklaskorz@rheinneckar.socialI archived my #flatpak repo for VK HDR layer. Less than three months after packaging it, the layer has finally become obsolete.
https://codeberg.org/niklaskorz/org.fr…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSeahawks OC Klint Kubiak focused on Sunday, not Raiders' head coaching reports: 'I'm ready to coach the Super Bowl' https://www.nfl.com/news/seahawks-oc-klint-kubiak-focused-on-sunday-not-raider…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngSolarization: Most digital photographers only know the effect as Photoshop filter, but here it's happening chemically in the darkroom... Created by extreme overexposure (here ~3x longer of my usual exposure time), the darkest parts of the image have become inverted, which in Kallitype then (temporarily) turns into these amazing orange tones, whilst the mids & highlights remain normal neutral grays, depending on developer used... During fixing and (especially) toning, the orange would…
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldA YouTube channel for people with Autism and Anxiety.
"A curated collection of videos and immersive audio experiences created for meditation, relaxation, calming, focus, studying, deep sleep, and hypnosis."
https://www.youtube.com/@atmosfar2661
@cdarwin@c.imTrump on Thursday pulled his nominee to become the US surgeon general, Casey Means, and replaced her with radiologist and Fox News contributor Dr Nicole Saphier
The US president said that Means will continue to fight for the so-called Make America Healthy Again (Maha) movement spearheaded by health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr.
He stated this was despite opposition from Bill Cassidy, the Republican US senator of Louisiana, to Means’s nomination.
“Despite Senator Cassidy’s i…
@benb@osintua.eu⚡️ Ukrainian interceptors will become the BASIS of the European DRONE WALL #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/06/ukrainian-interceptors-will-become-the.html
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online📰 Mit Deiner Hilfe teile ich täglich #Forschungserkenntnisse und Neuigkeiten, die uns u. a. vor gesundheitlichen und finanziellen Risiken warnen und Fortschritte in #Klimaanpassung, #Energiewende
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialDat verhaal over datacenters die de omgevingstemperatuur verhogen, daar is dus van alles mis mee...
#datacenters
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRavens' Trey Hendrickson says he expected to become teammates with Maxx Crosby in Baltimore https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-trey-hendrickson-says-he-expected-to-become-teammates-with-maxx-crosby-in-baltimore
@raiders@darktundra.xyzFernando Mendoza endeared himself to the Raiders to become No. 1 draft pick https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/fernando-mendoza-endeared-himself-to-the-raiders-to-become-no-1-draft-pick-3791968/…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026 NFL Draft: 10 Teams That Can Become Instant Contenders https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-draft-10-teams-can-become-instant-contenders
@memeorandum@universeodon.comKansas informs trans residents their driver's licenses become invalid on Thursday (Matthew Kelly/Kansas City Star)
https://amp.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article314844596.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p28#a260226p28
@david@boles.xyzNow I Become Em-Dash Triple Anaphora, Destroyer of Words
In July of 1945, at the Trinity site in the New Mexico desert, J. Robert Oppenheimer watched the first atomic detonation and, by his own later telling, thought of a line from the Bhagavad Gita. The Sanskrit word he rendered as Death is kāla, which scholars also translate as Time depending on context, and Oppenheimer's decision to reach for the more theatrical English word tells you something about the difference…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow The London Review of Books has achieved an average 6.8% YoY revenue growth since the pandemic through marketing and by focusing on revenue per copy (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazin…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social“By the time #V2G is widely accepted as technically viable, the absence of bankable revenue frameworks may become the dominant constraint on scale. The challenge now is not to lock in a single national compensation model, but to begin the transition from temporary programs to durable market structures.”
@markhburton@mstdn.socialAre Churches being turned into mosques?
The Reform (sic) UK claim is debunked in The Big Issue.
They claim that 41 have become mosques in recent years.
There are 38500 churches in UK, 16000 CofE. Since 1968 only 2 have become sites for other superstitions, both to gurdwaras. 1 in Peckham became a mosque, but only after >10 years closed.
It's "almost impossible" for a church to become a mosque.
@cdarwin@c.imInvestors have grown accustomed to buying into major selloffs because stocks recover quickly
— not this time so far.
"This is a little bit of a more protracted, longer duration selloff than what investors have become used to,"
"Ironically, I think that's keeping people from feeling that they can buy the dip."
Big Tech firm's are spending at such a record rate to fund their AI ambitions, their capital expenditure is a bigger driver…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple says iPhone and iPad on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 have become the first consumer devices NATO approved for use up to the "restricted" level of classified data (Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-iphone-ipad-nato-classified-sec…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialApple TV will offer Season 8 of Netflix's Drive to Survive F1 docuseries in the US; in turn, Netflix will air Apple TV's Canadian Grand Prix coverage in the US (Madeline Coleman/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7072759/2026/02/26…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @NFL@darktundra.xyzCalais Campbell signs with Ravens for 19th NFL season as he approaches age 40
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/calais-campbell-ravens-19th-nfl-season-approaches-age-40/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle says Nano Banana 2 can create images with a resolution ranging from 512px to 4K, and will become the default image generation model in the Gemini app (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/26/google-launches-nano-bana…
@cdarwin@c.imJapan Airlines will introduce humanoid robots on a trial basis from the beginning of May,
with a view to deploying them permanently as a solution to the country’s chronic labour shortage.
The Chinese-made humanoid robots will move travellers’ luggage and cargo on the tarmac at Haneda Airport,
which handles more than 60 million passengers a year.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon MGM's Project Hail Mary becomes its highest-grossing film ever, crossing $300M globally, including $54.1M just this weekend; the movie cost $200M to make (Brent Lang/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/pro…
@cdarwin@c.imHello—this is Ken Burns, reaching out on behalf of Alex Vindman for Senate.
I have dedicated my life to sharing America’s stories through films. They examine crucial moments in our nation’s history and the threats to our democracy. These stories are not easy.
Today, our country is facing its own reckoning, and the stakes have never been higher. That is why I am reaching out.
Alex Vindman––who I first met in 1983 while filming my documentary, the Statue of Liberty, when he w…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBrian Daboll says QB Cam Ward was 'a big factor' in choosing to become Titans OC https://www.nfl.com/news/brian-daboll-says-qb-cam-ward-was-a-big-factor-in-choosing-to-become-titans-oc
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow sanitised biopics became a Hollywood staple, as studios and estates of celebrities seek to monetize fan nostalgia; Michael is expected to earn more than $1B (Catherine Shoard/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-intera
@cdarwin@c.imWhile Pentagon budgets have steadily increased over recent decades,
the arms industry has become more consolidated, more automated,
and less labor-intensive
— upending the idea that the warfare state is an effective economic development strategy for working people,
and strengthening the case for a state-led shift toward a civilian industrial base focused on green manufacturing
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution is the most important moat in consumer tech, investing in Specs, 2026 as a "crucible" moment for Snap, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny's Newsletter)
https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/snapchat-ceo-why-distributio…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNotus will rename itself The Star and relaunch in early June as it adds local news and sports coverage; source: Robert Allbritton will add ~$30M to its funding (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/business/media/notus-news-t…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRob Gronkowski, legendary tight end, voted into Patriots Hall of Fame on first ballot https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7240756/2026/04/29/rob-gronkowski-patriots-hall-of-fame/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSouth Korea's stock market value has surpassed the UK's, growing 45% this year to $4.04T after a surge in AI-linked tech stocks like Samsung and SK Hynix (Charlotte Yang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@cdarwin@c.imThe Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran,
U.S. officials said,
as thousands of American soldiers and Marines arrive in the Middle East for what could become
a dangerous new phase of the war should Trump choose to escalate.
Any potential ground operation would fall short of a full-scale invasion
and could instead involve raids by a mixture of Special Operations forces and conventional infantry troops,
said the officials.
Such …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Dwarkesh Patel, whose podcast has become mandatory listening in the AI community, with guests like Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg (Benjamin Wallace/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple announces that John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman (Business Wire)
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260420318241/en/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDOJ files reveal how Jeffrey Epstein helped his Russian-born publicist Masha Bucher become a prominent VC who now boasts of early checks to 22 unicorns like xAI (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20
