@cdarwin@c.imKoons’s T-shirt featured half a rainbow pie, with the slogan:
“Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It’s not pie.”
She said after some discussion,
the RCMP respectfully asked her to leave the town hall,
as well as two other women at the event that were also wearing T-shirts with slogans that some at the event didn’t like.
“I found it alarming,” Koons said.
“I’m an engaged community member and I often sit at (discussion) tables with pe…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe FCC updates its site to remove the phrase "independent agency", after Brendan Carr said in a Congressional hearing it is not independent "formally speaking" (Sara Fischer/@sarafischer)
https://x.com/sarafischer/status/2001338675607769120
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAdelaide Festival board resigns and Adelaide Writers’ Week cancelled after 180 authors pull out in protest of Zionist board decision to disinvite Palestinian author.
Remember this, if you’re a Zionist: like the Nazis before you, you are committing genocide, you are on the wrong side of history, and – as long as there are people of good moral character and conscience to oppose you – you will not succeed. Your only allies are the MAGAs of the world and those too spineless to stand up to …
@hanno@mastodon.socialI got a few updates about my investigations on EU emission databases after the 39C3 talk and the corresponding newsletter I published. Update below the article:
https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/errors-and-inconsistencies-in-european-e…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHong Kong-listed Zhipu AI surged 30% after releasing its GLM-5, an open-source LLM with enhanced coding capabilities and long-running agent tasks (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/chinese-ai-stocks-new-model-and-agent-releases-zhipu-mini…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“How did it feel for the man who built a home, only to watch it turn to the rubble? How does a farmer stand before the land he tended year after year, now lying barren—no scent of soil, no whisper of harvest? How does a father tell his son the school he loved is gone, that the garden where he played is now only a rumor in the rubble? How does a mother walk through the ghost of a playground, finding a small shoe, a torn notebook, a toy she once mended? How do neighbors look at one another, wo…
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org"Old-school computing has a term 'molly guard': it’s the little plastic safety cover you have to move out of the way before you press some button of significance.
Anecdotally, this is named after Molly, an engineer’s daughter who was invited to a datacenter and promptly pressed a big red button, as one would.
Then she did it again later the same day."
@cdarwin@c.imA federal judge has issued an order forbidding immigration officials from re-detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia,
a Maryland father who was illegally deported to a super-prison in El Salvador earlier this year.
Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant and U.S. legal resident, was deported in March, when the Trump administration wrongly alleged, without evidence, that he was associated with the MS-13 gang. When it became clear that Abrego Garcia’s deportation was improper, the administrati…
@jensilber@mastodon.socialThis is just too much.
https://bleedingcool.com/tv/puppy-bowl-xxii-heartbreak-all-star-teigan-passed-away-before-airing/
@burningbecks@social.tchncs.de @cdarwin@c.imApple and Google have released several software updates
to protect against a hacking campaign targeting an unknown number of their users.
On Wednesday, Google released patches for a handful of security bugs in its Chrome browser,
-- noting that one of the bugs was being actively exploited by hackers before the company had time to patch it.
Unusually for Google, the company provided no further details at the time. But on Friday, Google updated the page to say that t…
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"A very-well known Internet meme, inspired by a scene from the 2004 movie “Finding Neverland”, features a sequence of images in which a very young Freddie Highmore tearfully admits that “it works in my machine”, to which Johnny Depp replies “then we’ll ship your machine”, with the last caption stating “and that is how Docker was born”."
@markhburton@mstdn.social'Just put on a helmet' - Pope's scooter advice to England.
I saw this headline on my feed and thought goodness me, what's the pontiff wading into now? and "sound advice before we ban these things".
But no it's just some bloke called Pope and his cricket mates.
https://www.b…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialWhat I want to know is: That's the "motherfucker index" before and after being sober.
Tell us the important stuff, people, come on!
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115810550802374948
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social"On July 23rd, 1984, the song was recorded at the Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse in Eden Prairie with the entire band. The song was played and recorded live. After 21 minutes the tape was full and the band were still playing."
It was never released before, with a reason, 21 minutes is a bit long 😆, still interesting for any Prince fan. And the song has an amazing groove...
@cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is
refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine
made with Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology.
The news is the latest sign of the FDA’s heightened scrutiny of vaccines under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
particularly those using mRNA technology,
which he has criticized before and after becoming the nation’s top health official.
Moderna received what’s called a “refusal-to-file” letter from…
@DamonHD@mastodon.social#today I indulged in some more #recreational #optimisation reducing the size of a key page 5x before compression 3x after. Also doubled
@metacurity@infosec.exchangePlanning applications in one of London’s wealthiest boroughs have ground to a halt as a result of a cyberattack before Christmas, leaving residents and businesses in limbo.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIsraeli startup Memcyco, which offers real-time phishing and account takeover protection, raised a $37M Series A led by NAventures and others (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hk3ebm8i11g
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"Voyager 1 was launched the day after I celebrated my 4th birthday. I watched Cosmos on Canal 13 when I was in 1st grade. I saw Voyager 2’s pictures of Uranus in the pages of the Argentine edition of the "Muy Interesante" magazine as I was heading towards high school. Years later, I read Sagan’s "Dragons of Eden" and "Pale Blue Dot" books while studying physics in college. Carl Sagan passed away shortly before I began a career in software."
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imNorth Carolina led for just .4 seconds in Saturday's rivalry game against Duke.
But that's all they needed to secure the win.
Seth Trimble's three-pointer with 0.4 seconds left delivered the Tar Heels a 71-68 win and closed out a 9-0 run in the game.
After Trimble's three-pointer, the fans rushed the court before having to clear it,
leaving a delay and one last heave for the Blue Devils.
But a turnover sealed it and the party can begin on Franklin…
@eyebee@mstdn.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialWaymo resumes robotaxi service in San Francisco after a blackout, and says most active trips were completed before vehicles returned to depots or pulled over (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/21/waymo-robotaxi-san-francisco-blackout.html
@cdarwin@c.imOMFG.
A post-C section mother who was an asylum seeker seeking a visa for crime victims
-- and who had a newborn baby struggling in the NICU
-- was held in Broadview in Chicago with no medical attention (POST C SECTION),
no breast pump (right after birth),
and no treatment for her diabetes.
MONSTERS.
-- John Pfaff
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump acknowledged that he informed oil companies about his plans to attack Venezuela and abduct its leader
-- despite not bothering to notify Congress.
Speaking aboard Air Force One on Sunday, the billionaire president told reporters that he talked to oil companies “before and after” the attack,
describing them as crucial to “fix the infrastructure” in the South American country after the capture
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems#SigStore / #PyPI attestations: #PGP is hard! We must invent a new signing scheme that's so much easier on users.
The tools, after I've spent hours *integrating* them into #Gentoo, and getting them working for everything before:
* Verifying google_auth-2.46.0.tar.gz ...
Provenance signed by a Google Cloud account, but no service account provided; use '--gcp-service-account'
Yeah, I'm sure that's *so much simpler* than PGP.
#security
@cdarwin@c.imMore than 60,000 penguins have starved to death off the coast of South Africa
as a result of collapsing sardine numbers, according to a new study.
From 2004 to 2011, more than 95 per cent of the African penguins on Dassen Island and Robben Island died.
Researchers said they probably died during the moulting period, the annual event where they replace all their feathers at once over a number of weeks.
The climate crisis and overfishing have been attributed to driving…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Second Amendment Absolutists At WallBuilders
Suddenly Find An Exception
After The Latest ICE Shooting
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/second-amendment-absolutists-wallbuilders-suddenly-find-ex…
@cdarwin@c.imGustavo Petro of Colombia and Donald Trump have had a tense relationship
that escalated into threats by Mr. Trump,
before easing.
Anything could happen at their Feb. 3 meeting.
The meeting between the two presidents
— arranged after Trump threatened Mr. Petro with military action
— is meant to de-escalate tensions, diplomats said.
It is also meant to address topics such as “the fight against transnational organized crime, especially on the border,”…
@cdarwin@c.imDays after Donald Trump fell asleep during a televised Cabinet meeting,
the president on Thursday again dozed off during a ceremony to mark the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Trump was visibly closing his eyes as Rwandan President Paul Kagame spoke from the podium at the ceremony inside the U.S. Institute of Peace building,
his hands clasped and his head drooping while he sat at a table to the left.
Trump continue…
@cdarwin@c.imEven before extremist Republican Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office on January 20,
progressives warned of his fascistic tendencies and plans,
often citing his platform, and highlighting what former Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls “Trump’s playbook of dictators.”
But too few people, even on the left side of the electorate, listened.
After all, those warnings have been sounded for months if not years.
“Trump is following, point for point, the playbook of …
@cdarwin@c.imThe school year began with a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in South Minneapolis,
where two children died and at least 24 others were injured.
Local families barely had time to process those deaths — only five years after the killing of George Floyd rocked their city — before their daily lives were upended by the chaotic presence of federal officers harassing citizens under the guise of immigration enforcement.
A teacher named Sarah in the Twin Cities told me tha…
@cdarwin@c.imHow did we exchange information before photography,
before print,
even before writing?
How was truth represented in a world of stories, myths and oral traditions?
For most of human history,
truth wasn’t a fixed point;
it was negotiated within a tribe,
verified by proximity,
and sustained by trust.
In that sense,
we may be returning to an ancient condition:
truth as local, not universal.
This isn’t necessarily the apoc…
@cdarwin@c.imA board-certified cardiologist in December expressed alarm over the state of Trump's health, citing several instances in recent weeks where he appeared to fall asleep during crowded White House meetings before jolting suddenly into periods of intense energy.
"He's done this several times in the last few weeks. He's fallen asleep in a crowded Oval Office and he's also fallen asleep at Cabinet meetings with people talking directly to him. That's what's called…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump frequently campaigned with coal miners during his 2016 presidential run,
and has since continued to participate in photo-ops using miners as a symbolic backdrop for his energy policies while campaigning and serving in office.
However, despite the president courting the CEOs of the mining industry heavily during his campaign,
miners themselves feel neglected and left behind.
Days after the executive order, on April 11,
just before coal mines were expected t…
@cdarwin@c.imOn Wednesday night, Nvidia released its highly anticipated/dreaded quarterly earnings report
— and Wall Street let out a sigh of relief,
— at least initially.
The multitrillion dollar chipmaker at the center of the AI boom reported
a ludicrous $57 billion in quarterly revenue,
netting it nearly $32 billion in profit.
Compared to the same quarter from the year before,
it amounted to a 62 percent surge in sales,
and a further 65 percent increase …
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imBrazil’s federal police on Saturday arrested former president Jair Bolsonaro over suspicion he was plotting to escape and avoid starting a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.
The decision laid bare some of the country’s divisions, with many uncorking Champagne outside the far-right leader’s prison to celebrate as his supporters prepared a religious act in his favor.
In a dramatic and unexpected twist in the final stage of a long and divisive criminal trial, feder…
@cdarwin@c.imA federal judge has ordered federal officials to preserve the evidence related to the Saturday shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents.
The judge's order was filed late Saturday after Hennepin County and Minnesota officials filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Minnesota seeking to prevent the destruction of evidence.
The temporary restraining order bars federal agencies from destroying or tampering with any evidence connected to the shooting.
Defendants include …
@cdarwin@c.imFederal agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Saturday morning, leading to violent clashes between demonstrators and masked federal agents.
Video shows at least six masked agents wrestling a man to the ground before shooting him multiple times.
The video was taken from inside Glam Doll Donuts, according to an employee who spoke to HuffPost minutes later.
Minneapolis officials said at an afternoon press conference that the victim was a 37-year-old Minneapolis resi…
@cdarwin@c.imAt the National Institutes of Health, big changes to its communications operations were already underway before Trump’s return to the White House.
But the new administration scrapped those carefully laid plans in favor of haphazard downsizing.
In January, more than 600 people worked in communications offices spread across the NIH.
Today, there are fewer than 100.
Officials, including Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., justified the deep cuts as…
@cdarwin@c.imOn Monday, Nov. 24,
after more than 1,100 days on strike,
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh members were cheered on by supporters
at a rally in downtown Pittsburgh
before returning to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Even though strikers have returned to work, however,
many issues at the center of the strike are still in legal limbo
—and their fight for a fair contract is not over.
In this episode of Working People, we speak with three Newspap…
@cdarwin@c.imThis morning,
the CNN host Dana Bash referenced the footage in an interview with Bovino,
-- asking him why Pretti was shot after being disarmed.
“We’re not going to adjudicate that here on TV in one freeze frame,” Bovino replied.
⭐️ “It’s not a freeze frame,” Bash said.
“We’re showing a video of one of your agents taking the gun away.
And that happened before Pretti was shot.”
Minneapolis residents are risking their lives to document what is happ…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump is addicted to military force.
Congress should act to curb him
Even before the raid to seize Nicolšs Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, on Jan. 3,
Trump had already attacked as many countries (seven) in 2025 as he did during his entire first term.
After the Maduro operation, which Trump said he watched “like ... a television show,”
he has threatened to take military action in many more places,
including Iran, Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, Greenland — and no…
