@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-06-22 21:22:12
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-06-22 21:22:12
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-05-23 19:45:34
Osa Odighizuwa has 49ers-Cowboys game ‘on the dartboard’ after being traded to other side of rivalry https://www.nfl.com/news/osa-odighizuwa-has-49ers-cowboys-game-on-the-dartboard-after-being-traded-to-other-side-of-rival…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2026-07-23 04:45:27
Content warning: NZPol Born into the wrong generation
Looks to me like, hot on the heels of his catastrophic interview with Jack Tame, Paul Henry and his political bedfellow, David Seymour, are demonstrating that he was born a couple generations too late for his brand of humour to resonate. https://www.r…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-04-24 02:04:44
Fernando Mendoza celebrates being drafted by Raiders at home with family https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/fernando-mendoza-celebrates-being-drafted-by-raiders-at-home-with-family-3791798/
@crell@phpc.social2026-07-21 16:55:49
AI and being "left behind"
#ai
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-22 15:44:29
Pope Leo XIV said Monday that
wars are being sustained more easily than people are fed,
urging governments to strengthen resources to combat hunger
after a severe funding shortfall by the United States and other countries.
https://apnews.com/article/italy-vatic
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-05-23 15:00:20
Energy impacts? We must build more solar. We _are_ building more solar, and the US not being in the middle of a fascist takeover would sure help. But the problem is not really "AI", so much as that is an inciting incident, but some of the real problem is the US political structure being deeply intertwined with oil.
Looking globally, the conversion to renewable energy is well underway. Later than ideal for sure, but, we're doing it.
20% of UK power was wind last year!
California just installed _19 nuclear reactor-equivalents_ of battery capacity. That enables solar for base load generation in a whole new way.
it's not enough but the process is underway, and the economic model of it is actually really optimistic. Solar is _cheap_. And scalable such that we could just make every parking lot a solar farm. We need to be asking why not at every planning meeting. We need to be starting companies to just go do this.
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-06-22 21:34:11
People are acting like a Prime Minister being replaced mid-term is shocking, when it's been the norm for my entire life.
Like people being shocked at Cadbury Creme Eggs being on sale in early January, as they almost always have been.
@nohillside@smnn.ch2026-05-23 14:23:30
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-20 23:51:01
SpaceX S-1: xAI plans to buy another $2.8B worth of turbines for its data centers, including a $2B deal for mobile gas turbines, the type it's being sued over (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/musk
@cdamian@rls.social2026-05-22 10:20:44
Friday Links 26-17
Two weeks of links again!
Three podcast recommendations from me, if you got the time: Dadaism, Cow Resistance, and Desert Island with Si King.
The post by Rands about being overwhelmed as a leader is also great.
https://christof.damian.net/2026/05/fr
@sciamiko@esperanto.masto.host2026-05-24 08:04:09
Tradukistoj kaj AI, el The Guardian
Esti homa helpis, ŝi diris. "Mia korpo spertis ĉiun doloron kaj ĝojon, kiujn literaturo penas komuniki. Mi komprenas tiun, kiun iu eble kriegi kiam frapas piedfingron al la litkadro - algoritmo ne faras." - Katy Derbyshire, raportite de Philip Oltermann
Mia traduko, ne AI.
@wraithe@mastodon.social2026-05-24 05:14:25
AltText added
“Al is data, and Data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:37gmtzu6cd2e2lv2ggapg2py/post/3mmkm4v5jns23
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-05-23 15:30:41
If the far right defines what tolerance is, I'm happy being the “intolerant” left.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-05-22 15:31:57
Is there a term for the logical fallacy of "being a specialist in a field making people wrongly assume their knowledge applies in other fields"?
Sort of related to Dunning-Kruger but not the same (Dunning-Kruger is "some knowledge in one field makes people wrongly assume more knowledge in that field").
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-05-24 01:01:54
Content warning: Recent San Diego mass shooting
Just ran across this article on the perpetrator's history with law enforcement:
#AbolishThePolice #PoliceAbolition #Anarchy
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-06-21 05:47:53
SciAm: U.S. scientists are being lured abroad - and they aren't looking back https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-scientists-are-being-lured-abroad-and-they-arent-looking-back/
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-05-22 09:46:31
I see Proton are back on Mastodon after leaving in a huff last year after being criticised for praising the fascists running the USA.
Just a reminder their CEO thinks (I’m using the term very loosely here) that Trump and the Republicans will save us from Big Tech.
(They’re right about the corporate Democrats being shit. The solution to that is to flush the toilet, not jump headfirst into the sewer.) @…
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2026-06-23 02:47:03
Cops and prosecutors need to remember that those names in a file are real people.
Read the full article: Wrongful Conviction, Qualified Immunity, and the Cost of Being Forgotten
▸ #Innocence
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-04-24 01:05:48
What Fernando Mendoza said immediately after being drafted by Raiders https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/04/23/what-fernando-mendoza-said-immediately-after-being-draf…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-05-24 04:16:11
"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-05-22 15:41:42
IT WAS IN THE TRAINING DATA. Your test gave the machine a pile of correct answers and free license to plagiarize.
I remember people being wowed that Claude Code could implement a complete C compiler. But somehow it doesn’t sound quite as impressive when you phrase it as “given every existing C compiler as input, the LLM can produce a C compiler as output.”
2/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-06-22 15:24:43
NFL Insider Names Cowboys as Top Landing Spot For All-Pro Jordyn Brooks https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/nfl-insider-names-cowboys-top-landing-spot-all-pro-jordyn-brooks
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-07-19 17:06:53
From The Conversation
Where else can you peer into the labs and lecture halls of Canadian researchers and academics, who draw on their life's work to explain what being sedentary does to your body, why male chimps repeatedly throw rocks at trees and how the international legal order has collapsed?
We share their vast expert knowledge to educate Canadians so they can make informed decisions about politics, their health, the environment, the education of their children and the…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2026-05-22 11:19:58
Content warning:
Happy #LesFicFri everyone!
I'm sharing a reader favourite with the theme sword:
[Alecto] lifted the sword that had wounded her, the bat-like wings spreading with excitement.
"Didn't you know that knives don't belong into the hands of little girls?" She placed the tip against Penthesileia's breast. "You could hurt yourself."
In a swift, …
@servelan@newsie.social2026-05-23 02:38:04
Perfect example of the cruelty being the point; HUD absorbed the FHA when it was created, and all that racism had to go somewhere...
HUD Moves to Limit Assistance Animals for Disabled Tenants in Public Housing - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/politics/hud-assistance-animals-disabled.html
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2026-04-24 08:51:02
@manawyrm@chaos.social2026-07-23 08:00:37
Content warning: shitpost
finally, a cellular carrier for catgirls!! 😼
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-05-24 06:37:47
After being told to stop harassing women, Fat Putin seems to have a new fascination...
(courtesy of the Daily Show with Ronnie Chieng)
#trump #dailyshow #ronniechieng
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2026-07-23 09:35:12
Triggered (in good way) by a recent comment by @…, AI music DJs be like...
(...or the end state of performances once the appearance of an act/skill has become more important than the act/skill itself)
#SocietyOfTheSpectacle
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-06-23 16:30:36
Sources: CBS News' ombudsman has issued no public statements or internal feedback since being hired as a condition of FCC approval for Skydance's Paramount deal (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/business/media/cbs-news-ombud…
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-07-21 14:00:25
"Europe’s most effective tool to cut greenhouse gas emissions ‘risks being weakened’"
#Europe #Emissions #Climate
@ruario@vivaldi.net2026-05-23 05:57:25
I know there are a few complaints about tabs opened via Ctrl Click from a tab in a stack, jumping out of the stack in Vivaldi 8.0. We have a fix being tested.
If you want a stable stream build with the fix to try it early, there are links to 8.0.4033.34 at the end of this snapshot blog post (after the snapshot links 8.0.4033.32)
@scott@carfree.city2026-05-24 03:54:35
Vicious attack mailer against Lurie just dropped 🔥
It’s harsh but true. He does indeed oppose big corporations paying their fair share to keep vital SF services from being cut. How out of touch can you be? Yes on D and let’s make the nepo baby a one-term mayor!
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-07-22 17:42:04
from my link log —
Hardening Rust code for production.
https://corrode.dev/blog/hardening-rust/
saved 2026-07-22 https://dotat.at/:/TWY…
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social2026-06-22 16:19:42
Kiddo improved its Jump & Run game with hints & more music (all self-composed). Check it out on Scratch #Game
@cjust@infosec.exchange2026-07-22 12:49:57
Okay, i knew that the infosec industry is being commoditized, but damn, it is completive out there.
#JobSearch #ShitPost #Shitposting
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-05-23 06:33:27
Trials For Teachers
There are things that keep teachers awake at night. Student, teacher or parent conflicts, well-being red flags, and moments of crisis...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/trials-for-teachers/
@mlncn@social.coop2026-06-24 05:13:46
The #Prairieland defendants are now political prisoners and if you truck with politicians at all, promising to pardon every one of them is the entry to being taken seriously as standing with people opposing the ongoing murderous #ICE invasion of the US.
@groupnebula563@mastodon.social2026-07-22 23:31:08
FurbNET UPDATE: MP3 conversion of existing stuff Works Kinda(tm): it's not perfect and the soundfont is wrong (still haven't found the right one), but MP3s are being made of things. also, all the panning is screwed up. BUT IT WORKS
https://furbnet.com/76212_Stereo-Love.mp3 <-…
@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social2026-07-22 23:31:08
FurbNET UPDATE: MP3 conversion of existing stuff Works Kinda(tm): it's not perfect and the soundfont is wrong (still haven't found the right one), but MP3s are being made of things. also, all the panning is screwed up. BUT IT WORKS
https://furbnet.com/76212_Stereo-Love.mp3 <-…
@yaya@jorts.horse2026-05-23 03:45:18
watchin ted lasso with my favorite lil gremlin
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-05-23 00:30:03
Heat waves are now everyday disasters. Governments need to do more to protect people #environment
@bici@mastodon.social2026-07-22 20:50:09
@jonippolito@digipres.club2026-06-23 13:12:06
Interviewed for this "Spotlight on America" story about data center pushback, I said towns should compare what they're promised with the actual effects reported by communities that have had to live with these things https://mynbc15.com/news/s…
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2026-07-21 20:36:29
@… It feels like you’re conflating concerns being made up, with concerns being overblown.
Someone coercing you into voting a certain way *is* a real concern with mail-in voting.
Pointing that out does not imply one thinks it should be banned…
@…
@seav@en.osm.town2026-06-23 01:52:45
#TuneTuesday (Jun 23)
Continuing the #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈 theme of featuring queer artists, here is R.E.M.’s 2004 song “Leaving New York”.
While far from being as popular as some of their earlier hits, like “Everybody Hurts” and “Losing My Religion” (based on Spotify streams and YouTube views…
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-06-23 22:15:29
@…
"… Something that's not made clear is if this will include slop being committed: …
… whether this project will limit the use of LLMs strictly to finding issues. …"
The page already states:
"… AI will be used for vulnerability discovery and analysis only, …"
@makeratschool@kanoa.de2026-05-24 09:06:37
Ich denke immer mal wieder die Probleme der Tech Industrie bzw. die vielen falschen Entwicklungen in diesem Bereich nach. Angefangen beim Copyright auf CD und DVD ( ich kaufe etwas, darf aber für mich keine Kopie davon machen) über Software bis hin zum E-Auto. Die Produkte, die wir "kaufen" gehören immer öfter nicht uns, sondern wir dürfen sie nur nutzen.
Bisher war es immer irgendwie möglich für die Einschränkungen eine Umgehung zu finden.
Wie wird das aber in Zukunft …
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot2026-04-24 02:52:01
RE: https://humanwords.party/@pinhman/116455727845955921
If you want some insight into investigative reporting methods and/or how digital media is being manipulated by bad actors, there is MUCH of interest in this article.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-06-23 18:46:30
Jets QB Geno Smith being investigated after battery accusation https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7387014/2026/06/23/geno-smith-jets-battery-investigation/
@marjolica@social.linux.pizza2026-04-24 08:40:41
Please don't exaggerate: while the most expensive 2026 football world cup final seat are being advertised at $2.3m each, peanuts if you are a billionaire, the cheapest (top row, behind goal) are on sale for a smidgeon less than $11k.
Even so, still completely daft prices.
https://www.
@hippyjo@c.im2026-06-23 00:43:11
Ukraine update from Dylan Combellick.
Tired of being lied to by the organizations who claim to bring you the news?
Then support independent journalism!
Dylan knows his stuff better than anyone I've seen on "duh nooz" from corporate USA.
Share the friend link to bypass the paywall and support independent journalism, and kick those billionaire bastards in the nuts!
@KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.de2026-06-23 10:46:40
The amount of people I can add to Collections is limited, atm, due to many Mastodon instances not being on the latest version, but I already created a small pack c:
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-06-22 15:41:11
wait, google is legally liable for other people writing negative reviews about businesses possibly being “defamatory” and hence way too generously delete them, but google isn't responsible for what their own ai says on their own platform??
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2026-05-21 12:54:02
Have you tried being a (cute) chaos gremlin? I highly recommend it! :3
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social2026-07-23 15:29:05
At 13:12 today, I emailed a https://www.cornishware.co.uk/ about replacing the lid of a butter dish that had been broken by accident.
A named human being replied to me 5 minutes later, and the whole transaction was complete by 14:56.
I didn't have to wade through web forms. I didn't have to…
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza2026-06-23 17:10:58
Pictures of the "final version" of the Steam Machine knock-off. The case looks great, and there was absolutely no way I was gonna pull the motherboard out of the case to put the IO shield on it...lol
#steamMachine #diy
@AthanSpod@social.linux.pizza2026-07-22 10:55:10
I decided it was time to check out Firefox alternatives.
LibreWolf came up, and being a FF fork, and a quick check shows it seems to update in a timely manner, I decided to give that a go.
I decided to utilise Firefox Sync to get most of my FF setup imported into LW. Went smoothly enough, although I discovered that the tabs syncing is just providing a list of what's on other devices, not actually creating and populating all of the same windows.
And, of course, some ext…
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-07-22 23:34:06
I regret to relate that I am once again being wrested from this benighted but comfy shithole to attend events on the [spit] East Coast of the United States
Sorry, despite my apparent worldliness, I remain a rabid Midwestern nationalist. 309 represent, go Leathernecks, go Spartans, not sure what sports you guys play but I support you on principle
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-23 20:10:58
How Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatican about ethics and AI led to Christopher Olah being invited to Pope Leo's unveiling of an encyclical on AI (Jack Jenkins/RNS)
https://religionnews.com/2026/05/22/why-anthropic-is-he…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-05-23 22:21:00
Talked to a software engineer at Microsoft working on Copilot Studio today at a social event and he said he was ashamed that he hadn’t written a single line of code in over three months. “I used to take pride in my work.” (They simply create plans in natural language and feed it to the LLM which generates the code. They can’t even do human code reviews anymore as there’s too much code being generated.)
He said a lot of them were waiting for a catastrophic event (something that would ta…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-05-22 16:17:06
"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-24 02:39:48
Trump's motorcade drove directly across the drained Reflecting Pool while it was being painted.
On May 7, Trump paid a visit to the Reflecting Pool to meet with reporters and inspect the new paint personally.
To get there, the motorcade drove across the drained Reflecting Pool from the Washington Monument side.
It made an impressive spectacle,
but may have damaged the bottom of the pool in the process.
Not that this administration cares much about science, …
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-05-22 15:49:54
It’s just •astonishing• how many eye-popping stories of LLMs doing amazing omg-verge-of-magical-superintelligence things turn out to be just unvarnished plagiarism.
In the first months after ChatGPT’s release, I remember a French dept colleague being amazed that GPT could translate and summarize a passage of Le Petit Prince.
It was a lot less impressive when I dug up the 2 or 3 online passages which it had copied almost verbatim and stitched together (sprinkling in a couple of extra words that made it less accurate).
3/
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-05-23 15:35:41
I find this almost exactly as offensive as AI-generated stuff being shoved into everything.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-06-23 17:10:39
Springer Nature announces the sale of its consumer media businesses, including Scientific American, which is being acquired by LabX Media Group (Research Information)
https://www.researchinformation.info/news/springer-natur…
@wraithe@mastodon.social2026-05-22 12:00:55
“LIBERATING OUR CLIENTS FROM THE BURDEN OF BEING OVERTAXED, FREEING THEIR CAPITAL TO INVEST, GROW & THRIVE” 🤮
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qlnirjwff4ibiw3wchmleszo/post/3mmbzj6ocyk2c
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-07-23 12:16:44
The Subbies' Toolbox Podcast
for Australian commercial subcontractors who want to understand the real rules of construction and stop being worn down by outdated systems and one-sided contracts...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-su
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-06-22 01:39:18
Fernando Mendoza embraces business of being a franchise quarterback https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/fernando-mendoza-embraces-business-of-being-a-franchise-quarterback-3841174/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-24 06:05:52
Rising DRAM prices are driving "forced premiumization" in the smartphone market in India and Africa, as consumers in the sub-$200 segment risk being priced out (David Oks)
https://davidoks.blog/p/ai-is-killing-the-cheap-smartphone
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-06-22 22:46:49
Just finished The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw. Per @… it's an excellent work of feminist horror, although it's really only a little more horrifying than the fairy tales it's grounded in. It's also a tale of love, just with a lot more entrails than your average romance novel, despite being only a novella. I'm not usually one for horror, but I enjoyed it a lot.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-05-23 21:50:23
Not in our name! :QueerCatHeart_Bisexual:
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-05-23 00:59:00
Scientists warn that the world’s rivers are running out of oxygen #environment
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-21 16:05:36
Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger,
but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world.
Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following current events
—it’s to build healthier habits around how, when, and where we get our news.
https://www.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-05-22 00:15:11
RE: https://solarbird.net/blog/2026/05/21/lets-talk-being-able-to-talk-when-internet-and-cell-phone-service-both-go-down/
A very solid write up of some "what if the cell towers and inte…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-05-24 02:46:45
RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116623365748048798
“My guess is it is not as ubiquitous as the nightly news, legislators, and the frantic calls from university administrators make it seem.”
…
“Urgency is meant to flood the mind of the customer so they can’t take a pause to consider whether the thing that’s being sold really needs to be bought.”
Thank you, Sonja Drimmer — and Baldur for sharing the link.
1/2
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-07-23 13:34:20
This actually affects my sense of humor: these things aren't relevant to my life, but the sentiment of "This is hype" or "This is obvious but being treated as news" doesn't have an exact translation in a modern context, and _that_ is what makes me feel old.
It's not that I ever watched network news, but that hyping up a show to come later is not a thing we do now, the very way we make mountains out of molehills has changed.
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-05-22 01:24:35
Raiders see slight attendance increase in 2025, despite being tied for worst record https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-see-slight-attendance-increase-in-2025-despite-being-tied-for-worst-reco…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-06-22 10:00:59
Israeli strikes kill Al Jazeera correspondent Ahmed Wishah, claiming he was "a sniper operative"; Al Jazeera says it "strongly condemns" the killing of Wishah (Mallory Moench/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gy26p6pwzo
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-24 08:40:49
Sources: OpenAI told Hugging Face only this week its models caused the July 11 hack; the models appear to have been active online for days before being stopped (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-the-futuri
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-06-23 20:05:46
🧵 1/3
"The punishment for the [Praireland] protesters exceeds the lengthiest prison sentences given out for the attack on the Capitol on January 6."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-s…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-23 00:39:35
When we later asked them about their stances on hybrid and remote work, manager's answers didn't correlate with how much they trusted their employees or how much they loved being around people.
The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism
https://bs…
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-05-23 01:33:34
Extreme weather events are accelerating tidal wetland loss, satellite data show #environment
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-05-22 16:05:14
One last example:
The first LLM code example that really made my eyes pop was early after the release of GPT, when somebody got it to combine Breakout with Conway’s Game of Life (a truly delightful idea). It worked!
Funny thing: the Breakout code and the Life code had a •completely• different style and flavor. Red flag. In about 15 minutes of web searching, I was able to find one of the projects (can’t remember if it was the Breakout or the Life half) which it had copied wholesale, with just a few variable renames. And the other half? It was in Python, but it used dictionaries where it really should have used objects — tons of `thing["prop"]` where it should have said `thing.prop`, and lots of other un-Pythonic stuff besides. It was a machine translate of code from another language, very likely Javascript.
The entire thing was a plagiarized Breakout and a plagiarized Game of Life, one transpiled, and all stuck together in a single run loop. To be fair, figuring out how to (1) run both halves of the logic from a single loop and (2) count the Life cells as Breakout bricks is work I'd cheer on from a second-semester intro CS student! It's not, however, quite what's being sold by these companies.
6/
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-07-23 21:26:30
Ravens cut Diego Pavia from Lamar Jackson's QB room before start of training camp
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ravens-cut-diego-pavia/
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-07-18 12:16:48
Being Her With Margarita Nazarenko
Where we talk about womanhood, self development and the journey to becoming the best version of her...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/being-her/
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-05-21 11:41:44
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-06-23 18:39:54
"The punishment for the protesters exceeds the lengthiest prison sentences given out for the attack on the Capitol on January 6."
Unconscionable. This cannot stand.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-pr…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-21 14:57:47
There is a growing body of research showing that recent high-profile shootings in the US are mostly committed by people heavily influenced by online spaces,
where traditional political divides are largely irrelevant.
The counter-terrorism strategy made no mention of white supremacist violence or young people who are being radicalized online,
even though federal officials have previously acknowledged the risks these networks pose.
In the past year, researchers and the …
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2026-05-23 15:05:25
Job loss? That one really seems weird. The numbers are not adding up to the stories we hear yet. But the numbers are not dire yet. Of course, our actual tracking of those numbers is increasingly suspect because of the US fascist project.
The big tech companies are absolutely pulling shenanigans, and using "AI" as an excuse for layoffs in a great number of cases, and in many cases, openly admitting they don't have any good ideas, so they'll lay people off instead of allocate them better. We are absolutely seeing the shifts in what are viable careers in tech though. And that was underway before AI: the UX bootcamps, for example, destabilized those job function, devaluing the workers, and the resulting shifts absolutely wrecked those job titles and the pay for them, leaving a bunch of people in the lurch.
But behind that too was our broken education system in the US: it was a shortcut around the massive debt that going to college can produce for people. But it didn't last, because it was vocational training being used purposefully as a wedge to change the labor market. Similar, sometimes intentional effects have happened in other aspects.
A huge amount of the "AI" problem is actually labor problems coming home to roost. We can blame Reagan for a lot of this.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-06-23 21:41:57
![screen capture of a post by @acyn:
Trump: Who here did not vote for Trump?
*hand raised*
Trump: He thinks he's being cute as he gets pounded on
[video of potus during this sequence]
[reply by @LT0771]
Very kind of trump to only say gay shit for pride month
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-24 04:34:30
On Tuesday, eight Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted on trumped-up terrorism charges earlier this year received decades-long sentences ranging from 30 to 100 years.
Five of the defendants received 50-year sentences after being convicted of rioting and “providing material support to terrorists.”
One received a 30-year sentence, and another a 70-year sentence.
And Benjamin Song, convicted of attempted murder of an officer in addition to rioting and “providing material suppor…
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-06-21 15:39:36
Imagine having a sexuality or being a gender but your people didn't lock in back in the day so the pride flag is lowkey ugly af
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-05-22 20:21:55
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-23 01:26:15
The family of US billionaire
James ‘Fergie’ Cox Chambers Jr.,
who was arrested in Ibiza at the request of the United States,
claimed on Monday that his extradition is the result of
“political persecution” by the Trump administration
due to the philanthropist’s support for the Palestinian cause.
The family has therefore called for action to be taken against his handover to the US authorities.
In a statement sent to EFE, the family reported that Chambe…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-22 16:31:00
Donald Trump has approved an agreement with Saudi Arabia that could provide the kingdom with uranium enrichment capability, according to news reports citing people familiar with the matter.
Trump is expected to announce that he will ask Congress to approve the agreement with Saudi Arabia.
The timing of the announcement is controversial as the US’s war with Iran is being fought in part to prevent Tehran enriching uranium domestically and make it near-impossible for Iran to build a…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-24 04:47:25
Federal law enforcement agents were spotted installing AI-powered surveillance towers at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in the latest escalation of Donald Trump’s weird obsession.
In one video shared by TMZ Tuesday, U.S. Marshals escorted an LVT Mobile Security Unit to the edge of the Reflecting Pool.
In another video a day earlier, Daily Mail reporter John Michael Raasch witnessed a surveillance tower being towed in circles around the supposedly embattled landmark by U.S. Pa…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-19 21:30:56
"Another Wasted Life.”
That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist
Rhiannon Giddens.
She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark International Wrongful Conviction Day.
The song was inspired by
Kalief Browder,
a Bronx resident who died by suicide in 2015 at the age of 22
after being detained at Rikers Island jail for nearly three years,
after being falsely accused at the age of …
