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Q&A with UpScrolled founder Issam Hijazi, who says the non-algorithmic social app hit 5M users, mainstream apps were censoring pro-Palestinian content, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-upscrolled-…

He Started a Social Network Alone. Then 5 Million People Signed Up
Issam Hijazi launched UpScrolled after users alleged censorship on other platforms. Nine months later, its user base is soaring—while Hijazi tries to catch up with his own success.

Trump vows to catch 'leaker' who revealed US could not initially reach F-15 pilot in Iran: 'Give it up or go to jail' (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/04/06/us-news/trump-vows-to-catch-leaker-who-revealed-us-could-not-initially-reach-f-15-pilot-in-iran/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p76#a260406p76

Kann sich das jemand anschauen und mir eine Zweitmeinung geben?
Bin mir nicht sicher, dass ich 1,5 Stunden Zeit für jemanden habe, der mit "I am picking up on a [problematic] vibe" ankommt und den dann nicht artikuliert.
Der als positives Beispiel für "generative AI"-Nutzung "materials used in carbon capture" (of all things) nennt.
Und dann ein "trust me, I am very good at this" einwirft, obwohl er bisher, wenn überhaupt, den gegenteili…

@…’s Catch-up feature is very useful!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/mar/24/self-deportation-los-angeles-mexico-trump-immigration

'Six months to catch up': What the shutdown cost DHS (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/02/six-months-to-catch-up-what-the-shutdown-cost-dhs-00903118
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p53#a260502p53

Never thought I'd say this, but... 💀🪦
#PhpStorm is dead. #JetBrains just doesn't know it yet.
They're playing catch-up with #AI Assistant while the competition already rew…

Having a quiet day at home today. Brother has departed for the airport and a flight home. Just my wife and I sitting here with the radio on, for a change, while I catch up on some journaling. I’m cooking a roast Lamb dinner later this afternoon.

During her detention, Yu said uncertainty weighed heavily on her.
Yu has operated her two West Valley restaurant locations for years, building a reputation for greeting customers with humor and kindness.
Supporters said she has no criminal record and has been active in giving back to the Peoria community.
Her release came after U.S. District Court Judge Krissa Lanham granted a habeas corpus petition filed on her behalf.
The petition argued that her continued detenti…

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Tenets of a horror game:
- The world is like our own, but with a few twisted rules that create dreadful contrast. You must learn these rules to survive.
- A monstrous enemy is chasing you. It will attack you with powers that are deliberately unfair.
- Your attacks can't kill the monster. You have to outrun it. But if you get away, the game will contrive to have the monster catch up shortly.
Therefore Mario Kart is horror.

"Solar power soared last year — and it’s not slowing down"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Solar power soared last year — and it’s not slowing down
More and more countries are hitting new solar generation records, and those that are still relying on fossil fuels have good reason to catch up.

While staying vigilant, we’re embracing the chance to catch our breath and to start healing. The city right now has a bit of the feeling of the days after a natural disaster: there is so much damage to repair. Thousands of people are still sheltering at home, understandably reluctant to go to work and/or school. Thousands are facing imminent eviction when March rent comes due.
There’s organizing around rent relief, talk of a rent strike. Food delivery is still in full swing. Mutual aid is not letting up.
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AI company which trains its models on stolen data accuses other AI companies of stealing data 🤣
Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude - Slashdot https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/23/1810225/anthropic-acc…

So I need a new headshot for a conference I’m speaking at in June and I’m short on time so I fooled around with my camera last night (ooh-err, missus) and narrowed it down to three options…

This week has been a rush to the head for the cybersecurity world, so check out Metacurity before you leave for the weekend to catch up on the critical developments you should know, including
--UK sanctions scam-supporting, $20B crypto marketplace Xinbi Guarantee,
--Judge issues preliminary injunction against DoD's Anthropic ban,
--EU rejects extension that would allow CSAM scanning,
--Drone maker TechEx claims SBU wiretapped its chief engineer,
--Dutch court…

UK sanctions scam-supporting, $20B crypto marketplace Xinbi Guarantee
Judge issues preliminary injunction against DoD's Anthropic ban, EU rejects extension that would allow CSAM scanning, Drone maker TechEx claims SBU wiretapped its chief engineer, Dutch court orders Musk's Grok to stop producing nudified images, EC probes breach of its AWS infrastructure, much more

xAI hires senior Cursor leaders Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg; Elon Musk said he expects xAI to catch up with rivals in coding by "the middle of this year" (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/xai-hires-two-senior-lea…

XAI Hires Two Senior Leaders From Cursor to Catch Up on Coding
Elon Musk’s xAI is hiring two senior Cursor leaders as part of an effort to catch up with AI rivals in coding, according to a person with direct knowledge of the move. The pair, Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg, will both report to Musk, the person said. The move follows a string of high-level ...

The moss and lichen on the dunes at Holkham are always such a pleasure to see. Such variety - every patch is a bit different, and the little spots of colour catch my eye all around. These crusts are crucial to protecting the most stable part of the north Norfolk coast.
#LichenSubscribe #mosstodon

It's a bit hard to find, but Dutch PBL Agency (@leefomgeving.bsky.social) estimates that the new coalition agreement has a positive effect on greenhouse gas emission reduction. Current policies would lead to -65% by 2040, and the new policies would bring that to -70 .. -75%.
However PBL doesn't tell us whether we'll catch up on the -55% goal for 2030 in the Climate Law; last year, it estimated that we're on a course for -50% (-45 .. 53%).

I'm old. I should be struggling to catch up... and I am. That's actually the problem. I'm struggling to catch up on all this stuff I missed but I still notice easy things like this. I feel as though I should be behind, but I'm not, and that is incredibly frustrating.
I am gonna tag @… on this, both out of love and frustration.

Halt and Catch Fire is a great #TV show, imo.
I nice write up about it:
"The show tells the story of the Silicon Prairie and Silicon Valley in the 80s and early 90s, focusing on the careers and ambitions of a handful of hardware and software engineers, a restless ideologue, and the unsuspecting people who got caught up in their dreams."

“Dude, the Internet.”
Prestige Silicon Valley television.

Every once in awhile I catch up on the state of knowledge about really early evolution and there's at least one phylogeny where you have to hunt for the eukaryotes
The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2516062123

Raiders Notes: Fernando Mendoza is the “safe” pick, Maxx Crosby story won’t die https://raiderramble.com/2026/03/29/raiders-notes-fernando-mendoza-is-the-safe-pick-maxx-crosby-story-wont-die/

@… One of the big lies is about how everyone needs to rush to get [somewhere] before [China or whatever villain they've made up] does because no one will ever be able to catch up!
(and this argument is made on behalf of or by Google and Facebook, notorious not-first-to-market “success" stories)
We'd be in a better place with all of th…

@… a prompt to also mark earlier episodes watched when marking a later one would be great way to catch up with forgotten entries

Welsh charity buys more than 405 hectares for rewilding https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/15/welsh-charity-buys-more-than-405-hectares-for-rewilding

I've been totally wrapped up in the daily grind for a while lately. Had a chance to catch up with my son in Minneapolis a couple days ago. The good news is that he's still safe and actually has some great opportunities coming his way. The heartbreaking news is that Operation Metro Surge pretty much convinced him to pursue only those opportunities that are going to allow him to leave the country after graduation.
I'm totally thrilled that he has his pick of several great int…

So much of the ICE invasion’s harm here in Minneapolis is going to be diffuse, long-term, things that faded away quietly, things that •didn’t• happen, injuries barely seen and never tallied.
Long after the media spotlight is gone, we’re going to be repairing, rebuilding, trying to catch back up, trying to heal, trying to fill the holes these months left. It’s like a whole second pandemic for us.
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A president, deposed -- Presented by With help from Makayla Gray -- THE CATCH-UP (Irie Sentner/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2026/02/27/a-president-deposed-00804145
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p90#a260227p90

Rejected. Now the US has to play catch-up.
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/us-ukraine-anti-drone-offer

If you're doing a podcast, start each episode by getting to the fucking point. Sitting through 20 minutes of two people I don't know talking about their family or hobbies or what they had for dinner on Thursday interests me not even a little, particularly when I'm tuning in for the first time, and I will unsubscribe and move on to something that doesn't waste my time. Feel free to record your catch-up first and then paste it at the end, or even put it on Patreon for all I car…

Inside OpenAI's race to catch up with Claude Code, based on interviews with 30 sources; a source says Codex had $1B in annualized revenue by January's end (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-codex-race-claude-code/

Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code
Why is the biggest name in AI late to the AI coding revolution?

#totp I'm starting late, but I'm damned if I'm going to forward through s club! I'm sure there'll be plenty of opportunities to catch up.

This has been the fastest, least planned trip to London since I was going to Kuwait regularly. Leaving tomorrow having been able to catch up with one friend, had two home-cooked meals by mom (see pic), and three restaurants. I didn’t even have time (or appetite) for a shawarma sandwich!

All this tech fluff has me two albums by the Black Keys and one by the Black Crowes to catch up with. I need to reset my priorities. As I should have done the last 60 years or so.
#reminder

A nice day at work today: starting with a workshop for clients on useful thinking skills to promote wellbeing, and then heading into the City to meet an old colleague for a coffee and catch-up.
#WorkToots

I take one of these pictures nearly every day, but having a sleeping dragon by your side can really take the edge off of things when you get a moment to catch your breath.
#dogsofmastodon

Sources: xAI held talks in recent weeks with Mistral and Cursor about a potential three-way partnership; Mistral co-founder Devendra Chaplot joined xAI in March (Grace Kay/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-explored…

SpaceX and Cursor have explored a team-up with Mistral to take on AI rivals
Musk has eyed a collaboration with French startup Mistral to help xAI catch Anthropic and OpenAI.

Sources: Google has created strike team to improve its coding models; Sergey Brin told DeepMind staffers that they must aggressively pivot to catch up on agents (Erin Woo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-creates-strike-t…

Google Creates Strike Team to Improve Coding Models
Google has assembled a strike team of researchers and engineers to improve its AI coding models, according to three people with direct knowledge of the situation, as it looks to automate more of its own coding and ultimately its AI research. The push was prompted in part by Anthropic’s recent AI ...

Baidu is integrating OpenClaw with its Xiaodu devices to work as voice-controlled remotes, as it seeks to catch up with Tencent and Alibaba in the AI race (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-17/baidu-ta…

Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safety, constantly playing catch up to OpenAI, infighting, and more (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

What’s behind the mass exodus at xAI?
Internal sources spoke with The Verge about the recent restructuring at xAI and the direction Elon Musk is taking the company.

"Charity buys £2.2m tract of land for Wales’ biggest rewilding project"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales #Environment

Very proud and excited to vote in the NDP leadership race today!!
This is not the first time I've voted in a Federal leadership race... more on that later but first, my choices! I considered only voting for two people, but I ended up filling in all 5 choices.
#1: Tanille Johnston @…
#2: Avi Lewis @…
#3: Heather McPherson
#4: Tony McQuail
#5: Rob Ashton
Why?
You might ask why I would publicize my choices. I don’t expect others to of course. It is a privilege and a right in Canada to exercise your democratic choice freely and privately, but I also think there is value in knowing how others voted.
#1 why Tanille? #electoralReform and proportional representation myself, I didn't just want to pick my top two. I wanted to make a statement on each of these candidates an influence each one.
To be blunt, Heather is #3 because she is the middle-of-the-road candidate. She is an excellent representative as MP and has gathered the support of other MPs including my own, but while I would be OK with her leadership, I would see her as a continuation of the status quo, and that is not what the NDP needs as a party, nor is it what Canada needs as a country.
We desperately need a vigorous and clear alternative to the Centre-but-mostly-Right Liberals, and the MAGA-wannabe Conservatives. The only way to do that is to catch the attention of Canadians and inspire them. I am not sure that Heather has the ability to do that, and if we continue with the same leadership crew in the NDP, I am not confident that the policy choices will be strong enough to inspire and attract Canadians.
That is why Tanille and Avi are far better options.
#4 Why Tony:

Tony is the real deal. Honestly, I would have loved to rank him higher. He represents the true life blood of rural, socially progressive, environmentally aware, Canadians. You should go check out his platform. I am so glad that he was able to participate fully in the race and we need his voice in the NDP.
#5 Why not Rob?
I have been an active member in my Union for more than 10 years. Unionism is The Way. Rob is representing a division within the union movement that claims that working people can't have jobs if the environment is put first. This is a lie.
We need union leaders that look to the future and speak honestly to people. We need union leaders who are genuinely progressive, not ready to do the bidding of corporate masters to the benefit of a few.
Working people need honesty, and when an industry is on decline, a clear path to new, excellent, union, jobs!
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Liberal #CPC #Canada #Democracy #NDP