@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source AI models, as some capabilities of Chinese models start to catch up with those of frontier US labs (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/silicon-valley-building-free-chinese-ai-r…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeA scary Halloween tale of an insider threat that underscores the importance of setting up anomaly scanning to catch unusual behavior.
Caught an insider threat today. Never thought it would actually happen to us.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/com…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialTime to catch up with some #39c3 talks. Kicked it off with the excellent «The Heartbreak Machine: Nazis in the Echo Chamber» (original talk is in German, but an English translation is offered. Stay for the QA bit for a fun surprise 😆)
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-the-heartbreak-machine-nazis-in-the-echo-chamber
@raiders@darktundra.xyzTony Jefferson Intercepts Deep Pass https://www.chargers.com/video/tony-jefferson-highlight-intercepts-deep-pass-vs-raiders-week-13-2025
@cdarwin@c.imKyle Tharp, a progressive writer and researcher writes the "Chaotic Era",
a newsletter about politics, media and online influence.
Tharp launched the Chaotic Era in January, just days before Trump’s second inauguration.
Over the past year, he has tracked the surge in liberal media projects, mapped the rise of
left-leaning creators on platforms like YouTube and
analyzed the narratives that managed to break through the digital noise
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineDesigned a new t-shirt. You should get one and go running wearing it*.
https://davidaugust.threadless.com/designs/i-am-a-bomb-technician-if-you-see-me-running-try-to-catch-…
@hex@kolektiva.socialAll we're asking is for y'all to catch up on some history so you understand what you're coming into. Even #NoKings grew from #50501Movement, which started as a decentralized protest before being taken over by the nonprofit industrial complex. Antifa networks were doxxing fash hard through the first Trump admin, but those networks go all the way back to the 80's... And they inherited an even older tradition. If you really want to get down to it, the whole "no kings" thing in Europe was at the very least heavily influenced by indigenous folks in the so-called Americas. There's a lot of history that's lead to this moment, and it's kind of all relevant to understanding how we got here and how we actually get out.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyDiarycast - Summer Catch-up (2020-09-25) - Lots of catching up after one (UK) break rather than three, D3, a sound walk and bats, and more! #podcast #soundscape #lockdown2020 -
@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizzaSome metal thing i photographed last week. I can't even remember what it was, just snapping stuff whilst trying to catch up with the kid. #randomCrap
@earlofedgecombe@mstdn.socialHeads up Mastodon! I am doing a small European tour with Peter Gordon (Love of Life Orchestra) at the end of November. We'll play Glasgow, London, Cologne, and Brussels. These shows will be great fun, and a very rare chance to catch me playing live music outside the US.
If we know each other here, let me know if there's a possibility to meet up in person at one of these shows?!
Tickets and info here:
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialWatch this 4min video to catch up on the 30 YEARS of Trump's Russian money laundering that led to the selling out of Ukraine for Putin.
#trumpsmoneylaundering #trump #Russia
@gwire@mastodon.socialNot really had a chance to catch up with the budget, but did see coverage of the tractor protest. Farmers angry at the government, rather than the wealthy who parasitically turned their livelihood into a tax-avoidance vehicle.
@cheeaun@mastodon.socialFinally saw this. @… (and me 🙇♂️) featured on @… 's talk "The Future is federated" in #fediday2025 (3-5 Oct 2025)
Link…
@mia@hcommons.socialLast hour or so to sign up to today's UVCON! Catch up with recent work and what's coming next https://hcommons.social/deck/@universalviewer@glammr.us/115542995946017876
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioPer replies, something I need to clarify:
We often use the word “neurotypical” to mean “neither autistic nor ADHD.” That might be useful as a shorthand, I guess, but it’s that mode of thought I’m specifically arguing against here: creating a single catch-all category defined as a negative, calling it “normal,” and assuming that it fits most people.
That doesn’t stand up to empirical scrutiny, and I don’t think it’s particularly healthy or helpful.
11/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzReady for NFL Week 8? Catch up with our last-minute intel https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46696835/2025-nfl-week-8-predictions-fantasy-sleepers-upsets-bets-stats-matchups
@pre@boing.worldDay two introduced again by Mad bitcoins .
Then the history of art on bitcoin includes satoshi and his original logo, ASCII art in the Blockchain, Cassius coins with scratch off keys, these pictured images of fake satoshi and 200 logos.
Exploded from there, trading cards, the rare Pepe's.
What makes it bitcoin art?
Symbology. The logo. Religious symbology. Is it a cult?
Memes. Memes catch and go in a fashion which is unpredictable and fits the whole history to a timeline.
Art builds culture and heros proliferate bitcoin culture for all.
Art traditionally goes up in value but none of it seems to outpace bitcoin itself.
Some is for sale in the gallery but it'll unlikely be a better but then 30 percent discount bitcoin today 😆
#bitfest #art #bitcoin
@cheryanne@aus.socialWind Against Tide
A weekly podcast by Dave Standing. discuss everything fishing and catch up on the weeks events...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/wind-against-tide/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn a report, the G20's Financial Stability Board says regulators are in the early stages of tracking risks posed to the financial system by AI's rapid adoption (Laura Noonan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@stephane_klein@social.coop« J'ai découvert le concept de "catch up culture" »
#TIL
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgHave to get up a 5:15 tomorrow morning to catch a train to hamburg :(
But on the other hand: Tattoo consultation in the evening. Ending on a high note.
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineI wrote a story. It starts:
He woke up, looking forward to finally fishing. He’s retired, even though he feels like he could keep doing the work, and now, finally, he has the chance to go out on his boat, with a beer and his rod to catch something. Maybe if he catches enough he can fill the whole freezer set up in the basement. Fresh frozen fish for months.
The rest of it:
@nitpicking@mstdn.partyDefine "catch up on the writing of my favorite authors" as a task!
Also, feel better.
@smashtie@mas.toI've got to do some catching up, #strictly crowd. I'll catch up your chats once we have skipped forward to live. Sorry. Busy day.
@egallager@social.treehouse.systemsMy laptop is now back from repairs. Next it's time to catch up on all the stuff I missed in the month-plus amount of time that passed since it died...
@nelson@tech.lgbtJust got a new monitor, an ASUS ProArt PA32QCV. First time I've had a high density display for my Windows desktop. It's nice!
(Eloi friends, you are welcome to mock me on this one: it took Windows forever to catch up on Retina and it's still behind.)
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSpotify starts rolling out Recaps, a new AI feature for audiobooks that summarizes what users have listened to so far, in beta on iOS (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/819476/spotify-audiobook-ai-recaps-short-summary
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzTomorrow (Tues, 11 Nov 2025) from 20:00 NZDT we're having a #Libre / #FOSS catch up at https://meeting.iridescent.nz…
@aardrian@toot.cafe@… I’m playing catch-up on your weekly updates (you no longer shows in my feed or alerts even though I follow you, which is hella annoying and I still have to debug) and think you were messing with me by generating the abstract of my Atlass post with an LLM.
If so, well done and I’m sorry I’m just seeing it.
If not, then I guess I need bet…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialData from 300K pull requests shows OpenAI is catching up to Anthropic in AI coding: Codex has a 74.3% success rate vs. Claude Code's 73.7% in code approvals (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-catching-anthropi…
@adrianco@mastodon.social#AdventOfSystemSeeing still trying to catch up to @… and spending too much time watching Donella Meadows videos. I have two more done: Advent(ure) in Systems Seeing — Day 6 — Donella Meadows on Causal Loops
@cheeaun@mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@dimillian/115410641427501093
"Catch-up" soon? 👀
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngBtw. Apologies for being very slow to catch up with various replies received over the past days... 🙏
@Richard@worklifepsych.socialMorning all! It's a bit of a 'catch up' day in the office today. No client meetings, just event promotion, community admin, and some podcast and video editing.
Wishing everyone a productive day, whatever you're up to!
@cdarwin@c.imThere’s an unwritten rule in publishing,
or so I’ve been told:
don’t write about COVID.
Our collective attention span has been saturated by those endless months holed up in attics and cramped corners of apartments, staring out at a world we could no longer take part in.
When the worst of it passed, we felt an urge to close that chapter, to padlock it behind a heavy latch.
But in doing so, we also tuck away the hard-won lessons of that time:
how quickly s…
@gfriend@mas.to“We have to break the cycle of ‘invent here, scale there.” It's an old habit, way past its sell-by date.
It's an uphill battle, but maybe Ford can pull it off.
Ford’s Car of the Future, Hatched in a Skunk Works Near Los Angeles
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL playoff picture: Postseason probabilities entering Week 17 of the 2025 season https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-playoff-picture-postseason-probabilities-entering-week-17-of-the-2025-season
@cheryanne@aus.socialThe WHO Group Chat
Your weekly pop culture catch-up, mixed by WHO, stirred by you, straight from Australia's biggest celebrity newsroom...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-who-group-chat/
@mro@digitalcourage.social⭐ The Simple Habit That Saves My Evenings | alikhil | software engineering, kubernetes & self-hosting
https://alikhil.dev/posts/the-simple-habit-that-saves-my-evenings/
Spoiler alert:
Here are the two main ideas of it:
* Don’t overwork
*…
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchangeSick today but at least I can crochet and catch up on mastodon. Practice gratefulness, right?
@newsie@darktundra.xyzKamel Ghali on what's 'theoretically possible' in car hacking https://therecord.media/car-hacking-interview-kamel-ghali-click-here-podcast
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgToday tomorrow I'm at the @… #NCKF Danish #climate symposium. It's always a good opportunity to catch up with old friends and brilliant new research. This year, we are also launching a Danish climate status #klimastatus report. #NCKF25
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euThe awesome cable guys, who rewired my internet connection into fiber-optic, also replaced my old set-top box with a snappier android device, and now even the 4K channels work! It turns out, I still love surfing the channels, sports, news, the occasional movie, lots of catch-ups, setting reminders. I just gradually fell out of watching TV because it felt like a dial-up connection compared to the internet.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTrump says the US needs a "Federal Standard" governing oversight of AI instead of "a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes", otherwise China will catch up (Kate Sullivan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@NFL@darktundra.xyzLOOK: Jaguars' Travis Hunter makes big catch vs. Chiefs on 'Monday Night Football'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/look-jaguars-travis-hu…
@hex@kolektiva.socialTime for a social experiment. I have 5 questions:
- What should we work towards as a society?
- What's one thing that doesn't exist now in your community but should?
- What's one action you could take in the coming year to align your life with that goal?
- What's one thing you could achieve in the coming year to get closer to making that thing exist?
- Imagine that we changed everything and you're living in the world you want to see exist. What does the world look like?
I've asked variations of these already (and am still getting great responses), but this time there's a catch. Get together some of your friends (3-5 people) and ask these questions of the group. Come up with *one* answer that everyone in the group agrees on and post it here, then write a bit about your experience.
If you don't know people locally (or otherwise can't do this in person), tag some folks in here or wherever your people are at digitally. Just add some info on if it's online or in person.
For anyone bold enough to actually do this, let me know if you'd be OK with me putting this in an upcoming entry (https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/).
@adrianco@mastodon.social @lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzIt's that time again! Tomorrow evening (Tue 9/12), 20:00 NZST is our monthly FOSS/Libre Tech catch up. Find us at https://meeting.iridescent.nz - all welcome! We'll be discussing relevant current events, sharing case studies, looking at new technologies, and how to make a living doing this stuff! Our mee…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys’ Dak Prescott Shares Heartwarming Story About Youngster After Monster Jets Game https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-ryan-flournoy-jets/?adt_ei=[email]
@Richard@worklifepsych.socialMorning all! It's a bit of a 'catch up' day in the office today. No client meetings, just event promotion, community admin, and some podcast and video editing.
Wishing everyone a productive day, whatever you're up to!
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzI've just been reminded we're due for our October #libre catch up - tomorrow (Tues 7/10), 20:00 NZDT - at https://meeting.iridescent.nz - all welcome! We'll be looking at a few fully Free & Open Sour…
@cheryanne@aus.socialWoW - What's On Westside
A weekly catch up of events across Melbourne's Glorious West...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/wow-whats-on-westside/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMistral launches Devstral 2, a coding model with 123B parameters requiring at least four H100 GPUs, and a 24B parameter Devstral Small for local deployment (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/mistral-ai-surfs-vibe-coding-t…
@hex@kolektiva.socialI've had a few of these thoughts stuck in my craw all day because I watched this liberal historian talk about the Galleanisti.
https://youtube.com/shorts/93yHEn8BYE4
Basically, she says that "of course the government had the right to target them." Then she goes on to talk about how it became an excuse to carry out a bunch of attacks on other marginalized people. Now, the Galleanisti had been bombing the houses of politicians and such. I get where she's coming from saying that one of their targets "was in the right" to try to catch them. But there's some context she's not talking about at all.
These were Italian anarchists, so they were not white and they were part of an already marginalized political group. Basically all of Europe and the US was trying to wipe out anarchists at the time. Meanwhile, the sitting president at the time showed the first movie in the White House. That movie was KKK propaganda, in which he was favorably quoted. The US was pretty solidly white supremacist in the 1920's.
Like... A major hidden whole premise of the game "Bioshock: Infinite" is that if you went back to the US in the 1920's, and you had magic powers, you would absolutely use them to kill as many cops as possible and try to destroy society. There's a lot of other stuff in there, I don't want to get distracted, but "fuck those racists," specifically referring to the US in the 1920's, was a major part of a major game.
Those Italian anarchists were also stone cutters. They carved grave stones. But the dust from that can kill you, much like black lung for coal miners. So they were dying from unsafe working conditions, regularly raising money to support dying coworkers and then carving gravestones for those same coworkers.
Now, I personally think insurrectionary anarchism is a dead end. I disagree with it as a strategy. We've seen it fail, and it failed there. But of course it makes sense that they wanted to blow up the government.
...And that's the correct way to structure that. When you say, "of course they were in the right" you're making a very clear political statement. You could easily say, "the cops in Vichy France had every right to hunt down the French Resistance." You would technically be correct, I guess. But it would really say something about your politics if you justified the actions of Nazi collaborators over those fighting against the Nazis.
And you may say, "oh, but the Nazis didn't have justification for anything. They invaded a sovereign nation, so their government wasn't legitimate anyway."
To which I would reply, "have you considered a history book about the US?"
@NFL@darktundra.xyzReady for NFL Week 11? We have sleepers, QB questions, trends to watch and more https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46944804/2025-nfl-week-11-predictions-fantasy-sleepers-upsets-bets-stats-quarterbacks
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChinese silicon wafer manufacturers like Eswin have rapidly gained market share by undercutting global leaders, such as Japan's Shin-Etsu Chemical, on price (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzThe NFL's game of musical chairs, plus MLB's best playoff series thus far https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6692783/2025/10/06/buccaneers-seahawks-bills-patriots-the-pulse/
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzThoughtful write-up from @…, including this excellent turn of phrase:
"People don’t want this for Framework, and they’re cautious to distance themselves because they’ve seen other projects claim to be a “big tent”, only for the tent to catch on fire, melt, and shrink under everyone’s feet, because nobody used a fire extinguisher when it was early enough to do so."
#Framework #Omarchy #DHH #tech #politics
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe EU expects to launch a formal bidding process for its AI gigafactories in early 2026 and close it in summer 2026, as the bloc seeks to catch up with the US (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/eu-to-open-…
