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@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-02-12 14:49:34

Following federal cuts to history-focused organizations, the president of the Canadian Historical Association, Colin Coates, sent this letter to Marc Miller, the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture.
One thing might not be obvious: Coates's reference to Carney's recent Quebec City speech suggests Canadians' need for historical context right now. He doesn't agree with Carney's claims. In fact, most Canadian historians would dispute them.

Letter: Dear Minister Miller, I am writing to you in my capacity as president of the Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada. The members of our association have been distressed to see the recent news about cutbacks in a number of federal government units that are very important to all Canadians who are interested in the history of our country: Library and Archives Canada, the Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian War Museum, Parks Canada, and Statistics Canad…
Letter: While we cannot expect the federal government to address problems at the provincial level, in your role as Minister of Canadian Heritage, we hope that we can count on you to advocate on behalf of all Canadians to maintain and enhance the role of agencies that collect data and records and make them accessible to broad publics. We recognise that the country faces many current challenges, but we do not want short-sighted decisions to have long-lasting effects on the future study of the co…
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-02-12 03:58:01

House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday
over their role in the Trump administration’s brutal campaign to carry out mass deportations.
“These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country,
whether it’s in detention,
whether it’s in the streets
or even in the courts,”
says Illinois Congressmember Delia Ramirez,
who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department…

“De Facto Dictatorship”: Democrats Confront ICE, CBP Officials on Brutal Tactics
House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday over their role in the Trump administration’s brutal campaign to carry out mass deportations. “These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country, whether it’s in detention, whether it’s in the streets or even in the courts,” says Illinois Congressmember Delia Ramirez, who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republi…

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-10 18:06:32

I fully agree, no borders—prison abolition, and honestly this tracks because Snufkin spends the series tearing down private property signs.
#Anarchism #Anarchy #Moomins

Black-and-white illustration of Moomin characters Little My, Snufkin, and Moomin standing together against a black background. Moomin is in the center, tall and round, holding a raised stick or staff, with Little My on the right holding a tool and smiling mischievously, and Snufkin on the left wearing his hat and holding another tool. Above them is a curved banner reading NO CAMPS NO CAGES, with leaves, flowers, and small decorative elements around the figures. To the left of the group is the t…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-13 18:11:13

Agent's Take: Browns are stuck with Deshaun Watson for another year and will pay dearly for his departure

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Agent's Take: Browns are stuck with Deshaun Watson for another year and will pay dearly for his departure
The Browns paid a heavy price to acquire Watson, and there's plenty more to come before they can turn the page

@mia@hcommons.social
2026-02-07 11:45:46

I'm with the auditors on this one! Companies deploying AI need more expert human auditing, not less, at least until fundamental flaws in 'AI' are addressed and it's reliably accurate
'KPMG gets money off its own audit by arguing AI makes accounting cheaper'

Screenshot with the text: KPMG gets money off its own audit by arguing Al makes accounting cheaper Financial Times UK STEPHEN FOLEY — NEW YORK 7 Feb 2026 KPMG has negotiated lower fees from its own accountant by arguing that AI will make it cheaper to do the work, according to people familiar with the matter. The Big Four firm told its auditor, Grant Thornton UK, it should pass on cost savings from the rollout of Al and threatened to find a new accountant if it did not agree to cut fees,…
Screenshot with the text: Figures from Ideagen Audit Analytics, which tracks public company disclosures, have shown audit fees continuing to climb as accounting firms ploughed money into Al investments in recent years. Its European survey found average audit fees rose in every country bar one in the previous year. KPMG's behind-the-scenes argument that new tech could justify a fee cut for its own audit could embolden companies to press their accountants for similar reductions. Grant Thornt…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2026-02-10 03:16:18

And speaking of @… , send an email to their president robin.sparkman@propublica.org with text similar to the following:
Dear Robin Sparkman,
I am writing to you in solidarity with the ProPublica Guild. It is past time that you agree to a fair contract, complete with the protections these workers need to continue producing award-winning journalism…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-01-01 22:10:43

Brookfield is launching a cloud company called Radiant and a new $10B AI fund, and plans to acquire up to $100B in land, data centers, and power assets for AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/br

Brookfield to Start Cloud Business to Lower Cost of AI
Private-equity firm Brookfield is starting its own cloud business, going up against tech giants like Amazon by arguing it can bring down the costs of developing AI. The firm, which has long invested in infrastructure and energy, is becoming the first major investment firm to try to lease chips ...

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-30 20:59:31

🔥Ensuring a Postmark on the Date of Delivery:
To assure a postmark is applied on the same day a document is delivered to the USPS,
individuals must utilize specific retail services.
The final rule outlines the following methods:
Request a Manual Postmark: Customers may present a mail piece at a retail counter and request a "manual (local) postmark". This postmark is applied at the time of acceptance, so the date aligns with the date the USPS took possession…

USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-11-22 19:50:50

Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
github…

quoted text: "Your approach of submitting very large relatively-low-effort PRs creates a very real risk of bringing the Pull-Request system to a halt, especially given that, in my personal experience, reviewing AI-written code is more taxing that reviewing human-written code." response: "I do not intend to submit any more PRs of this kind. This was a proof of concept and an attempt to push AI as far as it would go. I believe that it has succeeded brilliantly! Also, *I would not call this a l…
quoted text: "we have in fact known this for years and the difficulty is to find a way to do it that maintainers agree comes at a reasonable maintenance burden)." response: "I’m not a compiler developer by trade, although I’ve done all sorts of development over the years. I’m approaching this strictly as a user, perhaps a power user. I used to look at my needs and wants, and sulk because they were not addressed. Damn, I can’t debug OCaml on my Mac because there’s no DWARF info. Oh, wow…
quoted text: "I think that it is a case of different-to-the-point-of-being-incompatible software development processes (rather than a given process being fundamentally right or wrong), and I think that the uncertainty here is in part caused by our lack, on the upstream side, of a clear policy for what we expect regarding AI-assisted code contributions." response: "That is something I’ve been pondering myself. I tried approaching several projects this way, trying to take care of things that b…
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-31 06:36:48

The Trump administration has moved to acquire industrial buildings in at least eight states.
DHS bought two this month:
one in Maryland for $102 million
and another in Arizona for $70 million.

This month ICE officials toured this 920,000-square-foot warehouse in Kansas City, Missouri.
The city council passed a resolution to try to block new detention centers in the city. (Port KC)

One industrial building the federal government plans to overhaul into an immigrant d…

ICE buys warehouses for mass detention network, rattling locals
ICE officials have quietly begun notifying warehouse owners and local officials of their interest in specific properties, prompting efforts to block the projects.