@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_location: DBpedia entity-location network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between named entities from Wikipedia and particular notable locations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 225498 nodes and 293697 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialComcast plans to spin off its media and entertainment assets, including NBCUniversal and Sky, into a new publicly traded entity, set to close by mid-2027 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/comcast-split-nbcuniversal-cable-two-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHP signs a multi-year global agreement with Huawei to license certain standard essential Wi-Fi patents, a sign of adoption of Huawei's technology outside China (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/hp-partners-huawei-wifi-tech-us-entity-list…
@hex@kolektiva.socialDistinct legal existence:
This is a distinct legal entity, such as an LLC. Your "church" will need a governing body to run the legal entity it's formed under. However you decide to do this, it must be spelled out clearly in filing forms. There are a lot of ways to "govern" a community, and, since diversity allows evolution, I'm not going to describe any of them.
Basically, all you need is *some* legal incorporation. This is important for the legal aspect (if you are trying to subvert the legal framework within the legal framework). You will need this in order to own bank accounts and property collectively, and you may need this to remove or reduce the influence of the dominant system on your collective governance of finances and property.
If you, on the other hand, just have a communal squat that operates economically entirely in black markets then I don't know why you're reading this.
(Fun fact, which I'm skipping to because I don't want to forget it: As I understand it, The Church of the Subgenious skipped a lot of this by including "paying taxes" in their definition of their church. They pay their taxes every year, and the IRS rejects their payment, which proves they're a church. OK, back to what I was talking about...)
Edit: One thing I forgot about this. There must be *at least 3 /unrelated/ people* named on the legal documents. That is the minimum number to be a legal church.
@Schrank@phpc.social
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys' Main Training Camp Storyline Centers Around Unproven Entity https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-main-training-camp-storyline-centers-unproven-entity
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon and co-investors back an entity owning 49%, the largest stake, in the company behind the Trump family's planned crypto bank (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finan…
@avstockhausen@fedihum.orgBookmarked: TEI-NER Pipeline — Automatisches Entity-Linking für historische TEI-Editionen http://tei-llm.histomatiker.de/ #GND #LLM…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys' Main Training Camp Storyline Centers Around Unproven Entity https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-main-training-camp-storyline-centers-unproven-entity
@bici@mastodon.socialEvery Canadian entity that is using American based "Cloud" services needs to rethink their decisions. Same with hitching themselves to MS office etc.
@matzekult@chaos.socialEven if some names seem strange, the Federation is not the only entity to name their ships in #StarTrek. So let’s look at some ‘foreign’ ships for today’s #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
V…
@hex@kolektiva.socialOH! I forgot the whole "out of band" thing. Let me get into that.
When you put all this together you have a business owned by a church (or, in the Dutch case, an FFI) to interface with capitalism and then a community that's collectively controlled via the legal entity of a "church." (Again, I like the word "coven," but I'm trying to use the legal definition here.)
This gives you a community that exists partially outside of the dominant system. If this seems like a new idea, it is absolutely not. There are very insular religious communities all over. Many are really oppressive cults (go watch Wild Wild Country), others are insular religious communities (for which there is a lot of legitimate criticism, but I'm only talking about decipherability here) such as Haredim or Mennonites. In some ways Tribes match this also, with various tribal governments organizing things for members.
In all of these cases, there exists an element that is outside of the dominant system. This becomes somewhat "invisible." How well do you understand the inner workings of an Amish community? How much do you think a CEO cares or thinks about them?
There are many hidden worlds that only become revealed when they become a problem (such as when a cult leader tries to take over a county by spraying e. coli on a bunch of salad bars.) This can be good if you're trying to build a new society without attracting the attention, but insular communities can also permit abusive dynamics that could otherwise be identified by the larger society. So keep the risks in mind, and be active about preventing them. Hierarchy is dangerous, but hierarchy in hidden groups can be especially dangerous.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngQuestion for other EU-based online shop owners: How are you going to deal with the upcoming EU PPWR packaging legislation changes[1] and specifically requiring a third party legal person/entity in every single EU member state you want to ship to after August 12, potentially having to contract & pay another EU-wide one-stop service or up to 26 middlemen just so you are allowed to ship to all EU countries? What happened to the idea of a single market?
Some of the "cheaper" off…
@cdarwin@c.imWorld Liberty Trust Company received conditional approval this month from the US office of the comptroller of the currency (OCC) to start a bank.
An entity affiliated with Donald Trump and his family members owns about 38% of the company.
The agency is led by a political appointee of the US president.
Two fundamentals underpin the business model of the new crypto bank partly owned by the Trump family
The first distinctive feature of this bank
– and stablecoin ope…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotI've been dusting off my #ScottishIndependence canvassing app, to see how hard it would be to get it working if a new #IndyRef did actually happen.
It's suffered much less bit rot than I thought. It's mostly ready to go, there are still some issues to fix.
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialWhy do I think that restrictive covenants prohibiting competing grocery stores might be problematic for anyone but the entity trying to prevent competition?
Albertsons is infuriating Bay Area shoppers over vacant grocery stores
https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/albert
@paulwermer@sfba.socialWhy do I think that restrictive covenants prohibiting competing grocery stores might be problematic for anyone but the entity trying to prevent competition?
Albertsons is infuriating Bay Area shoppers over vacant grocery stores
https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/albert
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeEU folks: What are the tax etc. implications if I, as a non EU resident/citizen with no existing business connection to the EU, want to offer a paid training at a conference in Europe? Do I have to collect VAT or sales tax or something along those lines? Or if I'm not a European citizen/business or collecting less than X million EUR in the tax year am I tax-exempt?
Is this such a paperwork nightmare I shouldn't even attempt it unless an existing EU entity wants to handle all of…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_location: DBpedia entity-location network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between named entities from Wikipedia and particular notable locations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 225498 nodes and 293697 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://universeodon.com/@digyoursoul/117073990500421116
The only entity you can trust with your own data is you.
@trochee@dair-community.socialTrenchant analysis and awesome/enviable D&D campaign-level world building
> the corporation is a class of human-hostile immortal/undead (but thankfully not quite unkillable) entity which literally wants to turn the world into paperclips
https://kolektiva.social/@tiotasram/11
@benny@norden.socialGEO ist zu 80-90% einfach SEO. 🤷
Entitäten, Knowledge Graph, Retrieval, semantisches Schreiben – das gibt es seit Jahren. Ich arbeite seit 3 Jahren mit diesem Stack. Brand-SEO und semantische Texte zahlen direkt auf LLM-Sichtbarkeit ein.
Wer Entity-SEO beherrscht, hat GEO größtenteils erledigt. Neues Label für altes Handwerk.
#GEO
@groupnebula563@mastodon.socialentity who's the perfect bottom call that suboptimal
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFox Corp.'s Red Seat Ventures becomes the latest entity to partner with Amazon to integrate its programmatic ad inventory into Amazon's demand-side platform (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/fox-red-seat-vent…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeUnion County, Ohio, reportedly paid $1 million to the threat group Kairos, which claimed to have stolen over 2 terabytes of data
https://www.securityweek.com/county-government-reportedly-paid-1-million-to-cyber-extortion-group/
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The physics of memory: can JavaScript ECS?
https://www.dmurph.com/posts/2026/06/ecs_vs_oop_benchmark/ecs_vs_oop_benchmark.html
saved 2026-07-02
@cdarwin@c.imThe Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a regulatory agency whose leader was chosen by Donald Trump,
granted preliminary approval on Friday to World Liberty Financial’s application for a federal bank charter.
World Liberty Financial is a crypto venture launched in 2024 by the president’s two eldest sons,
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump,
and several partners.
The firm’s website states that WLF is 38% owned by “an entity affiliated with Donald J. Trump and …
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialSemi-subtoot: there's a certain kind of anti-genocide narrative that draws comparisons between the Gaza genocide and the genocide of Jews, queer, and disabled people during WW2, with an incredulous overtone, the subtext of which is: if the good nations invaded Germany to stop the Nazis' evil in WW2, it's hypocritical for this nations not to take action to protect Gazan civilians now. There are a couple of problems with this line of reasoning, but the most obvious from an anarchist perspective (which sees "good nation" for the oxymoron it is) is that it's ahistorical. The reasons for the various allies' entrance into WW2 are varied, but they weren't about good and evil, and in fact the full depth of the evils of the Holocaust *was not known* in allied countries until after the war. Nations never really do things to "fight evil" like some humans might; they always act out of a kind of (imperfect) self-interest. The motivations for many of the allies were simply "we don't want Germany to conquer and destroy us" (and the imperfection in that motive is amply evident in the appeasement that preceded the war). America was of course not swayed by that motive, and it was the Japanese that (thinking the issue would have to come to a head eventually and that a surprise attack was worth speeding it up) put America in a situation where it joined for similar reasons.
Why is this extra relevant right now? Because neither the US nor any European country is existentially threatened by Israel (or threatened at all in fact, quite the opposite they're all benefiting economically from the situation in Gaza). The lesson of history isn't "brave, good nations will stand up to fight against anyone who commits genocide or other major evils", it's "nations act in their narrow and twisted and often mistaken self-interest (the interest of the national entity, which is often counter to the interest of it's citizens), and they always mythologize their actions after the fact as having been a fight against evil, which sometimes by luck is partially true."
To double down on this point: in the European theater the U.S. war actions were pretty good overall, defeating an evil opponent through military force and being a fairly gracious victor to the civilian populations there. In contrast, in the Pacific theater the U.S. was one of two evil empires duking it out for global dominance at the expense of civilians on both sides. The Japanese empire was a vile regime and perpetrated horrors in China, Korea, and across southeast Asia. The U.S. was barely better, between Japanese internment camps at home, and mass targeting of civilians on Japan, both with the firebombing of Tokyo and especially the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
So if your model of how we stop genocide is "convince the good guys to invade (or exert political pressure) and save the day", your model is wrong. That's not what happened in WW2. I'm not confident I know the perfect solution, but I do think it involves a mass of people making increasingly disruptive protest so that the cost *to rich companies and thus politicians* of falling to intervene is too high to stomach. That's a large part of what succeeded in South Africa, for example. Thankfully, there is already a vibrant protest movement to end the genocide in Gaza, and even though they haven't been fully successful yet, I'm optimistic that as things naturally (and through hard work) fall apart for various fascists politically, that movement will be able to succeed.
#gaza #genocide
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI wonder how many people really follow Insta & YT “influencers” with enough attention to matter? I keep hearing that one entity or another has umpty-million “followers” & am astounded that so many people have so much time for such fluff. Then I look at my recent follows here — & on bsky where I explicitly discourage it — & they are all block-worthy.
I don’t use Insta at all & only go to YT for specific individual videos, so this may just be yet another way that I d…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the US has held off adding DeepSeek, CXMT, and 100 other flagged companies to its Entity List, last updated in October, the longest gap in 10 years (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-hol
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotI tried a different (and, it turns out, fractionally quicker, huzzah!) route home today and was rewarded with this fabulous entity - a lavatera? #bloomscrolling #florespondence
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_location: DBpedia entity-location network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between named entities from Wikipedia and particular notable locations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 225498 nodes and 293697 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Demis Hassabis pitched a new independent industry AI safety entity, modeled on the IAEA, to top Trump officials before stepping down as DeepMind CEO (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/deepminds-hass
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over his leaked tax returns
was filed for an “improper purpose,”
a judge said Monday in a scathing decision that referred one of his lawyers for discipline
and characterized the $10 billion complaint as an exercise in self-dealing.
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams accused Trump of having manipulated the court system
when he sued a federal agency under his control,
bypassing a requirement that partie…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTikTok's US entity says it is closing its Nashville office, which held some of its content moderation team; filing: TikTok laid off 250 employees at the office (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/tiktok-layoffs-nashvil…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_location: DBpedia entity-location network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between named entities from Wikipedia and particular notable locations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 225498 nodes and 293697 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Uber and Rapido discussed merging their India ride-hailing operations in May; talks collapsed after disagreements over the proposed deal's structure (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t
@arXiv_csPL_bot@mastoxiv.pageVirtualSet: Typed Ontology Worlds as an LLM Generation Target for Grounded Queries and Guarded Decisions
Qunhui Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18821 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18821 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18821
arXiv:2607.18821v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models increasingly read and act on enterprise data, but SQL gives a late error signal: hallucinated fields or relations can execute and return plausible wrong answers, while incorrect writes cannot be safely assessed after execution. We present VirtualSet, a live, receiver-typed ontology-world interface and generation target for LLMs. Instead of SQL, the model emits set expressions over entity-edge worlds. Generic Constraint Projection (GCP) checks expressions before execution, while future this preserves concrete receiver types through collection chains, turning invalid fields, edges, receivers, and actions into token-anchored type errors. Type-clean reads use a SQL fast path or bounded stream interpretation, with a parity oracle checking both paths over the exercised operator space. The same substrate supports guarded decisions: actions run first in a simulated world, and world-change events require external approval before actualization. On BIRD, we lift relational schemas into typed worlds and compare VirtualSet with direct SQL while holding the model, evidence, values, zero-shot setting, timeout, glossary, repair/voting, and grader constant where possible. On a frozen 1,072-question split, VirtualSet achieves 67.5% accuracy versus 63.5% for glossary-matched direct SQL with repair and voting ( 4.0 points; McNemar exact p = 0.00117) using deepseek-reasoner. Full-corpus analysis finds no engine mis-computation of a type-clean expression; remaining errors arise from model semantics or gold defects. In a 30-body guard corpus, the write chain intercepts 20/20 hallucinated action bodies with zero false positives. VirtualSet thus remains competitive on SQL's home benchmark while providing pre-execution semantics for guarded decisions.
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@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_location: DBpedia entity-location network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between named entities from Wikipedia and particular notable locations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 225498 nodes and 293697 edges.
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialFilings: Moonshot restructured its China-based entity from a limited liability company to a joint stock company in its first visible step toward a Hong Kong IPO (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9c0d4f0d-d2c6-4189-b4bb-200d17a4720f
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_location: DBpedia entity-location network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between named entities from Wikipedia and particular notable locations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 225498 nodes and 293697 edges.
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok's US entity says it is closing its Nashville office, which held some of its content moderation team; filing: TikTok laid off 250 employees at the office (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_location: DBpedia entity-location network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between named entities from Wikipedia and particular notable locations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 225498 nodes and 293697 edges.
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@aredridel@kolektiva.socialShoutout to one particular one that made up "Salem Community Bicycle Map" as a legal entity.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_location: DBpedia entity-location network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between named entities from Wikipedia and particular notable locations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 225498 nodes and 293697 edges.
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@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Hammajang Luck" by Makana Yamamoto. It's lovely in a lot of ways and was quite fun to read, even if there were some aspects I disliked. It's an #OwnVoices queer romance heist set in a dystopian future space station with megacorporations and brain implants and all that jazz. I actually liked the tech aspects of it (despite a few physics warts) and the romance was both sweet and dramatic; even though it failed the consent test I was just talking about, it had some reasons to do so (not that that makes a perfect excuse). The heist plot was good to my mind (but I haven't read a lot of the genre). The biggest thing I didn't like was the treatment of prison as a redemptive force, and the police as a semi-neutral entity with real principles, rather than what we know them to be in real life.
More and more these days in science fiction I'm especially looking at whether and how appeals to law or governments (especially the nice "league of worlds" that steps in to save characters from a corrupt local government) function, and to the degree they are mechanisms of real justice, In disappointed. To be fair, even Le Guin does this to some extent... In any case, this isn't a totally fair criticism because that's not really what this story is about, just something that bothers me whenever I see it.
Overall, the book was great.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksIf you're a fan of using Mosquito Dunks in buckets to control mosquitoes, please join me in leaving a comment for the patronizing jerks at Saginaw County Mosquito Control Commission, a taxpayer-funded entity. These organizations operate all over the U.S.A. and justify their large budgets (for planes, fogger trucks, etc.) by promoting the use of insecticides even when there is no public-health emergency. #MosquitoDunks #saginaw #saginawbay #michigan #mosquitoes #bti https://www.instagram.com/p/DL5Jm3xODBz/
@hex@kolektiva.socialIt's interesting to know about some of the historical strategies for preventing revolution. There were basically two strategies to protect the institution of monarchy.
Metternich believed that brutal repression was the only answer: censor the press, monitor communication, create a coalition of kings and persecute revolutionaries wherever they could be found. Giving even an inch, he believed, would open the door to revolution.
But there was another approach: concession. By giving a little bit - create a constitution (even if it's meaningless), allow people to vote (even if the people they vote for have no power), etc - could offer a release and prevent revolution. There are still monarchies in Europe. They're no longer absolute, but they still hold a lot of power (even if people *think* of them as being decorative). They held that power by giving up a little bit at a time to slow down progress.
The fact is, they were both right.
The US has kept their regressive oligarchy stable by oscillating between the two. We are in the brutal repression phase, where concessions are stripped away and radicals are suppressed. This phase breaks up the progress made and pushes back the clock. The next phase, if the US makes it that far, if the fascists are smart enough to let go, will be concession. They will give a few inches to keep everything from collapsing. They'll give just enough room to get people back to brunch.
While they're at brunch, the next phase will be planned.
This is not really conscious, but an emergent behavior of the two party system. It's just kind of how the dichotomy of liberalism and conservatism works. Government is a fundamentally oppressive entity. The question is really, how long will we let the pendulum swing? How small of a concession will we accept, or will we demand everything now?
