@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-06-24 10:00:30
"‘Second decade of Paris Agreement will focus on implementation, not negotiation,’ say climate leaders"
#ParisAgreement #Climate #ClimateChange
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-06-24 10:00:30
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-06-23 13:23:43
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-25 01:05:51
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-06-23 04:08:08
Plastic Poisons Primates: One Focus of 2026 American Society of Primatologists Conference https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2026/6/17/plastic-poisons-primates-one-focus-of-2026-american-s…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-24 14:54:00
There’s still a general election people
—a really important one.
Get your game faces on,
focus on commonalities and immediate priorities,
and quit bitching at each other.
We can do this unless we rip each other apart for spite.
https://bsky.app/profile/kendylhanks.b
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-06-22 18:05:31
FACT FOCUS: Netanyahu's claims about Iran's nuclear program run counter to public evidence (Jon Gambrell/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-nuclear-program-israel-fact-focus-ad9678f602ffcfcdd174cf3d8d653ca5
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p65#a260622p65
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-06-23 12:27:19
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-07-24 09:48:24
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-07-23 21:49:01
Are you a screen reader user who relies on F6 navigation? Maybe you have an opinion on navigating landmarks on web pages via a proposed `focuslandmark`?
https://github.com/openui/open-ui/issues/1472#issuecomment-5062013011
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-25 00:52:14
Trump berated Senate Republicans face to face on Wednesday
for allowing a vote to block his war in Iran,
further escalating a feud that has diverted GOP efforts to focus on election-year affordability issues
and brought much of the chamber’s business to a halt.
Invited by Florida Sen. Rick Scott to speak at a GOP luncheon in the Capitol,
Trump had signaled ahead of time that he would use the closed-door meeting to push senators to pass his proof-of-citizenship v…
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-07-23 11:09:26
If you're a journalist reporting on AI, please, please, please focus on liability, a topic that is absolutely critical and deafening by its absence in so much of our conversation on AI.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-07-20 11:20:40
Colston Loveland: Focus on Bears-Packers rivalry similar to Michigan-Ohio State https://www.nfl.com/news/colston-loveland-focus-on-bears-packers-rivalry-similar-to-michigan-ohio-state
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-07-22 21:19:36
More papers appearing the #SunriseIII – Early Science collection: https://iopscience.iop.org/collections/apjl-260303-220_Focus-on-Sunrise-III -> Queen’s researchers help capture “extraordinary” new view of the Sun: https://www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/featured-research/sunrise-mission-unlocks-mysteries-sun.html
@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…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-05-24 15:42:26
Content warning: Minor spoilers for "A Psalm for the Wild-Built"
Just finished "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" by Becky Chambers. Overall it's good but I also have some Thoughts.
First, it was very pleasant to finally read some non-trite utopian solarpunk after having read stuff like Octavia Butler recently. Both hope and despair can be poisonous on their own IMO, so getting some balance in is nice. It's definitely a very valuable thing to be able to lay out an actually desirable and in many ways imaginable future given our grim present. Chambers is no LeGuin though. I'll probably be reading more of her work and maybe she fleshes out these ideas elsewhere, but at least in this book there is no focus on either how the transition to a better society could happen nor on how the better society holds up in the face of adverse events and inclinations. Compare LeGuin's "The Dispossessed" or N. K. Jemisin's short story "The Ones Who Stay and Fight" and it feels like there's something important missing from Chambers' portrait of a future society. Of course, maybe the point is to make a cozy book, in which case fine, there's certainly a place for such things, and I can look for deeper inspiration elsewhere.
The second big thought I had was that Chambers' worldview seems not well-informed by certain indigenous perspectives, and this creates some contradictions. For example, (minor spoilers) when Dex enters the wilderness there's a whole bit about understanding humankind's place in nature and how human settlements are what we're used to but they're only a brief interruption of the vast untouched wilderness. Along the same lines, much of the world is intentionally left untouched by humans as a way to keep it pristine and natural. Later however, a character makes the point that humans *are* animals. The indigenous perspective that I appreciate would agree with that, and would further question the value in distinguishing between human influence on ecosystems and influences that others have. More sharply, one might observe that there's a bigger difference between how different kinds of humans relate to and influence their environments than between how less-disruptive humans and various animals do the same: the strip-mine-operator vs. migrant tribesperson impact difference is probably much greater than the migrant tribesperson vs. beaver gap, for example. Rather than talking about limiting human disruption, then, as if all human-environment interactions are disruptive and must be minimized, we could/should be talking about how to create human societies that have beneficial relationships with their environments and acknowledging that we actually have many positive examples of that, both historical and contemporary. Chambers' utopia is a "humans dominate nature but restrain themselves so that their disruptions are minimal and thus nature can thrive" vision, but what I'd even more like to see would be a "humans study old ways and make new ones so that they can interact positively with ecosystems again" vision, including some of "here are the places that sometimes breaks down but also the patterns and institutions that ensure repair of those breakdowns and thus long-term sustainability."
Final big thought: Chambers' utopia is too homogenous for my tastes. Of course it's hard enough and valuable work dreaming up and sharing any utopia and Chambers' transcends triteness in a number of ways, so this criticism is a bit rude. But the single shared religion, lack of mention of conflicts around shared decisions, especially historical society-defining ones, and nagging questions like "what about the people indigenous to the now-uninhabited lands?" and "what about the indigenous peoples who weren't part of the factory-building societies?" leave me wishing for more nuance in this direction.
All in all: a good book, and I'm criticizing out of a place of appreciation, not scorn. I've got there sequel out from the library as well and will probably detour to a few other books but get to it pretty soon.
Sadly I don't remember who, but I got this one because of a recommendation on here, so thanks if you're someone who recommended it!
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-05-24 13:59:01
Why isn't it possible to simply agree that we must do 2 things to mitigate #climate change: 1) Eliminate nearly all anthropogenic GHG emissions and 2) Increase the rate of CO2 sequestration?
And then we can focus on the merits/demerits of actions in both spaces? We are not facing exclusive options here, after all. (1/2)
Could nature itself hold the solution to climate change?
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-05-24 13:59:01
Why isn't it possible to simply agree that we must do 2 things to mitigate #climate change: 1) Eliminate nearly all anthropogenic GHG emissions and 2) Increase the rate of CO2 sequestration?
And then we can focus on the merits/demerits of actions in both spaces? We are not facing exclusive options here, after all. (1/2)
Could nature itself hold the solution to climate change?
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2026-06-24 06:10:49
RE: https://aus.social/@drrimmer/116798338724115820
2/…
I'm not without empathy for musicians.
My brother, a guitarist since the 1970s, is a professional musician.
KeyComp, the focus of this recent article, does not generate music from A…
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-24 18:00:32
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalMixtape
- Find your focus with calming classical music
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Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002lq0s
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-24 15:49:23
Trump ratcheted up tensions with Senate Republicans on Wednesday,
abruptly canceling plans to sign a bipartisan measure that could help spur more home construction.
Republicans had been hoping to use the housing bill as a selling point to voters ahead of critical November midterm elections.
But the president declared on social media that he now wants Congress to first pass a bill that would mandate stricter rules for voter identification in federal elections.
“Today’s H…
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-06-21 16:29:49
#ProgrammingLanguages, targets, and platforms
I started as a #Java developer, but for some time now, I have broadened my horizons. Recently, I thought about how early languages were dedicated to a single target and platform, and now they are broadening their focus. In this post, I want to …
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-06-23 19:54:43
NFL Informs QB Brendan Sorsby It Will Not Hold A Supplemental Draft This Year https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-informs-qb-brendan-sorsby-will-not-hold-supplemental-draft-year
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org2026-06-24 14:49:06
"The TSA has an important job to do. Their actions at airports have been very poor. This creates lots of loss to travelers – waste. And their actions show a disrespect for people and the risks that exist. The #security theater is not what we need. We need evidence based security measure while maintaining a focus on the value stream of people flying."
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2026-05-22 21:42:44
“The project does not involve field research, laboratory experiments, or resource-intensive physical processes. The project-related activities are primarily computer-based and organizational in nature, and focus on the analysis and testing of data-driven infrastructures. Ecological sustainability aspects are therefore only marginally relevant.”
Well, the environmental impact of academic IT projects is indeed marginal compared to commercial operations, but…
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@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2026-05-22 21:42:44
“The project does not involve field research, laboratory experiments, or resource-intensive physical processes. The project-related activities are primarily computer-based and organizational in nature, and focus on the analysis and testing of data-driven infrastructures. Ecological sustainability aspects are therefore only marginally relevant.”
Well, the environmental impact of academic IT projects is indeed marginal compared to commercial operations, but…
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@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2026-05-22 21:42:44
“The project does not involve field research, laboratory experiments, or resource-intensive physical processes. The project-related activities are primarily computer-based and organizational in nature, and focus on the analysis and testing of data-driven infrastructures. Ecological sustainability aspects are therefore only marginally relevant.”
Well, the environmental impact of academic IT projects is indeed marginal compared to commercial operations, but…
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@hex@kolektiva.social2026-07-22 11:37:14
Popular Front recently did a piece on the current conflicts in Ethiopia:
https://popularfront.substack.com/p/everything-you-didnt-know-about-the
It's a good primer for anyone who's unfamiliar, but is definitely lacking if you know any Ethiopian folks or pay attention to much news out of the Horn of Africa.
The interplay between authoritarian liberal nationalism, as represented by Abiy Ahmed and his government, and tribal federalism , represented by various tribal factions, reads to me very similarly to the liberalization of Europe (enclosure of the commons, a push to sacrifice ethnic identities for nationalist ones, etc). Like the liberalization of, say, France, it's a lot more complicated than "old thing bad, new thing good."
Liberalism was violent and authoritarian. It often sacrificed leftists. Liberalism's focus on borders and national identity led directly to pogroms and Nazism. Similarly, liberalization of Ethiopia has led to genocide and ethnic cleansing.
People think of "the terror" in France as a leftist thing, but it wasn't. It was a Liberal thing, centrist extremism, carried out against right and left.
I understand that tribal federalism is also not a good system, but I don't have a ton of depth so I'm not going to try to explain it. During the European Liberal revolutionary period of 1848, ethnic minorities would often side with some monarch or emperor against liberalism out of fear of liberal nationalism. It makes sense to support a system that's bad if your other option is a nationalism that erases your identity.
But even in Europe at that time, anarchism offered an alternative but that alternative often also drew from simply a different branch of liberalism that also suppressed culture and identity. Today the world is different. Democratic Confederalism offers a solution to *exactly* this problem, tested for more than a decade in Syria and developing now in Myanmar.
But the cross pollination between Syria and Myanmar in terms of fighters really made the ideological cross pollination possible. I don't think anything like that is happening now in Ethiopia.
Eurocentrism makes it easy to ignore what's happening now, but Addis Ababa is the seat of the African Union Commission. Ethiopia is a major military power in the region, so these developments carry a lot of weight. Especially as the US collapses and the world becomes more multipolar, the development of regional powers like Ethiopia will have a big impact on how that part of the continent develops.
If any folks are more familiar with Ethiopia than I am (which shouldn't be hard since I'm basically not), please correct me or add context if anything is missing or wrong.
@gscherer2@social.linux.pizza2026-05-22 20:41:20
Juvenile coyote exploring the underbrush. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. May, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #laarboretum #coyote #animal
@paulusm@scholar.social2026-06-25 10:23:25
"across six days of unprecedented heat, only 40% linked the story to climate change, fewer than one in five explored health impacts in depth, and just four mentioned fossil fuels."
During the hottest May day on record, what did UK TV and radio news focus on?
https://climatenewstracker.org/during-the-hottest-may-day-on-record-what-did-uk-tv-and-radio-news-focus-on/
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-06-22 01:42:47
Random thought: how large a reflector/concentrator array would you need to focus moonlight to the point you could get a moonburn standing too long at the focal point?
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-05-21 19:41:06
"Organizations can set up alerts for “concerning behavior,” like exfiltrating datasets, and search the session logs of individual users. They also allow organizations to see which users have viewed specific sets of information."
https://www.wired.com/story/palant…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-05-23 11:59:31
'It's about building trust': QB Malik Willis focus... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48818608/why-miami-dolphins-sold-malik-willis-quarterback-green-bay-packers-free-agency
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2026-06-21 17:29:28
#silentSunday #bloomscrolling
Milkweed flower June 2026
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-23 10:26:41
Mark Zuckerberg launches a media campaign positioning the company's AI development as an optimistic, pro-human alternative to its competitors' "dystopian" ideas (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/23/mark-zuckerberg-ai-optimism
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe2026-06-29 12:42:02
@arXiv_physicsmedph_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-06-25 07:51:53
On the link between optoacoustic imaging and selective photothermolysis
Sergio Contador, Rodrigo Rojo, Alvaro Jimenez, Juan Aguirre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.25913 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.25913 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.25913
arXiv:2606.25913v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Selective photothermolysis (SP) is widely used in clinical and cosmetic dermatology to remove unwanted skin structures. Careful laser parameter selection results in safe and effective target removal. Nevertheless, parameter selection relies on a trial-and-error process based on visual inspection of the immediate skin response. This process is highly dependent on the practitioner experience and can be time-consuming.
SP and optoacoustic imaging (OI) share many physical principles. However, the possibility of using OI to improve laser parameter selection in SP has not been studied before. Here, we explore the relationship between OI and SP theoretically and through clinical in-human trials with a focus on tattoo removal. Our results demonstrate a strong correlation between OI signals acquired before and after treatment with the immediate clinical endpoint, suggesting that OI could be used as a tool for optimal parameter selection and reduced treatment duration in tattoo removal and other SP treatments.
toXiv_bot_toot
@wraithe@mastodon.social2026-06-21 21:57:52
Ok, I was thinking I didn’t have anything for this, but then I was reminded by a couple of posts that folks have made that my focus on maintaining the house climate is extremely “Dad” energy 😂, making sure windows are closed or that we start cooling early in the day so we have thermal inertia.
https://
@drgeraint@glasgow.social2026-07-19 00:14:28
He's got it wrong on drilling for oil and gas, but it looks like the former minister for ID cards has got it right on scrapping Starmer's digital ID plans.
«Now, by dropping the plans entirely Burnham's spokesperson said, the "time and resource that was going to be spent on a national ID scheme will go instead to where it's most needed, such as helping with the cost of living".»
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2026-06-23 00:29:22
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@matthiasott@mastodon.social2026-05-20 22:41:05
✍️ New post: Ad Infinitum
Google announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years at #GoogleIO. But where are the ads…? 🤔
https://matthiasott.com/notes/ad-infinitum
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-05-21 19:01:41
Editorial: Crossing sensory boundaries: multisensory perception through the lens of audition https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1848850/full "revealing a network of connections that link sensory quali…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-24 05:27:15
A three-star navy rear-admiral fired by Pete Hegseth last year in the defense secretary’s purge of senior US military officials has won the Democratic primary in a closely watched congressional race.
Nancy Lacore secured the party’s nomination for the US House of Representatives in South Carolina’s first congressional district on Tuesday after defeating Mac Deford, a US Coast Guard veteran, in a runoff.
Lacore’s focus will now turn to November, when she will lead an ambitious Democ…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-22 12:25:39
Reach reports H1 revenue down 9% YoY to £232.9M, pre-tax profit down 5% to £40.3M, and says it will move "away from volume" to focus on original content (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/reach-mo…
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-05-20 18:11:16
I sooo often don't have photos of the summit cross when I go to the #mountains . Don't ask me why. Maybe because I usually have people in the photo?
It was the same that day: I almost left without that photo when I stepped over the flowers and thought that they might be a cool foreground for the summit. And by focusing on the flowers and blurring the people, I also don't hav…
@neverpanic@chaos.social2026-05-21 11:16:53
Are you in the US and want to work on Smartcards? My employer has a position available: https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/jobs/job/Senior-Software-Engineer-in-Crypto--Smart-Cards-_R-056859
(It says Raleigh, but…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-06-24 18:05:33
49ers QB Mac Jones content with current role as backup: 'My feet are in San Francisco' https://www.nfl.com/news/49ers-qb-mac-jones-content-with-current-role-as-backup-my-feet-are-in-san-francisco
@shriramk@mastodon.social2026-05-10 16:52:46
This would have taken me a day to debug and fix (not to figure out, that part I was clearly fine with), and took 2 minutes for Claude Code while I got to watch an IPL game. Not bad at all for a next-token-prediction-machine! /s
@Richard@worklifepsych.social2026-07-22 08:01:31
Morning!
Just three working days left before I head off for five weeks of summer holidays in Japan/Mexico.
As always, there's nothing like an impending holiday deadline to ramp up my focus and productivity! Lots of writing and podcast admin in my immediate future. Plus I'm running an online masterclass at midday.
But first, coffee ☕️
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2026-06-21 05:07:39
Why thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are deserting the front lines | Focus on Europe - DW News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Y-CYF6pOs
@jkohlmann@mastodon.social2026-06-19 14:46:44
The little Voigtländer lenses on Fujifilm X mount have been so fun to work with. Still need to practice with the 28mm f/2.8 though, as sometimes I’m missing focus with it.
@m0les@aus.social2026-05-18 06:57:27
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social2026-05-18 13:50:42
Software is inert without a human user, even though modern-day "agentic" apps are doing their best to squeeze human agency out of the loop. The focus on the tech and not how it is used has intensified an old phenomenon: interpassivity.
The vision tech has been pushing (software that "uses itself") has created a synthetic replacement for human agency. It is harder and harder to care, and that is by design.
@shaun@mastodon.xyz2026-06-21 04:06:24
Went to #Brooklyn today. Well, okay, Brooklyn Avenue in the Mound. But my mind briefly wandered to #BayRidge while I was knocking doors for #JustinPearson 💪🏻
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-05-21 21:34:24
This is both appalling and utterly unsurprising.
Given how Google search results have been an ad-driven dark pattern for years, and the mostly-wrong stolen results of its LLM answers, my fear is people have been inured to it.
It already bends to governments, so expect more state disinformation.
https://matthiasott.…
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2026-07-20 18:56:46
In my cat Strider's idiolect, a voiced uvular trill means "I REALLY want $thing" where $thing is probably (but not always) food.
A simple 'ÆW!' means "gimme that," but when followed by ʀʀʀʀʀʀʀʀʀʀ it indicates particular urgency and focus toward the item (generally sausage) in question.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-22 19:15:45
How major publishers in the UK are pivoting away from quantity of content towards quality as Google AI changes lead to falling traffic referrals (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/hearst-starts-w…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-05-18 13:50:39
Trump's Push to Punish GOP Dissenters Creates Risks for Party (Jonathan Tamari/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-05-18/donald-trump-s-retribution-campaign-turns-focus-to-kentucky-s-rep-thomas-massie
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p38#a260518p38
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-05-12 22:14:38
Big Blue Kickoff Live 5/12 | Schedule Coming into Focus https://www.giants.com/video/big-blue-kickoff-live-5-12-schedule-coming-into-focus
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-18 06:05:53
Microsoft says it's retiring Teams' Together Mode, debuted in 2020, and plans to simplify meeting layouts and focus on video quality, stability, and performance (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/932215/microsoft-teams-together-mode
@neverpanic@chaos.social2026-07-21 20:22:57
My team is looking for a US-based person to work on making #PQC #SmartCards work with open source software. Says Raleigh, but remote will be considered when nobody can be found locally, which is likely:
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-05-16 19:07:40
Raiders' Productive Offseason Does Not Shift Focus from 1 Group https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-productive-offseason-shift-focus-from-group
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-07-01 18:40:13
Meta puts rate limits on its smart glasses' Conversation Focus feature https://www.engadget.com/2205660/meta-rate-limits-smart-glasses-conversation-focus-feature/ requiring a $20-a-month Meta One Premium plan for users who use it more than…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-05-16 22:05:35
A Planetary-Scale Hydraulic Jump Driving #Venus' Cloud Front: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026JE009672 -> Venus’ atmosphere jumps and waves: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00453.html - vast atmospheric waves on Venus are caused by largest known “hydraulic jump” -> A Gigantic Atmospheric Anomaly Keeps Showing Up on Venus. Astronomers Finally Know Why: https://gizmodo.com/a-gigantic-atmospheric-anomaly-keeps-showing-up-on-venus-astronomers-finally-know-why-2000757051 - the answer is a gigantic “hydraulic jump,” and researchers believe similar phenomena may occur on planets like Mars.
@Kingu@sakurajima.moe2026-06-19 23:03:42
Let's focus only on the important news!
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-05-18 03:40:32
A group of digital media veterans led by former Pitchfork and Spin EIC Puja Patel launch Totei, a weekly online magazine dedicated to "craft and craftsmanship" (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/17/2026/new-arts…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-20 10:01:28
I'm going to deviate a bit from my normal audience and focus in on #tech (especially #Security folks). I came across the practice from public health and emergency management and brought it into work. They seemed to have never heard of it. I'm curious how common my experience is. (Please boost for visibility)
Have you ever used table top exercises in your work (such as, to verify a runbook would work as expected)?
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-22 21:48:02
As of Friday, CBS News will no longer provide a syndicated radio news service
-- after almost a century on the air.
My grandfather built the CBS News Radio network and then the CBS Television networks.
The enterprise blossomed into the empire that CBS would become.
News had always been a primary focus of the Tiffany Network, as embodied by the work of Edward R Murrow, Walter Cronkite and programs like 60 Minutes.
@gscherer2@social.linux.pizza2026-06-20 13:59:34
Young Coyote in the underbrush. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. May, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #laarboretum #coyote #animal
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-05-19 19:20:05
One of the views of a recent hike. After quite a while I reached the ridge and finally got the south bound views.
I took some photos while having a little rest and then went on to the summit ...
That day I really noticed how great the rests work together with making photos. And also one of the things that I can hardly do when hiking in a group.
some more of the story:
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-07-09 22:47:29
Ooooh…
Open-UI: #1472 [focuslandmark] No declarative way to move keyboard focus between major page regions
https://github.com/openui/open-ui/issues/1472
Focus Landmark: declarative landmark focus navigation for web apps (explainer):
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-05-14 19:40:59
Republicans Want Trump to Focus on Voters' Economic Concerns (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/republicans-want-trump-to-focus-on-voters-economic-concerns-56368cff?st=XjYuFo
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p94#a260514p94
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-07-19 16:55:05
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-20 11:20:35
Chinese open models like Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 Max shift the industry's focus back to marginal costs and cost of goods sold, as inference costs scale with revenue (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/whos-afraid-of-chinese-models/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-23 05:13:13
It’s Primary Eve in New York.
On the ballot on Tuesday?
A series of raucous Democratic contests with the potential to radically reshape New York City’s congressional delegation and push it further to the left.
Plus, a Democratic race to challenge Representative Mike Lawler,
a vulnerable Republican incumbent who holds a Hudson Valley-area seat that Democrats are desperate to flip.
But here we will focus largely on the New York City primaries,
several of wh…
@drgeraint@glasgow.social2026-05-18 21:13:19
"The focus on MRPs throughout the 2026 Holyrood campaign led to fewer polls, cost more money, and produced erratic claims ... they remain a new and fallible source of information."
https://www.electionanalysis.uk/scottish-e…
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-04-27 13:33:32
Last week I updated my post about where to put focus when opening dialogs with extra details about how the role may be exposed to users:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/06/where-to-put-focus-when-opening-a-modal-dialog.html
Then added anot…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-06-21 16:56:07
‘Polarizing’ Cowboys QB Dak Prescott Receives Rare Praise From NFL Insider https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-rare-praise-nfl-insider/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-13 10:46:00
Google says Chromebooks will get support through their "existing date commitment", and "many" models are "eligible to transition" to the Googlebook experience (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/05/12/goog
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-06-10 22:55:06
Browns' Deshaun Watson 'trying to play a full season' as 'main focus' is on being QB1 https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-deshaun-watson-trying-to-play-a-full-season-as-main-focus-is-on-being-qb1
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-05-20 15:01:12
They're Really Going For It -- Trump's plan to overturn the midterm elections comes into focus. (Brian Beutler/Off Message)
https://www.offmessage.net/p/theyre-really-going-for-it
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p36#a260520p36
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-05-18 19:03:24
One more photo from the trail that I posted about recently. The blooming heather always make sme smile. Especially when there aren't too many flowers around.
In such spost I'm always traying a bit what looks more interesting: a great vista, a plain trail shot, the heather in the foreground or a blurred foreground.
The advantage is: I always have little rests along the way :)
#hiking
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-20 13:25:57
Internal memo: Intuit is laying off about 17% of its workforce, or about 3,000 employees worldwide, to streamline operations and focus on its key bets (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/intuit-cut-17-…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-05-20 19:30:48
Stephen Colbert's demise, by the numbers (Joe Concha/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/4575461/stephen-colbert-demise-by-the-numbers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p78#a260520p78
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-07-21 20:45:32
Raiders newest starting WR named a late-round fantasy sleeper for 2026 https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/07/21/raiders-wr-jalen-nailor-late-round-fantasy-sleeper-nfl-2026/9099…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-05-08 01:14:36
Cards QB Beck: Arm is 'strongest it's ever been' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48707485/carson-beck-ready-move-arm-injury-focus-cardinals
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-20 18:51:25
The Trump administration has finalized immigration rules drastically shortening several forms of visas for foreign visitors and residents in the U.S.,
with particular emphasis on students and the press.
The rule changes, announced last week by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),
end the “duration of status” system, which had allowed foreign visitors on certain visas to remain in the country, without the need for repeated application renewals, if they continued to mee…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-20 22:50:29
Hatoum now works as a Senior Supervising Attorney for the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP),
which challenges policy and practices that violate American citizens’ civil rights,
particularly in areas like voting or immigration.
The organization is organized into different programs, each with its own focus,
and Hatoum’s team specifically advocates for the humane treatment of people living and traveling through the Texas borderlands.
Often, his clients are arrest…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026-05-07 10:52:39
Early Focus for Raiders' Fernando Mendoza's Development https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-early-focus-fernando-mendoza-development
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-18 22:10:48
Internal memo: Meta is reassigning 7,000 workers to four new units focused on building AI tools, two days before it is set to lay off 10% of its workforce (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/technology/meta-reassigns-7000-employees-…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-05-20 12:11:40
AFC offseason grades : Raiders build well around Fernando Mendoza, Jaguars make puzzling moves
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/afc-offseason-grades-2026-free-agency-nfl-draft/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-20 22:17:22
A new report by the national research organization Public Agenda found that many young men are skeptical of higher ed’s value and are more likely than their female counterparts to believe colleges are better designed for women.
The report, called “Listening to Young Men,” examines the attitudes of American men on higher ed and other topics. Its findings are based on a survey of 3,559 American adults aged 18 or older fielded in November. Public Agenda also conducted three online focus gr…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-18 14:30:47
Seattle-based Gradial, which makes AI agents that automate enterprise marketing workflows, raised a $65M Series C led by Insight Partners at a $675M valuation (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/18/gradial-ai-agents-marketing
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-12 20:45:56
Meta schedules its annual Connect event for September 23-24 and says the event will focus on "the latest in VR, wearables, metaverse, and AI" (Ben Lang/Road to VR)
https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-connect-2026-date-announcement/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-19 17:03:30
Maine Secretary of State
Shenna Bellows announces her withdrawal from U.S. Senate race
Bellows stated that due to
"Donald Trump's attacks on our democracy" accelerating,
she felt the best way she could serve the country was to focus on her current role
#maine #democratic
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-18 21:25:48
Snap plans to spin off an internal generative AI video team into Dotmo, a new company focused on AI models for interactive gaming experiences, citing high costs (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/18/snap-spins-off-ai-vi…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-13 17:44:55
Ukrainians, already drone innovators, are turning their focus to psychological operations aimed at undercutting Russian support for the war.
Maria Berlinska has formed a nonprofit organization,
Victory Neurones,
and last month gathered specialists in cognitive influence,
a term that includes everything from strategic communications to cyberwarfare.
“Wars begin and end not in the trenches,
but in people’s heads,”
she told the gathering.
“You ar…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-18 10:10:36
Dream, co-founded by ex-NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio with a focus on protecting critical infrastructure, raised $260M at a $3B valuation, up from $1B in 2025 (Galit Altstein/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-19 05:27:38
On the one hand, Trump spoke in the language of threats, sanctions, and displays of power;
On the other, he tried to avoid an all-out war, one that could endanger the energy market, the elections, and America’s focus on China.
The result of this contradiction was the transfer of risk to allies
--Arab states felt that Washington wanted to use their territory to pressure Iran, without offering a clear guarantee that it would bear the heavy costs of defending them.
Th…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 14:36:05
Pramaana Labs, which uses the LEAN programming language to build a deterministic verification layer on top of LLMs, raised a $27M seed led by Khosla Ventures (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/pram
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-17 15:26:00
Trace Finance, which provides stablecoin settlement infrastructure for cross-border payments across Latin America, raised a $32M Series A led by CoinFund (Yohan Yunstaff/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/trace-finance-cross-border-stablec…
