As part of the Trump administration’s continuing attack on left-leaning groups,
the US state department has listed several activists and organizations as
“front groups and fellow travelers” for Cuba,
including Hasan Piker and Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls.
In a 100-page report released on Monday, the state department denounces Cuba as the
“capital of 21st-century communism”,
accusing the Cuban government of carrying out a “campaign of subversion”…
OpenAI says it plans to let third-party groups conduct technical safety evaluations of its AI models during the training, evaluation, and deployment phases (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…
flickr_groups: OSN user groups (2007)
Bipartite networks of the affiliations between users and groups on several online social network sites, including Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Orkut, extracted in 2007.
This network has 499610 nodes and 8545307 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networ…
And more #NoctilucentClouds over Bochum Germany tonight: see https://www.facebook.com/groups/leuchtendenachtwolken/posts/4356493544573922 for more views! This time I placed the camera on a railing and exposed for 4 seconds at ISO 400.
Groups tied to the artificial intelligence industry are flooding money into the midterms in hopes of shaping future AI regulation.
Around the country, groups associated with AI and tech are trying to influence elections from Senate races to local offices,
even as Americans register increasing discomfort with the technology's ramifications for jobs, energy bills and society.
💥AI-focused super PACs have already spent $43.3 million on congressional races this cycle, accordi…
RE: https://hcommons.social/@uk_ie_dh/117308399810394891
The Humanities and Data Science (HaDS, or H&DS) group, formerly known as Turing's Humanities and Data Science group, is delighted to be among the new UK-IE DH groups!
Find out more, j…
I absolutely cannot wait to try this out! OZ1LAV Steffen has implemented binaural audio for CW in his QMX/QMX panadapter firmware for the M5Stack Tab5! He's put some interesting controls into place, not just a switch-it-on-and-off feature. (Of course this landed on a busy work week, so it might take me a few days...)
https://…
Algorithmicly generated answers,
which pull from various sources online,
have quickly become one of the biggest sources of misinformation on the entire internet.
Google’s AI models are frequently caught hallucinating easily disproven facts,
handing out dangerous “health” advice
— and gutting the media industry by discouraging users from visiting publications’ sites
Sigh, when you tell someone thirty days please be specific. Is it thirty calendar days or 30 business days? Big difference, and we are trying to find out from two different groups which one. My suspicion is that each group is using different days. We are assuming calendar days as the worst case scenario.
Ireland's DPC fines Google €403M over how it processed location data after complaints from European consumer rights groups, and gives it six months to comply (Olivia Fletcher/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
The first of the autumn colours
#SilentSunday
After missing three #sunsets in #Bochum, here is today's - with THREE #sunspot groups on the disk now: top left to bottom right they are 4492, 4493 (which grew rapidly; see https://nitter.net/Bermani22/status/2079227596554809584) and 4489. Watch the last two disappear in later timesteps in https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3mr45ljgazc2e (where 4493 is misidentifed - because of https://spaceweather.com/images2026/20jul26/hmi1898.gif - as 4491).
As this thread is slowing down (but feel free to keep the questions coming), this is also a great time to plug the public "Linguistics of Emojis" Zotero library, which we maintain. Over 300 scientific works on the linguistics of emojis - check it out! 🤓 #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay https://www.zotero.org/groups/2613859/linguistics_of_emojis/library
flickr_groups: OSN user groups (2007)
Bipartite networks of the affiliations between users and groups on several online social network sites, including Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Orkut, extracted in 2007.
This network has 499610 nodes and 8545307 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networ…
Russian commanders still order small groups of soldiers to assault a battlefield saturated with drones,
in often deadly attempts to find gaps in Ukrainian lines.
But Kyiv’s advances in drone warfare have turned the tables on Moscow.
“Robotification has made troop numbers much less important,
which has changed the fortunes for the Kyiv regime,”
said a person involved in the war effort.
“You need 10 or 20 thousand drone operators, not hundreds of thousands…
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most of the 140 groups in the parade of course were boring corporate and nonprofit groups, in rainbow colors, and a few not-really-furry mascots.
a large but ordinary trans group had two fursuiters.
a few pup masks escaped the normal kink groups. the oddest was a bull mask worn by someone carrying one side of the sign for ... um I think it was the Oregon Department of Justice, or maybe the Portland Justice Center. I don't remember exactly any more, and that was after my phone died
Judging from comments, blind people on Facebook seem by and large interested in getting a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision https://www.facebook.com/groups/1006104764242457/posts/1600860634766864/ and
#Climate groups, rightly, spoke out when #COP was in countries with horrific #humanrights records like #Azerbaijan
Today advocacy groups active in the US and Canada are launching a new “Charmin Wipes Out Bears” and “Charmin Wipes Out Forests” online advertising campaign alerting consumers that the US-based company Procter & Gamble is destroying Canada’s boreal forests to make toilet paper. Campaign videos and social media posts feature a crying bear dispossessed of its habitat, a poop emoji narrating footage of the destruction of Canada’s boreal forests, and a talking butt repeating Charmin’s claim …
Yesterday we had a regular message from university about when and what to do.
Today woken up woth 15 replies to that message, apparently some students were lazy to write an email to some workers from uni and just replied to anouncement which goes to ALL groups from uni, one student replied with laugh emoji, while worker replied "Dont laugh youre expelled" )
🤔 Are #emojis a universal language? - No, for two reasons. 1) They are not a language, as they do not show the properties that human languages have: grammatical structure and free combinatorics, enabling us to express complex thoughts. 2) They are not really universal. While many emojis are interpreted similarly all over the world (I guess it's pretty clear what one could mean by 🍕 ), some emoji meanings are closely tied to cultural assumptions (e.g., some of the gestures 👍 , buildings ⛩️ , food), and others are very context-dependent and might follow different conventions in various groups, including linguistic or regional groups (e.g., 🙃 for which we found strong differences between populations in Norway/US vs. Germany/Bulgaria). #WorldEmojiDay #linguistics
RE: https://mastodon.social/@langtales/116912702040375498
If you find this interesting: Help us transcribe this historic culinaric vocabulary!
A look at AI safety groups METR, Redwood Research, and Apollo Research, as AI misalignment incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic thrust them into the spotlight (Hayden Field/The Verge)
{ggtintshade} adds a tint/shade aesthetic to ggplot2 in addition to hue. This makes it possible to show groups and subgroups using related colours, and works for both nested and crossed designs: https://github.com/wkumler/ggtintshade
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/116935631209272518
I had early power supply failure on the first QRP Labs QMX ham radio transceiver I built. In learning more about this, I learned from groups.io posts Hans Summers made that lower-voltage zeners have…
The #TangerineTyrant only deals with the best? This is an abomination - and a stain on the USA.
Men deported from US bound and beaten in Equatorial Guinea detention hotel, lawyers say
The #TangerineTyrant only deals with the best? This is an abomination - and a stain on the USA.
Men deported from US bound and beaten in Equatorial Guinea detention hotel, lawyers say
Donald Trump’s state department intends to allocate $12m to organisations in the UK
founded by the prominent Conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young, the Guardian can reveal.
The intended grants, revealed in US government documents, are part of a package of support for European groups viewed favourably by the Trump administration.
Former US officials have criticised the funding as a misuse of public money to seek influence over foreign politics.
The documents re…
Product sets in sets of returns and positivity of symmetric ergodic averages
Vitaly Bergelson, Sa\'ul Rodr\'iguez-Mart\'in
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02873 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.02873 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.02873
arXiv:2608.02873v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study sets of (measurable) returns in countable groups $G$, namely sets of the form $\{g\in G:\mu(A\cap T_gA)>0\}$ arising from measure-preserving actions. Extending a result of Bergelson, we show that sets of returns in $G\times G$ contain subsets of the form $B\times B$, where $B$ is large with respect to suitable notions of largeness that remain meaningful even for non-amenable groups. As a consequence, if $G$ is amenable, then every sufficiently large subset $A\subseteq G\times G$ satisfies $B\times B\subseteq AA^{-1}$ for some large set $B\subseteq G$.
We also investigate when sets of returns in $G$ contain product sets $BB$ with $B$ large. In contrast with the Cartesian-product phenomenon above, this problem is considerably subtler in non-abelian groups and is closely connected to `symmetric correlation functions', namely functions of the form $g\mapsto \mu(T_g^{-1}A\cap T_gA)$. We use this connection to show that, for broad classes of amenable groups - including finitely generated nilpotent groups and certain solvable non-nilpotent groups, every sufficiently large set $A\subseteq G$ contains a large subset $B$ satisfying $BB\subseteq AA^{-1}$.
Finally, we establish polynomial analogues of these results for finitely generated nilpotent groups, extending earlier work of Bergelson and Ruzsa.
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As I listen to the Revolutions podcast mini series on 1848, it's hard not to fixate in the ways in which the Liberal obsession with nationalism and national borders planted the seed for the genocides that followed. Liberals are still confused by why genocide is a persistent problem, as though liberalism itself should have fixed it. "We must establish more liberal institutions," they believe, "like the ICC, so that we can hold people accountable."
But genocide is simply a property of nations and borders. Nations have always be arbitrarily drawn and diverse groups of people have always lived together. I grew up with the balkanization of post-soviet Russia and post colonial Wars in Africa. Conservatives (that is, classical Liberals) would talk about how these people were simply uncivilized or somehow genetically predisposed to conflict. But the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides were similar to the Liberal violence implicit in nationalism from the beginning. The Bosnian Genocide was quite specifically a product of the Liberal nationalism of 1848.
There are still people in the world whose culture is defined by migration. These cultures do not recognize the legitimacy of borders because borders make their culture impossible. The very existence of these lines, and their necessary enforcement, is genocidal to pastoralists and other migratory people.
You literally cannot have borders and not be committing genocide. Concepts of national identity just add to the genocidal push, targeting ethnic minorities. Ethnicities defined by not having a nation of their own, such as Roma and non-zionist Jews, are, like pastoralists, permanently threatened by these imaginary lines.
And now, people look at the genocide ICE is carrying out, at the terror and murder, and they blame Trump. But Trump is simply the avatar of forces far beyond his comprehension.
Every liberal needs to look at their beliefs and realize that these murderous policies are implicit in the very concept of a nation.
RE: https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver/116925059442384083
My bullies were groups of boys or girls and I wasn't arrested, but this could have so easily been me. In my case, the bullying only ever got attention when I fought back. I w…
Are there any movements, groups, or volunteer-heavy organizations you are part of that you think work particularly well? Do you have an idea of what makes them work well? Any public statements of goals or values, or guidelines for people engaging in the community, that you feel contribute to successful functioning? Please share!
flickr_groups: OSN user groups (2007)
Bipartite networks of the affiliations between users and groups on several online social network sites, including Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Orkut, extracted in 2007.
This network has 499610 nodes and 8545307 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networ…
Internal memo: ICE bars its employees from wearing Meta's AI glasses, saying they "could unintentionally capture, record, or transmit sensitive information" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/technol…
Burn down all fossil fuel infrastructure. #ClimateChange #WildfireSmoke #AQI
It turns out the Trump administration has been investigating progressive
and even mainstream groups
that have been involved in protests against Donald Trump’s sweeping deportations,
according to newly released government documents.
That Trump’s deportations have prompted widespread outrage is hardly surprising.
The president arguably had an electoral mandate to secure the
US-Mexican border
but not to raid workplaces and neighborhoods to deport undo…
revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…
"Rubio report on Cuban subversion names Zohran Mamdani, Amy Goodman, Hasan Piker orgs like DSA and Amazon Labor Union"
After "Political Terrorism" Summit, U.S. Names 43 Americans Groups
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/after-political-terrorism-event-us
"what are the two readings of 🙃?" - Roughly, one group sees this emoji as a whimsical, funny alternative to the "regular" smiley 🙂 , which they also read as positive ("happy, smiling"). The other group sees it as sarcastic, passive-aggressive, or uncomfortable. There are many nuances but those are the two groups. #emojis #WorldEmojiDay #linguistics
Newly disclosed records reveal
the US government extensively spied on prominent leftwing organizations
and on protesters as part of a vast operation into groups opposing the immigration crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year.
Internal investigative reports show the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent undercover agents to community meetings in the Twin Cities and New York City,
infiltrated Signal chats and obtained financial records of mainstream unions and le…
revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…
British youth groups have warned the Prime Minister the plans for social media age gates could lead young people to less regulated parts of the internet.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/prime-minister-burnham-uk-government-scotlan…
revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…
“If you were an emoji, what emoji would you be?” - Hm, I think I’d pick 👩💻 because that represents how I spend my days the best.
Representation and diversity is an important topic when it comes to emojis. Studies show that the skin tone modifiers 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏾♀️🤷🏿♀️ are primarily used for self representation. And many groups had to fight for their emojis: hijabi women, people with disabilities, redheads, people with curly hair. It is still difficult to show “all” of society in emojis, because human diversity is much more variable than we can show in little pictures: Where I can just say “family” in English and may mean many different constellations, in an emoji I’d have to decide on the number, gender and skin color of all the family members, and that doesn’t even begin to cover all the facets. A real language is much more flexible that way. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
Filings: Dario Amodei gave $1M in May to Public First, a super PAC advocating for AI safety regulations, seemingly his first seven-figure political donation (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/16/a
revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on July 1 his intent to designate certain Muslim and anti-fascist groups
—including U.S. groups
—as “terrorist organizations.”
Using authorities granted to him in a new Florida law, which took effect earlier that day,
DeSantis declared that he would seek designation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),
the Muslim Brotherhood, and “Antifa,” among others.
Within hours, the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law …
Sources: Trump admin and industry groups have discussed streamlining releases of US open models of equal or lesser capability than leading Chinese open models (Benjamin Guggenheim/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-intellig
flickr_groups: OSN user groups (2007)
Bipartite networks of the affiliations between users and groups on several online social network sites, including Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Orkut, extracted in 2007.
This network has 499610 nodes and 8545307 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networ…
Democrats and voting rights groups say Donald Trump’s primetime speech
making unverified claims of Chinese interference in the 2020 election
is the clearest sign yet that the president is laying the groundwork to tamper with the results of November’s midterms.
The upcoming elections to decide the balance of power in Congress and many state legislatures
will be a major test of Trump’s appeal to voters two years after he resoundingly beat the Democratic candidate Kamala…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio
and top White House adviser Stephen Miller
are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations.
The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit
“on the resurgence of political terrorism,”
where Miller described the LEFT as
“enemies of civilization”
and described efforts to
“disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.”
Rubio …
President Trump signs a memo letting the US government partner with private firms to conduct cyberattacks abroad against criminal groups targeting Americans (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
flickr_groups: OSN user groups (2007)
Bipartite networks of the affiliations between users and groups on several online social network sites, including Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Orkut, extracted in 2007.
This network has 499610 nodes and 8545307 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networ…
Here’s what you have to understand:
In Donald Trump’s America, all types of protest are unacceptable.
And if he gets his way, everyone involved in either of them could face the same fate.
Trump is currently at war with the left.
Antifa, communists, radical leftist agitators
— call them what you will, he’s coming for them.
But he’s also making plans to come for the center:
attacking nonprofit groups,
suing the press,
and making every ef…
revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…
A survey of US adults finds 56% support banning social media for under-16s, while 21% oppose; majorities across demographic and partisan groups support a ban (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20
flickr_groups: OSN user groups (2007)
Bipartite networks of the affiliations between users and groups on several online social network sites, including Flickr, YouTube, LiveJournal, and Orkut, extracted in 2007.
This network has 499610 nodes and 8545307 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networ…
“ICE hunts us like animals,”
testified Maria Cervantes,
who immigrated from Mexico and grew up in the East End neighborhood where Salgado Araujo was shot.
“I can’t help but think, who’s next?
Am I going to get a bullet to the head for being brown?”
Salgado Araujo, a business owner and father of three, was shot dead in his vehicle while heading to a job site with his construction crew last Tuesday.
The mayor has yet to explain whether the city will launch…
Standards Not Force
may be useful for residents who want to become more involved in local government, public oversight, peaceful protest, corporate accountability, or community organizing.
It may also support journalists, researchers, democracy advocates, neighborhood groups, students, nonprofit organizations, and volunteers seeking a structured approach to lawful civic engagement.
The organization presents an advocacy framework rather than a neutral government or academic…
Tycoon Harold Hamm is one of the US’s most successful oilmen,
the son of Oklahoma sharecroppers who hit it rich as a “wildcatter”
and pioneered fracking techniques that drove the shale boom in 2008 that reversed declining US oil production.
Donald Trump describes him as a “long time” friend and is said to have called him his “original oil guy”
The Continental Resources founder has also faced scrutiny from climate advocates and groups and some Democratic lawmakers ov…
revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…
For decades, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, known as DRL,
has supported human rights in some of the most oppressive countries in the world.
Now, our reporting found, it’s planning to direct funds to controversial groups supporting right-wing causes in Europe and elsewhere.
Our full story lays out some of the groups the government has considered funding, which includea British free-speech organization that has fought against bans on “gay conversion ther…
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117096247078382798
It would hardly be surprising that various progressive groups banded together to monitor and oppose Trump’s deportations.
But those activities are protected by the first amendment to the US constitution.
They…
The Supreme Court on Monday blocked a Trump administration plan to dramatically change how Americans vote by mail in the lead-up to the midterm elections,
a major loss for Trump, who has long claimed without evidence that fraud is rampant in mail voting.
The ruling was a resounding win for Democratic-led states and voting rights groups, which had argued that the plan was unconstitutional and an existential threat to the democratic process.
The Trump administration’s efforts…
Warning:
A new Florida law gives the state’s chief of domestic security, with the approval of the governor and Cabinet,
power to designate organizations as domestic or foreign terrorist groups.
A designation can trigger dissolution of a corporation,
loss of public funding and benefits,
penalties for defined forms of material support,
and serious consequences for students and campus groups accused of promoting a named group.
A companion law allows inf…
Latino advocacy groups and voting rights organizations Thursday filed a suit in federal court challenging the Trump administration’s policy of allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to enter polling locations in certain circumstances to conduct immigration enforcement during the 2026 midterm elections.
The suit in the District Court for the District of Columbia argues that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s recent comments that ICE agents would be at po…
Dark money groups that spent $2.5M backing more centrist Democrats in statehouse primaries lost 6 of 8 races
The biggest loss happened in House District 6 in Denver, where state Rep. Sean Camacho lost to civil rights attorney Iris Halpern
https://coloradosun.com/202…
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