@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-28 19:47:05
Northwestern about to cave???
Writing about Cornell caving to the Trump Administration,
I told Northwestern that if it planned to cave to please do so by December 31
so I can save money.
Unfortunately, I may have gotten my wish.
The supposed pricetag is
$75 million
(more than Cornell, less than Columbia, much more than Virginia).
And it will include the usual surrender of academic freedom tempered by a bullshit assurance
(and press rele…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-28 20:41:13
DHS reveals that NEC is the vendor that sold Mobile Fortify, a facial recognition app used by federal immigration agents to identify people in the field, to CBP (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/mobile-fortify-face-recognition-nec-ice-cbp/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-28 07:00:05
arxiv_citation: arXiv citation networks (1993-2003)
Citations among papers posted on arxiv.org under the hep-ph and hep-th categories, between 1993 and 2003. This time begins a few months after axiv was launched. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) These data were originally released as part of the 2003 KDD Cup.
This network has 34546 nodes and 421578 edges.
Tags: Informational,…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-11-27 18:37:08
Raiders HC Pete Carroll Issues Statement on Concerning Chip Kelly Leak https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/chip-kelly-playcalling-pete-carroll/?adt_ei=[email]
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafe2026-01-27 06:32:25
In letzter Zeit habe ich mich manchmal gefragt, wieso ich so ein geringes Bedürfnis habe, Nachrichten zu konsumieren. Ich glaube, das hat damit zu tun, dass keine der Ungeheuerlichkeiten, die Trump begeht, neu ist.
In der ersten Amtszeit von Trump bin ich Sarah Kendzior auf Twitter gefolgt und habe dann ab 2018 ihren Podcast @… gehört. Damals w…
@ncoca@social.coop2025-12-27 08:36:41
Everytime someone asks me to "please leave a #Google review" at this guesthouse/restaurant/etc, when I say "Sorry, I don't have a Google account" they seem so flabbergasted that they don't know how to respond.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-11-28 16:24:10
Series D, Episode 08 - Games
ORAC: There might be problems.
AVON: Why? You have extracted information from Federation computers before now. This is just a hodgepodge of three or four of them. You have already said that it is inferior to you.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/292 B7B4
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-28 05:08:09
The FIFA tournament may create some new American fans, but at what cost?
Exorbitant ticket prices have cut out the game’s grassroots.
Onerous demands on cities have siphoned public money.
Fifa has boosted an openly corrupt administration at every turn.
Now wanton federal violence has made it difficult to justify having the World Cup here at all.
Safety, justice, freedom, the continued functioning of society
– these are all under threat.
Even to ma…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-28 07:41:06
A look at "neolabs" such as Safe Superintelligence and Humans&, which give priority to long-term AI R&D over immediate profits; dozens have become unicorns (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-28 05:01:58
Removing the United States as
co-host of the 2026 World Cup
would hurt for pretty much everyone.
Fans would miss out on seeing the sport’s pinnacle in their home towns (or somewhere nearby).
Cities and businesses small and large would lose the financial benefits they had banked on.
It would be a logistical and political nightmare on an international scale,
the likes of which have never been seen before in sports.
It would be eminently sad.