@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI remember one of my jobs where we had a company building an internal system for us and I kept sending emails to the team telling them ways I could break their software...
And they got annoyed...
And my boss told me to cool it, and "give them a chance!"
But my thought was since they gave (some of) us a system to test, should they not be informed of all the ways it could break?
(And no, there was no bug reporting system.)
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA private investigator says the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday remained his "best customers" for two years after his 2005 conviction for disclosing private info (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/1…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzFormer Coach of the Year Emerges as Raiders OC Candidate if Pete Carroll Is Kept https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/brian-daboll-rumors-pete-carroll-oc/
@brian_gettler@mas.toGood friends think of you even if you haven't kept touch as much as you should when it's time to order a side of beef.
@jake4480@c.imHaving a bit of a Daisy Ridley week. First, did Magpie a couple days ago, and now doing The Marsh King's Daughter, thanks to @…'s rec. 👊
https://boxd.it/u2Q8
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialI kept trying to assemble the anagrams backward. Once I flipped it around this was the obvious answer. #Wordle
Wordle 1 666 4/6
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca#Rant
Rob Shaw is solidifying his position as the new Dean of Right Wing, anti-Worker Legislative Reporters in British Columbia.
With these gems, it's incredible that he has an education or goes to a doctor at all…
"The BCTF is typically one of the most militant unions, and quickly prone to job action.”
BCTF Strikes since 2000:
2005
2014
phew! almost got to three!
Remember that this was at the time of a union-busting BC Liberal government that had to go to the Supreme Court of Canada to get told that they ripped up union contracts unconstitutionally and were *forced* to compensate many years later.
"The ratification is a win for a New Democrat government. And extraordinarily expensive for taxpayers, too."
“extraordinarily expensive. Really? How is a wage increase that is *barely* in line with inflation after literally decades of below-inflation increases, “extraordinary”? I'll wait.
"Teachers can thank the BCGEU for turning what was an initial 3.5 per cent wage offer over two years by government, into a more than 12 per cent increase over four that is now forming the baseline for all other union deals."
Indeed! For those who can do math, that means 3% each of 4 years instead of 3.5 over two. But thanks Rob for making it seem like 4 times more!
Thanks BCGEU members for your solidarity and perceverence! I have been on strike. It sucks HARD. But it was worth it and it works.
"The ratification by the BCTF means roughly half of the 450,000 public sector employees now have deals of some sort with the province. Two majors left on the table are nurses and doctors.”
Oh no! Let’s not pay doctors and nurses! Surely they'll stay regardless in our incredibly overworked and under resourced healthcare system!
Like how does Mr Shaw believe we are to stay competitive or attract people. Or is he just not worried about getting sick….
"The skyrocketing deficit has the NDP government inking sweetheart deals with organized labour on the one hand, while pledging to cut public sector jobs with the other.”
Ya, we could have kept those public sector jobs if it weren't for fools like you who demanded governments cut taxes over the past 20 years instead of reasonable rises to... again…keep up with inflation and retain service!
It is a crappy balancing act that the NDP is doing and I do not like a lot of it. At the same time as Mr. Shaw complains about "sweetheart deals" for people in post-secondary, I am seeing historic cuts in that same sector. It's a blood bath actually. So the potential wage increases are going to be welcome, but feel pretty hollow as so many collegues have left.
Rob Shaw would have had us all lose our jobs and take a pay cut at the next one for good measure.
Thanks but no thanks Rob, your world view sucks.
https://www.nsnews.com/economy-law-politics/rob-shaw-ndp-deal-with-bc-teachers-sets-another-costly-precedent-for-public-sector-talks-11966874
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.socialI’m finally learning first hand about cold weather EV charging. I’ve had my Model 3 since Sept 2018. I live in Austin where it’s usually mild temps and the car is garage kept. I’m on a real road road trip and had to park outside last night at the hotel. It’s 35 degrees so charging from 60% to 90% SoC will take 45 minutes! 😳 That’s certainly putting a dent in travel time.
@trezzer@social.linux.pizza
@NFL@darktundra.xyzEx-Jets LB jailed without bond on murder charge https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47900637/ex-jets-lb-darron-lee-jailed-bond-murder-charge
@benb@osintua.euPutin 'kept his word' — Trump reacts to latest Russian strike on Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/04/putin-kept-his-word-trump.html
@aral@mastodon.ar.alMan, I bet we’re all relieved today that Obama shut ICE down the first chance he got. And then Biden… remember when he shut it down a second time just for good measure? (And while busy funding and arming a whole friggin’ genocide in Palestine, what a legend!) *Phew!* Imagine what could have happened if the Democrats had just kept going with business as usual.
#theRatchetEffect
@matthiasott@mastodon.social“What if the physics of the very system itself – not the misguided politics, not the disingenuous pledges, but the underlying energy imbalance of the planet – has shifted in a way our models haven’t quite kept pace with?”
Maybe someone should tell policymakers that even the risk managers are alarmed by now.
https://www.youtube.…
@hex@kolektiva.socialAs fascist goons ethnically cleanse their way through American cities, casually murdering anyone who slightly inconveniences them, I'm reminded of a Zapata quote I've kept close to my heart for a few decades now: “I’d rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.”
#USPol
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsDo you know it's cold in Poland today?
I've discovered around 4 PM that the heat pump driver froze around 11 AM, and I suspect it hasn't been heating through these hours. It was hard to notice because the water pump just kept pumping. so the boiler room sounded normal. I noticed when I looked at the thermostat and noticed "AL".
Damned technology.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzBrian Schottenheimer shares massive shortcoming that kept Cowboys from NFL playoffs https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/brian-schottenheimer-shares-massive-shortcoming-kept-dallas-cowboys-nfl-playoffs
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeI ran on this road, kept going, kept going
この道を走り進み進み進み続けた
I can't find the town that's supposed to be on the map.
地図に書いてあるはずの町が見当たらない
When I looked back, the scenery I was seeing disappeared.
振り返るとそこに見えていた景色が消えた
In this world, I'm the last and the last.
この世界 僕が最後で最後最後だ
electro world
エレクトロ・ワールド
Hatsune Kaidan // 2. エレクトロ・ワールド // Noisy Killer
@nelson@tech.lgbtExcellent dinner of Fabada Asturiana, Spain's answer to cassoulet. Bean stew with cuts of delicious fatty pork sausage and something like bacon. This one was served with beans and meats cooked separately which was a really nice touch, kept the flavors distinct. Very satisfying with good pork.
@luca@social.luca.runTonight's mild nightmare: I was at an event. Introduction session. Most people already knew each other. Me and my companion were there for the first time. People kept going off topic. I carefully prepared my sentences and adjusted them several times. Shortly before it would have been my turn, the time was up and everyone walked away. I woke up.
The combination of how much energy it took me to find the right words, the tension while waiting and then realizing that it was all for not…
@kcase@mastodon.socialWe made pretty heavy use of OmniOutliner while working towards shipping OmniOutliner 6!
(I kept checking for outlines under File > Open Recents and realizing that 30 recent outlines wasn't enough to get back to the outline I was looking for. But I didn't really want to bump my recent menus up to tracking 50 documents, either.)
https:…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Bari Weiss has kept Anderson Cooper's unaired 60 Minutes piece about Trump's decision to accept South African refugees in a prolonged editorial process (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/60-minutes-bari-weiss-cbs-news-cecot
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: the 2024 cyber-attack by the Scattered Spider group on Transport For London resulted in the theft of personal data of ~10M people (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0ggkr2g77o
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHow Jim Harbaugh kept the Chargers afloat and led them back to the playoffs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6952710/2026/01/08/jim-harbaugh-chargers-nfl-playoffs-patriots/
@cdarwin@c.imTrump broke the promise that he made dozens of times while campaigning:
to stop the Ukraine-Russia war in 24 hours.
Trump has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
but has yet to establish a peace deal.
As the fourth anniversary of Russia’s attack approached, delegations from both sides met in Geneva for U.S. brokered-talks in mid-February
but did not reach a resolution.
About 31% of Trump's campaign promis…
@benthos@mastodon.sdf.orgI remember we watched "Superfly" on vhs in a smokey dormitory in college and were impressed that the soundtrack was so clearly the lead in the movie. When the credits ran out, the music kept going.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k3SQlpidHQTE0MnSQ…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgRE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116170621153319970
Kept thinking about it so I tried to add to it in a quick article. It's about software and love. And Open source.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioMAGA is a fragile, already-teetering coalition that — even more than usual in US politics! — is run by, paid for by, and kept alive by a very, very few ultra-wealthy people. Yes, racism and fascistic thinking are rampant, but the forces that organize them into a coherent movement are forces of concentrated wealth.
I don’t think we even have to completely unravel the entirety of US political-economic imperialism to unravel this authoritarian slide. We just have to make authoritarianism in the US look unprofitable.
There’s plenty of good work for all of us there, inside and outside the US.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotH'mmm... I have been working patiently and carefully on bugs in my memory allocation system all day,
At 22:57, I had a build which was substantially better, but not perfect. I kept on working patiently, and now, at 00:37, I have a build which is totally broken.
Fortunately, I did make a tactical commit to git while things were better.
#TheJoyOfSoftwareEngineering
@cjust@infosec.exchange @hex@kolektiva.socialThe fascist who killed Heather Heyer at Unite the Right helped turn the tides against the last Trump administration. He said there were "very fine people on both sides." The resistance grew, antifa doxxing fascists started getting those fash fired.
But some of those fash didn't stop. They kept organizing their terror cells. The fash who killed Heyer was with a group called Vanguard America. Patriot Front is a Nazi group that split off from Vanguard America. They started terrorizing people by loading up in box trucks and piling out for spontaneous marches.
That box truck tactic probably sounds familiar. Patriot Front basically disappeared at the same time that ICE started recruiting hard.
Let me make it more clear. The very same Nazis from UTR who killed Heather Heyer, who Trump called "very fine people," are now employees of DHS. They've been carrying out the ethnic cleansing they always dreamed of, and they're being paid by the government, *with your tax dollars*, to do it. And now, just like in Charlottesville, they've murdered an unarmed protestor.
This feels similar because it is. These are the same people killing daughters and mothers. Killing unarmed protestors, out of rage not fear, then lying and claiming self defense. This is the same tactic it's always been. This is the same thing they've always done.
It seems like we may have reached the Heather Heyer point of this administration early with Renee Good. Now would be a good time for everyone to get into the streets and stay there until this is over. Everyone turned the tides before, and now he's so much weaker.
This can all be over if we fight like hell to end it.
#USPol
@eyebee@mstdn.social
@anildash@me.dmApple is adding video support to its podcasting apps — that’s great. But the way it’s doing so might jeopardize the openness that’s kept podcasting from getting enshittified like every other form of media. It’s not too late for them to fix this. https://anildash.com/2026/02/28/apple-vid…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Blind Lemon Jefferson:
🎵 See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
#BlindLemonJefferson
https://nightrecords.bandcamp.com/track/see-that-my-grave-is-kept-so-clean
https://open.spotify.com/track/7rneWC1uFf14t0w3OWkR76
@raiders@darktundra.xyzCenter kept off market leads Raiders to one obvious choice in free agency https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/03/07/bills-re-sign-center-connor-…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialFeminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept Feminism From Discussing Class
https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/feminist-icon-gloria-steinem-was
@oligneisti@social.linux.pizzaThe Chevy Chase documentary really gets details wrong about his time and firing from Community.
It claims that Chevy refused to return to Community without Dan Harmon. In reality Dan was fired at the end of season 3 while Chevy kept going until he got fired during season four.
It also claims that Chevy was angry about some lines Dan wrote for him when he had the outburst that got him fired. Dan simply wasn't there.
Outside the doc I've seen him quoted as having been…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI have too many unanswerable questions about Fallout the TV show. Mainly how everything electrical and mechanical kept running.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 09 - Sand
SOOLIN: All right Avon, you've told us your theory. It wasn't a plague on Virn; it was the sand feeding off human energy. Does that mean we reckon Tarrant is dead?
AVON: Not necessarily. According to Orac's earlier information there's probably a woman down there. It's just possible that Tarrant was stronger and fitter than the three men in the Federation patrol, in which case he may have been kept alive, as Keller was kept alive, a…
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz#NowPlaying ❝He didn’t say a lot, actually, at the beginning. He just kept listening. And then 25, 30 minutes later, you know, suddenly, he… went back to his desk and pulled out a paper called, “The Pattern and Effectiveness of Forager Allocation Among Flower Patches by Honeybee Colonies.”❞
@cdarwin@c.imTrump said Thursday he should be involved in choosing Iran’s next supreme leader
as the U.S. and Israel hammered the country for a sixth day.
Iran kept up its retaliatory attacks on Israel, American bases and countries around the region.
Speaking to American news website Axios,
Trump ruled out Mojtaba Khamenei,
a front-runner to replace his father,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
who was killed in the opening strikes of the war.
Trump’s comments were…
@frankel@mastodon.top
@jswright61@ruby.socialThese were images that were projected onto the walls of a courtyard near The Ruby Lissi hotel in Vienna.
The scenes kept changing and there we colorful lasers at various times across the top of the courtyard.
Recorded music was playing. It wasn’t discordant, but it wasn’t a tune either. More like a symphony warning up.
The music drew us into the courtyard. We thought we were going to see a live concert.
@emd@cosocial.caI recently had a PHP problem I was struggling with. Instead of using AI, I asked #mastodon.
I got a great answer and they kept helping as I continued to struggle.
In the end I learned and the community helped.
That’s the way it should be.
h/t @…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euThese proposals were common knowledge in Bulgaria. I remember the oldtimers being disgusted how desperately in love was the regime with the Soviets, while the Bulgarian economy had been crashing constantly way into the 1980s (which was a not that common knowledge because it was kept in secret from the population that didn't perish in prisons and work camps). Fully incompetent, servile scum in full power for 45 years straight.
Why did the USSR Refuse to Annex Bulgaria?
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHow Trevor Lawrence's grill was kept a surprise -- and came together https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47541649/how-trevor-lawrence-grill-happened-jacksonville-jaguars
@danyork@mastodon.socialTonight would have been a great night to have been #livestreaming my #Wikipedia editing… my Watchlist had all sorts of fun! A spammer, an actual edit war with a few editors teaming to stop someone who kept trying to add some opinionated text, an editor doing some amazing cleanup of reference…
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@MattBinder/115815125738737584
This guy is really just a fraud. Kept afloat by stupid fanboys
@Dragofix@veganism.socialForever-chemical firms continue forever EU lobbying #EU
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMailbag: Will defensive assistants be kept? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-will-defensive-assistants-be-kept
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 147 - CXLVII
My love is as a fever longing still,
For that which longer nurseth the disease;
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
The uncertain sickly appetite to please.
My reason, the physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.
Past cure I am, now reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;
M…
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldOne of my daughters spent 5 years in gymnastics and I cringe every time I hear a story like this, grateful that we dodged this bullet.
https://apnews.com/article/nassar-gardner-safesport-usa-gymnastics-olympics-abuse-b370cec…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeHow are source racks for industrial irradiators built/installed/handled?
Like, when you're dealing with dozens if not hundreds of "drop and run" level sources how do you get it from the reactor where it was initially irradiated to the water tank or wherever it's kept when not in the raised position? Are the sources installed on the rack before it's irradiated (potentially also neutron activating the rack itself) or is the rack installed at the site then the source…
@mlawton@mstdn.socialWirtz! 5 goals in 9 games say the commentators. Great combo with Ekitike through traffic. Kept the defender in his pocket with a choice to foul him or release, neither a good option.
Clinical finish.
#LFC
@cdarwin@c.imA pack of dogs being kept by a Southern California grandmother has killed her daughter and injured her grandson in an attack, authorities said.
Emily Panuco, 26, of Parker, Ariz., on Friday visited her mother’s home in Big River, a California town along the Colorado River, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.
One of her mother’s dogs had recently had puppies, which were in a cardboard box near the front door, the release said.
When Panuco’s 5…
@servelan@newsie.social"As Karen got to know the guards at the NW ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “**Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain** – the guards told me that,” Karen says."
‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgOur boiler thermometer stopped working (wouldn't pair). Looked into replacements and found out there's a nice 'opentherm' standard for efficient control of the boiler. Got a hive opentherm thermostat fitted for ~£300, had to call the engineer back to actually connect the 'opentherm' controls. It turns out gas engineers tend to just disconnect opentherm because it causes problems. It did indeed - the boiler kept cycling on/off. He couldn't fix it so I got him to ta…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@chpietsch@fedifreu.deTelnet is a remote login protocol that became obsolete in 1995 when SSH became available because SSH offers transport encryption while telnet does not.
Those who kept a telnetd running for whatever reason (and did not hide it behind a firewall) have had a root backdoor for the last ten years.
The telnetd server invokes /usr/bin/login (normally running as root) passing the value of the USE…
@cheryanne@aus.socialWhen we built my new desktop PC last year in early January I kept the old monitor because it was working fine. Son picked up a new cable to connect it to the PC because the old one had the wrong fitting for the new build. It was a bit short but I rearranged my desk and moved the monitor over to the right side of my corner desk. I finally succumbed and bought a longer cable yesterday. And it's so much better having the monitor in the centre of the desk again. It only took me a year! 🤦♀️<…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngSomehow 2026 feels like all that mandatory cognitive bias awareness training should maybe have been kept going (with regular repeats/refreshers, much like first aid training) instead of being phased out in most places... (not just talking about tech/AI, but there it's especially dire)
#TheStateOfIt
@kazys@mastodon.socialIt's wild how the best-kept secret in video is HDTV antennas. The quality is wildly better than streaming or cable, and it's free after the $50 antenna purchase.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMailbag: Will defensive assistants be kept? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-will-defensive-assistants-be-kept
@gwire@mastodon.social
@mela@zusammenkunft.netThe Chief Science Officer discovers the OPS, her childhood best-friend, has kept a lot of personal stuff from her over the last years, and realizes it's because she, the OPS, had been in trouble:
CSO: »Whoever hurt you so much, I want my hands around their throat.«
*Admiral enters, overhears the last sentence and turns to the Yeoman*
Admiral: »Tell me, Cadet Vratsian, what kind of science vessel is this exactly?«
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotEmotionally brutal poem. Don't read it if you are feeling fragile today.
@cdarwin@c.imIt was outside the United States that the dissonance struck most deeply.
I remember sitting on high-speed trains that glided so fast and silently they seemed to erase distance itself,
watching wind farms cross the horizon like silent fleets.
In country after country
— places far smaller and, on paper, far poorer than ours
— I kept asking the same question:
how could they manage to build what we could not?
Why did the richest nation on earth feel like…
@Defiance@sfba.socialThe Damned - Not Like Everybody Else (Full Album) 2026
Been listening to this album and enjoying it more than I expected. It's nice hearing these voices in a contemporary setting. Anyone know how their other recent albums are? So many! I've not kept up. I just wanted to check out these covers, but now i'm like these guys are still really good!
#music
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itWhat the actual fuck?
The 13yo kept wanting to know if #Mamdani has seen K-pop Demon Hunters (don't ask me why, but he was bugging me to look it up all afternoon while we were out; I was discussing Mamdani w/ the family for other reasons:
@hex@kolektiva.socialThis is as good a time as any for a thought experiment.
You're in Nazi Germany. You know about the camps, you know what they do, you see the ash fall, you smell it. People who resist alone are killed, some are sent to the camps too. You're afraid to even talk to people about it for fear that they'll turn you in.
You think back to when the camps were being built. You had all the warning signs, but you didn't know how to interpret them. You could believe it would happen. You thought you'd have a chance to vote him out. You thought there might be another way. You thought maybe things would turn out differently if you just sat tight, kept your head down, kept yourself safe.
You see a family being dragged from their home. You know they will be killed. You want to fight, not just for them but for yourself. You opposed Hitler, and at any point you know you could be on the list... Even if you do nothing.
You wish you could rise up, shoot the SS, open the gates, fight it all. You know you aren't alone, but you don't know how to connect with the people who want the same thing.
Using the knowledge we have now, what should you have done in the preceding months and years to connect, to build a community that would open up all paths of resistance?
There were people who resisted. We know it wasn't enough.
Gun laws in Nazi Germany were very similar to US laws in that Nazis were largely free to own guns and everyone else was not. Unlike the US, where "others" have historically controlled using the fear that they might be randomly executed, Germany did codify it. Red flag laws were one more step in the US towards that codification, and there will be more.
When Nazis were taking away those guns, the social networks didn't exist to make resistance possible for most folks. But some Jews were able to resist.
It wasn't the guns that made the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising possible, though they definitely helped. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was made possible by labor organizing in the precessing years.
If there were more uprisings like that, the Holocaust could have been stopped if not prevented. Social networks make resistance possible. Guns are only useful tools to resist authoritarianism *after* you build a community able to support that resistance, and they are only one of many tools made useful by that community.
Getting guns is easy, and not always necessary. Building community is hard. Guns won't keep you safe. Community will.
Single acts of resistance may slow the machine down, but to actually bring down a monster you need to be able to attack more than once. You need a society of resistance. If you are afraid now, build that. Talk to people while it's still safe to do so. Ask them where their red line is. Talk to neighbors. Figure out your network.
Take the steps you need now to keep your neighbors safe, to keep yourself safe.
#USPol
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.socialthirty years ago i didn't have mastodon so i muttered to myself in a kind of witless travelogue http://peter.honeyman.org/travel/travel.1995.html
i have kept this server on the dl for many many years (many years!) but a bofh emailed me today which is prob'ly the death k…
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterOMG vegans, you kept this one quiet didn't you.
Bought a tub of this in the supermarket today because Mrs LT is lactose intolerant and wow, this is amazing. It's the same luxurious texture as double cream but sweeter and doesn't have that slightly cloying aftertaste that normal cream does.
I'm a convert!
@NFL@darktundra.xyzJustin Jefferson: 'I definitely feel like we would have done better' if Vikings kept Sam Darnold
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/justin-jefferson-sam-darnold-vikings/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenAI staff discussed prioritizing sponsored content in ChatGPT when users ask relevant queries and created mockups with ads in sidebars or as pop-ups (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-ads-push-starts-taking-shape<…
@cdarwin@c.imNoem faced Republican criticism
Republicans largely kept the focus on the large numbers of migrants who came into the country under former President Joe Biden,
portraying Noem as the leader of a cleanup effort of the former administration’s mess.
But she did come under some harsh questioning by members of her own party.
Senator Tillis, who called on Noem to resign following the shootings in Minneapolis, criticized her for erroneously arresting American citizens, for…
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz@gruber I purposefully have automatic downloads and updates turned off because OS 26 seems half-baked and I wanted to wait. Last weekend, after pestering me for a week even though I kept pressing “cancel update” my iPhone and iPad ignored all that and installed OS 26 overnight. I know I’m in the minority, but how do we evaluate the adoption rate with this in mind?
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca @inthehands@hachyderm.ioMy inability to get a handle on the size of the crowd from inside the crowd is a metaphor for today writ large. In addition to the big downtown protest, there were multiple protests at the airport, clergy arrested for blocking the airport access road, at least two impromptu neighborhood protests I’m aware of near my house. There were food drives. There were street parties. Many businesses that were “closed” kept their doors open and offered free coffee, pancakes, warming spaces. Nobody really knows everything that happened.
#GeneralStrike #MInneapolis
@mlawton@mstdn.socialNearly 3 hours to clear the driveway and front walk. I was dreading it, mostly because I knew the 3-5” snow base with 0.5 inch ice atop would make it very difficult. Indeed, my snowblower’s blade assembly kept wanting to ride atop the ice rather than cut into it. I ended up using th snow shovel on a lot of it, smashing fault lines and breaking it into chunks.
@hex@kolektiva.socialIn a dream last night I was trying to write a post. I kept being interrupted and when I returned I'd find what I wrote had changed. The keyboard kept changing as I was typing to be "helpful." I put down my phone and picked it up again to find the app had "helpfully" filled my screen with Nazi shit. Then I realized the app was an AI post assistant, so I uninstalled it and used the website.
The post I was trying to write was, "I want to be able to have the confidentiality of cheap hot dog meat in the 90's: no one should know who or what I actually am."
It feels like a relevant manifestation of the anxiety of existing on the internet today.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic details how it had to redesign its take-home test for hiring performance engineers as Claude kept defeating it, and releases the original test (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/AI-resistant-technical-evaluations
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSteelers Clinch N.F.L. Playoffs Behind Aaron Rodgers’s Late Rally https://www.nytimes.com/video/sports/football/100000010624217/steelers-clinch-nfl-playoffs-behind-aaron-rodgerss-late-rally.html
@cdarwin@c.im @blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 08 - Hostage
TRAVIS: Why should I. I've got Blake in there; now I've got the other two. You kept your part of the bargain. It'll be dark before long and you can take your daughter down in the morning. All right?
USHTON: All right.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/515
@raiders@darktundra.xyz'We just kept fighting': Raiders go toe-to-toe with Texans in Week 16 loss https://www.raiders.com/video/ashton-jeanty-postgame-recap-nfl-week-16-texans-2025
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116109430224379547
A fun thing to think about: Where are all the Singularity people with solar?
There’s this whole pseudoscientific subculture organized around the one epistemological premise of “lines that go up will go up forever,” when in reality trends change and curves level off. And now here’s this one thing where people keep stubbornly predicting that it will level off and in fact the line (on a log scale) •has• kept going up far more consistently than predicted…. So why aren’t all the Effective Altruism people saying stuff like “In the future solar cells will save trillions of lives, so it doesn’t matter how many oil executives we kill in the present?”
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.cathe nose is kept warm by all the toebeans
#atlas #catsodon #catsofmastodon
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialInternal email: CBS' standards department told staff to use the Kennedy Center name, saying the change to Trump Kennedy Center needs Congressional approval (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/12/23/kennedy-center-honors-cbs-bro…
@cdarwin@c.imNew reporting by
"The Information" has revealed some recent topics of conversation between #OpenAI employees as they work to supply #advertisers with a teeming new audience to manipulate.
The plans are not final, though they give us a look at what soon may become the norm for
@NFL@darktundra.xyzColts run back-to-back fake punts, including one on first down that catches the Texans totally off guard
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/colts-fake-punt-first-down-texans-back-to-b…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSeahawks owner Jody Allen isn't a placeholder. She's an essential leader https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7020077/2026/02/04/seahawks-owner-jody-allen-super-bowl/
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 11 - Gambit
BLAKE: You never knew the location of Star One?
DOCHOLLI: I was a surgeon, Blake. I thought if I kept out of Federation politics -
TRAVIS: Docholli! My arm. You've got to fix it.
DOCHOLLI: What happened?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/481
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBenchmark hires Jack Altman, the founder of Alt Capital and Lattice, as its fifth general partner; three Alt Capital team members will join him at Benchmark (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/benchmark-hires-jack-altman-newe…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA spate of unforced errors by Bari Weiss has kept scrutiny high on CBS News, as Paramount tries to acquire WBD and can ill afford negative attention (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/bari-weiss-cbs-news-gaffes-paramount-w…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump kept up his hard-edge attacks on immigrants -- lines that got the loudest cheers of the night.
At one point, he raised the specter of immigrants who may
“blow up our shopping centers, blow up our farms, kill people.”
❌He also falsely portrayed the vast majority of those detained by ICE in Minnesota and elsewhere as hardened criminals -- asserting that once those people were removed, crime would be nearly eliminated.
On Capitol Hill Tuesday, 🔥the top three House…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys legend Jimmy Johnson defends Belichick with stunning admission https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/28/cowboys-jimmy-johnson-bill-belichick-hall-of-fame-spygat…
@cdarwin@c.imProposition 36, approved by voters last year, gave prosecutors the ability to charge people convicted of various third-time drug offenses with a so-called
treatment-mandated felony
– a choice between behavioral health treatment or up to three years in jail or prison.
https://bit.ly/3NiBX0r
📸 J.…
@cdarwin@c.imIn 2016, The Atlantic’s journalist
Shane Harris
made contact with a person claiming to work as a hacker for Iran’s intelligence,
where he claimed to have worked on major operations,
such as the downing of an American drone and the now-infamous hack against oil giant Saudi Aramco,
where Iranian hackers wiped the company’s computers.
Harris was rightly skeptical,
but as he kept talking to the hacker,
who eventually revealed his real name to him,…
@cdarwin@c.imCorrupt Judge permanently bars DoJ from releasing Jack Smith's report on Trump documents
In a ruling on Monday, US federal judge #Aileen #Cannon permanently prohibited the justice department from releasing a report put together by former special counsel Jack Smith related to classified documents Trump kept at Mar…
@cdarwin@c.imBrandon LaRoque kept his life savings in a cryptocurrency account.
One morning, as he went to check his balance, he discovered that it was all missing.
LaRoque is one of many victims of the unregulated crypto industry,
and soon there may be more.
Donald Trump has rolled back regulation of the industry.
At the same time, he and his family have earned untold billions of dollars from new crypto ventures.
Molly White, a writer focused on the intersection…
