@Techmeme@techhub.socialMany of Stockholm's thriving tech businesses consider relocating as they look to scale up, amid growing US interest in Swedish AI startups Lovable and Legora (Orlando Crowcroft/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cb371b43-d5af-4666-a9f5-28ec3e00ea63
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioLet’s show Hilton a little love, shall we?
I don’t know how long this will last — I suspect it is a local thing, not from on high at Hilton Corporate — but we can help out by making standing up look profitable and compliance look costly.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioImagine having had opinions about many things in the past and now all you do is post about how great AI is.
Many such cases among software peeps I used to look up to.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at the informal economy of rogue streaming box resellers, who sell hardware that offers free access to sports games, cable TV, and streaming services (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/873416/piracy-streaming-boxes
@crell@phpc.socialHow well do your Congressional representatives align with the ACLU? They have a neat little summary:
#uspol
@nerb@techhub.socialWeird. I had an Upper GI Endoscopy about 12 days ago. It shut me down, I have had this reaction before. After 10 days I gave in and went to the Dr. Been doing the works, milk of magnesium , capfuls of miralax with lots of water and Linzess. And something I am doing is driving my blood sugar as high as taking steroids. I look at its heading back up so I take more insulin. And is over 350 when I wake up. My average is heading up, is at 211 so Endo is not going to be happy when I go in 2 wee…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzThe NFL playoff bracket is set, plus Black Monday news https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6939473/2026/01/05/nfl-playoff-bracket-the-pulse/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Munich's UnternehmerTUM, which tops the FT ranking of Europe's startup hubs for a third straight year and has supported 1,000 companies since 2002 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/50a5cb4d-d27a-402e-b1e1-b9be0002ebc8
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Grasslands and Wetlands Are Being Gobbled Up By Agriculture, Mostly Livestock"
#Agriculture #Wetlands #Environment
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys to Hold Private Workout for Sleeper Draft Prospect https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/andre-fuller-private-workout-sleeper-draft-prospect/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at eight pitch decks startups used to raise funds for AI tools for Hollywood, offering scaled dubbing, script analysis, synthetic voice/video, and more (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-startups-hollywood-pitch-…
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.comTo look at the bright side: I sincerely hope world leaders today are waking up to what some of us always knew about the Trump presidency.
It’s not a fucking game, political norms will not save you, get your shit together and be ready for this to get real for you.
It’s been real for us for a while.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at the informal economy of rogue streaming box resellers, who sell hardware that offers free access to sports games, cable TV, and streaming services (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/873416/piracy-streaming-boxes
@grumpybozo@toad.social“It is by far the most disturbing thing Aronofsky has made, and I’ve seen the last eight minutes of Requiem for a Dream.”
Not a good look right after Ken Burns did a truly great series on the Revolution. Feels desperate. @…
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.deHow did we end up with the EU being eerily proud of a tight bond with the new #India? A “mother of all deals?”
Trump virtually learnt from Modi.
https://www.
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizzaIf you want to get depressed, look yourself up on RYM. 💀
@chiraag@mastodon.onlineVenezuela, a thread 🧵:
It is simultaneously true that the US has never cared about international law *and* that the current action is egregiously bad, even for us. The first point is self-obviously true - not only from the general POV (Iraq and Afghanistan are perhaps my generation's most obvious examples) but from LatAm's POV as well (look up the list of coups and covert operations in North and South America over the last 70 years).
1/?
@cdarwin@c.imU.S. vaccination rates are plunging.
Rocked by pandemic politics, the nation’s shield against infectious disease is shrinking.
Look up where your school stands.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2025/measles…
@arXiv_csGR_bot@mastoxiv.pageVoroUDF: Meshing Unsigned Distance Fields with Voronoi Optimization
Ningna Wang, Zilong Wang, Xiana Carrera, Xiaohu Guo, Silvia Sell\'an
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02907 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.02907 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.02907
arXiv:2602.02907v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present VoroUDF, an algorithm for reconstructing high-quality triangle meshes from Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs). Our algorithm supports non-manifold geometry, sharp features, and open boundaries, without relying on error-prone inside/outside estimation, restrictive look-up tables nor topologically noisy optimization. Our Voronoi-based formulation combines a L_1 tangent minimization with feature-aware repulsion to robustly recover complex surface topology. It achieves significantly improved topological consistency and geometric fidelity compared to existing methods, while producing lightweight meshes suitable for downstream real-time and interactive applications.
toXiv_bot_toot
@wydamn@social.linux.pizzaWhen I was younger, I used to think that knowing more programming languages made you a better program. And in some ways I still think that. But the only for loop I have memorized the syntax for is the C for loop. Any other language, I have to look up to make sure the for loop is the same as C's or if it's something different.
I haven't coded in C in like over a decade.
@cjust@infosec.exchangeThey straight up gonna have to put a protection detail on Phil's ass
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 07 - Mission To Destiny
JENNA: There it is, look. Circling every two minutes.
BLAKE: When d'you pick it up?
JENNA: Just before I called you.
BLAKE: It's circling all the time?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/107/7 B7B4
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialJust read an article by @… and stumbles across this question:
> "...if Clawdbot can create a virtual remote for my LG television (something I did) or give me a personalized report with voice every morning (another cron job I set up) that work exactly the way I want, why should I even bother going to the App Store to look for pre-built solut…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzSaints rumor puts 8-time Pro Bowler in play for Cowboys, Eagles and Lions in free agency https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/detroit-lions/news/saints-rumor-8-time-pro-bowler-cowboys-eagles-lions-free-a…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgFor, reasons, I find myself looking up serpulids on Wikipedia and look at this beauty.
The name Christmas tree worm doesn't really do it justice. Not for the first time I wonder if I should have pursued marine biology as a specialism...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpulidae#/media/File:Spirobranchus_giganteus_(Red_and_white_christmas_tree_worm).jpg
@pdmckone@mstdn.ca[Driving down the street in the IoT-detector van]
Tech Trainee: [Viewing a screen showing dozens of blue triangles] Wow, look at all the Bluetooth stubs.
Service Tech: Yep, all those appliances that no one has hooked into the internet yet.
Trainee: So we're going to use the factory presets to hook them up for their owners?
Service: God, no. We check to see if they're out of warranty and brick 'em.
Trainee: That's awful.
Service: Yeah, it is. If they had hooked them into the WiFi like we told them, we wouldn't have to drive around to do this.
Trainee: We're punishing them for not connecting their appliances?
Service: No, I mean we could brick them remotely.
#ShortFiction #IoT #Brick
@compfu@mograph.socialThis video essay about the look of Sinners (which was shot on 70mm IMAX and Ultra Panavision) brought up something I hadn't realised until now: the large format gives you a wide field of view with the look of a telephoto lens! What that means is that you get shallow depth of field like in closeup shots with the framing of a wider angle lens.
Personal observation: there's also very little barrel lens distortion that usually comes with wide shots on 35mm.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comU.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2025/measles-vaccine-schools-outbreaks-public-health/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p39#a251231p39
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.socialElectronic accordionist Grayssoker just posted a tune “1312” which I had to look up and found it’s a corollary to ACAB
There’s a ton of heavy mostly Eastern European hip-hop songs of the same title with dudes rapping in black masks, harshly flipping off cops and stuff
I don’t know if it’s a cover of one of those or what
From @…
🪗✊🏼
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Reduced the size of Golang binaries by up to 77%.
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/agent-go-binaries/
saved 2026-02-24
@jaygooby@mastodon.socialTurnip is obsessed with getting into our loft - we let him have a roam around while we were putting the Xmas decorations away. Look at his pleased little face!
#CatsOfMastodon
@gwire@mastodon.socialI think you'll find we've always been at war with Eurasia, actually. Look it up.
@stefan@gardenstate.sociallol. whoops. apparently the first movie isn't "Jason Bourne" but instead "Bourne Identity" only 10 minutes in and I didn't know but I tried to look up an actor on imdb and saw I was on the wrong movie.
#movies
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialAn #earworm popping up in my brain lately. A poem I was made to memorize when I was 14. It re-emerges every couple years, for no reason I can figure. tbh, I usually only remember verbatim the first few lines or so, and have to look it up again. It’s one of those things, like advertising jingles from many years ago, that have lodged in my memory. 🎶You’ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush y…
@joe@toot.worksI had to look up what https://gifs.uwm.edu was. I hope someone keeps it updated.
@niqdanger@social.linux.pizzaJust looked at my sisters car, the check engine light came on. My stupid ODB2 reader still works, even though it came with a Windows XP disk for a manual. The error code was P0420 which I think is just a "your car has 100k miles and will have this problem now" kinda thing. I got cold outside so we are making plans to look more later and figure out if its a sensor or the catalytic converter. Either way, P0420 exhaust code still cracks me up. Someone HAD to do that on purpose.
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaIf you’re rich, I don’t like you. If you’re rich and help the poor, I still don’t like you. If you’re rich and wish you weren’t, I can understand that, but it doesn’t change anything. Giving to the poor doesn’t undo the system that made you rich in the first place. It’s charity dressed up as justice, and it only makes you look generous while the structure that feeds your power stays firm.
If you really wanted to help, you’d walk away from the corporations, the profit, and the comfort b…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Stars:
🎵 Look Up
#Stars
https://rmmsc.bandcamp.com/track/even-stars-look-up
@pre@boing.worldAdded a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialWhen Meta released its new AI-enhanced smart glasses last October, many minds travelled back to Google Glass, the search giant’s abortive venture into the same territory a decade previously. A lot has changed in 10 years.
https://www.computing.co.…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialDecided to attempt muffins again… never really satisfied with how they turn out. These look good but I’ll need to wait until my partner tests them out for the final verdict.
@frankel@mastodon.top
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialAlso: we're seeing what happens when white people are actually motivated en-masse (and the George Floyd response was actually another decent example of this).
General strike -> capitalist class goes "oh shit we need to deescalate" -> temporary reprieve.
White people actually putting their bodies on the line (or at least near enough to it that ICE killed them) got results. This is direct evidence of just how much oppression depends on the social fragmentation it invests immense energy into creating in order to not get its ass kicked both ideologically and literally.
Also for those white people like me who are scared to participate: I don't have the numbers, but there were something like 50,000 people who stood up (even if we just want to count observers and joiners-of-whistle-crowds I'd guess at least 5,000-10,000). Two in that category died (more like 30 have died in the direct-targets-of-ICE category). So don't look at Pretti and think "protesting is so risky." Consider that both the odds of being the one or two killed are low, and that if you don't stand up quickly and strongly enough against this shit, the body count will grow much higher.
This isn't over, and continued escalation and resistance is super critical now. Rather than hoping the twin cities story is a story of heroes elsewhere who solved the problem, make it a story of an inspiring example that gets replicated in LA, Chicago, and all around the nation where ICE is trying to metastasize into an unaccountable secret police.
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2026 NFL Power Rankings: Way-Too-Early Look At How Every Team Stacks Up https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-power-rankings-way-too-early-look-how-every-team-stacks-up
@NFL@darktundra.xyzEight Shrine Bowl standouts you'll be hearing a lot more about as the 2026 NFL Draft process ramps up
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/shrine-…
@hex@kolektiva.socialThings like the #NoKings protests may feel like they're not enough, but they can be useful for building that network. Asking neighbors if they're going can help open up conversations, can lead to more conversations, can provide openings to find ways to escalate resistance, and can let you build what you need to feel safe going hard if you realize it's time.
Protests directly against facilities and other direct actions are small escalations that let you build trust and understand your network. If you want to know where you need to be, look at Twin Cities. That is the type of response that makes the machine grind to halt.
Make that happen everywhere and more escalation may not be necessary. And, if it is necessary to escalate more, that level of community organizing makes all other forms of escalation sustainable.
@markhburton@mstdn.social"En el caso de las izquierdas, hay algunas izquierdas que cuando se trata de Cuba miran para otro lado sin entender que Cuba tiene muchas funciones en la batalla cultural de las izquierdas del hemisferio occidental."
"In the case of the left, there are certain left sections that, when Cuba comes up, look the other way, without understanding that Cuba has multiple functions in the cultural battle of the Western hemisphere left."
Iramis R. Cšrdenas:
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeHow to factory reset your cat
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioPeople up a few levels in org hierarchies are always coming up with ideas that sound great and make sense in a Powerpoint or on a spreadsheet, but are actually terrible ideas if you understand how they’ll play out.
This is only human! Management is about seeing things zoomed out — and all problems look smaller at a distance. It’s just a hazard of the job. Anyone in such a role is susceptible, even the best; what distinguishes •good• managers / administrators is that they mindfully, actively counter this self-trap.
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@cdarwin@c.imI love that so many Americans turned out to not just protest policies that hit personally,
but to rally in support of democracy writ large.
For many, it was their first time taking this kind of action,
and they were doing it in a way that expressed optimism and possibility rather than giving in to anger or despair
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itRE: #ACAB
@bici@mastodon.sociallook at all those over-fed over beered-up "tourists"
@sean@scoat.esThink about how expensive Uber has become. Now look at this chart (sorry; borrowed it from Reddit; assuming it’s not completely wrong), and draw the simplest conclusion about how much this LLM stuff is going to cost when you’re not getting a handout to subsidize it.
Heck, if a straight line is too hard for you, just ask the LLM.
@ethanwhite@hachyderm.ioIf you’re calling your representatives this morning, and they aren’t answering and their voicemails are full (which happened to me this morning) you can look up the numbers for their regional offices in your state and reach them there.
@mlawton@mstdn.socialI feel for Slot here, having to figure out which square peg to put in the round hole at CB.
Gravenberch isn't particularly good at winning aerial duels, especially for a guy who's 6'3".
Nallo, 6'1" is young, solid aerially, but playing mostly U21.
Endo, only 5'10" wins most of his aerial duels, but not necessarily at CB.
And Slot takes Gravenberch, which I understand.
Qarabak don't look to be big up front, but set pieces wi…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngDo(n't) look down...
(View down into Oytal from a precarious section of the ridge path near Laufbacher Eck & Schneck, late October 2021)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography
@ToneMilazzo@mastodon.cloudI have a rare disability called "Controller blindness." After 15 years on the PlayStation I still have to look at the controller to know which one is the 🔳 button. I've hooked up the PS4 controller to my CachyOS desktop, but Steam has their own controller glyphs. So I needed to make a reference:
@fortune@social.linux.pizza"Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and am blinded by a bright, white
light. It's God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. In
a booming voice, He says: "THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX SYSTEM
FOR THE 386."
(Matt Welsh)
@danyork@mastodon.socialFor decades now, the traditional telcos keep trying to find ways to get newer companies to pay them... whether it is dressed up as " #FairShare " or #NetworkFees or "dispute resolution" or whatever... in the end they are flawed ideas that are solutions trying to find proble…
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialTroubling signs that the Linux demographic at the Register is now made up of people yelling at the clouds.
https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/115867723149851024
@ErikUden@mastodon.dei absolutely love going through https://okstupid.lol/ and seeing all the MEN who signed up for "WhiteDate" thinking they could find far right women to mingle yet all it lead to was their insane incel beliefs being leaked alongside their real address and name
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgI wrote a bit about grief. Not for a person but the world that was.
(Original title: The World That Was)
https://tante.cc/2026/02/06/the-world-that-was/
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI don’t think we should get caught up in hunting for so-called “spiritual successors.” That kind of logic starts to feel like the endless splintering of the Trotskyists, each one founding their own Fourth International to guard some sacred ideological flame.
I look at the ICL CIT the same way, too wrapped up in reproducing hierarchies instead of dismantling them.
⭐ https:…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI can understand maybe not being able to comprehend this due to age (he's 79).
But there's a lot of young people who don't have problems with images like these which show wrong things, make up stuff that's weird, look creepy and misspell text.
I wonder if perhaps repeated COVID infections contribute to people's mental decline that is similar to age-related mental issues.
@steve@s.yelvington.comA new CNN headline channel, free, showed up on my Roku. I've tried to watch it twice. It's truly awful. It makes People magazine look like the New Yorker.
@newstik@social.heise.deBillions we have spent on speeding up our computers and our internet connections, just to sit and look at "checking if you are a bot" animations two microseconds earlier.
@joe@toot.worksI really don't want to know what the cheeto said last night but I should probably look it up.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io…sometimes there’s •not• a clear standard way. Sometimes you need flexibility. For example, a lot of what makes UI programming hard is layout: you have to make your own very specific application look good on a variety of devices and screens, which means coming up with an •algorithm• for adjusting your design for all those different contexts.
That’s an intrinsically hard problem that requires design chops and nuance and contextual knowledge. Attempts to abstract the decisions out of that problem have been stubbornly unsuccessful. (How many layout engines are out there now?)
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries A, Episode 13 - Orac
BLAKE: What is it?
CALLY: Look. [She puts her hand up to show some sort of barrier. Blake does the same.]
BLAKE: It's a force barrier. The question is are we on the outside unable to get in or....
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/176 B7B2
@cdarwin@c.imOne year into Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown,
construction firms in Louisiana are scrambling to find carpenters.
Hospitals in West Virginia have lost out on doctors and nurses who were planning to come from overseas.
A neighborhood soccer league in Memphis cannot field enough teams because immigrant children have stopped showing up.
America is closing its doors to the world,
sealing the border,
squeezing the legal avenues to entry
and sending n…
@pre@boing.worldSo my car has been complaining I should put some exhaust emissions neutralizing fluid in it. A thing they call AdBlue I believe.
Bought a big 10l drum of the stuff ready to fill up.
But when I look at where I expect to find the hole for filling it, I just find a capped off tube and a warning sticker "See the GM Citreon Berlingo Blaze manual" for the adblue refilling hole.
Only user manual I have is the one telling me to expect it there.
The car was converted for wheelchair access at some point in its life. I think they are referring to the wheelchair-adaption manual, which the seller did not give me.
🤔
Have been looking around the car as much as I can for a couple of hours this morning to no avail. Where have they hidden this hole to fill up adblue?
Maybe it's under the engine or something now and you have to put the thing on stilts to find it?
🤷
Asked my mechanic about it and he says to bring it in on Monday. Gonna be a pain if I have to rip up the floorboards or something every year to refill that.
#mechanic #car #diesel
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeI must go, #Caturday needs me
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNiners' injury probe includes looking into substation https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47685487/niners-look-everything-including-substation-theory
@nerb@techhub.social@…
Saw 3 whistle ducks fly overhead while on a walk this morning.
My elderly mind went off on a tangent so I did bit of mods to your duck.
Behold the whistle duck in even more poorly drawn glory..
When did they add AI to paint? Damn thing kept trying to do things to the drawing . And they really screwed up transparency!!
@raiders@darktundra.xyzGame Preview: Broncos look for crucial win vs. Raiders as postseason race heats up https://www.denverbroncos.com/news/game-preview-broncos-look-for-crucial-win-vs-raiders-as-postseason-race-heats-up
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at TAT-8, the first transoceanic fiber-optic cable, which went into service in 1988, was retired in 2002, and is now being pulled up for recycling (Jane Ruffino/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/say-goodbye-to-the-undersea-cable-t…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026 NFL Power Rankings: Way-Too-Early Look At How Every Team Stacks Up https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-power-rankings-way-too-early-look-how-every-team-stacks-up
@stefan@gardenstate.socialfinally looked it up and
shift >
is how to increase the video speed on youtube. why i wait so long to look this up? the UI can be so slow!
#youtube
@ethanwhite@hachyderm.ioThe story of what's been happening with an LLM posting attack pieces against an open source maintainer and then a news outlet publishing a piece using LLMs that made up quotes from the maintainer is a disturbing look into what the internet is going to look like in the immediate future
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
@chiraag@mastodon.onlineValentine's Day is coming up and reservations will fill up quickly, so this is your reminder to go look up stuff and book it if necessary ^_^
I went to book something back in November and it was already booked, so pivoted to something else which ended up being cancelled, and booked another thing which is similar. And just managed to snag restaurant reservations.
So yeah, folks. Esp if you're a cishet guy (like me), make sure you don't disappoint for Valentine's Da…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it @ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgWant to be my new section lead?
These jobs don't come up very often, but if you want to work with a friendly and diverse bunch of scientists at the leading edge of high resolution regional climate and climate services development, give it a look. 🇪🇺🇩🇰🇬🇱🌍🇦🇶
https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=5001&ProjectId=192370&DepartmentId=6145&MediaId=5
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeHoly cow, that's a big dog!!
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThis is cool and all but FireWire 800 had a 9-pin connector, look it up
https://mastodon.nl/@Zatarra/115750978802641327
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioUnderlings are so annoying!
Sometimes you can make this problem go away by exploiting weak labor power (see: factories, agriculture, sanitation).
Sometimes you can create a toxic org culture when information •only• flows down the hierarchy, so no pushback can ever reach your sensitive ears. (Public school administrations are rife with this.)
Sometimes you can do it by making your catastrophic failures look like a string of successes to the people up the chain. (Large corporations are swimming in this.)
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at the erosion of press freedom and independent reporting in Israel, where journalists report escalating censorship, harassment, and self-censorship (Yael Krifcher/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/12/under-the-rada
@NFL@darktundra.xyzMike McDaniel on Dolphins' passing attack in loss to Steelers: 'It's not up to standard' https://www.nfl.com/news/mike-mcdaniel-on-dolphins-passing-attack-in-loss-to-steelers-it-s-not-up-to-standard
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzHangin' With The 'Boys: A Charged-Up Defense https://www.dallascowboys.com/podcast/hangin-with-the-boys-a-charged-up-defense
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it8yo: "Wow, I didn't expect it to look like an anus!"
A: "Go eat your anus at the table."
13yo: "Guys. Shut up."
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that lets users sign up with only a ZIP code and uses an encryption system based on "zero-knowledge proofs" (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioMaybe it’s not work but something else in your life that stops. I don’t know…but you do. What in your life allows the country to continue to function normally? What’s a plug that you can personally pull?
Look for that. Think about it. And get yourself ready. Build up your savings now. Build up your psychological readiness now.
And then…
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@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s chief of staff acknowledges ‘score settling’ behind prosecutions of political rivals:
‘He will go for it’
– ‘In some cases, it may look like retribution,’
said Susie Wiles in a wide-ranging interview with Vanity Fair
Wiles also suggested the real goal of Trump's boat strikes is to topple Venezuela's Maduro
"He wants to keep on blowing boats up until [president Nicolšs] Maduro cries uncle. And people way smarter than me on that say that he w…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioSo I’m using Facebook marketplace occasionally to look for interesting local stuff (e.g. retrocomputing), and this means I occasionally see the main timeline Facebook serves up for me.
It’s literally ONLY right-wing shit like anti-vaxx stuff, racism about brown people and videos with real or simulated violence.
To call it a cesspit would be unfair to actual cesspits.
How are we as society not making an end to this garbage?
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeI like to label the important things :3
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026 NFL Draft Prospect: Red Murdock, a Buffalo Linebacker Cowboys Fans Should Know https://insidethestar.com/2026-nfl-draft-prospect-red-murdock-a-buffalo-linebacker-cowboys-fans-should-know
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at MGX, Abu Dhabi's AI investment vehicle with stakes in Anthropic, xAI, and OpenAI; the firm plans to spend up to $10B annually over the next few years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-17/op…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioUnfortunately, it look like Senate Democrats might have less latitude to block ICE funding than we’d hoped:
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/i-need-to-correct-an-error
I say make those calls anyway. I want all of them desperate to stop ICE, up sleepless at night trying to figure out what they can do even if there’s nothing they can do.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzNFL playoff picture Week 16: Eagles look to lock up NFC East, finish Cowboys https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/12/20/nfl-playoff-picture-week-16-afc-nfc-seeds-clinching-scenari…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at military tech startup Shield AI, recently valued at $5.6B, and its new CEO Gary Steele, who aims to grow annual revenue from $300M to $1B by 2028 (Jessica Mathews/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/21/shield-ai-ukraine-defense-tech-gary-steele/
![Continuing the email thread, Myhrvold responds to Epstein, "Quite a trick for as long as it lasted..."
Epstein responds, "'Trick' is such a cheap word 😃. The Times' article said they were unable to find [out] who came up with the idea."
Myhrvold responds, "Ok, how about masterstroke, maestro?"
Epstein follows up with, "And you the master baker. Did I pronounce that right?" [for context, Myhrvold was publishing a cookbook at the time.]](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/116/076/537/170/209/624/original/f8a390c7658e8b4d.png)
