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Volumetrische Videos nehmen eine wichtige Hürde auf dem Weg zum Mainstream
Dynamische Gaussian Splats lassen sich jetzt in guter Qualität auf mobile Geräte und VR-Brillen streamen. Volumetrische Videos werden damit massentauglicher.

Fuck Kanye West coming back to the mainstream after everything

American president: fuck shit fuck die boom boom!
Mainstream media: The strategy behind the president’s unorthodox approach to international conflict and diplomacy appears to be…
American president: I go wee wee on your head!

Q&A with UpScrolled founder Issam Hijazi, who says the non-algorithmic social app hit 5M users, mainstream apps were censoring pro-Palestinian content, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-upscrolled-…

He Started a Social Network Alone. Then 5 Million People Signed Up
Issam Hijazi launched UpScrolled after users alleged censorship on other platforms. Nine months later, its user base is soaring—while Hijazi tries to catch up with his own success.

Not for me it won't.
Paying with your face will become mainstream, says Korean fintech group
https://www.ft.com/content/f48b4605-1aa9-4549-9197-fc1c2a361b90

A study finds LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI can help with academic fraud, specifically helping non-researchers submit fabricated papers to arXiv (Elizabeth Gibney/Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00595-9

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

I have last year's T14, not this year's. Of course. Still, this is majorly good news and I hope more laptop makers follow suit.
https://www.ifixit.com/News/115827/new-thinkpads-score-perfect-10-repairability

Lenovo’s New T-Series ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability
Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo’s new T-series business laptops, which earned our highest honor with a 10/10 repairability score.

A US district court judge heard arguments over rules that limit journalists' access to the Pentagon, in a case brought by NYT, and vows to issue a prompt ruling (Michael Kunzelman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-pol…

Judge weighs New York Times bid to block policy limiting journalists' access to Pentagon
The New York Times is urging a federal judge to block a Pentagon policy that has limited access to the building for journalists from many mainstream news outlets. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman didn’t rule from the bench after hearing arguments in the newspaper's lawsuit against the Defense Department. The Times is seeking a court order for the Pentagon to reinstate press credentials for reporters who refused to agree to the new rules. A newspaper lawyer said the policy is depriving Americ…

Includes a brief discussion of the cult-like behavior of incel communities online...
The Pentagon says it’s ‘lethalitymaxxing’. Why has ‘incel’ slang crossed into the mainstream? | Language | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/01/incel-slang-mainstream-government-media

The Pentagon says it's 'lethalitymaxxing'. Why has 'incel' slang crossed into the mainstream? (Matthew Cantor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/01/incel-slang-mainstream-government-media
http://www.memeorandum.com/260301/p62#a260301p62

Media Shied Away From Climate Coverage in 2025
Despite Increased Reader Interest
Mainstream media around the world last year drew back from reporting on climate change, according to new reports.
This drop occurred despite increasing reader interest in the topic,
while greenhouse gas emissions and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations continued to hit new historic highs.
According to a year-end analysis by the Media and Climate Change Observatory (MeCCO),

Media Shied Away From Climate Coverage in 2025 | Earth.Org
As temperatures and emissions rose in 2025, climate news coverage around the world took a dramatic plunge.

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@PoliceStateUK/116159665967332199
When a professional managerialist centrist like Khan (highly competent, successful, good track record, prominent) is way to the left of the party mainstream like this, it shows clearly how f…

Heute ist „X“ eher ein Paralleluniversum mit viel Echo und wenig Widerspruch. 2020 führten „heute-show“ & Co. die Interaktionslisten an, jetzt stehen AfD-Politiker und Accounts wie „queru_lant“ oben. Mainstream? Eher Nischenfestival mit Dauerempörung. #Meedia #X

#trending: der kleine Affe Punch, die Parallelwelt "X", der "European Tree of the Year"
Guten Morgen! Ich habe in dieser Woche mal bei "X" nachgeschaut, welche Accounts, denen ich zu Twitter-Zeiten gefolgt bin, noch aktiv sind. Und welche Accounts inzwischen die nach Likes und Reposts erfolgreichsten in Deutschland sind. Die Ergebnisse sind einerseits erstaunlich, andererseits aber auch nicht. Eins der #trending-Themen von heute.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#20thCenturyRadicals
- Louis Andriessen: Disrupting the mainstream
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century. This week, Gillian explores the music of the Dutch radical Louis Andriessen.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rt75

Trump has been on a media offensive since the Iran strikes, using short "exclusive" calls with mainstream outlets to make his points without cross-examination (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/03/trump-iran-press-calls/

Following Iran strikes, Trump floods news outlets with one-on-one calls
Trump’s unorthodox media strategy, a flurry of calls to reporters on both sides of the aisle, aims to shape public opinion on US military action against Iran.

“It seems that AI is now mainstream in software engineering.”
It’ll be interesting to see how this works out now that the price gauging has started…
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-tooling-2026

“It seems that AI is now mainstream in software engineering.”
It’ll be interesting to see how this works out now that the price gauging has started…
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-tooling-2026

“It seems that AI is now mainstream in software engineering.”
It’ll be interesting to see how this works out now that the price gauging has started…
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-tooling-2026

@… I don’t know the needs of the people working on CPython of course, but as a general statement: I think git is solid, but it’s a shame that most mainstream use cases seem to largely forget that it’s a *distributed* system.
As an industry, we’ve put way too many eggs in the GH basket.

New book “How to sell a genocide”is out today. Adam says “a data-driven account of mainstream media’s role in creating the conditions of mass death in Gaza.”
all profits go toward mecaforpeace.org:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0745351654?

I wonder how much of the LLM-for-coding hype is because the last 15 years in mainstream coding veered ever more enterprisey layer cakes that took all the fun out of programming

Piece on Masto being TechCrunched today: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/mastodon-is-making-its-decentralized-social-network-easier-to-use-with-its-latest-revamp

Mastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamp | TechCrunch
Mastodon is redesigning user profiles to simplify the experience and better appeal to mainstream users and organizations.

@… https://deepcutswrites.substack.com/

deep cuts | Oliver Kemp | Substack
Music from the outer fringes to the edge of the mainstream – free posts on Tuesdays, paid post every Friday. Click to read deep cuts, by Oliver Kemp, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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The smart glasses race will be won by AI, not augmented reality https://www.verdict.co.uk/smart-glasses-race-won-by-ai-not-augmented-reality/ "Smart glasses will go mainstream by making everyday life easier with

The smart glasses race will be won by AI, not augmented reality
Smart glasses will go mainstream by making everyday life easier with AI and discreet designs, not through flashy AR features.

One of my pet peeves of recent years has been the mainstream press:
(1) adopting “populism” as a euphemism for fascism (e.g. “Trump’s populist rhetoric”), which is at best a blurring of the word’s actual meaning (yes, fascists can use populist language, but populism is not their defining feature), and then
(2) applying the word in its original meaning (i.e. mass appeal to ordinary people) to leftists in direct comparison to fascists as if this constitutes a useful insight (e.g. “politicians with a populist message, such as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders”).

Früher war Twitter auch mein Nachrichtenticker. Heute ist „X“ eher ein Paralleluniversum mit viel Echo und wenig Widerspruch. 2020 führten „heute-show“ & Co. die Interaktionslisten an, jetzt stehen AfD-Politiker und Accounts wie „queru_lant“ oben. Mainstream? Eher Nischenfestival mit Dauerempörung. Zahlen sagen mehr als Nostalgie. Nachlesen bei #Meedia

#trending: der kleine Affe Punch, die Parallelwelt "X", der "European Tree of the Year"
Guten Morgen! Ich habe in dieser Woche mal bei "X" nachgeschaut, welche Accounts, denen ich zu Twitter-Zeiten gefolgt bin, noch aktiv sind. Und welche Accounts inzwischen die nach Likes und Reposts erfolgreichsten in Deutschland sind. Die Ergebnisse sind einerseits erstaunlich, andererseits aber auch nicht. Eins der #trending-Themen von heute.

In einem Podcast zum Thema Meditation habe ich gehört, dass wir die Meditation den Beatles zu verdanken haben. Denn die haben sie in den "Mainstream" gebracht.
Vorher hatten nur Mönche im fernen Asien meditiert.
#meditation #beatles

This gets especially interesting when you realize how there are several whole societies that are largely invisible to mainstream society. There's a whole bunch of law around monasteries which allow them to essentially operate almost entirely outside of the state. Similarly, Amish/Mennonite communities basically don't interoperate with the outside world most of the time. I lived on a religious commune for a bit (it was an Isis cult, which I wasn't really part of but that's a whole other story. And I'm not going to get in to the abuse elements of a lot of these because that critique is separate.)
A lot of these places can only exist because they don't have to pay taxes or comply with a number of laws. They often also can get government grants. There's a whole world of things that are built specifically to benefit Christian churches that can be subverted towards actually radical ends.

Israël getting hit by ballistic missiles, Dimona and Arad, but almost no news coverage on mainstream websites (yet).
#iran #israel #geopolitics

Meta, Virtual Reality und das Prinzip Hoffnung
VR wächst aller Unkenrufe zum Trotz. Doch wie das Medium den Sprung in den Mainstream schaffen soll, bleibt weiter offen. Meta setzt auf das Prinzip Hoffnung.
https://www.…

As far as I can tell mainstream open source, github-native culture is now completely horrible, co-opted by Microsoft, and destroyed by Anthropic, Google and OpenAI. The free/open source projects I'm involved with are constantly ripped off by vibe-coded interfaces that ignore the license, and when I point this out I get abuse. I just got told by a reddit user "thank you for your work but it doesn't matter much any more". Only

#ElektrischeVrachtwagens worden normaal in de EU https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/electric-trucks-go-mainstream-in-europe

Very much mainstream Labour. Ged Cooney has had enough of what the Labour Party has become.
Former [Tameside] council leader resigns from Labour Party - Manchester Evening News https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/former-greater-manches…

Former Greater Manchester council leader resigns from Labour Party
The councillor was suspended for being critical of the party following the Trigger Me Timbers WhatsApp scandal last year

"Nothing short of treasonous": Right-wing media ramp up attacks on Democratic officials, mainstream news, and Iran war critics as "traitors" (Isabella Corrao/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-relations/nothing-short-treasonous-right-wing-media-ramp-attacks-democratic-officials
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p58#a260428p58

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Doja Cat:
🎵 Aaahh Men!
#NowPlaying #DojaCat
https://mixhypeedits.bandcamp.com/track/doja-cat-aaahh-men-top40-mainstream-115-bpm
https://open.spotify.com/track/2qGvxAKXbajPFRb9ybIMOD

Analysis: surging memory and CPU costs could drive the retail price of a mainstream $900 notebook up by nearly 40% in 2026 to maintain current margin structures (TrendForce)
https://www.trendforce.com/presscenter/news/20260310-12959.html

Rising Memory and CPU Prices Could Push Mainstream Notebook Prices Up by Nearly 40%, Says TrendForce
For a mainstream notebook with an MSRP of US$900, surging memory prices alone could raise retail prices by more than 30%; combined with CPU price increases, the total price hike could approach 40%. If memory and CPU prices rise simultaneously, their combined share of notebook BOM costs could climb to 58%. CPU supply volatility is also emerging, with shortages beginning to affect entry-level platforms across multiple brands.

An excellent, in-depth blog post about the challenges of making home energy management work for consumers.
https://es.catapult.org.uk/insight/making-home-energy-management-work-for-consumers/

Making home energy management work for consumers
Claire Rowland, Senior Manager for Living Lab at Energy Systems Catapult, lists the technical and consumer experience problems we need to solve to propel low-carbon technologies from the homes of the hobbyist into the mainstream

International Energy Agency:
"Greatest supply disruption in the history of oil."
It's a foretaste of the future energy-constrained future. So now's a good time to plan
But that's not being admitted in mainstream discussions.
#PeakOil #Hormuz

Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time
The push for better pay and benefits among US scientists arrives at world’s largest biomedical funder.
-- Nature [paywall]
-- But 'crickets' in the mainstream media
@…

Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time
Push for better pay and benefits among US scientists arrives at world’s largest biomedical funder.

> Von der Mainstream-Plattform zum #rechtsextremen Netzwerk? Neue Studie [von @… @… und University of #Manchester] analysiert radikalen Wandel von #Twitter #zu X (…) Der Mechanismus des „Platform #Illiberalism“¹
➡️ Am 4. Mai präsentieren mehr als 20 Kommunikationsprofis #demokratiestärkende Netzwerke: #2MR
👉 #Sysop: Elon #Musk, X, and the emergence of platform illiberalism
#SocialMedia #DiDay

A profile of Anthony Fujiwara, who industrialized "clipping" for social media video marketing and has contributed to the rise of crypto casinos like Stake (Boaz Sobrado/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/boazsobrado/202…

The ‘Creator Of Clipping’ Who Powers Crypto Gambling’s Viral Machine
Anthony Fujiwara's clipping army delivers billions of views for a fraction of ad costs. It helped build Stake's empire, and now it's going mainstream.

Raiders Hit With Maxx Crosby Trade Take From Insider https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-trade-take-from-insider/

The national shame of the USA is overwhelming at this point.
I’m glad she’s home. I won’t say “OK;” nobody is really OK after experiencing something like that.
Please spare a thought — more than a thought, a thought spoken out loud, a smoldering rage, a capacity for action — for the many thousands of people like here who are still held by DHS in horrific conditions, and whose skin color makes them invisible to the mainstream press and public.
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116420499599121298

Seit Jahrzehnten boykottieren die #USA #Kuba und versuchen ein politisches System zu stürzen, das in vielem der USA - jedenfalls von heute - überlegen war.
Die Kapitalisten und der politisch-konservative Mainstream konnten nicht damit leben, dass womöglich ein sozialistisch geführtes Land erfolgreich sein könn…

I'm surprised how little this was covered in the mainstream news, this one yesterday and the one Feb 11th.
Amazon's cloud unit reports fire after objects hit UAE data center | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amazons-cloud-unit-reports-fire-after-objects-hit-uae-data-center-2026-03-01/

„Nius“ gibt sich als Gegenstimme zum Mainstream — tatsächlich funktioniert das Portal wie ein politisches Instrument. Julian Reichelt setzt auf Zuspitzung und untergräbt gezielt Vertrauen in andere Medien, um sich selbst als Alternative zu etablieren. Der SPIEGEL zeigt, wie eng das Projekt mit rechten Narrativen arbeitet.
Nähe zur AfD ist funktional, zur CDU strategisch, Glaubwürdigkeit zweitrangig.
#Nius

The most resistant to committing fraud, when asked repeatedly, were all versions of Claude. Versions of Grok and early versions of GPT performed the worst.
Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

A profile of far-right influencer Nick Fuentes, who has been kicked off most mainstream social media but made ~$900K from "fanatical" donors since early 2025 (Washington Post)

He spreads hate online — and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars
The far-right influencer Nick Fuentes has pocketed roughly $900,000 from “fanatical” donors since the start of 2025. Some superfans see him as part of their families.

He spreads hate online — and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars
Since the start of last year through the end of last month, roughly 11,000 donors have sent Nick Fuentes nearly $900,000 in superchats,
a Washington Post analysis found.
The Post analyzed more than 1,400 hours of Fuentes’s streams,
using artificial intelligence to tally the donations, which flicker on screen in real time.

Fuentes, 27, has been kicked off most mainstream social networks …

He sat atop an extremist empire. She thought he needed money.
The far-right influencer Nick Fuentes has pocketed roughly $900,000 from “fanatical” donors since the start of 2025. Some superfans see him as part of their families.

Does anyone know of a platform like Clubhouse which is still active?
For a brief amount of time there used to be Bluesky Spaces (a community-made project) which was awesome, but I'm really missing a space outside of the mainstream social sites where people can just hop in a voice space and hang out.

Stephen Miller’s January 2026 announcement to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
– telling them that they have “immunity to perform your duties”
and that no “illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist” can stop them
– may seem like an extreme statement outside the political mainstream.
And when ICE agents use facial recognition software to monitor immigrants and protesters,
that might seem like an unacceptable invasion of people’s p…

How the 9/11 terrorist attacks shaped ICE’s immigration strategy
The growth of today’s aggressive immigration tactics traces back 25 years, when enforcement took on the dimension of counterterrorism.

AI studio Moonmax unveils a slate of features signifying a push into more mainstream film production, including an AI-assisted movie on Captain James Hook (Alex Ritman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/global/ai-assisted-captain-james-hook…

AI-Assisted Captain James Hook Feature in Works at Moonmax
AI studio Moonmax has unveiled a slate of projects, including a new AI-assisted feature based on the origin story of Captain James Hook

The conflation of Jews and Israel is dangerous antisemitism.
And yet it’s harder to fight back as the mainstream Jewish establishment insists that Zionism is nearly as integral to Jewish identity as circumcision.
Increasingly, though, many Jews are searching for another point of view:
Feelings about Israel are wobbling within the community
— and disapproval is rising among the young;
pro-Palestinian Jewish groups are growing, and more and more Jews view “Zionis…

Book Review: ‘Here Where We Live Is Our Country,’ by Molly Crabapple
In “Here Where We Live Is Our Country,” Molly Crabapple tells the story of a Jewish labor movement that fought antisemitism and nationalism with equal fervor.