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iPhone Duo will usher foldables into the mainstream, just as iPhone did with smartphones; sources: iPhone game controllers will launch under the Beats brand (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Newly disclosed records reveal
the US government extensively spied on prominent leftwing organizations
and on protesters as part of a vast operation into groups opposing the immigration crackdown in Minnesota earlier this year.
Internal investigative reports show the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent undercover agents to community meetings in the Twin Cities and New York City,
infiltrated Signal chats and obtained financial records of mainstream unions and le…

US conducted ‘mass spying campaign’ against leftwing groups and anti-ICE protesters, records reveal
DHS sent undercover agents to meetings and infiltrated chats of groups opposing Trump’s immigration crackdown

A look at AI news website RuntimeWire, which costs $100/day to run and "beat" human reporters on OpenAI's Black Hat disclosure, favoring quantity over quality (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-newsrooms-are-breaking-news-now-ha…

Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News
Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It’s just the beginning.

I'm not going to read his "official biography", but this invention, and associated patents, were led by a colleague and me, with the first two granted before we even met Delo.
It doesn't surprise me to see him overstating his contribution and diminishing that of his future (now ex) wife - particularly what we know of his politics.
This much influence over any "mainstream" political party should be stopped, whether the source is foreign or domestic.

A look at AI news website RuntimeWire, which costs $100/day to run and "beat" human reporters to OpenAI's Black Hat disclosure, favoring quantity over quality (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-newsrooms-are-breaking-news-now-ha…

Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News
Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It’s just the beginning.

Eine Kritik der Inflationstheorien, erster Teil die bürgerliche #Wirtschaftsesoterik und ihre drei führenden "Theorien": #Monetarismus, #Keynesianismus,

Theorien der Inflation (Teil I)
Ich habe Michael Roberts' Artikel über Theories of inflation: part one – the mainstream übersetzen lassen und Text und Grafiken überarbeitet. Die Links sind von mir. Guglielmo Carchedi und ich arbeiten seit mehreren Jahren an einer Theorie der Inflation. Vor einiger Zeit haben wir eine ausführliche Abhandlung abgeschlossen, die von einer marxistischen Zeitschrift zur Veröffentlichung angenomm ...

The week the AI freakout went mainstream (Andrew Prokop/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/502717/ai-freakout-mainstream-openai-anthropic-humans
http://www.memeorandum.com/260912/p24#a260912p24

@… @… Which mainstream media outlets don't? Coverage of technical issues by non-specialist media has always sucked, and I expect it always will.

Why are they attacking the Nobel laureate who defends the working class?
What happens when a mainstream economist uses mainstream tools to reach conclusions the mainstream cannot accept.
By Alberto Garzón (sorry, it's on substack, but worth a read).
https://agarzon.substack.com/p/why-are

Why are they attacking the Nobel laureate who defends the working class?
What happens when a mainstream economist uses mainstream tools to reach conclusions the mainstream cannot accept

Today's mainstream news is 100% mental illness. And I should know, I've been fighting my own mental illness for decades. Game recognizes game, etc

(Grin)
‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/j

‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy

(Grin)
‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/j

‘Adversarial clothing’: are garments designed to confuse facial recognition systems about to go mainstream?
Designers say that as well as offering a degree of protection from surveillance, their clothes make a powerful fashion statement about the importance of privacy

😔
@… https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/world-c8sqdvr9z/-/a-ugFOmYHdTNGyxWElEH35vw:a:3199692-/0

German far-right set for big win in eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt - projections
Germany's AfD is heading for a big victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, far ahead of its mainstream rivals, according to initial projections. It is not yet clear if that would be enough to take power in the state but the AfD says it has won a mandate to govern. The far-right party is set …

"It is just not true that there has been ‘profligate spending’ by governments on welfare, medicare and pensions, as the ‘bond vigilantes’ and mainstream economists claim.  The only profligate spending, apart from the bailouts of banks and corporates, has been on defence combined with cutting taxes for the rich and corporations.."
Michael Roberts explains the bond panic.

Bond bust
The financial media and mainstream economists are in a huge tizz.  Government bond yields have risen sharply since the end of the pandemic slump to return to levels not seen since the glo…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@sigsegv/117357992727890334
"SCOTUS is illegitimate" needs to enter the mainstream lexicon.

Here's an new YouTube history channel by Chris Green, “The History Chap”.
https://www.youtube.com/@StoriesFromBritishHistory
Perhaps this channel will include more stories about women, and other subjects not well represented in western mainstream history. The 1st one&…

@… The relentless sanewashing that the mainstream media has done for Trump has been inexplicable and unforgivable.

"Verlieren etablierte Parteien und ihre Politiker an Rückhalt, profitiert die AfD. Vertrauensverlust im Mainstream heißt für die Ränder: Vertrauensgewinn."
"Wer öffentliches Wasser in privaten Wein verwandelt, gilt selbst Christdemokraten nicht als Heiligenfigur. Sondern als doppelmoralischer Egoist."
Jan Sudlarek: Die Spahnung steigt. Über Moral in der Politik #Spahn

Die Spahnung steigt. Über Moral in der Politik
Weder der dubiose Villenkauf noch die Spendendinner, noch die Maskenaffäre konnten ihn zu Fall bringen. Lange schien es, als würden sämtliche Skandale, jede berechtigte…

Can one of yall recommend me the best reading there is on the role of games like Call of Duty and Counter Strike in warping mainstream perception of the middle east

What’s happening in Michigan?
The defining Democratic primary of the cycle
— the Senate race between Rep. Haley Stevens and former Wayne County health department chief Abdul El-Sayed
— is not only about how the left learned how to win,
It’s just as much about how badly the mainstream Democratic Party has lost trust.
Alex examines the average, traditional Democrats
— Boomers, relatively affluent, Clinton-supporting types
— who are on the El-Sayed tr…

Normies’ Left Turn

From Press Progress
We published a big story this week, that hasn't been covered in-depth anywhere else in mainstream media.
Canadian Border Services, or the CBSA raided a peaceful protest in Calgary last week, where international students were protesting being left without status.
Immigration rules were changed in the middle of the students' education, impacting their eligibility for post-graduation work permits upon completion.
PressProgress obtained exclusi…

Sold a Lie: Emails Reveal Government and College Assured International Students they Would be Eligible for a Post-Graduation Work Permit Despite Rule Changes.
Now, students are facing removal orders from Canada after an ICE-like CBSA raid at their protest in Calgary

farewell to peter max, who brought psychedelia into the mainstream & maybe subsequently was not really remembered among the hep '60s artists. but i kinda love his stuff & how elemental & even elegant it feels now.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@deborahh/117246659791027480
A challenge I see with this move to watermarking “AI content” is that there are people for whom AI tools are a path to being included in our mainstream and English-based communication flow.
Some people with disabilities, or people for whom English is not their primary language, are finding great benefit out of using AI tools so that they can participate in conversations, whether in email, messaging apps, web forums, social media, or more.
The watermarking may mean their text is trusted less.

"What is clear is that at least 88 people died. ... Far-right parties, already driving the agenda on migration across Europe, weaponised the story."
"By Monday the vast majority who arrived in Ceuta had gone back to Morocco. None attempted to reach the Spanish mainland or to abscond towards any other country’s borders. Of those left stranded on the streets of the city, many were unaccompanied children."
The events at

The events at Ceuta ​show ​how Europe’s ​hard ​right ​now ​set the ​tone​ on immigration
The narratives of the right are seeping into mainstream EU policy, and Spain finds itself increasingly isolated in its humanitarian stance on borders

Pete Hegseth has close ties to
Doug Wilson,
an extremist pastor and self-described Christian nationalist
who thinks that women should not be allowed to vote.
In an interview with NPR, Wilson said he doesn’t think his full vision for turning the US into a Christian theocracy will be realized for about 250 years,
but he’s taking it step by step.
His main focus now is banning abortion and same-sex marriage.
While he’s still not a mainstream figure, t…

Pete Hegseth just took his personal crusade to a new level
The US defense secretary who hates ‘beardos, weirdos and wimps’ has announced an Office of Religious Affairs at the Pentagon

Being a Luddite Is Fun Again https://www.404media.co/luddite-events-nyc-off-tech-summer-of-ludd/

Remember when you could perform an action in GitHub, like assign a person to an issue, and then GitHub would actually reflect your change without having to do it several times, since it was—at one point—one of the few remaining mainstream web apps that actually worked reliably?
That was cool. 😴

The US Supreme Court decided against democracy today. Everybody had better keep an eye on their voter registration. And please follow reported, edited, fact-checked, and corrected news. Yes, mainstream news still works. #scotus

Doing some #SEO research for #dotnet, and I have never been more convinced to #dropthedot.
.NET is literally dying a slow death because no one can search for this shit on any search engine.
The topic gets drowned out by more mainstream vocabulary like "netflix" and "music theory”. FML

"EV sales double in Australia as one in four new cars now electric"
#Australia #EV #ElectricVehicles #Cars

One EV sold every 100 seconds as Australia catches up to the world
Electric cars have become mainstream in the past decade, making up one in four new car sales.

Welcome to the mid-2020's. Yet again, parody news site describes current events more accurately than mainstream media.
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/09/tech-oligarchs-agree-calling-ai-too-dangerous-way-…

Prediction markets are expanding into mainstream media, with integrations in Dow Jones, Substack, CNN, CNBC, and more, as they become an informational channel (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/prediction-markets-polymarket-media-company-kalshi/…

Polymarket’s Next Bet? It Can Also Be a Media Company
The legal battle over whether prediction markets are a form of gambling has overshadowed something else entirely: They’re already a new form of media.

The Valve Turners weren’t trying to maximize pipeline disruption.
They primarily aimed to raise awareness, prompt discourse, and spark further action.
The group received much media coverage, mostly from progressive and left-wing websites and media,
including large outlets such as The Nation, Democracy Now, and The Intercept.
They did get some coverage from the mainstream Associated Press and Reuters, and Bill McKibben wrote an op-ed for L.A. Times.
Unfortunately…

Valve Turners
The Valve Turners halted hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil with a simple, easily replicable tactic. Read about their strategy and effectiveness.

RE: https://indieweb.social/@jbz/117307751875743641
❝It's a gambit for regulatory capture. They're hoping to be appointed to some position in the market where their word is unassailable and everyone else has to ask them for permission to do things. It's frankly kind of ridiculous to commercialize this tool while saying people have to ask them for permission to use it.❞
So glad these thoughts are increasingly seeping into the nerd-mainstream and even the mainstream-mainstream.
1/2

Meta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8 (Georgia Hennessy/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-muse-personal-ai-agent-top-app-store-…

Meta's personal AI agent Muse soars to top of App Store
Meta's personal AI agent Muse has reached No. 1 on Apple's US App Store as AI agents begin moving into the consumer mainstream.

Since 2016, the year of Brexit and Trump,
“embattled mainstream threatened by emboldened far right”
has become the overarching narrative about Europe.
But while recent elections were important, this reductive take both oversimplifies the complexities of contemporary European politics and drives a defeatist “end of democracy” narrative.
1) Saxony-Anhalt’s election on 6 September was a global news event– understandably, given Germany’s history, economy and place in Eur…

Look again – there’s more to Europe’s election trends than far-right success
Defeatist narratives abound. Yet Germany’s latest elections suggest voter dissatisfaction is benefiting the left as well as the right, says the political scientist Cas Mudde

ABC News correspondent Terry Moran tweeted early Sunday morning an unusually frank, and unusually accurate, mainstream media assessment of Stephen Miller,
and of Trump
— who Moran called a “world-class hater.”
As White House deputy chief of staff,
Miller’s far-right bigotry has guided Trump’s brutally authoritarian anti-immigrant policies.
Mainstream media has a duty to inform its audience that those policies are in fact hateful.
-- But it rarely does so…

ABC is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller
The road to fascism is paved with "objectivity" and "civility."

How dual-valuation deals became pervasive in the current frenzied AI funding cycle, with prestige VC firms monetizing their brand names by getting better prices (M. Sriram/Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/ai-frenzy-brings-dual-valuation-deals

AI Frenzy Brings Dual Valuation Deals into the Mainstream
Prestige firms are monetizing their brand names by getting better prices than others in the same funding round

In a nutshell,
this is among the first public demonstrations of document-borne AI-worm self-propagation through normal workflows in a mainstream commercial productivity suite.
[…] the only way to block it is to get AI to differentiate instructions from data, which is impossible today.

“There’s this movement that’s been brewing on the right,
and they have crept into a variety of mainstream conservative institutions and taken over,”
one former senior Heritage analyst, who insisted on anonymity for fear of professional reprisal, told me.
That’s what had happened at Heritage. “It was planned,” the analyst said. “And it was a coup.”
The troubles at Heritage could be said to have started with Project 2025.
Since 1980, Heritage has put out a polic…

What the Crackup of the Heritage Foundation Says About the Post-Trump Right
The bastion of American conservatism best known for Project 2025 has been consumed by an ideological — and generational — civil war.

After major TV networks announced Monday morning they would boycott the White House
(You may have seen some videos of Trump talking to himself with no audio recorded, as the mainstream press wasn't there to mic him up)
The New York Times and Washington Post both released statements saying that they would not publish or distribute any images from the day’s events.
Despite Trump’s previous claims of allegiance to free speech, he is now pretending that freedom of the press…

Trump Crashes Out Over Media Lawsuit as Press Pool Protest Grows
Donald Trump is rapidly losing control of the situation.

As long as Mastodon does UI stuff like this it won't be going broad appeal or mainstream.
(This specific message happens when you "bump" a post, i.e. remove existing boost and then immediately boost again, and you do it "too fast").
1. It should be called "reboost" in the message because the feature is called "boosting".
2. No one cares about the HTTP status code, it's just confusing to people who aren't devleopers.
3. The message shouldn't happen at all, i.e. the boost button must remain grayed out or unavailable while the post is considered boosted already (for example there could be a little indeterminate progress spinner to acknowledge you unboosted but while its not really unboosted).
4. The message should probably be shown where the error happens, if you have a big monitor you might miss it because it's n the screen corner.
5. The message should probably not just go away by itself before you had a chance to read it.
6. If you absolutely have to have errors like this (could be because user is on a stale page that shows the post as not boosted when it actually is), make the message more helpful (for example suggest to reload the page to see the latest).
7. Reboosting existing boosts is a relatively common usage pattern—possibly make it a feature and give the user extra information (like idk a warning about "You already reboosted this twice in the last week, are you sure you want to pester your followers again?")
This is of course only a small detail, but these UX issues quickly add up.

Decode-Time Grammars: Constrained LLM Generation over a Refinement Order of Grammar Fragments
Shuoming Zhang, Ruiyuan Xu, Haofeng Li, Qiuchu Yu, Yangyu Zhang, Chunwei Xia, Xiaobing Feng, Chenxi Wang, Huimin Cui, Jiacheng Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18357 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18357 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18357
arXiv:2607.18357v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models now write a growing share of the world's code, increasingly inside agents and serving systems that compile, execute, or dispatch generated code without line-by-line review. This works well for mainstream languages but remains brittle for low-resource programming surfaces such as domain-specific languages, custom library APIs, and command-line tools. Even under grammar-constrained decoding, a model can still produce references invalid in the current environment: a buffer never declared, a column absent from the schema, a function the library does not provide, or an unsupported CLI option.
This paper introduces decode-time grammars: grammar fragments instantiated during generation from a runtime environment Gamma. A region-specific policy selects a fragment for each hole, and a tightening operator replaces open reference positions with Gamma-typed slots whose candidates are exactly the names, fields, APIs, or options available at that point. Newly generated declarations enter Gamma before later regions are decoded, so the constraining grammar can depend on the prefix already generated. This ensures not only grammatical correctness but also semantic correctness, by preventing references to undefined symbols.
We formalize grammar fragments as environment-indexed grammars ordered by refinement, prove No-Ghost soundness for Gamma-slotted fragments, show that refinement preserves this support-set guarantee, and characterize the boundary of mask-enforceable properties. We implement the approach in gproj with offline grammar induction and online policy resolution. Across TileLang, SQL, and P4, with models from 0.6B to 236B parameters, gproj eliminates ghost references by construction at moderate overhead over standard constrained decoding.
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El-Sayed Tries to Sell Himself as Mainstream to Michigan Voters (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/michigan-senate-campaign-el-sayed-6ac213d1
http://www.memeorandum.com/260828/p8#a260828p8

Here’s what you have to understand:
In Donald Trump’s America, all types of protest are unacceptable.
And if he gets his way, everyone involved in either of them could face the same fate.
Trump is currently at war with the left.
Antifa, communists, radical leftist agitators
— call them what you will, he’s coming for them.
But he’s also making plans to come for the center:
attacking nonprofit groups,
suing the press,
and making every ef…

How Trump’s War on the Left Will Come for the Center
The far-left activists catching charges set a dangerous precedent for mainstream liberals.

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/117100643466825893
Didn't I make a joke about Korrok some days ago? I mean the genocidal biological supercomputer from John Dies at the End.
In any case, if I want to react with the same joke twice in a few days, it means that this biocomputing thing is becoming dangerously mainstream.

Today in America, tired, desperate sailors are jumping off aircraft carriers,
masked government agents armed with guns and cattle prods are murdering and caging innocent people,
proverbial and real wrecking balls are battering our government offices and landmarks;
our national parks are being mauled by bulldozers, our air and water is intentionally being poisoned, and our endangered wildlife is being slaughtered;
life-saving vaccines are being shelved, while measl…

BEAT THE PRESS
An open letter to the most incompetent mainstream media in American history ...

It turns out the Trump administration has been investigating progressive
and even mainstream groups
that have been involved in protests against Donald Trump’s sweeping deportations,
according to newly released government documents.
That Trump’s deportations have prompted widespread outrage is hardly surprising.
The president arguably had an electoral mandate to secure the
US-Mexican border
but not to raid workplaces and neighborhoods to deport undo…

Donald Trump’s spying on leftwing groups recalls J Edgar Hoover’s Cointelpro
The FBI from the 1950s to the 1970s tried to infiltrate and discredit leftist organizations. Trump seems to be repeating that sordid practice

How Islamophobia Moved From the Fringe to the Mainstream in Texas (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/us/politics/islamophobia-texas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6FA.3UBT.5z77nv_W5A3x&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260817/p29#a260817p29