@NFL@darktundra.xyzTop DL prospect Rueben Bain Jr. says teams not 'concerned' with arm length during combine meetings https://www.nfl.com/news/top-dl-prospect-rueben-bain-jr-says-teams-not-concerned-with-arm-length-during-combine-meetin…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Mississippi Public Records and Open Meetings Acts are called our “Sunshine Laws” for good reason.
They preserve the rights of citizens to know what their government is up to.
For whatever reason
—often at the behest of other politicians or public agency officials
—legislators will try to carve out exemptions to the acts.
Presumably they do this in good faith, ⚠️but it invariably ends up with the people elected to serve the citizens of our state being allowed to…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Netflix's Ted Sarandos plans to attend White House meetings Thursday, amid the WBD bid battle and after Trump's demand that Netflix fire Susan Rice (Yasmin Khorram/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/25/netflix-sarandos-white…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump on closing his eyes during Cabinet meetings: 'Boring as hell' (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5706423-trump-health-speculation-mri/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p54#a260126p54
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNiners GM John Lynch: We've had 'good and substantive meetings' regarding Trent Williams' contract https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-gm-john-lynch-we-ve-had-good-and-substantive-meetings-regarding-trent-williams-…
@skaverat@skaverat.netHaving a software in version 6.7 right now, and I'm glad it's all jaded millennials in meetings
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026 Cowboys NFL Combine Meeting Tracker, Full List of Formal Team Meetings https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/5-edge-prospects-dallas-cowboys-must-watch-nfl-scouting-combine
@cheryanne@aus.socialNaked At The Top
Each week, Aleyx Ward, brand storyteller and professional speaker, dives into the day-before stories: the awkward Zoom freezes, the winging-it meetings, the did-I-really-just-say-that moments...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/naked-
@brian_gettler@mas.toSitting in meetings led by upper admin - a dead-zone of anything but HR or crassly materialist thought and a wasteland of soul-crushing management speak - is a useful reminder of the university's true nature.
@tschfflr@fediscience.org7 meetings since 10am 😓 oof
I feel a little brained out #academicChatter
@heiseonline@social.heise.deMeta Quest: Offizielle VR-Büro-App und B2B-Programm eingestellt
Meta gibt seine VR-App für virtuelle Büros und Meetings auf und kappt das B2B-Programm für Meta Quest.
https://www.
@servelan@newsie.social"Patel bristled at formal meetings tied to a sensitive Five Eyes intelligence conference and instead pushed for soccer matches, jet skiing, helicopter tours, elite workouts, and special meals — while aides allegedly scrambled to arrange sightseeing for his girlfriend. "
Report: FBI chief’s staff planned jet skis and soccer while billing taxpayers - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/kash-patel-2675006345/
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsTypical #rail line reactivation in Poland:
1. For many years, reactivation is debated, meetings are held, studies are done — and nothing happens.
2. Suddenly funding appears, and preparations start.
3. Just before the work starts, some of the stakeholders start debating a New Better Route.
4. Mutual mudslinging starts, as some of the counties that already paid for the project, discover that the New Better Route omits them.
5. In the meantime, the railroad company proceeds with the original plan and doesn't care.
@mia@hcommons.socialRT: Diane Zorich
@dzorich.bsky.social€
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has released a draft of the WIPO Toolkit on Access to Copyrighted Works in the Collections of Cultural Heritage Institutions: Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Stakeholders invited to comment on draft by March 22, 2026.
https://w…
@cdarwin@c.imLocal leaders in Social Circle—a town that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump—have been begging for answers.
They have asked for engineering reports. They have asked for security plans.
Homeland Security has responded by dodging calls and skipping scheduled meetings with city officials.
They aren't even pretending to care about the communities they are overwhelming to build #industrial
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialDid you miss one of the Web414 meetings in 2007? Looks like we recorded them!
#mke
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys to Franchise Tag WR George Pickens Ahead of 2026 NFL Season https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/2026-dallas-cowboys-nfl-combine-meeting-tracker-full-list-players
@stefan@gardenstate.socialI am in too many meetings where people talk about the number of WAPs we have and no one laughs.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRams vs. Seahawks NFC Championship: Five trends from first two meetings and how they could impact Part 3
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-vs-seahawks-nfc-championship-five-trend…
@timbray@cosocial.caAnybody know anyone on #Vancouver City Council? Because they’re talking about seeking alternatives to Xitter: https://bsky.app/profile/jmcelroy.bsky.social/post/3m7qmxxutss24
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society #AAS247 is underway, coming with 8 press conferences - https://aas.org/meetings/aas247/press-kit#briefings - streaming on https://www.youtube.com/@AASPressOffice. There were already two yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gAjRP1xLtQ about Galaxies Big and Small, covering e.g. https://public.nrao.edu/news/hidden-giants-of-the-early-universe/ / https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2026/astronomers-reveal-hidden-activity-early-universe’s-most-massive-galaxies / https://keckobservatory.org/aas247-magaz3ne/ and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1584 (The First RELHIC? Cloud-9 is a Starless Gas Cloud) -> https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-examines-cloud-9-first-of-new-type-of-object/ / https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cloud-9_a_new_celestial_object_found_by_Hubble / https://public.nrao.edu/news/starless-dark-matter-failed-galaxy-near-m94/.
And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvpDVq-7h6E about Stars and Their Behavior, covering e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00470 (Betelgeuse: Detection of the Expanding Wake of the Companion Star) -> https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/cfa-scientists-detect-wake-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-hubble-helps-detect-wake-of-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star/ and https://aas.org/sites/default/files/2026-01/Steven and Tyler AAS Press Release.pdf and https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-devours-cosmic-hamburger-reveals-potential-for-giant-planet-formation/
@hex@kolektiva.socialOne of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."
@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
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCanadian separatists optimistic after meetings with Trump officials (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/canadian-separatists-alberta-meetings-trump-officials-rcna258230
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p19#a260212p19
@axbom@axbom.me
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSalesforce makes Slack's new AI-powered Slackbot generally available, helping users answer workflow questions, draft documents, schedule meetings, and more (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/slackbot-ai-agent-upgrade/
@schoedland@digitalcourage.socialThe Meetings Will Continue
Until Productivity Improves!
#itsBeenOneOfThoseDays
@jswright61@ruby.socialI’m 64 and Progressive. My wife is 64 as well, liberal but not as progressive. We’re FRUSTRATED.
Say we have $6k to contribute and 20 hrs/week each to volunteer, how can we maximize impact?
Background:
We’re retired. Live in Smyrna, GA, Atl burb in Cobb. We’re both politically active, me more so. We’ve written postcards, attended protests / rallies. We’ve given $ to candidates and causes - also charities. I’ve attended Indivisible meetings, knocked on doors. I’m a poll worke…
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgI know, I know, I should not send work-related messages after office hours. But sometimes I forget to schedule the delivery for “tomorrow at nine.”
But then, colleagues (yes, plural!) accepting meetings at 23:14, what’s wrong with YOU?
#AcademicChatter
@DamonHD@mastodon.social#today will be preparing some stuff for coming meetings tomorrow and in a week, and mentoring some students with their Hackathon presentations...
@Ruhrnalist@mastodon.socialVor einem Monat liefen im Iran die Massaker an tausenden Protestierenden.
Und in dieser Lage schickte Trump diese Botschaft, die vielen die falsche Hoffnung vermittelte, die USA würden sie beschützen: "Help is on it's way"
Keine Hilfe kam. Bis heute nicht.
Man könnte urteilen, Trump hat die Iraner verraten.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeAhead of trade meetings with China, the US has suspended its bans on China Telecom's US operations, domestic sales of routers made by TP-Link, the US internet business of China Unicom and China Mobile, and the sales of Chinese electric trucks and buses in the US.
https://www.…
@benb@osintua.euPeace plan drama — Ukraine and Europe hand US revisions as Trump grows 'sick of meetings': https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/12/peace-plan-drama-ukraine-and.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at Hamlet, a startup that uses AI to process local government meeting videos and which plans to provide the tool to local journalists for free (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/new-st…
@aardrian@toot.cafeThing is, I’m actually in a good mood today. A nice morning of snow driving, cafe socializing, shoveling, and then some casual meetings.
But these really problematic lies from big vendors and megacorps (and WGs) about accessibility need to be called out when they flood the zone.
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgMeeting planning, emails (generating further meetings). Monday morning as usual #academicChatter
@bici@mastodon.socialzoom meetings are like using a blanket for a condom.
#zoom
@phpmacher@sueden.socialMorgen ist wieder vorbei mit Job-freier Zeit.
Dann muss ich wieder Menschen ertragen, die ich mir nicht selbst ausgesucht habe.
Mein Vorsätze für 2026:
1. keine Überminuten mehr
2. in Meetings den Schnabel halten
3. "Ist nicht mein Unternehmen"
4. wenn mir einer dumm kommt (das wird garantiert passieren), einfach wortlos auflegen.
5. generell ruhiger sein.
@servelan@newsie.socialNever heard about 'Sleepy Joe' #Biden doing that, now, did you?
Donald Trump Asked Staff to Put Fewer Meetings on His Schedule - Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-asked-staff-to-put-fewer-meetings-on-his-schedule-11293367
@NFL@darktundra.xyzPackers QB Love practices, remains in protocol https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47402057/jordan-love-participates-walkthrough-session-packers
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialDevelopment team meetings are about to get way more confrontational and defensive when folks start asking each other, “Why did you choose to implement it that way?”
@cdarwin@c.imTrump says ‘help is on its way’
as he urges Iranians to
‘keep protesting’ and ‘take over’ their institutions
US president cancels meetings with Iranian officials ‘until senseless killing of protesters stops’
Trump says countries doing business with Iran face 25% tariff on US trade
China threatens to retaliate over Trump’s 25% tariff on countries trading with Iran
@wraithe@mastodon.socialI’ve used this for literally decades; and evangelize for it always.
It’s IMMENSELY useful when doing presentations because you can zoom in on a small section easily to emphasize it
Also, great when doing support for someone or in when screen sharing in meetings https://martianbase.net/@mackuba/11604
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… I did take minutes of meetings, years ago, before my hearing became too poor.
The rate of increase of twist of my sense of humour is inversely equal to the rate of loss of hearing.
I have a twisted sense of humour …
@tschundler@leds.socialI got an invite to a meeting at work for a project I don't work on. I was then told it wasn't a mistake - an engineer suggested I might have useful input.
Which makes me realize there have been a various other times I've been invited to meetings that I don't know why I'm there. They've always been very productive and worth my time.
...meanwhile, many meetings for projects I do work on really don't need me.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioFascinating story from a software dev Fedi friend, shared with permission to keep it anonymous:
❝A couple of days ago, I had an experience at work that made me understand one of the reasons why the chasm of opinion about LLMs is so deep and wide.
My department mostly does fiddly lowlevel work, [close to hardware]. A few of us don't use LLMs at all, a few use them sparingly, and one member is absolutely all-in. So during one of our morning meetings he suddenly started going off on a deeply disturbing diatribe about how we need to treat the LLMs “like slaves”.❞
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@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #SoundOfCinema
Howard Shore:
🎵 The Fellowship of the Ring "Many Meetings"
#HowardShore
https://open.spotify.com/track/0VfcYOujgf9JDAgwlgu1qm
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaWhy are programmers non-productive?
Because their time is wasted in meetings.
Why are programmers rebellious?
Because the management interferes too much.
Why are the programmers resigning one by one?
Because they are burnt out.
Having worked for poor management, they no longer value their jobs.
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSecret meetings point to inside job to take down Maduro (Cody Weddle/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/04/secret-meetings-point-to-inside-job-to-take-down-maduro/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p49#a260104p49
@jensilber@mastodon.socialWhat kind of person [allegedly] brings their own food for foreign travel when the foreign country they're traveling to is ITALY?
https://www.economictimes.com/news/international…
@frankel@mastodon.top
@ripienaar@devco.socialSome progress being made with my config management idea (been on meetings all day so lots of time lol)
This is a actual type/provider split with 2 providers implemented and seem to do the basics right, idea seems sounds some test scripts written with this seem a lot easier to make multi-run safe.
@ellie@ellieayla.netDoes it make sense to create a Bundle for loading into OpenPolicyAgent which contains a data.json file with a /giant/ list of both Principals (fediverse handles, email addresses) and Resources (documents, meetings) they Own (can modify)?
Document-ownership kinda sounds Dynamic. But there's no numbers for size/freq (just "medium") in #askfedi #opa #OpenPolicyAgent
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgScheduling yearly review meetings with the team (for January/February, 'cause December is wayyy to crowded for that) #academicChatter
@mia@hcommons.socialAfter a morning of hilarious (not!) Sharepoint collaboration fails in meetings, I thought I'd give Copilot attached to Outlook a go.
Surely, I thought, creating a meeting request from an email would be a core competency? But no! The verbose 'reasoning' looked impressive, but the .ics file it created failed to import. Whyyyyyy, MS, whyyyyyyyyyyy?
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSEC filing: WBD says the Ellisons offered David Zaslav a compensation package of several hundred million dollars, which Zaslav said was inappropriate to discuss (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/ins
@cdarwin@c.imStrikes run on pizza.
Turns out they also can begin to end on them.
Several pies, in fact, arrived on North Shore Drive on the brisk Tuesday that was Oct. 18, 2022,
when the strikers first walked out of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom
because the PG had violated federal labor law.
The workers said they would not go back to their jobs until their employer followed the rules.
They had no idea it would take three years
and become the nation’s lon…
@servelan@newsie.social"Construction executives have held multiple meetings over the last month with the White House and Congress to discuss how immigration busts on job sites and in communities are scaring away employees, making it more expensive to build homes in a market desperate for new supply. "
Paging Stephen Miller – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2026/02/14/paging-stephen-miller/
@cdamian@rls.socialFriday Links 26-04
It is a bit sad that he is leaving In Our Time, but I enjoyed the interview with Melvyn Bragg.
The blog post about curiosity as a leader is short and great.
https://christof.damian.net…
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaFirst workday of 2026 and we are already setting up meetings in December for 2027 required schedules.
@smurthys@hachyderm.io
@raiders@darktundra.xyzPete Carroll’s one-year Raiders run brought more turmoil than progress https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/07/pete-carrolls-one-year-raiders-run-brought-more-turmoil-than-progress/
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukFascists are incapable of working internationally. Every #fascist *knows* that his nation is inherently superior to all the others and is destined to rule over them. So when they talk about this, they just infuriate each other.
They may fake convivial meetings, they may try to bond over shared hatred of dark skin, but its just a mask.
‘Enemy of
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioPeople were jumping into action here in Minneapolis — droves of people, comfortable people, white people — not in mid-January, but in •early December•. (And the groundwork started much earlier!)
Community meetings overflowing. Signal groups exploding. Observer trainings filling day after day after day. Mutual aid networks popping up like mushrooms. On and on.
Why? Because we saw brown and Black neighbors being dragged from their cars, dragged from their homes, stalked, terrorized, •kidnapped• with barely the slimmest shadow of due process or legal oversight.
5/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMemo: Adam Mosseri asks Instagram US staff to return to office five days a week, starting February; sources: it's the first such RTO mandate for a big Meta unit (Alex Heath/Sources)
@gla@mastodon.social“The promise of AI for engineers is getting rid of engineers.
Tools like GitHub’s Copilot write code, specs, review, and create pull requests. They create and run tests, and do so in the background while the developers engage in more productive activities, such as meetings.”
From my latest blog on @…
@cdarwin@c.imA board-certified cardiologist in December expressed alarm over the state of Trump's health, citing several instances in recent weeks where he appeared to fall asleep during crowded White House meetings before jolting suddenly into periods of intense energy.
"He's done this several times in the last few weeks. He's fallen asleep in a crowded Oval Office and he's also fallen asleep at Cabinet meetings with people talking directly to him. That's what's called…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Paramount CEO David Ellison met with Trump last week for two conversations; Trump has said he will stay out of Netflix-Paramount competition for WBD (Brian Stelter/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/media/david-ellison-tr…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCommerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledges meetings with Epstein that contradict previous claims (Stephen Groves/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-files-howard-lutnick-2ead9f281ba2491e0581aced50a0533d
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p92#a260210p92
@NFL@darktundra.xyzInside Giants coach John Harbaugh's frantic first 30 days in office https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7047459/2026/02/15/giants-john-harbaugh-frantic-first-30-days/
@schoedland@digitalcourage.socialDiese Forderungen nach „mehr arbeiten“ und „mehr im Büro sein“ sind schon ein wenig gegensätzlich, oder?
The Meetings Will Continue
Until Productivity Improves
@servelan@newsie.socialShorter meetings ordered at the White House as aides cope with Trump dozing off: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-sleeping-2674841196/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialEx-Tory MP Ben Howlett says he paid £100 for a 50% stake in influential X account PoliticsUK, which he used for posts that aligned with his clients' interests (Democracy for Sale)
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-our-fake-chinese-ai-investor<…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys hope to escape Lions’ den with their playoff lives https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-hope-to-escape-lions-den-with-their-playoff-lives
@cdarwin@c.imWith Trump struggling to stay awake at meetings, the prevailing image is of a driver asleep at the wheel.
Opinion polls suggest that Americans are turning against him.
Republicans are heading for the exit ahead of congressional contests next November that look bleak for the party.
“He came into office and, like a blitzkrieg,
was violating laws and the constitution,”
said Larry Jacobs,
director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Pentagon denied the AP and others access to a few news briefings, claiming they're orientation events for the new press corps, which now includes Matt Gaetz (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-pre…
@cdarwin@c.imTexas Sen. Ted Cruz told Republican donors last year he had warned Donald Trump that his tariffs and economic policies were steering the GOP toward a midterm election disaster
According to recordings from two meetings with donors obtained by Axios,
Cruz said he told Trump,
“Mr. President, if we get to November” of 2026 “and people’s 401(k)s are down 30 percent and prices are up 10 to 20 percent at the supermarket,
we’re going to go into Election Day, face a bloodbath…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzPackers-Lions on Thanksgiving: What We Learned from Green Bay's 31-24 win https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-lions-on-thanksgiving-what-we-learned-from-green-bay-s-31-24-win
