New York must redraw its congressional map, a state judge ruled on Wednesday,
handing Democrats another key opportunity to pick up another US House seat before this fall’s midterm elections.
The ruling from Jeffrey Pearlman,
a New York state supreme court justice,
comes after a Democratic-aligned law firm challenged the boundaries of New York’s 11th congressional district,
which includes the borough of Staten Island and portions of south Brooklyn.
The dis…
Thoma Bravo co-founder Orlando Bravo says the slump in software company valuations over threat of AI-driven disruption is creating a "huge buying opportunity" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8c2a5c48-17bf-4baa-9bbf-ac6cbe9279ca
As much as there's to dislike about Newsom and as much as this is an opportunity for self-serving purposes, he does seem to be the only one (at this level/forum) who speaks out clearly at this point and I much respect to him for that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfDK84LKHjA
The People’s Consultation on AI is a collaborative civil society initiative meant to:
1. Help [share] insights, experiences, and comments to inform a “national strategy” on AI that is truly in the public interest;
2. [Be] a more accurate representation of the range of views and concerns about AI that are present across Canada; and
3. Provide […] a wider range of affected communities, with a genuine opportunity to have a voice in AI issues and policy.
What @… says is what a lot of us have been lamenting since the ICE invasion started. Shouldn’t local police protect citizens from ICE?? Why this hasn’t happened is a really good question. Factors to consider:
- “Obstructing a federal agent” is illegal, and local police / politicians feel constrained by that (even if the agents themselves don’t seem constrained by the actual law at all, only by what they think they can get away with)
- Police can in theory cite federal agents for e.g. traffic violations or illegal plate swapping after the fact, as long as they’re not “obstructing” the agents — but how do you cite a masked person with fake plates who refuses to give ID?
- Some police are visibly supportive of ICE, chumming it up with them and giving literal fist bumps; a nontrivial subset are outright closet Nazis. A lot of people don’t really see any need to go past “ACAB” as a full explanation for all of this — and certainly The ACAB Hypothesis is…um, not really being proved false right now in Minneapolis.
- I think some police quietly resent ICE for stepping on their turf, but that does not seem to have boiled up into actual confrontation in MSP. One police leader here painted it in early Dec as “some people want to instigate a confrontation between Minneapolis Police, and that’s not going to happen.” Police culture says that police should be a neutral party in a dispute between ICE and residents, and actually protecting residents would be taking sides. (Duh, yes, taking sides that way is your literal job, you dumbasses…but I digress.)
- Some police (especially leadership) really want to get on the community’s good side after the murder of George Floyd, and see this as an opportunity, but unfortunately this has materialized entirely as non-interventionist support: “We responded to a 911 call and help a distressed resident after her husband was abducted!” “We transported children left parentless on the streets by ICE safely back to their home!” “Our officers volunteered at the food shelf!” OK, nice, good for you buddy.
So yeah, I’m wondering this too, and am bitter about it. https://tilde.zone/@n1xnx/115928447564126393
"A Palestinian children's football club in the occupied West Bank faces imminent demolition despite an international campaign to save it. Its supporters say it provides a rare sporting opportunity for young Palestinian players.
"But Israel insists it's been built without the necessary permits."
As I understand it, such permits are rarely given.
It's on land supposedly under the control of the Palestinian Authority in occupied Palestine.
RE: https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/116240955986507756
We have a revolutionary moment in our hands. I cannot express strongly enough how important it is to seize this moment.
We must *build* an alternative society, starting by drawing people in and giving them opportunities to create a better future. We cannot win with logical arguments, because people are not logical. We must demonstrate, through experience, what we mean when we talk about liberation, autonomy, and mutual aid. We must create the new world in the shell of the old, here and now, so people can understand what it is we are fighting for. This is our best opportunity, right now, to reach out while the window is wide open.
If we miss this opportunity, we may not get another.
I was quite interested in the new atheism movement ~20y ago. I recently remembered something: It surprised me that many of its prominent figures who otherwise would jump on every opportunity to criticize religion (often rightfully so) weren't particularly keen on highlighting the sexual abuse cases in the catholic church.
I guess that observation becomes a lot more interesting knowing that many of the prominent new atheism figures were friends of Jeffrey Epstein.
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There's a new "design is dead, because AI" piece (thinly disguised marketing from Anthropic). But looking past the hype headlines, their claims cover purely production-stage tasks.
When it comes to the work of understanding user needs and evaluating the opportunity space, AI actually makes your thinking worse. Studies show that it alienates you from users and colleagues, and flattens your thinking.
We need more human-centered practice, not less.
Dr. Gladys West,
the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology,
has died. She passed away Saturday, surrounded by her loving family. She was 95.
Born into poverty on a Virginia farm during the Jim Crow era, West grew up in a segregated South where opportunity was scarce.
Through determination and extraordinary academic talent,
she graduated first in her high school class and earned a scholarship to Virginia State College …
Next up, the Nurse Drain is just a part of the overall brain drain out of the US. Trump makes anyone who is skilled, has the opportunity and has half a brain to want to.
The Brain Drain into the USA was a key super power of the USA. Under Putin/Trump that is being destroyed. https://dmv.community/@AliceMarshall/116229967969444700
Life's journey is a tapestry of challenges, each setback an opportunity to build resilience. 🎯 We are not merely survivors; we are artists of the comeback, embracing grit and wisdom. As Churchill said, "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." Move forward with confidence and determination! 💪
A satisfying outcome of being a scientist is when an organically developed collaborative project comes to fruition, and an early career researcher seizes an opportunity to publish new findings. This is the case for Anthony Arsenault who found that across the Great Lakes, ice stores different levels of dissolved organic matter, which can be very important to microbes during melt to jump-start spring production.
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Read in my local #Willowdale facebook group. So glad those people can't block... fourplex anymore.
Imagine the outrage if a 3 million dollar home was to be built and would require letters, public consultations, etc, etc. But yet, when it's 4 families moving in, they would LOVE the opportunity to join a meeting and scream at this idea.
The UN is looking for a new home for its Climate Technology Centre—the hub that helps developing nations access critical climate tech for adaptation and mitigation.
This is a major opportunity: the hosting mandate runs until 2041, positioning the selected organization at the center of global climate technology cooperation.
Proposals due March 16, 2026.
Scalable Neural Interfaces https://aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/scalable-neural-interfaces/ "Neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders have overwhelming societal and economic impacts. We need a new suite of tools that enable us to interface, at scale, with th…
Call me crazy. I didn’t want to 😍 like ABSOLUTELY EVERYBODY ELSE IS DOING.
I mean, I DID in the end, but I feel dumb, like I shouldn’t. I should put on the sides of my car: IF I HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO FEEL GUILTY I WILL TAKE THAT OPPORTUNITY EVERY SINGLE TIME 🙄
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2026 Shipboard Immersion - Waterfronts Past & Present: Learning How Engineers Design with Nature
"Opportunity to learn about the #GreatLakes and coastal engineering in Milwaukee."
For "formal or nonformal educators who teach at the middle or high-school level that are experienced or new to the Great Lakes Literacy Principles"
STIPENDS Will be provided to o…
It's a silly way to write dates, but it does offer us a unique opportunity. Happy τ/2 day to all who celebrate.
Democrats eye rare window of opportunity in Georgia run-off
to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene
The Democrat Shawn Harris will go head-to-head with Republican Clay Fuller
in a run-off after they came out ahead in a special election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress on Tuesday night.
The election for the state’s 14th congressional district has been seen as a test of Donald Trump’s sway
and may provide a rare opportunity for Democrats in a deep-red pocke…
"In short, [the bond markets] fret that the government might shift towards the interests of working people. They are relying on the spectre of market chaos to exorcise that spectre."
Majority want major shift left– but can the opportunity be seized? | Morning Star
https://www.
If you feel that Ukrainians need our help but Palestinians don’t, ask yourself why you’re a racist piece of shit.
If you feel Ukrainians don’t need our help either, congratulations, at least you’re an equal-opportunity piece of shit.
UKRI fellowship funding for exceptional AI researchers currently based outside of the UK - funding to relocate to the UK, establish a highly skilled team and undertake transformational AI research
More info: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/turing-ai-global-fellowsh…
#iOS question for Europeans: does Calendar app work use the Google Maps app as the default navigation app?
I have set Google Maps as default navigation ap.
I have removed Apple Maps completely.
When I click an address in Calendar, it errors out: "No Navigation App Installed".
I believe this might be another opportunity to emphasize: 1) 💩 quality of Apple software; 2) I hope 🇪🇺 will make it pay for it.
Small business owners: You didn’t start your small business to have an opportunity to do bookkeeping or accounting. If you've lost control of your accounting, turn to someone with 20 years experience in risk management & accounting/payroll software.
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I also think that Standing Rock has already brought this up for some of the folks I'd otherwise be talking to. I'm definitely not early to the party here.
I'm just coming back to this from recently finishing "Safety Through Solidarity" (a book everyone should read) and thinking about my own identity.
One of the things that came up in the book was the potential intersection between Haredim and anarchists on prison reform and abolition. Yet, we tend to neglect this opportunity for collaboration, I think for such reasons as I'm talking about.
Edit:
https://www.akpress.org/safety-through-solidarity.html
Nice to have the opportunity to go beyond the #ospo and speak to the developers at #wirelesscar.
Good Morning #Canada
Everyone knows that Canada's 243,000 km of coastline are the longest in the world. At a pace of about 20 km each day, the stroll would take 33 years. Inside of that long shoreline, did you know that Canada is divided into seven physiographic regions? We're not talking mind altering drugs but instead reference the distinct geological formation that defines the landscape. The Canadian Shield, with the oldest exposed rocks on the planet, dominates the centre of the country with stable immovable bedrock. Kinda like Toronto being the centre of the universe. Each physiographic region gives that area of our country unique features and scenery that provides us with a seemingly inexhaustible opportunity to explore. I should be writing travel brochures...
#CanadaIsAwesome #Geography
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/physiographic-regions
From 350.org
We’re calling on governments to send ministers to the first-of-its-kind international summit in Colombia this April and turn words into concrete road maps that end fossil fuels for good. Public pressure can move the needle. Let’s make the transition to renewable energy inevitable so that even Trump and the oil lobby can’t save fossil fuels.
@… OK, neither the Security Affairs article nor the Mysterium VPN report mentions AI.
It seems that you're taking any random opportunity to rant. Please don't. It's counterproductive.
I am trying to find a primary source for this, because if it's not wishful thinking it's pretty good.
(Seen on https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-dfd)
i would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that there was a transmasc Quaker named Public Universal Friend. that is all
Application of RFSoC Technology for Beam Position Monitors at the SuperKEKB Storage Rings Injection Points
B. Urbschat, G. Mitsuka, L. Ruckman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14870 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.14870 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.14870
arXiv:2602.14870v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In order to achieve its ambitious luminosity target, the SuperKEKB collider must achieve and sustain high beam currents on the order of Ampere in its storage rings. This requires continuous top-up injection and operation with a two-bunch injection scheme, injecting two 96 ns spaced bunches in a single injection cycle. An important input for tuning the injection beam is the position reading from a dedicated beam position monitor (BPM), located after the septum magnets, slightly upstream of where the injected and stored beams converge. Previously, the readout electronics used for these special BPMs were not capable of independent measurement of both bunches in the two-bunch injection mode and modification of the concerned devices and their firmware was not feasible. The opportunity was taken to develop a new readout device based on the AMD/Xilinx RF System on a Chip (RFSoC) platform with the goal of not only providing a sufficiently flexible and performant readout solution for the concerned BPMs, but also to evaluate and gain experience with the platform for beam monitor electronics applications. This paper is concerned with the details of this development as well as evaluation and operation of the developed device.
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A small cottage industry offering OpenClaw installation services and preconfigured hardware emerges in China as the tool becomes the country's latest tech craze (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/11/1134179/china-ope…
Over the past couple of days I had the pleasure of chatting with a number of sharp undergrads who've applied to work on my project next year as part of the university's research opportunity program. It's been a real pleasure working with the group of four others I already have this academic year (their projects are really coming together!). I'm already looking forward to next year.
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A special election for the successor to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s congressional district in Georgia on Tuesday
will be a test of Donald Trump’s sway, and may provide a rare opportunity for Democrats in a deep-red pocket of the southern state.
Republican former prosecutor Clay #Fuller is likely to come out of Tuesday’s jungle primary,
-- in which the top two candidates go to a runoff regardl…
Through research and dumb luck, I have put together this list of Canadian Mastodon admins that may be interested in the previous message in this thread.
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I know there are others. Please help us reach them so everyone has an opportunity to provide input.
#MastoCanadaGOV
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@shathamohammed123/116147442962610412
Happy birthday, Walid.
May the world soon reclaim its humanity so you can grow up in a world where you have every opportunity.
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To house the hundreds or thousands of temporary workers needed to build an AI data center, developers are increasingly relying on temporary villages known as "man camps".
This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote oil fields.
For example, as a Bitcoin mining facility in rural Dickens County, Texas is converted into a 1.6 gigawatt data center, Bloomberg reports its workers are living in gray housing units with access to a gym, a laundromat, g…
This is OK but not a mention of why it's a GREEN party.
Not a mention of ecological overshoot, nor even of the climate crisis.
I find it depressing this repeated missed opportunity.
I predict a Green wave in the local elections. Anyone who thinks our byelection win was an outlier is mistaken | Zack Polanski | The Guardian
Really enjoyed hearing from
@aarontay.bsky.social and @abeba.bsky.social at CONUL's AI in Libraries seminar - lots of great talks to come! https://conul.ie/seminar-ai-impact-opportunity-accountability-irish-libraries-embra…
Sources: HP, Dell, Acer, and Asus are considering sourcing memory chips from Chinese chipmakers; HP and Dell are currently qualifying DRAM products from CXMT (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/supply-chain/h…
A "war powers resolution" gives lawmakers an opportunity to demand congressional approval before any further attacks are carried out.
The Senate resolution,
and a similar bill being voted on in the House later this week,
face unlikely paths through the Republican-controlled Congress
and would almost certainly be vetoed by Trump even if they were to pass.
Nonetheless, the votes marked a weighty moment for lawmakers.
Their decisions on the five-d…
Jalen Thompson: Once In A Lifetime Opportunity | Player Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RHS2UsAey8