The government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade, is coming in a few days,
offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming.
The sales are a signature piece of Trump’s ambitions for companies to dig more coal from federal lands and burn it for electricity.
Yet most power plants served by those mines plan to quit burning coal altogether within 10 years, an Associated Press data analysis shows.
Three other mines po…
My first paycheck was from CBS -- the owned-and-operated station in St. Louis, where I worked as a copyboy in the KMOX-TV newsroom. CBS was the "Tiffany network," the gold standard of broadcast journalism. It is sad to see that come to an end. Billionaire Larry Ellison is buying the company and putting a right-wing kook, Bari Weiss, in charge of CBS News.
Stripped of all his titles and privileges… but for incredible wealth, his social ties, shelter in a private Royal-owned dwelling, his spot in the line of succession…
Why don’t we just put Andrew on trial, and slap him in prison with all the other nonces? https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@resea
Google says it has removed its AI model Gemma from AI Studio; in a letter to Google, Sen. Blackburn said it fabricated sexual misconduct allegations against her (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/02/goog
In what Public Citizen called
"the greatest corruption in presidential history,"
Donald Trumpand his family added $5 billion in cash to their fortunes this Labor Day
as his new cryptocurrency was opened to the public market.
The currency, known as WLFI,
is owned by World Liberty Financial,
a company founded by the president's sons, Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric Trump.
A Trump business entity owns 60% of the company and is entitled to 75% …
@… @… Side note yes, I own a Lightphone II, Lightphone III and I have owned 3 Punkts (2 of the first model and 1 of the second).
Well Zack's won, convincingly, 20k votes to 3k votes for the others.
So that's good.
Now lets see if he can make the media actually reflect the message like they reflect Farage constantly.
Gonna be harder for anti-capitalists than pro-capitalists, what with the media all being owned by the capital.
#ZackPolanski #green #uk
This isn't getting the coverage it deserves...
This is a true crime against humanity.
Were I a Latin American country I'd consider refusing overflight rights to flights originating in or ending en the US. And if I were Panama I'd consider closing the canal to ships that are beneficially owned by US interests.
"Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish"
OF COURSE!
LLMs do not have any knowledge They only have words. When "introspecting" they are actually just word-salading that like they do everything else. They can't SAY that so they make up plausible-seeming explanations.
BECAUSE THAT IS ALL THEY DO, EVER. https://mastodon.social/@arstechni…
"Scotland barely owns any of its own economy now. We are startlingly foreign owned. Our banks, our energy, our land, our supermarkets, our whisky industry – we work and we shop and we generate wealth and then the owners of these industries take the profit and ship it off overseas" -- Robin McAlpine
#ScotPol
As a security engineer, whenever anyone talks about a control it's always important to ask "by what mechanism?"
> "Oh, that can't happen because we have a system to stop it."
By what mechanism?
> "We have documentation that says...."
Yeah, that's not a mechanism.
People keep saying, "Trump can't do that!" But like... by what mechanism?
> "The constitution says..."
Yeah... a documented list of rules is not self-enforcing. What is the mechanism?
What makes this impossible? Oh, it's possible under certain conditions? Oh, it's always possible and you're completely relying on the idea that there will never be a malicious actor? Yeah, that's gonna get exploited. Oh shit, now you're owned.
What do you do with a system that's completely owned? Once it's compromised it can never be trusted again. What would you tell a client who told you, "Patching is really hard, so we're just gonna ban the attacker's IP."
What, you're not even gonna reinstall?
I assume we've all had the "burn everything down and start again" client. I wonder how many of us thought we would see the US government ask for them to hold it's beer.
#USPol
pervasive and belligerent
tics and palpitations.
perverse and fallow,
metallic smallpox grows.
fifteen minutes from me,
every chevy is a galaxy,
the road owned by the wind.
Apple-owned Beats announces the $200 Powerbeats Fit, with a redesigned wingtip, IPX4 rating for the case, ANC, and Apple's H1 chip, available October 2 (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
I dreamed I saw (or owned? unclear) a piece of art titled "Hate From The Mother Of God" and it's going to be the name of my next something.
Arms manufacturer Pearson Engineering is chaired by Labour peer Lord Hutton and owned by Israel’s finance ministry, which is run by a far-right politician who is under UK sanctions. Makes sense??
https://www.declassifieduk.org/top-labour-official-…
Do you know @…? It's a European newsoutlet owned by readers, journalists, translators – more than 220 people from 30 countries.
"at Voxeurop, we play a unique role: connecting European audiences, translating and contextualizing to tell the story of what's happening across borders, and bringing you voices you won't find a…
Anyone have any idea if https://Meet.Coop is still being maintained? Maybe someone at @… knows?
It had been working fine, but today, suddenly a few people couldn't get audio to work.…
French Court of Auditors publishes report on state-owned nuclear power company EDF. Already facing €53 billion in debt, it will have to invest €460 billion in the coming 15 years: €90 billion in keeping its existing nuclear power plants running, €110 billion in new nuclear for France, €100 billion in grids. Much higher power prices and reducing international investments will be needed.
An interview with Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, who returned to the company in April, on why he "backs the blue", how Ring is fighting crime, Amazon, and more (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/ring-founder-ai-amazon-doorbell-police.html
#ICE Is holed up in a #Milwaukee bldg owned by a local Universisty and despite previous 2023 assurances it would soon move on , are now refusing to leave.
The local Milwaukee School of Engineering is now in an awkward position as it's planned expansion site is now engineered to be off limits to them as it is a…
Since 2018, the project “Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade” https://enslaved.org/ at Michigan State University has collected and linked datasets about the lives of people involved in the historical slave trade to create visualizations and let people explore biographies.
It was one of the f…
A bit annoying that free/open source communities are almost all hosted by a closed source platform owned by microsoft AI who use it to IP-wash all those projects by training LLMs.. While also supporting genocide etc.
Migrating the big @… and @…
Yeah.... Cool story, bro. We're in the fever pitch of the bubble now.
New York City ought to immediately initiate eminent domain proceedings and seize every trump or trump org family owned building in the city.
On what grounds:
Because of false statements and failure to abide by agreements with the city.
For instance, tromp-tower was built in violation of an agreement to preserve aspects of the Bonwitt-Teller building.
And the city does have need of space for homeless and low income housing.
If the maga's can fire people based…
I just bought these on a whim and I have never owned a real life physical object that looks so digitally rendered. This is what Tron should have been
was at City Hall to support Supervisor Fielder's resolution for a publicly-owned green bank and happened to hear her introducing this as well. absolutely on target with the questions that needed to be asked 🎯
I couldn't be happier with my representation... the rest of that building, another story
Shoddy excuse 1: “Maybe it was technically a work device, provided by and owned by the employer, and she shouldn’t have used it for personal things”
Then both the employer and the tech vendors involved should have made it not only possible but easy by default for her to quarantine her personal use.
The onus for that kind of opsec should not fall to individuals. That’s just ducking accountability, the kind of cognitive outsourcing large players use to dodge the costs of running their own org.
This is basically “we don’t need to install railings on our corporate balconies; employees just need to never fall off.”
2/
My man cave is continuing its transformation. New double doors installed today. My wife thinks I spent too much.... and she's probably correct.
The garage at the new house was useless for vehicles. Very skinny, not quite 11 feet wide, and not aligned to the driveway. Being tucked slightly behind the house made it impossible to either pull in or back up to the space unless you owned a Smartcar. So I was forced to repurpose the space for a golf simulator.
#Golf
Some Australian leaders and experts debate whether the country should use a Chinese-owned version of TikTok or one run by Trump allies (Josh Taylor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
"As a collective of homeless and marginally housed mothers, Moms 4 Housing organizes to reclaim vacant property warehoused by investors. In 2020, another group of mothers began squatting in vacant foreclosed properties owned by Philadelphia’s Housing Authority (PHA)." ❤️🔥
https://rosalux.nyc/self-help-housing/
#Google is planning a #sideloading-ban and is selling it as a measure to enhance security.
But wouldn’t this “security measure” also affect app stores that are already more secure than Google’s Play Store, like @…
"NOT everything that is worth reading is a book. A good programmer’s library (I will let you decide whether that is a good library owned by a programmer, or a library belonging to a good programmer) includes essays, scholarly articles, videos, magazines, blog posts, podcast episodes, and more. This month, we are going to read an Easter egg in a programming language."
You're in his DMs. I'm steal her blankets. My bed now! >:3
For six weeks in 1842,
the Dorr Rebellion gave Rhode Island two governments,
each claiming to be the legitimate representative of the people.
By 1840, the only people who could vote in Rhode Island were 40 percent of the white males
– the ones who owned property.
The rural elite that ran Rhode Island was quite happy with the status quo. -- Many others weren’t.
Thomas Dorr was one of them.
Elected to the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1834,
h…
AMD must love the thought of the US buying 10% of Intel - can you imagine anyone outside of the US trusting Intel's firmware or chips if it's part government owned?
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Reps. Luna, Valadao, and Garbarino declare the rebranded EATS Act a threat to family farmers and a legislative invitation to foreign-owned factory farms."
Republican Lawmakers Declare Opposition to Legislation to Overturn the States’ Most Important Farm Animal Welfare Laws - Legal Reader
https://www.legalreader.com/republican-lawmakers-declare-opposition-to-legislation-to-overturn-the-states-most-important-farm-animal-welfare-laws/
India's largest telco Reliance Jio, owned by Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani, says it aims to list its shares through an IPO in India by the first half of 2026 (Chandini Monnappa/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/reliance-jio-…
In the run-up to Dutch elections (29 October), it turns out that two Dutch MP's of Wilders' far-right PVV are using Sora AI to generate fake pictures of attractive blond women threatened by migrants. The prompts they used were published in this article.
The remotes of that era are why we call remotes "clickers."
They operated by sound, with tuned rods being tapped in a reproducible way that always made the same 'clicks' at specific tones that the TV could detect across a room.
#IAmOld
Trump’s MAGA agenda is increasingly at odds with free market economics, and some key conservatives are beginning to notice.
At least one Republican—Texas Representative Chip Roy—has harpooned the president’s Intel deal, reminding CNBC Thursday that government stakes in private entities defies conservative values.
Roy also challenged the Trump administration’s intent to develop a state-owned investment fund known as a "sovereign wealth fund".
“I think the problem he…
Insight Partners-owned Veeam agrees to acquire Securiti AI, which makes data security tools, for ~$1.73B in cash and stock, set to close first week of December (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
Some really small and delicate blue flowers I found this monday in Monkey Run which is a natural area owned by Cornell upstream of the campus
#photo #photography #flowers
After AWS's major outage, Signal's Meredith Whittaker says there "isn't really another choice" but to use AWS and "the entire stack" is "owned by 3-4 players" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/807147/signal…
My stepdad was a cattle breeder as a side-gig, in Missouri. By my time screwworms had been driven out of the US, but he had stories...
If we fail to reverse their current northward return just because Trump's people are uncomfortable around brown people, we deserve what we get. Texas especially. https://masto…
OLX Group, an online marketplace owned by Prosus, agrees to acquire La Centrale, a French auto classifieds platform, for $1.3B in cash, expected to close in Q4 (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Ah, now I understand why the trumpies want to prevent people in the treasury building - which is across the street from the east side of the white house - from posting photos. It is because that wooden fence prevents most people from seeing the destruction of publicly owned property.
And it a foreign machine - from Volvo - that is doing the ripping and tearing. Interesting metaphor.
German investigators conduct raids in relation to Northern Data, which is majority-owned by Tether and has been pivoting from crypto mining to AI computing (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-26/german-police…
A US court rules that the DOD can classify DJI as a "Chinese Military Company", finds that there is enough evidence that DJI is supported by Chinese government (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/786540/dji-loses-chinese-mili…
“They’re behind schedule, and so the President wants to make sure we beat the Chinese,”
acting NASA coordinator Sean Duffy said of SpaceX.
"[Trump] wants to get there in his term. So I’m in the process of opening that contract up.
I think we’ll see companies like Blue [Origin] get involved, and maybe others.
We’re going to have a space race in regard to American companies competing to see who can actually lead us back to the Moon first.”
There are a coupl…
This week, the France-based ArianeGroup aerospace company announced that it had completed the integration of the
Themis vehicle,
a prototype rocket that will test various landing technologies, on a launch pad in Sweden.
Low-altitude hop tests,
a precursor for developing a rocket's first stage that can vertically land after an orbital launch,
could start late this year or early next.
SoftBank-owned PayPay files for a US listing; sources: PayPay aims to raise $2B at a $10B valuation, and the listing could happen by the end of the year (David Keohane/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/73677866-90fd-447c-9810-cd10051d9ca1
Indian IT services company Infosys agrees to take a 75% stake in Versent Group, a cloud services provider wholly owned by Australia's Telstra Group, for ~$153M (Hritam Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
Nexperia says China banned it from exporting China-made products, as Beijing hits back at the Dutch government for taking over the Wingtech-owned chipmaker (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-1…
The Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned Dutch chipmaker Nexperia under the Goods Availability Act to safeguard chip supply for European industries (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/605e5456-9437-47ff-be6a-edc5c82810f2
Apple delays iPhone Air pre-orders in China, likely over eSIM regulatory issues, replacing the original schedule with "release information to be updated later" (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tec…
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke plans to step down to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors; memo: Microsoft is opting not to directly replace the position (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/11/github-ceo-dohmke-step-down
SoftBank-owned PayPay takes a 40% stake in Binance Japan for an undisclosed sum, to capitalize on Japan's crypto boom; PayPay filed for a US IPO in August (Mayumi Negishi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Amazon's Kuiper launches 24 satellites via SpaceX's Falcon 9 after four launch attempts were delayed by weather issues, taking its total to 102 in orbit (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/amazon-kuiper-internet-satellites-launch.html
Bit Digital-owned AI infrastructure company WhiteFiber closed down 4.59% in its Nasdaq debut, after raising $159.4M in an IPO, valuing the company at $619M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-06/whitefiber…
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