@rachel@norfolk.social2026-01-04 21:48:02
“Venezuelan interim government stands behind Maduro, says interior minister”
This could get interesting…
Https://news.sky.com/story/venezuela-latest-explosions-heard-in-capital-of-caracas-13489831?postid=10796150#l…
@johnleonard@mastodon.social2026-02-04 16:21:58
An explainer as to why UK regulators are struggling to tackle deepfake imagery generated with Grok and posted on X.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news-analysis/2026/how-many-regulators-does-it-take-to-tackle-deepfake-pornography
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe2025-12-04 18:05:22
freebsd-base: major upgrades: pkg-static: no trusted certificates
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pdsyfo/freebsdbase_major_upgrades_pkgstatic_no_trusted/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-12-04 16:00:05
arxiv_citation: arXiv citation networks (1993-2003)
Citations among papers posted on arxiv.org under the hep-ph and hep-th categories, between 1993 and 2003. This time begins a few months after axiv was launched. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) These data were originally released as part of the 2003 KDD Cup.
This network has 34546 nodes and 421578 edges.
Tags: Informational,…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-05 20:56:22
Michael Gibson
(Thiel Fellowship and 1517 Fund)
just posted:
“Someone should pitch Rubio on a charter city in Venezuela and Cuba.”
As if he only just thought of this now
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/1…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-05 04:21:03
Sony reports Q3 revenue up 1% YoY to ~$23.68B, vs. ~$23.53B est., operating profit up 22% to ~$3.28B, vs. ~$2.99B est., raises FY operating profit outlook 8% (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/sony-profi
@mia@hcommons.social2025-12-04 12:39:29
Great 'text on maps' work presented by Katie and Bert #FF2025
Katie posted: If you want to play around with our text on maps data viz interface the link is https://text-on-maps-viz.allmaps.worke
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-12-04 02:27:24
There have been numerous disgustingly fake 'nightscape' composites flooding the web where someone had merely pasted a deep astronomical image of comet C/2026 A6 #Lemmon into some landscape, making it look like it was a giant rivalling Ikeya-Seki oder West - oh, how I hated that. And what a relief that NOIRLab has now posted - https://noirlab.edu/public/images/iotw2549a/ - this beautiful and apparently unmanipulated picture of Lemmon over Mauna Kea on 12 November. Yes, it reached 3 point something mag. and had nice tails in the end but it was not a great comet by any means: just look how small and faint it appears next to the southern Milky Way!
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-05 04:10:48
Close the cover on the CIA World Factbook:
The spy agency announced Wednesday that after more than 60 years,
it is shuttering the popular reference manual.
The announcement posted to the CIA’s website offered no reason for the decision to end the Factbook,
but it follows a vow from Director John Ratcliffe to end programs that don’t advance the agency’s core missions.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-04 20:32:52
Harry Dunn was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal in 2023, the second-highest civilian honor, which was presented to him by former President Joe Biden.
"I once told Congress,
'I did my job, now you do yours,'"
Dunn says in his announcement video posted Wednesday.
"Well, I'm done waiting."
Dunn will face a crowded field for the Democratic nomination to replace Hoyer,
including established Maryland politicians Del. Adri…
