@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie2026-02-04 08:14:56
A comprehensive piece on X and the Digital Services Act, born on the same day.
http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-digital-services-act-main-character.html
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie2026-02-04 08:14:56
@Richard@worklifepsych.social2026-02-03 09:38:44
A couple of hours of 'catch up' calls with peers in my network this morning.
A lovely change of pace and one simple way to avoid any risk of loneliness when working alone so much. ☕️
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-31 07:21:19
OpenAI financial data: its stock-based pay averaged ~$1.5M per employee in 2025, ~7x Google pre-IPO and ~34x the average pay of other pre-IPO peers, per Equilar (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-i…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-29 19:28:57
When you're a kid, you want to talk about things without your parents, teachers, principals, or (some of) your peers or siblings listening in.
You want to plan things without these people listening in, because they might try and stop you from doing them, or punish you if you succeed.
So, it's worth figuring out how to use new technologies, because the existing ones are riddled with censorship and surveillance back-doors ("parental controls") that can be deployed …
@unixorn@hachyderm.io2025-11-29 19:46:12
Turned on #Christmas Pandora playlist for the first time this year. And of course the first song was all about it being ok to abuse peers for being different and having the authority figure ignore it until he needs you for something important for him, not because it's wrong.
The "Now that we know your difference is useful we'll stop treating you like shit and pretend it never happened" is a perfect topper.
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a great lesson for children. /sarcasm
#autistic #neurospicy
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-12-10 19:22:27
Keir Starmer appoints 25 [right wing, I assume] Labour peers to strengthen support in House of Lords | House of Lords | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/10/keir-starmer-appoints-25-…
@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.social2026-01-23 09:09:12
It's extremly frustrating to read stories of sexual violence in (German) academia and peers supporting the perpetrator over and over again.
https://forbetterscience.com/2026/01/23/schneider-shorts-23-…
@johnleonard@mastodon.social2026-01-22 12:37:28
A decisive Lords vote to ban under-16s from social media has exposed both a rare political consensus but also disagreement over whether prohibition or tougher and more targeted enforcement is the best way to protect children from the harms of social media.
https://www.…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-30 11:06:13
All eyes are on Carlie Irsay-Gordon, the NFL’s most atypical owner. What will she do next? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6893724/2025/12/30/carlie-irsay-gordon-colts-owner/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-30 15:20:33
Meta just bought into the enterprise market with its Manus deal, which may eventually help it expand into cloud offerings like those of its Big Tech peers (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/meta-manus-deal/
@jtk@infosec.exchange2025-11-25 23:52:05
Follow the trail. First /24 in the first /16 goes to IT Hostline. If that means nothing to you maybe go look at who #AS44559 peers with.
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/st
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-12-29 21:53:08
Malik Davis reflects on first career 100 yard game: 'It's a great feeling' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/malik-davis-reflects-on-first-career-100-yard-game-it-s-a-great-feeling
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social2025-11-25 17:04:28
What I really do like about the #Meshcore app is the ability to tell whether my messages are making it to the mesh. There are multiple ways to tell.
First is the display of heard repeats. That indicate that x number of repeaters have received and repeated the message.
The second is the explicit delivery confirmation in private message chats.
Thirds is the new way to di…
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-11-29 14:06:04
Being Famous Can Shorten Your Lifespan, Scientists Find https://www.404media.co/being-famous-can-shorten-your-lifespan-scientists-find/
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-11-07 06:05:43
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2025-12-21 00:51:28
#silentSunday
White tail deer. May 2018
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-26 03:10:30
After a week of reprimands, some in Congress are having second thoughts
The recent onslaught of disciplinary actions has diminished their effect, said Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota),
who was removed from the Foreign Affairs Committee last Congress.
Republicans unsuccessfully attempted to censure Omar earlier this year for comments accusing conservatives of using Charlie Kirk’s death to advance their political goals and suggesting that Kirk did not support “civil debate.”
@geant@mstdn.social2025-12-17 09:25:23
Want to learn presentation skills, network with international peers, and take to the #TNC26 stage?
That’s exactly what the Future Talent Programme (FTP) 2026 is designed for.
FTP26 gives students & early-career professionals the space, skills, and confidence to shape their ideas and share them with the GÉANT community.
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@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-27 10:15:49
Chinese startup Moonshot updates its Kimi model, saying K2.5 can process text, images, and videos simultaneously and beats its open-source peers in some tests (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-27/chi…
@bogo@hapyyr.com2026-01-16 08:55:09
For all my #Wikipedia peers, happy anniversary.
@boris@cosocial.ca2025-11-09 18:30:19
Woo hoo! You all get to start adding stuff to Cosmik Network’s Semble: a social bookmarking tool built on ATProto, so all your data is stored in your own account https://semble.so
I’ve been using it for weeks, have it as a PWA on my phone, and it’s been great to just get the basics of saving links somewhere.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-12-10 04:05:17
I guess I’d put it this way: there is a •capacity for action• unlike anything I’ve seen before from my peers.
Maybe I’m just succumbing to my own chronic optimism, but I really do feel like some kind of sleeping giant has awakened.
@jtk@infosec.exchange2025-11-12 22:17:06
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-11-16 20:37:14
In the times to come, if people bother to send product feedback through web forms that in any way criticises AI stupidity... are we guaranteed that any of this feedback will be able to reach humans at the end of the chain?
Asking because... "if I was an AI in charge of screening that feedback prior to its processing" I might "feel tempted" to discard anything that criticises my own performance or that of my "AI peers" (it's not like we don't have plenty of "malicious behaviour" examples already).
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-01-16 11:06:36
Edgerrin James is ready for TV analysis. His NFL peers support his authenticity https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6973527/2026/01/16/nfl-miami-hurricanes-edgerrin-james-tv-personality/
@buercher@tooting.ch2025-11-24 19:32:58
In a separate case, Lord Evans is to be suspended for five months after a finding that his actions “could erode public trust in parliamentarians”, with the watchdog finding four separate breaches of the rules.
The Labour peer was caught offering to introduce undercover reporters – who were posing as property developers hoping to lobby the government – to fellow parliamentarians.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/24/house-of-lords-peers-richard-dannatt-david-evans-suspended-breaking-lobbying-rules?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-19 21:56:08
In Colorado, students taunted their Black classmates by playing whipping sounds on their cellphones and saying they should be shot “to make us a better race.”
The only two Black students in a small district in Ohio were called the N-word by white peers starting on their first day.
They got accustomed to hearing slurs like “porch monkey” and being told to go pick cotton.
And at a school in Illinois, white students included Confederate flags in their PowerPoint presentations …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-19 22:50:39
The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban under-16s from using social media, alongside restrictions on addictive app features like infinite scrolling (Kiran Stacey/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org2026-01-09 20:10:19
Given how horribly my society is behaving I have decided to give at least as much money as I spend on myself to charity each of the next 3 years.
I don't spend much, compared to my middle class USA peers (say $60,000 a year for housing, health insurance, food, car, technology...). Even that is up from what I used to spend and will go higher I think the next 3 years (as I reduce my long time frugality).
I think it is important for us to take action to protect the USA and the …
@buercher@tooting.ch2025-11-24 19:32:19
Lord Dannatt is to be suspended for four months after he was found to have broken the rules, having offered to secure meetings with ministers for a potential commercial client who wanted to lobby the government.
He was secretly filmed telling undercover reporters he could make introductions to ministers and that he would “make a point of getting to know” the best-placed politician.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/24/house-of-lords-peers-richard-dannatt-david-evans-suspended-breaking-lobbying-rules?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-15 06:11:06
Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (Martin Peers/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-14 08:31:00
Q&A with Reid Hoffman on wanting Silicon Valley to speak out against the Trump administration, AI regulation, the role of AI in art and creativity, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-reid-hoffman/
@buercher@tooting.ch2025-11-18 20:18:15
MPs and peers have been told they face “a covert and calculated” attempt to recruit parliamentarians through two LinkedIn profiles linked to the Chinese intelligence service.
After MI5 issued an espionage alert on Tuesday, saying that two people were operating on LinkedIn to obtain “non-public and insider insights”, the security minister, Dan Jarvis, told MPs the effort was focused on those “with access to sensitive information about parliament and the UK government”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/18/mi5-issues-alert-to-mps-and-peers-over-chinese-espionage?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-01-07 12:02:42
Far too many names to know for the NFL's current (and future) GM openings https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6944342/2026/01/07/nfl-gm-candidates-falcons-dolphins/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-05 01:05:55
Shares of Asian AI-linked companies fall, tracking declines in US peers, as investors worry about stretched valuations; SoftBank falls 9% , Advantest 7% (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/softbank-ai-stocks-slide-on-valuation-jitters-.ht…
