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Mekke Okereke wrote:
Here's a challenge: find an adult Black man that has spent any significant time in New York as a teenager, that *hasn't* ever been detained by a cop with a gun.
This isn't rhetorical, and it's not a trick question.
It is possible to find!
A decent percent of Black men in New York have avoided this!
About 10%!

📰 Newspaper boycott made people in UK city more left wing, study shows
#politics

Newspaper boycott made people in UK city more left wing, study shows
A study of the Liverpool boycott of The Sun newspaper following the Hillsborough disaster has found that the boycott shaped people's perceptions of political parties and made people more left wing.

I just saw https://nebula.tv/videos/not-just-bikes-i-am-not-a-cyclist-and-most-dutch-people-aren-t-either/
When chatting with English native speakers, e.g. at

Not Just Bikes — I am not a "Cyclist" (and most Dutch people aren't either)
I am not a "cyclist", but I do ride a bicycle almost every day ... along with hundreds of other people who are also not "cyclists".

Interesting news for all those car makers planning to avoid Trump tariffs by bringing part of their manufacturing to the US.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/450-people-ice-custody-hyundai-plant-georgia/story?id=125286055

At least 450 people taken into ICE custody at Hyundai plant in Georgia
“This operation underscores our commitment to protecting jobs for Georgians."

Brazil charges 31 people in major carbon credit fraud investigation https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/brazil-charges-31-people-in-major-carbon-credit-fraud-investigation/

Brazil charges 31 people in major carbon credit fraud investigation
Brazil’s Federal Police have indicted 31 suspects for fraud and land-grabbing in a massive criminal carbon credit scheme in the Brazilian Amazon, according to Brazilian national media outlet Folha de S.Paulo. It is the largest known criminal operation involving carbon credit fraud to date in the nation. The police probe, called Operation Greenwashing, was launched […]

I wrote "People Manglement: Mental Health in the Workplace"
I've been thinking a lot about what I as a manager can do within our roles to support the mental health of our reports — and that starts with creating a healthy work environment
https://managingin…

People Manglement: Mental Health in the Workplace
As managers, our role is not to be a therapist to our reports, but we play a crucial role in their wellbeing

DHS says shutdown layoffs at CISA will proceed despite court injunction
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/11/dhs-says-shutdown-layoffs-cisa-will-proceed-despite-court-injunction/409332/?oref=ng-homepa…

DHS says shutdown layoffs at CISA will proceed despite court injunction
The cybersecurity agency says it has complied with the court’s order because the firing of 54 people in its Stakeholder Engagement Division was planned beforehand and doesn’t affect unionized employees.

"At least four people have turned down their nomination for Cycling UK's annual 100 Women in Cycling award following the charity's decision to exclude transwomen and non-binary people from consideration, citing a Supreme Court ruling."
https://road.cc/content/news/cy…

Several winners of Cycling UK 100 Women in Cycling prize decline award due to exclusion of transwomen
Cycling UK say the decision was made following legal advice but that the rule change "doesn't alter our commitment to transgender and non-binary people"

I'll be honest, I hear about "waves" of people coming to mastodon/Fediverse and I cringe a little.
Choose your metaphors carefully, people.
Waves go back to the ocean after wrecking your sandcastle, people
*I'm* enjoying this particular beach but I'm aware that I'm here through a sort of survivorship selection — the people who stay here with me are compatible with me because we're all the same sort of flotsam

A profile of Mercor, a Scale AI rival valued at $2B in February, which hires domain experts to train models; it had a $100M run rate in March and $6M H1 profit (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/09/03/ai…

AI’s Next Job? Recruiting People To Train More AI
Mercor, debuting on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, built an AI recruiter to interview job candidates. Then it discovered a cash cow: finding humans to train AI models.

This is particularly bad in #Italy, where #WhatsApp is the default means of communication. In other countries I've lived in at least they consider alternatives. In Italy people don't even ask you if you have an account before adding you in school parent groups or contacting you for work over WhatsApp.

Why people don’t demand data privacy – even as governments and corporations collect more personal information
How people talk about data privacy can overcome – or reinforce – their skepticism that things can change.

People Inc. signs an AI licensing deal with Microsoft, and reports digital revenue up 9% YoY to $269M, ad revenue down 3% to $161M, and referral traffic down (Jessica Davies/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/people-inc-s

People Inc. strikes Microsoft AI licensing deal as Google’s AI Overviews hit programmatic ad revenue
People Inc. has struck an AI licensing deal with Microsoft to be part of the tech giant’s pay-per-usage AI content marketplace. 

Good to see the Met keeping us safe from terrorism. What a waste of effort.
Met's Counter Terrorism Command: "We are also planning to send case files to the Crown Prosecution Service for the other 26 people arrested on the same day.
"I would strongly advise anyone planning to come to London this weekend to show support for Palestine Action to think about the potential criminal consequences of their actions."
Three people charged with supporting Palestine …

Three people charged with supporting Palestine Action
The charges come before a planned protest in support of the group on Saturday in London.

No.
A thing isn't good and useful because many people use it.
A thing is good and useful because it's good and useful.
Just some counterexamples:
- Many people smoke
- Many people use Windows
- Many people use cars way too big for their use case
- Many people use homeopathic "medicine"
- Many people use Ring cameras
Etc. ad infinitum.
There's neither causation nor correlation.

Coyner alleges Jones told her in a 2020 phone call that a few police officers dying would stop them from killing other people (Brandon Jarvis/Virginia Scope)
https://www.virginiascope.com/coyner-says-jones-told-her-in-a-2020-phone-call-that-a-few-police-officers-dying-would-stop-them-from-killing-other-people/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p127#a251006p127

Been looking at portfolios and CVs and Websites for people who applied for a "Creative Technologist" position.
And it's kinda disheartening to see that almost all pages and projects look very much the same.
The way that "we just focus on one dominant technology/narrative and visual language" limits people's development and horizon is depressing.

🔥 Deforestation is killing people by raising local temperatures
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/deforestation-is-killing-people-by-raising-local-temperatures/

Deforestation is killing people by raising local temperatures
For decades, the case for saving tropical forests has been cast in terms of carbon. Trees sequester vast quantities of it; razing them pumps more into the air. But new research reminds us that the destruction of rainforests has consequences that arrive long before the carbon accounting is tallied: It makes people hotter, sometimes lethally […]

This is only true for some flavors of "big accounts."
A number of the people I follow with thousands of followers are ONLY on the #Fediverse and most of the rest are only here and on Bluesky. I routinely block people here and on Bluesky (and across the bridge) who pull in the sewage from X and dump it in either place.
I'm not really interested in following people that wa…

These forces that make people narrow themselves, avoid humanities, avoid mathematics, avoid whole ways of thinking and seeing…these forces aren’t only people being assholes to each other (though they are that). They’re hierarchy-making and pernicious social engineering. Fight back.

I tend to talk to kids like they are regular human people. A small child said to me "You're phone is little." and I replied:
"Yes, this phone is 5 years old. It still works, so there's no reason to replace it. There's really no good reason for people to get a new phone every year or two except for consumerism gone out of control. You see, the more money you put into the pockets of big tech, the more..."
The small child walked away at that point, bu…

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people. https://www.theverge.com/news/791533/google-a…

Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple’s ICEBlock crackdown
Google has removed Red Dot, an app people could use to report ICE sightings from Google Play, one day after Apple removed similar apps, including Red Dot and ICEBlock.

Bad things are happening, but so are good ones. Demonstrations and protests across the country this last weekend did not get much press coverage from large outlets, but they happened. People are showing up. And they show us that Americans are not going gently into that good night, but are raging against the dying of the light. And more and more people each day are organizing and pushing back against this autocratic breakthrough.

Presidential Incapacity
We know already he can't do good things. Wag the Dog is a movie that was being made as Bill Clinton was doing the things he would later be impeached for. The impeachment timed out as taking place roughly when the movie came out. The movie depicts an American President

People when they see traffic jams: "one more lane, bro. I swear, one more lane will fix it."
People when they are told about lack of railway capacity: "the best I can do is a passing loop."
#rail #CarFree

LOL moment from #IETF124 pre-BOF was @awarm.space describing @leaflet.pub as "macro blogging"
I just get like this picture of like carb loading, and like @schlage.town as my super intense coach. "GET OUT THERE AND MACROBLOG, PEOPLE!!!"

Boris (@bmann.ca)
LOL moment from #IETF124 pre-BOF was @awarm.space describing @leaflet.pub as "macro blogging" I just get like this picture of like carb loading, and like @schlage.town as my super intense coach. "GET OUT THERE AND MACROBLOG, PEOPLE!!!"

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@swordgeek/115498603688777866
Boy, people from Alberta sure are fucked up. I don't often block people on Masto, but this guy is too too much!

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Patti Smith:
🎵 People Have The Power
#NowPlaying #PattiSmith
https://beeappleseed.bandcamp.com/track/people-have-the-power-patti-smith-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/4GbnjrrobeVLCl1FQ5C0OY

Moody Urbanity - Urban surrealism 👒
情绪化城市 - 都市超现实主义 👒
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

A good read. #fuckice

Most of the 475 people arrested at Hyundai facility in Georgia are Korean nationals
The arrested workers were being held at Ice’s Folkston, Georgia detention facility.
Local Korean media said roughly 300 people detained were South Korean nationals.
“It is our understanding that none of those detained is directly employed by Hyundai Motor Co.
We prioritize the safety and well-being of everyone working at the site and comply with all laws and regulations wherever we op…

@… over on BlueSky:
“One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the "report a speed trap" function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.”
For anyone who doesn’t know:
“Siri, report speed check”
*press side button* “report speed check”
It’s that simple.…

Criminalizing poverty is cruel and inhumane 😡
1. OPD should never ever cite or arrest someone just for being homeless
2. Before evicting someone from their shelter of last resort, the city should provide an option of a safe place to go, and enough time to move there with their belongings
http…

Oakland could arrest people for being homeless under councilmember’s proposal 
An Oakland councilmember has proposed new encampment rules that would fundamentally alter how the city interacts with people living on the street.

The US sanctions eight people and two companies it accused of laundering money obtained from cybercrime and IT worker schemes for the North Korean government (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/north-korean-co…

North Korean companies, people sanctioned for money laundering from cybercrime, IT worker schemes
The Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned eight people and two companies it accused of laundering money obtained from cybercrime and IT worker schemes to fund North Korean government objectives.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-transgender-nonbinary-passports-a8abef038a19ffd233d34c88499cef11
This seems like such an inconsequential policy idk why people are fighting about it.
It's literally just legalese. What effect d…

Accessibility is not a popularity contest and open surveys aren’t research.
https://fosstodon.org/@matcha/115455586804252676
I can tell you that the survey results do not reflect my approach:

Apple fined $261,000 for poisoning people.
(Apple made that money back in about 21.5 seconds.)
#BigTech #Apple #poisoning

Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD (@ashleygjovik@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image "Former Apple employee Ashley Gjøvik moved into one of the adjacent apartments in 2020 only to fall badly ill with indications of chemical poisoning, she told SFGATE. She didn't know what was happening at first, she said, but after she arrived she started suddenly having chest pains, strange rashes, arrhythmia and numbness. She regularly fainted. When she got her blood and urine tested that September, she said, the results showed arsenic, mercury, toluene and xylene." https:…

'I heard they stab people': Ja'Marr Chase hilariously explains why he won't be jumping into the Dawg Pound

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/i…

Some people are suggesting there's more than just Mastodon on the Fediverse, and this is true...
There's also Mastodon glitch :3

"The greatest statistical analysis is nothing if it can’t be implemented by people. But people learn in different ways. Some like good stories, others like pictures. Only a few like equations..."
https://management.curiouscatblog.net/

Governor Murphy of NJ is calling out the National Guard to … FEED people who are missing SNAP food benefits because of the Trump Shutdown.
Because that’s what the National Guard is supposed to do in the US - help people.
#Trump #TrumpShutdown

The Official Website of Governor Phil Murphy
The official website of the 56th Governor of New Jersey State, Phil Murphy.

The People In Business Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/media-giant-nikkei-reports-data-breach-impacting-17-000-people/
Media giant Nikkei reports data breach impacting 17,000 people

Media giant Nikkei reports data breach impacting 17,000 people
Japanese publishing giant Nikkei announced earlier today that its Slack messaging platform had been compromised, exposing the personal information of over 17,000 employees and business partners.

I've read the following rhetorical question recently:
If “vote blue no matter who” doesn't apply to Zohran Mamdani, what does it actually mean?
...and despite all of us understanding the implication, let me actually try to give an answer, as the slogan emerged specifically from US politics, but this phenomenon hasn't.
This specific statement asking people to always vote for the democratic party, no matter who the candidate is, has always been thrown…

"This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!"…

On Oct 1, the Israeli military attacked the #sumudflotilla m a fleet of ships attempting to break the siege around #Gaza in order to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid. People around the world protested in response. In Italy, millions of people flooded the streets across four consecutive days o…

Sailing for Gaza
A message from a participant in the Thousand Madleens to Gaza flotilla, which aims to deliver humanitarian aid to starving Gazans.

I read a lot of stuff (mostly on LinkedIn) about people getting 10x more productive through AI assistants (mostly for Code but also other work products). And I wonder how that works given that you need to doublecheck every generated line, phrase or paragraph for correctness.
Like _how_ inefficient and unproductive were these people before?

Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/

Late February in my (first) freshman year and I am literally flunking out of the University of Michigan’s Residential College because I hated it so I set up a cot in some high school friends' dorm room across campus and didn’t attend any classes so why not hitchhike to Boulder and back over the week-long winter break. Here we are with our thumbs out, beginning our trip on State St. in front of the Michigan Union.
People, Nebraska is fucking cold in February.

@… wait do people make eye contact with other people on video calls

Podcast: People Are Modding Meta Ray-Bans to Spy On You https://www.404media.co/podcast-people-are-modding-meta-ray-bans-to-spy-on-you/

revolution: American Revolutionary groups (1765-1783)
A bipartite network of the memberships of notable people and organizations, from the American Revolution (1765-1783) between users and groups on YouTube, extracted from a larger YouTube network in 2007.
This network has 141 nodes and 160 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
http…

The stereotype for this kind of self-narrowing is math/tech people avoiding humanities. That certainly happens, but I see it at least as often in the other direction: people avoiding anything that smells like STEM, telling themselves they can’t, building a whole identity around it. It comes out as this weird kind of shame/pride mix — “I’m not a math person” etc — which tends to hide some kind of earlier trauma: bad teacher, bad curriculum, gender role policing, who knows.

I tend to talk to kids like they are regular human people. A small child said to me "You're phone is little." and I replied:
"Yes, this phone is 5 years old. It still works, so there's no reason to replace it. There's really no good reason for people to get a new phone every year or two except for consumerism gone out of control. You see, the more money you put into the pockets of big tech, the more..."
The small child walked away at that point, bu…

Low income people don't save, they spend.
The real recipients of welfare are corporations.
Not just through sales, but also because welfare payments are wage subsidies.
The ghost of Keynes is standing over his grave shouting "I fucking told you so!!"
https://syzito.xyz/@selzero/1154914425

Deniz Opal (@selzero@syzito.xyz)
Attached: 1 image This is just. Chef's. Kiss. The US political system is going to restart "socialism" welfare. Not because people will starve. But because the economy will collapse. Low income people don't save, they spend. The real recipients of welfare are corporations. Not just through sales, but also because welfare payments are wage subsidies. The ghost of Keynes is standing over his grave shouting "I fucking told you so!!" https://www.supermarketnews.com/food-accessibility/walmar…

Note that this isn’t a criticism about anyone working on the Mastodon code or the many selfless people who host servers and spend time on moderation and money on hosting.
I’m not saying all this to be an asshole.
I care about people, software and the web and it’s really annoying that there isn’t a well working alternative to commercial platforms that I can recommend to “normal” people.
I’ve been using Mastodon for close to nine years now I think and I just don’t see it getting where it needs to be.

Swedish news giant Bonnier takes a majority stake in Danish digital outlet Zetland, which has 70,000 members, with subscriptions making up 80% of revenue (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/zetland-bonnier-n…

CEO of Danish publisher Zetland: 'It's bullshit to say young people aren't willing to pay for news'
Bonnier News has taken a majority stake in Danish publisher Zetland which reaches a strong base of young people with digital subscriptions.

Sick people are sick
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/sick-people-are-sick

Sick People Are Sick
fucked up people are fucked up

Reminder: BHL is a rape apologist who has said that the hijab is an invitation to rape.
That's why we don't cite X. It is entirely made up of the worst people in the world. If you still use a functioning X account, you are *ONE OF THEM*, no matter how good your intentions. https://

Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social)
The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

Sources detail a leadership vacuum and staff cuts at the NSA, eroding morale among its analysts and weakening the agency's long-term cyber capabilities (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/11/lea

A leadership vacuum and staff cuts threaten NSA morale, operational strength
The signals intelligence giant has halted recruitment for its Legal Honors Program, two people familiar say, slowing inflow of top legal talent. Other long-term capabilities are at risk.

Apocalypse Now is about a man driven insane by war, a movie about how hollow war can make people.
Donald Trump, unintentionally, has invoked just the right image for what is to come.
https://norden.social/@wackJackle/115159522417700451

I jest, but I do think that irrational persuasion / disarming people’s good sense / con artistry / scamming is a real skillset that some rare people have in spades — a genuine if horrifying form of intelligence — and we dismiss the otherwise nincompoopish people who have it our own peril.

Both @… and @… are being displaced yet again and forced to move South as Israel continues its genocide and wholesale destruction of Gaza with the complicity of our inhumane governments in the West.
Please keep them in your th…

Gaza Verified
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan

To all the new people from BlueSky. Welcome to Mastodon! 🦣
Hope you like cats :3

I suggested the US should have Universal Health Care and this was one person's response.
"Well I do not want to pay for healthcare for everyone because if you actually do research and talk to other people in countries that have that like I have done for years. It sucks, it does not work right and people die more because they cannot get the care they need. It also takes over half of their pay."
Feel free to comment on their comment...

Justice Department Considering Ban on Transgendered People Owning Firearms (Matthew Boyle/Breitbart)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/09/04/justice-department-considering-pushing-ban-transgendered-people-owning-firearms/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p72#a250904p72

An earthquake destroys villages in eastern Afghanistan and kills 800 people, with 2,500 injured https://phys.org/news/2025-09-magnitude-earthquake-eastern-afghanistan-pakistan.html

An earthquake destroys villages in eastern Afghanistan and kills 800 people, with 2,500 injured
Desperate Afghans clawed through rubble in search of missing loved ones after a strong earthquake killed some 800 people and injured more than 2,500 in eastern Afghanistan, according to figures provided Monday by the Taliban government.

This computer science professor agrees with @…. The humanities are crucial.
I mean, it cuts the other way too: a lot of the credulous nonsense about AI would melt away if people had a better idea how to think about software systems and mathematical models, what they really do and don’t do, how to look at them critically.
The key in my view is people having multiple ways of seeing and not narrowing themselves.
https://infosec.exchange/@dnsprincess/115140939294365490

The great thing about THIS bubble is that we don't have decades of dependency on any of the companies most exposed to loss or to their general class. They are not like the commercial banks, investment banks, and brokerages that got bailed out in 2008-9. If every chatbot died permanently tonight, most people would be fine without them and very few people would be seriously harmed. Not like banks.
#TooBigToFail

♾️ ‘It’s quite useless to us’: What autistic people actually want from the Trump administration
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/19/autistic-people-trump-administration-research

‘It’s quite useless to us’: what autistic people actually want from the Trump administration
US government is seeking proof that acetaminophen leads to autism while not providing ‘services and support so we can be included in the community’

Seeing more and more people using "AI" "art" for their blog posts and podcasts and it's so horrible.
Why would you advertise and adorn your hard work with reeking robot shit?

(When 4 people directly send you a link to a job, you probably should send in a CV, right?)

🚨 Scammer warning
This account is direct messaging people from Gaza to try and scam them:
@…
Attached is a screenshot of a direct message that one of our Gaza Verified members got.
The mind boggles. What kind of lowlife targets people who are already facing famine and genocide to rob them of the money they need to survive?
In …

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law
are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans
-- Jeff Tiedrich
https://bsky.app/profile/jefftiedrich.bsky.social/post/3m2fkedvkl22s

Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich.bsky.social)
the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

Every day, some 2 billion people around the world use privacy-protection tools supported by the Open Technology Fund.
When people in China escape their government’s firewalls and censorship software
—now so dense that the system has been called the “locknet”
—or when users in Cuba or Myanmar evade cruder internet blocks,
they can access material written in their own languages and read stories they would otherwise never see.
Both the access and some of the informa…

America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars
The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.

It’s so weird that other people are always so confidently wrong on the Internet but I never do that

Yes. Whenever people present you with Slop Content (outside of active criticism of course) refuse. Refuse to engage and accept.
https://mastodon.social/@geospacedman/115326594934803871

The UK hates antisemitism so much that here they are arresting the daughter of a Holocaust survivor for protesting Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
Wait, no that doesn’t make sense… so maybe they don’t hate antisemitism but they love fascism and genocide? I guess that makes more sense given their history of colonialism and slavery.
#UK

a16z announces an eight-week new media fellowship for people with a record of creating "impactful content" via newsletters, podcasts, communities, and more (a16z)
https://a16z.substack.com/p/introducing-the-a16z-new-media-fellowship

Introducing the a16z New Media Fellowship
A new 8-week program for operators, creators, & storytellers shaping the future of media

🧬 Scrambled RNA nudges millions of people towards type 2 diabetes, research reveals
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-scrambled-rna-nudges-millions-people.html

Scrambled RNA nudges millions of people towards type 2 diabetes, research reveals
Mutations in a single gene, HNF1A, are known to cause MODY3, a rare, early-onset form of diabetes. Smaller-scale mutations in the very same gene are also common and quietly nudge millions of people toward type 2 diabetes. A study published in Cell Metabolism reveals why.

Observers worry that Trump might abuse the power of the Insurrection Act.
Given his propensity to lie and exaggerate about the immigration crisis
-- such as the false rumors he helped spread about Haitian immigrants in 2024
-- Trump might use similar false claims to justify sending troops into American cities.
During his first term, he reportedly threatened to use military force against protestors after the murder of George Floyd.
Now that Trump has purged top …

Is Trump About To Use The Insurrection Act? Here's Why Some People Believe So - Blavity

People voted for him.
Despite leaked text messages that then then-Virginia House Speaker (a Republican) should be shot in the head twice.
This is how pissed off people are with Republicans.

Jay Jones won the Virginia Attorney General election because people hate President Donald Trump and what he’s doing to this country.
And in an election that provided, as elections invariably do, a jillion takeaways, let’s not lose of sight of what is obviously and toweringly takeaway number one:
Americans have developed a big-time case of buyer’s remorse about Trump, and a very solid majority of them despise what Trump has perpetrated against America.

Verdict Number One: America Has Big-Time Buyer’s Remorse About Trump
Elections are the one opportunity we have to see what the people think. And what they think is clear: Trump sucks.

One of USA’s last remaining independent journalistic outlets… *checks notes*… Teen Vogue… is shuttered. https://romancelandia.club/@herhandsmyhands/115491522193236227

azteclady (@herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club)
Attached: 2 images #PSA #CallToAction #TeenVogue Teen Vogue has now been folded into Vogue, and all politics reporters, all Black women and all trans people working there were fired on Monday (11/3/25) morning. That is, none of the people who made Teen Vogue a surprisingly effective civics communication vehicle remain with the magazine. If you or someone in your family has a subscription, now it's a good time to explain what boycotts are and what they can do. Note how "facts" becomes "prog…

OpenAI updates GPT-5 Instant to better recognize and support people in distress; ChatGPT will route such sensitive parts of conversations to the model (@openai)
https://x.com/openai/status/1974234951928459450

OpenAI (@OpenAI) on X
We’re updating GPT-5 Instant to better recognize and support people in moments of distress. Sensitive parts of conversations will now route to GPT-5 Instant to quickly provide even more helpful responses. ChatGPT will continue to tell users what model is active when asked.

The reason for my OP here is just that it seems highly notable that these people •do• seem to sense that their market is shifting. I have the strong sense that the MAGA Titanic has already hit the iceberg.
The thing is, the actual Titanic took •hours• to sink; this one could take •years•. The question is how much damage it does on the way down, how much damage we can prevent, how much we can help it sink faster.
Courage, not complacency.

JB Pritzker:
“He has other aims other than fighting crime.
It’s an attack on the American people.
Should he be sending troops in?
No.
The other aims are that he’d like to stop the elections in 2026
or frankly take control of those elections.”
https://bsky.app/profile/n…

NewsCurrentNow (@newscurrentnow.com)
JB Pritzker: “He has other aims other than fighting crime. It’s an attack on the American people. Should he be sending troops in? No. The other aims are that he’d like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections.”

This government that flouts the Fourth Amendment
and then lies about it to courts and the people
has crossed a moral and legal frontier.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202672/ice-arresting-american-citizens-and-lying

Confirmed: ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It
A government that flouts the Fourth Amendment and then lies about it to courts and the people has crossed a moral and legal frontier.

Figma reports Q3 revenue up 38% YoY to $274.2M, vs. $265.2M est., adjusted operating margin of 12%, vs. 6.5% est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/figma-fig-q3-earnings-report-2025.html

Figma delivers strong forecast as AI draws in more customers
People are signing up for Figma to use its Make tool for generating app designs with artificial intelligence, CEO Dylan Figma said.

I grew up in a large city in a western democracy, with a socialist city government and it was fine.
There was basically no crime. People didn’t go hungry. Housing was affordable. Rent was regulated. Public transport was amazing. Education was free. Everyone had healthcare. Taxes were practically the same as in the US.
It was also much, much easier to start a business there than in the US. (Literally took an hour!)
People who wanted to get rich still could do it (there’s a few Austrian billionaires even).
I don’t understand how Americans got themselves so brainwashed that “socialism” is used as a term that sort of means “iworse than death”.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Truly, everyone's a "rogue capitalist" now.
It's almost like the problem with companies isn't whether their business model is based on showing you ads or charging you money,
but rather, whether they can abuse you for profit and get away with it.
-- Coty Doctorow
https://mamot.fr/@…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image Apple has removed ICEBlock, a totally legal app that helps people track the movements of the masked snatch-squads who illegally terrorize brown people in America's cities, capitulating to a warrantless demand from Trump's DoJ boss Pam Bondi: https://www.404media.co/iceblock-owner-after-apple-removes-app-we-are-determined-to-fight-this/ -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free,…

Tokyo Electron says it fired an employee in Taipei and is cooperating with Taiwan's investigation after Taiwan arrested six people over alleged TSMC IP theft (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

“With one voice: FREE DC! We stand united to say that this immoral occupation is a violation of the fundamental principles of justice and compassion.” Reverend Keith Byrd, Union of Concerned Clergy of DC #WeAreAllDC
“I’ve been witness to federal agents pull people out of Ubers, Lyfts, and so heavily armed they could tear through houses.
They are treating us like animals.”
Makai, Youth…

@casaforall.bsky.social
“I’ve been witness to federal agents pull people out of Ubers, Lyfts, and so heavily armed they could tear through houses. They are treating us like animals.” Makai, Youth Advocate #WeAreAllDC [contains quote post or other embedded content]

The California Supreme Court rejected a First Amendment challenge to a state law that protects the rights of gay and transgender people in nursing homes and forbids employees of those sites from using the wrong pronouns to address a resident or coworker.
The ruling, handed down today, held that violations of the"LGBT Long-Term Care Residents’ Bill of Rights" are not protected by the First Amendment because they relate to codes of conduct in what is effectively both a workplace…

California Supreme Court rejects free speech challenge to LGBT protections in nursing homes
A 2017 California law is meant to protect the rights of gay and transgender people in nursing homes, including by forbidding employees from misgendering those patients

Sources: Apple lost around a dozen of its AI staff, including top researchers, to rivals in recent months; its core foundation models team has ~50 to 60 people (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6b9ce8ce-a327-40c1-a8a1-579c2727fc60

I'm sorry, but what's wrong with giving health care to immigrants?
Republicans don't even want to give health care to citizens,
but I don't understand the argument against keeping people who contribute billions of dollars to the economy healthy.
It's also less expensive in the long run.
-- @…

Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com)
I'm sorry, but what's wrong with giving health care to immigrants? Republicans don't even want to give health care to citizens, but I don't understand the argument against keeping people who contribute billions of dollars to the economy healthy. It's also less expensive in the long run.

C3 AI, whose NYSE ticker symbol is AI, has fallen 32% in the past month on growth concerns, after its Q1 revenue fell 19% YoY to $70.3M, below $100M est. (Hyunsoo Rim/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/the-company-with-t…

The company with the world’s most enviable stock ticker isn’t cashing in on AI
When your ticker is “AI,” people expect you to be riding the wave better than anyone else — that hasn’t happened for C3.ai.

Evanston, Illinois Mayor Daniel Biss says what he has seen of federal immigration raids amounts to an “invasion from our own federal government.”
His office is now launching investigations into reports of federal agents brutalizing and threatening community members.
“They appear to have just started beating people up for no reason,”
Biss says.
“If that was anybody except for a federal agent, they would be under arrest.”

“My Community Is Under Invasion from Our Own Federal Gov’t”: Evanston Mayor Decries ICE Raids in Illinois
Amid federal immigration raids in the Chicagoland area, the mayor of one Chicago suburb is on the frontlines of the anti-ICE protest movement. Mayor Daniel Biss says what he has seen of federal immigration raids in Evanston, Illinois, amounts to an “invasion from our own federal government.” His office is now launching investigations into reports of federal agents brutalizing and threatening community members. “They appear to have just started beating people up for no reason,” Biss says…

Many people don’t know that Lake Tahoe is an ancient lake. It’s 2 to 3 million years old. It makes it perhaps one of the oldest, if not the oldest, lake in North America
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/lake-tahoe-bottom-dive?CMP=Sh…