@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe 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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPeople 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
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://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
@Dragofix@veganism.socialBrazil 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/
@saraislet@infosec.exchangeI 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…
@UP8@mastodon.social♾️ ‘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
@drgeraint@glasgow.social"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…
@whitequark@mastodon.socialgithub rot status: they added a way to anonymously request copilot business support in an organization
"people want copilot"
"who?"
"... people"
"which people?"
"One of them"
this feels like a fever dream
@cdarwin@c.imLow 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
@aardrian@toot.cafeAccessibility 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:
@mapto@qoto.orgThis 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.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIf only there were some clue about why the Democrats keep losing to Trump…
…It couldn’t possibly be that denying the basic humanity of Palestinians and going all in on genocide doesn’t resonate with people who aren’t fascists, could it? https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/1156562588…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioPeople 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.
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org"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/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTim Walz 'deeply concerned' about people shouting 'R-word' driving by his home after Trump swipe (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/05/us-news/tim-walz-deeply-concerned-about-people-shouting-r-word-driving-by-his-home-after-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p121#a251205p121
@DiverDoc@mstdn.caFewer people are being vaccinated against respiratory diseases:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/adult-non-flu-vaccines/fewer-people-are-being-vaccinated-against-respiratory-diseases
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources 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
@newsie@darktundra.xyzPodcast: 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/
@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.orgLast night's #elections lesson: change is possible! Start where you're at, which includes your local library board!
@librariesftp.bsky.social
helps folks do this with candidate training. Learn more in this newsletter & at the Dec. 4 open house!
@benb@osintua.eu
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioOne guess is that they got some region-based data on where the brown and Black people are, and are just going off that.
Another guess is that are targeting specific city council members. This I doubt — unless they’re getting that from local police depts, which I could totally believe.
My own theory is that they really, really, really don’t want white people to see what they’re doing, except through the eyes of the right-wing camera crews that follow them around.
Whatever it is, it’s pretty striking.
2/2
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euThe cruel beauty in the evolutionary mechanism that every time saves humanity:
Young people telling the old fools they suck, and the old fools crossing their arms to see how, if left on their own, the young'uns would definitely fail.
Often preceded by:
Old fools grumbling about "young people these days," which makes the young people even more irate.
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialIt's not "always" the AI's fault?
»Most Technical Problems Are Really People Problems«
🤷 https://blog.joeschrag.com/2023/11/most-technical-problems-are-really.html
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeDHS 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…
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgWhat do people think about the "dark forest theory of the internet" ? https://www.ystrickler.com/dftrevisited/
@brichapman@mastodon.socialI find there is a lot of overlap between the following groups:
- people who are mission-driven and want to fight for a better future
- people who hate negotiation and think it makes them "selfish"
If you fall into those groups, please check out my negotiation tutorial. It is written specifically for YOU. 💖
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Lack of Afro:
🎵 Idolising People Like Madlib
#LackofAfro
https://lackofafro.bandcamp.com/track/idolising-people-like-madlib
https://open.spotify.com/track/5MyeMuyUfeLWvq18oRcBqn
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"How do you acknowledge that the father of the computer was a homosexual, brutally bullied by the state into suicide, and then fund groups that want to deny gay people fundamental human rights?
The ARM processor which powers the modern world was co-designed by a #trans woman. When you throw slurs and denigrate people's pronouns, your ignorance and hatred does a disservice to history a…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialScores of people gathered outside Manchester Central library in very cold conditions this evening, in solidarity with the Venezuelan, Cuban, and all people and against this nearly new adventure of US imperialism.
#Manchester #Venezuela
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI don't appreciate the people who mock this poor man. Every year there are countless mass sandwichings in schools throughout the country, and we tolerate it because we, as a society, have lost our way. Kids and teachers huddled in their classrooms as mustard and onions fly through the air. WHERE'S YOUR HUMANITY, PEOPLE??
https…
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeDick Cheney is a good example of why rich people live so long. [ETA: Rich people in the US.]
If he'd just been a regular person, he likely would've died without a heart transplant, if not before from one of his many heart attacks.
#uspol
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialRE: 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!
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineWie sieht eigentlich die aktuelle Altersstruktur der Menschen im #Fediverse aus? Wir hatten mal sehr viele 41-60. Ist das noch so?
(für mehr Reichweite bitte boosten)
What is the current age structure of people in the #Fediverse? We used to have a lot of people aged 41-60. Is that st…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI’m thinking that this is likely to be a consequence of so many other states taking tangibly Fascist turns. @… https://mastodon.social/@0xYumeko/115845146364081…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialMoody 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
@cheryanne@aus.socialFuture People
Each episode features unfiltered conversations with leaders who are rethinking value, legacy, and leadership in a world being rebuilt...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/future-people/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dehiv_transmission: HIV transmission network (1988-2001)
A set of networks of HIV transmissions between people through sexual, needle-sharing, or social connections, based on combining 8 datasets collected from 1988 to 2001. Metadata includes test results of several diseases, as well as demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, and gender. Networks come in two flavors: egodyads and altdyads. Egodyads are the network among study-participants and their direct partners. Altdyads are the…
@doktrock@toad.socialPerfect day for pond skating! 19F/-7C, no wind. In this case, the artificial Centennial Lakes Park, #Edina, #Minnesota (suburb of #Minneapolis). Interestingly, set in an office complex. 900 m / half a mile long…
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comFOSS power user laptop choice in 2025:
"
* 998 people running [Apple] M1 from 2005
* many Lenovo/Framework/Dell users, everything runs great, battery is bad, sound and display are so/so
* 30 people use laptops from all corners of galaxy that no one heard of, they swear everything is great (probably not)
* a few billionaires who moved from M4 to M5, haven't had time to unpack it yet, seems to work fast!"
@rafa_font@mastodon.online"No group in America has fallen further, faster than young men. When I began talking about this several years ago, that was a controversial statement, especially on the left, where many pathologize masculinity.
While the right has suggested the solution is to take women and non-white people back to the 1950s, the left’s view is that young men don’t have problems, they are the problem.
Neither attitude helps."
@geant@mstdn.socialLast year at GÉANT #SecurityDays 2025, 160 participants from 28 countries came together in Prague to share challenges, learn from each other, and talk openly about what security really looks like across the #Research &
@hex@kolektiva.socialColonial nations didn't stop colonialism because they became moral. They stopped because it was untenable. The advancement of asymmetric warfare made it impossible to maintain colonial holdings and those empires crumbled.
The answer was neoliberalism and soft power. Trump had annihilated the financial systems that held that fragile order in place.
#Venezuela will probably end up trying to teach Trump the lesson everyone else learned in the 20th century, but since he's incapable of learning it may very well teach him the lesson Afghanistan taught the USSR.
We'll see how it goes.
It's still possible that we could end up with the US interfering so much that the only people left able to defend space are anarchists. South and Central America actually has some really interesting and advanced anarchist tendencies, so fucking with that could absolutely blow up in Trump (and every other authoritarian's) face.
I hope that the Venezuelan people can take advantage of the situation to get rid of both a shitty dictator and the shitty colonizers who want to replace him.
@saraislet@infosec.exchangeOne of the strongest factors in building and motivating an organization as a leader is saying out loud regularly that you care about people.
As Alicja frames, it's the difference between knowing what ice cream tastes like and actually eating ice cream.
It is so SO meaningful to tell people that you care about them, that you value their expertise and work, that they deserve to be respected and supported, and so on. Customize it to the individual situation: identify what someo…
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom The Tyee
BC Green Leader Emily Lowan says the party needs to work ‘on building power’
BC Green Leader Emily Lowan says the party needs to work ‘on building power with working people, renters and young people across BC and focusing in on this message of wealth, inequality and driving forward long-term solutions.’
Photo via BC Greens.
@seeingwithsound@mas.toVisual, auditory, and audiovisual time-to-collision estimation among participants with age-related macular degeneration compared to a normal-vision group: the TTC-AMD study https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0337549
@anildash@me.dmThe number one thing I've been hearing from people in tech lately is, basically, "How the hell am I supposed to work in this industry anymore?" Though most folks are kind of afraid to say it out loud. So I wrote about how to think about it: https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a-tech
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL midseason crystal ball: 10 people who will shape the 2025 season's second half https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-midseason-crystal-ball-10-people-who-will-shape-the-2025-season-s-second-half
@pdmckone@mstdn.caIn the modern world, there are two civilizations:
One speaks many languages and sees people as neighbours, as family, as friends, and as strangers they've yet to meet.
The other sees people as things, things to profit from, to manipulate, to abuse and, ultimately, to discard when they no longer suit their purposes.
In which civilization do you live?
@markrsmith@smithtodon.orgGovernor 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
@kctipton@mas.toICE’s Hiring Surge Is Attracting A Bunch Of People Who Are Too Unfit (Or Too Criminal) To Work At ICE | Techdirt https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/31/ices-hiring-surge-is-attracting-a-bunch-of-people-who-are-too…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIf anyone is building stuff based on the accounts we have verified on Gaza Verified, you can now get a list of the Mastodon URLs of the verified accounts in JSON format at:
https://gaza-verified.org/people.json
For a human-readable list, just remove the .json:
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Is Detaining People for ICE (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/story/the-louisiana-department-of-wildlife-and-fisheries-is-detaining-people-for-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p32#a251204p32
@jredlund@social.linux.pizzaExploring Neural Amp Modeler
Neural Amp Modeler is based on neural net technology that analyzes a sound and produces a file to reproduce it. The technology is open source, so people can use it to capture amplifier tones and then play instruments through them. There are fancy plugins for Windows and Mac OS, but because I am running Linux Mint, I had to download the file from GitHub and compile it on my machine.
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialWell worth signing if you live in California
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/let-the-people-decide-give-us-a-vote-on-autonomous-vehicles?source=direct_link&
@paulwermer@sfba.socialWell worth signing if you live in California
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/let-the-people-decide-give-us-a-vote-on-autonomous-vehicles?source=direct_link&
@gla@mastodon.socialThis article by @… describes me this weekend, hacking away with Copilot on two Hugo websites (one new, one 10 years old) and being incredibly productive while at it (and I suck at golang templates)
https://
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI 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)_/¯
@wwwgem@social.linux.pizza@… made me think about my preference for minimalist apps
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/sys_design/
@castarco@hachyderm.ioI'm passing this survey about names for the co-op to some friends... and every time they face a non-English sounding name... they all say this same phrase (with small variations):
> It doesn't sound **international** enough / at all.
Honestly... I find it quite sad. I know ultimately it doesn't matter what I think personally, we still need a good & catchy name (it's not in our hands to make people think differently)...
Anyway, I believe UK & American #imperialism have fucked our brains and removed so much creativity & freedom from our minds...
Note: this issue is disconnected from the specific names of our survey. I've seen it too with names of very successful projects (but unknown to the people I was talking to); for example with "Kubernetes".
#naming #branding
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialSeattle-based Yoodli, which sells AI-powered communication training software, raised a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital, valuing the startup at $300M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/ex-g
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"It's not that any of the other streaming services are good, but Spotify is almost certainly the worst. Do not trust it. Do not let it turn your enjoyment of music into stats and algorithmic playlists."
(Original title: Spotify Haters Club)
https://knru.polin.ski/spotify-haters-
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people."
—Adam Driver
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz'Jets Now Have a Future': What People Around NFL Are Saying About Top Deadline Trades https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/jets-now-have-future-what-people-around-nfl-saying-about-top-deadline-trades
@cdarwin@c.imBritish Home Office plans to immediately begin seizing asylum seekers’ mobile phones and sim cards without the need for an arrest
have been condemned by a solicitor and anti-torture campaigners.
People who arrive by small boat and are sent to Manston processing centre in Kent will from Monday be eligible for searches for electronic devices, a minister has said,
with technology on site to download data.
Officials will be allowed to search inside the mouths of detainees…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMeta says it has struck multiple multiyear commercial AI data agreements, including with USA Today, People, CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, and Le Monde (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/05/meta-ai-deals-news-publishers
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHey folks,
I’ve set up a separate account for Gaza Verified on my personal Mastodon server.
Please follow @… for newly-verified account updates, etc.
Also, please direct people to this account instead of mine for verification. (If you are asking people to apply for verification, please do so kindly and remember that all we verify at Gaz…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dehiv_transmission: HIV transmission network (1988-2001)
A set of networks of HIV transmissions between people through sexual, needle-sharing, or social connections, based on combining 8 datasets collected from 1988 to 2001. Metadata includes test results of several diseases, as well as demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, and gender. Networks come in two flavors: egodyads and altdyads. Egodyads are the network among study-participants and their direct partners. Altdyads are the…
@benb@osintua.euThese people just escaped Russian-occupied Ukraine — but some say they need to go back: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/02/these-people-just-escaped-russianoccupied.html
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialUn Momento 🕰️
一瞬 🕰️
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@cdarwin@c.imJay 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.
@anildash@me.dmOkay, this is a key distillation of work I've been doing for a few decades, one of the most important lessons I try to share with the people I collaborate with: They have to be able to talk about us without us. https://www.anildash.com/2025/12/05/talk-about-us-without-…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alOne of USA’s last remaining independent journalistic outlets… *checks notes*… Teen Vogue… is shuttered. https://romancelandia.club/@herhandsmyhands/115491522193236227
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI think some people saw the OP and imagined their country doing some kind of unilateral full-out political/economic suicide mission against the US. No no no. My request, I remind you, was to “Start laying the political groundwork now” for pushback against the US. Help make appeasement feel less and less safe for your political leadership with every passing day.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people."
—Adam Driver
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@cdarwin@c.imThe Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to
👉 dismantle protections for trans and intersex people
in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities,
according to a government memo obtained by Prism.
The memo, dated Dec. 2, takes aim at existing standards of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
that the department says do not comport with the Trump administration’s first-day executive order that,
among other things, targeted protec…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioOh look, the people who constantly insist we shouldn't polarize are talking again about the "real America".
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSome people are feeding their private medical information into chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, only to receive generalized or inaccurate diagnoses in response (Maggie Astor/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/well/me
@cdarwin@c.imMERCENARIES is a video and poster campaign to counter ICE recruitment.
The distribution model for this campaign is both decentralized and autonomous.
They ask, "Please help us circulate these everywhere that people are at risk."
https://crimethinc.com/zines/8-things-
@inthehands@hachyderm.io7. “Sorry, it will never happen” − Well yeah, if you don’t even try then it won’t.
People think they sound smart when they post these long splainy treatises in my mentions about nothing will get better. It seems like they think it makes them sound smart.
Sorry, honey. Cynicism does not make you worldly or wise. Cynicism makes you gullible.
@benb@osintua.eu @netzschleuder@social.skewed.debudapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 71604 edges.
Tags: Biolo…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioSeeing 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?
@cdarwin@c.im @aral@mastodon.ar.alYeah, Jimmy “I’m actually quite in favour of business and capitalism and all that”* Wales, the surveillance capitalist and Fandom-president adtech man who once told me he doesn’t believe in any form of government regulation – not even in food standards or healthcare – can go fuck himself.
Find better heroes. Or even better yet, get over the whole stupid concept itself.
*
@cdarwin@c.imA judge has ruled that, for now,
asylum seekers are not required to pay an annual fee for each year their application is pending.
The ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed by the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP.)
The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, which became law on July 4, 2025,
instituted a new fee system for people in the immigration system,
including asylum seekers.
The legislation requires that they pay a $100 filing fee and an Annual A…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFigma 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
@cdarwin@c.imImmigration activists and lawyers say Somali residents have been
🔥pulled over,
asked for their passports
and detained by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents this week
❌after Donald Trump called Minnesota’s Somali immigrants
“garbage” that should go back to Somalia.
“I have been getting calls all day and night from people who should not be at risk,”
said Cameron Geibnik,
a Minneapolis immigration attorney who described talking to n…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHey everyone,
@… and I had the honour of speaking to two families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.
They are:
• Azez (@…)
• Saly🍉✌️ (@…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115840252209889277
I'm thoroughly convinced that a lot of the problems we have as a society in general and with the tech industry in particular is toxic positivity—when people just can't get themselves to call out bad things for what they are; it's so often I see needless defending of bad work or outright insults hurled at customers by big corporations, and endless calls for a false civility.
@cdarwin@c.imThe math dealing with “the probability of B knowing C, given that A knows B and A knows C” was fuzzy.
But what about “the case where A does not know B, but where they have one acquaintance in common”?
Ed Greenfield collected people.
Ithiel de Sola Pool collected data.
Pool began to make a list of everyone he knew, including the man who seemed to know everyone: Ed Greenfield.
And then he sent that list around, all over the country, to ask people he knew if th…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI launches its Sora app on Android, including in the US, Canada, and Japan; the app reached 1M downloads in the five days after its September iOS launch (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/813533/openai-sora-android-launch
@cdarwin@c.imA new report by Amnesty International says that immigrants held at the ICE jail in Florida known as “Alligator Alcatraz”
were shackled inside a two-foot-high metal cage
and left outside without water for up to a day at a time.
The report also details “unsanitary conditions,
including overflowing toilets with fecal matter seeping into where people are sleeping,
limited access to showers,
exposure to insects without protective measures,
lights on 24 h…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alMake no mistake, the only values the European Commission gives a single damn about are expressed in Euros and cents.
The guiding principle of the successor to the European Coal and Steel Community isn’t human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, it’s the Single Market.
How dare you even pretend to care when you are beyond silent in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, you despicable bunch of fancy-suited hypocrites.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta strikes multiyear commercial AI data deals with news publishers, including CNN and Fox News, to provide real-time answers for its Meta AI chatbot (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/05/meta-ai-deals-news-publishers
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA joint Databroker Files investigation shows commercially traded mobile phone location data allows the tracking of millions of Europeans, including EU officials (netzpolitik.org)
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/databroker-files-targeting-the-eu/
@cdarwin@c.imMore than 100 detained in holiday immigration raids across Central Coast, sparking outrage
Federal immigration agents took people from their homes, job sites, businesses and on the streets as they ran errands,
#Santa #Maria City Councilmember Gloria Soto said.
She said at least 87 people were taken by age…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS federal contracting records suggest US ICE is planning to hire ~30 contractors to monitor social media content, seeking leads for enforcement operations (Dell Cameron/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-social-media-surveillance-24-7-contract/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialStarlink says it is providing free broadband service to new and existing customers in Venezuela through February 3, 2026 (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-free-internet-venezuela-us-raid-maduro.h…
@cdarwin@c.imMr. President. Millions have put their trust in you and, as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God.
In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.
There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and Independent families, some who fear for their lives.
And the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry fa…
