@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Celebrating Seven Years of By the People"
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/03/by-the-people-turns-7/
"We turned seven during the Fall of last year and we’ve been waiting to make a very exciting announcement: Our volunteers completed one milli…
@cdarwin@c.imSince November, a total of 35 people across California have been poisoned by mushrooms,
leading to three people receiving liver transplants
in addition to the three deaths.
Health officials in Sonoma County reported the latest death last week.
Michael Stacey, Sonoma’s interim health officer, attributed the cases and deaths to
an extraordinary boom in the prevalence of death cap mushrooms (Amanita phalloides),
noting that in an average year the state sees…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe IRS erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, as part of the agencies’ controversial agreement to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the US.
https://
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialOne of my neighbors just emailed me a block list.
It's not a list of people to block, it's a list of people who *live* on our block.
Although a few of those people probably belong on a block list!
@servelan@newsie.socialHow Many People Have the US and Israel Killed in Iran?
https://www.juancole.com/2026/04/people-israel-killed.html
@gevoel@mastodon.greenHow many people does heat actually kill?
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatebrink/p/how-many-people-does-heat-actually?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=e4myx
> It dep…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comICE Barbie Gives Giant Border Contract to Accused People Smugglers (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ice-barbie-gives-giant-border-contract-to-accused-people-smugglers-slsco-ltd/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p122#a260313p122
@newsie@darktundra.xyzPeople Hate Datacenters, Survey Finds https://www.404media.co/people-hate-datacenters-survey-finds/
@aardrian@toot.cafeTwo recent posts from Tetra’s ‘designing for…’ series:
“Designing for people who are blind” by Graeme Coleman
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2026/04/02/designing-for-people-who-are-blind/
“Designing for people with low vision” by
@mela@zusammenkunft.net
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe existence of Israel is a manifestation of European antisemitism, both historically justifying the project of Zionism and European governments continuing to fund Israel instead of addressing the core role of antisemitism in maintaining (at least) the conservative elements of the neoliberal order.
If antisemitism props up Israel, then a core part of dismantling Israel (and thus saving the lives of Palestinians) is addressing European antisemitism. There are Israeli Jews who would leave if they felt safe to do so. There are Jews demanding Israel be armed, because they don't feel safe anywhere else.
Protest, boycott, take whatever action you feel is appropriate. There is a limit to your ability to convince governments to stop funding genocide, but you can learn about antisemitism and you can work to fight it, especially within "The Left." You can learn to distinguish between legitimate critiques of Israel, and antisemitic ones, and you can stand and call out antisemitic ones.
Honestly, this is some of the easy work that I think a lot of people don't consider even doing, don't even realize it is a thing that can be done.
I'm talking to Israeli folks who identify as being on the Left. It's hard because they've been through a lot of propaganda. Israel is a cult that terrorizes its members. This is important work that can have a huge impact, because it focuses on dismantling the networks of support that reinforce what's happening now.
Meanwhile, I still run into wild things like "Rothschild" conspiracy theories among people who identify with the idea of supporting Palestinians.
Not only can you support the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people while opposing antisemitism, but you must actually do both in order to do either. They are exactly the same fight, and anything short of both is thrashing against oneself.
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlinePeople say potus this term is worse than they imagined. Maybe my imagination is stuck on the millions of preventable deaths his first term spawned, and other horrors: he is well on the path to my imagination’s picture.
But he will try to kill hundreds of millions, maim, torture and violate more, before he will leave office…I fear my imagination is not embellishing his aims.
They wrote a document outlining all of it, and some days I reallly wish more people had taken that seriou…
@bourgwick@heads.social
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialNice article, about a serious problem/risk with AI models. AI poisoning.
"Part of the problem is that AI models can offer wildly different results depending on exactly what is asked and what kind of information they are drawing on. Search for “bixonimania”, and Google’s AI overview might treat it as a legitimate condition. Ask it “Is bixonimania real?” and the same AI overview might confirm that it isn’t legitimate."
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaDo people like check the Debian website every 5 minutes to check it hasn't
morphed into another one? Not that I'm one to talk, but some people seriously
need to get a life.
-- james on #Debian
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Hudson People:
🎵 Trip To Your Mind (LTJ Xperience Rework)
#HudsonPeople
https://sevenashrams.bandcamp.com/track/hudson-people-trip-to-your-mind-dean-anderson-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0K2g7kqMdbkqrtJodDhSIT
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialI quite like @… so far but one thing I found very annoying is that all AI features are turned on by default and I have to manually turn them all off. I understand that some people think a faulty summary is the shit but there are enough people who fucking hate it so having a way to turn
@deabigt@universeodon.comOdd, mainly GOP-leaning sites are reporting this.
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped https://ground.news/article/us-courts-have-ruled-4-400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped
@malik@Mastodon.SocialRE: https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/115892539849202637
People loud, people brave
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTinder unveils updates designed to reinvigorate its product, bolster safety, and harness AI, including an Events tab and a virtual speed dating test in LA (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/tind
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialI'm not a proponent violence. It's an unevolved, classless, lizard-brain instinct.
Except against people who chew with their mouths open in public. There's a special place in hell for those people.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… people complaining about the option of using a chatbot, in a sidebar of Firefox, caused me to occasionally experiment with chatbots in the sidebar.
When people make unreasonable demands: the listener will do the opposite of what's demanded.
Human nature.
@UP8@mastodon.social⚠️ AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections
I discovered 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 for myself in my ill-fated research project of 2021!
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-ai-generate-intimacy-exceeds-human.html
@ErikUden@mastodon.deI won't debate people on conforming with the moral standards set by the far right, because every time a moderate feels the need to condemn a statement that was “inciting violence”, the truth comes out that their so-called violence was a media framing oddly applied to them with a bad-faith reading of their words.
@jake4480@c.imDavid Bowie’s single 'Cat People (Putting Out Fire)' came out this week in 1982 for the horror movie 'Cat People'. And I highly recommend seeing this ridiculous flick, as I did recently 😹
#Bowie
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioPeople are reminiscing about their "childhood Macs" and I'm losing my fucking mind because it's mostly machines with Intel CPUs
@mia@hcommons.socialSeeing members of the Iranian women's football team get asylum in Australia reminds me of this in the UK: Lift the Ban: Why People Seeking Asylum Should Have the Right to Work - Refugee Action https://www.refugee-action.org.uk/lift-the
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialQ&A with NYT reporter Tiffany Hsu about AI-generated online influencers, how the volume of synthetic content produces exhaustion for users, and more (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)
https:…
@servelan@newsie.social2 DOGE staffers say 'no' regrets for people losing income, didn't reduce the deficit: Depositions - ABC News
https://abcnews.com/Politics/2-doge-staffers-regrets-people-losing-income-reduce/story?id=131050170
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAsk not what your country can do for you – ask what the fuck your country is doing bombing innocent Brown people halfway around the world.
@anneroth@systemli.social„This morning, like millions of people across the world, I heard the unconscionable statements made by members of the jury of the Berlin film festival when they were asked to comment about the genocide in Gaza. To hear them say that art should not be political is jaw-dropping.“
Author #ArundhatiRoy, 'Shocked and Disgusted' by Jury's
@robpike@hachyderm.ioWhen keyboards were made for people who typed for a living, the lettering on the keys was structural, like the words in a Brighton Rock. I suppose that era has passed.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCourts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn't stopped. (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/courts-have-ruled-4400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped-2026-02-14/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260214/p10#a260214p10
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.debookcrossing: BookCrossing ratings (2005)
Two bipartite networks representing people and the books they have interacted with, from the BookCrossing website. Nodes represent users and books, and an edge connects a user to a book they have interacted with. The file book_implicit is unweighted; edge weights in book_ratings give the rating a user assigned to a book.
This network has 445801 nodes and 1149739 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Weighted
@saraislet@infosec.exchangeI wish we had more people writing more sophisticated concerns about the harms of AI.
"Slop" criticism is important because I think many of us feel we are being gaslit into believing that generative AI is currently creating quality creative output, while Al (henceforth Alfred) is overwhelmingly creating mediocre quality creative work.
Every past winter, Alfred survives in a more focused and refined form. Eliza was a toy chatbot of the 1960s, but what emerged from that is…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeBattery tech people: do Energizer Ultimate Lithium AA batteries contain any kind of internal protection / fusing mechanism like good 18650s do? Or do they ever fail short or something?
Just pulled four out of a device. Three tested good at 1.5V and the fourth measured absolutely zero. Not like low, no voltage at all.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI mean that as a cynical jab, yes, but also an analysis: with rare exceptions, politicians don’t lead; people lead and politicians follow. That is both their actual job (in a democracy, anyway) and their practical survival reality.
People get so confused about this, waiting for politicians to come around or to take charge — when what we need to do in the long term is reshape social reality around them, and leave them scrambling to keep up with us.
@hanno@mastodon.socialI guess in the age of AI journalism, boring things like fact checking or citing people with their words and not something else aren't valued any more...
https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116065340523529645
@metacurity@infosec.exchange @cdarwin@c.imThere are some changes for the 2026 tax filing season that people who are 65 years of age and older should be aware of.
The most recent being the enhanced deduction for seniors
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/2026-filing-season-updates-and-resources-for-…
@benb@osintua.eu“I had no intention of breaking the rules. My helmet is about honoring great people,” – Heraskevych: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/12/i-had-no-intention-of.html
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI've updated (mostly culled) my list of Milwaukee Mastodon users.
This list used to be over 80 people, but the vast majority only posted in 2022/2023. A few straggled into 2024. I removed anyone who hasn't posted more than once in 2025.
It kind of sucks, but meh... it is what it is.
Also, I should try to find more people. And, move this off of GitHub at some point.
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineIn October, ice agents “smashed the car windows and detained all seven occupants” of a van that they thought suspicious because people in it were going to work together. Carpooling. Carpooling is foreign and unintelligible to the brilliant and diligent ice agent who testified as JB. The concept of carpooling is beyond JB’s comprehension. 🤦♂️
The intellect on JB could be studied (but might make anyone studying it dumber).
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Talking Heads:
🎵 Slippery People
#TalkingHeads
https://balboaproductions.bandcamp.com/track/talking-heads-slippery-people-balboa-lounge-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6jmArQTNFxVghhetkYV36I
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotI gave two of the three gifts I can afford to give this week to #Gaza, to people I already know and regularly communicate with; I woke up this morning thinking I knew who I would give the third gift to.
But I've just learned of a young unmarried woman living in a tent, caring for younger siblings (and I think some other people, I'm not yet fully clear). She appears to have no support at…
@servelan@newsie.socialCourts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/courts-have-ruled-4400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped-2026-02-14/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with NYT reporter Tiffany Hsu about AI-generated online influencers, how the volume of synthetic content produces exhaustion for users, and more (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)
https:…
@hex@kolektiva.socialRoman elites drank from leaded cups because it made water sweeter. Radiation was thought at one time to have healing properties, so people would add uranium to their drinking water. Glowing dishes are still a collectors item. After the discovery of x-rays, shoe stores started installing them and using them on kids feet to size shoes. Lead was added to gasoline to improve engine performance, and paint to make it whiter. We all know about asbestos and DDT.
We look back at all of this and think, "how could people have been so incompetent back then?" Some of these things caused irreparable harm in their generation, some continue to cause harm today almost 100 years later.
If you wonder that, look at the whole #LLM thing and you have your answer.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThe people who think sand is sentient also are allowed to vote and that explains a lot
@cdarwin@c.imNew information published Friday by the New York Times further suggests that
the U.S.military may have lied when it tried to pin the blame for a February airstrike that killed 21 people in Iran on the Iranian government,
with evidence indicating that the U.S. carried out the attack with a new missile designed to inflict maximum casualties
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Dr. Octagon:
🎵 Earth People
#DrOctagon
https://oscinian.bandcamp.com/track/dr-octagon-earth-people-ngr-m-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5AIt6kPothKids503sMGtA
@aral@mastodon.ar.alFor fuck’s sake, this is one of the few ways Palestinians can get/use money from the West currently.
They are trying to choke any and all means of helping them.
Genocide isn’t just bombing and shooting people, it’s also removing the conditions for life.
And so many beyond the ones pulling the triggers in occupied Palestine are complicit in that.
#israel
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI feel like coding with an AI agent is like using a microwave oven to make dinner. You’ll get some hot food and you can eat it, but is it going to be amazing? Probably not. Does it offer convenience and will it save you time? Yes.
But putting together an actual meal with real, fresh ingredients and making it yourself… It’s just going to be better.
Of course, some people just hate cooking… maybe those same people hate coding? (1/2)
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_country: Person-Country Affiliations (DBpedia, 2016)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between notable people and countries of the world, as extracted from Wikipedia via the DBpedia project. Countries include former countries, empires, kingdoms, and some country-like entities.
This network has 592414 nodes and 637134 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
@aardrian@toot.cafeEarth Day is coming up, people.
“Green components: How your design system can aid sustainability goals”
https://zeroheight.com/blog/green-components-how-your-design-system-can-aid-sustainability-goals/
These are for my h…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comGunman in fatal Old Dominion University shooting ID'd as convicted ISIS supporter, officials say (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gunman-dead-2-people-injured-shooting-old-dominion-university-rcna263189
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p113#a260312p113
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioUpdate from later in the day in MSP:
I’ve heard or uttered variations on the phrase “I’ll believe it when I see it” in numerous conversations through out the day. That seems to be the prevailing sentiment. People are willing to be hopeful, but nobody’s counting their chickens just yet.
@hex@kolektiva.socialI wanna jump one more time on the whole "distraction" framing, because this is a point that needs to be hammered home (and I need a reminder to write something longer).
Attacks on trans youth are not a distraction from other types of coercion, they are central to it. Attacks on trans youth come from a conceptualization of children as property, which is literally patriarchy in the Roman sense of the legal objectification all people who share a household as belonging to a man. This legal structure, Roman slave law, continues to be the root of property rights and therefore the foundation of capitalism.
But colonialism also extends from it through the infantalization of colonized people as a justification for oppression. This can also be turned inward again manifesting as the justification for police (that is, some people "can't handle themselves and need external authority to act right").
The #Epstein stuff isn't some weird thing that rich people get away with, it's core to how wealth works. Money isn't useful by itself, it's a proxy for power. One manifestation of power is being able to violate laws that constrain others (this is the "freedom of the monarch" that Graeber talks about in Dawn of Everything). The war in Iran, especially the threats of nuclear weapons and genocide is not a distraction from the #EpsteinFiles, but rather a manifestation of the same thing.
Power must be demonstrated to affirm that it is real. War is a demonstration power. Violating the law without consequences is a demonstration of power. The most taboo things are using nuclear weapons and child sexual abuse. He has already done one of those, and he is going to do everything he can to do the other.
These are not distractions, these are all manifestations of the underlying thing that we need to fight. But we need to make sure we're fighting it as a single thing. We have to tie these things together, because if we do not then we risk reproducing the same thing again but worse.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Family of God:
🎵 Beautiful People
#FamilyofGod
https://loveinternationalrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/family-of-god-beautiful-people
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration has burned through🔥 “years” of critical munitions since the start of the war with Iran,
said three people familiar with the matter,
fuelling concerns about the rising cost of the conflict and the US’s ability to replenish its stockpiles.
The rapid depletion of weaponry included advanced long-range Tomahawk missiles, the people said.
It is a “massive expenditure of Tomahawks”, said one person familiar with the US military’s use of munitions. …
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThe funniest thing so far this year is that people create burner accounts to reply to me how I’m wrong and how great AI is.
Perfectly normal behavior.
@servelan@newsie.socialTroops are mocking Air Force gate guards over a new rule: 'You sound like a Walmart greeter' - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-changes-how-gate-guards-greet-people-frustrating-troops-2026-2
@aral@mastodon.ar.alOh, dear thing, did you see a post by a Palestinian facing genocide on your favourite fucking sci-fi hashtag by mistake? You, poor, delicate flower. Do you think you’ll survive? Should we call 911? @… ht…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBitchat, a P2P messaging app launched by Jack Dorsey, has emerged as a key lifeline for people in Uganda and Iran facing government-imposed internet shutdowns (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telec…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Love and Rockets:
🎵 Mirror People
#LoveandRockets
https://loveandrockets.bandcamp.com/track/mirror-people-88-single-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4iYfF94DyjUD0HIjG9hNz5
@cdarwin@c.imOver the past year, the biggest victories against Trump have come
not from the elites or institutions,
but from college kids and office workers, cat ladies and Uber drivers.
When Trump tried to censor Jimmy Kimmel, it was the pumpkin latte drinkers whose ire forced ABC to bring him back on.
When the president sent National Guard troops to terrorize cities like Portland, D.C., Los Angeles and Chicago, people who still wear skinny jeans turned off Netflix, inflated the…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedbpedia_occupation: Person-Occupation Affiliations (DBpedia, 2016)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between notable people and occupations, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 229307 nodes and 250945 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.s…
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineIn break from recent tradition, the Department of Homeland Security will help safeguard the American People by shutting down *.
https://apnews.com/article/homeland-security-shutdown-ice-funding-7bf62bc50ca0a6a6013a714bee2ffdb4
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioHeads-up: if you're in the US it is tax season which means people might have extra money available/expect refunds which in turn means it's a good time to sell stuff on e.g. eBay.
Like the gear your ADHD made you buy for the latest abandoned hobby… 😅
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://mastodon.social/@AltTextHealthCheck/116043212772197701
In my experience, people who care about accessibility are usually good folks. So if you’re looking for a good Mastodon instance to join, this is likely a good guide.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIran's internet blackout enters a record 45th day, per NetBlocks, amid the war; the country's 90M people now rely on the domestic National Information Network (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9a2e17e9-3d66-407f-81c4-fae8a6ceae10
@hex@kolektiva.socialI'm gonna keep going on this though, because I need to for a minute more.
If you don't come from a rural area, I don't think you can actually understand the level of anger about pedophiles. The level of sexual abuse is insane, and there's anger to match (though, it's also easily directed towards more marginalized people).
I remember a cop raping a 13 year old girl in the town I grew up in. Those good 'ol boy clubs are full of pedophiles and racists. There are petit Epsteins in power across rural America. There is a *reason* why people are angry about this, but since folks in rural areas have been historically denied access to these critiques that anger is easily controlled. But now the whole thing has been blown apart and they've seen it. GIVE THEM THE CRITIQUE TO UNDERSTAND IT, for fuck sake!
Everyone responded to the (possibly apocryphal) Pam Bondi "the system will collapse" quote with "then it deserves to collapse."
This is literally a thing that can unite literally everyone, if we can just listen to the right people for a few brief moments.
@servelan@newsie.socialWe need to inconvenience the right people about ICE
https://www.forwardky.com/we-need-to-inconvenience-the-right-people-about-ice/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decrime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThe worst thing about AI coding assistants maybe isn’t the tech but the people who constantly rub it into your face how great they find it and how you should do it too and you’re wrong not trying it and “why not just do a little bit”.
I’m wondering if they’re talking about programming or snorting cocaine.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS Big Tech companies have been on an energy-related hiring spree; Workforce.AI says Microsoft has hired 570 people with energy-related expertise since 2022 (Tasmin Lockwood/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/14/big-tech-google-microsoft-energy-hiring-ai.html…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt is not an extreme position to want to be able to think for yourself, to write by just typing words in, to learn things from other people or to make art with your hands.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as 2026, and considers letting the glasses identify people with public Meta accounts (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smar…
@cdarwin@c.imMore than 300 people protested outside of the New York offices of Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand Monday to oppose sending U.S. weapons to Israel.
At least 90 protesters were arrested,
among them Chelsea Manning, a former U.S. soldier and whistleblower who leaked hundreds of thousands of military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks in 2011,
as well as New York City Council Member Alexa Avilés and actor Hari Nef.
The protests were organized by
&q…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI'm actually believing this, the main reason "AI" hype has become this big is tech people being impressed by it "writing code".
Then they were wrongly extrapolating capabilities to other fields (because "programming is super hard, harder than any other vocation, therefore 'AI' can do anything!!!1!"). To them, it clearly appears be god because they see themselves as gods—because they can write quicksort and linked lists or something.
Meanwhile, LLMs are only passable at generating code because it is laughably easy, mainly because programming languages and "best practices" are extremely verbose, repetitive and clunky; requiring endless boilerplate and infinite layer cakes to achieve even the most trivial things.
Because other people that don't care about that shit are so dependent on technology, it gets pushed to everyone without consent.
Kind of like a hubris ouroboros.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialElon Musk announces an xAI reorganization that "required parting ways with some people", after two xAI co-founders announced they were leaving this week (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/musk-announces-xai-re-o…
@cdarwin@c.imOn TikTok and Instagram, young people are diving into the joys of Chinese culture – from drinking hot water to playing mahjong – all under the banner of “Chinamaxxing”.
On the Chinese internet, however, the US is losing its decades-long grip on soft power, and is instead being replaced by a darker trend: "the kill line".
The kill line is a dangerous place to be.
In gaming, the term refers to the point at which a player’s strength is so depleted that one more blo…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: recently the DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas, which do not need a judge's approval, to tech firms to identify people critical of ICE (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/techn…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116069203522678131
Note: obviously not everyone is doing this, and some people can hold their sand.
@cdarwin@c.imPetitions demanding people get
the chance to be released from ICE custody
have overwhelmed courts throughout the US.
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-crashing-us-court-system-minnesota/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA US court sentences Ramil Ventura Palafox, CEO of Praetorian Group, to 20 years in prison for operating a $200M bitcoin Ponzi scheme that defrauded 90K people (Danny Park/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/389760/bitcoin-ponzi-20-years
@cdarwin@c.im“In Bombay Beach, everything that can go wrong in the world has gone wrong;
that’s why people most describe it as apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic,” said Tao Ruspoli.
“You have climate change, environmental collapse, severe poverty and contaminated water.
The beauty of the apocalypse is that it exposes all the problems of our culture and then asks the question, what’s next?
What do you do once the end has happened?”
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe UK government drops plans for mandatory digital IDs to work in the country, marking a reversal from when the UK first announced the policy in September 2025 (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3385zrrx73o
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAdobe patches a zero-day in Acrobat DC, Reader DC, and Acrobat 2024, which hackers have been actively exploiting for at least four months (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/adobe-fixes-pdf-zero-day-sec…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Grafana Labs, which makes cloud and AI monitoring tools, is in talks to raise at a $9B valuation, up from $6.6B in 2024; its ARR hit $400M in Sept. (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/grafana-labs-talk-raise-9-billion-valuati…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Travis Kalanick prepares to launch a self-driving car company with backing from Uber and has been discussing acquiring Anthony Levandowski's Pronto.ai (Jessica E. Lessin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tr
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: ByteDance suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0 amid copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streamers; it was launched in China last month (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bytedance-s…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to buy a major data center site in West Virginia; Amazon and Meta have also expressed interest in the site (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nv
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to develop AI models for scientific research, is in talks to raise $175M at a $1B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ex-anthropic-r…
