@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPeople Inc. reports Q1 revenue down 2% YoY to $385.7M, adjusted EBITDA down 46% to $43.5M, digital revenue up 8% YoY to $253.2M, unique site visits fell 18% (Christiana Sciaudone/A Media Operator)
https://www.amediaoperator.com/news/people
@markhburton@mstdn.socialFarage's thugs. Let's hope that turns people of these far right opportunists.
‘It’s horrible how scared people were’: Southampton picks up the pieces after night of violence | Southampton | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun…
@sherold@mastodon.onlineDoes anyone remember this?
Little Computer People, by Activision (1985).
#gaming
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says agentic traffic is "growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time" (Mark Tyson/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeIBM security executive emerges as possible contender to lead CISA
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2026/05/ibm-security-executive-emerges-possible-contender-lead-cisa/413291/
@david@boles.xyzThe Glass People: The Materials of Madness, from the Glass King to the Simulation
More than six hundred years ago, the King of France stopped letting anyone touch him. Charles VI had iron rods sewn into his clothing and moved through his palace with the stiff care of a man carrying something breakable, because he believed he was carrying something breakable....
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Summertime is getting more dangerous for people with diabetes"
#Health #Climate #ClimateChange
@servelan@newsie.social60 People In Idaho Sick From Drinking Raw Milk, Because ... Big Pharma? The Deep State?
https://www.wonkette.com/p/60-people-in-idaho-sick-from-drinking
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump officials planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead, whistleblower says (Meryl Kornfield/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/05/doge-planned-falsely-mark-27-million-people-dead-whistleblower-says/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260605/p17#a260605p17
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe whole #LLM ROI thing reveals something interesting. It's basically impossible to figure out the ROI of an LLM. That makes it impossible for bean counters to make a comparison between human work and LLM work, or human work without an LLM and LLM-assisted work, to determine if the incredibly high price is worth it. But it's also impossible because you can't measure the ROI of a human, especially for skilled labor.
You can't measure the ROI of a human, because managers have no idea what people do. There's an eternally expanding amount of work designed to address this problem. But no matter how closely people are surveilled, interrogated, analyzed, there's never any real answer.
I've talked in the past about in relation to medical care. One of the dirty secrets of hospitals is that they have no way to figure out how much individual treatment costs. It's easy to understand at scale. You can know exactly how much something costs society. You can even identify patterns, using public health models, and decrease costs for society by trying to get people to avoid risky behavior (stop smoking, use protection during sex, etc). But it is absolutely not possible, at all, in any way, to figure out how much a single visit costs. This is similar to the problem of predicting climate change vs predicting the weather tomorrow in Amsterdam at 15:00. One is possible, the other is simply not.
But what is becoming painfully clear now is that this is true *everywhere*. It's trivial to know how much an industry costs. It's possible to figure out it's ROI for society. It is not possible to figure out how much value any individual worker provides. LLM ROI and cost comparison is an instance of this larger problem.
This is a problem for capitalism because it shows that the fundamental assumptions behind capitalism, that product value and labor value are quantifiable, that people can actually make comparisons between competing products, etc, are completely bullshit. The capitalist apologetics that makes up so much of economics, the lies that are told that hold this system together, are crumbling before our eyes.
If you make a lot of money, it's because you've been lucky. You have the right social networks, you have become good at convincing people to give you money. There is absolutely no way to connect that to actually providing value to society. If you make a lot of money, internalize that. Understand that you are not special, and things can change. If you don't make a lot of money, it's not because you don't provide value. Don't forget that. The system is a lie built to destroy you. Don't let it.
The ideology is sick, something something time of monsters and all that, we are together in this dying machine. We need to understand the lies. Your value can never be quantified. The way we have always figured out how to do the right thing for each other is through each other. Social connection has always guided us. But now the most socially disconnected people on the planet have hijacked the system. They direct the resources of the world, and game the system to avoid personal responsibility.
We have to build a system where everyone is accountable. We can't use abstract numbers and lies to figure things out for us. We have to build systems around people and accountability. There is no other solution.
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom David Suzuki
“Aboriginal rights in Canadian law do not give Indigenous people rights — they merely recognize Crown obligations.” Indigenous people have inherent rights that are fundamental to treaty, human and constitutional rights.
We have a chance to do things right in Canada. Let’s put aside the fearmongering, push back against the pushback and continue our journey forward together.
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaAuthor of Careless People gagged by Meta. Let the company burn. Actual link (paywalled): https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/sarah-wynn-williams-careless-people-meta-nrffdfpmf
@davej@dice.campCourtesy of @…, this week's #ThursdayFiveList theme, #LGBTQPlusMusicians, celebrates
@johl@mastodon.xyzMany people may not have heard of the cuisine of Soviet Korean people (Koryo Saram, 고려사람). This little video about Morkovcha (марковча, 마르코프차) is an interesting introduction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgh0NiXfsIg
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI live on the shores of the Monterey Bay but I had never heard the story of Monterey Jack Cheese ... So here it is...
https://mchsmuseum.com/local-history/people/land-king-the-story-of-david-jack/
@cdarwin@c.imHost a local organizing meeting
to gather newly activated people in your community
and plan for what’s next after No Kings.
https://bsky.app/profile/indivisible.org/post/3mimt5qkswo2s
We put together a toolkit with everything you need:
@jkmartindale@mastodon.socialI checked out this spam follower on Bluesky, and while the account as a whole is pretty bizarre I think "some progressives are bad people because they don't add helpandsearch to their browser" takes the cake
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieNew Gist: Sunshine and Lollipops
“We should begin with the best possible piece of good news. When you go out of your house and look at the people you encounter all around Ireland the vast majority of them are sounders.”
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sunshine-and-lollipops/
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Savoy Motel:
🎵 Sorry People
#SavoyMotel
https://savoymotel.bandcamp.com/track/sorry-people
https://open.spotify.com/track/5hJCdBKB1m6r1BNb5xataW
@shriramk@mastodon.socialIf you don't recognize the reference, it's this old classic about thinking meat.
https://web.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html
@kubikpixel@chaos.social«Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones:
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.»
Now do not explain to me that this is useful and convenient. Especially for third parties who are unintentionally recorded.
😠
@marcel@waldvogel.family"I never expected to find my news […] on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. […] But there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know.
No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who spent twenty years studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you should understand what's happening.
It's the internet I was promised in…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI don't get why so many people walk around with bared belly. I mean, I get that it makes insulin injections easier, but I've never suspected this many people to be suffering from seasonal diabetes.
#shitposting
@jacobgudiol@mastodonsweden.seAnd the thing that just comes clear from ancient DNA is that the people who lived in any one place a thousand years ago, or 5000 years ago, are almost never directly ancestral to the people who live in that place today.
Why your ancestry test can't tell you who you really are | David Reich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS0Cf2e…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotI was at a meeting last night of key decision makers in the two main civic institutions of my village, and no one in the room was under seventy.
There are reasons.
1. House prices are way beyond what people of working age can afford;
2. Limited social housing is (rightly) allocated to the most vulnerable, but they typically don't have the bandwidth to take on civic roles;
3. There are few jobs in the local economy for degree-educated young people;
/Continued…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alFolks, this is a general Gaza Verified message.
Please note that while we know the unconscionable situation people in Gaza are having to go through, we are also seeing a rise (from a small number of people) of mass tagging of people in messages and unsolicited direct messages.
To our friends and families in Gaza Verified: this is against the rules of almost every server, including the one your account is on and it will get your account limited or suspended. It is also against our…
@mlncn@social.coopHappening now in North Minneapolis somewhere just southwest of 2nd Ave N and Van White Memorial Boulevard, police ordering more people with nowhere to go to leave otherwise-unused land by 1pm today. The City of Minneapolis has been using violence (physical force or the threat of physical force) to shove unhoused people around constantly since the destruction of community-supported encampments, and so long as this is allowed, the human right to housing will never be fulfilled. See you there…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeTrump’s CISA nominee said he left Coast Guard to address GOP hold
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2026/03/trumps-cisa-nominee-said-he-left-coast-guard-address-gop-hold/411894/
@UP8@mastodon.social🤯 The brain region associated with moral inconsistency
#brain
@rafa_font@mastodon.online"Artists are not like athletes. We cannot win gold. We cannot beat other creatives. We cannot come first place. Sport is objective. Art is subjective. Creating to “be the best” is a waste of energy. Instead, create to connect to the people who need you. Create to delight yourself. Create in your way because there is no right way. Take the pressure off focus on your unique form of magic."
Amie McNee:
@paulwermer@sfba.social"...the state has shifted its priorities away from the broad prevention and intervention across the mental health spectrum that it once supported, and towards, treating addiction and creating housing for people with severe addictions and mental health issues."
Yes, if we intercept people with peer counseling when they first become homeless or become addicted maybe we wouldn't have the pipeline of difficult cases we are now struggling to find housing and care for. We mig…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social"...the state has shifted its priorities away from the broad prevention and intervention across the mental health spectrum that it once supported, and towards, treating addiction and creating housing for people with severe addictions and mental health issues."
Yes, if we intercept people with peer counseling when they first become homeless or become addicted maybe we wouldn't have the pipeline of difficult cases we are now struggling to find housing and care for. We mig…
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesThere's a developer called Claude at my work and yes definitely it ran through my head
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-01/claude-ai-is-complicating-life-for-people-named-claude
@servelan@newsie.socialIs it wrong to pay incarcerated people in jail? This Pennsylvania county says no
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-wrong-pay-incarcerated-people-pennsylvania.html
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io“They’re relying on tests people have written in the past with great care and covering 100% to see if the LLM-refactored code-base still works!”
@newsie@darktundra.xyzMicrosoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukToday's #Freefall #comic. Wise words.
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff4400/fc04383.png
@geant@mstdn.socialLast year, the GÉANT Community Award went to Ronan Byrne and Nicole Harris.
Two people who have shaped our community in ways that are still being felt today.
Behind every every project and milestone — there are people like them. People who show up, go the extra mile, and make our community what it is.
Nominations for the 2026 award are open until 17 April. Who in your network deserves to be celebrated?
✒️ Nominate them today:
@memeorandum@universeodon.comGoon Squad Victims Sue Supervisor Over Remark About 'People That Raped and Doped Your Daughters' (Grace Marion/Mississippi Free Press)
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/goon-squad-victims-sue-supervisor-over-remark-about-people-that-raped-and-doped-your-daughters/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260604/p81#a260604p81
@ErikUden@mastodon.deDespite the hot air from government about protecting children, they've voted down our Bill to turn off the toxic algorithms.
These algorithms push toxic content promoting eating disorders, self harm, misogyny and hate.
Big Tech profits should not come before children's health.
— Paul Murphy, Member of the Irish Parliament for the party People before Profit.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioCreating space for people to be creative and weird and joyful turns out to be really, really, really important.
@gwire@mastodon.socialPhysical shops would much rather people shop online.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/03/guilty-until-proven-innocent-shoppers-falsely-identified-by-facial-recognitio…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyThe people and government of Iraq would like to thank the US and Israel for further destabilising the region by starting another war.
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/iraq-plunged-into-nationwide-blackout-as-us…
@smashtie@mas.to @hex@kolektiva.socialUnder normal conditions, American police can legally murder practically anyone for almost any reason. This is not hyperbole, the understanding of this fact was one of the reasons for the George Floyd uprising. Police regularly get away with murder unless there are mass uprisings. That is how America worked *before Trump*.
We have seen federal paramilitary execute multiple people in the street. Federal paramilitary were kidnaping people, putting black bags over the heads, interrogating them, and dropping them off in other places *in 2020*. The level of state terror has escalated wildly.
Against anyone but an officer, Song's response to the radical escalation of drawing a gun on non-violent protectors would be legally recognized as self-defense. Officers are trained to only draw a gun if they intend to shoot. The officer clearly intended to execute unarmed people. It is extremely unlikely the officer would have been charged even if someone had been killed.
But the criminalization of legitimate self-defense has been standard in the US for decades. What is new here is the ciriminalization and suppression of entirely non-violent protest.
@nelson@tech.lgbtSomeone on Reddit asked how you meet gay people in rural towns. Here's my reply, about my community:
I live in Grass Valley, CA. Population 30,000 in the local Nevada County area, but then close to Sacramento and 3 hours from San Francisco so not super rural. We have a lot of gays (like me) who moved here when they got older. Still it's a pretty rural area, and pretty conservative politically by California standards.
Our main organization is Nevada County Pride. It's now a well organized full LGBT group but from the 1980s until about 5 years ago it was basically just a monthly potluck. I do not know how it started but I know how hard people worked to keep it going. Every month 20-60 people show up, it's like an extended family. ...
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people."
—Adam Driver
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialOne of the annoying things about watching a TV show filmed in 4:3 is how close people stand to each other. Their faces look just inches apart!
@jkmartindale@mastodon.socialI checked out this spam follower on Bluesky, and while the account as a whole is pretty bizarre I think "some progressives are bad people because they don't add helpandsearch to their browser" takes the cake
@lpryszcz@genomic.social
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social
@stefan@gardenstate.socialmore people need to follow trending posts bots!
@…
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@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialLooked outside and this is not a drill. Nature is evolving... Groundhogs are now Treehugs. Keep up people!!!
@hanno@mastodon.socialBut why actively harmful?
You're conditioning people to treat a "password" not like a secret. If you missed the sign at the entrance, you'll ask the next person for the wifi password. And, of course, they'll usually give it to you.
That's obviously not how you should treat passwords.
We call a thing a "password" if it serves a security purpose, locks access to something that's for you, not for random other people. We probably shouldn&…
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeMost people don't know that back in 1912, Hellmann's mayonnaise was manufactured in England. In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York.
This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico. But as we know, the great ship did not make it to New York. The ship hit an iceberg and sank, and the cargo was foreve…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jill Scott:
🎵 Beautiful People
#JillScott
https://djraydomingo.bandcamp.com/track/jill-scott-beautiful-people-hip-hop-raymix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4aCgMB4zCxhnl0oT7h6H7s
@cdarwin@c.im"The amount of untaxed wealth hidden offshore by the richest 0.1 percent exceeds the entire wealth of the poorest half of humanity (4.1 billion people), according to a new Oxfam analysis published on April 2, 2026, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Panama Papers."
The consequences are as predictable as they are devastating:
we see our public hospitals and schools starved of funds,
our social fabric shredded by rising inequality,
and ordinary people for…
@jacobgudiol@mastodonsweden.seAnd the thing that just comes clear from ancient DNA is that the people who lived in any one place a thousand years ago, or 5000 years ago, are almost never directly ancestral to the people who live in that place today.
Why your ancestry test can't tell you who you really are | David Reich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS0Cf2e…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft and Mayo Clinic partner for an AI model trained on Mayo's medical data, with plans to build an AI healthcare assistant and AI tools for clinicians (Clare Duffy/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/02/tech/ai-for-healthcare-microsoft-mayo-clinic
@sherold@mastodon.onlineHi there, curious people in the #Fediverse. 👋🏻 Give this please a gentle boost. It's awesome.
#askfedi #fedihelp
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSource: Barry Diller's People Inc. prepares an offer for MGM Resorts that values the casino giant at $18B , seeking the 73.9% stake it does not already own (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/business/dealbook/diller-people-mgm-resorts.…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI probably share this experience with many people but it’s still weird to see a place bombed that you’ve been to
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Verve:
🎵 The Rolling People
#TheVerve
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/the-rolling-people
https://open.spotify.com/track/3os0B5wAiB2umuum1S4DlS
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWell that’s a first.
A little tip for conference organisers: maybe don’t book someone to speak at your event and then call them a “racist” for opposing Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
A little tip for me too: maybe don’t accept speaking engagements from conferences where the decisions are apparently made in Florida.
Oh well, live and learn.
*smdh*
@cdarwin@c.imHuman metapneumovirus, or #HMPV, has been steadily ticking upward since the start of winter,
data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
The virus, first discovered in 2001,
can cause upper and lower respiratory illness in anybody,
but especially in young kids, older adults and people with weakened immune systems.
Most people get their first case of HMPV bef…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyIsraeli air strikes on Lebanon kill 41 people in 24-hours
https://aje.news/tuga2a
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise."
—Claire Danes
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@johl@mastodon.xyzThe depressing and infuriating thing is that the people behind this are probably convinced that they‘re doing something helpful and useful:
https://agentic-commons.org/
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"The #UK government has let down #Palestinian people and failed to make it economically impossible for #Israel to continue to act with impunity in the West Bank and
@newsie@darktundra.xyz62 people indicted by Taiwanese prosecutors over ties to cyber scam company Prince Group https://therecord.media/62-indicted-taiwan-prince-group-scams
@cdarwin@c.imLet’s say you’re diagnosed with a terminal illness, and your doctor gives you a time frame:
five years, two years, six months to live.
What would you do next?
Perhaps you get your affairs in order,
spend as much time as you can with loved ones,
or tackle a bucket list (as your health permits).
What happens, then, when the estimated end date comes and goes?
Bruce Deachman speaks with people who have experienced exactly this:
people who are …
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt's really a form of green-washing.
It wasn't people needing air-conditioning (which is relatively energy-efficient compared to e.g. heating), but policy failures of governments in Europe and elsewhere that have led to this point.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMore Than Three Million People Have Lost Federal Food Aid (Dan Frosch/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/more-than-three-million-people-have-lost-federal-food-aid-061b0a28
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p31#a260502p31
@hex@kolektiva.socialSo one of the authors is Nicholas Carlini, who works for Anthropic. This is basically an ad for the three letter agencies to use Claude. It massively over-promises compared to what the actual paper says.
But, it is important. First, this is really about silencing people. The threat of identification is designed to make people afraid to talk online. There's a massive asymmetry between the fascists and the people. The fascists are weird racists and pedophiles who are obsessed with control. No one likes them. No one likes their ideas, because their ideas are creepy and bad.
When they talk about their ideas, that people should be murdered or kidnaped based on their skin color, that there should be a national dress code, that people's sex lives should be monitored, that children should be treated like objects that are owned by the parent (specifically, one parent), that people with different skin color or uteri should be considered as livestock, people fucking hate it because it's awful. When we talk about our ideas, that everyone should be able to eat and take care of themselves, that people who can't take care of themselves should be taken care of, that we should live in a society that values life, that we should live in harmony with nature, people like those ideas. When fascists out us for talking about those ideas, people support us. When we out people who are working as fascist goons those people have to face social consequences.
Everyone hates these people. The US government is currently less popular than it has ever been. The only way they can keep power is by making everyone think that they aren't extraordinarily unpopular. The only way to do that, the way authoritarian have always done it, is to make everyone afraid to talk.
But, yes, what this paper is saying is actually kind of bad. It looks like people who don't take any precautions at all in separating identities can be identified about 30% of the time (based on the results). It's unclear how this will actually work in the real world. Larger corpses will probably have more data, making connecting things easier.
This isn't as good as a human trying to dox someone. It's not going to work as well. It may only work in a small number of cases. There will be false positives (just like there are with people doing the work). It's probably not cheaper than hiring people. But it does mean that you can just dump money into a machine that has no ethical framework and get data out. That's the point. It's hard to find humans who will do evil shit like help dictatorships target human rights activists, but if a machine can do it for twice the price then it's a better deal for the dictatorship.
For most people, you just shouldn't care. This isn't for you. As long as you keep doing what you're doing, and you can keep everyone else doing what they're doing, then there aren't enough resources to actually target you. Even if they know who you are, there are just too many people who hate them and too few goons.
For people who might actually be targeted, there are a lot of things. First, keep in mind what you're putting into anonymous accounts. Any feature that's connected to your real life is a feature that can be extracted to identify you. This has always been true, it just may be easier to find now. Your identities should be totally siloed. It's also harder to identify you if you're writing anonymously as a collective. Collectives are better anyway because they can help check your thinking. When you write as a collective, you can help clean up each other's personal details and language. A collective develops its own voice, which is distinct from individual contributors. If you do this, and you also present your work as being from one "person," then it becomes even harder for anyone (systems or individuals) to really figure it out.
I'm not going to do a full deep dive on this because I just don't have time, but your existing threat model should *already cover these threats* if you need to make sure your writing remains anonymous.
This paper doesn't present any novel methodologies. It just extracts a bunch of features, which a human would extract as notes, and tries to correlate those between identities, which is how human researchers work. Linguistic forensics were mentioned (not by name) in the paper, but the actual methodology doesn't actually seem to use them.
So a thing with less ethics can do a worse job for more money (when adjusted for the real, not investor deflated, price of tokens). It's worth knowing. It's not the end of the world, but it is a good reminder to check your threat model and make sure it's up to date.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alYes, because in the twisted mind of a genocidal Zionist, opposing genocide is the same as being in the KKK.
This is the same ban-evading Zionist hasbara reply-then-block account that’s been harassing me and others who oppose Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. Please report and block as you see fit:
@…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFounders Fund launches a TV-style game show featuring A-list founders and investors, including Sam Altman and Palmer Luckey, playing a game of Mafia (Tom Dotan/Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/founders-funds-new-media-play-tech
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialQ&A with Bryan Jacobs, creator of TomWikiAssist, a NanoClaw Clawbot built to edit and write for Wikipedia, on the mostly negative reactions of human editors (Bill Adair/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThis poor man, who has run a business for nearly 30 years delivering hearing aids to people, has been destroyed financially and reputationally. Facebook has done nothing.
Hacked, robbed, then banned: Canton Township business owner’s meta AI nightmare
https://www.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"It starts, specifically, with the sight of working class people being used as weapons against themselves. Not by accident, not through some failure of communication or lack of the right messaging, but deliberately and with considerable skill" -- @… writing very much what I'm feeling today.
Worth a read.
@servelan@newsie.social"the idea that even people who voted for him think he staged the most recent attempt on his life underscores what a profound trust deficit he currently is facing among voters.""
'Bad sign!' MAGA fans stun analyst with wild 'false flag' accusations against Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2676850697/
@johl@mastodon.xyzWhat date is it today?
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“We were very concerned that you called for a moment of silence for victims of Israel’s genocide at your last talk.”
– A Floridan asshat before their organisation disinvited me from speaking at their event after their European associates had booked me to.
These people are literally comic-book villains.
#theBanalityOfEvil
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThere’s a special type of replyguy who specializes in relativizing and “that’s good actually-ing” anything terrible from big companies or famous(ish) people.
My most fervent wish is that their socks may perpetually be wet.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPoke, which lets users access AI agents via text message, becomes the first AI agent approved for Apple's Messages for Business platform (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/04/apple-approves-poke-as-th…
@cdarwin@c.imIn a letter to the American people,
Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian laid out the longstanding, historical grievances behind Tehran’s distrust of Washington,
with a turning point being the 1953 coup d’état, which he described as “an illegal American intervention aimed at preventing the nationalisation of Iran’s own resources”.
Relations before that “were not originally hostile, and early interactions between the Iranian and American people were not marred with hostility o…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe Five Eyes alliance is warning that Chinese spies are aggressively using online job platforms to recruit people with access to sensitive information.
https://www.mi5.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2026-06/SAFEGUARDING OUR SECRETS PUBLICA…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116515819797237850
If you can look at these people and see anything but monsters, there is something very, very wrong with you.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioSteve Jobs: “Computers are a bicycle for your mind.”
Satya Nadella: “Computers are heroin for your mind.”
https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA New York bill would ban chatbots from impersonating licensed professionals like doctors and lawyers and giving "substantive response, information, or advice" (Keely Quinlan/StateScoop)
https://statescoop.com/new-york-bill-would-ban-chatbots-legal-med…
@cdarwin@c.imAt Luigi Mangione's hearing this AM,
the feds indicated they were eager to show their evidence to people who think he's a hero
“Your honor need only look out the window to see the people who follow this defendant and believe that what he did was right,” AUSA Dominic Gentile said
https://
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116346848141590494
People like to forget that fighting climate change is about _saving human lives_ and not about saving Earth.
Even if it's 20 degrees higher or 20 degrees lower on average, Earth will do fine, life will do fine, nature will be fine—but humans won't be fine.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of music AI startup Suno, valued at ~$2.5B with 2M paying users and $300M annualized revenue as of February, as it battles record labels and artists (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnalysis: Meta discreetly added code for an unreleased "NameTag" face-recognition system for its AI glasses over multiple updates to the Meta AI app this year (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-nametag-connec…
@cdarwin@c.im @Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenAI has picked two law firms to prepare its IPO, which could come as soon as Q4, in one of its first concrete steps toward a public listing (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-selects-law-firms-cooley-wachtell…
@cdarwin@c.imThis week, something broke.
Maybe Trump does not understand the link between the past and the present,
but other people do.
They can see that, as a result of decisions that Trump made but cannot explain,
the Strait of Hormuz is blocked by Iranian mines and drones.
They can see oil prices rising around the world and they understand that it is difficult and dangerous for the U.S. Navy to solve this problem.
They can also hear the president lashing out,
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: data center developer Switch is in talks to raise billions of dollars from PE firms including Brookfield and KKR at a $50B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/data-center-developer-s…
