@cdarwin@c.imThe Santa Barbara City Council passed a temporary rent freeze
in a 4-3 vote on Tuesday,
putting a halt on rent increases for up to a year
while the City Council works toward drafting a more permanent rent stabilization ordinance
to be considered later in 2026.
The rent increase moratorium will be officially adopted next week
and would be effective 30 days later.
The council failed to get the fifth vote needed to qualify for an urgency ordinance,
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialJust upgraded my Macs to IOS 26.2 and ... kaboom, one of the machines just went into permanent spinning rainbow disk mode with the mouse pointer trailing my movements by several seconds.
Not a promising sign.
@jake4480@c.imHope whoever wanted copies of that scrape Anna's Archive did of Spotify (reminder: Spotify began with pirated files, pays artists little to nothing, and funds military tech) has grabbed it already or is grabbing it now.
https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-court-ord
@markhburton@mstdn.socialIf you still thought Israel's military was defensive, think again.
The annexation of more of Palestine in a permanent Nakba.
Israel approves proposal to register occupied West Bank lands as 'state property' | Morning Star
https://morni…
@vosje62@mastodon.nlKamer wil beter lesmateriaal voor speciaal onderwijs, maar extra geld ligt lastig
https://nos.nl/artikel/2602751-kamer-wil-beter-lesmateriaal-voor-speciaal-onderwijs-maar-extra-geld-ligt-lastig
Hoe lang krijgen de leerlingen nou al -niet- de leermiddelen die ze nodig hebben?
Hopelijk krijgt het vanaf dit kabinet een permanent karakter.
@seeingwithsound@mas.toAdvances in the treatment of blinding retinal diseases https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10792-025-03876-w
@newsie@darktundra.xyzEurope must adapt to ‘permanent’ cyber and hybrid threats, Sweden warns https://therecord.media/sweden-cyber-threats-europe-permanent
@servelan@newsie.socialArizona bill would force companies to disclose that digital ‘purchases’ aren’t permanent - Route Fifty
https://www.route-fifty.com/digital-government/2026/02/arizona-bill-would-force-companies-disclose-digital-purchases-arent-permanent/411314/
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaMinneapolis, MN: notoriously carcinogenic hexachloroethane smoke deployed on residential streets
While local police are banned from using chemical irritants because of the danger they pose to the public, federal units operating in our city are using a loophole to deploy a poison that toxicity experts warn causes permanent lung damage and cancer.
Source:
@zack@mamot.frEst-ce que l'État de la Start-Up Nation ne créerait pas des incitations perverses Š chercher des "champions" pour alimenter son conte permanent peuplé d'entrepreneurs héroïques et de licornes aphrodisiaques ?
Est-ce qu'être intéressé au ROI quand on est supposé avoir la vision long-terme clairvoyante de la stratégie de souveraineté nationale, ça oblige pas Š se poser des questions difficiles quand la belle histoire dérape et part en vrille?
@edintone@mastodon.greenThe National Archives and RIBA to partner https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/the-national-archives-and-riba-to-partner/
@newsie@darktundra.xyzNSA, Cyber Command nominee defends record during Senate hearing https://therecord.media/nsa-cyber-command-nom-joshua-rudd-senate-hearing
@frankel@mastodon.topChanging your home #router is a mess when you have a non-trivial amount of #smart devices.
It makes me wonder if having a permanent internal router is the way to go.
#decoupling
@brian_gettler@mas.toAnnual reminder to Canadian citizen/permanent resident authors, editors, translators, photographers, illustrators, and narrators: if you've published a book in the last 5 years, you may be eligible for the Public Lending Right Program from the Canada Council for the Arts. The program pays $50 to $4,500 based on the number of books you have at Canadian lending libraries. I've always earned more from PLRP than I have in royalties.
Registration opens later this month.
@grumpybozo@toad.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@Paul_stilgar/116051536051801423
That’s basically the story of the past 25 years. Matty Moroun and his spawn have been calling billionaire buddies to argue for their permanent monopoly on bridge crossing between Detroit and…
@nemobis@mamot.frHow did the Council approve the #Mercosur agreement, exactly?
«EU capitals now have until 5 p.m. on Friday to lodge any objections and formalize the vote. This so-called written procedure»
https://www.
@brichapman@mastodon.socialCheck out my latest article - "most decisions aren't permanent. you're treating them like they are."
https://www.brichapman.com/p/most-decisions-arent-permanent-youre?utm_source=bri-mastodon&ut…
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nlIsraëlische kolonisten verjagen massaal Palestijnen van hun land https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/11/26/met-treiterijen-vernielingen-en-geweld-verjagen-israelische-koloni…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaJust a reminder that Odysee still hosts Nazi content, for example: https://odysee.com/@AryanEmpire1488:5
The Nordic Resistance Movement also actively links to Odysee, which says a lot about the kind of audience the site odysee attracts. I stopped using the platform years ago for this reason.
…
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com„What the Brezel is going on here?“ is now a permanent part of my vocabulary
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFederal judge temporarily blocks HUD permanent housing cuts for homeless (Cassandra Dumay/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/19/judge-blocks-hud-permanent-housing-cuts-00700477
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p73#a251219p73
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys moving Tyler Smith to LT permanently is 'illegal' under CBA? https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-tyler-smith-permanent-move-illegal-under-cba-rep-says
@alecsargent@social.linux.pizzaIf your are on Firefox and your are tired of the narrow ass scrollbar go to settings and enable "Always show scrollbars" then in about:config set widget.non-native-theme.enabled to true then set widget.non-native-theme.scrollbar.size.override to 15-40.
You can thank https://www.dedoimedo.com/computer…
@thomasrenkert@hcommons.socialSelbst wenn so eine Frage rhetorisch gemeint sein sollte - was sie hier nicht ist - beinhaltet dieses Framing "vielleicht hat Trump ja doch an einigen Punkten Recht. Das nehmen wir für uns zum Anlass zur eigenen Recherche." eine massive Normalisierung des Absurden und Gefährlichen, die hier ohne Not vollzogen wird.
Jemanden, der permanent lügt und offensichtliche Fakten zu seinem eigenen Vorteil frech wegleugnet, kann man nicht mit "Hat er recht?" zum Aufhänger eine…
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaCleaning up the office a bit and getting the CRTs in there for their permanent home. The JVC fit perfectly beside the audio rack and everything is hooked up without too much issue. Still waiting on the SCART to BNC breakout for the Sony, but even it's now in the office as well.
#retrogaming #crt
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeArts & crafts cats 🦎
@jan_j@chaos.socialHabe eine kleine Verletzung am Übergang zwischen Ohrläppchen und Kopf.
3/10 🚑 — kann ich nicht empfehlen, ist aber nicht permanent schlimm
@cdarwin@c.imSince the so-called ceasefire came into effect in Gaza on October 10,
Israel has been consolidating its control of over 50% of Gaza and
—according to new research by Forensic Architecture
—physically altering the geography of the land.
Through a combination of the construction of military infrastructure alongside the destruction of existing buildings,
Israel appears to be laying the groundwork to establish a permanent presence in the majority of the Gaza Strip.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThis is a genuinely good idea, and I'd urge you to sign it. Make #AI generated works immediately identifiable. It would be interesting also to require a similar 'watermark' in generated texts -- perhaps a particular sequence of whitespace characters.
#generativeAI
H/t
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialThis is a good idea. All genAI/diffusion images to be marked with a watermark. If you're in the UK, please sign the petition⤵️
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736690
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWhy?
1. Kavanaugh wrote the opinion that explicitly legalized racial profiling in immigration enforcement.
2. The term “Kavanaugh stops” really, really, really gets under his skin.
3. He’s now kind of trying to walk back the opinion in the hopes that the phrase “Kavanaugh stop” does not become a permanent part of our legal and cultural memory.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTidalwave, whose AI agents automate mortgage docs checks and give real-time multilingual feedback to borrowers, raised a $22M Series A led by Permanent Capital (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/21/tidalwave-raises-22-million-se…
@stiefkind@mastodon.social»Letztlich wird alles, was heute in Mikrofone von Smartphones, Laptops und Kameras gesprochen wird, in der Cloud zu Text. Zusammen mit all den Texten, die permanent in Suchmasken, Kommentarspalten, Tweets und Profileinträgen geschrieben werden […] sammeln sich bei den großen Plattformanbietern gigantische und ständig anwachsende Textkorpora an.«
Aus: Christoph Engemann - Die Zukunft des Lesens (2025)
@nelson@tech.lgbtI continue to be impressed with how the LLM systems are pretty open about queerness and non-judgmental, non-homophobic. Remarkable given that so much of the training material must be hateful! Here's Gemini being cautious but helpful after I asked it about a summary of what it knows about me and asked why it didn't mention me being gay.
I do have access to information regarding your personal life and sexual orientation from our previous conversations. However, I am designed with specific safety and privacy guardrails that prevent me from storing or outputting information related to a user's sexual orientation or sensitive medical conditions in these types of summaries.
While I can remember and use those details to provide context during our active discussions—such as when we were looking into the history of queer voices or specific support resources—I cannot include them in a "permanent" distilled profile like the one above.
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.deRE: #ChatControl
@servelan@newsie.socialNational Guard arrives in New Orleans for 1st New Year’s since Bourbon Street attack
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense/2025/12/new-orleans-is-still-seeking-permanent-security-solutions-a-year-after-deadly-bourbon-street-attack/
@pre@boing.worldBought a van to do up as a micro-camper, and did a temporary rush job of that conversion myself while waiting in the list for the pro to do it.
Then the pro gave himself a health criss the week it was booked so I took apart my temp job and only got another temp kit-job in it's place.
Went out in it like four times during that and then broke my wrist and couldn't really use it or improve it.
Then had to take it apart even more to try
and figure out where the ad-blue hole was.
I will do a proper permanent job of the
floor and walls and ceiling and adjustments to the kit-job to make it the nicest it's been so far during the spring next year.
My assumption that the prior conversion
into a van and for wheelchair-access meant the microcamper conversion was half-done already turned out to be false.
If I buy a new one, it'll be one that has never been wheelchair adapted.
But it's going okay. Only scraped it once so far.
Fewer than aimed for or booked, but I broke my wrist and had to cancel the second half of the summer.
Went to a conference about money and computers and fringe decentralized social media and it wasn't as boring as you might expect and felt pretty much like a festival.
Exactly the target number! It's lovely.
Took 3 times longer than I'd hoped and
50% more money than I'd planned for really.
Still improvements to make but they will
be incremental and gradual over the coming year or two now.
It's been interest-only for 20 years so a big old lump sum payment that I never really expected to be able to make. Expected to have to sell and move at the end of the mortgage term.
But surprisingly the stocks ISA got high enough to pay it off after all, so I did that.
Cash-flow ruined by that and the bedroom but should start to feel a bit richer next year.
@cdarwin@c.imThe new UK leftwing party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will be called "Your Party" after a vote by members, but its weekend conference laid bare bitter divisions
Sultana, who has been at loggerheads with Corbyn,
reignited tensions on Sunday with a blistering attack on those “at the top” of the party
after boycotting the conference’s first day in protest at the expulsion of several members belonging to the Socialist Workers party.
Members meetin…
@kristian@social.purrucker.de@… War jetzt einen Monat in der Reha und musste mit Krücken laufen. In dieser Zeit habe ich meine Apple Watch Ultra und die Pixel Watch 4 parallel getragen und getestet.
Sicherlich eine speziell Situation, aber ich war von Fitbit in der Watch 4 nicht 100% überzeugt. Durch die Krücken wurden permanent 20% meiner Schritte unterschlagen und die Messung…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialAnother reason why the EU is the best place to work and live, the US is no longer the land of the free.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/trump-green-card-interview-arrests.html?unlocked_article…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys moving Tyler Smith to LT permanently is 'illegal' under CBA? https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-tyler-smith-permanent-move-illegal-under-cba-rep-says
@crell@phpc.socialRE: https://mstdn.ca/@hewer_of_code/115793069684691845
The damage done to the US, and the world, by Trump and his fascist friends is already permanent. I am not surprised by this, though I am saddened.
This level of betrayal borders on treason.
@benb@osintua.euTrump says Putin accepted Board of Peace invite — while Russia mulls paying for permanent seat with frozen assets: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/22/trump-says-putin-accepted-board.html
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/12/trump-formally-taps-joshua-rudd-lead-nsa-cyber-command/410266/
“Rudd, the current deputy director for Indo-Pacific Command, appears to not have previously held a military cybersecurity po…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangePoking more at the STM32MP2.
I have CPU2 (the M33) booting from flash, reading a bunch of fuse registers and printing them, doing all the hardware init, etc.
I'm gonna call that reasonably brought up. My current flasher hard codes a few addresses but it's good enough to get the job done while I am tinkering before I make a more permanent solution.
I think I'm ready to start looking into bringing up the A35 next.
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe paradox of Nazism being both the most capitalist thing possible, defining itself as explicitly anticommunist, while masquerading as "socialism" is difficult to resolve until you understand one thing: fascism pivots around antisemitism (and its extension, conspiratorial thinking).
I'm, of course, not talking about the redefinition of "antisemitism" into meaning any criticism of Israel but rather an anti-Jewish conspiracy narrative rooted in Roman Christianity.
This is critical to understand as MAGA fascism pivots between capitalist and pseudo-anticapitalist with Trump in the middle. Hitler did the same thing. Strasserism helped the Nazis gain power by pulling in the Left. In the Nazis case they killed the Stasserists pretty quickly. Now, I think we're seeing an attempt to make the opposite pivot happen in MAGA. But it's all the same thing.
Fascism can infinitely fail to address the needs of the people while dismissing it's own responsibility for creating the problem by maintaining a permanent enemy.
This is why it's important to understand antisemitism and how to fight it. It's especially important now because the apparatus of violence in Israel is itself a tool of global fascism, and we finally have an opportunity to dismantle the whole thing. But we have to be aware of how fascists can pivot around to block this.
I've been reading Safety Through Solidarity, and I think it's especially relevant at this time.
https://www.akpress.org/safety-through-solidarity.html
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldOne of my daughters spent 5 years in gymnastics and I cringe every time I hear a story like this, grateful that we dodged this bullet.
https://apnews.com/article/nassar-gardner-safesport-usa-gymnastics-olympics-abuse-b370cec…
@brichapman@mastodon.socialA breakthrough for solar durability: UNSW researchers discovered that thicker aluminum oxide layers protect TOPCon solar cells from UV damage by blocking hydrogen migration.
The culprit? High-energy UV photons break chemical bonds, releasing hydrogen that degrades performance. But 7nm AlOx layers act as an effective barrier.
@schtobia@augsburg.socialThese: Die Zaubersprüche in #HarryPotter sind nichts anderes als geführte Meditation. Wie man ab Band 6 sieht, funktioniert das Zaubern auch ohn Spruch sehr gut - wenn man sich konzentriert (woran ja Harry permanent scheitert).
Das heißt, die Aufgabe von #Hogwarts die ersten Jahre ist es …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: tech lobbyists say that David Sacks' push for an EO blocking state AI laws undercut their efforts to craft a permanent, bipartisan federal solution (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/20/big-tech-gets-worried-about-trumps…
@pre@boing.worldJust a tiny birthday party and in a camping field with friends.
This is probably about the target number really.
It's nice to play now and then but couldn't be monthly or anything even more frequent.
Didn't feel like either went great. Health issues affecting performance plus nerves
Just one with video of any kind.
Added a couple of great songs to the playlists, need to practise more really.
At the end of a Hoopla class and the end of
a self-organised group class.
They were good fun.
But having to book a course every eight weeks means constantly churning co-players and long gaps where I don't get around to it or it was all booked up.
Tried to get a more permanent group going...
Trying to get some sort of indie-group off
the group rather than just short runs of
classes with new people all the time.
We found a group an booked the room but didn't get most of the actual people to turn up. Need to presumably meet more people up for that sort of thing.
So there will be new improv class starting
in Jan.
A new show in March at least.
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.placeRE: https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/115926521660141152
“Menschen, die permanent Unreflektiertes von sich geben, sind bisweilen etwas anstrengend. Einer dieser Menschen ist Friedrich
@cdarwin@c.imRancho Cañada Larga, a ±6,500-acre historic ranch in Ventura County, California, has been sold in a landmark $27.65 million land conservation transaction.
The property was acquired by the Trust for Public Land.
The acquisition ensures the permanent preservation of Rancho Cañada Larga as a public park,
protecting one of the last major undeveloped land parcels in California from future development in perpetuity.
Rancho Cañada Larga spans approximately 6,500 contiguous…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com20 states sue the Trump administration over cuts to homeless permanent housing funding (Katherine Hapgood/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/25/states-trump-administration-hud-housing-cuts-00668178
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p88#a251125p88
@@arXiv_physicsatomph_bot@mastoxiv.page@mastoxiv.pageA permanent-magnet Zeeman slower and magneto-optical trap for calcium atoms for ultracold Rydberg physics
Eduardo Marin-Bujedo, Julien A. L. Grondin, Thomas Schiltz, Thomas Corbo, Xavier Urbain, Matthieu G\'en\'evriez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.23245
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaIn my view, those involved in reformist or traditional trade unions might consider that genuine worker self-managment comes through syndicalist structures.
Unions rooted in the workplace, organized through general assemblies, with delegates who are strictly mandated and immediately recallable, without any permanent bureaucracy, embody the principles of direct democracy and worker self-management.
Any organization claiming to be syndicalist while maintaining hierarchical decisio…
@servelan@newsie.socialAs Trump Terrorizes Immigrants, Spain Offers Permanent Residency for 500,000 People | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/spain-migrants
@vosje62@mastodon.nlGeen beademing, sondepomp of traplift bij lange stroomstoring: er is geen noodplan voor mensen die thuis afhankelijk zijn van medische apparaten | #EenVandaag
#zorg #EenVandaag
@cdarwin@c.imTrump has sent letters of invitation to various heads of government to join a new "Board of Peace",
which he will chair.
The organization was envisioned as part of the United Nations–backed effort for the reconstruction and transitional governance of Gaza.
But the new board’s charter, details of which have not been previously reported, appears to give the board a global remit, according to a copy we reviewed.
And the price of a permanent position on the…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US Senate confirms Trump pick Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC, as lawmakers consider legislation to give the agency more control over digital assets (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThere were actually a lot of good recommendations from that Committee report, the one on PR was just the final one! Here's a few more.. including some that local #Fediverse proponents could dig into! @… was on the Committee.
—>FEDI ADVANTAGE<— “The Committee heard about a number of issues related to
the electoral information environment. Members recommend
that the provincial government collaborate with Elections
BC and the federal government to review existing legislative
and regulatory measures related to misinformation,
disinformation, and hate speech during elections, including
**mechanisms to ensure the timely removal of harmful content** (**emphasis added)”
—> FEDI ADVANTAGE<— “To better address challenges associated with social media and emergent technologies such as artificial intelligence, Members recommend establishing a working group to propose amendments to BC’s privacy and election legislation. To better protect all users, the Committee recommends requiring digital platforms to act with a duty of care and establish clear safety-related requirements such as data privacy, platform design, and content policy. The Committee also heard about concerns regarding foreign interference, and recommends that these be considered by the Electoral Integrity Working Group.”
—The Committee heard about the critical importance of
civic education to ensure the public’s understanding of
democratic institutions, processes, and participation. The
Committee recommends strengthening civic education
in the K-12 school system with input from experts and a
greater emphasis on applied learning.
— the Committee suggests enhancing data collection by requiring proactive enumeration on an annual basis and ensuring that registered parties and candidates can access poll-by-poll results. Elections BC should review and improve
voter registration practices and communication, as well as
access to and public awareness of voting opportunities. With respect to expanding voter eligibility, the Committee supports further examination of extending voting rights to 16- and 17-year-olds as well as permanent residents in BC.
— Committee Members recommend modernizing the candidate nominator verification process, requiring Elections BC to collect and share voters’ contact information with registered political parties and candidates, and strengthening measures related to access to multi-unit buildings for candidates and their campaigns.
Full report to the Legislature: #BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ElectoralReform #Democracy #ProportionalRepresentation #Polarization
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump plans to charge $1 billion for permanent seat on 'Board of Peace' (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/18/trump-peace-board/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260118/p78#a260118p78
@servelan@newsie.socialAn Illinois County Has Made a Guaranteed Minimum Income Permanent - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/basic-income-cook-county-illinois-chicago-ubi-2025-11
@servelan@newsie.socialFrom the comments: “World leaders now know that Trump’s word means nothing and that no member of his administration can be trusted. They also know that even if 2028 ends the current nightmare, America will always be just four years away from electing someone of his ilk. For that reason, they should count this as a permanent rupture.”
Opinion | We Don’t Need Greenland. We Need Allies. - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/OAzIw
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Made Drastic Change to Starting Lineup in Week 16 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/tyler-smith-drastic-change-starting-lineup-week-16/
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caA bad day for Russia is a good day for the rest of the free world!
"Starmer added that after the ceasefire, “The UK and France will establish “military hubs” across Ukraine And build protected facilities for weapons and military equipment to support Ukraine’s defensive needs.”
Still waiting to hear what Canada's contribution will be. I would speculate it may be to increase focus and assets in the Baltics and re-establish a permanent base somewhere in Western Europe for a rapid reaction type force.
With financial, materiel, and economic support going to Ukraine itself.
#RussiaUkraineWar #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Ukraine #Russia #UK #France
@pre@boing.worldSo the temporary placeholder name "Your Party" is made permanent.
None of the options on the shortlist were good. Most of them just as grammatically inconvenient as the dumb placeholder name.
The people who decide on the short-list, who can be a member, whose votes counts and what the options are, have quite a lot of power.
Zara Sultana boycotted day one over who sets the rules and who can be involved. If Your Party have a governing body with power to override conference they end up like the Labour party and just are easily taken over and usurped by a cabal of thatcherite neoliberal capitalists.
They did allow the dual membership system and a wider governance, so Zara won on who gets to be a member and who gets to be in charge. Which is probably good.
Coz as the terrible name shows, if you put the idiots in charge you'll get idiocy not good collective decision making.
For now the membership appear to have won, and I hear are they are all very excited and fierce and canny and not likely to let the old guard just set up another dictatorship from the top.
They currently have half the membership count of the greens, less than a quarter that claimed by Reform. Lets hope they can get some attention towards something other than how billionaires think the country should be run and focus on the people.
Here's hoping they can inflate that number by draining the Labour party and Reform members who just want change really rather than actually liking anything said by Farage.
#yourParty #ukpol
