@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-29 15:37:26
State officials promise large-scale
involuntary addiction and mental health treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge.
Critics see
“a prison, or a warehouse.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/poli
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-29 15:37:26
@mlawton@mstdn.social2025-10-29 14:05:22
Content warning: USPol
"In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape. State officials promise large-scale involuntary addiction and mental health treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see 'a prison, or a warehouse'"
Caring for the unhoused, including those with mental illness is complicated, requiring nuanced policy, compassion, and funding. Most cities fail spectacularly in all three aspects. Involuntary roundups of a vilified group? Chilling.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-29 12:35:47
Unit 42 details how underground hacking forums advertise and sell custom, jailbroken, and open-source AI hacking tools such as WormGPT and KawaiiGPT (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/malicious-llm-tools-cybercrime-wormgpt-kawaiigpt/
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-12-27 19:04:22
But now, LLMs offer a beautiful new promise: your brilliant notions can proceed full speed without any pesky underlings at all!
You can just •build the app• or •launch the campaign• or whatever, and nobody will tell you annoying things like “that won’t work” or “that timeline is unrealistic” or “that will create even larger problems” or “people will die.” The chat LLM is there to say YES to your hitherto-unacknowledged brilliance!
6/
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-26 18:47:15
Trump lied again? #SHOCKED
"Made in the USA", my ass.
✅ Trump Family Dragged After Promise Of 'Trump Mobile' Phones 'Made In The USA' Goes Up In Flames
https://www.comicsands.com/trump-mo…
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-12-29 13:46:25
Good Morning #Canada
Last week I registered with Ontario's Healthcare Connect program to help us get a family doctor in the Barrie area. Our previous family doctor retired in November and we were still covered by the clinic but it's in Brampton, more than 90 minutes away. So I'm now relying on Dougie to keep his promise to find a family doctor for all Ontarians by June 2026. I mean he's done so well with housing, environmental goals, Eglinton Crosstown....
Did you know that 83% of Canadians now report they have regular access to a family doctor which means an approximate 500K improvement in the past two years. That still leaves about 6M of us without a family physician. Family physician shortages are the highest in the territories (>55%), Quebec (21.5%) and British Columbia (17.7%), and the provinces of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia have the fewest family physicians per 100 000 persons in the population.
#CanadaIsAwesome #HealthCare
https://www.cihi.ca/en/taking-the-pulse-measuring-shared-priorities-for-canadian-health-care-2025/primary-health-care-2025/most-canadians-have-a-regular-health-care-provider
@gla@mastodon.social2025-12-29 07:12:04
“The promise of AI for engineers is getting rid of engineers.
Tools like GitHub’s Copilot write code, specs, review, and create pull requests. They create and run tests, and do so in the background while the developers engage in more productive activities, such as meetings.”
From my latest blog on @…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-29 09:55:54
Sources: OpenAI's restructuring, approved by California's AG, paves the way for an IPO as soon as 2027; Sam Altman says an IPO is likely but gave no timeframe (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2025-11-26 12:12:12
The Trump Mobile phone is nowhere to be found after months of delay;
Trump Mobile has posted conflicting photos of the phone and scrubbed mention of its “Made in the USA” promise.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-mobile…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-12-26 21:42:01
from my link log —
Does the QUIC handshake require compression to be fast?
https://www.fastly.com/blog/quic-handshake-tls-compression-certificates-extension-study
saved 2020-05-19
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-12-26 17:06:40
"...who campaigned on a promise to extricate the US from decades of “endless wars” during his 2024 run for president."
It'simportant to note these are airstrikes and bombings - and that's very different from wars. It avoids the distressful images of wounded and dead service members returning to the US, while using very expensive technology, thus providing purchase orders to very important business interests, and it provides the psycological benefit of violence to imp…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-12-26 17:06:40
"...who campaigned on a promise to extricate the US from decades of “endless wars” during his 2024 run for president."
It'simportant to note these are airstrikes and bombings - and that's very different from wars. It avoids the distressful images of wounded and dead service members returning to the US, while using very expensive technology, thus providing purchase orders to very important business interests, and it provides the psycological benefit of violence to imp…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-29 07:41:00
The US construction industry is adopting AI tools to improve project management and support site managers and foremen; IDC says 60% of firms use some form of AI (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/construction-
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-19 23:46:02
How is Linda McMahon making good on Trump's promise to close the Department of Education? (Arthur Jones II/Associated Press)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/linda-mcmahon-making-good-trumps-promise-close-department/story?id=127683351
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p154#a251119p154
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-01-21 21:22:43
I appreciate they are allowing a talk that seems counter to their CEO’s own promise from last year’s event.
https://mastodon.social/@annaecook/115928612153586391
Maybe, having failed on that promise, this allows them to claim… I actually don’t know. Cognitive dissonance…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-18 16:55:06
The Trump Phone Delivers on Its Promise of Being Complete and Utter Bullshit
https://gizmodo.com/the-trump-phone-delivers-on-its-promise-of-being-complete-and-utter-bullshit-2000701261
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-11-27 16:58:21
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Samia feat. Jelani Aryeh:
🎵 The Promise
#Samia #JelaniAryeh
https://samia.bandcamp.com/track/the-promise-feat-jelani-aryeh
https://open.spotify.com/track/4VWtDv7ASGkNGfPjTI8fPw
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-01-26 17:36:45
Ex-Cowboy DeMarcus Lawrence getting pricey gift from former teammate for Super Bowl? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/26/cowboys-dez-bryant-demarcus-lawrence-super-bowl-ro…
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org2026-01-26 19:59:24
I donated to ACLU today https://www.aclu.org/
"For nearly 100 years, the ACLU has been our nation’s guardian of liberty, working in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in thi…
@stefan@gardenstate.social2025-11-24 00:25:11
Disney's Living Characters: A Broken Promise by Defunctland
#disney
@anildash@me.dm2026-01-22 14:52:11
Amidst all the buzz around things like Gas Town and Ralph, etc. there are some bits of actual substance that promise to actually empower coders — and potentially shift the power dynamic away from Big AI, while making it easier to create software just by describing ideas in plain text. I've been thinking of the idea as "codeless" software creation, for lack of a better term (the jargon doesn't matter, I just needed a name to talk about it) and would love your thoughts!
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-11-05 19:45:04
🎶 Focused sound energy holds promise for treating cancer, Alzheimer’s and other diseases
https://theconversation.com/focused-sound-energy-holds-promise-for-treating-cancer-alzheimers-and-other-diseases-262622
@publicvoit@graz.social2026-01-08 12:52:29
#Umfrage zu Verwendung von #Lastenrädern (ca. 10min):
https://go.cargobike.jetzt/promise
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-28 12:31:54
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Michael Nyman, Michael Nyman & Michael Nyman Band:
🎵 The Heart Asks Pleasure First / The Promise
#MichaelNyman #MichaelNymanBand
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Yjv7MOdst5y6fFsq4cKOL
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post
@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-18 19:36:39
POLICE: Pardoned Rioter Tried To Silence Molestation Victim With Promise Of Millions From J6 "Reparations" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/11/police-pardoned-rioter-tried-to-silence-molestation-victim-with-promise-of-millions-from-j6-reparations/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-19 01:35:55
Pardoned Capitol rioter tried to bribe child sex victim with promise of Jan. 6 payout, officials say (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pardoned-capitol-rioter-tried-bribe-child-sex-victim-promise-jan-6-pay-rcna244627
http://www.memeorandum.com/251118/p155#a251118p155
@gla@mastodon.social2025-12-27 12:28:11
📣📣📣 LLM-powered coding mass-produces technical debt. 📣📣📣
The expectations around them are sky-high, but many organizations are falling behind because of them. 📉
WHY IT MATTERS? CTOs lament slowdowns and production issues traced to company-wide rollouts of LLM-powered coding assistants. The AI promise clashes with the reality of technical debt and security issues. 🐛
Read more:
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-26 10:22:45
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Sun Ra:
🎵 Teenagers Promise
#SunRa
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-23 19:45:46
European countries proposed an alternative Ukraine peace plan on Sunday that omits some of the pro-Russia points made in the original US-backed document and calls for Kyiv’s sovereignty to be respected.
The counter-proposal emerged as US, Ukrainian and international negotiators met in Switzerland.
The 28-point US document leaked last week demands Ukraine hand over territory to Russia, limits the size of its army and agrees not to pursue the Kremlin for alleged war crimes.
A…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2025-11-21 22:33:24
A low-latency neural inference framework for real-time handwriting recognition from #EEG signals on an edge device https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24972-y
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-20 22:27:26
After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-26 14:20:39
Nvidia announces its Earth-2 Medium Range weather model, built on its Atlas architecture, claiming it outperforms Google DeepMind's GenCast in 70 variables (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/nvidias-new-a…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-01-16 09:27:03
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/115900243141960993
But it’s OK, don’t worry about your governments in the EU and UK giving all your healthcare data to Palantir, they’d never do that here.
Pinky promise.
@rene_mobile@infosec.exchange2025-12-17 22:02:08
Meta prompt engineering - using GenAI to optimize prompts for GenAI - is the homeopathy of computer science.
Both promise better results by diluting the real essence to the point of nonexistence. What is left is pure noise.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-25 14:50:57
Trump's Broken Promise to Confront Corporate Power (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/opinion/trump-antitrust-corporations-consumers.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p37#a251125p37
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-11-21 17:20:15
It’s fitting RFK is maliciously conforming to a promise he made to a Republican senator / doctor in order to get his confirmation vote.
https://archive.is/aEILc#selection-589.0-595.236:~:text=The updated,website,-.
Liar’s gonna lie and t…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-01-17 21:39:08
As expected, not as promised
How Trump’s promise to slash energy bills in half has failed across the US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/trump-energy-bill-prices-increase?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-01-17 21:39:08
As expected, not as promised
How Trump’s promise to slash energy bills in half has failed across the US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/trump-energy-bill-prices-increase?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@lilmikesf@c.im2025-11-18 19:28:36
#Pedophile Pardoned By Drumpf
#Jan6th Capitol Rioter Who Was Given Reprieve For That Act By Presidential Pardon; Also Has Other #HushMoney Issue For Playing His Child Sex Victim With Cash Offers
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-18 01:54:46
Donald Trump has comprehensively
failed to meet a key election promise
to slash Americans’ energy bills in half within the first year of his presidency
-- with ❌power prices instead surging across the US.
The average household electricity bill in the US was 💥6.7% more expensive in 2025 compared with the previous year,
according to a Guardian analysis of data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Department of Energy’s statistical arm.
The i…
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-11-15 20:00:39
"Scientists Develop Cigarette Butt Asphalt to Build Stronger Roads"
#Roads #Recycling
https://hap…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-01-12 18:25:10
He'll probably get that Peace Prize next year.
The List of Countries Trump Is Threatening With War Keeps Growing
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/06/trump-wars-venezuela-colombia-cuba-iran/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-12-02 18:56:35
Cowboys’ Jerry Jones Makes Bold $180 Million Promise on Defense https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jerry-jones-makes-180-million-promise-defense/?adt_ei=[email]
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social2025-11-16 01:52:04
#POTUS47 pledged in his 2024 campaign that there'd be no new wars. Anyone with any sense realized this was an empty promise.
Less than a year after taking office, it looks like he's at least posing to go to war with #Venezuela. I don't see anything remotely justifying a US war against…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-12-10 10:31:34
Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT run on expensive chips in data centers, consuming lots of electricity and generating lots of heat.
I just tested an LLM on my iPhone, totally offline, running on its battery with room air cooling it.
Surprisingly, results were good, despite iPhone processors not being designed for LLMs.
This local AI approach has promise for certain things, without the boiling the ocean and using a city’s worth of power.
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-12-18 23:17:54
Former Promising Young Raiders Defender Signs Contract With Patriots https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/amari-gainer-patriots-signing/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-24 15:22:15
EU leaders welcome
‘new momentum’ in Ukraine peace talks
but stress red lines on territory
Swedish PM says Russia
‘must be forced to the negotiating table’
as European leaders meet in Angola to discuss Geneva talks
US and Ukraine promise ‘updated’ peace framework
after criticism of pro-Russian points in original plan
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-11-05 11:35:37
»Promise based Web Worker Messaging«
Without the use of the Web Worker with JavaScript in the browser, the Internet would stand still locally on your own device ;)
🧑💻 https://muffinman.io/blog/web-workers-promises/
@nitpicking@mstdn.party2025-11-17 02:47:31
So, I was typing in #LibreOffice Writer and wanted to use the French phrase tête-Š-tête. I don't have a French keyboard, so I typed "tete-a-tete" and thought I'd let spell check add the diacritics.
Instead I got the image shown. Maybe it's just me, but if the phrase "tech-a-tete" is in the default spell checker (and I promise I did not add it) surely the far…
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-01-09 13:16:19
Here's a good chunk of the assigned books for my grad seminar on Canadian history - a few golden oldies, but mostly newer stuff. I've got a good group and am looking forward to a fine term.
#histodons
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-11-10 00:37:07
Well, as I anticipated the D-party caved in, gave up its last remaining lever over the trumpies, and has, in my mind relegated the D-party to effective oblivion. Why should we ever trust the D-part to stand up for us in the future?
What did the D's get by emasculating themselves and screwing us? Nothing more than a promise by the R's to hold a vote in the future on restoration of the ACA subsidies.
Will the D's win that vote - almost certainly not. And if they did,…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-12-02 13:00:05
"So what if, right, what if, we put the data centres in … space!
This idea has a lot of appeal if you’ve read too much sci-fi, and it sounds obvious if you don’t know any practical details."
(Original title: AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work)
https://
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-15 13:06:32
Everything fantasy football managers need to know for Week 11 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6808786/2025/11/15/everything-fantasy-football-managers-need-to-know-for-week-11/
@pbloem@sigmoid.social2025-12-09 16:35:29
This has allowed me to make clear something that's been at the back of my mind. Something that is at the heart of so much blind stupidity in big tech.
It's the assumption that we will change one thing and all else will be the same.
In this case, we will fire lots and lots of employees all over the world and we will make lots of profit. We're smart enough to make the AI, and we're dumb enough to think that there will only be one consequence. 1/n
@kctipton@mas.to2026-01-12 05:01:49
A congresswoman wants to impeach Kristi Noem. She’s right to do so | Jan-Werner Müller | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/11/kristi-noem-homeland-security-trump
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-11-06 14:37:09
I need to borrow a few Ativan. I promise to return them when I'm done. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3m4whoxiu5k26
@StephenRees@mas.to2025-11-07 23:02:14
From BC Humanists
Last fall, we pushed the government to finally fulfill a longstanding promise to regulate dangerous and deceptive unregulated (crisis) pregnancy centres.
These fake clinics cloak their religious agenda to deny people their reproductive autonomy and freedom. Many of these groups are registered charities, meaning your taxes subsidize their donations.
Now, the government has let religious anti-choice groups off the hook with its lack of action in Budget 2025.…
@samvarma@fosstodon.org2025-11-09 19:09:16
Interesting... Yamaha has a process called Acoustic Resonance Enhancement that does something similar, and they do it to guitars starting in the mid range price.
https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/guitarists/jason-isbells-method-to-age-acou…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-12-30 08:33:29
Globally, four out of five want their countries to strengthen commitments to address climate change.
https://climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-stories/worlds-largest-survey-climate-change-out-heres-what-results-show<…
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-11-02 20:53:27
yesterday I made a promise that I would memorize how to spell Ehibhatiomhan and I did it
I see that also my autocomplete knows it now BUT SO DO I
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-12-03 05:33:11
Beyond Curious
Follows the very real experience of Jesse, through a relationship that began with love and promise but spiralled into something far more complex and confronting...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/beyond-curious/<…
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social2026-01-05 17:57:07
"When we ask who is a part of building this new world, we must understand that WE ALL ARE. "
—A. Kazimir Brown ’19 M.Div., writing in the new issue of Reflections, focused on "A Faith that Sustains: Building Hope for a Living Planet." https://
@davej@dice.camp2025-11-02 09:38:51
Kind of ironic, given they’ve not actually stopped whinging about it for the past decade. #auspol https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/115478102222542658
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-12-23 11:21:06
Cowboys Headlines: Williams, Overshown injury news; aiming to finish season strong https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/23/news-headli…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2025-12-13 20:05:59
Professor Obvious theorizes that the difference is related to how the substances interact with areas of the brain
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/13/psychedelics-ocd-treatment-psilocybin
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-11-19 17:21:41
I'm curious - what San Francisco media has covered this? Admittedly something I have not been looking for. But a quick search doesn't find many news articles - but it appears to be a nationwide problem. Sure, FDA has published their alert (2022) but that's not a great tool to reach people who need to know about risks.
The FDA has warned against this ‘natural remedy’ for joint pain. San Francisco immigrants still trust it
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-11-19 17:21:41
I'm curious - what San Francisco media has covered this? Admittedly something I have not been looking for. But a quick search doesn't find many news articles - but it appears to be a nationwide problem. Sure, FDA has published their alert (2022) but that's not a great tool to reach people who need to know about risks.
The FDA has warned against this ‘natural remedy’ for joint pain. San Francisco immigrants still trust it
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-19 19:27:32
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
RAMP:
🎵 The American Promise
#RAMP
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Rj1At81aqlIjqFK4OP1rs
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-01-05 08:29:05
Burning platform news:
A Bluesky thread suggesting the non-Russian parts of (former US site) LiveJournal may be going away - since they can't accept payments due to sanctions.
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mbebi2xfxc25
@hippyjo@c.im2025-10-30 17:50:58
As "professional" media fails to deliver on its promise of informing the populace, the Kremlin lies grow even more audacious.
With such scarcity of reporters on the front lines, it is easy for the Kremlin lies to find fertile ground.
Foreign media outlets repeat the lies without question, so the Kremlin doubles down and feeds even more outrageous lies.
In the so-called "information age" we find ourselves encumbered with outrageous stupidity.
The So…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2025-12-09 15:52:31
To ChatGPT: Why does it take Neuralink so long to even come up with a compelling monkey video showcasing the promise of their Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision to the blind? https://chatgpt.com/share/69384562-e9a4-8004-89f3-f472209351e0
ChatGPT…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-18 03:05:41
Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say (Amanda Moore/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/17/pardoned-jan-6-child-abuse-molestation-andrew-paul-johnson/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p162#a251117p162
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-12-23 20:00:18
"Green light for 1GW wind farm as Ministers promise to ‘unlock’ 19GW more"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Renewables #Energy
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-11-05 23:18:27
Just as we might have expected, the D-party is caving in and wimping out...
D's seem to be saying they will settle on a mere promise by the R's to hold a vote - which the D's will lose.
And even should the D's win that vote, the House won't go for it.
And even if the House went for it, El Cheato would veto it.
And even if that veto is overridden El Cheato will ignore it and use the money for some other purpose.
The D party is filled with wimp…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-06 16:14:32
It’s affordability, stupid:
Republicans pay price for Trump’s forgotten promise
Trump looks increasingly out of touch
and his disapproval rating is at an all-time high
– which largely explains Tuesday’s election results
https://www.
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-11-09 23:40:53
📈 Study shows the Paris Agreement is working, but not well enough to offset economic growth
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-paris-agreement-offset-economic-growth.html
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-15 11:10:42
Self-help gurus like Tony Robbins, Gabby Bernstein, and Matthew Hussey are charging up to $99 per month to access AI chatbots that promise personalized advice (Sara Ashley O'Brien/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/style/ai-se…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-10-30 19:25:48
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
When in Rome:
🎵 The Promise
#WheninRome
https://syrupaudio.bandcamp.com/track/when-in-rome-the-promise-syrup-audio-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/48p5E25cFPanxuwCTmTpuL
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-08 06:19:12
Everything here is built for one type of weather.
And most of the time it works.
But when it doesn’t, it really doesn’t work.
L.A. has spent over a century advertising its perfect Mediterranean climate.
Now increasingly frequent severe weather events are triggering citywide soul-searching about who deserves protection,
what neighborhoods get resources,
which elected officials are to blame,
and whether the promise of this place still holds.
So…
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-01-02 19:00:02
Neither Deque nor accessiBe appears to have met its promise / goal of 100% WCAG coverage by the end of 2025.
Granted, accessiBe scrubbed that date years ago, before the FTC fined it for false claims about ‘AI’.
Yet both still promote ‘AI’ solutions.
https://adria…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-13 16:46:16
Sources: India asked quick commerce companies to drop their 10-minute delivery promise due to concerns about rider safety; Blinkit already removed the assurance (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-13/in…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-04 13:09:17
Eagles GM Howie Roseman all-in at trade deadline https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46833998/philadelphia-eagles-howie-roseman-all-2025-trade-deadline
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-11-08 04:53:21
How stupid is the D-party?
This stupid:
"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Friday that Democrats would vote to end the government shutdown in exchange for a one-year extension of expiring ACA tax credits, "
Even if it were to be agreed upon by the House it would be vetoed by el-cheato and there is zero chance of a veto override.
In other words the D-party is willing to give up its one lever in exchange for a worthless promise.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-31 20:12:22
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-12-09 08:12:34
Ex-Raider Gets Honest Over Kenny Pickett, Geno Smith Situation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/kenny-pickett-geno-smith-qb-situation/?adt_ei=[email]
@servelan@newsie.social2026-01-02 00:28:20
"To understand just how poor this performance was, consider that nothing of this magnitude has happened since 2009, when the global economy began to recover from the financial crisis. Stocks are no anomaly, US bonds and the dollar are relative losers as well."
'Americans were sold fool’s gold': Scathing analysis tears into Trump's broken promise - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-economy-2674841708/
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2025-11-05 11:17:29
Ethical, legal, and sociocultural considerations in neural device explantation: a systematic review https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2025.1568800/full Again limited by choice of search terms: nothing &quo…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-13 09:43:13
A look at Cybathlon, an event by ETH Zurich where researchers team up with people with disabilities in a competition to test brain-computer interfaces (Oliver Whang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/scien…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-11-21 13:02:13
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
When in Rome:
🎵 The Promise
#WheninRome
https://opaledit.bandcamp.com/track/when-in-rome-the-promise-opal-fx-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/48p5E25cFPanxuwCTmTpuL
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5F6PDmIbE0oCzbwTklfrLZ
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-12 22:34:12
The joy and promise of the Internet is that marginal and marginalized people can find each other
and form communities.
If you're the only goth klezmer fan in Toad Suck, Arkansas, you can find others.
If you're het up about a neglected social issue, you can find others.
The trouble is a lot of communities used to be marginalized for extremely good reasons,
and it probably would have been better if they stayed that way.
Dumb pipes can't tel…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-12-15 05:07:35
Cowboys Get Terrible News On Playoff Chances Following Vikings Loss https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-playoffs-one-percent-chance/
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-12-31 13:34:05
I just noticed Deque changed its logo from the combined ‘D’ and ‘Q’ letterform (visually representing the pronunciation) to the ‘AI’ anus (or “AInus”) of the big LLM purveyors.
I bet this was for Deque’s 100% WCAG ‘AI’ coverage, which must be getting released today to honor its March promise.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-30 16:40:25
License plate trackers promise to root out local crime. Amid ICE crackdowns, local governments say they can't be trusted. (Faith Wardwell/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/30/license-plate-trackers-pushback-00670550
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p24#a251130p24
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-06 18:40:41
Nvidia brings its G-Sync Pulsar tech to four monitors, which reduces motion blur by using a "rolling scan" scheme that briefly pulses the monitors' backlight (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/01
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-01-10 16:27:44
3 Dallas Cowboys players earn Second-Team All-Pro honors https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/3-dallas-cowboys-players-earn-second-team-all-pro-honors
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 22:51:44
For years, Donald Trump has fantasized about lawlessly killing drug dealers
In his second term, he’s made the fantasy a reality,
killing putative "drug dealers" in a likely illegal airstrike campaign on vessels in international waters.
Yet at the same time, Trump last week pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez,
who had just started serving a 45-year federal prison sentence for helping to traffic
💥 hundreds of tons of cocaine💥 into t…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-06 20:47:01
Trump: Execute drug dealers, free kingpins
Longtime Trump associate and right-wing operative Roger Stone personally lobbied for Hernandez’s release of Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had just started serving a 45-year federal prison sentence for helping to traffic hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States
— free of charge, Stone claims.
Meanwhile, former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale has been working for the campaign of Nasry Asfura, the right-wing candidate f…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-11-23 21:08:21
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Bad Colours feat. Rachel Kitchlew:
🎵 Promise
#BadColours #RachelKitchlew
https://open.spotify.com/track/0GH9arsPa8OfYqMP77zjSA
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-04 21:10:31
The Trump administration is promising to
block billions in
already-awarded
infrastructure bill broadband grants
to any states that enforce net neutrality
or try to impose any sort of meaningful oversight on the country’s unpopular, predatory broadband monopolies.
That was the promise of Commerce Department official Arielle Roth,
a former Ted Cruz staffer now in charge of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
Ro…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-02 19:55:08
There are many, many kinds of faux insurance products out there.
There’s short-term plans.
But more importantly, there’s also a thing called
❌ "healthcare sharing ministries",
which many people are critical of because they pose as insurance products,
when they’re really not there.
They promise a network of doctors and that you can access that network,
but often they don’t cover drugs.
Those doctors may or may not really participa…
