@cdarwin@c.imICE agents on Thursday pulled an accused MS-13 shotcaller out of a downtown federal courtroom,
catching attorneys and the judge off guard,
and casting uncertainty over the fate of his pending criminal trial.
https://www.latimes.com/califor…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNew York pulls a proposal that would have allowed for robotaxi services outside NYC, a setback for Waymo, which wants to hit 1M paid weekly US rides by 2026 end (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@david@boles.xyzThe Book Lives Three Times: How Seneca Got Reading Wrong by Getting It Right
You finish writing a book and the manuscript sits there, cooling on the screen like bread pulled from an oven. It is done. It is no longer yours. This is the part no one tells you about authorship: the moment the final sentence locks into place, the book begins its first death, because it has stopped being a living negotiation between you and the language and has become, instead, a fixed…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoWhy is it that two of my hobbies have US national organizations who are actively working against their membership? The ARRL's bylawys changes to try to disqualify from election anyone who argues for change were embarrassing, and now AOPA is using legal action to try to stop a movement for transparency.
I think they are probably both em…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: ABC could lose ~$50M in licensing costs to WBD and an estimated $35M in advertising revenue after abruptly pulling the new season of The Bachelorette (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/busines…
@cdarwin@c.imJD Vance seems to believe that Black and brown U.S. citizens in Minneapolis being pulled over by ICE somehow did something to deserve it
—including the cops of color being targeted.
“Earlier this week, local law enforcement accused federal agents of racial profiling,”
a reporter asked Vance at a Thursday press conference in Minneapolis.
“Why are there so many U.S. citizens being caught up in this operation?”
⭐️Vance blamed those getting arrested instead of the agen…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotIt being an astonishingly beautiful afternoon here, instead of sitting indoors hacking #Lisp, I am out in the wood with my pussy cat hauling out timber for the sawmill.
It's a hard life.
#TheJoyOfCrofting (unironically, for once)
@publicvoit@graz.socialAnswer: 5 years later. Nothing can travel faster than light.
Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/project-hail-mary-phil-lord-chris-miller-ryan-gosling-1236524106/
OK, it'…
@mlawton@mstdn.socialHad to time-shift my watching of the match, but I knew the result long beforehand. Far less stressful that way, but I HATE not being able to see it live.
Everton played well, their energy hard to match. Beto going out with a probable concussion torpedoed any real hope of claiming all three points. The commentators kept suggesting Ibou should be pulled for hazy decision making, but I didn't see it that way at all. I was critical of his effort on one play late, but otherwise he was g…
@joe@toot.worksI pulled the hood release latch, but nothing actually happens. If i'm going to try to jumpstart this car, it seems like I should check if there's actually oil. 🤔
@cdarwin@c.imA parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet.
It infected 3.5 million people in 1986.
Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page
https://www.resete…
@edintone@mastodon.green‘Extinct’ Snail Found in Alleyway Results in Species Pulled Back From the Brink: A ‘Once in a Career’ Moment https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/extinct-snail-found-in-alleyway-results-in-species-pulled-back-from-the-brink/
@servelan@newsie.social'She Just Copied Michelle’: Trump Pulled 'Out All the Stops’ for Melania’s Boost, But America Still Picked Michelle Obama
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/02/11/trump-pulled-all-the-stops-for-melanias-boost-but-america-still-picked-michelle-obama/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzNFL Insider Proves Cowboys Made Right Choice Not Pursuing Steelers LB https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/nfl-insider-proves-dallas-cowboys-made-right-choice-not-pursuing-steelers-linebacker
@ruari@velocipederider.com
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialStarter words got the message and pulled their act together. Nice performance today. #Wordle
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@memeorandum@universeodon.comColbert Says CBS Pulled Guest Amid FCC Scrutiny, Posts Interview on YouTube Instead (Matt Webb Mitovich/LateNighter)
https://latenighter.com/news/late-show-james-talarico-interview-fcc-equal-time/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260217/p28#a260217p28
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaPulled my Pixel 4a (5G) out of the pile and blasted LineageOS 23 onto it. Let's see what works and what doesn't!
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itTwig literally pulled out the packing paper so that he had space to sit inside the box. Which is still full of the items that we ordered, btw. #CatsOfMastodon
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialSure the Fediverse is cool, but have you ever pulled up next to a Cybertruck, flipped off the driver, and then made a right turn and left them stuck at the light?
@primonatura@mstdn.social @cowboys@darktundra.xyzWhy Cowboys, 49ers pulled off trade involving Osa Odighizuwa https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/news/why-cowboys-49ers-pulled-trade-involving-osa-odighizuwa/7da8d0cdc30b2305faeffd03…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeBattery tech people: do Energizer Ultimate Lithium AA batteries contain any kind of internal protection / fusing mechanism like good 18650s do? Or do they ever fail short or something?
Just pulled four out of a device. Three tested good at 1.5V and the fourth measured absolutely zero. Not like low, no voltage at all.
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaRight now I really, really, really wish I knew a lot more French.
Why? We had a H/W upgrade scheduled for this weekend. Put in holds for our production schedule to ensure that after this evening finishes nothing will start until we finish our tests.
Walked through what we are doing, when, how and WHY. After 13:00 we pulled the trigger to put it all on hold. What happens 60 minutes later? Called that they are putting it off until next weekend!
I am moderately fluent in …
@NFL@darktundra.xyzMaxx Crosby trade is off: Raiders say Ravens pulled out of the deal https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7106276/2026/03/10/maxx-crosby-trade-ravens-back-out-raiders/
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
SOOLIN: Thirty seconds to impact.
PLAXTON: [V.O.] One more connection to- [Her voice is cut off as Avon pushes some buttons.]
TARRANT: [To Avon] What are you doing?
AVON: Programing in the main circuit drive.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/444
@mlawton@mstdn.socialDon't understand how Frimpong was guilty of anything other than being grabbed and pulled sideways.
#LFC
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialSo to follow up on this, I've caught it in action. Models, when quantized a bit, just do a bit more poorly with short contexts. Even going from f32 (as trained) to bf16 (as usually run) to q8 tends to do okay for "normal" context windows. And q4 you start feeling like "this model is a little stupid and gets stuck sometimes” (it is! It's just that it's still mostly careening about in the space of "plausible" most of the time. Not good guesswork, but still in the zone). With long contexts, the probability of parameters collapsing to zero are higher, so the more context the more likelihood you are to see brokenness.
And then at Q2 (2 bits per parameter) or Q1, the model falls apart completely. Parameters collapse to zero easily. You start seeing "all work and no play makes jack a dull boy” sorts of behavior, with intense and unscrutinized repetition, followed by a hard stop when it just stops working.
And quantization is a parameter that a model vendor can turn relatively easily. (they have to regenerate the model from the base with more quantization, but it's a data transformation on the order of running a terabyte through a straightforward and fast process, not like training).
If you have 1000 customers and enough equipment to handle the requests of 700, going from bf16 to q8 is a no-brainer. Suddenly you can handle the load and have a little spare capacity. They get worse results, probably pay the same per token (or they're on a subscription that hides the cost anyway so you are even freer to make trade-offs. There's a reason that subscription products are kinda poorly described.)
It's also possible for them to vary this across a day: use models during quieter periods? Maybe you get an instance running a bf16 quantization. If you use it during a high use period? You get a Q4 model.
Or intelligent routing is possible. No idea if anyone is doing this, but if they monitor what you send a bit, and you generally shoot for an expensive model for simple requests? They could totally substitute a highly quantized version of the model to answer the question.
There are •so many tricks• that can be pulled here. Some of them very reasonable to make, some of them treading into outright misleading or fraudulent, and it's weirdly hard to draw the line between them.
@drbruced@aus.socialMy road bike has a BB30 (press-fit) bottom bracket. Yesterday I noticed it was creaking, so I pulled out my $50 BB30 removal tool, refreshed my memory on how to remove a bottom bracket with a bit of YouTube, pulled the thing apart, cleaned and greased everything, put it back together, and now it doesn’t creak. So satisfying. #BikeTooter
@raiders@darktundra.xyzWhy Ravens Reportedly Pulled out of Maxx Crosby Trade with Raiders https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/why-ravens-reportedly-pulled-out-maxx-crosby-trade-raiders
@markhburton@mstdn.socialPulled something in my back so walked with shopping trolley to the wholefood co-op (usually cycle).
Allowed me to reflect on the queue of cars waiting, and those in the carpark.
Huge Mercs, Beamers and Audis. Large Vauxhalls and others.
A real mismatch between the store's philosophy and that of many (most?) of its customers.
Still, it allows me to scowl and curse.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioFor those following at home, the iMac Pro saga continues—I've pulled the trigger on a replacement SSD kit [basically from another iMac Pro that was gutted for parts] for it and will replace it myself.
(It's the most likely culprit and I if it doesn't work I can return the kit.)
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaDocumentation continues. Done with the `queue` and `worker` endpoints, probably about 50% of the way done with this. I still need a good way to package all of this up with the binary which means putting the `openapi.yaml` file somewhere on the net so it can be pulled if need be. I'll deal with that later...lol
#openapi
@nerb@techhub.socialWhat the heck?
I kept hearing mooing today.
Went out back to look and the neighbor has 4 calves in a fenced in area.
I ignored when he brought in 8 chickens even though you are only supposed to have 3 and no roosters which he has one of. But cattle? And a goat But looks like someone beat me to it as the sheriff pulled up while I was looking. Said the people on the other side of the creek reported what sounded like an animal in distress.
Looks like he now has a proble…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzAn eventful day at the home office so far... just spent the last 20 minutes trying to clean up the mess of pushing bag of besan (chick pea) flour off the top shelf in the pantry, which burst on impact, maximising dispersion on the coffee making stuff & the rest of the pantry. Much blue air was created. But before that had a magical few minutes when a pīwakawaka flew into the house, happily flew around a bit, & happily flew back out again.
@scott@carfree.cityIt’s sad to see so much Bermuda buttercup crowding out natives in the GGP #oakWoodlands. I carefully pulled some out that was crowding this native coast buckwheat at least. Guess I should go to the Friends of Oak Woodlands volunteer day!
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Paramount pulls ads from The Ankler and tells staff to freeze out the outlet after an Ankler columnist was seen with bags of "Block the Merger" buttons (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo
@gwire@mastodon.social“residual data located in backend systems" is what you say to protect sources and methods, I guess
https://www.theverge.com/tech/877235/nancy-guthrie-google-nest-cam-video-storage
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzWho is Micah Parsons? How Packers Star Pulled Out of Dark Headspace After ACL Tear https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/who-micah-parsons-how-packers-star-pulled-out-dark-headspace-after-acl-tear
@aardrian@toot.cafeBrought home some #espresso beans. Pulled a shot on a Bambino Plus with default settings, then made a cappuccino on the same machine. Tomorrow I'll try with the Flair 58.
Thanks to @… for the lovely mug (it’s not blurry IRL).
@rberger@hachyderm.ioHere's How Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Episode 5 Pulled Off That Jaw-Dropping Cameo
Spoilers for "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" episode 5 follow.
Read More: #StarFleetAcademy #StarTrek
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Jesse ‘Ed’ Davis:
🎵 Who Pulled The Plug?
#Jesse‘EdDavis
https://open.spotify.com/track/6yrNcZHOzsPKYlIWgszy5o
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump’s Save America PAC
— the vehicle he uses to pay legal bills
— is nearly $500,000 in the red,
while owing roughly $1.6 million to a roster of 12 different law firms.
Stiffing lawyers is a time-honored tradition in the Trump orbit.
He famously pulled the rug out from Rudy Giuliani after Rudy devoted his entire post-mayoral career,
law license, and remaining credibility to peddling the Big Lie.
Decades of vendors, contractors, and attorn…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialOne of our products uses a document prep tool that is available only on Windoz. It's a good tool, which is why I didn't take the effort to move stuff over to LibreOffice or something I can run on Linux.
Anyway, we have no Windows machines - but we have some M.2 NVME sticks that contain Windows 11 that we pulled from some new boxes that we then used for Linux or FreeBsd.
So I stuffed one of those M.2 sticks into a machine and fired up Windows 11.
Then I ran into Win…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzMaxx Crosby trade is off: Raiders say Ravens pulled out of the deal https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7106276/2026/03/10/maxx-crosby-trade-ravens-back-out-raiders/
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThere used to be a Google provided cli tool that allowed you to script the uploading of videos to YouTube. (Google-CLI I think?). They pulled support a few years ago.
Two questions:
1) does anyone know of any such tools that might exist today?
2) Are there any similar tools for PeerTube?
#video #cli #oss #tools #youtube #google #peertube
@StephenRees@mas.toI am pleased to report that we discovered how to get the new version of the Knowledge App to work with Apple tv
I pulled the cable out of the box while it was still trying to download the app unsuccessfully. I waited a short while then plugged it back in and waited again until service was restored.
Bingo. The new app was downloaded in a few seconds and works perfectly
I should have tried that first!
@bourgwick@heads.social60 years ago tonight (maybe), 14 minutes of early grateful dead at the matrix from a badly dated owsley reel, their last show before the band follow the merry pranksters to LA, during which they have the plug pulled on them by management. tracks 15-18: https://archive.org/details/gd1966-XX-
@mlncn@social.coopICE assaulted a Native man—violently pulled him from his car—and detained him. He was then released because he is emphatically not an immigrant. Today they charged him—on a secret warrant and secret indictment, zero public evidence—with assaulting an ICE agent.
https://
@NFL@darktundra.xyzFake Emeka Egbuka account duped Buccaneers for nearly a year on social media
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/buccaneers-emeka-egbuka-social-media/
@cdarwin@c.imRFK Jr. Confronted Over Statement That
Black Children Should Be ‘Re-Parented’
Because They’re All On ADHD Meds
‘What is clear is that the white man President Donald Trump tapped to serve as the nation’s highest health authority, wanted to take Black children out of their homes and away from their parents based on racist non-statistics he pulled directly out of his ass.’
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz#NowPlaying ❝He didn’t say a lot, actually, at the beginning. He just kept listening. And then 25, 30 minutes later, you know, suddenly, he… went back to his desk and pulled out a paper called, “The Pattern and Effectiveness of Forager Allocation Among Flower Patches by Honeybee Colonies.”❞
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDemocrats Pulled Off Their Biggest Shift Yet Among House Specials Since 2024 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/elections/georgia-house-special-shifts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p10#a260408p10
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialI'm delighted to forward this to my undergrads in quant soc methods, because I used this example a couple of weeks ago to badmouth web panels.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwjxx5eyn1o
@padraig@mastodon.ieJust pulled the @… card on #WikiGacha 🤣 #noxp
@hex@kolektiva.socialThis becomes especially interesting when you understand the history of the church as a quasi-revolutionary organization. One could describe early church history as a mostly-successful attempt to overthrow the Roman empire. I say mostly successful because, in the end, the Roman state mutated the church for it's own ends and basically pulled a Lenin.
The early church was a religion of women and slaves that set up alternative institutions. See, the Roman economic system basically ran through the temples. Temples were basically the banks of their day (thus money changers in the temples and all that). So when the church set up their own institutions, they were actually attacking the economic system of the Roman empire. *That* is why the empire tried to destroy them. The Romans didn't really care about the gods. They would just mutate their beliefs to pull other pagans in. No, it wasn't about the gods. The Christian were fucking with the money.
The whole church as an institution was about dual power, and Paul (one of the early founders of the church) was central to organizing this into a political machine that could actually threaten the dominant order. One could argue that he saw the potential of the church, and used it to solidify his own power.
It all basically worked, right up until Constantine figured out how to flip the whole thing against the most radical elements. He had his people collect up different books of the Bible and modify them in such a way that it favored Rome. The trick here was to highlight the existing antisemitic threads of early church, and destroy the anti-Roman ones. Anti-authoritarian sects were killed as heretics, and centralized sects became aligned under the church.
This strategy of controlling internal dissent probably feels quite familiar. It's basically how the US works.
But this whole time, during the whole lead up to this, Christianity was illegal and it was continuing to grow as a system of dual power. When Romanism merged with Christianity, it created the most authoritarian institution in human history that brutally destroyed all opposition. Even still, several hundred years later it's power broke.
Today Liberalism has separated banking and the church, and has created the illusion of separation of church and state. But the same dual power strategy that allowed the first church to gain enough power to merge with the Roman power structure have now allowed Christian Nationalism to fully merge with Americanism into the Christian Fascism we see today...
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Once Dried up and Full of Plastic, Canal in India Is Now Clear and Lined with Mangroves"
#India #Environment #Plastic
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaFrom Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaLove me eza. That installing this takes more than 25 effing minutes, because the entire Rust stack is pulled in, is sloppy. Ffs. Shoving it down my hatch.
@cdarwin@c.imThe FBI said a glove found two miles from #Nancy #Guthrie’s Arizona home could match the gloves worn by an “armed” person seen in surveillance footage outside her front door the morning she disappeared, according to the Associated Press.
This comes after the FBI released new photos and videos from Guthrie’s doorbell …
@NFL@darktundra.xyzTitans unveil new uniforms that pay homage to Oilers: Five things to know about Tennessee's total rebrand
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/titans-uniforms-houston-oilers/
@mlawton@mstdn.socialCall FOR Salah being grabbed and pulled. 👀 🎉
#LFC
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialYouTuber Markiplier's self-funded horror film Iron Lung debuted at No. 2 at the US box office with $22M after a fan campaign helped land it on 2,500 screens (Megan Farokhmanesh/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/movies/markiplier-iron-lung-movie.…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at TAT-8, the first transoceanic fiber-optic cable, which went into service in 1988, was retired in 2002, and is now being pulled up for recycling (Jane Ruffino/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/say-goodbye-to-the-undersea-cable-t…
@ToneMilazzo@mastodon.cloudThe motherboard on my work desktop died, so I frankensteined together another using parts I pulled out of ewaste. Thanks to UrBackup I was able to restore the disk image without issue.
I'm surprised and grateful that worked.
Nothing in this computer is less than 6 years old. Wish me luck.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itSo if I'm another country (not even one necessarily hostile to the US), I'm seeing how the US tricked a country into monitoring/stopping their nuclear programs, then a decade later pulled out. And then killed their leader. What do you think I'm thinking right now?
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116075659962697970
The Park Service had pulled the brochures in anticipation of replacing them with a new version,
-- which would remove the word “racist” to describe the killer,
Byron De La Beckwith, according to Park Service of…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialOh, I see that news.google.com is now re-writing headlines. Or at least synthesizing them from URLs. Whatever the method, what Google shows in its news is not the same as on the article if actually viewed by a reader.
For instance in the following article the actual headline is:
"Iran Claims It Struck American AWACS Aircraft In Saudi Airbase Strike"
But Google news rewrote that to be (or pulled it from the URL):
"Images Show Crucial American E-3 Sentr…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeCurrent summary of all of the GPU acceleration work I've been doing in ngscopeclient since v0.1.1.
Other than the CDR PLL and eye pattern which were high-priority targets that were worth the effort, and the Ethernet which I got nerdsniped on, these are all trivial inner loops of just a few lines that I threw at the GPU without any significant tuning, so there's probably more performance upside.
But I'm not complaining with what I've pulled off so far. (As you ca…
@scott@carfree.cityI guess we’re at the end of the season for Oxalis pes-caprae (Bermuda buttercup) in northern California. Good.
The weeds I’m seeing now are spreading pellitory, bitter lettuce, and a ton of prickly thistle—one weedling today managed to prick me through my gardening gloves as I pulled it.
@raiders@darktundra.xyzNew Report Casts Doubt on Ravens Claims Over Maxx Crosby Trade With Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-latest-developments-show-just-how-badly-ravens-treated
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialChannel 4 pulls the last episode of The Great Celebrity Bake Off as it features Scott Mills, who the BBC sacked as a DJ over allegations about personal conduct (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/the-great-celebrit…
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialPulled that one out of nowhere. #wordle
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@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoWorking WFD CW today. Didn't yesterday due to doing storm preparations. Not a serious contester here, just pulled up not1mm, and am using it to send code so that I don't slow down more serious folks with my bad keying, just using the key when I need to send something that I didn't have a macro for, or to send slowly. Just now, I was delighted that I copied a 2x3 call on first hearing at 35WPM and then was deflated to hear "TEST" afterwards. I didn't know what contests are currently active, b…
@cdarwin@c.imTwo years ago today I pulled out of Tacoma in this thing and headed for Santa Barbara
—after spending four months downsizing.
I came here help manage the affairs of an aging uncle, that I found through a DNA test six years prior and had only met once.
It's a crazy story but I'm glad I did it!
-- Glen Dunlap
@hex@kolektiva.socialThere are all sorts of complex practices and laws around churches, because "religious freedom" is really a minefield. It's not that the state cares about the law, but that the narrative of the US is deeply intertwined with the narrative of "religious freedom" and "escaping religious persecution." (I probably don't need to tell anyone that the people "escaping religious persecution" were some of the absolute worst humans on the planet who were not being persecuted but wanted to be free to persecute others... but I digress.)
It is not aligning with the law that matters, nor any other sort of legal justification for their authority. Authority comes from a complex memetic fabric of woven ideas. This fabric can be attacked, these threads can be pulled out, and eventually the fabric unravels and the authority collapses.
When central authority collapses, dual power institutions pick up the pieces. They replace the faltering authority. Today, as the US government is frantically burning itself down, corporations and churches are the two most developed institutions prepared to fill that void,
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMaxx Crosby trade nixed after failed physical, per sources; Raiders say Ravens backed out https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7106276/2026/03/10/maxx-crosby-trade-ravens-back-out-raiders/
@cdarwin@c.imEvery day I have to marvel at what the billionaires and FOX News pulled off. They got working whites to hate the very people that want them to have more pay, clean air, water, free healthcare and the power to fight back against big banks & big corps. It’s truly remarkable.
Republican "Southern Strategy":
Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3]
@NFL@darktundra.xyzThe team that Mike Vrabel built: How the Patriots found success so fast https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47844139/how-new-england-patriots-super-bowl-seattle-seahawks-mike-vrabel-robert-kraft-drake-maye
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders' updated cap space after Ravens back out of Maxx Crosby trade https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-updated-cap-space-ravens-back-out-maxx-crosby-trade/4a30033c3…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDisney reports Q1 operating profit down 9% YoY to $4.6B, weighed down by high movie production costs and a 15-day YouTube TV carriage dispute that cost $110M (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/business/disney-profit-wilts-movies-t…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys' updated list of 2026 NFL draft picks after Odighizuwa, Thomas trades https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-list-2026-nfl-draft-picks-odighizuwa-thomas-trades/a583176b4…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzCan Raiders still trade Maxx Crosby? Explaining what's next after failed Ravens deal https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/can-raiders-still-trade-maxx-crosby-explain…
@cdarwin@c.imWhen Immigration and Customs Enforcement pulled all of its detainees out of the Cumberland County Jail,
many of them were moved to a field office in Burlington, Massachusetts,
about 100 miles from Portland, Maine.
The facility is designed for administrative processing,
but immigration attorneys say it has been holding some people for more than 10 days
-- raising concerns about due process and access to legal counsel.
Lisa Parisio,
policy director at…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys trade rumor pumps the brakes on another Maxx Crosby pursuit https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/cowboys-trade-rumor-pumps-brakes-another-maxx-crosby-pursuit/83c56105fc180…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMemo: CNN CEO Mark Thompson urged employees to avoid jumping to conclusions after Netflix pulled out of the WBD deal and to focus on serving CNN's audience (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/02/cnn-paramount-warner-bros-merger-1236738177/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzDavid Montgomery trade grades: Texans secure much-needed help in backfield, Lions gain slew of assets
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/david-montgomery-trade-grades-texans-lions/…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzCowboys trade rumor pumps the brakes on another Maxx Crosby pursuit https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/cowboys-trade-rumor-pumps-brakes-another-maxx-crosby-pursuit/83c56105fc180…
@cdarwin@c.imIran has now repeatedly shown itself able to strike at U.S. aircraft in ways that should give Washington pause ahead of any further escalation of the war.
Iranian forces have hit a base in Saudi Arabia, striking two U.S. KC-135 aerial refueling planes and destroyed an American E-3 early warning detection system.
Iran has also been successfully shooting down Israeli and U.S. drones, some military analysts say.
With both sides perceiving themselves as at an advantage,
t…
@cdarwin@c.imIn 2012, a speeding Nissan GT-R slammed into a BYD e6 taxi in Shenzhen.
The battery ruptured.
Fire consumed the cabin.
Three passengers died.
The public backlash was severe. BYD’s stock dropped
Wang Chuanfu, BYD’s CEO, barely slept for weeks.
Three passengers, all in their twenties.
His chemistry. His cell. His company’s name on the casing.
He had not built it to kill anyone, but it had.
He pulled his engineers together with one quest…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRavens make franchise history with blockbuster Maxx Crosby trade https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/baltimore-ravens/news/ravens-make-franchise-history-blockbuster-maxx-crosby-trade/966f7b3671c258d9a434…
@cdarwin@c.imI'm the president of Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation,
and my city is under occupation by the federal government.
Our community has pulled together, doing everything we can to protect our neighbors from being kidnapped and detained by ICE and border patrol.
One of our members was detained by ICE in the parking lot of their workplace and taken to a facility in Texas.
After two weeks in detention under astonishing conditions,
being pressured to sign &quo…
@cdarwin@c.im"What's been happening in Minneapolis has been so egregious and awful and so destructive to our community,"
shop owner Gilah Mashaal said of federal agents' use of aggressive tactics.
It was obvious to her and Neary how the shop would protest.
They pulled out their knitting needles and got to work.
Neary created the pattern that has now become the well-known
"Melt the ICE" hat,
a red beanie-shaped cap topped with a braided tassel.…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMarist Liufau being moved to edge rusher by Cowboys, Parker https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/marist-liufau-being-moved-to-edge-rusher-by-cowboys-parker
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump says he will move to close Washington’s Kennedy Center performing arts venue for two years starting in July for construction.
Trump’s announcement on social media Sunday night follows a wave of cancellations since Trump ousted the previous leadership and added his name to the building.
The proposal, he said, is subject to approval by the board of the Kennedy Center, which has been stocked with his hand-picked allies.
Leading performing arts groups have pulled ou…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders-Vikings trade rumor details near blockbuster deal during 2025 offseason https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-vikings-trade-rumor-near-blockbuster-deal-2025-off…
@cdarwin@c.imThe office of Gavin Newsom, the California governor,
said his appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos
was canceled under pressure from the Trump administration.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/newsom-davos-trump?CM…
@cdarwin@c.imMr. Pretti, wearing brown, is filming with his cellphone
when agents approach m,
then bring him to the ground.
An agent begins shoving the demonstrators,
and squirts pepper spray at their faces.
At this moment,
Mr. Pretti has both hands clearly visible.
One is holding his phone, while he holds the other up to protect himself from pepper spray.
He moves to help one of the protesters who was sprayed, as other agents approach and pull him from be…
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