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While Elon Musk is pushing hard to get the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant out, The vOICe vision BCI can grow organically, no matter how long it takes https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm Applied psychohistory

Microsoft is pushing for more Africans to adopt its AI tools as it competes with DeepSeek: training 3M people, partnering with telecom MTN to sell 365, and more (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Ok well that was a much longer battle than I expected between having to drill out the standoffs and the NIC renaming itself after all the PCIe shuffling.
Thermals are improved, although not as much as I had hoped.
Previously - idling in the low 70Cs, pushing into the 90s during a single build job, running several at once railed it at 99C and it went into thermal throttling and took forever.
Now - idling in the low 60s and pushing to low 70s during a single build job.
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'It's the new frontier': How AI is pushing NFL draft prep to 'a different level' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48446759/nfl-draft-combine-artificial-intelligence-caleb-downs-arvell-reese-david-ba…

Anthropic are now casting live coders for ad campaigns showing how great Claude is for pushing beyond their capabilities. Not sure it's quite there yet..

Building and pushing container images on Codeberg CI
As part of moving my services to EU-based infrastructure, I've been migrating away from GitHub to @… One of the things I needed was a CI pipeline to build a container image and push it to the Codeberg container registry for my @…

The effort from House Democratsto pass a war powers resolution by unanimous consent was squashed today
as the pro forma speaker, Republican Chris Smith, refused to recognize Democrats.
It was always a tall order, given that pushback from even a single member would require Democrats to pursue a formal vote on the resolution.
While it’s largely a symbolic move,
top Democrats in both chambers have vowed to hold votes again when Congress returns from recess next week.

According to Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use, updated in Oct. 2025, "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only" and "Don't rely on Copilot for important advice" (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Microsoft says Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard to consumers and businesses tells users not to rely on it for important advice
These might be boilerplate disclaimers, but they kind of contradict the company's ads and marketing.

An 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.

Analysis: Trump's World Liberty Financial used 5B of its WLFI tokens to borrow $75M from a platform its adviser co-founded; WLFI falls to an all-time low (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/202…

Trump's World Liberty Financial borrowed millions from a protocol its own advisor co-founded
Onchain data shows WLFI deposited 5 billion of its own tokens as collateral to borrow stablecoins it then sent to Coinbase Prime, pushing a lending pool to 100% utilization and leaving depositors unable to withdraw.

The Austrian German term for managers who push bullshit like this is "dem hams ins Hirn gschissn", which translates as "someone shat into their brain".
(This about the thinly veiled workplace surveillance stuff [they call it "bonus system" or some shit] Meta is pushing on their employees.)

@…
At the neighborhood party you may be asked to wear a name tag with your first name. The initial contact and conversation is more relaxed as no one wants to talk about their work. Your neighbors want to know how you feel about that ungodly reno going on down the street, share stories about your kids, and swap anecdotes about pets. Definitely cats... lots of cat sharing. It's a community where no one is selling, no one is recording data, and there's no unfathomable app pushing conversations into your group. The goal is to go home feeling closer to your community and more empathy for its members.

PSA: The annual #Gentoo #Python switch planned for 2026-06-01. CPython 3.14 becomes the default, 3.11 and #PyPy 3.11 go out. The latter fills me with sadness but keeping it is unrealistic now that projects are aggressively pushing for 3.12 .
Of course, we'll continue shipping the interpreters, so you can use venvs if you like. However, that's going to become harder to use since many projects either don't ship PyPy wheels or don't work on PyPy at all without patching.
We will revisit PyPy support if a version compatible with Python 3.12 appears in reasonable time.
https://public-inbox.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/20260412164104.429630-1-mgorny@gentoo.org/T/#u
https://public-inbox.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/58cefccb3d0758671537715f4ddb34d59c938461.camel@gentoo.org/T/#u

As an editor, I love it when an author takes the feedback we provide and engages deeply with it. This doesn't necessarily mean doing everything we ask - there are sometimes very good reasons for pushing back. I appreciate the humility involved in the exercise but watching a piece turn from not bad into something smarter, more incisive, better informed, and ultimately good if not great is the best part.

Official Israeli Persian account pushing a conspiracy theory that civilian casualties in Iran are being faked: straight from the Gaza playbook.

My BBC Model B series 7 case looks a disaster inside, but it's working nicely after a recap; caps 1,2,9 in the PSU. It worried me by not beeping - but the capslock worked, and after pushing the socketed analogue chips down under the keyboard it's good. It's a bit fuzzy on the UHF, but there again that is a terrible lead I used. Just has DNFS and View in. The W key took some cleaning, and the '.' is still not working. Getting the aux socket out of the PSU is a bastard!…

Life Runners 🪖
生活战士 🪖
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography

What do Ukraine and Japan have in common? They are leaders in robotics, and for the right reasons
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/05/japan-is-proving-experimental-physical-ai-is-ready-for-the-real-world/

In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants | TechCrunch
Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.

RE: https://typo.social/@behdad/116172838540880597
Ughh. Not looking forward to more AI slop making its way into even FLOSS code. It's bad enough that commercial software is pushing this stuff, but FLOSS?
Come on, man.
(To be clear, "this&q…

I'd just commissioned this art for the third ESPionage adventure, MindGuard, when I had an epiphany to wrap the existing material with a Twin Peaks style investigation, pushing the titular militia off the cover.
It least I can use it as interior art.

Q&A with three members of NYT's Tech team based in CA about seeking comment from subjects of their stories, tech companies "front-running" stories, and more (Mike Abrams/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/i…

Reporters Seek Comment. What Happens Next May Surprise You.
Accurate journalism requires full and fair reporting. It means pushing hard to hear from those you’re writing about.

Because some of the replies, while good, have wandered a bit off the rails, please consider:
1. “We should study and learn from how Hypercard lowered the barrier to entry to programming.”
2. “Hypercard or something like it would be unsuitable for many / most modern applications.”
Please note that both these things can be true (and both are in my view). Upthread I’m pushing for (1). And…

🎧 The latest episode of my #podcast 'My Pocket Psych' is all about why over-simplified definitions of #resilience are so unhelpful.
It's not just about bouncing back or pushing through! You can find Ep205 wherever you get your podcasts or direct from

Seriously, it seems like every town got slammed and just gave up on
plowing sidewalks.
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/maybe-next-storm-city-can-concentrate-just-tad-more-crosswalks

Maybe with the next storm, Boston can concentrate just a tad more on crosswalks in what is allegedly America's most walkable city
Here we are, a week out from that 20-inch snowstorm and Boston streets are in pretty good shape - for people in motor vehicles. For people on foot - even if they're not pushing a stroller - or in wheelchairs, not so good. Read more.

The reactionary establishment of Minneapolis is pushing for their own #CopCity (with a euphemism for the name of course; i won't use it but it is more of a #CopSpa to be fair).

#Vietnam is pushing hard on the #semiconductor front, the first fab in view. 32 nm only, and few details on how it shall be built. But it remains a theme reshuffling funds, also supported by growth in #datacenter

Keep Android Open https://keepandroidopen.org/
"You, the consumer, purchased your Android device believing in Google’s promise that it was an open computing platform and that you could run whatever software you choose on it. Instead, as of September 2026, they will be non-consensually pushing an update…

I see a lot of people pushing to avoid libraries that use AI. We're soon going to need to figure out how we even define that, since it's not always obvious if a PR is AI-assisted.
We're going to need standards for "organic code." Which is... yeah, GFL with getting devs to agree on anything.
#Programming

Deveillance's upcoming anti-surveillance device, Spectre I, went viral after its founder said it blocks nearby listening devices with AI, but some are skeptical (Lindsey Weedston/The Daily Dot)
https://dailydot.com/deveillance-smart-device-claims-to-jam-listening

Deveillance says its $1,199 gadget can block listening devices. Skeptics are raising questions
A tech company by the name of Deveillance is pushing a new device it claims can pinpoint and scramble any listening devices in an area.

The offenses of Trump’s second-term cabinet members tend to be ones of loyalty or sycophancy,
rarely of independent thought.
Whatever damage the secretaries inflict on their country or their reputations is done on the president’s orders and on his behalf.
In Trump’s first term, sacrificing cabinet members meant firing them, or pushing them to resign.
In the second term, it means keeping them in the job for as long as those shields retain even marginal power.
Th…

Opinion | Trump’s Shields Are Down
Personnel once meant policy; now it means flattery.

The RPi that runs #yulbbs crashed and wouldn't reconnect early on Thursday (overnight).
This morning I managed to get it running again by playing Apollo 13 and moving devices between USB busses and gently pushing the power supply/consumption until it would init everything safely.
Really bummed that I missed the CF-18s/F-16s escorting the passenger jets on Thursday, though.

Fighter jets escort Montreal-bound flights after ‘security incident’; 2 men arrested
Norad said fighter jets, including CF-18s, escorted two international flights bound for Montreal on Wednesday due to a 'security incident' that prompted a police response at the Trudeau International airport.

Imagine turning 22 during covid, you've just finished celebrating properly entering adulthood and think (even with Biden) that things might make a turn around for the middle to late 2020s globally, it wouldn't be fun but at least the economy will manage to hold up the facade of trying to work for now.
Now it's 2026, you're pushing 30 and damn near everything seems to want me homeless and dead.

thinking of #39c3 and all those people with cat ears. in retrospect it feels very unauthentic, none of them were sitting on the tables and pushing things off them. 🐱

Life Tricks 🧮
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🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography

Maybe it is time for me to go back to debian stable or some such. #Opensuse is pushing half baked solutions, which makes me sad after all those years of reliable services. On top, I don't understand this obsession for Wayland (which isn't up to speed on Desktop).

January recap blog post: #MastodonDev

This could be long. It's hard to express my thoughts on this.
I had a bit of a heart to heart with my son today. My son is a student at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He's 26. I'm white, his mother is third generation Mexican-American. To me, my kids are just my kids, I see myself and my ex-wife both in them. But he has been pushing me to realize for some time that isn't how the rest of the people around us see them. They don't see me in them at all, they ju…

Japan, driven by labor shortages, is increasingly adopting robotics and physical AI, with a hybrid model where startups innovate and corporations provide scale (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/05/japan-is-proving-e…

In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants | TechCrunch
Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.

Some workers are going all in on AI while also questioning whether all that AI is good for the world. Others are effectively training machines to do their jobs better than they can. And many of the same workers who are racing to build the future are now wondering if the future they’re building has a place for them in it.

IN AMERICA, WE HAVE NO KINGS.
We are showing up together again on March 28.
When our families are under attack and costs are pushing people to the brink, silence is not an option.
We will defend ourselves and our communities against this administration’s unjust and cruel acts of violence.
America does not belong to strongmen, greedy billionaires, or those who rule through fear.
It belongs to us, the people.

No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

Google has partially walked back their decision to remove Android's ability to install independently published software. Their new stance is that it will still be possible, but it will be more difficult. I assume their plans are still subject to change.
I don't like the FUD that Google is pushing, and I still have a lot of unanswered questions, but I figured that it would be best to link the original source:

Interestingly enough ghcr.io seems to remember old repo-names when pushing an image (probably as long as they originally came from my github). Once I renamed to sth new the build went through. It is also telling, in the larger scheme of things, that I was adding flatpak removal to the code, only to find out I previously wrote a just action for that 🤣 Keeping ourselves busy, are we? 😜

I think the reason Meta et al are pushing for the OS age thing is that they know there's no way that anything they can do themselves for age verification will satisfy the regulators and/or cause them to have to pass data to 3rd party dodgy verifiers; they'll always get the blame if kids find a way around it if it's done at their end.

Oman just hit a major renewable energy milestone.
Masdar's Ibri III project combines a 500MW solar plant with a 100MWh battery system—the country's first large-scale solar-plus-storage facility. It'll power 33,000 homes and cut CO2 emissions by over 500,000 tonnes yearly, pushing Oman closer to its 30% renewable electricity target by 2030.

Masdar achieves financial close for Ibri III power project in Oman
Masdar, alongside its consortium partners, has achieved the financial close for the Ibri III Solar Independent Power Project in Oman.

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For those of you curious - the Nazis downtown are getting absolutely humiliated.
The big anti-Islam protest downtown currently consists of about 8 protesters and hundreds, maybe thousands, of counter protesters. The counter protesters are currently walking/pushing the protesters off of City Hall grounds. True Minnesota hospitality at its best.
Jake Lang [right-winger who organized the event] and a handful of other racists/RW propagandists are surrounded by about 50 cameras and some antifascists chanting him down. A banner the group arrived with has been broken.
Currently has only about 5 supporters, and is being drowned out by counter protesters
The group led by Jake Lang tried to get inside Minneapolis City Hall, but the building is closed, as it is every Saturday.
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(This is all gathered from a bunch of different online sources; sorry I can’t link back to all of them, haven’t been keep track properly as I gather, but you can find more primary sources and video, I’m sure)
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Sources detail Fidji Simo's moves at OpenAI, including spearheading the TBPN acquisition and pushing OpenAI to cut Sora and avoid other social media products (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

Why OpenAI’s Fidji Simo Bought the TBPN Podcast Amid Crusade Against ‘Side Quests’
In recent weeks, Fidji Simo has burst into public view as the OpenAI executive bringing much-needed discipline to the AI startup, as it inches toward an initial public offering late this year. Last month, Simo—who is now CEO of AGI Deployment—delivered the sobering message to the company’s staff ...

Good Morning #Canada
I was in My local hardware store yesterday and saw that they had pallets of salt piled high. Just as spring is on the brink of pushing another winter from our memory, the salt mines have apparently turned the corner on earlier supply chain issues. Upon returning home my curiosity, and a lack of having anything important to do in #Retirement, prompted me to look at sources of road salt. I kinda knew it was mined in Ontario, because of Windsor Salt in (checks notes) Windsor. But I was surprised that Canada was a salt powerhouse in terms of production, and that the largest salt mine in the world is in Goderich, Ontario. More accurately, over 540 metres below the prettiest town in Ontario and extending 3.7km under Lake Huron.
#CanadaIsAwesome #NeedsSalt #Geology
https://youtu.be/Xt7GzKiAqBs

Minnesota’s coalition is demanding:
1: ICE must leave Minnesota now.
2: Renee Good’s killer, Jonathan Ross, must be held legally accountable.
3: No additional federal funding for ICE in the upcoming budget.
“These are moral common sense for a state that values truth, freedom, and life.”
https://

Hmm, cocoa free #chocolate substitutes made by fermentation hmm. They're pushing it as ethical etc - but I wonder what the health differences are; Cocoa is pretty good.
https://www.

Cocoa-free chocolate arrives in Switzerland
Several start-ups are developing cocoa alternatives using barley, beans or sunflower seeds.

Day of Truth and Freedom
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:a4wzpl7hpxvvntj6hatvuhlw/post/3mczfkmy5ec2v

Sources: Elon Musk is pushing for a SpaceX IPO by July, seems eager to beat OpenAI and Anthropic to market, and views it as a way to help xAI catch its rivals (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/why-elon-musk-is-

Exactly one year before Dr King was assassinated, on 4 April 1967,
he gave his famous “Beyond Vietnam” speech at Riverside church in New York City.
More than 3,000 people were in attendance.
At the time, King had come under intense fire for having renounced the Vietnam war;
his outspokenness put him at odds with Lyndon Johnson,
who felt King should have been indebted to him for his efforts in pushing through civil rights legislation.
It also put King at …

At least six high-profile congressional Republicans have voiced their staunch opposition to Trump’s desire to take over Greenland.
“I’ll be candid with you: There’s so many Republicans mad about this,”
Nebraska Representative Don #Bacon told the Omaha-World Herald.
“If he went through with the threats, I think it would be the end of his presidency.
And he needs to know:
The off-r…

Republicans Say Trump’s Greenland Plan Is “Dumbest Thing” Ever
At least a handful of Republicans in Congress are pushing back against President Trump’s quest to take over Greenland.

But the idea here is to keep kids safe!
No: the idea is to assign identity to every user and try to monitor and control the internet though corporate means.
That’s the only reason we’re talking seriously about the laws that government and capital are trying to pass.
That lobbying money is not being spent to protect kids.
The Epstine-class oligarchs doing this don’t give a damn about your children’s safety let alone some useless counter productive methods of ensuring it.
I don’t trust the government with totalitarian power nor the companies they would employ to run their age-gate for them, nor the companies currently running social media.
They are the ones running the algorithms that are pushing propaganda at your kids right now.

The list of qualifying documents in the SAVE Act for proving citizenship appears long -- but many of them come with qualifiers.
Under the bill, a REAL ID -compliant driver’s license would have to indicate that “the applicant is a citizen,”
--- but not all do.
Only five states
— Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont and Washington
— offer the type of enhanced REAL IDs that explicitly indicate U.S. citizenship.
Standard driver’s licenses, generally available…

Documents required by GOP's voting bill can be difficult and costly to get
Congressional Republicans are pushing voting legislation that's backed by President Donald Trump and would require voters to produce documentary proof of citizenship in order to register for federal elections. Obtaining those records and paying for them may not be as easy as the bill’s promoters make it sound. There's a range of hurdles, including the time and money involved in getting birth certificates or passports. A University of Maryland study estimates that 21.3 million Americans who ar…