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I use Rogue Amoeba’s software daily. They make kickass products that revolutionize how I use my Mac.
https://mastodon.social/@RogueAmoeba/115577778426778740

Même ces enfants vont fêter la chose ....
« La fin de l’histoire n’est pas écrite » : les fils Sarkozy appellent Š un rassemblement le jour de l’incarcération de leur père - Le Parisien
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Nicolas Sarkozy va rejoindre la prison : son fils Louis appelle à un rassemblement de soutien à Paris
Louis Sarkozy a lancé ce samedi un appel à soutenir son père, Nicolas Sarkozy, qui doit rejoindre mardi 21 octobre la prison de la Santé après sa condamnation dans l’affaire libyenne. Le rassemblement est prévu le matin même, dans le XVIe arrondissement.

Prisma Photonics, which develops AI-based tech for monitoring infrastructure using existing optical fiber networks, raised $30M, taking total funding to $80M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rjjneb66lg

Prisma Photonics raises $30 million to expand AI-based infrastructure monitoring
The Tel Aviv deep-tech firm turns ordinary fiber networks into global security and power-grid sentinels.

This new Charlie Brooker dystopic isn’t very believable
https://youtube.com/@theliztrussshow?si=RXg3nevd0ysOp2RM

The Liz Truss Show
The Liz Truss Show - The Home of the Counter-Revolution

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Town Portal:
🎵 A Reasonable Amount of Screaming
#TownPortal
https://townportal.bandcamp.com/track/a-reasonable-amount-of-screaming
https://open.spotify.com/track/59NzzOKchN0BrsLIQxfhPm

LA turns Confederate statues into art exhibit
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y9x1w2ee1o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

Also slightly annoyed with both myself and husband for 1) allowing this situation to occur in first place 2) not being fully aware of the implications of the hasty decision to buy a windows based laptop in first place.
OTOH, we're reasonably knowledgeable on IT issues. What chance does average member of public stand?
4/n

There •is• definitely debate about LLMs among folks who have both tech expertise and a level head, and that debate is mostly between:
(1) “If only we could have reasonable conversations about what if anything this tech is actually good for! It could be useful! Curse this hype! Curse this bubble!”
and
(2) “This technology is so toxic we shouldn’t even be considering •any• uses for it”
That’s a •continuum•, and folks (including me) fall in all kinds of complicated places along it. Just note the continuum’s endpoints.
@…

Pam Bondi won't commit to releasing full Epstein files
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/19/2354597/-Pam-Bondi-won-t-commit-to-releasing-full-Epstein-files?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act into law; the AI safety bill's text was modified earlier to more closely resemble California's SB 53 (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/19/new-york-ai-safety-bill-hochul

N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul signs sweeping AI safety bill
New York is now the latest state to have broad safety rules for the most advanced AI models.