@fgraver@hcommons.socialHei norske film- og tv-nerder… Finnes det en tjeneste i Norge som tilsvarer denne? Vurderer å gå bort fra strŸmming, men Ÿnsker fremdeles å kunne se nye (og gamle!) ting.
DVD Rental Online - Rent DVD & Blu-Ray Films Online at Cinema Paradiso https://www.cinemaparadiso.co.uk/
@scott@carfree.cityLit-dropped Noe Valley in defense of Prop I and got a solid workout 😅 This is how we're gonna win and preserve funding for social housing. #sfpol
- If you live in SF and haven't sent a letter yet: https://dsasf.org/protectpropi
@cdarwin@c.imThe Santa Barbara City Council passed a temporary rent freeze
in a 4-3 vote on Tuesday,
putting a halt on rent increases for up to a year
while the City Council works toward drafting a more permanent rent stabilization ordinance
to be considered later in 2026.
The rent increase moratorium will be officially adopted next week
and would be effective 30 days later.
The council failed to get the fifth vote needed to qualify for an urgency ordinance,
@ErikUden@mastodon.deWe watched the Joker ironically and then went on YouTube to watch whatever people made about the movie there back in the day, landed in the worst slop bubble, and dug so deep until we hit “JOKER QUOTES ABOUT WOMEN” and these videos could be classified as performance art, they're pure gold
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSpace Camp fundraising has been hard this year. Beyond the cancelled fundraiser in Jan, people are kind of tapped out with donation requests: there’s been so much dire need for groceries, rent assistance, stuff like that…well, when survival is in question, education and joy become luxuries for the privileged.
That’s what happens in times like these. But I’ll be damned if I let ICE rob these kids of Space Camp without a fight.
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@memeorandum@universeodon.comLehigh County exec says he's evicting ICE from Allentown office, citing 3 years of unpaid rent; DA says move 'short-sighted' (Daniel Patrick Sheehan/Morning Call)
https://www.mcall.com/2026/01/20/lehigh-county-josh-siegel-evicting-ice-allentown-office/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260120/p145#a260120p145
@brian_gettler@mas.toOn housing for students at Ontario universities.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/ontario-university-housing-survey/article_569933c2-2e92-4732-b7f0-4fc0ddde9e1f.html
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialAs a (software) company of the near future you likely going to own nothing at all. You rent software for administration, you rent compute and storage to run your stuff and you rent AI as "brains" to do the work. All subject to the discretion of those vendors to change or remove features or stop supply at all. You'll spent a significant portion of your resources to adapt to their constant change.
Not sure that's an environment a company can operate in.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to oversee Stargate after deciding to rent more AI servers from cloud providers, and splits its computing effort in three (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op
@david@boles.xyzStop Paying Rent on Your Own Words!
Stop paying rent on your own words. For decades, writers were taught that “real” authors have representation, an agent, sometimes even a manager, as if legitimacy were a credential issued by an industry gatekeeper. That belief was formed in an older media economy: fewer publishers, fewer channels, slower production cycles, and a cultural aura around scarcity. In 2026, the belief is not merely old fashioned.
@heiseonline@social.heise.deKI-Update kompakt: Anthropic vs. Pentagon, Planspiele, KI-Roboter, Rent-A-Human
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euBuy or rent your Nvidia SPU now!
@mattmaisonre@mastodon.world
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgLiberation isn't something you rent. Or buy. Liberation is about us together embracing each other's dignity and our duty to take care of each other.
Nobody is free until everyone is free.
People like Sam Altman want the opposite.
That's why there is no "leftist case" for "AI".
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@davej@dice.campThey're talking about government-mandated #RentControl. The article doesn't mention it, because #jermalisms, but we have it in #Canberra. My
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116064770547880143
today, 25 years later, you can put a thing in your pocket that needs Wi-Fi or 5G to access your entire music collection that's stored in a datacenter the size of several city blocks and you must pay rent to your cell phone provider and to your music datacenter landlord to access it!
now that's called progress!
@bourgwick@heads.socialamazing piece but basically woke up in the middle of the night wondering about the unanswered question here: if book freak richard hell has been in the same wee spot since '74, what does he do when his shelves are full? does he have storage spaces like verlaine? does he deaccession at the strand? #nyc #books
@grork@mastodon.socialSubscription software only feels like rent-seeking when you don’t get updates with the features you want. But, the incentive for developers (big & small) to provide updates is implicitly reduced when the subscription money keeps rolling in.
https://www.codevoid.net/ruminations…
@henrikmillinge@fikaverse.clubMan må sige at Mette Frederiksen har ret, når hun siger, at USA ikke længere er vores tætteste allierede. Nu skal hun bare indse, at USA rent faktisk er en fjende af og en trussel mod kongeriget #DKForsvar #DKPol #EUPol
@otakus_terebi@mastodon.social
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaThe Worst Car Hire Service
When David Schwartz left university in 1972, he set up Rent-a-wreck
as a joke. Being a natural prankster, he acquired a fleet of beat-up
shabby, wreckages waiting for the scrap heap in California.
He put on a cap and looked forward to watching people's faces as he
conducted them round the choice of bumperless, dented junkmobiles.
To his lasting surprise there was an insatiable demand for them and
he now has 26 thriving bra…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Chinese AI companies seek to rent compute in Southeast Asia and the Middle East for Nvidia Rubin access, as Zhipu and Alibaba warn of a widening US gap (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/china-ai-race-us-chip…
@deabigt@universeodon.comWhy would anyone use this? $1,500 rent means a $32.49 fee on top of your rent just to have them debit you twice instead of setting up autopay with your bank for free.
Split Pay charges $9.99 1.5% of your total payment amount per month. This fee is added to your first Split Pay payment each month. https://rent.app/help/renters?a=Is-there-a-fee-for-using-Split-Pay---id--FohAfEIBSB2nLJJiwifd0Q
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Snapped Ankles:
🎵 Pay the Rent
#SnappedAnkles
https://shop.snappedankles.com/track/pay-the-rent
https://open.spotify.com/track/3kAgqfc8ENlt0wC5q7EEG7
@cdarwin@c.imMr. Mamdani, a democratic socialist who ran on an #affordability agenda,
pledged during the campaign to freeze rent on the city’s nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments.
“We know we are fighting for a #rent #freeze…
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.deRE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116217631691585046
It's assets, making and milking assets for rent. On point
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialWTF?
New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies - Futurism https://apple.news/ANMU3h3V2QBKWcilOP4_LLw
@al3x@hachyderm.ioRE: https://mastodon.social/@isaiah/116223186970163061
Coding is not equivalent with "here's the app that we can sell/rent".
Coding is learning. Coding is experimenting. Coding is preparing to maintain. Coding is an experience.
Indeed, for a corporation all the above do not matter. Even worse, it represents costs. Unnecessary costs.
There are many other unnecessary costs but those creating them will tend to ignore them as they are in the decision making positions.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioHey everyone, I imagine you’re kind of tapped out with Minneapolis mutual aid fundraisers…but if you have a few bucks, this fund for rent & grocery support in my school / neighborhood is looking kind of strapped and will shortly be unable to meet ongoing needs:
https://givebutter.com/rent-and-food-support-31tt0z
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 125 - CXXV
Were't aught to me I bore the canopy,
With my extern the outward honouring,
Or laid great bases for eternity,
Which proves more short than waste or ruining?
Have I not seen dwellers on form and favour
Lose all and more by paying too much rent
For compound sweet, forgoing simple savour,
Pitiful thrivers, in their gazing spent?
No; let me be obsequious in thy heart,
And take thou my oblation, poor but free,
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116130113129035572
Folks, thanks to a $5 increase in one monthly pledge and a new $50 pledge, we’re just $80/month in pledges away from paying Aseel and her family’s rent so they can move out of the precarity of their tent and …
@trochee@dair-community.socialMy kid is interested in having a private Minecraft server that he can share with a few friends across the country (USA)
He would like to rent a server, but I have some questions
- how to tell which hosts are not scams
- what are reasonable prices for annual or monthly rental
- if renting a cloud server, better to administer directly?
I don't currently have servers from home/closet, & don't want to take that on right now
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgRE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that …
@otakus_terebi@mastodon.socialRent-a-Girlfriend Temporada 5
¡Prevista para abril de 2026!
Mšs info: #彼女お借りします
@scott@carfree.cityHeadline: “$1 million to help people pay rent amid immigration surge”
14th paragraph: “the Minneapolis Police Department has amassed $4.3 million in overtime so far this year”
That’s municipal priorities in the U.S. for you.
https://hachyderm.io/@rationaldoge/1160…
@jake4480@c.imThis asshole fish decided to walk out of the water one day and now I have to go to work and pay rent
@memeorandum@universeodon.comZohran Mamdani's rent-stabilized Astoria apartment renting for 35% more than socialist lawmaker paid: 'hypocrisy' (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/27/us-news/zohran-mamdanis-rent-stabilized-astoria-apartment-renting-for-35-more-than-socialist-lawmaker-paid/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p27#a251227p27
@joe@toot.worksRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115843477255215320
Inside every technologist, there is one monkey arguing for a state of ultra-minimalism (an EDC backpack with everything you need in it) and one monkey that fights for you to rent a loft space to preserve one of every computer that has ever existed.
Which one wins?
@heiseonline@social.heise.deKI-Update kompakt: Anthropic vs. Pentagon, Planspiele, KI-Roboter, Rent-A-Human
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://…
@frankstohl@mastodon.social @inthehands@hachyderm.ioWhile staying vigilant, we’re embracing the chance to catch our breath and to start healing. The city right now has a bit of the feeling of the days after a natural disaster: there is so much damage to repair. Thousands of people are still sheltering at home, understandably reluctant to go to work and/or school. Thousands are facing imminent eviction when March rent comes due.
There’s organizing around rent relief, talk of a rent strike. Food delivery is still in full swing. Mutual aid is not letting up.
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@pygospa@social.linux.pizza @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioYou can either buy a rubber duck for 50¢ or you can pay a cloud landlord rent and give them access to all your source code to talk about it with a slimeball robot based on the most mid programmers and programming
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThanks to a $20/month pledge by our newest donor, @…, we’re just $225/month in pledges away from getting Aseel and her family out of a tent and into an apartment.
(Our goal is to have enough monthly pledges from patrons to cover the $600 rent for the apartment they’ve found.)
I really hope this little experiment becomes a precedent in how we can support…
@cdarwin@c.imIn the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era,
many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form
– and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them.
Instead, we are stuck renting them,
subject to all kinds of terms and conditions.
And because the content is digital,
reselling it,
lending it,
even preserving it for your own use
inevitably requires copying.
Unfortunately, when it comes to copying digital media,
US copyright l…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
FONTINE:
🎵 Good Buddy
#FONTINE
https://fontine.bandcamp.com/track/current
https://open.spotify.com/track/7s3LXB2IecZ0E3pijltHKu
@bourgwick@heads.socialanother annoying side effect of the rent being too damn high: out of business storefronts (& their absentee landlords) don't shovel the snow/ice off their sidewalks. lotta dangerous patches out there! #nyc
@eyebee@mstdn.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialAlphabet says it expects 2026 capex to be in the range of $175B to $185B, above estimates of about $115.26B (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/google-parent-alphabet-forecasts-sharp-surge-2026-capital-spen…
@joe@toot.works... That would make working remotely pretty easy. With my house at the back of the lot and the neighbor's house at the front of the lot, I have started thinking about the idea of building a new house in the front yard and then having the current house declared an ADU by the city. I could build the house of my dreams in a neighbourhood that I like, rent the old house out to offset the cost, and hopefully come out the other end without too much pain. ...
@whophd@ioc.exchangeToday’s rent-free image on YouTube
#jameshoffman #hamesjoffman
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116165215922836572
Their makers also do not want you to be able to understand. It's about turning the means of understanding and sensemaking into externalized products to rent.
@mattmaisonre@mastodon.worldTop Articles of 2025: The Rental Housing Market Holds Strong
"The U.S. rental housing market remained strong and stable in 2025, with narrowing supply‑demand gaps, rising investment activity, and rent growth in line with pre‑pandemic levels."
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116130113129035572
Thanks to two new patrons who have contacted me privately, we’re past the half way point and have pledges from 10 patrons to cover $355 of the $600/month in rent that Aseel and her family need to leave the pr…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Meta has signed a multiyear deal to rent Google's TPUs to develop new models and has also been in talks to buy TPUs for its data centers as soon as 2027 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/go
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialSome City Some Nature VI 🏙️
一些城一些自然 VI 🏙️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHey folks, we’re almost at 50% of the monthly pledges we need to get Aseel and her family out of their precarious existence in a tent and into stable accommodation in an apartment.
We have six patrons so far (thank you all so much), including me, who have pledged $270 a month towards covering the $600 rent of the place they found but can’t afford.
I’ve pledged $50/month myself. Will anyone match that today so we can get past the half-way mark? If so, just reply to the thread with…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al[Pledged: $100 of $600/month. $500 to go. Patrons: 2]
Let’s try something different: Looking for pledges to become patrons for one of our volunteers at Gaza Verified*, @…, so we can move her and her family out of living in a damp, unsafe tent and into an apartment.
Aseel’s family needs to pay $600/month rent if they’re to afford the apartment …
@cdarwin@c.imEvery few years, Democrats try to convince themselves they’ve found the one
– a candidate who can finally speak fluent rural, who looks and sounds like the voters they’ve lost.
In 2024, that hope was pinned on #Tim #Walz, the flannel-wearing, “Midwestern nice” governor whose small-town roots were supposed to unlock …
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Just a few years after we were married my wife and I rented the upper half of a duplex near High Park. The East-West road we lived on was considerably higher than the one south of us and we could see Lake Ontario through gaps in the houses across the street. I learned this week that a few years ago I could have had beachfront access out my front door.
Glacial Lake Iroquois was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed at the end of the last ice age approximately 13,000 years ago. It was essentially an enlargement of the present Lake Ontario that formed because the St. Lawrence River downstream from the lake was blocked by the ice sheet near the present Thousand Islands. The level of the lake was approximately 30 m above the present level of Lake Ontario. Being born 13,000 years too late probably saved me from paying a lakefront premium on my rent.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History #Geology
https://youtu.be/v5ApDf97RZI
@teledyn@mstdn.ca(Louis Calhern) "I am willing to do anything to prevent this war."
(Groucho) "It's too late. I've already paid a month's rent on the battlefield."
@cdarwin@c.imTying housing costs to homelessness rates, researchers have identified inflection points:
🔸When rents in a community exceed about a third of the median income, homelessness escalates.
🔸“As the share of low-income households with severe rent burdens grows, so does their risk of homelessness,”
said Thomas Byrne of Boston College, an author of the study.
Gregg Colburn, a housing expert at the University of Washington, found that
Seattle and San Francisco, with so…
