@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL's Crucial Catch surpasses 1 million cancer screenings, continues efforts to expand access to early detection resources https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-crucial-catch-1-million-cancer-screenings-early-detection-resources
@markhburton@mstdn.socialLimiting Overshoot - Navigating exceedance of 1.5°C and pathways towards return | UNEP - UN Environment Programme https://www.unep.org/resources/limiting-overshoot-navigating-exceedance
@cdarwin@c.imNearly 39,000 Acres of Land Returned to California Tribes
The California Natural Resources Agency,
in partnership with the CAL FIRE and the Ocean Protection Council
awarded $107.7 million to fund 33 projects
and support the return of approximately 38,950 acres of land to California Native American tribes
through the Tribal Nature-Based Solutions grant program.
Funding will support the return of ancestral lands to tribal ownership and stewardship,
pla…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng"The thing that concerns me most is violence, the use of force and the threat or the implementation of damage to enforce an opinion. As I said at the beginning, I'm a scientist. I relish facts. I'm interested in ideas. I'm curious about relationships. Violence is just the opposite of that. Violence is the way to gain power without ideas, and it reduces your resources, it stifles dissent and experimentation which we desperately need." — Dennis Meadows (Club Of Rome, Limits Of Growth)
@georgiamuseum@glammr.usQ: What does stable growth mean to you in that context?
A: It means good financial resources to support the growth. It means maybe more of a focus on growing initiatives that we built in the period in which David was here. So I would say not necessarily a lot of new things or new initiatives, but more so finessing or tweaking the things that we’re already working on.
17/
@frankel@mastodon.topA Java Geek weekly 156
Pi-hole behind Tailscale. How To Write With An LLM. Looking forward to Git 2.56 — and 3.0. Markdown in /src. North Korean Hackers Posed as Recruiters. Call an HTTP API with curl: Reading Resources. Agent Harness — A complete guide. How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments. Open Source - Who holds control. 2026 Password Manager Tier List: Does Yours Stack Up? Javadoc That Feels Like Your Website.
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotRE: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/117201553941951005
€90 billion euros. Imagine what we could do with those kind of resources if we didn't live in a patriarchy.
@Dragofix@veganism.socialReport on global water resources: Worldwide continents are drying up #environment
@cdarwin@c.imFor generations, Saudi Arabia exported oil.
Now it wants to export one of the digital era’s most coveted resources:
computing power.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is seizing a chance to turn Saudi Arabia’s oil wealth into tech influence.
Few nations can match the kingdom’s cheap energy, deep pockets and open land
— the ingredients that tech firms need to operate the vast, power-hungry data centers that run modern A.I.
Already, Saudi Arabia has been neg…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, deprecating several flagship Nova AI models, as it shifts resources to its Frontier Model Research initiative (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-overhauls-ai-strategy…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizzaBack in the Tenth World today for some Valheim! Firing it up on the Linux rig via Proton—time to gather resources, work on base expansions, and try not to get pulverized by a Troll. Grab a brew and come hang out! 🌲🛡️
🔴 Live now: https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus
@darkrat@chaosfurs.social
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMicrosoft adds funding to the AP Fund for Journalism, enabling APFJ to provide 10 local newsrooms in Washington state with AP elections coverage and resources (The Associated Press)
https://www.ap.org/media-center/press-rele
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The as-if infinitely ranged (AIR) integer model.
https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?assetid=9299
saved 2022-09-04
@cdarwin@c.imthe U.S. war against Iran passes the six-month mark,
the conflict’s disastrous impacts are being compounded by
the inability of the United States to negotiate or implement a resolution,
with the two sides trading attacksagain as of today.
The war’s “triple illegality,”
the tremendous cost to human lives and civilian infrastructure,
the immense and mounting economic costs,
the dangerous drain on military resources and readiness,
and the sheer m…
@aardrian@toot.cafeRE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116992048337520434
I appreciate this both acknowledges the error and credits the resources. Something I’d like to see more of from browsers (looks askance at Chrome).
Key takeaways:
• `aria-labe…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) Payload Operations Summary from the IM-2 Mission: #Moon because the stupid lander fell over, again, but you still get a 22-page paper out of the disaster ...
@frankel@mastodon.topCall an HTTP API with curl: Reading Resources
#handsonlab
@servelan@newsie.socialUS general warns Pentagon he doesn’t have military resources to protect Israel: report | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pentagon-general-europe-israel-defense-b3025902.html
@gse@norden.socialSchaut euch dieses Stuff für Krita an und das, wie es aussieht, für lau ;D
Zeig mir ein komizielles Grafikprogramm, das das leistet und so eine tolle Community hat ;D Einfach super
https://krita-artists.org/c/resources/brushes-and-bundles/32
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizzaThe Kew TUI for playing music on #linux is really great. Really like it - it takes a fraction of resources on the system compared with GUI apps
@mia@hcommons.socialICYMI, fantastic work from @… on shared vector embeddings for images as 'an exercise in practicing agency in our work [,] in producing tangible and reusable artifacts which have a longer shelf life than a recurring monthly fee; artifacts that we can catalog and then use to start reasoning how these models work with relevant data'
@markhburton@mstdn.socialExcellent report from We Own It on the eve of the Labour conference.
How and why Andy Burnham should deliver public ownership | We Own It
https://weownit.org.uk/research-and-resources/how-and-why-andy-burnham-should-deliver-public-o…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Measure, Change, Measure: Assessing Changes to a Traditional Approval Plan" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8791
[DOI
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.denovember17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialSo the actual practice of mutual support in my community looks like:
- Knowing the semi-official funds for big problems. There's a fire relief fund, and groups who are reliable about getting out the hat for the big problems
- A Discord where people get to know each other
- A tool library, just an informal listing of who has what and enough of a forum to inquire about using something
- Proactively saying "hey, can I drop you a meal?" or "hey, I'm dropping off cookies, want some?" to people.
- People who actively look for opportunities to help in their way. Mine is usually bicycle things, or computer things.
- People who talk about what's in their little free libraries
- People who catalog small resources like classes the library offers or where has open public restrooms
- Where to take donations, and enough chatter that if someone needs something, someone who sees it at a thrift shop might pick it up
It's all super informal, but I keep my eye on the pulse of it because I have conversational habits that let me connect people. That's really all it takes: awareness and connecting people.
@hex@kolektiva.socialAs I continue to work my way through the Revolutions podcast, I just got through the Russo-Japanese war and I had some things to think about. Basically, Tsar Nicholas was super racist and incompetent. He figured a war would be super easy, so he bumbled his way into it. Meanwhile, Japan had been preparing so they just kicked the shit out of the Russian Empire. Russia thought it was vastly superior, and they definitely looked like it on paper. But when it actually came down to it, Japan was able to hold its own and actually win the war (at a huge cost, mind you, but they still forced some concessions).
The whole war was wildly unpopular, but the Tsar was in such a bubble that he couldn't actually understand it. He just kept pouring resources in as his people kept demanding he withdraw, until there was basically nothing left and no way to win.
Oh, yeah, and around this time there was also a mutiny on one of the remaining navy ships (one of the few that hadn't been sunk) because sailors were being fed rotten meat.
Nicholas was really just incompetent and flailing, but also ruthlessly oppressive. The war was really the thing that revealed to everyone, without a doubt, how incompetent they were.
So that's where I'm at in the story.
@fremandolasse@mastodon.socialGermany’s leaders say the Berlin Pride attack targeted ‘all of us’. What utter hypocrisy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/29/germany-leaders-berlin-pride-attack-queer-community
@johl@mastodon.xyz“delightful off grid open tech delightful”
A curated list of technology, Open hardware and Open Source software resources for use off-grid, for power outages and other emergency situations.
https://codeberg.org/lmemsm/delightful-off-grid-open-tech
@primonatura@mstdn.social"2025 was among driest years on record for world’s rivers, study finds"
#Rivers #Water #Environment
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaPro Se Guide for Motion to Change Hearing to WebEx
https://nipnlg.org/work/resources/pro-se-guide-motion-change-hearing-webex
The regime keeps arresting people that follow legal immigration processes, they have been racially profiling and abduct an…
@usul@piaille.fr
@bourgwick@heads.social
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialThe job of management boils down to deciding where to invest company resources to maximize returns.
But saying yes to one thing means saying no to something else. Deciding what gets cut (and getting buy-in for those decisions) is hard! So instead they started agitating for "velocity" in a foolish belief that they would never have to prioritize one idea over another ever again.
@markhburton@mstdn.socialA comfortable Labour win is my reading too.
It is incredibly quiet here. About the same number of poster boards for Green (we have one) and Labour, around here, but nothing like the density in the Gorton-Denton by-election. I suspect Greens, with a lot of resources going in to the campaign and a strong candidate, will do well, but most 2nd pref votes will go to Labour.
Polls open in Greater Manchester mayoral byelection overshadowed by new PM and Farage’s antics.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThe thing I hate about working in the #JavaScript space is bit-rot. My #ClojureScript swinging needle meter demo, written in 2017, still works, but I can no longer compile it from source.
Probably this won't take too long to fix, but it is work which should not have to be done.
…
@ErikUden@mastodon.deevery app became a website, and now websites take ages to load and insane resources to run
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialThat's certainly a good start!
Burnham to scrap Starmer’s digital ID scheme in ‘reset of priorities’ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/18/burnham-to-scrap-starmers-digital-id-scheme-in-reset-of-priorities
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Ebook Call Number Project: Automating Library of Congress Classification Numbers to Ebooks for Reporting" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8792
[DOI
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta's infrastructure teams have become bloated, leading to poor decisions like troubled Rivos acquisition, loss of supplier trust due to hardware pivots, more (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/metas-infrastructure-team-needs-a
@aral@mastodon.ar.alOh, look, it’s a dickhead.
Hey, dickhead, how goes?
Being a dickhead, you probably don’t care that Palestinians are blocked from setting up fundraisers for themselves as part of the West’s complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide. But hey, facts don’t care that you’re a dickhead so it’s still true.
If I could GoFundMe you a fucking conscience, I would.
Dickhead. @npub1k06ctulq8rcaen067tt6z3y6gxrqtsuje5em5lcn009zfpp0t7gqf0zyu9@momostr.pink
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.socialHeute vor 80 Jahren: Am 24. Juli 1946 wurde im Rahmen der Operation #Crossroads am Bikini-Atoll der Baker-Test durchgeführt. Eine Atombombe detonierte 90 Fuß unter Wasser, wobei das Landungsboot LSM-60 verdampfte. 10 Schiffe sanken, darunter die Prinz Eugen.
@aardrian@toot.cafe“Speech recognition and complex tables with fields”
https://blog.pope.tech/2026/08/31/speech-recognition-and-complex-tables-with-fields/
Reinforces a method of visibly labeling and programmatically naming controls in tables that I also fol…
@profcarroll@federate.socialPatient Computing: Virtuous Waiting because the output is free as in libre, free as in beer, and free as in it didn't consume more resources than this post.
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialA great choice of image for an important topic: distributed energy resources can collectively respond very effectively to the needs of the grid
https://www.iea.org/reports/scaling-up-demand-flexibility
@geant@mstdn.social🎉 7 years, 11 cycles, 52 ideas turned into real progress
That's the impact of the GÉANT Trust & Identity (T&I) Incubator.
It started in 2019 to give the community a space to experiment, without pulling resources from running services.
Alongside, It's also grown people alongside ideas, welcoming 11 students through its mentorship programme.
Congratulations to our community on pushing these initiatives forward and investing in future generations 👏
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.denovember17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeCISA has issued guidance on identifying which systems are accessible from the internet, removing unnecessary remote access, and securing remote access that is necessary.
https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/exposure-reduction?utm_source=InternetExposureReductionGuidanceUpdate&utm_medium=GovDelivery
@paulwermer@sfba.socialEnergy efficiency is a cost savings. The real scam is the #47 administration's ideological opposition to any that reduces consumption of energy.
We have benefited in many ways from the new building codes and appliance efficiency standards: lower utility bills & safer buildings for occupants, not wasting scarce resources such as water reduces costs as well.
(And of course, the related environmental benefits)
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialEnergy efficiency is a cost savings. The real scam is the #47 administration's ideological opposition to any that reduces consumption of energy.
We have benefited in many ways from the new building codes and appliance efficiency standards: lower utility bills & safer buildings for occupants, not wasting scarce resources such as water reduces costs as well.
(And of course, the related environmental benefits)
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
A list of LD_PRELOAD hacks.
https://github.com/gaul/awesome-ld-preload
saved 2020-01-27 https://dotat.at/:/K9MQB.h…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioIt is not inevitable that we let data centers cost as little as they do through the extensive de facto public subsidization of energy and water resources. We •could• price in the externalities of those resources, which would radically change the cost structure of those data centers.
Could. Not necessarily “should” or “will,” but could.
A/7
@grist@fosstodon.orgLearn how to set up Grist n8n automations with four video walkthroughs. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/how-to-use-n8n-automations-with-grist/
@joxean@mastodon.socialI was trying to search in google the prevalence of, uhm, some phrase, and then the always really useful google's AI made summary said what the picture shows. When are them going to disable by default this waste of resources?
#googleai #pleasedie
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialThe World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Electric School Bus Initiative reports that a number of fully deployed vehicle-to-grid (V2G) projects involving some 230 electric school buses are now able to supply 8 MWh of power back to the grid at any given time – enough electricity to power about 1,600 typical US homes for up to four hours and significantly shave peak load demand for the utilities they serve.
@dcm@social.sunet.seWhen discussing scientific achievements made mostly or partly by AI systems, especially the headline-making ones, it's good to think about the resources being allotted to such projects, which are plausibly incomparable to previous investment. For instance, I suspect that no one had previously invested several millions of dollars to hire a team of mathematicians exclusively to tackle a single millennium problem.
@lpryszcz@genomic.socialAn impressive resources trying to uncover what and why #bigtech is using to train LLMs
AI Watchdog: The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation of the books, videos, and other media used by the world’s most powerful tech companies to train their AI models.
@brian_gettler@mas.toUniversity admin at some point cleary thought to themselves, "human resources is insufficiently dystopian, we really ought to come up with something better." After years of meetings, they congratulated themselves on a job well done. "Yes," they purred, "'people strategy' is so much worse."
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"“Unbury” the Book Chapter? An Investigation of Library and Information Science Book Chapters from Edited Collections in Scholarly Indexes | Swanson" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8790
[DOI…
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialThe job of management boils down to deciding where to invest company resources to maximize returns.
But saying yes to one thing means saying no to something else. Deciding what gets cut (and getting buy-in for those decisions) is hard! So instead they started agitating for "velocity" in a foolish belief that they would never have to prioritize one idea over another ever again.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTrump says 200 additional stakeholders, including major utilities, joined a voluntary pledge to protect consumers from high energy bills from AI data centers (Josh Boak/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-data-centers-pledge-490ea7e4…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialNew study pinpoints Europe's most critical wetlands for climate action #Europe…
@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizzaDropping back into Valheim today! Time to gather more resources, expand the base, and hopefully not get pulverized by a Troll. Grab a brew and come hang out! 🌲 hammer ⚔️
🔴 Live now: #linux
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116946142636186759
So very much this: Even if you think AI is net-positive, we have a duty to expand well, not on top of the most marginalized as always.
The way we do it now is the way of paving natural beauty, discarding entire communities, and taking what is often limited resources from those who need them to live.
It is possible to build data centers that do not have these problems. It is possible to power with solar, to cool with a refrigeration cycle instead of evaporating water.
It just costs more energy. And therefore is only viable if we invest in solar, heavily, and require it.
One of the fundamental tenets embedded in capitalism is that if you can't represent it in the market, it doesn't have to be taken into account. Community and ways of life are those things.
@cdarwin@c.imIn a letter sent to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Thursday,
a group of Democrats demanded answers on the Trump administration’s reported plans to
construct at least a dozen data centers on public lands owned by the federal government.
The letter to Burgum was spearheaded by House Natural Resources Committee ranking member Rep. Jared Huffman (D-California)
and signed by 15 other Democrats.
In it, the lawmakers note that there has been no public input regardi…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThermal Detectability of Subsurface Water Ice on Mars - A Comparative Analysis for the Subsurface Water Ice Mapping (SWIM) Project / Subsurface Water Ice Mapping on Mars - A Probabilistic Approach: #Mars: Resources and Science Targets": https://iopscience.iop.org/collections/PSJ-250131-01
@johl@mastodon.xyzTowards a practice of knowledge commoning: academics’ ethical duties to defend Wikipedia in the age of generative AI
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-026-01373-z?status=info&saved-doi=10.1007/s43681-026-…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngRE: https://mastodon.ie/@andrewg/117098562278114107
By that measure: A forest is merely the delivery mechanism for the timber, wildlife and land resources which, once extracted, generate income, rents, appreciate in value, and provide economically valuable ser…
@cdarwin@c.imHow Santa Barbara County Made Strong Progress on Addressing the Unmet Need for Child Care
Strategy 1: Building Cross-Sector Relationships
Strategy 2: Creating a Data-Informed Plan for Addressing Santa Barbara County’s Needs
Strategy 3: Focusing on Child Care Facilities
Strategy 4: Prioritizing Child Care Provider Recruitment & Retention to Maximize Family Choice
Lessons Learned
@servelan@newsie.socialMay you never need to access these resources.
13 Cancer Support Resources for Black Americans
https://www.theroot.com/need-cancer-support-here-are-13-resources-for-black-pa-2000116934/slides/2
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe FTC says businesses must disclose when they use personalized pricing and it will "deploy enforcement resources" against companies that do not disclose it (Dave Michaels/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.ws…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialFrom tomorrow, customers of Ausgrid 🇦🇺, the DSO for Sydney and parts of NSW, can opt for a dynamic grid tariff. This will enable customers with flexible energy resources (such as batteries or EVs) in particular to help support the local grid and save on costs.
#Flexibility
@geant@mstdn.social📅 Join our next #eduVPN community meeting
We'll cover the current status, the roadmap for future development, and updates on the upcoming Version 4.
Designed for the R&E community and already used by over 270 institutions, eduVPN enables students, researchers and staff to securely connect to the internet and get remote access to internal institutional resources, anywhere in the…
@grist@fosstodon.orgHad an ambitious idea for a Grist automation? You can probably do it with n8n in the mix. See how: https://www.getgrist.com/blog/how-to-use-n8n-automations-with-grist/
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotWrong priorities, reckless waste of resources
https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4532454/generation-opportunity-uk-nuclear-manufacturing-set-benefit-100bn-investment-drive
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.denovember17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
TEMPEST@Home: finding radio frequency side channels.
https://duo.com/labs/research/finding-radio-sidechannels
saved 2020-04-27
@cdarwin@c.imThe Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced five additions to its “Red to Blue” program on Thursday,
giving candidates access to strategic guidance, staff resources and more robust fundraising help.
Details of the additions were shared first with MS NOW.
Three of the new members are military veterans:
🔸Leela Gray, a retired Army brigadier general who is challenging Rep. Anna Paulina Luna in Florida;
🔸Zach Dembo, a former Navy judge advocate general…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSam Altman says OpenAI's decision to pace its AI development was caused by a collection of research observations showing "various degrees of misalignment" (Alex Heath/Time)
https://time.com/article/2026/08/18/openai-slowing-training/
@servelan@newsie.socialTwo US carrier groups in Middle East strain navy resources | Newsfeed | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/25/two-us-carrier-groups-in-middle-east-strain-navy-resources?traffic_source=rss
@Dragofix@veganism.socialNew digital tool shows exactly where California's water goes—and how climate change might disrupt it https://phys.org/news/2026-09-digital-tool-california-climate-disrupt.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUK's incoming PM Andy Burnham is expected to scrap Keir Starmer's plans for digital ID cards; last year a petition opposing the cards attracted ~3M signatures (Geraldine McKelvie/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/
@cdarwin@c.imInfrastructure that civilians rely on for survival is not generally considered a legitimate military target,
and striking it could be considered a war crime.
But the attacks on water resources are especially concerning in the Gulf region:
Most nations there lack widespread access to fresh water and rely heavily on hundreds of desalination plants -- complex operations where repairs can be difficult and time-consuming.
Desalination plants produce 90 percent of Kuwait’s…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.denovember17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata
@cdarwin@c.imAndy Burnham Ditches Digital ID Plan,
Saying Billions Will Go To Cost-Of-Living Priorities Instead
Incoming UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham prioritises cost-of-living support over Starmer's controversial digital ID plan.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/andy-burnham-scr
@cdarwin@c.imThe Venezuelan opposition leader,
María Corina Machado,
has questioned Donald Trump’s oil deal with Venezuela’s interim government,
declaring that the country’s natural resources do not belong to “an illegitimate regime”.
In her first public comments since Trump announced what he called “the biggest oil deal in world history” with Venezuela last Friday,
Machado walked a diplomatic tightrope between challenging the controversial agreement and trying not to rile t…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at London-based AI startup Cosine, which is building a frontier model with UK government backing, as some question if it has the talent and resources (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/02e29d7f-9e3e-4977-a5d3-ea3f2d9efd10
@cdarwin@c.imIn partnership with California Native American tribes,
the California Natural Resources Agency has developed a goal of expanding tribal stewardship over at least 7.5 million acres of lands and coastal waters.
The Tribal Stewardship Policy and Toolkit will provide policy and resources to institutionalize durable tribal-state partnerships
and to advance durable tribal access, collaboration, and ancestral land return across California.
The Tribal Stewardship Policy will…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInterview with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster on being drawn into the OpenAI-Anthropic fight; OpenAI says it made progress on another Millennium Prize problem (Kenneth Chang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…
@cdarwin@c.imFirefighters battling enormous wildfires in the United States say
the federal government is failing them at a time when supercharged blazes have made their jobs exponentially more dangerous.
While the US continues to grapple with a critical shortage of federal firefighters
– with especially large gaps in essential management positions
– the Trump administration has increased pressure on firefighting forces to rapidly and aggressively contain the flames.
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is accelerating efforts to make artificial intelligence an integral part of medical care in the United States,
throwing the resources and support of the federal government into projects that deploy A.I. agents to diagnose and prescribe treatments to patients.
The multifront effort at the Department of Health and Human Services has raised concerns among some officials over the past few months that change is moving too quickly,
with inadequate evidenc…
@cdarwin@c.imTech journalist Karen Hao has been covering OpenAI’s astounding rise for years
and is the author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI.
She says that while many in Silicon Valley warn of AI’s sci-fi-like threats, the real risks are already here.
“We are allowing the tech industry to consolidate this extraordinary degree of resources unlike anything ever before,” she tells More To The Story host Al Letson.
“We thought that they were already powe…
@cdarwin@c.imTycoon Harold Hamm is one of the US’s most successful oilmen,
the son of Oklahoma sharecroppers who hit it rich as a “wildcatter”
and pioneered fracking techniques that drove the shale boom in 2008 that reversed declining US oil production.
Donald Trump describes him as a “long time” friend and is said to have called him his “original oil guy”
The Continental Resources founder has also faced scrutiny from climate advocates and groups and some Democratic lawmakers ov…
@cdarwin@c.imAs in many US resort areas,
the suicide rates in the Tahoe region,
including the city of Truckee,
are far higher than the state average
– and these communities don’t have enough resources to deal with the issue.
Since 2022, there have been nearly 40 confirmed suicide deaths in Truckee,
South Lake Tahoe and four lakeside counties,
an area with a combined population of about 73,000,
according to an analysis by the Tahoe Daily Tribune.
Nearl…
@cdarwin@c.imAs midterms loom, voters who rightly blame Trump’s war-mongering and indifference for high prices are only going to get angrier. Republican operatives are reportedly panicking.
Trump as usual pretended he had a solution.
Ever since American forces kidnapped Venezuela’s dictator Nicholas Maduro in January, Trump had been trying to arrange for US seizure of the country’s oil.
Last week the White House claimed Trump had succeeded and “secured the biggest oil deal in world hi…
@cdarwin@c.imMaterials in lithium-ion battery cathodes have continuously evolved since the 1990s,
but anodes have stubbornly remained graphite.
Now, finally, there’s some innovation on that side: silicon anodes,
which engineers have struggled to master for a decade,
are finally coming into wide commercialization.
They enable up to five times the energy density of graphite anodes,
charge many times faster,
and are poised to revolutionize the battery market
@cdarwin@c.imThe focus of the GOP’s first ever midterm convention in September
won’t be Trump’s dismal approval rating, how to end the war on Iran, or the stagnant economy.
They will be spending their time, resources, and funds focusing on
⚠️democratic socialism.
Axios reported Friday that the GOP has spent months pulling together an
👉 “endless” video trove of attack ads targeted at progressive commentators like Hasan Piker, and Democratic Senate nominees Abdul El-Sayed and J…
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