@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
@ErikUden@mastodon.deevery app became a website, and now websites take ages to load and insane resources to run
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“‘We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling its ability to operate against us,’ Rubio said in a video address posted to social media. ‘The United States and the American people are not subject to the jurisdiction of this fake ICC.’”
https://apn…
@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
@cheryanne@aus.socialWhat If We Were Taught..
A podcast developed to bring a collective amount of resources, wisdom and knowledge to couples surrounding pregnancy, birth, the postpartum and parenting...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/what-if-we…
@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.
@Dragofix@veganism.socialDespite legacy court case, Zambian Vedanta mine pollution continues https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/10/despite-legacy-court-case-zambian-vedanta-mine-pollution-continues/
@PaulWermer@sfba.social"Like US presidents before him, Trump has found that Netanyahu can be a difficult ally."
Ally? With allies like that, who needs enemies? Manipulating Trump into a pointless war that squanders the US defense budget and depletes our military's resources? That's an ally?
Netanyahu rejects US-led 15-point Gaza peace plan in rare public break with Trump
@paulwermer@sfba.social"Like US presidents before him, Trump has found that Netanyahu can be a difficult ally."
Ally? With allies like that, who needs enemies? Manipulating Trump into a pointless war that squanders the US defense budget and depletes our military's resources? That's an ally?
Netanyahu rejects US-led 15-point Gaza peace plan in rare public break with Trump
@annsev@troet.cafe#NobelPeacePrize
#Sanctions
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that the U.S. would “ban all dealings with this rogue court, cut off its resources, and significantly weaken its ability to operate.”
There are evil people in the U.S. government—evil people and criminals.
@grist@fosstodon.orgMulti-table updates, AI automations, scheduled changes, and more with Grist's n8n integration. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/how-to-use-n8n-automations-with-grist/
@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.
@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…
@frankel@mastodon.topWhere Sensitive Data Hides in #OpenTelemetry Pipelines, and How to Find It
https://ollygarden.com/resources/blog/where-sensitive-data-hides-in-open…
@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…
@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."
@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
@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
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizzaFree game alert: State Of Mind on GoG.
When mind and machine become one – what will remain of humanity?
Berlin, 2048 – The world is on the brink. Lack of resources, illnesses caused by polluted air and water, crime on the rise, war. Governments and companies promise remedies through technological progress. Drones and humanoid robots replace humans in the public sector, everything is interconnected, surveillance has become omnipresent.
@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
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialIt's been more than 60 years of forking.
https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2010/06/102687219-05-08-acc.pdf
@Dragofix@veganism.socialReport on global water resources: Worldwide continents are drying up #environment
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
@geant@mstdn.socialHow can you build a new security habit?
There's no magic formula or number of days, but there are simple steps you can take: pick one habit, attach it to something you already do, and leave yourself a reminder.
Habits lift the effort out of decisions, so we simply act. Follow our #GEANTCybersecurity campaign for more tips.
🔗 Explore the campaign resources:
@grist@fosstodon.orgSee how to set up Grist automations with n8n, step-by-step. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/how-to-use-n8n-automations-with-grist/
@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…
@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
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialIt is a common misconception (as seen in some wrong takes on the Iberian blackout) that renewable, distributed energy resources cannot provide what is currently supplied by the rotating machines of thermal power stations.
It is more a case of, for example, grid codes and grid operator procurement needing to be updated.
(reactive power is - very, very simply put - not about the actual delivery of energy, but ensuring Alternating Current keeps running)
@darkrat@chaosfurs.social
@datascience@genomic.socialIs it hard to keep up with all the awesome extensions and tools for quarto? Check here for an extensive list of resources: #quarto
@tarah@infosec.exchangeHey, folks. I'd appreciate conversations with fam who are in the Boise area. I have a friend running for statewide office there, and if that's of interest to you, would love to chat.
Can I just say: the resources provided by *either* party to women running for office both on a personal security and an infosec level are just damn parlous.
@wraithe@mastodon.socialWell THIS looks interesting.
It requires an account (free for basic access and small numbers of searches) so I haven’t checked it out yet, but reportedly it has even more information than Google’s archive of USENet
I will be checking it out to see if it has even more examples of me egregiously using governmental resources to post in News groups using my full legal name 😂
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hss3j2uwxdxklj6f3bx7ch5y/post/3mv2oep2ja22s
@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)
@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
@arXiv_econGN_bot@mastoxiv.pageEnvironmental and Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence Data Centers in the United States
Johanna Bola\~nos-Zu\~niga, Alberto J. Lamadrid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09882 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.09882 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.09882
arXiv:2608.09882v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this study, we use electricity demand growth, cooling requirements, and backup system operation to evaluate the environmental and economic implications of artificial intelligence data centers in the United States. Our results indicate that impacts are not determined solely by facility design, but by the broader electricity, water, and land-use systems in which these facilities operate. Emissions are primarily driven by electricity consumption and therefore depend on marginal generation mixes, transmission constraints, and the spatial and temporal distribution of demand. Analysis further shows that local effects include pressures on water resources, increased noise exposure, and land-use changes, with outcomes varying across regions and infrastructure conditions. The assessment of technological and operational measures shows that improvements in energy efficiency, cooling configurations, and operational strategies can reduce these impacts, although their effectiveness depends on system-level conditions. Evaluation of regulatory and market structures suggests that existing frameworks may not fully account for location- and time-specific externalities. These findings support the need for integrated policy approaches that align data center deployment and operation with electricity system characteristics, water availability, and land-use planning to improve overall environmental and economic performance.
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@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.
@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
@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/
@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…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toCortigent: "Our goal is to help the profoundly blind regain visual perception" https://www.cortigent.com/orion Orion brain implant with 60 electrodes (like Argus II retinal implant); Cortigent may lack the resources for a major redesign (upgrade);
@Dragofix@veganism.socialGlobal soil erosion outpaces natural recovery, report warns #environment
@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
@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.
@pixel@mastodon.onlineI disagree with some parts of Theo's video, but still wanted to share it. Bc wtf is the direction that this implies Codeberg is heading? It's fine if you want to do the GitHub thing and email people that use way too much of your resources for free. But "informal guidelines" that directly discourage "specific tools and custom scripts that would be unlikely to find a community anyway, even if they were not LLM-generated"? So ig have a big community or gtfo??
@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
@arXiv_eessIV_bot@mastoxiv.pageA Foundational EDM2-Based Generative Model for High-Resolution Synthetic Fetal Ultrasound Imaging from Open Datasets
Harvey Mannering, Yilin Zhang, Ziao Liu, Zhiwu Huang, Jacqueline Matthew, Miguel Xochicale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05471 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.05471 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.05471
arXiv:2608.05471v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Prenatal ultrasound imaging is key for assessing fetal health, but AI progress is limited by scarce, privacy-restricted, and hard-to-annotate datasets. We propose a high-resolution fetal ultrasound synthesis framework based on the EDM2 diffusion architecture, trained on multiple public datasets to generate 512x512 images across six anatomical classes. Our method achieved improved image quality with lower FID scores and enhanced downstream fetal plane classification, reaching 93.36% ensemble accuracy after fine-tuning, surpassing real-data-only training. Clinical evaluation by an experienced fetal ultrasound specialist (10 years) on 100 images yielded a mean realism score of 2.67/5, with real images rated higher than synthetic. Artefacts included smoothing, speckle irregularities, and anatomical inconsistencies. Code, data, models and other resources to reproduce this work are available at https://github.com/xfetus/fetal-ultrasound-edm2.
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@grist@fosstodon.orgHow to use n8n automations with Grist – walkthroughs and examples https://www.getgrist.com/blog/how-to-use-n8n-automations-with-grist/
@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…
@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…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialMaybe, instead of spending so much time, thought, debate and money to find ways to keep people from arriving, we should put the resources into figuring out how to make it attractive to stay in the country of origin?
Education, local industry, strengthening the local economies seem like things worth fostering everywhere.
Not a simple problem to solve, but the status quo seems to be remarkably unsuccessful.
EU chief criticises Spain’s migrant plan after Ceuta crisis meeting
@paulwermer@sfba.socialMaybe, instead of spending so much time, thought, debate and money to find ways to keep people from arriving, we should put the resources into figuring out how to make it attractive to stay in the country of origin?
Education, local industry, strengthening the local economies seem like things worth fostering everywhere.
Not a simple problem to solve, but the status quo seems to be remarkably unsuccessful.
EU chief criticises Spain’s migrant plan after Ceuta crisis meeting
@servelan@newsie.socialNew Trump Child Care Plan Would Strip Resources From Low-Income Working Families | Portside
https://portside.org/2026-10-04/new-trump-child-care-plan-would-strip-resources-low-income-working-families
@cdarwin@c.imCalifornia wants to list 'Jewish' as an ethnicity.
Jews are divided over the idea
California is poised to become the first state to treat Jewish identity as an ethnicity on official forms,
with a new optional checkbox heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.
Supporters say the change could reveal gaps in healthcare, education and hate-crime response for the state’s 1.2 million Jews,
giving officials better data to direct resources.
Opponents warn a s…
@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…
@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
@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…
@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'
@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
@bourgwick@heads.social
@primonatura@mstdn.social"2025 was among driest years on record for world’s rivers, study finds"
#Rivers #Water #Environment
@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.
…
@usul@piaille.fr
@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.
@frankel@mastodon.topCall an HTTP API with curl: Reading Resources
#handsonlab
@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
@cdarwin@c.im$5.
It’s Beto O’Rourke.
$5 is what I’m asking you to donate to Gina Hinojosa’s campaign today.
$5 because Gina is within 1 point of Greg Abbott in the latest polls.
$5 because Gina needs resources to overcome Abbott’s massive war chest.
$5 because Gina has the momentum to take back Texas
— with your help.
If it makes sense for you today, donate $5 to Gina today:
@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.
@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
@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
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@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 —
A list of LD_PRELOAD hacks.
https://github.com/gaul/awesome-ld-preload
saved 2020-01-27 https://dotat.at/:/K9MQB.h…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialVery helpful comparison and explanation of the 2 laws. Thanks, @…
Wonder why the San Francisco bill does not require "recovery housing" as required by Haney's state bill ("Recovery housing means tenants have access to on-site case management and other resources needed to address substance use disorder; it is a costlier and more robust form of…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialVery helpful comparison and explanation of the 2 laws. Thanks, @…
Wonder why the San Francisco bill does not require "recovery housing" as required by Haney's state bill ("Recovery housing means tenants have access to on-site case management and other resources needed to address substance use disorder; it is a costlier and more robust form of…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialWMO reports quickly shrinking global water reserves, signaling a growing crisis for the planet https://www.earth.com/environment/the-water-cycle-is-moving-further-out-of-balance-each-year/
@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
@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…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social➡️ Bicycle Crash Checklist
#bookmarks
@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…
@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.
@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.
@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.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
@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…
@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…
@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
@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…
@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
@Dragofix@veganism.socialNew study pinpoints Europe's most critical wetlands for climate action #Europe…
@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
@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/
@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.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…
@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…
@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…
@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.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…
