@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.
@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…
@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
@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
@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
@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??
@cdarwin@c.imFrequent readers know that I often think about LLM-“AI”,
and that I think, um, poorly of it.
Most of my objections are systemic in nature, relating to climate, resources, extractive capitalism, job displacement, tool of the oppressor
-- you know what I mean.
But I can see how one could get a similar kind of joy to successfully guiding a deeply flawed program with a conversational interface, until it produced a program sort of like what one had in mind...
So I see …
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotModern industrial fertilisers are made from fossil hydrocarbons. In future we can't use that. But, although I am prejudiced in favour of #organic agriculture, I'd be interested to know whether it would be possible to synthesise fertiliser from widely available resources without using fossil hydrocarbon.
Anyone got any pointers?
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialStronger Together
Distributed Energy Resources (solar, wind, battery) providing grid support together benefit more: “resulting in both improved power system dynamics and DER economics, as shown by the cooperative gain of 16% compared to standalone operation.”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31728
@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.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:
@Dragofix@veganism.socialArgentine mining threatens scarce water resources in the Andes #Argentina…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIt’s ok, it’s not like we’re all going to die or anything (only billions, not everyone). @… https://slrpnk.net/post/39707961
@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)
@aardrian@toot.cafeI recalled a G183 discussion on a TPGuy post from a few years ago.
Vispero memory-holed it all when it subsumed TPGuy:
https://vispero.com/resources/well-color-us-surprised-this-sc-can-be-a-tricky-customer/
Thankfully, there’s Way…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe brand-new 360-or-so-page book "Testing Einstein: One Hundred Years of Experimental #Relativity" is completely open access as a series of PDF files at https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/6160/Testing-EinsteinOne-Hundred-Years-of-Experimental (and talking about OA science & tech books: at https://www.nasa.gov/history/history-publications-and-resources/nasa-history-series/ NASA has countless more).
@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.
@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…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCfP: Interreligious and Intercultural Perspectives on Resources and Sacred Boundaries
https://ift.tt/YDpvm5P
Post-Migration Discussion Dear Suscribers,The listserv-to-Commons transition is complete,…
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@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…
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesDue to Thursday’s extreme heat forecast and the resources required to safely manage large crowds at fan marches, Toronto Stadium and FIFA Fan Festival™ Toronto, all FIFA World Cup 2026™ match broadcasts at Nathan Phillips Square have been cancelled for Thursday, July 2.
#toronto
@cdonat@hostsharing.coopThis week on #ProFed: I fixed the bug in the message bus.
Finding the bug was less of a problem. But the solution, that meets all the requirements at this foundational level, was the real challenge.
As a bonus, the message bus is now slightly more efficient and uses fewer resources in most situations. Not a game changer, but still good.
@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…
@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
@darkrat@chaosfurs.social
@edintone@mastodon.greenDoesn't "No 10 North" sound like 'working from home'? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/29/andy-burnham-no-10-north-nerve-centre-rewired-britain
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialAWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/amazon-launch…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCFP (ONLINE SEMINAR / PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY): Borders and Sustainability: Human, Natural, and Textual Resources — Entangled Histories Seminar Series 2026–2027
https://ift.tt/7mhbZ5p
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@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
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
@seeingwithsound@mas.toThere is still a huge gap between contemporary academic research on mental imagery and research on the kind of top-down mental imagery needed for restoring vision to the blind. Lack of incentives? Credibility? Resources? What's missing?
@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
@tschfflr@fediscience.orgKühle-Orte-Karte der Stadt: https://geoportal.bochum.de/mapapps/resources/apps/221/index.html?lang=de
Edit: Da steht leider nicht viel drin, nicht sehr nützlich. Die ganze Ruhr-Uni als ein ("gekühlter") Ort? Ich denke nicht. Mein Gebäude hat 0 Klima und in meinem Büro war schon die ganze Woche über 30 Grad.
@arXiv_csOH_bot@mastoxiv.pageCircular Economy Synergies and Trade-offs in Data Centres
Vlad C. Coroam\u{a}, Oana Dumbrav\u{a}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04571 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.04571 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.04571
arXiv:2608.04571v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This report analyses data centre (DC) sustainability and circularity, revealing existing synergies and trade-offs:
The PUE is too coarse, mixing cooling and power provisioning. It wrongly attributes server fan consumption and transformation losses to IT energy. It does not measure compute but infrastructure efficiency, which is already outstanding. Compute energy, however, is exploding. Better energy metrics for DCs would thus cover i) compute efficiency, ii) transformation efficiency, and iii) cooling overhead.
Trade-offs exist between cooling energy and water as well as on-site and upstream water: Consuming water on-site lowers the cooling energy, which also lowers the water consumed upstream in power generation. For 'wet' electricity, there is little competition: It is worth spending more on-site energy to save both electricity and related upstream water. For 'dry' electricity, there is a trade-off.
Waste heat recovery brings energy circularity but has limited uses and is not the same energy quality, a fact not reflected by current metrics. A better metric would consider the avoided energy through heat recovery instead of the amount recovered.
Material circularity can be achieved by interpreting the 9R framework in the context of DCs. Circularity-enhancing measures can be categorised into product design, process design and business models, choice of materials, and operating conditions. Together, they have effects across all circularity levels.
The relation between DCs and the power grid is complex. Modern DCs present new challenges for the grid. Mitigation includes battery storage and onsite generation. These measures have, in turn, further consequences, both beneficial and detrimental. They can offer grid flexibility as well as innovations in the field of energy. But they also bring noise, pollution, and GHGs, and compete with the energy sector for resources.
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@cdarwin@c.imGuards at an immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, could see a detainee in his cell
with one end of a bedsheet wrapped around his neck
and the other tied to the door handle.
If they opened the door, the sheet would tighten and strangle him.
The detainee, Geraldo Lunas Campos, had been in detention at Camp East Montana for a month by then.
The facility itself was still relatively new and had been opened as part of the Trump administration’s plans to …
@cheryanne@aus.socialThe Sustainable Minerals Institute Podcast
Committed to developing the transformative people, technologies and approaches to address global sustainability challenges through the responsible supply of mineral resources...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralia…
@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
@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…
@jkmartindale@mastodon.socialmysterious 3lb package showed up for me:
- 24oz of vaguely damp gel pack
- 5oz of packing material
- 6oz of chocolate-covered almonds that I apparently won in a sweepstakes
this seems like a worthwhile use of resources
@arXiv_physicsgeoph_bot@mastoxiv.pageThe effect of 20th century industrialization: Power station, acid rains, over-pumping, on an erstwhile uniform freshwater dune aquifer in Haifa Bay, Israel
Vasily Rogojin, Joel Kronfeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00893 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.00893 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.00893
arXiv:2607.00893v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A small phreatic sand dune aquifer lies along the shore of Haifa Bay. It has been exploited for its freshwater resources since the 1930s. During this time the salinity has increased continuously, partly by seawater intrusion due to overpumping. The chemistry of the young aquifer water is laterally variable and is characterized by excess SO$_4^{2-}$, high $Sr^{2 }$ concentrations above that of modern seawater, high alkalinity, and markedly enriched $\delta^{13}C_{DIC}$ values. Acidic winter rains, formed from $SO_x$ and $NO_x$ gaseous emissions from a nearby power station, leach the dry deposition that accumulated across the dune surface during the dry summers. The acidity also partially dissolves the aragonite sea shells in the dune sands, remnants of a previous marine transgression. As a consequence, this adds $Sr^{2 }$, $Ca^{2 }$ excess, and alkalinity, while leading to enriched $\delta^{13}C_{DIC}$ values, particularly during the winter, at which time the radiocarbon activity in the DIC is observed to decrease.
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@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…
@adulau@infosec.exchangeEU project proposals have become a bureaucratic endurance test.
The application process is painfully long, the evaluations often opaque, and rejection letters can feel almost dismissive. Even when a proposal succeeds, far too much of the budget disappears into compliance, coordination, reporting, controls, and audits.
When roughly 60% of resources go to administration rather than impact, something is fundamentally broken.
Europe cannot afford to turn innovation into paperwo…
@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
@detondev@social.linux.pizzais there a centralized hoard of resources or links or information on just how much phones are slaughtering the universe
@usul@piaille.fr
@hex@kolektiva.socialOur resources are controlled by a cult that's demanding that we have faith in their impossible god.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-012-9124-9
@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.
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net⚠️ Current drawbacks: still public preview, APIs may change, Node.js 22 required & local mock implementations may behave differently from real AWS resources
📊 The real positioning: Blocks competes less as "yet another framework" and more as an alternative to #AWSAmplify, #Supabase
@ErikUden@mastodon.deevery app became a website, and now websites take ages to load and insane resources to run
@johl@mastodon.xyz“resources for Radical Infrastructures, Permacomputing,
Stealth Hosting and
Other Networks” (PDF) by Colm O’Neill
#Permacomputing
https…
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeYou are looking for information on a specific subject but can only use one of those two resources. What's your pick?
@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.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…
@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…
@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.
@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
@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…
@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
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialGetting Electric Truck Chargers Online Faster
How flexible service connections cut delays and expand charging capacity
https://rmi.org/resources/getting-electric-truck-chargers-online-faster/
@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
@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.
…
@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.imA federal judge on Monday struck down the Trump administration’s changes to a $4 billion federal homelessness program
that would limit resources for permanent housing
and shift the focus to temporary housing and services.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s efforts to modify the so-called
"Continuum of Care Program"
have been tied up in litigation since November,
with plaintiffs citing concerns with policy changes that place new con…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Linux eBPF projects and documentation.
https://ebpf.io/
saved 2020-08-12 https://dotat.at/:/WV3ZE.html
@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
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/116786475471438132
I've never looked much into this, it's really neat!
Balancing system resources is tough, so anything that helps with coordination is a big win. Would be great to automate even more, i.…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alInfinite growth with finite resources. What’s the worst that could happen?
@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
@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 ...
@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…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialWhy home batteries and EVs need trust before they can become grid resources
"Whether the battery is on the wall or in the car, it belongs to the household before it belongs to the grid."
https://nemlog.substack.com/p/batteries-the-grid-does-not-own
@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.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…
@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…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialCan't stress this enough:
"British military spending is among the highest in the world, diverts scarce resources from far better causes and fuels international conflict."
Ignore the propaganda — Britain spends far too much on war already | Morning Star
https://
@cdarwin@c.imOver the past year or two, companies have started using so-called artificial intelligence agents as bona fide “employees,”
even including them in their organizational charts.
Emma Wiles, a Boston University professor who studies how A.I. affects workers, stumbled onto this phenomenon in October,
at a conference where two human resources executives said that treating A.I. agents like real employees was a way to increase productivity and to put their companies on the cutting …
@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…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social @cdarwin@c.imPope Leo XIV said Monday that
wars are being sustained more easily than people are fed,
urging governments to strengthen resources to combat hunger
after a severe funding shortfall by the United States and other countries.
https://apnews.com/article/italy-vatic
@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.imIt’s Arizona Senator Mark Kelly.
AZ-06 is a dogfight we can’t afford to lose. That’s why I’m stepping up
to help
Jo Mendoza and her team launch Mendoza Victory fund
so she has the resources she needs to win.
I’m not exaggerating when I say this is a tight race.
Polling shows this race as a dead-heat again, but I know Jo is ready to step up and win in a race this close.
She’s a retired U.S. Marine Corps Drill Instructor who served 3 combat tours in…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Understanding the library experience of postgraduate researchers" @ York University Library
https://www.york.ac.uk/library/about/news/2026/pgexperience/
"We recently conducted a research project with postgraduate researchers to find out more about …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSpaceX's all-stock Cursor deal illustrates the power of public markets, which could help SpaceX narrow the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI through acquisitions (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/busines
@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
@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.imFor more than a year, the Pentagon has deployed about 9,000 active-duty troops along nearly 2,000 miles of the southwest border to confront illegal migrants, smugglers and drug cartels.
The troops are still there
— at a cost of tens of millions of dollars each week
— even though the Trump administration months ago largely achieved its goal of slashing illegal crossings.
The military patrols, working closely with Customs and Border Protection as well as the Mexican mili…
@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.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…
