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@avalon@jazztodon.com
2026-09-25 22:25:03

The meanings of Louis Armstrong – The Ethan Hein Blog
Pops was grinnin' 'cause Pops was winnin'!
Even in blackface.
ethanhein.com/wp/2026/the-mean

The meanings of Louis Armstrong
Was Louis Armstrong a revolutionary? by Dr. Ethan HeinIt’s complicatedRead on Substack This week in US Pop History class, we are talking about early jazz, and that means talking about Louis Armstro…

@padraig@mastodon.ie
2026-10-20 13:37:20

The likes of #Revolut (and other banks) should adopt #monzo 's 'Stand In'
monzo.com/blog/to…

Tolerating full cloud outages with Monzo Stand-in

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-10-24 14:46:39

Revisiting Browns' 2026 NFL Draft: Did the K.C. Concepcion, Denzel Boston selections fix the offense?

cbssports.com/nfl/news/revisit

Revisiting Browns' 2026 NFL Draft: Did the K.C. Concepcion, Denzel Boston selections fix the offense?
Concepcion and Boston are sparking the pass game, while Spencer Fano and Austin Barber have quickly solidified the rebuilt offensive line

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-10-23 06:15:11

"Bullshit universities: the future of automated education"
doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-023
"[…] The dream that AI could teach students effectively neglects the importance of ‘learning how’ in order to ‘learn that’, that teachers are also role models, and t…

Bullshit universities: the future of automated education - AI & SOCIETY
The advent of ChatGPT, and the subsequent rapid improvement in the performance of what has become known as Generative AI, has led to many pundits declaring that AI will revolutionize education, as well as work, in the future. In this paper, we argue that enthusiasm for the use of AI in tertiary education is misplaced. A proper understanding of the nature of the outputs of AI suggests that it would be profoundly misguided to replace human teachers with AI, while the history of automation in othe…

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2026-10-22 09:40:30

Analysis: Trump now drops the mask and openly shows he's an ally of Russia, with major consequences for Ukraine and Europe.

Trump toont zich nu openlijk een bondgenoot van Rusland, met kolossale gevolgen voor Oekraïne en Europa
Oorlog in Oekraïne: President Trump heeft zijn masker afgezet en is feitelijk een bondgenoot van Moskou. De Amerikaanse geopolitieke revolutie heeft grote consequenties voor Oekraïne, dat behalve tegen Rusland ook vecht tegen China, Noord-Korea, de VS – en de nieuwe wereldmacht Elon Musk.

@chrisnelder@mastodon.energy
2026-10-22 20:07:21

vanityfair.com/story/jared-kus

The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations— Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers
An exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law—and former senior adviser—to Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-10-22 11:20:49

Meta reports 18% YoY ad revenue growth in Europe for Q3, down from ~40% in Q1 and 24% in Q2, lagging the US and Canada, after rolling out Less Personalized Ads (Isabella Ward/Wired)
wired.com/story/metas-ad-sales

Meta’s Ad Sales Are Suffering Now That Europeans Can Pick Less Personalization
An earnings briefing on Wednesday revealed ad revenue has slowed since the European Union introduced the Less Personalized Ads models at the beginning of this year.

@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2026-10-22 14:04:28

Oh ffs, Python's certificate storage is more fucked up; If you think your updated ca-certificates were enough, nope, still fucked:
discuss.python.org/t/informati

Information for Python users regarding eMudhra / emSign CA certificate security incident
A security incident affecting eMudhra intermediate certificates has required removing the emSign root CA certificate from CA bundles such as “certifi”. It’s important to immediately upgrade the software packages below to at least the versions specified and rebuild container images to fetch the latest system certificates. Failure to do so could result in monster-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks against TLS clients, including python.org and pypi.org . certifi 2026.10.19 (1) pip 26.2.2 uv 0.13…

@egallager@social.treehouse.systems
2026-08-26 19:10:46

Agh rebuilding all of my @… ports is taking my laptop forever... #macports

@trochee@dair-community.social
2026-09-20 04:38:32

Oh no I just found out that one of my favorite Buddhist teachers has just gone all AI grifter
Tara Brach, WYD this is not the dharma

lnkd.in/p/gcynwNDX

Very niche goss in the spiritual business world: esteemed Buddhist teacher Tara Brach announced yesterday that she is launching "AvaTara" — a generative AI that has been trained on her vast catalog… | Amanda Baudier | 18 comments
Very niche goss in the spiritual business world: esteemed Buddhist teacher Tara Brach announced yesterday that she is launching "AvaTara" — a generative AI that has been trained on her vast catalog of teachings and can create custom meditations for the user... yikes. As you can imagine — there was lots of uproar in the spiritual / Buddhist community (including my own) which is not overwhelmingly friendly to the AI revolution. A thread I posted went so semi-viral that it inspired me to wr…