@privacity@social.linux.pizza2026-08-13 01:05:50
A New Design Code Takes Root in the Garden State
https://fpf.org/blog/a-new-design-code-takes-root-in-the-garden-state/
@…
O…
@privacity@social.linux.pizza2026-08-13 01:05:50
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-09-14 17:00:21
"New Mexico bans uranium mining on 13 million acres of state land"
#NewMexico #Environment
https://www.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-09-12 21:39:14
Oklahoma State stuns No. 6 Oregon 39-31, ending the Cowboys' 21-game losing streak against FBS opponents https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/oklahoma-state-stuns-no-6-oregon-3931-ending-the-cowboys-21…
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-09-13 17:18:28
A short but fun post about the gotchas of #modeling the world's #geography in #softwaresystems.
Years ago, a colleague of mine told me about two pockets of foreign land surrounded by Switzer…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-14 03:40:37
State AGs file a motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to pause Paramount's WBD merger, pending the state AGs' antitrust lawsuit (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/paramount-warner-bros-m…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-08-13 13:16:42
Russell Westbrook retires after 18 NBA seasons; Ohio State, Oregon 1-2 in CBS Sports 138
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/russell-westbrook-r…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-11 16:42:38
GOP state senator who defied Trump named winner, four months after close election
A Republican state senator in Indiana who crossed Donald Trump is advancing to the general election
after the state Supreme Court found he’d won his primary by three votes.
State Sen. Spencer Deery was part of a contingent of GOP state senators last year that blocked Trump’s plan to redraw the state’s congressional map to boost Republicans’ chances of capturing two more U.S. House seats.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-13 22:50:53
A judge orders Kalshi to stop offering most of its prediction contracts in Washington state, after finding it likely violated state gambling-related laws (J.J. McCorvey/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-08-12 19:46:03
So "Ben Franklin" is running for office in Wisconsin.
https://www.franklinforwisconsin.com/
@neverpanic@chaos.social2026-09-14 13:46:43
Had a bit of an unpleasant surprise on Saturday. Luckily the disk is still in warranty, and UPS picked it up this morning. Let's see how well Toshiba's RMA process performs.
No smart warnings or other signs, though, it just fell off the bus, started making weird noises and never came back. And it's the newest of the 4 disks in my NAS, too. Really glad I bought this model from two different vendors now to avoid clustering risks.
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-09-10 17:42:04
from my link log —
Stabilization progress of Rust allocators.
https://cetra3.github.io/blog/state-of-allocators-2026-part-2/
saved 2026-09-09
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-07-14 11:00:54
"Beyond Lithium: New Battery Tech Starts to Break Through"
#Batteries #Energy
https://e360.yale.edu…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-09-14 13:21:35
Unpacking NFL's epic Week 1; College football rankings after Texas stunner over Ohio State
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/unpacking-n…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-13 23:45:54
Charter receives final state approval to buy Cox for $21.9B after making concessions to California regulators, including low-cost internet for some households (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/telecom/chart
@jon@henshaw.social2026-08-12 21:01:23
Current state of LinkedIn at the moment. It's so bad, they had to add this option to the post option menu.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-14 00:07:13
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday announced what he characterized as a
“campaign to dismantle”
the International Criminal Court,
the Hague-based tribunal tasked with investigating and charging individuals with war crimes and other violations.
https://www.commondreams.org/news…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-08-13 20:49:53
"David Rothkopf wrote: 'The man who cowered hiding from the Iranians in a catering truck and who has personally done more to increase Iran’s strategic influence than anyone in its own government ever has, is now blathering nonsense via social media. The world sees him more as an impotent fool today than ever before.'"
htt…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-10-14 02:40:39
State of Local News annual report: the local news ecosystem is "in a state of precarity", and digital readership is in "precipitous decline" for many outlets (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/from-bad…
@crell@phpc.social2026-09-12 20:53:42
Robot Vacuum Catches Cheating Wife, Then Lands Husband in Jail
How's that surveillance state going for you?
https://phandroid.com/2026/09/01/robot-vacuum-catches-cheating-wife-then-lands-husband-in-jail/
@scott@carfree.city2026-09-13 02:29:52
“Many…have argued against voting for the worst offenders on this list even where it means a Republican takes the seat. A Republican victory costs the community one seat for one term. A worst-offender victory teaches the party’s consultant class…that throwing transgender people under the bus is a winning strategy, and that lesson would be applied everywhere… One seat can be won back. Losing both parties cannot.” Sound analysis.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-09-14 12:08:23
MLT3 / PAM3 signal generator on the demo board is working great now, I forgot to reset the OSERDESE2 during startup which was screwing up my emphasis.
The top blue waveform is straight off the board and is unrealistically sharp and has just a tiny bit of overshoot on the transition from the -1 to 0 state. The red waveform is after a 180 MHz FIR LPF roughly simulating channel loss and magnetics response. I'll add a discrete SMA LPF to the system for the real demo and it should be go…
@fortune@social.linux.pizza2026-09-14 03:00:01
Well, he thought, since neither Aristotelian Logic nor the disciplines
of Science seemed to offer much hope, it's time to go beyond them...
Drawing a few deep even breaths, he entered a mental state practiced
only by Masters of the Universal Way of Zen. In it his mind floated freely,
able to rummage at will among the bits and pieces of data he had absorbed,
undistracted by any outside disturbances. Logical structures no longer
inhibited him. Pre-conceptio…
@trochee@dair-community.social2026-10-12 21:20:40
Content warning: Naked before god and the entire shiproom
I have been working on a Site Incident — and I'm the only one doing so in public
A PM gives me –2 min notice to represent the state of the incident to eng leadership of a 500-person team
So I had to say "yes I've been working to stop the bleeding but as far as I know it's still pretty bad"
And of course the EMs involved wanted to argue:
A: we agreed that B should fix it
B: actually we don't need a fix at all
C: I thought we agreed t…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-09-13 07:44:15
Alexei Sayle:
“Whether anything has changed in the Labour Party is questionable. Miliband by his own description is a zionist. The two-state solution is a ridiculous fantasy. And I suspect we’ll get disillusioned with Burnham because he’s in hock to the same forces that Starmer was.”
Alexei Sayle: ‘The Palestine marches are entirely miraculous. The best of humanity’ | Morning Star
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-14 11:05:43
New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs a moratorium blocking new permits for hyperscale data centers exceeding 50MW for up to one year, the first state to do so (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/965110/new-york-ai-data-center-moratorium
@SteveFoerster@social.vivaldi.net2026-09-12 21:15:07
If the US political system weren't hopelessly broken... well, this guy wouldn't be president in the first place,
But besides that, there would be an open letter pledging free and fair elections signed by all fifty state Attorneys General published in a full page ad in the New York Times tomorrow morning.
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-09-11 23:28:37
New 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
@zachleat@zachleat.com2026-08-10 18:11:36
https://unsung.aresluna.org/seeing-like-a-state/ by @… has lovely examples highlighting usability issues with toggle controls.
Is the toggle on whe…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-09-13 01:27:44
⚡ Projects keep a target's traffic, browser state, cookies, notes and results together, and survive between prompts
🎯 A persistent managed #Chromium session lets agents browse authenticated applications while cookies and site storage survive restarts
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-14 16:22:19
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is enacting the nation’s first state-level moratorium on large-scale data center construction
amid concerns over the impact of the facilities meant to support artificial intelligence.
The move, being implemented through an executive order Hochul will sign Tuesday,
pauses construction permits for up to one year so that state officials can create a regulatory plan addressing energy and environmental issues.
“As data center development threaten…
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2026-09-14 14:30:04
Denver PD is reopening at least 13 SA cases after the investigation into Missy Woods' work at the state crime lab. She's been sentenced to 10 years in prison for altering #DNA lab results. Roughly 10% of her caseload is suspect, some 1,045 cases.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-08-13 23:45:53
Charter receives final state approval to buy Cox for $21.9B after making concessions to California regulators, including low-cost internet for some households (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/telecom/chart
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-11 22:40:49
The CFTC uses its "emergency authority" to order Kalshi to continue operating in New York after the state filed a lawsuit in July seeking to shutter Kalshi (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/08/11
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2026-10-11 20:07:12
Considering the current state of the world, the chords and solo guitar in this one are cutting very deep tonight, but are equally healing...
Gacha Bakradze - Mississipi (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is26L3WPiac
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2026-10-06 10:04:13
@hynek@mastodon.social2026-08-12 04:46:31
ah that's where the uptime nines went @… https://hey.hagelb.org/@technomancy/statuses/01KZRYPG5TMB13NKJ8B5PM9MWT
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-14 16:12:19
As 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…
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-08-12 08:28:14
The Signal Rail: A Deterministic Motion Grammar for Communicating Conversational Agent State in Terminal Interfaces
Matteo Grella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10689 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10689 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10689
arXiv:2608.10689v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Terminal interfaces to conversational agents report rich internal state (listening, thinking, executing tools, awaiting input, failing) almost entirely through text, while the motion channel beside it, the one peripheral vision monitors without reading, carries a single bit: alive. We present the Signal Rail, a one-row terminal status instrument that gives that channel a grammar. Four ideas govern it: spatial semantics (input, processing, and output zones, with direction as meaning), a motion grammar (one kinetic rule per state, never color alone), determinism (frames as a pure function of explicit inputs, golden-frame testable), and honesty (no invented progress or activity). We contribute a 45-section normative specification and a reference implementation inside a working full-duplex local voice agent driven by real signals.
toXiv_bot_toot
@lpryszcz@genomic.social2026-10-11 09:46:17
'In the final year of lycée, pupils study Rousseau’s Du Contrat Social (The Social Contract), ... put simply, you pay heavy taxes and in return you expect the country to work. That bargain is how the French understand their relationship with the state. When the government raises the retirement age, lets electricity bills soar or cuts school budgets, that is seen as a breach of the social contract. Protest is the automatic response.'
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-07-14 14:42:04
from my link log —
Intel underestimates fsin error bounds by 1.3 quintillion.
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underestimates-error-bounds-by-1-3-quintillion/
saved 2026-07-13
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-08-12 06:02:44
This remarkable essay documents the direct personal responsibility of Steve Baker, Sajid Javid, and Rishi Sunak for the global financial crash of 2008. Of course, they all personally profited hugely from it.
Baker, of course, was later the architect of the hard Brexit deal.
If we had sent them all to prison, as any rational state would have done, #Brexit would probably never have happen…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-08-13 10:09:50
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/117087219784433516
So I've been breaking down this memo for the past hour or so, and there is a part of it, Section 4(c), that determines whether a target is eligible for private companies to conduct operations against foreign cyber-enabled transnational criminal organizations.
Section 4(c) says a foreign group is presumed to be a non-state actor unless the government already possesses "clear intelligence" proving otherwise.
For clear, independent criminal gangs such as Scattered Spider, this makes sense.
But for criminal gangs in Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, where criminal actors are staffed alongside a hostile state's security services, the presumption is least reliable and could result in inadvertent escalation to global geopolitical levels, no?
In other words, the real risk isn't a participating company hitting the wrong criminal server — it's hitting infrastructure with an undisclosed link to a hostile intelligence service and turning a law-enforcement operation into a state-to-state incident.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-14 02:50:56
A tourist who was tossed 8ft in the air by a bison at Wyoming’s Yellowstone national park
– an encounter viewed by more than a million social media users thanks to a viral video online
– has been identified as a “community-minded” grandfather from Washington state.
Carl McDaniel had severe injuries including broken bones after Friday’s campsite encounter with the bison,
which was posted to YouTube by the Wyoming news outlet Cowboy State Daily.
A photographer na…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-09-12 22:45:54
🖥️ Three interfaces: browser WebUI, terminal TUI and a macOS desktop floating orb with two visual styles
🧠 Local user profile and cross-session memory in ~/.config/qwaudio: https://USER.md for preferences, separate files for remembered facts and task state
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-08-11 17:05:39
California AG Rob Bonta says Paramount is trying to "blackmail the state" and "it won't work", after David Ellison reportedly threatened to move it out of state (Adam Chitwood/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/busi
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-10 23:01:12
Missouri Lawmakers are threatening to impeach state Supreme Court justices
if they hold Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in contempt
during a high-stakes hearing scheduled for today, September 10.
This comes as the Missouri Supreme Court ordered Hoskins and his counsel to appear for the contempt proceeding today at 2 p.m. in Jefferson City.
The extraordinary ultimatum by the GOP lawmakers, delivered in a letter late Wednesday,
marks a dramatic escalation in an o…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-09-10 10:06:08
Which players will NFL scouts be watching during Saturday's Ohio State-Texas showdown? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7578406/2026/09/10/nfl-draft-2027-texas-ohio-state-prospects/
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2026-10-12 06:45:01
Zugspitze (2021)
(View of Germany's tallest peak, last glacier [remnants] and the absolutely grand Höllental below, state as of five years ago...)
#MountainMonday #MonochromeMonday
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-08-12 16:03:14
Here in Wisconsin Hong did not win, but came really damn close. I have lots of thoughts and feelings, but hey, now is the time to look to the future here in the state and work towards defeating the shitgibbon Tiffany in November.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-14 10:21:12
In its first statement on AI, China's Ministry of State Security warns AI poses risks to the nation's political and social security, including cyber defenses (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8715d1c6-054d-4eab-bcad-147acebfd2a9
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-10-11 11:42:02
from my link log —
The state of Python packaging in 2021.
https://venthur.de/2021-06-26-python-packaging.html
saved 2021-07-08 https://
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-08-12 12:15:57
Years ago I remember hearing a story of a real-life Shrek who just wanted to live in a swamp and be left alone.
His family had once owned a lot of land, maybe a farm, in the area but most of it had been sold off and was being gradually developed. He still owned a house and a small plot of land though, and couldn't stand the encroaching suburbs and strip malls.
After a bit of exploring he discovered some streams and swamps in a neighboring, vacant lot and contacted the state a…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-14 11:56:51
The European Commission approves €659M in German state aid to support four first-of-a-kind chip facilities in Germany, saying they will strengthen EU autonomy (Kirsti Knolle/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/eu-approves-659-million-ger…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2026-07-14 01:47:52
🧠 The reasoning: text tokens are discrete, drawn from a fixed vocabulary of ~50,000 entries, each mapping to a fixed point in embedding space.
Image tokens are continuous vectors of a thousand floating point numbers, so they can pack far more information into the same space.
🎮 The test: a tower-defense game where the AI plays in JSON mode without graphics, run for hours with two context variants — the same game state as a plain text string, and as an image rendered via PixelPipe.…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-10-14 04:35:42
The State of Local News annual report finds that the 10 largest owners control 75% of the 678 distinct local commercial TV newsrooms across the US (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/13/local-news-television-newspapers
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-13 15:51:08
HPE secures court approval for its settlement with the US DOJ over its takeover of networking company Juniper, defeating a challenge by Democratic state AGs (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-09-10 13:16:16
Seahawks edge Patriots in Super Bowl rematch, but Sam Darnold injured; Texas vs. Ohio State preview
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/seahawks-patriots-sup…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-14 17:21:15
ABC News correspondent Terry Moran tweeted early Sunday morning an unusually frank, and unusually accurate, mainstream media assessment of Stephen Miller,
and of Trump
— who Moran called a “world-class hater.”
As White House deputy chief of staff,
Miller’s far-right bigotry has guided Trump’s brutally authoritarian anti-immigrant policies.
Mainstream media has a duty to inform its audience that those policies are in fact hateful.
-- But it rarely does so…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-09-13 23:40:34
Chris Fitzsimon, founder, CEO and publisher of States Newsroom, plans to retire in June 2027; the newsroom runs or partners with outlets in 50 state capitals (Lara Weber/States Newsroom)
https://statesnewsroom.com/press-releases/ceo-p…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-09-09 16:11:27
What NFL scouts say about Texas QB Arch Manning ahead of Ohio State test: 'Good's really good, but ...'
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-09-13 11:40:36
Leaked report: Paramount leaving California "would result in losses of 2,750 and 5,550 job-years", and economic losses between $1.01B-$2.03B for the state (Jack Dunn/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-leavi…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-14 02:32:42
Previously withheld evidence regarding the fatal shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti is now in the hands of Minnesota prosecutors,
helping the state gain clarity on the deaths that occurred earlier this year during protests against a federal immigration crackdown.
“Through the cooperation of our federal partners, we have obtained hard drives of previously withheld evidence in the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti,
and the shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis,” the Hennepin…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-09-13 18:10:32
Jimmy Kimmel's interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico crosses 8M views on YouTube, with interview clips going viral on Instagram and Facebook (Sarah Rumpf/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/entert…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-10-12 02:26:02
Billionaires across the US are spending vast sums to support California’s Proposition 39,
a measure that would require voters to show identification before casting their ballots.
The measure is being promoted as a way to “[increase] trust and confidence in our elections”,
and comes amid a nationwide push by the Trump administration to restrict voting.
California Republicans have long sought to advance a voter ID initiative in the state.
The campaign has receive…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-09-28 08:42:02
from my link log —
A pragmatic approach to global state in a 3rd party library called from Rust.
http://adventures.michaelfbryan.com/posts/pragmatic-global-state/
saved 2020-02-23
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-14 13:41:48
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on July 1 his intent to designate certain Muslim and anti-fascist groups
—including U.S. groups
—as “terrorist organizations.”
Using authorities granted to him in a new Florida law, which took effect earlier that day,
DeSantis declared that he would seek designation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),
the Muslim Brotherhood, and “Antifa,” among others.
Within hours, the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-14 16:17:38
“McConnell says
‘I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke.’
But nowhere in the letter does he address the cardiac arrest,” Journalist Ken Klippenstein wrote.
“Swapping out ‘cardiac arrest’ for ‘heart attack’ is a clever move because most people use the two terms interchangeably.
They are not.”
Klippenstein went on to argue that McConnell's statement was a
"masterclass in political manipulation"
– technically accurate in denying he'd…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-09-07 14:31:41
Use DraftKings promo code to get $200 in bonus bets by targeting Florida State-SMU, college football on Monday
https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/use
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-13 00:36:21
The court’s decision to block the Trump administration from including a “loyalty question” on federal job applications
was a win not only for the nonpartisan civil service,
but also for the communities public employees serve, said one labor leader whose union was among the plaintiffs in the case against the Office of Personnel Management.
Patrick Moran, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union, said Friday that
the …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-10-12 17:01:30
Meta introduces Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying they deliver state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks (Meta AI Research)
https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-08-10 20:01:04
The Ninth Circuit dismisses Meta's bid to pause a landmark trial by state AGs alleging its products addict children and have caused a youth mental health crisis (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-09-07 13:56:19
Use BetMGM bonus code CBSSPORTS to get $1,500 in bonus bets for Florida State vs. SMU, college football Monday
https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/use…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-10-10 05:20:49
Sources: Anthropic's AI agents submitted 20 visa applications via a form on the US State Department website; the applications were incomplete and not processed (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/techn…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-09 20:14:28
Trump's war on the “deep state” led directly to his debacle in the Middle East.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/09/trump-iran-deep-state-purges-intelligence-bureaucracy/
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-07 03:31:12
Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson won the Democratic primary in the Volunteer State's newly redrawn 9th Congressional District on Thursday,
besting state Sen. London Lamar to advance to the general election
Pearson is expected to face Donald Trump-endorsed and favored GOP candidate State Sen. Brent Taylor
in the November general election.
The area encompassing the newly redrawn 9th District,
which sits on the state's southern border east of Memphis,…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-08-12 14:01:07
Xavier Becerra, the frontrunner in California's governor race, says a settlement in the state AG's Paramount-WBD lawsuit would be the best outcome (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-12/p…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-10-10 20:17:43
Before he died in July,
Lindsay Graham ruled over South Carolina politics for 23 years.
It was a conservative state then
— Graham won the seat after the death of the legendary racist Strom Thurmond in 2003
— and it is a conservative state now,
but Graham’s death and Donald Trump’s overwhelming unpopularity have created an opportunity for a Democrat to change the state’s future.
Enter Dr. Annie Andrews.
Andrews is a career pediatrician who turned to …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-09-04 10:30:52
State tax incentives for film and TV production fail to generate much tax revenue or new jobs, experts say, casting doubt on a proposal for a federal incentive (Tosin Akintola/Reason)
https://reason.com/2026/09/03/state-film-subsidies-los…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-11 13:44:01
The front-runner for the Democratic nomination for governor of Wisconsin is State Representative Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist.
While her victory on Tuesday is assured by most accounts, where she does well — or less well — could reveal clues as to whether the socialist brand can work in a general election in a purple state
Left-wing candidates have harnessed enthusiasm and turned it into actual votes by engaging in superior messaging and organization on the ground.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-10 18:16:14
The U.S. Supreme Court again rejected Missouri congressional maps backed by President Donald Trump on Thursday,
a loss for Republicans trying to maintain control of the House in the pivotal midterm elections.
The decision appears to clear the way for the state to use a map passed in 2022, as the state's highest court ordered.
It's part of a pitched legal battle that has created confusion for voters and others shortly before ballots begin going out for the November el…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-08-12 01:50:43
Paramount's Makan Delrahim says everything is on the table to end the suit against Paramount's WBD deal and chatter about leaving California is not "blackmail" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/08/paramount-warner-b…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-11 14:22:00
Trumpism is the lowest stage of imperialism.
“We’re not going to invade Greenland. We’re going to buy it,”
Donald Trump reportedly told the annual black-tie dinner on 1 February of the private Alfalfa Club,
an assemblage of prominent Washington figures, a number of whom he had publicly humiliated,
and others he was investigating or suing.
“It’s never been my intention to make Greenland the 51st state. I want to make Canada the 51st state.
Greenland will…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-10-12 00:13:51
With Senate majority up for grabs, candidates fight for independent voters
A set of New York Times/Siena polls reported last week showed Democratic candidates for the Senate ahead in Texas, Michigan, Alaska and Ohio
and neck-and-neck in Kansas and Iowa
— all states Trump carried in 2024.
Republicans, meanwhile, are feeling increasingly bullish about their chances in Maine, New Hampshire and Minnesota,
all states that went blue in the last presidential elect…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-10-11 23:46:19
Growing geopolitical competition is accompanying environmental disruption.
Countries including Russia, China, and the United States are investing in the Arctic
and consolidating their interests in strategic access, resource exploitation, and alliance-building.
The consequences of this emerging Arctic Anthropocene are truly global
—from rising sea levels due to melting glaciers
to tensions between great powers determined to protect their territory and resou…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-11 23:01:53
Museums across the world are scrambling to react to a spate of thefts
that has left them in a state of shock.
Last year’s break-in at the Louvre,
by a gang who gained access using a furniture lift and took €88m (£76m) worth of French Crown Jewels,
is thought by experts to have inspired copycat crimes.
While French police believe that they have caught the culprits, treasures including a tiara have not been found.
In August, objects were stolen from museum…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-11 22:30:22
California will phase out paraquat after all manufacturers voluntarily canceled their registrations,
ending the state’s use of the powerful herbicide that is already banned in more than 60 countries.
State regulators found paraquat exposure may be tied to thyroid problems, birth defects and harm to birds,
while thousands of workers have sued over possible links to Parkinson’s disease.
California’s phaseout follows Vermont’s first-in-the-nation ban of the herbicide, a…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-09 20:50:15
One year after the discovery that golden mussels had invaded the California Delta,
thick colonies coat boats and piers and threaten water supplies for cities and farms.
Yet the state has no specific funding or plans to tackle harms in the heart of the invasion
https://calm…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-10 15:15:40
Wildfire smoke is once again pouring across the United States
following a weekend of new blazes across Canada’s British Columbia.
A total of 11 new fires were reported across that province,
where a state of emergency was declared on Saturday,
with thousands forced to evacuate near Summerland,
located about 40 miles north of the British Columbia-Washington state border.
The largest fire in this region, called the Bald Range Fire,
had burned throug…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-09 18:07:05
The attacks on September 11, 2001, unleashed a wave of Islamophobia in the United States
that resulted in widespread harassment and persecution of Muslim Americans.
In addition to vigilante attacks targeting Muslims or those perceived to be Muslim,
there was also state repression including police roundups,
community surveillance,
prosecutions on often flimsy terrorism charges
and mass deportations.
Meanwhile, the wars launched by the United States …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-10-11 20:00:23
As of 24 September, a total of 3,659 measles cases have been confirmed by the CDC,
with the two deaths having been confirmed on Tuesday.
The confirmation did not specify in which states the deaths had occurred.
The CDC is not including deaths in Pennsylvania in its national data.
Pennsylvania is the hardest-hit state, having reported more than 900 cases and four deaths from measles,
Differences in the federal measles death figures compared with those from Penns…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-29 22:34:52
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving
to place its private detention network beyond the reach of state inspectors,
publishing draft contract terms that declare state and local laws
“shall not apply” to the facilities, according to federal documents reviewed by WIRED.
The new terms were published earlier this month,
a day after a federal judge ruled that a contract cannot override state law and ordered ICE’s largest Pacific Northwest detention center o…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-10-11 21:59:46
Donald Trump’s catastrophic errors get so much attention that his systemic ones can easily be missed.
While the world looks on in dismay at his farcical war in Iran,
the thuggery of Ice agents
or clownish attacks on erstwhile allies like Canada and Denmark,
the core functions of the American government are slowly disintegrating.
It is harder to get people to focus on the machinery of the state because the effects are often slow and hard to pin down.
Outbr…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-07 04:15:19
The Alternative for Germany party dominated a crucial state election on Sunday, according to near-final results,
but fell short of the absolute majority needed to become the first far-right party to govern part of the country since the Nazi era.
If those results hold, the AfD, as the party is known by its German initials,
could still assume power in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt in the coming weeks,
depending on the negotiations among rival parties that have vowe…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-06 20:28:59
The populist, far-right,
anti-immigration
Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)
has emerged as the winner in a crucial state election in Germany,
exit polls have projected,
securing a historic result
and more than doubling its support.
The AfD now appear on the brink of becoming the first far-right party to gain power in Germany at state level since the second world war.
Initial exit polls showed the party to have secured 44.4% of the vote,
…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-08 22:51:06
British Columbia declared a state of emergency on Saturday
as a fast-moving wildfire destroyed homes, trapped residents and forced more than 20,000 people to flee communities along Okanagan Lake in western Canada.
The premier, David Eby, announced the emergency as more than 100 wildfires burned across the province,
nearly half of them out of control in hot, windy weather and prolonged drought.
The entire community of Summerland,
home to about 12,000 people,
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-08 23:10:14
Georgia has made payments of more than $1.1 million since the COVID-19 pandemic for at least one contractor to work with the Corrections Department on its lethal injection process.
During that period, the state carried out just a single execution.
The records also show that Georgia is paying far more for
lethal injection-related costs than it did in the past.
The state’s Corrections Department has spent an average of over $150,000 a year on those costs over the past…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-09-08 22:21:02
US supreme court rejects Missouri Republicans’ appeal to use
Trump-backed congressional map in the midterms
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/sep/08/new-…
