@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCalifornia's Rob Bonta and a 13-state group challenge the appointment of current and recent Nexstar personnel to Tegna's board, after a preliminary injunction (State of California)
https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases
@cdarwin@c.imSince the first day of President Trump’s second term,
his administration has pursued a strategy to interfere in elections.
It has targeted election officials and others who defend fair elections,
purported to rewrite election rules,
seized election records,
attempted to gain access to state voter rolls,
pardoned the January 6 rioters,
and elevated election deniers within the government.
Many of these actions have been justified by false claims …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSecretary Rubio's Travel to the UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain (United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/06/secretary-rubios-travel-to-the-uae-kuwait-and-bahrain/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p106#a260622p106
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDriverless car startup Bliq.ai says it has received approval for fully driverless road operations in Estonia, the first authorization of its kind in the EU (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/05/22/bliqai-wins-approval-for-fully-drive…
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngTriggered (in good way) by a recent comment by @…, AI music DJs be like...
(...or the end state of performances once the appearance of an act/skill has become more important than the act/skill itself)
#SocietyOfTheSpectacle
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgThe US special envoy sent to negotiate with Greenland and Denmark, used the occasion of Greenland's National Day to suggest that already next year they will be the 51st state.
I cannot express my feelings about this without swearing very very loudly.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/jeff-landry-maaske-kan-groenland-blive-usa-s-51-stat-allerede-naeste-aar
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social"According to an interview Rodney Mims Cook Jr. gave to Russian state media outlet RIA Novosti, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Commission on Fine Arts plans to attend this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which runs from June 3–6, and sit in the audience for Putin’s keynote address —"
…
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeFor decades there's been a conflict between governments wanting to get access to people's private data and people trying to keep them out.
Over the years I've gradually come to the conclusion that the stable "Goldilocks zone", where there's the least likelihood of a major swing that makes things worse for everyone, is *not* the privacy utopia where devices are invulnerable, or a police state where anyone with a badge who asks can root through all your data, or…
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldIf a state licenses a particular profession, should the state be allowed to limit the use of the title of that profession? Does a state's barber board control the use of the word "barber?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NuqFA7vGVY
@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk
@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
@markhburton@mstdn.socialIt certainly is very chilling.
The UK State closes ranks to defend the indefensible.
Palestine Action barrister’s prosecution criticised as ‘chilling’ | UK news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j
@Dragofix@veganism.social‘Unprecedented’ changes in UK climate are normalising extremes, report says https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/15/uk-climate-extreme-weather-2025-hottest-year-on-record
@rainerzufall_le@mastodon.socialA lot of (acedemic) AI cheerleaders demand "urgent action" after OpenAI's cyber-attack against Huggingface. Curiously, they don't demand anything specific. If AI is truly so dangerous, the state should break up all the AI corporations. Yet, no one demands that as "urgent action"
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz
@seeingwithsound@mas.toSciAm: Science Corp. CEO Max Hodak - The Neuralink co-founder on how artificial intelligence is the new industrial revolution, and on the current state of American science https://archive.ph/eT0E1
@cdarwin@c.imA federal judge has blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other state officials,
accusing the Justice Department of using its investigatory powers to retaliate against state officials for not cooperating with federal efforts to crack down on illegal immigration.
In a ruling unsealed Monday,
U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz found the “dominant purpose” of the subpoenas was
to “coerce Minnesota officials into assisting…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzSpace Oddity - microgravity as a neurocognitive catalyst for transformative consciousness experiences: #OverviewEffect - warum ein Flug ins All Menschen verändern könnte: https://www.n-tv.de/wissen/Warum-ein-Flug-ins-All-Menschen-veraendern-koennte-id30972541.html
@bici@mastodon.socialMeet the “loyal loser,” a term coined by Erica Frantz, a political scientist at Michigan State University, to describe the tendency in authoritarian regimes to promote underqualified sycophants whose career prospects are solely tied to obeying their leader. Imagine it as Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil” phenomenon, but for employees who would otherwise struggle to get a job.
@bourgwick@heads.socialthoughtful & sweet essay by court carney on bob dylan's friendships with jerry garcia & johnny cash & "the vulnerability of brotherhood" https://thedylanreview.org/2025/03/02/questions-on-masculinit…
@steadystatemcr@mstdn.socialMaybe 3 years later, this situation has changed.
Somehow I doubt it.
Planning Inspectorate can’t say if its inspectors are carbon literate. | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2023/06/06/plan…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialStaff of Czech public broadcasters stage a warning strike, protesting government plans to shift funding from license fees to the state budget starting next year (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/czech-public-media-financing-p…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decontiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
@hex@kolektiva.socialLogistics in the technical sense (part of supply chain management) is a subset of logistics in the vernacular sense ("the handling of the details of an operation"). You can explore this second and more general sense, and thereby build an understanding of the first and more technical sense, by iteratively asking the question, "how does one make that happen" and follow questions from there.
A big part of organizing is figuring out the (vernacular) logistics (and helping others figure it out). You want to organize a seed swap? Ok. How does one make that happen? Well, you need seeds, people, a place, and perhaps a time. How does one make that happen? You can forage seeds or you can buy seeds for a garden and swap extras. How do you get people to come? Well, figure out where you want people to come from and choose an accessible place. What's the easiest thing to do? Get people from your neighborhood. How does one make that happen? Well, maybe put up flyers. How does one make that happen? Well, print them on your printer if you have one, or at a library, then go post them up. Etc.
Keep asking questions until you either find a roadblock that you can't find a way around, or you find things you can do yourself (one of those things you can do yourself is asking friends to help).
If you practice the exercise of thinking about how things happen, you can start to find things that you can do yourself. You can start to understand what exists now, and you can imagine what's possible. By thinking about logistics, you can figure out how to replace things when they collapse or are dismantled. You can also identify things that can't easily be replaced, and try to figure out alternatives.
This practice is good for figuring out how to build, but it can also be a valuable practice for figuring out how to resist. Concentration camps and ethnic cleansing also require logistics. Mass displacement means moving people. How does one do that? People are generally going to be moved in planes or buses. How does one do that? Well, people get loaded on to planes or buses in specific places. Planes and buses need fuel. Planes are fueled at their airports, which may well be the same places where people are loaded on to them. There is a fuel depo and a fuel truck that makes flying people out of a specific place possible. How does the fuel get to that fuel depo? Well, that fuel is probably also delivered by truck. Someone drives those trucks. Someone fuels those planes. Someone clears the planes for takeoff. Someone fuels those busses. Someone drives those busses. And so on.
Logistics networks can be highly complex. The more complex the operation, the more possible points of failure and more possible points where pressure can be applied, where operations can be disrupted. Ethnic cleansing is a complicated operation. The logistics of disrupting complicated things tend to be much less complicated than the logistics of the complicated things themselves.
The Right has exploited this fact for a long time. Centralized social services are logistically complex. Public infrastructure is logistically complex. By destroying these things, they can loot public resources by privatizing the infrastructure and functionality.
But the things that support the Right are even more logistically complex. Oil, cars, AI data centers, internal paramilitary, these are extremely complicated and fragile. There are numerous pressure points, all of which can respond to numerous strategies.
If we want to win, we should reduce the influence of politics over the things we care about. We should focus on building distributed mutual aid networks that don't rely on state funding and aren't subject to the whims of politicians. This is also known as "dual power." That is, creating counter-institutions outside of the dominant political system. The Right already does this in the form of churches and corporations.
As we reduce our complexity, we can then press our complexity advantage against the things for which the Right *needs* the state: the apparatus of violence needed to maintain capital and enforce the dominant order.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comKey financing measure for Brooklyn waterfront overhaul left out of state budget (Janaki Chadha/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/23/key-financing-measure-for-brooklyn-waterfront-overhaul-left-out-of-state-budget-00934745
http://www.memeorandum.com/260523/p22#a260523p22
@gwire@mastodon.socialNow that the UK government has a cabinet level minister for AI, they could at least have a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with “IPv6 migration” in an explicit brief.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPresident Emmanuel Macron says France will invest an additional €1B for quantum computing research and a further €550M in state funding for semiconductors (France 24)
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260522-france-announces-bill…
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotThis photo contains lots of things I love. My cat Sparky, a planter of celery leaf, sunshine, my fabulous orange dining chairs and the newish dining room cabinet. Alt text for why the wall's a mess.
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialI think we have a new synonym for #Liar that will come into use in 2029. #Propaganda should have some level of credibility, some lnk to reality.
Though it looks like the #47Adminstration is striving …
@paulwermer@sfba.socialI think we have a new synonym for #Liar that will come into use in 2029. #Propaganda should have some level of credibility, some lnk to reality.
Though it looks like the #47Adminstration is striving …
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeFrom a Chinese state-sponsored news outlet. Can you say pot-kettle-black?
"Investigations found that the foreign intelligence agency had taken control of multiple routers within China and used them as platforms to send phishing emails disguised as invitations to participate in review work or traffic violation payment notices, targeting staff at key institutions."
@shriramk@mastodon.socialWill you look at that. And yet STEM nerds will tell you that history majors don't have good career earning prospects.
![On May 18, at age 82, [Billie Jean] King walked across the stage at California State University at Los Angeles and collected the Bachelor of Arts in history](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/613/696/159/281/142/original/bfd287e8638b758e.png)
@raiders@darktundra.xyzState of the 2026 Raiders With Jason Horowitz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UXii7amR30
@aardrian@toot.cafeThis is both appalling and utterly unsurprising.
Given how Google search results have been an ad-driven dark pattern for years, and the mostly-wrong stolen results of its LLM answers, my fear is people have been inured to it.
It already bends to governments, so expect more state disinformation.
https://matthiasott.…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialHow bad is the cost of living in #OrangeCounty, CA? Renters need to make $56/hr ($116K/yr) minimum to afford the avg rent of $2,913/mo.
☑️ In Orange County, six-figure salaries now qualify as 'low income' | LAist
@cdarwin@c.imIn the Senate today, lawmakers plan to question US trade representative Jamieson Greer.
Ron Wyden, the Senate finance committee’s top Democrat, said that
Donald Trump’s “tariff spree” has “hammered” farmers and small business owners in his home state of Oregon
– particularly in communities which voted for the president in 2024.
“Like so many other promises, Donald Trump has made to working people, The second he set foot in the White House, he did nothing to put Americ…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://fuzzies.wtf/@altbot/116609309953984980
Me, staring at the state of the world.
@grumpybozo@toad.socialGotta love that Interlochen Public Radio is doing the footwork on the rogue MAGA county clerk in Antrim County illegally cancelling registrations.
https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/2026-05-19/antrim-county-clerk-has-c…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialZero2IPO Research: Chinese AI startups raised $16.2B in Q1 2026, up 185% YoY, led by top AI labs including Moonshot, Z.ai, and MiniMax (Karen Tian/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti
@mia@hcommons.social'The Digital Biodiversity Revolution' report by Kew Gardens: 'There is real hope that a comprehensive, virtual, accessible and inclusive global repository of specimen data is within reach, and that coupling this fundamental resource with the power of artificial intelligence (AI) could truly transform humanity’s ability to address the current environmental crises.'
@arXiv_csPL_bot@mastoxiv.pageFormal Verification of an Out-of-Order Multiprocessor against an In-Order Weak-Memory ISA
Janggun Lee, Jeehoon Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18727 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18727 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18727
arXiv:2607.18727v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Out-of-order multiprocessor is a critical piece of modern hardware, and their verification must solve the following challenges. First, inter-core interleaving, in which the order their reads and writes reach shared memory is unrestricted. Second, intra-core out-of-order execution, in which instructions fire out of program order. The combination of the two yields weak outcomes, which no sequential execution explains, and modern ISA allows such behaviors to account for them. However, the microarchitecture even exhibits excess out-of-order executions, temporarily entering states forbidden by the ISA. While discarded later, such states complicate reasoning about the core in full-system verification. Prior works verify a range of processor designs, while none have performed unbounded verification for out-of-order multiprocessor exhibiting such weak outcomes.
We present the first formal verification of an out-of-order multiprocessor against an in-order, weak-memory ISA. Our key idea is a well-designed core specification, which captures the essence of excess executions in a single list of instructions. Building upon this, we decompose the proof into two steps. The first is a core refinement, proving a core implementation against this specification, abstracting away every microarchitectural state except those necessary to reason about excess executions and the core interface. The second is a system inclusion, serializing the out-of-order memory executions and inter-core interleaving into the ISA, easily removing excess executions thanks to the core specification. All of our proofs are mechanized in Rocq, heavily utilizing large language model (LLM) agents to write proofs automatically.
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@cdarwin@c.imIf you're a resident of California, make a DROP request.
(That's Delete Request and Opt-out Platform).
This one bit of paperwork lets you tell every data broker registered in the state of California that you'd like them to delete your information from their databases and request they stop selling and sharing your information.
Head to the California Privacy Protection Agency's DROP website to start your request.
Before you start, there are a few piece…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgParents and teachers need to read these with their kids, it's a wonderful educational opportunity - for all of the wrong reasons...
https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/116785283147249092
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange - The state of publishing right now
@wraithe@mastodon.social
@sofia@chaos.socialare political parties, de facto, part of the state apparatus? #poll
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngQuestion for other EU-based online shop owners: How are you going to deal with the upcoming EU PPWR packaging legislation changes[1] and specifically requiring a third party legal person/entity in every single EU member state you want to ship to after August 12, potentially having to contract & pay another EU-wide one-stop service or up to 26 middlemen just so you are allowed to ship to all EU countries? What happened to the idea of a single market?
Some of the "cheaper" off…
@arXiv_astrophGA_bot@mastoxiv.pageStar formation powers optical line emission from the CGM
Huanian Zhang, Lizhi Xie, Zhijie Qu, Dennis Zaritsky, Luis C. Ho, Min Bao, Fabio Fontanot, Michaela Hirschmann, Chenxu Liu, Gabriella De Lucia, Enci Wang, Haoyan Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18385 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18385 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18385
arXiv:2607.18385v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Using integral field spectroscopy, we explore the disk-halo interface, or the inner circumgalactic medium (CGM), of individual galaxies by constructing and analyzing emission-line maps for a large sample (72) of normal, low-redshift galaxies spanning three orders of magnitude in stellar mass and four orders in star formation rate (SFR). We find a steep turnover occurring at $(1-2) R_e$ in the H$\alpha$, [O {\small II}], and [O {\small III}] line emission radial profiles. Beyond this radius, the slope of the line emission radial profiles becomes shallower as the SFR of the central galaxy decreases, which might reflect the strength of the feedback processes. The line emission fluxes at large radius ($(5-10) R_e$ or $\sim (0.1-0.25)r_{\rm vir}$) correlate with the galaxy's SFR, but not with its stellar mass. These findings suggest that ionizing photons escaping from star-forming regions in the central galaxy account for the observed emission line fluxes from the inner CGM, with escape fractions inferred from the [O {\small III}] and [O {\small II}] ratio. Different state-of-the-art theoretical models do not agree on the predicted dependence of cool gas on the SFR of the central galaxies, highlighting the importance of CGM emission line measurements to distinguish between different subgrid models for star formation and feedback processes.
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@gray17@mastodon.socialpet bullied me into voting, so I dropped off my Oregon ballot at the local library, 30m before closing. Steady trickle of people, so I'm not the only last minute voter.
This is a boring primary for Dems, nothing really contentious or exciting.
I think every election should have at least one "fun" vote to improve turnout, choose the state emoji, something like that
@cdarwin@c.imThe latest baby name data from Washington, D.C., reads like a roll call of 19th-century senators and their wives:
Lucy, Eleanor and Caroline for girls.
Charles, John and George for boys.
These are not the names you might expect from one of the most progressive cities in the country.
The same pattern exists in New York,
where some of the most popular baby names include
Charlotte, Emma, Henry and Theodore,
according to newly released state name data.…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeAlready overburdened by growing alert volumes and expanding attack surfaces, SOC workers now have to deal with more AI-generated information that must itself be evaluated.
Check out my latest CSO on the human challenges that AI brings to SOCs.
Thanks to Fernando Montenegro of the Futurum Group, SOC expert Chris Crowley, SANS expert John Hubbard, and Jose-Marie Griffiths, president emerita and former CIO of Dakota State University, for their insights.
@aardrian@toot.cafe“New York’s Juneteenth”
#Buffalo newspaper clippings (images have insufficient alt) from 1827 (the year of full aboliti…
@cdarwin@c.imTurkiye has revoked the operational licence for a top private university with liberal values,
effectively forcing it to close in the middle of the academic year,
after the institution was seized by the state in a criminal investigation last year.
In a presidential decree, published in the Official Gazette on Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revoked the operating licence for Istanbul Bilgi University,
which has an estimated 20,000 students from Turkiye and acr…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGavin Newsom signs an EO mandating state agencies work with the AI industry and others to study subsidies for companies that don't replace workers with AI (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/technol
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAustralia's biggest media company Nine Entertainment cuts ~30 newsroom jobs at the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, blaming AI's "extreme state of disruption" (Amanda Meade/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decontiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted
@cdarwin@c.imThe US health secretary,
Robert F Kennedy Jr, has said the ongoing outbreak of cyclosporiasis
– the illness caused by the cyclospora parasite that causes watery and explosive diarrhea
– is “under control”.
Kennedy made the remarks one day after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did an about-face on a 27-state recall of shredded iceberg lettuce, calling the reported product a “false positive”.
Thirty-four states have reported cyclosporiasis cases this sum…
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldOnly about a quarter of Oklahoma voters showed up for this week's primary. In my latest post, I reflect on voting, State Question 832, runoff elections, ranked-choice voting, and why low turnout remains so frustrating. I also recommend Project Hail Mary.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/more-voti
@hex@kolektiva.socialIt's worth nothing that oil, the dominant funder of both political parties, the industry that ultimately maintains veto power over both parties political platforms, is not profitable without massive state investment. Roads, parking, and infrastructure grants, all put money in the pockets of the industry that is destroying the planet. That money then comes right back into the political sphere to control the frame of debate around climate change and how to address it.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThis month on All Space Considered, Griffith Observatory welcomed Dr. Joel Leja, Associate Professor of astronomy & astrophysics at The Pennsylvania State University, to discuss his research on the processes of galaxy formation derived from a combination of statistics, machine learning, and deep galaxy surveys with telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope: #LittleRedDots
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA Washington judge grants a request to temporarily block Kalshi from offering sports-related bets in the state, citing a breach of the state gambling law (Timmy Shen/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/409011/washington-kalshi-preliminary-injunction
@cdarwin@c.imAs part of the Trump administration’s continuing attack on left-leaning groups,
the US state department has listed several activists and organizations as
“front groups and fellow travelers” for Cuba,
including Hasan Piker and Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls.
In a 100-page report released on Monday, the state department denounces Cuba as the
“capital of 21st-century communism”,
accusing the Cuban government of carrying out a “campaign of subversion”…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialPlain evil but people are getting used to this from Trump.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/18/pepfar-south-africa-white-afrikaners-hiv-aids-00968479
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deus_air_traffic: U.S. air traffic
Yearly snapshots of flights among all commercial airports in the United States from 1990 to today. Metadata include passengers, distance, carrier, airport located city, state, and month of the flight.
This network has 2278 nodes and 6390340 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Airport, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal
@cdarwin@c.imThe majority of the Supreme Court today seems to have lost sight of the New Deal Court’s reservations about unchecked presidential power.
In overturning Congress’s for-cause removal protection for the single director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau
the Roberts Court went all in on the constitutional imperative of presidential control of his appointees.
One island of concern seems to remain:
the Court’s apparent reluctance to endorse virtually plenary presi…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeDisney Hit With Class Action Over Facial Recognition Technology at Park Entrances
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-class-action-lawsuit-facial-recognition-disneyland-1236598890/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSecretary of State Marco Rubio With Sean Hannity of Fox News Channel (Marco Rubio/United States Department of State)
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/05/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-with-sean-hannity-of-fox-news-channel/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p27#a260514p27
@cdarwin@c.imAcross the country, a few younger Democrats are beginning to paint a picture of a nation that stands for more than gratuitous displays of power and wealth, the bombs we drop on Iranian children or an oligarch purchasing the pageantry of the Met Gala:
Jon Ossoff is arguing persuasively that rooting out corruption is the key to making government serve the people.
James Talarico is describing how his faith compels a brand of politics in which we care for one another.
Alexan…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA profile of ESPN analyst Matt Miller, who is accused of stiffing winners of his charity fantasy football leagues and was nearly killed in a car crash in June (The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7447251/2026/07/17/matt-miller-espn-ca…
@cdarwin@c.imThe US government’s latest allegations that Cuba is behind “many of the most significant upheavals in recent American political history”
and that its leaders pose “a unique threat to American homeland security”
have come as startling revelations to those living under the six-month-long US oil blockade in Havana,
where desperate people search through piles of uncollected rubbish for food, or else swelter at home in 24-hour-plus blackouts.
The unsigned 100-page report, …
@cdarwin@c.imIn California, survivors of solitary confinement
who have spent years trying to seriously limit the practice are facing yet another setback
as state prison officials unwind the minor reforms made in recent years.
Those reforms, which had reduced the number of rule violations that could make someone eligible for isolation and increased out-of-cell time for people in solitary,
were part of a compromise Governor Gavin Newsom proposed after his 2022 veto of the Mandela A…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialQ&A with Fernando Alfonso III, NYT's first Texas-based editor, on leading a new team of five Texas reporters and editors as they cover the state's complexity (Sarah Bahr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/insider/new-york-times-texas.html
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration’s cuts to the largest global H.I.V. program last year resulted in sharp drops in both prevention efforts and treatment for the people most at risk from the disease, according to the first large survey of organizations that had received the funds.
The findings show a grimmer picture of the impact of the cuts than the State Department’s data, released in April,
which seemed to suggest that the program had helped to treat about as many people last year as it…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis called for a US-led coalition to shape AI rules and standards at a closed-door meeting at the G7 summit on Wednesday (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/17/anthropic-amodei-google-hassabis-us-…
@cdarwin@c.imIn 2013, when I had been locked up in solitary confinement for 25 years,
I wrote an essay entitled “A Sentence Worse Than Death,” which I’m told has been read by upwards of a million people to date.
It describes what life was like in “the box” (the special housing unit, or SHU for short) in New York’s state prisons,
and posited that if given the choice, I would have opted for a sentence of death over more than two decades of incarceration in abject isolation.
At the ti…
@cdarwin@c.imSecretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a rare direct appeal to the Cuban people in a video posted on Wednesday, the anniversary of their independence from Spain and U.S. military occupation, urging them to align with the Trump administration as it seeks to weaken the Cuban regime.
In the address, which was in Spanish with English subtitles and posted on the State Department’s YouTube channel Wednesday morning, Rubio mentions the former Cuban leader, Raúl Castro, around the one-minute…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNeuralTrust, which offers tech that lets enterprises discover, monitor, govern, and secure AI agents, raised a $20M seed led by Alstin Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/06/17/neuraltrust-closes-20m-to-expand-ai-agent-security-pl…
@cdarwin@c.imThe idea of a suspension of the constitution had been introduced,
by the Constitution of 22 Frimaire Year 8.
Article 14 of the Charte of 1814 granted the sovereign the power to
"make the regulations and ordinances necessary for the execution of the laws and the security of the State"
Because of the vagueness of the formula, Chateaubriand observed
"that it is possible that one fine morning the whole Charte will be forfeited for the benefit of Art…
@cdarwin@c.imCornyn and his allies have poured millions into brutal, personal ads trying to defeat Paxton
— and they’ve had a lot of material to work with.
Paxton has faced an impeachment attempt by the state legislature,
ethics complaints from his staff
and a federal securities fraud investigation.
He’s currently going through a divorce that his wife filed for on “biblical grounds.”
Republicans are increasingly concerned that a Paxton nomination would put the seat i…
@cdarwin@c.imToday, I’m talking with Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore about her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, which comes out on August 25.
Jill is one of the best writers there is at identifying institutional patterns in history, and Decoder is a show about systems, so this book could not possibly be more in our zone.
You build systems by measuring things — gathering information, quantifying it as data, and taking action on it. And Jill’s big…
@cdarwin@c.imIn a significant victory for the party’s left wing, Chris Rabb took roughly 45% of the vote in Tuesday’s contest, comfortably ahead of early frontrunner state senator, Sharif Street, who fell to under 30%, and surgeon Ala Stanford.
Rabb addressed supporters, in an emotional victory speech, who had powered a grassroots campaign backed by the Philadelphia Democratic Socialists of America and the Working Families party.
“I have been critiqued along this campaign for being too radica…
@cdarwin@c.imTroy Jackson is the frontrunner for Maine Democrats
What happens next?
A reminder of the next steps of the frantic replacement process in the Maine Senate race now that Troy Jackson appears poised to clinch the Democratic nomination.
Over the weekend, all 16 counties elected 500 delegates who will vote in a special convention in Bangor on Saturday,
with the remaining delegates coming from the state Democratic party committee.
This will the formal process of selec…
@cdarwin@c.imThe American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts says it’s releasing an online toolkit this week for criminal defense attorneys
designed to uncover whether police used surveillance technologies
—facial recognition, automatic license plate readers, gunshot detection systems, and more
—to build the cases against their clients in secret.
The toolkit, which the group describes as the first of its kind, is built around handcrafted legal motions that, when granted by a judg…
@cdarwin@c.imSince Trump’s decision to snatch Maduro in January and reboot relations with his successors,
the five-star hotel has become the nerve centre of Washington’s efforts to steer a country some now call a US protectorate
– and which Trump has even said he hopes to turn into the 51st state.
“It’s [effectively] the US embassy.
I don’t think anybody’s going to work at the actual embassy,”
said Phil Gunson, a Caracas-based political analyst for Crisis Group.
@cdarwin@c.imThe debate between the spelling and pronunciation of Molokaʻi or Molokai
(with or without the glottal stop,
or ʻokina, between the “a” and “i”)
has been ongoing for decades.
Speakers, who were born and raised on Molokaʻi, all pronounced the name of their island as Molokaʻi with the ʻokina letter,” Kimura recently told ASD by email.
“Also, all the Native Hawaiian speakers not from Molokaʻi who interacted in conversation with them pronounced Molokaʻi with the ʻok…
@cdarwin@c.imThe nation’s largest public four-year university may soon be barred from replacing faculty with generative AI
as a bill backed by a union of professors comes nearer to reaching the governor’s desk.
Few examples exist of the California State University’s attempting to replace faculty labor with generative AI tools,
but the faculty union wants to prevent such efforts from ever getting off the ground.
The bill so far has garnered no opposition from lawmakers and may clear…
@cdarwin@c.imOne of Donald Trump’s most grandiose vanity projects,
-- a multimillion-dollar makeover of Florida’s Palm Beach international airport
into a self-aggrandizing, gold-plated transportation hub,
-- is running into turbulence, barely a week after the first plane’s wheels touched the runway.
At first glance, the rebranding of the airport less than 5 miles from his opulent Mar-a-Lago resort appears to be complete.
Its website bears the name and oversized logo of the …
@cdarwin@c.imSecretary of State Marco Rubio
and top White House adviser Stephen Miller
are pushing for a global crackdown on leftist organizations.
The State Department on Thursday hosted a summit
“on the resurgence of political terrorism,”
where Miller described the LEFT as
“enemies of civilization”
and described efforts to
“disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country.”
Rubio …
@cdarwin@c.imIran is saying it will “not return to prewar conditions”
and that Tehran will charge ships to transit the waterway after a 60-day toll-free period stipulated in the memorandum of understanding.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei reportedly said the issue of the strait would be the responsibility of Iran and Oman.
Chief Iranian negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on state television that the “strait of Hormuz will not return to prewar conditions”, addin…
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imRepublicans in the Georgia State Legislature, facing mounting anger from Black leaders,
scuttled plans to take up redistricting on Wednesday during a special session that had been called expressly to erase U.S. House seats in majority-Black districts.
Gov. Brian Kemp called the session to draw legislative maps before the 2028 election with the aim of creating boundaries more favorable to Republicans.
Georgia was to be the latest Southern state to consider redistricting afte…
@cdarwin@c.imMaine Secretary of State
Shenna Bellows announces her withdrawal from U.S. Senate race
Bellows stated that due to
"Donald Trump's attacks on our democracy" accelerating,
she felt the best way she could serve the country was to focus on her current role
#maine #democratic
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imThe right wing think tank "Manhattan Institute", is in the midst of a yearlong campaign to pass state-level legislation
reclassifying minor crimes like vandalism, blocking a roadway, or trespassing during a protest as felonies that would carry 18-month prison sentences as punishment.
The push to criminalize forms of nonviolent disobedience as a form of terrorism comes amid a broader Trump administration effort to crack down on leftist organizations, causes, and social m…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump’s state department intends to allocate $12m to organisations in the UK
founded by the prominent Conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young, the Guardian can reveal.
The intended grants, revealed in US government documents, are part of a package of support for European groups viewed favourably by the Trump administration.
Former US officials have criticised the funding as a misuse of public money to seek influence over foreign politics.
The documents re…
@cdarwin@c.imTo some extent, Mohamed Hussein knew he was preparing to enter the lion’s den.
But he made the decision to attend the Republican Party of Texas Convention
to confirm for himself that he had a place in the GOP,
even as members of the party have railed for months about the urgency of ending Sharia Law and the so-called “Islamification” of Texas.
What he found was a party that didn’t want him.
He arrived with hope but left in tears after being told explicitly that …
@cdarwin@c.imA progressive 5th generation logger from the far-northern corner of Allagash, Maine,
Troy Jackson has had a long career in organizing progressive activists
and ties to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who had endorsed him in his gubernatorial race earlier this year.
The candidate will have less than four months to spin up a major battleground Senate campaign against GOP Sen. Susan Collins,
the only Senate Republican running for reelection in a state carried by former Vic…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration has decided to start phasing out HIV funding for South Africa following the country’s
“failure to make demonstrable progress on policy requests by the administration,”
a State Department official told POLITICO on Thursday.
The official, who agreed to discuss the decision only if POLITICO did not use their name,
said the decision to “initiate a phased drawdown of PEPFAR programming in South Africa”
is in line with Donald Trump’s February …
