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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-28 12:05:53

Appfigures: between September 30 and October 18, OpenAI's Sora had 2.6M iOS downloads, above the Meta AI app, which had 1.1M; Sora is iOS- and invite-only (CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/10/28/meta-ai-vi

Meta's AI app has seen growth soar since launch of Vibes, but trails OpenAI's Sora
The Meta AI app has seen a major jolt in downloads since the company launched Vibes and began paying creators to make AI-generated videos.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-09-27 07:00:04

urban_streets: Urban street networks (2017)
20 urban street networks, corresponding to 1-square-mile maps of 20 cities around the world.
This network has 210 nodes and 323 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
networks.skewed.de/net/urban_s

urban_streets: Urban street networks (2017). 210 nodes, 323 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/urban_streets#barcelona

urban_streets — Urban street networks (2017)
20 urban street networks, corresponding to 1-square-mile maps of 20 cities around the world.

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-10-24 01:54:18

There is a push to allow car traffic back on the Santa Barbara
State Street Promenade.
Now is our chance to stop it!
Send in a public comment now!
What do you enjoy most about the Car-Free State Street Promenade
strongtownssb.org/initiatives/

State Street
There is a push to allow car traffic back on the State Street Promenade. Now is our chance to stop it! Send in a public comment now! What do you enjoy most about the State Street Promenade being Car-Free?

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-09-26 14:36:25

Interesting URL here from the Wall Street Journal
wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-bubble-buil

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-24 16:19:42

“I sat beside a boy who tried to smile at me. I couldn’t return a real smile. Tears welled in my eyes as I realized words could never reach the horrors his soul had witnessed. All I could do was place my hand gently on his shoulder and whisper, ‘You are not alone.’”
– @…

I was walking down a street that had once been full of life—shops open,...
Then I saw them. Children. Some missing an arm, some missing a leg, some missing both, yet their small bodies moved through the debris with a courage that seemed almost impossible. Their eyes—wide, searching—asked questions no child should ever have to ask: Why me? Why here? Will anyone see me? A boy sat on the curb, rolling a broken toy car over the cracks. His laugh was fragile, sharp, yet it was still laughter. Nearby, a girl balanced on a fallen beam, her small feet gripping...

@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-28 08:11:51

From Stoplights to On-Ramps: A Comprehensive Set of Crash Rate Benchmarks for Freeway and Surface Street ADS Evaluation
John M. Scanlon, Timothy L McMurry, Yin-Hsiu Chen, Kristofer D. Kusano, Trent Victor
arxiv.org/abs/2508.19425

From Stoplights to On-Ramps: A Comprehensive Set of Crash Rate Benchmarks for Freeway and Surface Street ADS Evaluation
This paper presents crash rate benchmarks for evaluating US-based Automated Driving Systems (ADS) for multiple urban areas. The purpose of this study was to extend prior benchmarks focused only on surface streets to additionally capture freeway crash risk for future ADS safety performance assessments. Using publicly available police-reported crash and vehicle miles traveled (VMT) data, the methodology details the isolation of in-transport passenger vehicles, road type classification, and crash …

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2025-10-26 16:31:51

I think this sign wants to tell us something about mobility.

Dead-end street sign, but not for cyclists and pedestrians.
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
2025-10-27 01:03:09

New York City has imposed a 15mph speed limit on ebikes.
I'm not worried though, because where I live I bike on a street with a 25mph speed limit and cars routinely go 30mph or faster.
I know this because I bike on the road at 25mph and cars go flying past me.
So if they don't enforce it for cars are they really gonna enforce it for bikes?

@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2025-08-28 00:30:00

Uneven Lives VII 👁️
不工整人生 VII 👁️
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ERA 100, expired 1994
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

• English Alt Text: Black-and-white image of a person squatting on a brick sidewalk with a painted bicycle symbol, possibly eating or drinking. A ghostly double exposure effect and tree shadows create a moody, artistic scene. • 中文替代文字： 黑白图像，一人蹲在铺有砖块并标有自行车符号的人行道上，似乎在吃或喝东西。图像中有树影和幽灵般的双重曝光效果，营造出一种情绪化的艺术氛围。
• English Alt Text: Black-and-white photo of two delivery riders on motorcycles parked under a tree on a city sidewalk. One box shows the logo “闪送.” A bicycle rider and a car are visible on the street, with tall buildings in the background. • 中文替代文字： 黑白照片，城市人行道上两名快递员骑摩托车停在树荫下，其中一个快递箱上印有“闪送”标志。街道上有骑自行车的人和一辆汽车，背景是高楼建筑。
• English Alt Text: A black-and-white photo of a person standing beside a bicycle on a tree-lined sidewalk, facing an empty road. Abstract white shapes from film damage or double exposure add a surreal, artistic effect. • 中文替代文字： 一张黑白照片，画面中一人站在树荫人行道上的自行车旁，面朝空旷的马路。图像边缘和中央有抽象白色图形，可能是胶片损坏或双重曝光造成，增添了超现实的艺术感。
• English Alt Text: A black-and-white photo of a city street in front of the “Da Jiao Ting International Business Hotel.” Several vehicles, including a white van labeled “Maximum capacity: 10 people,” a bus, and a car, are parked outside. Reflections and silhouettes suggest the photo was taken through a window. • 中文替代文字： 黑白照片，城市街道场景，位于“大郊亭国际商务酒店”前。酒店外停有多辆车，包括一辆标有“准乘10人”的白色面包车、一辆公交车和一辆轿车。图像中有反光和人影，显示照片可能是透过窗户拍摄的。
@mszll@datasci.social
2025-10-26 10:55:16

Measuring and moving on the street: A scoping review of street space allocation studies
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108

@bourgwick@heads.social
2025-10-27 03:59:05

happily escaping into this 1980 issue of the UK zine dark star i scored from a street vendor last week. heavy old wave vibes but also a fun intersection of way serious british deadheads with alan moore (who contributes a curt vile page) & the soft boys (with a rapturous underwater moonlight review).

magazine called Dark Star with Grace Slick on the cover
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-10-26 04:46:38

Remember Trump telling how extremely safe Washington DC was now..... Ofcourse he was lying.
kutv.com/news/nation-world/…

11 people were shot at seven overnight incidents, police say
D.C. police are investigating the shootings of 11 people overnight at seven different locations. These shootings took place within nine hours.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-09-23 01:10:51

The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, and Rupert Murdoch file to dismiss Trump's $10B defamation lawsuit over Jeffrey Epstein report, saying "the article is true" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
deadline.com/2025/09/trump-wal

Wall Street Journal Seeks Dismissal Of Donald Trump’s Defamation Lawsuit Over Jeffrey Epstein Report: “The Article Is True”
Trump sued the Journal over a report on a letter he allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein; he denies writing it.

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-09-27 12:12:19

Asking “…all the soldiers of the army of the US not to point their rifles at humanity," is _not_ having “…urged U.S. soldiers to…incite violence,” in fact seems to be the opposite of a call for violence (it is a call to be peaceful).
Petro is the current President of Columbia.

screenshot from CNN world: "It (the global force) has to be bigger than that of the United States. That's why from here, from New York, I ask all the soldiers of the army of the US not to point their rifles at humanity," Petro is heard saying in a video posted to social media. "Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity," he added. Afterwards, the US State Department said in a post on X: "Earlier today, Colombian president (Gustavo Petro) stood on a NYC street and urged U.S. sol…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-08-28 02:10:59

Inside the Minneapolis Catholic School Shooting (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/us-news/minnesota-scho
memeorandum.com/250827/p156#a2

@akosma@mastodon.online
2025-11-27 15:30:11

So this is why you will only find cars with proprietary software in Geneva.
(Disclaimer: "GPL" stands for "Gaz de pétrole liquéfié" in French, or "Liquefied petroleum gas", and has nothing to do with the software license. This is just a funny sign. That's all. End of disclaimer.)

Photo of a street sign in Geneva stating that "GPL vehicles are forbidden"
@privateshufti@mastodon.social
2025-09-27 10:42:52

Street art in Paphos, #Cyprus today
#antifa

"Zona Antifascista" in white block capitals against a black background, with a logo of red and black flags
@gwire@mastodon.social
2025-11-25 13:00:41

The plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street are less ambitious than I'd hoped.
diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/202

@yaya@jorts.horse
2025-10-28 03:26:14

so there's skeleton decorations down State Street but SOMETHING WENT VERY WRONG WITH THE LAST ONE AND I COULD NOT STOP LAUGHING

skeleton in a button down with a crow on its shoulder
skeleton with floral accessories or something
skeleton head with Einstein hair and then where the torso and arms should be is just a long metal tube that connects to the pelvis and it's hunched over and it's so fucking funny
side view of the torso-less leaning skeleton oh my god it's so goofy
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-11-27 09:57:00

Just had a visit from Fellesforbundet at the workplace. To be honest, we get a lot of visits from Fellesforbundet since they are located in a building right across the street from my well-adapted industrial company.
Fellesforbundet is a reformist, bureaucratic union affiliated with the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO). It is not syndicalist and operates with a hierarchical structure, including elected leadership and regional divisions.
The union primarily negotiates…

The poster promotes the Norsk Syndikalistisk Forbund (NSF), the Norwegian Syndicalist Federation affiliated with the International Workers' Association (IAA). It features a black-and-white photo of a large group of people, likely members of the organization. The text "Anarkosyndikalismen i Norge!" ("Anarchosyndicalism in Norway!") is prominently displayed, emphasizing the group's focus on anarcho-syndicalist activism. Contact details for the NSF-IAA appear at the bottom of the poster. The des…
@servelan@newsie.social
2025-10-27 01:02:38

"History is important, monuments matter. And the home of the U.S. president isn’t just a building to be optimized for function. It is a symbol of power, legacy and national identity. Respect for the nation and all that it has built still matters. These aren’t trifles or overreactions. They are the foundations of the republic we built. That’s worth defending."
**'Astonishing': Wall Street Journal editorial writer bashes Trump's ballroom 'fiasco' **- Raw Story
rawstory.com/trump-ballroom-26

@ubuntourist@mastodon.social
2025-09-26 11:53:42

"This Michigan Avenue Trail project will upgrade the existing sidewalk facility on the north side of Michigan Avenue NE from Harewood Road NE to Monroe Street NE (.2 miles), expanding the 5-foot sidewalk to a 10-foot-wide shared-use path and connecting to the trail on the West side of Harewood Road NE."
#bike

Michigan Avenue Trail
Michigan Avenue Trail From Harewood Rd to Monroe Rd NE Project Overview This Michigan Avenue Trail project will upgrade the existing sidewalk facility on the north side of Michigan Avenue NE from Harewood Road NE to Monroe Street NE (.2 miles).  The project will expand the existing 5-foot sidewalk to a 10-foot-wide shared use path and will connect to the existing trail on the West side of Harewood Road NE.  This multiuse trail will fill an important gap in our protected bikeways network by pr…

@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social
2025-09-26 01:45:17

Lynn realized that I had not eaten a thing today (the word she used is “hangry”) so we’re grabbing a bite at the old town. We got a window seat!
Downtown Ann Arbor is jumping on a Thursday night (as usual)!

This is a vibrant evening scene of an outdoor dining area, part of a restaurant’s pedestrianized street dining setup. The space features multiple red umbrellas that create a cohesive canopy over the seating area, with modern metal chairs and small round tables arranged throughout. The setting is a city street, with mature trees providing natural overhead coverage and string lights adding a warm, festive atmosphere. You can see several groups of diners enjoying their meals at various tables, cr…
@edintone@mastodon.green
2025-09-25 20:47:29

This looks a useful bookshelf addition. The history of the high street bsky.app/profile/dranniegray.b @…

Annie Gray (@dranniegray.bsky.social)
Happy paperback release day to me! This beauty is now out, and available in all good bookshops and also some which you really should avoid because, especially given the topic, your best bet is to toddle off to your (or someone else's) high street to shop at an actual shop.

@padraig@mastodon.ie
2025-09-27 20:50:59

My head hurts reading this. It's a weird scam or something.
Also, don't confuse this AI slop show with Salesforce... This ain't the same company.
The LinkedIn link is legitimate. The video was posted in the last few days.
The person's title is also something else.
And what Slack 'community'? I am only in 1 Slack and that is for work lol.

A Betterbird screenshot of an email from "Laura Mare" at laura@salesforgebrothers.com Text in email: Padraig, hey there. I know this is a bit out of the blue, I bumped into you in a Slack community and I would love your 2 cents on this ad we produced recently with Elevenlabs voice agent: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/franksondors_the-wolf-of-wall-street-but-for-cold-outbound-activity-7375855169756090370-NzsI?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAATMPioBTG_UOXzDsLXuotrtWbE3blL…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-08-28 05:38:33

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jeff Buckley:
🎵 Strawberry Street (live rehearsal at Knitting Factory, New York, NY – May 1993)
#JeffBuckley

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-10-22 01:22:30

Oh, if you think agents had a tough time in LA and Chicago.. just wait til NYC steps up. The sheer density means federal agents are going to find themselves regularly outnumbered by angry crowds.
thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/ice-rai

Military-Style Immigration Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors
Spontaneous protests were met with an armored military vehicle and assault rifles in a crackdown that escalated the Trump administration’s focus on NYC.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-26 18:48:41

Sources: EA is nearing a deal to go private in a leveraged buyout valuing the company at ~$50B; investors include Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia's PIF (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/business/deals/ea-priv

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-10-27 03:02:43

Wall Street Journal crows:
With nearly 92% of votes counted, Milei’s Freedom Advances party won almost 41% of the national vote, putting it on track to more than
double its representation in the Argentine congress
wsj.com/world/americ…

@hynek@mastodon.social
2025-11-25 23:19:34

there’s a Starbucks on Henry Street here #iykyk

@coreyjrowe@detmi.social
2025-10-28 13:37:41

Okay, that explains a LOT. Our poor Wolverine coaches were turning yellow 😭
trains.com/pro/passenger/inter

Amtrak's Chicago train wash open for business; other locations to follow - Trains
CHICAGO— The questions “what took so long?” and “when will the others be operational?” weren’t entirely answered Thursday, Oct. 23, when Trains was among those invited to observe, along with Amtrak president Roger Harris, the workings of the long-overdue train wash located near the south end of the company’s 16th Street coach yard. “Each one [...]Read More...

@jom@social.kontrollapparat.de
2025-10-25 09:30:31

Beware of the chicken.
#Dorfleben

The picture shows the front yard of a yellow house on a quiet, small street. In the left foreground, a brown and white chicken is visible on a patch of green, seemingly looking for food. To its left, a bare rose bush stands directly in front of the house entrance, which has a wooden door with a colorful frame. In the right part of the image, there is a low stone fence with more shrubs and bushes behind it. A paved sidewalk runs behind the yard, parallel to a street with little traffic. A black…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-10-25 09:00:04

urban_streets: Urban street networks (2017)
20 urban street networks, corresponding to 1-square-mile maps of 20 cities around the world.
This network has 1840 nodes and 2407 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
networks.skewed.de/net/urban_s

urban_streets: Urban street networks (2017). 1840 nodes, 2407 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/urban_streets#venice

urban_streets — Urban street networks (2017)
20 urban street networks, corresponding to 1-square-mile maps of 20 cities around the world.

@scott@carfree.city
2025-09-26 02:08:56

I do sometimes use the trick of pretending to be looking at my phone while crossing the street to make drivers more likely to stop
One time though I had one play chicken accelerating at me. I shouted stop and they heckled me through their window saying they did it to teach me a lesson. Lesson learned: cars suck

@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
2025-09-23 04:21:08

Kieran Hebden, William Tyler:
41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s #sound
fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/41-

@joe@toot.works
2025-10-25 23:19:38

It looks like the Arby's down the street is gone (and being gutted?). That is going to cut into my ability to eat curly fries.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-26 23:10:33

Trump Takes a Wrecking Ball to the People's House (Collin Levy/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/opinion/trump-takes-a-
memeorandum.com/251026/p56#a25

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-09-26 17:26:10

A profile of Nexstar CEO Perry Sook, who kicked Jimmy Kimmel off his stations and has criticized the "unbridled and ubiquitous reach of Big Tech and Big Media" (Joe Flint/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/business/media/who-is-

@compfu@mograph.social
2025-09-24 21:38:09

At some point, DOPs should stop going for even shallower depth of field or even weirder anamorphic lens distortion. I'm feeling like an old guy complaining about how "you can't see anything on the screen! It's too dark". Only I'm like "nothing is in focus anymore you doofuses!"
Yes, this is a subtoot about #Brick on

Outdoor scene from the German Netflix movie Brick. Medium closeup shot of a bearded white guy with a shirt and tie who is standing in the street facing the camera. Two other actors, a brunette woman on the left and a man on the right are with their backs to the camera. Due to the shallow depth of field and motion blur even the actor who should be in focus is slightly out of focus. The street background is very out of focus as are the backs of the other to actors.
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-28 00:06:35

A look at the setbacks facing the US DOD's Replicator program that seeks to quickly produce low-cost drones and other autonomous weapons to counter China (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/politics/national-secu

@StephenRees@mas.to
2025-11-25 18:32:52

From Translink
Sleigh through the holidays with TransLink’s Reindeer Bus and Santa Train
Toys for Tots marks 40 years of supporting Metro Vancouver families in need
link.etranslink.ca/v/443/61496

A transit bus with a red balloon nose and "reindeer" antlers in a foggy street
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-10-28 07:56:46

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Simon & Garfunkel:
🎵 The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
#Simon #Garfunkel
prfmonthlytributeseries.bandca
open.spotify.com/track/0dzbfio

@samerfarha@mastodon.social
2025-09-26 11:17:55

The war on cars continues unabated in Reykjavík. It’s pretty great, honestly (tbf, this street was already so overrun with pedestrians, it would have more annoying to drive down it than not). Cc: @…

Some planters and donut shaped benches are placed in parking spaces adjacent to Ingolfstorg
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to
2025-09-25 21:57:26

Garbage. Ppl pay for this?
My prompt was `Edward Hopper's American Gothic but with two robots` and it didn't even include a pitchfork.
#microsoft

American Robot Gothic attempt 1: its a farm house ok. The two robots look like the one from Lost In Space a bit, all metallic. There's some humanoid wearing a sunhat in the background; is he their master? Is he enslaved? Is he a Solaran from Asimov's Robot/Foundation novels and his mutant telekenesis is how the Robots are powered?
American Robot Gothic #2 - a farmhouse (ok) but against a backdrop of oil derricks (fitting) with two Iron Giant style monstrosities who look like they're ready to stomp the house for being woke. What looks like an Edsel is in the driveway. Some weird abstract porch chairs sit... err float.. disjointedly on the porch. The Iron couple's robot progeny play "RoboCops and Humans" on one side of the porch. The light is that of dusk, about the time that the street lights would come on and all good ro…
American Robot Gothic attempt #3: farmhouse check. Someone is burning insurance papers in the basement furnace as black smoke eminates from the chimney.. and also from the old style TV antennae for some reason. There are two "tin can man" style robots with red eyes and antennae ears in the foreground with exposed hoses and articulations at joints, but they're not standing side by side and neither has a pitchfork. The SPirit of St. Lois flies in the sky along with... Skylab?! for some reason…
American Robot Gothic pathetic attempt 4: Another farmhouse (ok). Anthropromorphized robots stand in the foreground (one wears a metal dress). Again, no pitchforks. A masonic temple and... The Sears building ? appear in the background. The two (rightful) human owners of the house sit smug in their rocking chairs looking on as another human - who looks like Elon Musk with a Ron Jeremy eyebrows and mustache roars off in a 1937 Ford Two Door roadster, like he's the evil banker that just forecl…
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-11-11 11:15:39

💡 Street lighting and public safety: Researchers evaluate the effect of improved street lighting on crime rates
penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-

Street lighting and public safety | Penn Today
Criminology researchers Aaron Chalfin and John MacDonald, and data scientist Brian Wade of Penn’s Crime and Justice Policy Lab, evaluate the effect of improved street lighting on crime rates.

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-09-25 08:33:17

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Chicago:
🎵 Street Player
#Chicago
zackdaniels.bandcamp.com/track
open.spotify.com/track/1HiaZTm

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-10-27 14:54:16

Something has definitely changed in Democratic rhetoric just in the last couple of weeks.
Officials are now suggesting that ICE agents are committing crimes and should be held accountable
— which is very different from simply objecting to a policy shift.
It’s fair to say this is a result not only of the street-level thuggery that has been so apparent,
but the mounting evidence that top Trump officials feel unconstrainedby the law, judges, or any established authorit…

ICE is out of control and beyond repair
This agency needs to be stripped down to the studs. Dems should start preparing now.

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2025-09-25 03:40:08

@…
I was looking at profiles of folks who’d favorited a toot of mine (about John Oliver) and saw Michigan City in yours, so I thought I’d say, hi 👋🏻. Two things stick out in my memories of the place. One was the sign for a business supply store on a corner on the main street that said, simply, KILL MACHINES. I’ve always regretted not taking a picture …

@tschfflr@fediscience.org
2025-10-21 20:19:28

hackaday.com/2025/01/08/a-stre
(The guy who made a calendar out of street signs). The linked video is also highly recommended: only 5 minutes but 150 slides

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-27 02:55:32

Milei Wins Mandate for Free-Market Revolution in Argentina's Election (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/world/americas/milei-w
memeorandum.com/251026/p65#a25

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-10-28 04:55:45

An interview with Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch about shifting the company's business model from print and web ads to events, paywalls, and other revenue sources (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/business/media/conde-n

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-27 01:35:35

How building robotic hands that match human dexterity remains a major technical obstacle to deploying humanoid robots in factories and for caregiving jobs (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/the-hands-problem

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-10-25 04:59:34

WSJ skewers Trump for pardon of 'crypto pal': 'Presidential leniency can be bought' - Raw Story
rawstory.com/wall-street-journ

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-10-26 04:41:05

So the DC National Guard are an f-ing laughing stock of derelict traitorous fops. They couldn’t secure a lemonade stand and yet took and take the illegal order to deploy _against_ the American People.
11 f-ing shootings on the National Guard’s watch because the f-ing National Guard are not police and never should take a deployment to pretend to be.
You dishonorable scum. You will never live down the shame. Wastes of space.

11 people were shot at seven overnight incidents, police say
D.C. police are investigating the shootings of 11 people overnight at seven different locations. These shootings took place within nine hours.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-27 20:01:22

Sources detail how Anduril's fast-moving approach with its defense tech led to setbacks; Ukraine stopped using Anduril's Altius drones in 2024 due to problems (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/politics/national-secu

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-11-27 00:10:55

Trump, After Call With China's Xi, Told Tokyo to Lower the Volume on Taiwan (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/world/china/trump-afte
memeorandum.com/251126/p116#a2

@scott@carfree.city
2025-11-26 05:36:56

Oak Woodlands has long been my favorite part of Golden Gate Park, but only recently have I come to appreciate Buena Vista Park for its own coast live oak forest... and even more recently noticed this enormous coffeeberry shrub at the bottom of the hill

A wide park path rises up a gentle incline with wooden steps to a bench, under and surrounded by coast live oak trees.
The underside of some coast live oak trees, showing how their branches grow in a spirally fashion.
A wide and tall coffeeberry shrub fills 3/4 of the frame, while beyond it across the street is a three-story Victorian apartment building with bay windows. The shrub has deep green leaves.
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-27 10:10:41

Indonesia and other developing countries are becoming AI hubs amid the multitrillion-dollar spending boom, in part driven by an "AI decolonization" philosophy (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)
w…

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-09-24 05:56:34

Wow.
fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app

Anonymous youranoncentral.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy 1/4 Major security failure in the US as France's President Macron is forced to walk through the streets of New York, the incident is reported to have been triggered by Trump's motorcade blocking access to the French delegation after President Macron's Palestine speech. Despite President Macron making light of the situation and "jokingly" calling Trump to clear the way, Trump told him he "couldn't do anything about it"; NYPD refused to allow h…
Anonymous youranoncentral.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy 4/4 As President Macron walked down the US street onlookers smiled and even took selfies with him; many of them happy to experience seeing a real president in the United States after months of the demonic autocratic clown show emanating out of the White House.

Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social)
As President Macron walked down the US street onlookers smiled and even took selfies with him; many of them happy to experience seeing a real president in the United States after months of the demonic autocratic clown show emanating out of the White House.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-11-27 16:25:50

Where Trump Sees Deals, Russia and China See a Chance to Disrupt U.S. Alliances (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/world/trump-china-russ
memeorandum.com/251127/p29#a25

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-09-22 22:01:33

Wall Street Journal fires back at Trump over Epstein birthday letter lawsuit: ‘The article is true’ | The Independent
independent.co.uk/news/world/a

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-27 21:15:50

A look at Anthropic's success with corporate AI, which makes up ~80% of its revenue; a July report put its enterprise API market share at 32% vs. OpenAI's 25% (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-busi

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-09-22 02:00:03

urban_streets: Urban street networks (2017)
20 urban street networks, corresponding to 1-square-mile maps of 20 cities around the world.
This network has 192 nodes and 303 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted, Metadata
networks.skewed.de/net/urban_s

urban_streets: Urban street networks (2017). 192 nodes, 303 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/urban_streets#washington

urban_streets — Urban street networks (2017)
20 urban street networks, corresponding to 1-square-mile maps of 20 cities around the world.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-28 11:15:47

Fireworks AI, which helps developers access AI chips and models, raised a $254M Series C at a $4B valuation, split into a $230M primary and $24M secondary round (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.co…

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-10-25 20:47:01

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street
-- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on
-- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.
bsky.app/profile/mandophotos.b

armando l sanchez (@mandophotos.bsky.social)
More from the scene

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-11-27 06:31:21

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
BADBADNOTGOOD & V.C.R:
🎵 Found a Light (Beale Street)
#BADBADNOTGOOD #VCR
badbadnotgoodofficial.bandcamp
open.spotify.com/track/09Btkoj

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-26 19:36:14

Italy's competition regulator says it is scrutinizing a Meta policy excluding rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, broadening the scope of a probe started in July (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/ai/italys-competi

Italy’s Competition Watchdog Broadens WhatsApp AI Policy Probe
The regulator began probing Meta over its WhatsApp AI messaging tool in July

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-11-25 19:17:07

'Vought Should Resign,' CFPB Workers Say of 'Pledge' to Be Nice to Wall Street Fraudsters | Common Dreams
commondreams.org/news/russell-

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-27 11:10:36

Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is finalizing $350M in funding led by Felicis at a $10B valuation; founded in 2023, Mercor manages 30K contractors (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/te…

@scott@carfree.city
2025-09-25 00:12:09

Just heard officially from SFMTA staff that Lurie is *not* seeking to restore the Market Street bus service he cut in June—a supposedly temporary cost savings.
Not too surprising, but still not something we should accept. Restore the 5, 6, 9, 21 and 31!

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-09-25 23:36:36

Robert Reich keeps getting emails and running into people in the street who say they went to their local theater and were thrilled to find a sense of hope and community they hadn’t expected,
and were desperate for.
Several people said they stayed in the lobby afterwards to speak with people they just met to talk about the importance of education and democracy,
and even to plan political protests and other forms of community engagement.
While the film is still playing…

YOU can bring The Last Class to a movie theater near you
A way to build hope and community

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-10-18 22:18:18

No Kings rally in Evanston, IL, looking N, W and S.
A good time, peaceful, neighborly. Democracy.
cc
@…
@…
@…

Looking North: A large crowd of people marching down a tree-lined city street during a protest, holding signs including one that reads "Democracy has no kings" and "NOPE."
Looking South: A group of people gathered on a city street for a protest, holding signs, with tall buildings and autumn trees in the background.
Looking West: A large crowd of people marching down a city street during a protest, holding signs, with a tall apartment building in the background and a "No Parking Snow Route" sign visible.
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-27 10:40:48

Microsoft's disclosures on its OpenAI stake are scant, including putting OpenAI-related losses into a $4.7B "other, net" expense line in the FY ended June 30 (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-26 17:15:51

Sources: US regulators examined 200 companies about sharp share-price gains in the lead-up to their announcements about making buying crypto a core strategy (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/finance/regulation/sec

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-27 05:45:58

San Francisco Compute, which provides a marketplace for AI computing capacity, raised a $40M Series A led by DCVC and Wing Venture Capital at a $300M valuation (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/articles/s…

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-22 17:56:00

Federal agents carry out joint ICE crackdown on Canal Street in Chinatown (abc7NY)
abc7ny.com/post/federal-agents
memeorandum.com/251022/p87#a25

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-08-28 01:11:17

Nvidia says it had no new H20 sales to China in Q2 and assumes the same for Q3, but could realize $2B-$5B in H20 sales in Q3 if geopolitical issues are resolved (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/business/earnings/nvid

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-10-21 03:22:07

Santa Barbara’s future vitality depends on making space for younger generations who want to build their lives here
— and a walkable, bike-friendly downtown offers immense value for renters, service workers, parents, and young professionals alike.
We cannot rely on big, national retail chains to anchor State Street
Bringing cars back will just bring back cruising, since parking has always been on nearby streets and in garages.
A walkable downtown supported by efficien…

State Street Should Be Planned for the Public Good, Not Private Profit
Our planning process should prioritize creating opportunity for small businesses, young families, and renters, not just property owners.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-25 11:05:45

A profile of Dr. Phil, who launched Envoy Media two weeks after his company Merit Street Media filed for bankruptcy in July, prompting accusations of bad faith (Stacy Perman/Los Angeles Times)
latimes.com/entertainment-arts…

Dr. Phil's media network is mired in bankruptcy. What happened?
The unraveling of Dr. Phil's media venture was a blow to the celebrity therapist who built a reputation as one of the most trusted voices on television. But his fortunes faded amid a dying market for syndicated TV and clashes with a distributor and partner.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-11-21 21:00:03

montreal: Montreal street gangs (2007)
Network representing relationships between gangs, obtained from Montreal Police’s central intelligence database, spanning 2004 to 2007. Nodes are gangs, and an edge represents some kind of relationship between two gangs (as elicited from interviews with gang members).
This network has 35 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted

montreal: Montreal street gangs (2007). 35 nodes, 78 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/montreal

montreal — Montreal street gangs (2007)
Network representing relationships between gangs, obtained from Montreal Police’s central intelligence database, spanning 2004 to 2007. Nodes are gangs, and an edge represents some kind of relationship between two gangs (as elicited from interviews with gang members).

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-26 03:01:01

How Trump Barreled Through D.C.'s Bureaucracy to Get His White House Ballroom (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-
memeorandum.com/251025/p61#a25

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-25 06:20:51

PG-rated movies dominate the US Box Office, driven by films like A Minecraft Movie; an NRG study finds kids want a social experience with friends and family (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/business/media/wicked-

Hollywood Is Reeling—and PG Movies Have Never Been So Popular
The PG rating has become the king of the box office. The entertainment business now relies on kids dragging their parents to theaters.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-26 11:45:35

The Lone House Democrat Who Thinks His Party Has the Shutdown All Wrong (Olivia Beavers/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/politics/policy/jared-
memeorandum.com/251026/p7#a251

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-26 12:20:32

Milei's Free-Market Experiment Hangs in the Balance as Argentina Votes (Samantha Pearson/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/world/americas/mileis-
memeorandum.com/251026/p9#a251

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-11-25 04:38:23

Elon Musk ultimately presided over a $220 billion increase in federal spending this fiscal year, excluding interest, The Wall Street Journal reported last month.
DOGE in May, was tasked with rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government
but fell well short his goal to slash $2 trillion in government spending.
Now a new report estimates DOGE actually wasted billions.
Musk was tasked with rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government but f…

Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-26 13:25:33

State Department Intelligence Agency Dissented Over Putin's Appetite for Peace (Brett Forrest/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/politics/national-secu
memeorandum.com/251026/p13#a25

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-25 19:35:47

Sources: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has spoken to TSMC CEO C.C. Wei about a partnership or a joint venture; he also met with Tim Cook this year; INTC is up 9% (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/intel-seeks-help-

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-10-21 23:05:51

Military-Style Sweep Hits NYC as Masked Federal Agents Arrest Canal Street Vendors (The City)
thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/ice-rai
memeorandum.com/251021/p126#a2

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-26 06:11:02

Sources: the Trump admin plans to require chipmakers to match local output with imports and impose tariffs on companies that fail to maintain a 1:1 ratio (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/economy/trade/trump-ch

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-09-26 02:50:44

A look at Intel's $28B Ohio chip factory, the largest economic development project in Ohio's history, initially set for a 2025 opening but now delayed till 2030 (Kris Maher/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/ohio-intel-chipma

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-26 05:26:13

Aggressive traders on Robinhood, whose stock has more than tripled in 2025, are central to the company's success, as critics liken the environment to a casino (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/finance/robinhood-ceo-

Traders Are Flooding Markets With Risky Bets. Robinhood’s CEO Is Their Cult Hero.
Brokerage co-founded by Vlad Tenev makes exotic investments available to ordinary investors, seeing aggressive traders as key to company’s success

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-26 00:26:08

Robinhood plans to launch a futures and derivatives exchange with Susquehanna in 2026 and says it's buying MIAXdx, which clears and executes derivatives trades (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)

Robinhood, Susquehanna to Launch Exchange to Expand Prediction Markets Offerings
The new exchange will help Robinhood offer additional prediction contracts tied to sports, elections and other future events

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-11-25 09:10:45

The Gang That Couldn't Indict Straight (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/opinion/the-gang-that-
memeorandum.com/251125/p2#a251

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-24 22:01:57

Sources detail how Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others brokered a call between SF Mayor Daniel Lurie and Trump to stop National Guard deployment (Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/politics/policy/san-fr

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-25 02:55:58

Character.ai is cutting off access to ongoing chats for users under 18 over mental-health concerns, after adding a two-hour daily limit on October 29 (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/ai/character-ai-t

Teens Are Saying Tearful Goodbyes to Their AI Companions
Chatbot maker Character.AI is cutting off access, citing mental-health concerns. Teens are distraught: ‘I cried over it for days.’

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-25 11:25:46

South Korea, the EU, the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others aim to build "sovereign AI"; Gartner expects $1.5T in AI spending in 2025, up 50% from 2024 (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)

‘Sovereign AI’ Takes Off as Countries Seek to Avoid Overreliance on Superpowers
South Korea and others believe their homegrown tech sectors are strong enough to build up their AI capabilities

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-24 19:25:45

How the US' annualized 1.6% GDP growth in H1 was heavily dependent on AI-related investments, which might have accounted for as much as 50% of the growth (Konrad Putzier/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/ai/how-the-u-s-ec

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-25 00:40:45

How Meta's financing structure for its $27B Louisiana data center, which helps it keep debt off its books, hinges on some convenient accounting assumptions (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/meta-ai-data-cent

AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-25 12:05:47

China is aggressively deploying AI and robotics to maintain its status as the world's manufacturing hub, and major companies are pioneering AI "dark factories" (Brian Spegele/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-robots-chin

Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy
To blunt Trump’s push to reclaim global manufacturing, China’s factories and ports are learning to make and export more goods faster, cheaper and with fewer workers

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-24 12:25:39

Amazon-backed nuclear reactor developer X-energy raised $700M led by Jane Street, taking its total funding to $1.4B, to build 150 SMRs in the US and the UK (Jamie Smyth/Financial Times)
ft.com/content/59d9b7d5-e34b-4