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@cdarwin@c.im
2025-10-19 23:15:21

Escalating the friction between Washington and one of its closest allies in Latin America,
Donald Trump said Sunday, the United States will slash assistance to Colombia because its leader, Gustavo Petro,
“does nothing to stop” drug production"
The U.S. president warned that Petro “better close up” drug operations “or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.”
Hours later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the latest U.S. strik…

Trump announces an end to US aid to Colombia
It's a war of words between President Donald Trump and Colombian leader Gustavo Petro over illegal drugs, with hundreds of millions of dollars in American aid hanging in the balance. Trump says he'll slash U.S. assistance and enact tariffs because Colombia's leftist president “does nothing to stop” drug production and is an “illegal drug leader.” Petro is rejecting the accusations and defending his work to fight narcotics in Colombia, the world’s largest exporter of cocaine. Colombia …

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-18 23:05:49

An Alabama state board votes to keep its contract with PBS for now, rejecting an effort to become the first state to cut ties following federal budget cuts (Kim Chandler/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/alabama-pbs

Alabama Public Television to keep PBS contract
The commission that oversees Alabama Public Television voted to continue paying its contract with PBS. The decision came after a public backlash to the idea of dropping PBS. The Alabama Educational Television Commission voted without dissent to continue paying the contract with PBS that runs until July. It also voted to create a committee to explore the future direction of Alabama Public Television. A proposal to take the first step toward severing ties failed when no commissioner seconded the …

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-18 17:26:21

WhatsApp updates its Business API terms to ban general-purpose chatbots starting January 15, 2026, affecting WhatsApp assistants of OpenAI, Perplexity, others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/what

WhatssApp changes its terms to bar general purpose chatbots from its platform | TechCrunch
WhatsApp is banning general purpose chatbots from using its Business API

@yaya@jorts.horse
2025-10-18 22:17:43

um
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Li

DARPA LifeLog LifeLog was a project of the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). According to its bid solicitation pamphlet in 2003, it was to be "an ontology-based (sub) system that captures, stores, and makes accessible the flow of one person's experience in and interactions with the world in order to support a broad spectrum of associates/assistants and other system capabilities". The objec…
The LifeLog program was canceled on February 4th 2004 after criticism concerning the privacy implications of the system.
Facebook was founded February 4, 2004
@cdarwin@c.im
2025-10-19 21:08:51

Chen-Ning (Frank) Yang 1922-2025
Yang Zhenning dies at 103
•Not Even Wrong / by Peter Woit /
Oct 19, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Chen-Ning Yang (often known in the US as “Frank”) passed away in Beijing yesterday at the age of 103.
He was the last of the great figures of 1950s high-energy particle physics still with us.
His name is associated with two of the central ideas of what was to become the Standard Model.
In 1953, together with Robert Mills, he wrote down…

Chen-Ning (Frank) Yang 1922-2025
Chen-Ning Yang (often known in the US as “Frank”) passed away in Beijing yesterday at the age of 103. He was the last of the great figures of 1950s high-energy particle physics still wi…

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-20 01:53:29

The International Mountain Biking Association helped build this trail in Shindagin Hollow State forest to train our local club how to build and maintain trails
#photo #photography #forest

A rather indistinct trail makes its way from the center left on the bottom towards the center right near the middle on a forest floor covered with fallen brown leaves, this is a single age strand so there aren't a lot of understory plants or small trees rather a large number of stems in the near view but you can see some foliage further away
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-16 09:00:09

Sonnenberg ridge entirely living up to its name...
(Made the most of the last warm weather yesterday afternoon to hike/climb along this beautiful long ridge with many cliffs, roped sections, some cute chamois and hardly any people — temporarily felt like late August, yet in two days supposedly snow starting...)
#SilentSunday

A narrow path along a very narrow ridge of light gray rocks, steep slopes dropping off on either side. The south-facing right side is mostly forested, illuminated by the warm afternoon sun. Blue sky with some streaky clouds.
Steep slopes with yellow brown dried grasses leading down into the valley between some cliffs of light gray rocks and forest. Everything bathed in warm golden light. The valley floor is visible with dense forest, a section of the Linder river and tall mountains rising up on the other side of the valley. Hazy sky.
The silhouette of a standalone rock needle and some nearby trees along the ridge. The sun and some mountains are partially visible from behind the rock. Beautiful red/brown grasses.
(Almost) white, vertical cliffs seen through the forest, illuminated by the late afternoon sun. A small section of blue sky above.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-12-18 14:51:58

Good overview of hybrid warfare by Russia.
#AP

Russia wants to drain Europe's security resources with sabotage campaign, officials say | AP News
The Associated Press has tracked 145 cases of sabotage and disruption that Western officials blame on Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. They say Moscow wants to drain Europe’s investigative resources.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-18 12:20:50

Filing: the US FTC ends its review of SoftBank's $6.5B acquisition of chip designer Ampere, granting an early termination; SoftBank announced the deal in March (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

SoftBank’s $6.5 Billion Deal for Chip Firm Ampere Wins FTC Nod
The US Federal Trade Commission has ended its review of SoftBank Group Corp.’s acquisition of semiconductor designer Ampere Computing LLC, removing an obstacle to the $6.5 billion deal.

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-19 02:58:20

So far in Russia's hybrid war in Europe, most known acts of sabotage have resulted in minimal damage
— nothing compared to the tens of thousands of lives lost and cities decimated across Ukraine.
But officials say each act
— from vandalism of monuments to cyberattacks to warehouse fires
— sucks up valuable security resources.
The head of one large European intelligence service said investigations into Russian interference now swallow up as much of the agency’…

Russia wants to drain Europe's security resources with sabotage campaign, officials say | AP News
The Associated Press has tracked 145 cases of sabotage and disruption that Western officials blame on Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. They say Moscow wants to drain Europe’s investigative resources.