@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-15 06:11:06
Filing: Oracle signed ~$150B of data center leases in the three months ending November 30, raising its total data center and cloud capacity commitments to $248B (Martin Peers/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-14 18:24:03
US companies are gathering for the spoils.
One contender, the Guardian has learned, is Gothams LLC, a politically connected contractor that won a $33m contract to help run the notorious south Florida detention center nicknamed
“Alligator Alcatraz”,
where immigrants are housed in tents and trailers.
Documents and three people familiar with the plans say that the contractor had an “inside track” to secure what might be the most lucrative contract it’s ever had.
Bu…
@lpryszcz@genomic.social2026-02-15 20:44:35
If historians object that Trump is not a copy of Mussolini or Hitler or Franco, the reply is yes—but so what? Trump is building something new on old principles. He is showing us in real time what 21st-century American fascism looks like.
...
Americans who support liberal democracy need to recognize what we’re dealing with in order to cope with it, and to recognize something, one must name it. Trump has revealed himself, and we must name what we see.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-14 18:30:50
While Trump and Kushner both have envisioned wealthy resort concepts,
most of the international community wishes to see Gaza rebuilt as a livable home for its 2.1 million Palestinian residents.
Meanwhile, Israel continues to control half of the Gaza Strip,
and has said it will forbid reconstruction on the half overseen by Hamas until the group disarms.
Two former Doge officials were dispatched to the region as planning for postwar Gaza ramped up this fall.
One…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-01-02 18:30:43
One of the triggers for the Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381 was a new poll tax, levied on all adults; and particularly, the fact that the test for adulthood was having pubic hair. This led to the contractors collecting the tax systematically looking up young women's skirts.
It strikes me that one really powerful way to oppose anti #Trans legislation is to ask 'do you want the p…
@johnleonard@mastodon.social2026-02-03 11:44:19
Sobering...
“Brexit, just the beginning,” Epstein told Peter Thiel in 2016. After it comes: “Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances. You and I both agreed zero interest rates were too high, and as I said in your office. Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain.”
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-11 07:05:59
An interview with LastPass CEO Karim Toubba on the company-wide changes after the 2022 data breach, new services such as controls to curb shadow SaaS, and more (Charlie Osborne/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/lastpass-2026-rebuilding-trust-ceo-interview/
@marcel@waldvogel.family2025-12-13 06:56:25
«“One SIM card can be used for hundreds of different platforms,” said Dek. “Vendors recoup SIM costs by selling high-demand verifications for apps like Facebook and Telegram, then profit from the long tail of other platforms.”
Additional analyses show global stocks of fake accounts are highest for platforms such as X, Uber, Discord, Amazon, Tinder and gaming platform Steam»
#FakeProfiles
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2026-01-08 13:29:42
Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
CALLY: You have to accept these findings.
BLAKE: I accept them. But where are WE going to find a centre that will take US in for a month's rest and rehabilitation?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/6 B7B3
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-30 21:56:24
Hi, it’s Al Franken.
I don’t usually send messages like this, so I’m hoping you’ll read to the end for a GREAT story.
Before that, though, I want to tell you about Peggy Flanagan.
She is unbelievably great and she’s running to keep Minnesota’s Senate seat blue.
Her end-of-month fundraising deadline is tonight so I’ll get to the point: Please donate now.
