@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-23 22:20:50
The US is imposing visa restrictions on five Europeans, including Thierry Breton, accusing them of pressuring US tech companies to censor certain US viewpoints (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/state-depart…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-23 22:20:41
The US is imposing visa restrictions on five Europeans, including Thierry Breton, accusing them of pressuring US tech companies to censor certain US viewpoints (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/state-depart…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-20 22:48:02
Oregon’s governor, Tina Kotek,
just called on a federal appeals court to review and overturn a decision made by a three-judge panel on Monday
that would permit Donald Trump to deploy federalized national guard troops to the streets of Portland against the wishes of state and local officials.
Speaking to reporters at a virtual news conference, Kotek said that she hopes the full ninth circuit court of appeals vacates the panel’s decision 2-1 decision,
as the dissenting j…
@adulau@infosec.exchange2025-12-20 14:52:51
The Art of Pivoting - Techniques for Intelligence Analysts to Discover New Relationships in a Complex World
This open source book explores how intelligence and cyber-security analysts can uncover hidden links between threat actor infrastructure and ongoing investigations by pivoting on both classic and unconventional indicators — many of which are often overlooked. The material is grounded in empirical, field-tested strategies used in cyber-security, digital forensics, cyber threat int…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-13 06:16:23
Just finished "Beasts Made of Night" by Tochi Onyebuchi...
Indirect CW for fantasy police state violence.
So I very much enjoyed Onyebuchi's "Riot Baby," and when I grabbed this at the library, I was certain it would be excellent. But having finished it, I'm not sure I like it that much overall?
The first maybe third is excellent, including the world-building, which is fascinating. I feel like Onyebuchi must have played "Shadow of the Colossus" at some point. Onyebuchi certainly does know how to make me care for his characters.
Some spoilers from here on out...
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I felt like it stumbles towards the middle, with Bo's reactions neither making sense in the immediate context, nor in retrospect by the end when we've learned more. Things are a bit floaty in the middle with an unclear picture of what exactly is going on politics-wise and what the motivations are. Here I think there were some nuances that didn't make it to the page, or perhaps I'm just a bit thick and not getting stuff I should be? More is of course revealed by the end, but I still wasn't satisfied with the explanations of things. For example, (spoilers) I don't feel I understand clearly what kind of power the army of aki was supposed to represent within the city? Perhaps necessary to wield the threat of offensive inisisia use? In that case, a single scene somewhere of Izu's faction deploying that tactic would have been helpful I think.
Then towards the end, for me things really started to jumble, with unclear motivations, revelations that didn't feel well-paced or -structured, and a finale where both the action & collapsing concerns felt stilted and disjointed. Particularly the mechanics/ethics of the most important death that set the finale in motion bothered me, and the unexplained mechanism by which that led to what came next? I can read a couple of possible interesting morals into the whole denouement, but didn't feel that any of them were sufficiently explored. Especially if we're supposed to see some personal failing in the protagonist's actions, I don't think it's made clear enough what that is, since I feel his reasons to reject each faction are pretty solid, and if we're meant to either pity or abjure his indecision, I don't think the message lands clearly enough.
There *is* a sequel, which honestly I wasn't sure of after the last page, and which I now very interested in. Beasts is Onyebuchi's debut, which maybe makes sense of me feeling that Riot Baby didn't have the same plotting issues. It also maybe means that Onyebuchi couldn't be sure a sequel would make it to publication in terms of setting up the ending.
Overall I really enjoyed at least 80% of this, but was expecting even better (especially politically) given Onyebuchi's other work, and I didn't feel like I found it.
#AmReading
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-10-15 07:05:13
World breaks renewable records - adding 582 GW of capacity in 2024 - but must move faster to hit the agreed 2030 tripling goal.
From @irena-official.bsky.social:
https://www.irena.org/News/pressreleases/2
@roelgrif@mstdn.social2025-10-15 19:08:01
Until now, I thought that a government shutdown in the US meant that the government ran out of money.
Apparently this only means: out of money for domestic purposes, not for giving it away to other countries. #TrumpShutdown #EpsteinShutdown
"US is working on doubling aid to…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-18 11:45:57
Analysis: music copyright's global value rose 5.2% YoY to a record $47.2B in 2024; the revenue split favored labels and artists at 62%, above songwriters' 38% (Will Page/Pivotal Economics)
https://pivotaleconomics.com/undercurrents/music-copyright-2025
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-17 16:14:07
Putin calls European leaders
‘little pigs’
and says Russia will achieve its
Ukraine goals by diplomacy or force
The Russian leader says the aims of its ‘special military operation’ will be met ‘unconditionally
https://www…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-08 16:23:42
Trump on Wednesday said the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor, both Democrats, should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops for his immigration and crime crackdown in the nation’s third-largest city.
The officials said they would not be deterred.
The Republican president made the comment in a social media post, the latest example of his brazen calls for his opponents to be prosecuted or locked up
— a break from longtime norms as the Justice Depar…
