2026-03-21 19:47:02
The lack of accountability in this is very unsettling: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/590299/government-data-being-held-by-unvetted-third-parties-treasury-report as is prioritising vendor interests over transparency to…
The lack of accountability in this is very unsettling: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/590299/government-data-being-held-by-unvetted-third-parties-treasury-report as is prioritising vendor interests over transparency to…
Trump's already violated the 1st, 5th & 14th amendments of the #Constitution (look it up) & faced ZERO repercussions... so who's to stop him from violating the 22nd amendment?
☑️ #Trump Supports Third Term As Reward In Controversial Post | HuffPost Latest News
This cruelty is being done in our name.
Shame on this administration. Shame.
13,000 third country deportees so far.
Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier,
but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.
https://…
"Scotland legalizes water cremation, giving families a greener third option"
#Scotland #Environment
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
LeMaster:
🎵 Third Place
#LeMaster
https://lemaster.bandcamp.com/track/third-place
Cloud development platform Vercel has confirmed it suffered a security breach, after a threat actor claimed to be selling access to allegedly stolen company data.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/secu
Saquon Barkley 'super excited' to work with new Eagles OC Sean Mannion: 'It's refreshing' https://www.nfl.com/news/saquon-barkley-super-excited-to-work-with-new-eagles-oc-sean-mannion-it-s-refreshing
Learning how to psyop Third World populations with Manual of The Mercenary Soldier
https://archive.org/details/PaulBalorManualOfTheMercenarySoldier
Please note that I don't care if he personally uses LLMs and for what purpose.
My gripe is with the structure of the article, instead of admitting that these things have problems and explaining why he still chooses to use them he just directly attacks people who have nothing to do with him like some sort of third-rate right-wing podcast host is ranting about "illegals".
The whole vibe is off.
"The European Union covers a largely urbanised continent, but it sometimes feels like a farming-subsidy club with a flag and a parliament. Around a third of the bloc’s budget goes to farmers".
https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/01/15/europes-farmers-no-longer-rule-the-roost-unchallenged?giftId=ODY0MmMxODAtMDg2My00YzUyLThkZDgtM2Q2NWRjMDY3OTA2&utm_campaign=gifted_article
Google Antigravity users say their paid Google AI accounts were banned after linking Gemini models via OpenClaw; Peter Steinberger says he may "remove support" (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)
https://www.implicator.ai/google-restricts
A Northern California woman died this month after being bitten three times by a venomous snake on a rural property in Mendocino County
The death, confirmed Monday by the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office, is the third snakebite fatality in California since January.
Historically, the state averages only one such death per year.
DHS Confirms Third US Citizen Killing After Newsweek Investigation (Newsweek)
https://www.newsweek.com/dhs-confirms-ice-agent-fatally-shot-us-citizen-2025-11558664
http://www.memeorandum.com/260221/p23#a260221p23
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undershot on the second guess, overshot on the third, split the difference does the trick
#silentSunday #elkOfMastodon
Elderly bull elk relaxing. October 2014
Third starter word stepping up to bail out the others. #Wordle
Wordle 1 767 5/6
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MS365 email cannot achieve “four nines” availability for 2026.
They’ve been down for long enough today that they’re more than halfway to losing the third 9. It's DNS.
The biggest mail system I help manage had NO unplanned downtime in 2025 & the planned downtime (kernel updates) was less than 0.004%
The biggest DNS environment I help manage has had 100% availability for >5y. It has NEVER returned SERVFAIL for a valid name.
Sadly, I do not scale. And I am o…
Meta plans to reduce its reliance on third-party vendors for content moderation, in favor of AI tools that it says are better at spotting scams and other tasks (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Urban Demons IV 👻
城市鬼魂 IV 👻
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite
New Mexico Oil Group Makes Third Bid to Discharge Toxic Fracking Wastewater into Rivers, Crops https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/new-mexico-oil-group-makes-third-bid-…
Fascists, cryptobros, young men who play tons of video games and have very little ethical thinking skill and frame everything as a competition to be won, seasoned software engineers, accelerationists, business guys, Business Guy Grifters, hyper-neoliberal technocrats, wannabe software engineers, kids who dream of creating video games, product designers who want to prototype things, capitalist hangers-on and investmentbros who are looking for the next gamble for their money, Chinese tech company employees, third world techies who use these tools to be able to play at the rich countries tech industry table, edgy young men who want to “decensor" everything including open models, tech enthusiasts who want to try every new thing.
And very, _very_ few women. And very, very few experts.
RE: #COMHUM2026
RE: #COMHUM2026
RE: #COMHUM2026
Correct.
Also note that this was more or less true of the Third Reich.
These people are both extremely stupid and extremely dangerous. In fact, they’re dangerous in large part •because• they’re stupid. https://infosec.exchange/@Nonya_Bidniss/113954158760559158
6 days after returning from Panama, I had outpatient surgery for a total left knee replacement. This was my third joint replacement (Rt Knee Jan 2016, left hip Nov 2025). Look Out Col Steve Austin. All is going well, but knees are tough, one must strictly follow the rehab exercises especially in the first two weeks - there's a limited window to get range of motion back 😰.
So far so good. I’m keeping up on exercises, and ditched the walker for a cane today. 🤞
«Security: This library has not undergone any third-party security audit. Usage is at own risk.»
If something like this is written on a code library, the confidence in your security is much higher than if commercial blenders want to advertise absolute IT security and there are the safest — especially when the commercial goals still list ratings in this way.
#security
As the temperatures soared to 105 degrees on Saturday in Phoenix, Ariz., the third-straight day the weather has topped the 100-degree mark,
more than 400 people attending an airshow in nearby Glendale were treated for heat-related illnesses, authorities said.
At least 25 people attending the Luke Days Airshow at Luke Air Force Base were overcome by the sweltering weather and had to be hospitalized for various heat-related illnesses
Demario Davis returns to Jets for third stint in New York: Mission was 'a little incomplete' https://www.nfl.com/news/demario-davis-returns-jets-third-stint-new-york-mission-incomplete
"TectoTalks" focus on Fold-and-thrust belts and orogens in seismic reflection data #geophysics #geology
Deze had ik niet op mijn bingo kaart staan
Drone strikes halt a third of the world's helium supply, threatening chip production | TechSpot
https://www.techspot.com/news/111683-critical-semiconductor-gas-lost-third-global-supply-dr…
This tintinabulum, a Roman wind chime, is a phallus with a longer, thinner phallus and a phallus up its arse. This is very efficient craftmanship, three in one for thrice the good luck!
#PhallusThursday
@…
Carney Poaches Third Conservative Defector as He Chases Majority (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/carney-lures-third-opposition-lawmaker-to-his-liberal-party
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p54#a260218p54
The #LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey - VII. Third Data Release: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15949 -> Largest Ever Radio Sky Survey Maps the Universe in Unprecedented Detail: https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/largest-ever-radio-sky-survey-maps-the-universe-in-unprecedented-detail (see the ALT text for what the three sample images show).
Apple adds support for third-party voice-based conversational apps in CarPlay starting with iOS 26.4, letting CarPlay users access apps like AI chatbots (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/18/ios-26-4-carplay-support/
No sign of the firewood. Am trying to avoid spending the entire day in waiting mode because of the unbounded delivery appointment. I did get my third CEE 16A Schuko combo box in the post, so took care of that part of the project.
At least it's sunny!
Did you see this coming ?
War halts a third of the world's helium supply, threatening chip production
https://www.techspot.com/news/111683-critical-semiconductor-gas-lost-third-global-supply-drone.html?utm_sour…
Dallas Cowboys Signing Former Third-Round Pick in NFL Free Agency https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-signing-former-third-round-pick-nfl-free-agency
Exhibit #5356765336895 in "nobody hand-rolls anything related to cryptography correctly, even when they at least try to use tested, trusted algorithms."
Generative "AI" has no idea what it is doing, a story in four images.
The first image is my original drawing (a Venn diagram) with a white background. The second is the same image after I removed the background using GIMP, i.e., made the background layer transparent. The third image is an effort by the "AI system" that is offered as part of my Wordpress setup to create a transparent background. In fact, it has created a new background that is a grey and white grid, a…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116097571386912561
And here's the third part of the trilogy. Not as informative as the first two, IMHO, but still interesting.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Khruangbin:
🎵 Evan Finds the Third Room
#Khruangbin
https://daaliah.bandcamp.com/track/khruangbin-evan-finds-the-third-room-daaliah-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6u9UBhoz36duB4eLoYuPB9
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- A soulful classic from Joshua Domfeh
Zola Marcelle shares more of her favourite new releases, and Richie returns with her third Flowers pick of the week.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f0l6
but honestly this might be a result of not employing enough exploitative third-world labor for tagging information, LLMs that give better results spend way more money hiring people in e.g. Africa to tag information
Weather tracker: Spain and Portugal hit by third deadly storm in two weeks https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/09/weather-tracker-spain-and-portugal-hit-by-third-fatal-storm
Vrabel to seek counseling, miss Day 3 of draft https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48566969/mike-vrabel-seek-counseling-not-patriots-day-3-nfl-draft
Why do headlines phrase "can be given access to" as "has access" when they *know* there's a lot anxiety about both AI and third-party access to personal data?
> Perplexity Can Now Access Your Apple Health Data to Answer Medical Questions
https://www.macrumors.com/…
Firstly, I am aware that sizing of women's clothing is at *least* this bad.
I've had two pairs of Keen "Men's Hiking Shoes", specifically their "Targhee" brand.
I bought the first pair in person, so fitted the size in person. Those claim "EU 44, US 10.5, UK 9.5, CM 28.5"
When those wore out I ordered a pair of the third version of that shoe in the same UK 9.5 size. After a week it was clear they were too big. My big toes were get…
So, Tuesday was my last day at Fleet, and I'm in full swing of both catching up on a few contract client things that had been left hanging for an extended period and also going through the process of interviewing for a full-time role at a few different places.
If you want me as part of your team, drop me a DM. I'm four interviews in at one place, an interview plus (as of a few minutes ago) a take-home in at another, and one interview in at a third so fingers crossed I'll ha…
"Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025"
#China #Energy #Renewables
"A free management tip from us is that you generally don't want a third of your workforce angry about the work you have them doing."
https://mailchi.mp/rawsignal/the-last-thing-you-need-humans-for
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience:
🎵 Third Stone From the Sun
#TheJimiHendrixExperience
https://notami-jazz.bandcamp.com/track/third-stone-from-the-sun
https://open.spotify.com/track/73ZOw1zRRlEbEdGPgBjA01
EU Parliament blocks AI tools over cyber, privacy fears. Members should avoid exposing work emails, documents or internal information “to AI features that scan or analyze content,” be “cautious” with third-party AI apps and “avoid granting broad access to data”: https://www.politico.eu…
Airbnb says its custom-built AI agent now handles ~33% of its customer support issues in North America, and it is preparing to roll out the feature globally (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/airb
After a backlash, AMC opts out of screening an AI short film during its pre-show, programmed by ad company Screenvision, before feature films (James Hibberd/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ai-short-movie-…
"At a meeting in the Oval Office last week, a frustrated Mr. Trump pressed Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about why the United States could not immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The answer was straightforward: Even one Iranian soldier or militia member zipping across the narrow neck of the strait in a speedboat could fire a mobile missile right into a slow-moving supertanker, or plant a limpet mine on its hull."
Dallas Cowboys Signing Former Third-Round Pick in NFL Free Agency https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-signing-former-third-round-pick-nfl-free-agency
Erik Spiekermann was right, of course.
#typography #design #graphicdesign #quotes
Democrats are celebrating Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s departure from the Trump administration.
“This administration is imploding,” the Democratic party said,
pointing to the recent firings of attorney general Pam Bondi and homeland security secretary Kristi Noem.
A former Republican lawmaker from Oregon, Chavez-DeRemer had faced a string of controversies as secretary and accusations of professional misconduct,
including allegations of an affair with a member of her security t…
I'm not caught up on today's games (so shhh!), but I really enjoyed yesterday's Latvia-Germany match, especially the third period.
#hockey #MilanoCortina2026
Third American Death Linked to ICE Uncovered by Newsweek (Newsweek)
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agent-fatally-shot-us-citizen-texas-dhs-records-11544225
http://www.memeorandum.com/260219/p57#a260219p57
Meta plans to reduce its reliance on third-party vendors for content moderation, in favor of AI tools that it says are better at spotting scams and other tasks (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
EFF, along with the national ACLU and the ACLU affiliates in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey,
filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
urging the court to require a warrant for border searches of electronic devices,
-- an argumentEFF has been making in the courts and Congress for nearly a decade.
In our amicus brief, we argue that the U.S. Supreme Court’s balancing test in
Riley v. California (2014)
should govern the …
Niners trading 2026 third-round pick to Cowboys for DT Osa Odighizuwa https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-trading-2026-third-round-pick-to-cowboys-for-dt-osa-odighizuwa
Draftkings has Cowboys battling for playoff spot in projected win total https://insidethestar.com/draftkings-has-cowboys-battling-for-playoff-spot-in-projected-win-total
Journalism Funding Partners announces that Google chose the group as a third-party administrator for California's public-private partnership to fund newsrooms (Journalism Funding Partners)
https://www.jfp-local.org/vie…
Blue Origin announced the launch date for the third mission of the #New Glenn, slated to launch no earlier than Sunday, April 19, 2026, from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida: https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-3 - the launch window will be open from 10:45 – 12:45 UTC.
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RoundMidnight
- An extra story from Dave Holland
Bassist Dave Holland talks to Soweto and flautist Naïssam Jalal shares a third album that she admires. Plus music from Clara Serra Lopez, Laura Misch, and Moonchild.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sdgj
A record-baking heat wave is scalding California,
with major consequences for the state’s most important reservoir:
its snowpack.
Providing about a third of the state’s water supply,
the Sierra Nevada snowpack is a vital source of spring and summer runoff
that refills reservoirs when the state needs the water most.
But a warm wet storm followed February’s snow,
and now, March temperatures are shattering records
— prompting warnings of rapid sno…
Dolphins could trade out of Round 1 with Raiders for WR and third-round reason https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/miami-dolphins/news/dolphins-could-trade-out-round-1-raiders-wr-third-reason/0c14db5072ff42a1…
Congress faces the inevitability of its third shutdown in five months (Burgess Everett/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/12/2026/congress-faces-the-inevitability-of-its-third-shutdown-in-five-months
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p105#a260212p105
Matt Ryan excited by Michael Penix's ability to 'spin the football,' says Falcons QB must 'get healthy first' https://www.nfl.com/news/falcons-matt-ryan-excited-michael-penix-jr-qb-must-first-get-healthy
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Third World:
🎵 1865 (96 Degrees in the Shade)
#ThirdWorld
https://djredscrewedupdeejay.bandcamp.com/track/1865-96-in-the-shade-slowed-chopped-dj-red-third-world
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Jko3yQgktaKnFcmyLv3g7
2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/2025-was-third-warmest-year-on-record-research-shows/
Disney announces InfinityVision, a new certification for big theaters; Avengers: Doomsday will debut the same day as the third Dune film, which has an Imax deal (Jesse Hassenger/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/apr/17/hollywood-big-screen-imax…
"2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https:/…
Would it make sense for Cowboys to trade up to third overall pick? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7175864/2026/04/07/cowboys-nfl-draft-mock-third-pick-trade/
Dubai-based fractional property investment startup Stake raised a $31M Series B led by Emirates NBD PJSC; the platform facilitates investments starting at ~$136 (Zainab Fattah/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Starmer to Lose Third Top Official With Wormald Expected to Quit (Alex Wickham/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-10/starmer-to-lose-third-top-official-with-wormald-expected-to-quit
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p31#a260210p31
No first-rounder, no problem? Broncos out of Round 1 for the third time in five drafts https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48432975/denver-broncos-no-first-round-pick-third-2022-nik-bonitto
Sources: Upscale AI, which builds AI networking infrastructure, is in talks to raise $180M to $200M at a $2B valuation, its third funding round in seven months (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-16/ti…
USA Today names Jamie Stockwell, a former editor at WaPo and NYT, as its next top editor; she is the third person named to the job in the past three years (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/business/media/usa-today-…
Amazon Luna is dropping support for game purchases and third-party game stores and subscriptions; previously purchased games will be accessible until June 10 (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/in-latest-pivot-amazon-luna-to-drop-ga…
Panthers GM Dan Morgan 'wouldn't hesitate' to draft a WR in third straight first round https://www.nfl.com/news/panthers-gm-dan-morgan-wouldn-t-hesitate-to-draft-a-wr-in-three-straight-first-rounds
Third Coconspirator in Fatal Benghazi Attacks in U.S. Custody, Charged in Washington D.C. with Murder and Terrorism Counts (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/third-coconspirator-fatal-benghazi-attacks-us-custody-charged-washington-dc-murder-and
http://www.memeorandum.com/260206/p136#a260206p136
Source: UK cyber security company Darktrace names Ed Jennings, who previously led work management platform Quickbase, as CEO, its third chief in 18 months (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9689526b-42a9-48ca-990a-0d8152c952fa
Donald Trump wondered if the U.S. “shouldn’t even be there”
when answering questions about the war on Iran on Sunday,
claiming that Iran’s military is already totally obliterated
as the U.S. and Israel’s bombardments enter their third week with no end in sight.
A reporter asked Trump on Sunday about his demands that other countries aid him in trying to force transit through the Strait of Hormuz while it’s closed by Iran.
In response, he said that other countries…
San Francisco 49ers will play in Mexico City in 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7054808/2026/02/18/nfl-san-francisco-49ers-mexico-city-2026/
Entering War's Third Week, Trump Faces Stark Choices (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/us/politics/trump-stark-choices-iran-war.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260315/p39#a260315p39
Will Lewis,
the Murdoch media veteran who took over as publisher and chief executive of the Washington Post in early 2024,
announced abruptly on Saturday evening that he is leaving the company.
His departure comes just three days after the Post laid off nearly one-third of its entire staff,
citing the need to cut costs and reposition the money-losing publication.
Lewis, who did not appear on the all-staff meeting during which the cuts were announced, has faced c…
Charles Davis 2026 NFL mock draft 3.0: Ty Simpson goes third overall; Kenyon Sadiq nearly cracks top 10 https://www.nfl.com/news/charles-davis-2026-nfl-mock-draft-3-0-ty-simpson-goes-third-overall-kenyon-sadiq-nearly-cr…
Rockstar confirms "a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach"; ShinyHunters demand a ransom (Zack Zwiezen/Kotaku)
https://kotaku.com/rockstar-games-report…
A look at Munich's UnternehmerTUM, which tops the FT ranking of Europe's startup hubs for a third straight year and has supported 1,000 companies since 2002 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/50a5cb4d-d27a-402e-b1e1-b9be0002ebc8