@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-10 13:49:00
Glasfaserausbau: Bundesregierung bringt TKG-Novelle auf den Weg
Mit der Novelle des Telekommunikationsgesetzes soll das Ende des Kupferzeitalters offiziell besiegelt werden – doch das wird dauern.
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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-05-09 22:18:39
"[The #Fediverse] became the only place consistently posting trustworthy information I could actually access. This became personally relevant when Trump threatened to invade #Greenland, which is the kind of sentence I never expected to type"
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-05-11 11:33:59
🎶 Watching Eurovision this week? 🎶
Good on you!
Don’t let a little genocide keep you from enjoying your singalong.
#eurovision #Eurovision2026 #eurovisionSongConteat
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-04-09 16:21:12
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-06-10 11:00:19
"Northern Thai residents march for action on polluted rivers. ‘This is an emergency’"
#Thailand #Pollution #Rivers
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-09 21:18:33
The Arietids peak on June 10! 🌠🧪
This meteor shower lasts from May 29 until June 17, and is famously most visible during the daytime.
#Astronomy #MeteorShower #Space
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-05-10 23:30:56
Just finished "Future Home of the Living God" by Louise Erdrich. It's a beautiful and entrancing novel in many ways, but I couldn't bring myself to like the ending. I think in one of my most recent book posts I complained about a deus ex machina, so it's ironic that in this case as the pages dwindled I was fully prepared to accept and even welcome one, especially with all of the deus-related stuff going on already. I am left profoundly unsure as to whether Erdrich imagines a positive future beyond our current oppressions, or just futility, when for most of the book it seemed like the former, which is something I seek out in earnest these days. It is of course impressive that a book about innocents being hunted through the streets of Minneapolis & Saint Paul, while a volunteer citizens network organizes to keep them safe, could be published in 2017. There are strong echoes of Octavia Butler here, and in both cases I think it's a marginalized position which allows authors to see with clarity that most mainstream authors miss or don't even attempt.
I think I will seek out more of Erdrich's writing, but only after a bit of a break.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-10 21:16:21
Excerpt from an essay I may or may not write:
Ontologies evolve to fulfill functions. They serve a purpose, and will be adapted until they fulfill this purpose. There are, occasionally, things that exist within those ontologies which do not actually exist.
Programming bugs are an example. There is no such thing. Code is code. It can't be right or wrong, it just is or isn't. The mismatch between the intent and the execution creates a side effect. We may confidently assert such a thing exists. We may name such things. But they don't exist. This becomes apparent when you try to figure out how to suppress one specific instance of a bug in one specific place through multiple revisions.
At some level, a lot of things don't actually exist. We only need to follow through the logic of The Ship of Theseus to see how our ontologies break down.
One thing that doesn't exist, that is a side effect rather than an object, is the personal self. You do not exist. Your perception of your existence is an illusion, a necessary side effect.
Every day you wake up a different person. Every second you are not who you were. That person is as dead as you will be the next instant, as all versions of you will be every second until there are no more. These selves are bound together by imperfect memories. The person you remember as yourself, all those people, never existed. You created them based on your current experience, your current iteration.
You could, just as easily, wake up an unrecognizable person, in some Dark City, and never know the difference. Continuity is absurd. And yet, some people believe they'll still experience the same self after being frozen or "uploaded." It's a silly illusion.
Once you can get over that illusion, you can let go of the need to thrash against the void. You can let go of the various furious dreams of immortality.
At a high enough level, all ontologies are illusions. Useful illusions, but illusions none-the-less. There is only the undifferentiated universe, and you are experiencing it. You are the universe. You will always persist, long past the time this specific iteration or any iteration experiences it.
This implies a certain obligation then to all the others experiencing the same self, the future iterations that may remember being someone like you, and any other person you, the universe, could wake up as tomorrow.
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-06-10 18:00:20
"What the platypus can teach us about smarter conservation"
#Platypus #Animals #Conservation
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-09 17:11:14
The S&P 500 tech index shed almost 1.7%.
Heavyweight Nvidia fell 1.2%, while Apple and Microsoft lost 3% and 1.1%, respectively.
AI stocks saw a sharp sell-off on Friday, after Broadcom's disappointing forecast fueled concerns about high valuations in the sector, particularly in chipmakers, which have rallied strongly this year.
Shares of chipmakers Intel, Broadcom and Micron Technology dropped between 1.7% and 2%.
The Philadelphia SE Semiconductor index fe…
