@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-01-27 13:12:55
Also: we're seeing what happens when white people are actually motivated en-masse (and the George Floyd response was actually another decent example of this).
General strike -> capitalist class goes "oh shit we need to deescalate" -> temporary reprieve.
White people actually putting their bodies on the line (or at least near enough to it that ICE killed them) got results. This is direct evidence of just how much oppression depends on the social fragmentation it invests immense energy into creating in order to not get its ass kicked both ideologically and literally.
Also for those white people like me who are scared to participate: I don't have the numbers, but there were something like 50,000 people who stood up (even if we just want to count observers and joiners-of-whistle-crowds I'd guess at least 5,000-10,000). Two in that category died (more like 30 have died in the direct-targets-of-ICE category). So don't look at Pretti and think "protesting is so risky." Consider that both the odds of being the one or two killed are low, and that if you don't stand up quickly and strongly enough against this shit, the body count will grow much higher.
This isn't over, and continued escalation and resistance is super critical now. Rather than hoping the twin cities story is a story of heroes elsewhere who solved the problem, make it a story of an inspiring example that gets replicated in LA, Chicago, and all around the nation where ICE is trying to metastasize into an unaccountable secret police.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-27 01:25:53
Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot "in good conscience" accede to DOD's request to remove safeguards and will work to ensure a smooth transition if offboarded (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
@rberger@hachyderm.io2026-01-27 20:54:45
This was written by an old friend and I found it pretty packed with good info. It’s also an example of using NotebookLM for research and content development. I found this inspiring enough to give it a try. I’ve found that it is a “Centaur" enabling tech that helps one to create on their own the overall content and leaving details to the NotebookLM tooling.
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SLOs Can’t Catch a Black Swan: A Classification Framework for Thinking About Incidents -Geoff White
"Your SLOs can be green, and your systems can still be falling over. That doesn’t mean SLOs are broken. It means they were never designed to describe every class of risk we encounter in complex systems.
I’ve released version 1.0 of SLOs Can’t Catch a Black Swan as an open, living framework hosted on GitHub.
This is not a book you read once, and it’s not something you consult in the middle of an outage. It’s a way to think more clearly about incidents—across the incident lifecycle.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/slos-cant-catch-black-swan-classification-framework-thinking-white-ybc0c/?trackingId=ShCzMMVCQTChcTi8xT19tg==
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-03-26 16:31:31
‘With the exception of newer Starlink routers, nearly every router available for purchase in this country is at least partially manufactured outside the US, including TP-Link, Asus and Netgear. An estimated 60% of routers in the US are manufactured in China.‘
Is Your Wi-Fi Router Safe From the FCC Ban? Nearly Every Major Brand Is Impacted - CNET
https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/fcc-bans-foreign-made-routers-as-national-security-risk/
(Via @… )
@servelan@newsie.social2026-03-26 15:43:19
‘They tricked me’: Father chained after he went to ICE to reunite with his kids
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/26/2374823/-They-tricked-me-Father-chained-after-he-went-to-ICE-to-reunite-with-his-kids
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-27 00:01:40
Hillary Clinton set for deposition with House Oversight Committee in Jeffrey Epstein probe (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/hillary-clinton-deposition-house-oversight-jeffrey-epstein-probe-rcna260435
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p113#a260226p113
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-27 11:25:23
Anthropic said Thursday it
“cannot in good conscience”
comply with a demand from the Pentagon
to remove safety precautions from its artificial intelligence model
and grant the US military unfettered access to its AI capabilities.
The Department of Defense had threatened to cancel a $200m contract
and deem Anthropic a “supply chain risk”,
a designation with serious financial implications,
if the company did not comply with the request by Friday.…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-27 03:10:50
OpenAI says it will overhaul safety protocols and establish direct contact with Canadian police, after not alerting authorities about the Tumbler Ridge suspect (Mickey Djuric/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/canada-openai-chatgpt-shooting-00…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-26 13:06:00
Bermuda-based crypto trading platform STS Digital, which caters to institutional investors, raised $30M led by CMT Digital, with Kraken and others participating (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/26/sts-digital-fundraise-30-million-cmt-digital…
