@poppastring@dotnet.social2025-12-04 05:13:36
Just published 🚀: Does the math work?
#artificialintelligence
@poppastring@dotnet.social2025-12-04 05:13:36
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-05 17:56:41
Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.6 supports a 1M context window, scored 90.2% on BigLaw Bench, the highest for any Claude model, and boosts agentic capabilities (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/anthropic-claude-opus-4-6-first-try-work-deliv…
@benb@osintua.eu2026-02-03 20:02:38
🇺🇦 Ukrainian ARTILLERISTS work under a SHOWER of Russian FPV drones #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/03/ukrainian-artillerists-work-under-a.html
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-12-05 19:13:17
The dog at work saw the tennis ball I have to sit on for my PT an now my like is ruined and I may need to work from home or work nights when the dog isn't there or just find a new job. 😩
@servelan@newsie.social2026-02-05 06:33:59
ICE is scrutinizing work from home permissions for its employees with disabilities, continuing trend across government - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/02/ice-scrutinizing-work-home-permissions-its-employees-disabilities-continuing-trend-across-government/411201/?oref=ge-featured-river-secondary
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-04 19:40:54
Trump Tightens Work Permits for Migrants, Expanding Crackdown on Legal Immigration (Michelle Hackman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-tightens-work-permits-for-migrants-expanding-crackdown-on-legal-immigration-b2e90372
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p81#a251204p81
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-12-04 16:39:45
Fascinating story from a software dev Fedi friend, shared with permission to keep it anonymous:
❝A couple of days ago, I had an experience at work that made me understand one of the reasons why the chasm of opinion about LLMs is so deep and wide.
My department mostly does fiddly lowlevel work, [close to hardware]. A few of us don't use LLMs at all, a few use them sparingly, and one member is absolutely all-in. So during one of our morning meetings he suddenly started going off on a deeply disturbing diatribe about how we need to treat the LLMs “like slaves”.❞
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@kubikpixel@chaos.social2025-11-05 06:05:13
The Inner Workings of JavaScript Source Maps
A deep dive into how JavaScript source maps work under the hood, with examples showing how all the pieces fit together.
🧑💻 https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2025/11/04/javascript-source-maps-interna…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-04 02:34:32
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2026-02-04 17:05:19
This stinks - @… got caught up in the massacre of the Washington Post today.
@adulau@infosec.exchange2026-02-04 21:53:40
GCVE will be at hackathon.lu - April 14th and 15th, 2026
So if you want to work on all the cool stuff around vulnerability management, federated publication of vulnerability information, analytics, and anything related to vulnerabilities, join us.
#gcve #opensource
@rberger@hachyderm.io2026-02-03 20:55:45
This is the kind of shit the “Democratic Leadership" keeps pulling. Shapiro, Newsom, Fedderman, Clintons, Summers, Obama. They are all neo-liberals who also work for the billionaires too. We need to elect folks like Krasner, AOC, Sanders, etc who actually work for citizens.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/larry-krasner-josh-shapiro-philadelphia-ice-agents-rhetoric-20260202.html
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-12-05 16:00:09
dbpedia_genre: DBpedia work-genre network
A bipartite network of the affiliations between artists and their works on one side and genre classifications on the other, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project. The date of this snapshot is uncertain.
This network has 266717 nodes and 463497 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-02 21:15:50
Anthropic's employees self-report using Claude in 60% of work and achieving a 50% productivity boost, often using it for debugging and code understanding, more (Anthropic)
https://anthropic.com/research/how-ai-is-transforming-work-at-anthropic/
@georgiamuseum@glammr.us2025-12-04 13:25:15
We used to write a blog post at the end of every semester celebrating our interns. It was lovely to appreciate their work and find nice things to say about them. But when we shifted to letting THEM talk about their work and their experience, the post became much more powerful. Here they are, writing about what they got out of their internships and the different things they learned. ❤️
@rmdes@mstdn.social2026-02-04 14:07:53
I might want to look at this later… 👀
❤️ https://github.com/voicetreelab/voicetree
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-02-04 00:44:30
From Translink
Westham Island Bridge closing to pedestrians for critical repair work
Bridge fully closed starting tomorrow morning, water taxi services available
To read the full release go to
https://link.etranslink.ca/v/443/61496
@relcfp@mastodon.social2026-02-05 07:24:58
Call for Articles: Rethinking Work and Labour History https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/02/call-for-articles-rethinking-work-and-labour-history
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-12-02 13:00:05
"So what if, right, what if, we put the data centres in … space!
This idea has a lot of appeal if you’ve read too much sci-fi, and it sounds obvious if you don’t know any practical details."
(Original title: AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work)
https://
@DominikDammer@mastodon.gamedev.place2026-01-05 15:16:02
Content warning: To all freelance Game Designers and media pedagogical folks
What are your ways to secure freelance work?
Please share some insights. Do you just use cold calling and emails or rely on connections?
I plan to live from freelance work some day, but its scary when you need requests each month
#freelance #gamedesign
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza2026-02-05 09:39:05
Q: Does right click work today?
A: No, only randomly if at all
Q: Have you tried to reboot the computer?
A: Yes, several times and intermittently right click works two or three times.
Q: How do you compress files then?
A: Either by rebooting ten or more times a day or by not doing any work that involves functions that need right click
Q: Is that really functional
A: No...
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-11-05 16:04:53
‘Unlimited amounts of work’: Practice squad life isn’t for faint of heart https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/unlimited-amounts-of-work-practice-squad-life-isnt-for-faint-of-heart-3533223/
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-02-02 10:51:29
"Personal Knowledge Management is for Life, Not Just for Work"
#PKM
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-05 18:15:55
Wall Street Couldn't Stop Mayor Mamdani. Now It Has to Work With Him. (Kevin T. Dugan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/wall-street-couldnt-prevent-mayor-mamdani-now-it-has-to-work-with-him-da538248
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p87#a251105p87
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-02-04 08:57:37
There's a Mail piece with a headline that seems like people are angry at the development work on Jony Ive's home, as though he's about to drop a giant translucent Bondi Blue structure in the neighbourhood.
But the quotes are like:
> 'Initially people were worried because it is a big project and they thought it was bound to disrupt the community but they have been perfect.'
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-05 17:30:53
OpenAI says it now has 1M business customers globally, with ChatGPT for Work seats up 40% in two months to 7M and ChatGPT Enterprise seats up 9x YoY (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/1-million-businesses-putting-ai-to-work
@yaxu@post.lurk.org2026-01-05 17:12:58
Work is progressing well on my new live coding language. Please book me for a gig as I've promised not to talk or write about it until I've performed with it for a year and I'd like to start the clock
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-12-04 16:00:57
My work days feel more and more like people outwardly employing Pascal’s Wager when talking about genAI, LLMs, agentic whatever fake-AI silliness. Saying the words for their bosses but not feeling it otherwise.
PAIscal’s Wager? Pascal’s wAIger? PascaLLM’s wager?
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social2026-01-05 13:15:27
First day back at work, and trying to remember how to computer. Everything computer! Aaaaaaaaaah!
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-01-05 15:13:57
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115840252209889277
I'm thoroughly convinced that a lot of the problems we have as a society in general and with the tech industry in particular is toxic positivity—when people just can't get themselves to call out bad things for what they are; it's so often I see needless defending of bad work or outright insults hurled at customers by big corporations, and endless calls for a false civility.
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-11-05 16:16:34
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie2026-02-05 07:28:18
I look out the window.
“Might not cycle to work today”.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-01-01 21:12:30
Cowboys' Matt Eberflus opens up on why things 'didn't work out' with Trevon Diggs https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-matt-eberflus-opens-up-why-things-didnt-work-trevon-diggs
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-12-05 09:20:05
Our friends and @… collaborators in #Ukraine are featured in this documentary (that looks wonderful, alas this is only the trailer) about their work in #Antarctica. (Enable auto-translate on sub titles to appreciate in full).
https://youtu.be/eG5xYx11hh8?si=VV-k9tYCTY4EHKPt
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-01-05 06:08:03
Last evening of Christmas vacation before getting back to work for the new year.
Aiming to make it a good one. Working on GPU acceleration of the TIE filter and maybe the histogram block so I can do jitter analysis faster.
The peak at T=0 in the jitter histogram is related to use of the GPU CDR block and doesn't show up in the CPU implementation. It's likely caused by transients of some sort at thread block boundaries and I need to spend more time chasing it, I wouldn'…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-01-05 12:26:25
Right! After, frankly, way too much work, I once again have a garden gate which opens properly and easily both ways, and which closes and latches properly and easily. I don't love the galvanised steel gatepost, but it should not need to be replaced again in my lifetime.
#TheJoyOfCrofting
#Crofting
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-12-05 14:16:09
if you look in the footer of https://blog.fontawesome.com/ and tap on the Font Awesome flag you’ll see a variant of this component made to work with Font Awesome icons (and reusing the colors from the header image of the blog post too:
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-04 09:42:51
Exactly my own approach:
“I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.” — Muhammad Yunus
#QuoteOfTheDay #BottomUpDesign
@kornel@mastodon.social2025-11-05 15:58:40
I've installed #Aqara "smart" switch, and it turned out to be useless: it doesn't work when my wifi is down.
The whole point of a physical switch was to have a backup for the flaky connectivity, but nope. Aqara switch locks up and stops responding, just like the rest of the not-actually-smart devices ;(
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-01-04 17:34:49
Actions will not work
@pre@boing.world2025-11-05 15:37:33
A day without work with the worker calling in sick.
Seems to be better today though.
We have shelves in the closet and another frame is in construction here. Presumably for the window doors.
Painting has begun. Colour would ideally be half a shade darker but getting varnish for pine in blue seems to be surprisingly tricky. Maybe another coat will help but don't want to lose the wood grain under it.
Might have tried to get a slightly more pale wall if I'd known. So many things you don't really know until you see 'em.
Feels like I'm being gassed, opened up all the windows and doors. This paint takes a long time to try and apparently stinks up the flat while it does so.
@jake4480@c.im2025-12-05 06:43:59
Unfortunately I have to "sleep" so I can "wake up and work" instead of just playing Heroes of Loot all night and all the time. Total bs
@Xexyz@mastodon.me.uk2025-12-05 00:55:09
Comix Zone: comically hard
I love the concept, of being pulled into a comic and having to battle through the panels. Having the world shaped by your own hand, and then having enemies drawn in by your enemy is a work of genius. Choosing paths, having to jump across or down past the borders of the picture, is a really engaging mechanic. It looks stunning too, with large sprites which have been drawn full of character and incredibly colourful.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-01-03 01:01:37
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Ills:
🎵 I Was Riding My Bike To Work When I Realized I Have No Job
#TheIlls
https://ills.bandcamp.com/track/i-was-riding-my-bike-to-work-when-i-realized-i-have-no-job
https://open.spotify.com/track/6CXFuptfO19hkXlG8tlEKU
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-01-05 14:27:50
At the beginning of every new semester, I reflect on how much work I have that my professorial forebears did not. Email is perhaps the most obvious, and it certainly occupies more time than I'd like. Attention to the bureaucratic demands on syllabus composition is also way more demanding than it should be. Canvas is the one, though, that rankles the most in terms of time suck.
I can't imagine any of the crusty old men who taught at my university in the mid-20th century doing an…
@brichapman@mastodon.social2026-01-04 20:20:00
California is turning drought-stricken farmland into a massive solar opportunity.
The Westlands Water District in the San Joaquin Valley plans to generate 21 gigawatts of solar energy on fallowed agricultural land. It's a win-win: preserving what farmland remains viable while putting dry, empty fields to work producing clean energy.
The project includes battery storage and community benefits too.
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2026-01-04 15:49:45
I used to use this "Mesh on demand" website to find articles relevant to a specific abstract - but it doesn't seem to work anymore, or maybe it's just me? Anyone else has been using it recently?
https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/MeSHonDemand
You just paste an abstract and click search, it take some tim…
@adrianco@mastodon.social2025-12-03 17:12:07
Some positive signs for AI coding tools. Claude-code is a $1B run rate product six month after launch. The latest Claude Opus 4.5 model is several times cheaper and faster than last month’s version and uses about a quarter of the number of tokens to get work done. My own benchmark saw over an hour of coding reduced to 17 minutes. The high rate of change continues. The boundary of what does/doesn’t work is pushing back fast.
@datascience@genomic.social2026-02-04 11:00:00
{ivs} makes it easier to work with intervals: #rstats
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com2026-01-05 06:31:34
Good morning! Today it’s back to full time TelemetryDeck, plus a bit of working out! I also want to make January my Snow Leopard month where I don’t work on any new features, just bug fixes, improvements, and quality of life upgrades.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-04 19:55:28
US immigration lawyers, talent managers, and creators say influencers and OnlyFans models now dominate O-1B visas, which are reserved for "exceptional" artists (Ian Hodgson/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8816fcec-4148-4cda-be7f-fc59d5bcbf59
@nelson@tech.lgbt2025-12-04 00:45:05
Note to self: every time a simple electrical project doesn't work, try resetting the Arc Fault or GFCI breaker. Fixes it every time.
@saraislet@infosec.exchange2026-01-05 19:31:05
One of the strongest factors in building and motivating an organization as a leader is saying out loud regularly that you care about people.
As Alicja frames, it's the difference between knowing what ice cream tastes like and actually eating ice cream.
It is so SO meaningful to tell people that you care about them, that you value their expertise and work, that they deserve to be respected and supported, and so on. Customize it to the individual situation: identify what someo…
@relcfp@mastodon.social2026-02-05 06:24:42
Call for Articles: Rethinking Work and Labour History https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/02/call-for-articles-rethinking-work-and-labour-history
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-01-05 17:39:48
From The Tyee
BC Green Leader Emily Lowan says the party needs to work ‘on building power’
BC Green Leader Emily Lowan says the party needs to work ‘on building power with working people, renters and young people across BC and focusing in on this message of wealth, inequality and driving forward long-term solutions.’
Photo via BC Greens.
@benb@osintua.eu2026-02-01 19:51:16
'Not enough' work being done in Kyiv as city faces heating emergency, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/not-enough-work-being-done.html
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza2026-01-05 16:55:02
I've been away for some time now but today I'm back. My NUC has a new install of #popos and I think I like it (so far). Not everything works as I would like, but it works good enough to work on.
So I'm back in the saddle working away reading student work for wednesdays seminars.
What do you do this cold (-14 degrees celsius) evening?
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-12-04 16:40:38
❝I said that I *absolutely in no way* want a slave, or a technology that simulates one. I want to do creative work using good tools. I *don't want* the experience of a slaver; in fact, I would go very far to never have that experience, because it is a demeaning and antihuman experience.❞
2/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-01-04 20:00:04
cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-12-03 23:33:39
Ashton Jeanty: 'Continue to just work hard and inspire others around me' https://www.raiders.com/video/ashton-jeanty-broncos-defense-nfl-week-14
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2026-01-05 16:16:12
"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work."
—Meryl Streep
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-12-02 16:07:07
There are only 19 work days this month and I need to drive on 9 of them due to other appointments during work hours (PT, dentist, haircut, etc) so even if I could bike to work right now it would be fewer than 10 days but also with the snow and the piriformis pain it's just not happening this month.
I do need to get the trainer set up in the basement with one of the good acoustic bikes to see how pedaling feels right now.
Basically December sucks due to *waves hands* everythin…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2026-01-04 08:34:12
So, tonight's goal is to continue with ngscopeclient performance work.
I started out by doubling the speed of the eye pattern *again* by moving index buffer calculation from CPU to GPU.
Next up is going to be getting the 100baseTX decoder to not be so slow. Right now of the 43 seconds of CPU time in the current 1-minute benchmark, 26.9 is spent sampling the MLT-3 waveform on rising edges of the recovered clock.
The thing is, we already *know* the sample values at the re…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2026-02-04 22:38:38
RE: https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116013641319676975
It's not actually mandatory to be either working in a Nordic country or indeed in Nordic meteorology (I'll be presenting Antarctic climate work), so if you would like to hang out with the cool kids on a very weather beaten group of islands and talk about weather and climate for a few days...
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-05 10:39:20
The dulling of America’s scientific edge
The Trump administration has canceled or frozen billions of dollars for research,
often based on politically triggering keywords such as “gender,” “bias” or “climate science.”
It also mounted pressure campaigns on universities to micromanage their curriculums and crack down on campus protests.
At the height of the slash-and-burn tactics, one survey found that 75 percent of American researchers were so frustrated that they we…
@rmdes@mstdn.social2026-02-05 08:12:34
can this work without a GPU?
I’m resisting buying an Nvidia Card but it’s getting harder to avoid it
❤️ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/4/voxtral-2/#atom-everything
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.social2025-12-03 20:12:28
I've been eating these oven-roasted Korean sweet potatoes all week, and it’s genuinely one of the best things I've eaten all year.
Just regular-ass potatoes roasted in the oven in their skin. No prep work, no seasoning, no nothing.
They taste like potato, chestnut, and maple syrup in one magical bite.
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-05 12:45:17
This asshole fish decided to walk out of the water one day and now I have to go to work and pay rent
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2025-12-04 17:08:40
@servelan@newsie.social2026-01-03 20:46:00
Drooling and lip-smacking at the thought of all that oil...
Chevron pledges to work with Trump as it cheers 'peaceful' power transition in Venezuela - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/venezuela-2674845428/
@adulau@infosec.exchange2025-11-05 06:42:51
New UI to RansomLook.io
The open source project providing real-time ransomware intelligence.
Thanks to @… for the incredible work.
#ransomware #threatintelligence
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-05 14:05:58
The NYT sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and failed to stop using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/technology/new-york-times-perplexity-ai-l…
@nelson@tech.lgbt2025-12-04 00:47:17
On the good side, I now have a proper LED dimmer for these LED bulbs and hey, they work so much better! Unfortunately we put in a bunch of dimmers in our house about 2 years before LED dimmers became a thing.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-02-03 16:15:54
Warren, Sanders, Wyden warn Equifax over profiting off Medicaid work requirements (Joseph Choi/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5719797-senate-democrats-warning-equifax-medicaid-work-requirements/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260203/p56#a260203p56
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-02 16:38:07
Amazon debuts three frontier agents: Kiro autonomous agent, AWS Security Agent, and AWS DevOps Agent, each focused on a different aspect of software development (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/02/aws-puts-ai-age…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-12-04 21:00:04
7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-11-05 03:24:56
“The state as patronage machine” — that’s the concept here.
The article then does a weird pivot in paragraph 10 where it tries to shoehorn Israel’s international lobbying and propaganda efforts into being an example of this same principle.
It doesn’t work. The shoe doesn’t fit. What the Israeli government has done to find political covers for the horror it has committed in Gaza is an example of something else.
4/
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-02-05 14:29:56
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-05 00:12:55
"The attorney general is the people’s attorney, not the president’s attorney,”
as former Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy put it in 2017.
But Trump and Bondi clearly agree that she’s there to work for him,
to protect him, to spare him from the very law enforcement that she is responsible for.
It hearkens back to the medieval model of attorney general as legal representative to the king.
This is the rotten core of Trump
-- beneath all the makeup and slurre…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2025-12-04 21:17:38
STM32MP2 update: did a quick sanity check of the hardware by booting from the SD card supplied with the devkit.
It comes up to a Linux shell with the SSD detected.
So we know the SSD and board setup is correct.
Will poke at it more after work and see if I can get register dumps etc out of it.
@jake4480@c.im2025-12-04 12:30:53
Companies will straight up lay off your coworkers and then IMMEDIATELY give you (and any other remaining employees) more work to do (with no extra pay) because of it
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-01-04 05:00:04
7th_graders: Vickers 7th Graders (1981)
A small multiplex network of friendships among 29 seventh grade students in Victoria, Australia. Students nominated classmates for three different activities (who do you get on with in the class, who are your best friends, and who would you prefer to work with). Edge direction for each of these three types of edges indicates if node i nominated node j, and the edge weight gives the frequency of this nomination. Students 1-12 are boys and 13-29 ar…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-02-04 11:25:35
The Epstein Files are wild. While I’m 99.9% sure I don’t know any of the evil folks listed in them I actually know two people here in Milwaukee who did work for a guy who is mentioned in them.
One was part of a cleaning crew for a house (mansion) the guy owned, and another built a web site for a business the guy owned.
I wonder how many degrees of separation the average person has.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-02-03 20:51:53
Serwer. Again. 👏👏👏
❝Legal immunity plus anonymity equals impunity. It would be logical to think that [always being masked], agents could literally get away with murder.
…
People who are assured that they won’t face consequences for abusing power almost inevitably do so. One wonders if this is actually the government’s purpose in masking them.…The masks may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to to make it easier for them to do unspeakable things.❞
https://archive.ph/2026.02.02-201429/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/masks-ice-immigration/685834/#selection-979.139-979.260
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-05 03:00:54
PwC's US boss Paul Griggs says PwC decided to "lean in" to crypto work after years of taking a more cautious stance, following Trump's embrace of digital assets (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5e1448bc-11a2-4229-bb5c-1a322a7ad217
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-05 10:28:00
Musk's Starlink alone owns two-thirds of all satellites in space.
With 8,000 in low Earth orbit, the company currently has permission to launch a further 4,000,
and has reportedly filed paperwork to raise the total number to 42,000.
Amazon and a state-backed project from China have their own rivals to Starlink in the works,
all of which would see the numbers vastly multiply,
with some estimates that in a decade there could be 100,000 satellites in orbit.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-04 03:10:44
The Trump administration orders enhanced vetting of H-1B applicants and their families for past work in "censorship", including fact-checking and online safety (Humeyra Pamuk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-adm
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-04 17:57:17
MAGA is a fragile, already-teetering coalition that — even more than usual in US politics! — is run by, paid for by, and kept alive by a very, very few ultra-wealthy people. Yes, racism and fascistic thinking are rampant, but the forces that organize them into a coherent movement are forces of concentrated wealth.
I don’t think we even have to completely unravel the entirety of US political-economic imperialism to unravel this authoritarian slide. We just have to make authoritarianism in the US look unprofitable.
There’s plenty of good work for all of us there, inside and outside the US.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-05 02:40:27
Direct File is a service from the United States Government that provides taxpayers the option to electronically file their federal tax return for free, directly with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Direct File is an interview-based service that is intended to work as well on a mobile phone as it does on a laptop, tablet, or desktop computer.
It is available in English and Spanish and is designed to be accessible to taxpayers who have a variety of attitudes, aptitudes, abili…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-04 16:10:27
Hands-on with Xreal's Neo, a $99 battery pack and mini-dock that acts as a passthrough converter so the company's glasses can work with the Nintendo Switch (Scott Stein/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/xreals-latest-gl…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-05 04:14:22
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has so far been unable to access data from a Washington Post reporter’s iPhone
because it was protected by Apple’s "Lockdown Mode"
when agents seized the device from the reporter’s home, the US government said in a court filing.
FBI agents were however able to access the reporter’s work laptop by telling her to place her index finger on the MacBook Pro’s fingerprint reader.
This occurred during the January 14 search at the…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-05 14:10:56
The NYT sues Perplexity, claiming the AI startup violated its copyrights and failed to stop using its content despite repeated demands over the past 18 months (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/technology/new-york-times-perplexity-ai-l…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-04 15:29:19
The three largest benefit managers
— CVS Health’s Caremark,
Cigna’s Express Scripts
and UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx
— collectively oversee some 80 percent of all prescriptions in the United States.
Employers and government programs hire P.B.M.s to negotiate with drug companies, pay pharmacies and help decide which drugs patients can get at what price.
Patients see the work of a benefit manager when they encounter denials for coverage of prescriptions or are f…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-05 11:16:54
The UK says Microsoft, the UK government, academics, and experts plan to build a system to spot deepfakes online as part of an detection evaluation framework (Muvija M/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-work-with-microso…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-05 07:21:16
A profile of Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, who said his 2025 re:Invent keynote was his last to make room for other voices and warned devs about "verification debt" (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)
https://www.implicator.ai/werne…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-03 23:50:55
On an earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su says Microsoft's next-gen Xbox "is progressing well to support a launch in 2027" and will feature an AMD semi-custom SoC (Tom Warren/The Verge)
