@poppastring@dotnet.social2025-12-04 05:13:36
Just published 🚀: Does the math work?
#artificialintelligence
@poppastring@dotnet.social2025-12-04 05:13:36
@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
@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/
@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”.❞
1/
@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.
@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.
@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
@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
@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…
@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://
@domm@social.linux.pizza2026-01-03 14:34:39
Today I tried to get our new Hetzner mailbox to work with gitlab issues, but failed. I blame Hetzner, because a) they don't seem to support subaddressing (foo 123@example.com) and b) they don't set the proper mail header (Envelope-To and Delivered-To) when doing a mail forward. Both of which work for example with mailbox.org, and both are needed to allow issue creation via email in gitlab (what they call Service Desk). Grrr...
@finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizza2026-01-02 14:13:47
Acquired a new phone for work.
Just need to get a new SIM card for it and tell my employer to update phone numbers in their system.
This way, I can have a better separation between work and private (Phone off -> I'm completely unavailable no real work-related apps on my private phone).
Sadly, "right to be unavailable" it's not (yet) in law in The Netherlands.
Luckily, my employment terms does have other clauses that effectively allow me to do this…
@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.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…
@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.'
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-12-03 16:16:34
"The hardest part of acting is not being guaranteed work. Every job could be your last."
—Henry Cavill
#acting #coaching #inspiration
@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?
@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
@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
@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
@vrandecic@mas.to2025-12-03 16:10:25
"During the preparation of this work, the authors used ChatGPT and Gemini for grammar & spelling checking and paraphrasing. After using these tools, the authors reviewed and edited the content as needed and take full responsibility for the publication’s content."
I like that.
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-01-04 17:34:49
Actions will not work
@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
@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.
@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.
@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…
@datascience@genomic.social2026-02-04 11:00:00
{ivs} makes it easier to work with intervals: #rstats
@joe@toot.works2025-12-03 13:42:57
I should probably work on this over lunch. I ran the shovel across some of the patio, but there really wasn't a lot of snow to remove.
@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.
@brian_gettler@mas.to2026-02-03 16:19:15
I'm worried that if I don't come up with some batshit or vaguely antisocial behavior quick, they're going to make me take on more consequential admin work. The bar for appointment as chair really is wildly low.
#AcademicChatter #academia
@thijs_lucas@norden.social2026-02-05 03:16:42
RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116012819156721623
Oligarch‘s work destroying free journalism to invest in repression of the people
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-01-04 21:44:44
"Act surprised when it DOES work, and hand the developer a lolly-pop."
#survivalstrategies #aislop #ChatGPT
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/804847534496514048/they-arent-making-things-up-they-arent-that?source=share
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizza2026-01-05 00:41:34
Alright, started work on the `av1an` module for my distributed encoding server. First up, getting a proper JSON format to set the command-line options. The schema is about 320 lines long, but it does lend itself to some nice data formatting. A basic encode "job" block looks like this and actually generates the appropriate command-line arguments.
```json
{
"source": "video.mkv",
"destination": "test.mkv",
…
@joxean@mastodon.social2026-02-04 07:40:40
A Cool Earth-sized Planet Candidate Transiting a Tenth Magnitude K-dwarf From K2
#exoplanets
@dariaphoebe@mindly.social2026-02-02 13:49:59
An upgrade for work, three plays, and bitter cold later, here we are with Marie’s pancakes, egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Just board gaming tonight after work. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/ygS6ZKvuQUQLGBbh7
@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk2026-01-05 09:27:44
I guess everyone is back to work this morning. I've just asked #gemini to research something for me while I get on with my morning sweep of the lists and its currently waiting due to "heavy traffic".
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-12-03 17:21:45
audio description rules because even though im completely sighted, sometimes my brain doesn't work right and I can't follow what's happening BUT ALSO it's great for if you wanna watch something but also close your eyes for a bit or try to fall asleep or your head hurts but you still wanna watch an episode of something. they're usually really well done, too
@tezoatlipoca@mas.to2025-12-04 19:26:50
@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
@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
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2026-01-03 14:21:25
Biggest insult today: Motherfucking Github rate limited me browsing issues of a software product while being logged out. Git-we steal all your open source code to train our slop machine that management will use to make your life at work worse-hub.
@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.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…
@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…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-01-03 18:11:35
Back and leg pain was terrible from around 4am to 11am but I managed to get moving after that and doing some kitchen work helps distract me from the pain... I still feel a little dizzy, but whatever.
So I am attempting a "tavern style" pizza today, the "other" Chicago style, a thin, cracker crust. (Also St. Louis or Milwaukee style to some folks.)
I'll report back on my results after lunch, unless I fall asleep again from the medication.
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-12-03 17:00:29
@… I love your work, but pushing this tab into Thunderbird, causing Thunderbird to pop in front of my current meeting window while I’m presenting and have to then scramble to close it and get my notes visible again, is _utterly_ unacceptable.
You gotta find a better way.
@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
@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.social2026-02-03 16:50:46
LexisNexis-owner Relx, Reuters-owner Thomson Reuters, and other stocks fell 10% after Anthropic launched Claude Cowork tools that automate legal work (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/48ec5657-c2e7-4111-a236-24a96a8d49e7
@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.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-02-04 10:34:31
"Scaling ORCID Adoption: Technical and Organizational Approaches Within a Research Organization"
#ORCID iD use…
@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
@datascience@genomic.social2026-01-03 11:00:00
Add some swag to your ggplots, with fontawesome symbols and colors: #rstats
@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…
@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.social2026-02-04 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.
@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
@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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-05 08:25:53
A profile of nonprofit Common Crawl, which has scraped billions of webpages since 2013, including paywalled ones, to build an archive used by OpenAI and others (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/202…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-12-02 12:15:42
Republicans work to defend a deep-red House district in expensive Tennessee special election (Owen Auston-Babcock/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/republicans-work-defend-deep-red-house-district-expensive-tennessee-sp-rcna245615
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p9#a251202p9
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-05 07:42:42
“This is illegal. The occupation is illegal.” The International Court of Justice agrees, as has the United Nations, according to numerous resolutions passed starting in 1967. And yet now the Security Council has effectively given Israel’s occupation of Gaza the force of international law."
Opinion | In Gaza and the West Bank, Human Rights Work Changes Course - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/NnUaf#selection-993.114-993.404
@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
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-03 15:24:50
Sleeping on the job used to be frowned upon.
But a Pew Research Center survey found that 34% of Americans take daily naps.
According to experts, 30 minutes or less of catnapping can “restore alertness, enhance performance and reduce mistakes and accidents” in the workplace.
In the 1960s, President John F. Kennedy caught some extra z’s in early afternoon to keep up his stride.
And NASA pilots take in-flight naps as short as 26 minutes to enhance performance and alertn…
@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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-04 22:38:15
Bloomberg Media COO Julia Beizer is leaving the company, a source says to lead Microsoft's AI news product, working under Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/bloomberg-media-coo-julia-beize…
@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 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.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…
@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.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…
@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.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)
@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…
