@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon plans to invest $12B in new data centers in Louisiana and says it worked with the local utility "to ensure we pay 100% of the costs" tied to the campus (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/amazon-louisiana-ai-data-centers.html
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCaleb Downs Reacts to Cowboys Pick After Missed Formal Visit: ‘It Worked Out’ https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/caleb-downs-missed-visit-first-round-draft-pick/
@cdarwin@c.imNicholas Enrich's new memoir,
"Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID",
is named after one of Elon Musk’s social media posts from that period,
when the South African billionaire wrote,
“We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.”
Since its establishment in 1961,
USAID has saved the lives of tens of millions around the world by treating and preventing serious health issue…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSeriously, though, it would be cool if emojis worked like this. I think I remember @… proposing something along those lines: FACE COMBINING SMILE COMBINING RAISED EYEBROW
@raiders@darktundra.xyzWhy the Raiders' Sales Pitch to Klint Kubiak Worked https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-sales-pitch-to-klint-kubiak-worked
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialJoanna Stern, who has worked at WSJ, ABC, The Verge, and Engadget, launches New Things, her independent tech newsletter and YouTube channel (Joanna Stern/The New Things)
https://thenewthings.com/p/meet-my-new-thing
@cdarwin@c.imAlex Jeffrey Pretti’s
“care for others”
led the intensive care nurse
to protest immigration agents’ presence in Minnesota.
Federal agents shot and killed the 37-year-old man on Saturday morning in Minneapolis
-- prompting further clashes between law enforcement and protesters.
Pretti, worked as a nurse at the Veterans Affairs hospital in the city.
Pretti’s parents said that politicians were telling “sickening lies”,
adding: “Please get the trut…
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaA novice was trying to fix a broken lisp machine by turning the
power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing spoke sternly,
"You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding
of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The
machine worked.
@hex@kolektiva.socialThis becomes especially interesting when you understand the history of the church as a quasi-revolutionary organization. One could describe early church history as a mostly-successful attempt to overthrow the Roman empire. I say mostly successful because, in the end, the Roman state mutated the church for it's own ends and basically pulled a Lenin.
The early church was a religion of women and slaves that set up alternative institutions. See, the Roman economic system basically ran through the temples. Temples were basically the banks of their day (thus money changers in the temples and all that). So when the church set up their own institutions, they were actually attacking the economic system of the Roman empire. *That* is why the empire tried to destroy them. The Romans didn't really care about the gods. They would just mutate their beliefs to pull other pagans in. No, it wasn't about the gods. The Christian were fucking with the money.
The whole church as an institution was about dual power, and Paul (one of the early founders of the church) was central to organizing this into a political machine that could actually threaten the dominant order. One could argue that he saw the potential of the church, and used it to solidify his own power.
It all basically worked, right up until Constantine figured out how to flip the whole thing against the most radical elements. He had his people collect up different books of the Bible and modify them in such a way that it favored Rome. The trick here was to highlight the existing antisemitic threads of early church, and destroy the anti-Roman ones. Anti-authoritarian sects were killed as heretics, and centralized sects became aligned under the church.
This strategy of controlling internal dissent probably feels quite familiar. It's basically how the US works.
But this whole time, during the whole lead up to this, Christianity was illegal and it was continuing to grow as a system of dual power. When Romanism merged with Christianity, it created the most authoritarian institution in human history that brutally destroyed all opposition. Even still, several hundred years later it's power broke.
Today Liberalism has separated banking and the church, and has created the illusion of separation of church and state. But the same dual power strategy that allowed the first church to gain enough power to merge with the Roman power structure have now allowed Christian Nationalism to fully merge with Americanism into the Christian Fascism we see today...
@domm@social.linux.pizzaToday I spend nearly 13 hours and ~1600km on two trains to get from Berlin via Strasbourg to Marseille. It worked like a charm, was rather comfortable (due to me sitting in first class) and not that expensive (212€).
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Addition PJ Locke Makes Strong Statement on Coach https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/pj-locke-christian-parker/
@outer@mas.to@…
Hi, John! Welcome to Mastodon!
If you've already been here a while...double welcome.
I saw you'd followed me, so I followed you back.
I saw from your website that you're a physicist that programs in FORTRAN. I also programmed in FORTRAN and worked in physics from 1983 thru 2014. I never got a degree in physics, though, …
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzNASA is taking steps to potentially roll back the #ArtemisII rocket and Orion spacecraft to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after overnight Feb. 21 observing interrupted flow of helium to the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s interim cryogenic propulsion stage: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/21/nasa-troubleshooting-artemis-ii-rocket-upper-stage-issue-preparing-to-roll-back/ - the upper stage uses helium to maintain the proper environmental conditions for the stage’s engine and to pressurize liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant tanks; the systems worked during NASA’s Artemis II wet dress rehearsals, but teams were not able to properly flow helium during normal operations and reconfigurations following the wet dress rehearsal that concluded Feb. 19.
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders name Mike Sullivan Quarterbacks Coach https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-name-mike-sullivan-quarterbacks-coach
@UP8@mastodon.social💊 Are psychedelics better than antidepressants? New study says no
#drugs
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaWorked until 21:37, had 30ml of wine from the bottle that's been languishing in the fridge since last week, and now I'm crashing. Sleep, and tomorrow do it again.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNewspaper executives' emphasis on reader data doesn't serve subscribers who look to editorial staff to guide them to potential new areas of interest (John Williams/The Atlantic)
http…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialA century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/
Banning lead in gas worked: The proof is in our hair
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaVoidLinux to the rescue.
Obviously that LUKS, dracut and bin kernel was a glorious PITA on Gentoo.
But..... VoidLinux has everything I want, a tutorial that actually worked was found quickly and now dwm 6.8, st and dmenu all compiled gloriously. Let the patching begin. Remember, this time I wanted to start from zero, Unfortunately I have to work tomorrow 🤣 so this will have to wait to later in the week. But this feels very appropriate for the ThinkPad. Beer time 🍻 on a job well do…
@joxean@mastodon.socialSony just killed Bluepoint games, a studio that worked marvelously. Stupid industry.
https://www.theverge.com/games/881578/sony-close-bluepoint-games-studio-remaster-remake-demons-souls-shadow-colossus-god-of-war…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTrump Media & Technology Group names Kevin McGurn as interim CEO effective immediately; McGurn previously worked as an executive at Hulu, Vevo, and T-Mobile (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/trump-media-kevin-mcgurn-ceo…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI had (At least) two dreams last night. One was that it snowed, which is probably due to putting away our snow shovel last night.
In the other I was riding my bike to work in the Third Ward (though I haven't worked there in 20 years) and some of the wiring was messed up, which sucked, but it still worked fine.
I hope I can start riding again soon. And that it doesn't snow.
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotRE: https://mastodon.social/@cultofmac/116261999329033330
It was gorgeous. They had one on the counter in the reception of a company I worked for in Sweden. It was deeper black than it looks in this illustration.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeThe only thing worse than "it doesn't work and I don't understand why" is "it works and I don't understand why".
As best I can tell, the several months ago state (which worked and gave correct output) and the current state (which worked and gave correct output) both being correct are mutually exclusive, because they swap the forward and reverse FFT inputs.
So either it was broken all along and occasionally worked due to the race I still don't f…
@doktrock@toad.socialWorked with a class of chemistry graduate students today, on "Toward "Greener" Mineral Extraction and Processing."
Cement, Cu/Ni, Aluminum, Steel.
They carried out "lightning research" in groups, then presented to the class.
They did really well, considering many of them are organic chemists! (coincidentally, one of them had worked in a steel plant...)
@aardrian@toot.cafeClient explaining spec: “Clicking the drop-down opens a product grid menu with pop-ups to choose colors.”
Me: “Wut.”
Technical pedantry is important in UI and digital accessibility work. As practitioners we have to translate lingo all the time.
Suggestions…
• Drop-down: https://adrianroselli.…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgWorked late on a paper today: I have a target to submit 3 before June, which I have been working on in parallel. I sometimes wonder if it would be more efficient to do them one at a time. But much of my job is project work, usually several in parallel, so it's not always possible...
What do you do?
#AcademicChatter
@matthiasott@mastodon.social“What's dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone's carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own. This isn't a case of being inspired by something and building on it. It's the opposite of that. It's taking something that worked and making it worse.”
@… on how Microsoft …
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialTell us a bit more about the candidate you are referring, CAPTAIN SALTBEARD:
⚪ This is a professional contact. I have worked with this person before.
⚪ This is a personal contact. I have not worked with this person before.
🔘 This is a nemesis. I have worked against this person my entire life.
@cdarwin@c.imAbby Tighe thought she had landed her forever job.
She joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in December 2023,
managing a national youth substance abuse prevention program.
The project focused on rural communities, and Tighe, whose family is from Appalachia, was proud to be using her public health training to support often-overlooked parts of the country.
“The CDC was different than anywhere else I’ve worked,” says Tighe.
“People didn’t …
@robpike@hachyderm.ioI found this very upsetting. The security guys deciding a priori that it's hard to do so we don't need to concern ourselves. That hasn't worked out well in the past. You think they'd learn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPJ6NJkmDAo
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialRE: https://sfba.social/@cowperthwait/116094253654738191
Seriously consider him. He's one of the most thoughtful and skilled marketers I've ever worked with, who actually understands the work deeply and not just throwing out suppositions that might be true without checking.
@scott@carfree.cityCesar Chavez will get canceled for this and he should, but there are a gajillion things in this country named after enslavers like Washington and Jefferson. Interesting how some heroes are immune to cancellation and others are not
https://ww…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialWent to see a 1 man version of Robert Tressell's 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' last night. Sounds a bit implausible but it worked well.
The Great Money Trick, actually an explanation of capitalist reproduction (simple) via expropriation of surplus value, is brilliant. Do read the book if you haven't. Relevant to today's long recession.
@DamonHD@mastodon.social#today did another tiny bit of #research #buildingModel stuff, joined a #Nesta Webinar, and worked wi…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukMy BBC Model B series 7 case looks a disaster inside, but it's working nicely after a recap; caps 1,2,9 in the PSU. It worried me by not beeping - but the capslock worked, and after pushing the socketed analogue chips down under the keyboard it's good. It's a bit fuzzy on the UHF, but there again that is a terrible lead I used. Just has DNFS and View in. The W key took some cleaning, and the '.' is still not working. Getting the aux socket out of the PSU is a bastard!…
@domm@social.linux.pizza#potd A week ago I was cycling over sandy piste in Senegal, now this. After de-icing the bike cycling to the office worked quite well, because the city of Vienna is very good at removing snow from bike paths and streets. The pavements are in a worse state, because removing the snow there is the job of each house owner.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: advertisers that bought ChatGPT's first ad campaigns say the process was low tech and that they haven't received much data showing if their ads worked (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais…
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User error on guess 2, put the known letter back where it didn't belong. Worked out ok.
@rmdes@mstdn.socialThis weekend I worked on my custom /blogroll page
it has 3 input types :
1. you construct the collection by adding blogs manually
2. you import an OPML with your collection
3. you connect your /microsub existing collection to feed the blogroll on the frontend.
https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/02/08/3
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizzaHas anyone worked out what music is yet?
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIf a not-for-profit for-profit privacy-protecting company funded by surveillance capitalism isn’t trustworthy, I don’t know what is. @… https://polymaths.social/@c…
@hex@kolektiva.socialAfter the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTrump Media & Technology Group names Kevin McGurn as interim CEO effective immediately; McGurn previously worked as an executive at Hulu, Vevo, and T-Mobile (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/trump-media-kevin-mcgurn-ceo…
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeIf prayer worked, Christians would be banned from casinos
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialThis is an actual science textbook doing math in imperial units. I've never seen anything so bizarre.
@cjust@infosec.exchange
@ruario@vivaldi.net@… If you are ever get bored and want to understand why the lack of dependency management is no biggie, I wrote a post some 15 years ago about this on my then blog, hosted at Opera (back when I worked there).
When it was removed (because Opera shutdown personal blogs) the Slackware documentation site rehosted it. I see it is actually still here and while not fully…
@hynek@mastodon.socialDoes anyone else observe a weirdness with Docker registry 2.8.2 (default Ubuntu noble) where it won't accept layers because it thinks it aleady has them and then serve 0 byte 200s when asked for it which leads to "unexpected EOF" errors on deployments?
We ran the registry previously on Focal and it worked great for year. Upgrading breaks regularly despite us completely nuking the old contents incl Redis cache. There's currently also no deleting/maintanance b/c I thoug…
@timjan@social.linux.pizzaDamn it, what was the name of the HR system for the company that I worked for last January? I'm sure there's a link to that W2 in my inbox, somewhere...
@NFL@darktundra.xyzD'Andre Swift hopes to return to Bears with future unclear: 'I don't want to play nowhere else' https://www.nfl.com/news/dandre-swift-hopes-to-return-to-bears-with-future-unclear
@ripienaar@devco.socialThis is a fantastic write up from someone very anti AI who took a large chunk of time to really use and experience using it. A great write up of what many of us feel.
Well worth the long read by @…
https://
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialJust a little one and a half hour walk nearby before it was supposed to be raining (and rugby starts).
It was a nice walk and good to be out. Strangely, my old GPS device refused to get a location despite having lots of satellites. Just 10min before coming back (after a couple of restarts and taking the batteries out and back in) it worked.
Fortunately, I only had it with me to test if my heart rate monitor also connects to it.
@mia@hcommons.social
@kurt@nelson.funMy Lyft rider rating is a 5.0 yet my Uber one is 4.74. Guess which company I worked corporate at.
@cdarwin@c.imThe FBI is leading the effort to look for possible connections into the cases of 10 missing or deceased scientists and staff who worked at sensitive nuclear or space technology laboratories, according to senior law enforcement officials.
In a statement Tuesday, the FBI confirmed it is "spearheading the effort to look for connections into the missing and deceased scientists. We are working with the Department of Energy, Department of War, and with our state and state and local law e…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caBravo to Tofino for being the first in Canada (again!) protecting our waterways and environment from the overuse and waste of plastics!
Thanks to their work, the same Surfrider group came to Port Alberni and worked with AV Transition Town Society to create Ocean Friendly Port Alberni which has been helping educate and cleanup the community for a number of years now.
I helped our MP Gord Johns (who was previously head of the Chamber of Commerce in Tofino) rally support for his national Plastic reduction strategy introduced back in 2018/19 which led to the controls on plastics today.
Tofino leading the way again!
#EarthDay #Plastic #PlasticWaste #Tofino #Environment
https://albernivalleynews.com/2026/04/22/tofino-marks-earth-day-with-single-use-water-bottle-ban/
@adulau@infosec.exchangeRansomlook 2.0 "Mira" Released - Observability, Crypto Traceability, and a Cleaner Core.
Thanks to all the contributors who helped and worked on this release. A huge thanks to @… for his continuous commitment to make ransomlook always better.
Ransomlook remains firmly committed to an open-source codebase and to keeping it that way. We believe security to…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioAs for other things, like looking up medical advice, "traditional" search engines on the Internet worked much better than any LLM to get you to trustworthy sources of information.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://www.wired.com/story/john-solly-doge-operative-accused-social-security-data-leidos/
Somehow I think it’s fair game to dox anyone who worked for DOGE
@crell@phpc.socialHonest question: Has "assassinate the leader of a country and the populace will rise up and overthrow the government and setup a new more US-friendly government" EVER worked? I know we've tried it a bunch of times, but I'm pretty sure it has failed miserably every single time.
#uspol
@gwire@mastodon.socialHow is government still spending tens-of-millions on software development with nothing to show for it?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/17/uk-frictionless-post-brexit-trade-border-project
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org @cdarwin@c.imTwo CIA officers die in Mexico accident after counternarcotics operation
Two U.S. embassy officials who died in an automobile accident in northern Mexico as they returned from the scene of a counternarcotic operation
worked for the Central Intelligence Agency as part of a significantly expanded role in battling narcotics trafficking in the Western Hemisphere
The deadly car crash Sunday in the state of Chihuahua also took the lives of two Mexican officials
and prompte…
@joxean@mastodon.socialEA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch
Battlefield 6 was the best-selling game in the U.S. in 2025.
https://www.ign.com/articles/ea-lays-off-staff-acros…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPalantir posts a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book, advocating for hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, and denouncing pluralism, and "regressive" cultures (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/pala
@cdarwin@c.imThe Republican former lieutenant governor of North Carolina,
Mark Robinson,
has admitted he "misled" voters during his unsuccessful 2024 gubernatorial campaign
when he denied posting racist and offensive comments on a pornography website
– suggesting he did so to protect Donald Trump’s successful presidential run.
Robinson, who worked in furniture manufacturing before entering politics in 2020, told the "After the Call" podcast on Thursday:
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialToday was another one of those days where I was in pain for over 12 hours. These days suck so bad. I did get a few hours of relief this evening though and even worked for over an hour today.
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineChanged the hosting on my site and also changed the registrar for the domain, and it seems it is loading alright.
(It is just a simple text-only page right now. Someday I may make it look cooler and/or be bigger.)
https://www.davidaugust.com/
@cjust@infosec.exchange @raiders@darktundra.xyzInside the Raiders’ Hiring of Klint Kubiak — Why It Worked and What It Means https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-inside-hiring-klint-kubiak-why-it-worked-what-it-means
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaIf you have a housepet that likes to chew your cables, buy some of picrel in the thinnest gauge you can find to cover the individual cable. Tape the junction between the cable and cladding with 3M™ Acetate Cloth Electrical Tape (a.k.a. fabric wiring harness tape). Worked for me for 15 years and counting.
Since this is Mastodon, inb4 "ohh but I have a macaque that likes to use her opposable thumbs to remove the cladding and chew through specifically the ground wire" -> sux…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzInside the re-making of Fernando Mendoza from shaky starter to 2026 NFL first-rounder https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7050416/2026/02/17/fernando-mendoza-2026-nfl-draft-indiana-development/
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialI always ask people who want to build some nonsense:
- how will you know that it worked?
- what can you do if it didn't?
The answer is usually: we won't, and nothing. It never occurs to them that the idea might not be an inevitable success, despite ALL prior experience to the contrary.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioA favorite dental assistant who long worked on my teeth once mentioned that she’d also had Pete Docter in her care at an orthodontia clinic when he was young, and she still vividly remembered his teeth — not in a good way or a bad way, just in a “she’s a professional and every set of teeth is unique” kind of way.
I thus feel a bizarre kinship with him, and cringe extra hard every time he puts his foot in his mouth like this, thus presumably undermining not only his reputation but also his orthodontic work.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRunSybil, whose AI agent runs continuous autonomous penetration testing on live apps to find and document vulnerabilities, raised $40M led by Khosla Ventures (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/18/e…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialA few months ago I was at a store and I ran into a former coworker. It was a guy I tried to forget about because we worked together during a rough time in my life and also the guy was... odd.
I remember I felt sorry for him we we worked together as his life seemed sad. I ended up selling him a guitar for cheap because I thought he needed something in his life.
A few weeks later he told me he sold it for twice what I sold it to him for.
1/n
@cdarwin@c.imBill Paxton received his PhD from Stanford in 1977. -- He worked with Doug Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute where the group built the Online System (NLS) and he participated in
"The Mother of All Demos".
After leaving Stanford, Paxton joined the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
where they developed emerging technologies, including Ethernet, networked personal computers, bitmap displays, graphical user-interfaces, and laser printers
Paxton j…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn eight-month study at a US tech company finds AI tools didn't reduce work but intensified it, as employees worked faster and took on a broader range of tasks (Harvard Business Review)
https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @cdarwin@c.im @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA leak about White House outrage over CBS' reported hiring of Jeremy Adler, who previously worked for Liz Cheney, suggests the WH is trying to prevent the hire (Brian Stelter/@brianstelter)
https://x.com/brianstelter/status/2032131070024360446
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders give 2nd interview to coach who has worked with Josh Allen, Joe Burrow https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-give-2nd-interview-to-coach-who-has-worked-with-josh-allen-joe-burrow-3612077/
@cdarwin@c.imDemocratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s abrupt exit from the race for California governor
— then his announcement he would leave Congress
— left his rivals scrambling to lock down his former supporters in a crowded contest with no clear leader,
injecting more turmoil into the campaign to lead the nation’s most populous state.
Swalwell’s decision to suspend his campaign Sunday followed allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman twice,
including when she worked for him…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic adds Chris Liddell, an ex-Microsoft and GM exec who helped GM IPO and worked in Trump's first administration, to its board ahead of a potential IPO (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-ai-board-chris-liddell-1df5545b
@cdarwin@c.imU.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein.
Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
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@cdarwin@c.imHouse votes for a short term extension to warrantless surveillance law -- in a setback to Trump plan
The House of Representatives voted early on Friday to briefly extend an expiring and controversial law that grants the US government sweeping powers for warrantless surveillance.
The decision to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa) until 30 April came via unanimous consent
shortly after 208 Democrats and 20 Republicans came together to defea…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSwarm Aero, which is developing large swarming drones capable of carrying missiles and cargo, raised a $35M Series A, following a $22M seed in 2023 (Colin Demarest/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/11/swarm-aero-seriesa-drone-factory
@cdarwin@c.imDid AI cure a dog of cancer?
The most viral health story of late concerns Paul Conyngham -- a Sydney tech entrepreneur with no biology background
⭐️who used AI tools to design a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for his dog, Rosie.
Conyngham paid $3,000 to sequence Rosie’s tumor DNA, used AI tools to study the sequence, and then worked with a nearby university to manufacture and inject a custom mRNA vaccine.
‘The tennis ball-sized tumour on Rosie’s hock has shrunk in …
@cdarwin@c.imReal estate agent brothers
Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander
– known as ‘closers’
– are on trial in New York for
sex trafficking
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/15/alexander-brothers-trial?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@Techmeme@techhub.social @cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide
to cease processing passport applications,
-- disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on
and that has run smoothly for years.
The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall,
informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport Acceptance Fac…
@cdarwin@c.imChina could emerge a winner from Trump’s global energy shock
The disruption caused by the war on Iran may reveal that years China spent preparing for a global energy crisis have left the country and its economy better positioned than most to endure a long-term hike in the cost of oil and gas.
Through massive stockpiles of crude oil,
an aggressive push into electric vehicles
and huge investments into coal, renewable power and battery storage,
Beijing has worked …
@cdarwin@c.imClearly, Pam Bondi's performance was strategic.
It was part of her goal of deflecting attention away from Trump and the fact that his name appears more than a million times in files related to Jeffrey Epstein that were released by the Department of Justice, according to Raskin.
She beclowned herself and perhaps it worked.
Most headlines were a variation of the Daily News’: “Bondi shouts down Democrats in hearing on Epstein files release delays.”
At one point, t…
@cdarwin@c.imAfter spending nearly half her life in the United States,
41-year-old Brazilian Amanda Ungaro was deported from the country last October.
She endured three hellish months in a detention center until she was expelled,
like more than 600,000 immigrants since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025 and set out to carry out “the largest deportation in history.”
What is unusual in the case of this former model who worked at the United Nations is that,
