@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple says the HomeView will not be available in the EU because Siri AI is currently unavailable on iOS there and it is "working constructively with the EU" (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/10/13/apple-homeview-wont-be-availab…
@cdarwin@c.imWith national small-donor money pouring into the race, JoAnna Mendoza has so far out-fundraised Ciscomani.
But the Mendoza campaign is hoping its edge will come from constantly connecting to individual voters however they can – TV ads, radio, public events and old-fashioned door-knocking.
That’s why Romero, the Tucson mayor, was out walking the palm tree-lined streets of Tucson’s second ward,
looking for voters in the midday heat.
Almost no one answered as Romero wou…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Bring in NFL Veteran to Help Fix Christian Parker’s Struggling Defense https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-bring-in-nfl-veteran-to-help-fix-christian-parkers-struggling-defense/
@trochee@dair-community.socialI have been working on a Site Incident — and I'm the only one doing so in public
A PM gives me –2 min notice to represent the state of the incident to eng leadership of a 500-person team
So I had to say "yes I've been working to stop the bleeding but as far as I know it's still pretty bad"
And of course the EMs involved wanted to argue:
A: we agreed that B should fix it
B: actually we don't need a fix at all
C: I thought we agreed t…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPulitzer-winning political cartoonist Pat Oliphant, 90, has died in Santa Fe, NM; at the height of his career, he was syndicated in as many as 500 newspapers (Robert D. McFadden/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/arts/pat-oliphant-dead.html
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukParliament is going to debate this. This doesn't mean that they will actually vote on it, but MPs get to argue for or against.
Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK - Petitions
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/749128
@chrysn@chaos.socialIn the Opener Initiative, we collaborate on implementing the #DectNRPlus standard.
The standard provides license-free radio (no cellular operators) in the 1.9GHz band, with all bells and whistles of a 5G radio standard for #IoT applications.
In Opener, we are working on a portable
@scott@carfree.cityThe first ever DSA SF voter guide is live! Read and share 🌹:
https://dsasf.org/dsa-sf-november-2026-voter-guide/
Most important points are the fully-fledged Endorsements (as opposed to recommendations): Yes on B for a public bank, Yes on I for affordable/social…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialFor Indian communities, fishmeal factories bring pollution, danger and protests
Your salmon and prawns depend on this industry. It's bonkers to catch fish, turn them into fishmeal to feed other fish. Don't eat farmed salmon, in particular.
https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialForeign investment in Japan's chip industry has reached ~$37B, as government subsidies attract companies working on logic and memory chips and image sensors (Shuhei Ochiai/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/
@bourgwick@heads.socialfascinating survey of the early lower east side music scene, 1900-1920. deep #nyc history. https://klezmor.im/@carkner/117021352714755930
@ruario@vivaldi.net@… Just as a futher follow up, I have found a way to support older distros with a third party (chromium patched) libffmpeg, on older distros, so we will have this working out of the box in a future update.
Also as you may have gathered, this is not really a technical issue, this is more of a legal issue. Otherwise we would just build Vivaldi with support for these propr…
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaHrmm, next problem I'm working through in Zig:
```
const buffer: []const u8 = ...
const this_works: u32 = std.mem.readInt(u32, buffer[0..3], .little);
const this_doesnt: u32 = std.mem.readInt(u32, buffer[0 offset..3 offset], .little);
```
```
error: expected type '*const [4]u8', found '[]const u8'
```
I'll poke this a bit more with a stick later this evening...lol
@cdarwin@c.imNo organization in the world operates more robots than Amazon.
The company already has more than 1 million robots working in warehouses around the clock to make tens of millions of same-day and one-day package deliveries happen on a daily basis
—and Amazon is poised to significantly grow that robotic fleet in the coming years as it establishes new factories to churn out increasingly more capable robot workers.
Despite deploying so many robots, Amazon is also the second-large…
@patrickquin@furry.engineerSubmitted my self-eval perf review yesterday. It's so different this year around, as it felt like I was reapplying for my job. More and more I am suspecting disclosing my disability was a mistake, as the new HR in town might be looking for pretexts to cull the herd based on LLM hype. My past handful of experiences of applying for jobs while working my current one, even for curiosity rather than putting my experience up for bid, did not go anywhere.
Yet in the coming months I might …
@hynek@mastodon.socialah that's where the uptime nines went @… https://hey.hagelb.org/@technomancy/statuses/01KZRYPG5TMB13NKJ8B5PM9MWT
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Everyone working in DevOps should read The Toyota Way.
https://zwischenzugs.com/2019/11/06/why-everyone-working-in-devops-should-read-the-toyota-way/
saved 2019-11-09
@sysop408@sfba.socialHad to take my cat to the veterinary ER last night for an eye wound. It turned out to be more of a head and eyelid laceration from skin irritation so it wasn't that serious, but being in the pet ER for a couple of hours was an experience.
The amount of grief coming in through the door was unnerving. You'd have to have the uncommon combination of nerves of steel plus an oversized compassion meter to be able to handle working in a place like that for more than a month.
Also…
@cdarwin@c.imToday’s battle lines are not simply between people who struggle to survive under increasingly degraded and costly conditions
and an oligarch class thinking of ever more ludicrous ways to waste their wealth.
They are more cosmological than that.
On one side are those of us who have no escape plan, no bunker in the sky or underground,
and who therefore are committed to staying right here, in the complexity of our earthbound reality, with one another.
We know we ne…
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyzSaturday, Sep 19th, 2026
@ re:sound
(Bldg 34, Mare Island)
#23Five presents:
Kamran Shafii کامران شفیعی
Jamael Smith & Zachary James Watkins
Doors 3:30pm / Show 4pm
Bring a chair or blanket to sit on!
ℹ️ Details:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have held working group meetings since July to discuss creating an industry-led standards body for AI (Leo Schwartz/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-ai-industrys-behind-scenes-push-pol…
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.usThis project, when fully running from scratch, can queue several million in one of the queues. So the real OTEL adventure for me, as always, is pushing limits. And part of that was getting OTEL working on ZTS with fibers. And I succeeded 🎉 . With this being the first full production run 😎 .
#php #otel
@keithp@fosstodon.orgTwo more C23 math functions for picolibc, compoundn and pown. While doing this, I discovered that I'd used the wrong constant for Dekker's Split function for binary64 values. That took a while to find.
So far, my new 'math_two' environment is working out pretty well; it's pretty easy to write format-independent floating point code now.
@jake4480@c.imThis dude's kid found an old copy of Compton’s 3D World Atlas Deluxe for Windows 95 in a thrift store, so he miraculously got it working on the trash fire that is Windows 11 https://trevmex.com/post/824245295374303232/my-son-found-a-world-atlas-in-…
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageThe Signal Rail: A Deterministic Motion Grammar for Communicating Conversational Agent State in Terminal Interfaces
Matteo Grella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10689 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10689 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10689
arXiv:2608.10689v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Terminal interfaces to conversational agents report rich internal state (listening, thinking, executing tools, awaiting input, failing) almost entirely through text, while the motion channel beside it, the one peripheral vision monitors without reading, carries a single bit: alive. We present the Signal Rail, a one-row terminal status instrument that gives that channel a grammar. Four ideas govern it: spatial semantics (input, processing, and output zones, with direction as meaning), a motion grammar (one kinetic rule per state, never color alone), determinism (frames as a pure function of explicit inputs, golden-frame testable), and honesty (no invented progress or activity). We contribute a 45-section normative specification and a reference implementation inside a working full-duplex local voice agent driven by real signals.
toXiv_bot_toot
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzYesterday my boys managed to message me from their Ōtautahi highschool to alert me that Chris Luxon was spotted at the school... Apparently, his minders organised some sort of ad hoc assembly (presumably thinking that the school was pro-National)... but my boys say there was booing & everyone was working on questions for him if they found themselves buttonholed by the media, e.g. 'what's your favourite dinosaur, Chris?' (They'd heard he doesn't believe in them) Burn. …
@grist@fosstodon.orgFor engineering teams in regulated industries weighing a legacy requirements management tool against a custom-built alternative, Dotphoton’s experience is one of the clearest demonstrations that the custom-built path works well when it’s built on Grist. …
@donelias@mastodon.crRE: https://mastodon.cr/@donelias/117074650431183703
Earthquake in Colombia: Thousands need help now.
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Chocó this morning.
There are injuries, families left homeless, and rescue teams working against the clock. The…
@georgiamuseum@glammr.usThey took a drop ceiling out of one gallery that had the Rubens and then restored these beautiful cherubs and angel-type arches in the ceiling, [where] the paint had been flaked off and just patched up all the plaster. So yeah, that was my first museum job. After two years at the Ringling, I moved to New York City and eventually was able to start working freelance at museums and galleries there.
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@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotImagine what went in to making this! I love OK Go. Here it Goes Again is just about my favourite ever music video. I have an unlikely secret (oops) celebrity crush on the guy with the shades and sideburns.
@… https://…
@datascience@genomic.social
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… I’m working with a client right now that is *heavily* in the LLM kool aide. So much so that it’s impossible for me to avoid interacting with LLMs while performing my work.
I absolutely feel like a disgustingly gross person after I’m done with work.
@cdarwin@c.imLegislation that would modernize federal labor law began with a handful of lawyers meeting, of all places, in an ice-cream shop.
“We wrote for hours what we would do to amend the National Labor Relations Act,”
said Marni von Wilpert,
a member of the San Diego city council who was then an attorney for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
Bringing together “our collective experience as labor lawyers over the years, really trying to unrig the rules so that working…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotFairly characteristic picture of me: I do fall over a lot, especially when trying to wrestle an awkward carpentry trestle through a bramble patch.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeWorking on building a low cost, open hardware RF relay system.
Four 2:1 channels using Axicom HF3 series latching RF relays. USB-C for power plus SCPI control.
The initial version will be a simple changeover design (i.e. the unselected port will float, rather than being terminated). I may look at making a version that terminates in the future, but that will double or triple the cost since it'll need more relays and the stuff I'm working with right now is fine driving an o…
@imprs_solar@academiccloud.socialOpen PhD positions at our partner university TU Braunschweig: The Institute for Theoretical Physics is offering PhD projects in space and astrophysics, working with Y. Narita: https://www.
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social"Apple HomeView is not available for sale in the European Union, as Siri AI is currently unavailable in iOS in the EU. Apple is working constructively with the EU in an attempt to find a path forward."
Then build a privacy-friendly version, apples. I’d love to have an AI-free version of this.
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.socialup late decorating cassettes and working on a new mix
@cdarwin@c.imOff the coast of Monterey, California, a team of researchers is gearing up for its first dive of the day into the cold and choppy waters of the Pacific Ocean.
On the back deck of the boat, Ashley Kidd, a co-founder of the non-profit "Sunflower Star Laboratory", gave the divers their final command: “Dive No 1 … stars in the water.”
Kidd’s team is working to restore the sunflower sea star,
a critically endangered marine invertebrate that looks less like a traditional…
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialEvent: October Sheffield.
"This one-day event will bring together those with an interest in working on degrowth in the UK. Together we will consider the potential for establishing the foundations of a degrowth movement in the UK, and planning for a UK presence at the International Degrowth Conference in 2027."
Degrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement – degrowthUK
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Building the fastest RaptorQ (RFC6330) FEC codec in Rust.
https://www.cberner.com/2020/10/12/building-fastest-raptorq-rfc6330-codec-rust/
saved 2020-10-15
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgSomething about Germany in the 70s:
My grandmother worked as (I think: main) secretary in the grain farming “company” (Getreidewirtschaft). She only worked part-time (50%). First because of raising her child, later it just continued this way and she was able to accompany my grandfather on the tours of the orchestra and band he was playing in. Working part-time only was rather unusual
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@tezoatlipoca@mas.toFudge it. I have made it appear as though I have been working sufficiently for today. Time to play the new #ArcRaiders update.
#clockingout #takethisjobandshoveit
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineIs Mercury in Gatorade or something*?
Various small things have seems not to work this week, canceled appointments, tech not working, bureaucracy being very bureaucratic... good times. Happily, some things are working unexpectedly too, which I like.
(*I know too much about orbital mechanics to put much stock in whether or not a planet appears to move backward from where we're standing.)
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialRandom thought that goes interesting places:
There are a lot of cheap ways to spend money to drastically improve the quality of life for lots of people (UBI, mosquito nets, digging wells, etc.). Those people almost invariably become way more economically productive in aggregate when this happens, far above the costs involved, if you measure from the perspective of the affected group. So for billionaires looking for outsized returns on investments, why not simply spend on some of these programs, then invest in a broad index of socks that are going to go up as a result?
The answer could be "billionaires by their nature are too evil to think of this," which, could be true....
But I think there's a deeper answer, which is that there *is no* bundle of stocks that goes up as humans flourish. This is directly contrary to neoliberal economic doctrine/propaganda, but it also has an explanation that's obvious from the neoliberal doctrine itself: the stock market is a gambling arena for bets on corporate profits. Corporate profits are money taken in in excess of costs. But the value of a corporation is not produced abstractly by the mere existence of the organization; it's produced by the labor of humans working for the organization, with raw materials that the organization purchases. So to make a profit, an organization has to do some combination of paying its workers less than the value the create, and/or paying less for it's raw materials than they are really worth. The more it does these two things, the more profit it can generate.
Notice that these two profit-generating activities directly and indirectly immiserate humans, *and* that reducing human misery by means other than reducing these activities makes them harder. People who have other means of income won't sell their labor for less than it's worth, nor will they sell their resources below their fair value. Only desperate people will agree to terms that corporations require to be profitable.
This is not a "Marxist analysis" by the way; it's the direct application of the basic principles taught in any neoliberal introductory macroeconomics class.
In any case, once we understand that the stock market is "gambling on how much corporations can exploit their employees/suppliers/customers", it's clear why you can't make money from stock investments in companies that profit from flourishing humans: profit is by construction made of human misery.
It also explains a lot of other things, like why private US employers who pay huge amounts of payroll towards health insurance for their employees would be *against* public health insurance that would offload those costs onto all taxpayers: the amount they're able to lower wages as a result of desperation for access to health care is more than worth the direct costs.
This is the central reason why capitalism (defined as: a system where money equals power) is inimical to human happiness: it allows profits built on suffering to be converted into the power to maintain the system of suffering and even extend and intensify it, creating a feedback loop of extractive domination.
Now I'm sure some people might read this and think: what about the good companies? The ones that pay their workers and suppliers a fair wage, and sell their products at fair prices? Even putting aside the fact that such a thing seems less believable than a unicorn these days, such a company by definition does not make a profit. The fair wage for its workers is the value they add to the raw materials it buys, and the fair price for those is the selling price of the finished product minus the value the company adds. The balance sheet will read exactly zero at the end of the day if compensation is actually fair. You can still run a company like this in theory, and even grow it, but of course under capitalism it will just get bought out by an unethical company that is profitable. Could you in some kind of utopian dream world run a tightly regulated series of markets where you have most of what people think capitalism is, without the bad parts? Maybe, but it definitely wouldn't involve actual capitalism, and it wouldn't have a stock market.
#anarchy #capitalism #econimics
@djrmarques@social.linux.pizzaAnyone working as a Privacy Engineer in Europe? I would be interested in knowing how you got into it, and if you took any certs. Also what the career is like.
#PrivacyEngineering
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHow did Trinidad Chambliss, other key prospects fare in Week 1?: NFL Draft film room https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7572805/2026/09/08/nfl-draft-2027-film-chambliss-darian-mensah/
@primonatura@mstdn.social
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterToday's installment of "let's see how much the world can be inshittified":
I got in the car to go to the cattery to pick up Luther after our week away. And when I put the indicators on ... no sound. Lights flashed both internally and externally, but no little "tick tick" rhythm to accompany them.
Anyway after I got home I looked at the Volvo website, where this is an apparently known problem.
To be slightly fair, following their process and rebooting the car (twice!) fixed things. But how on earth can they ship car software where you randomly need to reboot to keep things working. Especially as having an audio warning for the turn signal is (I believe) a legal requirement in the UK.
#volvo #enshittification
@neverpanic@chaos.social#OpenSSL is working on its ticket backlog. With some funding from @…, the open issue count is now below 1000 for the first time in a long while!
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialWorking on one of our last big gaps, Godot .NET Deployment and debugging to iOS devices.
Just a dozen crashes standing in the way.
@markhburton@mstdn.social"Oswald Mosley was the most significant fascist in Britain’s political history. His threat to democracy in the 1930s was backed by major sections of the Establishment — not to mention Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Italy — and only seen off by mass working-class agitation and mobilisation."
Mosley’s heirs must be confronted | Morning Star
@cdarwin@c.im @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWayne Lawson, a Vanity Fair editor for 30 years who shaped the work of many of the magazine's stars, including Dominick Dunne and Marie Brenner, has died at 94 (Penelope Green/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/business/media/wayne-lawson-dead.htm…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnt International, Visa, and Mastercard plan a new standard for payments made via AI agents, citing McKinsey's projection of $3T to $5T in commerce by 2030 (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/10/ant-international-visa-masterca…
@sysop408@sfba.socialSome people would find this appalling, but someone was such a fan of one of my sites that they worked on a redesign idea of it and sent it to me. While she was working on it, she didn't realize there was a complete overhaul in the works.
I've been in the company of creators in the past who'd bristle (with extreme aggression even) at something like this because it's unsolicited feedback. To me, it shows how much someone cared. I can't really use any of this person…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Celebrating 45 years of Kermit with the first new C-Kermit release in 15 years.
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/44456-celebrating-45-years-o…
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialDegrowth Gathering – Building the UK movement
Saturday, 17 October, 9:30-5.00 Degrowth is both a transformative movement and a critical framework, aiming to ensure social justice and well-being for all, with human activities being in alignment with ecological limits. However, degrowth in the UK currently exists as an informal network rather than a cohesive movement. This one-day event will bring together those with an interest in working on degrowth in the UK.
@georgiamuseum@glammr.usArscott joined the museum in 2009, coming in with a professional background quite different from the art world. Her education and early career were rooted in science, and she spent many years working in hospitals and laboratories before pivoting to museum work. Before moving to Athens, she lived in London, where she spent 10 years working for Brunel University’s Disability and Dyslexia Service.
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@cdarwin@c.imWe have been trained and trained ourselves to lose touch with the magical, life-giving force of stories.
And our life-sustaining love for stories has been beaten out of us by AI slop, by a shitty, commercialized culture industry, by living under capitalism and end-times fascism, etc.
I get why we feel that way, and I feel it, too. But there’s something really, really wrong there.
Like our air and water and soil and atmosphere, I think we have been trained and trained oursel…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeNo pics since I was in a rush to finish, but had a productive shop session today working on the ngscopeclient demo / ngscopeclient CI / probe class DUT board.
Now have five back sides populated. Initial inspection shows a bunch of tombstones on two of them, two looking decent, one not yet checked out.
Hoping to get one populated front side tomorrow then do firmware dev over the week.
@markhburton@mstdn.socialIt was reading a report by Bamdeis and Hofferberth that suggested this idea.
"According to a recent study (King et al., 2023), only a minority 27 per cent of polled climate experts held “green” growth views in 2023, .... And academics in general now “tend to disagree that green growth can keep global warming below 2°C... and tend to disagree that an absolute decoupling of GDP from material and energy use is possible on a global scale” (Suter et al. 2025, 6)"
@scott@carfree.citySad but typical that out of the 5 progressive ideas this person lists in the Mission Local comments section, 4 of them are about stopping something bad someone else is trying to do. The progressive movement in SF lacks a positive vision anymore. No wonder it's such a shell of what it used to be.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzFormer NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez to plead guilty in Indianapolis stabbing case
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/mark-sanchez-to-plead-guilty-in-stabbing-case/
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotI've been working on the sawmill this morning, cutting 100x50mm timbers for framing the roof of the new workshop.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDeidre Bosa, an anchor based in CNBC's San Francisco bureau, is leaving at the end of the month to start a show about AI, working with producer Jasmine Wu (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/bosa-departing-cnbc-to-start-ai-show…
@cdarwin@c.imPublic banks, unlike privately owned Wall Street banks that prioritize shareholder profits,
use their deposits to make loans that directly serve local needs.
These institutions can fund affordable housing,
support small businesses,
finance public infrastructure projects,
and assist with post-disaster rebuilding.
These investments strengthen communities and demonstrate fiscal responsibility
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Broadcom has been working to arrange more than $50B in financing for OpenAI's custom AI chip; Oracle is in talks on financing for a big chip purchase (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/oracle-broadcom-and-s…
@cdarwin@c.imFor years, Vice President JD Vance has railed against universal child care
and made snide comments about working families with little ones at home.
On Twitter in 2021, he claimed that “normal” non-affluent Americans prefer “a family policy that doesn’t shunt their kids into crap daycare so they can enjoy more ‘freedom’ in the paid labor force.”
Of course, no parents want their kids in “crap daycare.”
But what American mothers prefer is far more complicated than Vance’s…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Examining ARM vs x86 memory models with Rust.
https://www.nickwilcox.com/blog/arm_vs_x86_memory_model/
saved 2020-06-27 ht…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialComedians urge Sebastian Maniscalco and SiriusXM to restore working-class comics in its programming following the Raw Dog channel's rebrand under Maniscalco (Matt Grobar/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/10/sebastian-maniscalco-siriusx…
@cdarwin@c.imDon't hold your breathe waiting to receive your election bribe
https://bsky.app/profile/billkristolbulwark.bsky.social/post/3mv6faofi2k2x
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPakistan imposes new rules requiring journalists working for foreign media to obtain authorization before reporting outside Islamabad, Karachi, and Lahore (Elian Peltier/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgupgraded the graphics card and power supply in the offspring’s pc
the new psu has detachable cables which is better than the old psu’s mandatory rats nest
but the new cables are rather stiff and wide which makes it a bit of a challenge to route them through the ridiculous case (which is designed to show off how much dust it has collected) and to persuade them to keep flat enough that i could fit the case’s back panel
and a good chunk of time was working out which combinatio…
@cdarwin@c.imIn the spring, the federal government finalized regulations requiring millions of people who receive Medicaid benefits to prove they’re working, volunteering, or going to school to keep their coverage.
States have until January to begin those checks.
Montana, Arkansas, and Nebraska have already started implementing them.
The Trump administration’s federal work requirements exempt certain groups of people:
those with disabilities, those older than 64, pregnant people a…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Anthropic has been working on a plan to allow secondary stock sales in its IPO while also considering lockup periods longer than the standard 180 days (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthro…
@cdarwin@c.imA helicopter helping battle a large Utah wildfire crashed Friday, with no immediate word on the conditions of the two aboard.
The helicopter was one of seven working a fire in central Utah that was caused by lightning on July 27.
The fire had grown to 165 square miles (427 square kilometers) and was 19% contained by Friday.
The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that the Sikorsky S-64 helicopter crashed in Richfield,
which is about 160 miles (258 kilometers) sout…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the US is drafting a rule to close an export controls loophole that lets Chinese companies access AI chips via data centers in countries like Thailand (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/trump-adminis…
@cdarwin@c.imAn 18-year veteran of the US Department of Interior has resigned in protest from the sprawling federal agency, denouncing “a deeply troubling assault on the rule of the law” that took place at the department under Donald Trump.
John Murdock, an attorney and self-described conservative Christian, began working for the agency’s legal office in 2002. In his resignation letter, first sent to his supervisor earlier this year and obtained exclusively by the Guardian and Public Domain, Murdoc…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialXbox says it is working to resolve a "major outage" affecting its Account & Profile, Store & Subscriptions, and Apps & Mobile services (Chris Scullion/Video Games Chronicle)
https://www.videogamesc…
@cdarwin@c.imIf you have spent a night in a US hospital in the past 20 years, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)) was working on your behalf whether you knew it or not.
It built the patient-experience surveys Medicare uses to help set what hospitals are paid.
The quality indicators regulators rely on to spot a hospital that is harming people are its work.
With the defense department, it produced the team-communication training now standard in operating rooms and em…
@cdarwin@c.imSuper Pacs tied to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac)
have spent millions in a California congressional race to keep a progressive Democrat from winning Eric Swalwell’s former seat.
Aisha Wahab, a state senator who has been endorsed by the California Democratic party, is widely considered the frontrunner in the special election for the district covering a swathe of the East Bay.
Swalwell had been in office for more than a decade when he resigned earlier th…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn response to the "wiki incident", OpenAI says it is working on a framework for reporting misalignment incidents during training, evaluation, and deployment (@openai)
https://x.com/openai/status/2096133504417616165
@cdarwin@c.imLong before Texas became a rightwing political stronghold,
it was defined by cowboys on strike,
farmers organizing against the railroads,
and one of the largest Socialist party chapters in the country.
“In Texas, the history of our radical politics and labor and working class tradition has been purposefully hidden,”
author David Griscom said.
“It’s important to go back and correct the record
and see that there was an effort to try to make Texans forg…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with AI researchers Jacob Coxon, Daniel Kokotajlo, Alex Turner, and others on leaving AI labs, AGI's dangers, planned IPOs, AI safety, oversight, and more (New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-researchers-quit-openai-anth…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCarnegie China: China passed the US as the top destination for elite AI talent in 2025, rising from 2022's 27.1% share to 40.6%; the US fell from 46.4% to 34.2% (Claudia Chong/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/china-leads-u-s-top…
@cdarwin@c.imAt around five o’clock on a winter evening in 2013, then college student Sam Forstag was driving through a snowstorm toward his third job of the day, making sandwiches at the Subway inside a Walmart.
“I was always late,” Forstag recalled with a laugh more than a decade later.
Halfway there, the gray sedan in front of him lost traction. It spun across the icy road and slid nose-first into a ditch.
Forstag’s first instinct was to pull over.
Growing up in a tight-knit c…
@cdarwin@c.imWashington’s battleground 3rd District is a high priority for both parties.
The district went for President Trump in 2024 while reelecting moderate Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.
Gluesenkamp Perez, a centrist who was first elected narrowly in 2022 and has made a name for herself by sometimes breaking with her party,
successfully fended off primary challengers on Tuesday to advance to the November ballot.
Republican Braun, a retired Navy captain, won the other sp…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUber launches London's first commercial robotaxi service; the vehicles use Wayve's autonomous driving tech and will initially have human safety drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/988415/uber-wayve-robotaxi-london-launch…
@cdarwin@c.imI'm Brian Poindexter, the Democratic nominee running to send Max Miller packing in Ohio's 7th District.
I'm a union ironworker who's spent my whole life around people who work hard, play by the rules, and keep getting left behind by the people supposed to represent them.
Night shifts, the trades, the union hall. I've lived it.
Miller's never lived anything close to that.
He got his career handed to him and spent his time in Washington taking …
@Techmeme@techhub.social @cdarwin@c.imNature's benefits don’t require an exotic vacation getaway or weekend adventure.
Even brief, routine interactions with green space can reduce stress, improve mood and promote overall well-being.
I spent the spring of 2026 teaching and studying urban landscapes in Denmark,
a country consistently ranked among the happiest in the world.
I expected to find thoughtfully designed parks, courtyards and bicycle paths.
I did see those things.
But what surpris…
@cdarwin@c.imThe CIA is allegedly working behind the scenes in Brazil’s election,
planting stories to favor
Flšvio Bolsonaro and build a positive narrative about the right-wing senator.
https://www.panamericandispatch.org/p/ex-agent-says-cia-is-planting-pro
@cdarwin@c.imA bus driver knocked an explosive-laden drone out of the air,
potentially preventing an attack this week at a German airport that serves as a major NATO and cargo logistics hub,
a senior lawmaker said on Friday.
The man spotted the drone flying low while he was working at Leipzig/Halle airport late on Tuesday,
then kicked out at it in what Detlef Seif described as a courageous but dangerous act.
The drone, which prosecutors said was equipped with professional …
@cdarwin@c.imRescue teams are working to reach more than 900 missing hydropower workers,
hundreds of whom are feared trapped in the tunnels and underground areas of 12 hydropower projects in Nepal
after the devastating flash floods, the country’s disaster management authority has said.
The death toll from the unprecedented deluge of ice, rock, mud and debris on Wednesday last week
has risen to 939 people,
with 16 more dead reported in Tibet.
More than 4,400 are missi…
@cdarwin@c.imCongress isn’t working. Literally.
There have been few times in history when Congress has been more hated.
And your legislators are doing little to address that
— including working in Washington
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20
@cdarwin@c.imAmid the daily humdrum at 250 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo New York — is, to many Buffalonians, something shocking:
The building’s seventh floor serves as the operational hub of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) machinery of detention and deportation across much of New York State,
and it is a “hold room” site used to detain immigrant neighbors, including children.
For years, ICE’s Buffalo field office has lived inside the Delaware North Building.
Now, an …
