@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-17 09:55:37
The Marshall Islands unveils a national UBI scheme that offers payments of ~$200 per quarter to every resident citizen via stablecoin or traditional currency (Prianka Srinivasan/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025…
@mia@hcommons.social2025-10-19 08:02:37
A statement from iNaturalist on experimenting with “AI-Assisted Identification Summaries” in 'Exploring New Ways to Learn from iNaturalist’s Community Expertise' https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/118695-exploring-new-ways…
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-19 05:03:09
I just woke up from a dream. For every parent there is a time when, with shame, we have to explain how the world actually works... when they become a little too old to keep saying, "I'll explain it when you're older."
Amsterdam is full of reminders of the occupation, of the Holocaust. It's impossible to pretend there hasn't been a great evil here... One that's not in the past, but still very alive in the present.
At some point things will have to change because fascism can't last forever. It is a thing which necessarily contains its own downfall. We will, at that point, have an opportunity to make the world one that we can be proud to tell our children we created. We can stop short and reestablish the status quo that got us here, or we can build a world that we will no longer have to explain to each new generation in shame.
What would it look like?
(Shout out to the comrade who prompted me to be thinking about this.)
There was also a sign in my dream that said, "we created the bike, therefore we can do anything." This may or may not be related.
@luana@wetdry.world2025-11-17 16:44:52
Musl support finally merged in upstream Systemd!! 
@pre@boing.world2025-11-18 23:24:01
Went to see Rob Manuel doing his @… show.
The very first one. And my opinions are officially so great I won the very first prize. A jar of his queen themed Maam-olade.
Mostly for provoking Doctor Who discussions and having head-shaving mistakes evident I suspect.
It was a fun night in a tiny pub with mostly old grey gen-Xers agreeing with each other about trivial things and laughing.
Excellent stuff. Nice to see you again Rob. Good times were had.
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-10-18 07:08:06
New series of talks: Buddhist Approaches to the Natural World https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20128816/new-series-talks-buddhist-approaches-natural-world
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2025-11-17 23:05:01
Why are these people so obsessed with eating bugs? "Oh but millions of people around the world eat bugs" yeah millions of people around the world do all kinds of fucked up shit and I'm not planning to do any of that shit either. Gross. Fuck outta here. I'll have the vegan option. https://www.…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-18 04:00:04
chess: Kaggle chess players (2010)
A network among chess players (nodes) giving the chess match outcomes (edges), for game-by-game results among the world’s top chess players. The direction of edge (i,j) denotes white player (i) and black player (j). Each edge is timestamped (approximate). Edge sign is 1 for a win by white, 0 for draw, and -1 for a win by black.
This network has 7301 nodes and 65053 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Signed, Timestamps
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-11-18 12:00:05
un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…
