@doktrock@toad.social2025-12-04 13:19:04
December 4, Day of Saint Barbara - Patron Saint of Miners (among other professions). Blog post from Salzwelten Altaussee, a famous salt mine in #Austria which I had a chance to visit years ago. #Österreich 🧪⚒️ Glück Auf!
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-04 03:11:42
Santa Barbara County authorities recovered the body of a man who was reportedly swept off a flooded roadway in Goleta Valley on Saturday.
The man was driving near the 1100 block of North San Marcos Road shortly before noon when his vehicle reportedly became stuck on a flooded part of the road that passes over Maria Ygnacio Creek, according to Captain Mike Gray with the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.
The man then exited his vehicle, Gray said, and he was subsequently washed…
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-12-04 02:42:59
Bravewords
Gathers true stories of everyday people with extraordinary honesty...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #AusPods
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-02-03 00:30:22
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Barber and Sibelius symphonies from Cologne
Sibelius's fifth and Barber's first symphonies performed by the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne conducted by Roderick Cox. Jonathan Swain presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qh4m
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-04 05:20:43
Sources: the European Commission plans a new antitrust probe into Meta over its rollout of AI features in WhatsApp; the probe will not fall under the DMA (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/66f20eec-1734-4eea-9ca3-7ac1d88258ab
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-03 19:33:09
Shortly after 10 a.m., the California Highway Patrol announced on X that #Highway101 is #closed from Winchester in Goleta to State Route 1
“due to debris flow and flooding for an unknown duration.”
#CHP advises motorists to u…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-04 06:10:39
EU officials and policymakers say the EC will intensify its enforcement of the DMA and DSA in 2026, a move expected to renew clashes with US Big Tech and Trump (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ca6f3062-f286-4a13-b81d-6e2a35c91fdc
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-02 02:45:27
Water pounded Santa Barbara’s coastline on November 6 for the first king tides of the year — flooding beaches and parking lots and jumping the walls of usually dry lookouts at places like Butterfly Beach and Campus Point.
This weekend marks round two of these extraordinarily high tides,
which occur when the sun, moon, and Earth align, pulling the surf to extreme highs and lows.
They are typically at least one foot above the average high tide, according to the California Co…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-04 02:15:49
Sources: Sam Altman reached out to at least one rocket maker, Stoke Space, last summer for OpenAI to secure a controlling stake; the talks are no longer active (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-has
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-29 18:18:02
How Legalized Bribery Works in America
https://www.inequalitymediacivicaction.org/debunking-myths/how-legalized-bribery-works-in-america
