@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-28 01:25:47
Democrats face moment of truth as shutdown coalition frays (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/27/democrats-face-moment-of-truth-as-shutdown-coalition-frays-00624346
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p131#a251027p131
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-29 03:20:34
❌Mobile Fortify,
the new app used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use face recognition technology (FRT) to identify people during street encounters,
is an affront to the rights and dignity of migrants and U.S. citizens alike.
That's why a coalition of privacy, civil liberties and civil rights organizations are
🔥demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
shut down the use of Mobile Fortify,
release the agency's privacy anal…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-26 21:10:50
Press Forward and the Online News Association join the Rebuild Local News Coalition, a nonprofit supporting policies that strengthen local news (Rebuild Local News)
https://www.rebuildlocalnews.org/press-forward-and-the-on…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-10-28 17:51:06
GW241011 and GW241110 - Exploring Binary Formation and Fundamental Physics with Asymmetric, High-spin #BlackHole Coalescences: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0d54 -> Colliding black holes might have formed from earlier cosmic smashups: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/colliding-black-holes-might-have-formed-from-earlier-cosmic-smashups and https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20251028 and https://www.ozgrav.org/news/twin-black-hole-mergers-reveal-secrets-of-cosmic-evolution/ - two recent detections have given the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration new insights into black hole formation and evolution -> Gravitational Wave Detectors Spot Merging Black Holes That Have Merged Before: https://aasnova.org/2025/10/28/not-their-first-rodeo-gravitational-wave-detectors-spot-merging-black-holes-that-have-merged-before/
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-28 13:14:47
I want to take a moment to thank @… for helping us carry out our Gaza Verified video calls.
Without her and Joy, we couldn’t do what we do.
Aseel is living in a tent right now (which gets flooded when it rains, like it did this week) and, in the middle of having to help her own family, is volunteering to help other families in need in Gaza.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-11-25 22:18:18
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Claudine Magbag:
🎵 Neighborhood
#ClaudineMagbag
https://claudinemagbag.bandcamp.com/track/neighborhood
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-10-27 23:04:06
I never thought I’d be a person who wore hi-vis clothing but biking home after 5pm has me contemplating it…
#bikeTooter
@aardrian@toot.cafe2025-10-27 14:57:23
I finally got Link Previews in Firefox today. I disabled the ‘AI’ feature and then disabled link previews altogether as I played with it.
But the setting disappeared completely, so I couldn’t turn it on again.
If this happens to you:
about:config − set browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled to true
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-28 20:30:43
Bill 9, introduced by the governing Coalition Avenir Québec on Thursday,
bans prayer in public institutions, including in colleges and universities.
It also bans communal prayer on public roads and in parks,
with the threat of fines of C$1,125 for groups in contravention of the prohibition.
Short public events with prior approval are exempt.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-27 16:51:40
German videos – titled Balaclava Kitchen – started in 2014 and ran for months before YouTube took down the channel for violating its guidelines.
But it offered a glimpse of how far-right groups have seized on cultural production – from clothing brands to top 40 music – to normalise their ideas,
in a process that researchers say has hit new heights in the age of social media.
“It’s frightening, honestly,”
said Katherine Kondor, a researcher with the Norwegian Center fo…