@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-22 08:39:00
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-23 02:35:08
Trump threats, U.S. troop build-up raise specter of battle for Hormuz
A surge of additional U.S. forces to the Middle East and Donald Trump’s threat to “obliterate” Iran’s energy infrastructure
have set the stage for what U.S. and Israeli security officials increasingly see as the war’s dramatic escalation:
a battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz and key energy installations.
A contingent of 4,500 U.S. sailors and Marines is heading to the Middle East,
inc…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-05-22 20:55:46
Hey, Twin Cities folks! I'm in an upcoming show that I'm excited about.
It’s visual art, it’s theater, it’s music, it’s ritual, it’s community meditation, it’s one of those •experiences• that defies categorization. It's the brainchild of Summer Hills-Bonczyk, who runs the cermics studio at Macalester, and I'm working with her brother to create music for the show.
I have a good feeling about this. I think it's going to be really cool!
#MSP #StPaul #Minneapolis
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-06-22 04:44:36
The first record of the parable commonly known as the "Blind Men and the Elephant" showed up around 2500 years ago, in a Buddhist text from India. At this point it's pretty commonly known. I assume that most folks reading this will be familiar with some variation of it.
If not, it's essentially a story about people who have limited information making assertions about something: one man grabs a tail and says, "it's like a rope," another the trunk and says, "it's like a snake," a third the leg saying, "it's like a tree," and so on. Later variations are less kind to the men, having them not simply report their findings, but fight over them. The first English translation draws a parallel to religion.
This comes to mind for me, because social media has a tendency to incentivize us to make those hard assertions, to dig in, to argue our perspective as part of a spectacle. Free and federated social media isn't structurally that different from corporate media, so the incentive models built to maximize engagement by maximizing conflict tend to leak through the similarities in the user experience and the conditioning of other platforms.
I didn't really come here to critique the fediverse, but rather to remind everyone, "no one sees the whole fucking elephant." We are limited and there are necessarily some things so big they will never be individually comprehensible. Any system that relies on us all agreeing cannot possibly respond to those big things.
We can see that concretely if we look at the difference between "democratic unity" and "diversity of tactics." In the first model, everyone either agrees or gets forced to behave as though they agree (at least on some issues). That's how liberal democracy works. Diversity of tactics (which systematically described, for example, in the "St Paul Principles"), on the other hand, let's people align on goals without needing to agree on exactly how to achieve them. The reality being that often there are multiple "correct" paths, and sometimes those paths can only work if multiple paths are taken in unison.
No one sees the whole elephant. We won't even see the elephant later. People will still be arguing about the elephant long after it's gone. But if you want to get rid of the elephant, you're gonna need to accept that you can't comprehend it all and you're gonna have to figure out a way to work together that doesn't require a unified approach.
@erikdelareguera@mastodon.nu2026-04-23 05:16:46
Går det verkligen att riva sig till integration? ”Jag kommer hit och tänker: fysisk omdaning är möjlig och den är bra”, säger Lawen Redar (S) när hon går runt i en utsatt fransk förort. Men erfarenheterna i Frankrike är inte helt entydiga. https://www.dn.se/varlden/s-t…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-04-23 10:05:00
heise | 10-kWp-Solaranlage ohne Elektriker: So geht's
Die neue Anschlussnorm für Kleinsterzeuger sieht keine Begrenzung der DC-Leistung vor, wohl aber maximal 800 W Erzeugungsleistung. Aber da geht mehr ...
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@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-23 01:19:49
23-time Grand Slam champion
Serina Williams will be the most anticipated factor in the women’s draw
as she makes her return to Wimbledon as a
44-year-old wildcard.
Williams last played competitive singles at the 2022 U.S. Open, when she lost to Ajla Tomljanović in the third round, and said she was “evolving” away from tennis.
When she takes the court at Wimbledon,
which runs June 29-July 12,
it will have been over 1,400 days since she last competed i…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-04-23 16:24:00
„Assassin’s Creed“: Remake von „Black Flag“ kommt am 9. Juli
Ubisoft hat nach mehreren Teasern das Remake von „Assassin’s Creed Black Flag“ angekündigt. Es soll Action- vor RPG-Elemente stellen.
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@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-22 10:16:00
Chiphersteller: SK Hynix erstmals wertvoller als Samsung
Vom Fast-Bankrott zum Börsenstar: Chipproduzent SK Hynix stößt Samsung Electronics vom Thron des wertvollsten Unternehmens des Landes.
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@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-23 14:14:00
Samsung produziert ab Jahresende High-End-Speicher UFS 5.0
Das Galaxy S27 kommendes Jahr könnte doppelt so schnellen Massenspeicher bekommen wie das S26. Samsung kündigt die UFS-5.0-Serienproduktion an.
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