@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-09-06 06:21:07
From a Metropolitan Police Officer in Washington DC:
“I can’t say how this will end, but I can say what I will do in the meantime. I won’t be intimidated into silence about the failures and dangers posed to the country by the federal police takeover of the city. I will quit my job before I ever help Trump’s goons kidnap some random person for the crime of not being white enough.”
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-05 08:34:00
heise | Auswandern nach Polen: Was ITler verdienen, Lebenshaltungskosten und Steuern
Das "Silicon Valley Europas" lockt mit Jobs in der Techbranche und niedrigen Preisen. Wir erklären, ob die Rechnung für IT-Experten wirklich aufgeht.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-09-06 00:06:03
Kennedy Center ticket sales take a nosedive after Trump takeover (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/05/kennedy-center-ticket-sales-trump-takeover
http://www.memeorandum.com/250905/p123#a250905p123
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-06 06:45:44
Sources: SoftBank explored a potential takeover of Marvell earlier this year to merge it with Arm, in what would have been the chip industry's largest-ever deal (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-05 02:40:27
Direct File is a service from the United States Government that provides taxpayers the option to electronically file their federal tax return for free, directly with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Direct File is an interview-based service that is intended to work as well on a mobile phone as it does on a laptop, tablet, or desktop computer.
It is available in English and Spanish and is designed to be accessible to taxpayers who have a variety of attitudes, aptitudes, abili…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-10-06 14:47:16
«Lessons in humility & simplicity for 'data science': Garmin's health status»
I blogged about how another #wearable manufacturer went down the road of leaving up data interpretation to humans instead of automating it – and how that relates to "AI" or "automated decision making"
(Responses to this toot become blog comments too)
#quantifiedself #personalscience
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-12-05 11:44:14
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Cat Stevens:
🎵 Moonshadow
#CatStevens
https://thespartan.bandcamp.com/track/cat-stevens-moonshadow
https://open.spotify.com/track/2QdHubjKXPNU2QILsUwRDK
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2025-11-05 00:27:17
Given the reticence of its local affiliates to mention it's name, one could get the impression that ACT, the NZ Initiative, Curia, the NZ Taxpayers' 'Union', and the 'Free Speech' 'Union' are keen to avoid drawing attention to their Atlas Network (also responsible for the US' Project 2025) affiliation. Could it be they're keen to avoid more scrutiny of where their funding comes from? 🤔 Assuming their search is trustworthy, on the RNZ website, there'…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-06 12:02:21
Sources: RedBird Capital taps Apollo to provide the debt for its £500M Telegraph takeover, ahead of a UK decision over whether to refer the deal to Ofcom (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/856e3101-75e1-44e9-ad44-4db4940b171a
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-06 14:23:51
Democracy Noir, the 90-minute documentary
– opening in the US this week and portraying Orbšn’s creeping authoritarian takeover of an erstwhile liberal democracy through the eyes of three women;
Timea Szabó, an opposition politician,
Babette Oroszi, a television journalist,
and Niko Antal, a nurse
– has universal resonance and urgent relevance for American audiences grappling with the consequences of Trump.
“I’d say this is the most ‘hitting the zeitgeist’…