@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-02-22 09:05:24
“When Karen Newton left home in late July 2025, she knew that international travellers were being locked up in immigration detention centres in the US. ‘I was aware,’ she nods. ‘But I never thought it would have any impact on my holiday.’”
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Huge “I planned a holiday in Nazi Germany because they were only persecuting Jews and I’m not Jewish” vibes.
It’s amazing to see privileged white people learn the leopards eating people’s faces lesson over and over again.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-03-23 01:49:05
This is what Weizenbaum wrote about the dawn of the computer age: it was used as an excuse to not even try to make society better. The same thing is happening with “AI” now.
We know what would make society better.
One example is UBI (which Weizenbaum mentions in the same book in passing as “negative income tax”).
But of course we don’t have universal healthcare or UBI nor really any other advances (perhaps the ADA was a rare win); instead trillions of dollars are invested into software that tells us to bomb schools; for the sole reason to say it was the computers’ fault, not ours.
This book* was written 50 years ago.
*Computer Power and Human Reason
#AI #society
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-22 12:54:00
SPRIND Bürgerhackathon: Deutschland, was nervt?
Beschweren ausdrücklich erwünscht! Die Agentur für Sprunginnovation lädt zum ersten bürgerschaftlichen Hackathon nach taiwanischem Vorbild ein.
https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-02-24 00:56:19
How Binance staffers found $1B was sent to sanctioned Iranian entities via the exchange, which dismantled their probe and suspended them after Trump pardoned CZ (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/bin
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-01-22 23:00:10
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-02-21 19:20:02
Dichte der #Windkraftanlagen je #Bundesland pro 10 km² in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Nur in Betrieb befindliche Anlagen berücksichtigt.
Die „Ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone“ (Offshore) ist ausgenommen.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Was
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-23 01:51:14
The dream holiday ended abruptly on Friday 26 September, as British tourists Karen and Bill Newton were trying to leave the US.
When they crossed the border, Canadian officials told them they didn’t have the correct paperwork to bring the car with them.
They were turned back to Montana on the American side – and to US border control officials.
Bill’s US visa had expired; Karen’s had not.
“I worried then,” she says. “I was worried for him. I thought, well, at least I a…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-23 06:15:10
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-02-23 09:27:45
On this Monday morning, please spare a thought for those who are starting the week off in cold, damp tents surrounded by the rubble of their previous lives, trapped within the clutches of an ongoing genocide that is the collective failure of humanity.
If you want to help, here’s a list of verified Mastodon accounts of Gazans and links to their fundraisers, ranked by how little support they got last week to feed their families and cover the basic necessities of life:
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-23 13:08:00
heise | Wärmepumpe im Winter: Wenn der Heizstab zu früh angeht, was man dagegen tun kann
Der elektrische Zuheizer ist für die höchsten Heizlasten gedacht. Er kann aber selbst bei milden Temperaturen anspringen. Wir bieten Erklärung und Abhilfe.