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ANNOUNCING: "Four on the Florida" is your backstage pass to South Florida's thriving alternative music scene. From undiscovered bands to hidden venues, this newsletter delivers exclusive stories, curated playlists, and insider accessā€”all in one captivating read. Subscribe now and tune into the pulse of South Florida's underground! (Serving primarily Palm Beach County and the surrounding area). Be the FIRST to sign up: approachingutopia.com/four-on-ā€¦

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Approaching Utopia Staff (Approaching Utopia, LLC)

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These trains could carry giant batteries across Colorado and deliver clean energy to Denver

SunTrain wants to use the existing freight rail system to transport clean energy from wind farms and solar arrays to the grid.

fastcompany.com/91293078/theseā€¦

#news #tech #technology #science #engineering #energy #cleanenergy

#news #science #cleanenergy #technology #Tech #energy #engineering

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How decades of #factoryfarming paved the way for todayā€™s #superbugs crisis - thebureauinvestigates.com/storā€¦ how #farmers' greed is driving us towards an avoidable disaster

How decades of factory farming paved the way for todayā€™s superbugs crisis

A new film lays bare the existential threat driven by antibiotic overuse ā€“ and comes after years of warnings
Andrew Wasley (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism)
#farmers #factoryfarming #superbugs

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#Google #DeepMind unveils new AI models for controlling #robots - techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/googā€¦ "designed to enable real-world machines to interact with objects, navigate environments, and more."

Google DeepMind unveils new AI models for controlling robots | TechCrunch

Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics models are designed to enable real-world machines to interact with objects, navigate environments, and more.
Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
#Google #robots #deepmind

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#Manus mania is here: Chinese ā€˜general agentā€™ is this weekā€™s ā€˜future of AI' and OpenAI-killer - theregister.com/2025/03/10/manā€¦ "Prompts see it scour the web for info and turn it into decent documents at reasonable speed" #china

Manus mania is here: Chinese ā€˜general agentā€™ is this weekā€™s ā€˜future of AI' and OpenAI-killer

Simon Sharwood (The Register)
#china #manus

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File under ā€œduhā€:

ā€œPutin aide rejects #Trump 's #Ukraine ceasefire plan :

Ukraine must recognize Russia's annexation of Crimea and four southeastern regions, withdraw troops from lands claimed by #Russia and pledge never to join NATO. He said he "hopes [the United States] knows our position and wants to believe that they will take it into account as we work together going forward." npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-53271ā€¦

#russia #ukraine #trump

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A blog post written to get my head around #guile #hoot and #fibers, based on my 2024 December Adventure:

afmoreno.srht.site/blog/guile-ā€¦

The folks at #spritely were really patient and helpful. I am very grateful for the excellent feedback I received from Dave Thompson. Many thanks to this team!

Any corrections and/or clarifications are really appreciated.

While it is still early days, I think the #spritely software stack is really promising!

Guile Hoot with Fibers

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#guile #hoot #fibers #spritely
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#ProLifeMyAss

More #Trump waste, fraud, and abuse:

ā€œUS weather forecasts save lives and money. Trumpā€™s cuts put us all at riskā€

theguardian.com/commentisfree/ā€¦

US weather forecasts save lives and money. Trumpā€™s cuts put us all at risk

Noaa, my former employer, is an integral part of our daily lives, tracking hurricanes, supporting safe flights and helping farmers
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
#trump #ProLifeMyAss

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"Concerned at the UK Governmentā€™s intentions to review the #HumanRights framework and #JudicialReview we have come together to state:

While every system could be improved, and protecting #rights and #freedoms for all is a balancing act, our #HumanRightsAct is a proportionate and well-drafted protection for the fundamental #liberties and #responsibilities of everyone in this country.

The Act guarantees the rights to #FreeSpeech and expression, to life, to #liberty, to security, to privacy, to assembly, and to #FreedomOfReligion or belief. It prohibits torture and guarantees fair trials and the #RuleOfLaw.

Judicial review is an indispensable mechanism for individuals to assert those rights and freedoms against the power of the state." humanrightsact.org.uk/

Protect Human Rights and Judicial Review ā€“ Defend the Human Rights Act and access to justice

humanrightsact.org.uk
#humanrights #ruleoflaw #FreeSpeech #liberty #freedomofreligion #rights #JudicialReview #freedoms #humanrightsact #liberties #responsibilities

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With the world changing around us, many governments and organisations are trying to reduce their dependency on tech giants. Here's an update on how one German federal state is moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice (and longer-term, Linux): blog.documentfoundation.org/blā€¦ #foss #opensource #freesoftware

Updates on Schleswig-Holstein moving to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

Nearly a year ago, we posted about the German state of Schleswig-Holsteinā€™s plan to move 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#OpenSource #foss #freesoftware

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Sonos' Pinewood streaming player was rumored to cost $200-$400. But the company has put that device on hold and shifted focus back to fixing its mobile app. pcmag.com/news/sonos-kills-pinā€¦

Sonos Reportedly Kills Its Media Streaming Device Project

The Pinewood streaming player was rumored to cost $200-$400. Sonos has put that device on hold and shifted focus back to fixing its mobile app.
Jibin Joseph (PCMag)

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The Waterford (Ireland) Museum of Time displays clocks of many different styles and mechanisms from Ireland and many other countries. Among them is the earliest pendulum clock from 1663. #WaterfordMuseums #Waterford #Ireland backpackandsnorkel.com/Irelandā€¦

Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guide for the highlights between Kilkenny and Killarney: Kilkenny Castle and the Waterord Museums - Ireland Purple Travel Guide

Today, we start with a tour of Kilkenny Castle and then spend much of the day in the Waterford Museums. We provide detailed information and the best things to see and we show lots of photos so you know what you can expect.
Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
#ireland #waterford #waterfordmuseums

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How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations
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When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify ā€œwokeā€ themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz.
propublica.org/article/using-aā€¦

#News #AI #Tech #Journalism #Media #Research #Data #Technology

How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Reporting

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#news #ai #technology #data #journalism #research #Tech #media

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#Puppets! Chill crafty hangoutage on the build #stream. #YouTube, #Twitch, #Peertube and #Owncast. #puppetbuilding

youtube.com/@OperationPuppet
twitch.tv/operationpuppet
puppet.zone
owncast.pixelsandpuppets.com

Operation: Puppet

Puppet building streams and videos and the occasional visit from Frankie and The Oracle
YouTube
#youtube #twitch #owncast #peertube #stream #puppets #puppetbuilding

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"The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like #HabitatForHumanity for receiving grants from the #EPA under the Biden administration.

Citibank was told to freeze the groupsā€™ bank accounts at the FBIā€™s request. The reason? The FBI alleges that the groups are involved in ā€œpossible criminal violations,ā€ including ā€œconspiracy to defraud the United States.ā€ "

newrepublic.com/post/192660/trā€¦

Trumpā€™s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups

The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
The New Republic
#epa #habitatforhumanity
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CelloMom On Cars

As a reminder, the crackdown on protest has been happening - and getting more aggressive - for a long time.

Many examples of free speech being criminalised in this thread. (That's peaceful protest, not property damage).

mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCarā€¦

CelloMom On Cars (@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social)

We really need to stop buying into the argument that #ClimateActivists are "radical" or "destructive". The opposite is true: the nature of the protests have been peaceful and, on the whole, pretty tame.
Mastodon

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Astro Bob on Friday's lunar eclipse and what it would look like to an astronaut on the Moon.

"We'll see the moon glow orange-red during total eclipse. But our astronaut would witness a fiery, red ring ensconcing the silhouetted Earth! What I wouldn't give to be there. Fortunately, we have the next best thing. The Blue Ghost lander , which touched down on the moon last week, will take photos of this unique solar eclipse at the same time we're watching from Earth."
duluthnewstribune.com/lifestylā€¦

#eclipse #Moon #astronomy

Astro Bob: Get ready for a glorious total lunar eclipse

Early Friday morning, March 14, we'll see the moon in total eclipse for the first time in more than two years.
Bob King (Duluth News Tribune)
#moon #astronomy #eclipse

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Canadian woman put in chains, detained by ICE after entering San Diego border
10news.com/news/local-news/nevā€¦
Third [White] foreign national sent to detention centre from San Ysidro crossing

Canadian woman put in chains, detained by ICE after entering San Diego border

A Canadian entrepreneur detained by ICE is speaking out after she got arrested while trying to enter the San Diego border to obtain a visa last Monday.
Austin Grabish (ABC 10 News San Diego KGTV)

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Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced draft bills aimed at ā€œenhancing controlā€ over ā€œforeign agents,ā€ including trials in absentia and criminal liability for cooperating with international organizations.
meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/13/rā€¦

Russia considers trials in absentia for ā€˜foreign agentsā€™

Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced that the lower house of parliament has drafted several bills aimed at ā€œenhancing control over the activities of foreign agents.ā€
Meduza

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Die CEOs der weltweit grĆ¶ĆŸten Tech-Konzerne haben sich hinter Donald Trump gestellt. Manche von ihnen beteiligen sich sogar aktiv an dessen zerstƶrerischer Politik, allen voran Elon Musk. Wir haben mit dem Tech-Journalisten @parismarx Ć¼ber den vermeintlichen Sinneswandel des Silicon Valley gesprochen und welche Form des Widerstands es nun braucht.

netzpolitik.org/2025/interviewā€¦

Interview mit Paris Marx: Das falsche Narrativ vom guten Silicon Valley

netzpolitik.org
@Paris Marx
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netzpolitik.org

The English version can be found here: netzpolitik.org/2025/interviewā€¦

Interview with Paris Marx: The false narrative of a good Silicon Valley

The CEOs of the world's largest tech companies have thrown their support behind Donald Trump. Some of them are even actively participating in his destructive policies, most notably Elon Musk.
netzpolitik.org

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Has anyone managed to make the #waveshare #ups #hat E work on a #raspberrypi4 ? I have no #i2c data from it at all. Pins look connected. Pi has power over the pins. But no i2c.
waveshare.com/wiki/UPS_HAT_(E)
Soldered pins also do not work. i2c does not work for protected and unprotected batteries.

UPS HAT (E) - Waveshare Wiki

www.waveshare.com
#i2c #waveshare #ups #hat #raspberrypi4
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Thanks to the magic of the Streisand effect, I just heard about #CarelessPeople - a book by former Meta employee Sarah Wynn-Williams.

Apparently the company is FREAKING OUT and seeking legal ways to stop its promotion. I can see why. This article about it in the Times made my jaw drop: nytimes.com/2025/03/10/books/rā€¦

I will definitely order it at my local bookshop.

šŸ”—: bookshop.org/p/books/careless-ā€¦

#books

Book Review: ā€˜Careless People,ā€™ by Sarah Wynn-Williams

ā€œCareless People,ā€ a memoir by a former Facebook executive, portrays feckless company leaders cozying up to authoritarian regimes.
Jennifer Szalai (The New York Times)
#books #carelesspeople

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Elena Rossini ā‚

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An update: last night I started reading #CarelessPeople and I cannot emphasize enough HOW GOOD it is. A real page-turner.

No wonder #Meta executives are trying to shut down its promotional tour. They come across as shallow, greedy and irresponsible.

The author wrote in the prelude that working there was "like watching a bunch of fourteen-year-olds whoā€™ve been given superpowers and an ungodly amount of money, as they jet around the world to figure out what power has bought and brought them." šŸ”„

#meta #carelesspeople
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Elena Rossini ā‚

Update no. 2:

Yesterday my 4-year-old woke up at 7am thus thwarting my plans to read #CarelessPeople for a good hour.

So today I woke up at 6am to resume reading the book. Itā€™s THAT GOOD.

The leaders at #Meta have been shockingly irresponsible in their decisions since the early days. All they care about? Gathering data and influence and making big bucks. Iā€™m so glad I got out of all their platforms and Iā€™m on the #Fediverse instead.

History books wonā€™t be kind to Zuck, Sandberg et al.

#fediverse #meta #carelesspeople

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Episode 223 ā€“ tracklist

Episode 223 of Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone broadcasts on NTS.live on Monday night / Tuesday morning 18th March 2025, from 01:00 to 03:00. Alternatively, catch the archive on the show page. This month's show includes lots of strange electronic music of different flavours, plunderphonics, drone music, free jazz and bedroom tapes. Tracklist follows. TRACKLIST Kirk Barley - Descendentā€¦

fractalmeat.wordpress.com/2025ā€¦

Episode 223 ā€“ tracklist

Episode 223 of Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone broadcasts on NTS.live on Monday night / Tuesday morning 18th March 2025, from 01:00 to 03:00. Alternatively, catch the archive on the show page. This mā€¦
Fractal Meat
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Tim Mak

UKRAINE OUT OF ATACMS MISSILES: Ukraine may have run out of all of its long-range ATACMS ballistic missiles, according to the Associated Press citing a U.S. official and a Ukrainian lawmaker who spoke on condition of anonymity.

apnews.com/article/russia-ukraā€¦

US arms flow to Ukraine again as the Kremlin mulls a ceasefire proposal

Ukrainian and Polish officials say U.S. arms deliveries to Ukraine have resumed. The deliveries came Wednesday, a day after the Trump administration lifted its suspension of military aid for Kyiv in its war against Russia and Ukrainian officials signā€¦
Samya Kullab (AP News)

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šŸšØ BREAKING šŸšØ

ORG, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship call for the secret Tribunal into the UK Home Office's encryption-breaching order against Apple to be held in PUBLIC šŸ§‘ā€āš–ļø

There's a significant public interest in knowing why the UK government believes it can compel a private company to undermine the privacy and security of its users.

Read our joint letter ā¬‡ļø

openrightsgroup.org/press-releā€¦

#encryption #e2ee #Apple #investigatorypowersact #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol

Make the Investigatory Powers Tribunal on Apple Encryption a Public Hearing

Rights groups call for Appleā€™s closed appeal against the Home Officeā€™s encryption-breaching order to be opened to the public.
Open Rights Group
#apple #privacy #ukpol #ukpolitics #security #cybersecurity #encryption #e2ee #investigatorypowersact
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Open Rights Group

The ā€œcase implicates the privacy rights of millions of British citizens who use Appleā€™s technology, as well as Appleā€™s international users.ā€

ā€œEnd-to-end encryption cannot be broken in a targeted manner ā€“ once a ā€˜backdoorā€™ into the system has been created, it can be exploited by anyone, putting the privacy and security of all users at risk.ā€

With such high stakes, we demand to know what could possibly justify it.

#e2ee #encryption #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #apple

#apple #privacy #ukpol #ukpolitics #security #cybersecurity #encryption #e2ee
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Open Rights Group

šŸ“£ Make your voice heard through the secrecy!

By ordering Apple to break encryption, the UK government has put millions at a higher risk of their personal data, documents and photos falling into the hands of criminals and predators.

The secret tribunal is taking place this Friday ā€“ we need to take a stand for encryption!

Sign and share our petition ā¬‡ļø

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitionsā€¦

#e2ee #encryption #apple #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #investigatorypowersact

Keep our Apple data encrypted

It is reported that the Home Office has ordered Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted services so that they can get hold of content that any Apple user has upload to the cloud. Encryption keeps our private information safe and secure.
38 Degrees
#apple #privacy #ukpol #ukpolitics #security #cybersecurity #encryption #e2ee #investigatorypowersact
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