AI beats humans at meme humor—but the best joke is still human-made Mollick proclaims "the meme Turing Test has been passed," but a new study offers a key caveat. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-…
Hints grow stronger that dark energy changes over time Latest DESI results fall short of discovery threshold but strengthen evidence for dynamical dark energy. arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
We reported on this a few days ago, but I want to point out this headline because this is where we are at. A bill in Arkansas would ban gender affirming HAIRCUTS for transgender youth. HAIRCUTS. This is a straight up North Korea state sanctioned hairstyle proposed law for youth.
Before being eliminated, 18F saved taxpayers billions in bad contracts and failed software projects over 11 years. I was very proud of my time in early-18F, from which we launched shared services and critical components for federal technologists, like cloud.gov, login.gov, and the US Web Design Standards. I was so driven by the mission and hooked on public service that when I termed out, I reapplied and came back in a permanent role in a neighboring group, where I still work today.
The wanton overnight destruction of #18F was shocking, and should be a major scandal. Find out more about 18F's legacy and the work it supported here: wethebuilders.org/posts/what-i…
For decades, we've done our jobs in the background. We helped with filing taxes, getting veterans' benefits, applying for financial aid, refugees navigating immigration, everyone find vaccines, parents find baby formula
The UK’s climate plan is full of half-measures. Cutting 260g of meat per week by 2040? That’s not a solution - it’s a delay tactic. Real change means rejecting animal use, not tweaking consumption. If the government won’t act, we must 🌍
To friends of democracy around the world: we need your help.
The Trump regime is brutally attacking US #democracy. Most of us didn't vote for Trump. But he feels he's a mandate to take a wrecking ball to the #constitution.
The regime can be constrained only if everyone stands up to the bullying.
"Le Monde reports that a French researcher traveling to the US for a conference was denied entry by CBP because a border agent🚨searched his phone & found comments criticizing Pres Trump." -A Reichlin-Melnick
I’m not making a statement about anything anyone did in protest to Tesla right now.
I will say canceling food and medicine is violence, hidden behind paperwork.
Identifying with nazi ideology is promising more violence.
Nobody showing up at Tesla is mad about their cars.
But when Nazis start to take over the bar you figure out how to throw them out or it becomes a nazi bar. Everyone would prefer that asking politely for them to leave worked.
@DrorBedrack He owns a lot of stuff. Why X’s office windows are not smashed? Why SpaceX is chilling? Why Neuralink is completely forgotten (even though it’s awful on its own)?
I mean, he’s not wrong that Tesla did not take the jobs. He did. And I believe someone will eventually take these Elon’s words as an invitation to direct their… err, frustration on him personally. Which is at the same time very insightful, and stupid.
I had to move part of the shoulder of Alan Turing to get to my book in the reference section. First time I've used the new fangled Electric moveable shelving. Managed not to get trapped.
Southwest Research here in San Antonio has built a hydrogen-powered semi truck. The problem? Getting refueling stations around the country. I love the idea of making trucking free from fossil fuels. I hope Trump and Musk don't ruin this. sanantonioreport.org/swri-hydr…
"Supporters will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no supporters." - a wonderful rebuke to those institutions currently betraying their missions to the public by @pluralistic link: pluralistic.net/2025/03/19/sel…
I went to great length to explain in an app store review how the new version of Omron software is an excellent example of #Enshittification, and an unbelievable degradation of a very simple use case.
Looks like I succeeded, hope @pluralistic would be proud 😁
> The DMA aims to ensure contestable and fair markets in the digital sector. It regulates gatekeepers, which are large digital platforms that provide an important gateway between business users and consumers, whose position can grant them the power to create a bottleneck in the digital economy.
Today, the European Commission adopted two decisions under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) specifying the measures that Apple has to take to comply with certain aspects of its interoperability obligatio
The legend has it that every Bash session secretly records a detailed history, not just of commands, but of the user's emotional state while typing them. This data is stored in a hidden file called "$HOME/.bash_chronicles." Sysadmin with ancient, privileged access can reportedly analyze these files to predict user behavior.
Legend has it that there is going to be at least one user that is foolish enough to believe this and is doing an ls -a in their home directory right now 😉.
Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.
Deutsche Freunde des #Fediverse In diesen Tagen mit unsicherem Wetter könnte es nützlich sein, Wettervorhersagen direkt in eurer Timeline zu erhalten! 🌦️
#FediMeteo (fedimeteo.com) ist ein Projekt, das Daten von #OpenMeteo verarbeitet und sie land- und stadtweise im Fediverse, auf der Webseite der jeweiligen Stadt und über RSS veröffentlicht.
Alle 6 Stunden aktualisiert und veröffentlicht ein freundlicher Bot die Wetterdaten.
Wie funktioniert es? ➡️ Folgt der Seite eurer Stadt im Fediverse. ➡️ Wenn ihr noch keine Vorhersagen seht, folgt ihr wahrscheinlich noch niemand. ➡️ Beginnt, ihr zu folgen, und beim nächsten Zyklus erhaltet ihr die Updates! 🔗 Im Folgenden der Link f
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Deutsche Freunde des #Fediverse In diesen Tagen mit unsicherem Wetter könnte es nützlich sein, Wettervorhersagen direkt in eurer Timeline zu erhalten! 🌦️
#FediMeteo (fedimeteo.com) ist ein Projekt, das Daten von #OpenMeteo verarbeitet und sie land- und stadtweise im Fediverse, auf der Webseite der jeweiligen Stadt und über RSS veröffentlicht.
Alle 6 Stunden aktualisiert und veröffentlicht ein freundlicher Bot die Wetterdaten.
Wie funktioniert es? ➡️ Folgt der Seite eurer Stadt im Fediverse. ➡️ Wenn ihr noch keine Vorhersagen seht, folgt ihr wahrscheinlich noch niemand. ➡️ Beginnt, ihr zu folgen, und beim nächsten Zyklus erhaltet ihr die Updates! 🔗 Im Folgenden der Link für Deutschland und die Liste der derzeit unterstützten Städte. 🌍 Dezentralisierte, Open-Source-Wettervorhersage im Fediverse! 🌱
FediMeteo brings real-time weather updates to the Fediverse with country-specific sites and RSS feeds. Explore country-specific weather forecasts and RSS feeds.
From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, which was filmed in Prague during the winter of 2022-23, has received a debut trailer from distributor Lionsgate ahead…
If any part of the green transition depends on the global recycling of plastics, then we might s well give up right now.... nearly half of all plastics are dumped in landfill, while less than 10% are recycled. Around 20% or more (including some of the 'mismanaged') are incinerated, no doubt adding more pollution to our degrading atmosphere.
We need a better solution to the one we are currently practicing!
Dispatch from the inside: A prisoner in solitary watches as guards use Tasers on a naked, mentally-ill woman in a shower, and reflects on their increasingly brutal use in the #Texas correctional system. texasobserver.org/an-inside-lo…
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