How AI Is Reshaping U.S. Immigration Enforcement
From visa revocations to deportations, DHS and ICE are harnessing AI to track social media activity, raising alarms about free speech and civil rights.Benjamin Rubin (Documented)
GPT-4o and ChatGPT this morning, finally gave me the selfie with a bear I've always wanted simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/…
Introducing 4o Image Generation
When OpenAI first announced GPT-4o [back in May 2024](https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/13/gpt-4o/) one of the most exciting features was true multi-modality in that it could both input _and_ output audio and images. The …Simon Willison’s Weblog
Bill Gates-backed Commonwealth Fusion Systems hits key reactor construction milestone | TechCrunch
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Bill Gates-backed Commonwealth Fusion Systems hits key reactor construction milestone | TechCrunch
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) marked a major milestone Tuesday morning, announcing the installation of a key component of its SPARC demonstrationTim De Chant (TechCrunch)
6 Inch My Darling (1998) - MobyGames
6inch My Darling is a visual novel romance adventure originally released by KID for Sega Saturn with free for all rating, thus not including adult content. Half a year later, the game was released on PC platform by Airyu with added adult content and.MobyGames
25 March 1896 | Czech Jewish woman, Růžena Berglerová, was born in Blatnice.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.
Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian director beaten by Israeli settlers, is now released
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339522/hamdan-ballal-israel-released-settlers-detained?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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When Eleanor Heginbotham's car broke down on New Year's Eve, a group of strangers jumped in
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5336364/unsung-hero-strangers-help-new-years-eve?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Why some Los Angeles homes are being built to resist wildfires — and some aren't
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5335535/why-some-los-angeles-homes-are-being-built-to-resist-wildfires-and-some-arent?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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This one is easy. I save pullups for the end of the workout because I hate them. This song gets me through it every time.
Poison Idea - Discontent (metallic punk)
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FediMeteo - Weather Forecasts on the 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.fedimeteo.com
Russian Hackers Are Trying to Break Into Signal Chats, Pentagon Warns
Days before we learned about the 'war plans' Signal chat, the Pentagon sends a department-wide email warning that Russian hackers are exploiting Signal's 'linked devices' feature.Emily Forlini (PCMag)
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Putting Gemini 2.5 Pro through its paces
There’s a new release from Google Gemini this morning: the first in the Gemini 2.5 series. Google call it “a thinking model, designed to tackle increasingly complex problems”. It’s already …Simon Willison’s Weblog
#tunetuesday with #TrainingMontage ...
Well, i don't train. But If i do, it would be something like this.
Carpenter Brut - Turbo Killer
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† Carpenter Brut † TURBO KILLER † Directed by Seth Ickerman † Official Video †
Check the official Carpenter Brut merchandising here : https://www.noquarterprod.com/Written and Directed bySETH ICKERMANProduced byCARPENTER BRUT & NO QUART...YouTube
Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine - Volume 3 - Issue 10 - July 2000 : Ziff Davis, Inc. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine - Volume 3 - Issue 10 - July 2000 scanned in at 600DPI. PDF is OCR'd.Scanned by the Video Game History Foundation, please...Internet Archive
Russia’s Dangerous Facts on Ukraine’s Ground
Russia’s quiet land policies could determine the fate of peace in Ukraine—and beyond.
Paywall Free: archive.today/b2S8h
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#Russia #Ukraine #news #war #Putin #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiawar #SlavaUkraini #uspol
New: Fediverse Report 109
This week, an essay about #Bluesky's proposal for setting user preferences on their accounts. This allows people to indicate how they want their data to be handled off-protocol. I wrote about how the #fediverse can improve on this, using its strengths of many different communities, each with its own culture and values.
Also:
- Next week is the digital conference @fediforum
- A research dataset to compare Threads and Mastodon users
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Fediverse Report – #109
An essay on user preferences, and how the fediverse's interconnected network of communities can play into that, as well as some other news.fediversereport.com
@Gargron yeah, but that does not cover everything. Especially such more interesting cases as the mastodon threads research dataset that was just released.
Regardless, the essay is about who sets the default values, and that this decision should be delegated to server admins, and not made by software platforms such as mastodon itself
Engineering students explore how to ethically design and locate nuclear facilities in this college course
Students explore nuclear facilities in virtual reality and learn about the ethical dimensions of nuclear technology in a University of Michigan course.The Conversation
Who needs a word-of-the-day calendar when you have @pluralistic ?
Today's word is "copraphagic[ally]"
Checking the dictionary is left as an exercise for the reader...
The age of authorized rinse cycles, personal gripes by @geerlingguy @pluralistic
Geschirrspüler mit Zusatzprogrammen hinter Paywall
Eine Spülmaschine von V-Zug sorgt bei einem Kunden für Kopfschütteln: Nur mit Abo hat er Zugriff auf Spezialprogramme.Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF)
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RTL-SDR.COM GOES 16/17 and GK-2A Weather Satellite Reception Comprehensive Tutorial
GOES 16/17 and GK-2A are geosynchronous weather satellites that transmit high resolution weather images and data.rtl-sdr.com
The Vatican Digitizes a 1,600-Year-Old Illuminated Manuscript of the Aeneid
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The Vatican Digitizes a 1,600-Year-Old Illuminated Manuscript of the Aeneid
It’s fair to say that every period which has celebrated the literature of antiquity has held epic Roman poet Virgil in extremely high regard, and that was never more the case than during the early Christian and medieval eras.Josh Jones (Openculture.com)
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
A planned mining method to gather critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes higher up in the water column where many creatures live.The Conversation
Marching bands? Mammalian Nurturables? An ORTBO? Yup, Severance stays weird.
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Hill Republicans aim to rein in judges but divided on strategy
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5338955/republicans-judges-strategy?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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I asked Chatty G. to make a crazy wall about me.
I’m just honored somebody's listening.
In case there was any doubt we're dealing with full-scale fascism, now the Speaker of the House is threatening to "eliminate" a federal court because he doesn't like a judge's ruling.
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Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges
Facing pressure from his right flank to take on judges who have ruled against President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Tuesday floated the possibility of Congress eliminating federal courts.Scott Wong (NBC News)
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Giro de 180 grados en Linux, revolución en Ubuntu que dice adiós para siempre a GNU/Linux
Canonical prepara una transformación importante en su sistema operativo de código abierto, con el objetivo de reforzar la seguridad y optimizar el rendimiento de Ubuntu.Juan Manuel Delgado (Computer Hoy)
Pero el mantenedor de Sort o cualquier otra parte de coreutils igual no quiere dedicar tiempo a aprender Rust.
No parece que Rust aporte mejoras de rendimiento frente a C o CPP. Y las coreutils no tienen un historial terrible de seguridad o fallos de gestión de memoria. Así que quizás lo que interesa a Canonical es cambiar la licencia.
@iam @salvari @kr0n no, no creo que un rustafari esté por la labor de escribir bindings para usar dependencias en C, u ofrecer bindings para que el programa en C pueda enlazar sus librerías. Prefieren reescribirlo todo a pensar dónde tiene mas sentido aplicar rust para empezar.
El problema que yo le veo a Rust no está en el lenguaje, sino en la gente. Aplican la cultura fanboy y la tabla rasa a sistemas que podrían incorporar novedades más gradualmente.
Cloudflare has announced that its R2 object storage and dependent services experienced an outage lasting 1 hour and 7 minutes, causing 100% write and 35% read failures globally.
Apple TV+ signups surge after joining Amazon Prime Video Channels
While Apple TV+ reportedly remains beset by steep annual losses and limited scale, signups have recently increased dramatically following inclusion of the platform in theDaniel Frankel (StreamTV Insider)
Nvidia's new AI model runs locally on your machine instead of in the cloud.
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No cloud needed: Nvidia creates gaming-centric AI chatbot that runs on your GPU
Nvidia’s new AI model runs locally on your machine instead of in the cloud.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
The Triumph of a Doctrine of Cruelty in El Salvador : State of the World from NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/1240671744/the-triumph-of-a-doctrine-of-cruelty-in-el-salvador?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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