Through his signing of various executive orders and the implementation of mass layoffs, Trump is trying to eliminate the Department of Education without any input from Congress. It's right out of the Project 2025 playbook, and Democrats are fighting back. Don't let this showdown fly under the radar. Stay informed with The Big Picture. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p…
I wrote about some new Anthropic research suggesting that its latest model hasn't led to the automation of more labor just yet — but people are getting increasingly uncomfortable using AI to learn platformer.news/people-are-usi…
Exclusive data from Anthropic about Claude usage finds that AI is both automating and augmenting human labor — and people are increasingly using it to educate themselves
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has paraded new military drones amid reports that he has sent an additional 3,000 troops to help Russia in its war on Ukraine.
UPDATE: A federal judge heard arguments and testimony today in the Associated Press‘ effort to regain access to the Oval Office and other White House events, after the Trump administration banned the wire service because it refused to change its styl…
just think in 10 years maga Americans will deny they voted for Trump or that they supported all the racist policies that led to the fall of the American empire. The rest of the world will not forget, or forgive!
FTC Democrats sue Trump, say firings break law and Supreme Court precedent "A President cannot remove an FTC Commissioner without cause," lawsuit says. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
The Switch 2 shindig is next week, but today, Nintendo showcased Metroid Prime 4, Rhythm Heaven Groove, and the many other exciting titles on the horizon for its current console. pcmag.com/news/nintendo-direct…
A new FosseryWeb update just dropped! - "articles" I posted earlier on Odysee (and some of them also here on Mastodon) are now also available on FosseryWeb - the downloadable Markdowns of some CSS cheatsheets are updated to bundle images with them (so that images can load without Internet connection) - some additional info about contributions is added to About page - footer text is updated
some under the hood update: - year in copyright text is updated to include 2025 - copyright text is added to code files where it was previously missing from
A news audit found that a pro-Kremlin network has deliberately infiltrated leading artificial intelligence chatbots with false narratives about #Ukraine. This means that russian AI-generated propaganda and falsehoods are flooding the information space, another element of russia’s expanding #disinfo
A news audit found that a pro-Kremlin network has deliberately infiltrated leading artificial intelligence chatbots with false narratives about Ukraine.
I look at a lot of space images, but this one made my eyes bug out like a cartoon character.
What you see here isn't a spiral galaxy, exactly. It's a spiral galaxy whose image was bent into a circle by the gravity of an elliptical galaxy visible at the center.
@cratermoon I also thought of this character from ST:TNG, though it’s more distorted and sinister: memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/N… Not a great episode at all, but I remember the face!
Nagilum was a non-corporeal immortal being that lived outside the universe and could not be detected by Federation sensors, insomuch as being called by Captain Jean-Luc Picard, "something that both is and is not there.
Damn, this is tempting. I'm generally very pleased with my Sovol printers: they're hackable, #opensource, and perform well. They aren't prefect but they're very good.
The Zero would be nice to have an enclosed printer to handle more engineering grade things. Maybe throw it in the garage.
Of course, of the 5 printers I have right now one is currently functional. Maybe I should get the others all functional before getting _another_.
The World's Fastest CoreXY 3D Printer Faster & More Accurate & Easier to Use Auto-Leveling: Eddy scanning & Pressure sensing XYZ Full Linear Rails Build Volume: 152.4*152.4*152.
When I tried using ABS to print face shield frames on an open printer (which worked mechanically for just a few layers high) early in the pandemic, it was horrible even in a not-tight house. I even tried to stop up vents and contain the fumes to the printing room, and the family put the absolute kibosh on it. But a negative-pressure (active exhaust) enclosed printer with active carbon brought it down to no complaints. Doesn't mean no smell, just faint enough.
Chris M. Barkley, who won the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer but never received the trophy after he and I wrote our report revealing censorship in that year's awards, has sued Hugo administer Dave McCarty. Details in linked funding update. 1/ gofundme.com/f/join-chris-bark…
This morning Barkley and McCarty went before a Cook County judge, where McCarty said regarding the case "I don't think I owe anything."
Gee, then why not give Barkley his Hugo trophy, which McCarty evidently has. McCarty refused arbitration and a trial date will be set in the near future. 2/
The image depicts a detailed pencil sketch of a knight standing in a heroic pose. The knight is clad in medieval armor, including a breastplate, gauntlets, and a skirt-like tunic. They hold a sword in their right hand and a shield in their left, which features a crest with a castle-like design. The knight's armor is intricately drawn, with visible folds and creases, suggesting a sense of movement and realism.
In the background, a unicorn is partially visible, adding a mythical element to the scene. The sketch is framed with an ornate border, enhancing the medieval aesthetic. The parchment-like background gives the image an aged, historical feel. The bottom left corner of the image includes a signature, "MOTOLAB," which adds a personal touch to the artwork. The overall composition is balanced, with the knight and the unicorn creating a harmonious scene.
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However angry you feel right now, you're not nearly angry enough. Men and women who fled persecution in other countries - who came to this country doing all the things conservatives CLAIM they want them to do - are now being disappeared by this regime without due process or any notification to their families. We are the bad guys now and unless you stand up against it, so are you.
Why do government officials and journalists use Signal? It's not just about #encryption. A cybersecurity professor explains the key factors in choosing a secure messaging app: theconversation.com/signal-is-… #cybersecurity
Keeping your chats secure is a good idea, but end-to-end encryption is just the beginning of the list of options to consider when picking a messaging app.
It should be seen as a hint, that all the money spent ba Mark #Zuckerberg does not convince #Trump and #Vance, that #Whatsapp is a secure messenger. And having their poor understanding of technology in mind, it becomes clear, that whatsapp is obviously insecure.
Every face scan is a “unique opportunity” to assert your rights, EFF’s Saira Hussain told @huffingtonpost. If more people keep declining face scans, maybe TSA will think twice “about whether it’s actually effective to roll out programs like these.” huffpost.com/entry/tsa-facial-…
Anyone with any regard whatsoever for the Constitution should recognize how fundamentally at odds this is with our values and should be deeply repulsed regardless of political leanings.
The arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk may serve as the canary in the coal mine for the First Amendment.
Plug for @AbandonedAmerica. In his Patreon feed, he has pictures of the turbine hall for an "enormous abandoned power plant prior to demolition". I'm a sucker for big machines.
He also has lots of poignant pictures of abandoned schools, amusement parks and the like. Gave my daughter a framed print of an abandoned theater one Christmas.
The abandoned Church of the Transfiguration - one of my favorite places, now long gone. Check out the gallery and find out the odd story of its demise which, oddly enough, involved Anne Hathaway's (now ex) boyfriend: abandonedamerica.us/church-of-…
One of the saddest losses in the Philadelphia church community, Transfiguration remains one of the most impressive abandoned churches I've seen. By Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America.
Follieri should have been a much bigger scandal for the US Catholic Church (not that they lack for crises). He paid off the bishop in Camden NJ amidst a mass church closure in the diocese.
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