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Me when I joined Mastodon about three and a half years ago. #ThrowbackThursday
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Hackaday Europe 2025: Speaker Schedule and Official Event Page
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Hackaday Europe 2025: Speaker Schedule And Official Event Page
Hackaday Europe 2025 is just days away, and we’ve got the finalized speaker schedule hot off the digital press. We’re also pleased to announce that the event page is now officially live…Hackaday
#Google #DeepMind unveils new AI models for controlling #robots - techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/goog… "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)
#Manus mania is here: Chinese ‘general agent’ is this week’s ‘future of AI' and OpenAI-killer - theregister.com/2025/03/10/man… "Prompts see it scour the web for info and turn it into decent documents at reasonable speed" #china
File under “duh”:
“Putin 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-s1-53271…
A blog post written to get my head around #guile #hoot and #fibers, based on my 2024 December Adventure:
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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!
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More #Trump waste, fraud, and abuse:
“US weather forecasts save lives and money. Trump’s cuts put us all at risk”
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US weather forecasts save lives and money. Trump’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 farmersGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
"Concerned at the UK Government’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/
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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/bl… #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-Holstein’s plan to move 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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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-pin…
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/Ireland…
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
Mass layoffs at Education Department signal Trump’s plan to gut the agency buff.ly/34vZZSy
Mass layoffs at Education Department signal Trump’s plan to gut the agency
The president’s apparent strategy is attempting to eliminate the agency on his own authority, while asking Congress to finish the job, an education expert writes.The Conversation
How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations
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When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz.
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#News #AI #Tech #Journalism #Media #Research #Data #Technology
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Obviously.
Clearly.
To prove this, look at a square piece of paper.
It has 2 sides, the front and the back. The mathematical notation for 'square' is with a small 2 to the upper right. The mathematical notation for 'cube' has a small 3 in that location. Therefore, it follows that a cube must have 3 sides.
#Puppets! Chill crafty hangoutage on the build #stream. #YouTube, #Twitch, #Peertube and #Owncast. #puppetbuilding
youtube.com/@OperationPuppet
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Operation: Puppet
Puppet building streams and videos and the occasional visit from Frankie and The OracleYouTube
"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 groups’ bank accounts at the FBI’s request. The reason? The FBI alleges that the groups are involved in “possible criminal violations,” including “conspiracy to defraud the United States.” "
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Trump’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
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).
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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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well, at least now a whole bunch of people who ordinarily would never have been caught dead using electric cars are buying them, just to “pwn the libs.”
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."
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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)
Canadian woman put in chains, detained by ICE after entering San Diego border
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Third [White] foreign national sent to detention centre from San Ysidro crossing
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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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Like this #meme? Try the #stream!
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Novelty Records, Parodies, Weird Covers, Outsider Music, Oddities, Mashups, Comedy, Nonsense & Cringe.FunHouse Radio
Water Is Not Political
Gaza is struggling to keep clean water flowing.
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Paywall Free: archive.today/N59BE
Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced draft bills aimed at “enhancing control” over “foreign agents,” including trials in absentia and criminal liability for cooperating with international organizations.
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Russia considers trials in absentia for ‘foreign agents’
Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced that the lower house of parliament has drafted several bills aimed at “enhancing control over the activities of foreign agents.”Meduza
Die CEOs der weltweit größten Tech-Konzerne haben sich hinter Donald Trump gestellt. Manche von ihnen beteiligen sich sogar aktiv an dessen zerstörerischer Politik, allen voran Elon Musk. Wir haben mit dem Tech-Journalisten @parismarx über den vermeintlichen Sinneswandel des Silicon Valley gesprochen und welche Form des Widerstands es nun braucht.
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The English version can be found here: netzpolitik.org/2025/interview…
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.
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The pi I was using recognises an #i2c display from #waveshare but the i2c from the #ups hat E #upshat_e is not seen.
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/r…
I will definitely order it at my local bookshop.
🔗: bookshop.org/p/books/careless-…
Book Review: ‘Careless People,’ by Sarah Wynn-Williams
“Careless People,” a memoir by a former Facebook executive, portrays feckless company leaders cozying up to authoritarian regimes.Jennifer Szalai (The New York Times)
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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 who’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." 🔥
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. It’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. I’m so glad I got out of all their platforms and I’m on the #Fediverse instead.
History books won’t be kind to Zuck, Sandberg et al.
What an idiot.
“ #Trump threatens 200% tariff on European wine and champagne” #TrumpTax #tariffs
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Trump threatens 200% tariff on European wine and champagne
The president threatened to take retaliatory action in response to EU tariffs on U.S.-made whiskey.Melissa Quinn (CBS News)
Deadly avian flu strain is spreading rapidly in Antarctica
https://www.science.org/content/article/deadly-avian-flu-strain-spreading-rapidly-antarctica?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into News from Science @news-from-science-SciMag
Sold to the highest bidder. comicsands.com/rfk-steak-n-sha…
Episode 223 – 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 - Descendent…
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Episode 223 – 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 m…Fractal Meat
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Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.
The U.S. resumed intelligence sharing with Ukraine, but trust in the U.S. has been lost.
Kyiv knows it must seek more reliable partners.
Maksym, a military officer, calls the pause a surprise, but not a disaster.
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.
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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 sign…Samya Kullab (AP News)
KELLOGG REMOVED FROM TALKS WITH UKRAINE: US special envoy to Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg has been effectively removed from talks on the settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Politico reports, citing sources.
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
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 🧑⚖️
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 ⬇️
openrightsgroup.org/press-rele…
#encryption #e2ee #Apple #investigatorypowersact #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol
Make the Investigatory Powers Tribunal on Apple Encryption a Public Hearing
Rights groups call for Apple’s closed appeal against the Home Office’s encryption-breaching order to be opened to the public.Open Rights Group
The “case implicates the privacy rights of millions of British citizens who use Apple’s technology, as well as Apple’s international users.”
“End-to-end encryption cannot be broken in a targeted manner – once a ‘backdoor’ into the system has been created, it can be exploited by anyone, putting the privacy and security of all users at risk.”
With such high stakes, we demand to know what could possibly justify it.
#e2ee #encryption #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #apple
📣 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 – we need to take a stand for encryption!
Sign and share our petition ⬇️
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…
#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
Louisiana is locked in a legal battle over its planned execution of a death row inmate
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5309985/louisiana-is-locked-in-a-legal-battle-over-its-planned-execution-of-a-death-row-inmate?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Bone fragments unearthed at an ancient cave in Spain belong to the oldest known human face in western Europe, researchers say.
The fossilised remains make up the left cheek and upper jaw of an adult member of an extinct human species who lived and died on the Iberian peninsula between 1.1m and 1.4m years ago.
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Bone fragments of oldest known human face in western Europe found in Spain
Remains are of an adult member of an extinct species who lived up to 1.4m years ago, researchers sayIan Sample (The Guardian)
Pressure works. Even on fascists. Especially on fascists.
Keep it up.
#uspol From @timkmak:
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Tim Mak (@timkmak@journa.host)
NEWS OF THE DAY: U.S. RESUMES MIL AID TO UKRAINE AS KREMLIN WEIGHS CEASEFIRE: The U.S. resumed arms deliveries to Ukraine on Wednesday, a day after the Trump administration lifted its aid suspension. https://apnews.Journa.host
"mulls" and "weighs" doing an awful lot of work there. Does anyone really think Russia will agree to just leave? Let alone stop shooting for 30 days?
No, nobody seriously believes Russia wants peace here – but the US resuming arms shipments and letting Russia be put in the spot is a complete 180 on the part of the Trump administration, who just a few days ago we’re trying to hand the entire war to Russia on a platter until they saw what kind of reaction that got.
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Fair enough. My money's still on Trump blaming Ukraine for the failure when Russia refuses to leave.
I might just be a cynic, though.
@xinit
Oh, this 100% will happen. Nobody’s saying the problems are all fixed now.
But my point stands.
@xinit at some point I was relieved Trump hadn’t announced military aid for Russia. Maybe that’s less likely now?
A Putin aide rejects Trump's 30-day Ukraine ceasefire proposal
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327108/russia-putin-trump-ukraine-ceasefire-talks?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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*What fiercely committed Eliot Ness is gonna faithfully enforce Trump's New Prohibition here
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He had to say "and other E.U. represented countries" because he doesn't know what other wine-making countries are part of the E.U.
All modern issues can be directly traced back to the government not investing in the Turbo Encabulator.
54 years wasted.
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"Turbo Encabulator" the Original
This is the first time Turbo Encabulator was recorded with picture. I shot this in the late 70's at Regan Studios in Detroit on 16mm film. The narrator and w...YouTube
ahh yes the problem with buying the Rockwell Retro Encabulator.
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Waste, fraud, and abuse courtesy of Trump
ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities - The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/poli…
ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities
A court filing described strip searches and the use of restraint chairs on some of the 290 migrants the Trump administration has cycled through the base.Carol Rosenberg (The New York Times)
“Because federal law does not in fact prohibit DEI, Trump is presumably counting on his order having a chilling effect, hoping that institutions self-censor by abandoning the programs out of fear.” nybooks.com/online/2025/03/10/…
Profiles in Self-Censorship | David Cole | The New York Review of Books
Under pressure from the Trump administration, many universities are preemptively scaling back their DEI programs—even though no law requires them to.David Cole (The New York Review of Books)
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✊ LEADING. RESISTING. SURVIVING. THRIVING 💜
Women are on the frontlines of environmental and social justice—leading movements, defending land and water, and fighting for their communities. Yet, they are among the first to suffer the consequences of climate chaos, war, and economic injustice.
While we celebrate progress and call to accelerate action, we must recognise the struggle. Women’s leadership in the fight for a just and liveable world must be supported and protected.
#WomensHistoryMonth
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Practicing using poster paints for game and animation backgrounds.
Hue StL
in reply to ProPublica • • •Aaron Caskey-Demaret
in reply to ProPublica • • •T2R
in reply to ProPublica • • •Garrett
in reply to ProPublica • • •People just want to see red once you mention AI, but when used in this targeted way it is very useful and saves time so you can show us these articles sooner.
As solitha said, promoting correct usage. Don't mind the hate.