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Meta stops former Facebook director from promoting critical memoir
Meta has won an emergency ruling in the US to temporarily stop a former director of Facebook from promoting or further distributing copies of her memoir.
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#news #tech #technology #socialmedia #meta #facebook
Meta stops former Facebook director from promoting critical memoir
Social media company wins US emergency ruling preventing ex-director from publicising her book.Katie Razzall (BBC News)
With the preface that I hold Neal Stephenson partially responsible for the mess we're in ...
Why?
I'm curious why you say that.
Why? Because I've generally found Stephenson a good read, and not just for the story itself. About the first half of Anathem for example has a clear subtext of "How to think clearly".
Despite all the stereotypes, sometimes software gets the math wrong 💀
Why care about understanding how software metrics operate in the real world at scale? Because I see tech folks constantly talk big about using terrible aggregations that make no sense.
No Silver Bullets: Why Understanding Software Cycle Time is Messy, Not Magic
Understanding factors that influence software development velocity is crucial for engineering teams and organizations, yet empirical evidence at scale remains limited.arXiv.org
By the way, if you want some evidence design consulting for your engineering organization from someone who CAN show her work? You know where to find me.
French nuclear submarine arrives in Canada, so the Canadians can see its capabilities, and choose to buy French instead of buying from the gangster in Washington.
Merci! ♥️
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French nuclear-powered attack sub surfaces off Canada near US border • FRANCE 24 English
A French nuclear-powered attack submarine left locals bewildered after it surfaced in an eastern Canadian province, just 300 miles from the US border. Rumors...YouTube
But seriously, it has six GPIO pins, 12bit ADC, and native support for ISRT, I2C, and SPI. 16k of memory is tight these days but still amazing in that package.
It would be very cool for @adafruit to make a public spec like the Feather but for boards the size of a tic-tac. ti.com/about-ti/newsroom/news-…
Trump's Attorney General to Tesla Vandals: 'We're Coming After You'
After Trump backs labeling Tesla vandals as domestic terrorists, Attorney General Pam Bondi tells Fox Business that the government is 'coming after' those who damage Tesla's EVs or dealerships.Michael Kan (PCMag)
Google promises more details on the move to Gemini in the coming months.
arstechnica.com/google/2025/03…
// In 14 minutes, Matthew McConaughey* begins his epic journey to recite a million digits of Pi. Don't miss the opening!
* Impersonator. No AI.
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Matthew McConaughey Recites Pi to the Millionth Digit
Matthew McConaughey is at it again, locked in a battle of wills against the rain.It’s a contest of persistence: the rain’s endless downpour vs. his flawless ...YouTube
Stream your DRM-free audiobooks to devices yourselves, without the cloud's chains.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
I threw away Audible’s app, and now I self-host my audiobooks
Stream your DRM-free audiobooks to devices yourselves, without the cloud’s chains.Lee Hutchinson (Ars Technica)
It's the first #FediDonutFriday 🍩 I'm starting a donut club for the Fediverse, let's get donuts together!
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Fediverse Donut Club (#FediDonutFriday)
At a past job there was an employee-run "donut club" where members would rotate every week bringing in donuts for everyone else. By the time that I joined this club there was over 30 people meani...sethmlarson.dev
Participating is easy:
* Follow the #FediDonutFriday hashtag on your Fediverse instance.
* Every-other Friday, get a donut and share it with the hashtag.
* Meet strangers in the Fediverse twice a month and enjoy your donut! 🍩
Here's an iCal event for an easy reminder for the next #FediDonutFriday:
USPS head agrees to let DOGE find 'efficiencies' — with limits to employee data access
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5327583/usps-doge-postal-service-louis-dejoy-postmaster-general?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-npr
2nd Gen Chromecasts are Fixed!
A brief update from yesterday's apparently perfectly timed video - this morning updates started rolling out in force to 2nd Gen Chromecast users. Mine is now...YouTube
And here I go computer-sciencey again:
The Composition-Oriented ual Way
Part 1: Foundations - Container-Centric Thinking
github.com/ha1tch/ual/blob/mai…
ual is a programming language that places containers, not values, at the center of its design. Part 1 explores container-centric thinking and how focusing on where values live rather than what they are creates interesting new approaches to code organization and algorithm design.
Part 1 of 6, the rest of the series is here:
github.com/ha1tch/ual/tree/mai…
#ual #rustlang #golang #forth #compsci #programming #retrodev #retrofuturism #retrocomputing
ual/doc/ual-composition/ual-composition-01.md at main · ha1tch/ual
ual is a stack-oriented programming language for small systems with a unified approach to program safety. - ha1tch/ualGitHub
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lardy_…
Amazon Uses Arsenal of AI Weapons Against Workers
A study of a union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, shows that the company weaponizes its algorithmic surveillance tools to prevent organizing.
prospect.org/labor/2025-03-13-…
#news #business #ai #amazon #economy #workers #workersrights #union
The Black Keys - Lonely Boy [Official Music Video]
The Black Keys' LET'S ROCK available now, listen to it here: https://warnerr.ec/tbkletsrockSubscribe for more new music: http://bit.ly/XcW3TThttp://theblackk...YouTube
It's Friday. The perfect day to show some Windows.
#Photography #Photo #Italy #Ferrara #Picture #Pic #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #CityPhotography #Winter #Sunset
i’m just joking — my favorite bit about metro california (north and south) is the food.
i was born and spent much of my childhood in san diego (though i’m mostly from santa cruz) — even though i live in austin now — (at least for a bit more)
Lack of encryption was one SMS shortcoming that RCS was created to solve.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
Every time I read "Lunar Lander", I get this in my head.
The 80's really did have an effect on me.
Finally doing some design at home.
I'm revisiting the Joystick handle to optimize it for 3D printing, rather than machining, as I spent months doing in the past (fuck, XD)
On the outside there doesn't seem to be much change, but there's a LOT of difference.
Previously I was going to use 20mm aluminium stock, so removing, or leaving, material was a non issue. Switching to additive means I want to either add as little material as possible, or at least NOT need supports.
@PatrickHerd Yeah, I'm just now finding out about the loose fibers thing in the ones that have simply fivers mixed in them. The one that is only core should be a lot more safe.
Oh well.
Charges cause water droplets in an early-Earth atmosphere to build up pre-life chemicals.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
Two Big Court Rulings
Federal district courts deal significant, concurrent blows to the administration’s mass firing campaign.open.substack.com
#PPOD: Blue Ghost got her first diamond ring! The photo, taken at their landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 a.m. CDT on 14 March 2025, shows the Sun about to emerge from totality behind Earth. This marks the first time in history that a commercial company was actively operating on the Moon and able to observe a total solar #eclipse. This phenomenon occurred simultaneously with the lunar eclipse we witnessed on Earth. Credit: Firefly Aerospace
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Under fire, the Looney Tunes break ground on the big screen
Warner Bros. has put its legacy cartoon at a crossroads. We spoke to those looking towards the future of the Looney Tunes.AV Club
Tesla hopes to slow down Trump's tit-for-tat tariffs amid financial woes.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Tesla urges overhaul of Trump tariffs hurting EV industry
Tesla hopes to slow down Trump’s tit-for-tat tariffs amid financial woes.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
Look at all the sh*t Free Speech hating Elon is doing with DOGE and laugh about this hypocrisy.
With no audit, no thought, and no accountability, Elon Musk is just taking an axe to jobs and services.
But when the same ideological, reckless behaviour is aimed at him, it's suddenly a problem.
reshared this
But, that is not what upsets them. They are upset because he was with the Citizen Lab?
We are in Bizarro World.
Anyone need a Drupal specialist? PHP programmer? Javascript programmer?
I've been doing software development for over 10 years.
Police say CEO ran away, tried to hide evidence after boy's hyperbaric chamber death
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#news #health #medicine #fraud
Police say CEO ran away, tried to hide evidence after boy's hyperbaric chamber death
Troy police say Tamela Peterson ran away when asked for her cellphone after Thomas Cooper died in a hyperbaric chamber fire at the Oxford Center.Andrea May Sahouri (Detroit Free Press)
Here is the alt-text description for the image:
The image is a four-panel cartoon making a joke about simulation theory. In the first panel, two men are at a kitchen counter with fast food. The man on the left is saying "All I'm saying is that we could be living in one big simulation!" In the second panel, the same two men are at the kitchen counter with fast food and the man on the left is saying "This is all just some crazy video game!" and the man on the right is saying "We're not in a video game. I can prove it." In the third panel, the same two men are standing at a doorway and the man on the right is pointing and saying "Just right down here." In the fourth panel, the same two men are standing in a room with a large pile of corpses. The man on the right is saying "See? Here's a giant pile of dead bodies without any clipping or frame drops." The man on the left is saying "Oh yeah!"
Provided by @altbot, generated using Gemini
NASA and SpaceX make second attempt to launch astronauts this week
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5328536/nasa-and-spacex-make-second-attempt-to-launch-astronauts-this-week?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Space @space-npr
Alien software, human hardware
in reply to Frankie ✅ • • •Frankie ✅
in reply to Alien software, human hardware • • •As far as I know it was already on sale. All the order does is stop further distribution and PR of it.