Here are the standout video games at the Independent Game Festival awards
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5334560/here-are-the-standout-video-games-at-the-independent-game-festival-awards?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Federal agency responsible for library and museum funding gets a visit from DOGE
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5335600/library-museum-funding-doge-sonderling?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Three escalating conflicts in the Middle East threaten the wider region
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5330711/three-escalating-conflicts-in-the-middle-east-threaten-the-wider-region?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Strong OpEd by @Mer__edith in the Financial Times about the ongoing Apple case and the intensifying war on encryption:
"we must recognise that strong encryption isn’t the enemy of security — it is security."
archive.is/LP24v
#ChatControl #Encryption #Apple #GoingDark
The Boston Celtics are set to be sold for a record-breaking $6.1 billion
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5334704/the-boston-celtics-are-set-to-be-sold-for-a-record-breaking-6-1-billion?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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This week in science: origins of life, birds speech, and how TikTok gets ADHD wrong
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5328659/this-week-in-science-origins-of-life-birds-speech-and-how-tiktok-gets-adhd-wrong?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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AI Search Has A Citation Problem
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.Columbia Journalism Review
New thing I'm trying.
After I post a tutorial video I'm going to have a supporter only stream where I answer questions about the video's subject. Kind of like "office hours" but for monthly sustainers on Patreon and Ko-Fi (who are paying my bills, I don't have sponsors and ad revenue is laughable).
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@mcc Just finished reading your #BladeRunner2049 post that (I think?) you (or someone else) linked a few days ago:
web.archive.org/web/2025011215…
>The point of the baseline test is not to fail inhumans. The culture has already decided that K is subhuman. The baseline is *testing to see if someone marked as inhuman is becoming human*.
Outstanding analysis 😁 It gave me a new appreciation for Blade Runner 2049 that I didn't have before.
#BladeRunner #cyberpunk #movies
The "baseline" scene was actually written by Ryan Gosling
This post necessarily contains spoilers for Blade Runner 2049. If you haven't seen Blade Runner 2049, I suggest not reading this and just going and watching Blade Runner 2049. …so. I really like Blade Runner 2049. Like I really like it.andi on cohost
Wait. Is this reading correct?
"Under current law, content produced entirely by AI immediately enters the public domain, allowing unrestricted commercial use."
synthtopia.com/content/2025/03…
Other news coverage:
"Because many of the Copyright Act's provisions make sense only if an author is a human being, the best reading of the Copyright Act is that human authorship is required for registration."
reuters.com/world/us/us-appeal…
#news #technology #TechNews #copyright #PublicDomain #AI
AI-Generated Works Are Public Domain, Court Affirms
A recent court case affirms that works generated by AI, without human involvement, are not eligible for copyright protection.Synthtopia
Maybe is one of the best img remix from @pluralistic
U.S. military offensive targets Houthi rebels to stop their Red Sea shipping attacks
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5330849/u-s-military-offensive-targets-houthi-rebels-to-stop-their-red-sea-shipping-attacks?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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US Dist Court of Maryland Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander ruled that #DOGE was granted unusual access to non-anonymized #SocialSecurity data & could not identify any basis for that degree of access.
She wants access limited, installed software removed & data taken out of #SSA destroyed.
👏👏👏
#law #USpol #Trump #Musk #InfoSec #privacy
storage.courtlistener.com/reca…
In an interview Fri, Dudek argued that the judge’s ruling was *overly broad* & that a reference to “DOGE affiliates” could apply to all employees who access personally identifiable info, or #PII, because they are obligated to cooperate w/ #DOGE.
Dudek said the agency plans to file an affidavit as soon as Fri asking Hollander to clarify language in her ruling….
“Everything in this agency is PII. Unless I get clarification, I’ll just start to shut it down. I don’t have much of a choice here.”
Dudek first made his threat to close down the #SocialSecurity Administration during a Bloomberg News interview Thurs night.
Such a dramatic move would be unprecedented in the agency’s history & would immediately begin halting benefit payments for millions of Americans.
#law #Trump #Musk #DOGE #YourMoney #PayrollTax #InfoSec #privacy #benefits #senoirs #survivors #disability #FICA
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What's at stake as 'Severance' gets ready to drop its final episode of the season
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5331234/whats-at-stake-as-severance-gets-ready-to-drop-its-final-episode-of-the-season?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Colorado constituents press Democrats on the party's plan to oppose Trump
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333880/colorado-constituents-press-democrats-on-the-partys-plan-to-oppose-trump?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Congress may kill the program that saved thousands of veterans from foreclosure
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5331241/congress-may-kill-the-program-that-saved-thousands-of-veterans-from-foreclosure?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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he is a public figure that seems to engage in these things. Tbh, his book is lacking in many areas, but I appreciate the overall focus on mutual aid.
I will say that I personally think anyone that institutionally aligned should not be advising autonomous networks on mutual aid.
lmk if you’d like more (I’ve got plenty), and also if you want to discuss anything lmk.
I have been involved in this stuff for over a decade and a half. I don’t know everything, but I’ve experienced a lot of different things that come with this kind of participation.
I’m also coming from a place that is against these institutions that work with the state (nonprofits included), who come in and stick their nose in our business…
Over 20,000 WordPress sites hit by damaging malware campaign
DollyWay has been around since 2016
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I don't even want them to be less rich. If we avail the suppressed emancipatory technology, even the richest of us would be more rich, in Star Trek style post-scarcity abundance,
ending resource wars, ending manufactured scarcity, ending mandatory maximised wealth extraction "to protect the shareholders", ~
... We could have had spaceships each in the 1930s.
No need for Robin Hood. This sublimation to higher symbiosis, means no need for petty parasitic leverage over others. Rich bounty for each and all.
We can aspire to better than merely "Please sir, can I have some more?" ( nor even "Please sir, can you have some less?".
Lonely? There's an app for that!
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5328750/lonely-theres-an-app-for-that?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Trump threatens judge pressing DOJ for answers over El Salvador deportations
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5334484/trump-threatens-judge-pressing-doj-for-answers-over-el-salvador-deportations?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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New study reveals why seals don't drown
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5332400/new-study-reveals-why-seals-dont-drown?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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@edgeofeurope my thought exactly.
But that is probably not an option, because Starmer wants to use Buckingham Palace for buttering up Trump, which would probably not work, if Trump saw King Charles as Zelenskyy's man.
When are Facebook posts "false personation"?
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
After “glitter bomb,” cops arrested former cop who criticized current cops online
When are Facebook posts “false personation”?Nate Anderson (Ars Technica)
Looks like Lockheed’s getting nervous.
Fuck ‘em.
“Lockheed Martin, the U.S. defence giant that builds the F-35 fighter jet, has offered to create more jobs in Canada if Ottawa buys all of the jets it said it would when the contract was announced in 2023, a source says.”
#Never51 #F35 #CDNDefense #CDNNatSec #CDNPoli
theglobeandmail.com/world/arti…
Lockheed Martin offers to create more jobs in Canada if Ottawa commits to full order for F-35 fighter jets
Canada’s contract with manufacturer obliges it to purchase 16 of the 88 aircraft it has orderedEric Reguly (The Globe and Mail)
Yeah, right. With full access to the source code so we can make sure that an aggressive US[LN]A administration can't just brick them?
No? Well then, off you fuck.
Now that axial flux motors are becoming a thing, I wonder, why haven't we seen one that uses air bearings between the surfaces? Wouldn't that increase power due to the proximity between magnets and cores? or is there such a thing as too close?
Talking from my ass, ofc.
"Trump thinks about Canada in much the same way Vladimir Putin thinks about Ukraine. He identifies with his fellow imperialist. ... the way Trump talks about annexing Canada bears a disconcerting resemblance to the way Putin talks about annexing Ukraine."
~ Will Saletan
#Putin #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #Canada #PutinsPoodle
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thebulwark.com/p/trump-lust-fo…
Trump’s Lust for Canada Echoes Putin’s Lust for Ukraine
Expansionist rhetoric, economic grievance, and fantasies of erasing an “artificial” border.Will Saletan (The Bulwark)
Clay Bennett's commentary on Trump's bromance relationship with Putin
#Putin #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #Canada #PutinsPoodle
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dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/19…
Cartoon: Fascists have needs, too
A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related |� Canada is 'nastiest,' Russia is great: Trump's latest unhinged ...Daily Kos
As Evan Hurst notes, it's clear from multiple instances that
"Vladimir Putin mocks Trump to his face, he mocks him behind his back, and he mocks him on live TV in front of audiences of Russians."
Though Fox News and Trump epigones want to pretend that Putin didn't keep Trump waiting for their recent phone call — a humiliation tactic — there's video footage of Putin laughing about this to an audience who laugh back.
#Putin #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle
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wonkette.com/p/does-trump-know…
Does Trump Know How Much Putin Makes Fun Of Him To His Face?
Somebody should tell him, repeatedly!Evan Hurst (Wonkette)
Health care.
Dental care.
College education.
Career security.
Food security.
Addiction treatment.
Literacy and numeracy.
Equal protection under the law.
Equal access to the franchise.
Sometimes, shelter.
Sometimes, clean running water.
Sometimes, clean air.
Sometimes, bodily autonomy.
But sure, TVs are cheap now so inequality is solved.
Fuck, man, this is not a short list. Go outside.
Rule eliminations make it easier to replace copper networks with wireless.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
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The Information report claims notable losses for Apple's only service in the red.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
Apple TV+ reportedly loses $1 billion a year, and that’s okay—for now
The Information report claims notable losses for Apple’s only service in the red.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
I tried to stick with the service two times and just now I quit again.
I wouldn’t say that the service is too expensive. The quality is there. But it isn’t enough. I found out for myself that almost every show I tried to watch and stick to, didn’t get through to me and excite me.
And when I can’t find any exciting show, the service is too expensive …
"Columbia University student fled the U.S. after her student visa was revoked and ICE came knocking"
"Ranjani Srinivasan, a 37-year-old architect from India, was set to finish a doctoral program in urban planning in May, when, she said, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security accused her of advocating for “violence and terrorism." Shortly after her legal status was terminated, Columbia withdrew her enrollment from the university..."
wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/03/17…
Columbia University student fled the U.S. after her student visa was revoked and ICE came knocking | Here & Now
Ranjani Srinivasan was an international Columbia University student finishing up her doctoral program in urban planning. She fled to Canada after the Trump administration revoked her student visa.Scott Tong (WBUR)
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