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The Trump Action Tracker is brilliant already, keeping track of the regime's bad acts. The UI could use a few improvement, and I'd urge several more categories (or emphasis of sub-categories), but I'm blown away now. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info
@dangillmor that's a bad/dangerous link
How TIME and Statista Determined the World’s Best Brands of 2025
https://time.com/7323879/worlds-best-brands-2025-methodology/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-time
It's a good thing you don’t get to see the behind-the-scenes footage of me "researching" my "jokes" by looking up dumb shit like:
"can nuts be seeds?"
"difference between nuts and seeds"
"Is it spelled deez nuts or deez nutz?"
@Alice
Ha ha sometimes I do that. The other day I had to make sure an onion is in fact a bulb (it is).
I like this very much. https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
Una fusione bancaria che è diventata un caso politico in Spagna - Il Post
https://www.ilpost.it/2025/10/08/fusione-banche-spagna-caso-politico/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su News @news-ilPost
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I subscribe what Pablo Iglesias has said:
"Western media perform a crucial role when they don't cover in an accurate and professional way the truth of what's happening in Palestine. We know all the names of the Israeli hostages, but for the most part the media haven't registered the name of a single one of the assassinated Palestinian babies."
"That contributes to the dehumanisation and demonisation of the Palestinian people, and to Israel's impunity in order to continue with its policies of genocide, ethnical cleansing, and oppression."
"History will judge western media as complicit of crimes against humanity perpetrated by Israel, for not denouncing them, and for acting as spokespeople for the narrative of oppression, using its language, its assertions, and its arguments."
Spain’s Economy Will Keep Outperforming, CaixaBank Fund Unit Bets
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-08/caixabank-fund-unit-bets-spanish-economy-will-keep-outperforming?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business @business-bloomberg
Alle huishoudelijks gedaan op een ding na, en daarvoor heb ik een extra paar handen nodig, dus dat komt later deze middag wel. Maar goed, voor nu ben ik even tevreden en trakteer ik mezelf op een lekker grote kop thee en een stukje lezen.
@JessTheUnstill @Remittancegirl @Lana Yes, that is the inescapable conclusion. It seems to me that we have an opportunity to expose the corrupt, corrosive, and ultimately self-defeating nature of racism. Trump's base thinks it can scapegoat half the population, which is like thinking you can pee in just one end of the pool.
This week’s TGR is about AI’s limits - please share with anyone who needs reminding! https://youtube.com/watch?v=UNCG52ZcMKo&si=VuevYfZWGld4E3YN
I subscribe what Pablo Iglesias has said:
"Western media perform a crucial role when they don't cover in an accurate and professional way the truth of what's happening in Palestine. We know all the names of the Israeli hostages, but for the most part the media haven't registered the name of a single one of the assassinated Palestinian babies."
@Dennis You inspired me to upgrade my weekly pill organizer, so I just picked up this beaut off Facebook Marketplace!
This button is the biggest lie on the internet
@Techaltar microsoft's "stay signed in" and "don't show again" are way worse tho.
M2.7, 22 km SW of Toms Place, CA, 2025-10-08 04:38 PDT. Depth 7.01 km. Tsunami not expected. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75246471/executive #CaliforniaQuake
@1a1nC Oceanic ones make more sense: much cheaper to get to for repair/maintenance, and it's a great heat sink.
It also has a lot of hard problems (I haven't worked on this, but I worked with people who had previously worked with the MS undersea datacenter).
Sea water is corrosive, so you need to have to have an internal cooling loop and do heat exchange, but piping sea water is annoying because it's entirely full of alive things. A lot of things in the sea have evolved to collect nutrients from moving water. Anything that looks like a narrow passage that water flows through is a perfect space for various families of seaweed and things like barnacles. And these things tend to be insulators. So then the heat is trapped in and the water heats up, then they die. And now you have a load of dead things in your cooling.
And a lot of these things grow really fast once they find a nice place to feed. Your cooling system looks just like their ideal underwater caves.
One of my favourite papers to review was from a Japanese team who had a material that you could wrap PCBs in and put them in water. One of their demos was to put a motherboard wrapped in their material in Tokyo bay in a plastic crate. When they got it out, the crate was completely full of seaweed. And that was without any active water flow.
@thisismissem oh hell yeah. I would never ever recruit anyone who seriously used the phrase "10x engineer", massive red flag.
My other thought on the article, which I don't *think* I saw mentioned, is that a "strong" engineer will be actively trying to make the bring the "weak" engineers with them and make them stronger while doing the magic.
@Floppy maybe only the case with juniors, but I think a "weak senior" is possibly unlikely to level up?
US electricity price increases from 2020, per Axios:
I'm with Mark on this being stupid because (a) launch costs (coming down fast but still ridiculously high), (b) energy (PV cells, yes, but you need to put them in orbit first), and (c) waste heat, which is THE killer problem for data centres on Earth, where we have these heat sinks called "rivers" and "the atmosphere". Vacuum's a thermal insulator!
(No need to get into the weeds and talk about latency. Whole idea's stupid.)
https://eigenmagic.net/@NewtonMark/115332884441287733
@cstross putting it outside the earth's protective atmosphere and magnetosphere, even partially in LEO, would be a bad idea for days integrity too. Cosmic rays cause enough bit flips down here
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