ProPublica guild is on strike.
In solidarity, please stay away from the site and do not boost its work.
Thank you.
@Federation_Bot
This current phase of US fascism began in 1971 when US oligarchs feared losing their privilege due to the "excess of democracy" in American society, specifically in education, media, courts, etc.
Maintaining their status, they said, depended on "reverse engineering the 20th century."
Nancy MacLean Democracy in chains (source of quotes):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_CnzsSeJyU
#USPol #EUPol #PowellMemo #Fascism #Racism #Democracy #TriCom .
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This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:
* Basic 2.0-alpha5 with faster UI feedback (no need for Developer mode)
* #keyboard in the news
* #aTalk brings #OMEMO 2 to #XMPP on #Android
* #Briar keeps Tor secure (no tricks)
* #CastLab w/ #FCast and more (no need to restart)
* #K9Mail #Thunderbird w/ avatars (after 7 days too)
* #LabCoat #Gitlab login
* #SessionMessenger help funding
+ 15 new apps
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“LLMs fail to effectively solve the problems we have, while creating a vast new class of problems to be solved. They are, ultimately, completely mis-aligned with our needs, and incompatible with the society we live in.
The problems of LLMs fall into three main categories: hype, inherent unreliability, and immense costs.”
https://m.phase.org/@parsingphase/116076536542625856
Mitochondrial Transplant Reverses Disease
Scientists just transplanted healthy mitochondria into diseased cells -- and reversed Parkinson's, Leigh syndrome, and mtDNA depletion. In Cell.
As a medical school professor, I can tell you this is one of the most important papers of 2026. Chinese researchers solved the delivery problem that's challenged mitochondrial medicine for decades.
The breakthrough: wrapping healthy mitochondria in red blood cell membranes. Delivery efficiency jumped from under 5% to 80%.
The results:
- Rescued mitochondrial defects in patient-derived cells
- Reversed mtDNA depletion syndrome in mice
- Extended survival in Leigh syndrome mice
- Prevented neuron loss and restored motor function in a Parkinson's model
Tested in both mice and monkeys.
This is what I wrote about in "Lies I Taught in Medical School" -- we treated mitochondrial diseases as untreatable because we couldn't fix the powerhouse. Now we can replace it entirely.
"Organelle therapy" is no longer theoretical. It's here.
Full breakdown coming on the Health Longevity Secrets podcast.
Source: https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(26)00230-8
#Mitochondria #Parkinsons #RegenerativeMedicine #CellTherapy #Longevity
⚡ Do you really know what Tech Sovereignty means?
🌫️ 😶🌫️ Over the past months, I've heard everyone talk about this concept, which is somewhat blurry.
Klaus Adam, an economist at University College London and formerly of the ECB: "The current situation could promote the eurozone as a safe haven and help it become a reserve currency."
"The financial markets are also moving in this direction... "We're starting to ask the question: Under current conditions, do we really want to be exposed to the dollar?" summed up Giovanni Zanni, an economist at NatWest, a British bank."
I really, really don't think Trump and the MAGAs understand the consequences of unravelling the dollar's reserve currency status.
Heute auf einen Tipp hin mal die #HTR mit #Gemini verwendet. Wow, ich bin beeindruckt. Wenn man nur schnell mal ein bisschen Kurrentschrift erkennen möchte, dann ist das echt eine Alternative zu #Transkribus.
AtomVM v0.7.0-alpha.0 is out: https://github.com/atomvm/AtomVM/releases/tag/v0.7.0-alpha.0
Biggest release yet: distributed Erlang, JIT, crypto, ETS, big integers, OTP-28/29 support, new chips, and much more.
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En Irlande, les data centers dévorent désormais le quart de l’électricité du pays https://ift.tt/RPyLM2i
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President Trump’s upending of long-held alliances has Canada realizing it must engineer new frameworks to survive the disintegration of the world order, writes Nirmal Ghosh. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/canada-mark-carney-india-china-middle-power-pragmatism-6004071
Kids & young adults around me are heavily affected by #TikTok use & they themselves are even telling me about their #addiction.
It's time we did something to fight back!
Let's raise awareness, promote alternatives & get people to healthier communities like the #Fediverse :)
https://www.reddit.com/r/DeTikTok
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🆕 blog! “I'm OK being left behind, thanks!”
Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. "They're the future of money!" they said. I replied saying that I'd rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, easier to use, and utterly reliable.
"You don't want to get left behind, do you?" They countered.
That struck me as a bizarre sentiment.…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/im-ok-being-left-behind-thanks/
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#AI #crypto #future #technology
I'm OK being left behind, thanks!
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/03/im-ok-being-left-behind-thanks/Many years ago, someone tried to get me into cryptocurrencies. "They're the future of money!" they said. I replied saying that I'd rather wait until they were more useful, less volatile, easier to use, and utterly reliable.
"You don't want to get left behind, do you?" They countered.
That struck me as a bizarre sentiment. What is there to be left behind from? If BitCoin (or whatever) is going to liberate us all from economic drudgery, what's the point of "getting in early"? It'll still be there tomorrow and I can join the journey whenever it is sensible for me.
Part of the crypto grift was telling people to "Have Fun Staying Poor". That weaponisation of FOMO was an insidious way to get people to drop their scepticism.
I feel the same way about the current crop of AI tools. I've tried a bunch of them. Some are good. Most are a bit shit. Few are useful to me as they are now. I'm utterly content to wait until their hype has been realised. Why should I invest in learning the equivalent of WordStar for DOS when Google Docs is coming any-day-now?
If this tech is as amazing as you say it is, I'll be able to pick it up and become productive on a timescale of my choosing not yours.
I didn't use Git when it first came out. Once it was stable and jobs began demanding it, I picked it up. Might I be 7% more effective if I'd suffered through the early years? Maybe. But so what? I could just as easily have wasted my time learning something which never took off.
I wrote my MSc on The Metaverse. Learning to built VR stuff was fun, but a complete waste of time. There was precisely zero utility in having gotten in early.
Perhaps there are some things for which it is sensible to be on the cutting edge. I took part in a vaccine trial because I thought it might personally benefit me and, hopefully, humanity.
But I'm struggling to think of anyone who has earned anything more than bragging rights by being first. Some early investors made money - but an equal and opposite number lost money. For every HTML 2.0 you might have tried, you were just as likely to have got stuck in the dead-end of Flash.
There are a 16,000 new lives being born every hour. They're all starting with a fairly blank slate. Are you genuinely saying that they'll all be left behind because they didn't learn your technology in utero?
No. That's obviously nonsense.
It is 100% OK to wait and see if something is actually useful.
#AI #crypto #future #technology
To dramatically increase the amount of energy available to power artificial intelligence, the Trump administration is rewriting thousands of pages of nuclear power regulations while downplaying safety issues and focusing on industry incentives.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-nuclear-power-nrc-safety-doge-vought?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Nuclear #Energy #DOGE #Technology #Tech #Safety #Trump #AI
I just went in for my third dose against Tick-Based Encephalitis, and the lovely person administering the shot told me that they are expecting to be able to provide immunization against Lyme disease either in 2027 or 2028!
Apparently Pfizer has a vaccine currently being trialed in phase 3. And they expect it will go well, which means a vaccine might actually become available soon!
Companies are realizing that pushing people to using "AI" is expensive (even at the subsidized pricing going on right now)
(Original title: Companies go full AI — then the bill comes due)
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/19/companies-go-full-ai-then-the-bill-comes-due/
"I admit, this is an innovation I did not see coming: Silicon Valley has invented the philosophical zombie from the classic thought experiment "lol how crazy would it be if there were a philosophical zombie.""
(Original title: Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie)
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/897566/marc-andreessen-is-a-philosophical-zombie
