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
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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
Is live now!
#PublicDomain #SocialMedia #Reddit #Community #Design #Art #Humor #Meme #Can #App #Software #Corporation #childsafety #children #safety #awareness #internet #online #news #announcement
🆕 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
Primary school teacher. Me and my colleague who teaches the other class take turns to make maths worksheets for both classes to do. Made him one where the answer to every single sum is 67 and you could hear the shrieks across the school.
It's always embarrassing to ask tech questions but does anyone know how to turn down the torment on this nexus?
Where does “board member saying something that’s obviously nonsense about the company finances” fit on our hierarchy of market-legible signals?
Asilo impossibile: il TAR Veneto condanna la strutturale inaccessibilità al diritto di asilo nelle Questure di Vicenza e Venezia https://www.asgi.it/asilo-e-protezione-internazionale/asilo-impossibile-il-tar-veneto-condanna-la-strutturale-inaccessibilita-al-diritto-di-asilo-nelle-questure-di-vicenza-e-venezia/ #Asilo/Protezioneinternazionale #Dirittiinquesturaeprefettura #giurisprudenza
I think the main reason why Europeans no longer want to travel to the USA is the big time difference. For me, it's now 7pm. In the USA it's now 1933.
L'inizio dell'era dell'asparago ti fa essere meno triste per la fine dell'era della zucca
🔴NEW: The Ferret exposed the extreme views of Reform UK’s Scotland’s candidates before Nigel Farage promised to improve his party’s “poor” vetting processes, but many of them have been re-selected to fight the Holyrood election.
Excellent series on Self, both the programming model and the tool chain.
I love how opening an inspector on a value (e.g. nil) then shows a link to all occurrences of the value in other open inspectors!
It’s #WorldFrogDay to draw attention to the important role frogs play in ecosystems.
Linocut on gampi of a leopard frog from years ago.
The latest Greek migrant boat shipwreck and Greece's criminalisation of solidarity
Analysis by Georgios Athanasiou - https://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-chios-incident-echoes-of-pylos.html
GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.
Un joli caractère dans une toute petite casse récupérée à Saint-Malo toujours.
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@bfluzin Chouette trouvaille, c’est une version du Gillies Gothic. :-)
https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_type_1902&targPic=lfa_type_1902_092.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lubalincenter/6843668251
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(Enquête menée avec @mathieureguer 😊)
