JUSTÍCIA | Amnistia Internacional acusa la Fiscalia d’obstaculitzar les investigacions sobre Pegasus

✍️ Aina Argueta https://www.elpuntavui.cat/politica/article/17-politica/2657965-amnistia-internacional-acusa-la-fiscalia-d-obstaculitzar-les-investigacions-sobre-pegasus.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=xarxes&utm_campaign=xarxes

My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite

https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.html

@wlaatje I see what you did there 😂

"You may have already heard in the news that the county I live in has about 50 data centers, and they're asking people to start conserving power. On top of that, we're being asked to start conserving water."

The woman claims temperatures could reach 120 degrees.

Residents are being asked to use less than the average 90 gallons of water they consume each day. Meanwhile, a single Virginia data center reportedly uses roughly 4 million gallons of water a day.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/just-unplug-woman-questions-why-223000303.html

#RIP #BonnieTyler

🎶 I need a hero
I'm holding out for a hero ′til the end of the night ... 🎶

She had been waiting for a hero her whole life—but as it turned out, she had been one all along.

@foone since the mid 80s I am paid to do work with computers but I am a shitty programmer. now I am an archivist. the arrival of the LLMs enabled me to be creative with software. I think of something and the machine does it for me. I know mine is not the common experience but it also exists.

Selkies are beautiful creatures from Irish, Faroese, and Scottish folklore who have the appearance of seals in water, but shed their skin to come ashore and reveal their human forms. If a human finds the skin and hides it, the selkie can't return to the sea 🦭

Prints: https://ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/selkies

#Art #MastoArt #MastoDaoine #Ireland #FediGiftShop #Folklore #Mythology

Finally, if you make requirements like this, it's clear that you are delegating your appraisal of the work to an external proxy for quality; a very flawed one. This sets up success bias in the viva examination, because the examiners will feel it has already been through a "Q1 standard process".

This university needs to take a serious look at DORA and, specifically:

"the need to eliminate the use of journal-based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, in funding, appointment, and promotion considerations;"

sfdora.org/read/

/END OF RANT

Who Can Hold ICE Accountable?
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/07/who-can-hold-ice-accountable/687853/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Tennis’s New Golden Age
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/tennis-futterman-alcaraz-sinner/687627/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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What if It’s Not the Phones?
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/phones-haidt-play-gray/687846/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Gerade eben wurde erneut über die #Chatkontrolle 1.0 abgestimmt. Diese wurde im Frühjahr bereits abgelehnt.
Der Vorschlag wurde so eben mit 2 Änderungsanträgen angenommen.
Heisst freiwilliges anlassloses Scannen von Kommunikation, nach bekannten und unbekannten Material, ist wieder zu lässig. #E2EE verschlüsselte Kommunikation ist ausgenommen.
Auch wenn verschlüsselte Kommunikation Geschütz ist, ist das ein herber Rückschlag im Kampf gegen anlasslose Massenüberwachung.

Highly specific job klaxon:

If you are a (human) skeletal biologist? ✅
And a history nerd? ✅
And you live near Portsmouth? ✅

Historic England has a job for you. https://app.beapplied.com/apply/mddtsdk6p9

@acka47 there are https://github.com/melissawm/open-source-ai-contribution-policies and https://sfconservancy.org/llm-gen-ai/llm-backed-generative-ai-recommendations.html

🤣

Andrew Marr: " The Commons rules are very clear and they forbid face coverings "

Count Binface: "Well the Commons rules are very clear about what you can do with donations , but that seems to have got all murky so why can't I see how the line can get tested? "

#UKPolitics #TeamBinface

*Tinfoil hat on*

I doubt it's a coincidence that the last 10, 15 years things like cryptocurrencies, "metaverse", "AI" are becoming popular, just as "lines" in the computing industry flatten: as the computer has been perfected, an _economy of waste_ is created to sustain appetite for growth.

Computers (phones, tablets &c are computers) have become longer term investments; even if you have abundant money, the latest devices aren't necessarily upgrades that bring anything new to the table. We've _done_ computing, we finished it back in 2010s mostly.

That's a plateau in demand for new devices, or it would be, w/o the saviour of computing wastage industry. Cryptocurrency wastes storage and processors, "AI" wastes memory and processors, "metaverse", ads, cloud etc waste networking bandwidth. So we use much more computing resources than we need.

Computing wastage also inflates the income of fossil fuel industry. Its useless activities and the infrastructure to support all that is powered--where it's not pure speculation and is actually built out--frequently by dirty electricity.

I think that explains a lot about govt & corpo interest esp in "AI" right now. It's a growth driver. It's a line mover upper. It's a conduit of money to an otherwise stagnating tech and dirty energy sector.

*Tinfoil hat off*

RANT AHEAD

I am miffed. We had a submission at Orbit that we went to great pains to review. It was extremely challenging to find readers. Our internal team read it, too.

It was through to acceptance. And then the author pulled out because their university demanded a Q1 or Q2 ranked journal.

I do not blame the author, here (although they could have checked this before submitting). I understand the pressure they are under (it was part of a portfolio for a doctorate by publication).

But WTF with this journal ranking nonsense? Appalling. It clearly induces a Matthew Effect because if institutions demand publication in Q1 and Q2 journals, and that is where all the quality material goes, then newer and outsider publications can never break into those quartiles.

Also, I believe this Q1/Q2 stuff is a SCOPUS fabrication. So if you use this, you're in bed with Elsevier.

@pintoch That's great. Thanks, Antonin!

@echo_pbreyer How is this possible? -> "despite a majority voting against it (314:276)"