“YouTube nuked my account last night. I have appealed this absurd action. But I'll have to make some changes to protect myself from this kind of thing in the future.”

RE: https://twitter..com/PeteKaliner/status/2050609707102990379

#YouTube #SpreadFediverse

“You can outsource your thinking, but you cannot outsource your understanding.”

RE: https://twitter.com/reiver/status/2050268458206863533

#AI #AIAgents #LargeLanguageModels #LLM

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@aramba/116512116090729827

> In geopolitics, the danger of chokepoints is well known: any tension raises oil prices, any threat rattles markets. In technology, the threat is quieter—but deeper.

cc @pluralistic - it’s about the apple tax

I know we won’t hear it from either corporate party, so I’d love to hear about this from @avilewis of the #NDP.

I live in one of many blue/orange electoral districts, where there are enough gamers, technicians, mechanics, farmers, nurses, and ticked off normies jaded by conventional slimy politics that a sincerely blunt Graham Platner-esque economic populist message, framing leftist policy in terms of practical solutions to material conditions, paired with a #rightToRepair and #rightToOwn message, could swing the margin orange.

The same state capture by oligarchs enabled by DMCA § 1201 in the USA is enabled by the propagandically misnamed Copyright Modernization Act in Canada. My work puts me in discussion with a lot of locals about their electronics, and the anti-repair and anti-ownership effects of the CMA anger a lot of people, as does the barrier it imposes to migrating off Meta platforms and other US tech monopolies. (They don’t put it in those words, but they talk about frustrations with devices and services and the companies, and express feeling trapped.)

As @pluralistic points out, the CMA was enacted by Harper and Clement despite overwhelming Canadian popular opposition, ostensibly in exchange for a trade deal the US is now violating. However, that’s not the language to use with a bunch of blue-collar types, nor with a much of IT nerds. For the language to talk with them out here, listen to #LouisRossmann, to #Steve Burke of #GamersNexus, and to analogous voices on topics of cars, farm equipment, medical equipment, military equipment, and personal electronics.

Ensure you and any NDP candidate running in a blue/orange district fluently understand these topics and discuss them in language relatable to working-class Canadians who don’t consider themselves “political,” by relating the topics to material conditions of people’s lives at home, in business, at the clinic or hospital, etc., and you’ll have something to offer that neither Pierre nor Mark will touch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltgPu1hXkPc

#cdnpoli

@nazgul

@Lana I made the mistake of checking whether this was an actual post or a parody, and now I feel so tired…

Singapore Air to Add Faster Starlink Inflight Wi-Fi From 2027
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-04/singapore-air-to-add-faster-starlink-inflight-wi-fi-from-2027?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@pallenberg Damn, that is pure communism. The Americans finally have to intervene.

@Virginicus 😉

I'm half way to understanding Zeno's paradox

No but what I mean by "the shape of the future" versus "being right about the danger" in that quote earlier is that for example - no an "AI" weapons management system isn't going to "take over and wipe out humanity because it THINKS we're a threat" ala War Games/Terminator etc - it doesn't THINK at all. But yeah I could absolutely see some piece of vibe-coded trash resulting in unauthorized missile launches and so forth. Not with purpose, but a disaster precisely BECAUSE it lacks purpose.

I unironically love this because it's the perfect analogy:
- you can only get 6 wild cards by cheating
- showing everybody your hand is the worst possible strategy
- reverse cards exist, skip cards exist, +2 cards exist, and +4 cards exist
- it actually takes zero skill to play a wild card
- and "having all the cards" in uno means you're losing

@ramsey @arstechnica Or say no to someone who won't remove theirs. Have some standards, for crying out loud.

Yen Jumps 0.8% in Asia Trading, Putting Investors on High Alert
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-04/yen-jumps-0-8-in-asia-trading-putting-investors-on-high-alert?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@stefan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaggery

FamilyMart stores start collecting used clothing, goods to reduce waste https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260504/p2g/00m/0bu/004000c

@4censord
Maybe this says more about me and how I imagine things work than about laundry but I just imagine if someone had something really nasty going on that it would get all wound up in the innards of the thing and never come out

Singapore and New Zealand Sign Essential Supply Trade Pact
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-04/singapore-and-new-zealand-sign-essential-supply-trade-pact?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@slightlyoff the “staying logged in” thing is a real problem, which is infuriatingly by design. we kept getting told by our users “your site keeps signing me out”, which ended up being users opening our site from the gmail/linkedin or whatever app, and the site being opened up in a fresh new web view. wild to discover that this is also fixable, if the developers of said apps would allow users to open links in the default browser. but no one does this, because:
1. data
2. keep people in app at all costs

i know you know these things, i guess I’m justifying to myself why we ended up making an app for our site (which is just the html build loaded with a wrapper lol). i sure as hell made sure at least our app will open external sites using the default browser…

@inquiline its written in those new history books i think