Bruce Springsteen Sings a Rallying Cry as Colbert's 'Late Show' Ends
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bruce-springsteen-final-stephen-colbert-late-show-1235566757/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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On NRT: A vicious, corrupt and insane policy from a vicious, corrupt and insane regime - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-vicious-corrupt-and-insane-policy.html

@alcinnz though if we consider ploughs and farming, it would be odd to suddenly start leaving out some of the most famous (!) and celebrated 1980s ploughs, simply because they weren't manufactured by the dominant vendor de jour.

I survived this morning's public humiliation rituals and I still have a job.

I'm relieved and exhausted by turns.

And a part of me is — as expected — sad about the road not taken

#3248 - 182.8 Meters

@catsalad toasty marshmallow

Oil Near $100 Emerges as Consensus for Next Year With Iran War
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-21/oil-near-100-emerges-as-consensus-for-next-year-with-iran-war?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/116608809666652889

This is the kind of house cleaning the US should have been doing 2021-2024. And yes, that means Biden, but I lay the blame at least equally on Congress (who are supposed to be the ones taking the lead on legislating, though few of us are old enough to remember) and the press (who should have made this a national conversation).

@jonny There should be a law mandating that any minified code should be accompanied by meta-data pointing to the original code and providing the steps necessary to re-minify it.

That, or just make it super hard for obfuscated code to run in the browser.

Because minifying for obfuscation is useless against a sillfull attacker, and while minifying helps reducing network loads, it is, as shown here, a security nightmare.

#resist #ai

https://airesistlist.org/

Linux mentoring day at work. I introduced someone to `sed -i` today; she had to bulk-edit a bunch of code input files and it was just easier/faster/more consistent to do with sed. Importantly, `sed -i.bak` does an in-place edit and keeps a backup of the original with the extension .bak to avoid unrecoverably shredding files en masse.

This is one of those areas where we desperately need to get non-developer engineers familiar with regular expressions. They save so much time and act with such precision that they are invaluable when picking values out of reports and making pinpoint edits. I think my first exposure to awk was grabbing data out of multiple reports into a summary table back in 1992 and it's been downhill ever since then.

Liberal U.S. mayors team up with European counterparts to fight authoritarianism
https://www.kpbs.org/news/politics/2026/05/20/liberal-u-s-mayors-team-up-with-european-counterparts-to-fight-authoritarianism?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@feleniet @nadia_z viele Gründe, u.a. weil die Scheu vor diesem Begriff ebenfalls Teil des Problems ist und weil neofaschistische Bewegungen eben mehr und anders sind als klassischer Rechtsextremismus.

@kopper i also want to kill all rdf and it's a good post

I’m getting really tired of AI magnifying all the worst aspects of humanity. It’s happening in every sector, and the examples are plentiful. This is why I’m becoming more anti-AI by the day. While I know there are people and organsations using the technology for amazing things, the net effect it has on us is negative as it enables far too many of us to display the worst parts of ourselves at an increasingly rapid rate.

Accentism for profit? What Telus is getting wrong about accents https://theconversation.com/accentism-for-profit-what-telus-is-getting-wrong-about-accents-282560

Remember, it's important to give your human exercise and enrichment activities so they will feel useful.

The beast slumbers #SilentSunday

Time to take care of the laundry 🧺

The agency tasked with securing American infrastructure left its AWS keys on GitHub with passwords in plaintext CSV.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa-admin-leaked-aws-govcloud-keys-on-github/

Nvidia’s Huang Spurs Asia Tech Rally With AI, Robots Hype
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-21/nvidia-s-huang-spurs-asia-tech-rally-with-ai-robots-hype?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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