The Senate went home. The House shut down the floor. Trump blew up reconciliation with a $1.776B slush fund for Jan. 6 insurrectionists. Russia's running nuclear drills. Iran's controlling the Strait. Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast at 8p ET/5p PT! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnMrwn8canU

The Senate went home. The House shut down the floor. Trump blew up reconciliation with a $1.776B slush fund for Jan. 6 insurrectionists. Russia's running nuclear drills. Iran's controlling the Strait. Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast at 8p ET/5p PT! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnMrwn8canU

For more than a decade, Stephen Colbert has been one of the top voices of late night — making us laugh and, even more importantly, reminding us who we are and what America stands for. Michelle and I enjoyed being Stephen’s guests — even when the games were rigged — and we’re grateful to call him a friend.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYnrpQAjW_F/

For more than a decade, Stephen Colbert has been one of the top voices of late night — making us laugh and, even more importantly, reminding us who we are and what America stands for. Michelle and I enjoyed being Stephen’s guests — even when the games were rigged — and we’re grateful to call him a friend.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYnrpQAjW_F/

Free drag queen name:

Hildegard von Bangin

Open social is very cool once you get the hang of it...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o32nq6gzd5denpjjws5zizyj/post/3mmfbad3cv72k

"US media keeps using the phrase 'heightened tensions with Cuba' to describe what is in reality unilateral US aggression, with illegal sanctions and threats of illegal invasion, against innocent people who repeatedly say they just want to be left alone."
- Jason Hickel
#Cuba #USA #Trump
https://x.com/jasonhickel/status/2057537557081018413

LOVE gamemaking and HATE technofascism? This is the event for you! Free with reg: https://luma.com/8nvmyatm
Featuring @cwebber @matthammill @rwg and more! #Toronto #digitalsovereignty #gamedev @torontogamesweek

I don't get the hype around "small AI".

If it is based on specific datasets, local, even deterministic - that sounds like a traditional algorithm to me.

Calling all tech "AI" is making it harder to talk about the harms of the large stochastic models.

Resisting "AI" does not mean to resist all tech. It means asking what kind of digital infrastructures we want - and rejecting vast extractivist data centres, stolen data and automated inequality while evading accountability as part of the answer.

@craftygardennz @BobLefridge I've had the same issue in the past - managed to get it out with some 'spudger' tools - thin strips of metal used to open up electronics like cellphone cases to service them. They cost a couple $ on Aliexpress, but that won't help you immediately. Once you get it open, spray a lot of CRC/WD40 on the spring loading mechanism and clean the silicon gasket (I got a few spares at the hardware store last time I was there - a couple $ each)...

congrats @grishka #Smithereen

(for everyone else, afaik it's a fediverse server application that is styled after old versions of VK)

Everything <waves hands madly> is making writing very hard.

But I'm reading a ton. Here are two fresh book reviews: A short one of a short book (the newest Murderbot) and a long one of a long book (Ada Palmer's Inventing the Renaissance).

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-fifteenth-book-of-2026-the-murderbot-diaries-platform-decay-by-martha-wells/

https://www.the-recliner.com/the-sixteenth-book-of-2026-inventing-the-renaissance-the-myth-of-a-golden-age-by-ada-palmer/

#books #bookreviews #reading

@imdavidpierce

But not seeing it from your

@davidpierce

.social account.

The "let me google that for you" site now redirects to a dot-app tld which either ships malware or looks an awful lot like something that ships malware, which isn't great on its face, but if you see it as a piece of guerrilla performance art it's right on time and right on target.

@personalescrito the psychopathic bullies of usa will never stop until there is a unified stand against their agenda of violence. So f*$%ing ironic that they use the facade of democracy to justify their endless session. usa fascist corporate state... if it mattered which party was in power Cubans would have had a chance at a better quality of life.
And if Usa had any decency they would sanction Israel uphold the ICC instead of fueling repression and genocide.