Minneapolis City Council rejects police drones.

(Narrowly, but I'll take the win.)

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/07/16/minneapolis-city-council-rejects-police-drone-contract-with-skydio

The debut feature by Son Myong A, a third-generation Zainichi filmmaker, is an intimate examination of a teenage girl grappling with her Korean cultural heritage in Tokyo. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/07/17/film/trophy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #japanesefilm #zainichi #sonmyonga #sohee #arataiura #northkorea #miwakoichikawa #ririka #chisun

This is one of the most chilling manipulative lie I have read in a while. And I have read a lot of chilling manipulative lies from that American administration:

“When the leftist protests that we are violating his rights, understand that he is lying to try to persuade people who are not closely following the political scene that some injustice has been perpetrated against him. We must stay the course and be completely unflinching in the pursuit of justice against these enemies of civilization.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/16/political-violence-event-trump-marco-rubio

#USpol #Fascism #Authoritarianism

I'm a yes.

A major new wildfire outbreak is now underway across interior Pacific Northwest, with dozens (or more) new wildfires already popping up in eastern Oregon & Washington following tens of thousands of lightning strikes in region experiencing moderate to extreme drought. #ORwx #WAwx

@TheLastOfHisName thank you, apparently heart issues can happen with her auto immune stuff so hopefully she can get some help 🙏

@whitequark The problem that everyone has but doesn't clearly see is: dependencies.

Most software used to depend on the standard library of a language (which was statically compiled into the binary, or provided as versioned linked libraries) and maybe a handful of very selectively chosen 3rd-party libraries.

But now in 2026 even the most trivial apps literally have hundreds or even thousands of dependencies.

This is wrong. :)

KITTY ODYSSEUS: SILENUS

#kitty_odysseus #comic #art #unix_surrealism #ish

@arstechnica
> HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs

Is this an "AI" summary? Per the linked article, most of the 1.4 billion rupees fine was to punish HP India for working ...

"... with five resellers to coordinate their bid prices for government contracts to increase the chances of an HP partner winning the contracts."

The fine that addressed "cartelization" specifically was 119.8 million rupees (about US$1.2 million).

(1/2)

#HP

@Guillotine_Jones

RE: https://mastodon.acm.org/@ACM/116929782094395296

to be honest I am kind of tired of having to be the one with well-researched, well-phrased, nuanced takes against AI. I am tired of having to think about ways to defend my own opinions against an onslaught of AI apologists when I could be spending mental energy thinking about literally anything else. if you aren't you might want to fill out that form but I am so very tired of AI-unless-proven-otherwise

Is your jaw clenched? Let it loosen.

@laprice you got plums!!!!! i'm so happy 4 u

Corporate police grunt idle WIP. The basic mook that tests your spacing.

#pixelart #gamedev

@cb_desu Sendai is far but I’d argue the Shinkansen being like 2 stops to Tokyo away makes it more accessible than Sapporo

Richters per kangaroo