“US immigration enforcement flights are producing hundreds of thousands of metric tonnes of climate-damaging carbon emissions as officials shuttle unprecedented numbers of people to detention centers far from home and deport them to countries across the world.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/26/one-in-five-people-arrested-over-2024-riots-have-since-been-reported-for-domestic-abuse I am jack's complete lack of surprise.

It seems to me that the logics of empire being tolerated and certain crappy softwares being tolerated are exactly the same. It's the convenience, and that convenience includes being a default you can pick without thinking. And maybe they fall the same way: empires becoming too extractive, not […]

Fun fact! steel and concrete together are 70-80% of everything humans make. They are so, because no material (or combo) is as good and cheap and energetically efficient and low emissions. We need to use them better, however. We need to recycle them better. And any alternative needs to explain […]

The invisible man had trans parents.

Some excellent commentary on the way that fossil fuel and right wing interests manufacture public doubt about renewables, electric transportation, etc… to the extent that the majority of people have no idea how far advanced the transition really is […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116635589107341435 Privacy Badger est utilisé par des millions de personnes dans le monde entier. Faites connaître cette extension pour navigateur destinée à détruire les cookies. https://eff.org/spring

Putin has in effect set out the claim that Russia cannot survive as a state if it cannot control Ukraine. What we might see in the next decade is self-fulfilling prophecy as the defining characteristic of Late Putinism.

More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report […] [Original post on faithcollapsing.com]

RE: https://todon.eu/@faab64/116635462855911397 Whenever something like this comes along I feel moved to put in a word for the wildlife. Humans can try and take shelter. Authorities can make cooled spaces for those most at risk. Eventually whole populations may have to migrate. But the birds […]

"six months after former FDA vaccine chief [and anti-testing, anti-mask, anti-vaccine hysteric] Dr. Vinay Prasad said, without releasing evidence, that the agency had identified at least 10 previously unreported child deaths tied to the vaccines" the agency quietly released a report that the […]

#trump admin shutting key #us researchers out of #global #virus response talks, documents & sources reveal Key officials responsible for leading US #research on #infectiousdisease threats have been #barred from speaking directly with the #worldhealthorganization [#who] — effectively shutting […]

#popeleo XIV made a historic #apology Monday for the role the Holy See played in #slavery & for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the #vatican’s record a “wound in Christian memory.” Past popes have apologized for Christians’ involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But […]

I must say, should this war between the US and Iran continue for a few more months, I won't be sad. The benefits will be bitcoin mining being unaffordable, AI being even more catastrophically in the red, massive moves towards renewables and general electrification, weakened US and Trump regime […]

The web, the nice one that is, blossomed because it was discoverable. links are great, but don't scale. directories, curated, are great, but don't scale. only search scaled. We need a good search, ideally run by open source folks. The algorithms, and general "secret sauce" are well […]

Nouveau Rogaton - 23/05/2026 - "La Patrouille des éléphants" À lire ici: https://www.bouletcorp.com/rogatons/2026/05/23 Ou sur Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYq-r7WDOQB/?img_index=1

"In its communique, host nation Japan said the "overwhelming majority" of parties "strongly supported" the measure, which could have led to strict controls on shipping and tourism activities, among other conservation efforts. But at a press conference, the chair of the meeting, Japan's Hideki […]

So, because it's topical once more, Starlink, despite the numbers, is not profitable, and won't ever be, except as a very expensive military/flight/marine connection service. We know that, because mysteriously, space X is losing staggering amounts of money subsidising starlink: satellites […]

## Let’s talk being able to talk when internet and cell phone service both go down This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot for the last year plus, and with the EFF coming out a number of days ago and strongly encouraging other people to think about it too, I thought it would be a good […]

“Confucius Gets Rekt By A Child,” a blatantly apocryphal anecdote but I do love glimpses into ancient childhood: Once, they say, while Confucius was traveling with his disciples, they came across some children building a big sand castle right in the middle […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Now this is some bullshit. Today: Don't have an "approved" phone? Too bad for you. Tomorrow: Don't have a Google account? Good bye. Another nail in the coffin of the Open Web. Those fuckers. https://thecodersblog.com/google-breaks-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users-2026/ […]

Gee, ya don’t say … #bluesky Says #kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread #propaganda The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real #users’ accounts to post fake #content, an apparently novel tactic. #medialiteracy #disinformation #misinformation #russia […]

"Britain increasingly faces a crisis of information where loud narratives overpower sober evidence The ONS figures show the decline has been driven largely by a 47% drop in people arriving from outside the EU for work-related reasons. Immigration is not spiralling upward; it is falling sharply […]

Good work from Khan here www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@schuler/116600659730573856 LLMs doing a speed run of the last 50 years of autonomous robotics research and development. We have hit the 1990s: "OMG subsumption / reactive systems can't accomplish sufficiently complex tasks on their own! Deliberative systems are too […]

Consistent humanism means opposing the genocide in Gaza, AND antisemitism. It means opposing the US/Israeli invasion of Iran AND the Iranian regime's murder of its own people. It means opposing the US/UK invasion of Iraq AND the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It means confronting violence everywhere.

Hey, friends at the Commission, need a little help maybe? Happy to put some thoughts together, you know, to help you ship this. www.euractiv.com/news/eus-tec...

Dans toute démocratie libérale, il y a toujours des gens plus riches qui ont plus de pouvoirs, notamment dans les médias, et qui utilisent ce pouvoir à des fins à la fois idéologiques et économiques. Mais il existe des seuils qualitatifs : Bouygues n'est pas Bolloré.

Bouygues était principalement intéressé par la construction d'un empire économique. Bolloré est prêt à acheter le cinéma français pour le casser. Même s'il perd un peu d'argent, cela lui donnerait du pouvoir en lui permettant d'être crédible dans ces menaces.

Il y a un monde bien pire que ce capitalisme marchand, plus ou moins bien régulé. Un monde où les puissants actionnaires cherchent non pas à maximiser leurs revenus via le marché, mais à façonner la société selon leur propre attente idéologique.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/15/russia-war-game-nato-invasion-baltics-ukraine-putin-germany-ernstfall/. "Deterrence depends not only on #military capabilities - which are lacking - but also on what the #enemy believes about your resolve. In the war game, my 'Russian' colleagues & I knew […]

the problem with the "growth" idea is not growth itself, it's the idea everything should grow. Some tools are done. And it's fine.

Bon, ce soir, pas très tôt : la suite et fin du livre I d'Hérodote. Brace yourselves, digressions are coming.

If you rely on a for-profit supplier, you should be required to carry the transaction costs to switch away from them as a form of debt in your books. Because the financing cost of this debt is what your supplier is eventually going to charge you. Allowing to hide this debt is creating some of […]

The dynamics of a leadership contest make it very likely that Rejoin will soon be Labour policy. Be interesting to see how Burnham handles this issue in the by-election.

Despite Americans believing racism is a recent invention, Juvenal, during the bloody Roman empire was being a racist writer at Nubians. People inventing new *pretexts* for their bigotry is pretty incidental. Either you respect people as people, or you don't. What story you tell about why is […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rpolenz/116580453876596578 The agencies already have access to all your social media anyway. This is not about immigration vetting. This is about suppression of critical speech, and impacting those minorities and subcultures with legitimate reasons for not posting […]

Public service announcement. it's HabeAs Corpus it's NurenbErg Thank you.

And remember, these are the 'good guys' of Big AI Anthropic’s AI Chatbot Is Leaning More on Russian and Iranian Propaganda Sources, NewsGuard Audit Finds - NewsGuard https://www.newsguardtech.com/special-reports/anthropic-ai-chatbot-claude-russia-iran-propaganda #ai #misonformation #claude […]

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/116572312108301494 after all, if we're going to have age verification, it can be put to good use...

Iran hijacked a merchant ship Latest report: Iran’s IRGC took control of a merchant ship about 38 nautical miles northeast of the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates and are now sailing it to the shores of Iran. #aurefreepress #News #straitofhormuz #wariniran #breakingnews

New from me, on the decision by the @ec.europa.eu to not extend the DMA interoperability requirements to social media, and how this closes off a pathway for mass adoption of open social networks. connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116567730336906833 In ihrer Antwort auf die von über einer Million Menschen unterschriebenen Petiton zum Verbot von Konversionstherapien verspricht die EU-Kommission: Sie werde 2027 eine nicht rechtsverbindliche Empfehlung an die […]

Google claim that their upcoming laptop is the "perfect partner to your Android phone" because you can "access files from your phone as if they live on your laptop" - but did you know that this is already possible, no special laptop model needed? KDE Connect is completely free and open source […]

Something that came up in a discussion amongst colleagues about LLMs. You cannot unhear/unsee. This makes using LLMs for inspiration a horrible idea, because they'll inevitably lock you in.

“It's making me dumber for sure,” the fintech software developer told me. “It's like when we got cellphones and stopped remembering phone numbers, but it's grown to me mentally outsourcing ‘thinking’ in general. I feel my critical thinking and ability to sit and reason about a problem or a […]

I had to code this one myself to convince myself it was real. The yellow and blue "busses" are moving smoothly at exactly the same speed. from https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/04/28/the-stepping-feet-illusion/

J'ai fait une enquête et montré que l'argument des économies permises par l'aide à mourir était fabriqué par un think tank contre la loi fin de vie. guillaumeallegre.substack.com/p/aide-a-mou... Donc je suis allé voir et j'ai cliqué sur le lien. Rien. Ces associations n'utilisent pas cet argument.