‘Literally Gender Affirming Care’: Hegseth Mocked for Plan to Offer US Soldiers Testosterone | Common Dreams https://www.commondreams.org/news/hegseth-testosterone-injection-plan

Hey, New Yorkers: Mayor Mamdani is recreating the city's digital service, after Mayor Adams destroyed it. They're hiring devs, designers, and product folks to work on-site in Brooklyn, starting now. You don't even have to be a city resident. Get on it! https://www.nyc.gov/content/pitcrew/pages/ […]

Read/listen all about how a "land value tax" can discourage land speculation & encourage dense building on the highest value land, ie, land near urban cores. www.volts.wtf/p/want-less-...

Surveillance monger Flock doesn't just mislead people when it's pushing communities to install its invasive cameras and software. In many cases, the ACLU explains, it lies through its corporate teeth even to city governments […]

Stop going to parties in CA where the people there think they are at the center of tech innovation. The distortion field is like radiation and it gives you buzzword cancer.

As seen on the Interwebs: "Internet2's Platforms & Automation team has a position that's opened up, the role will likely focus on Cisco NSO or WFO work. If you don't know much about Internet2, we're a US-based 501c3 that runs a high speed network for the Research & Education community in the US […]

In better news, John Oliver's three-day stint/stunt as a corporate villain on legendary soap opera "General Hospital" appears to be going... fucking brilliantly?? I have watched this clip on a loop for like 20 mins I really, truly need to see the full episodes NOW

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☀️ We don't need to pave over forests or farmland to scale solar. Some of the best real estate is surfaces we've already built. Parking lot canopies: shade cars, cut urban heat, power EV chargers. One study found Walmart could fit 11 GW of solar just over its Supercenter lots […]

The problem with being xenophobic when you are an American is you have essentially decided to give yourself an autoimmune disease. Those are really nasty. Often deadly. "America 250" was meant to be a bit like the Chicago World's Fair... but the US is feeling too racist right now, so... can we […]

Oh just one other final thing: Rapidly decarbonizing electricity supply while simultaneously electrifying end uses -- ie, "electrify everything" -- makes *everything* better. It makes every problem, including cooling, easier to solve. Everyone should agree on & prioritize it. Everyone!

I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.

Pope Leo wants you to write: “Dear writers, we need your imagination, your narrative creativity and your lively thinking. We need these to create spaces of freedom and authenticity, within which divine grace can make the promise of consolation and peace resound.” (www.vatican.va/content/leo-...)

One thing I always come back to is that reactionary politics (nationalism, racism, patriarchy, hierarchical thinking) & liberal universalism really are fundamentally incompatible. And every democracy basically contains two nations, adherents to the former & adherents to the latter, and ...

The contamination and pollution from the fire in Boyle Heights is much, much worse than Los Angeles political leaders are admitting to. This is a huge scandal. So many people are getting genuinely sick.

I assume that @pluralistic has seen this, but if not: Here's THE NIB's take on "Ludditism." It's damn good. https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

One implication of this is that, if you think there's some secret room behind the room, where the *real* experts gather, drop the kayfabe, and discuss the world as it truly is ... I'm sorry. There is no such thing. The idiocy & delusions you see in public go all the way to the top.

🔔 From @juddlegum.bsky.social: “No, Trump's $1.776 billion slush fund isn't 'dead' — Without a written reversal, Blanche could simply say that the DOJ’s position has changed and the fund will move forward.” popular.info/p/no-trumps-...

Also anyone with any actual experience managing a newsroom knows that if you have real reporters in your bullpen they will confront you with real questions about your intentions. If you can’t handle it, you have no business managing a newsroom.

I don't want anyone to have a kitchen filled with argentine ants. But they are probably there for fresh water, shelter and food. You can kill them with bait (maybe) but if you don't eliminate the things that attract them they will be back. And you and your family, pets and all the creatures you […]

Also, TIL that in the GitHub Customer Agreement there is a provision [§6.3(b)] for the *customer* to defend GitHub in some cases of legal liability lol, lmao

New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Immigrants held in Camp East Montana in Texas have filed a class action against DHS alleging violations of their Fifth Amendment rights and the Administrative Procedure Act. Their complaint makes clear that the Trump regime, particularly DHS, now headed by Markwayne Mullin, is intentionally […]

Today on Volts: It has rapidly become conventional wisdom that Biden's industrial policy was weighed down by labor-quality standards. Betony Jones developed those standards for DOE & has since surveyed companies who received federal money about whether they slowed things down. Turns out they didn't!

From the article in the LB: "In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike […]

I just finished reading an interesting article in #QuantaMagazine about recent research on bird eyes. Unlike our inferior mammal eyes, bird eyes lack the network of blood vessels covering the retina. When an optometrist shines a bright light in our eyes, we see a network of blood vessels that […]

For more on post-consumer plastic recycling, I recommend this great ProPublica investigation into a particular type of utterly fictional plastic recycling, and a detailed explanation of why the "X% recycled plastic" labels on products is bullshit.

Prosecutorial misconduct is nearly the norm, it almost always goes undetected and un-investigated because most defendants lack the money to expose it. I believe the presumption of regularity has never been warranted, and I think they're all a bit crooked, and that's what makes the system "work".

“[Francesca Hong is] deliberate. She’s thoughtful. She demonstrates a nuanced understanding of the issues facing Wisconsin” » People need to “feel material conditions changing in their lives within the first two years of us governing” “I want policies that I prioritize to be working towards […]

New @Vivaldi for your computer! This time a lot of focus is on the design. At the same time we make it easier for you to see how flexible Vivaldi can be with layouts. Let me know what you think! Still the only browser with a Mastodon Instance and a built in Mastodon (Vivaldi Social) panel! […]

We are going to need a wholesale reconstruction of the U.S. federal government if we are ever to restore anything like rule of law and pluralistic democracy in the U.S. I know I have said this before, but it bears reporting. If Democrats gain control of one or even both houses in the midterms […]

The Trump $1.776 billion slush fund is not mere corruption. Trump is giving his brownshirts money for recruiting, logistics, AR-15's and tactical gear. Nobody in the national media seems to be talking about this, or about how the Paycheck Protection Program played a central role in funding Jan 6

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@ekuber/116585853572401757 One of the virtues of big open source projects is that little happens behind closed doors. However, since 99% of what they discuss just isn’t interesting to downstream end users, they forget that downstream end users *can* read this stuff and […]

One of the most terrifying images in history: Gaza transformed from life into death. Gaza in 2023 and 2026 💔

Woman gets hantavirus, told by doctors it's probably anxiety https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/11/french-womandoctors-hantavirus-symptoms-hv-hondius

I think the ultimately disconcerting thing about our modern era is that on one feed you’re exposed to a raw sewage line of Nazi propaganda, and then on the next you’re force-funneled late stage capitalist drek, and on the third it’s a mix of legitimate socialists and Russian psyops, and wtf man

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

When you were a kid did you ever go to a science museum with a hand-crank generator and a buncha lightbulbs? So how this works is you'd spin the crank and it'd rotate pretty freely y'know, you could feel magnets kinda resisting you a little bit but you'd take your hand off the crank and it'd […]

“The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.” And it’s not a bad thing. https://terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet

The idea that I could just go and build stuff like it’s 1999 again and I am in my early Unix admin days again kind of blows my mind a little bit but also seems completely obvious — like, of course you can go build it like you always did; when did that ever stop being possible?

Either Republicans are intentionally and maliciously trying to increase cancer rates and mortality rates, or they are dipshits on such a level as to approximate malicious intent. Maliciously murderous? Murderously ignorant? Answer: who gives a shit.

This robot installs 80 panels/hour. One every 45 sec. 1,920/day ≈ 0.0008 GW/day per line. Sounds small. It’s not. Scale this across thousands of lines and #solar becomes manufacturing, not construction. 👉 10,000 lines = 8 GW/day. That’s HOW China is winning the energy game.

iOS 7 effectively wiped out iPad app development. For years after that release, developers were hands-full redesigning for flat design and then flexible layouts. Custom iPad app designs fell by the wayside, and eventually all the unique apps on the platform were replaced with scaled phone apps […]

To give context for how intimately slavery is still woven in with the current day, her father was enslaved at birth on Joel Roberts Poinsett's plantation near Charleston, SC. Joel Poinsett was the first US minister to Mexico and a botanist. The poinsettia is named after him. He is also my ancestor.

the depressing story is that even when the Japanese shared insights, the US ignored them for over a decade. Head in the sand. www.thisamericanlife.org/561/nummi-2015

@futurebird the "bit of arbitrary-length text that turns into an integer ID" sort that allow the model's guts to work with convenient mathematical primitives, but still get back to text in the end. Any body of text is a sequence of some number of tokens. In […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

"You hear theyre using chickens as camera gimbals now?" "What?" "Chickens. Strap a camera onto their head. No shake. Chicken camera gimbals"

I translated a Chinese comic that I thought certain factions of Mastodon would enjoy. Original art and text by user hands2 on wechat #furry #webcomic #chinese

Presenting Fedora Linux 44! This release brings @gnome 50, @kde Plasma 6.6, tweaks to the Anaconda installer, and more! Thank you to all of the contributors for another successful release. We hope you enjoy it! ➡️ https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-44/ #fedora #linux […]