@cdarwin Trying to imagine what it would look like if the govt funding mechanisms for US healthcare and the US Military were switched. Funding for new weaponry and foreign regime change would have to be fed through an insurance broker's AI before being agreed, while funding for health and […]

Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it. In January, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will launch the "Wasteful and […]

so when we were in kindergarten and played the telephone game, we would deliberately change what was being passed and crack up when it got to the other end and was completely different than what we started with LLMs are like this but at scale

The Honduran AG announced Monday night that he had issued an international #arrestwarrant for the country’s former president, #JuanOrlandoHernández, who was recently pardoned by #trump & released from a federal #prison#JuanOrlandoHernándezin the #US. In a social media post, AG Johel Antonio Zelaya Alvarez said […]

"...why doesn’t (Tom Cotton) howl in protest at Donald Trump’s outrageous pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, convicted of flooding the US with hundreds of tons of cocaine?" […]

We ban ads from the #Fediverse because we have standards Elon bans ads from X because he is a little bitch against @EUCommission

My thoughts on social media bans everywhere is that if you're taking digital connections away from teens, you better make sure they have third spaces for physical connection, and give them options for transport that is not "parents drive us around" otherwise all you're creating is isolation. And […]

Painted Octopus! By Lumen Street Theatre in Limerick, Ireland. More clever here! - This Is Clever! (9 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2025/12/09/this-is-clever/

Elon Musk and X are once again proving why institutions should never rely on corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms to reach their people. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0589g0dqq7o

very unclear cuellar deserves any sort of credit. entirely possible trump did not specify that he wanted him to switch parties and cuellar assumed it would be enough to just cast a bunch of pro trump votes.

"These signs show Trump's end is imminent — and make him more dangerous than ever" by Robert Reich: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674378703/# #ReasonForHope #InterestingTimes #politics copy: @renewedresistance

I just signed the petition "Take Big Money Out of Our Politics" and wanted to ask if you could add your name too. This campaign means a lot to me and the more support we can get behind it, the better chance we have of succeeding. You can read more and sign the petition here […]

HEADS UP that the FCC comment period for Reflect Orbital first hideously bright, ecology-disrupting satellite will open probably in mid- to late-January. I'm gonna need EVERYBODY to write in for that one.

@davep I've been using gandi.net for 25 years. Zero bullshit. Based in France.

Does anyone know of a decent inexpensive European domain registrar (with email included for at least three accounts)? My current one is getting too expensive. Do your thing, Fedi hive mind! Boosts appreciated.

Democratic Rep #jasminecrockett launched a campaign Monday for the US #senate in #texas, bringing a national profile to a race that may be critical to #Democrats’ hopes of reclaiming a Senate majority in next year’s #midterms. Crockett, one of #Congress’ most outspoken Democrats & a frequent […]

Arresting freedom! At street art at 2nd Av - Houston St, F Line In New York! 🇺🇸 Artist Unknown

We just released Mastodon 4.5.3, 4.4.10 and 4.3.16 and 4.2.28. These versions contain various bug fixes, including a fix for a minor security issue. Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases #mastoadmin

@catbus.phd Great French Bake Off showstopper

I am brimming with holiday spirit

My cat hogs the space heater. #cats #catsofmastodon #torties

...and you're wasting even more of your life posting about your regrets at the Nazi bar. Still, they probably need to hear it most. Points for partial awakening. Hey, at least you made good money doing it, right? "I wasted 8 years of my life in crypto" "Over time however, I felt like I have […]

🎉 Some important #CrossBorderRail news! 🎉 After thinking about the idea for more than a decade (yeah, this is later than a DB train!) I am finally starting to plan building a railway organisation for lobbying work, and @patrick @partim & @redjives#CrossBorderRailare in from the start. We're sort of soft […]

When I heard the news this morning that Paramount was going to offer a hostile takeover bid for Warner/Discovery I immediately thought.... #theamericanfascist probably told them to... and sure enough: "Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery” They are just […]

Ollie is becoming a ball dog, which is good is so many ways #dogsofmastodon

The Hepatitis B Foundation warns new guidance could undo decades of progress https://www.npr.org/2025/12/07/nx-s1-5633344/the-hepatitis-b-foundation-warns-new-guidance-could-undo-decades-of-progress?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Happy Caturday to all who celebrate! Zaz is determined to lift my spirits and entertain me. She's doing a good job. Who wouldn't feel better watching her have fun? And did you catch that flash of toe beans? Such a coy madame. (And of course the whiskers...) Have […] [Original post on zeroes.ca]

John Mastodon sez: If the weather outside is frightful, then it's a good day to shitpost on the Fediverse.

my boys. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #husbandsofmastodon

New map update

@0xabad1dea Zuck has always been an idiot who got lucky once stealing someone else's work.

someone on discord was unaware that there even *was* a released version of the facebook metaverse that you *could* try, which about sums that up 😂

Zuckerberg has blown 77 billion – enough money to revitalize entire countries – on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so […]

#doppelmoral #autokratie #demokratie #EatTheRich #politikabsurd #kasparov #Trumpismus #Kasparov #logikdesmachterhalts #RealitätVsPropaganda #politikalsfarce

"The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

#silentsunday #photography Turkeys escape Thanksgiving

As a queer person, I sometimes think about cis straight people I know back home (Singapore) who truly think I had no reason to leave home. Even though my country doesn't recognize my marriage, even though there are no immigration benefits that accrue to my foreign same sex spouse, even though […]

funny how it's called hoarding unless you make money off of it then it's investing.

36 years ago today, I lived in Calgary. My daughter was 2, with every bit of potential to do whatever she wanted with her life. My partner was a woman working in a non-traditional job -- one which occasionally found her pissing off some misogynist wingnut […] [Original post on thecanadian.social]

As a result of damage caused by Russian drone strikes, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors found that the protective shield covering the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, built over the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, had lost its "primary safety functions including the […]

Michael Leavitt, 35, echoed the WH’s allegation that she had never lived with her son, in texts w/WaPo. But in court records he filed in NH in 2015, he wrote that they shared a home & listed them at the same address. Ferreira also mentioned their shared condo in a 2014 newspaper article after […]

@Lazarou 🇪🇺 They Hate Us For Our Freedom 🇪🇺

America criticising any other country or supra-national entity right now....you elected a paedophile grifter to be your king.. ...shut the hell up and sit down. #uspol #uspolitics #eupol #elonmusk

Ferreira’s legal status had long been a point of contention in her relationship with Michael Leavitt. After they broke up, Ferreira said in court records that Michael Leavitt had in the past threatened to try to get her deported. In the texts, Michael Leavitt denied seeking to have Ferreira […]

X being fined by the EU is not a free speech issue. It is a security issue. Musk’s opposition to regulation is driven by the fact that he is backed by authoritarian regimes and is protecting their influence ops, which erode our democratic discourse.

Apparently Google didn't like my addition called Kirov's Grill Bar (KGB) on the russian "church" (read spystation) outside my home town that was built next to an Airbase.

https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/zero-click-agentic-browser-attack-can.html AI is magic! Hrmmm…

Ferreira says he & his father, Bob Leavitt, have in recent weeks told her sister that Ferreira should “self deport,” & try to return legally, a move her lawyers say would be disastrous: Under federal law, Ferreira would be barred from coming back to the #us for a decade. Bob Leavitt did not […]

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