The 27-Year-Old Diplomat Waging Trump’s #CultureWar With Europe
Five years out of college, Samuel Samson has driven the #Trump administration’s push to upend the #US’ postwar relationship with #Europe.
#kakistocracy #FarRight #extremism #geopolitics #USpol […]
“In 2025, book bans were not sparked by concerned parents, & they were not the result of local grassroots efforts,” Sarah Lamdan, exec dir of #ALA’s Office for #Intellectual #Freedom, said in a statement. “They were part of a well-funded, politically-driven campaign.”
Lamdan told AP that […]
Screenshot from Los Angeles Times LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Jill Connelly/AP) With added caption in orange on top NO KINGS
If the #NoKings protests were to be captured in 1 single image, I would pick this:
Dutch Court Orders X, Grok to Stop AI-generated Sexual Abuse Content
www.techpolicy.press/dutch-court-orders-x-gro...
Dutch court bans Grok's nudify tool and hits xAI with €100,000-a-day fines in Europe's first binding injunction against an AI […]
Kellogg's Ruin Breakfast again
youtube.com/shorts/iAPHr9N6Wfk
Seriously, corn flakes are good enough.
I had no idea this repository of AI incidents existed.
https://incidentdatabase.ai/
#ai
Snowy mountains as far as the eye can see
#alps #panorama in #winter - Photo taken in Jan 2020
📷: Panasonic DC-GH5, LUMIX G VARIO 12-35/F2.8 | 70mm | 1/1250s @ f5.6, ISO 100
📍: Ehrwald, #Austria 🇦🇹
When U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, he canceled a first-of-its-kind assessment of the health of nature. The researchers compiled it on their own and have released an 868-page draft for public comment and scientific review. Here's the @newyorktimes story about the Nature […]
Blue hour encroaching on the last bits of sunset. #portland #sunset #dronephotography #panorama #bluehour
Sunset over Portland Oregon facing the West Hills with clouds overhead
A screenshot of a post by Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) on a yellow background, using emoji to illustrate astronomical alignments. Three rows each show a sequence of Moon, Earth, and Sun emoji in different orders with labels: Row 1: Moon, Earth, Sun emoji — labeled "lunar eclipse" Row 2: Earth, Moon, Sun emoji — labeled "solar eclipse" Row 3: Earth, Sun, Moon emoji — labeled "apocalypse"
speaking of the #LunarEclipse -- an important reminder:
#astronomy #humor #AstroDon #Moon #Lunar #Eclipse
Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more
www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/26/h...
A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more […]
Not a war zone
A model in a silver flared puffy coat going down to the floor and wearing dark ski goggles looking like an alien and holding a large fake piece of ice that says “Bulgaria”
Athletes for each country being escorted into the stadium in Milan by a representative from the ice moon of Jupiter, Europa. #olympics
big fan of being nice to people. the world needs more joy and whimsy for its own sake. bad times happen and shape us in important ways but they shouldn't be our only mold
go compliment someone you see on the street. sing a song as you wash dishes. tell that person how their art (visual, music […]
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/115953739757966872
Thread from Portland, still being updated as of 13 minutes ago
#portland #Protest #protests #oregon #cascadia #CascadiaStrong
two frosty birch trees stand tall in the foreground of a young woodland, framing a mountain scottish highlands which rises up through the middle of the frame in the background. there are atmospheric clouds and sunrise pierces through the clouds. the top half of the mountain is bathed in pink glowing light.
Inversion Sunrise, Scottish Highlands (2024).
The recent cold snaps in the UK have made me think back to some excellent mornings a couple years ago in the Highlands where I explored a rewilding glen in inversion conditions. The glowing light and sub zero temperatures […]
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This EFF whitepaper makes a compelling case for comprehensive privacy legislation that bans behavioral advertising and limits data collection. One good privacy law would simultaneously help protect kids online, support local journalism, secure healthcare data, enable competition, and address AI […]
Live Coverage: West Virginia v. B.P.J. SCOTUS arguments
www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/live-c...
If you have seen this strange hashtag #forkiverse it’s a bunch of people joining a server run by some big podcasts. It seems to have gotten a lot of activity because they just featured it in a podcast episode. Here’s the link to the episode.
https://overcast.fm/+ABBVQRG2SL0
Master #Yoda? ‘The Smithfield Decretals’ (Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria), Toulouse ca. 1300, illuminations added in London ca. 1340. British Library, Royal 10 E IV, fol. 30v. #medieval #MedievalArt
Master #Yoda? ‘The Smithfield Decretals’ (Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria), Toulouse ca. 1300, illuminations added in London ca. 1340. British Library, Royal 10 E IV, fol. 30v.
#medieval #MedievalArt
chat with waymo support
current status of dinner - #waymo drove off with 3 bags of ingredients in the trunk before I could hit the open trunk button. Turns out they can’t drive car back, they can at best return car to depot so now driving across San Francisco to retrieve groceries […]
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If everyone received a truly equal share of the American pie, every person would receive approximately $471,465. That’s $942,930 per couple and $1.89 million for those with two kids.
That would be a life-changing windfall for a large majority of Americans […]
Bahahaha
RFK: Tylenol causes autism.
Tylenol: Do you have evidence? We can sue you.
RFK: Tylenol doesn't cause autism.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
TIL about Tolkien's best named character: tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Teleporno
Extra funny because even if you imagine he was innocent of pornography, he surely knew the Greek roots would indicate something like far-prostitute.
Jerome K Jerome, complaining about phones, in 1899
A smiling man in a turtleneck sweater sits in a recording studio surrounded by reel-to-reel tape machines, audio equipment, and hanging cables.
'Lo there, folks. Tonight's #ListeningClub pick from @AccordionBruce has arrived on the blog for your day's requirements. Grab what you need and hope to see you back here at 20:00 GMT for playback and seasonal "chocolate-flavoured" treats […]
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