From LA to Charlotte, organizers are learning from others’ strategies to protect residents amid federal crackdowns
This is how we keep our communities safe: “Before long, Indivisible Chicago had sent whistle kits in the mail to the New Orleans chapter, along with an explanation of how best to use them, and Indivisible NOLA set up a “know your rights” training that the Chicago Indivisible chapter helped lead remotely via Zoom.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/16/ice-immigration-raids-cities
When apps fail, when software breaks, you'll likely encounter a message constructed from a specific vocabulary: "Oops!" "Uh oh!" "Whoops!" Sometimes you'll get the full nursery treatment: an "Oopsie-daisy" with a sad cartoon robot making a pouty face. The language has become so ubiquitous that it...
It would be the next step in the degradation of culture to serve commercial ends
Netflix made a bold promise that streaming would be cheaper and better than what existed before. It broke that promise to cash in on its audience.
If it captures Warner Discovery, it would not just remake a major studio, but continue degrading culture by further commercializing it.
https://disconnect.blog/netflix-cant-be-allowed-to-buy-warner-discovery/
#tech #netflix #streaming #movies #film #wbd #warner #politics
Their work is far from over, but lack of development and progress is leaving me wanting.
I just wrote about Ghost, and how I think its #Fediverse integration is still lacking. I love the platform, but I want to see their embrace of the Social Web really succeed.
https://deadsuperhero.com/ghosts-activitypub-integration-feels-half-baked/
The EU's new proposal reduces tailpipe CO2 emissions by 90 percent versus 2021. The remaining 10 percent of emissions will have to be offset by sustainable biofuels or e-fuels and low-carbon green steel made in Europe.
Pans, glorious pans. No end-of-year roundup would be complete without them. Among the books being driven into the woods by pitchfork-wielding villagers this year: Louis C.K.’s masturbatory debut no…
How my independent website, Cybercultural, has fared during 2025 — a year when AI summaries whittled away search referral traffic and social media continued its war against hyperlinks.
How my independent website, Cybercultural, has fared during 2025 — a year when AI summaries whittled away search referral traffic and social media continued its war against hyperlinks. Also, I reflect on the state of the open web from a publishing pov, and the role of the fediverse within it. https://cybercultural.com/p/indie-web-report-2025/ #IndieWeb
At Toyota Research Institute (TRI), we’re on a mission to improve the quality of human life. We’re developing new tools and capabilities to amplify the human experience. To lead this ground-breaking shift in mobility, we’ve built a world-class team in Automated Driving, Energy & Materials, ...
My place of work, Toyota Research Institute, wants another engineer to help keep our robotics researchers sane and productive and safe; we have a very collaborative workplace and although we do a *ton* of machine learning work there is very little LLM-AI glurge and plenty of LLM-skeptical devs.
The job -- and the robots -- are located in Cambridge, MA, and it is hybrid remote/local in a fairly flexible way.
We have very modest formal qualification requirements, but expect to have to answer demanding software quality and robotics questions.
Details and idealistic vision and clickybox here: https://jobs.lever.co/tri/dad8e0e8-1718-47c2-afbe-6279ae5747a4
I thought about this when reading a mastodon post which commented on a news where a project adopted a "use Generative AI but disclose it" policy, because it is "the future" and "people are going to use it anyway".
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