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While Musk is trying to kill entire government agencies by tweet, Samantha Power walks into The Late Show and explains why USAID is the agency that keeps the world safe and free from disease.
Everything Elon is trying to hide because he wants to free up money for his own tax cuts, Samantha Power lays out beautifully right here:
Stephen welcomes the former Administrator of USAID, Samantha Power, back to The Late Show to explain what the agency does and why the world, including the Un...
A step every American should take—and its costs nothing but 30 seconds of your time. To demand accountability of Musk, use this template and email the U.S. Treasury Department today. Email to privacy@treasury.govwith the following Subject Lineand full email. Sign your name at the bottom, and forward this to everyone you know to do the same. lets-address-this-with-qasim-r…
Take 30 seconds to demand the Treasury Department comply with the Privacy Act of 1974, and spread the word
After “How do we stop Trump?” the second most common question I’ve received this week is “How do we stop Musk?” As you may know, Trump’s Treas…
Interview: I Was Fired by Trump in his Anti-DEI Purge, Gutting of Agencies
Karla Gilbride from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was fired by Trump along with two commissioners at the federal agency that enforces civil rights law in the workplace.
The EEOC was created as part of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and is tasked with investigating discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sex & other characteristics.
We speak with Karla Gilbride, the former general counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, who was fired by President Trump in late January along with two commissioners at the federal agency that enforces civil rights law in the wo…
Folks, this is a five alarm fire.Congress must stop Trump and Elon's coup.Call your rep now (202) 224-3121This isn't just a battle for checks and balances.It...
Breaking News: 14 state Attorneys General representing California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise that Trump's executive order telling hospitals to stop providing care to those under the age of 19 is unlawful.
I've been out of the loop but what happened to Graphite optimizations within GCC? gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Graphite I haven't heard news on it in literal years. The only thing I can find is that graphite developers moved on to polly.llvm.org/ in llvm...
basically Google’s Gemini was a front and the real reason they need those new supercomputer datacenters is tripling Chromium build times in 2025-2026 with fat cross-language LTO, CFI, Rust, and polly. /j
@adingbatponder I use uBlock Origin for that. Even kills the cookie consent in 90% of the cases. Not on some Heise pages, but there the Zapper helps to just remove the overlays… Or leave them up, and simply switch to "Reader mode" – just tested, works fine on that page.
Could I just attach @delta to my existing Postfix+Dovecot server and get the same features as the chatmail servers (aside from push notifications, I guess)? #Deltachat
What are chatmail servers and how to select one? Chatmail servers are optimized for messaging with Delta Chat to provide a privacy-preserving and speedy user experience, securely interoperable with...
You can just use @delta with your existing Postfix+Dovecot server by clicking "Create new profile" -> "Use other server" -> "Classic E-Mail login" and logging into your server there.
There are not that many features offered by chatmail on top of Postfix+Dovecot: - Patch removing half a second delay from Dovecot: github.com/dovecot/core/pull/2… - Strict DKIM signature checking - The ability to create an account via QR code - Filter to prevent sending unencrypted messages - push notifications
This commit removes hardcoded 500 ms debounce
from storage that delays all storage notification subscribers such as IDLE and NOTIFY commands.
500 ms debounce constant NOTIFY_DELAY_MSECS
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Chef Michael Solomonov shows Seth how to make slow-roasted short ribs and challah bread from his book Zahav Home.Late Night with Seth Meyers. Stream now on P...
TIL about the Model Context Protocol, a standard for exposing tools/resources/prompts to LLMs used via desktops/other clients. Intriguing. I've been wondering how old-style Mycroft/Alexa-style skill development would work in the age of LLMs and I'm guessing this is it.
Currently trying to use Goose, a CLI developer agent, to build a Joplin MCP server that exposes notes/tags/resources to models. Since context is apparently everything with these, I'm wondering if I can eventually spec out a project in Joplin and have an LLM help implement some features, and/or have the LLM update that spec as things change, including potentially creating/toggling todo items and such. Seems to be off to an OK start.
Maybe I'll finally build that GTFS interface/skill I've been thinking about for years. Would love the ability to chat with transit schedule data, including real-time updates, right from my desktop or Home Assistant satellite. modelcontextprotocol.io/introd…
Amazon today sent out invites for an AI-focused event that will be held on February 26, and according to Reuters, the company plans to introduce its...
I also remember text to speech being super cool back in the MacOS 8 days.
I am not convinced we've really advanced that far contrary to what some want to say.
And we have definitely pitched the whole "Apple is about the Creative People" out the window in favour of "Image Creation Tools -- based on the unpaid work of millions -- are here.”
You can turn Apple Intelligence off on macOS in the new “Apple Intelligence & Siri” area of System Settings.
See my previous boost on creating a “mismatch" Siri voice that effectively disables AI across all your connected Apple iCloud devices. #AI #AppleIntelligence #mac #Apple #macos15sequoia
I would also like to say to Apple. You've had Siri for how many years? You've added many variations to your English speakers. But no Canadian variations.
Perhaps it's just the moment we're in, but I'd like to see a Canadian Western, Canadian Eastern, Canadian Maritime, and Newfoundland Option for Siri.
This is wild. In the updated Mac User Guide when you click on "learn more" in the Apple Intelligence area of the Settings it says:
"Turn Apple Intelligence on: With macOS 15.3 or later, Apple Intelligence is on by default and integrated across features in your apps. "
then a few lines later…
"Note: Apple Intelligence is currently in beta. Apple Intelligence uses generative models, and outputs may be inaccurate, unexpected, or offensive. Check important information for accuracy."
@rommix0 ahahaaha that part always confused me with their naming (and when I first started using them, as people at HR would just be like, "log into Workday." and I would think, "huh, I'm already logged in, my workday started." xD)
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Another stunning statistic: Google and Apple’s income from app store fees on games is likely higher than all game publishers’ combined income, both mobile and non-mobile.
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After 24-hour hackathon, Hugging Face’s AI research agent nearly matches OpenAI’s solution Open source "Deep Research" project proves that agent frameworks boost AI model capability. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/02/aft…
Colorado’s high egg prices are blamed on bird flu, but there’s more to the story (Hint: out-of-state supplied eggs) | Colorado Sun coloradosun.com/2025/02/05/col…
Egg farms are still recovering from the 2022 outbreak but now there’s also the cage-free law, mutations and competition as bird flu devastates other states.
The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA | Quantum Magazine "...ChatGPT was trained on large volumes of written English text, from which the algorithm learned patterns that let it read and write original sentences. Similarly, Evo was trained on large volumes of DNA — 300 billion base pairs from 2.7 million bacterial, archaeal and viral genomes — to glean functional information from stretches of DNA that a user inputs as prompts. ..." quantamagazine.org/the-poetry-…
@RaccoonForFriendica version 0.4.1-beta10 has been released and is available for testing in the Play store (or in Obtainium if you prefer installing directly from GitHub)!
Apart from the usual localization and dependency updates, this version contains several improvements for embedded images and, if you are using Friendica, you will also be able to insert embedded images within your post body (as opposed to regular attachments). This can benefit those who want to create larger posts with several illustrations.
Let me know what you think about it and, as always, #livefasteattrash
@Piero Bosio thanks for the feedback! Let me see if I understand your idea correctly: do you mean to add more options (e.g. "add image", "embed image", "add link", etc.) in the drop-down menu shown in the post creation page?
Сегодня мы с вами наблюдаем рождение и становление Всероссийской политической партии «АЧТОТАКОВА?!». Это партия хоть и относительно молодая, но достаточно опасная. Когда всё закончится и начнётся что-то новое, представители этой фракции попробуют затянуть нас обратно. Их будет много, и они будут убедительны — в их программе уютные компромиссы, селективное зрение, с ними комфортно и спокойно, ведь найдётся оправдание всему, и никто ни за что не осудит.
Ну, предлагает тебе много-много денег олигарх за долю в СМИ — возьми, он же человек, по сути, приличный, да и материал разместить просит редко и по делу. Или государственный контрактик без конкурса дают — ты бери, ничего страшного. Ты же хорошо сделаешь? Хорошо! А другие бы хуже сделали в любом случае. Да и с выборами то же самое: «Чуть-чуть подрисуем тут, — скажут они, — а то победит какой-то неогиркинец или коммунист», — и укутают тебя в тёплый пледик, нальют чайку, приговаривая: «Все так делают, а что такого?»
Путинские реваншисты будут разные: одни обвешаются георгиевскими лентами и Z-атрибутикой, а другие будут как раз из этой партии «АЧТОТАКОВА?!». Но цель у них будет одна — вернуть, как было (только без войны! Вот как в 2018-м на чемпионате, помните? Или в Парке Горького в 2013-м! Да и как в 2021-м тоже сойдёт, чего уж!).
Если нам когда-то посчастливится увидеть свободную Россию, давайте никогда не забывать, какой ценой эта свобода получена. И никогда её больше не упускать, засмотревшись, пусть и на очень привлекательную сделку с совестью.
I've been loving @404mediaco lately, but this was such a good read that I just paid for a yearly subscription.
“For most people, social media gives you this sense that unless you care about everything, you care about nothing. You must try to swallow the world while it’s on fire,” said Cross. “But we didn’t evolve to be able to absorb this much info. It makes you devalue the work you can do in your community.”
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
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Totally agree with this…can we just stop with the wall-to-wall toots about politics, ex-Twitter, etc. Let’s instead build the social web (and world) we want to live in.
“We don’t need any more irony-poisoned hot takes or cathartic, irreverent snark. We need to collectively decide what kind of world we actually do want, and what we’re willing to do to achieve it.”
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
#Deltachat
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