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• Post #4233610

  Stating it simply: Substack writers, you need a website! Also: Instagrammers, TikTokers and YouTubers, you also need a website. https://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/10/substack-writers-you-need-a-website/

• Post #4108272

  It pisses me off that “open weights” are conflated with open source. There’s nothing open about a multi-gigabyte binary the building blocks of which are kept secret. Downloadable but opaque binaries are not open source - and Microsoft knows this full well. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/topics/open-weight/

• Post #4057495

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/116962048294264583 Two things are clear: 1. Ukraine is consistent about their position that Wildberries is a military supplier and is treated as such. 2. Those logistics centers don’t have adequate fire suppression even for civilian facilities standard.

• Post #4031157

  It seems to me that France did not ban social media from teens, rather than give commercial social media the opportunity to mandate collection of digital identity for every French person. Meta will be thrilled to get at this data - likely X, TikTok, Snap and Google, too. https://www.france24.com/en/french-parliament-backs-social-media-ban-for-under-15s-in-eu-first

• Post #4011873

  Two years for Zalushnyi, who was blamed for the failed 2023 counteroffensive and clashed with Zelenskyi on military recruitment and use of media. Two and a half for Syrskyi, who would have continued if not for Zelenskyi’s ill-judged dismissal of Fedorov leading to public escalation. Two years for Drapatyi? If he’s successful, he will become too popular. If he’s not, the war will grind on. #Ukraine #foreignperspective

• Post #4009959

  This Is Fine(tm) https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/five-us-tech-giants-hidden-debts-soar-to-1.65tn-on-opaque-ai-funding

• Post #3904541

  RE: https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/116937776340521574 You know, there can be laws against this kind of stuff. Like, the European GDPR exists exactly to ban non-consented collection of personal data. Contrary to popular belief, it's not a law about installing cookie banners on websites.

• Post #3851659

  Data centers >50MW placed on hold for at least a year in New York. 50MW is a _lot_ of power for anything but large scale LLM compute. https://www.reuters.com/world/new-york-becomes-first-state-impose-data-center-moratorium-2026-07-14/

• Post #3837197

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@bkastl/116702515898083374 Don't forget that SpaceX was profitable with the Falcon 9 launches until they started the boondoggle of building "the world's largest reusable rocket", before Elon force-merged xAI and Twitter to SpaceX. Just the launch business was a fine business. Starlink is somewhat dubious given the satellite replacement cost never mind the ethics of losing view into the stars, but that was still on the fence. This SpaceX, though? St...

• Post #3831124

  I'm just gonna put this out here again: changing #Bridgy Fed opt-in policy would increase its ability to bridge people over, without hurting anyone's privacy. 1. If you reply or react to a post from the other network, a stub profile should be created with that action shared. 1/4

• Post #3786910

  For those of us with a professional interest to know what actually happens when you deploy an LLM system in either development or production of a software system. https://systima.ai/blog/claude-code-vs-opencode-token-overhead

• Post #3779066

  This BYD sodium-ion battery is able to substitute an EPR nuclear reactor's entire power for over 6 continuous hours - and while nuclear is also dispatchable to a degree, a battery is infinitely more so. Oh, and it apparently will be available for less than a thousandth of the cost of an EPR nuclear power station. Sure, you gotta build the solar and wind farms too. https://electrek.co/2026/07/10/byd-masdar-11-gwh-rtc-storage-abu-dhabi/

• Post #3754674

  Nordstream is a "mystery", in that the people who are most in the position to clear what happened, are the least interested in publicly discussing it. So convenient explanations get all the air time. @anderspuck@mastodon.social asks some of the less convenient questions. https://muku.dk/w/rhFeixKjy3HyV98yBNegZE

• Post #3711683

  What happened to scaling up Aster-30 and SAMP/T production? It's supposed to be capable of the same anti-ballistic interception as Patriot. https://kyivindependent.com/anti-ballistic-coalition-to-meet-in-france-to-support-ukraines-homegrown-freya-air-defense-project/

• Post #3710529

  ChatControl isn't required to police what X posts in public. EU could regulate this. They pretend to care. And nothing happens. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/lawsuit-grok-user-made-7k-child-sex-images-xai-only-reported-one-gang-rape-prompt/

• Post #3691296

  RE: https://social.coop/@ZaneSelvans/116887530869163608 I often say that ultra-endurance cycling is the craziest sport on the planet. But I'm wrong - ultra-endurance rowing takes the cake. Props to Kelsey Pfendler for being the fastest human to row halfway across the Pacific.

• Post #3666206

  RE: https://eupolicy.social/@johnnyryan/116879658215133779 There is no coincidence in ChatControl being back on EU Parliament agenda today. It's Ireland in chair of Council of EU and Roberta Metsola in chair of Parliament colluding for US Big Tech, against Europeans, utterly indifferent to children welfare.

• Post #3652983

  Usernames are coming to WhatsApp, so I reserved one for myself.

• Post #3647841

  These onboard views from inside the peloton are incredible. This is from yesterday's stage over the Pyrenees. https://youtu.be/k0C8LczxPFk #TDF2026

• Post #3627344

  Was there ANYONE in the world who could not predict that conducting a sports tournament in Trumpistan wouldn't result in blatant favoritism and nonstop grift? What do you think will happen in LA2028?

• Post #3609501

  USA used to believe that private enterprise is a religion and the State owning any piece of a business is Communism. They also still claim to fight Communism, a system which died a deserved death decades ago. But now USA owns a growing share of American business. https://moeonmargin.substack.com/p/the-us-government-is-now-a-shareholder

• Post #3582186

  RE: https://akademienl.social/@Frederik_Borgesius/116855324003106571 Regulators could focus on actual CSAM distribution for profit and shut these companies down, but no, they want to instead make us upload our passport photos to data aggregators and give up on private communications.

• Post #3575985

  - ajoi päihtyneenä taksiksi rekisteröityä ajoneuvoa - ilmeisesti ylinopeutta - törmäsi kahteen ihmiseen tappaen heidät - pakeni turmapaikalta ja pidätettiin kilometrien päässä - poliisin mukaan riski, että kuljettaja jatkaisi rikollista toimintaa, on pieni Jos haluat tappaa ihmisen, tee se käyttäen autoa. https://www.hs.fi/helsinki/art-2000012118561.html

• Post #3511664

  What's this "window of opportunity"? Sure, Ukraine is putting russia on the defensive, but just as much of the country and its population are living under occupation, just as many are serving on the frontline. How could a free election be held this autumn, when it could not have been held before this autumn? https://www.kyivpost.com/post/79353 #Ukraine

• Post #3476216

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@EuromaidanPress/116834492963412793 Are those VLS launch tubes on the bow deck?

• Post #3413784

  Eijumalauta, miksi tämä vakoilualoite ei kuole? ChatControlia työnnetään taas eteenpäin. Suomen hallitus ja puolet MEPeistä tukevat lasten tietosuojan heikentämistä se sijaan, että some-jättiläisiä laitettaisiin vastuuseen toiminnastaan. https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ #ChatControl

• Post #2867008

  There's too little cycling on fedi: hardly any useful way to follow #giro2026 #giro

• Post #2867007

  Four years ago, the elected, exiled officials of Mariupol estimated that 22,000 civilians had been killed in the city's occupation so far. It'll be way worse now. https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/834794.html

• Post #2867006

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@mysk/116631753412706618 This is not a proof Meta does share WhatsApp message content to Facebook and Instagram. But they could. Do you trust Meta?

• Post #2867005

  UN Beyond GDP expert group published a paper proposing 31(!) indicators to replace GDP. My take: way too complex, GDP is used because it is one metric, not 31. That said, at least half of these are something else than a population (edit) mean (average) metrics. https://unctad.org/publication/counting-what-counts-compass-progress-people-and-planet