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♻️ zynaesthesie: Die sächsische CDU verbietet jetzt Elbkreuzfahrten.

Die Schiffe könnten gendern
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Katharine Jarmul published a series of articles on

A Deep Dive into Memorization in Deep Learning

Want to learn more about how, when and why machine learning, particularly deep learning systems memorize data? By studying memorization, you'll learn more about how machine… https://23.social/@thoma…
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
♻️ dw_innovation: Pouring cold water on the cloud and AI revolution.

Navi Mumbai is emerging as a hub for India’s booming AI and data center industry – but at a cost. Residents face growing water shortages as massive server farms consume millions of liters of potable water… https://mastodon.social/…
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
♻️ carnage4life: OpenAI’s CFO backtracking on saying the government should bail them out by guaranteeing loans for the $1.4T in spend they’ve committed has only increased industry-wide skepticism that they can come up with the money.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/tech/openai-backtracks-government-…
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
♻️ heidilifeldman: Tough to read but important reporting on the everyday, bureaucratic Trump deportation machine. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/11/mass-deportation-immigration/684871/?gift=UDCAY75CzHyGUPSsXwkpWv6mvMeoNr8aKfvBdHgGgpE
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
♻️ ricci: While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
♻️ leyrer: I'm Sure There's Nothing to Worry About Now That Mortgage-Backed Securities Are Driving #AI
https://gizmodo.com/im-sure-theres-nothing-to-worry-about-now-that-mortgage-backed-securities-are-driving-ai-2000683409
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
♻️ isotopp: I Want You to Understand Chicago

This is hard to read, because this is 1933 all over again. It is no longer a question if the US are sliding into fascism or have already arrived. They went full Nazi.

https://aphyr.com/post…

https://archive.is/X33…

This is also… https://infosec.exchan…
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
♻️ bkastl: In der heutigen #Degitalisierung wird es tierisch.
Irgendwie geht es um Herdentiere, Stampede, Gamification, KI und Widerstand.

Vor allem aber geht es um bessere tierische Vorbilder: den Esel. 🫏

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/degitalisierung-sei-ein-esel/
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
♻️ BlumeEvolution: Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️?

Heute #onthisday vor zwei Jahren hielt ich im #LandtagBW die bisher wichtigste Rede meines Lebens. 100 Jahre nach dem ersten Putschversuch durch #Hitler & 85 Jahre nach der #Reichspogromnacht, vier Wochen nach dem… https://sueden.social/@BlumeEvolu…
November 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM
♻️ Sanderde: @gerrymcgovern

Data centres are like oil pipelines. They provide temporary upfront jobs for construction, require few jobs to operate, and accelerate the impacts of climate change.
November 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
♻️ remixtures: ""With the exception of Nvidia, which is selling shovels in a gold rush, most generative AI companies are both wildly overvalued and wildly overhyped," Gary Marcus, Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University, told DW. "My guess… https://tldr.nettime.org…
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♻️ thecontinent: All Protocol Observed

Welcome to Issue 219 of The Continent

Protests, an internet blackout, and deadly force marked Tanzania’s Election Day. Once online again, 37 readers shared what they witnessed.

Read their stories: https://bit.ly/219_TC
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
♻️ roofjoke: Gestern habe ich noch über die Gerüchte geschrieben, heute veröffentlichen wir die Dokumente, die belegen: Die EU-Kommission plant einen Frontalangriff auf den Datenschutz.

Zu ihren Ideen für den #digitalOmnibus zählen unter anderem ein Freifahrtschein für… https://mamot.fr/@roofjoke/…
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
♻️ kilevra: Wertschöpfung ist Kontrolle.

Niederlande übernehmen Nexperia → China stoppt Chip-Exporte → VW in Kurzarbeit.

Der Preis für Abhängigkeit.

Aber es geht auch anders: Q.ANT aus Stuttgart entwickelt photonische Chips. Rechnen mit Licht statt Strom. Eigene Pilotlinie… https://norden.social/…
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
♻️ littledetritus: @anneroth Gabs schonmal nen vergleichbaren Fall zu von Aaken durchstechen der TTIP Papiere an Greenpeace?

Siehe:
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/jan-van-aken-linken-chef-gibt-zu-ttip-dokumente-geleakt-zu-haben-a-7fd806a6-164e-4599-8fa0-bfaa85223390
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
♻️ kilevra: Geht das überhaupt, so eine große Umstellung?
40.000 Postfächer von Microsoft wegmigrieren?

Tja, während viele noch zweifeln, hat Schleswig-Holstein einfach gemacht. E-Mail-System komplett auf Open-Xchange & Thunderbird umgestellt. 100 Millionen E-Mails. Einfach… https://norden.social/…
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
♻️ fediforum: Sandra is describing how technology and politics are increasingly intertwined, and why digital sovereignty, free software and the fediverse matter more than ever.

#sfscon #fediverse
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
♻️ maxplanckgesellschaft: Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! 🤗🎉Marie Skłodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind… https://wisskomm.social/@maxpl…
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
♻️ FreddieJ: Wow. Bonfire have just presented their 1.0 release at #SFSCon with an amazing road map.

🔒 E2EE
📆 Federated events (!)
🫂 Federated groups
🚫 Federated moderation tools

There's a lot here that will make the whole Fediverse better for all of us.

Check out their… https://backend.newsmast.…
November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
#redhat has more developers in #europe than in the #us

Thus, they sell support now for Europeans.

Is this real #digitalsovereignity or #sovereignwashing ?

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Red Hat Introduces Confirmed Sovereign Support for European Union

Dedicated, EU-citizen-driven support… https://23.social/@thomasfric…
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
♻️ tante: Die neue Tech Won't Save Us episode ist @SheDrivesMobility Bait:

"Why We Need a War on Cars"

https://techwontsave.us/episode/301_why_we_need_a_war_on_cars_w_doug_gordon_and_sarah_goodyear
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 AM