Mastodawn

It is genuinely not that complicated. Some people have too much. Most people have too little. One of these groups funds think tanks.

Megan Carney 1d ago

Eugene McParland 🇺🇦3d ago

The Financial Times reports that russia is earning as much as $150m a day in additional revenue from oil sales, making putin the "biggest winner" from the Middle East conflict.

Megan Carney 1d ago

This is so icky. Corruption on top of corruption on top of corruption. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/us/politics/wall-street-access-pentagon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TFA.AUjT.CUWESRG7JuJu&smid=url-share

Megan Carney 1d ago

Nathaniel Mott 3d ago

We are so fucked.

“Switching over to Vivaldi, especially once I learned it has no AI, felt intimidating at first, because it’s something I’d gotten so used to already. There’s no built-in chatbot, summarizer, AI sidebar, omnibox integration, right-click AI actions, or AI-generated content. All of this is intentional because the company’s philosophy highlights curiosity and web diversity over passive consumption. And I can honestly get behind that.”

https://www.xda-developers.com/tried-browser-that-doesnt-have-ai/

I tried a browser that doesn't have any AI, and now I don't want to go back

I thought a browser without AI would feel outdated, but this one proved me wrong

XDA

Megan Carney 1d ago

Randahl Fink 3d ago

While Trump is holding rallies claiming that wind turbines do not work, I am looking at the realtime view of Danish power generation…

Total electricity consumption: 5817 MW
Total electricity production from wind: 6436 MW

Megan Carney 1d ago

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Steve Herman 3d ago

“There is no way you can just flip a switch tomorrow and Voice of America is magically going to come back. It is a Potemkin village compared to what it used to be.” https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook-remaking-government/2026/03/12/like-humpty-dumpty-it-wont-be-easy-to-put-voa-back-together-again-00826283

‘Like Humpty Dumpty’: It won’t be easy to put VOA back together again

POLITICO

Megan Carney 2d ago

Ralf Bendrath 5d ago

In a major win for digital privacy, the European Parliament just (again) limited all scanning of communications for child abuse material to specific suspects. No mass surveillance, no #chatcontrol. Now the negotiations with Member States will be interesting. They are already supposed to start tomorrow morning.

Megan Carney 2d ago

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Steve Herman 3d ago

Rigas would step aside as acting head of USAGM if the president’s nominee is confirmed by the Senate, likely to be Sarah Rogers, the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy, who is best known for her claim that the Biden administration tried “to make the maps more gay.”

Megan Carney 2d ago

Ars Technica 3d ago

Trump's DOJ is not falling for Sam Bankman-Fried's MAGA makeover on X
SBF is still twisting facts to hide FTX crypto losses, DOJ says to block new trial.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/trumps-doj-is-not-falling-for-sam-bankman-frieds-maga-makeover-on-x/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Megan Carney 2d ago

Joseph Cox 3d ago

In Kenya, we spoke to the data labelers powering U.S. AI companies. They include someone who had to watch porn all day, annotate it, then had to flirt and sext with people over an AI chatbot. The users thought they were sexting an AI. It was actually a person.

https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

404 Media