Mastodawn

Solar Balconies Take Europe By Storm

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/31/solar-balconies-take-europe-by-storm/

Solar Balconies Take Europe By Storm

Solar power has been around for a long time now. Once upon a time, it was mostly the preserve of research projects and large-scale municipal installations. Eventually, as the technology grew ever c…

Hackaday

joriki 3h ago

Eugene McParland 🇺🇦5h ago

The T-54 deployed by the Soviet Union to crush dissent during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 has met its fate in #Ukraine almost 70 years later. Although analysts point out that the tank was later upgraded to a T-55 and had some parts replaced, “it’s definitely the same tank in spirit.”

joriki 3h ago

Mark A. Rayner 9h ago

I dunno, I might just leave that box alone.

Here's hoping you have a danger-free Tuesday!

#cat #cats #castodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour #deathbox

joriki 3h ago

Ars Technica 5h ago

OkCupid, Match pay no fine for sharing user photos with facial recognition firm
OkCupid and Match settle with Trump FTC, don't have to pay any financial penalty.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/okcupid-match-pay-no-fine-for-sharing-user-photos-with-facial-recognition-firm/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

joriki 4h ago

Machine Lord Zero 7h ago

It's weird seeing news reports like "The population growth rate is slowing. What could be the cause?"
LONG WORK HOURS FOR FUCK ALL PAY. GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE WORLD TERRORISING PEOPLE. FUCKING ABYSMAL CONDITIONS FOR MENTAL AND PHYSICAL WELLBEING.
THEY HEAP SALT UPON THE LAND AND QUESTION THE LACK OF NEW GROWTH.

joriki 5h ago

Sludge 8h ago

Public pension funds from California to New York hold billions of dollars in Palantir stock, while public employees protest their retirement savings funding the tech powering ICE.

NEW list of 30 state pension fund investments in Palantir:

https://readsludge.com/2026/03/31/these-state-pension-funds-invest-in-palantir/

These State Pension Funds Invest in Palantir

Public pension funds from California to New York hold a combined billions of dollars in Palantir stock, while teachers and other public employees protest their retirement savings funding the tech powering ICE operations.

Sludge

"While Elon Musk’s DOGE operatives said they were rooting out federal waste, fraud and abuse, the DOJ declined over 900 cases of federal program or procurement fraud."

joriki 5h ago

ProPublica 9h ago

Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-immigration-bondi-declinations-criminal-investigations?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #DOJ #Law #Crime #Legal #Terrorism #Fraud #Drugs #PamBondi #Trump

Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration

Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term.

ProPublica

joriki 5h ago

404 Media 10h ago

How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir

Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used by ICE.

https://www.404media.co/how-thomson-reuters-powers-ice-and-palantir/

How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir

Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used by ICE.

404 Media

joriki 17h ago

Brent Toderian 17h ago

“Gas prices? What gas prices?”

Even without insane and illegal wars, the thing about any dependency, including car dependency, is that once you’re dependent, they can do whatever they want with the prices.

Real freedom is choices. Better cities create choices. Graphic via the Urban Truth Collective. Check out our website here:
https://www.urbantruthcollective.com/#UrbanTruth