xAI to invest $300M in Telegram, integrate Grok into app | TechCrunch
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov on Wednesday said Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is investing $300 million worth of cash and equity in the chat app.Ivan Mehta (TechCrunch)
State secrets privilege, now invoked for deportees, has long let the U.S. escape accountability in court
After nine days and four court appearances, the Trump administration realized recently it could raise the state secrets privilege as a defense in the case of the people it’s deported without due process to Venezuela. It did so.
Martin G. Evans is a writer in Cambridge whose contributions on managerial and political issues have appeared in The Boston Globe, Cambridge Chronicle, MetroWest Daily News, Providence Journal, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail of Toronto, National Post of Toronto and the former Toronto Financial Post. He has taught at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, London Business School, George Mason University, Rutgers University and the Harvard School of Public Health.
#StateSecretsAct #BadLaw #Coverups #ICE #HomelandSecurity #HiddenCrimes #CourtLetter
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apply.coop makes it easy to find qualified candidates who share your org's values and are excited to contribute.apply.coop
Unabhängige soziale Netzwerke: Wie können sie massentauglich werden? | re:publica
Die re:publica Berlin ist das Festival für die digitale Gesellschaft und die größte Konferenz ihrer Art in Europa. Die Teilnehmer*innen der re:publica bilden einen Querschnitt unserer (digitalen) Gesellschaft.republica
Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds ‘no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation’
Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.Irina Ivanova (Fortune)
Fluffy cloud. Croatia.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia
Watchword gives the Balatro treatment to an anagram word game gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/watc…
#Watchword #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck #Roguelike #Godot
Watchword gives the Balatro treatment to an anagram word game
Watchword is an anagram roguelike, pulling in some clear energy from Balatro as you play with words using rule-breaking synergies and combos.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Retro dungeon crawler Brany Skeldalu gets a Linux version and source code re-release gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/retr…
#Retro #OpenSource #DungeonCrawler #Gaming
Retro dungeon crawler Brany Skeldalu gets a Linux version and source code re-release
Gates of Skeldal (Czech: Brány Skeldalu) originally released in 1998 and recently it gained a Native Linux version along with a source code re-release.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/stea…
#LegionGoS #SteamOS #Windows #Gaming #HandheldGaming
SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S
According to YouTuber Dave2D who managed to get their hands on the Lenovo Legion Go S, the SteamOS version destroys Windows in performance and battery life.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Good to know.
The real thing is games not requiring Proton.
Steam Workshop support comes to Civilization VII in June with a new update out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/stea…
#CivilizationVII #Steam #Linux #SteamDeck #PCGaming
Steam Workshop support comes to Civilization VII in June with a new update out now
Firaxis are still working to improve Civilization VII, with a big update coming in June and a smaller update out now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Becoming Saint mixes a roguelike with a mini medieval real-time strategy gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/beco…
#BecomingSaint #IndieGames #Linux #PCGaming #RTS #Roguelike
Becoming Saint mixes a roguelike with a mini medieval real-time strategy
With a demo that's just been released and a full release date announced, Becoming Saint looks like a clever blending of genres. I actually love how this looks.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
SteamOS 3.7.9 Beta has fixes for ROG Ally, Legion Go S, booting on Strix Point gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/stea…
#SteamOS #SteamDeck #LegionGoS #ROGAlly #Steam #Gaming
SteamOS 3.7.9 Beta has fixes for ROG Ally, Legion Go S, booting on Strix Point
Valve continue hammering away at the code for SteamOS to get it working nicely on more devices and hardware, with SteamOS 3.7.9 Beta bringing more fixes.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Microsoft's new terminal editor for Linux? Say what!? 🤯
youtube.com/watch?v=ssmy_Z0GQN…
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.www.youtube.com
Say: Boycott this MS Bullshit.
For Decades they do their toxic "EEE*" Bullshit to takeover even more Product Categories.
Since a while they're focussing on Linux and its ecosystem, and nobody seems to realize this.
Sounds like a promising entry-level TUI text editor. When I started with the terminal, I was very used to GUI keymappings like copy/paste. This could reduce the learning curve significantly for people who just want to run some terminal commands.
(also, people are memeing on it already, and now I understand the memes)
One of my favourite shows as a kid was the Mel Brooks TV series When Things Were Rotten. I loved the Robin Hood stories and I loved Bugs Bunny. This brought both of those together on a weekly basis! I just discovered I can re-watch complete episodes on YouTube. They are still funny! I would suggest starting with the second episode. The first one is a little wobbly. I hope I continue to laugh as I go through them. @Samuel Smith I think you and your family might get a kick!
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I went through a similar process to this fellow's mum. It's one reason why I am so patient with right-wing people who sometime wander into Diaspora. Sometimes I can talk them over to the left. It just depends, but usually I can spot someone who could use a little kindness and thereby learn a little kindness.
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For some folks it never goes beyond "Bob/Miguel/Nguyen" is an all right guy, but I don't know about Them.
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Using AI apps is a breeze with Pinokio.
itsfoss.com/install-ai-apps-pi…
I Installed AI Apps in a Single Click on My Linux System With Pinokio
You can also install AI apps in one-click with Pinokio AI browser.Ankush Das (It's FOSS)
I have a new exhibition I am in with the Victorian Artists Society!
They had just put my painting "Orange You Glad" on the wall as I was leaving. It will be moved a few times before the exhibition opens, I am sure.
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It's taking me a moment to really think about this fediverse presence I'm trying to build for NLNL... today I'm remembering to post here letting y'all know our next dance session is tomorrow night May 28th at 7PM. Registration required but $15 donation optional. We want folks to have a safe space in the city to shake their bodies for #exercise, #MentalHeath or any other reason they might have.
Boosts appreciated!
💜 Final Push: Support Privacy 💜
It's the last week of our spring campaign! Help us reach our goal by donating today and powering the development of essential privacy tools.
Your donation will help us:
🧅Protect your privacy
🧅Unblock Tor during censorship events
🧅Ensure Tor's independence from profit
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Putting Team Fortress 2 inside Half-Life 2, Lambda Fortress is coming to Steam gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/putt…
#LambdaFortress #TF2 #HL2 #Steam #PCGaming #Linux
Putting Team Fortress 2 inside Half-Life 2, Lambda Fortress is coming to Steam
The big cross-over mod Lambda Fortress that puts the Team Fortress 2 mercenaries into Half-Life 2 and other Source campaigns is coming to Steam.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
“But the real magic happened once I started exploring what Nextcloud could actually do.” 🪄
Read the empowering story by Jeff McGinty on #howtogeek about de-googling his workspace with Nextcloud and taking back control of his data:
howtogeek.com/switched-to-linu…
After Switching to Linux, This App Helped Me Drop Google for Good
One self-hosted app to replace them all?JT McGinty (How-To Geek)
@zichy @cubicgarden @thisismissem @chaosexanima @jk @filter @by_caballero @Gargron @melaniebartos @carl @Gargron @fionafokus
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Just curious: What flavor of pi(🥧) would you say that big gorgeous dot after the big leading “3” might happen to be? 🤤
It is with a heavy heart that I receive the news that one of the most sensitive human lenses that accompanied the Amazon biome, today, left our material world to live the immaterial world. Sebastião Salgado’s works were present in my geography and history books at school and were part not only of the history of Brazil by bringing visibility to traditional peoples; but also contributed immensely to the awareness of the preservation of the biomes in Pindorama.
Everything he built as a photographer overflowed with sensitivity and respect with those who teach us the most about life and mother earth.
Sebastião Salgado leaves us a huge legacy 📷
As Australia’s carbon offset industry grapples with integrity concerns, how can companies genuinely tackle climate change?
Australia has long relied on super-cheap carbon credit, despite well-established concerns about their integrity.The Conversation
(2022) Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century journals.plos.org/climate/arti…
#AnimalRights #AnimalAgriculture #greenhousegas #CO2 #emissions #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #ClimateAction #GoVegan
Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century
Animal agriculture contributes significantly to global warming through ongoing emissions of the potent greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide, and displacement of biomass carbon on the land used to support livestock.journals.plos.org
Splitgate 2 now works on Desktop Linux with the anti-cheat updated gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/spli…
Splitgate 2 now works on Desktop Linux with the anti-cheat updated
Quite a surprise. 1047 Games recently launched the free to play Splitgate 2 in Beta on Steam, initially with their anti-cheat RedKard blocking Desktop Linux but allowing the Steam Deck with SteamOS.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
time.com/7287891/deep-sea-mini…
#ocean
The Economics of Deep-Sea Mining Don't Add Up
If the U.S. wants to secure critical minerals it should invest in mining and processing facilities on home soil rather than the seafloor.TIME
Gestern Abend hatten wir richtig netten Besuch in der Geschäftsstelle: Die Mastodon-Community hat sich zum gemütlichen Get-Together getroffen 🐘✨
Es gab spannende Gespräche, Gesichter zu den Avataren – und natürlich jede Menge Austausch rund ums Fediverse. Mit am Start waren auch @Gargron und das Mastodon Berlin Engineering & Operations Team.
Schön war’s mit euch – ein Hoch aufs Fediverse und auf alle, die dabei waren! 💫🙂
Signal blog on Windows Recall 😆
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By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall
Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows.Signal Messenger
Zombies vs Vampires Fest is live on Steam - some recommendations gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/zomb…
Zombies vs Vampires Fest is live on Steam - some recommendations
Valve have launched the Zombies vs Vampires Fest on Steam running until June 2nd 5pm UTC. There's a number of nice games discounts, so here's some suggestions to go for that will work on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Play as a virus inside Winnie the Pooh in Winnie's Hole - demo out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/play…
#WinniesHole #Gaming #Demo #PCGaming
Play as a virus inside Winnie the Pooh in Winnie's Hole - demo out now
With Pooh now in the public domain, of course we're going to get some weird Winnie the Pooh games. Winnie's Hole sounds a bit…you know, but it's actually a clever sounding game from Twice Different who made Ring of Pain.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Eugen, Signal sucks on desktop though. The mandatory end-to-end encryption already leaks into the UX too much, but on top of that, they intentionally made it worse by making desktop sessions expire and by not loading your past messages when you log back in.
If Telegram gets really bad with pushing the AI stuff, I'll have to consider switching to third-party client apps or maybe even making one myself.
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