A New Partnership is Formed with Keychron
Adamsdesk expands with a new partnership that provides further options of showing support while curing just about any keyboard enthusiasts desires.
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Vox Media has sold @polygon, its gaming and entertainment site, to Valnet, owner of ScreenRant, GameRant and Android Police, @theverge reports. Some staffers will stay with the publication while others have been laid off. At the second link, find a story from @TheWrap about Valnet's questionable treatment of writers. “Everyone is underpaid, overworked and really pretty — extremely — exploited,” a former Collider contributor said.
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#Media #MediaIndustry #Journalism #GamesJournalism #Gaming #Tech #Technology #VoxMedia #Valnet
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Interesting read…
"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this. Instead, there’s a final battle. And this is where it gets really dark. The people who are advancing this agenda are also building their luxury bunkers and their spaceships to Mars. They don’t believe that there is a future. These people believe history is ending, literally."
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#ElonMusk’s Most Alarming #Power Grab
Can anyone stop his #space-based #internet?
by Ross Andersen
When #Musk’s engineers bundled a batch of prototype #satellites into a rocket’s nose cone 6yrs ago, there were <2k functional satellites in Earth’s #orbit. Many more would soon be on the way: All through the pandemic, & the years since, Musk’s company, #SpaceX, kept launching them. >7k of his satellites now surround #Earth like a cloud of gnats.
#tech
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/starlink-elon-musk-space-internet/682705/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxS9Y60abe3-ea5P_I6HWcuE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
I read this with interest…
"Billionaires think that they're the smartest people who've ever lived, because they're the wealthiest people who've ever lived. If they were wrong about anything, then why would they have been so financially successful? […] They believe that everything can be quantified, like a person's IQ, and that money is a good measure of how much someone is worth."
#tech #technology #BigTech #billionaires #TaxTheRich #capitalism #AI #LLM #LLMs #ML
House Committee Leader to Investigate Agency for Preferential Treatment of Politically Connected Startup
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The probe comes in the wake of a ProPublica investigation that revealed the General Services Administration was eyeing a tech firm with strong ties to the Trump administration to remake a massive, $700 billion federal credit card program.
https://www.propublica.org/article/investigation-ramp-gsa-smartpay-trump-peter-thiel-gerald-connolly?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Trump #Business #Fintech #Tech #Technology #Government
Spotify announced earlier this month that it would publicly display how many plays podcasts had, and podcasters were not happy. Now the streaming company has rescinded the feature. Kind of. Read more at @theverge. #Spotify #Podcast #Streaming #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/eRwQQE
For the first time, researchers have imaged individual "itinerant" (free-floating) atoms and observed the way they interact.
How these sodium & lithium atoms behave depends on their spin state: We can directly witness the effects of quantum spin here. Amazing!
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/89 #science #physics #quantum #tech
"𝙿𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚌𝚊𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔."
─ 𝘕𝘦𝘪𝘭 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘯
#quote #quotes #thoughts #philosophy #wisdom #writer #tech #technology #BigTech #people #love #oppression
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Progress on my clone of the Emacs Lisp interpreter
This took me three months (a month longer than I had hoped), but I finally have merged it into the main branch!
This patch rewrites the Emacs Lisp lexer and parser in Scheme using Scheme code that is 100% compliant with the #R7RS standard, so it should now work across all compliant Scheme implementations. Previously the old parser relied on #Guile -specific regular expressions.
This patch also implements a new feature where a stack trace is printed when an error occurs. This of course makes debugging much, much easier. Previously the old parser did not keep track of where code evaluation was happening, it simply produced lists without source location information. The new parser constructs an abstract syntax tree (AST) and source locations are attached to the branches of the tree which can be used in error reporting and stack traces.
Next I will make whatever minor tweaks might be necessary to get my Emacs Lisp interpreter run on other Scheme implementations, in particular MIT Scheme, Gambit, Stklos, and Gauche. I would also like to try to get it running on Chicken and Chez, although these are going to be a bit more tricky.
Then I will continue with the task of implementing a new declarative GUI library.
#tech #software #FOSS #FunctionalProgramming #Lisp #Scheme #SchemeLang #EmacsLisp #Emacs #Schemacs #GuileScheme
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🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
"This is what resistance to the digital coup looks like"
https://news.elenarossini.com/this-is-what-resistance-to-the-digital-coup-looks-like/
mentioning @jaredwhite @anildash @ghost @caseynewton @molly0xfff @404mediaco @Daojoan @theindex @dangillmor @ryanbroderick @micahflee @melaniebartos @kleisli
I'd love to hear what you think about #AdoptAWriter ✨
#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog #resistance #SaveSocial
Little Bits: Issue #24 For April 2025
A reminder to believe in your own abilities in order to achieve endless possibilities by taking inspiration from those that achieved the impossible.
“Lord of the Flies” but for AI? @Futurism explains:
Improve MPV Player with an Interactive File Browser
Obtain the benefits to a simple no-dependency interactive on-screen display file browser in MPV media player with the use of this complete guide.
Resolve Libvirt Error Unable to Find EFI Firmware
A step by step guide on how to fix the Libvirt Error Unable to Find EFI Firmware by updating the paths in the virtual machine’s configuration.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/resolve-libvirt-error-unable-find-efi-firmware/
From the Creator of ‘#Succession,’ a Satire of #Tech’s #FarRight
…“Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong…new movie, “#Mountainhead,” …He wrote the script, about grandiose, nihilistic tech #oligarchs holed up in a mountain mansion in Utah, in Jan & Feb, as a very similar set of oligarchs was coalescing behind #Trump’s inauguration. Then he shot the film, his first, over 5 wks this spring. It premieres on Sat on #HBO.
#broligarchy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/opinion/succession-mountainhead-tech.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=F1B636B4-CB53-4955-B261-4829BC8C52DD
The Catholic Church has a new Pope, and he explicitly cited the threats AI presents for workers as a reason for choosing the name Leo XIV.
With the tech industry doing all it can to defend its power, could the Pope be an ally against the AI onslaught?
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/will-pope-leo-xiv-be-an-ally-against
#tech #pope #popeleo #ai #artificialintelligence #catholicchurch #vatican
My doctor’s office just asked me if I consented to an AI scribe taking session notes. (Obviously I said absolutely not and over my dead body).
I am physically incapable of minding my own business so I asked for details. They confirmed that means the rooms are capable of recording now, but assured me that it is “completely deleted” in a “timely fashion”.
I’m with One Medical. So that means the steward of that data is AMAZON.
I am utterly horrified.
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They may share a suffix (and a protocol), but Blacksky isn’t hitching its wagon to the Bluesky app or team. Founder and CEO @rudyfraser.com is creating a new, fiercely independent playbook for communities — one made possible because of the flexibility of the open web. We're excited for you to hear the latest episode of @mike's Dot Social podcast:
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/blacksky-rudy-fraser/
#DotSocial #Podcast #SocialMedia #SocialNetwork #Federation #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Blacksky #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #RudyFraser #Technology #Tech #Bluesky
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"There’s no opting out of being tracked: if you drive, you should simply assume that these cameras are logging your movements.
A Texas police officer used Flock to perform a nationwide search of more than 83,000 ALPR cameras while looking for a woman who had had an abortion."
But who cares?
The only danger to women are trans women in bathroom and sports! /s
#feminism #texas #abortion #civilright #womensrights #health #science #tech #privacy #news #media #women
An extremely welcome initiative from the 🇪🇺 #eu:
🔋Phone Batteries must retain 80% capacity after 800 cycles.
📱Phone makers must provide 5 years of updates,
🪛 are banned from discriminating against repair shops,
🔧 and must provide parts for 7 years after EOL
#EUpol #sustainability #tech #smartphones #CircularEconomy
https://www.androidpolice.com/eu-new-rules-will-shake-up-android-update-policies/
Japan has kicked off its largest-ever defense exhibition as part of a move to highlight its growing openness to international collaboration and even the once-taboo topic of defense exports. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/21/japan/dsei-japan-defense-exhibition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #dsei #defense #defenseministry #gennakatani #tech #sdf
Listen in to the latest in tech in this @surf custom feed created by @mike.
Tech Insiders features over 60 podcasts and is the ultimate playlist to keep up with industry news.
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But you know, right now the most important thing for Humanity is to develop Artificial Intelligence and global surveillance and go to Mars! /s
#pollution #plastic #media #tech #climatechange #ocean #water #green #fossilfuel #bigoil #ai #uspol #racism #colonialism #globalwarming #EPA