And it was just another day in Chatham House, a giant and raucous Signal group that forms part of the sprawling network of influential private chats that began during the fervid early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and which have fueled a new alliance of tech and the US right. That same week in Chatham House, Lonsdale and the Democratic billionaire Mark Cuban sparred over affirmative action, and Cuban and Daily Wire founder Ben Shapiro discussed questions of culture and work ethic.

This constellation of rolling elite political conversations revolve primarily around the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and a circle of Silicon Valley figures.

How can I link to a Lemmy post in a way that another Lemmy user that can view the linked page without the "You must log in or sign in to vote or comment" message (when they are already logged in)?

And vice versa: how can I click on a Lemmy link and not get that problem?

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/51940

James, Andrew and Will Emerton from Cheshire took it in turns to drive the miniature petrol-powered bus.

Fuck, there goes the charabanc.

Oh wait, it's not far away, it's just really, really small.

a.k.a. Desert Heat

Suicidal vet heads into the desert to find old army buddy before topping himself, runs into douchebag local criminals who upset his plans... and he theirs.

Supposedly inspired by the Kurosawa classic Yojimbo (and even makes an on-the-nose reference to it in the epilogue) but character-wise and intrigue-wise, not a patch on the original, or even remakes like A Fistful of Dollars or Last Man Standing. JCVD-action-wise, a perfectly cromulent entry in his oeuvre.

Surprised I'd never heard of this until @LaurenceWoise's The Silencers post got me looking at the Wikipedia page for 90s straight-to-video action studio PM Entertainment, whose swansong this apparently was.

They somehow got the director of Rocky and The Karate Kid, John G. Avildsen, to helm it, and assembled a cast that includes:

• Danny Trejo (Machete) (giving JCVD the kind of massage that would

Article mentions, briefly or more substantially:

• Lemmy
• Mastodon
• Retroshare
• Nostr
• Bluesky
• ZeroNet
• Secure Scuttlebutt
• Tor onion sites
• etc

Not my article, just one I found.

cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/4147895

Recent years have seen the emergence of a second and arguably more powerful “Armageddon Lobby.” It resides in epicenters of power like Silicon Valley and embraces a “secular” vision of humanity’s grand future — though it shares many similarities with traditional religion, including a belief in “God” and the promise of immortality through cryonics. The renowned media theorist Douglas Rushkoff calls this vision “The Mindset,”

Advocates of The Mindset claim that the world as we know it will soon expire. In its ashes, a new era dominated by digital lifeforms — that is, artificial intelligences — will emerge. These beings will stand to us as “gods,” though by merging our brains with AI or “uploading” our minds to computers, we may become gods ourselves: Homo deus — the “human god” — as Yuval Noah Harari puts it. “The most devout holders of The Mindset,” Rushkoff writes in reference to Mark Zuckerberg’s failed “metaverse” project,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Morita#Early_life

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21217025

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28608340

Lots of open-source (and I think all or mostly European) alternatives to big US tech.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42786765

Until you get a chance to leave behind Google's Android operating system completely, here's an article I saw with a few fairly simple things you can do that will reduce (although not eliminate) the ability of Google and others to scrape your data and monetize you.

I already do step 1 (Firefox etc). But looking at step 5, for example, my phone had all those ad options set to "on".

Until you get a chance to leave behind Google's Android operating system completely, here's an article I saw with a few fairly simple things you can do that will reduce (although not eliminate) the ability of Google and others to scrape your data and monetize you.

I already do step 1 (Firefox etc). But looking at step 5, for example, my phone had all those ad options set to "on".

More on the Xai crimes in Memphis:

White-supremacy-born broligarch installs 35 unpermitted gas turbines and immediately becomes the city's single biggest NOx polluter and possibly biggest emitter of the carcinogen formaldehyde... in a black-majority neighbourhood that already has a life expectancy 12 years below the average of its very own county and cancer rates 4x the national average.

But fret not! Surely the environmental justice unit of the EPA will surely put a stop to this outrage. What? It was just disbanded? By who? The very same white-supremacy-born broligarch who installed... (continue ad nauseam revolutionem)

"There are three factors," he told The Register. "The first is really the unreliability, because we see what Trump is doing and the danger is that things will be just switched off from one day to another for negotiation purposes. Then we see the whole question around pricing with the tariffs.

"And then the other thing is really the espionage factor. This is relatively new and surprising to me ... but now you see what Musk is doing, that you can access really confidential databases ... I think this is a realistic fear nowadays."

Still new to the fediverse.

I see some posts on Pixelfed (I have a pixelfed.ca account) that come from people on Mastodon.

I can:

• view those posts
• like those posts
• comment on those posts
• see comments from other Pixelfed users
• see occasional comments from Mastodon users
• reply to comments from other Pixelfed users
• follow the Mastodon user

All on Pixelfed (web).

But when, on pixelfed.ca, I click a Mastodon user's post's three-dot menu and then "View Post", it takes me to a Mastodon page and:

• I see lots more comments that don't appear on pixelfed
• I don't see my own comments
• I don't see comments from anyone whose fediverse instance seems to be pixelfed-related

On Pixelfed.ca, I don't think I have ever seen:

• a reply to me from a non-pixelfed user (but hey, I'm new, so maybe that's just me)
• (not sure about replies to others from non-pixelfed users)

So my questions are:

1. Can Mastodon users see/reply to comments from Pixelfed users?
2. Can Pixelfed users

New data reveals the hidden network of African workers powering AI, as they push for transparency from the global companies that employ them indirectly.

The broligarchy use subcontractors and sub-subcontractors to exploit workers in Africa with a veneer of deniability and to enrich... themselves, naturally. Violating workers' rights and data privacy along the way.

• https://restofworld.org/2025/big-tech-ai-labor-supply-chain-african-workers/

Following on from https://alex.lemmy.ca/lemmy.ca/comment/16014727

In almost every scifi-action movie of the 90s, there appears an exercise machine (?) with three concentric rings, and you strap into the middle and spin around in all directions. IIRC the outside ring is immobile and upright, while the inner two move on different axes, so the user can spin any which way.

Universal Soldier, Fortress, Drive and a bunch more had it, but I don't have screenshots.

So I've posted my terrible attempt at drawing what I mean. (Either that or the logo for my new political movement.)

Anyone know what it's called?

And whatever happened to it? It's the future now, why aren't we all spinning around in every direction, in between sessions on our hoverboards and flying cars?

EDIT:

Thanks, everyone. Turns out it's called an aerotrim.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerotrim

So far, seen in the following 90s scifi movies:

• Contact
• Drive
• Fortress
• Gattaca
• The Lawnmower Man
• Uni

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21061954

Some classic quotes of future snacks:

Mr Lopez is no big fan of Musk and is critical of some of his management practices and politics, but admires the technology his companies have built and is happy to live nearby as long as the companies are good neighbours.

"As long as they don't ruin my water or dig a tunnel beneath my house and create a sinkhole, this isn't bad," he says, gesturing around the metal shed housing the bodega, coffee shop and bar.

...

Bastrop, {city manager Sylvia Carrillo} says, is a conservative, traditionally Republican place.

"His national stuff doesn't really register," she says. "His companies have been good corporate citizens, and we hope it can stay that way."

His companies have been good corporate citizens...? Apparently they haven't heard what xAI has been up to in Memphis (1)(2). Or what SpaceX has done in the far away land of... Texas ([3](https://

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Novels

I also learned that Desi Arnaz chooses Rubber-Top!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatti_di_Rovereta