Designer Prabal Gurung reflects on tough childhood, resilience and runway success in a new memoir
https://apnews.com/article/prabal-gurung-fashion-designer-memoir-38d75e17a6daf1eca89286231c63834b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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GWM confirma produção de Haval H6 e outros modelos no Brasil
https://canaltech.com.br/carros/gwm-confirma-producao-de-haval-h6-e-outros-modelos-no-brasil/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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If other developed nations with declining birth rates are any example, simply throwing money at young couples — or even fortifying social welfare — isn’t incentive enough.
Drew Goins, Molly Roberts and Bina Venkataraman discuss:
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Pinterest Reports 16% Revenue Growth, Reaches 570 Million Monthly Active Users
#financialresults #monthlyactiveusers #Pinterest #revenuegrowth #socialmedia
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Pinterest Reports 16% Revenue Growth, Reaches 570 Million Monthly Active Users
Pinterest's first quarter 2025 results show the platform is still growing. The company now has 570 million monthly active users, up 17 million from theDavid James (Blaze Trends)
How to tell if a photo’s fake? You probably can’t. That’s why new rules are needed
https://theconversation.com/how-to-tell-if-a-photos-fake-you-probably-cant-thats-why-new-rules-are-needed-252645?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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How to tell if a photo’s fake? You probably can’t. That’s why new rules are needed
The solution demands two simple and clear actions: declare that photo manipulation has taken place and disclose what manipulation was carried out.The Conversation
#haïku #photography #photographies #lanuit
Voile sombre s'étend,
Lune pâle entre les voiles,
Nuit bleue se révèle.
Netflix recebe 7 lançamentos de peso nesta semana! Veja lista de lançamentos
https://www.tecmundo.com.br/minha-serie/601251-netflix-recebe-7-lancamentos-de-peso-nesta-semana-veja-lista-de-lancamentos.htm?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Netflix recebe 7 lançamentos de peso nesta semana! Veja lista de lançamentos
Filmes e séries para assistir nesta semana na Netflix? Temos! Confira 7 indicações para aproveitar!Jean Carlos Foss (TecMundo)
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I'll rest easier when Donald Trump is in prison where he belongs.
House Democrat demands ethics review of Qatari jet gift to Trump
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#ImpeachTrumpNow #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlue #NoFascism #USPol
Trump administration announces ‘illegal’ rollback of energy and water efficiency standards
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Trump administration announces ‘illegal’ rollback of energy and water efficiency standards
The Trump administration plans to weaken energy and water efficiency standards for appliances, an attack experts say is “patently illegal.”Justine Calma (The Verge)
Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s
Link: core77.com/posts/136773/Revivi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Reviving a Modular Cargo Bike Design from the 1930s - Core77
Your average cargo bike typically has a long frame divided into two areas: One for the cargo, and one for the rider. The rider is positioned just forward of the rear wheel, with a chain delivering power from the pedals to that rear wheel.Core77
The FCC Must Reject Efforts to Lock Up Public Airwaves
President Trump’s attack on public broadcasting has attracted plenty of deserved attention, but there’s a far more technical, far more insidious policy change in the offing—one that will take away Americans’ right to unencumbered access to our public…Electronic Frontier Foundation
"How hefty a bribe to the president will they have to pay to make it so, I wonder.
Broadcasters are no longer public trustees but rather holders of licenses for rights to "own" spectrum under the most recent Communications Act revisions, and the government is no longer holding the radio spectrum in trust, but has rather indulged in taking for it's own profit, not the public's.
A win-win for all but the public interest."
I'm sure no one would notice...
House GOP sneakily proposes kicking 13.7 million people off Medicaid
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#Medicaid #ImpeachTrumpNow #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlue #NoFascism #USPol
House GOP sneakily proposes kicking 13.7 million people off Medicaid
While no one was watching Sunday night, House Republicans released their official plan to only partly pay for President Donald Trump's " One Big Beautiful Bill ," which will cut taxes for the rich ...Daily Kos
Anti-doping study investigates US meat as athletes raise beef contamination fears
In elite sports, a single trace of a banned substance can derail a career. Anti-doping...
#engineering #technology
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Anti-doping study tests US beef, chicken for banned substances in sports
The study explores whether doping violations could stem from contaminated meat in athletes’ diets, affecting their career.Aamir Khollam (Interesting Engineering)
To describe Trump's actions as “potential conflicts of interest” misses the point. A “potential conflict of interest” sounds like an unfortunate situation in which it’s possible that Trump might choose his own personal interest over the nation’s. Stated this way, the problem is the conflict.
But Trump isn’t conflicted. He repeatedly chooses his (and his family’s) interests over the nation’s. He is using the authority and trappings of the presidency of the United States…
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I am a lamia who makes videogames and plays a bunch of retro stuff! You've heard of a rattlesnake, now here’s a BATTLESNAKE! Come for the cozy vibes. Stay for the ultraviolence.Kiri Artemis [VTuber/Gamedev/Artist]
This -- though it is delivered with the characteristic haughty NYT condescension -- is just flat wrong. It's revealing, though. The enemy that has taken up residence in their heads is not fascism, not the threatened violence of the state, but "social media," ie, their readers talking back.
A community-led fork of Organic Maps
Link: comaps.app/news/2025-05-12/3/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
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Te quisimos y te querremos siempre, compañero Pepe.
José "Pepe" Mujica, verso l'addio: ultime ore per l’ex presidente dell’Uruguay malato di cancro
La moglie ha spiegato che Mujica è ormai in fase terminale e si trova sotto cure palliative. “È alla sua fine”, ha detto, aggiungendo che i medici stanno “cercando di far sì che accada nel miglior modo possibile,globalist (Globalist.it)
[paper] Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI
Significance
As AI tools become increasingly prevalent in workplaces, understanding the social dynamics of AI adoption is crucial. Through four experiments with over 4,400 participants, we reveal a social penalty for AI use: Individuals who use AI tools face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from others. These judgments manifest as both anticipated and actual social penalties, creating a paradox where productivity-enhancing AI tools can simultaneously improve performance and damage one’s professional reputation. Our findings identify a potential barrier to AI adoption and highlight how social perceptions may reduce the acceptance of helpful technologies in the workplace.
Abstract
Despite the rapid proliferation of AI tools, we know little about how people who use them are perceived by others. Drawing on theories of attribution and impression management, we propose that people believe they will be evaluated negatively by others for using AI tools and that this belief is justified. We examine these predictions in four preregistered experiments (N = 4,439) and find that people who use AI at work anticipate and receive negative evaluations regarding their competence and motivation. Further, we find evidence that these social evaluations affect assessments of job candidates. Our findings reveal a dilemma for people considering adopting AI tools: Although AI can enhance productivity, its use carries social costs.
International Civil Aviation Organization rules Russia responsible for downing #MH17 #Ukraine #USA #UK #EU #Europe #Czechia #Poland #Lithuania #Latvia #Estonia #Germany #France #Austria #Hungary #Romania #Slovakia #Japan #Taiwan #Australia #Switzerland #Canada #Italy #Ireland #Netherlands #Finland #Sweden #Denmark #Iceland #Norway #Spain #NATO #RussiaIsATerroristState
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International Civil Aviation Organization rules Russia responsible for downing MH17
Flight MH17 departed from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport en-route to Kuala Lumpur International Airport on July 17, 2014.The Kyiv Independent
Beloved children's creator and educator #Ms.Rachel opens up in a new interview with @mehdihasan.bsky.social on #Zeteo. @daviddoel.bsky.social shares a couple clips and discusses his thoughts on this modern day #Mr.Rogers being attacked for supporting the children of #Gaza.youtu.be/4YJDOohfoag?...
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Pharmaceutical stocks plummet globally after Trump announces plans to lower drug prices
Pharmaceutical companies across Europe and Asia saw sharp declines in their stock prices on Monday following US President Donald Trump's announcement of an executive order to align US prescription drug prices with lower costs abroad.Isaac Francis (Grafa)
Lotus | January 29, 2025 | MegaCorp Pavilion | Newport, KY
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This is obviously thinly-veiled racism. But it’s also a bullshit premise. Haitian refugees were thriving in Springfield. Bhutanese, Congolese, other refugees from Africa & Asia have reinvigorated Rust Belt towns and cities. Trump wants to send them all back.
So we're now doing out and out racism from the US government. The quieter racism is a thing of the past.
Our main goal for this year in postmarketOS is reliability. A big step will be more automated testing with CI and real hardware, and we are excited to announce that a lot has been going on to move that forward! 
Read all about it in our new blog post:
postmarketos.org/blog/2025/05/…
Thanks to everyone who has been contributing directly or indirectly to make this possible!
Hardware testing automation: a status update
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphonespostmarketOS
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Global AMD Prize Pack Giveaway
Enter for your chance to win the AMD Prize Pack! Free to join for new & existing Legion Gaming Community members.Legion Gaming Community
Liz Kendall, fulfilling a campaign promise will be abolishing the work capability assessment & reforming (streamlining?) applications for personal independence payment (PIP).
On the surface this looks like a good move, although much will depend on how the assessment regime is reworked.;
But, this hardly makes up for the cuts in the overall benefit.... and after Keir Starmer's announcement on migration today who'd bet on PIP being improved?
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Liz Kendall to overhaul DWP’s assessment for disability benefits
Work and pensions secretary calls for groups to engage as she scraps capability assessment and overhauls Pip applicationJessica Elgot (The Guardian)
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This, is the problem with governmental consultation in any society; who do they listen to, to garner views on the impact of policy changes? Certainly representative groups are often used, but often (as you suggest) these are only partially able (or willing) to convey the interests of specific groups. But then when consultations are open to all, individual voices often (also) get lost in the masses of responses. It been a vexing problem for democracy for a long time.
I've been following John Michael Greer since 2008. In the last couple of years, he's taken a position on Covid vaccines that I find offensively uninformed, but that's an aberration from his very cogent take on our energy future, which has proven correct as long as I've been reading him.
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The Fall and Rise of Peak Oil
It’s now been close to fifteen years since the Peak Oil movement collapsed and lost whatever temporary grip it had on public awareness. We could doubtless have an interesting conversation along the…Ecosophia
Ashley - @transashleyphil.bsky.social - a trans representative of a group of queer Ugandan refugees in South Sudan, has shared some videos over at tiktok.
Ugandan LGBTQ refugees face anti-LGBTQ policies in the countries they flee to as well.
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Just leaving a jazz concert by Jānis Fedotovs' quartet, aikido training buddy and excellent vibraphonist and composer. I really enjoyed it! He is a versatile and curious musician who likes to explore the full range of his instrument. I still have the air of the last piece in mind, catchy tune!
#Jazz #38Riv #Paris #JanisFedotovs
My favourite instrument is piano, I could listen to Oscar Peterson, Michel Petrucciani, Errol Garner, all day long
This is a nice surprise. The Anarchist Library posted my extermely critical review of Amber Frost's _Dirtbag_. I like that they generated footnotes for all the embedded links.
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Dirtbag’s nostalgia for the old working class
Comrade Motopu Dirtbag’s nostalgia for the old working class Comrade Motopu finds class fetishism over class analysis in Amber Frost’s 2024 book Dirtbag....The Anarchist Library
Just launched my new #Surffeed with @surf! Populated with curated channels from @Flipboard Techmeme, and top social curators on Bluesky & Mastodon. Open Social Web FTW! #Flipboard
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Social Web Curators by Tim Chambers on Surf
Surf - Tracking Flipboard, Newsmast Foundation and other accounts curating and boosting the best of the open social web.surf.social
This is what it often feels like being a woman in tech. People telling you that you don’t belong here and that if they were you, they would leave. Then being forced out of spaces and erased.
This is happening at the UW Allen School right now. By the end of the year, they will likely have lost 8 women from the systems lab. They hope that no one will notice or care.
Don’t look away. It’s important to share stories like these even though they are painful.
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NASA celebrated this employee's story of resilience, then tried to scrub it from the internet. Then fired her.
"It feels like everything that I worked for has been taken down little by little."Josh Dinner (Space)
Apple could use AI to help your iPhone save battery
Apple is planning to launch a new AI-powered battery management tool in iOS 19, according to Bloomberg. The feature will reportedly analyze your phone to adjust how much energy specific apps and features use.Emma Roth (The Verge)
From 2021: “Brownsville is an area that’s been colonized and recolonized and has done so much to benefit people who come from somewhere else but not the people from here.”
Elon Musk as a modern day colonizer of South Texas ...
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Elon Musk's SpaceX Mission Takes Flight in South Texas
Elon Musk wants to go to Mars with SpaceX. Money, regulations, and public beaches in South Texas are no object.Gus Bova (The Texas Observer)
Philips will let you fix your trimmer with 3D printable parts and accessories
Philips Fixables is a new initiative that lets consumers 3D print their own parts and accessories like cutting guides for a beard trimmer.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
#MsRachel on why she is so outspoken about #Gaza. Such a huge and kind heart. Kudos to @mehdihasan for an amazing interview. Top tier journalism
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EXCLUSIVE: The One and Only Ms. Rachel Opens Up to Mehdi on Her Advocacy for Gaza's Kids
The global YouTube star and educator says “silence wasn’t a choice” for her when it came to speaking out against the killing and maiming of Palestinian children.Mehdi Hasan (Zeteo)
E-commerce logistics startup Cart.com says it raised $50M, is now valued at $1.6B, is on track to cross $500M in revenue this year, and plans more acquisitions (Colin Campbell/Axios)
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E-commerce logistics startup Cart.com says it raised $50M, is now valued at $1.6B, is on track to cross $500M in revenue this year, and plans more acquisitions
By Colin Campbell / Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
A reminder about canoeing in alligator-infested waters...
A canoeing trip turned deadly in Florida when an 11-foot alligator flipped a couple’s canoe, killing a 61-yo woman. Her husband tried to save her, but the gator pulled her underwater. Very sad.
nytimes.com/2025/05/07/us/flor… #press
Google Worried It Couldn’t Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal
Internal Google documents show that the tech giant feared it wouldn’t be able to monitor how Israel might use its technology to harm Palestinians.Sam Biddle (The Intercept)
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Render a Guitar Pro Score in Real Time - Fedora Magazine
Guide to setting up and using Tuxguitar for rendering a score in real time using Fluidsynth or MIDIYann Collette (Fedora Project)
Coinbase will join the S&P 500, replacing Discover Financial Services, effective before trading on May 19; COIN jumps 7%+ after hours (CNBC)
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Coinbase will join the S&P 500, replacing Discover Financial Services, effective before trading on May 19; COIN jumps 7%+ after hours
From CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
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I think it will happen.