You serious? I mean.. Did you have to?

Thomas Shaknovsky botched the surgery of William Bryan, 70, who died on the operating table

Good on the Kurds, honestly. When forced to work with shitheads, dealing honestly gets you nowhere.

The annual gathering at Koovagam is rooted in an ancient poem. Five trans attendees talk about what the event means to them in light of a controversial change to the country’s gender recognition law

Source.

Für die Verteidigung des Glaubens sterben und andere fundamentalistische Auswüchse: Eine neue Studie zeigt, dass muslimische Jugendliche häufiger antidemokratische, abwertende und gewaltaffine Haltungen vertreten

Benchmark.

Today’s game is Twilight Princess. Specifically the new Dusk port that came out. I’ve had a rocky relationship with Twilight Princess in the past. I’m not a fan of how some of the human characters look (and by that I mean the “Tim Burton-esque” look I hear people praise it for) and I’m also not a fan of how long it takes to get started. These are not to say I think it’s a bad game. Far from it. But from a personal perspective I am not a fan.

Over the past decade, the AI industry has come to exert an unprecedented economic, political and societal power and influence. It is therefore critical that we comprehend the extent and depth of pervasive and multifaceted capture of AI regulation by corporate actors in order to contend and challenge it. In this paper, we first develop a taxonomy of mechanisms enabling capture to provide a comprehensive understanding of the problem. Grounded in design science research (DSR) methodologies and extensive scoping review of existing literature and media reports, our taxonomy of capture consists of 27 mechanisms across five categories. We then develop an annotation template incorporating our taxonomy, and manually annotate and analyse 100 news articles. The purpose behind this analysis is twofold: validate our taxonomy and provide a novel quantification of capture mechanisms and dominant narratives. Our analysis identifies 249 instances of capture mechanisms, often co-occurring with narratives that rationalise such capture. We find that the most recurring categories of mechanisms are Discourse & Epistemic Influence, concerning narrative framing, and Elusion of law, related to violations and contentious interpretations of antitrust, privacy, copyright and labour laws. We further find that Regulation stifles innovation, Red tape and National Interest are the most frequently invoked narratives used to rationalise capture. We emphasize the extent and breadth of regulatory capture by coalescing forces – Big AI and governments – as something policy makers and the public ought to treat as an emergency. Finally, we put forward key lessons learned from other industries along with transferable tactics for uncovering, resisting and challenging Big AI capture as well as in envisioning counter narratives.

Lipa says her picture contributed to Samsung’s “enormous revenue.”

Matched pair of Geese laid claim to this tiny Island at Brandon Marsh.

Great Lakes region, USA. May 2026.

Oh my 🍕

An ode to Lichess…and to forum boards…and to putting our collective money where our moaning mouths are…

Lots of layoffs ("re-evaluating our operational footprint") and switching to “agentic” processes. Target user is AI.

By: furaffinity@therealdafwe

The wife sets out fruit for the birds, and then this bugger steals it. Very guilty face!

If a fops does this, bap them for me would you?

Heute morgen in Dorsten auf dem Zuganzeiger entdeckt.

https://finance.biggo.com/news/xsiIxJ0Bh5an-7GhIww3

By furaffinity@rodannax

https://archive.ph/2026.05.12-050231/https://www.ft.com/content/8ee0d3ef-9548-422d-8ff1-ebd48ad4b2ca?syn-25a6b1a6=1

Russia spent more than 50 billion rubles over the past five years building and running military-patriotic centers where schoolchildren undergo mandatory military training

The Last Resort by Trentemøller, released 06 October 2006

Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s recent statements about a quick end to the war in Ukraine are a deceptive maneuver designed to distract from his military’s weakness, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius stated.

I think that just leaves VRR for complete HDMI 2.1, although it will likely be a while before this all trickles down to mainline kernels. Presumably Freesync over HDMI will work too for even earlier support.

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Kerosinknappheit - ein Reizwort so kurz vor der Urlaubszeit. Manche öffentliche Diskussion darüber hält Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche für überzogen.

*Benedict Rogers is a British human rights activist and journalist based in London. *