#sotu — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sotu, aggregated by home.social.
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Weekly output: teens + AI chatbots, Android updates, Trump on data-center energy use, Archer + Starlink, balcony solar, customer feedback, CDA 230 + AI, Bluetooth updates
BARCELONA–It’s a treat to be able to start off a post with this dateline. This is the 13th trip that’s afforded me that opportunity and the 12th involving MWC. But this trip isn’t like the ones before it in one way; on my way across the Atlantic, my country started a war of choice because the president felt like it. The world is better without Iran’s worthless, murdering theocrat Ali Khameni, but I have little confidence in the Trump administration’s ability to do the right things for that long-suffering country.
In addition to the links you see below, Patreon readers got a bonus post from me in which I shared lessons learned from more than 10 years of booking Airbnbs.
2/24/2026: Most Teens Use AI for Homework Help. 10% Let It Do Everything, PCMag
Getting an advance copy of this new study from the Pew Research Center gave me a chance to note a new student-understudy chatbot called Einstein and quiz the CEO behind that app.
2/25/2026: Android Update Puts Gemini AI In the Driver’s Seat for Ride-Hail, Food Orders, PCMag
I have somehow become PCMag’s Android-updates guy. This report included a little testimony about Google’s call-scam-detection feature misfiring for me, an important bit of context to include in a post telling readers about Google bringing that tool to Samsung’s new Galaxy S26 series of phones.
2/25/2026: As Energy Costs Soar, Trump Pushes AI Giants to ‘Produce Their Own Electricity’, PCMag
I didn’t watch the entire State of the Union address because self-care is an important thing, but after reading about President Trump’s call for data-center operators to pay for their electricity and power infrastructure, I knew I’d have to write about that initiative.
2/27/2028: Archer Aviation Taps Starlink for Air Taxi Connectivity, PCMag
I still don’t quite get the point of adding Starlink connectivity to aircraft that won’t fly longer than 15 minutes or higher than 4,000 feet above major cities, but this was an easy post to crank out Friday morning before heading to Dulles that afternoon to start my journey to Spain.
2/28/2026: After Years of Shining in Europe, Balcony Solar Comes Out of the Dark in the US, PCMag
This story had been in the works for literally months–I took the photo you see at the top of the piece on the afternoon that I arrived in Berlin for IFA in September–but the policy picture has also changed dramatically, and for the better, over the intervening months.
2/28/2026: What’s the Best Way to Get Customer Feedback in 2026? Hint: It’s Not Email, PCMag
Two weeks after the customer-experience firm Medallia had me at its annual conference in Vegas (with my hotel covered upfront and my airfare to be reimbursed), PCMag ran my recap of what I learned there.
3/1/2026: Online Platforms Are Not Liable for What Users Post. Should That Include Gen AI?, PCMag
I spent Thursday at the Cato Institute for this enlightening conference marking the 30th anniversary of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the 1996 act that bars you from suing an online platform for something that one of its users posted.
3/1/2026: Bluetooth Is Getting an Upgrade. Here’s What It Means for Your Devices, PCMag
I took almost all of the notes for this at CES in January, but I needed more time to confirm some details and then write the post, after which its lack of a news peg left it easy to set aside for a bit.
#AIChatbots #android #ArcherAviation #balconySolar #Barcelona #Bluetooth #Catalunya #CatoInstitute #CDA230 #ces #customerExperience #customerSatisfaction #cx #dataCenters #eVTOL #GeminiAI #IFA #LasVegas #Medallia #MWC #PewResearchCenter #plugInSolar #PresidentTrump #RatepayerProtectionPledge #SOTU #Spain #Starlink #StateOfTheUnion #travel #TrumpEnergyPolicy #Vegas -
#Spanberger, 46, is the second #CIA veteran in 2 years chosen to deliver the #Democratic Party’s formal response to Trump. Last year, it was Senator #ElissaSlotkin of #Michigan, a fellow #moderate who also first entered #Congress in 2018 & had also just won a statewide election. While #Slotkin warned last year that #Trump would increase the #CostOfLiving, Spanberger made a broader case that his admin was working against the #WellBeing of the American #people.
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Shit it's starting soon. Somebody please suggest the live stream that's more than #CSPAN #StateOfTheUnion #SotU
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State of the Swamp (SOS)
February 24th 7:00 PM EST
An evening of defiance in response to the State of the Union.
Live at the National Press Club. Streaming everywhere.
https://defiance.org/
#resist #defy #PortlandFrogs #SOTU -
State of the Swamp (SOS)
February 24th 7:00 PM EST
An evening of defiance in response to the State of the Union.
Live at the National Press Club. Streaming everywhere.
https://defiance.org/
#resist #defy #PortlandFrogs #SOTU -
State of the Swamp (SOS)
February 24th 7:00 PM EST
An evening of defiance in response to the State of the Union.
Live at the National Press Club. Streaming everywhere.
https://defiance.org/
#resist #defy #PortlandFrogs #SOTU -
State of the Swamp (SOS)
February 24th 7:00 PM EST
An evening of defiance in response to the State of the Union.
Live at the National Press Club. Streaming everywhere.
https://defiance.org/
#resist #defy #PortlandFrogs #SOTU -
State of the Swamp (SOS)
February 24th 7:00 PM EST
An evening of defiance in response to the State of the Union.
Live at the National Press Club. Streaming everywhere.
https://defiance.org/
#resist #defy #PortlandFrogs #SOTU -
New episode from #SusanGlasser #JaneMayer #EvanOsnos on #Biden #SOTU .
“He wasn’t looking to convince anybody,” Glasser says. “What he was looking to do was to tell his side, ‘Stop freaking out. I’m in the fight.’ ”
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-political-scene-the-new-yorker/id268213039?i=1000648548496
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New episode from #SusanGlasser #JaneMayer #EvanOsnos on #Biden #SOTU .
“He wasn’t looking to convince anybody,” Glasser says. “What he was looking to do was to tell his side, ‘Stop freaking out. I’m in the fight.’ ”
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-political-scene-the-new-yorker/id268213039?i=1000648548496
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New episode from #SusanGlasser #JaneMayer #EvanOsnos on #Biden #SOTU .
“He wasn’t looking to convince anybody,” Glasser says. “What he was looking to do was to tell his side, ‘Stop freaking out. I’m in the fight.’ ”
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-political-scene-the-new-yorker/id268213039?i=1000648548496
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New episode from #SusanGlasser #JaneMayer #EvanOsnos on #Biden #SOTU .
“He wasn’t looking to convince anybody,” Glasser says. “What he was looking to do was to tell his side, ‘Stop freaking out. I’m in the fight.’ ”
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-political-scene-the-new-yorker/id268213039?i=1000648548496
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New episode from #SusanGlasser #JaneMayer #EvanOsnos on #Biden #SOTU .
“He wasn’t looking to convince anybody,” Glasser says. “What he was looking to do was to tell his side, ‘Stop freaking out. I’m in the fight.’ ”
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-political-scene-the-new-yorker/id268213039?i=1000648548496
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I am not a #BodyLanguageExpert but watching Johnson at the #SOTU was like watching your kid realize they’ve been caught in their own lie.
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CW: weird, antiquarian sexism; masturbation reference
I guess the #GOP had been thumbing through my "outmoded, antiquated book" collection when they were staging Katie Britt's response to the SOTU.
(This one is from the absurd "Safe Counsel or Practical Eugenics" by J.L. Nichols, 1928. I bought it for it's amaaaaazing anti-masturbation rant including this gem of a claim: "Almost every disease and symptom of disease known to the human race have been directly or indirectly traced by some authority or other to masturbation." I, of course, vehemently disagree with the sentiment. A woman's place is wherever the hell she wants to be.)
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The European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs ("LIBE") released a draft resolution that does not look very kindly on the US attempt to support an adequacy determination under GDPR through an Executive Order. (It points out all the things it finds lacking in the US attempt at creating a new data privacy framework - no surprises here.) If this is indicative of the final outcome at the Commission (please, no wagering ;) ), Mr Schrems will be happy... and many of us will continue to work under the assumption that this is all going nowhere fast. Among the many failings noted: The US does not have a federal privacy law. #ADPPA was on the table in the last Congress. Are nudges from #POTUS at the #SOTU and from the #EU going to be sufficient to get the ball rolling again? Would any such law comprehensively address the outstanding concerns re: adequacy? Does failure to adopt such a law harm the global economic position of the US in the near term or in the long term? What other issues are raised by this development or by an eventual negative finding re: adequacy? #GDPR #adequacy #LIBE #DPF #dataprivacyframework #dataprivacy #privacy #data #personaldata #personaldataprotection #dataprotection #schremsii #schremsiii #EU #IAPP https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/LIBE-RD-740749_EN.pdf
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#ChrisJansing #JansingReports is going to talk to 'frustrated voters' ahead of Joe Biden's #SOTU speech. Oh boy! I cannot wait. What could those voters be thinking? Why are they dissatisfied? So, interesting! Some rural diner, suburban voters. Oh boy! That's news! #News! #msnbc
