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faduda@mastodon.ie ("Gerard Cunningham ✒️") wrote:
We need to talk about Hungary.
Make Europe Great Again: Hungary channels Trump in EU presidency slogan – POLITICO
https://www.politico.eu/article/make-europe-great-again-hungary-channels-donald-trump-eu-presidency-slogan-viktor-orban/
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jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Lizzie Bordon acquitted, 1893
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jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Julius & Ethel Rosenberg executed at Sing-Sing prison, 1953
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jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: FreeBSD project born, 1993
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craignewmark ("Craig Newmark") wrote:
November election will be ‘more secure than any previous,’ US cyber official says https://therecord.media/november-elections-more-secure-than-ever?utm_medium=email
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linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:
seq -f '4/%g' 1 2 99999 | paste -sd-+ | bc -l
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jeffs@well.com ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is really useful stuff from Simon Willison
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KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:
Juneteenth is a federal holiday.
"But in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas; Republicans have passed laws to prevent teachers from teaching kids why."
M D'Arrigo
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Even after the Thirteenth Amendment became national law, many Southern states including Kentucky and Delaware resisted ratifying the provision for decades. Mississippi, the last state to do so, refused to pass ratification legislation until 1995 and didn’t formally file the passage until 2013."
got that? 2013.
no, no, no... Reconstruction is by no means "done"
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neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:
I bet someone's been waiting for this...
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@godotfoundation/112643471955577996
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oliphant@oliphant.social ("Oliphanty Pants") wrote:
Just realized that when it comes to 'quote posts' the entire post is already there, it's just hiding the text.
Apply this to your Mastodon server's override CSS and marvel at seeing the entire post.
.status-card__description { white-space: normal;}This is literally a word-wrap issue. And for whatever reason, Mastodon has defaulted to 'nowrap' instead of 'normal' for white-space.
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Check your flowers carefully before giving them to your partner.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/19/tiny-pink-terror/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ERROR 418 I am a teapot
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
I had more than one friend, who I convinced to try mastodon. Trying to give them a good experience I'd check on them & respond to their posts.
They'd say: "I never saw your replies"Turned out in each case they clicked a link & found they were "logged out" (on a different server) so sign up for that server, then another and another... on every server they had an empty account and felt alone.
We need quote-boost to stop this. An in-fedi link should stay on your home server.
collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
"You should get better friends, because this is unhinged and at least one of them should have told you not to post it."
—The reply I want to leave on every LinkedIn post I see
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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social wrote:
I am so sorry, sometimes I hate myself
Inspired by @kevin
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neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:
Do subdomains matter in threat intelligence and blue-teaming? Well, if you're Rolex, it's the difference between not having a reason to investigate a domain like team-okta[.]com spinning up on Cloudflare on 2024-05-21 and, well...
a subdomain of rolex.team-okta[.]com spinning up on 2024-05-26.
Seems pretty sus. Make sure you've got visibility on stuff like this.
Because this isn't special; this is just another Tuesday on the internet.
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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:
I feel like surely people on this network would appreciate knowing that the BBC sound effect library, from which you may freely download, has 716 distinct recordings of clocks specifically https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/
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dsilverman ("Dwight Silverman") wrote:
MacBook Air gets hosed, other models hold steady in macOS 15 as Intel support fades | Ars Technica
The future for Intel Macs is not bright.
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tzimmer_history ("Thomas Zimmer") wrote:
Why the Right Has a Problem with Juneteenth
This, from last year, certainly holds up: Today’s Republican Party is dominated by reactionaries who stand in the political, ideological, and spiritual tradition of the (neo-) Confederacy.
With an added voiceover option:
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/why-the-right-has-a-problem-with
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foo@fosstodon.org ("Ryan Finnie") wrote:
Listen, I'm only asking for a minuscule 10,000 cores. DO YOU NOT WANT MY MONEY?
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MarcuZona@tkz.one ("Marcuz ☑️☑️") wrote:
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's genocide. But don't you dare say that if you want a job at the University of Minnesota!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/19/the-university-of-minnesota-panders-to-genocide/
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tiberiuichim@fosstodon.org ("Tiberiu Ichim") wrote:
The belief that a #docker container should be so minimal that it has no tools to diagnose any problems (such as network) seems misguided to me.
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kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:
Bluesky has reply-gating (you can set who can reply to a post, like people you follow or a given list or no one) and is now testing out post-publication reply locking.
I just want to yell for a second about how humane and consent-forward these features are, especially after seeing some people here losing their minds when someone asked for gating recently because they felt (alas, not a paraphrase) entitled to always be able to respond.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
But I'm sure NYT is an outlier.
Just gonna quickly check in on the BRANDS BRANDS BRANDS from the Next.js showcase site...
https://treo.sh/sitespeed/www.lg.com?metrics=lcp%2Cr&formFactor=phone
https://treo.sh/sitespeed/www.perplexity.ai?metrics=lcp%2Cr&formFactor=phone
https://treo.sh/sitespeed/solana.com?metrics=lcp%2Cr&formFactor=phone
https://treo.sh/sitespeed/openai.com?metrics=lcp%2Cr&formFactor=phone
https://treo.sh/sitespeed/www.wayfair.com?metrics=lcp%2Cr&formFactor=phone
https://treo.sh/sitespeed/www.notion.so?metrics=lcp%2Cr&formFactor=phone
https://treo.sh/sitespeed/www.target.com?metrics=lcp%2Cr&formFactor=phone
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Juneteenth is a recognized holiday now, seeing posts on my other socials checking to see if working class Black folks get it off. Consensus appears to be a resounding "no".
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shitpostalotl@axfedi.derg.rest ("Avery (She/Her)") wrote:
boost this cat to federate my single-user server
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Leakers gotta leak.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Yes, that's right folks. With the power of Next.js, a full time staff of JS experts, white-glove service from your technology supply chain, and the benefit of wealthier-than-average users with faster phones, you too could achieve..."needs improvement":
https://treo.sh/sitespeed/www.nytimes.com?metrics=lcp%2Cr&formFactor=phone
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
That bright young boot camp grad telling you to rewrite your functional WordPress system in "RSC"? Straight-up liability.
Go make them do a bake off of a simple blog, or an analysis of your users by device class. Do not let them code until they get regrounded.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
"but Alex, it's not fair to blame React..."
Ok!
Then consider this the world's highest profile example of why Next.js is a danger to your team and your business. If the grey lady can't figure out how to lazy load images using Next with less than 1.2MB of JS, why do you think your midsize e-commerce site will fare better?
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Turns out that most people have a positive view of DEI.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/18/chris-rufo-has-failed-so-far/
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
If you want to understand just how badly the JS-industrial-complex has messed up the web, try to view-source the NYT.
The "this site is faster in the app" prompts have the benefit of truth *because they broke the website with React*
xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
best slack emoji move I've ever seen is mapping :internally-screaming: to 🙂
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raymondcamden ("Raymond Camden") wrote:
Huge, huge, huge kudos to @eleventy for updating their quickstart CLI usage for Mac *and* Windows.
Literally (ok, almost literally) NO ONE ELSE cares to do this in tech and it bites Windows folks all the time.
This should be the norm, not the exception.
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lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:
That's hilarious: https://www.cyberscarecrow.com/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Opinion: "If Trump voters had been attacked, intimidated and defrauded, then there might be reason to make the comparison with 1876… as we know from actual litigation carried out over two months, there was no fraud…
What Vance calls the “legitimate grievances” of the Jan. 6 rioters were actually sour grapes. They lost, they did not like it, and they were determined to change the outcome by any means necessary. There’s no reason any of us should respect their tantrum."
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scottjehl@mstdn.social ("Scott Jehl") wrote:
I've been doing web performance work for a number of years now and I've seen over and over that if there is one development pattern that will make or break your site's delivery performance: it's whether you serve useful HTML upfront, or you serve un-useful HTML upfront and populate it long after that using client-side code.
If you're doing the latter (and many popular sites are!), that's often the most important thing you can change to improve your website's delivery performance.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Opinion: "… the latest sign of a conflict splitting Republican parties nationwide, as G.O.P. activists demand ever greater levels of purity and belligerence from their leaders"
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frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org ("Framework :fedora: :ubuntu:") wrote:
You can see the full announcement in our blog post at:
https://frame.work/blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcomputing
The Guardian receives over 350 million unique page views. Learn how Deno helps the Guardian maximize web performance and adhere to accessibility standards to retain and grow their readership.
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cwebber@octodon.social ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
Chat Control, the EXTREMELY DANGEROUS bill to insert mandatory surveillance into EU citizens' communications, is set to be greenlit tomorrow https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/council-to-greenlight-chat-control-take-action-now/
If you are in the EU *TAKE ACTION NOW*, this is NOT A DRILL
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Saw this linked and was like wow the Firefox advocates have really ramped up their rhetoric https://jalopnik.com/chrome-is-dying-because-itll-kill-you-1851544325
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The hackers were able to use those credentials, they say, to access the Snowflake accounts because the Snowflake accounts didn’t require multifactor authentication (MFA) to access them. (MFA requires that users type in a one-time temporary code in addition to a username and password, making accounts that use MFA more secure.)”
https://www.wired.com/story/epam-snowflake-ticketmaster-breach-shinyhunters/
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dan613@ottawa.place ("Dan Neuman") wrote:
@jmcrookston It's worse than that. As the temperature increases, even a young healthy body can't sweat fast enough to keep cool. Those of us who no longer fit in that category have to be even more careful. What's happening in India is a disaster, and that is coming soon to a city near you.
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jvagle@mastodon.lawprofs.org ("Jeffrey Vagle") wrote:
“Casual observation might suggest otherwise — as does the data — but it has become an article of faith on the right that conservative viewpoints are being systematically suppressed, even criminalized.”
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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
#WritersCoffeeClub 18 June
Do you consciously apply show rather than tell in your writing?The advice to "show, don't tell" in genre fic was a corrective from the pulp era, which was renowned for mind-numbingly pointless lectures, frequently started by a cardboard cut-out character saying "tell me, professor …"
I try to show, but if I need an infodump I will infodump ruthlessly, because sometimes a bald paragraph of explanation can do the work of a thousand pages. Right tool for the job, etc.
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thisnorthernboy@mstdn.social ("Rob Turpin") wrote:
Anyone need any spaceships designing?
My work desk is currently empty.
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nasa@social.beachcom.org ("NASA") wrote:
Gigantic Jets over Himalayan Mountains https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240618.html #APOD
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
Worse? It’s possible to use computers for every aspect of your life and not really understand much about them at all. This can lead to category errors (the way people discuss AI) and failures to recognize old con games when dressed up in digital clothes. eg “social media” becomes a novel threat rather than an old problem in a new context.
Unscrupulous men are treated like wizards even though we all know magic isn’t real.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
struggling w properly learning Rust in depth to write a couple of servers/services, took a step back & re-wrote a quick version of one in D, stared at both sets of code for a while… now re-thinking original commitment/plan to build all the servers/services in Rust first. code in D seems just so damned more *readable* & easy to crank out & then incrementally modify…
time to take a walk & think about beginnings vs goals, & about how the perfect sometimes can be the enemy of the good
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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
There's something rotten in the kingdom of Wordpress: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/rotten-wordpress/
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matuzo@front-end.social ("Manuel Matuzović") wrote:
“Not so short note on aria-label usage – Big Table Edition” by @SteveFaulkner
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deno_land@fosstodon.org ("Deno") wrote:
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
NyTimes newsletter article on the current US heat wave : “Some places are 10-20 degrees above where it should be this time of the year.”
Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Grainydays video on the new #Pentax17. A half-frame camera is not for me, but I very much hope it is for someone. #BelieveInFilm
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quantensalat@astrodon.social ("Alexander Knochel") wrote:
All right, time for another fun student project! Starting around 12:00...12:30 UTC, we will be QRV testing our morse oscillators on 40m, just below the WSPR frequency at 7038 kHz.
Power will be QRPP, around 300 mW, but friends in neighboring countries might be able to pick us up :)
Listen for my call DK3HD, DL0WH or DK4BX
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quantensalat@astrodon.social ("Alexander Knochel") wrote:
Now that was fun. We made some mistakes, but much CW was learned, and there was a clear winner - one student reached a distance of 530 km with 300mW in the mid day sun.
#hamradio
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UnicornRiot ("Unicorn Riot") wrote:
Learn more in the full story:
Cobwebs Spy Software Locks Onto Protesters: Israeli Social Media Mining Contract with Homeland Security Revealed
https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/cobwebs-spy-software-locks-onto-protesters-israeli-social-media-mining-contract-with-homeland-security-revealed/
Support our nonprofit media work! ✨ 🦄 💓
https://unicornriot.ninja/donate/
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UnicornRiot ("Unicorn Riot") wrote:
Even during a chaotic wave of mass protests, some Homeland Security staff believed these practices were dangerous to civil liberties & possibly illegal. How could technologies like Cobwebs be used against protesters in the future, and what privacy protections would be in place?
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UnicornRiot ("Unicorn Riot") wrote:
The Cobwebs "cloud-based web live platform" is deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS) massive US-EAST-2 cloud region for Homeland Security.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I’m betting the next COVID wave-peak is around election time https://mastodon.social/@COVID19_DISEASE/112630452968796337
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jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:
Link to my write-up and analysis: https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/blacks-for-trump-really?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
wait, wasn’t that event supposed to have happened ‘at a Black Church’?? really? those folks look pretty not-Black to me…
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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
That thing where you're still writing the novel weeks after you were supposed to have it on your editor's desk and it's now at 105% of the target length and won't stop coming …
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NEW: #Arizona appeals court dismisses lawsuits trying to overturn the state's 2022 midterm election results. A lower court issued sanctions against failed GOP attorney general candidate Abe Hamadeh and others for bringing "bad faith" cases. #legal
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/court-sanctions-election-deniers-and-dismisses-challenge-to-arizonas-2022-election-results/
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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:
A wildfire burns outside Los Angeles.
New England will face heat as high as 107° this week.
Florida neighborhoods are under water.
Meanwhile, Trump has called the climate crisis a "hoax" and has promised to roll back Biden's clean energy investments and "drill, baby, drill."
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
My spider's lair is a tangle of deadly traps. Do not enter.
Too late for that cricket, though.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/17/insta-doom/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
OK, already, let's talk about my last video this afternoon.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/17/lets-address-some-comments/
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Who has two thumbs and will be in London at the @owa meetup?
This guy.
Join us!
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Raindrops and reflections. Taken this morning on Glastonbury Tor at sunrise #glastonburytor
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Sunset from last night here in Glastonbury. The dragon rises.
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SueInRockville@mstdn.social ("Sue Cohen") wrote:
“Trump as POTUS was sort of like a hamster in an attack helicopter
Sure, he wanted to bathe the world in blood & terror
But luckily, he didn't know what buttons to press & his brain’s the size of a peanut so that put some hard limits on the damage he was actually able to do”
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The #IRS plans to end a major tax loophole for wealthy taxpayers that could raise more than $50 billion in revenue over the next decade, the U.S. Treasury Department says.
The guidance and ruling being announced Monday includes plans to essentially stop “partnership basis shifting" — a process by which a business or person can move assets among a series of related parties to avoid paying taxes.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/irs-end-major-tax-loophole-wealthy-raise-50-111180062
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GreenFire@mstdn.social ("Kevin Leecaster") wrote:
@DemocritusDiscoBall @ArtBear @darnell
It's a great story, but instead of spending my time telling you about it I'll suggest that you go to their website which will do a better job of it too.
https://formenergy.com/
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
huh, this is an interesting idea… iron to rust to iron
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jimfl@hachyderm.io ("Jim Flanagan") wrote:
Who decided to call it surveillance capitalism, and not The Spamish Inquisition?
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alanferrier@mastodon.scot ("Alan Ferrier") wrote:
It's bleakly amusing that Farage's Reform UK party is usually abbreviated as "REFUK".
"REFUK - when fucking the country once isn't enough."
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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:
TDK claims insane energy density in solid state battery breakthrough
Apple supplier says new tech has 100 times the capacity of its current batteries.
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AnarchistArt ("Anarchist Art Ⓐ") wrote:
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skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:
Still thinking about the time a Gen Z kid tried to sell me a ‘vintage rock’ vinyl and
It was
Blink 182
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Igor Stravinsky is born in Oranienbaum (now Lomonosov), Russia, 1882
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Watergate Democratic National Committee break-in, 1972
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: China explodes its first Hydrogen bomb, 1967
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
If you want to stay home and make cookies, fine -- live your life as you want. If you want to do that as a gimmick to promote racism and hatred, get outta here.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘Another juror found himself "agreeing with some Trump administration policies and disagreeing with others." A third juror said she appreciated that "President Trump speaks his mind."
To avoid conviction, Trump's legal team needed only to convince a single juror. All of the jurors voted to convict Trump on all 34 counts.”’
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘… there is evidence suggesting that one or more of the jurors was politically conservative. According to the court questionnaires, one of the jurors who was selected said they relied on Truth Social, Trump's own social network, and X, which has taken a sharp rightward turn under Elon Musk, for news. Another juror reported regularly watching Fox News and MSNBC. And according to reporting, one juror said that "he believed Mr. Trump had done some good for the country."…’
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
worth reading
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realjuddlegum@threads.net ("Judd Legum") wrote:
Trump is now a convicted felon.
Various politicians and pundits claim that Trump's convictions were illegitimate, unfair, or inconsequential.
Arguments include:
The charges against Trump were "obscure" and "entirely unprecedented."
The prosecutors didn't reveal their theory of the crime until closing arguments
The judge allowed the jury to convict Trump without reaching a unanimous verdict
I've debunked all of these arguments, and many others, with links to primary sources.
Enjoy!
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CatsOfYore@varmint.town ("Cats of Yore") wrote:
“Paris, black wall with cat” 1954. https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-5562038
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CatsOfYore@varmint.town ("Cats of Yore") wrote:
Happy Pride Month! 🌈 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️🌈 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-books/2023/12/14/five-ay-o-rainbow-works-to-brighten-your-day/
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CatsOfYore@varmint.town ("Cats of Yore") wrote:
Just trying to enjoy her bucket in peace. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.
Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
StephenRamirez@universeodon.com ("Today's Top Quotes ✅") wrote:
NATO has never attacked a country. Its Article 5, mutual defense clause has been activated once. After 9/11 to protect America. In the last decade, #Russia invaded Georgia, invaded Ukraine twice in largest ground war in Europe since WW2, bombed Syrian civilian targets, successfully worked to pass BREXIT, helped elect an American president, murdered British citizens in Britain, shot down civilian airliner murdering 289, including Americans. So yes, anyone not under Russian influence could see that NATO is the definition of defensive alliance — Stuart Stevens #quotes #quote #NATO #DefensiveAlliance #RussianAggression #Deterrence #CollectiveSecurity #CollectiveDefense
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The wheel turns again.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/17/the-social-media-cycle/
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Familiar story: pastor who makes it big is a world-class creep. Megachurches are festering pits of evil.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/17/isnt-it-always-this-way/
Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
nasa@social.beachcom.org ("NASA") wrote:
Ou4: The Giant Squid Nebula https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240617.html #APOD
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