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Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgelakoff@sfba.social ("George Lakoff") wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Mr. McEntee… also described the termination of Christopher Krebs, who led the office of cybersecurity, and conceded the official had essentially been fired for publicly saying the election had been the most secure in history while Mr. Trump was still making his baseless claims of widespread fraud.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/us/politics/jan-6-transcripts-national-guard-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘The reason it took three hours and 19 minutes to get approval for the Guard to help protect the Capitol, he said, was that “somebody or somebodies were willfully, deliberately delaying making the decision.” He added, “I think it would have been a vastly different response if those were African Americans trying to breach the Capitol.”’ - Maj Gen Walker

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/us/politics/jan-6-transcripts-national-guard-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Trying Android again after a few years. Very pleasantly surprised. It's great, actually.

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Attachments:

• Oxide+Friends laptop stickers

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Reblogged by bendingoutward:
everywhereist ("Geraldine") wrote:

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

@searls are you going to be in Japan for NYE? Will you get to hear the Joya no Kane (which I just learned about)?

Reblogged by lloydmeta ("Lloyd"):
lupyuen@qoto.org ("Lup Yuen Lee 李立源") wrote:

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

#TIL about a plumber/ inventor named Crapper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bergmayer wrote:

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I keep turning on the Chromium zero-copy rasterizer on my local Chrome/Edge installs; so much better for battery life.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
caseynewton ("Casey Newton") wrote:

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

A love letter to public libraries. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/28/usa-public-libraries

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I think about this a lot:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/clean-hydrogen-ladder-v40-michael-liebreich

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
autiomaa ("Daniel Schildt") wrote:

Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
web3isgreat@indieweb.social ("web3 is going just great") wrote:

Attachments:

• Tax loss harvesting service emerges to help collectors unload their worthless NFTs If you bought an NFT for $1,000 and it's now worthless, you still have to find someone willing to buy it before you can claim it as a loss on your taxes. A project called "Unsellable" has emerged to fill that need—buying worthless NFTs for $0.01 (for a small fee) so that people can claim the losses. "This tool really helped me unload those embarrassing early NFT Hype investments. Should shave about $1000 off my tax bill", a supposed user writes in a testimonial blurb on the site (although the testimonials appear to be faked). Perhaps someone has finally found a viable crypto business model after all. (remote)

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
malwaretech@infosec.exchange ("Marcus Hutchins :verified:") wrote:

blithe ("Blithe") wrote:

I’ve never wanted to open a local bar more in my life. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2022-12-29/-digital-good-business-equality-the-sports-bra

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Which is to say, that the decision to make a great experience for users is an explicit choice, in much the way that decisions to make experiences better for the developer is a choice.

And where these are in tension (which is more often than folks want to acknowledge), the way in which one prioritises is a reification of commitments.

Are we, essentially, just selfish? I hope not. But the traces...

technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see...") wrote:

the US may have put a man on the moon, but a few months ago Malaysia accomplished something America could never do

they put a prime minister in prison: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najib_Razak

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
TheGrumpySociologist@mstdn.ca wrote:

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

fast women and slow horses

https://music.apple.com/us/album/jitterbug-boy-sharing-a-curbstone-with-chuck-e/1485074801?i=1485074805

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

https://music.apple.com/us/album/step-right-up/1485074801?i=1485074804 one tenth of a dollah

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

TIL:

https://oeis.org/wiki/Welcome#:~:text=%5BIncidentally%2C%20today%20these%20cards%20are%20sometimes%20referred%20to%20as%20%22punch%20cards%22%20(sic).%20This%20is%20wrong%2C%20they%20were%20always%20called%20%22punched%20cards%22.%20Anyone%20who%20says%20%22punch%20cards%22%20is%20showing%20they%20know%20nothing%20about%20the%20subject.%20Saying%20%22punch%20cards%22%20is%20like%20saying%20%22hike%20boots%22%20or%20%22walk%20stick%22%20or%20%22chew%20gum%22.%5D

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I love this stuff

https://music.apple.com/us/album/tom-trauberts-blues-four-sheets-to-the-wind-in-copenhagen/1485074801?i=1485074802

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The Andrew Tate story inspired me to order pizza delivery tonight.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
hdm@infosec.exchange ("HD Moore") wrote:

Attachments:

• A screenshot of the mkcert.org landing page that shows a large banner stating "Who Do You Trust?" with a subtitle of "Take control of your certificate trust store. No excuses". (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote: