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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
New Police Body Cam Data Exposes the True Scale of NYPD Violence Against Protesters - WIRED
and here is the central problem facing attempts to make NYPD change:
“The defendants in the lawsuit have not admitted wrongdoing as part of the settlement, and city attorneys deny an orchestrated effort to violate protesters’ rights.”
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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:
If at any time you feel helpless or despairing, remind yourself that the fight for democracy, social justice, and a sustainable planet is noble. The stakes could not be higher. And we will — and must — win.
Come join us on Substack. https://robertreich.substack.com/about
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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:
Many of you ask me how I can stay in the fight. How I am not beaten down by the dark forces of authoritarianism which are very much with us, as are growing inequality and corruption. I mean this when I say it: because of you. This includes all of you on social media, and in my classroom.
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GjikaPhD@mstdn.social ("Dr. Anna Gjika") wrote:
Hey all. Can someone please explain to me book indexing? Like, what am I doing? How picky do I have to be about capturing every instance of something, etc.?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I admit to having mixed feelings about this funding:
“built with the company’s specialized chips, which are designed to power artificial intelligence products. The chips stand out for their size — like that of a dinner plate, or 56 times as large as a chip commonly used for A.I. Each Cerebras chip packs the computing power of hundreds of traditional chips.
Cerebras said it had built the supercomputer for G42, an A.I. company. G42 [of Abu Dhabi] said it planned to use the supercomputer to create and power A.I. products for the Middle East.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the American public has been robbed blind for a century and more:
“The royalty rates paid by oil, gas and coal companies for the right to drill and mine on land owned by the public have not changed since 1920.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/climate/biden-drilling-federal-lands.html
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
interesting:
“With the simple tweak of advising the chatbots to work with specific data, they generated intelligible answers and useful advice. That transformed me over the last few months from a cranky A.I. skeptic into an enthusiastic power user.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/technology/personaltech/ai-chatgpt-bing-directions.html
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tqbf@infosec.exchange ("Thomas H. Ptacek") wrote:
There's like several thousand words of exposition about how they found the right sequence of opens and closes to set up a signal handler, groom the address space, set the stack executable (another dlopen side effect!), and trigger the signal.
But what makes it :art: is this bit:
"As a last and extreme example of a remote attack against ssh-agent forwarding, we noticed that one shared library's constructor function (which can be invoked by a remote attacker via an ssh-agent forwarding) starts a server thread that listens on a TCP port, and we discovered a remotely exploitable vulnerability (a heap-based buffer overflow) in his server's implementation.”
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laurahelmuth ("Laura Helmuth") wrote:
The JWST may have just found something astronomers aren't entirely sure exists—"dark stars" fueled by the self-annihilation of dark matter https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst-might-have-spotted-the-first-dark-matter-stars/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
somebody needs an editor: “…might not have been fueled not by nuclear fusion but by …”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst-might-have-spotted-the-first-dark-matter-stars/
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i0null@infosec.exchange ("Hacker Memes") wrote:
*cat.exe has stopped responding*
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Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net ("Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus") wrote:
Hey everyone who has raised your voice in support of the #sagaftrastrike and THE #WGAStrike? Thank you.
And please keep this energy the next time you hear about teachers, graduate students, railway workers, or other unions in any dispute with their management. <3
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“There is a clear pattern of suicidality related to the academic calendar”
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justyourluck@masto.ai ("Julie Webgirl - Just Your Luck") wrote:
Is *anybody* surprised??
"Breaking
Teen Suicide Plummeted During Covid-19 School Closures, New Study Finds""Rates of suicide and suicide attempts among teenagers were at their lowest when schools were closed for the Covid-19 pandemic, a new study published Wednesday shows, pointing to an overall pattern that shows mental health in children and teenagers is at its worst while school is in session."
Mastodon Feedbcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:
this is my doctor's billing vendor's site so it was a bit of a shock
Mastodon Feedbcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:
more password fields should just show you the regex it needs to match
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jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:
Great to see Apple (along with WhatsApp and Signal) take a stand against the UK's dumb surveillance bill https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66256081
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LeoBurr@tiggi.es ("LeoBurr :leoburr:") wrote:
@bcrypt One thing to add to this, is HPV is now a leading cause of throat and mouth cancer for sexually active males, from ~55 on up. I urge everyone under 45 to get this vaccine. Speaking from personal, familial experience. MD Anderson Cancer Center has learned a lot since ~2014 on certain HPV strain relationships to some cancers. I heard this straight from an oncologist there at one of my own survivorship clinics. If this post encourages only one person to get the vaccine, I consider it a huge victory.
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tailscale@hachyderm.io ("Tailscale") wrote:
Services you share over your tailnet can now tap into Tailscale's identity info with the power of HTTP headers. Check out our live demo and guide: https://tailscale.dev/blog/id-headers-tailscale-serve-flask
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alternative_be@todon.nl ("alternative_be✅🖖🏻") wrote:
Just curious:
What search engine do you use?
#boosts for a better reach are appreciated!
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nathans@infosec.exchange ("nathans@infosec ~ $ :blinkingcursor:") wrote:
Meme comes back to haunt fake elector Meshawn Maddock
On May 16, 2023, Meshawn Maddock a fake elector from Michigan who thought it would be a good idea to sign her name to a phony document in an attempt to overthrow democracy in the United States, tweeted an animated GIF of a human skeleton tapping its finger with impatience.
The caption below the GIF read, "Dems waiting for my arrest"
Yesterday, Maddock was one of 15 fake electors who were arrested and charged with eight felonies: two counts of election law forgery; two counts of forgery; and one count each of uttering and publishing, conspiracy to commit forgery, conspiracy to commit election law forgery and conspiracy to commit forgery. Conspiracy to commit forgery and conspiracy to commit uttering and publishing are punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
#USPol #Politics #Michigan #MIPolitics #MeshawnMaddock #Maddock #GOP #MAGA
https://boingboing.net/2023/07/19/meme-comes-back-to-haunt-fake-elector-meshawn-maddock.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Via Adam Frtischner:
#GOP just released doc they've claimed shows bribes were paid to #Biden. It has a few cryptic ref to payments by man who later definitively told Giuliani "no one from Burisma ever had any contacts w VP Biden" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/24/hunter-biden-hard-drive-lev-parnas-432108
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- the $5 mil figure GOP called a bribe is a single offhand reference easily read as boast or even a joke
- forget proof, this is hearsay about hearsay
- guy who said it later said it wasn't true
- he is at present a fugitive from justice
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darrendilieto@illo.social ("Darren Di Lieto") wrote:
Hey, an instance for black queer folk that needs a bit of exposure to get the word out about it. Please boost if you have friends who've felt alienated by the nazis you tend to find on other, unmentionable servers. https://blackqueer.life
Admin: @tillshadeisgone
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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:
TSMC delays US chip fab opening, says US talent is insufficient
Arizona chip factory won't be operational until 2025, TSMC said.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
bad news, unsurprising reason
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davidaugust@mastodon.online ("David August") wrote:
The 1934 strike was a watershed moment in the history of the American labor movement. More than 6,000 workers demanded and won union recognition for Teamsters Local 574. The workers defeated the Citizens Alliance, an anti-union group of employers that controlled city government. The victory made Minneapolis a union town.
3/5
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tylersticka@social.lol ("Tyler Sticka") wrote:
IMAX movies like Oppenheimer that use 70mm film still require a Palm Pilot, and instead of rewriting the software they just made an emulator.
I don’t know why, but I love this. https://www.theverge.com/23801118/imax-movie-palm-pilot-oppenheimer
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh FFS… grow the hell up, Representative Greene. governing is for adults.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Break Time for Bonzo
must
have
food::poof::
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palafo@mstdn.social ("Patrick LaForge") wrote:
Yeah, he was a bigot https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/books/roald-dahl-museum-anti-semitism-racism.html?smid=url-share
