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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Sheril ("Sheril Kirshenbaum") wrote:

What the dystopia?

Virginia School Board attorneys argued that Abigail Zwerner - the 1st grade teacher shot in her classroom by a 6yo - is not entitled to more than worker’s compensation bc the shooting was “a workplace injury” & “hazard of the job.”

https://www.denverpost.com/2023/05/03/educators-outraged-teacher-shot-in-school-workplace-injury/

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flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:

Congressman Jamie Raskin is going on the offensive

Democrats are releasing a report on all of the foreign money that the Trump family took during his term in office

Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner got $2 billion from the Saudi royal family; Ivanka received dozens of Chinese trademarks; the Trump family received tens of millions from property deals from foreign organizations

Every dollar will be documented.

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georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

The more I read, the more it felt like a Jordan Peele movie.

https://www.comicsands.com/black-images-racist-estate-sale-2662681327.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

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Eamon1916@beige.party ("Rob ☘️🎲") wrote:

My life.

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• I came. I saw. I forgot what I was doing, retraced my steps and got distracted on my way back. I have no idea what's going on and now I have to pee. (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

FediFollows@social.growyourown.services wrote:

#USNews picks of the day:

➡️ @ProPublica - Investigative journalism news site, first online outlet to win Pulitzer

➡️ @NewsDesk - US and world news curated by human beings

➡️ @TheConversationUS - US edition of non-profit news site where qualified experts write articles

➡️ @damemagazine - Women-led, reader-funded digital news magazine

➡️ @joshsternberg - Executive editor of US business & financial news site Morning Brew

1/5

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

thread

https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows/110883206577088085

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Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

Mastodon Infosec Exchange Friends :blobcatwave:​ :donor:​

If you are on the infosec.exchange instance, know that there is also a Matrix server you can join to chat live at: https://matrix.infosec.exchange/

We also have an end-to-end encrypted #Privacy topics room on there! Come chat with us! :awesome:​🔒✨

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

FrogFlora@sunny.garden ("🐸frofl🌿") wrote:

Proof that lilies can double as #treefrog hotels. 4 counted on this one.

🌸 🐸 🐸 🐸 🐸

#gardening #pseudacrisregilla #bloomscrolling #frogscrolling #frogflora #orientallily #wildlifegarden #frogs #garden #permaculture #PacificChorusFrog

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• Four green pacific tree frogs sitting on a large red lily bloom. (remote)

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FrogFlora@sunny.garden ("🐸frofl🌿") wrote:

Goldenberry guardians. 🟠 🐸

Every peruvian gooseberry (aka: #goldenberry) bush in my garden has a #treefrog or three lounging within. Thankfully they're eating many of the destructive flea beetles, fruitflies, leafhoppers and slugs that could ruin the delectable crop. In return for their service they get shade, easy meals and protection from predators. A win win situation.

#pseudacrisregilla #pacifictreefrog #PhysalisPeruviana #frogflora #frogscrolling #OrganicPestControl #permaculture #PNW #gardening #wildlifegarden

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• A pacific tree frog sitting in the middle of a large goldenberry bush, under the top leaves. (remote)
• A Pacific treefrog sitting contently on a goldenberry leaf. (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

eniko@peoplemaking.games ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

Best tip to see if there's anything wrong with your code is to try and explain it to someone else*, nothing like trying to explain something to figure out where the gaps in your own knowledge are

* the someone else could just be whomever reads the comments

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

paul@fedi.nlpagan.net ("Paul") wrote:

#linux #virus #lol

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• By Roman Sharkov San Downloaded a virus for Linux lately and unpacked it. Tried to run it as root, didn't work. Googled for 2 hours, found out that instead of /usr/local/bin the virus unpacked to /usr/bin for which the user malware doesn't have any write permissions, therefore the virus couldn't create a process file. Found patched . configure and .make files on some Chinese forum, recompiled Tem Cee The virus said it needs the library cmalw-lib-2.0. Turns out cmalw-lib-2.0 is shipped with CentOS but not with Ubuntu. Googled for hours again and found an instruction to build a .deb package from source. The virus finally started, wrote some logs, made a core dump and crashed. After 1 hour of going through the logs | discovered the virus assumed it was running on ext4 and called into its disk encryption API. Under btrfs this API is deprecated. The kernel noticed and made this partition read-only. Opened the sources, grep'ed the Bitcoin wallet and sent $5 out of pity. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

There are 53 #Mastodon t-shirts left in stock. It would be cool if we could sell everything in a weekend. And I'd love to see pictures of folks wearing them once they arrive! 😀 #Merchtodon

https://freshstore.co/collections/mastodon

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• The new Mastodon t-shirt, 100% cotton. It is a black t-shirt with a large screen printed design on the front, featuring a cute elephant riding a paper airplane, with colorful planets behind it.

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

mk30@tilde.zone wrote:

yall, everything about this story is hilarious:

1. driverless cars piled up in north beach, SF, blocking loads of traffic: "The cars sat motionless with parking lights flashing for 15 minutes, then woke up and moved on, witnesses said."
2. cruise (GM) blamed the outside lands music festival, sayig that the cell networks were overloaded & the cars couldn't function. (this is so pathetic)
3. literally, the day before this, the california public utilities commission allowed a huge expansion of driverless cars in SF
4. SF emergency services were begging the commission to NOT expand the number of driverless cars because they already impact their ability to do their jobs.
5. one of the commissioners who voted to expand the number of cars used to be the head lawyer for cruise. lol. LOL.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/san-franciscos-north-beach-streets-202029633.html

#SF #tech #woops #lol #transit #pathetic

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

now this is peak Sillycone Valley

https://tilde.zone/@mk30/110883868640063465

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_katiesaurus_@mas.to wrote:

It would be the first library in the country to close because of a dispute over what books are on the shelves, according to the American Library Association.

“That is the end of the library as we know it,” said Jay Ball, who owns a local auto shop and chairs the library’s board of directors. “It’s insane, it’s just insane.”

Book battles are raging nationwide. A WA library could be nation’s first to close
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/book-battles-are-raging-nationwide-a-wa-library-could-be-nations-first-to-close/

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textfiles@digipres.club ("Jason Scott") wrote:

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jonikorpi@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Joni Korpi") wrote:

Saw some flowers with colours so far outside the sRGB gamut it was not only impossible to photograph them, but just looking at them kind of hurt my eyes. Should probably spend less time staring at these screens….

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

K4_713@nonsense.direct ("K4-713 :friendball:") wrote:

I've been converting all my houseplants to semi-hydroponic setups for a while now, which involves removing all soil and assuming total control over nutrients supplied in the water reservoir.

If you're semi-hydro-curious: Start with a spider plant, like this one. Spider plants are extremely difficult to kill, and they react super quickly and obviously to different nutrient mixes.

Pictured: My spider plant blooming, exactly one day after feeding it a bloom-inducing nutrient mix. Wild!

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• Blooming spider plant. Foliage is plain bright green, bloom in the foreground is small and white. (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

trashrobot@kolektiva.social ("Trash Robot") wrote:

I've heard "the cloud" described as "other people's computers".

But I think those of us who are enemies of this system should re-frame this as "computers owned by billionaires".

I want people to see the nightmare face of Bezos leering out of the flames of Hell every time they hear the word "cloud" to describe something other than weather patterns.

"other people's computers" isn't the problem. The problem is that those "other people" are the dozen or so worst human beings on this planet.

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BBC@c.im ("BBC News") wrote:

#BBC [World] Iran attack: Shiraz shine gun attack leaves at least four dead https://w.st/fWXGN

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kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

oh, Facebook

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

Every few days I turn my #Mastodon feed into a list of links and I use xargs and wget to hammer my instance with eight bots running in parallel to download all the images

cat media2.txt | xargs -n 1 -P 8 wget

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PDFlynn@universeodon.com ("Its Not A Hoax ☑️") wrote:

Exclusive: Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump’s team is behind voting system breach

By Zachary Cohen and Sara Murray, CNN
Updated 11:15 AM EDT, Sun August 13, 2023

(CNN) - Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump’s legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, sources tell CNN.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to seek charges against more than a dozen individuals when her team presents its case before a grand jury next week. Several individuals involved in the voting systems breach in Coffee County are among those who may face charges in the sprawling criminal probe.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/politics/coffee-county-georgia-voting-system-breach-trump

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

this seems like kinda A Big Deal

“have gathered evidence indicating it was a top-down push by Trump’s team to access sensitive voting software, according to people familiar with the situation.”

https://universeodon.com/@PDFlynn/110883761952862662

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beaveinflow@mstdn.ca ("Beavarah :noverify: :mstdneh:") wrote:

It’s quite traumatic when large juicy bugs choose my windshield to end their lives on.

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

coyoty@mstdn.social ("Coyoty") wrote:

@stux
"What about my 2nd Amendment rights?!"
"We're in the Netherlands."
"I don't geddit."
"That's right, you don't."

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

The Islamic apologist always ask me the same thing, and I have to tell them that Mohammed was simplistic and literally wrong.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/13/oh-god-no-not-this-question-again/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZsFq9muvCk

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

looking at refurb Steam Decks... how important is the built-in storage capacity? Is it annoying at all to use SD card storage for everything?

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

FediFollows@social.growyourown.services wrote:

#USNews picks of the day (continued):

#Alaska

➡️ @AK_OK - Statehouse reporter for the Alaska Beacon

#Arizona

➡️ @TucsonSentinel - Award-winning non-profit online newspaper covering Arizona & USA

➡️ @azpm - PBS & NPR affiliate in Southern Arizona

#California

➡️ @alamedapost - Online news service for #Alameda, California

#Colorado

➡️ @coloradosun - Reader-supported independent local news service for Colorado

➡️ @TheAuroraSentinel - Newspaper covering #Aurora, Colorado and rest of the USA

2/5

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danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:

What the actual fuck https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/13/gender-neutral-toilets-policy-kemi-badenoch/