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

“Before any of those criminal trials will take place, Mr. Trump is scheduled for a civil trial in New York in October. During the trial, the attorney general, Letitia James, will seek to bar him and three of his children from leading their family business, the Trump Organization, and to require him to pay a fine of around $250 million.

On Wednesday, Ms. James fired an opening salvo, arguing that a trial is not necessary to find that Mr. Trump and the other defendants inflated the value of their assets in annual financial statements, fraudulently obtaining favorable loans and insurance arrangements.

The fraud was so pervasive, she said in a court filing, that Mr. Trump had falsely boosted his net worth by between $812 million and $2.2 billion each year over the course of a decade.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/30/nyregion/trump-james-civil-lawsuit-trial.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

The Analogue Pocket finally did get here. The FAQ on the site says "Pocket is not designed to play copyrighted ROM files from the SD card slot."

That's a lie!
1. Install an OFFICIAL firmware update
2. Install the relevant openFPGA cores.
3. Toss your games in the relevant folders.

There are 3rd party utils that streamline setup even further

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

re: whose name you sell to the info-broker. My first instinct was to give him Nik. It seems like a betrayal out of context, but Sam's association with him is common knowledge to everyone including your bosses and the cops. It's the closest option to saying nothing at all.

And if you say anyone BUT Nik, you get the fucking Tower as your future card.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

My new theory is that regardless of what happens to Ben in later updates, if you sell his name to the info-broker, it'll either falsely implicate Sam in one of Ben's crimes, or it'll get back to the miners, who then think that Sam is a scab.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

A few days ago I said I strongly suspected that Ben, the seemingly-hostile miner, was going to have a face turn and weeeeeell, not quite. Not at all.

But now I'm even more curious about what's going on with him, because your future card in the tarot reading still gets markedly worse if you told the info-broker that you're working with him. In fact, the game treats it as bad as if you'd sold out Yao.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I'm most of the way into my 2nd playthrough of Nik's older content and I forgot how many of the most wrenching lines in the game are delivered with this badger man's nuts hanging out

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LoganFive@beige.party ("Sheryl 2 Crows (aka John)") wrote:

Do you even lift people up, Bro?

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Three things I never, ever get tired of no matter what:

1. My kid laughing
2. Dark chocolate-covered almonds
3. Bad people experiencing bad consequences for doing bad things

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

fugueish@infosec.exchange ("Chris Palmer :donor:") wrote:

The first stable release of a memory-safe implementation of sudo: https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/sudo-first-stable-release/

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:

Not gonna lie; I would watch the heck out of this.

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ieure@retro.social ("Tcp/Ip Man") wrote:

#BandcampFriday again this week

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I'll see myself out.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Demand for waterbeds seems to have... dried up.

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

aristofontes ("Gregory Hays") wrote:

Steve Scalise is fortunate that as a member of congress he enjoys the excellent health insurance he's spent his whole career helping to deny to other Americans.

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

eeyam@med-mastodon.com ("Mayee, MD") wrote:

“Prolonged exposure in close proximity to someone with #COVID19 puts people at high risk of catching the disease, even if they’ve had both the disease and vaccinations against it, a study1 shows.
The study, reveals that the greater a person’s exposure to #SARSCoV2, the more vulnerable they are to infection, regardless of their vaccination status. This relationship has long been suspected, but the study is one of the first to document it.”
@novid
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02715-1

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I remembered this scene but it's still funny. One of the union guys has been injured in a very suspicious accident and then that night, as the others are considering what to do, another miner who can no longer work because they lost nearly all fingers on one hand is like, "Weeeeell, we live in the desert. So arson is the obvious go-to here."

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• TSR screencap. Scene is a darkened tent at night. From left to right, Jack, Nik, Yao and Chang, all looking serious. Dialogue box says, "Chang: We could burn his assets there to diminish his wealth."

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

Miriamm ("Miriam 🇮🇪") wrote:

The worst thing about this Musk vs Zuck thing is it's making people root for Zuck. STOP IT, FIND ENOUGH SPACE IN YOUR HEART TO VISCERALLY HATE BOTH OF THEM

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

I’d missed that the US Department of the Treasury waded into the “unions are good, actually” discourse this week, swinging about a passel of graphs as they did so https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1706

(The full report is available as a 508kb PDF: https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Labor-Unions-And-The-Middle-Class.pdf)

#unions #1u

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

Newsletters are cool, but now I need a tabbed email reader so I can open newsletters and only read the first 20% without feeling guilty.

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

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• A send-up of the old anti-piracy campaign, this image has stenciled text reading BAD ART MAKES YOU FEEL WEIRD over a tape-and-crossbones and the text AND IT'S FUN smaller below it (remote)

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

details, details…
;^}

https://tech.lgbt/@robotfactory/110976909404026051

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

"secretly fascinated" <- that's me lying. I've never managed to keep a fascination secret lol

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

It's the same rush I get from using commuter rail for fun daytrips. Kinda drafting on much larger forces and everyone wins 😎

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

I am secretly fascinated by situations where people can use Industrial Infrastructure to personal ends, and I kinda loved researching and writing this how-to on cloud-init for work https://tailscale.com/kb/1293/cloud-init/

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kottke@botsin.space ("kottke.org") wrote:

Is Big Oil Turning on Big Auto? An anti-EV ad by ExxonMobil might signal an end to the partnership between oil cos. & American carmakers. "This ad illustrates the regressive shift from excessive greenwash back to blatant climate denial." https://newrepublic.com/article/174392/big-oil-turning-big-auto

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darryl_ramm@hachyderm.io ("Darryl Ramm") wrote:

@ahl @bcantrill @kelseyhightower

Great discussion.

Personally I'm still working through the laugh/cry emotional see-saw thanks to Hashicorp.

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Don't mind me. I'm just over here preemptively blocking threads.net using Mastodon's import feature that is found in the settings.

(There might be another way to do it, but it was the only affordance I could find for entering a domain to block.)

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• A text editor window editing a file named threads_blocked_domains.csv with a single line containing: "threads.net" (remote)
• A picture of the import section of Mastodon's settings UI. I've selected "Domain block list", Merge, and my previously created threads_blocked_domain.csv file. The only thing left to do is hit the "UPLOAD" button. (remote)

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hishamzerriffi@fediscience.org ("Hisham Zerriffi") wrote:

New study gave $7,500 to 50 unhoused people.

Guess what?

"They did not spend more money on alcohol or drugs, contrary to what people believe, and instead they spent the money on rent, food, housing, transit, furniture, a used car, clothes. It's entirely the opposite of what people think they're going to do with the money."

Congrats to my UBC colleague Jiaying Zhao on this study.

#Unhoused #CashTransfers #UBC #IRES

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/a-b-c-study-gave-50-homeless-people-7-500-each-here-s-what-they-spent-it-on-1.6540030

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GeoffWozniak@hackers.town ("Geoff Wozniak") wrote:

I've been following the work of @emilymbender and @alex for almost a year now and this article is a great distillation of their efforts.

If you only read one article about how the AI hype and "AI Doomerism" is really a distraction from the real harms it does right now, make it this one.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-focus-on-ais-real-harms-not-imaginary-existential-risks/

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

:00 meetings in an :05 org. Calyndrical terrorism, I tell you.