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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Independence from the US is difficult, hazardous and uncertain of success. But remaining a loyal servant of the US if Trump becomes commander-in-chief is a certain formula for disaster. There is nothing we can do to stop his election, except to plead with US voters not to let a convicted felon, coup plotter, sex assaulter, liar, fraud and wannabe dictator into the White House. But we can seek to defend ourselves against it.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“… In short, the UK and Europe will need to find the means of defending ourselves against a Trump regime and its allies. We might also need, as the lessons of the past century are unlearnt and the far right rises again, to defend ourselves against each other.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“If Trump is installed in the White House again, the US government, always a questionable friend, is likely to become a clear threat to our peace, security and wellbeing. It will rip up what remains of global security and detente, environmental and human rights agreements, and international law. The age of multilateralism, flawed as it always was, would be over, and something much worse will take its place.”
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Are UK elections just as fucked up as America's?
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I'm belatedly realizing that a lot of music I grew up with had a lot more bass than I realized due to listening to everything on some of the tinniest possible speakers mounted in what must've been tin cans.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Me: [cast as an annoying throw away character in a bad 80s horror film, on the ground, clutching protagonist's shirt and gasping] "She was right... The rhythm... did get me."
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Rename the whole movie franchise "A Stupid Place," please.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/04/stupid-movie/
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hrbrmstr ("boB Rudis 🇺🇦") wrote:
Um… CVE-2024-29510 (Ghostscript format string vuln that lets RCE escape the sandbox) sounds…bad? Especially since GS is in many automagic document processing pipelines in thousands of orgs (who likely don't know it’s powering their pipelines).
https://codeanlabs.com/blog/research/cve-2024-29510-ghostscript-format-string-exploitation/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I swear that @phae and I aren't working to be in the UK for every major event since the pandemic (Boris' defenestration, Queen's funeral, coronation, Independence Day), but it keeps happening, so.
Happy "fuck off, Rish" day, to all who celebrate:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lovelylovely@masto.ai ("CandyK") wrote:
Stacey Abrams was on CNN and was asked the stupid ridiculous question about Biden stepping aside and she gave the perfect answer :clapping: :clapping: :clapping: I really miss her voice Hope the Biden camp has her on the campaign trail.👇 :clapping:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
h/t @torgo
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Nonya_Bidniss@mas.to ("Nonya Bidniss") wrote:
2/ Now they're throwing up ridiculous names like Michelle Obama to take Biden's place while harping on Biden blanking out on stage...have they not seen the string of videos of Trump blanking out and slurring his words? Do they choose not to remember that happens at EVERY rally as the networks don't show it, when he incoherently goes off on weird tangents and slides into aphasia? Trump has consistently shown symptoms of brain damage but #media doesn't care.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I hope the Teamsters Union of today has changed dramatically from how they treated rank-and-file workers when I was a member in the early 1970s (I was a grunt line worker in an Oregon cannery)... to this day, I still hate beets.
https://flipboard.com/@quartz/business-news-gjbtjdrjz/-/a-1oD1QrqvRqOZn2NAZIst0Q%3Aa%3A7497286-%2F0
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NewsDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard News Desk") wrote:
The number of heat-related deaths in Maricopa County, Arizona, has been rising every year. In 2013, 76 people died from the heat, while 645 people died from the heat in 2023, a staggering 784% increase. Many of them are homeless or low-income. Cities across the U.S. have started taking more proactive measures to keep residents safe as temperature records keep falling. Read more from BBC News.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rvaweather@dmv.community ("DMV Weather :vaflag: :mdflag:") wrote:
View from inside the eye of Hurricane #Beryl from the NOAA Hurricane Hunters
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
popcornreel@mas.to ("Omar Moore") wrote:
You must write off anyone who argues more vociferously for an older man to drop out of the presidential race than for a 78-year-old who is a rapist, a twice-impeached, 34-count convicted felon, a narcissistic sociopath, a racist, an insurrectionist and authoritarian to do so.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Mr. Trump is the only president in American history who has refused to accept the results of a democratic election.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
welcome to the future
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ("Bread and Circuses") wrote:
A meteorologist informs us just how frightening Hurricane Beryl really is...
_________________________Officially, the Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1. But most years, the tropics remain fairly sleepy for the first month or two. The really big and powerful hurricanes do not spin up until August or September when seas reach their peak temperatures.
Not so this year, in which the Atlantic Ocean is boiling already. The seas in the main development region of the Atlantic have already reached temperatures not normally seen until August or September.
This has led to the rapid intensification of Hurricane Beryl, which crashed through the Windward Islands on Monday and is now traversing the Caribbean Sea toward Jamaica.
Beryl is, to put it mildly, a freak storm.
It intensified on Monday night into a Category 5 hurricane, with sustained winds of 165 mph. Like other meteorologists, I had to check my calendar to verify that it really just was the first day of July. Remember, we're still in the traditionally "sleepy" part of hurricane season. Prior to Beryl, in more than a century of hurricane records, the earliest a Category 5 hurricane has ever developed in the Atlantic was July 16. That was Hurricane Emily, in 2005, the notorious hurricane season that delivered Katrina to New Orleans about a month later.
The point here is not to discuss the threat of Beryl to the United States, which seems in the modest-to-minimal range. Rather, it's the implications of Beryl both for the rest of the Atlantic season and as a harbinger for what to expect from the tropics in a world where we see warmer seas on the regular.
For this year, forecasters have been consistently predicting a hyperactive season due to the combination of roasting sea surface temperatures and the onset of La Niña during the critical months of August, September, and October. That forecast seems to be right on track and will be of concern to all coastal residents in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean islands.
Longer term, the implications are sobering for hurricanes in a world modified by climate change. The emerging consensus from scientists has been that there will be an increase in tropical cyclone intensities and that the proportion of major hurricanes will increase. But even in such a world, Beryl would be an outlier. That we're already seeing superstorms develop in late June and early July should concern everyone everywhere.
_________________________FULL ARTICLE -- https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/yes-you-should-be-a-little-freaked-out-about-hurricane-beryl/
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
mixnmojo@idlethumbs.social ("Mixnmojo") wrote:
Happy 4th of July Independence Day!
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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:
Cloudflare today released the most demanded feature to block freeloading AI companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Amazon, Google, Perplexity and others from accessing independent content creators' images, text, blogs, and anything else hosted by them without your permission. Cloudflare deploys a custom rule to detect and block AI bots from your website https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
LexyCameron@mstdn.ca ("Lexy Cameron") wrote:
This, all this...
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Where have all the insects gone?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/03/a-disappointing-observation/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
redoak@social.coop ("Red Oak") wrote:
It's called the Tragedy of the Commons because when that one fucking guy steals the goose everyone's all, "C'mon!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
skykiss@sfba.social ("Kailee ♾️ 🇺🇦 🇪🇺") wrote:
Stop with the replacement shit.
It's an op.
But her emails, is now replace him.
See how easy you are controlled.
You are a useful idiot.
Damn the op is easy. Look at all the help from democrats.
You've seen this before.
Do not be part of the op.
jfc
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
So I'm back to AF-S, and only using AF-C with tracking when shooting moving objects.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Tried shooting with AF-C as my default setting. Found a big downside: focus hunting. In plain terms, if you focus in a single-spot metering mode, AF-C often causes the lens to momentarily lose focus and re-acquire it, which takes time, making it more probable to take a shot at precisely the wrong moment..
Here's the shot where my focus point was firmly on the lavender sweater at the bottom of the frame, no motion blur at 1/300 s, and yet it's hopelessly out of focus.
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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
Shortwave "Discone" Antenna, Former, AT&T High Seas Radio Site, Ocean Gate, NJ, 2009.
All the almost-but-not-quite obsolete pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4141766569
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:
@karlauerbach Under "normal" conditions at this time, I would tend to assert that the country would not elect a female president now. But these are not normal conditions. Trump is so polarizing that any attempt to assign "normal" probabilities to (for example) Harris v. Trump seems foolhardy. The territory is completely unprecedented, and the crystal ball refuses to even power up. The only certainty in my opinion is that if Biden stays the nominee it will be a blowout for MAGA.
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neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:
Re: ethereum mailing list phish, if anyone happens to have the malicious domain that users were directed to I would love to take a gander at our data.
Very happy to share what I find.
