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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
injustice can be costly, but then it does keep the great unwashed in their proper place
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Trump’s company, DT Marks DEFI LLC is entitled to 75% of any revenue over $30 million. Before Sun’s investment, the platform had sold $21 million of tokens. Now it has sold $51 million.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/25/trump-crypto-justin-sun-investment.html
“In 2023, Sun was sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, who alleged that Sun and his companies have engaged in fraudulent activity to inflate the price… as well as selling unregistered securities.”
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Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:") wrote:
"So now that Trump's won the 2024 election with lots of help from some of these Broligarchs and Elon Musk is trying to act like Trump's co-president with plans to eviscerate government through massive cuts. What do you think we're going to see in the next few years in terms of the partnership between the government and the oligarchy?
Brooke Harrington: I see three major public policy changes. One is the increasing prevalence of what you might call representation without taxation, which is just the set of Broligarchs not being subject to the law in the way that the rest of us are, and yet having the ear of the president, or better yet, dictating terms to the president or being deputized by the president to slash federal agencies, to slash federal budgets without any of the accountability that we're used to seeing even under Republican administrations. mean, no vetting, no elected office. It's just, you know, by fiat, King Trump says: “I'm delegating the dismantling of the federal government to these guys I like for now.” ...
They will probably go a ways in pushing women out of public life, especially if they succeed in doing away with the Department of Education. Anyone who has a child, who has any sort of learning disability, any kind of disability at all, the Department of Education is the part of the government that requires public schools to accommodate those kids. And if there's no more Department of Education, no more accommodations, they're expensive. So what happens to those kids? They're probably gonna go home into the care of their mothers, who will have to quit their jobs to take care of them. ...
And finally, most alarming to me, although I'm plenty alarmed about the other two things: The one policy change that makes me feel like I'm tied to the tracks and watching a freight train bear down on me is the shenanigans they want to get up to with crypto and the finances of the US government. ...
Gil Duran: That's been one thing that's been very concerning and sort of shocking to me is the degree to which no one is telling Americans what crypto is really about. Even as it becomes obvious that crypto is largely a scam that's being used for crimes and Americans have lost billions and billions of dollars to crypto scammers. think it was $5.7 billion last year alone. And yet you have even democratic politicians lining up to be supporters of crypto and portray it as a very important part of the future."
https://www.thenerdreich.com/how-thebroligarchs-plan-to-use-trump/
Girl, I am right there on those tracks with you. That right there is frightening. And I don't know if anybody's paying attention.
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EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:
Huge turnouts again on the 4th night of #GeorgiaProtests
200,000 are in the streets, out of Tbilisi's 1.2 millionEach night police disperse protesters against the pro-Russian government's U-turn on Georgia's EU integration, they withstand and come back
🎥 Ezz Gaber
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
(with apologies to the ghost of Phil Karlton)
There are only two hard things in computing: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
(today I address naming things first)
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the time between thanksgiving and New Years
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
We're about to lose a cohort of kids to the depredations of the bigoted and ignorant and wealthy.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/02/white-is-not-a-synonym-for-elite/
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Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
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⚒️ Ce que j'admire le plus c'est le travail de tous ces artisans qui ont permis la sauvegarde et le maintien d'un savoir faire unique nécessaire à la reconstruction de Notre-Dame.
https://mastodon.social/@lemonde/113565926455031275
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Long, but excellent:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh Joe, I wish you hadn’t:
“Biden says he is pardoning his son, Hunter” - https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-says-he-is-pardoning-his-son-hunter-2024-12-02/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I use thermodymmic tronpriteirs in my research, give me money.
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LuluHelle@ohai.social ("Lulu Helle :partyparrot:") wrote:
The illegally cute shima enaga aka Japanese Snow Fairy. Yes it can fly, yup it's real.
Credit for photograph is Emily Anne Photography, given by kind person in replies.
Programme meant for kids that got me started on this subject: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/4030088/
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SpindleyQ@gamemaking.social ("Spindley Q Frog") wrote:
Alright, I think it's ready.
MEOWIO is a NES emulator that can finally answer the question, "What if the NES had a sound chip that meowed at you?"
https://www.information-superhighway.net/meowio/
I've included a selection of games and samples that I find particularly delightful, but MEOWIO can play most NES ROMs and audio files as well! I would dearly love to hear about any amusing sound / game combinations you discover!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yesssss
“Step It Up And Go” by Warner Williams With Jay Summerour
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Mastodon Feed"Sir, our latest headline got nearly 200 dunks on Mastodon!"
"Negative engagement you say? We should reconsider how we do things here!"
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IngridHbn@mastodon.online ("Ingrid Hoeben Ⓥ 🇧🇪") wrote:
These Creative Miniature Dioramas are created by Japanese Artist Tatsuya Tanaka 💛
(2/2)
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Mastodon FeedPretty close to adding "NYT" to my mute list, because the endless parade of people pointing out the latest way NYT is shitty is bringing absolutely nothing to the party. Just stop reading it, FFS.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
got an mail class working properly today, using [redacted, a domain-local machine] as the relay host. tested by sending email through relay to my gmail address. next-to-last part of 2FA workflow is in place, rah! 😀
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Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Happy first day of #JingleJam to all who celebrate.
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linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
I love this post. However I once said that all one needs to do is whisper the words... nay, think the words "is mathematics created or is it discovered?"
And you could do this while all alone... deep in the empty taiga... or on the moon after earth was laid to waste by nuclear winter. And then?
The moment those words are spoken, nay, contemplated: sixteen mathematicians will pop out to start debating. (and I will be one of them)
Anyway... you are NOT proving me wrong.
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admin@mastodon.ai8w.ddns.net ("Some Internet Person ✡︎ :ally:") wrote:
Why not include an Atari 2600 emulator and make the user find the easter egg in "Yar's Revenge"
???
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ajsadauskas@vivaldi.net ("AJ Sadauskas") wrote:
@benni @futurebird Or is it discovered, but with invented conventions?
And if you doubt that the conventions we use to describe mathematics could be different...
Then the Dozenal Society is ready to tell you why a base-12 number system is clearly superior to base-10.
I wish I were making that up.
But no.
There's actually an organisation, with periodicals and meetings and podcasts, advocating that the world should drop decimal numbers and move to base-12 numbers.
Just think.
All those times you've tried to divide things by thirds and been left with a recurring 3 in your fraction.
And really, all you had to do was persuade the world to just completely change the numbering system for everything, and thst equation would have been marginally simpler.
I'm not quite sure if this is like Esperanto for mathematicians, or just some nutters with too much time on their not-quite-10 (in base-12) fingered hands.
The website is here: https://dozenal.org/index.html
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dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:
Christian Nationalism’s First Item on the Agenda: Repeal Women’s Right to Vote - Ms. Magazine https://msmagazine.com/2024/11/29/christian-nationalism-project-2025-women-right-to-vote-suffrage/
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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:
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Me: Okay so due to a performance-optimizing hack in my music-making tool, if you hold a rest for longer than thirteen and a half hours, the engine will glitch and there will be an audible clicking noise. No one will ever run into this case
The Ghost of John Cage, watching me with disapproval: 😐
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ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:
Part of the response to #Enshittification, I believe, is to make NEW things on the web. When things you used to run are no longer under your control, you can a) make sure you leave a record of how it used to be, and b) start a new thing and create what you want to see on the internet. That is what I’ve been trying to do in 2024, in any case. #OpenWeb
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Trump Names El Chapo Ambassador to Mexico”
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-names-el-chapo-ambassador-to
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I love this thread