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Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:
I finally did the Blog Question Challenge after being tagged by @jason over a week ago (yikes!). Next up, @mbjones and @vzq! https://notes.neatnik.net/2025/01/blog-question-challenge-2025
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jelloeater ("Jelloeater") wrote:
https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/01/24/mark-zuckerberg-says-meta-will.html
@fromjason
It's like they're trying to be the next #aws ...
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Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:
I know I'm going to sound biased now,
but this is seriously an amazing article written by @jonah from @privacyguides I would have totally recommended it even 2 months ago.If you are planning to attend any protests, but especially in the US right now,
Read This First 👇👇👇https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/
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jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:
The only thing Signal stores about you is
- When did you register your account (UNIX timestamp)
- When was the last time your account contacted a Signal server (UNIX Timestamp)That's it. That's all Signal can produce about you when they are forced to by authorities. There is no history, no call log, no data beyond that.
Here you can see a subpoena asking for detailed information and the reply that Signal sent back: https://signal.org/bigbrother/cd-california-grand-jury/
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timkmak@journa.host ("Tim Mak") wrote:
#SLOVAKIA PROTESTS PRO-RUSSIAN PM: Mass protests against pro-Russian Prime Minister Robert #Fico have erupted in Slovakia under the slogan “Slovakia is Europe.” The protesters are demanding his resignation and a shift in the country’s policy of rapprochement with #Moscow
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
at least he is up front about it
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Mexico denied a U.S. military plane access to land Thursday, at least temporarily frustrating the Trump administration's plans to deport immigrants to the country, according to two U.S. defense officials and a third person familiar with the situation.
Two Guatemala-bound Air Force C-17s, carrying about 80 people apiece, flew deportees out of the U.S. Thursday night, the sources said. The third flight, slotted for Mexico, never took off."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/mexico-refuses-accept-us-deportation-flight-rcna189182
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
four generations of my family have volutarily raised our right hands and taken the Oath to the Constitution. four straight generations of us have worn Army Green without dishonor. My father, brother, and one nephew were officers, while I was an "Enlisted Person" and very low-level NCO.
I pity my young grand-nephew; he is probably going to be faced with orders requiring ugly choices. I hope he has some courage, and I hope he has some convictions.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“He smiled as he spoke to me and then rationalized this decision because ‘women won’t ever be in combat again’ and I ‘should not be taking a male Naval Aviator's place.’
h/t @swasserstrom
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GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:
Today we're being assaulted, to break us. We won't break:
"MAGA commander terminates female Navy pilot’s Top Gun application—unveils anti-DEI '10 Commandments'"
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- He also unveiled his new '10 Commandments,’ laying out in stark detail his MAGA screw-everybody-who-isn't-white-and-male-and- Christian agenda. As the female Navy fighter pilot wrote (emphasis added): “... he told all of us gathered at the All Hands meeting that per the direct order of our new Commander in Chief Trump there would be no more ‘DEI Poison’ under his command in our unit nor at our installation. He then presented us via Power Point with his new 10 Commandments’ as he called them which went into effect immediately: (1) No more Black History Month (2) No more Women's History Month (3) No more Hispanic History Month (4) No more LGBTQ recognition (5) No more talk about “Transexuals” anywhere in the military workplace as "they do not exist anymore than leprechauns exist" (6) Female personnel will participate in “female pursuits only” for sports teams on his military installation (7) “Female pursuits” for female sports include only badminton, bowling, tennis and golf (8) Female military personnel will no longer be allowed to participate on installation teams for rugby (which | played at Annapolis), basketball, flag football and mixed martial arts. They may run track but not participate in any field events (9) No more “holiday parties” as all events will be designated only as “Christmas parties” during the end of the year season (10) Bible studies in the workplace "are highly encouraged though no one will be forced to attend” (remote)
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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Domestic Enemy Hat") wrote:
#HegsethPolicies Meetings of the Joint Chiefs of Staff now have a two-drink minimum.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cnpe7qvcyjrhm6w7w7e4atur/post/3lgl7ziarx22b
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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Every time I discover that a relative has gone masks-off Trumpist it’s always both a surprise—“somebody here in Iceland has fallen for the most American of extremisms?”—and completely unsurprising—“well, he has been regularly making offensive jokes over the years and has ’boundary issues’ to put it kindly”.
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FantasticalEconomics@geekdom.social ("Kyle Montanio") wrote:
Unsurprisingly, Trump took down the government website to inform people of their reproductive rights and ways to access abortion and contraception.
So folks at theSkimm revived it from the internet archive.
Things like this are how we resist.
https://www.theskimm.com/news/reproductive-rights-gov
https://web.archive.org/web/20250115014223/https://reproductiverights.gov/
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so_treu@blackqueer.life ("Ra'il IK") wrote:
"Diaz is just one of many neo-nazis who are also people of color. While Black neo-nazis are rare, in comparison Latino neo-nazis are fairly common. Latin America itself is honeycombed with neo-nazi groups, and is just one of the many places around the world where they can be found.
This may seem counterintuitive, if not nonsensical, for those who think of neo-nazism as the most extreme form of white supremacy which seeks the extermination of people of color. But the history of National Socialism is far more complex than many think, and the history of non-white National Socialists stretches back nearly a century."
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spencerbeswick@kolektiva.social ("Spencer Beswick") wrote:
The discourse around Elon Musk's Nazi salutes (including now Musk using it to make Nazi "jokes") reminds me of the always relevant Sartre quote on anti-Semites. It is all a game to the far right, meant to push the boundaries of what is considered normal and socially acceptable.
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- Screenshot of a quote from Jean-Paul Sartre. “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” (remote)
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lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:
The most obvious alarming signal regarding both cryptocurrencies and generative AI is how frequently they're both hyped by the same people you wouldn't want your children around.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
CNN announcing Kristi Noem has been confirmed by the US Senate as Secretary of Homeland Insecurity. the vote tally means some Dems voted for her confirmation, and that is an abomination.
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keenan@social.lol ("Keenan") wrote:
I guess my litmus test for judging people is, when they're confronted about hurtful things they've done, are they a DHH or a Bean Dad?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘created a brief and highly publicized bubble that partly deflated within a few days even as Mr. Trump’s family and its business partners collected millions of dollars from fees on purchases and sales of the coin.
“It makes it all look corrupt and self-interested,” said Nic Carter, a vocal supporter of Mr. Trump who runs the crypto investment firm Castle Island Ventures and was at the Crypto Ball as the new $Trump coin was announced.’
ya think?
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
If your pastor is using their sermons to sell memecoins, GET OUT NOW.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/25/dont-look-more-closely-at-your-government/
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@ltratt for the curious: the magic here happens on the Perl package Graph::Easy.
https://metacpan.org/release/TELS/Graph-Easy-0.64/view/lib/Graph/Easy.pm
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ltratt ("Laurence Tratt") wrote:
Today I needed to update an ASCII statemachine diagram. After failing to do so manually, I had a search, and found this wonderful GraphViz -> ASCII tool which was exactly what I needed! https://dot-to-ascii.ggerganov.com/
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computersandblues@post.lurk.org ("*") wrote:
pretty cool that the world sometimes spawns extra screws when you dis- and reassemble devices
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benalldridge ("Ben Alldridge") wrote:
G’day there! I’m Ben, and this is my about… 19th social media #introduction post? I’m a #photography and #science nerd, and the victim of perennial curiosity.
I’m an #actuallyautistic #disabledartist, living in lutruwita/Tasmania, #australia, in my mid 30s. I specialise in #landscapephotography, #astrophotography, and #timelapse in the island’s wild places.
I like to play with light. These are some of my more successful experiments.
How are we all? Say hello!
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- Tasmania’s endemic Tanglefoot (Nothofagus gunnii), Australia’s only gold-weather deciduous tree is draped in a thick blanket of snow. Its leaves are a bright golden, contrasting against drab greens and greys of Snow gums and Pandani.
- Under certain spectrums of light, living and organic matter can produce intensely vibrant colours, glowing as if by magic. This process is called biofluoresence. Here, the Milky Way’s galactic core rises behind a small oceanic lake on Queensland’s coast.
- Tasmania’s Low Head is home to one of the most important lighthouse arrays. Sitting at the mouth of kanamaluka/River Tamar, it serves as herald of land for sailors arriving across the Bass Strait. Occasionally it plays host to the southern aurora and the setting Milky Way, captured with grasses and rocks fluorescing strongly in the foreground.
- During the autumn months, Tasmania sees a brief explosion of a short-lived bioluminescent fungus, the so-called Ghost fungus (Omphalotus nidiformis) in secluded damp forest patches affixed to rotting trees. Owing to their typical low position hidden underneath forest canopies, a view out to the night sky is very rarely afforded, much less on clear nights – making this view out to the crown jewel of the night sky, the galactic centre of the Milky Way, a truly once in a lifetime opportunity.
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reidrac@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Juan") wrote:
This is a terrifying read.
2025-01-23 The bots are at it again | https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2025-01-23-bots-devouring-the-web
Sure, my website is "tiny", 100% static, and very fine-tuned (I like to think); but if I had some dynamic content that was mildly popular... oh, dear.
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StreetArtUtopia@pixelfed.social ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:
The Chapel of Souls: A Masterpiece of 15,947 Blue Ceramic Tiles! See the entire chapel here: https://streetartutopia.com/2025/01/25/the-chapel-of-souls/
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- A section of the Chapel of Souls in Porto, Portugal, showcasing its iconic 15,947 blue ceramic tiles (azulejos). The intricate artwork depicts religious scenes, including Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Catherine, framed by ornate decorative designs. The tiles, created by Eduardo Leite in 1929, blend seamlessly with the building's classic architectural style. The scene captures two large windows, a pedestrian walking below, and a traffic light, highlighting the juxtaposition of historic art and modern life. (remote)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"... it was unclear what funding could be cut given that the US Congress sets the federal government budget. Trump’s order is unlawful, argued a source familiar discussions in Congress on the move.
“Freezing these international investments will lead our international partners to seek other funding partners – likely US competitors and adversaries – to fill this hole and displace the United States’ influence..."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/24/foreign-aid-israel-egypt