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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
long overdue
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Just in case you didn’t think everything sucks quite enough, this should help. You’re welcome.
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Mastodon FeedPretty much all of the YouTube #3dprinting community discusses the Bambu Firmware situation right now.
But it seems only a handful of people actually understand what they're talking about 😔
If you really think updating your printer's firmware protects Bambu's cloud services from DDOS attacks in any way, shape, or form, maybe stay out of this discussion. It's becoming a bit embarrassing.
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chandlerc@hachyderm.io ("Chandler Carruth") wrote:
The level of rank, direct, and brutal hatred being directed at the trans community by the current US administration is sickening. If you're not actively following it, you may not realize how bad it is. You *need* to educate yourself so you can take action.
Literally, cis-ally actions are one of the only things left saving trans lives right now in the US. And it is very much going to be about saving lives.
This isn't a "culture war" or "identity" politics.
The white house is defining medical procedures with overwhelming support by major medical orgs around the world as *mutilation*. They are trying to classify parents who care for trans kids by moving to states where doing so is legal as *kidnapping*.
This admin is forcing parents of trans kids to choose: do I force my child to suffer, doubling their risk of suicide? or do I risk kidnapping charges by moving to where they can get the medical care they need, with a regret rate lower than LASIK.
They are at least removing all support for adult trans people, from medical support to other forms, and working hard to criminalize their existence.
Trans people have over 7x the risk of suicide as the wider population, and that compounds in many intersectional ways with other risk factors. Immediate access to gender-affirming care reduced suicidality by **50%**. That is an *incredibly* effective treatment compared to other widely accepted medical options.
When we deny trans people, especially children, access to gender affirming care that is pervasively endorsed by all major medical and psychiatric groups, we are killing them. The math is simple and devastating.
We even have peer-reviewed research directly showing that enacting anti-transgender laws has a significant and causal impact on suicide risk among transgender and nonbinary youth.
So you, cis-person reading this, have a choice.
Oppose and shut down all of these anti-transgender legal steps, every one of them a hateful act of systemic violence.
Or let them kill more children.
It is literally life or death for the trans community.
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coastclark@mas.to ("Beach Life😎🏳️🌈") wrote:
Sequoia National Park
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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:
If there's one thing we know about American AI companies it's that they have never used unauthorized data in any of their models.
Ever.
Not once.
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ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli Bot") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Great resource: HTML for People https://htmlforpeople.com/
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bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:
If you're looking to learn some CSS, my HTML web book has a gentle introduction to it.
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timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:
Wow, Krugman slams the door behind him, much respect. https://contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-the-new-york-times
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large. It uses the same tools and the same logic and, honestly, the perpetrators are often the same damn people.
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mjgardner@social.sdf.org ("Mark Gardner") wrote:
Do I know any #Perl experts in my #developer network that are open to a contract in Middletown, NJ (suburb of #NYC)?
Please reach out to Ryan Troxtell at #TEKsystems if you’re interested in this position: https://jobs.perl.org/job/22037
If you're not, at least please boost this post for more visibility.
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GovTrack ("GovTrack.us") wrote:
Truth sandwich: Most federal civilian employees who work remotely were given the option to keep working remotely if they agreed to resign by September. The media and at least one senator seem to be describing this as a buyout or severance (i.e. be paid to quit) based on early incorrect reporting --- but that's not what happened at all. What happened is that return-to-office is being used as a mechanism to reduce the federal workforce by getting people who have better options to quit voluntarily.
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lavaeolus@fedihum.org ("Henrik Schönemann") wrote:
The website "Racism and Health" from the #CDC is already gone:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250121030412/https://www.cdc.gov/minority-health/racism-health/index.htmlhttps://www.cdc.gov/minority-health/racism-health/index.html
In related news:
We got the whole publicly available part of the CDC-archive backed up - nearly 30.000 files #SafeguardingResearch
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HourlyOtters@mas.to ("Hourly Otters (New)") wrote:
Hello, here's an #Otter!
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
geerlingguy ("Jeff Geerling") wrote:
OpenAI's nightmare: DeepSeek R1 on a Raspberry Pi 5 ;)
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emb@mastodon.sdf.org ("Flyin’ Toaster") wrote:
Have you contributed financially or materially (i.e. server) to help sustain the Fediverse? (Hosting your own instance counts.)
Please boost (…for science ☺️♥️🙏🏻).
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Donald Trump’s administration has been hit with a lawsuit over allegedly collecting federal employee information and directing it to an employee of Elon Musk.
… Amanda Scales, who, according to LinkedIn, works for xAI, a private corporation of which Musk is the CEO. This would violate federal laws on transparency and put the sensitive information of federal employees into the hands of a private corporation.”
https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/113909194103861718
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Doug_Bostrom@scicomm.xyz ("Doug Bostrom") wrote:
Text just received from NOAA research scientist friend.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
theropologist@beige.party ("Velocirooster adminensis :bc:") wrote:
Wait, so you're telling me the powerful elites got behind some nutjob that they thought they could control only to find out that they in fact can't? If only there were some kind of historical precedent that could have warned them of this possibility.
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jason@social.lol ("//Jason") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“His basement, his garage, and his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks,” Ms. Kennedy wrote. “It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yup:
“Legalizing permanent impoundment would transfer power from Congress to the presidency.
The founders devised the separation of powers to keep each branch from accumulating too much authority and posing a threat to liberty. Central to that is Congress’s control of decisions about taxation and spending — its power of the purse.”
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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:
No one, and I mean NO ONE wanted to listen to us when we screamed at the top of our lungs that the emperor has no clothes...
Nothing else has taught me more about how propaganda works and spreads across these institutions, whether it is the Nobel Prize, the United Nations, all these governments and whatnot, and how the stock market is basically like gambling, as seeing how everyone treated OpenAI, Deepmind, and friends since their inception.
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Professor_Stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:
"DeepSeek 'distilled' knowledge from OpenAI’s AI models, a process that Sacks compared to theft."
Let me see if I've got this right. These vultures have been gobbling up everyone else's intellectual property to repackage it as original output from their Gort-level Teddy Ruxpin, justifying it with Mad Hatter logic about internet distribution being some kind of public domain conversion, but when their work gets borrowed, it's stealing.
Got it.
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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:
I’d just like to give a shout out to Epic Games and Tim for choosing this moment to platform a trans playable character while so many other folks are trying to pretend we don’t exist in deference to America’s Octogenarian Authoritarian.
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Mabande ("L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ") wrote:
@fromjason A very good explanation of the "don't sell a product, sell a service" business path.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The Age of Cloud Capital - Persuasion:
"No, the truly historic disruption was to automate capital’s power to command people outside the factory, the shop or the office—to turn all of us, cloud proles and everyone else, into cloud serfs in the direct (unremunerated) service of cloud capital, unmediated by any market." https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-age-of-cloud-capital
Mastodon FeedNfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
Imagine being proud of helping the shit the Trump admin is doing.
"They're using it to blog/publish all of the actions today."
You mean all of the actions from #Project2025? Including invalidating trans people's passports? (And now, a week later, banning them from the military?)
Gross.
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Mastodon FeedSome_Emo_Chick ("Frankie ✅") wrote:
