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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The people who oppose DEI are just bigots.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/05/anti-dei-racist/
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Regarding LB[1]: That's not entirely true. Even back in the day we were connected to other people. It's just the connections were not the realtime deluge of doom and gloom and harassment we get now. It was slower and mediated through magazines, books, radio programs, tv shows, and often in person with groups or friends.
(Not to romanticize it or anything. Computer technology has always had problematic aspects, whether we knew it or not.)
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
How do you repair a broken country? Science isn't going to help.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/05/how-to-kill-american-science/
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Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Truly the banality of evil: commit ethnic cleansing just so you can get prime real estate on the Mediterranean and build a luxury riviera
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jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared “Indie Social Web” White") wrote:
P.P.S. I just scrolled through the homepages of CNN, ABC News, NBC News, and AP News.
Not *a single mention* I could find of the protest in D.C. and the Democrats who came out to speak and show solidarity.
Ask yourself why this is, and the only logical answer is probably the correct one.
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incredible beaver news today https://www.voxnews.al/english/kosovabota/qeveria-po-e-planifikonte-prej-7-vitesh-kastoret-ndertojne-brenda-dy--i84652
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ayoub@spore.social ("Elia Ayoub (he/him)") wrote:
The NYT describing military occupation, the mass ethnic cleansing of two million people and the shredding of what’s left of international law :
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Mastodon FeedCurrent events would get laughed out of the script of a Mission Impossible movie. Make it make sense.
Mastodon Feeddymaxion@infosec.exchange ("Eleanor Saitta") wrote:
With the "shutdown" of USAID, the State department has ordered an emergency evacuation of all staff from over a hundred countries by Saturday. In their wake they will leave massive chaos. USAID feeds 53 million people a year, among other things. Many, many people are dying because of this, and many countries will never trust the US again.
USAID is a major part of American international soft power. The damage that this is causing can only be described as treasonous, even ignoring the human cost.
To be clear, this evacuation is impossible. Doing it from one country is very hard. Doing it everywhere all at once, even with all available military airlift assets, cannot happen. Regardless, on whatever schedule they do do this, this is not a normal international move. They are telling staff who in some cases have been in country for decades or who expected to be their for the rest of their careers that they have 48 hours to pack suitcases and leave everything else they own behind, to return to a country where they have no where to live and no job.
But then, that's the point.
Mastodon FeedWelp, there's a band whose music I like, but they're not on Bandcamp and I literally cannot figure out how to get Amazon to sell this album to me, so here we are -- where do the kids illegally download MP3s these days?
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torsten@chaos.social ("Torsten") wrote:
@mkj @denschub @gregandcin See https://docs.github.com/en/rest/migrations - I do regular backups of most the organization repos. This seems to have everything, issues and attachments for sure. Importing somewhere else is probably not easy but at least all the data is stored locally.
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federicomena@mstdn.mx ("Federico Mena Quintero") wrote:
New Bloodywood for all food lovers out there - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nihFu0YjkcE
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TechCrunch@mstdn.social wrote:
Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website https://tcrn.ch/4jMOfdi
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mattm@infosec.exchange ("Matthew McPherrin") wrote:
Congratulations to the Firefox team for shipping CT enforcement!
> Starting in Firefox 135, Certificate Transparency is now enforced on all desktop platforms.
https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-policy/c/OagRKpVirsA/m/Q4c89XG-EAAJ
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Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Back home to this.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yet another sign of our society’s growing polarization and declining ability for discussion. this is not a good sign for our country.
“[CNN] has been stuck in last place in the ratings among its main competitors, behind MSNBC and Fox News, the longtime leader. Its prime time ratings have plummeted since the election, and its digital audience has also shrunk.”
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mxshift@treehouse.systems ("Rick Altherr") wrote:
(to Wonderwall)
Q-Day is gonna be the day
That they're gonna break your RSABy now, you should've somehow
Made a plan to move awayI don't believe that anybody
Knows when it'll be
Too laaaaaaate
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Also, to be clear, UnitedHealthcare has never contacted me about this stuff. I find out either because a provider contacts me before hand or when I go to have service from somebody I've used many times before, and I'm informed they no longer take my insurance.
Mastodon FeedJamieGC@tsukihi.me ("JamieGC 🏴 🏳️🌈 🖖") wrote:
ICE agents come to the house of an immigrant activist, he tells them he will come out of the house to them if they have a judicial warrant, as people are told to do now.
They bring a dozen more agents, a Bearcat armored vehicle, battering ram and stun grenades, and break in.
Mastodon Feedluckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:
As a science advocate, something I hear a lot is that people think government would be better if there were more scientists and physicians elected to Congress. Senator Bill Cassidy's cowardice in voting for RFK Jr, show us that expertise is useless if you have no morals.
Mastodon Feedeniatitova@sfba.social ("Enia Titova") wrote:
@heidilifeldman People who aren’t lawyers also greatly underestimate the value of lawsuits in causing pain and being a distraction for people trying to implement these policies. In the corporate world we often say that it doesn’t matter if you win the ultimate verdict if you made your opponent spend millions of dollars on legal fees and distracted their executive team for years. let’s keep the Trump idiots occupied with depositions and document discovery.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
The face of American Fascism is extremely punchable
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-doge-musketeers-the-secret-team-elon-wants-to-keep-in-the-shadows/
Mastodon Feedriotmuffin@ni.hil.ist ("Luigi Muffingione") wrote:
the only valentine you'll need this year...
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Mastodon Feedsfbaykeeper@sfba.social ("San Francisco Baykeeper") wrote:
Our field investigator captured footage today showing SFPUC's sluice gates once again overflowing--releasing feces, trash & other pollution directly into Mission Creek and SF Bay 😠
This is why we're taking legal action to get SFPUC to clean up its act: https://baykeeper.org/press_release/san-francisco-caught-dumping-millions-of-gallons-of-sewage-into-sf-bay-every-year/
#sfpuc #sanfrancisco #sf #bayarea #sewage #pollution #missioncreek
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Waiting two years to prosecute Trump et. al. for election and Jan 6th crimes: oopsie!
Waiting weeks to replace Biden after the first debate: deliberative and thoughtful.
Thinking about, maybe, not approving *some* appointees as the coup is in full swing: somber and respectful.
What will it take to teach these Dems that speed matters?
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Also I don't really get to choose. I got exactly two choices from my employer, and they were just variations of the same, high deductible plan with exactly the same network... Markets and things or something.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
general advice: Always check the network of the insurance you choose to make sure providers are in network.
UnitedHealthcare: We're dropping several of the providers you use in the middle of the year due to contract negotiations. Good luck! lol
Me: WTF
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spacehobo@teh.entar.net ("Space Hobo") wrote:
@siliconundergro I feel like this story got mis-told for decades, removing the real triumph that occurred.
Gates ported a subset of Dartmouth BASIC to the Altair, sure. Although the review from the Altair users was "this is a pretty weak BASIC. Kinda mid." And yeah, they didn't have the rights to the tapes, which was kind of a surprise to the user groups when they saw that letter. Like, twist my arm telling me not to share this mediocre software.
So what was the ACTUAL response? They wrote an architecture for everyone to write their OWN BASICs in much less code and with more room for individual experimentation, and started a magazine to collaborate on this, and possibly even coined the term #CopyLeft to describe their efforts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC
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djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:
pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living
https://doctordeathray.bandcamp.com/track/fight-like-hell-3
#nowPlaying daily, multiple times a day. we gotta fight like hell.