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ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:
Trump has made the USA the most vulnerable country in the world from an intelligence perspective. He has sabotaged the system of security clearances for his people, data is insecure/leaked from major agencies, people are getting fired or are very insecure. Best spy recruitment time ever..
#intelligence #spying #geopolitics @geopolitics
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ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:
"Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?" #Democracy https://werd.io/2025/judith-butler-philosopher-if-you-sacrifice-a-minority-like-trans
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The American Society for Microbiology caves.
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GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:
6/ Via Brad Moss:
The one thing the various pieces of litigation are starting to do is bring to light in sworn affidavits what did occur behind the scenes, and bring clarity to situations that currently rely on anonymously sourced leaks…
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Mr. Trump would take these exceptions and make them the new norm. He would give an already quasi-imperial executive unfettered control of a bureaucracy with far-reaching regulatory powers, unbind its prosecutorial function from the norm of political independence, allow it to defy the legislature on spending and demand deference to it in its interpretations of the Constitution. It does not strike me as unreasonable to call the resultant order Caesarian in character.”
yup
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Mr. Trump’s challenge is strikingly different. He aims to unbind the executive from constraints imposed by the other branches and the normal process of administrative lawmaking. To stand, these changes will require the other players in our constitutional order to accept that the president by himself can make changes of such magnitude. That would be a … constitutional revolution.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“About 80 percent of manufacturing investments spurred by a Biden-era climate law have flowed to Republican districts. Efforts to stop federal payments are already causing pain.”
good
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shanselman@hachyderm.io ("Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮") wrote:
Hello non-technical people. Just a heads up. Musk isn’t a programmer, a systems architect, or anyone with experience building or running large systems of any kind. However, he’s taken credit for others building large systems which makes him think he’s That Guy. He is not.
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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
Popular Information - NSA today planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion,” which is creating unintended consequences.
https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/the-nsas-big-delete
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paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:
People in spheres of influence, who make decisions from a place of #fear, will succumb to #LossAversion and make poor-quality decisions.
https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/top-stories-in-politics-mjjjoeffz/-/a-Pja6IHaVSIeUkQjFZuKWzw%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Even Michael Rennie couldn't bring any dignity to this bad giant spider attack.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/10/cheesiest-giant-spider-monster-ever/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
This fuckin' guy is in charge of research funding? WHY? He's not a scientist, he's a rich twit.
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ajsadauskas@vivaldi.net ("AJ Sadauskas") wrote:
In these tumultuous times, it's worth taking a moment to read this short biography of former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/appeasement-and-peace-our-time
Chamberlain is best known for a policy he called "peace in our time", but has since become known as appeasement.
In 1938, Chamberlain secured a deal with Hitler that saw Czechoslovakia cede a portion of its territory, known as the Sudetenland to Germany.
In return, Hitler agreed that he would have no further territorial ambitions.
By March 15, 1939, German troops had seized the rest of Czechoslovakia. And by September they had invaded Poland.
In 2025, there's no shortage of Neville Chamberlains on the world stage willing to give up the Sudetenland to appease the likes of Trump, Putin, and Musk.
It didn't work for Chamberlain then.
It won't work now.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I have to admit, I get a childish glee out of this model
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paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:
I watched #Jan6 via CSPAN cameras (b/c that’s where the best unedited content is), and made an observation in mid-2021, which I think has held up: “an insurrection which suffers no consequences was supported by all parties.”
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qrper@mastodon.radio ("Thomas (K4SWL)") wrote:
Eric’s Go-To Low-Cost, Self-Supporting Antenna System for #POTA
https://qrper.com/2025/02/erics-go-to-low-cost-self-supporting-antenna-system-for-pota/
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fullyabstract@fosstodon.org ("Alley Stoughton") wrote:
Snowy morning in Jamaica Plain.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
h/t to https://journa.host/@w7voa/113979636920031167 for the article on NSA's dumbest move in a long time
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neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:
NSA is now deleting content by executive order including works like "privilege" - so no references to privilege escalation.
'bias' - used in both statistical manner and intelligence product creation. See Richards Heuer (albeit CIA, not NSA).
inclusion/inclusive - also immediately relevant to datasets
we are just in the dumbest timeline.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
okay, this is truly cray cray
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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
Senate Democrats launch a ‘whistleblower portal’ amid DOGE takeovers of federal agencies.https://www.democrats.senate.gov/whistleblowers
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
playing around with the possibility of adding 3D scenes, added generic support files route for things not in main menu, test scene seems to work fine.
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:
Something tells me @amerpie likes movies. 😂
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jk ("josef") wrote:
programming subconsciously makes people unhappy because half the lines of text you're seeing on your screen end with the ); emoticon
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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
If you start to see the US judiciary’s authority dismantled- they’re the final check on executive power - then you’re in the endgame to authoritarian rule.
It’s not there yet. But one to watch. The party of law and order may be the party who successfully disband it, it looks like they’re flirting with trying.
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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
President Musk has tweeted that the judge is “corrupt” and called for him to be “impeached now” and the Vice President has said federal judges shouldn’t have legal power.
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dansinker@omfg.town ("Dan Sinker") wrote:
Just remembered back in the day when Philly did this.
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kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Domestic Enemy Hat") wrote:
Huh some people don’t like being called Good Germans
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ajsadauskas@vivaldi.net ("AJ Sadauskas") wrote:
@JessTheUnstill MAGA was never, at its core, a grassroots working class movement from the rustbelt, as some analysts tried to claim around 2016.
It was always a billionaires' movement funded by billionaires, fronted by a billionaire.
The claim that these intergenerationally wealthy capital owning nepobabies stand for the common man, and the wage earners that criticise them are the elites, has always been laughable.
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tjw@social.lol ("Timothy Wood") wrote:
Seeing a bunch of protest signs out there that aren't super legible. Not gonna call out any specific one out and good on you for getting out there. But, as someone with years of experience making, uh, hand painted signs intended to be read at a distance -- here are a few simple tips!
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