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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
cool, ko-fi works https://ko-fi.com/arghstudios
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daylightatheism@universeodon.com ("Adam Lee") wrote:
Story time. What do you do with people in your life who are Trump cultists? Here's what I did.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
22 states are doing the right thing. Is one of them yours?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/10/is-your-state-on-this-list/
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WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:
That time has long since passed. Now it's all about having more, and, all the money. None of what the initial promises were and unfortunately it won't go back to those days. This is why I largely stay in the indieweb space. I'm starting to get to the point where I can't take the mainstream web and companies that take VC money. I try to avoid them when I can. @adam
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WeirdWriter@caneandable.social ("Robert Kingett") wrote:
Be my Eyes is an app that connected Blind people to sighted volunteers but see below.
The denigration of Be My Eyes begins. It was fun while it lasted. Every company that takes venture capital soon falls dramatically into disrepair and, soon, hostel practices.
Be My Eyes recently announced that it has raised $6.1 million through a Series A+ investment round and non-dilutive working capital from multiple enterprise partners. Be My Eyes will deploy this additional capital to accelerate the adoption of its AI-driven enterprise products, drive additional distribution of its free consumer products globally, further expand its vibrant user community of blind and low vision people, and help propel an aggressive new market expansion.
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endonend@social.lol ("Jason") wrote:
Kendrick’s performance last night was great. My favorite part was Humble, complete with an American flag made up of Black men, being torn in two while the president was in attendance. Quite a statement.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
This university will keep on keeping on.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/10/another-memo-from-the-um-president/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
hmmm, the low-end Stripe account processing fees can add up & take a chunk:
2.9%
+ 30¢ per successful charge (for domestic cards)
+ 0.5% for manually entered cards
+ 1.5% for international cards
+ 1% if currency conversion is required
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NewsDesk@flipboard.social ("Flipboard News Desk") wrote:
Three Baltic states disconnect from the Soviet-era grid to merge with the European energy system.
@AssociatedPress reports: "For the three countries, as well as the rest of Europe, the move was steeped in geopolitical and symbolic significance."
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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