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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

2. Our pipes were all frozen…no shower this morning. We finally got them unthawed by running a drip and turning the heat up.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Winter in Minnesota. 1) started the day with the zipper on my winter coat stripping. It's 25 years old, so I guess it's unsurprising. But damn it is cold.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jodmentum@apobangpo.space ("JoD") wrote:

Firing Air Traffic Control Staff despite multiple crashes.

Firing IRS agents, in tax season.

Firing the people that will let you know bird flu transmission is rising.

Firing the people that will let you know a storm is coming.... during winter and as states still are recovering from hurricanes.

Firing your allies and joining forces with your enemies.

Handing over your confidential tax information to a 25-year old 4channer.

So much winning.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.

This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.

https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Just writing down, in plain language, the structure of current browser funding and the relative staffing (and ambitions) of those teams is an exercise in grief management.

The mobile web didn't die of natural causes.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
shoq ("Shoq") wrote:

What a shock. Musk gives himself a contract to fix what he broke. We are such hapless suckers. This country is just a humiliating place to live now.

A SpaceX team is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system | The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/news/614078/faa-air-traffic-control-spacex-elon-musk-layoff-staff-shortage

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

trying to formulate a note to my Spec-4 great-nephew. Four generations of us have served honorably, but this will no longer be possible for him soon. https://infosec.exchange/@Nonya%5FBidniss/114021316900983639

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:") wrote:

If you're in the U.S. #military, I recommend you ETS as soon as possible if enlisted or resign your commission if officer. Just get out of there with that sweet, sweet DD214. It's not going to be a good place to be for you or your family when this train really gets rolling. #DOD #coup #corruption #autocracy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BruceMirken@mas.to ("Bruce Mirken") wrote:

Don't lose sight of the fact that EVERYTHING #ElonMusk and so-called #DOGE are doing is illegal. Everything.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-doge-special-government-employee/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:") wrote:

European and N. American democracies are beginning to understand that Trump's U.S. is an enemy. An indicator that they fully understand the problem will be when they cease intelligence sharing.

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"Opinion: The democratic world will have to get along without America. It may even have to defend itself from it

It is not just that the democratic world can no longer count on America. It is that America, under Mr. Trump, is no longer necessarily part of the democratic world: neither fully democratic in its own affairs, nor committed to the welfare of other democracies, but hostile to both. If the international order is to be preserved, then, it will have to be preserved, in part, from the United States. Certainly it will have to be rebuilt without it.

Which means abandoning all attempts to propitiate Mr. Trump on military matters, in hopes of “keeping NATO together,” that is with the United States in it. Not only will that do nothing to strengthen NATO, an organization to which Mr. Trump is viscerally opposed, but our desire to strike a deal only invites him to use it against us, as an instrument of blackmail.

We need to face some unpleasant facts. NATO, as a transatlantic democratic alliance, is dead. Henceforth the defence of Europe will be the responsibility of Europe. (And the defence of Canada? Wedged as we are between the United States and Russia, with the North an increasingly tempting prize? We better get some allies, fast.)

The same applies to the World Trade Organization, or any of the other instruments of international co-operation developed after the Second World War, in which the United States played such a constructive part"
#coup #InsiderThreat #NATO
Original: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-democratic-world-will-have-to-get-along-without-america-it-may/
No paywall archive: https://archive.is/iA0Qg

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

Police arrest apparent leader of cultlike ‘Zizian’ group linked to multiple killings in the US
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/us/leader-zizian-group-arrested-linked-to-multiple-killings?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into US News @us-news-CNN

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Christopher Stanley, former Senior Director for Security Engineering at X and Principal Security Engineer at SpaceX, who now serves as a Musk aide at DOGE with a White House role.

"Also known as Unh0ly, enKrypt, or Reneg4d3—the former owner of Error33[.]net, a warez and hacking forum, and theC0re, a video game cheating community."

BlueSky thread:
https://bsky.app/profile/dogginglover.bsky.social/post/3lid446df4224

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

It's good to realize that the EU is economically far stronger then Russia, so if we start investing in our defense we can easily defend ourselves and/or defeat Russia, the only question is whether we have enough time to (re)build our defenses/military because Russia knows this as well.... That's what worries me..
#russia #eu #geopolitics @geopolitics

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:

I’m a #Seattle #community #organizer and #activist, #developer, and #cybersecurity expert… + a queer, neurodivergent Black parent heavily impacted by #racism—including stalking, #housing insecurity, + a #racist #lynchmob.

I’ve spoken at #DEFCON, organized to #recall a mayor, and I help run the #partyon server + a local #hackerspace.

#Support my work, #activism, + #family here:

venmo/cashapp: @nullagent
https://ko-fi.com/nullagent
https://chuffed.org/project/114004-support-a-protester-assaulted-while-defending-housing-rights

#BlackMastodon #MutualAid

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
marlies@tacobelllabs.net ("marlies :tblverified:") wrote:

If you’re trans or part of some other persecuted minority in the US and are in devops/sre, react, php, laravel, nodejs, go, or something related enough, and interested in relocating to Europe, DM me and I’ll see what I can do. My employer has experience with the paperwork involved with hiring US citizens and getting them a residency permit.

edit: off to bed now but if you’re in Europe and seeing this, if your employer can do the same (ask if unsure), reply publicly and I’ll boost it

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lolgop@journa.host wrote:

Just in time for the Republicans in the Senate to make one of the most destructive confirmations in US history, here is the finale of Ball of Thread.

How Kash Patel will turn the FBI into Trump's vengeance machine and Putin's wettest dream come true.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IANIa1lHIgs

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jschauma@mstdn.social ("Jan Schaumann") wrote:

Scenes from the “No Kings On Presidents’ Day” protest in Union Square just now.

Fuck Trump. Fuck Musk. And fuck the entire cowardly Republican Party.

#NotMyPresident #nyc

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MAKS23 ("MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦") wrote:

✈️🙏 Multiple people have sustained injuries after a plane crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport, - CTV

❗️Paramedics confirmed that up to 8 people were injured, adding they are unsure of the extent of injuries.

Attachments:

• video: ea060091910a95a7.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
P0llyticks@norden.social ("Jess ex machina") wrote:

So fucking true!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dave@social.masto.land ("Dave Winer's linkblog in Masto") wrote:

Protests ramp up across the country as rage builds against Trump and Musk.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/17/2304347/-Protests-ramp-up-across-the-country-as-rage-builds-against-Trump-and-Musk

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MAKS23 ("MAKS 24 👀🇺🇦") wrote:

🇪🇺🇺🇸🤔 One senior EU diplomat to the Financial Times: "It is now absolutely clear that Europe is alone."

When asked if he now considers the US an adversary, he replied: "Yes."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
toastygirl@mastodon.online ("SallyBlack") wrote:

Like banning access to cancer information websites because some AI bot detected the word "breast" and put it in the p0rn category.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
claesdevreese ("Claes de Vreese ☑️") wrote:

As Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index.

The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe.

#journalism #democracy #freepress

https://rsf.org/en/index

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social ("Brad Rosenheim") wrote:

These scientists were in the early stages of they careers, with newly earned PhDs and temporary employment working on coastal flooding research. They were likely looking for jobs in academia or industry after getting a publication or two from their postdoc position. Those publications would ultimately help the USGS mission.

But they were ultimately seen as government waste by the unelected officials controlling the U.S.A. government under this adminsitrative #coup.

It is demoralizing. Recruitment of young scientists to our research community in St Petersburg was a hue part of who we are. Transmission of new ideas, formation of new collaboration, discovery of new ideas - this is how the scientific process really works. It is not the crumbs of individual geniuses like half of our population thinks Musk is. It is this very system that they are dismantling here and elsewhere!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social ("Brad Rosenheim") wrote:

On Friday, I was informed by a collaborator and friend that postdocs on a probationary period at the United States Geological Survey Coastal Sciences Office in St. Petersburg, Florida, were fired on 30 minutes notice. They received an email that they were terminated and they had 30 minutes to cleat out their offices, download data, and leave. At that point they would no longer have access to their computers and their key cards would not work.

#science
#USGS
#ClimateCrisis
#ConstitutionalCrisis
#USPol
#Musk
#DOGE

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
RealJournalism wrote:

Zelenskyy warns of ‘high risk’ Putin will invade NATO countries: Full interview https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/zelenskyy-warns-of-high-risk-putin-will-invade-nato-countries-full-interview-232118341582 #Russia #Ukraine

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

People keep saying this February's plateau of #COVID19 when we should be declining is unprecedented. They're wrong. This is unusual, but it is NOT unprecedented.

This February looks much like February 2023. And, in fact, the modest 2024 holiday surge is a bit of an echo of the more moderate wave over the holidays in 2022.

This isn't the first time COVID paused its winter decline. More modest holiday surges mean slow, bumpy declines. Read more here: (1/2)

https://medium.com/@augieray%5F66704/covid-and-other-viral-threats-remain-high-in-the-us-update-for-february-14-2025-e299e1762bc0

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Thank god we just confirmed a worm-ridden germ denier as the US's top health official

https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/flu-continues-to-spread-in-southwest-ohio-as-hospitalizations-surge-past-5-year-average/2LDIXARI3FBTVKARH244ASXA3I/

https://daytondailynews.com/local/flu-continues-to-spread-in-southwest-ohio-as-hospitalizations-surge-past-5-year-average/2LDIXARI3FBTVKARH244ASXA3I/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lpbkdotnet@mstdn.social wrote:

Welcome to the #TelephoneExchange shed my new beepyboopy friend!

This is a “GPO Modem 2B” - a #dialup #modem… phone line in, RS232 out at a whopping 300bps!

It’s all discrete components (no ICs here!) and beautifully built with all the diodes/resistors mounted on little plastic carriers.

The modulator, demodulator etc are on separate, pull-out cards

It’s a gorgeous chunk of engineering, that I’ll be carefully powering up over the next few weeks!

Thanks for the swap @anachrocomputer

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tzimmer_history ("Thomas Zimmer") wrote:

“He who saves his Country does not violate any law,” Donald Trump said yesterday.

Two possible reactions:

1. Continue on the trajectory that got us here in the first place by discarding this as “just Trump being Trump”

2. Grapple in earnest with the fact that Trump asserts dictatorial power as the providential leader tasked with saving the nation.

This is acutely dangerous.