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

Space Karen grew up in apartheid-era Pretoria, and really does not understand the whole ‘separation of powers’ idea we have here:

“Federal judiciary employees also received the Saturday email from OPM, even though the court system is not part of the executive branch, people familiar with the matter said. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the judiciary's administrative arm, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/some-us-agencies-tell-workers-not-reply-musks-what-did-you-do-last-week-email-2025-02-23/

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

well now, this is interesting:

“Trump administration-appointed officials at the FBI and State Department sent their staff emails telling them not to respond outside their chains of command, in a possible sign of tension between allies of the Republican president and the world's richest person”

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/some-us-agencies-tell-workers-not-reply-musks-what-did-you-do-last-week-email-2025-02-23/

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wholesomememes@mas.to ("Wholesomememes") wrote:

This is real great. (by u/avaLPellTraut)
(AI Alt-Text)

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evs@social.lol ("Evan") wrote:

I just made a new post - Individuality: https://evs.weblog.lol/2025/02/individuality

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bazurk@social.lol ("ᗪave") wrote:

Trying your best looks different every day. #bipolar #depression #mentalhealth

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raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("raganwald 🍓") wrote:

"The US is also ruled by a Mad King. But with typical American extravagance, they have two of them."

—ChatGPT as trained on the sayings of Julius Nyerere, first President of Tanzania

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

Time to fight back.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/23/get-ready-for-the-resistance/

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

We were visited by pilot whales (not actually whales [cetacean needed])

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rick@social.lol ("Rick 🪁") wrote:

Learned about our local evac center’s “Hamakko Toilet” at today’s event. It’s a sewage pipe you fill with pool water at one end, set toilets above opened man holes, and periodically flush by opening a big valve at the other end. 🚽🚽

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

damn, and there I was thinking it would, @CARROT

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• video: 20b0bd1d46321612.mp4

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lifning@snoot.tube ("liffy 💜") wrote:

Many of us have now heard of Rust's "Graydon Hoare being upset at a broken embedded system in an elevator" origin story, but not many younger programmers know that C++ was invented by Bjarne Stroustrup after he forgot to null-terminate his legs while putting his shoes on one day and had to deal with the aftermath.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nigel_Purchase@mstdn.social ("Fight the Right") wrote:

#PresidentKrasnov

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

after an email exchange I feel okay recommending:

https://trumpcostsamerica.com

do you have a Trump administration termination story of your own to tell? this seems like a pretty safe & reasonable place to do it, with sensible privacy policies

https://trumpcostsamerica.com/privacy

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

Ever wonder how everyone got here?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/23/my-ancestors/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

The first woman to fly a combat mission as a Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet fighter pilot sums it up.

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

If you think I'm too critical of Elon Musk you're really gonna hate the history books

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Don't forget to vote today! Help keep the AfD away from the parliament. #Bundestagswahl

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

On the one hand, it's nice to see a public (if still React-pilled) write-up of the costs of JS excesses on a business; the omerta can't hold forever:

https://medium.com/preply-engineering/how-preply-improved-inp-on-a-next-js-application-without-react-server-components-and-app-router-491713149875

OTOH, how does anyone at Vercel sleep at night?

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=250223%5FBiDcTF%5F14G-r%3A1-c%3A0&thumbSize=200&ival=100&end=full

https://treo.sh/sitespeed/preply.com?mapMetric=r&formFactor=phone

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mattl@social.coop ("Dr. Matt Lee ☠️") wrote:

If anyone has a phone number or alternative email address for Kibo, his mail spool is full and his site is completely down.

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bascule@mas.to ("Tony Arcieri 🌹🦀") wrote:

‘Trump Recruited as Moscow Asset,’ Says Ex-KGB Spy Chief

Alnur Mussayev, former head of Kazakhstan’s security service, who rose up the ranks of the Soviet KGB, claims Moscow groomed Trump under pseudonym “Krasnov” in 1987.

#uspol

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/47630#

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rgadellaa ("Roderick Gadellaa") wrote:

🌶️

https://www.theverge.com/elon-musk/617427/musk-trump-doge-recession-unemployment

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

Like, this objectively sucks?

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=250223%5FBiDcTF%5F14G-r%3A1-c%3A0&thumbSize=200&ival=100&end=full

More compilers and "DX" did not help.

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

Context:

https://medium.com/preply-engineering/how-preply-improved-inp-on-a-next-js-application-without-react-server-components-and-app-router-491713149875

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Roberto Smith says: "You're not on the list." GOTHICUMBIA is sold out! You should have bought your tickets earlier...

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• video: 008004bcc0c44dd7.mp4

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dnapizza@sfba.social ("DNA Pizza") wrote:

For our Bollywood Berkeley night, we have a special Chicken Tikka masala pizza! Come check it out, it's so good!

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tendstofortytwo@treehouse.systems ("tendstofortytwo :blobcattea:") wrote:

so I went to San Francisco for the first time ever this week. when I was a kid, I used to play this video game called Midtown Madness 2, where you could drive around in SF, and I had an awesome time looking at things I'd only seem in video game become reality

here's a thread with the things as I saw them in real life, and as I saw them in-game

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OchmennoPodcast@literatur.social ("Och Menno") wrote:

Ouch

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

All of this allowed HP to monotonically raise, and raise, and raise - the price of ink to the point where it is now the most expensive fluid a civilian can purchase without a permit. Printer ink now runs over *$10000/gallon*, meaning that you print out your grocery lists with colored water that costs more than the semen of a Kentucky Derby winner.

HP is truly the poster child for enshittification, and also, patient zero in the enshittification pandemic:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/18/ink-stained-wretches/#hache-pe

9/

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Mikee@zeroes.ca ("MikeeZero") wrote:

People mimic what they see when there’s a perceived danger. I was just at the pharmacy picking up my wife’s meds, and every pharmacist was wearing a surgical mask (wish they were n95, but I’ll take it). There were about 10 of us in the lobby and only three folks did not have a mask. As the moments ticked by, 2 of them walked over and picked up one of the free masks and put them on. The next three people who walked in, upon seeing a room of masked people, also put masks on from the free box. You may not think you’re setting an example, but you are. Show yourself. Be the light.

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

Next.js is literally selling a compiler that understands why your website is slow, and *could* fix it, but that's incompatible with whatever weird sub/dom game Guillermo has going with a shrinking number of FBers...and, like, what?.

How is this "tech" when it's worse in every way.

Wut.