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

Mark Alford was apparently very close to finding out that it was God's plan to have his ass kicked by his constituents

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article300885874.html

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

An EV with a 620-mile range would fix me

https://insideevs.com/news/751481/mercedes-benz-eqs-solid-state-battery/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
thezerobit@anticapitalist.party wrote:

Nobody told me that Manning published a book titled `Classic Game Programming on the NES: Make your own retro video game` just last year. It looks pretty good. It seems to tackle a lot of generic retro game problems in the context of the #NES. It covers multiple tools (code editors, NES graphics and music editors). It has a couple chapters just on getting up to speed with 6502 ASM. I haven't read it, yet, but I'm gonna get it soon!

#RetroDev #ClassicGameProgrammingOnTheNES

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MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

Halfway through the museum tour, the alien ambassador froze, tentacles up in a gesture of surprise.

"Er..." the guide said. "Hokusai's 'Dream of the Fisherman's Wife' is-"

"Shklzis, one of our best artists, made a similar piece. Centuries ago, long before we met."

"Er... Great minds think alike?"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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monkeyborg@triangletoot.party ("monkϵyborg 🦾🐵") wrote:

Going-out-of-business sales to commence next week. This would be a good time to stock up on crafting supplies and tools.

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/bankrupt-crafts-retailer-joann-closing-all-stores-2025-02-24/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

*Every* Tesla in drivable condition is an implicit endorsement and *advertisement* for fascism.

I don't care when you bought it. Distance yourself. People should feel ashamed to support Nazis.

Make Evil Unfashionable Again.

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georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

So, Republicans want the government to dictate Americans' eating habits now. Got it. https://www.comicsands.com/rfkjr-junk-food-snap?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=infeed&utm%5Fcampaign=linkprogram

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GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

Keep 'em coming

Via Kyle Cheney:

JUST IN: Judge Lamberth has expanded his block on the #Trump administration's effort to relocate some #transgender inmates to men's prisons.

(There are about 16 transgender inmates in women's facilities nationwide, per DOJ) #LGBTQ

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.276959/gov.uscourts.dcd.276959.55.0.pdf

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
emptywheel.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy wrote:

Office of Special Counsel rules that some of Trump's firings were unlawful, asks for some to be reinstated. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

Oversight agency finds Trump’s...

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faraiwe@mstdn.social ("Faraiwe") wrote:

@FrozenPeach @GayDeceiver #bluesky is just twitter waiting to happen.

Takes a special kind of stupid to expect a proprietary network owned by billionaire techbros to be different THIS TIME...

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paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

The United States of America is a client of the Russian Federation, and the whole world knows it.

Who won the #ColdWar now? 🤨

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/24/united-nations-ukraine-russia-trump/

#history

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

‘Screens throughout the US Department of Housing and Urban Development headquarters blasted images of President Donald Trump slobbering over the feet of Elon Musk on Monday.

“LONG LIVE THE REAL KING” overlaid the apparently AI-generated video, in reference to Trump calling himself a king… more than a dozen screens scattered throughout the building (on almost every floor) showcased the video. Staffers scrambled to grab recordings before the video was taken down.’

https://zeteo.com/p/ai-video-of-trump-licking-musks-toes

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TechCrunch@mstdn.social wrote:

As Meta gets rid of fact-checkers, misinformation is going viral https://tcrn.ch/4kfUGFU

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

“In the past, content creators could not monetize posts that fact-checkers deemed false; but now, these policies will no longer apply...”

https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/114059687864390830

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

Trump Take Egg

(image of sign on empty shelves in grocery store)

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carstenfranke ("Carsten Franke") wrote:

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briansmith@indieweb.social wrote:

I’m looking for new opportunities in the SoCal (L.A./L.B./O.C.) area, or possibly remote. I have a strong background in Rust/C++/C, security, cryptography, networking, etc. Looking for something exciting and collaborative. Doesn’t need to be related to my past projects. Even if you’re not hiring, I would love to meet new people in this area. Tips/leads appreciated. brian@briansmith.org.

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Enema_Cowboy@dotnet.social ("Enema Cowboy") wrote:

This is why The Onion is America's Finest News Source.

https://youtu.be/dFb-N8jzYMI

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michaelrussell@mas.to ("Michael Russell") wrote:

For #MountainMonday I have a rather old photograph I made way back in 2011. The lesson from this one was to wait until the sunset is absolutely, positively, finished before heading back to the car. This one may have involved some running. :)

The amount of mosquitoes didn't help matters!

https://www.mrussellphotography.com/blog/pittriversunset/

#LandscapePhotography #Landscape #Photo #Photography #BritishColumbia #Canada

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GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

“Concerns.” 🙄

“ #Trump admin has halted efforts to place migrants in tent structures built at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amid concerns that the emerging facilities don’t meet detention standards because they lack air conditioning or electricity.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/politics/guantanamo-tents-migrants-housing-paused?cid=ios%5Fapp

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archangelzeriel@tenforward.social ("Archangel Zeriel") wrote:

@pzmyers Also, as a manager in tech, "five things you did this week" is an insane way to approach this, given that any given thing my team or I do can be broken up to a nearly infinite level of "tasks" while still sounding like each one was weighty if you have no real idea about how my technology base works -- or, equally, sounding like each one was busywork/makework if you don't understand how complicated software development can be.

As a COMPETENT manager, I operate under the assumption that any professional skill I haven't been trained in is at LEAST as complicated as what I know, so I assume the same thing is true for 99% of the Federal Government.

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

successfully built a .service file and got Storyteller running under systemctl 🙀

now it will automagically recover from kernel updates and system restarts and etc without the need for human intervention (that means me), & the logfiles will rotate without human intervention, & so on.

Attachments:

• gifv: happy dance

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profcarroll@federate.social ("David Carroll") wrote:

@jsonstein a coup data, if you will

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georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

President Zelenskyy has more courage, principle and honor in his right pinky than Trump has displayed in his whole, vile lifetime.

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

(for everyone about rejoin "NOW??!??!?!?" yes, yes, point taken, but even so)

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

Yes, we're the baddies now

https://wapo.st/41gmlOo

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garbados@friend.camp ("crows call me breadlady") wrote:

consider html-alchemist for your next web app https://garbados.github.io/html-alchemist/

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

oh, now that is interesting:

“demonstrated how these genetic changes facilitated the transformation from sessile life forms to free-swimming organisms”

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/scientists-develop-new-view-of-LQXruZGGQ1Oxdf.UzbgaJg#69e1cdc4-cb73-4dea-bacb-30595e8f39e8

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

given the way public news consumption is shifting away from ‘traditional cable’ as inputs & towards mostly on-demand and streaming services as sources, treating the usual measures in the Fox v CNN v MSNBC corporate wrestling match as valid seems like Type II Error to me

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/business/msnbc-joy-reid.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Posting some anonymized returns regarding IACRBias.org.

Many are reticent to express their opinion openly, politics in tightly-knit academic circles being what they are.

Thanks for your words of encouragement. I’ll be raising awareness more at Real World Crypto.