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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

What we’re losing: “High levels of trust used to be one of our superpowers in the US: specifically, that meant trust in our government to operate with reasonable competence & stability and without the kind of corruption that’s hobbled other societies.” https://kottke.org/25/02/in-what-we-trust

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

Today in History: Alexander Borodin (MD, chemist, and composer) dies, 1887

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

Today in History: Richard Cœur de Lion crowned, 1189

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

Not only does Andrew Tate's lawyer work for the White House now, if you read his posts about Andrew Tate, they're sniffing glue stuff going on about how feminists are trapped in "The Matrix" blah blah.

Elon Musk unbanned Tate from Twitter.

There's a great deal of evidence that Tate committed serious crimes.

I keep watching senior US political leaders going on about the Deep State, Dark Money etc - it's all just profoundly awful, it feels like the US is going to have a lost generation.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
violetblue ("Violet Blue") wrote:

New: #Measles spreads and kills in Texas, New Mexico, New Jersey, Kentucky. RFK cancels C19 oral vaccine development. US #Covid levels expected to peak around May 16, UK still rising. Vaccinated kids have 57-73% lower risk of #LongCovid. SNL50 cases: Maya Rudolph, Martin Short, Chloe Fineman; more.

Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-february-123210711

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

@StillIRise1963 And there are no take-backs. Your kid is dead for good. Because you failed to protect your kid.

Some parents of dead kids by whooping cough regretted not vaccinating, after having seen them suffer in the hospital before dying. "We had no idea..." Yes, you did. You chose to listen to an uncredited wacko over doctors and health care systems.

Boosted by jwz:
danfuzz ("Dan Bornstein") wrote:

Happy First Radian Day, to those who celebrate.

This is the 58th day of the year. 58 ≅ 365.256/2π. That is, it is the day during which the path traced by the Earth around the Sun, starting from the beginning of the year, is momentarily the same length as the distance between the Earth and Sun, to a first approximation. This is of course way more mathematically and geometrically interesting than Decimal Approximation Pi Day on 3/14.

Boosted by jwz:
TheZeldaZone ("🎀Zelda👑") wrote:

Trip: "Whale Cap'n, these relays're fused harder than a junebuggy in a mayfly"

T'pol (emotionlessly): "What the fuck"

#scifi #startrek #shitpost

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

Sen. Tammy Duckworth with receipts!

jwz wrote:

"I'm clicking a cow!"

For no reason at all, here are some phone numbers.

Left as an exercise to the reader:

1. Identify the owner of these numbers;
2. Generate a list of all the other numbers they own;
3. Figure out how to bulk import numbers into the Messages.app blocklist without clicking "plus" for each one.

https://jwz.org/b/ykip

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

I've got a booming feral spider population thriving in my lab. I wonder why?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/27/thats-how-you-get-spiders-you-know/

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

Good.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/media/washington-post-jeff-bezos/index.html

Boosted by chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin"):
panic@panic.com ("Panic") wrote:

🕵️ Every day is truly full of surprises on the internet. Elizabeth came across this on LinkedIn and, just for the record…… this is not an actual Panic employee.

That being said we WILL be blaming Bradley for everything that goes wrong from this point forward

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mcg@social.lol wrote:

With the recent Firefox TOS noise, I looked at Zeb browser again and it still has some rough edges but has gotten way better. Worth a revisit.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
heyheymomo@socel.net wrote:

What a day

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mitten@social.lol wrote:

For those of you looking for an alternative to Firefox, please do give Vivaldi a try. I've been using it for the last few months and it's really solid. Lots of good privacy features, and lots of good user experience stuff. https://vivaldi.com/desktop/

Also, they're on the Fediverse: @Vivaldi

PS. Runs on Linux, too!

#Firefox #browsers

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
davidbisset@phpc.social ("David Bisset") wrote:

Best (so far) read on #Firefox ToS change.

https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/02/26/mozillas-new-terms-of-use-are-out-of-step-with-firefoxs-direct-competition.html

"Users of #opensource aren’t auto granting dev rights to their work. Why is Firefox different?"

"I immediately wondered whether using Microsoft Word also needed this kind of license grant since it is processing my words."

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

love the video, hate the elevator music https://youtu.be/yPy4lL0fFW0

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

“could br held personally liable” may help managers grow some spine: https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/Z3WqGWfaGa

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

Gonna watch "The Birdcage" tonight and think about how good Gene Hackman was in it, in a film full of people whose fulltime job was upstaging every other person onscreen

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

Putting up giant statues of oneself is usually a good indicator that a revolution is on the way.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/27/is-anyone-still-unconvinced-that-he-is-absolutely-mad/

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

The most significant foreign relations victory for the Trump administration has been the release of a pair of sexual predators, which is perfectly in keeping with the interests and abilities of the current US government, to be sure

RE: https://www.threads.net/@hollywoodreporter/post/DGlC6uvOIxB

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

The "Wow" signal is not evidence for gods or aliens.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/27/a-guilty-pleasure/

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

Looking for a good slogan for my "Stand up for Science" sign.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/27/what-would-you-tell-people-who-want-to-gut-basic-research/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ancientjames ("James Brown") wrote:

There's now a making-of video for this display. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz59e1wWyVc

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

I like it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/27/accurate/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A quick shot before leaving the cozy streets of Montmartre and heading down a very long staircase, from a few weeks ago in Paris.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Paris #Montmartre

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
robin@riley.pub ("Robin Riley") wrote:

Don't hold international events in countries (like the US) that are particularly dangerous for marginalized people.

Don't hold national events in states (like Florida) that are particularly dangerous for marginalized people.

Boosted by fribbledom ("muesli"):
russss@chaos.social ("Russ Garrett") wrote:

This is not a narrowly-construed piece of legal text. This is some boilerplate that a lawyer hammered out with very little oversight and nobody thought to question it.

And that makes me more nervous about Mozilla than anything else they've done in the last few years.

How is Mozilla "operating Firefox" on my machine??

Boosted by jwz:
ancientjames ("James Brown") wrote:

I have Kiwix and an offline copy of wikipedia on my phone, and my local Gen Z was so surprised and excited by the concept that I thought we should have a dedicated thing for it. Cheap e-reader plus 128GB SD card plus no wifi.