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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

KXAN: First case of measles confirmed in Austin

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin-leaders-provide-updates-on-measles-in-texas-urge-vaccinations-amid-outbreak/

#measles #TX #Austin

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gdyson@sciencemastodon.com ("George Dyson") wrote:

Reminder from History: Nuclear war on the ground in Europe was a real threat reinforced by deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in large numbers by both sides. With the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine inherited the third-largest nuclear arsenal on planet Earth. Those weapons were decommissioned with bilateral cooperation and the assurance of US support. This was one of the greatest advances in global security in history and only a complete fool would now complain about the cost. [Graphics: 1953]


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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
InfoSecSherpa@infosec.exchange wrote:

March 2nd #WomensHistoryMonth spotlight:

"A lifelong advocate for women and Indigenous Americans in tech, Mary G. Ross broke barriers as the first known Indigenous female engineer.

Mary G. Ross was part of the original engineering team at Lockheed's Missile Systems Division, where she worked on a number of defense systems, and contributed to space exploration efforts with her work relating to the Apollo program, the Polaris reentry vehicle, and interplanetary space probes."

https://doodles.google/doodle/mary-g-ross-110th-birthday/

Mary G. Ross

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
me@elizabeth.cat ("Elise :neocat_box:") wrote:

periodic reminder that Barcelona has a supercomputer inside an old church and it's one of the most rad things you can see

picture of the Mare Nostrum supercomputer, inside an old church

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Action lines make everything more exciting!

Photo of black cat with exciting action lines (even though the kitty is just laying there peeking at you from its cat tree)

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

@spdrnl @StillIRise1963 White people say 'It takes time.' It's taken my father's time, my mother's time, my uncle's time, my brothers' and my sisters' time. How much time do you want for your “progress?“ I’m 66 years old.

…like, 50 years ago.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
kaasiand.cool@bsky.brid.gy ("daniël") wrote:

severance 3#severance

Mark, Helly, Irving and Dylan from Severance as 16-bit sprites walking down a white office hallway, in the style of Mother 3 (GBA)

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

Gen X Les Misérables: Jean Valjean is caught stealing a loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter.

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jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein the toilets have been ordered!
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/03/02.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

Screenshot

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mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

If anyone is confused about 18F: imagine an in-house consultancy who could show up and solve your problems but who would then be able to use that knowledge to solve someone else's problems without billing them for the prior work, saving everyone money and also making a bunch of it open source. People took pay cuts to work there. Destroying them is a tragedy

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

As you watch the Trump regime wreck everything in sight, you should be regularly asking yourself this question:

If the stated goal was to end democracy, ruin the economy, accelerate climate change, shred human rights, aid our adversaries, and steal everything in sight -- would the regime be doing anything differently?

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marcedwards ("Marc Edwards") wrote:

Remember when Adobe was all-in on NFTs?

Nilay Patel: So do you think eventually Photoshop is going to have in its listed export options, like TIFF, JPEG, NFT? Scott Belsky: We are going to have a “prepare as NFT” option by the end of this month.

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skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

In 2019 I met a young Meta engineer who was really fired up about wanting to change the company ‘from the inside’. She asked me why I hated her company. I said I’d just come from a place where I saw it accelerate genocide (Myanmar) and suppress democracy. She said oh at least they won’t do it here.

I wonder where she is now. Probably laid off.

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jwz wrote:

darmok dot com has not been updated lately and that's on you http://darmok.com

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

checking in on decentralized assets intended to be independent from governments and big banks

#crypto #cryptocurrency

CoinDesk headline: Crypto Market Faces Weak Demand, Needs Trump Initiatives to Kick In, JPMorgan Says Institutional crypto futures positioning suggests a weakness in demand, the report said.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kenshirriff@oldbytes.space ("Ken Shirriff") wrote:

Intel's Pentium processor (1993). Looking inside the chip , I found a large, complicated circuit just to multiply by 3 (lower right). Why? The Pentium uses a fast technique to multiply 64-bit numbers and it turns out that 3 is a special case. Let's take a closer look at multiplication... 1/N

A die photo of the Pentium processor. Under a microscope, the chip is a tan square with darker rectangular regions and tiny lines. I've removed a metal layer of the chip to make the circuitry more visible. The main functional units are labeled: caches, execution unit, floating point unit, microcode ROM, and so forth. A rectangular circuit in the lower right is highlighted: the times-3 circuit.

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Boosted by jwz:
nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

Star Trek Enterprise scene. Cue the Cinemax after 10pm 70s funk music because we're in the DECON chamber! (The decontamination chamber on the NX Enterprise is where a lot of horny stage direction happened.) Hoshi, Malcolm, and T'Pol sit shoulder to shoulder in tank tops and underclothing under a blue light. They're very oily. T'Pol looks like she's meditating. Hoshi is looking off camera, and then there's Malcolm, who has his eyes closed with a dreamy wierd smile on his face. Closed caption reads, "Do you smell that?"

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

The Trump Administration Keeps Citing an Untrue Stat as It Targets Federal Workers
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A “survey of our niche audience for our niche audience” was the source for the claim that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices. The number isn’t true. Why do the Trump administration and elected officials keep relying on it?
https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-employees-work-from-home-trump-myth?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #USPolitics #Government #Labor #WFH #Work

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

Android developers: your programming environment suuuuuuuucks. Hundreds of lines of code to get simple things working that take less than 10 lines on the Web. You don't have to live this way.

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elilla@transmom.love ("elilla&, travesti ativa antifa") wrote:

it's ridiculous how it's now normal that computers are adversarial to their owners and using a computer now means to be working around constantly hostility of software designed specifically to not help you, and this is accepted enough that for young people that's their whole idea of what a computer is, a sort of scammy robot always trying to pull one over you

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

"burglarcore" fashion movement where people dress like this in normal everyday settings

photo of a person in stereotypical "burglar" garb: black and white horizontal striped shirt, black pants, black eye mask and a black beanie. they are holding a bag with a big dollar sign on it.
femme equivalent of the previous photo, with more color: black and white striped bodysuit and knee high socks, a black cape with a yellow inner lining, a black wide brim hat with a yellow band, a red necktie and red gloves. also holding a $ sign bag, and doing a "sshh" gesture with her other hand.

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

In the setting, that appears to be a fiery Hell, a demon like voice from off panel says to the wide eyed Hellcat, “…we are the creations of humanity itself! Physical projections of mankind’s collective unconscious! We exist because MAN, exist! We are, in truth, his dark side, given flesh!“ Hellcat, stammer’s, “B-but the Bible says that – –“

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
EmilySchnall@mastodon.art ("Emily Schnall✨Commissions Open") wrote:

Made a pretty nice polar bear today ❄️

Illustration of a polar bear standing with its head happily upturned

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streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:

JD Vance Gets Trolled on the Slopes: Protesters Greet Him with Brutal Signs: https://streetartutopia.com/2025/03/02/jd-vance-gets-trolled-on-the-slopes-protesters-greet-him-with-brutal-signs/

Two protesters stand in a snowy cemetery holding signs. One person in a blue beanie and black puffer jacket holds a large cardboard sign reading "GO SKI IN RUSSIA TRAITOR" in bold black letters. Another protester behind them, wearing a gray puffer jacket and black gloves, holds a yellow sign that says "DEPORT ELON." The setting includes gravestones and bare trees in the background, adding an eerie contrast to the political demonstration.

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Boosted by jwz:
AlexanderMars wrote:

@jwz their post starred and boosted.

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denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

y'all takes are so hot and disposable sometimes, we should explore that as a source of renewable energy

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

Well this sure reads to 2025 eyes like a clairvoyant message from the future:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/trump-2024-reelection-pull-out-of-nato-membership/676120/

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

ah yup

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

hah! examining Storyteller service logs & noticed big uptick in usage on Valentine’s Day

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

This is the most important comment I have heard this week — Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk:

“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians […] Europe, if there is something we lack today, it is not economic or demographic power, but the belief that we are truly a global force.”

I think Tusk hits the bullseye here. Those 140 million Russians are already fully occupied by fighting Ukraine, and our leaders act like we are Liechtenstein.