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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
existentialcomics ("Existential Comics") wrote:

Not sure I've ever seen a more obvious picture to remind us that police exist to protect the property of the ruling class, not the rights of the people.

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

It's not just the US whose economy is somewhat screwed right now, although I don't know that I would call this a good thing, particularly

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/economy/china-cpi-deflation-problems-intl-hnk/index.html

Boosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
tiffany.c.li@threads.net ("Tiffany C. Li") wrote:

First they came for the … just everyone all at once I guess.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
br00t4c wrote:

Woman saves clerk from robbery using her martial arts skills while wearing high heels

#BoxingSkills #MartialArtsHeroine #QuickThinking #BrazilianJiuJitsu #NewHeelsNoFear

https://www.upworthy.com/woman-saves-clerk-from-robbery-using-her-martial-arts-skills-while-wearing-high-heels

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Oh, and it did mess up time zones. Of course it did. Timezones will remain the last bastion of human engineers.

Boosted by jwz:
textfiles@mastodon.archive.org ("Jason Scott") wrote:

A lovely set of mirrored US government documents, with more to come:

https://archive.org/details/usgovernmentmirrors?tab=collection&query=mediatype%3Acollection&sort=-publicdate

jwz wrote:

House Bill 1774: Black Lives No Longer Matter.

Mayor Muriel Bowser, Profiles in Courage: Crews started work Monday to remove the large yellow "Black Lives Matter" painted on the street one block from the White House. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced...
https://jwz.org/b/ykkC

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Ah, the splendors and miseries of LLMs… Asked llama3 to generate an .ics file from a set of 6 appointments, vaguely formatted and copy-pasted from an email.

It worked! But:

- It forgot the end marker of the format, which I had to debug myself, using my brain.
- When asked to make all 6 appointments one hour long it did it for one, the second one was 45 minutes, the rest 5 minutes. Fixed manually in a text editor :-)

But yeah, it'd probably take me longer to do it manually.

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

Friends, I am *wheezing*. People on this plane are giving me looks. Holy shit...like...hahahahahahaha....omg...doubled over laughing:

https://martijnhols.nl/blog/how-much-traffic-can-a-pre-rendered-nextjs-site-handle

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

Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research
https://www.science.org/content/article/pentagon-abruptly-ends-all-funding-social-science-research?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News from Science @news-from-science-SciMag

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

NASA to eliminate chief scientist position
https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-eliminate-chief-scientist-position?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News from Science @news-from-science-SciMag

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Donnerr@jawns.club ("Donna R :jawn2:") wrote:

@heidilifeldman Done, thanks, just called my two PA senators.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rick_baumhauer@toad.social ("Rick Baumhauer") wrote:

@heidilifeldman Done - used the 5 Calls app to get in touch with both Sen Blumenthal (staff) and Sen Murphy (voicemail). I encouraged both to vote NO on the CR without guarantees, and also to encourage both to use whatever means are at their disposal to free Mahmoud Khalil.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
djwfyi@vmst.io ("Daryl the Admin 🇺🇦") wrote:

I wish that those who wanted to fuck around didn't mean that we all had to find out. But here we are.

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

Secretary of State Marco Rubio: “After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID”

https://masto.ai/@socprof/114139198135748142

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Snowshadow ("Snowshadow 🇨🇦") wrote:

From Bsky:

"Charlie Angus
‪@charlieangus104.bsky.social‬
Trump claims he is imposing 250% tariffs on CDN dairy.
Lol.
CDN dairy isn't competing in the US.
We supply a domestic market.
So go for it.
I have fought for dairy farmers my whole career"

#Tariff #Trump #Canpoli

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wendysiegelman ("Wendy Siegelman") wrote:

It's a bit too on-the-nose that the 2025 Blockchain Forum will be held in Moscow with several featured speakers tied to Trump's crypto deals - including TRON founder Justin Sun who invested $75 million in Trump-backed World Liberty Financial and WLF advisor Sandy Peng

#JustinSun #Trump #WorldLibertyFinancial #SandyPeng

https://bitcoinist.com/crypto-scene-is-heating-up-top-brands-to-meet-in-moscow-at-blockchain-forum-2025/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kcivey ("Keith Ivey") wrote:

The destruction of Black Lives Matter Plaza has begun. Jackhammers are at work on the "Matter" block. It might take a day or two to get to "Black Lives".

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Wileymiller ("Wiley Miller") wrote:

Ruth Marcus resigns from WaPo.

https://bsky.app/profile/benmullin.bsky.social/post/3ljzqgixk6s2v

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BeautifulThings@beige.party ("Beautiful Things") wrote:

@GottaLaff in addition to the many problems with this one quote - um, we PAID INTO social security. It’s OUR MONEY.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DrOinFLA@lounge.town ("OhSnap!Dragon") wrote:

This is pretty much me after taking six or seven bong hits of the treach.
#Cannibis #MedicalCannabis
#Weed

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rvps2001 ("Russia-Ukraine Daily News") wrote:

🇺🇦 #Ukraine plans to purchase 4.5 million first-person-view drones this year as part of a large-scale effort to equip its military with advanced technologies, the Defense Ministry reported on March 10.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-to-buy-4-5-million-fpv-drones-in-2025/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rvps2001 ("Russia-Ukraine Daily News") wrote:

🇳🇱 Russian sailing ships will be banned from a major maritime festival in the #Netherlands this summer due to geopolitical tensions over #Russia’s war in Ukraine, organizers said Monday.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/10/russian-tall-ships-banned-from-sail-amsterdam-festival-a88302

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

Once more, the Onion being more accurate than any number of actual news organizations

https://theonion.com/trump-says-recession-unfortunate-but-necessary-step-to-get-to-depression/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
andrewt@mathstodon.xyz ("Andrew") wrote:

So it turns out the geniuses over at Bluesky trust the client app to fetch, and honestly report, webpage metadata for preview cards, so with a little tinkering in the debug tools you can post whatever news stories you like and they look exactly the same as real ones.

https://bsky.app/profile/andrewt.net/post/3ljo2dja62224

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:

Hope this happens. There's a metaphor here for modern software dev education too.

https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/local-news/city-of-nanaimo-considers-banning-sale-of-invasive-plants-7858492

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brianleroux@indieweb.social ("Brian LeRoux 💚") wrote:

@slightlyoff @munawwar

feels like we're almost there… tho i've been saying that since approx 2014

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

I’m especially proud of the fact that we have built a community around elementary OS that is extremely empowered, has autonomy, has documented processes, and can completely operate without needing my intervention along every stage while still having plenty of accountability in the form of things like code reviews and tests.

All my thanks to everyone who works hard to make this operating system possible. I am so glad that it absolutely is not just me

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

call your Representative’s office… you can get it via 5calls

tell your Rep #JustSayNo to all funding bills until the President stops his un-Constitutional impoundment of and redirection of funds which the Congress is responsible for appropriating.

https://sfba.social/@dangrsmind/114140069642503601