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

Reasonable

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/09/watchlist-decline-civic-freedoms-civicus

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microseasons@mas.to ("72 Microseasons") wrote:

A new microseason in the "Insects awaken" (啓蟄 Keichitsu) division has begun:

First peach blossoms (桃始笑 Momo hajimete saku)

This microseason will last until March 15.

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ylegall@genart.social ("Yann Le Gall") wrote:

crescent moon packed pixels

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• gifv: 3f947c2ec9234f17.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
coopartisans@social.coop ("Artisans Cooperative") wrote:

Did you know? The first art-based cooperative was founded in Paris in 1860 by a group of artists aiming to control the distribution of their own work. Explore more about the cooperative art movement and discover modern-day artisans at our cooperative: https://artisans.coop/
#ArtHistory #CooperativeMovement #ParisArtScene

jwz wrote:

I knew how these tariffs were going to go because I studied the classics.
https://jwz.org/b/ykkG

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• video: 10b8b2b48270b2de.mp4

jwz wrote:

Welp, my credit card finally got popped. I think that's the first time this has happened to me! There were about $2k worth of charges over about a six week period, mostly to Blizzard, Steam, EA and some other game shit, mostly $49 each. They also tried and failed to buy cryptocurrency, which is what *finally* triggered a fraud alert.
https://jwz.org/b/ykkE

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Good grief:

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-cdc-plans-study-into-vaccines-autism-sources-say-2025-03-07/

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Leeisme@mastodon.xyz ("Gavin Lux Enjoyer") wrote:

Tesla stock is in absolute free fall and the funniest reaction to me has to be Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley posting: Hey, other car companies also did nazi shit.

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

One reason I'm glad I canceled Netflix and Amazon Prime is that I don't support these craven companies' knee-bending to Trump world. Examples: Amazon's blatantly corrupt Melania Trump film deal and now the Netflix signing of a "comedian" who thinks racism is funny.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/tony-hinchcliffe-trump-netflix-00222074

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

It's a start

RE: https://www.threads.net/@amahnke/post/DHCIBu2RSvN

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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

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tiffany.c.li@threads.net ("Tiffany C. Li") wrote:

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

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VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

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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.

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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

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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".

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Wileymiller ("Wiley Miller") wrote:

Ruth Marcus resigns from WaPo.

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