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CNN@flipboard.com wrote:
Bernie Sanders responds to Musk’s controversial remark about entitlements
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/business/video/elon-musk-social-security-administration-sanders-digvid?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into Business and Tech @business-and-tech-CNN
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
Reuters on loss of $4 trillion by US stock market in last month
#Musk #Trump #destruction #economy #recession #StockMarket #Dow #Nasdaq #stagflation #EconomicElites #billionaires #TaxCuts #Tariffs
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
can you say "Trade War Spiral" children? sure you can...
"Tariff War Risks Sinking World Into New Great Depression, International Chamber of Commerce Warns
The world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s" - WSJ
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm pretty sure it's bad news when the line goes down.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/11/the-line-goes-down-2/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("raganwald 🍓") wrote:
A woman in the jungle encountered a tiger. She fled to a precipice, where she caught hold of a wild vine and climbed down. The tiger waited above. Trembling, the woman looked down to where, far below, another tiger waited. Only the vine sustained her.
Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. Just then, she saw a wild strawberry growing from a crack. Grasping the vine with one hand, she plucked the strawberry with the other.
It was delicious! 🍓
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:
First open this in a tab:
Press play, then open this in another tab:
Press play.
Now you are free…
Mastodon FeedBoosted by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
nonfedimemes@wetdry.world ("memes (sometimes) stolen from outside fedi") wrote:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
This is not antisemitism.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/11/oh-no-our-school-is-failing/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wojtek.be@bsky.brid.gy ("Wojtek") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Sunrise peeks slowly,
Blankets hug me a bit tight,
Dreams linger, then fade.courtesy https://arghstudios.com/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
We've set these things up so that we don't control all the direct inputs. We don't control nor curate the training input. We don't control nor inspect the implementation. Yet we're expected to hand over decision making and the power to take action?
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I don't directly use these "services", but I think about them from time to time because they're going to impact me whether I want to use them or not. I was thinking about "indirect prompt injection" and other means of controlling the input to these things, and I just realized the whole concept as implemented is basically "garbage in" with a dash of "trust me bro" marketing.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:
Peter Baker on Morning Joe (I watch so you don't have to) likens Trump and a promise of "short-term pain" to Biden and the economy at his start. Big difference: Biden fixed the economy; Trump is singlehandedly crashing it.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:
This is cynical even for the #MurdochJournal: blaming vaccine-autism conspiracy theories on the "radical left"--i.e. RFJ--and autism diagnoses on perverse incentives in education funding--thus dismissing the diagnosis of autism itself.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
we are sliding rapidly into what will be known to history as ‘The Trump Recession’, and millions of everyday Americans are watching their retirement funds rapidly evaporating.
“US stock market loses $4 trillion in value as Trump plows ahead on tariffs”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
quite the divide
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“… since the U.S. government froze foreign aid… millions of life-saving doses sit on the shelves of a warehouse, unused and unreachable.”
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
noelreports@mstdn.social ("NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦") wrote:
🇺🇸 Elon Musk called a U.S. senator from Arizona—a Navy veteran and retired NASA astronaut—a "traitor" for supporting Ukraine.
The senator fired back: "Traitor? Elon, if you don’t understand that defending freedom is a core principle of what makes America great and keeps us safe, maybe you should leave it to those who do."
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffmcneill@fosstodon.org ("Jeff McNeill") wrote:
https://theonion.com/trump-says-recession-unfortunate-but-necessary-step-to-get-to-depression/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
LillyHerself ("LillyLyle/Count Melancholia") wrote:
Seen elsewhere
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:
Video shows Russia hit by Ukrainian drone attack
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/world/video/moscow-russia-ukraine-drone-attack-ldn-digvid?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into World News @world-news-CNN
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sucho_memes@mastodon.online ("Memes from the SUCHO Meme Wall") wrote:
You're a dictator -- You're a dictator -- You're a dictator -- You're a genius
https://memes.sucho.org/#1aA9V%5FEh1Z8bS9t26SoILZ0jJvXU7Q8VH
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Other presidencies have begun with stock routs—Barack Obama’s first term, for example. George W. Bush started off even worse, but both were elected during bear markets.
If the current selloff becomes one—the unofficial definition is a drop of 20% from a peak—then the odds of a bear market sparking a recession have never been higher… Nearly all U.S. consumer spending growth lately has come from the wealthiest 10% or so of Americans—people most likely to own investments.”
- Spencer Jakab
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Question for cryptography professors!
Do you agree that an applied cryptography course could be designed to largely omit RSA—covering it only briefly in five minutes—in order to allocate more time to group-based primitives and, ultimately, provide greater emphasis on zero-knowledge concepts later in the course?
I ask this because RSA seems to be relatively a dead end, both in practice but also in terms of the hard problems it is based on.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
on GIGO
Mastodon FeedBoosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
KathyReid@aus.social ("Kathy Reid") wrote:
I didn't expect "using a Torrenting client to seed US government scientific datasets because the policy settings are erasing years of research" on my 2025 bingo card but here we are.
You wouldn't download America's scientific research output would you?
EDIT: Several people have contacted me for the link.
(Better link)
and follow @SafeguardingResearch
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
pratik@writing.exchange ("Pratik") wrote:
Guess the political affiliation of farmers around Austin that AISD purchased produce from? Now let them know Donald did it. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/usda-cancels-local-food-purchasing-for-schools-food-banks-00222796
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
hemisphericviews@social.lol ("Hemispheric Views") wrote:
We're doing another "get out and move” challenge!
April 1 - May 31 🗓️
Northern Hemisphere Points vs. Southern Hemisphere Points! 💪
This one does not require an Apple Watch so EVERYONE can Join in! 😃(iOS & Android)
First, download Challenges:
https://challengesapp.app.link/downloadOnce you have the app:
https://sync.challenges.app/invite?eligibilitycode=mj96
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:
At the start of COVID, we all learned how to beat airborne viruses like the flu: by wearing masks and staying home when we are sick. It's a real shame we haven't translated those important lessons into long-term behavioral change.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
alexwinter.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Alex Winter") wrote:
The Tesla store protests have been going on for months all over the country. They're an almost entirely peaceful, grassroots, people's protest. The momentum they've gathered can't be credited to any group or organization, but solely to the rage of a citizenry faced with a fascist autocracy.