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

"As the Office of Personnel Management oversaw the layoffs of thousands of federal workers and pressed others to justify their positions, the agency’s chief spokesperson repeatedly used her office for a side hustle: aspiring Instagram fashion influencer.

In at least a dozen videos filmed in her OPM office, political appointee McLaurine Pinover modeled her outfit choices for the day, while directing followers from her Instagram account to a website that could earn her commissions..."

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

“On the same day OPM sent a government-wide memo pressing federal officials to identify barriers they faced in their work to ‘swiftly terminate poor performing employees,’ OPM chief spokesperson McLaurine Pinover posted a video blowing a kiss to the camera with the caption ‘work look’ and the hashtag #dcinfluencer. Her Instagram account linked to a site where viewers could buy the $475 purple skirt she wore in the video.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/11/politics/opm-spokesperson-fashion-influencer-videos-invs

#USPol

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

Script-Kiddie Scum

You slouch in the dark, greasy-fingered, leeching stolen code.
Not architects. Not artists. Just scavengers.

Press enter and call it conquest.
Flood the gates and call it war.
You build nothing.

Storyteller breathes worlds into the void.
You would rather see it burn.

Why? Because you can?
Because creation offends you?

No name. No glory.
Just silence. Empty pages.

Stories are stronger than static.
Creators outlast cowards.

Run your tired scripts.
We rebuild.
We endure.

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ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

WW2 comic

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible") wrote:

Next week, every Member of Congress will be home for recess and their constituents will have questions. If these Republicans and Rep. Golden truly believe this vote was the right choice, they should have no problem standing in front of their communities and explaining why. https://indivisible.org/muskorus

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N3VEM@mastodon.radio wrote:

Finally wrote my second blog post of 2025, mostly just to be another reminder of the upcoming #HamRadio special event station being run by @nars in April 😀

https://n3vem.com/blog/CQSalk/

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

die script kiddies die die die
perish in hellfire and damnation
just die

Attachments:

• gifv: 96ed030b8f741879.mp4

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

from reading about the kind of error messages being thrown, it appears to me that it is one or more script-kiddies trying to make TLS fail and fall back on an earlier version of OpenSSL and force an insecure connection through which they would start an outgoing ssh session... which it won't fookin let them do, but they keeeeeeeep trying.

I hate them all burn in hell hate them

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

okay, that suxs roxs... it has only been a day and a half since the last time the Storyteller service was restarted, and I zeroed out the logfiles then. a day and a half, and there are 131 friggin' ERROR messages, errors not exceptions [string of expletives deleted] ERRORS

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

die script kiddies die die die

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• gifv: a5873c189c60d9c8.mp4

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dubroy@hachyderm.io ("Patrick Dubroy") wrote:

You can get the book here: https://wasmgroundup.com/

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

setting up for local voice net on 50.025USB

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

My sister Lisa would have had her 57th birthday today.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/11/my-sister-lisa/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeGO6xnuOiU

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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:

Trump is a traitor, and Europe is now alone https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-is-a-traitor-and-europe-is?utm%5Fsource=dlvr.it&utm%5Fmedium=mastodon

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markwyner@mas.to ("Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:") wrote:

Spotify is literally hosting an Andrew Tate podcast on “how to recruit and exploit women for pornography.”

They were hosting three of them. Two were removed because of public pressure, but one remains. He literally should have no platform for any reason.

Please boycott Spotify until they end this. And contact them to let them know that he’s a repugnant pile of shit who needs to be punched in the face.

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/contact-us/

#Spotify #AndrewTate #HumanTrafficking #Boycott #Resist #Resistance

jwz wrote:

Happy "5 years ago today a pandemic was declared" day to all who celebrate.

The date is now Tuesday, March 1,837th, 2020.

Welcome to year six of "14 days to flatten the curve."
https://jwz.org/b/ykkK

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aphyr@woof.group ("École des Bro-Arts") wrote:

Oh, okay https://archive.is/okSlz

jwz wrote:

Everybody Run, Mel Gibson's Got a Gun.

All corruption, all the time: Justice Department Official Fired After Opposing Mel Gibson's Gun Rights Restoration: Gibson, who lost his gun rights due to a 2011 misdemeanor domestic violence conviction, was...
https://jwz.org/b/ykkI

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davetroy@toad.social ("Dave Troy :toad:") wrote:

The White House is lying, saying this is a "transition period," requiring short term pain. This is a controlled demolition of entire economies. There is no truth to anything they are saying, and no path to prosperity on this route. It's raw, unbridled terrorism.

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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

US agrees to immediately resume intelligence sharing and military assistance to Ukraine.

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rso@orbital.horse ("Range Safety Officer") wrote:

We're seeing more instances of newly created mastodon.social accounts posting unrelated replies into threads.

For the time being we're limiting mastodon.social until they bring their spam accounts under control.

#Fediblock

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

I pulled together my thoughts about Trump’s executive orders attacking law firms he doesn’t like at ⬇️https://heidi-says.ghost.io/trump-stepping-up-his-attack-on-civil-society-and-rule-of-law-fight-back/.

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

2025:

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Microsoft gives some insights into why they chose Go: https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/411

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

I would not want to be in Latvia, Lithuania, or Estonia if Putin gets a ceasefire to rearm, refit, and retrain.

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

You don't say

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

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

(Also, I know they simply use words as weapons. The words are devoid of meaning beyond what horrible affect they hope to achieve in the world. Unlike a 5yo who simply doesn't understand a world beyond themselves just yet.)

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

Trump and his ilk use "illegal" in the same way a 5yo uses "not fair" to describe all the things in the world that are contrary to their desires.

Of course, Trump and his lik are much more dangerous and awful than any 5yo I have ever met.

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benhencke@leds.social ("Ben") wrote:

I made a super fast simple sound synthesis engine.

Designed for microcontrollers, it uses little RAM and flash. Intended for 32-bit microcontrollers that have a fast multiply, like ARM Cortex-M0.

https://github.com/simap/MicroModSynth