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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
csilverman@pixelfed.social ("Chris Silverman") wrote:

#notesArt

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
swithinbank@webtoo.ls ("Chris") wrote:

Shout out to @cory and co. for https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/ which this is based on

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

The first thing I noticed was that the pain was gone. The tall, thin, hooded figure let me bask in that for a moment.

IT IS TIME

"Oh," I said, looking down at the frail vessel I had inhabited all my life. "Right."

COME

"Do you remember," I asked as we walked, "everyone you come for?"

YES

"Fondly?"

I DO NOT JUDGE. AS A RULE, I SPEND LITTLE TIME WITH PEOPLE AS THEY LIVE

"No, but you spend some time with them after, like now."

1/2

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
Flyingfirepig@lgbtqia.space ("Rosey Posey🌹:v_trans:") wrote:

:heart_trans:

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
b0rk@jvns.ca ("Julia Evans") wrote:

standards for ANSI escape codes https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/03/07/escape-code-standards/

Boosted by jwz:
digichelle@hachyderm.io ("Michelle Catherine Marcó") wrote:

Governor Janet Mills of Maine (to Donald Trump): “See you in court.”

Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois: “We don’t have kings in America, and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.”

Governor Gavin Newsom of California: Subscribe to my podcast, where I make nice with fascists! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

@tweetsjen LOL making this a meme

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
mattl@social.coop ("Dr. Matt Lee ☠️") wrote:

A new pay-what-you-like DRM-free comic book about Boston by my wife @AlexandraGallant

https://alexandragallant.itch.io/drawing-boston

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold :usa_distress:"):
kalikambo@social.lol wrote:

I added a few new links to my Resources page. New additions are marked with a ✨. https://kalikambo.com/resources/

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

Went into a local book stores and spotted a new book by Neal Stephenson! The title is Polostan.

See, you don't need surveillance advertising to discover good things.

jwz wrote:

One of these days, I will learn to use a video editor that is not iMovie. Today is not that day. Therefore, screaming continues apace.
https://jwz.org/b/ykkO

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

"Nothing to see here! Please disperse!"
-Frank Drebin

Oh. And this is highly illegal. Like that matters anymore.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
PekkaKallioniemi@defenseofliberty.social ("Pekka Kallioniemi") wrote:

The man on the left applied for a #canadian passport to avoid #military service in South Africa. The dude on the right dodged the draft due to bone spurs.

One of them is now actively attacking people who fought for their country, calling them #traitors.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

“When a president uses executive power to not just blacklist but effectively destroy a major law firm, solely for representing political opponents, it means he’s given up any pretense that he’s not an authoritarian hellbent on destroying anyone who opposes him through any means necessary.” https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/trumps-latest-weapon-against-critics-destroying-their-lawyers/

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

Business Insider: We're getting rid of our Tesla — and Elon Musk's politics have nothing to do with it

"...Insuring it is very expensive, so we are selling it and looking for a hybrid.... We've since learned that Teslas are outrageously expensive to insure because they're costly to repair, and the company corners the market on parts. Because the repair process can take a long time, insurance companies are stuck footing the bill for longer-term rentals. We also learned that because Teslas drive so fast, their insurance risk rating is just below that of a performance vehicle..."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/were-getting-rid-of-our-tesla-and-elon-musks-politics-have-nothing-to-do-with-it/ar-AA1AC8Ng

#tesla

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Domestic Enemy Hat") wrote:

Erica Y. Carr should be in federal prison by the end of this.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:353gzbhcjbznfxegvayffqek/post/3lk4sfno66s25

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cryptadamist@universeodon.com ("⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯") wrote:

No less than 76 #Democrats just voted with Republicans to overturn the #IRS's "defi broker rule" which would have required crypto firms like #MarcAndreessen's #Uniswap to collect information on their users and in so doing discourage the use of these platforms for #moneylaundering by criminals and rogue nuclear states (#NorthKorea *loves* Uniswap) and by the very wealthy to avoid paying #taxes.

The new wave of #memecoin scams like #TrumpCoin are also all facilitated/perpetrated by these decentralized trading platforms.

If any of these people are your representative you should do what you can to make sure they are primaried because they are not representing your interests. At a minimum call them and yell at them (this works better than most people think!)

The corruption of the US government by #crypto bros is extremely bipartisan.

* Full roll call of vote: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202571

#uspol #defi #DOGE #broligarchs #SEC #CFPB #DNC #Dems #congress #house #law #tax #corruption #taxation

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TheConversationUS@newsie.social ("The Conversation U.S.") wrote:

What happens when leaders have loyalists in charge of the military and other armed forces? Scholars offer lessons for the US from Nicaragua, Syria and other authoritarian countries:
#USMilitary
https://buff.ly/jxAcdiQ

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
michael_w_busch@mastodon.online ("Michael Busch") wrote:

Get a new governor, #California .

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
_L1vY_@mstdn.social ("Mother Bones") wrote:

#Via altssa / altssa.altgov.info‬
Mar 10, 2025, 10:43 PM

"Jesus, this testimony from Tiffany Flick, who has since resigned from her position at SSA, about what happened when 'doge' arrived, is hard to read. But everybody should read it. Because this is the reality of what’s happening."

[link ⬇️ opens pdf]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.22.10.pdf

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
joshuajfriedman.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Joshua J. Friedman") wrote:

NEW: Judge Dale Ho tells parties in the Eric Adams case that he doesn't believe oral argument will be necessary before he rules on whether and how to dismiss storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:

Bernie sets the record straight.

"Wrong, Elon. Social Security has paid every benefit owed to every eligible American for 86 years. We can make it solvent for the next 75 years and expand benefits by scrapping the cap that allows billionaires like you to pay the same amount into Social Security as a truck driver."
#Politics
3/n

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

Sickening

“Exclusive: The future of a vast collection of public artwork is in doubt as the #Trump administration plans to fire workers who preserve and maintain over 26,000 pieces owned by the U.S. government, including paintings and sculptures by renowned artists”
- The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/03/11/gsa-fine-arts-layoffs-trump/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

Wrote up some notes on the brand new OpenAI "Responses API", launched this morning - which includes some fun new default tools for web search, vector-based RAG and tapping into their "computer use" remote controlled GUI computer environments https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/responses-vs-chat-completions/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
richieholland@ravenation.club ("Richie Holland") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Jorvon_Moss@mstdn.social ("Odd_Jayy") wrote:

Doing a wearble test for new Digit, i have to.moce some stuff around but it's good either way #robot

Attachments:

• video: Robot wearble test

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Domestic Enemy Hat") wrote:

Glad Perkins is pushing back hard. The Perkins EO is lawless and contemptible, an act of banana republic petulance. It’s the official government weaponization of @lizcheney.bsky.social’s infamous attack on lawyers who represented Gitmo detainees — but with official power, not just rhetoric.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ivwthpd4wcdhnwd2ewufvhva/post/3lk4z2t64zs2m

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rolf@mas.to ("Rolf Oldejans") wrote:

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
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

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

Alex Cole: "8 weeks ago, MAGA screamed for lower grocery prices.
Today they have been convinced to celebrate a recession.
You can't fix stupid." #politics #economy