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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
The Trump economy, performing precisely as expected by everyone except the actual administration
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/investing/us-stocks-global-trade-tensions/index.html
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MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:
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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:
Look on the bright side: If we bring liquor smuggling and rum running back, then we're going to produce a new generation of Kennedys! The current ones turned weird on us.🤔
And we'll get some more Al Capones! OK, I admit, that'll be painful for NYC and CHI, but in 30 years we'll get new rap artists!
Glass half-full people!
Turn that frown, upside down!
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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:
"Plumbers were due at 8am, but their tool truck was burgled last night, so they've been delayed by the police report for their insurance claim."
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flexion@oldbytes.space ("/usr/people/flexion") wrote:
Good morning! ☕
(Update: This is not a blasphemy mod. It was a product sold by SiliconGraphics in Germany. There is even a spec sheet for the Espressigo. Ask google if you don't believe me)
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paregorios@hcommons.social ("Tom Elliott") wrote:
Prof. Sarah Bond gave a great talk to a packed house at #ISAWNYU tonight about her new book:
Bond, Sarah E. Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025.
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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible") wrote:
🚨 We need you to call your Democratic senator ASAP if their name is on this list.
Tell your senator you will have their back if they do the right thing and vote NO on the extreme MAGA spending bill that would give Trump more power to dismantle the federal government: https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-tell-senate-democrats-hold-line-against-extreme-maga-continuing-resolution?source=mastodon
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Oh, I can believe it
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/business/flying-gets-worse-nightcap/index.html
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ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:
me, obvious genius: there's no trap that would ever work on me
also me: oh
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gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz ("Greg Egan") wrote:
Extreme UV lithography for microchips is wild.
“Getting to EUV light with a wavelength of 13.5 nm requires a source ... around 200,000 °C.”
This turns out to involve laser-zapping tin droplets into exploding bursts of plasma, creating shock waves similar to those of supernovae.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Elizabeth Vrba has died.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/13/crap-now-elizabeth-vrba-has-died/
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
From the same show (different episode obviously), there's this David Byrne performance that left me a little unsettled as I sat in a random motel room one evening somewhere in the middle of the US while waiting out a blizzard.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I've always favored this performance of DiFranco's "32 Flavors" ever since I first stumbled across it on TV.
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stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:
Well, if you need something to do to keep your spirits up during these trying times, why not learn to draw with this 1913 book.
https://archive.org/details/whattodrawhowtod00lutz
Via https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/what-to-draw-and-how-to-draw-it-1913/
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wholesomememes@mas.to ("Wholesomememes") wrote:
That’s all I want (by u/[Deleted user])
(AI Alt-Text)
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TauPan ("Friedrich Delgado") wrote:
I just doodled on my acoustic guitar and somehow the beginning of Monty On The Run came up until of course... it quickly gets much too difficult for me.
But there is somebody on the internet who *can* play it on guitar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u6YzVO%5FeQc
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
""In 2025 the Republicans in charge of the United States of America are not the conservatives they call themselves; they are the dangerous ideological radicals [Edmund] Burke feared. They are abruptly dismantling a government that has kept the United States relatively prosperous, secure, and healthy for the past 80 years."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Musk #Trump #authoritarianism #FederalGovernment #Europe #NATO #Putin #power
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
idiots, deliberately blind idiots
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
“Trump and Musk are engaged in a broad-based downsizing of government, using that downsizing to selectively target their enemies, while expanding their political power by trading exceptions to the downsizing.”
~ Don Moynihan
#Musk #Trump #authoritarianism #FederalGovernment #Europe #NATO #Putin #power
/3https://substack.com/redirect/4d8e0f01-5327-47e9-abb4-ff517af3f22e
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maique@social.lol ("maique :prami_pride:") wrote:
📷 AgBr (https://www.nuevo.tokyo/agbr) is finally out! A B&W Film Emulator, Nuevo.Tokyo X Héliographe (https://heliographe.net/) colab. One-time purchase, discounted for launch, all future presets included? Done.
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StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:
Feels bad to be in this position doesn't it? Stressful? Like it could affect your HEALTH, right? It’s TERRORISM and African Americans have lived like this for over 400 years here.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm puttering about in the lab while the world burns.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/13/flooding-the-zone-works/
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helenczerski@fediscience.org ("Helen Czerski") wrote:
The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for Carbon Brief providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing.
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trabern@mas.to ("Sin of empathy 🕷️🧂🌈🫙⚖️") wrote:
This week, the Trump administration cancelled all grant programs under the Violence Against Women Act. These grants fund most court protective order programs.
At the same time, Trump declares you are a domestic terrorist if you deface a Tesla.
Literally, a swasticar has more legal protection than a woman now.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
The idea you can prompt away the essential randomness of LLMs persists.
Professional news org: "We used ChatGPT to analyze this database of documents, but it's okay because in the prompt we told it not to guess if it wasn't sure."
😬 At least they said they reviewed and confirmed the results, but still, these people need to hire a consultant from DAIR or something to give them a crash course.
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Savvyhomestead ("Truth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦") wrote:
Waiting for Pixelfed to get up and running with their encrypted messaging.
Seems single source platforms can be too easily compromised.
https://therecord.media/signal-no-longer-cooperating-with-ukraine
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SuffolkLITLab@esq.social wrote:
TL;DR: Uber has canceled its acquisition of Foodpanda in Taiwan due to regulatory challenges, with antitrust authorities citing concerns over a potential 90% market share. This decision follows a block from Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission, raising questions about competition in the food delivery market. https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/uber-terminates-foodpanda-taiwan-acquisition-citing-regulatory-hurdles/ #law #tech #legaltech ⚖️ 🤖 #autosum
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SrRochardBunson@universeodon.com ("Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson") wrote:
Have I told you the good news of Delta Chat?
I use #Signal & like it a lot. I've played around with #DeltaChat & it's got some killer features that Signal doesn't. This is coming from a non-techie, but it uses encypted email in the background & nothing is stored on anyone's server in any country.
That's all awesome, but even more than that it's FUN! It allows you to do things like play games in the chat with people making FOSS apps for it, I guess.
@feld can probably answer any tech questions, but I wanted to give it a shoutout.
https://friedcheese.us/objects/8dc022a1-438c-41f7-986a-f8e752a3e7c8
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delta@chaos.social ("Delta Chat") wrote:
When not dabbling in undusting the venerable Email system we play with rewiring the Web to free it from the possibility of billionaire platforms. With a nod to @pluralistic 's "Ulysses Pact" we just published "Replacing billionairish platforms with ZIP files" highlighting a bunch of new #webxdc features and community developments. The challenge is on who wants to join in de-platforming Venture-Capital-backed web apps that try to mediate our private communications https://delta.chat/en/2025-01-23-webxdc-no-billionaires
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Remittancegirl@mstdn.social ("Madeleine Morris") wrote:
The normal reaction reading these stories of people getting detained by ICE is… they must have done something wrong: wrong paperwork, looked shady, they were selling some product the government didn’t like…
"That wouldn’t happen to me."
Yes, it could. Easily. Encounter a single official who doesn’t like the look of you. There are almost no legal limits to the power of ICE - and those that exist are slow and expensive.And that’s if you’re white.