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Boosted by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):
fj ("Frederic Jacobs") wrote:

Meanwhile in America, they are going back to making Guantanamo and “alien” internment great again.

“The 227-year-old law gives presidents the extraordinary power to order the arrest, detention and deportation of noncitizens who are 14 years or older and come from countries staging an "invasion or predatory incursion" of the U.S. “

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-alien-enemies-act-1798-deportations-guantanamo/

Boosted by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):
matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange ("Matthew Green") wrote:

Money quote(s) from the article. Note that there is no “you can’t deny” clause in the U.K. law.

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
caitp@mstdn.social wrote:

racism hurts everybody, misogyny and homophobia and transphobia hurt everybody, and ablism hurts everybody, xenophobia hurts everybody. but taxing the rich and preventing them from becoming unreasonably powerful can only help everybody, including them

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

ME: The building is on fire!

REPLY GUY: Yes, we really have to win the election about whether the house should stay on fire in two years. [continues to sit there, burns to death]

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

ME: The building is on fire!

REPLY GUY: This is nothing new. Buildings burn every day. [continues to sit there, burns to death]

🧵

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Hold on to something and maybe sit down; The Verge is covering mobile browser competition (!?!!). I feel disoriented.

https://www.theverge.com/news/628472/apple-safari-ios-google-android-chrome-cma-competition

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
brandkopf@mastodon.art ("sommerlich.art") wrote:

🦅🛡️⚔️
the latest drawing done during my commute to work.
Hope u like it.
#art #mastoart #pencil #drawing #TraditionalArt #magicart #darkfantasy

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
clayton@social.coop ("Clayton Dewey") wrote:

The FLOSS movement has failed to build a true counter power to Big Tech's hegemony.

However, I see this potential for tech autonomy with community tech.

It builds on the nonprofit, community centered aspects of free and open source software, while addressing its shortcomings.

Boosts and opinions on what I've outlined in my blog post very welcomed.

:boosts_appreciated: 🌐 ❤️

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #CommunityTech #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism

https://www.clayton.computer/community-tech-moving-beyond-free-and-open-source-software/

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

These books are soooooooo good

RE: https://www.threads.net/@torbooks/post/DHJMv0RREbJ

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

This sounds terrific actually

RE: https://www.threads.net/@davehogg/post/DHJXMIiuKov

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
nev@bananachips.club wrote:

New blog post! "Branching Out: Some GitHub.com and GitLab.com Alternatives" https://nevillepark.ca/2025/03/13/branching-out-some-github-gitlab-com-alternatives/ :boost_ok:

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

Boosted by jwz:
MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
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!

Boosted by jwz:
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."

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

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

https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/isawlib-bond-strike

#ancientHistory #labor #ancientRome

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
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

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

Oh, I can believe it

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/business/flying-gets-worse-nightcap/index.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ElleGray@mstdn.social ("elle") wrote:

me, obvious genius: there's no trap that would ever work on me

also me: oh

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

https://spectrum.ieee.org/euv-light-source

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

Elizabeth Vrba has died.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/13/crap-now-elizabeth-vrba-has-died/

cstanhope@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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5fT7k4jvSg&t=106s

cstanhope@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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVg7mtgEqGY

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
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/

#art #drawing #books #WhatToDraw

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
wholesomememes@mas.to ("Wholesomememes") wrote:

That’s all I want (by u/[Deleted user])
(AI Alt-Text)

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

<3 #c64 #chiptune #music #guitar

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
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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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-12-2025

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

idiots, deliberately blind idiots

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114155693782123539

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
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
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https://substack.com/redirect/4d8e0f01-5327-47e9-abb4-ff517af3f22e