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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
curtosis wrote:

@interfluidity @ryanlcooper “the authors miss a chance to see how the inefficiency and administrative burdens they loathe in construction actually plague the welfare state too, something liberals are very much to blame for but also have no desire to fix.”

Yes!!!

Arguably even more significant impact than for building. (Though there the deadweight accrues mostly to developers and landowners, and so is harder to dislodge.)

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
interfluidity@zirk.us ("Steve Randy Waldman") wrote:

Excellent, from #MattBruenig, on “Abundance”. https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/24/the-abundance-agenda/ ht @ryanlcooper

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
davidzipper ("David Zipper") wrote:

Car bloat is worsening congestion.

In Bloomberg CityLab, I wrote about a groundbreaking new study that analyzed Minnesota road data from 1995 to 2019. The authors' conclusion: The surge in SUVs reduced highway capacity by 9.5%.

Less highway capacity --> More slowdowns

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-25/bigger-heavier-suvs-worsen-traffic-congestion-in-us

#cars #highways

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brainsmatter@mastodonapp.uk ("Brains Matter") wrote:

#humour #politics

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RevXenoFact@dobbs.town ("Xenofact (he/him):jrbd:") wrote:

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volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:

This, I think, is what smart people have such trouble accepting: that morons can succeed perfectly well in US politics. When a GW Bush or a Trump rises all the way to the top, it doesn't mean they're secretly smart, it means our corrupt, desiccated system is defenseless against venal morons.

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volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:

To be very clear: I take no solace whatsoever from the fact that they are morons. They successfully took power & are successfully destroying the country right in front of us. They are evil morons, with a plan, breaking the law on purpose. Being morons is no particular impediment!

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volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:

The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.

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

getting set up for weekly voice net on 50.250MHz USB 📡

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Welp. Three days ago, SFDPW finally did a concrete pour to close up the street atop our sewer.

And today they jackhammered it open again.

👍👍👍👍👍

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Who else is going to watch Devin Townsend's #TheMoth premiere on Friday? Bought my ticket for the livestream.

jwz wrote:

Anyway, I have recently been informed that "postgrey" is old and busted and "postscreen" is the new hotness. The more you know dot gif.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Companies like Bambu Lab are what we call an open source parasite.

They only support it when they directly profit from it.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

bribecoding is a new phenomenon where you pay open source developers a living wage to work on projects that your business uses

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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

Well the good news is, the Trump regime definitely doesn't have any immediate plans to invade Greenland. Because if those did exist, Pete Hegseth would have drunk texted those plans directly to the editor of Teen Vogue or some shit.

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

people say “you can’t tax the rich, they’ll just leave” like that’s not the best possible outcome

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Unprofessional, incompetent, stupid.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/25/i-am-relieved-that-our-invasion-plans-are-all-going-to-fail/

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angusm ("Angus McIntyre") wrote:

@IndyRichard @pluralistic If we ban private jets, there's a real risk that one day you’ll find yourself sharing a flight with Elon Musk, his 30-person security detail, and a DOGE staffer named DonkeyTaint. And his youngest son, THX-1138-RoboCop-Goebbels, will kick the back of your seat continuously from four minutes after take-off until just before landing.

Until we can make it law that the hyper-rich have to travel in cargo, I say we shouldn't risk it.

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me@social.taupehat.com ("Mike Ely") wrote:

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stevenrosenthal@mastodon.online ("Steven Rosenthal") wrote:

Someone talked.

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mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

who would have thought the people behind throwing a press conference at four seasons total landscaping would accidentally invite a journalist on an illegal group chat

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batkaren@mastodon.online wrote:

Get in the Signal group chat, loser, we’re doing war crimes.

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simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.

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timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

I’m a paying customer of 404 Media, but I can’t bring myself to read more than the first couple of sentences of their recent “AI Slop” and “Brainrot” stories: https://www.404media.co/tag/ai/

It is beyond belief how terrible people can be. And how eager Big Tech is to facilitate them.

Very hard to avoid burn-it-all-down-and-sow-the-ruins-with-salt thinking.

#genAI

jwz wrote:

My goal: When a spammer delivers mail to my mail server with a forged "dnalounge.com" address in the "From:" header (as opposed to the envelope), it does not get delivered.

I believe the proper way to do this is to have OpenDMARC enforce the DMARC/SPF records on inbound email.

However, OpenDMARC seems to be doing just crazy nonsense. Can anyone explain to me how to actually debug it? E.g....
https://jwz.org/b/yklA

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

I’m seeing a lot of “WWDC was announced!”

And not a lot of “Don’t come to the US because it’s incredibly unsafe for anyone who’s non-white or queer”

And absolutely zero “we understand the difficulties faced by developers overseas so we’re hosting events around the world so everyone can take part”

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Just picked up this blast from the past! 1st edition Ditto from Fossil em português! #pokemon #portugues

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ckr@social.lol ("Cody") wrote:

Very pleased with the vibe of my fast charger perched on this ancient surge protector.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Tired: invite random journalists to your top secret meetings.

Wired: have 42 Unknown Users in your strategic planning sessions on Teams.

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

Paper submitted to ePrint