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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Protip: if someone posts a technical or legal analysis of something the administration is doing or proposing and your response is that legalities are irrelevant and a waste of time, the problem is YOU.

You know who wants you to think laws don’t matter anymore and that pushback is hopeless? Fascists.

Don’t act like a fascist.

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

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david@fouroclockfarms.club ("Salty Daddy 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 ✡️") wrote:

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drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

Hey kids, did you know that in 2011 there was this dude who went by the name “Shingy”, who was VP of Marketing at AOL, who somehow morphed his persona to become the company’s “Digital Prophet”. His job was apparently to be weird and outrageous? Spout gibberish and look like he’s high on stimulants? Or something?

Anyway, AOL was bought out by Verizon and merged with other dying companies to become Oath and they paid Shingy money til 2019.

A conversation sparked this weird memory in my brain and now you too will remember a piece of Weird Tech history.

#shingy #aol #wat

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the_etrain@beige.party ("Staff Chief of Joints") wrote:

New secret code: if you see someone irl you think might be on Mastodon, nonchalantly ask them if they know Nicole from Toronto.

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vaurora@mstdn.social ("Valerie Aurora 🇺🇦") wrote:

If you are trying to delete your 23andMe data and get an obnoxious reply asking for ID, tell them no, that's what your password is for, and they will do it. And if they then send you an obnoxious reply saying they will delete everything except the stuff they are required to keep by law, check out this article by actual lawyer @AugustB

https://bourniquelaw.com/2024/10/09/data-23-and-me/

#23andMe

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

Halemaumau eruption livestream is pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/live/Gd2Tm5jblbE?si=bwKoz4mm4uOMLPzt

If you visit, stay tuned in for a few minutes, the volcano surges and relaxes.

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

CEO of AI ad-tech firm pledging “world free of fraud” sentenced for fraud https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/ceo-of-ai-ad-tech-firm-pledging-world-free-of-fraud-sentenced-for-fraud/

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IanDSmith@mas.to ("Ian Smith") wrote:

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

my lawyer told me not to say “guillotine” on the record anymore. fine. the new vibe is “the tall french goodbye”

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esoastronomy@astrodon.social ("ESO") wrote:

To clarify: this is only possible thanks to adaptive optics, which corrects atmospheric turbulence and allows us to read those tiny labels.

https://xkcd.com/3066/

#astrodon #astronomy

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stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡") wrote:

Hot ball in aloe gel :blobfoxlurk2owonotice:

Attachments:

• video: The sound is actually from the camera person not realizing the sound was on I think JK it’s the gel

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coral@code4lib.social ("Coral") wrote:

"We study 3 months of credit card records for 1.1 million people and show that four spatiotemporal points are enough to uniquely reidentify 90% of individuals. We show that knowing the price of a transaction increases the risk of reidentification by 22%, on average." https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1256297

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eARCwelder ("Alex") wrote:

This was an all-timer. A perfect rebuttal of Effective Altruism and Roko’s basilisk

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AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse wrote:

If you can't hold them accountable in government because they control it all, and you can't hold them accountable in court because they control the top court in the land, then you're pretty much left with holding them accountable in the court of public opinion. And while you might think that's irrelevant, that's precisely what is happening if millions of people are taking to the street demanding the ouster of a political leader which is afaict the only way we get out of this.

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noondlyt@hellions.cloud ("LAUREN") wrote:

ICYMI

Trump signed an EO which can and will do many terrible things with regard to voting rights but the most insidious is the following reported by Marc Elias and Democracy Docket:

"The order mandates the Social Security commissioner must share federal databases with state and local election officials verifying the eligibility of registered voters and those attempting to register. It also charges the Department of Homeland Security and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to review state voter registration lists."

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RowinSpeez@mas.to wrote:

They always tell you their shitty evil plans up front. Always. They’re going to do targeted voter roll purges, and then destroy the evidence and insist no do-overs or audits or takesies-backsies.

From: @noondlyt
https://hellions.cloud/@noondlyt/114225613911997725

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Tengrain ("Tengrain 🇺🇦") wrote:

The Style Council Has Ruled That Signalgate…

...will be henceforth known as, WhiskeyLeaks. (Hat tip Scissorhead Fran in the Bat Cave.)

http://mockpaperscissors.com/2025/03/25/the-style-council-has-ruled-that-signalgate/

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inata@types.pl ("I'm sick of that dank blimp.") wrote:

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catsrule0000@sfba.social ("jules / cowbell as fuck") wrote:

"In this moment, more than any other, our United States had finally become the monster that we feared in our youth, turning any remaining notion of American exceptionalism into a hideous lie, converting the fiction of Franz Kafka and George Orwell’s 1984 into our new reality. As the photo of anguished relatives in Caracas at the top of this column reveals, “the missing” of the 21st century are not in some Chilean strongman’s soccer stadium, but our own gulag archipelago."

Will Bunch

🔥 🔥 🔥 🎯

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/trump-dictatorship-universities-law-firms-20250323.html

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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.)

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interfluidity@zirk.us ("Steve Randy Waldman") wrote:

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

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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.

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