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

‘past document controversies are also coming back to haunt some of the senior officials in the chat, who previously criticized similar security breaches. In 2023, Waltz – the current national security adviser – had said “Biden’s sitting National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sent Top Secret messages to Hillary Clinton’s private account. And what did DOJ do about it? Not a damn thing.”’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/journalist-trump-yemen-war-chat-reaction

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

But where is its spleen?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/26/our-replacement-is-almost-ready/

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

“The US constitution explicitly gives states and Congress the authority to set the rules for election and does not authorize the president to do so.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/trump-executive-order-voter-registration-immigration

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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

oh yeah and we're in beta now.
https://sciop.net/

programmers needed, just got the core "we are a website" features working, now it's time for the fun stuff where we mess around with federation, group curation, mutability, etc.
https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop

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nygren@hachyderm.io ("Erik Nygren :verified:") wrote:

AAAARGH! I'm not at all surprised, but NIST's excellent whitepaper on Inclusive Language (NIST.IR.8366) has been withdrawn:

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2021/NIST.IR.8366.pdf

This was an excellent resource that I reference all the time. I feared it would go away so I made a snapshot a few weeks back that I uploaded here: https://nygren.org/archived/NIST.IR.8366.pdf

#InclusiveLanguage

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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Wired - NIST discussing elimination of a team that publishes and maintains critical atomic measurement data that underpins advanced scientific research around the world in areas like semiconductor manufacturing and nuclear fusion. https://www.wired.com/story/nist-doge-layoffs-atomic-spectroscopy/

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

My very first book event ever had no one come and the bookstore made one of its staff sit in for my presentation during her lunch break. My book tour was cancelled very soon after.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@jchenwriter/post/DHbyWlNzzlV

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

The creative arts, your path to riches

RE: https://www.threads.net/@georgemarinelli/post/DHom7IRRIIW

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medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

Crossbower. ‘The Rutland Psalter’, England ca. 1260. British Library, Add 62925, fol. 57r.
#medieval #MedievalArt

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

When you do this, you think you’re showing how savvy, smart, or “realistic” you are. What you’re actually doing is wasting the time of, and demoralizing, the people who are actually working to try to stop the thing you’ve already surrendered to.

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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