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jackie@deadinsi.de ("kie/qui") wrote:

that's it. you're going into the menger sponge

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simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

A non-cooperative attitude may involve nothing more than creating an unpleasant situation among one's fellow workers, engaging in bickerings, or displaying surliness and stupidity.

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

Drink special @ Promiscuous: Democracy Drinks In Darkness -- Kraken dark rum, ginger ale, and lime

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thatkatharine@ohai.social wrote:

Seeing Serious People talk about Serious Issues while past-tensing Covid is like playing two truths and a lie.

It's impossible to trust people to deal with issues while they aggressively ignore how repeated, compounded, unimpeded Covid infections have a negative impact on literally all of the issues on this planet.

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raph@social.coop ("Raphael Mimoun רפאל מימון") wrote:

If you're wondering where US political prisoners like Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk have been disappeared to and what their status is, the US Political Prisoner Tracker has the latest and is updated every day.

https://uspoliticalprisoners.com/

#Trump #ICE #USpol #US #HumanRights

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

Drink Special @ AniClover: Rage Against the Blockchain: Vodka, Sour, Splash of Midori, Cherry on top.

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

Drink Special @ Basstripper: Currently Clean On OPSEC: Titos Vodka, Soda, Splash of Sour, Bitters, Cherry.

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

decorating in inzoi is so peaceful

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

Fellow nerds! If you like both #DoomMetal and #TheSimpsons, Dr. Colossus has you covered.

Plot twist: It's actually good.

https://drcolossustheband.bandcamp.com/album/im-a-stupid-moron-with-an-ugly-face-and-a-big-butt-and-my-butt-smells-and-i-like-to-kiss-my-own-butt

#doom #metal

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

@inthehands One thing I've learned about big, complicated systems built over a period of many years is that they are more often than not that way for a reason, and you'd better understand the reason before you mess with them.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
tgpo@social.linux.pizza ("1hitsong") wrote:

It's happening. It's happening!

#Jellyfin on #Roku 3.0.0 has been released!

Announcement Blog Post: https://jellyfin.org/posts/roku-300

Release Notes: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-roku/releases/tag/3.0.0

#foss

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

“The measure of government is the people it helps not the processes it follows.” - Ezra Klein

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

@matildalove I'll make sure to discuss that next time a radio network asks me to explain Signal.

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

Anyway, if you don't like my posts, you can complain to my two employers: NPR and George Mason University.

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

One of the least fun things about this website is when you say "here's problem X" and you instantly get yelled at by people (who don't follow you) for not also mentioning problems Y or Z.

One of the most fun things about this website is thereafter using the block button.

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

we need to deal with this painful truth. we can cut a lot of the crap if we stop Congress from overburdening implementation processes and stay focused on actually getting real work done for society, and without corruption. call me a ‘sewer socialist’ if you will.

I was just a low-level NCO, not an officer. that’s probably why I became an engineer: I want to get sh*t done, not just beat an issue to death with staff studies & layer after layer of proccess.

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

“We are caught between a Party that wants to make government fail and a Party that does not make government work.”

Ezra Klein on ‘The Weekly Show’ podcast

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

This was a three second exposure (with about 10 stops of neutral density). The sun was behind the clouds and just above the center of the frame; the lens required careful flagging to avoid glare.

The rendering of water, especially in the sea, differs greatly with exposure. 30 seconds looks quite different from 3 seconds, which is just as different from 1/30 sec, which is different from 1/1000 sec. About 1/30 sec renders roughly the way our vision does; anything else requires a camera to see.

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

Edge of Pacific Ocean, 2014.

All the pixels, none of the riptides, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/14820439752/

#photography

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

@CStamp I occasionally manage to get a few things right, despite suffering from moral and intellectual shortcomings that the Internet so kindly takes the time to point out.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
CStamp ("Carolyn") wrote:

@mattblaze "apps like Signal are designed to facilitate communication with basically anyone on the internet who has the app, even if they're from different organizations, even if you've never met before...The systems for protecting classified communications, on the other hand, actually try to do the opposite. They have special features to restrict communications to ensure that it only goes to places that are authorized to get it."

You did a great job explaining this.

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

Thanks to everyone taking the time to explain what a terrible person I am for failing to mention all the moral and geopolitical implications of bombing Yemin in my 4 minute explainer segment about Signal and secure communications technology.

But - joke’s on you - I already knew what a terrible person I am! You’re telling me nothing new.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange ("Jess👾") wrote:

It's also important to note that to authoritarians, they view literally any sort of opposition to their absolute power and control as violence, and thus see the use of extreme physical violence as completely justified in response.

Making them uncomfortable and saying things they don't like and treating them like they treat you - especially by "classesc they consider "lower" is considered "social violence".

Strikes and boycotts are "economic violence", because they are "owed" your labor and money.

Petty vandalism, occupying a public space, creating an inconvenience by blocking a roadway, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or assisting one of "their women" in getting bodily autonomy is "Property violence"

Physically resisting aggression and abuse is violence

Fash will happily conflate any and all of these into justification for extreme physical violence, imprisonment, and murder. So splitting hairs about what is "non-violent" and "violent" protest is only something used by neoliberals to push marginalized people back into compliance.
@burnoutqueen

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated and a robot rolled out, holding a golden disc in a transparent sleeve.

"Greetings! We found your sound recording. We enjoyed it, and have made one for you in return."

It placed the disc on the ground and returned to the spaceship, which took off.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #vss #VoyagerRecord

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

It doesn’t matter where you’re from. Nor whether you’re “legal” or not. Just being non-white is enough of a crime now.

The veil of border control and criminal gang deportation is rapidly disintegrating, leaving behind the actual overt racism at the heart of these policies and actions.

https://beep.town/@tiv/114242285514792187

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joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:

tired: company faces code quality crisis after trying to replace programmers with AI
fired: company terminates AI contract early after losing sales trying to replace sales reps with AI

inspired: company saves tens of millions of dollars yearly with no effect on daily operations after replacing CEO with AI

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
tiv@beep.town ("The Independent Variable") wrote:

🚨 Immigration agents arrested a U.S. citizen and created warrants after an arrest, lawyers say in court /// Chicago Sun-Times (https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/03/14/us-citizen-arrested-berwyn-ice-chicago-attorneys)

> “I was born in Chicago, Illinois, and am a United States citizen,” Noriega said in his statement, adding that on Jan. 31, after buying pizza in Berwyn he was surrounded by ICE agents and arrested. Officers took away his wallet, which had https://tiv.today/2025/03/icearrestchicago

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

Learning how to hand code SVGs is a skill that keeps on giving.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

In an excellent essay today, Noah Berlatsky engages Adam Serwer's argument that "cruelty is the point" of fascism and Trumpism:

"Serwer’s thesis is that fascism (and Trumpism) are essentially religions of sadism. People embrace MAGA because they want to be cruel; they want to hurt people. And that cruelty, Serwer argues, creates a sense of belonging and togetherness."

#Trump #MAGA #fascism #cruelty
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https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/the-righteous-cruelty-is-the-point

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

at least one journalist has not lost sight of the core issue:

https://federate.social/@mattblaze/114241999030362312