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

@adamshostack @noplasticshower @SteveBellovin @cigitalgem @matthew_d_green @spaf Once again, there is absolutely no publicly available information sufficient to support any conclusions here. And some of the speculation is of the form "Oh, he's of Chinese origin? I know what it must be!". In other words, racist.

Maybe he's a spy. Maybe he's a serial killer. Maybe he's suffering amnesia and wandering around in some desert. We just don't know yet.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

Stand up.

Today I join with >1900 members of the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine signing this letter, as individuals, decrying the assault on #science by the GOP and Trump administration.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13gmMJOMsoNKC4U-A8rhJrzu%5FxhgS51PEfNMPG9Q%5FcmE/preview?tab=t.0#

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

Reminder: you can use the coupon code KINDNESS to save 25% on omg.lol membership through April 6, and I’m donating 25% of everything earned throughout the sale to Best Buddies International.

https://omglol.news/2025/03/29/countering-cruelty-with-kindness

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

In 1960, the station was sold to the "Far East Broadcasting Company", which changed the format to chiefly Christian religious programming. The station ceased operation in 1994, and its antenna field was razed soon afterward.

Fortunately, the transmitter house survives and remains in excellent condition. It currently belongs to a wastewater treatment plant located adjacent to the site. I believe the building is now leased out as office space.

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

KGEI was a 250KW commercial shortwave international radio broadcast station. Originally constructed, owned and operated by General Electric, the station opened in 1939 on San Francisco's Treasure Island. In 1941, it moved to a permanent site in Redwood City. This building housed the transmitter and control facilities; the exterior walls are three feet thick, to better resist any WW II enemy bombings. At the time, KGEI was the only US broadcast station capable of reaching across the Pacific.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 50mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back, Cambo 1250 camera (vertically shifted -5mm).

This modest but handsome, art-deco-accented building was built in 1941 to house the transmitter for "KGEI", a commercial shortwave radio broadcast station whose programming could be heard across the Pacific. It shut down for good in 1994.

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

KGEI Transmitter Building, Redwood City, CA, 2024.

All the pixels, none of the RF radiation, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54131707918

#photography

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared “Indie Social Web” White") wrote:

Literal quote I read on another social network (concatenated from a larger one):

“I'm not a developer, I got two AI models to develop a web app from my instructions…my AI workflow generated a production-ready app”

I'm sorry, but if you are not a software developer you don't know what a "production-ready app" is, how it works, what it means to maintain it, what problems will arise in the future, how to deal with those problems, and a lengthy host of issues too numerous to contain here.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
bethsawin@spore.social ("Dr. Elizabeth Sawin✨") wrote:

Anyway protect your imaginations friends!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

I did a lot of talks on student surveillance last year, including talks aimed at college administrations trying, to convince them that turning the campus into a surveillance state was not a good idea. I have not been invited to do a single talk on student surveillance in 2025 for some reason.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/us/universities-students-search-warrants.html

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
evmar@inuh.net ("Evan Martin") wrote:

I try to stay away from politics when posting online, not because I am not terrified, but just because I am sure if you want it you can find it elsewhere.

But on-topic for me, that I haven't seen anyone mention, is the "one person in Nebraska" https://xkcd.com/2347/ factor for Signal.

We now know it's used by the highest levels of US government, but like many OSS projects, it has only a handful of contributors:
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/graphs/contributors?from=3%2F1%2F2025

It seems an obvious target for another Jia Tan situation.

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

We're going to have winter in April, although the skies aren't showing it yet.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/31/watch-the-skies-2/

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

The only Ghibli I want to see on my feed is actual Ghibli.

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

Republicans really don't like Oregon's vote by mail. (I mean, let's face it, they don't like anything that allows people to participate who won't vote their way.)

https://www.koin.com/news/politics/new-bill-proposes-repealing-vote-by-mail-in-oregon-public-invited-to-testify/

It looks like the intent is to try to get voters to pass it, but I'm not an expert on these matters, and it shouldn't get anywhere near a ballot even if that is the case.

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB210/Introduced

You can comment here:

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Testimony/SRULES/SB/210/0000-00-00-00-00?area=Measures

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
dgerard@awful.systems ("David Gerard") wrote:

Show top LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them

https://awful.systems/post/3801992

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ieure@retro.social ("egregious philbin") wrote:

Republicanazi MAGA CHUD David Brock Smith has filed SB 210, which will destroy Oregon's 100% vote by mail system, replacing it with in-person voting an voter ID. This is a piece of the Republicanazi's decades-long attack on the voting franchise and attempts to destroy American democracy

Oregon has some of the highest voter turnout in the nation, specifically because of its vote by mail system. It is the best voting system of any I've experienced, giving voters ample time to consider the candidates and measures and make an informed decision -- it's no wonder that these fool hate it.

The hearing on this bill is at 1pm TODAY

You can write a statement in opposition to the bill here: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Testimony/SRULES/SB/210/0000-00-00-00-00?area=Measures

Here's the text: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB210/Introduced

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Hell is other networks. Today @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by Oxide engineers to discuss an incident where our combination with particular networking equipment resulted in a pathological system -- and how it was debugged and resolved. Join us, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1356306084972986399

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
grammargirl@zirk.us ("Mignon Fogarty") wrote:

This feels like an especially important story.

NewsGuard tested 10 major chatbots — including ChatGPT 4.o, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok — and the bots repeated Russian propaganda 7% to 56% of the time. 1/4

https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global

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

if true, this report is disastrous for trust

https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Wileymiller ("Wiley Miller") wrote:

@GottaLaff

OMG...this #NonSequitur from 25 years ago...

https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2000/04/18

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
newsthump@mastodon.online ("NewsThump") wrote:

NEWS! Trump and Putin to seek couples counselling after rare public spat https://buff.ly/IaNwUK4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

Keep ‘em coming

Via Kyle Cheney:

JUST IN: Treasury employees union seeks a court judgment barring the #Trump administration from enforcing his order canceling collective bargaining agreements across the federal government https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.279006/gov.uscourts.dcd.279006.1.0.pdf

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Georgetown University Law Center students are working to heighten their peers’ awareness of which firms have caved to Trump and which have stood firm. Upper level students are creating a resource for 1Ls interviewing for jobs. They sent me this ask for help⬇️. #LawFedi

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

Video Clip: US Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) on Use of Signal for War Plans

"They're sitting there telling the American people that 2+2=7 ... those were attack plans, those were war plans, that was classified information, everybody knows it. And the idea that they think they can get away with this level of gaslighting -- it just strikes at the foundation of democracy which is a set of truths we all have to operate off of."

[#MP4 videos can be downloaded and shared]

h/t Aaron Rupar via Threads

Attachments:

• video: 702b6aa2f607d053.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
foone@digipres.club ("Foone🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility, from VGAPride!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

I paid into social security my entire working life. I'm now receiving modest monthly benefits (on which, by the way, I pay taxes).
For the Republicans to threaten this and weaken or cripple #socialsecurity is an egregious assault on all Americans, including the 73 million now receiving benefits.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

It’s a ten minute walk from my place to the pub, and a forty-five minute walk from the pub back to my place.

The difference is staggering.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kaydenpat ("Patricia Kayden") wrote:

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

New post: "What makes an app feel “right” on the Mac?" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/app-feel-on-mac/

I always think of myself as a big proponent of Mac apps that are as Mac-like as possible, but what does “Mac-like” really mean?

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

Teen Vogue summarizes the Democratic party perfectly.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/31/the-problem-with-the-democratic-party/