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

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

The lastest Ruminate is out and it is _stacked_ with snacks, podcasts, pens, and games https://ruminatepodcast.com/206/

∞ https://rknight.me/notes/202504020921/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
CartyBoston@mastodon.roundpond.net wrote:

Wanna keep it real? Do a real tech project for your lover every once in a while.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jswright61@ruby.social ("Scott Wright 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Are there reader / viewer owned media organizations?
Kind of like Mutual insurance companies or Credit Unions?

I’d be interested in exploring these orgs.

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

“Óscar Arias Sánchez, the Nobel laureate and former Costa Rican president, said on Tuesday that the United States had revoked his visa to enter the country, with no reason given.

A vocal critic of President Trump, Mr. Arias appears to be the most high profile in a string of individuals who have had their visas canceled or been denied entry as the Trump administration bars people who it says have “hostile attitudes” toward the United States.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/us/politics/oscar-arias-sanchez-visa-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

“Never before had a single donor sought to influence an American judicial race to such a degree, and few had invested comparable sums in an election in which they were not themselves running. Through his super PAC, Mr. Musk underwrote an $11.5 million ground game that targeted voters with messages urging them to help Mr. Trump by supporting Judge Schimel. A separate organization with Musk ties spent $7.7 million on television advertising...”

$19.2 million

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-crawford-schimel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
zmk@snailedit.social ("Zoe Knox") wrote:

Some personal news... https://zmknox.com/2025/03/i-am-visible/

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claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

RIP Val Kilmer

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

Another Musk project explodes on the launchpad

https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-supreme-court-elon-musk-trump-8fe006c7f8fa40b663eccd6751bada98

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

CARPETBAGGER FAILS TO BUY JUDICIAL ELECTION

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
davidcelis@xoxo.zone ("david celis") wrote:

sounds like Elon Musk is officially this year’s April Fool

Boosted by jwz:
Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

Twenty million dollars for a fifteen-point loss. Let’s make him spend twice as much next time and lose by 30.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible") wrote:

We just secured the liberal majority on Wisconsin's Supreme Court through 2029! Susan Crawford's big win keeps the highest court in this battleground state from falling into MAGA hands. Thank you for all you did to elect this Indivisible-endorsed candidate (and make Elon Musk waste over $20 million)!

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

@quizzicus The FCC license for the station says the radiation resistance of the antenna is 50.5 ohms, so at 50KW, that would be about 1600V.

Boosted by jwz:
kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Domestic Enemy Hat") wrote:

Something is fundamentally wrong with America when millions of dollars can’t buy you a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, the respect of your children, the silence of your baby mammas, or a functional penis implant.

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

📝 New on the omg.lol blog: We have to talk about AI “art” - https://omglol.news/2025/04/02/we-have-to-talk-about-ai-art

Or at least I want to talk about it, especially where our community is concerned. A lot of folks are getting tired of seeing it. I worry that we’re only going to see more of it, or worse, that it won’t be long before we can’t even identify it. It’s harmful and annoying, but also people really seem to enjoy it, and I don’t know if that’s because they’re unaware of the harm or because they’re just not concerned.

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gwensnyder.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Gwen Snyder is uncivil") wrote:

I hope there are a million postmortems and they all go basically "at the end of the day everyone just hates Elon Musk and thinks he's a total creep" and Elon reads them all and cries a lot

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SrRochardBunson@universeodon.com ("Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson") wrote:

😂 :success:

#CoryBooker #USPol #meme #memes

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aaron.rupar@threads.net ("Aaron Rupar") wrote:

SCHUMER: Would the senator yield for a question?

BOOKER: Chuck Schumer, it's the only time in my life I can tell you no

SCHUMER: I just want to tell you, do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud America is of you?

Attachments:

• video: ab4523c041707871.mp4

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

Tech/Policy nerds: I'll be testifying tomorrow morning in House Government Oversight on "Salt Typhoon: Securing Americas Telecommunications From State-Sponsored Cyber Attacks", at 10AM in HVC-210. Hearing will be webcast.

Hearing website (which doesn't yet include all the witnesses or written testimony) is here: https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/salt-typhoon-securing-americas-telecommunications-from-state-sponsored-cyber-attacks/

I promise to be briefer in my remarks than Cory Booker.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ahrienby@transfem.social ("Ahri phi nhị giới :nb_verified:") wrote:

Do you think Microsoft understands what consent is?

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
revoluciana@chaosfem.tw ("🌈Lucy🏳️‍⚧️ | Revoluciana") wrote:

"Typically, each time you print, your printer creates a series of dots all over your printed paper using only the yellow ink. They're small and hard to spot with the naked eye, but they're much easier to see with a black light."

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
nanochess ("Óscar Toledo G.") wrote:

And now you can test my transputer emulator in Javascript 😀 You can do almost all except running the 3D modeler and Ray Tracer because currrently there is no floating-point support. #transputer https://nanochess.org/transputer%5Femulator.html

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

Senator Booker breaking Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest senate floor speech is gonna be awesome, not as an impressive feat of stamina or political determination, but because he’s a black man taking the record from a white racist.

Thurmond’s record was set in 1957, and his speech was an argument against civil rights. His position was that civil rights shouldn’t be federally guaranteed, but left to the states. (Sound familiar?)

This will be good history painting over awful history.

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

but of course

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• video: 4b0eba14a1b95417.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jamey@toot.cat ("Jamey Sharp") wrote:

I guess this is as good a day as any to share a silly thing I made: an interpreter for SKI combinator calculus, written in WebAssembly. (No part of this is useful but I had fun.) https://github.com/jameysharp/skism

Thanks to @monoidmusician for suggesting this project and answering many questions for me!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
selfsame@tiny.tilde.website ("guts.gibgub.gom") wrote:

if you're a student and you're not using LLMs just stick with it you are going to be running absolute mental circles around your peers by the time you graduate

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
karlauerbach@sfba.social ("Karl Auerbach") wrote:

@aram Back in 2018 after TFG started with his "coins" I wrote the following (incomplete) proposal:

A Bill to ensure that United States Treasury funds are not expended for certain purposes of personal aggrandizement or self promotion.

https://www.cavebear.com/cavebear-blog/no%5Fcoin/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org ("Daniel Lakeland") wrote:

Unfortunate news today that an internet friend and important engineer Dave Täht died recently. Dave was responsible for the bufferbloat project and the development of the Cake qdisc in the Linux kernel. He also pushed for much better control of latency across all internet hardware. He's a major reason why cable modem all have queue management algorithms. I interacted with him off and on for 15 years or so. He was about 59 years old so far too young.

via @toke

https://social.kernel.org/objects/bb4f56d3-5c79-4942-ab00-2b0310eb72d0
#openwrt

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
shauna@social.coop ("Shauna GM") wrote:

low key want to write a talk that compares object oriented programming and object relations theory but i have no idea what kind of conference would accept it