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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

Rather than giving top news priority to his attacks, there should be more attention to the resistance against him.
Hundreds of law firms back Perkins Coie in fight against Trump sanctions https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/04/perkins-coie-law-firm-trump-targets/

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

Today in History: Thomas Hobbes born, 1588

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

The fart of the deal.
The White House had a TikTok deal. Trump’s China tariff wrecked it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/04/tiktok-trump-ban-deadline/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

About travelling to the USA...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/i-was-a-british-tourist-trying-to-leave-america-then-i-was-detained-shackled-and-sent-to-an-immigration-detention-centre
#usa #travel #ice #detention

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ndw@toot.wales ("Norm Tovey-Walsh") wrote:

@randahl I think this misses a point. If I've got 10 billion and I lose 50% or 75%, I still have billions. Everyone else has also lost that much, but they're broke. I can now take my remaining couple of billion and buy everything at firesale prices. The billionaires are the *only* ones who will benefit from this. If they can hold onto their power, of course.

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

“The least-populated U.S. state has attracted secretive company formations, fraud indictments and questionable fortunes from around the world.”

https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/millions-in-covid-relief-funds-went-to-shadowy-companies-at-a-wyoming-storefront-that-hundreds-of-thousands-of-firms-used-as-an-address/

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

🦀 Help us create a vision for Rust's future, by taking part in our vision survey!

Check out the blog post: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/04/04/vision-doc-survey.html

jwz wrote:

ffmpeg-out.c:363:33: warning: 'sample_fmts' is deprecated
ffmpeg-out.c:369:36: warning: 'supported_samplerates' is deprecated
ffmpeg-out.c:393:36: warning: 'ch_layouts' is deprecated

(I don't use "repos" I use "diff" and "email")

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
amministratore@mastodon.uno (":mastodon: mastodon uno admin") wrote:

🚨 AI vs. Wikipedia

Dal 2024 i crawler AI hanno fatto +50% traffico su #Wikipedia rallentando i loro server: https://www.hdblog.it/tecnologia/articoli/n614009/wikipedia-problema-intelligenze-artificiali/

Intanto nel #Fediverso i post vecchi (specie con media) gravano su tutti i server e sono bersaglio di scraper

🛠 potrebbe aiutare cancellare i propri contenuti vecchi su Mastodon: https://mastodon.uno/statuses%5Fcleanup

I server consumano energia e ogni foto può pesare su centinaia di server #mastodon federati

🌍 Ogni byte risparmiato = meno costi e minor impatto ambientale

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

The most powerful people and companies in the world have successfully orchestrated one of the most damaging and stupid self owns imaginable:

https://www.404media.co/big-tech-backed-trump-for-acceleration-they-got-a-decel-president-instead/

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

The social.lol Elasticsearch indexes are being rebuilt, which will take a few hours. Once that’s complete, full text search will be available again.

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

folks, have I ever mentioned :prami: :prami_happy: :prami_contented: :prami_hearts: :prami_hearts_red: :prami_winky: :prami_retro: :prami: ?

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

We’re back! The social.lol migration is complete. New hardware, more power, and we’re now fully hosted in Europe! 🇪🇺

There are still a few things I need to take care of, like rebuilding everyone’s user feeds (to pull in anything from remote servers that we hadn’t picked up during our downtime), and setting up Elasticsearch. But for the most part, we’re good to go now!

Thanks for your patience while I completed my first ever Mastodon migration. 😅

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bascule@mas.to ("Tony Arcieri 🌹🦀") wrote:

Despite everything else that’s going on, fossil fuels dropped below 50% of the US power mix for the first time last month

https://electrek.co/2025/04/04/first-month-on-record-fossil-fuels-drop-below-50-of-us-power-mix/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

Unsanitary Practices Persist at Baby Formula Factory Whose Shutdown Led to Mass Shortages, Workers Say
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“Persistent leaks” and “unaddressed contamination issues” are among the problems workers say they witnessed at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants. “I can’t have this on my conscience,” one told ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/baby-formula-abbot-sturgis-michigan-shortages-unsanitary-conditions-workers-say?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #Baby #Parenting #Parents #Health #Safety #FDA

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

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dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

Dramatic HHS cuts leave US ‘weaker as a nation,’ says top FDA vaccine official forced out under Kennedy
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/health/peter-marks-hhs-cuts?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Health and Wellness @health-and-wellness-CNN

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

the largest flop in auto history?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2025/04/03/elons-edsel-tesla-cybertruck-is-the-auto-industrys-biggest-flop-in-decades/

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

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3llzkrafoll2c

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
nemelle ("L") wrote:

I bet nobody understands anti-Trump Americans better than anti-Putin Russians. It may get better, folks, but it may be too late. Sending hugs. Hang in there.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
maxd ("Max Desiatov") wrote:

How many reminders do we need to understand that negotiating with these murderers is not possible? That "fear of escalation" makes no sense when this keeps happening and there's no response, no justice, just shrugs, and maybe thoughts and prayers when death toll is too high to look away? https://babel.ua/en/news/116887-russians-attack-kryvyi-rih-with-ballistic-missiles-there-are-dead-and-wounded-upd

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

Robert McGinnis has died. An absolute icon of mid-late 20th century commercial #art and #illustration.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
RadicalEdward@hackers.town ("Radical Edward :hackers_town:") wrote:

capitalists have spun the deskilling of labor with AI as democratizing it, as if those that worked hard for their skill unfairly hold it over those without those skills, yet another case of capitalists trying to pit labor against itself

Real democratization of labor would be giving all a chance to learn those skills

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
thegibson@hackers.town ("The Gibson 🅅") wrote:

Erased Black Musician?

Check.

Punk?

Check.

Internet Freedom Fighter?

Check.

Hacker?

Check.

https://disappearingmedia.substack.com/p/the-black-punk-pioneer-boston-forgot

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
amy@types.pl ("Amélia Liao") wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamming%5Favoidance%5Fresponse can you imagine running into another electroreceptive fish and you try to avoid jamming but you both shift frequencies in the same direction

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com ("VM (Vicky) Brasseur") wrote:

Yay, Ronin! Way to save lives, furry little dude! 🐀

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2ewxjjw842o

Boosted by jwz:
jimcarroll@futurist.info ("Futurist Jim Carroll") wrote:

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

It’s official! elementary does not accept AI-generated code or design contributions as a matter of policy across any of our over 150 source code repositories. Our operating system is made and shared by real people

https://github.com/elementary/.github/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BrentToderian@mastodon.online ("Brent Toderian") wrote:

Seriously, don’t ever tell me “conservatives” are good with the economy again. There’s been a ton of evidence for a really long time that it’s obviously not true, enough that people who’ve claimed it at any point should be embarrassed — but it’s so horribly clear now that the claim should make you angry.