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Boosted by jwz:
adafruit@mastodon.cloud wrote:

TARIFF TALK! WITH LADYADA 🌍🚢 - Join Ladyada as she breaks down how recent tariff shifts impact electronic component availability and pricing, reshoring trends, and what may happen to engineering/BOM and DIY project costs. Get the inside scoop on navigating supply chain challenges while keeping your builds affordable and excellent! All this week on ASK AN ENGINEER WEDS 8PM ET on all the socials.

https://youtu.be/fVrmZe67Xcs

#tariffs

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• video: 4ac05651c7d1b472.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
_elena ("Elena Rossini ⁂") wrote:

There should be a word for it: the feeling of disappointment / sadness when you realize interesting people you got to know on the Fediverse have since decamped to Bluesky.

Of course, there must be valid reasons for it. Still, this makes me a little sad.

I have a dormant Bluesky account and from time to time I check in and see them posting so much there.

Not me. Why? I don't trust a place funded by Crypto Bros -> https://www.blockchaincapital.com/portfolio

I'm 1000% ALL IN on the Fediverse, not going anywhere ❤️

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TexasObserver@texasobserver.social ("Texas Observer") wrote:

Our top story: Over the past several years, the #Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has quietly built out an expansive #surveillance apparatus—one that’s increasingly powered by artificial intelligence. Can the legislature pass new protections for our privacy? https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/

#privacy #security #CriminalJustice #border #Tech #AI #news #politics #USpol

Boosted by jwz:
foolishowl@social.coop ("FoolishOwl") wrote:

@cstross I miss Iain Banks and very much wish a mysterious stranger accompanied by a sarcastic floating suitcase would show up. We could use the help.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CaptainFlab@libretooth.gr ("Tom Lorenz") wrote:

Maybe even the “woke mind virus”?

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

Dire wolves? Pffft. I want my giant mutant spider dogs.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/08/inspired-by-colossal-biosciences/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoB8t0B4jx4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
abrignoni@infosec.exchange ("Alexis Brignoni :python: :donor:") wrote:

🏦 From the meme vault

#DigitalForensics #DFIR #MobileForensics

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

I had forgotten about this wonderful moment in film. @paninid is absolutely right: every one of the “who could have expected this result?” liars (to self and/or to others) saw this clip:

https://inaniludibrio.com/2025/03/06/anyone-bueller-anyone/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

@jsonstein

Everyone saw this movie: https://inaniludibrio.com/2025/03/06/anyone-bueller-anyone/

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

“Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different”

“President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tariffs from other countries, which is precisely what happened. The U.S. economy plunged deeper into a devastating financial crisis that it would not pull out of until World War II.”

https://apnews.com/article/trump-great-depression-smoot-hawley-tariffs-8c21caad30378a28a0798069585d5d9b

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
codepo8@toot.cafe ("Chris Heilmann") wrote:

If you want to ensure your content does not get indexed by big tech LLMs, just keep it in your robots.txt file.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DrSuzanne@ohai.social ("Suzanne she/her") wrote:

I keep trying to tell jokes to Forest. I’ve been telling her that her purr motor is on high and that the volume goes up to eleven, but she’s just a baby and doesn’t understand pop culture references.

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

“U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the only woman on NATO’s military committee, was fired over the weekend by the Trump administration, U.S. officials said Monday.

Although no reason was given, officials said it was apparently tied to comments she has made that supported diversity in the force.

According to the officials, Chatfield got a call from Adm. Christopher Grady, the acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff…”

https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-hegseth-trump-dei-chatfield-nato-23df15b59766458d106567ba782d2f15

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
emacsomancer@types.pl ("(mapcar #'emacsomancer objs)") wrote:

India's repair culture gives new life to dead laptops: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43618105

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

Precisionism, a roughly century-old modernist American art movement related to cubism, is a strong influence here. Its practitioners included Joseph Stella, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Demuth. Paul Strand was probably the most prominent precisionist photographer.

Precisionism is concerned with structure and geometry as well as the relationship between humans, machines, and the industrial landscape.

I'm interested in how the precisionists might interpret the world as it's become today.

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

These (de-electrified) catenary wires were captured with a Sinar P camera and a 240mm lens on Polaroid 55 film (scanned) along the former Pennsylvania Railroad's "high line" in west Philadelphia near the university.

This abstract composition references a 1936 painting, "Electrification", by precisionist artist Ralston Crawford; see https://hirshhorn.si.edu//collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm:hmsg%5F72.75

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

De-Electrification, Philadelphia, PA, 2005.

All the pixels, none of the rust, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2155416560

#photography

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

2. U.S. Federal Civilian Workforce Size (1980–2024)
• Primary Source: U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
• Specific Datasets Used:
• 1980–1999: OPM’s Federal Civilian Workforce Statistics reports.
• 2000–2020: OPM and GAO reports on full-time equivalents (FTEs) and total employment.
• 2021–2024: Estimated based on trends from OPM and BLS Current Employment Statistics (CES)

FT perm civ fed employees, excluding mil & contractors.

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

1. U.S. Population Estimates (1980–2024)
• Primary Source: U.S. Census Bureau
• Specific Datasets Used:
• 1980–1999: Historical estimates from the Census Bureau’s Population Estimates Program (PEP).
• 2000–2020: Annual estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS) and decennial censuses.
• 2021–2024: Projections and estimates from the Census Bureau’s Vintage Population Estimates (e.g., Vintage 2023), extrapolated to 2024.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jawnsy ("Jonathan Yu") wrote:

Exciting news for fans of typography!

"For decades, software like Adobe InDesign and LaTeX has evaluated multiple lines of text at a time as they decide where to end one line and begin the next. It’s just that the web didn’t use a multiline algorithm. Until now.

We are excited to bring this capability to the web for the first time, in Safari Technology Preview 216."

https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wrap-pretty/ by @jensimmons

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

“U.S. population size (blue line): steadily increasing, showing over 40% growth.
Federal civilian workforce size (orange line): largely flat or slightly declining, with minimal growth relative to 1980.

This clearly illustrates how population growth has significantly outpaced the growth of the federal civilian workforce over the past four decades.”

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

no, the federal civilian workforce has *not* ballooned, nor even kept relative pace with population growth.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ariel@front-end.social ("Ariel Salminen") wrote:

“The worst of the internet is continuously attacking the best of the internet. This is a distributed denial of service attack on the good parts of the World Wide Web.”

https://adactio.com/journal/21831

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

A co-op "patreon"? https://comradery.co/

Quote: "Comradery is a digital platform where creators can receive monthly payments from supporters, and optionally give those supporters exclusive access to posts and media.

"What makes Comradery different is we are a worker co-op [...] each creator owns a non sellable share of the cooperative, participates in democratic decision making, governance, and day-to-day operation tasks."

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
adalheidis@mastodon.art ("Lou") wrote:

Hello #Portfolioday !
I'm an artist and graphic designer from France. I love colouring the most, and I like drawing women with swords just as much.

✱ https://maelissfont.com/en/portfolio/
✱ https://maelissfont.com/en/boutique/

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

Hey mastodon comrades, it's #PortfolioDay baby! Here's some of my latest professional work that's been released.

All of these are for Magic the Gathering as the cadence for release is more frequent than video game work.

The first one is for the recent Lord of the Rings Magic set and the second one with the elf in glowing armour is for the Dungeons & Dragons set.

#mtgart #FantasyArt #MagicTheGathering #LordOfTheRings #DungeonsAndDragons #DnD #LotR #MTGDND #MTGLotR

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
brennen@federation.p1k3.com wrote:

if we really wanted a healthy society, we'd start by teaching people early that you can barely trust anybody who wants to be the CEO of a small to midsized company, nevermind presidents and senators and whatnot.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

It's been a bit since the @spritely campaign wrapped up, but we decided to post a retrospective, an update on campaign rewards, and some lovely quotes from donors! https://spritely.institute/news/2024-2025-supporter-drive-retrospective.html

PLUS! I promised if we crossed the $90k line I'd do an animation and I KEPT MY PROMISE! Behold, our Porta-Bella mascot, hopping around! (A few of them hopping, even!)

(PSST: .blend here: https://files.spritely.institute/videos/2025-04-08-campaign-success-anim.blend )

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• gifv: Porta-bella character(s) jumping for joy! Success!

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

No, George Church has not resurrected an extinct dire wolf species. Not even close.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/08/dire-puppies/

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

straight agree

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/ray-dalio-warns-of-historic-br-AEr2XnWCRKaEIv.eJfHENA