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Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us ("Emeritus Prof Christopher May") wrote:

@tomgauld.bsky.social on moving fast & breaking things...

#technology

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

Don't blame the technology of the cell phone for the abuse of that tech by capitalist corporations.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/10/you-arent-bad-neither-is-your-phonebut-the-capitalists-who-abuse-it-are-evil/

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

So, Oregon Republicans tried to revitalize their party by making a wanna-be pedophile pastor with a string of failed businesses behind him the chairman of their party. I wonder how that will work out for them?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/10/first-hint-this-wasnt-going-to-work-out-hes-a-pastor/

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

I am compelled to spend the last few weeks of my genetics course discussing ethics, because so many people are mangling genetics for unsavory ends.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/10/a-wall-looms-before-me/

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

this is how dictators silence dissenting voices

https://www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2025-04-09/11-ur-students-alumni-stripped-of-visas-in-nationwide-crackdown

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

Looks like traders woke up this morning and suddenly realized:

1. Trump only DELAYED some tariffs

2. Trump is still going after China

3. Trump is a fickle child with no plan to actually accomplish any of his ridiculous goals.

“Dow futures drop 600 points with stocks set to give back some of historic turnaround”

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/stock-market-today-live-updates.html?%5F%5Fsource=iosappshare%7Corg.joinmastodon.app.ShareActionExtension

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
malwaretech@infosec.exchange ("Marcus Hutchins :verified:") wrote:

Just woke up to find out the president has revoked the security clearances of everyone at a cybersecurity company because Chris Krebs went to work there. Krebs was his director for the agency in charge of Cybersecurity & Election Security during his first term and refuted his claim the 2020 election was "stolen".

Revoking the clearance of every employee basically kills the company's ability to do government contracts, which is a major source of revenue for cybersecurity companies. The White House press release also restates the false claim that the 2020 election was "rigged and stolen".

The US is basically a fascist dictatorship at this point. One where the president goes after entire companies because a single person spoke out against his verifiably false claims. You'd have to be completely insane to travel here right now.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green ("Gerry McGovern") wrote:

Amazon announced that it would use AI to help farmers in Aragon, Spain use water more efficiently.

That's the same Amazon that is using huge quantities of water for its data centers in Aragon, Spain

The same super-secretive Amazon that does its very best to hide its water usage figures from the public.

Welcome to the world of Big Tech: grifters, con artists and scammers. Mafia-life thugs who swear local governments to silence.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water

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

this is the sort of thing the regimes of Stalin & Hitler & all tyrants do:

https://www.professorwatchlist.org/submitatip

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fj ("Frederic Jacobs") wrote:

MAGA has a watchlist of professors.

Concerned about the climate? You might get reported by students as a climate alarmist!

https://www.professorwatchlist.org/submitatip

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dansup ("Daniel Supernault") wrote:

I was able to secure the last Gold tier Mastodon pledge! 🎉

About time, I owe so much to Mastodon and their iconic journey of decentralizing Twitter.

I don't think Bluesky, Pixelfed or Lemmy would exist without Mastodon. Their project gave us a blueprint for what's possible.

Kudos @Mastodon & @Gargron, you inspired a whole generation of dreamers like me. Standing on the shoulders of giants ❤️

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#fediverse #mastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EC_DIGIT@ec.social-network.europa.eu ("EC DIGIT") wrote:

A big thank you to Niels and Birthe Lindenthal from @openproject for joining OSSpresso – the Commission's open source community event organised by @EC_OSPO .

They shared how they built a successful European #OpenSource business. Their software for project management, Open Project, now has more than 20 million downloads.

Thank you Niels and Birthe for your inspiring presentation! ❤️

No wonder we had record attendance!

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

opinions of Voxer?

https://www.voxer.com/

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

Dear Expertweb:

is there a free (cross-platform iOS & Android) cell app that does push-to-talk and is reasonably secure?

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

Chinese exports to the U.S. are estimated at about 3 percent of China's GDP… the PRC seems a bad target for an attempt to bully them through a trade war, and Xi has a lot of internal political capital sunk into *not* bending to US demands

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
clacke@libranet.de ("clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛") wrote:

Midas was cursed, but today the "Midas touch" is considered a good thing.

I would love it if people started saying "Wow, he really has the Midas touch; Everything he gets involved in becomes weak, heavy and costly."

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

S&P 500 futures fall after historic rally on Trump's tariff walkback - CNBC

‘"Market volatility could remain elevated, despite the 90-day pause on tariffs for non-retaliating countries," said Roach, chief economist at LPL Financial. "Hard data from the early part of the year suggests the economy is slowing, irrespective of trade policy."’

https://stocks.apple.com/AcWIRpAShTquJoCND3MJx1g

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

despite decades of Open Access discourse, the only color, metal, gem, or flavor of Open Access that matters is

<head>
<title>My Papers</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul>
<li><a href="./paper1.pdf">Paper 1</a></li>
<li><a href="./paper2.pdf">Paper 2</a></li>
<li><a href="./paper3.pdf">Paper 3</a></li>
</ul>
</body>

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jgoerzen@floss.social ("John Goerzen") wrote:

My blog post on #NNCPNET, the #email network atop #NNCP : https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10768-announcing-the-nncpnet-email-network

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

Sometimes the generated thing and the perception occur entirely within my head, with no outward sign what is happening, but the loop is still there. Just using my generic wetware simulator. 😆

Boosted by jwz:
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

The manosphere is a special, special place

Boosted by jwz:
athomeinmyhead@universeodon.com ("at home in my head") wrote:

#eattherich #guillotine #wealthgap #classism #poverty #Classwar

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

The only way to debug software, as far as I can tell, is to generate something that can be perceived with my senses that allow me to deduce what is wrong. So it's all print statement debugging, it's just sometimes my "print" statement might produce sound, flash LEDs, make something hot or cold, show plots on a screen, or it might (although rarely) be something generated automatically by a fancy debug tool somebody is trying to sell me.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!") wrote:

Whether or not you're actually an Oregon Trail millennial, you can die of #oligarchy! There's a protest T shirt for that too.

#fascism #trump #musk #doge #protests

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1877565519/you-have-died-of-oligarchy-oregon-trail

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
chargrille@progressives.social ("Erin Conroy") wrote:

"Somebody just made BILLIONS off this tariff-based manipulation of the markets." Tristan Snell, prosecuter in the Trump U. fraud case

International security analyst: Trump Admin will "be investigated for market manipulation."

Cybercrime expert atty Jackie Singh: "pump & dump schemes were previously an exclusive realm of fraudsters, & considered prosecutable criminal activity"

History prof: "Trump's cronies are making millions from market manipulation & speculation"
https://www.alternet.org/insider-trading-trump/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

Meghan Cassella is the Washington correspondent for CNBC

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

truth

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hfssaurabh%5Fone-u-turn-after-another-doesnt-get-you-activity-7315904011696578561-4pbr

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Get involved locally and change your part of the world for the better.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mementomaori@indg.club wrote:

You grew up watching 80s music videos and you still believe in gender binaries?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

New study finds that 90 percent of U.S. Christian leaders believe climate change is real | EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1079512