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

@soulexpress No thanks. My time on this earth is limited, and that would be a poor way to spend it.

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

@cscott @mattblaze Minnesota calls them “election judges” (for whatever reason), and being an election judge was seriously one of the best ways to spend Election Day. Usually crazy busy and no time to obsess over what results will be once the votes are tabulated.

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

One of the reasons they don't state a coherent and testable hypothesis is that, outside extreme cases (e.g., none of the votes processed by this tabulator went to a candidate who got 50% of the votes on other tabulators, or whatever), vote data generally is at best very weak evidence of fraud. Voters are allowed to vote for whoever they voted for.

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

The Trump Administration is trying to undo protections in the Affordable Care Act while using federal power to target immigrants, LGBTQ+ communities, and working-class families.

But you can help us fight back from your phone or computer in just a few minutes. 🧵

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
cscott@kolektiva.social ("C. Scott Ananian (he/him)") wrote:

@mattblaze I'm a election warden here in the Town of Brookline. I highly recommend it -- plus we can always use the help.

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

One of the tipoffs that an analysis like this is bogus, or at least lacks any kind of statistical rigor, is the complete absence of a coherent hypothesis that can be tested against the data. Instead, they essentially just show some elaborate graphs and say "see!".

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

I'm currently being swarmed on Bluesky by a posse that's mad at me for failing to acknowledge that the 2024 election was clearly stolen. I honestly have no idea if this is a bot army or real people. It's a very attractive explanation for the outcome of an election that disappointed you, so it's very easy to peddle stuff like this.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
videntefernandez@goblin.band ("sally") wrote:

I draw and make dolls, ocasionally I'm a drag king. I'm hyperfixated on Severance right now.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
e11e ("elle") wrote:

i finally got around to making a 404 error for my homepage. i thought it would be fun to do some top down sprite art and it turned into this mini game. u can use the onscreen buttons or keyboard arrows to find your way back to my home ^-^ just type in a non-existent url on ellesho.me/page to visit

u can read my thought process about it on my blog here: https://ellesho.me/page/website/now/#escapism

Attachments:

• video: demo of top down rpg style mini game for elle's homepage 404 page. a little visitor ghost wanders through a forest maze

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

It's especially notable that none of these "smoking guns" were raised by the Harris campaign or any other candidate to contest the election results before they were certified. Mostly because they don't actually show evidence of fraud.

Elections are decided by the votes reflected on the ballots that were cast, not by how well those votes conform to polling or prior elections.

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

There's an elaborate, but mostly meaningless "analysis" floating around that purports to "prove" that the 2024 election was stolen. It consists of stats and graphs of supposedly "anomalous" voting patters in a handful of cherry-picked counties.

The graphs are very pretty, but they just aren't evidence of fraud. They're very similar to the supposed "proof" that the 2020 election was stolen.

"Proof" that reenforces what you want to believe has to be approached with extreme caution.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
croyle@wandering.shop ("David Croyle") wrote:

15m really picked up and was stellar to Europe for me earlier today... I'm going to have to try again tomorrow. #hamradio

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

“Why some are accusing Trump of manipulating stock markets”

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5360062/why-some-are-accusing-trump-of-manipulating-stock-markets

Boosted by jwz:
NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mxy@kolektiva.social ("emma best 🏳️‍🌈 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ Mxy") wrote:

I've just been told that John Young of Cryptome.org passed away last week.

#Cryptome was foundational, and a predecessor to organizations like @ddosecrets and #Wikileaks.

RIP, John.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
aka_pugs ("Tom Lyon ✅") wrote:

Cray Supercomputer trading cards: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sf2XOBJ5nQh4Hw5DSaVXEWlkLnbPG4uj/view?usp=sharing

Bubble gum not included.

These cards are 2.5" x 3.5" and were a huge pain to scan.

Boosted by jwz:
SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe ("Sally Strange") wrote:

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords starting to look like a reasonable basis for a system of government

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tomwwolf@infosec.exchange ("tom w wolf") wrote:

this feels relevant

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tomwwolf@infosec.exchange ("tom w wolf") wrote:

@profcarroll SSA potentially about to see a "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" @SpaceX style?

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

Subscribing to Defector for the 98¢ special. I am not at all a sports guy, but I like a lot of the rest of the writing there, so we’ll see.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
bigzaphod ("Sean Heber") wrote:

Tapestry is probably the most complicated app we've ever done. It's like an app made entirely of edge cases.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
lumon@beep.town ("Lumon Gif Refinery") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: jesus no kier

Boosted by jwz:
SafeStreetRebel@sfba.social ("Safe Street Rebel") wrote:

Lurie is cutting transit service and replacing it with Waymo. letting rich people clog up the street with robotaxis that stall all the time while regular people in buses get stuck behind is terrible policy and undoes the whole point of car-free Market. absolutely catastrophic

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/waymo-market-street-lurie-20268233.php

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I had to go verify this one because, wow.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/trump-orders-federal-investigation-into-former-cisa-director-chris-krebs/

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
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 cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
SmallWondersSFF@wandering.shop ("Small Wonders Magazine") wrote:

"Traveling at Lightspeed is Easy, Returning to Earth is Hard" is a wonderful poem by Ian Li that delivers on the promise of its title. Check it out in our issue 16 here:

https://smallwondersmag.com/piece/traveling-at-lightspeed-is-easy/

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

Oh and they also give the kiddo a "free" plushie.

(And they also provide stellar service and care, and I do absolutely thank them for that.)

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

SDL2 has been ported to MacOS 9 (and earlier) - opens up a lot of development options for games, apps, etc on these older systems

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/sdl2-macos-9-rough-draft

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
obrien_kat@mastodon.world ("Kat O’Brien") wrote:

@mattblaze I did this in 2020! Now living abroad so I can’t do it, but very glad I did it then. I actually wrote a company post at Mastercard encouraging people to do so and we got several dozen to volunteer.

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

@mattblaze I am an election poll worker and it’s great! But we need more volunteers to keep running elections effectively. That having been said, working an election shows you how challenging election fraud would be in the current era.