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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
kagan@wandering.shop ("Kagan MacTane (he/him)") wrote:

@raganwald I prefer more space around my dashes, and I absolutely *hate* when they come at the beginning of a line, so I've been using  — (and then a normal space) since probably around 1999 or so. I wrote a blog post in 2010 that promotes that sequence, along with other things: https://kagan.mactane.org/blog/2010/07/10/typesetting-in-between-the-letters/

You're right: we don't write like AI. AI writes like us. Because it was trained on our work.

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
ryanleesipes ("Ryan Lee Sipes ⚡🦅") wrote:

#Thunderbird on iOS is coming...

Link to post here: https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/mobile-planning/T1f1f1a90aaae9a1d

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
apod@mastodon.bot ("Astronomy Picture of the Day") wrote:

APOD from 2025-04-11

The ISS Meets #Venus

A video from Shoreline, Washington captured Venus and the ISS in daylight on April 5. Despite appearing similar in size, the ISS is much closer at 400 km away, while Venus is nearly 45 million kilometers distant.

HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250411.html#space #astronomy #telescope #planet #earth

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

A small treat for the weekend.

In the late evening of 24 April 1972, Apollo 16 left lunar orbit carrying John Young, Thomas Mattingley II, & Charlie Duke back to Earth.

The Apollo Metric (Mapping) Camera took a sequence of still images looking back at the Moon, initially the lunar farside & then the nearside as it rotated into view.

Here's a 10 fps movie sequence showing 90 of those images without any processing or alignment.

Credit: NASA/JSC/Arizona State University

#SpaceExploration

Attachments:

• gifv: A sequence of images taken of the Moon during the departure of Apollo 16 in 1972.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
robdaemon@mastodon.sdf.org ("Rob") wrote:

New Garbage album coming. First single out today:

"There's No Future in Optimism"

https://tidal.com/browse/track/426680784?u

well if that isn't good timing

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

My mom was also carrying around my youngest sister on her back. My mom's always been a bit of a badass in her way.

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

Trump's official denouncement of former CISA director Chris Krebs (in the form of a "Presidential Memorandum") is chilling in substance and utterly Stalinesque in tone. By threatening anyone who hires him, it aims to render Krebs effectively unemployable.

I said it then, and I will repeat it now: There is simply no evidence that the 2020 election was "hacked". Krebs's forthright clarity about this in November, 2020 was a brave and important act of public service.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/addressing-risks-from-chris-krebs-and-government-censorship/

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

My mom reminded me that when I was six or so I was picketing with her as her union was on strike at the time. Standing out in the rain under ponchos. Good quality family time, I think.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
whitequark ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

holy shit, windbg's linux kernel debugging mode can _download sources for your specific kernel build from github_?? why is the windows tooling for linux so much better than the linux tooling for linux

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

The Foreign Service Journal has published my requiem for the Voice of America. https://afsa.org/sites/default/files/flipping%5Fbook/040525/10/index.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Adam Gurri") wrote:

If they're going to have their shot of creating the unitary executive, we'll have our shot at ending presidentialism to avoid any future president ever trying this again. If all bets are off, we might as well aim big. www.liberalcurrents.com/roadmap-to-a...

Roadmap to American Reconstruc...

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
robrey@mastodon.art ("Rob Rey") wrote:

Moon Lander
16 x 12 in, Oil

Character in Context, the largest exhibition of original illustration in the Western U.S. opening May 2! Come see the show in-person at the A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art in Trinidad, Colorado, with several artists in attendance. Demonstrations and gallery talks on Saturday May 3!

https://armitchellmuseum.com

#moon #bird #moonlander #oilpainting

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Financial Times has a look at airline data and find passengers into the US from basically every European country are falling off a cliff day by day https://www.ft.com/content/6dc16a54-8de1-4f3b-8409-ecb566118127

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

the Colonel has more guts than the Congress

https://www.spoc.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4152328/for-release

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

Infosec must not remain silent while Trump goes after Chris Krebs: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/cybersecurity-community-must-not-remain-silent-executive-order-attacking-former

Boosted by jwz:
ylegall@genart.social ("Yann Le Gall") wrote:

gear sphere with stereographic projection

Attachments:

• gifv: 3e90f4ff5cb06243.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
madargon@is-a.cat ("Mad A. Argon :qurio:") wrote:

One day I saw cool #owl photo, with one leg in pose like this. It was normal bird and it still looked like some cartoon #villain, maybe dark #sorcerer preparing evil spell :blobcatjoy:
I HAD TO create this...

#drawing #art #MastoArt #CreativeToots #krita #ArtWithOpenSource #wizard #anthro #character

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

Insane, ya say? No shit!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Fortinet put out a blog which is going to fly under the radar - half of it is about how good they are at security - but is essentially ‘lots of our FortiGate customers are backdoored by a threat actor despite having applied patches’.

Only of interest if you run FortiGate firewalls and have SSL VPN enabled, which is half the US Gov.

https://www.fortinet.com/blog/psirt-blogs/analysis-of-threat-actor-activity

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy leading talks with Moscow, has reportedly told Trump that the fastest way to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine is to “support a strategy” wherein Kyiv cedes “ownership” of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions (none of which Moscow full controls). https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-envoys-embrace-russian-demands-174228771.html?fr=sycsrp%5Fcatchall

The Reuters report doesn’t even mention Crimea, which Moscow annexed eight years before it laid claim on those other four eastern regions of Ukraine. I guess Washington feels no need to debate who “owns” that peninsula.

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

And this is why countries are dumping their U.S. treasuries and dollars.

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

“Freak sell-off of ‘safe haven’ US bonds raises fear that confidence in America is fading”

https://apnews.com/article/treasurys-bond-market-yield-tariff-46b4818710f01b8cc93fd002081167b0

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

“We’re dismantling Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, all of the media that we’ve relied on really since the Cold War to get messaging across, to accurately reflect the position of the United States against our adversaries.” - US Senator Jeanne Shaheen https://defensescoop.com/2025/04/09/socom-leader-warns-of-information-operations-void-gen-bryan-fenton/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:

"The CDC has rejected a request from health officials in Milwaukee for help with a lead poisoning investigation, after HSS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eliminated the agency's response team."

Trump & RFK Jr find sinister ways to sicken & kill us.

#Resist #HHS #Firings #DOGE #Musk #RFKJr #CDC #GOPDeathCult #USPol

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/milwaukee-schools-lead-poisoning-cdc-denies-help/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=796184961

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
N4JAW@mastodon.radio ("Jim "Ham on a Bike"") wrote:

1st capture of
@ARISS_Intl #SSTV Series 26: Humans in Space 4/11/25 1905 UTC over EM78 Louisville, KY USA #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #ARISS #Iss
#NASARadioClubs #issfanclub

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

This is the way.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

#1A

Via Mueller She Wrote:

If you work for the SSA and want bulletins and updates, you have to create a Twitter account.

“SSA shifts to X posts for official messaging after cuts to communications staff” https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/04/ssa-shifts-to-x-posts-for-official-messaging-after-cuts-to-communications-staff/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

CBC - A GM assembly plant in Ontario will shut down next month with plans to reopen in the fall at half capacity. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/ingersoll-assembly-plant-halting-production-layoffs-1.7508190

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mattround@crispsandwi.ch ("Matt Round") wrote:

ICYMI, yesterday I launched a stylish new site to replace Google Maps https://vole.wtf/comic-sans-maps/

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

So I guess I'm pro-tariff now.