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

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

interesting

https://www.reddit.com/r/GovernmentContracting/s/VhSataKbm9

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

@everylibrary

I think many of us are tired. Calling a congressperson, writing letters, signing petitions seems futile. But, these are first actions. Take them. Do them like little chores.

They aren't the full solution but there are people counting on us being lazy and buying in to the idea that no action is huge enough to be real... and every real action is too dangerous to take.

Instead do everything within your power however small it may feel.

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

@thom It seems like you're trying to insult me, but having difficulty being clear about it. But I can't really tell, probably due to my limited reading and comprehension skills.

jwz wrote:

Tempest, Pac-Man.

Dear Lazyweb, I got Tempest working again, but I can't get it out of "free play" or in fact get any of the dip switches to do anything. Like, I can't even set it to Spanish. However, the test screen that shows the current dip switch...
https://jwz.org/b/ykmT

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

RFK Jr. is an unprecedented threat to US health.

He just completely eliminated the CDC lead poisoning group and all teams that respond to help address local radiological and nuclear threats and all capacity for natural disasters response.

Mind numbing insanity.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/milwaukee-schools-lead-poisoning-cdc-denies-help/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
GreenFire@mstdn.social ("Kevin Leecaster") wrote:

Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided today to impose a minimum fee of $100 for every ton of greenhouse gases emitted by ships above certain thresholds, in what is effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions.

Which goes to show that maybe it's better when the USA drops out of international climate talks.
https://apnews.com/article/shipping-emissions-climate-change-98ff23ca4739d8b4fc5a8f941a7ca0c4

Boosted by jwz:
simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

To lower morale and with it, production, be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Just shown my daughter, who plays piano, that you not only can bend strings on a guitar, but that you can slightly bend the entire neck against the body, which changes tension on all the strings, producing a cool effect. Her shocked reaction: "OKAY I'M DONE WITH GUITARS!" :-)

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Companies are refusing to hire or even laying off plumbers because hucksters backed by massive unicorn-chasing investment money told them they can build plumbing faster and cheaper out of cardboard.

A few years from now, there’s going to be a hell of a market for people who can replace cardboard toilets with real ones.

And also for people who can replace carpets. And walls and floors.

This is a post about LLM-generated code.

Boosted by jwz:
PacificNic@zeroes.ca ("Nic, Fermenting The Vibes") wrote:

I'm at a much needed eye appointment right now and there are multiple sick people in the waiting room and the CO2 is at 2000 ppm.

It still blows my fucking mind that we had lockdowns just a few years ago and some of us are so intimately aware of the importance of clean air, but almost nobody in any medical profession gives a single shit.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 Digaron lens and a bit of vertical shift. The afternoon light highlights the basic arched form of the bridge structure against the background and foreground foliage. A polarizer darkened the clear winter sky.

The Taft Bridge, named for the famously portly US president and SCOTUS chief justice, is the largest unreinforced concrete bridge in the world. Comprising seven major arches over Rock Creek Park, it links the Kalorama and Woodly Park neighborhoods.

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

Taft (Connecticut Avenue) Memorial Bridge, Washington, DC, 2019.

Enough pixels for both a president and a supreme court justice at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/49245011451

#photography

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#WebGPU is an incredibly important API. Not just for browsers, but for GPUs in general.

It forces vendors to converge on common approaches that work across platforms and GPUs, instead of everyone pulling towards their own proprietary APIs and extensions.

It's a unique spec where Apple and Android cooperate. The designs are validated by being implemented by multiple browser vendors, reliably enough to be compatible with sandboxing, across all platforms from Windows to Linux.

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

A small visitor to my dad's backyard in Texas #possum #opossumnews

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

Update on my dinner saga: Backup pizza ordered, delivered, and partly consumed. Original dinner has been sitting in a residential neighborhood about 30 miles away for the last hour.

Hope someone at least got to eat it.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
scottjenson@social.coop ("Scott Jenson") wrote:

Google's latest layoffs on the Chrome team really hits hard. They are letting go of people that desperately want to keep the web open. You can hate on Google on you want (I'm with you!) but the people on the Chrome team were amazing and only wanted what was best for the web.

This was so incredibly short sighted and stupid (and ultimately counterproductive)

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

I feel like I wouldn't be out of line leaving a poor tip.

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

I'm happy to buy some delivery driver dinner if they really need it, but I'm pretty hungry. I think I'm just going to order a pizza from somewhere else and hope for the best.

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

I think the driver must have picked up my food and then either had some kind of emergency or simply forgot what they were doing and went home. Or is exceptionally bad at petty theft.

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

I must have leveled up in the "helplessly watch your delivery driver get lost" game. They are literally now in the next state, with my dinner.

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

live in the #RochesterNY area? join your community in MLK Park on 19 April 2025 for a day of mass mobilization organized by 50501 and others… tell the administration “Hands Off”!

this moment in history demands we set aside Party and Faction to protect the Republic and Constitutional government.

please share widely

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

Yes, random dude with the account created a month ago urging me to commit reckless acts of violence, you are definitely a real person who I will not block.

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

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

My concern here is about much more than the unfairness to Krebs, though this abuse of presidential power certainly harms him and makes him and his family targets for threats of violence.

My larger concern is that this represents a clear and direct threat to anyone, inside or outside the administration, who dares raise a dissenting voice or who exposes facts that might be contrary to the party line.

It is diametrically opposed to what the first amendment is designed to protect.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

Genuinely laughing at the idea that any business will engage in an expensive multi-year effort to move factories to the U.S. based on an economic policy that changes every week based on how many mean tweets the president just read.

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

@ApostateEnglishman Yes, I am well aware that there are vulnerabilities in much of US election infrastructure, some of which could be exploited to alter an election outcome. That's a serious problem, and we should prioritize addressing it more than we have. I've personally testified before congress multiple times about this. There's no running away from this fact.

But there is no evidence any election outcome has been altered this way so far. We've been fortunate.

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

101/365

The Alfred Street Baptist Church is the oldest Black Baptist in Alexandria. The church was built in 1818, but the congregation has been worshipping since 1806. #project365

https://project365.teejay.blog/post/101-365

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ Just announced: Fri Sep 12, 7pm: MISSING PERSONS
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/09-12.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #missingpersons #newwave #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ Just announced: Thu Sep 11, 7pm: NITZER EBB
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/09-11.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #nitzerebb #frontlineassembly #clockdva #leadintogold #industrial #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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