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

It didn’t even last a week and the tariffs against China are beginning to crumble with smartphones, PCs, servers, and other tech products being exempted.

Sucks for the small business owners who aren’t big enough to lobby for their own exemptions. Welcome to the coin operated presidency.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/tariffs-exclusions-exemptions-apple-nvidia-dell-smartphones-pcs-b2e069ff

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

Just downloaded my social security record, mostly to make sure they haven't declared me dead yet.

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

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

Good summary “Trump Surrenders to Tech Lords With Massive Tariffs U-Turn”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-surrenders-to-tech-lords-with-massive-tariffs-u-turn/
#trump

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ohmrun@c.im wrote:

Witness the majesty of my very first home grown root vegetable.

#Gardening

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
refuturing ("Christopher Rice") wrote:

@neurovagrant LinkedIn absolutely plays games with this shit. My account was deleted without notification, explanation or chance to appeal after my post in January pointing out Musk did, in fact, do a Nazi salute got 1.3MM views (around 900k unique viewer impressions). I had received numerous harassing InMails and invitation requests due to the post, which I reported. And I was the one who got deleted.

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

truth!

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• video: 5adda0436bf7ce36.mp4

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

Also, for the record: I don't make a habit of posting pornography (though I do occasionally suggest anatomically improbable uses for people's reproductive organs), gore or graphic violence (other than brutalist architecture), or other things that could be reasonably anticipated to cause harm or distress. And if I ever did feel the need to post any of those things, I'd use content warnings. My line for when they're needed may be different from yours. That's what makes the world go round.

jwz wrote:

Here's some nerd-bait for you:

I like the form factor of this kind of work light, of which there are 10,000 no-name Chinese-junk resellers -- folds up tiny, magnetic base, 360° rotation, USB rechargeable.

But is there something like this that has exactly two modes, "off" and "on", so that I don't have to click 3 or 4 times to turn it off? [...]

"Yes, I would like my work light to be dimmer" -- statements dreamed up by the absolutely deranged.

https://jwz.org/b/ykmX

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

The glass curtain grid and distorted reflection of midtown reminded me of Saul Bass's iconic title sequence for North By Northwest (imitated in Mad Men), though this is across town. Hitchcock's film also employed a somewhat different perspective, looking downward, and at a sharper angle. Here, our focus is on the impressionistically rendered Times Square skyline rather than the street below.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 138mm/6.5 HR Digaron-SW lens (@ f/8), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50, 1/30 sec), vertically shifted 15mm.

The Rodenstock 138mm/6.5 has a floating internal element that has to move as it's focused. It has to be focused with a helical ring (like an SLR lens) that moves the focus and the internal element together, rather than simply by moving it back and forth with a bellows. This makes the lens big, heavy, and cumbersome (not to mention spendy), but it's very sharp.

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

445 Tenth Avenue, NYC, 2024.

All the pixels, each incorporating all the vibrant colors of the rainbow in equal amounts, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53997928594

#photography

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

Good news, though: I have made a special deal with John Mastodon, and people are no longer required to follow me! They can even block or mute me if they want now. You are no longer required to read and study my every thought, unless you want to.

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

Just got a long screed from a total stranger (who follows me) explaining how they will be "forced" to block me because I "rudely" don't put content warnings on posts about election security.

With all due respect, go pound sand. I study election security for a living. It's what I *do*. It's a big part of who I am, and not something I make any attempt to keep secret. Anyone who follows should know this; it's right on the label.

I get that you might find what I do boring and tedious. Sorry.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Thrilled that @kateaconger
@mac_ryan_ are going to join @ahl and me to discuss their superlative Character Limit on the next Oxide and Friends. Join us, Monday 4p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1360676081534767304

Boosted by jwz:
georgebaily ("George Baily") wrote:

The people who made "how to use the internet" books in the 2000s are still at it:

Boosted by jwz:
ingrid@everything.happens.horse ("Ingrid Burrington") wrote:

Feels like most mental health modalities I've tried have really failed to acknowledge that maybe it's the living in a dying empire and all the fascism that's contributing to my suicidal ideation

Boosted by jwz:
ngons@mathstodon.xyz ("n-gons") wrote:

Perfect fit.

#Hedron #Geometry #MathArt #3D #PolyHedron

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• gifv: Abstract Mathematical art. Zooming, growing and rotating geometric objects rotating through space...

jwz wrote:

Great Moments in Sorting.

Anyone ever figure out how to make Mail.app stop losing its mind on sorting? Clicking the "Date" header fixes it momentarily but this insanity comes back the next time I reselect the folder. "Rebuild mailbox" does not fix it.
https://jwz.org/b/ykmV

jwz wrote:

Must be weird on here for conventionally-attractive white girls just looking to make friends, and getting reported as spam. Must be as hard as for legitimate Nigerian philanthropists.

Boosted by jwz:
kopper@wetdry.world wrote:

fedi is weird you go "touched grass today. now my hand is green. i like being green. it makes me feel shrek euphoria"

and someone with a distro icon emoji in their username comes up in your replies with "well systemd developers also touch grass occasionally and they prevent me from using my posix shell clone written in assembly to boot up my fully deblobbed thinkpad i bought second hand in mesopotamia :/"

and like yeah good for you or sorry that happened but i'm not sure why you felt the need to comment that under my post

Boosted by jwz:
timonsku ("Timon 🛠") wrote:

Asus... are you kidding me

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

First time visiting Sarasota in over nine years, and first time at this sandwich shop in over Jesus Christ I’ve gotten old years

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
vicgrinberg ("Dr. Victoria Grinberg") wrote:

#tulip #bloomscrolling #keukenhof
4/21

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
soonleenz@wandering.shop ("SoonLeeNZ") wrote:

It's still John M. Ford's birthday (April 10) in some parts of the world. He wrote one of my favourite poems, "Sonnet: Against Entropy" which was first published as a comment to a forum post. https://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/003789.html#29472

#sonnet #poem #JohnMFord

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld ") wrote:

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
heliographe_studio ("Héliographe") wrote:

https://AgBr.app was covered by @macstories in their club newsletter yesterday! Check it out: https://club.macstories.net/posts/macstories-weekly-issue-461

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Betty@fandom.ink ("Luo Binghe baculum truther") wrote:

Sorry to bring you the finest of 2012 tumblr, but I think we could all use some system maintenance this weekend.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
bri_seven@queer.party ("Luci Scissors") wrote:

that pain everyone is feeling has a direct line to y’all couldn’t just be normal about trans people