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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

“Absent those tools [for building mutual relationships that are bound together not by control, authority, or obligation but instead by love and respect], young, white Christian men and boys instead often cast about for role models who fit the image of God they've been taught about: a strong and violent masculine man who rules over everything in his presence."

~ Ibid.

#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalis #AngelaDenker #Trump
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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com ("Carolyn Barber, MD") wrote:

Harvard Professors sue the Trump admin over its threat to cut billions in federal funding.

“This action challenges the administration’s unlawful and unprecedented misuse of federal funding and civil rights enforcement authority to undermine academic freedom and free speech on a university campus.”

Andrew Crespo, a law professor at Harvard said the admin’s policies are a pretext to chill universities and their faculties from engaging in speech, teaching and research that don’t align #press

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
panda@assemblag.es ("Panda | 판다") wrote:

Nearly four decades ago #BillG promised Andre Warufsel and me to send us the source code of his #Basic4K for the #MITS #Altair. He never did and @ModernDayNTK described one of my repeted reminders as 'winning last week's Stalking Bill Gates challenge'.

Three days ago he did eventually publish a scan of the source code on his blog.

I updated the story at https://gizmonaut.net/soapflakes/EXE-199711.html

#Basic #Microsoft

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
grammargirl@zirk.us ("Mignon Fogarty") wrote:

If you need to explain to someone how tariffs hurt small businesses and why they can't just move manufacturing to the U.S., this is a well written example from a small business that sells specialty keyboards. https://shop.keyboard.io/blogs/news/an-open-letter-to-u-s-customers

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
joshuajfriedman.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Joshua J. Friedman") wrote:

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's attorneys also ask Judge Xinis to begin the process of holding the govt in contempt for its defiance of her past orders.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
protecttruth@mastodon.online ("Eric Blair") wrote:

"Trump’s tariffs, his erratic conduct, and his abuse frankly threaten to transform the U.S. into a wasting backwater. The only cure for this disease is removing Trump from office; but Democrats are scared to utter the word, let alone to lay out the logic."
@brianbeutler.bsky.social
https://www.offmessage.net/p/how-politicians-get-their-bad-ideas

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

Some Canadians are calling off their trips to Jay Peak Resort in Vermont because of growing discontent with U.S. politics, a reservations agent at the ski resort has admitted.

https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article873328.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
aleksorsist@fosstodon.org ("Aleksorsist") wrote:

Manager: What should we call this circuit?
Engineer 1: "Clock Noise Rejection"
Engineer 2: "SCL Transient Suppressor"
Engineer 3: *giggling uncontrollably* "PULSE GOBBLER"

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
selzero@syzito.xyz ("Deniz Opal") wrote:

We should use paper straws though 😭

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
tecoholic@social.arunmozhi.in ("Arunmozhi") wrote:

Hello #Mosstodon 👋

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

completely unrelated to my last post, I propose we use the verb train'ing to mean "riding a train", not "doing physically exhausting stuffs".

I did a lot of training today.

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

wow, @jer just told me he doesn't like my puns... 💔😭

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!

Attachments:

• 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

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georgebaily ("George Baily") wrote:

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