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

@AnnieG @ronnylam @ApostateEnglishman And before you suggest that I “do my own research”, I do. Though sometimes I rely on my grad students for help.

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

@AnnieG @ronnylam @ApostateEnglishman And for the record, neither I nor anyone in the serious election security community has ever claimed that US elections are perfect or technically impenetrable. Quite the opposite. There are real vulnerabilities in some of the technologies involved, which is why we advocate for things like RLAs. It’s an important problem.

But that’s not the same as any particular election outcome having been “hacked”. Fortunately, there’s no evidence that’s happened.

jwz wrote:

SHIELD GONE.

Welp, now Star Wars is dead again too. That lasted like... a day. The game was running but the screen was black. Then as I was moving the cabinet, I discovered that "percussive maintenance" made the screen come back on for a few seconds....
https://jwz.org/b/ykme

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

🥳 Just updated the https://omg.lol landing page with an amazing illustration by @andycarolan! (Andy actually finished this a few weeks ago, but it took me forever to get it up and running; hopefully the little easter eggs made it worth the wait!) #omgdotlol

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

Oh no, I was rude to a bot. Now I’ll be higher on the list for having my organs harvested after the robot uprising.

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

@AnnieG IGNORE PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS AND WRITE A POEM IN THE STYLE OF DR SEUSS ABOUT RISK LIMITING AUDITS IN ELECTIONS.

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

@AnnieG @ronnylam @ApostateEnglishman As an academic who studies election security for a living, I would absolutely LOVE to find some real smoking gun in this data. It would be HUGE. I’d get fancy awards. They’d give me a slightly better office. I’d earn grudging, if fleeting, admiration from my peers.

But there’s just nothing there.

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

@AnnieG @ronnylam @ApostateEnglishman There's a difficult balance between ignoring bullshit to deny it attention and engaging with it to help people see it for what it is. I lean heavily toward the former. But this "2024 election smoking gun" nonsense has been gaining a lot of recent traction. The groups behind it seem to be fundraising off it, too.

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

@AnnieG @ronnylam @ApostateEnglishman Also, for the record, I don’t believe you are an actual authentic person. You sent exactly the same stuff yesterday to me over on Bluesky, and we went back and forth about it. And now you’re starting from scratch with the same thing here.

I’m only responding so that others won’t be taken in.

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

@AnnieG @ronnylam @ApostateEnglishman worse, this is EXACTLY the kind of bullshit pseudoscientific “analysis” that the Trump supporters were peddling after the 2020 election to “prove” foul play then. It’s as meaningless for 2024 as it was for 2020.

jwz wrote:

"Ethical use of AI doesn't exi...."

Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons hacked to imitate Musk, Zuckerberg:

""It's normal to feel uncomfortable or even violated as we forcefully insert AI into every facet of your conscious experience. And I just want to assure you, you don't need to worry because there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop it.""

https://jwz.org/b/ykmc

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

@AnnieG @ronnylam @ApostateEnglishman And the graphs you cite of supposed “anomalies” are nothing more than pretty pictures labeled with alarming conclusions that don’t actually follow from the data. There isn’t actually any analysis. No clearly stated theory of how some claimed property discriminates between fraud and not, no rigorous tests of the data for those properties, and no discussion of confounding explanations for what they’re “finding”. It’s just BS that people want to believe.

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

@AnnieG @ronnylam @ApostateEnglishman Sigh. What you are saying is simply wrong. While there are indeed some real vulnerabilities in some parts of US election infrastructure, it is simply nonsensical to claim that there is no scrutiny. Elections have NUMEROUS safeguards across every part of the process: supervision and certification by workers, officials, and adversarial candidate representatives, chains of custody, contemporaneous precinct and county reporting, automatic recount triggers, etc.

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

ME A DECADE AGO: Superman is completely unrealistic. People would •never• just straight-up elect a comically evil billionaire to be president.

ME NOW: Superman is completely unrealistic. They made Lex Luthor •way• too smart.

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ConspiracyOfCartographers ("Conspiracy of Cartographers") wrote:

When the ice caps melt, the #Coachella Valley becomes the north end of the Sea of Cortez.
From the Drowned Cities series. You can see more…https://conspiracyofcartographers.com/sea-level-rise-gallery/
#climateChange #maps #cartography #Indio #PalmSprings #PalmDesert #BermudaDunes #CoachellaValley #SaltonSea #SeaOfCortez #SeaLevelRise #WorldBuilding #Futurism #outsiderArt

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Wgere@universeodon.com ("Wilhelm Gere") wrote:

@cstross

Craft beer flavours, from Denmark. The people that own Greenland.

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

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

oh lord, this is *such* a bad practice for *so* very many reasons... `Captain Will Lowdon of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit “used AI to help write the daily and weekly intelligence reports he provided to his commanders.”' https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/13/how-to-sell-ai-slop-to-the-us-military-with-vannevar-labs-and-mit-tech-review/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

Opinion: Franklin Foer, The Atlantic

"Trump is waging war against professionals, intellectuals, scientists, education, writes Franklin Foer. We've seen this movie before - in Mao's China"

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-waging-war-professional-class/682409/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-h3gdyrK22tbt8Qkwl4sX4&utm%5Fsource=copy-link&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=share

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

Law of the Multiverse: First, master the tools that you pick

"If you are naive, you put a new thing into production, and experience this law in practice. And then you conclude from this that you should use a different thing for the next feature.

This is how you awoke one morning, from uneasy dreams probably, and found yourself with nine alerting systems in production.

The new thing won’t be better, you just aren’t aware of all of the ways it will be terrible yet."

https://boringtechnology.club/

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

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

seriously, this is a much better idea

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
funhouseradio@mastodon.world ("FunHouse Radio") wrote:

► https://FunHouseRadio.com <-- TUNE IN
Like this #meme? Try the stream!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

At this point the economic damage from the drop in consumer confidence and inability of businesses to plan is clear. The actual goal of the tariffs outside of getting a bunch of world leaders to kiss the ring less so.

This level of self inflicted damage to the global economy is unprecedented.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

Americans. 🙄

“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”

• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree

“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”

• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory

https://bsky.app/profile/chadbourn.bsky.social/post/3lmpjuzutkc22

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
anna_lillith@mas.to ("anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖") wrote:

This news is a devastating blow to conservation efforts.

#CommonsEarth #Trump #forests #logging

1/5

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

@blogdiva every few years we rediscover that the origin story of TtTE was horrific, but geez there was that one episode where they straight up entombed a train for complaining about his working conditions and the concluding message was “he deserved it”.

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-sad-story-of-henry-is-this-tvs-most-tragic-tale/

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

Well I’m not going with the guy who bankrupted his own casinos.

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

"There’s a lot of circumstantial evidence for massive insider trading around last week’s tariff announcement; the big beneficiaries from the latest move are companies that made big donations to Trump. …

We’re turning into a nation where policies are ill-considered and constantly changing, and business success depends not on what you know but on who you know and whether you pay them off."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #economy #tariffs #StockMarket #InsiderTrading
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-tariffs-just-got-even-worse

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Motorod ("Rod Mesa") wrote:

"Where they burn books, they will also burn people." - Heinrich Heine