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shoofle@beach.city ("normaled shoofle") wrote:
aaaand here's my gameboy cover of bach's Prelude in C Major! i like how doing these makes me feel like wendy carlos a little bit. a spiritual successor to Switched On Bach... maybe it's called In The Bach Pocket...
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
My honest advice (on another platform) to someone who was making extravagant claims and being indistinguishable from a crackpot.
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dnapizza@sfba.social ("DNA Pizza") wrote:
PIZZAMAN 5000!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/04-13.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #powerman5000 #reddevilvortex #makesmyblooddance #hardrock #metal #numetal #electrometal #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
The Gish Gallop is being mechanized. Is there anything AI can't make worse?
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bendaubney@social.lol ("Ben Daubney :prami:") wrote:
This is now a gumball machine maintenance account
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@treehouse.systems wrote:
To all the folks who told me "its' not a constitutional crisis yet," "you can't call them nazis," or "it is not yet time to rise up and resist" by grinding the gears of the machine to a halt with our bodies if necessary, my only question is - what now?
Citing the president's absolute power over “foreign relations," the Trump regime has announced that it has no obligation, nor intention to return Kilmar Abrego García, the Maryland man trafficked to a Salvadoran slave labor prison by "mistake," despite multiple court orders and a 9-0 SCOTUS ruling instructing them to do so.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/14/trump-doj-return-man-wrongly-deported-el-salvador
Trump DoJ says not legally bound to return man wrongly deported to El Salvador
"The comments came a day after the Trump administration claimed it is not legally obligated to secure the return of the man, Kilmar Abrego García,, despite the US supreme court ruling that the administration should “facilitate” bringing him back.
Lawyers for the justice department argued in court filings on Sunday that asking El Salvador to return Abrego García from a notorious mega-prison should be considered “foreign relations”, and was therefore outside the scope of the courts.
The filing said “the federal courts have no authority to direct the Executive Branch to conduct foreign relations in a particular way, or engage with a foreign sovereign in a given manner,” adding: “That is the ‘exclusive power of the president as the sole organ of the federal government in the field of international relations.”
Earlier this month, the Trump administration acknowledged that Abrego García, an immigrant from El Salvador who was living in Maryland with protected status, was deported to a prison in El Salvador on 15 March as a result of an “administrative error”. In 2019 an immigration judge had prohibited the federal government from deporting him."
Folks, we are through the looking glass now and if you can't see that it's one and truly fascism, that's because you don't know what the word means. Apologists will claim that we are still not yet in a "constitutional crisis" because of the regime's paper thin excuse that they're interpreting the SCOTUS ruling to mean all they had to do is remove "domestic" barriers to Garcia's return, while claiming they have no authority to effect the return of a man they're literally paying the government of El Salvador to house in a prison famous for torture and forced labor. This is at best, wish-casting and codswallop of course, because the regime is openly broadcasting its intention to flout the Supreme Court's ruling *while* Trump meets with Nayib Bukele, the President of El Salvador at the White House; these fascist mutherfuckers just said "let them enforce it" while trolling the shit out of every judge in America. Just examine some of the comments from Bukele and Trump regime officials for yourself:
“How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I’m not going to do it,” says Bukele. “I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.”
“The foreign policy of the United States is conducted by the president of the United States, not by a court. And no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States,” Marco Rubio adds."
“The [supreme court] ruling solely stated that if this individual at El Salvador’s sole discretion was sent back to our country, that we could deport him a second time,” Stephen Miller says.
"No version of this legally ends with him ever living here because he is a citizen of El Salvador."
"In 2019 two courts ruled that he was a member of MS13 and he was illegally in our country. Right now, it was additional paperwork had needed to be done. That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him – that’s not up to us. The supreme court ruled that if El Salvador wants to return him, we would ‘facilitate’ it, meaning provide a plane." - US Attorney General, Pam Bondi.
During that same meeting with Bukele, Trump once again admitted that he also wants to pay to send American "criminals" to a slave labor prison in El Salvador his regime is simultaneously arguing that the US government has no requirement, power, or authority to return prisoners from, even under court order. Need I remind you that this is the same administration currently saying in public that a wide variety of protestors are actually domestic fucking terrorists? Please understand that if the Trump regime can successfully argue that it can keep a man they already admitted should not have been deported, in a Salvadoran prison despite the law, and a direct SCOTUS order, because once they've sent him there its a matter of foreign policy and jurisdictional authority, then there is absolutely nothing stopping them from sending ANYONE to Cecot and claiming it's too late to undo this. The regime is now attempting to legalize disappearing its perceived enemies; full stop.
#Fascism #Trump #ElSalvador #ICE #CECOT #AbregoGarcía #DHS #NayibBukele #SCOTUS #ConstiutionalCrisis
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Virtualrook@gamerstavern.online wrote:
I have finally made a #gamedev journal!!!! Please let me know how i did, I'm worried i over edited it >_>;; #godot #vr #xr
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
I'm sure telling the third branch of government they are impotent in this regard is going to go over well
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5247284-federal-courts-trump-administration/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jana@social.jsteuernagel.de ("Jana") wrote:
I love discovering personal blogs and websites.
No algorithm.
No competing anything.Just a person, putting out what they want.
It's beautiful.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
@harriet Time to trade in your Tesla for a sensible, reliable cheddar.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
harriet@pupy.cafe ("harriet!!!") wrote:
was not able to find a person to credit for this, but price per pound of cars vs cheese everybody
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
Tariffs are working! China has agreed to a trade deal.... with Vietnam.
Uh, never mind.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
The metadata for this image claims it was shot at f/16. That's wrong; it was more like f/2.5 or so. This was an artifact of the too-clever-by-half way Leica M cameras estimate the f stop. There's no mechanical link between the aperture ring and the camera body, so instead they estimate the f-stop with a separate light sensor that's compared with the brightness of the recorded image. This works reasonably well, except when you use an ND filter (as here), which confuses it to no end.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
Captured with a small full-frame camera and 21mm lens. A three second exposure smoothed waves and surf.
This was an exercise in tone, perspective, and convergence. The four major boundaries of the scene converge (approximately) near the center of the frame, forming a flattened X.
I moved around and composed this both with and without the driftwood in foreground, which interrupts the composition but, I decided, is helpful to anchor the frame.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
Pescadero, CA, 2014
All the pixels, none of the fresh air, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/14832380095
Mastodon FeedBoosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
erictopol@mstdn.social ("Eric Topol") wrote:
p-Tau217 is a breakthrough blood test that can predict and may help prevent Alzheimer's disease.
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-breakthrough-blood-test-for-alzheimers
Here's the rundown on it. Free, open-access.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
rjblaskiewicz@mstdn.social ("Bob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱") wrote:
I wanted to be able to be able to honestly report to my students how an election was run and see how hard it was to hack an election. So I volunteered for the 2020 general election. I had a great time, celebrated democracy with people I generally did not agree with on much else, and was useful. It's a great civic experience, and I will do it again.
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evert@indieweb.social ("Evert Pot") wrote:
I just blogged: "Building multi-step login forms that work well with password managers" https://evertpot.com/multi-step-login-forms-for-password-managers/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:
Seattle cops have just activated their new 24/7 citywide AI surveillance camera network.
Cops at operations centers will be watching the video from over SIXTY HD cameras in three neighborhoods.
The cops are storing video for 30 days, or indefinably if a cop decides they want to keep it for "investigation".
Seattle residents tried to stop this dragnet, saying it will only empower Trump in our region.
https://stopsurveillancecity.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/spd-cctv-cameras-are-live/
#Seattle #SPD #ACAB #copcity #PNW #Privacy #surveillance #police
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
My tarantula seems to like to climb and stare out at the world.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/14/such-a-cutie-pie/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
@AnnieG @ronnylam @jhavok @ApostateEnglishman There absolutely are vulnerabilities in much of the technology used in US elections, which is why things like RLAs should be routinely done. But the alarming-looking “evidence” from “ETA” just doesn’t show the “smoking gun” of fraud in 2024 that they claim it does. It’s sloppy pseudoscience at best, deliberate misinformation at worst.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
interfluidity@zirk.us ("Steve Randy Waldman") wrote:
the same forces that pushed Obama to say “if you like your health insurance you can keep it” pushes an effective housing politics to concede “if you like your neighborhood, you can keep it”
in neither case is the constraint necessarily virtuous. perhaps it can be overcome. but it’s the same problem.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Trump is spending more money than Biden did, and all he's doing is destroying good science and America's reputation in the world.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/14/my-alma-mater-isnt-feeling-so-good/
Mastodon Feedchipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:
New post: "The robots have come for your em dashes" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/em-dashes/
There's a claim running around that em dashes are a sign of AI writing. That might say something bleak about the level of writing polish we expect from humans.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
PastaThief@indiepocalypse.social wrote:
Per-pound price comparison between various cars and cheeses.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
What I love about this woman is how relentless and energetic she remains through the years of beating the drum of common sense.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
10 years ago today I published a blog post about the pomological watercolor collection, which you may know from @pomological. it changed my life in some surprising ways! take a little trip with me down memory lane https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/04/10-years-of-pomological-watercolors/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
- My top suggestion: Become an election day poll worker! It's an important service and you'll learn a ton!
- This National Academies report is the best overall summary of election security which I'm aware, and despite being published in 2018 is still current: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25120/securing-the-vote-protecting-american-democracy
- Here's a paper outlining the technical issues and solutions: https://georgetownlawtechreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/4.2-p505-522-Blaze.pdf
- I gave a talk at Columbia last year on the state of election security: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/distinguished-lectures/2024-Fall/Matt%5FBlaze.mp4
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
I, too, refuse to date Pedro Pascal, unless it's to a really nice restaurant and he promises a lovely cuddle afterward