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

Overheard: “I like a mojito, I just don’t like all the mint in it”

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

truth from @CARROT

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• video: 820123e4778e4ecf.mp4

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

I used to wonder why billionaires had underground bunkers. Like what do they know that the rest of us don’t.

Now I’m like “oh”

jwz wrote:

This whole Van Hollen situation is giving "Leo Ryan visits Jonestown" vibes.

Except Jim Jones is POTUS.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/17/abrego-garcia-el-salvador-deportation-van-hollen/83138586007/

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

Over on bluesky, getting a bunch of people claiming "Elon Musk's voting machines were programmed to steal votes from Harris", but they don't make clear what brand of pillows they're selling.

It's sort of the 2025 version of "Bill Gates put 5G chips in the COVID vaccine to track you".

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Lefties doing harmful protests? Stop it, you creeps.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/17/a-bad-way-to-protest/

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

The people urging me to be violent, they just get blocked with a shrug.

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

At that point, the *best case* is a constitutional crisis. That at least exposes who's on what side, and provides a potentially peaceful path for resolving it.

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

In particular, I think if we're rounding people up, denying them trials, and sending them en masse to concentration camps in foreign countries, we've fallen into authoritarian rule, whether congress and the courts are OK with it or not.

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

In other words, hairsplitting over whether we're in a "constitutional crisis" as a proxy for whether we've turned into an authoritarian state is a fairly meaningless exercise. We can have an authoritarian state without a constitutional crisis if, for example, congress and the courts just go along with authoritarian rule.

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

I think of a constitutional crisis as a very specific thing, only one of a number of ways the rule of law and democracy can collapse.

I think we get a constitutional crisis when we have a fracture that the constitutional framework can't correct, such as the executive branch refusing to obey or enforce the rulings of the judiciary. (We seem to be heading directly there).

But that's not essential for authoritarian rule (where we're also heading).

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

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/next-with-kyle-clark/air-force-remove-articles-about-first-female-thunderbird-pilot-dei/73-436b25e3-7f79-4de3-989a-4384b5c58b04

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markarayner@mas.to ("Mark A. Rayner") wrote:

And so the publishing world began.

#fakefact #MaundyThursday #easter #humor #humour #books #book #writing #writingcommunity

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Apple loves pasting with formatting. Thanks to a remote clipboard bug, I've seen *peak* paste with formatting.

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researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

Piecemeal implementation of full communism through expanding municipal library programmes

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

Captured on a short hike with a small mirrorless camera, 35mm lens, lightweight tripod, and enough neutral density for a roughly 30 second exposure.

Flowing water is a subject that lends itself to motion studies that reveal what our unaided eye can't see, controlled by exposure time. At 1/3000 sec, every drop of water freezes in place. At 30 seconds, we see smooth, cloud-like structures that obscure individual perturbations. Only at around 1/30 sec does the camera see what we do.

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

Tanner Creek, OR, 2011.

All the pixels, none of the need to be outdoors, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/5892599507

#photography

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

Protip: If your "faculty executive recruiting" firm spams me to pitch its services because you think I'm the chair of the "McDevitt Computer Science and Law Department" (a mangled version of the name of the endowed chair I happen to hold), I'm going to suspect your firm isn't very good at this stuff.

jwz wrote:

Update: Bezos got a crosswalk too! Collect them all.

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stavvers@masto.ai ("Another Angry Woman") wrote:

@venite imagining an alternate universe where humans are divided into groups based on how green or yellow their shits were when they were a couple of weeks old

jwz wrote:

[ I click on a Daily Beast link, against my better judgement ]
"Oooh, staffers walk out of Bobby Brainworms speech, that sounds juicy!"

[ I look for corroborating articles from actual journalists ]
"Two staffers walked out of the room where the speech was being broadcast on TV."

Ok then. Fight the power.

jwz wrote:

Hello fellow kids! Doing crimes is TIGHT!

Narc dot AI: American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas...
https://jwz.org/b/ykms

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kims@mas.to ("Kim Scheinberg") wrote:

Per WaPo:

"Asked about the Abrego García case yesterday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom ... called it a “distraction” and shifted focus back to the lawsuit he was announcing against the administration’s trade policies."

Newsom's the second Dem to call Abrego Garcia a "distraction" (the other did it anonymously). These are deeply broken and misguided people

Fuck Newsom and every other R in sheep's clothing (Adams, Cuomo,) whose only real interests are maintaining the spotlight and "winning"

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Here, you deserve a flower today.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I mean, he's okay I guess

RE: https://www.threads.net/@housewifeplus/post/DIhet89A2X3

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barquq@tenforward.social ("mint") wrote:

can't remember where I saw it but "Using AI in education is like using a forklift in the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you" is a solid quote

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ansate@social.coop ("Melissa Santos") wrote:

I'm on the data job market, and I want to hear about your jobs, especially the weird and interesting ones!

I have been working in Product Analytics as a Data Scientist/Analyst with some light modeling the last few years. I have a PhD in Applied Math and can lean more into math - or I could lean the SQL direction for an Analytics Engineer role.

20+ years exp including being the only data person at small companies

https://www.linkedin.com/in/amsantos/

No AI, No Crypto

#GetFediHired #FediHire #PleaseBoost

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Yes we can"
Mangione sticker spotted in Berne, Switzerland

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W1PAC@mastodon.radio ("Patrick W1PAC") wrote:

Fielding questions on the Boston Marathon ham radio Google Groups... and astounded by the people who want to bring extra equipment.

It's a public service events folks, not a POTA activation.

#amateurradio #hamradio #HamDrama #BostonMarathon

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W1PAC@mastodon.radio ("Patrick W1PAC") wrote:

@vk6flab https://www.rac.ca/rac-will-not-attend-hamvention-this-year/