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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
Newsletter: Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it.
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nborboen@social.epfl.ch ("Nicolas Borboën") wrote:
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) launched the European Union Vulnerability Database (EUVD) website https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It's hard to keep this in your head watching the feckless coverage of what Trump/Musk is doing, but all of these cuts are *illegal*. So are the tariffs. None of it is above board because Congress hasn't approved *any* of it.
The threats against law firms and news orgs and unis are *brazenly* illegal. It's all fugazi.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I hope this baby finds a loving home soon 😭 If you're near Franklin, KY please consider it.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
Almost everybody in the CFPB has been fired. It was the regulator set up to stop another 2008 financial crisis occurring. https://www.wired.com/story/cfpb-has-been-gutted/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:
“Don’t fork the ecosystem” will be occupying my head for the short term. /via @jimniels
https://open.substack.com/pub/subconscious/p/dont-fork-the-ecosystem
Mastodon FeedBoosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
b0rk@jvns.ca ("Julia Evans") wrote:
anyway a much more practical use of stty is to disable `Ctrl+S`
(please do not explain to me how Ctrl+S was useful to you in the 80s/90s/etc)
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:
this album came out 30+ years ago, it's real good and you should get it (and the rest of their stuff which they seem to have control of how)
Mastodon Feedchipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:
Overheard: “I like a mojito, I just don’t like all the mint in it”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
truth from @CARROT
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
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”
Mastodon FeedThis whole Van Hollen situation is giving "Leo Ryan visits Jonestown" vibes.
Except Jim Jones is POTUS.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@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".
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Lefties doing harmful protests? Stop it, you creeps.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/17/a-bad-way-to-protest/
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
The people urging me to be violent, they just get blocked with a shrug.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@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.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@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.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@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.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@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).
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
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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
Mastodon FeedApple 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
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@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.
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@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
Mastodon Feedmattblaze@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.
Mastodon FeedUpdate: Bezos got a crosswalk too! Collect them all.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
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
Mastodon Feed[ 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.
Mastodon FeedHello 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
