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

31-41 Union Square West, NYC, 2024

All the pixels, but without the farmer's market 3 days a week, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53731622110

#photography

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blair_fix@mastodon.online ("Blair Fix") wrote:

Speaking of fascism, I recently took a look at the frequency of fascist jargon in the Google Books corpus. What I found is startling: the rise of neo-fascist thought dates to the 1980s.

#fasicsm

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/04/15/the-deep-roots-of-fascist-thought/

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ingridglomp@literatur.social ("Ingrid Glomp") wrote:

"The government is attempting to prove that Zuck bought Instagram and Whatsapp in order to extinguish competitors ...Zuck's CFO – one of the adults in the room, attempting to keep the boy king from tripping over his own dick – wrote to Zuck warning him that it was illegal to buy Insta in order to "neutralize a potential competitor."
Zuck replied that he was, indeed, solely contemplating buying Insta in order to neutralize a potential competitor."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/18/chatty-zucky/#is-you-taking-notes-on-a-criminal-fucking-conspiracy
by @pluralistic

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hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange ("Lesley Carhart :unverified:") wrote:

Just a reminder for con organizers, even outside immigration risks, this is genuinely all that is still relatively safe for gnc attendees in America, 2025.

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

Yesterday's CFPB layoffs and shutdown have been stayed, for now.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-65c7953b6d79043fc2ac58b660c3847d

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

Back when I was in college, it was the credit card companies that were predatory toward students. Now it’s the AI companies. Get them young and get them hooked. Make an entire generation of students dependent on this tech, unable to think and create for themselves, and then you’ll have customers for life. Not out of loyalty, but out of necessity.

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

It does work beautifully with the Apple Studio Display, though. (Not that I would recommend it for most PC users, but I already have it right here.) But the laptop’s power consumption is too high for the “mere” 96W the display can deliver over Thunderbolt.

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

I’m surprised at how loud modern PC business laptops still are. This ThinkPad whirs audibly when it’s basically idle, and its CPU benchmarks almost identically to my Mac Studio’s M1 Max. Yes, better GPU, but man, it’s a relative power hog.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Richard_Littler ("Richard Littler") wrote:

"'[Autistic people] will never pay taxes. They’ll never hold a job. They’ll never play baseball. They’ll never write a poem. They’ll never go out on a date,' Kennedy said"
1. I pay taxes.
2. I ran 5km this morning.
3. My poetry has been published.
4. I've been on dates; I'm married.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/17/rfk-jr-autism-children/?utm%5Fcampaign=wp%5Fmain&utm%5Fsource=threads,twitter&utm%5Fmedium=social

#ASD #Autism @actuallyautistic

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

I say it is tribbles

Attachments:

• video: 7117ef71231f0934.mp4

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rmondello@hachyderm.io ("Ricky Mondello") wrote:

Mitchflowerpower got the first sub 50 minute time in SMB3 any% warpless in a legendary speedrun. If you have any history with this game, it is so worth a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6BibwdX%5F%5Fo

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
aram@aoir.social ("Aram Sinnreich") wrote:

If you're angry, or scared, or hurting, or morally revolted by the wanton cruelty and reckless destruction of Trump and Musk, get back out on streets tomorrow and show it.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/04/17/50501-protests-on-april-19-target-trump-stock-market-tariffs-jobs-elon-musk-doge-protests-trump/83138977007/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ian@mastodon.radio ("Ian") wrote:

Largely thanks to the efforts of Steve M1SDH, Field Spotter now has support for Bunkers on the Air! One person is out braving the weather already by the looks of it. Enable Bunkers from the Filter menu to see the spots. https://fieldspotter.radio/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
g7izu@universeodon.com ("G7IZU RRD") wrote:

Space Weather

Aurora Alert: Mid-latitude aurora is being reported by amateur radio operators down to ~49°N over Europe.

Caveat: I'm not currently seeing this activity reflected in actual geomagnetic data.

Follow live: https://www.tvcomm.co.uk/g7izu/radio-propagation-maps/auroral-propagation/

#spaceweather
#aurora
#amateurradio

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

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:

Maryland Sen Van Hollen meets Kilmar Ábrego García in El Salvador
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6j7jjpgy6o

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

"This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eclectech@things.uk wrote:

Just checking if I had any silly old bunny related content, and found this lurking from 20 years ago. I love these bunnies, in all their low res glory.

#bunnies #rabbits #nonsense

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• gifv: A fairly low res animated gif of two rabbits sitting behind a Bunny News news desk. The one on the left wears glasses and a bow tie. The one on the right has a dapper moustache. Behind them a rabbit in punk clothes with the headline "CARROTS Innocent nibble or dangerous drug?" The rabbits take turns to 'talk'. The glasses of the one on the left shuggle as his nose and mouth move.

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

some interesting polling information on Trump’s first quarter back in office: https://news.gallup.com/poll/659534/trump-first-quarter-approval-rating-below-average.aspx

h/t @dogzilla

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

strongly agree

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/trump-harvard-law-firms.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.Ak8.Qv3w.LfnG7yusHCoW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

Here I go again, with increasing reluctance.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/18/second-thoughts/

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taral ("JP Sugarbroad") wrote:

@b0rk I feel like there is a missed opportunity to have it cut off after "tho". 😁

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b0rk@jvns.ca ("Julia Evans") wrote:

current status: putting a few weird terminal facts that I do not have any practical use for into the terminal zine

(mostly I’m keeping it extremely practical but I think it's fun to have SOME weird stuff)

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georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Least shocking story of the day.

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The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:

#TrumVance #ElonMusk #DOGE

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breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ("Bread and Circuses") wrote:

Fifty years ago, if the right decisions had been made, today might look very different. We likely would not be talking about a climate crisis or a climate emergency.

But the right decisions were not made then. Instead, our capitalist rulers pushed ahead with their growth-at-any-cost mantra. And now we face certain disaster.

There are still actions to be taken, a struggle to be waged, in hopes of making the collapse of society slightly less costly for some people in some places. We must engage in that fight.

But suffering is inevitable, great suffering, both for humans and for the natural environment that our industry and our consumerism are in the process of destroying.

#History #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Capitalism

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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

😂

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

On top of our recent extraordinary horrors, another sadly regular one: a mass shooting, this time at Florida State University. At least two dead, six more injured. Enough!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/fsu-shooting-tallahassee.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.Ak8.JNjY.hhCzyZbEQ5eW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare (gift link)

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ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

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anirvan ("Anirvan Chatterjee") wrote:

I know people whose entire science careers are based on preserving biospecimens like tissue samples. Letting carefully-preserved human samples rot is a small, but telling, example of what they're doing to all of us.

https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-job-cuts-niosh-human-samples/