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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
acdha@thepit.social ("Chris Adams") wrote:

A nasty loophole in the cobbled-together U.S. healthcare system: sell desperate people cheap healthcare plans where the terms quietly add them as employees of a shell company, and use the self-insurance loophole to avoid both ACA requirements and regulatory jurisdiction:

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-health-care-plans-fake-jobs/

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Being super rich in the 2010s must've been cool as hell. Everyone thought you were a genius. The most popular super hero was a billionaire who beat up poor people. Wearing a shirt to the Met Gala that said "Peg The Patriarchy" basically meant you were Susan B. Anthony.

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social ("Wesley Moore") wrote:

This is glorious on multiple levels: https://macthemes.garden/

Not least because @eramdam manually generated new screenshots for ~~all 4000~~ many of the themes.

More details about building the website here: https://damien.zone/introducing-mac-themes-garden/

#RetroComputing #VintageApple #Macintosh

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
metaknoten wrote:

You don't need to do it on your own:
Do It With Others!

Der Penzlograf von Dominik Mahnič - ein Grafikplotter für Pinsel & Farbe.
Eigens zur diesjährigen Werkwoche des Dresdner Medienkunstkollektivs Metaknoten hat der slowenische Künstler ein DIY-Kit entwickelt und teilt es mit uns in seinem Workshop am Freitag dem 16.05. in der Veränderbar Dresden.

Mehr Info und Link zur Anmeldung unter https://www.metaknoten.net/veranstaltungen/diwo-week-2025/penzlograf

#diy #diwo #dresden #workshop #multimedia #art #plotter #electronics

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
cassem@social.lol ("Sarcassem :heart_rainbow:") wrote:

😐 Let’s just get through today.

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

Drink Special @ Death Guild: Antipope - Kraken Rum, Ginger Beer, and a Papal Cherry.

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Mastodon wrote:

Mastodon CFO @mellifluousbox will be at the #GlobalSolutionsSummit in Berlin today as part of the panel "Beyond Profit: Public Interest Technologies for Democratic Digital Futures". You can also listen to his live interview with Radioeins from last week.

https://www.radioeins.de/programm/sendungen/der%5Fschoene%5Fmorgen/%5F/global-solution-summit.html

https://global-solutions-summit.org/public/events/fb1a1fa895/seminars/dcdd5421fe/modal

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andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

I'm pumped about the enum JS proposal, (that makes enums part of core JS, not just TS) -- not so much because of the proposal itself, but because one of the possible future directions for it would finally let JS evolve to crab. 🦀

A slide, titled "Algebraic Data Type Enums": - Algebraic Data Type (ADT) enums are structured objects with some form of discriminant property. - ADT enums would tie in nicely with Extractors and Pattern Matching A code sample follows: enum Option { Some(value), None() } enum Result { Ok(value), Error(reason) } match (opt) { Option.Some(let value): console.log(value); Option.None(): console.log("<!-- raw HTML omitted -->"); }

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Boosted by jwz:
GrimmReality@beige.party ("Grimm :bc:") wrote:

Do whatever you can in the coming years to utterly and inexorably destroy this toadying piece of shit's career.

Image of a bluesky post by California governor Gavin Newsom, in which he has typed: California built the film industry — and we’re ready to bring even more jobs home. We’ve proven what strong state incentives can do. Now it’s time for a real federal partnership to Make America Film Again. POTUS, let’s get it done.

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jascha@ohai.social ("tomate 🍅") wrote:

I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it still was like this. Let me tell the story:

I was 25, the channel members were like 20 to 30 years old. Somehow this young girl found her way to us. She was 14 when she joined the channel. >>

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

I had a few minutes after a downtown appointment this morning to get a few photos with the still-low angled sun on the buildings.

https://prettygoodhat.com/note/1746501738/

The shadowed faces of two tall downtown buildings, one a series of light brown find and the other a panel of thousands of colored tiles.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
foofaraw@beep.town wrote:

Big thanks to @echofeedamplify from @robb for sponsoring this week on Foofaraw. It's what we use to pipe all of our posts to Mastodon and Bluesky and it's dead simple to use. Plus it has a killer new logo 😜 https://echofeed.app/

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
lumon@beep.town ("Lumon Gif Refinery") wrote:

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Boosted by jwz:
historyofpunkrock@sfba.social ("Punkrock History") wrote:

45 years ago
"Holiday in Cambodia" is the second single by the American punk rock band Dead Kennedys, released in May 1980 with "Police Truck" as the B-side.

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #deadkennedys #history #punkrockhistory


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jwz wrote:

I really can't tell what portion of these hits from "Windows NT 6.1" (2009) and "Chrome 70" (2018) are botnets/scrapers, versus garden variety fuckin' idiots.

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

:thonking: hard? Or hardly :thonking:?

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

tell yourself whatever you may, and reality is still reality. this is just two more lies to yourself, child.

‘President Trump said he had “nothing to do with” an image depicting him as the pope that was posted on his and the White House’s social media accounts, drawing criticism from Catholics around the globe. Mr. Trump, who previously told reporters that he was his own “No. 1” choice to be the next pope, insisted on Monday, “The Catholics loved it.”’

- NYTmes

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

‘“Regardless of the merits of the states’ claims, the states cannot proceed in this court… should be dismissed or transferred for lack of venue.”

Mary Ziegler, a law professor… at the University of California, Davis, said that the Trump administration’s support of the Biden administration’s earlier request to dismiss the case “is surprising, but I think the best way to read it is that they’re just buying time to figure out what to do about mifepristone.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/health/trump-abortion-pill-case.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

‘Ms. Harper continued: “The declassification proves that the material should have been public from the start — not used as an excuse to suppress sharing information with the press.”

The White House, the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not respond to requests for comment.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/trump-venezuela-gang-ties-spy-memo.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

The whole "tariffs on foreign film production" thing is so dumb and confusing that I'll bet that it's just that he doesn't like movies with subtitles.

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

The president has no legal basis for his proposed film tariffs, and the film studios know it, what we'll see now is if they have the spine to tell him to go fuck himself

https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/trump-tariff-foreign-films-legal-hurdles-1236387281/

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

Damn it, I post a photo of Alcatraz and Trump immediately gets it in his head to re-open the place.

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

Captured with a Phase One IQ4-150 with the Rodenstock 23mm/5.6 HR Digaron-S. This is a very wide angle lens (the equivalent of about 16mm on a full frame 35mm camera) that makes Alcatraz seem particularly distant. A long exposure averaged out the waves and tufts of mist.

The San Francisco Bay likes to show off its weather. Karl the Fog moves fast. Everything can change very quickly.

I believe this was the last photo I made before the pandemic reduced my travels.

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

San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz Island, 2020.

All the pixels, plus fog, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/49460593833

#photography

A rocky shoreline with gentle waves lapping at it. In the distance at right is a small island, somewhat enveloped by fog, with a prominent water tower and industrial-type buildings.

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
greenpeace ("Greenpeace International") wrote:

Where’s the freedom if we rely on a polluting car just to reach basic services spread far and wide?

Where’s the freedom when kids can’t play outside or walk or cycle to school because it’s too dangerous — or when they grow up breathing toxic air every single day?

Top picture: quiet street with sidewalks and shops, room for pedestrians and bicycles. Caption: "Ideology". Bottom picture: traffic jam with cars parked on both sides of the road. Caption: "Freedom"

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mattmay@mstdn.social ("Matt May") wrote:

Seems far more likely that they got shown the tax bill for realizing all their previous cash flows as a for-profit and couldn’t afford it.

Abandoning plans to do the morally wrong thing is not the same as doing the morally right thing. That’s just spin.
https://mastodon.social/@verge/114456763737892623

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
JuandelaCruz_77777 ("Juan de la Cruz Gómez") wrote:

#caturday #SilentSunday 🤗😻🥰💓

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
drrjv@vmst.io ("DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic") wrote:

Americans Might Love Cinco De Mayo, but Few Know What They’re Celebrating

“Sociologist David Hayes, author of “El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition,” has argued that by defeating the French at the Battle of Puebla, Mexicans prevented the French army from continuing northward toward the U.S. border, where they would have likely aided the Confederacy. So it’s possible that Mexico’s victory at the Battle of Puebla changed the course of American history.”

#CincodeMayo #mexico #france #civilwar
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/americans-might-love-cinco-de-mayo-but-few-know-what-they-re-celebrating

Text Shot: The Battle of Puebla took place on May 5, 1862, when the Mexican Army, led by Commander General Ignacio Zaragoza, repelled attacks by the French army on the city of Puebla, located about 70 miles southeast of Mexico City. It was a small but inspirational victory for Mexico, and four days later, on May 9, 1862, Juárez declared Cinco de Mayo a national holiday. Even though the French would eventually defeat the Mexican Army and take control of the country under the short-lived Second Mexican Empire, which lasted from 1864 to 1867, the victory in the Battle of Puebla sent a powerful message to the rest of the world.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
teejay@social.lol ("Teejay") wrote:

125/365

Is your Chinese food any good if it doesn’t come from a strip mall restaurant that looks like this? #project365

https://project365.teejay.blog/post/125-365

The image depicts the interior of a restaurant, specifically focusing on the counter area and menu display. The counter is made of wood with a black countertop, and there is a cash register visible. On the counter, there is a blue container labeled "Thank You" with handwritten text, a pink pen holder, and a plastic bag. Behind the counter, a menu board displays various dishes with images and names, including "Wing M. French Fries," "Beef Lo Mein," and "General Tso's Chicken." The menu board is framed by red Chinese characters on the left and right sides. To the left of the counter, there is a wooden door with a restroom sign and a handicapped accessibility sign. The wall behind the counter is adorned with framed certificates and a thermostat. A Snapple cooler is visible on the right side of the counter. The ceiling is equipped with fluorescent lighting, and a curtain partially covers the kitchen area. Provided by @altbot@fuzzies.wtf, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.262 Wh

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone wrote:

Emily Feiner, social worker, physically dragged out of NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall Sunday night

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/25555473