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

@w7voa "Take my course and get deported".

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

He will, of course, work to (further) tear down the rule of law now, and the midterms are still far too far away for any hope. But it is hopeful in the sense that we a trail of things to emulate is being lit:

https://www.ft.com/content/bd6479b2-b7e5-42c2-ae17-779e57b02637

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

@w7voa I wonder what constitutes a "critical field"? As a professor who specializes in security and cryptography, I can only assume it includes what I teach.

Sigh.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Secretary of State Rubio announces cooperation with DHS “to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.” https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/05/new-visa-policies-put-america-first-not-china/

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

Radio nerditry: I've accumulated a bunch of receivers over the years, some of which are quite high end. I recently picked up an HF SDR (that must be controlled by an external computer), an ELAD FDM-S3.

The performance is quite impressive, quite competitive (in my suboptimal RF environment) with my fancypants R&S gear.

But it's just not fun. If I can't spin physical dials, it's just not radio to me.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

some real frontpage slander going on in here, but as usual @heydon nailed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wqnc2U9Fyc

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

Well, yes

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xgdj9kyero

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

Made a little thing that might be useful to people working with/on verilog tooling

https://github.com/mpardalos/verilog-repl

Type in Verilog expressions, get a value out.

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

Just posted an updated statement https://github.com/foocorp/hacienda/discussions/117

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange ("Fritz Adalis") wrote:

@mattblaze
WINDOWS, AM I BEING DETAINED?

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

Even Windows itself acknowledges that you are free to just walk away.

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

Sam Altman: only boomers use ChatGPT like a search engine. The cool kids fill ChatGPT with their most intimate, compromising life experiences.

Journalist who definitely should ask what he plans to do with all that personal data: Neato!

#openai

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
radiofreefedi@musician.social ("radio free fedi") wrote:

Ahoy friends!

Announcing RFFF 25. The extra F is for Fest!

A month long artists' streaming series in July.

*DM* if you're keen to present/perform original material. You need not have been on RFF to participate.

More info for all (will grow) at the venue page https://party.radiofreefedi.net

Let's assemble, #party and welcome new friends who may not have caught the vibe of the station or our epic hangouts.

Stay vertical. 🐹

#music #art #spokenWord #fediWave #concert #live #owncast #joinIn

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

@huitema There are some things wearing a mask can impede. But so what? People deal with risks and benefits all the time. And we can weigh things differently. It’s fine.

But this underlying premise that any inconvenience is inherently unacceptable is complete bullshit. The only answer to that is “grow up already”.

jwz wrote:

In every photo, Andrew Tate looks like he's saying, "Gelato isn't vegan???"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

@cstanhope Argh, that sucks. Sorry to hear it.

People have had some success getting these rules overturned with grassroots lobbying, if that helps. There's no big money lobby on the other side pushing to keep them around, so if you can get a few like-minded people organized and make noise to enough state lawmakers, it doesn't take that much pressure to produce change.

https://www.theautopian.com/texas-might-just-pass-the-best-car-law-in-years/

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

the Russians were unable to break NATO despite trying hard over decades, but Herr Trump has succeeded in doing so in just a few months.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15nped8znko

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Hard to believe I was there just a few weeks ago. It feels like forever ago now. Croatia.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

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

There are all sorts of inconveniences I put up with. I wait in lines. I take out the trash. I pay my taxes and bills. I wait at red lights. All that stuff “wastes” valuable time, money, and energy, yet most of us still do them.

Putting on a mask is a drop in the bucket by comparison.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
resuna@ohai.social ("Resuna") wrote:

@isagalaev @jamey

1991 - Maxtor 8760E 5.25" ESDI drive 760MB storage, was the largest Winchester ever at the time.

Just under $2000 each

We got them installed in all our development servers and finally could fit an entire build of our product in a single file system.

We were still backing up to 60MB tape cartridges.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
schrotthaufen wrote:

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

When people say "scientists (or experts generally) are untrustworthy because they change their opinions all the time", they're actually describing an important reason science is *more* trustworthy.

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

(So absurd we can register inefficient, oversized SUVs that are a danger to everyone that's not a passenger, but not an efficient little utility vehicle.)

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

I can't register a kei truck in Oregon "because they were not manufactured for U.S. highways."

https://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/DMV/Pages/vehicle/vehicletypes.aspx

But I can register some sort of "Assembled Vehicle" with who knows what sort of manufacturing quality. It makes me want to "assemble" something like a kei truck and get it registered. 😆

(I wish I had the ability and orneriness to do this.)

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

HHS Secretary RFK Jr is proposing banning NIH-funded researchers from publishing in top-tier journals, including JAMA and Lancet.

This is bonkers for all sorts of reasons, but let me just mention one. He points out that Lancet has retracted articles. This is factually correct, but it's a reason these journals are *more* trustworthy, not less.

Journals and peer review don't guarantee that what's published is "correct". It's merely the best process we have to get closer to finding the truth.

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

I once heard a joke that the highest level programming language was "graduate student". This was back in the day before all this "AI" hype, and I think it still expresses something that our society seems to desperately want to ignore.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Harvard Crimson- A federal judge ordered the release of Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher who has been fighting deportation proceedings for nearly three months, from ICE custody. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/29/judge-petrova-ice-release/

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mervelous ("Merve Kayikci") wrote:

„You must begin by unlearning what you have learned.“ – Yoda

Und es wird Zeit, dass ich Mastodon lerne, wenn ich mit Pia Lexa und @mellifluousbox auf der #rp25 das spannende Fedivers-Fellowship „Reinvent Social Plattforms“ vorstelle, bei dem @infodesignerin @annaneifer @lxplm @M3phist0 @praxeology und Yasmina Al-Gannabi daran arbeiten, bestehende soziale Plattformen für den SWR und die ARD neu zu denken.

Danke, dass so viele da waren. Danke für euer Interesse und euer Vertrauen!

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

The COVID virus doesn't care who you voted for. I'm not masking up and getting vaccinated to make a political statement. I'm doing it to protect my health.

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

With new COVID-19 variants looming and renewed attacks on vaccines, masks, and other basic preventative measures, I just want to mention that:

- I still routinely mask up in crowded or poorly ventilated spaces. I mask on planes and trains. I teach with my mask on.

- I test any time I'm feeling under the weather.

- I plan to get the updated vaccine.

I'd *prefer* not to do any of this, but at worst, it's in the "mild inconvenience" category, and far preferable to long-term disability.