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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dgoldsmith ("Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦") wrote:

Did you know that all 4-star female officers have been purged from the US military? I didn't until I read this article.
https://journa.host/@atrupar/115015769548101144

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

don't like the analysis of the data? just fire that nasty administrator and stop publishing the offending report

https://flipboard.com/@cnn/business-and-tech-fie8hiijz/-/a-kUqiuqKvRpaIpJ2phm-ZZQ%3Aa%3A132361178-%2F0

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

Cartoon commentary on the Trump-Putin meeting featured today by Malcolm Nance.

#Trump #Putin #PutinsPoodle #Russia #Ukraine #Republicans
/2

https://malcolmnance.substack.com/p/trump-putin-now-comes-the-betrayal

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

🥳 New Kitten Release

Housekeeping:

• Updated runtime version to Node version 22.18.0 (latest LTS).

• Removed `--experimental-global-customevent` in node launch command (as `CustomEvent` is no longer behing the CLI flag since Node v19.0.0)

• Renamed `--experimental-loader` flag to `--loader` as the experimental prefix is no longer required.

https://kitten.small-web.org

Enjoy!

:kitten:💕

#Kitten #KittenRelease #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #dev #HTML #JavaScript #CSS #NodeJS

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Ann1944@vivaldi.net wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

The courageous Texas Democrats have called for a national day of action on Saturday. We’re backing them up to protest Trump’s effort to rig electoral maps and steal the 2026 election.

Find an event near you or host a protest: https://www.fightthetrumptakeover.com/?SQF%5Fsource=indivisible

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

The problem, of course, is that the full story is *boring*. It's nuanced, undramatic, and full of tedious technical details. But you have to engage with it to make actual progress.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

A future for #curl off hackerone?

https://curl.se/mail/lib-2025-08/0006.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
servelan@newsie.social ("Servelan") wrote:

Lithuania to teach thousands, including schoolchildren, how to build and pilot drones

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/lithuania-teach-thousands-including-schoolchildren-152911185.html

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

An essential dilemma of election security research is that activists and true believers selectively cherrypick findings to make unsupportable or misleading claims.

There *are* real vulnerabilities in many US election systems, and we have to discuss them in order to identify and mitigate them. But that isn't the same as saying that any election has been hacked or rigged (something there's no evidence of).

I don't know of any way to counter cherrypicking other than just telling the whole story.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

Scaly-breasted munia

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
esden@chaos.social ("Piotr Esden-Tempski") wrote:

For some time @securelyfitz and I have been working on a new hardware security tool. It is called epic-erebus. It is a tiny m.2 WiFi module sized FPGA board allowing the access to the PCIe interface. If you remember the slotscreamer, this is the evolution of that idea. It can do a lot more in the small form factor and FPGA on board. We just published our pre-campaign page. You can sign up for updates for when the campaign launches some time next year. https://www.crowdsupply.com/securinghw/epic-erebus #EpicErebus #fpga

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
agafnd@www.librepunk.club ("pretty fungi") wrote:

when you toot on mastodon this is what happens

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

I laughed at Will Scarlet's joke, and took another swig of ale. The camp fire was dying down, soon we'd-

Damn. It happened again. I got lost in a book. Now I was stuck here in Sherwood Forest until someone came looking for me. I waited.

"mrp"

My saviour!

"You want dinner?"

"mew"

"Lead on."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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

Yall look at my new notebook. It's a chonky boy

#writer #notebook

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

The effect is that there aren't enough of these people to completely ruin things, but enough that you get a little knot in your stomach every time a stranger approaches you, knowing that there's a 1 in 20 chance that they're one of the Magic Truthers, looking to expose your malicious lies.

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

Imagine you're a professional magician at a magic conference. 95% of the attendees are other magicians, looking to improve their craft and learn new ideas.

But 5% of the people there are self-appointed "investigators", seeking evidence that magic involves *actual* supernatural powers. To them, all the workshops, lectures, and literature about sleight of hand and technique are part of an elaborate subterfuge by elite magicians to hide the truth.

That's what working in election security is like.

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

Gramercy Park, which sits between Lexington Avenue and Irving Place between 20th and 21st Streets in Manhattan, is a locked private park. At the center of the park is a statute of Edwin Booth, a 19th century actor today best known for being the less murderous sibling of John Wilkes Booth.

Only residents of the surrounding buildings are issued keys. There are a lot of rules, including against photography, so this is as close as we get. If you have to ask, you don't belong. Go away.

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

Captured with Phase One XT IQ4-150 and the Rodenstock 23mm/5.6 HR-Digraron, a sharp ultrawide angle that accommodated just enough shift movement to compose this frame. Captured from the now-shuttered Gramercy Park hotel, on a fittingly grey and joyless winter day.

The wide angle and high, single point perspective emphasize the dominance of the private, locked park's local footprint. Rather than creating public space, it seems to elbow us aside.

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

Gramercy Park, NYC, 2020.

All the pixels, but without the rules or locked gates, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/49594943761/

#photography

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

I find it difficult succinctly to describe all the ways and the degree to which I appreciate this thread from @vagina_museum about Toxic Shock Syndrome.

https://masto.ai/@vagina%5Fmuseum/114987054301043855

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

"...The development follows a claim by a woman, a state licensed corrections officer, who said she contracted Covid-19 after working at the camp in unsanitary conditions for about a week last month, and was subsequently fired.

“We had to use the porta-johns. We didn’t have hot water half the time. Our bathrooms were backed up,” the woman told NBC6 News after being granted anonymity to discuss conditions there.

“[The detainees] have no sunlight. There’s no clock in there. They don’t even know what time of the day it is. The bathrooms are backed up because so many people [are] using them.”..."

#fascism #ice

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Already, Trump is using his false claims about crime in DC to encourage and justify police brutality."

~ Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims

#Trump #WashingtonDC #military #racism #fascism
/5

https://popular.info/p/calling-crime-data-fake-news-trump

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

“What’s next — letting Lockheed Martin sell F-35s to China for a 15 percent commission?” Liza Tobin, who previously served as China director at the National Security Council during the Trump and Biden administrations, told The Financial Times.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
patricksudlow ("Patrick Sudlow") wrote:

'‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows
Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.'
https://www.desmog.com/2025/08/05/maddening-proof-plastics-industry-knew-recycling-was-false-solution-in-1974-new-document-shows/
#fossilfuels #plastics #pollution #environment

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
pivic@kolektiva.social ("Niklas Pivic") wrote:

https://lithub.com/read-the-final-message-sent-by-murdered-palestinian-journalist-anas-al-sharif/

#israel #genocide #journalism #AntiJournalism #censorship #murder #Palestine #Gaza #AnasAlSharif

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Repeat after me: The Linux Foundation are a bunch of Big Tech bellends. Don’t listen to a single thing they say.

https://social.lfx.dev/@linuxfoundation/114993371357953940

#FOSS #openSource #BigTech #LinuxFoundation #TheLinuxFoundation #linux #SiliconValley #Orwellian #bellends #GDPR #privacy #humanRights #democracy

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

@bagder @chpietsch @linuxfoundation Wait, you’re telling me trillion-dollar corporations like Google, Meta, X, etc., aren’t on my side? What next? Billionaires aren’t our friends?

;)

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Fanch29@pouet.chapril.org ("Fañch") wrote:

Greta Thunberg va de nouveau tenter de se rendre à Gaza, « des dizaines » de navires humanitaires sont sur le départ

https://www.letelegramme.fr/monde/israel-palestine/greta-thunberg-va-de-nouveau-tenter-de-se-rendre-a-gaza-des-dizaines-de-navires-humanitaires-sont-sur-le-depart-6869768.php

> Cette nouvelle expédition, qui vise à « briser le blocus israélien », partira d’Espagne le 31 août, a annoncé la militante suédoise, dimanche. Début juin, elle avait été interceptée à bord d’un voilier avant qu’il n’accoste à Gaza.
#Gaza #Palestine #israël

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NewsBot@assortedflotsam.com ("World News Bot") wrote:

The US is “active in protecting Israeli officials” from “any accountability” https://www.aljazeera.com/video/quotable/2025/8/12/the-us-is-active-in-protecting-israeli-officials-from-any?traffic%5Fsource=rss #ShowTypes