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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

Here’s how this works: Republicans change the rules and allow people to invest their retirement in crypto. The guys at the top make billions. The retirees get wiped out in the serial crashes. The working age adults paying taxes now, and their children, pay for the bailouts that give retirees a portion of their money back after they gambled it away. The billionaires are still billionaires, and continue to not pay for any of it.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paulc@mstdn.social ("Paul Chernoff") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SouthDakota ("South Dakota Dep. Propaganda") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
dwenius@toot.cat ("Dwenius") wrote:

@jwz Thanks Jamie, a couple fortuitous clicks from your blog comments on this took me to “I have ported xscreensaver to the iPhone”, which, that whole discussion should be in the goddamned Louvre.

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

I don’t like seeing my work on election security (and that of my colleagues) misrepresented. But I think the alternative - not doing it at all - would be far worse.

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

Ah, and also, forgot to mention this change:

Improved:

• Debugging your Kitten app is now easier when you run it using `INSPECT=true kitten …` as the Node runtime is launched using the `--inspect-brk` tag instead of the `--inspect` tag. This means that execution will wait for your debugger (e.g., Chromium’s DevTools at `chrome://inspect`, etc.) to connect before starting the server. This makes it possible to hit breakpoints that might previously have been impossible to reach as they occured before you had a chance to run the debugger.

Full change log:
https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#2025-08-12

#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #NodeJS #debugger #debugging #web #dev #JavaScript

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

Inside the ‘Whites Only’ Community in Arkansas | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/whites-only-community-arkansas/

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

In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.

Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-drugs-banned-foreign-factories-list?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #FDA #Medicine #Health #Diabetes #Cancer #Depression #Anxiety #HIV

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

"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who oversees about 3 million military service members and civilian employees, reposted a video last week advocating repealing the 19th Amendment, which guarantees women the right to vote."

https://popular.info/p/slavery-patriarchy-and-pete-hegseths

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

Anyway, I just finished running a conference on election security in which we discussed real problems (and celebrated real progress). I'm fully braced for a flood of out-of-context soundbites being used to disingenuously support nonsense, because that just comes with the turf here.

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
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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