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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Until now I only knew of Russia routinely doing this in Ukraine:

"Israel bombed Gaza hospital a second time, killing rescuers"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/25/journalists-among-people-killed-by-israeli-strike-on-gaza-hospital

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MikeElgan ("Mike Elgan") wrote:

Map of the moment: The US states with smaller economies than the San Francisco Bay Area.

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NaMi@mstdn.social ("Nadine Milde :coffefied:") wrote:

Hab das Meme mal schnell passend zur #Sozialstaat - "Reformdebatte" 2025 upgedated

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jimniels ("Jim Nielsen") wrote:

Approaches to direction in CSS

Good (physical properties)

top:
left:
right:
bottom:

Better (logical properties)

block-start:
inline-start:
inline-end:
block-end:

Best (maritime properties)

fore:
port:
starboard:
aft:

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Hex@kolektiva.social ("hex") wrote:

Ecofash like to claim that the earth is over its human carrying capacity. That's absolutely untrue for 99.9% of the population or so. But the carrying capacity of billionaires is zero.

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mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

Here’s a no-context fact:

I personally reviewed every single death at my hospital in 2021. Using a very conservative means of attributing cause, 45% of the deaths were clearly a direct result of infection with SARS-CoV-2. The spreadsheet is still on the hospital’s cloud servers.

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randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

This is the beautiful moment, where Victor Orbán of Hungary and Robert Fico of Slovakia FINALLY reached the find out phase.

EU has stopped purchasing Russian oil, but Orban and Fico kept buying, while in the EU, these two leaders voted against helping Ukraine.

But now Ukraine has bombed the pumping stations used to supply Hungary and Slovakia. And so Orban and Fico are screaming for other EU leaders to help them get Ukraine to stop.

But no one listens. You made your bed. Now lie in it.

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

Reminder: We didn't have to have fascism, but some of all y'all really just didn't want a black woman in charge

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jwz wrote:

@ingrid "Marx and Engels taught the proletariat that it must smash the state machine."

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=smash+the+state%2Cstate+machine&year%5Fstart=1800&year%5Fend=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3&case%5Finsensitive=true#

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

A particularly tiresome and block-worthy Mastodon scold-reply-guy type is of the form: "Why did you post that instead of the much more Important and Serious thing I'd rather everyone focused all their attention on?"

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mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

I first heard about student loan forgiveness in the early 2000s. Dozens of think pieces for a decade then Biden tries it and then the court battles and 20 years later it’s barely implemented and under constant threat of removal.

When Trump has a terrible idea on Monday and it’s law of the land on Tuesday, something is very wrong.

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mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

Gotta say it sucks to hear over the last 30-40 years how progressive policies that directly help citizens could never be enabled by the stroke of a pen, but in just a few short months a moody dictator can enact any cruel authoritarian idea no one wants or needs and it gets implemented nationwide, instantly.

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

The first duty of the Chief Design Officer of the United States will be incorporating the image of the Cracker Barrel guy into all federal seals and logos.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/improving-our-nation-through-better-design/

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

These are just a few highlights! For the full two-day program, see the YouTube playlist on our channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLltrHIXltfGLotq79TBgIK9QK4O29Z2FF

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

GA Tech professor Michael Specter described the sorry state of the art in fielded mobile voting systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FBgAW-uxXYA&list=PLltrHIXltfGLotq79TBgIK9QK4O29Z2FF&index=17

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ingrid@everything.happens.horse ("Ingrid Burrington") wrote:

"You say you are an anarchist yet you keep building state machines, interesting"

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weirdsatellite@mastodon.art ("Weird Spy Satellite") wrote:

Dispatch #363 from Topaz 3 (UNCLASSIFIED)

1. Shrine of Palm Pilots
2. Unspeakable Tomes Plant
3. Labyrinth of Regolith

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

Marilyn Marks, Drew Springall, and Philip Davis described a new, highly practical attack against a widely-used Ballot Marking Device.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYL8X2SQIpU&list=PLltrHIXltfGLotq79TBgIK9QK4O29Z2FF&index=14

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

Berkeley statistics professor Philip Stark described "Risk Limiting Audits", perhaps the most important advance in election security of this century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI07TS5kQkU&list=PLltrHIXltfGLotq79TBgIK9QK4O29Z2FF&index=8

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

Turing Award winner Ron Rivest talked about the need for "Software Independence" in voting systems, and explained what that means in practice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31joiscFlUw&list=PLltrHIXltfGLotq79TBgIK9QK4O29Z2FF&index=7

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

In our first keynote, Former California Secretary of State Debra Bowen reflected on the 2007 "Top to Botton Review" of her state's election systems, the first independent exam of post 2000 computerized election technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjwYf3TsQwU&list=PLltrHIXltfGLotq79TBgIK9QK4O29Z2FF&index=5

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breakfastgolem@goblin.camp ("Dicks Lmao, Private Eye") wrote:

Mastodon's reserves are secure

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

I kicked us off with a brief introduction to the technical problems in securing US voting systems, the progress we've made, and the work still left to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzRSA%5FVDsdc&list=PLltrHIXltfGLotq79TBgIK9QK4O29Z2FF&index=2

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

For those who couldn't join us at the #VotingVillage at #DEFCON33 earlier this month, videos of all the talks are online in this YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLltrHIXltfGLotq79TBgIK9QK4O29Z2FF

We had a great program covering a wide range of topics on the theory and practice of US election security.

I'll post a few highlights of more general interest in the thread that follows.

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

He's created his own paramilitary force, the current incarnation of ICE, with the huge injection of money the Republican Fascist Party in control of Congress gave him. He's attempting to incorporate the National Guard across the country into ICE's operations. 3/

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cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

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virtualbri@mastodon.online ("Brian Tatosky") wrote:

Ghislaine Maxwell was at a Clinton event in 2013? Glad the media has uncovered that timely bit of information.

Well, we better fucking make sure he isn't President again!

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

The power station has long been an iconic landmark on the south bank of the Thames, distinctive for its four prominent smokestacks (two for each of its two separate generating facilities) and industrial art deco architecture. Perhaps most famously, it featured in the cover art for Pink Floyd's 1977 “Animals” album, with one of London's (sadly now extinct) giant flying pigs captured hovering near the smokestacks.

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

London's Battersea Power Station, built as two nearly-identical halves completed in 1935 and 1955, respectively, was originally a coal-fired electrical generating plant. It was decommissioned in 1983. After being idle for nearly 40 years, the plant has been re-developed as retail space and commercial offices, opened in 2022. Along with the Tate Modern, it gives London a second striking example of large-scale adaptive reuse of an obsolete, but still handsome, power station.

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

Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 Digaron-W (@ f/8), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50), Cambo WRS 1200 camera (right shifted 20mm, vertically shifted 8mm).

This composition fully exploited the image circle and edge sharpness of the lens. We're to the right of the power station, but to preserve the geometry of the river side facade, the camera was pointed straight ahead, parallel with that side of the building. The camera back was then shifted 20mm to move the building back into the composition.