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

@pigworker
The supreme court has a terrible composition right now. And yet, the judiciary rules against Trump's excesses at least as often as they allow them.

That's the hand we were dealt. Don't want to play it? Get the hell out of the way.

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

One wonders what they think they're accomplishing by shitting on those who are using the tools they have to find paths forward through this mess. Maybe they can't wait for a civil war, imagining themselves to be future heroes of some fantastic, glorious revolution. Or maybe they secretly like the idea of the unstoppable dictator they pretend to oppose.

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

Repeating this, because it really bugs me.

The people here (and I've heard from many of them today) complaining that legal or constitutional analysis of Trump is irrelevant, naive, or pointless because "law can't stop him" are simply wrong. So far, law has been the only tool out there that actually HAS (sometimes) managed to rein him in.

These clowns are doing the fascists' work for them by fatalistically normalizing the administration's lawlessness as unstoppable and inevitable.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
rubenerd@bsd.network ("Ruben Schade :runbsd: 🔰 🇦🇺") wrote:

@mattblaze

I had to put this in my site's FAQ after getting similar messages.

"My expertise, preferences, qualifications, experience, circumstances, constraints, kinks, background, genes, ethics, locale, and sources of joy, wisdom, and/or education may differ from yours, that's why."

Admittedly did nothing to stem the "why not X?" questions, but it made me feel a bit better.

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

I must say, this place has very high expectations of me. Tough room.

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

@ahltorp Again, I apologize if you found my analysis insufficiently broad. However, I think you have also mischaracterized it.

Again, my best advice is to find posters to follow who better serve your needs.

I am sorry that I am unable to be of further assistance.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bogpunk@chitter.xyz ("Maxxi") wrote:

"Wow, the year 2025. Computers and the internet must be mindblowingly fast now!"

"Plain text has a loading screen."

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

"Why did you post about this thing instead of that other thing?"

It's usually because I am myself more interested in or knowledgable about this thing than I am about that other thing. Or it might be that it didn't occur to me at the time to post about that other thing. Or perhaps many others have already posted about that other thing and my comments would therefore be redundant.

Fortunately, I am no longer the only source of information on the Internet.

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

@ahltorp The reason I posted my thread was to add context to a current event that touched upon an area of my expertise. I apologize if you found it lacking. Hopefully you can find a source of analysis and information elsewhere that better suits your needs.

Boosted by jwz:
nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

@jwz All riots are Bell Riots now.

Boosted by jwz:
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

notifications are tiny jump scares we willingly inflict on ourselves out of FOMO

Boosted by jwz:
herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club ("azteclady") wrote:

#PSA #CallToAction

If you have a newsletter (or know someone who has one) on Substack, please pass this link on: soon they won't be able to port their paid subscriptions off to a different platform, because Apple will be handing the money. They must act ASAP to get off the Nazi propaganda platform to an alternative.

#SubstackHasANaziProblem #Substack

https://mail.bigdeskenergy.com/p/substack-just-killed-creator-economy

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Gonna say goodbye to this magnificent heap soon.

jwz wrote:

Happy Bell Riots Day, to all who celebrate.
https://jwz.org/b/ykuj

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I feel like I'm getting the hang of SwiftUI's basics, but it’s kind of like a weird mix between C, web programming, and Excel macros.

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

More of this orchid over the years: https://www.flickr.com/photos/isagalaev/albums/72177720306047034/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange wrote:

Normie cyber people it brings me no pleasure to announce the aerospace cyber people absolutely cooked us

Attachments:

• video: Badge that tracks planes

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

Our orchid is blooming again. It's been at it for 11 years!
This time I decided to play with focus stacking to get all the flowers in sharp focus, while keeping the background uniformly blurred. It came out a little *too well*, almost unnatural. But it was a nice experiment.

Thanks again to @patdavid for the instructions https://patdavid.net/2013/01/focus-stacking-macro-photos-enfuse/

#photography #FocusStack #flowers

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
jackofalltrades@mas.to ("Jack of all trades") wrote:

Norway, the most environmentally superior country on Earth.

https://youtu.be/zYjooTz%5F1lA

#Norway #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #EVs #oil

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
relay@acties.todon.nl ("Todon Acties") wrote:

🍉 Together across borders: Netherlands joins Brussels

Noordstation, Brussel, zondag 7 september om 14:00 CEST

Will you join us in Brussels? 🇵🇸

In cooperation with the Belgian and German delegations, the Global Movement to Gaza NL is organizing a protest at Brussels Noord Station from across Europe for a powerful demonstration on 7 September, and we want every city in the Netherlands to join!

Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Zwolle, Helmond, Enschede and Den Bosch are already on board, who’s next? ✊

See you in Brussels! 🇵🇸

[note: This a part of a larger national demonstration with de title 'Red card genocide']

👥 Global Movement to Gaza NL and others (source)

https://acties.todon.nl/event/together-across-borders-netherlands-joins-brussels-1

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
nolan@toot.cafe ("Nolan Lawson") wrote:

Ubuntu and LineageOS have terrible built-in emoji pickers, so I made the emoji-picker-element docs site just copy to clipboard. Gonna make this my go-to instead of searching the web every time I want an emoji: https://nolanlawson.github.io/emoji-picker-element/

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

@mattblaze

Around here, they're banning books, even in high school. So, our plan is to build tiny libraries around the school. We have a resource who will keep us as supplied as possible with the books being banned, and we're going to stock the tiny libraries with age appropriate banned books. We're talking to land owners now, to find folks who will let us put one in their yard. (Which, given that we are in the dead center of Yeehawdist territory, is a delicate conversation.)

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële") wrote:

some writings are already waiting to be published at next 6 UTC. That's cool ^^

Don't hesitate to publish anonymously on https://writes.casa/

The theme is "The mathematics of longing"

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

Trump and his team are doing many terrible things, some of which (the mass deportations and street abductions, etc) are immediately dangerous. Those are emergencies. But the relentless attacks on culture, art, and to our ability to express dissent or simply not conform to increasingly regressive norms, are equally pernicious and corrosive.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
DenisCVallieres@kolektiva.social ("Denis Vallières") wrote:

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

"One time," my neighbour said, "my dog escaped and chased a car down the road."

"Did he catch it?"

"No, he didn't." My neighbour scratched his chin. "What are you gonna do?"

We looked from my proud dog to the chicken-legged hut he'd somehow corralled into the yard.

"Dunno. Leave the country?"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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

The White House has a "rapid response team" calling out "woke" art in Smithsonian museums.

https://wapo.st/45VqGJe [gift link]

After they took power, the Nazis infamously did almost exactly the same thing with what they called "degenerate" art, putting it on mocking display in Berlin. (Naturally, it included works by some of Germany's greatest contemporary artists, because fascists have terrible taste and limited capacity for imagination).

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

The largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group in the United States
is calling on U.S. lawmakers to follow in the footsteps of Sens. Jeff Merkley and Chris Van Hollen,
who on Saturday shared a video about their unsuccessful attempts to visit — or even just fly over — the Gaza Strip during Israel’s ongoing assault.

“Sens. Van Hollen and Merkley have taken a bold and necessary step
by confronting the Israeli-manufactured and U.S.-backed humanitarian calamity in Gaza head-on,”
the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said in a statement late Saturday.
“Their mission must not stand alone.”
“Israel’s barring them entry to Gaza underscores the urgency of taking decisive steps to end its rampage of death, violence, and destruction,”
CAIR continued.
“Members of Congress must utilize every tool — diplomatic, legal, and legislative — to ensure that our nation’s values and laws demand an end to civilian suffering.
The crisis in Gaza is not abstract — it is a matter of life and death.
We call on our representatives to act urgently and courageously.”
https://truthout.org/articles/cair-presses-congress-to-confront-gaza-catastrophe-after-senators-blocked-from-entry/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

The paper by @maswan and myself

"Life Cycle Analysis for Emissions of Scientific Computing Centres"

has been published!

We develop a detailed model for the LCA of (HPC) data centres, including embodied carbon, server replacement and expansion. It is also applicable to other data centres. We also share the source code.

It shows how important embodied carbon becomes when the grid has more renewables.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-14650-8

#FrugalComputing