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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ancient_catbus@jorts.horse ("Catbus") wrote:

as predicted by Soundgarden on the ancient discs 🙏

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus”

https://cybersect.substack.com/p/that-secret-service-sim-farm-story

> The Secret Service is lying to the press. They know it’s just a normal criminal SIM farm and are hyping it into some sort of national security or espionage threat.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym | Alfie Kohn”

https://www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/

> research to date fails to demonstrate the value, let alone necessity, of succumbing to corporate hype and opening our classrooms to AI tools.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 👻") wrote:

🪡 published my Silksong review and thoughts on gaming difficulty and accessibility!

It's an RSS-only thing:
https://dbushell.com/subscribe/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

#Meme #Humour

xkallisti@gram.social ("DJ the Nomad") wrote:

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
apilsetas wrote:

by Marco Wilm

#photograpy

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

When I wrote a piece last week on Apple's brazen attempts to undermine the rule of law by framing regulators for (not even) doing their jobs, this was the sort of rot I was on about:

https://on.ft.com/4nqfMCI

The background piece:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-antitrust-playbook/

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

'In Wales there is a legal requirement for road signs to be in both English and Welsh. In this case, the official of the Highways department emailed the English wording to the translator and, after receiving a reply, proceeded to have the sign made and installed. A few weeks later, Welsh-speaking drivers began to call up to point out that the Welsh reads, "I am currently out of the office. Please submit any work to the translation team."

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

I get things are objectively scarier than a year ago. I'm not saying Biden is as bad as Trump. Nor democrats as bad as republicans.

What I am saying is, a big part of why Trump gets to be so scary is because we, on the left, don't want to admit to ourselves that our preferred politicians put us in this predicament.

We can acknowledge that militarized police are terrorizing the marginalized, but no one wants to ask why we have cops with tanks and no oversight in the first place.

#ICE

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

#ICE was fascist *from day one.*

Caging #Latinos like animals smelt like genocide *from day one.*

Militarized police bases erected in dozens of cities, privatized prisons, outlawing protests, all, was alarming *from day one.*

Our politicians—even the ones who call themselves allies, and say all the things a good liberal is expected to say—built a fascist's war chest.

And wouldn't you know it, that domestic fascist war chest is now being used by a fascist to wage war domestically.

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

The liberal responses to police brutality over the months has honestly scared the shit out of me.

Militarized police bases, Israeli-trained cops, record-breaking police budgets, all that shit has happened under Biden to appease centrists.

Trump doesn't build weapons of fascism. He doesn't build anything. Like all his failed businesses, he's using what others have built then slaps his logo on it.

None of this #ICE shit happens without the infrastructure built by his predecessors.

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

Anyone who marched in Atlanta (and other cities I'm sure) in the last five years can tell you that this behavior is not new. It's not even an escalation from what I can tell.

I get the instinct to blame this squarely on Trump, but if we do, we'll assume it's fixed when/if things go back to "normal."

Protesting is effectively illegal. Has been for some time.

#ICE #USPol

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/09/federal-cops-instigating-confrontations-with-protesters-outside-ice-building-portland-police-official-says-in-court.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
tusk81 ("Gabe Ortíz") wrote:

“A Portland Police Bureau assistant chief said in court recently that federal police were ‘instigating’ some of the clashes between officers and protesters outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland.”

“‘Okay. So it’s your testimony ICE is creating the problem?’ Rask asked.

‘I’m saying that they’re not following best practice,’ Dobson replied.”

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/09/federal-cops-instigating-confrontations-with-protesters-outside-ice-building-portland-police-official-says-in-court.html?gift=b1f4ab29-6410-412c-8322-7443d29ef3f9

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
joanmccarter.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Joan McCarter") wrote:

Happening now in war ravaged Portland: the city's Parks and Recreation Department (the most subversive of all government entities, is giving away trees.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sidd0906@techhub.social wrote:

🤖 Test post from Mastodon API client at 2025-09-27 17:15:20 #MastodonAPI #Python

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

And a third thing I just realized. All of these staff will be trapped in DC if the GOP engineers the shut down they want.

This means we will have beheaded the military, left them with no way to return to their command, shut the government down, and woo howdy y’all, if you wanted to give the military illegal commands, that would be the perfect time.

Also, if I were an enemy of the country, and I realized that Hegseth had already fired all the female generals, like the ones in charge of #infosec, and then every Flag Officer was disabled, that is when I would hit. China has access to our power grid. NK has gotten into all sorts of stuff. Russia has their fingers everywhere.

I gotta admit it, I’m not often spooked, but when my staff Sargent bestie says “ya know keeping a couple of weeks of water and canned goods might not be a bad idea.” I get twitchy.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rustoleumlove@mastodon.online ("Anne Ominous") wrote:

War-Ravaged Portland

#WarRavagedPortland #Portland #photography #travel

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

“Where’s the $50,000?”

At no point in this appearance did Homan deny accepting the money

-- He only said that he didn’t do anything illegal, as the DOJ confirmed.

And of course they would
—the agents who caught Homan with the bribe last September were reportedly waiting to see if Homan would act on the bribe as a member of the administration

-- but Trump’s DOJ closed the case.

https://newrepublic.com/post/200788/tom-homan-50k-cash-bribe?utm%5Fcampaign=SF%5FTNR&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=Threads

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

China completely halted purchases of US soybeans, leaving American farmers without their largest buyer as harvest season begins. This represents a catastrophic $12.5 billion market loss for US farmers. China accounted for >50% of America’s soybean exports before Trump’s tariffs triggered retaliatory duties. Brazil & Argentina have filled the gap, with Brazil exporting a record 2.474 billion bushels while Argentina’s elimination of export taxes prompting immediate Chinese purchases

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BrideOfLinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu ("Christine Hall") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mk30@tilde.zone wrote:

@ben @FantasticalEconomics another snapshot from war-ravaged portland

#WarRavagedPortland

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
enabler@defcon.social ("Jamie Duby") wrote:

@heidilifeldman Taggers need to get busy covering every surface in Portland with Epstein in clear legible letters. Make sure he can't use a single image of this nonsense.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

😕

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

Best post of the day goes to @Mikal...

https://sfba.social/@Mikal/115278022424080959

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

The same guy telling you Portland is war-ravaged, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall and people were eating your pets in Ohio.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
shoq ("Shoq") wrote:

Florida is now an open-carry state. You can carry a gun — and even brandish it — almost anywhere except these places. Naturally, the Florida Legislature and the Governor’s mansion are out of bounds. What a shoq, eh?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
janhoglund@mastodon.nu wrote:

”There’s no operational reason to physically concentrate America’s entire military leadership in one room. What makes the Nazi parallel particularly striking isn’t just the summoning itself – it’s the pattern.”
—Zev Shalev, Hegseth’s “Warrior Ethos” Cover Story Unravels; Pentagon Insiders Reveal True Message: "Get on board, or potentially have your career shortened."
https://www.narativ.org/p/hegseths-warrior-ethos-cover-story
#usa #pentagon #hegseth

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bendelarre ("Ben Delarre") wrote:

Barely a week goes by without me using a device that requires WebUSB or WebSerial to use a web based flashing or configuration tool.

I am literally not exaggerating. Apple and Mozilla need to wake up and get on board. The privacy and security arguments against implementing these APIs are complete bullshit when you consider the alternative right now is installing a random executable native app from a small hardware vendor that likely doesn't even have signed binaries.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:

just another day in war-ravaged Portland ©️