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

ready for the next “No Kings” event

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

The @robb × omg.lol St. Jude sticker pack stickers have *finally* arrived! I should have them all assembled and mailed out to everyone over the next few days. Thanks for your patience! :prami_happy:

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

premeditated killing outside of war is just murder. period. murder on the high seas is a crime under US law as well.

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Salon@flipboard.com wrote:

“Indict first, investigate later”: Judge criticizes Comey case, orders DOJ to hand over evidence
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/06/indict-first-investigate-later-judge-criticizes-comey-case-orders-doj-to-hand-over-evidence/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News & Politics @news-politics-Salon

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stepheneb@ruby.social ("Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)") wrote:

@w7voa

I think it’s hilarious that the archive also archived the subpoena to Tucows which had this boilerplate!

https://archive.is/2025.11.06-145859/https://pdflink.to/1e0e0ecd/?ref=404media.co

“YOUR COMPANY IS REQUIRED TO FURNISH THIS INFORMATION.
YOU ARE REQUESTED NOT TO DISCLOSE THE EXISTENCE OF THIS SUBPOENA INDEFINITELY AS ANY SUCH DISCLOSURE COULD INTERFERE WITH AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW.”

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bourgwick@heads.social ("jesse jarnow") wrote:

more sad news from the merry prankster family: just heard that springfield creamery proprietor (& organic yogurt innovator) chuck kesey has departed, only a few months after his wife sue. https://www.kezi.com/news/local/chuck-kesey-probiotic-foods-pioneer-passes-at-87/article%5F22f70867-4c2f-49d5-8e72-ffcb5e202f87.html
we spoke with them both about the dead's infamous 1972 benefit a few years ago. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/sunshine-daydream-veneta-82772-part-1

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theintercept@journa.host ("The Intercept") wrote:

“I shouldn’t have lost my fingers,” one detainee said of ICE guards’ failure to get him the care a doctor prescribed. https://theintercept.com/2025/11/06/batavia-ice-medical-care-buffalo

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foone@digipres.club ("Foone🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

talking to people who made software in the 80s is always wild because they'll just casually drop that they wrote their own dialect of x86 assembly

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

might be interesting to use these in mapping & understanding the flow of new ideas/technologies in ancient times.

https://mastodon.world/@kammerotica/115505073025314853

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firstdogonthemoon@aus.social ("Firstdog Onthemoon") wrote:

Attention calendar enthusiasts! The First Dog on the Moon 2026 Calendar is available to purchase now in preparation for 2026 (when it will be very handy and also v funny!) Buy yours today (please thank you) https://firstdogonthemoon.com.au/shop/preorder-2026-calendar-holidays-in-the-sun/

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blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

Mastodon’s implementation of consent for #quote #quotedToots needs further development.

METADA is created with XML because, as opposed to HTML, you can create your own meta tags. this should make it possible to set the quoteability based on its visibility. it would also correct for people’s wrong interpretation of public/private.

if you can be boosted, you can be quoted. this shouldn’t be controversial.

again: to be able to give attribution is a core principle of #freedom of the #press /🧵

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juglugs ("Widdershins Smith 🐘") wrote:

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha Jay 🇪🇺") wrote:

Boom 💥

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kr1st@mastodon.radio ("Alex KR1ST/PA1ST") wrote:

You tell me that sunsets aren't prettier with a few antennas thrown in. 😁

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

truth!

https://digipres.club/@foone/115505043643475912

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EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

The German Parliament's AfD lawmakers asked hundreds of detailed questions about Germany’s military and cyber systems.

Officials now suspect these were meant to expose weaknesses — one warned they looked like “a task list from the Kremlin.”
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/06/der-spiegel-germanys-afd-lawmakers-suspected-of-feeding-sensitive-bundeswehr-data-to-russian-intelligence/

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dangrsmind@sfba.social wrote:

Many American families have had to take beef off the table. Another unaffordable item, fresh fish.

Trump can lie about this but people won't believe it because it's obvious when you go to the supermarket.

https://www.aol.com/articles/why-americans-paying-more-ever-192829855.html

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bouriquet wrote:

@wdlindsy We are witnessing “How to Destroy a Nation in 300 Days”. And we’re coming up on the last chapters.

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samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

This Getty photo of Trump standing there in the Oval Office, ignoring a guy who just collapsed behind him tells you everything you need to know about Trump’s character.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-oval-office-glp1-collapse-b2860200.html

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apzpins@mstdn.games ("Ari [APz] Sovijärvi") wrote:

I'm on the night train from Kolari to Helsinki, returning from a work gig. This is the longest distance direct train trip in Finland, covering most of the country. It lasts around 11+ hours with around 900km distance.

I've always wanted to take one of these trains, as most of the train is sleeper cabins. Check out mine!

#train #trains #finland

Attachments:

• video: View into a sleeper train cabin with two beds and private shower/toilet.

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stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

Fri plan: Ease into the day; update a client project; fight back against the email surge; write and post “The Weekly Cybers” (check out the archives and subscribe for FREE at https://stilgherrian.com/theweeklycybers); quiet evening; meals ad libitum, because I can.

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

‘“The question is, did the FBI find those photographs that have been discussed publicly by a witness who claimed that Jeffrey Epstein showed them to him?” asked Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse in early October.

But Bondi could only blink with her mouth agape.

“You don’t know anything about that?” Whitehouse said. “OK.”’

https://c.im/@msbellows/115504983230400373

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"That brings total announced cuts this year to over one million, an economic bloodbath not seen since the pandemic or the Great Recession. And to repeat: this is private jobs data, because Trump’s administration has stopped reporting, blaming the shutdown. …

No amount of gold-plated signage outside the Oval Office can disguise what’s happening inside. There’s an administration unraveling, an economy crumbling, & a nation paying the price for one man’s ego."

#jobs #JobMarket #economy #Trump
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"It’s been a brutal Thursday for Donald Trump, and for the American people living under his failed economic agenda. The latest private jobs data confirms what so many families already feel: this economy is falling apart. October saw the highest number of corporate layoffs since 2003, with more than 153,000 jobs slashed last month alone."

~ Ben Meiselas

#jobs #JobMarket #economy #Trump
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/thursday-afternoon-news-updates-11625

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

reportedly overheard in an Oslo cafe discussion about US politics:

“Here, taking care of one another through public programs isn’t radical socialism. It’s Tuesday.”

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ilumium@eupolicy.social ("Jan Penfrat") wrote:

Gotta love The Guardian for those quotes from Europeans on #Mamdani's win in NYC:

"Verbeek backed this with a comment he had overheard in an Oslo cafe, in which Mamdani was described as an American politician who “finally” sounded normal."

“Normal. That’s the word,” Verbeek wrote in his newsletter, The Planet. “Here, taking care of one another through public programs isn’t radical socialism. It’s Tuesday.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/06/europe-zohran-mamdani-policies-normal

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

government should make sandwiches for the people, do not make war upon them.

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bespacific@newsie.social ("beSpacific") wrote:

What about US #nationalsecurity?? #FBI Dir #KashPatel facing criticism for taking #government #jet [our money] to see his country-singer girlfriend perform at a wrestling match in PA then taking the jet to her home city of Nashville he chose to fire a veteran FBI official in charge of the bureau’s planes. He then followed that by having the FBI instruct at least one #flighttracking website to stop sharing public data about his jet. #censorship #maga #democracy #corruption #government #politics

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msbellows@c.im ("M.S. Bellows, Jr.") wrote:

This is where I post from.

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macf00bar@hachyderm.io ("Reinhard Lackner") wrote:

Just watched a Hanselminutes Podcast (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIDkT%5FQDHsY) where @shanselman interviewed @captainsafia

Really liked Safia’s point about how curricula might have to include a “code review” class. The problem is that you cannot teach review until people actually know what they are looking at.

With GenAI in the mix, too many early-career devs skip straight to “vibe coding” and let the model fill in the blanks. That means they never develop the sense of when code smells off. It reminds me of the Japanese concept of Shuhari: first follow the rules, then adapt them, then transcend them. You cannot transcend a craft you have not yet learned.

I was also reminded of something Mark Russinovich said in another video (“Scott and Mark Learn”) about how he “vibe coded” something, and it worked, but only because he “supervised the shit out of it.” That is the key difference: someone with deep experience, muscle memory, and the ability to “drive stick shift” can keep these tools on track.