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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

Going forward, public utilities throughout California should understand that they cannot disclose customers’ electricity data to law enforcement without any “evidence to support a suspicion” that a particular crime occurred. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/victory-court-end-dragnet-electricity-surveillance-program-sacramento

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
markush@chaos.social ("Markus Holtermann") wrote:

The entire software department at work was fired yesterday. I had already quit and today is my last day. While I already have a new position starting next week, the rest of the department is looking. There are QA, frontend ( #angular ), and backend ( #python #Django) engineers, technical writer and software compliance specialists, UI/UX designers, SREs, our manager. If you're #hiring #remote in #Germany or on-site, I'd love to forward contact details. #getfedihired

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mitch@hachyderm.io ("Mitch Wagner #DEI") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Why can’t we have nice things, too?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
burnoutqueen@todon.nl ("Jackie 🍉🏳️‍⚧️☭") wrote:

Facebook users are irritating.

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

“It was a really good Thanksgiving dinner, the cops only showed up twice, and no one got arrested.”

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CatsOfYore ("Cats of Yore") wrote:

Two unrelated postcards in my collection that tell a story together. 🤕

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DrOinFL@mstdn.party ("OhSnap!Dragon") wrote:

Trump Fireside Chat #32:
I HOPE Y0U'RE ALL ENJOYING THANKSGIVING NOW THAT YOU'RE SO POOR YOU HAVE TO EAT CRANBERRY SAUCE OUT OF A CAN, YOU LOSERS. THIS COUNTRY WAS A TOILET UNDER SLEEPY JOE BIDEN; LET ME TELL YOU, IT WAS A REAL MESS, BUT WE RIGGED IT AND NOW IT'S GREAT AGAIN, AND I MEAN BIGLY. I MEAN, JUST LOOK AT THE STOCK MARKET. IVANKA, GET OVER HERE AND SIT ON DADDY'S LAP, YOU NAUGHTY LITTLE MINX. SOMEBODY BRING ME SOME KETCHUP. PEDRO, WHERE'S PEDRO?
#TrumpIsARapist
#Thanksgiving

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:

Trump has abandoned & angered most of the world, & Americans:🚨"Carney announced that his govt would put new restrictions on the amount of steel & lumber imported into #Canada, in an effort to help domestic producers.

Among the new measures is further limiting foreign steel imports from countries w/o a free #trade agreement with CAN -from 50% to 20% of 2024 levels -a measure largely aimed at reducing Chinese steel imports.”

#Republicans #Betrayal #Tariffs #Economy #USPol
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/canadian-pm-says-close-trade-relationship-with-the-u-s-has-ended-under-trump/

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

a recent investment

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

Some poor kids from West Virginia joining the National Guard and getting shot and killed while on colonial occupation duty in Washington DC by an Afghan refugee who fled the US war there is operating on GREEK TRAGEDY levels.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town ("Kilroy_Was_Here") wrote:

@kb6nu @HopelessDemigod

I like going through very old radio publications.

They have not changed since the 1930s. Even that's pushing it.

What? Computer controlled? Automatic? That's just you letting the harnessed gremlin inside the tuner turn the capacitor and inductor knobs. That's what the "control" cable is. It's actually a little zapper that wakes him up.

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

#HeadDesk #HeadDesk #HeadDesk

https://mastodon.social/@theleftistlawyer/115628224849909212

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

And suddenly Albania VPN use is through the roof. (I understand there are a number of other countries that also ban ads…)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

Gov. Walz replies "release the MRI results" after Trump calls him "seriously retarded" and Trump vows to end all immigration from "third world countries"

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

What do judicial ethics codes have to do with climate deception?

It all comes down to simple math.

Every year, the Supreme Court receives many thousands of cert petitions.

To grant a writ of certiorari,
four of the nine justices must agree to take one of these cases.

Given that lower threshold,
any time a justice recuses themselves based on conflicts of interest
it reduces the likelihood that a case will be heard.

In this case, multiple justices have conflicts of interest that should take them out of the running to consider these suits
—if such principles matter to the Supreme Court’s Republican majority.

One of these conflicted justices is Amy Coney Barrett.

Barrett’s father,
Michael Coney, worked for nearly three decades as one of Shell’s top attorneys,
during which time he was also a
“major participant” in the American Petroleum Institute.

Coney was at Shell in 1988,
when the company issued a “confidential” report
projecting that the continued burning of fossil fuels would cause
“fast and dramatic” increases in global temperatures that
“could have major social, economic, and political consequences.”

He was at Shell a year later,
when the company produced another “confidential group planning” document predicting that,
if fossil fuels were not phased out,
climate change would cause
“more violent weather—more storms, more droughts, more deluges”
that would create so much chaos that
“civilization could prove a fragile thing.”

He was still there as Shell began redesigning its own infrastructure to prepare for that
“violent weather”
the company knew was coming.

And Coney remained at Shell over the following decade,
while the company played a lead role in Big Oil’s fraudulent campaign to lock us into those nightmare climate scenarios it predicted.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
macrumors ("MacRumors.com") wrote:

iPhone 17 Lineup Drives Smartphone Growth in China https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/28/iphone-17-drives-smartphone-growth-in-china/?utm%5Fsource=dlvr.it&utm%5Fmedium=mastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:

Worth reading today:

“How the 19th-Century Know Nothing Party Reshaped American Politics
From xenophobia to conspiracy theories, the Know Nothing party launched a nativist movement whose effects are still felt today”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/immigrants-conspiracies-and-secret-society-launched-american-nativism-180961915/

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

Today in History: Jean-Baptiste Lully born, Florence, 1632 (Italian-French composer, dancer and instrumentalist)

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

Today ion History: Albania declares independence from Ottoman Empire, 1912

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

Today in History: Joe Ossanna dies, 1977

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%5FOssanna

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
zackwhittaker ("Zack Whittaker") wrote:

Business Insider reports that Oura is planning to expand its Oura wearable rings beyond health tracking to allow for payments, authentication, and more.

Well, Capitan Buzzkill (me) here wrote about Oura's security and privacy practices earlier this year, and found:

• Oura rings *don't* end-to-end encrypt users' health data;
• As such, Oura *can* access its users' data;
• Oura told me that the company *has* received U.S. government demands for users' data.

More: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/oura-ring-deal-raises-valid-concerns-about-users-health-data-security/

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

Today in History: Friedrich Engels born, 1820

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

In this house, "The Holidays" consists of the period from when the last bite of pie is eaten at Thanksgiving to whenever it is Krissy decides to take down the Christmas tree, which is usually January 2nd but sometimes a day or two later. Regardless the holidays have a hard out at January 6, aka the 12th Day of Christmas. After that it's just Yuletide Malingering.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io ("amos") wrote:

I've been a big fan (and user) of @zachleat's glyphhanger for years.

But the last update was 4-5 years ago, so... it was time to port (some of it) to Rust:

https://github.com/fasterthanlime/fontcull

(subset your fonts, y'all!)

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

@ia feature suggestion: option in settings for when you duplicate a file to give it a version number instead of "copy".

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
gerikson@awful.systems wrote:

Neal Stephenson comes out strong and funny against GenAI here:

…substack.com/…/a-remarkable-assertion-from-a16z

“Hypothesis 1: it was written by a clanker”

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lapcatsoftware ("Jeff Johnson") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/115587958313504337

Reminder that StopTheMadness Pro is on sale now!

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

“Black Friday deals 2025 - Piccalilli”

https://piccalil.li/links/black-friday-deals-2025/?ref=main-rss-feed

Lots of web dev and related deals available today