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

Commanders specifically ordered Navy SEALs to fire on and kill two survivors of (alleged) drug boat sinking in September. "The order was to kill everybody".

Analyzing this as an unlawful order or as homicide or as a war crime is, of course, necessary, but at the same time it seems morally inadequate. It's a revolting, shameful stain on our country.

https://wapo.st/49KbUJ1 [gift link]

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

I love walking with our neighbor

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

technology, economics, and identity… when all three go through a period of rapid change at the same time, revolutionary shifts & backlashes seem to happen

(reading Zakaria’s latest book)

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

Y'all, I spend a few weeks every year in the data about global networks, devices, and (web) content,[1] and my eyebrows may never return to their previous position after encountering the "device hoarding" discourse.

The deep, abiding immorality of the anti-right-to-repair/pro-e-waste contingent has never been so nakedly transparent, and yet so seemingly ascendant. Burn it with fire.

[1]: https://infrequently.org/series/performance-inequality/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Young people in the U.S. have been priced out of their dreams. Stop acting like it’s their fault.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

What quiet quitting and device hoarding have in common—besides being lies—is the worldview of people who believe in, worry about, and report on them.

The premise of quiet quitting and device hoarding alike is that you owe everything to your corporate masters. That giving less than everything to your job is "quitting," that spending less than every dime in your bank account is sabotaging the economy.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Stanford Institute report on the economic impact of Brexit:

https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/working-paper/economic-impact-brexit

It reduced UK GDP by 8%, investment by 18%, employment by 4%, and productivity by 4%. Also reduced Treasury tax revenue by £40-80Bn/year.

(Note that this is NOT a UK think tank but a US one so more likely to be ideologically in favour of Brexit as a starting point.)

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waldo.net@bsky.brid.gy ("Waldo Jaquith") wrote:

When you’re extremely concerned about drugs coming from Central and South America.

Trump Announces Pardon for Hon...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BBC@c.im ("BBC News") wrote:

#BBC Trump says he will pardon ex-Honduras president convicted of drug trafficking https://w.st/JJpP

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

I can hear the sleet smashing against the house in the wind. f*ck Winter, with a pitchfork.

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

College freshman is deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise, despite court order

https://apnews.com/article/babson-student-deported-thanksgiving-467393d8d9b9ae6351f99de7b9cbfb98

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LesleyPhillipsArt@toot.wales ("Lesley Phillips art") wrote:

Castell Coch

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

Writing JavaScript for the first time in a while after doing exclusively Rust for months. It feels like moving from navigating a Virginia-class submarine with every conceivable technological aid and guardrail to sailing an inflatable pool raft across the ocean with a map on the back of a bar napkin.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
N4JAW@mastodon.radio ("Jim "Ham on a Bike"") wrote:

I'm ready for some cold weather #hamradio #amateurradio #pota #parksontheair #morsecode CW #qrp #qrpradio activations in spite of #solarcycle25 #coronalholes creating increased levels of #solarwinds

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

The existence of leftover pie from Thursday, does not invalidate the need to bake more pies on Friday.

- ancient proverb, probably.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:

'Made-up quote' in Canadian satire site The Beaverton fools Time Magazine | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/beaverton-dupes-time-hoekstra-9.6996328

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

#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.

Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I think it would've been easy to throw the #Mastodon logo at some print-on-demand website and be done with it, but I've always wanted Mastodon merch to be something bespoke, something you'd genuinely want to keep for years. This is why I chose the difficult path: Manually finding suppliers, prototyping, ordering in advance and distributing through our own shop. It's a lot of work, which is why it tends to happen as individual "drops" rather than a continuous, all year round stock.

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

Hank Green And The Case of The Missing Spine

#AI #HankGreen #Anthropic #AIDoomerism

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Tealfuleyes@mastodon.art ("Tealful Eyes") wrote:

Working on some brushes for myself in Rebelle using a portrait for a potential TTRPG character I may play in a future campaign.

#Art #Anthro #DigitalArt #TTRPG #mastoArt

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

Hegseth ordering war crimes like they're whisky sours

https://wapo.st/49KbUJ1

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

These washing line poles are clearly no longer in use.#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #decay #rust #grass #plants #trees

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

For this Black Friday I'm bringing the "everything bundle" back out of retirement one last time, which lets you buy all four of my ebooks at a 60% discount

https://payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/UwFnP

I'm also going to be discontinuing two of those ebooks – I am Uncluttered (Yellow) and Bad Writing – after the sale to focus on the books I think are likelier to have an audience over the next couple of years

"I am Uncluttered (Yellow)" will still be available in print albeit less prominently on my site than before.

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

So, Hegseth illegally ordered everyone killed in the first alleged drug boat strike on Sept. 2, prompting a second hit to finish off survivors in the water. — This is the real reason why Trump & Hegseth absolutely freaked out about the video against illegal orders.

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bodil@treehouse.systems ("Bodil") wrote:

I got a new drinking fountain for @bark_maul, and to my delight I found that it has a Home Assistant integration with a water level sensor, so I can put a warning on my HA dashboard when it needs refilling. This makes me a lot happier than it reasonably ought to, but that's Home Assistant in a nutshell.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Another usability problem is that every browser has its own password manager, and every vendor pushes their own thing.

Apple locked out competing browsers from Safari's keychain, so all browsers created their own keychains. Apple tried to remedy the fragmentation they caused by offering a browser extension, but that creates a DIY duplicate autofill UI that fights the other autofill UIs.

Where are the passwords? Where are they saved to? Who knows!?! Depends on JS events and z-index.

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

Listen to "I Hate You" from CARROT: The Musical! https://youtu.be/x8fdY%5FBBWc0

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#Passkeys don't solve the password mess for my elderly relatives.

The "scan QR code" fallback that pops up sometimes is a dead-end. They've been told to click "Deny" whenever sites suddenly ask for permissions, so they block Bluetooth access too.

They don't know or don't remember how to scan a QR code, or are baffled why something for "viewing restaurant menus" is used to log in.

Sites use inconsistent terminology for "passkey/security key/try other method", even worse in non-English.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DarthPutinKGB@mastodon.world ("Darth Putin") wrote:

This peace deal only has 3 steps.
1. Russia gets the land
2. Trump gets a bribe
3. Ukraine gets an empty promise