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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Today is a defining moment for our country. We can no longer trust federal health authorities when it comes to vaccines.” Dr. Michael Osterholm, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
AFAICT this means that smaller European publishers who want to sell to the US need to print in the US, with the inevitable hassle of either managing US inventory or Print-On-Demand variability and quality
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Shipping books from Iceland to the US is still problematic even though books are supposedly exempt. I heard about packages frequently getting returned by US customs for spurious reasons, seemingly arbitrary fines on both sender and receiver, and a delay of up to 45 working days even if all goes well
That few if any Icelandic bookstores ship to the US these days is entirely unsurprising.
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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:
Anti-ICE poster spotted in Portland, Oregon
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CosmickTrigger@social.edist.ro ("Daughter of Discord") wrote:
Mr Rogers was a republican.
He was a white christian cis het man.He prayed and read the Bible every day.
He created a children's TV show with taxpayer money in which he promoted his "christian views" to a secular audience through secular media.
He studied other religions and other cultures to improve on his reach and connection. He never preached or quoted scripture--yet, we all got the message he intended for us.
He appealed to President Nixon and Congress to continue to fund the creation of PBS with a persuasive speech that is one of the most studied for public speaking and PR. A gentle but powerful speaker.
While white people were pouring concrete into public pools rather than share with black neighrbors, Fred Rogers broadcast himself sharing a quiet conversation in a pool with African-American music and co-worker, Francios Clemmons. The softest act of defiance against White Supremacy.
He was the most demanded speaker on college campuses--he did not have to con his way onto campus to speak and nazis and counter-protesters did not follow his appearances---You know, despite the fact that he was a white christian man promoting christian values to the general public.
Every generation since the 1968 has been positively impacted by Mr Rogers.
Even children in the past 20 years are benefiting from his legacy at PBS --his methods and messages are STILL used in children's programming around the world.
No one had to mandate mourning his death because we all actually felt a genuine loss when he passed away. Even grown adults, who had not watched his show for 10 years by the time he passed, felt a piece of genuine goodness leave the planet.
We did not have to be Christian with Mr Rogers for him to do so much for us.
He never asked us to be Christian with him.
He only asked us to be his neighbor.
So...
If you find that the general public is rejecting your brand of Christianity, it might because you are a horrible fucking person with a 2000 yr old book of shitty excuses that no one is buying into.
It might be because you are a filthy grifter looking to capitalize off end-times hysteria and seniors with end-of-life anxieties.
It might be cause you are a disgusting bigot trying to reap superiority while evading moral accountability.
It probably has nothing to do at all with you actually "being a christian".
Cause we all fucking loved Mr Rogers.
-- Patchie Dee
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joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social ("Grassroots Joe") wrote:
This is what every police chief in America should be saying and enforcing.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
https://www.ms.now/news/minneapolis-police-chief-unlawful-force-ice-jobs
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forteller@tutoteket.no ("Børge") wrote:
Of course millimeters exists! But believing in kilometers is just a crazy religion, and also where does space come from in the first place? Kilometerists can't explain that! Therefore my specific god is the only logical reason why millimeters exist!
— Creationists
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SecureOwl@infosec.exchange ("Mike Sheward") wrote:
“an honor,” declares President Trump after being awarded the first ever Steak-umm prize for physics.
Mastodon FeedActually wait I just thought about this and realized that the precise timing of the ACTUAL GitHub seed bank, by which I mean the Arctic Code Vault, on 2020-02-02, makes it more or less a perfect snapshot of pre-Copilot GitHub. Also precisely timed before we all got brain damage from COVID. This is the only remaining archive of source code by people with a fully working sense of smell
"Low-background steel" "Low-desperation code"
Mastodon FeedVideo text remover.
Is there a Mac app similar to Hitpaw Watermark Remover that is... not that? I bought it, and it's *adequate* but has some annoyances so I would like to try *anything* else.
Only use case I care about is: scrub thru video; select a series of rectangles and start/end times; run ffmpeg with a series of "delogo" filters.
Auto-detection or anything "AI" is an explicit non-goal.
Web search for this topic has been utterly poisoned by grifters.
https://jwz.org/b/ykyK
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
iode@mastodon.online ("iodé") wrote:
The next time someone says "Privacy doesn't matter to me, I've got nothing to hide", show them this video.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Okay, BUT, what if this time, instead of building this city on rock and roll, we built it on mid-density housing and mixed-use zoning?
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spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie ("Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives") wrote:
After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Order here: https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/product-page/chatgpt-magic-8-ball-offline-version
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Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ("ikt") wrote:
Sweden to cut development aid to five countries, divert money to Ukraine
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lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:
Adolf Trump removes holidays celebrating Blacks from free entrance to
national parks, but makes his own birthday free entrance
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
charleskeener.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Charles Keener") wrote:
The report also criticized Hegseth’s use of a personal cellphone to conduct official business. Hegseth himself refused to cooperate with the investigation, refusing to hand over his phone or sit for an interview.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bolts@journa.host ("BoltsMag.org") wrote:
This fall, Hawaii's supreme court rejected an argument that recording interrogations is burdensome for police: “If children can record everyday events with ease, law enforcement cannot claim hardship to record perhaps its most consequential investigative act.”
https://boltsmag.org/hawaii-supreme-court-police-interrogations/
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morebento@aus.social ("ben moretti") wrote:
This band is exceptional. They put on an annual performance of Zappa’s music and do it brilliantly. Well worth a trip to Adelaide for the fringe featival
Läther play the music of Frank Zappa
The Gov - The Venue (Hindmarsh, SA)
Sunday, 15 March 2026 6:00 pmhttps://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/56481bf5-dd31-4d21-90a2-f60a35cc507b
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
interesting … I had not known that the PRC was 2nd, and I was surprised the EU was that populated
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/04e9a2a7-e9cf-4d97-9b71-8f04f298cc5c#1
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FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips 🎄") wrote:
YouTube is now using AI to alter people's videos without permission. (There are threads about this at https://mastodon.content.town/@operationpuppet/115640694705318541 & https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/115598837629003478 etc)
This is really disturbing and dangerous. It's more insidious than censorship because viewers cannot tell a video has been altered.
If you post to YouTube, I'd strongly recommend you start ALSO posting to PeerTube, either on your own server or a public server. There's a complete guide here:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-publish-videos-and-audio-on-peertube
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
A communist plumber named Lefty Lucy
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kkarhan@infosec.space ("Kevin Karhan :verified:") wrote:
@fromjason people.in #Germany hate #Cyberfascism and #Enshittification!
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Anecdotally on mastodon, and based on very rudimentary analytics from Tinylytics, Germany 🇩🇪 seems the most receptive to fighting back on #AIdoomerism.
What's going on over there in Deutschland? Why are y'all ahead of the curb?
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joyousjoyness ("Joy") wrote:
✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨
Didn't know they moved like that...
Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day!
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whitequark ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:
hey remember this slide
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
"Have you accepted AI yet". My take on a recent thread here. Nothing particularly new there, but I needed a place to aggregate all the links I cared about on the topic :-)
https://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2025/12/05/have-you-accepted-ai-yet/en/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I'm starting to think that AI is causing a sort of mass hysteria, where people too close to the technology and people who are too far from any frame of reference for the technology, are under some weird hypnosis caused by a very realistic mimicking of human sentience. A Stochastic Parrot, if you will.
Damn man, @timnitGebru sure did warn us. I would've never guessed it would be like this.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The Cottingley Fairies was a hoax in the early 1900's where two cousins "photoshopped" fairies into photographs of themselves.
Photography was new enough that something like this had never happened before.
The Fairies were so convincing that it fooled the author of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, and he wrote an essay arguing fairies were real.
And this is what I think is happening with Bernie Sanders and AI right now.
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/sir-arthur-and-the-fairies/
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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:
#KingTides sea level rise party
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Bernie Sander's Labor Committee asked CHATGPT how many jobs CHATGPT will take from humans. They asked a chatbot to *predict* the future, then published it.
Jesus lord we're fucked.
