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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

Disney signs deal with Tijuana Bibles. They're finally getting a piece of that Eeyore on Minnie action!

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PhineasX@mastodon.art wrote:

A digital illustration on a mottled blue gray textured paper background. A human skull rendered in textured black with the contours rendered in the poster color. The top of the skull’s cranium is missing and dark red flames are rising out of it. A black banner loops around the skull on the left, right, and below. Dangling from the bottom of the banner is a sprig of holly with black leaves and red berries. Lettering on the banner reads ‘Holidays are hard but what ain’t.’

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

The regime has unleashed its goons on anyone with brown or black skin. It's morally repugnant, un-American and must end.

Press conference clip showing a young Somali American man describing being assaulted and detained by someone in a mask; an ICE official stands beside him. The tweet notes he was chased, assaulted, and kidnapped despite being a U.S. citizen, raising concerns about ICE behavior.

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RustedComputing@discuss.systems ("FElon&Felon47🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇹🇼") wrote:

@davidgerard
Disney imagined the MCP torment nexus in Tron as a precautionary tale to try to prevent anyone from creating the MCP torment nexus....

Yeah, the guy who coined the term Model Context Protocol with its acronym knew exactly what reference he was making, am I right?

A still from the film Tron showing the big bad Master Control Pogram (MCP) as a big giant head.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

I'm hiring a Director of Product Engineering for our product team at @ProPublica. If you're an engineering leader in the US who wants to truly make a difference, we're a nonprofit newsroom investigating abuses of trust in the public interest. Please consider joining us. #amhiring #getfedihired https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4623874006?gh%5Fsrc=0eh7t3h36us

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
minouette@spore.social ("Ele Willoughby, PhD") wrote:

Day 11 #ArtAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. Named the Harvard Classification after the university, her tremendous contribution was less visible. 🧵

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #DisabledInSTEM #linocut #mastoArt

My linocut of Annie Jump Cannon shows her in a 3/4 profile view wearing a shirt with a lace collar and her hair up. She is printed in a gradient of violet at the bottom to green at the top, printed on white 11” x 14” paper. The background is printed in a gradient (left to right) of dark blue, light blue, yellow, pale yellow, pale orange, orange and red. The background block excludes her silhouette of shoulder and head with the exception of a smattering of small dots in a swath from upper left to lower right (which extends to white spots on the coloured background). Also along the bottom are a series of circles of decreasing size (left to right, blue through red) labelled O, B, A, F, G, K, M. There’s a axis line along the bottom with 6 tick marks. Vertically from top to bottom along the left side are 15-, 10-, 5-, 0, 5, 20, 15.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ungarage@mamot.fr ("Un Garage") wrote:

Don't make me tap the sign. "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore a computer must never make a management decision."

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
joewynne@mindly.social ("Joe Wynne 🌻🚗⛰️") wrote:

My holidays include Coquito, the Puerto Rican "egg nog" which does not actually contain eggs, but plenty of coconut cream, rum, cinnamon and nutmeg. It fits in with holiday flavors adding a tropical twist.

There are a few other easily attainable ingredients in my easy recipe, so let me know if you are interested and I will post it.

Happy Holidays @blogdiva !

#Holidays #Holiday #Cocktail

Half-gallon (~2 liter) glass jar with metal lid containing cream-colored liquid with dark speckles.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

Ukrainian intelligence says Russia is quietly building drone hubs and deploying operatives in Moldova’s Russian-controlled enclave of Transnistria.

The strategy: stir unrest in Moldova, stretch Ukrainian defenses in the south, and quietly prepare for a possible escalation near Odesa.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/11/russia-eyes-moldovas-transnistria-as-new-threat-axis-toward-odesa-says-ukrainian-intelligence/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

A Myanmar military air strike has killed more than 30 people at a hospital ahead of elections scheduled for the end of December. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/11/asia-pacific/myanmar-hospital-deadly-stirke/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #asiapacific #myanmar #junta

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

Clowns Against Child Poverty Continued Photo of James Baldwin with the following quote: We can disagree and still love each other.... ...unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist - James Baldwin

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
remixtures@tldr.nettime.org ("Miguel Afonso Caetano") wrote:

"On a Thursday in early September, more than 40 strangers logged in to Instacart, the grocery-shopping app, to buy eggs and test a hypothesis.

Connected by videoconference, they simultaneously selected the same store — a Safeway in Washington, D.C. — and the same brand of eggs. They all chose pickup rather than delivery.

The only difference was the price they were offered: $3.99 for a couple of lucky shoppers. $4.59 or $4.69 for others. And a few saw a price of $4.79 — 20 percent more than some others, for the exact same product.

The shoppers were volunteers, participating in a study published on Tuesday and organized by the Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive policy group, and Consumer Reports, a nonprofit consumer publication. In tests in four cities across the country, nearly 200 volunteers checked prices on 20 grocery items on Instacart.

On item after item, they found significant differences. In a Target in North Canton, Ohio, some shoppers were charged $3.59 for a jar of Skippy peanut butter that others could get for $2.99. At a Safeway in Seattle, some people paid $3.99 for a box of Wheat Thins while others paid $4.89. And at a Target in St. Paul, Minn., some people were charged $4.59 for a box of Cheerios that others could get for $3.99.

“Two shoppers who are buying the exact same item from the exact same store at the exact same time are getting different prices,” said Lindsay Owens, executive director of the Groundwork Collaborative. “The data really backs up how extraordinarily pervasive this is.”
(...)
Groundwork’s findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price, offered to all customers for a predictable period, is breaking down in the digital age. Companies are using sophisticated algorithms to adjust prices quickly in response to competitors’ offers and consumer behavior."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/business/instacart-algorithmic-pricing.html

#USA #AlgorithmicPricing #DynamicPricing #Insatacart #Inflation #Algorithms

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

Paramount X/Twitter Account Hacked to Read 'Proud Arm of the Fascist Regime' https://variety.com/2025/film/news/paramount-x-account-hacked-proud-arm-of-the-fascist-regime-1236604676/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Smalljones@triangletoot.party ("Smalljones aka Paul Jones") wrote:

Now hear this, Robert Zimmerman
Though I don't suppose we'll meet
Ask your good friend Dylan
If he'd gaze a while down the old street
Tell him we've lost his poems
So we're writing on the walls
Give us back our unity
Give us back our family
You're every nation's refugee
Don't leave us with their sanity

https://youtu.be/KQTucCHi0pI

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w3cdevs@w3c.social ("W3C Developers") wrote:

RE: https://w3c.social/@w3cdevs/115578897978811221

📢 Help shape the future of Web architecture! @w3c is seeking input from the wider community for appointing two (2) individuals to the @tag.

▶️ Nominate yourself and/or others by January 5, 2026 at nomination@w3.org!

The TAG needs a well-balanced mix of skills. It currently lacks expertise in #CSS/UX/GPU/#media, needs of users in less-wealthy regions (such as South America, Africa, and non-CJK Asia), and non-male perspectives.

Read more: https://www.w3.org/blog/2025/w3c-seeking-community-input-for-tag-appointments/

Please share!

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

The supply line was temporarily broken, but breakfast is served once again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/11/famine-fears-allayed/

wax worms

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Donald Trump launched a new program that will allow wealthy foreign individuals to buy a US 'golden visa' for $1m, and trailed a 'platinum' version for $5m.

'A direct path to Citizenship for all qualified and vetted people. SO EXCITING! Our Great American Companies can finally keep their invaluable Talent,' Trump wrote on Wednesday on social media."

~ Marina Dunbar

#Trump #immigrants #visas
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/trump-us-gold-card-visa-launch

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

WA Mayor says biggest obstacle to storm response is ‘getting accurate, timely information’
https://www.cnn.com/us/video/wa-mayor-says-biggest-obstacle-to-storm-response-is-getting-accurate-timely-information?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into US News @us-news-CNN

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

One of the scariest parts of this project was learning more about Starlink's orbital operations. I had always assumed they had some kind of clever configuration of the satellites in the orbital shell that minimized conjunctions, and we would see the number of conjunctions grow over time in our simulations. But no! It's just random! There's no magic here, it's just avoiding collisions by moving a Starlink satellite every 2 minutes. This is bad.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
propublicaguild@union.place ("ProPublica Guild") wrote:

Hello Fedi 👋 We are the workers at America's biggest investigative newsroom. We've been bargaining for our first contract for the past two years. Follow us for updates on our campaign to improve our workplace!
https://www.propublicaguild.org

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

oops

https://infosec.exchange/@lorenzofb/115701436220863389

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Ultimately, Donald Trump’s effort to solve his political problem is doomed to fail because he’s Donald Trump. To solve the problem of high prices, Trump has to acknowledge it. And to acknowledge the problem of high prices would be to admit a measure of failure.

In his eight decades on this planet, there is no evidence that Trump has the capacity to admit fault."

#Trump #economy #affordability #inflation #groceries #prices
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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Scary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!") wrote:

I'm starting to think the far right can't govern.

Carl Quintanilla posts two screengrabs from Aaron Rupar and writes "Eight months ago vs today" then tags Aaron Rupar, CNBC and CBS. Rupar's first post shows a video still of Commerce Secretary Lutnick AKA "Nutlick" for his sycophancy to Trump. 8 months ago he's saying "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones-- that kind of thing is going to come to America." Today he's saying "Remember, Americans don't have millions of people to screw in little screws in iPhones, but we do have capacity to run robotics."

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

When did you last read a book about history?

#EvanPoll #poll

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tacocrepe@mastodon.gamedev.place ("tacocrepe🍀") wrote:

Calling all office nerds 😎 the Office Mimics are now available (for free) in my Kofi! These are a set of .ico files to customize your folder/program icons with!

https://www.ko-fi.com/s/3683ca94cb

These were super fun to make, hope you have fun customizing your desktop using these!

#pixelart #mimic

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Ulfh3dnar wrote:

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte:

"Russia has brought war back to Europe, and we must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured."

#NATO #MarkRutte #Ukraine️ #UkraineRussiaWar #War #Russia

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

The United States now has militarized zones within CONUS, nilly willy, on the regular (...), as if we were some shithole third world country in the throes of a civil war.

ICE/CBP is a fully fledged INVASION PARAMILITARY FORCE, stomping on the Constitution and every civil right ever warranted by the rule of Law in the US.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/12/10/trump-administration-adds-militarized-zone-in-california-along-border/

#TurdReich #CBP #ICE #nazi #gestapo #tRump #GOP #MAGAts #USPol

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

in just a year 👍

https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/115701208915726437

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

From 2025, every Finnish conscript will be trained to fly drones, drop bombs, and intercept enemy UAVs.

“We’re acting in time,” says Army Chief Välimäki. No drone corps — these skills are going into all units.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/11/finland-makes-drone-training-compulsory-for-all-new-soldiers/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
artelse ("Arthur Elsenaar") wrote:

Having invested in some really good pliers for electronic work, I was shocked the tip snapped off while cutting the leg of a defect triac. I sent an email to the Lindström company and got a free replacement for the 8145 model. They also asked for the return of the broken one for quality inspection. Great #customer #service #warranty!

Pliers on top of the box.
Pliers with snapped tip.