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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115698604360170391

There's now free shipping on orders of 70 EUR and over.

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

A billionaire owns WaPo. Another owns LA Times. Another owns Meta. And now one of the richest men alive controls CBS AND is openly trying to buy Warner Bros. This is not normal. This is not safe.

Today I break down what’s happening and how we fight back with facts and independent journalism. Read on Ghost.

And as able, consider supporting my work through a free or paid subscription.

https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/billionaires-are-taking-over-media/

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

Congress Is About to Break the Internet - by Taylor Lorenz:

"These proposed laws include The Kids Online Safety Act, The SCREEN Act and The App Store Accountability Act. The laws would censor LGBTQ and reproductive justice content off the internet, and any speech the government doesn’t like will be removed or blocked." https://www.usermag.co/p/congress-is-about-to-break-the-internet

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hankgreen@threads.net ("Hank Green") wrote:

Pissing Out Cancer, my comedy special produced by and formerly exclusively on Dropout.tv is now available for free and in full on YouTube.

Thank you so much to Dropout for being chill and letting me write this into my contract!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh5GUtNa9bI

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

Your reminder the GOP wants you to die poor and sick and as soon as possible, thank you very much, in fact why aren't you dead already, honestly that's very rude of you

https://wapo.st/48uEsVO

(gift article)

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

*AI bubble about to burst*

Forbes: man, there sure are a lot of women in powerful positions, huh?

Screenshot of post: Forbes • @forbes.com Women are steering the systems that will define the next decade. As the 2025 Forbes Power Women list demonstrates, their influence across technology, finance and politics is both deep and global, yet the highest tiers of power remain selectively guarded. The World's Most Powerful Women 2025: Where Do Women Hold Real Power? Women are steering the systems that will define the next decade. As the 2025 Forbes Power Women list ...

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

Lmao

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/12/disney-says-google-ai-infringes-copyright-on-a-massive-scale/

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

Seriously, they should just call themselves OpenThreatAI

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

Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI, licenses 200 characters for AI video app Sora - Ars Technica:

"“Technological innovation has continually shaped the evolution of entertainment, bringing with it new ways to create and share great stories with the world,” said Disney CEO Robert A. Iger"

Translation: hey illustrators, if you unionize we’ll replace you with robots. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/disney-invests-1-billion-in-openai-licenses-200-characters-for-ai-video-app-sora/

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HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social wrote:

The proliferation of scam culture, then, is not just a product of technological change but also a rational response to late stage capitalism.

Capitalists compete, which risks profits.

In response, capitalists have chosen consolidation to mitigate the effects of competition, which has driven ever-increasing wealth inequality.

That inequality makes it harder for anyone not at the top, even less-successful capitalists, to get ahead.

And so some capitalists have turned entrepreneurially to scamming as a way of an asserting control over the income produced by workers that they could not control through the traditional process of owning firms and assets.

Because those are all already owned by the richest of the rich, or soon will be.

The AI bubble will burst eventually and cause immense suffering when it does, but just as NFTs weren’t the last major global scam, AI will just be replaced by yet another scam, and another, and another, until capitalism eventually collapses under its own weight.

https://newrepublic.com/post/192132/ocasio-cortez-everything-feels-like-scam

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keyboards ("Keyboards") wrote:

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

🐦‍⬛ ❤️ 🥜 Gus, Marcelo, Childish Gambino, Chappell Roan, Macaroni, Lasagna, Pete Davidson, Pedro Albizu Campos, Meg, Havoc & Prodigy

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

The view my cats were digging earlier

A whole bunch of starlings in our yard.

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anaiscrosby@infosec.exchange ("Anais") wrote:

A billboard, purportedly from the NHS, saying: KNOW YOUR PARASITES: ❝TICKS: External parasites. Remove with tweezers. [photo of ticks] WORMS: Internal parasites. Remove with medication. [photo of worms] BILLIONAIRES: Economic parasites. Remove with wealth tax. [photo of laughing Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg]❞

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

This is the biggest critique of liberal advocacy— there's no such thing as a lesson learned. No one is adjusting. No one is taking notes. Every lost election, every failed initiative, it's always someone else's fault.

And it's because the liberal identity lives and dies by being the smartest in the room. It's this obsession with intelligence that forbids liberals from *looking within* and adjusting on literally anything. It's been a decade. None of this is working.

#ICE

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popcornreel@mas.to ("Omar Moore") wrote:

Watch Rep. Bennie Thompson bust Michael Glasheen on his “antifa is a terrorist organization” BS. This happened today at a U.S. House hearing.

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ethanschoonover ("Ethan J. A. Schoonover") wrote:

You know that Hegseth is looking at Rubio going to Times New Roman and is thinking of moving the Pentagon to a Blackletter type named something like "REICHFACE."

Old style Germanic looking Blackletter typeface reading "Department of War".

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thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭🕹️") wrote:

🤔

Ask AI Assistant: "Why DDR5 RAM is so expensive now?"

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

@robpike tabs were a mistake

Omniweb browser on a NeXT with monitors javascript from Google. The bookmarks include Mondo2000 and other classic sites.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

KNBR (AM 680) Antennas, Redwood City, CA, 2024.

All the pixels, none of the hazards to aviation, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54131419266

#photography

Two radio antenna masts in a field. The taller mast, on the right, is a guyed tower with a hexagonal structure at the top. The shorter mast on the left, toward the background, is freestanding.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The taller tower (550 feet) at right is the main KNBR antenna, built in 1949. It employs an unusual "pseudo-Franklin" design; it's actually an array of two antennas stacked atop one another. The 400 foot lower section is insulated from the ground. The upper 150 foot section is insulated from the lower section. The large (50 foot) diameter "capacitance hat" at the top (reminiscent of the Parachute Jump at Coney Island) electrically lengthens the top section, saving 250 feet of additional height.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

KNBR is a 50KW "Class A" (formerly "clear channel") mediumwave (AM) rado station broadcasting on 680 KHz, serving the San Francisco Bay area (and, at night, most of the west coast of the US). Opened in 1922, It was originally known as KPO, (later KNBC, and still later KNBR), and soon became the flagship station for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)'s new western radio network. It is currently owned by Cumulus Media and now broadcasts a sports format. It sits next to the former KGEI site.

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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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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.