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

‘Federal prosecutors in L.A. have lost every assault on a federal officer case they’ve brought to trial against immigration protesters.

A federal judge criticized the U.S. attorney’s office as “amateur hour” after prosecutors failed to disclose evidence during an assault trial.’

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-03/u-s-attorneys-office-losses-protest-cases

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

#TheDearHunter's North American Tour 2023 has just been uploaded to YouTube so #Gleeb can finally enter *your* collective consciousness too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0fp7Sgsoj8

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

Look, if I could teleport, I sure as fuck wouldn't go to Waffle House

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Fuck Everything, We're Doing 5D Printing

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

if you're too young, there is an original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfhQzH2CSjA

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

don't give up, you've got the shitposts in you
one last joke, you know it's gonna come through.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
coderanger@cloudisland.nz ("Noah K") wrote:

Quick Friday task to improve your personal security: go check your browser and text editor plugins, and disable any you haven't used lately. You can always turn them back on later.

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

Interesting: Almost Two-Thirds of Europeans Back Replacing US Tech, Poll Finds
https://www.techpolicy.press/almost-two-thirds-of-europeans-back-replacing-us-tech-poll-finds/ #Nextcloud

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell 🏴") wrote:

i know i'm an AI skeptic, but i did not expect "virally popular agent does no authentication checks before escalating system privileges"

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

How sweet. I got a "grateful" card.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/03/i-got-a-nice-little-card/

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

related: when the terribleness was not hyperbole in the youtube video title.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

two croissant pizzas for the price of one

what?

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
repepo@fediscience.org ("Santiago Andrés Triana") wrote:

This is particularly lucid and insightful:

https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/

Boosted by jwz:
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

Used to be, if you had someone with a weird infection your local lab couldn’t sort out, you could send samples to CDC for testing. Now those labs are “pausing” testing. So anyway, Republicans are trying to kill you.

Boosted by jwz:
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

TRANS PERSON: please don't press the button that makes children kill themselves

CIS PERSON: but it's such a pretty button

TRANS PERSON: yes but it kills children

CIS PERSON: it looks so fun to press tho

TRANS PERSON: uh huh it kills children

CIS PERSON: you don't understand this button reminds me of my own childhood

TRANS PERSON: i feel like I need to remind you - dead children

CIS PERSON: *sweat pouring down their face* but i can separate the button from the person who made the button!

TRANS PERSON: good for you, the button still makes children kill themselves

CIS PERSON: *straining from the effort of not pushing the button* but i want my children to enjoy the button

TRANS PERSON: the button that kills children

CIS PERSON: you just don't want anyone to enjoy things

TRANS PERSON: again...dead children

CIS PERSON: *pushes the button*

This post is about JK Rowling.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
finn@social.0x520.eu ("Finn") wrote:

Kids today don't know how hard it was to take a selfie back in the time...

#selfie #painting #kids #art

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

New Freebooters podcast.

Does everything we do need to be recorded?

https://freebooters.uk/media/20260330-freebooters.mp3

#podcast

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dianea@lgbtqia.space ("diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱") wrote:

Me reading the news every morning

#caturday #caturdayeveryday

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
noboilerplate@namtao.com (":youtube_logo: No Boilerplate") wrote:

*slow clap*
https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
MrLovenstein ("J. L. Westover") wrote:

Secret Panel HERE 🧠 https://tapas.io/episode/3418197

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/116328001566273692

Down to the final three slots!

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

Artemis 2 astronaut pulls the "No atheists on top of rockets" maneuver and kills my interest in his mission. Screw you, Victor Glover.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/03/nasa-is-going-to-pull-an-apollo-8-on-us-arent-they/

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

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116330178975566449

This is still going on 😉

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
debby@hear-me.social ("Debby ‬⁂📎🐧:disability_flag:") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/116340778960304908

Turns out the loudest voices demanding you scan your ID to use AI are funded by… OpenAI. And Sam Altman just happens to own an age-verification company. Funny how that works. Reject state-mandated digital papers. #NoAgeVerification #PrivacyOverControl #NoKosa

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
notgull@hachyderm.io ("captain notgull") wrote:

I will no longer be able to effectively maintain open source packages. I am looking for new maintainers for the following packages:

- https://github.com/notgull/unsend
- https://github.com/notgull/async-dns
- https://github.com/notgull/win-syscolor
- https://codeberg.org/notgull/smol-axum
- https://codeberg.org/notgull/smol-hyper

I would prefer people who already have a track record in maintaining crates, but please reach out to me if you'd like to take these. Either here or at my email (see my website) will work.

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
greenpeace ("Greenpeace International") wrote:

A green energy future is possible. Don’t let Big Oil and warmongering autocrats tell you otherwise.

Ending dependency on oil and gas is critical for resilience, security and survival.

Wind and solar is the way to go.

#Renewables #Peace #NoWar

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Guess what! omg.lol turns 7 this month. :prami_contented:

Guess what else! We’re offering a super limited number of lifetime membership slots. If you’re interested, grab one while they last.

More info here: https://home.omg.lol/birthday

:prami_happy:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
earthshine@masto.hackers.town ("Earthshine") wrote:

I WORK IN TECH and over the last 5 years, my general level of confidence in software to function as intended has...

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
chu@climatejustice.social ("Chu 朱") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@luckytran/116336718713225759

Every country absolutely needs to have a disaster management plan in place that does not include any action whatsoever from the United States.

This includes a communication plan where the US will be actively spreading misinformation and disinformation to make up for dear leaders incompetency on top of the known bad actors from mostly Russia whose agenda is to weaken the rest of the world.

Any country that does not have a plan that absolutely excludes the US is being negligent at this point.

Communication plans must also not rely on corporate media. They are not our allies in the fight for global health. They are extensions of the capitalist class and if the solution to keep us alive threatens Q4 earnings.... Guess what is more important?

This is not a drill. I literally just defended a dissertation on how the media killed people during COVID. I have receipts.

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

This six part series (link goes to the first part), written by a former core Azure engineer, is mind-boggling. Microsoft sounds like a dysfunctional company whose software is dangerously unreliable

(I mean, more so than it has been historically)

https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion