“The goal is to cast vaccines into the shadows. That has deadly consequences.”
Legislators are bent on dismantling our vaccine safety net even as this deadly disease sees a frightening resurgence in our state. texasobserver.org/measles-outb…
#politics #USpol #Texas #measles #antivax #vaccines #health #healthcare #news #TXlege #Republicans
Amid Texas Measles Outbreak, Conservatives Double Down on Anti-Vax Crusade
Spread of the virus is due to low immunization rates in certain communities. Meanwhile, some legislators are cheering for more “medical freedom.”Joelle DiPaolo (The Texas Observer)
Is Your Printer Producing Gibberish? A Windows 11 Update May Be to Blame
After installing a Windows 11 preview update, some USB printers are churning out random, programming-related text. Microsoft is working on a fix, but there is an interim workaround, too.Michael Kan (PCMag)
Faster clapping yields lower-frequency sounds, as does cupping one's hands while clapping.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
How one’s hand configuration affects the sound of clapping
Faster clapping yields lower-frequency sounds, as does cupping one’s hands while clapping.Jennifer Ouellette (Ars Technica)
Right at the end is the scary part:
"It might even be possible one day to identify someone based on their distinctive claps and use it as a kind of acoustic login for electronic devices."
More surveillance - AI to be used to review footage of every concert, theatrical performance etc. ever, and produce a massive database linking you to the sounds of your hand claps.
Then you can be tracked by the sound you make whenever your flat hand contacts something 🤯😱
Well electric cars, hell, cars in general these days come with proprietary software that totally screws over the buyer's ability to fix their own damn car. It's bullshit, plain and simple.
Right to repair isn't just some fancy slogan, it's a fucking right. Period. I'm all in on open source software and the freedom to dig into the code, learn from it, and yeah, fix it if I need to. That's how it should be, not this locked-down crap they're pushing on us.
Sadly, this is the world most people are forced into with big tech companies owning and operating most of the software we and many companies use today.
I would recommend anyone reading this to give #Linux a try if you haven't already used it. It's open-source, customizable, and gives you the freedom to really make your system your own.
❤ In short: I love the right to repair my own stuff!
#RightToRepair #Repair #Fix #iFixit #EletricCars #Cars #Swasticars #Linux
@cdwilson
All my shack/office photos are carefully angled and tightly cropped.
I just backed up & shot a pano, as it's presently (just pre-spring) in the worst condition it's been in months.
Toying with posting for comedy.
“Keep them on the ropes for multiple days”
“Protesters targeting #Tesla over their opposition to #Musk have a new strategy: faking interest in buying a Tesla to waste the company's time & resources.
50501 movement, which aims to org protests in all 50 states, have proposed that wasting the time of Tesla dealerships could be a safer alternative to illegal vandalism”
newsweek.com/tesla-musk-trump-…
Elon Musk Protesters Want to 'Buy' a Tesla. Here's Why
Some in the 50501 movement aim to waste dealerships' time by pretending to buy Elon Musk's cars, only to walk away.Theo Burman (Newsweek)
@bebadefabo Oh I dunno, because .... rule of law matters and those protesting could be imprisoned bc of Trump's army of assholes?
And yes, protests help "save us." No one thing does that. WE do that. The courts help, protests help, calling helps, pressure helps, running for office helps, town halls help, showing up in every way helps.
ALL of that IS getting "their hands dirty."
PS5: Don't unplug me while I'm switched on or I might break
Me: Bitch you froze; the fuck else am I supposed to do?
Handelsstreit: Wie wirken sich Trumps Zölle auf Europa aus?
Die von US-Präsident Trump angekündigten Strafzölle auf Stahl- und Aluminium sind in Kraft getreten. Wie groß ist die Gefahr für Europas Wirtschaft? Sind Jobs gefährdet? Welche Produkte könnten teuer werden? Fragen und Antworten.
Can we truly call it conservation if it is at the cost of displacing those who have nurtured the land for centuries?
Forcefully evicting the Maasai from their their ancestral homelands and auctioning it to greedy corporations for trophy hunting and carbon credits trading is not a climate solution.
It is nothing more than land grabs and exploitation wrapped in greenwashing, continuing the exploitation of vulnerable communities.
Justice for the Maasai in Tanzania ⤵️ pages.greenpeaceafrica.org/tan…
Tanzania Govt: Stop auctioning Maasai land to carbon traders and trophy hunters
The Maasai people, already on the frontline of the climate crisis, are being further marginalised by the actions of the Tanzanian government.pages.greenpeaceafrica.org
LEAH HOUGHTALING | Woodworking on Instagram: "When I was in Atlanta two weeks ago @heartwood410 brought me crepe Myrtle. It’s stunning, and full of figure, and chatoyancy. It’ll need a few months to dry before I’m able to use it. Thank you, Jonathan! ❤️❤️
1,036 likes, 49 comments - leahhoughtalingwoodworking on March 12, 2025: "When I was in Atlanta two weeks ago @heartwood410 brought me crepe Myrtle. It’s stunning, and full of figure, and chatoyancy.Instagram
I have a very strange issue with my VPS.
I am setting up wazuh for my personal use, and while the software seems to run just great, I'm unable to connect agents to it.
1. Wazuh does bind the ports (1514, 1515) properly. At least, netstat tells me to.
2. I can tcpdump on these ports, and see activity on 1515 (agent registration port).
3. The SYN packets never get a response from my VPS. It's like Wazuh is binding the ports, but isn't getting the packets or responding to them.
I'm completely out of ideas. The Wazuh community Discord has been unhelpful, so far.
I suspect ghosts.
Any help?
#wazuh #sysadmin #linux #selfhosted
12 March 1903 | A Slovenian, Josef Sitter, was born in Šentjakob. A car mechanic.
In #Auschwitz from 28 September 1941.
No. 21141
He perished in the camp on 24 February 1942.
Parece que al menos en La Plata hay una nueva moda: la de circular en auto sin patente.
Hoy vi ya siete autos (tres de ellos camionetas de esas gigantescas típicas de hombres con micropene) que no tenían la chapa patente ni delantera ni trasera; ni siquiera la truchada del papel “provisorio”.
Ni hablar de las motos, que son más las que circulan sin ningún tipo de papeles que aquellas en regla.
Dave's Velcro Suit Stunt | Letterman
Dave explores the wonderful world of this futuristic fabric. (From "Late Night," air date: 2/28/84)#VelcroSuit #FunWithVelcro #LettermanSubscribe to Letterma...YouTube
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Firing the refs doesn't end the game; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/12/epi…
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RE: toot.cat/@riley/11415016525359…
they other day on bsky there was a thread asking everyone "who's the worst person with your first name"
started by a guy named elon
Let me tell you how I became a proud science denier, and how it saved my life.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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an older example of the same thing: to be gay in the 1970s, in many countries you had to think you knew better than the health authorities, who believed this was an illness you should try to cure.
and then, a couple of years later, the same health authorities ask you to believe that there's a dangerous illness going around that somehow mysteriously requires gay people to limit their sex lives.
knowing which scientific claims to trust is _very hard_.
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I don't think this science denial. A big part of science is rigorous debate of the evidence. If you have evidence to the contrary, whether it's "anecdotal" lived experience or published data, then not blindly trusting established narrative *is* science. Dissenting views and contradictions are more valuable to the scientific process than confirmations* because it's evidence of some misunderstanding that can be used to push science as a whole forward.
*Of course you need some confirmations, and the replication crisis is a whole separate issue that leads to mistrust in science
Morgen ist Nationaler Warntag
Hessenweiter Warntag am 13. März
Am 13. März 2025 heulen in den Kommunen ab 10:15 Uhr die Sirenen, um für die verschiedenen Warnmittel und Alarmsignale zu sensibilisieren und die technische Warninfrastruktur zu testen.hessen.de
In case you weren’t paying attention, most of the people that understand economics told you that Trump was going to be a disaster. Only those that were part of the cult told you otherwise. So now you are going to act surprised because you voted for a felon, a bigot, a con man, and a dolt.
fastcompany.com/91294460/trump…
WOW 😳 🤯
The Trump administration and GOP, they are admitting this!!!
Shorting stock is a risky and ill-advised move, only for experts, almost certainly a bad idea except for experts, yes, yes, I know.
still
With Tesla up a bit today, I wish I had a brokerage account already so I could short it for, say, one week out from now, just with a few symbolic bucks.
OK, screw it, I want to do this. I want to put a little money in TSLQ and TSLZ (which is a way of betting that Tesla stock will drop). Clearly nonsense as a financial plan; I’ll only put in an amount I’m willing to lose. This is just for symbolic reasons. I’m willing pay a few bucks to raise this middle finger.
Recommendations: What's a less-terrible place to open an account where I can trade individual stocks? It needs to be low overhead and low nonsense; there will only ever be at •most• a few hundred dollars involved.
if you have a bank account somewhere that also owns a brokerage most have low cost/self managed trading options (for example if you bank with Bank of America you can open an account at Merrill Lynch pretty easily. May not be the most ideologically pure but may be easy if you already have the accounts.
(fewer credit unions or b corp banks have brokerages)
I'm reasonably happy with Charles Schwab but not sure their minimums but generally decent (relatively for their industry)
right, I made my comparison public - mastodon.social/@ShadSterling/…
Didn’t actually compare on how much I like the web interface
ShadSterling (@ShadSterling@mastodon.social)
After a windfall in 2021 I made a lot of small investments while trying to figure out a proper investment plan, and eventually made a spreadsheet to compare accounts.Mastodon
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Remember to short or buy puts. And buy a long enough term so you don't get caught in the Rancid Kumquat talking up the price.
I'm not sure why you'd want to just plain buy the stock. That thing is so overvalued it's floating purely on belief in Musk's genius. (Check out the P/E, over 100! _After_ it's down about 50%.) And that belief has nowhere to go but down at this point.
My dim and highly dubious understanding is that people betting against like this do actually help drive down the price, so I say go for it!
My account tools show the history of the fund, so I could look, but why...
My little portfolio has appreciated 20%, including about 10% today, though it's been quite volatile over the first week.
I'm not advising that anyone invest money they can't afford to lose in this way !
Finally managed to jump through all the hoops and get a danged brokerage account open, and my similar portfolio (basically yours plus a dash of TSLS) is up ten bucks the first day. Good times.
But of course making short-term money isn’t really the point; I’m not planning to sell unless / until the company is in the gutter. As an investment, it’s a little moonshot, and I kissed that money goodbye in my mind the moment I bought.
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Fifth Avenue at 44th Street looking north. New York City
#FifthAvenue #44thStreet #NewYorkCity #BankersTrustCompany #NewYorkCitys #DorotheaLange #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
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Two men dominate the central part of the image: one wearing a fedora hat and dark coat seems to be guiding or escorting another man who appears older. They both exhibit focused expressions as they navigate down the street. Behind them, other people are walking on the sidewalk in various directions; some appear engaged with conversation while others seem more absorbed in their individual paths.
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ US-Unterhändler auf dem Weg nach Russland ++
Nach Angaben Trumps sind US-Unterhändler auf dem Weg nach Russland, um über den Vorschlag für eine Waffenruhe in der Ukraine zu sprechen. Polens Regierungschef Tusk plädiert für eine starke Rolle der Türkei im Friedensprozess.
➡️ tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveb…
Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ukraine pocht auf europäische Beteiligung ++
Sollte es zu Friedensverhandlungen mit Russland kommen, sind diese für den ukrainischen Außenminister Sybiha nur mit europäischer Beteiligung vorstellbar. Beide Kriegsparteien melden weitere gegenseitige Angriffe.tagesschau.de
@sybren @blender regarding the weekly module meetings: is there a Google Calendar or something similar I can subscribe to? That way I can see it time-zone-adjusted on my calendar and see which ones I could potentially make.
The meeting notices on devtalk.blender.org have a Meet link but that doesn't share event details automatically in a calendar.
Signal is better that way.
I'm also able to use my Mac, iPad and watch to make and receive calls with it on.
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