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You probably saw yesterday that Ukraine agreed to the ceasefire arrangement proposed by the U.S. And you may have had a bit of the same reaction many did: Was Ukraine pressured into this by Trumpโ€™s coercive tactics? The answer is far more complex and interesting. My write-up: open.substack.com/pub/statuskuโ€ฆ


Mind-blowing.

Department of Justice attorney Liz Oyer was told by Trumpโ€™s administration to restore Trump supporter and actor Mel Gibsonโ€™s gun rights. She refused to do so because Mel Gibson is convicted of a violent crime, but then she was immediately fired and escorted out of her office building.

Trumpโ€™s United States is the new Russia.

youtu.be/A0u0GgcGnRw?si=jmk7XUโ€ฆ

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in reply to Randahl Fink

Trump's illegitimate COUP, Project 2025,
UNCONSTITUTIONAL!


I'm sorry but has no one noticed that the Wikipedia article for the Thinkpad has a picture of a linux Desktop with fucking vore art


Ok, giving up for now. I'll check how long I need the beam to be for the sawmill foundation and then I'll cut it into parts.

It's just too heavy to pull from the soft soil there. Dug over half the yard with the wheels. Broke off the concrete crown with the chain. Even fetched the stone sled from the forest and winched it onto that (actually winched the sled under the beam, because beam don't move). Even with that it won't budge more than a few mm at a time.

#Homestead #Farm #Tractor #Concrete

in reply to Dave Polaschek (he/him)

@davepolaschek Yup, mostly construction lumber rather than furniture. 6m is the longest piece on the house, but that is a lot of log to handle, so probably we'll just have to make it from two ๐Ÿ˜€


Someone online referred to Elon as "the next mypillow guy" and I can't stop seeing the similarities ๐Ÿ˜‚


Regina Folk Festival shuts down after 55 years - Global | Canada (Destiny Meilleur) globalnews.ca/news/11078432/reโ€ฆ

This is sad news. I loved the live music.

#yqr #regina #saskatchewan #music



Itโ€™s really weird how authoritarians love obeying orders. Hate questioning orders. Orโ€” well *is* it?

Seems like a paradox at first, but I guess itโ€™s not. Not if you really think that some people simply know better than others (or *are* better than others)

It seems so sad to have that view and yet not a hope of ever really being one of the โ€œbettersโ€ no matter what you do or learn. how depressing.

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in reply to myrmepropagandist

i think it makes more sense when you notice that a lot of them talk like they're happy enough to be *the same kind of person* as all the people numbered among the betters

there's a lot of symbolic magical thinking involved

in reply to myrmepropagandist

something in missing here. Like Authoritarians only do it when they are with the specific action. Pretty sure a Trump couldn't "order" his supporters to do something even mildly against their will. Eg: eating a Taco. The zeal comes because they support the orders given


Being xenogender is fucking great. โ€‹:flag_xenogender:โ€‹


1. Gavin Newsom launched his podcast where he "completely aligned" with far-right activist Charlie Kirk on some transgender issues. Now, members of his party says he's worked behind the scene to kill pro-LGBTQ+ bills in California. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Gavin Newsom pressured behind ...



In the land of the multi-camera phones, can a one-eyed king rule? We dig into the iPhone 16e with this mini-camera review on our blog: lux.camera/iphone-16e-camera-rโ€ฆ


the first version of the other port cover for MNT Desktop Reform is doneโ€”this one has the actual power button and 10 LEDs for fun (or displaying cpu/network load etc). i also need to make a variant with one smaller cutout for the USB-C powered version of Reform.

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in reply to minute

huh, in a funny coincidence I built basically that yesterday %) chaos.social/@dngrs/1141504814โ€ฆ


โ–บ FunHouseRadio.com
Like this #meme? Try the #stream!


โ€œCall me Gabe Newell the way I am steaming these hamsโ€




THE SLOG.

When you're not inspiredโ€”you're just stubborn.

I wrote something on what no one told me about writing a book. But really, itโ€™s about anything worth doing.

kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/the-โ€ฆ

#Writing #Writer #Books #Author #Photography #Scotland

in reply to Kristie

I read your words and recognised myself. I cannot believe, you Kristie, know how hard language is because your words on the page flowed as a stream.
in reply to Kristie

P. G. Wodehouse once said he would:
"write every sentence 10 times"

Assuming you're a Scots lassie and as a Scotsman myself, I rather like this quote from the article:

"It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine"

bbc.com/culture/article/202006โ€ฆ

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How should a society be judged?

#EvanPoll #poll

  • The wellbeing of the most powerful and wealthy (0%, 7 votes)
  • The wellbeing of average people (5%, 56 votes)
  • The wellbeing of the least powerful and wealthy (94%, 1018 votes)
1081 voters. Poll end: 4 days ago



just heard a young person describe how an unexplained, sudden onset, and pretty dramatic health issue arose this morning, and then she cheerily said, "but the important thing is that I didn't miss a stream!"

we're normalizing so hard that we've normalized how hard we normalize things.

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in reply to Subjacent Banana

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I feel like so many of us in the covid-avoiding community have had bad disease experiences that have informed our caution now.

I wonder how many people on Team Virus Slurper have *also* had life-changing experiences of illness and just let the life lessons whoosh over their headsโ€ฆ ๐Ÿค”

in reply to Elana | ืื™ืœื ื”

I was just reflecting that at least here in the US we've tolerated inhumane health care for a long time, long before COVID. We've had no mandated sick leave and no mandated parental leave when having children or when children are sick for as long as I remember. You just sick your way through everything unless you have enough luxury you don't have to care about your job or schooling. I grew up in a working class family and that's what we all did, and it's what I did when I was a graduate student. I contracted what I think was pneumonia in graduate school--never knew because I never went to a doctor, because the health insurance was so bad--and I didn't feel right for years afterwards. I wrote part of my PhD dissertation on a laptop in bed.


With all the shit going around about how important the gender marker is on identifying documents, I have a question:

How many cis guys do you think add an inch or two when they fill out that form at the DMV? It's not like they measure...

in reply to Steph

@PurpleStephyr You probably guessed about your gender, too. ๐Ÿ˜‰ I know I got that one wrong a few times. ๐Ÿคญ
in reply to Faith, chaos arc

I don't remember if I had to fill that out myself or they just copied it from my birth certificate. In either case I think that's more a case of autistic fawning (in the form of "this is the answer they're expecting, so that's what I'll give without thinking about it") more than guessing


I feel like there is an epidemic of governments studiously avoiding the thing that would actually solve problems they complain about. Like...
*the UK has the worst post-pandemic health outcomes. Our mental health is staggeringly bad & it's driving up welfare costs. But heaven forbid we address health disparities, invest in health infrastructure & access, get people care for mind/body, improve life so we are more resilient.
*Israel has "tried everything" except a serious 2 state solution...
etc.

in reply to minute

am i living under a rock and am i like the only person who can't imagine that everybody desires to run local AI models? or what's going on here
in reply to minute

I do run local AI models for voice interaction with HomeAssistant, and I don't get the hype either. It's kinda nice for a few niche things. Beyond that, it seems like just a bunch of marketing garbage.
in reply to jevans โ‚

oh yeah, whisper for voice recognition/transcription is an ML usecase that i get. but that doesn't require a lot of CPU/GPU power afaik?
in reply to minute

Everyone doesnโ€™t need a Mac Studio Ultra either, yet it exists.
in reply to Mark Stosberg

@markstos idk when i think about mac my associations are design, music production, video editing at high res, that's stuff i understand better
in reply to minute

But in 2024 itโ€™s required to market how good your hardware is at AI. ๐Ÿ™„
in reply to minute

Iโ€™m vaguely interested in running local models to experiment with contextual search and summarization (I have a massive PDF library), but not interested enough to finish the setup process. Way down the list of priorities.

On the other hand, looking at that thumbnailโ€ฆ when will we see the first MNT 10 inch mini rack server? ;)

in reply to minute

pretty sure like 95% of fedi will tell you they don't want to run any ai models
in reply to nina

@q66 that is what i hoped to be true... and outside of fedi? isn't that a super niche?
@nina
in reply to minute

@q66 Itโ€™s not as niche as youโ€™d expect, itโ€™s fairly popular with younger people exploring development and computers. I do expect the popularity to fade quickly just like cryptocurrencies did. (Cryptocurrency is still popular in investment circles but I feel like itโ€™s become a small niche among developers and tech enthusiasts.)
@nina
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in reply to minute

btw i don't wanna mock framework here, i'm obviously interested in the fine points of computer marketing/strategy/branding and how it's colliding with sociocultural developments and the semantic bits and pieces that fall out of this (sorta like in a particle collider)
in reply to minute

they're a san francisco company and it seems as if they're unaware of being inside a bubble
in reply to minute

wait !? They designed a non-upgradable desktop after fully customizable laptops with swappable parts !?
Are they running backwards ?

I really don't understand ! And I am a happy framework laptop user... I don't think their move is wise but as stated by others before maybe fedi users are in a bubble ? Or they are ?



DOGEโ€™s โ€œextremely severeโ€ FTC cuts prompt request to delay Amazon trial
FTC says credit card charges are capped at $1, amid other budget shortfalls.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20โ€ฆ


You know that stupid kid in early grade school who ate paste, and you are still surprised they are still alive, with all the stupid, irrational, and illogical choices you know they made?!

That is your target audience, and you should assume there are millions of those types of people. If you can make something, even they can use without putting any thought into it, and easily wrap their head around, you will have created something widely successful.

#Foss #OpenSource #Development #Linux #ActivityPub

in reply to Charcoal

No, this mindset is why smart phones were adapted. The same for any other widely popular and widely used product or service.

in reply to Patch Arcana

yeah I noticed that a couple days ago when enrolling a new device. neat idea.


The next Seattle-area MakerDeck IRL Mixer (for Makers, Techies, & Geeks) is set for *this* coming Monday - running alongside the Drink & Draw community! Join us for casual conversation and connections. I'm bringing a 3D printer with me this time. ;) Here's the invite link... meetup.com/makerdeck/events/30โ€ฆ

#3dprinting #seattle #pnw #beer #meetup #tech #geek #nerd



the old well
still yielding buckets
of darkness

#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng.

Todayโ€™s 3-5-3 haiku was originally posted on Nov 18, 2013.

HaikuDiem.com

#daily #haiku #micropoetry




Doctor concluded I'm almost healthy. Gave a vitamin D supplement (which I think I had problems with it since I was kid due to where I was born), and sent me to a nutritionist for a cholesterol reduction diet D: Otherwise I might be stuck with medication for the rest of my life for that. The past charging me for all the bad habits. I guess I deserve that.




Really great analysis on the vulnerability of our Telecom stacks in the wake of salt typhoon.
soatok.blog/2025/03/12/on-the-โ€ฆ

in reply to Low Quality Facts

The little whippy things on bacteria are the basis for monks practising self-flagellation.


i hair cut a day keeps the doctor away โœ‚


Any act of repair a gratifying gesture of refusal and subversion these days. A poke in the eye to corporate waste and consumer lassitude.

Feeling like renegade heating engineer Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro) of โ€˜Brazilโ€™ right now, having decided: eff no, not into landfillโ€”not yet.

And how fitting: while finishing up, @pluralistic heard on CBC radio discussing DCA & right-to-repair.

details in #alttext

#Stratford #canada #repair #technology #corydoctorow #environment #coffee

in reply to Kyle Memoir ๐Ÿ‰

A neighbour asked me recently to take her dead power strip to the e-waste collection point. All it needed was a bit of soldering. Money saved, environment spared a bit, power strip producer furious. Triple win.


I printed out the decal on paper and put it on one of the test pieces. This one's going to my wall of prototypes.
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@404mediaco has obtained a list of sites and services monitored by an ICE contractor ShadowDragon to let government analysts search and draw connections between people.

"The long list of sites and services that ShadowDragonโ€™s SocialNet tool accesses is a reminder of just how much data is accessible and collected from and about us to provide surveillance services to the government and others."

404media.co/the-200-sites-an-iโ€ฆ

#news #USNews #ICE #immigration #surveillance #technology

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