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russia is conducting โ€˜state-sponsored terrorismโ€™ against Europe, EU chief diplomat warns

Investigation showed pro-russia groups were offering crypto payments in exchange for hybrid attacks across Europe.

politico.eu/article/russia-eurโ€ฆ



Hey #SomervilleMA folks: #AyannaPressley is having a town hall. I can't go, but get some tix at this site:

#MApoli

eventbrite.com/e/town-hall-witโ€ฆ




Prospective Car Buyer Takes SUV Out For Test Hit And Run
theonion.com/prospective-car-bโ€ฆ



1/2 โ€œ #Greenland voters unexpectedly picked a party backing a slower approach to independence in a general election overshadowed by #Trump โ€™s plans to take over..

The [pro-business center-right social liberal**] Demokraatit party emerged as biggest w 29.9% of the ballots as counting was completed, adding more than 20 points from 4 years agoโ€

**I threw in all descriptors from 3 sources here to try to be as accurate as I could. I have 0 idea about GL politics.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20โ€ฆ

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2/ Via Reuters:

oppos Naleraq party, which favours rapid indep, got 24.5%

The ruling Inuit Ataqatigiit party & its partner Siumut, which also seek slow path towards independence, won 36% of votes.

โ€œTrump's vocal interest has shaken up status quo, & coupled with the growing pride of the Indigenous people in their Inuit culture, put independence front and centre in the electionโ€ฆ. "But I think the fear of the U.S. imperialist approach has lately become bigger than the anger towards Denmarkโ€..



"Israelโ€™s Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday that the government is to launch a "media war room" to target Palestine content online, in the latest attempt to propagate pro-Israel narratives on internet platforms."

Israel is scared. Despite millions of dollars in #lobbying, buying media, #politicians and #SocialMedia, the truth is coming out. Millions of #activists around the world expose the crimes of #Israel to people of the world.

newarab.com/news/israels-new-mโ€ฆ
#Propaganda #Genocide #Hasbara #Palestine #HasbaraArmy @palestine @israel




Great thread, and also a cool account; followed.

mastodon.me.uk/@DreadShips/114โ€ฆ




Calling all creatives! ๐ŸŽจ Weโ€™re looking for marketing agencies and service providers to collaborate with us on our communications initiatives. If youโ€™re passionate about our brand and what we can achieve together, submit your expression of interest by March 21. Details: creativecommons.org/wp-contentโ€ฆ


"Ontario aware bike lane removals may not reduce congestion, could make people less safe: Engineering report done for the province says collisions for all road users could increase by 54%" cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontโ€ฆ



This is unhinged. Wealth and income inequality is worse now than it was after the Great Depression, and the MAGA right all the way up to Trump is exerting all their power to save the company of the man who has hoarded more wealth than anyone else.
in reply to Qasim Rashid, Esq.

This the same crowd that was trying to kill electric cars 5 months ago and are now shilling for Tesla. There are also the crowd vehemently to government handouts and Tesla would not exist without major Federal and State incentives for EVs and subsidies to build their factories.

The GOP is just short for Grifting Old People.

in reply to Qasim Rashid, Esq.

What does this remind you of?

the German fascist regime promoting the "people's car" 80 years ago

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Don't worry, Trump & his team are ON IT!

"Scientists are sounding alarms about a genetic mutation that was recently ID'd in 4 dairy cow herds, nearly year after H5N1 #BirdFlu 1st reported in TX dairy cattle.

..researchers have dreaded finding bc it is assoc w increased mammal-to-mammal transmission & disease severity.

Mutation appeared in 1st human case. โ€œFinding the same mutation in cows is significant,โ€ an infectious disease expert said"
latimes.com/environment/story/โ€ฆ




Protecting your privacy doesn't have to be scary. Check out our Surveillance Self-Defense guides for step-by-step tutorials for keeping your data and devices secure. ssd.eff.org/


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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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

Unknown parent

@mcSlibinas Lever bent. 25mm steel rod. But it's not the problem anyways. Friction of 1.1 ton beam on garden soil higher than wheel traction is the problem.

Solution is angle grinder ๐Ÿ˜€



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


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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โ€žHandelsstreit:
EU verhรคngt Strafzรถlle gegen Waren aus den USA โ€“ ab 1. Aprilโ€œ
#Trump #Strafzรถlle #canada #schwarwel

in reply to lucie lukas "minute" hartmann

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 lucie lukas "minute" hartmann

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 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 lucie lukas "minute" hartmann

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 lucie lukas "minute" hartmann

@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.)
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in reply to lucie lukas "minute" hartmann

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 lucie lukas "minute" hartmann

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


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






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



Ditto writing, making music, creating cartoons, etc., etc.


Well I'm in. Nothings configured as yet and I'm certainly not ready to swap out the currently working #OpenWRT APU router until I'm 100% happy. For now I'm going to explore and read the docs.
#RunBSD #OPNsense
in reply to Justine Smithies

Very nice. Tinkered with it myself as well. On an old Sophos box. A lot possible. Freq updates (in part a good thing) might be a negative in the sense of inconvenient reboots
in reply to Qper

It is very nice and OMG the sheer amount of available settings are vast. Also you can configure via the CLI too. Been playing around seeing what's where and reading up, maybe tomorrow I'll temporarily see if I can bring up the 1Gb pppoe fttp connection and then once I have connectivity I can concentrate on configuring the firewall and other stuff. I'll obviously keep my AMD APU router in the rack ready to reconnect should I have issues and need a reliable connection. Eventually the nuc will become my main router / firewall. Slow and steady wins the race. ๐Ÿ˜‰


Takeaways from our investigation on AI-powered school surveillance. The AP and Seattle Times teamed up on this investigation.

From their overview: "But these tools raise serious questions about privacy and security. In fact, when The Seattle Times and The Associated Press partnered to investigate school surveillance, reporters inadvertently received access to almost 3,500 sensitive, unredacted student documents through a records request. The documents were stored without a password or firewall, and anyone with the link could read them."

Read more at apnews.com/article/ai-school-cโ€ฆ

#databreach #EduSec #infosecurity #surveillanvce #AI

@douglevin @funnymonkey



#PPOD: NASA's Curiosity rover captured this image of the Sun through the dusty martian atmosphere in July 2018 while the dust storm that ended the Opportunity rover's mission was still raging. Curiosity was not affected by the decline in solar input because it is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Thomas Appรฉrรฉ

#space #science #scicomm

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