Took down the mast that was holding up one end of my end fed today. These are the clamps that clamped the mast to a steel fence post. They securely held it up for many years and I highly recommend them. I don't remember where I got them, but it was some company that sells TV antenna masts and associated hardware.
I just cleaned all the spider webs, dirt, and dead insects out of them and wiped them down with WD-40. Now they're ready to go again at the new home.
Hawaii Takes a Stand for Privacy: HCR 144/HR 138 Calls for Investigation of Crisis Pregnancy Centers
In a bold push for medical privacy, Hawaii's House of Representatives has introduced HCR 144/HR 138, a resolution calling for the Hawaii Attorney General to investigate whether crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) are violating patient privacy laws.Electronic Frontier Foundation
John Mulaney brings an 'anti-talk show' approach to his new Netflix program
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5324632/john-mulaney-brings-an-anti-talk-show-approach-to-his-new-netflix-program?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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#Musk Seeks to Put $100M Directly Into #Trump *Political Operation*
#ElonMusk has signaled he wants to make donations not just to his own #superPAC, …but to an outside entity.
It is unheard-of for a WH staffer, even one w/*part-time* status, to make such large contributions to support the agenda of the boss. But there has never been someone in the direct employ of an admin like Musk, the world’s richest person, who is leading Trump’s #DOGE.
#law #democracy #oligarchy
nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/poli…
Elon Musk Seeks to Put $100 Million Into Trump Political Operation
Elon Musk has signaled he wants to make some donations not just to his own super PAC, which is called America PAC and has spent heavily on President Trump in the past, but to an outside entity.Theodore Schleifer (The New York Times)
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Photographers Are on a Mission to Fix Wikipedia's Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits
WikiPortraits, a group of volunteer photographers, has been covering festivals and shooting celebrities specifically to improve images in the public domain.Jules Roscoe (404 Media)
A radical proposal: put the EU's counter-tariffs on US social media apps
Rather than imposing broad tariffs, the EU should curb harmful social media via strict regulations, preserving beneficial imports while protecting mental health, democracy, and overall well-being.
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-worl…
A radical proposal: put the EU's counter-tariffs on US social media apps
Social media is strongly negatively related to mental health, to inefficient time use, weakened family relations, depressing comparisons with others, a weakening of democracy and for less tax revenue.EUobserver
Heroic work to recover and repair a CVR.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
My cat has invented a game where he hides under the bed and I shake his crinkly snake on a stick toy. He waits until I'm not paying attention then explodes out from a different piece of the bed to grab the snake. Having raised my blood pressure and vanquished the snake, he trots back under the bed. Repeat until the cat is done.
To start the game, he brings the snake on a stick to me, drops it at my feet, and howls. I have been well trained.
Pokemon Go sale to a Saudi Arabian company owned by govt comes with six separate corporate announcement blogs, not one of them directly addressing what happens to 100 million people's location data, AR mapping capabilities, or the AI maps they have been training:
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Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data
A company founded by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund just bought the most popular AR video game of all time.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
Colysium
Or
Elysseum
A paradisiacal amphitheatre afterlife in which you are eternally pitted against gladiators in challenging combat scenarios.
Northvolt Québec 
plant’s future is unsure as their North American operations are solvent and the parent filed for bankruptcy in Sweden 🇸🇪
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L’avenir de l’usine Northvolt au Québec est incertain tandis que leurs opérations nord-américaines sont solubles et que la société mère a entamé des procédures de faillite en Suède 🇸🇪
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2…
#Northvolt #Québec #Sweden #Suède
Northvolt déclare faillite en Suède, mais pas en Amérique du Nord
Le fabricant de cellules de batteries Northvolt a annoncé mercredi avoir déposé une déclaration de faillite en Suède, mais pour l'heure, sa filiale de l'Amérique du Nord « demeure solvable ».Radio-Canada
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Beadwork! Right shoulder is done!
Every bead was hand stitched.
I decided that simplicity in the bugle beads is best to show off the leaves. Was also closer to what I've seen on period garments for this style.
Some parts I pulled out 4 times to get right.
I’ve been experimenting with classic flowerpot shapes, like these, inspired by Roman vases. They make a great base for painting or decorating with mosaic tiles for a personalized touch. With heights from 100 to 300 mm and diameters from 175 to 400 mm, there’s bound to be one that fits your printer!
Check it out: printables.com/model/746685
Classic Curved Flower Pot in Various Sizes by Metikumi | Download free STL model | Printables.com
A classic Roman vase-inspired flower pot available in multiple sizes, from compact to large. | Download free 3D printable STL modelswww.printables.com
My personal stance on (generative) AI is rather simple: I do not want it.
I am a creative person who like to create, build and design, AI feels like a salesman selling me my own work, no thank youuu
One of the very few exceptions would be for alt-text generation but even then it has to fulfill a whole checklist
Let's keep the social in social media! 
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I'm on my way to Berlin for @hackaday Europe. Who else is gonna be there???
On Friday from 6pm I'll be hosting the Bring a Hack pre-event party at Jockel Biergarten, just ten minutes walk from the venue.
Bring a project to show, stickers to swap, or just bring yourself 💖
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FYI Canada: This would be an *exceptionally* good time to do something like this with infosec employees
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If nothing else I suspect your government could leapfrog up several rungs in the nation-state infosec rankings instantly just by doing targeted hiring from the reported mass firings of queer employees of letter agencies
B.C. looks to attract U.S. doctors and nurses with pitch to fast-track credentials and planned recruitment campaign
British Columbia is hoping to attract doctors and nurses from the United States with its plans to fast-track the recognition of their credentials and launch a recruitment campaign.The Globe and Mail - Kristy Kirkup
Somewhere out there in the [gestures ambiguously at the entire observable universe] …anyway, there's some CPU out there somewhere that just wasted literally several clock cycles on that one.
For shame.
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
newrepublic.com/post/192660/tr…
#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #corruption #climate
Why religious leaders are divided on transgender rights
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5320185/why-religious-leaders-are-divided-on-transgender-rights?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All Things Considered @all-things-considered-npr
B.C. looks to attract U.S. doctors and nurses with pitch to fast-track credentials and planned recruitment campaign
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-bc-looks-to-attract-us-doctors-and-nurses-with-pitch-to-fast-track/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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B.C. looks to attract U.S. doctors and nurses with pitch to fast-track credentials and planned recruitment campaign
The province plans to remove barriers to U.S. doctors who wish to be licensed and practise medicine in B.C. to help boost health care workers in the provinceKristy Kirkup (The Globe and Mail)
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To post something different, 15-25mm of rain are expected in Ottawa on Sunday, with flooding possible because of snow on ground.
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Pour publier quelque chose de différent, 15 à 25 mm de pluie sont attendus à Ottawa dimanche, avec des inondations possibles à cause de la neige au sol.
// Article en anglais //
Ottawa weather: Significant rain expected this weekend
Environment Canada sent out a “tap on the shoulder” to residents in the Ottawa-area warning them to prepare for a significant rain system this weekend.Natasha O'Neill (CityNews Ottawa)
Found some early spring wild onions!
(Notes: these are everywhere around here. We only picked a small handful of bulbs. Generally you'd only snip the leaves and allow the bulb to stay in the ground to keep growing. And you only harvest a small amount amongst a larger crop so that they keep growing year after year.)
#foraging #solarPunk #bloomScrolling
"A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém."
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Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.Ione Wells (BBC News)
Play my browser game!
Try to discover all the entities in the biome. Once you have this knowledge, try to uncover them in the shortest amount of time!
#webDev #gameDev #javascript #game #puzzle
Editorial cartoons similar to investigative journalism. #AnnTelnaes 2019 piece, cautioning about the indications of an unhealthy environment for freedom of expression.
A foretelling for 2025?
#CanaryInTheCoalMine
#Democracy
"One of the strangest dynamics of modern politics is that the richest man in the world chooses to get his information from grifting ignoramuses on social media."
Anyone with an ounce of intelligence understands that, when making decisions, good information is like intellectual gold dust."
~ Brian Klaas
#Musk #Trump #SocialMedia #disinformation #misinformation
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"Knowingness" and the Politics of Ignorance
Much ink has been spilled about "polarization." Most of it ignores a major cause: the widespread, misplaced faith that we already know that which we do not know.Brian Klaas (The Garden of Forking Paths)
"By contrast, operating on bad information courts disaster. Garbage in, garbage out. ...
In the past, we needed to worry about uninformed voters, those who didn’t know much about politics. These days, we need to worry about the much more dangerous misinformed voters."
"Uninformed voters often recognize the limits of their knowledge and are therefore more hesitant. Misinformed voters are certain they know something they don’t—and they don’t hesitate to act, sometimes aggressively, on those false beliefs."
EPA faces a lawsuit seeking to unfreeze funds supporting low-income Americans.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#DwightYoakam #GuitarsCadillacsEtcEtc #VintageVinyl
Greenland votes for opposition party that favors a gradual approach to independence
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5321925/greenland-votes-for-opposition-party-that-favors-a-gradual-approach-to-independence?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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