'Wait Wait' for March 15, 2025: With Not My Job guest Amanda Seyfried
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A “biohybrid” robotic hand built using real human muscle cells
A real bit of cyborg hardware highlights the technology’s current limitations.Jacek Krywko (Ars Technica)
Donate to Save The Vagina Museum, organized by Vagina Museum
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The Trump administration is explicitly targeting libraries, museums, and the press in the latest executive order.
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Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.The White House
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Week in politics: Schumer faces backlash from Democrats, Trump and the DOJ
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National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval
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Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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#News #Vaccines #Autism #Health #RFK #Medicine #Science #Government #USPolitics #Trump
Right to Repair: A Prime Example of Grassroots Advocacy
Good old-fashioned grassroots advocacy is one of the best tools we have right now for making a positive change for our civil liberties online.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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If the US military industry ever wants to sell its stuff outside the USA ever again, every purchaser should require a "Right to Repair" clause.
Or risk having your communications system bricked by a petulant unstable billionaire.
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Or risk having your AI-operated drones, malfunction mid-battle because a Saudi investor said so.
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Or your tanks...
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Tesla investors sue Elon Musk for diverting carmaker’s resources to xAI
Lawsuit: Musk’s xAI poached Tesla employees, Nvidia GPUs, and data.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
Has anyone done a good analysis of how self repair could affect product liability when things go awry and someone is injured?
(This may become an even greater issue as cars get more dependent on sensors for driver assist functions. I've seen a lot of repairs made by amateurs that are downright dangerous.)
Hack & Craft! Today! Our online hacking and crafting event! In just over an hour!
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Hope to see you there! 😀
In Praise of “Normal” Engineers
A software engineer argues against the myth of the “10x engineer”Charity Majors (IEEE Spectrum)
At today's @fossandcrafts Hack & Craft I'll be working on some pants.
I hope you'll join us today at 2pm ET (18:00 UTC): fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-cra…
In the meantime, enjoy my system for not twisting my elastic when threading it through the waistband (I draw silly faces in the orientation it's supposed to intersect so that I can align them again after it's through.
Interrupted Ritual by kakakatana
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Bob Dylan Explains Why Music Has Been Getting Worse
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Bob Dylan Explains Why Music Has Been Getting Worse
One often hears that there's no money to be made in music anymore. But then, there was no money to be made in music when Bob Dylan started his career either—at least according to Bob Dylan.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
Was reading a bit about Zane Grey, the author of popular Westerns, and discovered he had an estate in Altadena, not far from you. It burned in the January fires. Figured I'd pass this along in case it might interest you as a bike outing destination.
Hey, my eyes are down here!
The name's Nomax, and I'll happily join your journey to… a hamburger…?
Oh, #EF29 in Hamburg you say.
Either way, I'll gladly tell you a bit about myself and my crafts.
Find out more at eurofurence.org/EF29/goh
#EFgoh #Eurofurence 29
🗓 Sept 3–6, 2025
📍 CCH Hamburg
How a Quack TV Doctor Made It to Washington
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#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #MehmetOz
Opinion | Dr. Oz’s Journey From Heart Doctor to Celebrity to Iconoclast
A once-respected surgeon found fame and fortune as medicine’s biggest iconoclast. Now he’s on the cusp of power to help shape American public health.Eoin Higgins (The New York Times)
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*Dang.
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British electronica
I am a music curator and a selector, a record collector and a mixologist since the 1990's. I started listening and buying techno & ambient in 1991. I am a music curator and a selector, a record collecSoundCloud
Saddling small sites with the same duties as huge platforms means many will shut down in a hammer blow to net plurality.
We'll be left with the Sophie’s choice of monopoly services; the incubators of online harms.
URGENT: The UK government must change the Online Safety Act to protect safe, non-commercial blogs, forums and fediverse.
Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites 🌐
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#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #fediverse #ukpolitics #ukpol #activitypub #mastodon #netplurality
Save our sites - Write to your MP
Small UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act.Open Rights Group
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As good as journalism gets in America, well worth visiting, following, donating, and watch for jobs too.
Fresh Air Weekend: Comic Bill Burr; Simu Liu on 'Last Breath'
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Like this #meme? Try the #stream
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FunHouse Radio
Novelty Records, Parodies, Weird Covers, Outsider Music, Oddities, Mashups, Comedy, Nonsense & Cringe.FunHouse Radio
So heute alle meine privaten Projekte von #GitHub zu #Codeberg migriert und gleich noch das neueste dort angelegt. #OpenSource on #OpenPlatform:s
Ja einiges ist schon älter. Macht aber nichts.
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Digital Transformation, LandSH, mobility transformation, urbanism, software evolution, software quality, modelling, DSLs, micro solar power, born 326 co2 ppm.Codeberg.org
This is an extremely good article of all the ways Trump is bringing authoritarianism to the United States of America. With multiple experts drawing multiple parallels to past fascist regimes and also, how it is different this time, particularly with information warfare.
Wake up America.
For the love of god.
WAKE UP AND FIGHT
HE IS TRANSFORMING YOU INTO EVERYTHING YOU SAID YOU WOULD NEVER BE.
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#trump #usa #fascism
What parallels do historians see between the Trump administration and the Nazi regime?
Elon Musk appeared to make a Nazi salute as he celebrated the start of Donald Trump's second term as US president.Stéphanie TROUILLARD (FRANCE 24)
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"But most days, working on policy at Facebook was way less like enacting a chapter from Machiavelli and way more like watching a bunch of four-teen-year-olds who’ve been given superpowers and an ungodly amount of money, as they jet around the world to figure out what power has bought and brought them."
From Careless People: A story of where I used to work by Sarah Wynn-Williams 📚 micro.blog/books/1035065924
What a great surprise! Just got some community perks from the #BSDCafe from Italy!
Those coasters will definitely stay in the living room for guests but one will be taken to the office for my coffee! The stickers probably won't last long - the next #BSDNL conference is already around the corner!
Thanks to the great community at BSD.cafe and @stefano!
Production designer Dennis Gassner: "I have one fallback position: when in doubt, make it beautiful."
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Behind the scenes of The Electric State
Production designer Dennis Gassner: “I have one fallback position: when in doubt, make it beautiful.”…Jennifer Ouellette (Ars Technica)
@thelinuxEXP Was listening to the weekly news podcast, and enjoyed it as usual, but you might want to look at Kagi's CEO and his attitude to many things. Including utter disrespect to things like GDPR compliance. This is a good place to start: d-shoot.net/kagi.html
Not saying that it's horrible that they might publish a browser for linux, but that the company culture doesn't really match its advertising. I personally stopped my trial with Kagi because of the link above.
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in reply to Heidi Li Feldman • • •We need to remember his 20th:
"Be as courageous as you can.
"If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny."
John Breen
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in reply to James Bazán • • •Here's the Prologue - I've never tried recording a book-reading before, but it's FOSS audio so no complaints will be accepted 😎
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