US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, 2021.
All the pixels, none of the political turmoil, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51…
US Capitol, Washington, DC
2 June 2021 The Western face of the US Capitol, perhaps the most "classic" and iconic view of the building. Note the temporary fencing and scaffolding, lingering remnants of the January 6th 2021 attack by insurrectionists. Rodenstock 90mm/5.Flickr
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UK Online Safety Act requires prompt content removals Musk's X has resisted.
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Trump may not be able to save Elon Musk from UK’s strict online safety law
UK Online Safety Act requires prompt content removals Musk’s X has resisted.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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But also, Elon should be held personally accountable for the more extreme content on his platform.
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The UK Online Safety Bill: A Massive Threat to Online Privacy, Security, and Speech
Are you a young person fighting back against bad bills like this one? Become an EFF member at a new, discounted Neon membership level specifically for you--stickers included! Update, September 19, 2023: The U.K.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Forever 21 is bankrupt, again. This time actually could be forever
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330440/forever-21-bankruptcy-chapter-11?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business @business-npr
An Arduino LED Ring MIDI CC controller using Duppa I2C Rotary Encoder and a 24-LED RGB LED ring.
diyelectromusic.com/2025/03/17…
#SynthDIY #MIDI #Arduino #Duppa
Duppa I2C MIDI Controller – Part 2
This is a follow up post to Part 1 where I’m starting to look at MIDI applications and a range of control options. Since posting the first part, I’ve stumbled across a rather excel…Simple DIY Electronic Music Projects
@gerotakke That would be amazing!
I so love the look and feel of the ottopots - such a good job there 😀
Adding options for potentiometer or plain rotary encoder control too.
Still waiting for my endless pots to be delivered 😀
diyelectromusic.com/2025/03/18…
#SynthDIY #MIDI #Duppa #Arduino
Backlash Grows Against Trump's Detention Of Mahmoud Khalil
If Trump has his way, Kahlil will be just the first of manyThe Big Picture
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Fascists Have No Drip, a video about fashion under Fascism (Italy brand) - by a drag artist in a stunning look, which dragged me in... But I stayed for the sources! 19 minutes.
Quotes: "The Italian Fascist Party didn't have to invent misogyny. The anti-feminist backlash in Italy was well underway before the fascists came to power."
"But as the previous quote suggests, Italian Fascism was a cult of male sexuality, one that wanted to ignore women as much as it wanted to subjugate them. When the Fascist Party did give attention to women, it was often to parade them as objects of propaganda."
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Fascists Have No Drip | the history of fashion in fascist Italy
As fascism rears its head once more, let's travel back in time to understand the fabric of oppression...Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/t...YouTube
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Did you know? Batman was created by John D. Rockefeller to teach the working class that billionaires will always win.
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Has this account been bought or merely hacked by Bezos? 😡 Unfollow. No money to Nazi America!
Could we crank it down a notch?
I am seeing multiple posts from people speculating that the US attack on the Houthis in Yemen is somehow a test run for the invasion of Greenland.
My thoughts:
1. The Houthis are terrorists who are attacking international shipping, and a wide range of NATO countries are involved in fighting them. This is not new under Trump.
2. There is a vast difference between the US bombing an Iran backed rebel group, and the US choosing to attack a NATO backed country.
Jan Žižka by @whydoihavetoart
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#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #character #characterart #art #digitalart
The image depicts a man with a stern expression, wearing medieval-style armor. The armor is chainmail with a high collar, featuring a gold trim. The man has a thick, dark mustache and tousled dark hair. His face is marked by a visible wound on the right side, with blood dripping down. The background is dark with a floral pattern, adding to the medieval ambiance. The lighting highlights the texture of the armor and the man's facial features, creating a dramatic effect.
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May even be a company derived from The Schindler
Hello everyone! We got a huge influx of followers thanks to @FediFollows, and were wondering: what content would you like to see?
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Just FYI my notification for this has only just shown up 😮
Not sure where the delay might be.
Okay, hope the situation is solved somehow.
By the way, I wasn't intending it as a criticism, just wanted to make sure you knew in case you were missing replies! 🙂
It looks and functions just like a generic USB battery bank.
Reposting this from last night: (may make your eyes tear up)
60 Minutes - Newsmakers
What musicians did after an executive order on DEI led to the cancellation of U.S. Marine Band collaboration
"...I just felt like, well, there's usually two responses to something. You can complain about it, or you could do something about it. I chose the latter within seconds. And it was the easiest decision ever.....
With the active-duty Marines ordered to stand down, Equity Arc reached out to retirees who answered the call from everywhere, former band members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Westpoint, the Naval Academy and the Marines....The original Marine Band concert would have been seen by hundreds. Here, tonight, these musicians are being heard by millions...."
youtube.com/watch?v=lhwS06U1Sn…
U.S. Marine Band forced to cancel concert with students of color after Trump DEI order
After an executive order ending DEI initiatives, the U.S. Marine Band canceled a concert featuring young musicians of color. Veterans stepped in to mentor th...YouTube
Didn't have this on my 2025 Bingo card
france24.com/en/france/2025031…
French MEP demands the US 'give us back the Statue of Liberty'
A French member of the European parliament has called for the US to return the Statue of Liberty originally gifted by the French people to mark the centennial of American independence because the US no longer represents the values that led France to …FRANCE 24
Ask Hackaday: What Would You Do With the World’s Smallest Microcontroller?
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Ask Hackaday: What Would You Do With The World’s Smallest Microcontroller?
It’s generally pretty easy to spot a microcontroller on a PCB. There are clues aplenty: the more-or-less central location, the nearby crystal oscillator, the maze of supporting passives, and …Hackaday
A pretty good overview of the significance of Amazon's #greed and #fuckery. Part of it is the usual by now #AI bullshit.
> Pluralistic: Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading (15 Mar 2025) pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/alt… by @pluralistic
Me to MSRC: Words clearly describing a vulnerability, with supporting screenshots of the commands I typed and the response that Windows gives.
MSRC: Can you please provide a video showing the behavior you are seeing?
Me: ...
I get that people doing grunt work have mostly-fixed workflows that they go through with common next steps.
But to request a video that now captures (beyond my already-submitted screenshots) the act of me typing, and the Windows response being painted on the screen adds what of value now?
Denmark de facto ended the death penalty in 1892, although after World War II we did for a brief period reintroduce the death penalty and killed 46 people after 5 years of Nazi occupation.
But Republicans really like things old school, and the Republican state of South Carolina recently executed a man by a three man firing squad.
Future generations are going to look back at our time and be confused that this practice existed in our otherwise modern, educated times.
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Trump will attend today's Kennedy Center board meeting as its new chair
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330840/trump-kennedy-center-honorees-board?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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‘Space junk’ is clogging the atmosphere—and it’s going to make weather forecasts and internet access much worse
A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from weather tracking to broadband internet to national defense.
fastcompany.com/91297044/space…
#news #tech #technology #spave #spacejunk #internet #weather #climate
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Another experiment with Wi-Fi antenna placement for AsiaRF/RK3588, might help others
Here are the design files I have so far for the PCB antenna. One is the kicad footprint for the antenna. Another is the prototype PCB I made and tested.MNT Research Community
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It feels quite uncomfortable that cloudflare is somewhat openly admitting to analysing login credentials that are going through the reverse proxy, and providing aggregated stats on it (without explicit consent of the user it appears?)
Based on Cloudflare's observed traffic between September - November 2024, 41% of successful logins across websites protected by Cloudflare involve compromised passwords.
Don't get me wrong the results are actually pretty interesting, but I just cannot think of a ethical way of doing this, and it feels kind of jarring that they just "did that"
blog.cloudflare.com/password-r…
Password reuse is rampant: nearly half of observed user logins are compromised
Nearly half of observed login attempts across websites protected by Cloudflare involved leaked credentials. The pervasive issue of password reuse is enabling automated bot attacks and account takeovers on a massive scale.The Cloudflare Blog
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wrote: "[...] something we technically knew was going on before but didn't consciously consider a threat, until now."
I've been warning for CDN's like Cloudflare and Fastly (and cloud providers in general) for a long time.
Here's a recent toot (in Dutch, the "translate" button should do the job): infosec.exchange/@ErikvanStrat….
If you trust Google to translate it (guaranteed NOT error-free, it *may* work in other browsers than Chrome): infosec-exchange.translate.goo…
P.S. Fastly knows your infosec.exchange login credentials.
#Cloudflare #MitM #AitM #Fastly #CDN #TLSinterception
Erik van Straten (@ErikvanStraten@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 image Risico Cloudflare (+Trump) 🌦️ Achter Cloudflare Steeds meer websites zitten "achter" het Amerikaanse bedrijf Cloudflare. Stel u opent https://pvv.Infosec Exchange
If your adblock is good enough you always see the captchas, so you always know when a thing is cloud flair.
Also, who's not doing single use email addresses? Every site is a sea of spammy notification/cart abandonment/special offer/watch list/privacy policy update/m&a mail... And thats before they get pwned or sell your details.
Who wants all that in one mail box?
I already get a bitcoin scam call every 2 weeks because i enabled sms 2fa one place and scammers got hold of the number. At this point they know i know and they know i know that, but the guys on the phone have a call/hour quota and they gotta pay rent i guess...
@EndlessMason @ErikvanStraten @malanalysis Cory Doctorow @pluralistic argued that hiding your email address from spambots is futile anyway so he doesn't worry when he publishes it regularly: theguardian.com/technology/201…
He needs a good spam filter technique though. Afaik he is still using the same email address.
Keeping an email address secret won't hide it from spambots
The spam wars aren't going away soon but treating public email addresses as secret is of no benefitCory Doctorow (The Guardian)
“During the time after Little Rock, Hazel had become increasingly political, branching out into peace activism and social work. David Margolick discovered, "She taught mothering skills to unmarried black women, and took underprivileged black teenagers on field trips.”
Enlightment and progress is possible.
Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test
electrek.co/2025/03/16/tesla-a…
No I don't know who that guy is or care what you think about him.
Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test
Tesla Autopilot drove into Wile E. Coyote-style fake road wall in the middle of the road in a camera versus...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
Unus Nemo doesn't like this.
Ex-Project 2025 chief says Trump’s actions are beyond his ‘wildest dreams’
Project 2025 alarmed progressives by pushing deep cuts to government, LGBTQ+ protections and DEI effortsMartin Pengelly (The Guardian)
Report: Tesla Cybertruck Deliveries Paused Due to Trims 'Flying Off'
The automaker had similar issues with detaching trims June 2024, recalling over 11,000 EVs.Will McCurdy (PCMag)
"The major news of the weekend was the rapid-fire series of events following President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act that culminated with the White House chortling over its defiance of a federal court order blocking deportations under the act and ordering outbound flights to return to the United States."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations
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morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.…
Trump’s Open Defiance Of Federal Courts Is Now At Hand
INSIDE: Todd Blanche ... Pam Bondi ... Elon MuskDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"Before we give up the rule of law because Trump wants us to do so, I believe we must continue to fight for it in spite of anything they throw at us. …
Every single moment, statement, or action that slows down the backslide into authoritarianism is a good one, and we should look for and document them."
~ Chris Geidner
#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations
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lawdork.com/p/what-the-trump-a…
Trying to understand the Trump admin's TRO response matters
Planes were in the air. They kept going. What did they do, and why? I strongly believe that it matters for our future that we work to understand what is happening.Chris Geidner (Law Dork)
"The unitary executive theory is really just a way to cloak the morphing of a democratically elected president into a dictator with the appearance of legality. If presidents can do whatever they want, including putting people on a plane and sending them to prisons in a foreign country with no due process whatsoever, then really, who are we?"
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #UnitaryExecutive #SupremeCourt
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Some historical parallels for the anti-intellectual witch hunts in the modern USA.
#Trump #history #USPolitics
slate.com/news-and-politics/20…
How American Bureaucrats Became Public Enemy No. 1
Here’s how the McCarthy era gave DOGE a blueprint for its culture war against bureaucrats.Clay Risen (Slate)
[goes to sob quietly in the corner for the next hour]
How a firefighter's quick action saved his friend's life
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5328518/unsung-hero-firefighter-life-saved?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •This was captured with the Rodenstock 90mm/5.6 HR-Digaron lens (@ f/6.3) and about 10mm of vertical shift to maintain geometry.
Four years ago, a group of insurrectionist losers sacked this building in an attempt to overthrow the US Government and prevent the transfer of power to a newly elected president. They got frighteningly close to succeeding.
This photo was made about six months later; some of the physical damage from the attack remains visible here.
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •I always enjoy your work (I realize I don't get the full experience on my small screen)
There are some architectural features i used to enjoy. I am sure it is a lovely scene. Just not getting the vibe with this one
#ElbowsUp and all.
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •It may not be the quality of the work but the subject that gives me an uneasy feeling.
Stay well. You folks are going to need support.
Matt Blaze
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