'Beauty from the ashes.' Texas Panhandle recovering one year after the state's largest wildfire
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333267/texas-panhandle-smokehouse-creek-fire-aftermath-recovery-wildfire?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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This is what autocracy looks like:
US Senator Jeff Merkley asks Trump's pick for ambassador to Canada, if he believes in freedom of speech. He does.
Merkley then asks if people inside Canada should be able to disagree with the Prime Minister of Canada. He agrees.
Merkley then asks if people inside the US should be allowed to say something Trump disagrees with, and you can immediately sense, that the ambassador gets uneasy, because in an autocracy, that is not allowed.
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Merkley to Trump Nominee: “Are you an advocate for free speech?”
Senator Merkley pressed Trump’s nominee to be U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, on the issue of free speech during his confirmation hearing in the Se...YouTube
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From TV to CMS: How Dr. Oz could shape Medicare and Medicaid
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333850/dr-oz-medicaid-medicare-cms?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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snac2
A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable CForgejo: Beyond coding. We Forge.
The Fed holds interest rates. And, judge denies request to block DOGE's USIP takeover
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g-s1-54871/up-first-newsletter-federal-reserve-interest-rates-doge-usip-israel-hamas?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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👁 - Christoph Heusgen kritisierte Annalena Baerbock gestern scharf für ihre Entscheidung, nun selbst UN-Diplomatin werden zu wollen.
Heusgen 2017: 🤡
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Botschafter Heusgen: "... dass meine Frau Ina eine Stelle in deinem Büro bekommt"
Wie der deutsche Uno-Botschafter Christoph Heusgen seine Beziehungen spielen ließ, um seiner Frau einen Job bei der Uno in New York zuzuschanzen.Rafael Buschmann (DER SPIEGEL)
Es braucht nicht viel für ein totalitäres Regime: Vor allem willige Vollstrecker und Willkür. Vor einer Reise in die USA: Neues Laptop, Neues Handy, alles nackt. Keine US basierte Kommunikation! Nutzt eigene Server, z.B. #Matrix bsdbox.de/matrix
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#datenschutz #zensur #privatsphäre #willkür #unplugtrump #usa #travel #reisewarnung
#FotoVorschlag "Nachbarschaft"
(neighborhood)
In 1857 C.F. Martin built his original guitar factory a block away from where we have lived for the past 25 years.
#blackandwhite #night #nightphotography
Chemistry Meets Mechatronics in This Engaging Art Piece
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Chemistry Meets Mechatronics In This Engaging Art Piece
There’s a classic grade school science experiment that involves extracting juice from red cabbage leaves and using it as a pH indicator. It relies on anthocyanins, pigmented compounds that gi…Hackaday
THE BEST THINGS TO SEE AND DO IN PITTSBURGH'S OAKLAND AREA - Pittsburgh Purple Travel Guide
In our Pittsburgh Travel Guide, we show you the best things to see and do in Pittsburgh's Oakland area. We show lots of photos so you can decide what you want to see.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
Samstag ist es wieder soweit. 🥲
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Route führt mitten durch Friedrichshain : Berlin steht vor größter Neonazi-Demo seit Jahren
Junge, rechtsextreme Gruppen mobilisieren am Wochenende erneut zum Protest nach Berlin. Darunter einige, die sich als „Nationalsozialisten“ bezeichnen. Auch eine Hooligan-Band soll spielen. Zahlreiche Gegenkundgebungen sind angemeldet.Julius Geiler (Der Tagesspiegel)
A lesson from the Catskills about what happens when a company tries to make its money from vendor lock-in and forced, planned obsolescence.
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Lessons Learned Cataloging Old Pumps in the Catskills
Dan Holohan recalls the challenges of supplying pumps for the heating systems at Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel in the 1980s.heatinghelp.com
New 'baby pictures' of the cosmos show the universe in its infancy
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5333235/new-pictures-universe-atacama-telescope?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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This astronaut spent over 100 days in space. Here's how he says that affected him
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5332181/astronauts-space-body-effects-jack-fischer?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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iHostage | Official Trailer | Netflix
In iHostage, inspired by the hostage situation at the Apple Store in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2022), a man unwillingly becomes entangled in a life-threate...YouTube
What a cool font!
'Atkinson Hyperlegible' by the Braille Institute
is *really* easy to read.
Thanks for pointing this out, @gemeinsamhier@norden.social
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Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!Braille Institute
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Ebay hat ihre AGB und Datenschutz-Infos aktualisiert. Daten aller Nutzer*innen sollen für KI-Training verwendet werden, solange sie nicht vom Opt-Out Gebrauch machen.
Habe meine Zweifel, ob die Berufung auf berechtigte Interessen zu diesen Zwecken unter der DSGVO rechtmäßig ist. Betroffene sollten bis 21. April widersprechen oder ihre Daten löschen, wenn sie diese nicht im Trainingsset haben möchten:
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#teamdatenschutz #datenschutz #dsgvo #ebay
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Were this excel I might agree.
Word still fills me with creeping rage even as it did when I was a child.
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Attached: 1 image Can we all just agree UI design peaked here?Mastodon
This is the type of argument we should be having these days!
And so I'll chime in to start a flame war.
**SysVinit vs SystemD**
**Clearly, SysVinit.**
@jimcarroll I'm not getting into Vim vs Emacs, Gnome vs KDE, Debian vs Rhel vs Arch or any of their siblings and children fighting amongst themselves.
But systemd is the most cursed, bastardized, overcomplicated and overcompensating crock that has ever been forced upon Linux users. (AI is still a choice, after all.)
U.S. cuts funding for global network testing for measles as cases grow worldwide
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/19/g-s1-54683/measles-u-s-diagnosis-vaccination?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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.. TADA!
Another aspect of the housing crisis:
For newly qualified teachers & nurses living in a flat share is often the only viable option; across England in around half of Council areas, a one-bedroom flat is unaffordable on their pay.
If you want to retain newly qualified staff, they need to be able to move from a model of student accommodation (a shared house) to something reflecting their privacy & welfare needs... we need better (affordable) housing for key workers.
How hackers capture your solar panels and cause grid havoc
The global push towards smart-energy production adds new vulnerabilities to national power grids. DW spoke to hackers who've exposed security gaps in rooftop installations and solar power plants around the world.Mathis Richtmann (Deutsche Welle)
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The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud - Bert Hubert's writings
Recently a Dutch hacker was able to take control of 4 million solar panel installations (FTM (Dutch), Euractiv, Victor Gevers). And this wasn’t the first time something like this has happened either (PV Magazine).Bert Hubert's writings
AI hallucinations: ChatGPT created a fake child murderer
ChatGPT created a fake story about a Norwegian man, claiming that he killed his two children and went to jail. This never happenednoyb.eu
Really love snooping on these "Staff information screens" some UK train stations have.
Of course I'm wondering what ancient character set they use, and if it's possible to obtain for <artistic purposes>...
Lunchtype (Condensed Regular) isn't a million miles away. Most of the matches the font identifiers find have the weird circular 'a' instead of the, uh, hook-hatted 'a'.
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Lunchtype Font Free by steppdot » Font Squirrel
Download and install the Lunchtype free font family by steppdot as well as test-drive and see a complete character set.www.fontsquirrel.com
EU accuses Google and Apple of breaking its rules, risking Trump clash
Tech companies could be fined billions if EU finds they have breached the Digital Markets ActRob Davies (The Guardian)
Trump is trying to crush the arts – and he’s starting with the Kennedy Center
Artists might cancel shows, donors withdraw and audiences flee. It all plays into the hands of his authoritarian project, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte HigginsCharlotte Higgins (The Guardian)
#WritersCoffeeClub March 20. What was the most writing-related fun you’ve had?
Visiting assorted locations that appear in the German folk tales I have translated Some examples:
1. The Hibichenstein rock pinnacle in Bad Grund, said to be the home of the dwarf king Hibich.
2. The Teufelsbad ("Devil's Bath") near Osterode, from which the Devil and other grotesque figures occasionally emerge to prey on sinners.
3. The Wegsmühle mill near Clausthal-Zellerfeld, where a lone maid allegedly killed 11 bandits who sought to plunder the place.
4. The Brocken, the highest mountain in the Harz range where witches gather on each Walpurgis Night.
And if you support me on Patreon, you can help me reach my dream of becoming a full-fledged adventurer-folklorist and combine my translations with travel writings and photography of these places! 😁
Get more from Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles on Patreon
creating Public Domain translations of classic German folk talesSunken Castles, Evil Poodles (Patreon)
I translated an article on Bernard of Clairvaux from the original Klingon (German) to English for a pastor friend of mine. He needed it for his PhD thesis. I learned about a fascinating piece of church history and theology. Fun was had by all!
X users treating Grok like a fact-checker spark concerns over misinformation | TechCrunch
Some users on X are turning to Grok for fact-checking, raising concerns among fact-checkers.Jagmeet Singh (TechCrunch)
AI Search Has A Citation Problem
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.Columbia Journalism Review
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Check out the WEBCAT repo from SecureDrop (@securedrop)
securedrop.org/news/introducin…
Introducing WEBCAT: Web-based Code Assurance and Transparency
In this post, we introduce Web-based Code Assurance and Transparency, a project that supports verifiable in-browser code for single-page browser applications.SecureDrop
Israel-Gaza war live: dozens reported dead after night of Israeli strikes on Gaza
Hospitals in the Gaza Strip say 58 people killed by Israeli attacks overnightAmy Sedghi (The Guardian)
Today we're releasing WEBCAT, a set of open-source tools that enables tamper-proof web applications.
This is a major milestone on the path to the next generation of SecureDrop, to provide trustworthy browser-based encryption.
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#SecureDrop #browsers #Tor #whistleblowing #OpenSource
Introducing WEBCAT: Web-based Code Assurance and Transparency
In this post, we introduce Web-based Code Assurance and Transparency, a project that supports verifiable in-browser code for single-page browser applications.SecureDrop
WEBCAT allows developers to sign their web applications, site operators to enroll their domains, and web browsers to transparently verify the resources they receive.
It uses established technologies and is open source: github.com/freedomofpress/webc…
GitHub - freedomofpress/webcat: WEBCAT is an architectural framework for providing blocking code signing and verification, integrity and transparency checks for browser-based single page applications.
WEBCAT is an architectural framework for providing blocking code signing and verification, integrity and transparency checks for browser-based single page applications. - freedomofpress/webcatGitHub
Bart Janssens 🇧🇪
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Bart
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •That’s the same guy that was ambassador to the Netherlands that was sending fake news into the world under Trumps previous office. He needed to back down afterwards
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Trump's ambassador to Netherlands finally admits 'no-go zone' claims
BBC Newshundenrajna1
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in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Sassinake! - ⊃∪∩⪽
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Em & future cats 🇺🇦🐈🏳️🌈
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •The Polish Dispatch
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Leonard Ritter
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Gilbert Pilz
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •"Promoting terrorism isn't 'free speech''."
"What qualifies as 'promoting terrorism'?"
"Saying anything that disagrees with Trump."
Justin Macleod
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •WesDym
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Holy hell, this guy is in SO far over his head. He's not a lawyer, but he's demonstrating here a complete failure to articulate probably the most basic principle of US democracy. He's not originally from the US, but he was raised here, from age 3, and should fucking well know better.
So which is he? Appallingly ignorant? Hopelessly immoral and not honest enough to admit that? Or a gutless coward?
Elon Muksis 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇪🇺
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