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Great whales can transport 4,000 tons of nitrogen annually to tropical coastal areas.
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FULL KEYNOTE -- me + Guy K at SXSW on why privacy is a fundamental guarantor of a gorgeous, good life (not an absence, not a vacuum, not abstract). And how AI threatens privacy. And why Signal is so special and why you should use & love & support it ❤️
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The State of Personal Online Security and Confidentiality | SXSW LIVE
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11 March 1914 | A Romanian Jewish woman, Cornelia Sajovics, was born in Prundu Bârgăului.
In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz from the Kolozsvar ghetto. She did not survive.
Ten Years of The Foilies
A look back at the games governments played to avoid transparencyIn the year 2015, we witnessed the launch of OpenAI, a debate over the color of a dress going viral, and a Supreme Court decision that same-sex couples have the right to get married.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Ten Years of The Foilies
A look back at the games governments played to avoid transparencyIn the year 2015, we witnessed the launch of OpenAI, a debate over the color of a dress going viral, and a Supreme Court decision that same-sex couples have the right to get married.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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I am not sure how long the Server has been down today. I went to login and got a 503: Service Unavailable. I am looking into what caused the issue.
After discovering that I could not connect to my instance, though the server was still up. I did the most reasonable thing ;). I rebooted it. That seems to have fixed whatever took the service down. I am looking into what caused the issue and how to prevent it in the future.
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The Office That Investigates Disparities in Veterans’ Care Is Being “Liquidated”
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The closure effectively hobbles the VA’s efforts to investigate and eliminate long-standing racial inequities that the department itself has acknowledged. “The consequences will be dire, wide-reaching and deadly,” an advocate for Black veterans said.
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#News #Trump #Veterans #Military #Equity #DEI #Government #USPolitics
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The John Birch Society's legacy of attacks on public health, education, and voting are motivated by racism & segregation.
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Aaahh 😟 Within 9 days new bills arrive for all our servers, media storage and email sends and at this moment I am roughly €500 short on the total estimate of €1400..
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The US has pressured Ukraine into accepting a 30 day ceasefire to negotiate a permanent peace in Ukraine.
One likely scenario is this:
Putin is running out of resources, so he will accept and send a delegation demanding that Ukraine accepts all of Russia’s terms, that all of the 5 occupied oblasts of Ukraine are now Russian.
Ukraine will say no to having their land stolen this way, and Trump will then claim that it is all Ukraine’s fault, that peace was not achieved.
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BREAKING: Sec. Rubio, Waltz Speak With Reporters After Ukraine Agrees To 30-Day Ceasefire Proposal
Sec. Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz speak with reporters on Tuesday after Ukraine agreed to a 30-day ceasefire proposal. Fuel your succ...YouTube
@kallekn exactly.
Putin will now demand unreasonable things like having all sanctions lifted, having the 5 occupied oblasts recognized as Russian, and demanding that Europe can place no peacekeepers in Ukraine —and voila — Trump's blame switches back to Ukraine.
We have a clown in charge and it is about to get really dangerous.
Announcing the first 15 endorsers of the United Nations #OpenSource Principles" – 8 practical ways for groups around the world to promote global digital cooperation through free and open source software.
✍️ Like software freedom itself, these principles are for everyone, everywhere - and the orgs you support can join a list of endorsers today.
#boostsAppreciated - spread the word!
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#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS #UN #UnitedNations
Sixteen Organizations Endorse the UN Open Source Principles | Office of Information and Communications Technology
The United Nations Open Source community is proud to announce that 16 leading organizations have the UN Open Source Principles, following the initial endorsement by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), bringing the total to 17.unite.un.org
In US, customers are buying while there are still incentives, no extra tariffs.
arstechnica.com/cars/2025/03/d…
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The image is a tweet with a picture of a woman in an athletic jersey holding a shoe filled with greenery. The text above the image reads "My fat ass thought she was holding a giant sandwich." The woman in the picture is fair-skinned with brown hair pulled back in a ponytail. She is wearing a white jersey with blue accents and the FIFA World Cup logo on the sleeve. She is holding a light pink running shoe filled with what appears to be grass or moss. The background shows green grass and blurred stadium seating. Below the image is the tweet of Brian Schmid, [@]SchmanthonyP, “It took like thirty seconds to see anything but sandwich.”
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*The Six Little Dragons
*take that Baidu Alibaba Tencent
Meet China’s ‘Six Little Dragons’
The Hangzhou-based firms have upended China’s tech scene — and sent governments across China scrambling for their own champions.#SixthTone
Hey Friendica users! There is now a Friendica app called Raccoon available in the Google Play store:
➡️ play.google.com/store/apps/det…
It's also available on F-Droid:
➡️ f-droid.org/packages/com.livef…
As well as Friendica, the app is also compatible with Mastodon and Glitch Mastodon.
Friendica is a Fediverse platform so you can follow and interact with Friendica users from Mastodon. If you've never heard of Friendica and want to know more, have a look at fedi.tips/friendica-a-flexible…
Raccoon for Friendica - Apps on Google Play
Mobile client for Friendica, Mastodon and compatible federated social networks.play.google.com
Glitch is an unofficial customised version of Mastodon with extra features added, such as rich text formatting and making it easier to have higher character limits.
A lot of the features on Mastodon were originally created by Glitch Mastodon and then copied over to the official version of Mastodon.
Because Mastodon and Glitch Mastodon are both free open source software, they can use and contribute to each other's code like this.
*Well, if you like both robotics jargon AND AI jargon that's this week's top-end robotics AI jargon
Helix: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalist Humanoid Control
Figure was founded with the ambition to change the world.FigureAI
#Tesla #Cybertruck sank when launching a jetski after #Musk said you could use the truck as a boat
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#news #tech #technology #business #elon #fail #incelcamino #wankpanzer
Tesla Cybertruck sank when launching a jetski after Musk said you could use the truck as a boat
A Tesla Cybertruck sank in Ventura harbor in California when trying to launch a jetski despite Tesla CEO Elon Musk...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
New tools may help fulfill CEO's claim that agents will "join the workforce" in 2025.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ope…
OpenAI pushes AI agent capabilities with new developer API
New tools may help fulfill CEO’s claim that agents will “join the workforce” in 2025.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X
First, Never Believe Anything #Muskovite Says.
wired.com/story/x-ddos-attack-…
#news #tech #technology #socialmedia #twitter #elonmusk #ddos
This is the news story we need right now: Watch as former Philippine dictator Rodrigo Dutertes is forced on a plane to be flown to the Hague to be procecuted for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court.
This is a preview of what is coming for Putin.
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Former Philippine President Duterte forced onto plane to The Hague after ICC arrest
Rodrigo Duterte, the former President of the Philippines, has been “forcibly taken” onto a plane headed for The Hague, his daughter said, after being taken i...YouTube
The still lingering effects & patterns of the #COVID pandemic - 5 years on.
(via NYTimes)
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30 Charts That Show How Covid Changed Everything in March 2020
It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.Aatish Bhatia (The New York Times)
12 March 1912 | A Polish Jew, Judka Nebenhaus, was born in Pilica. A shoemaker.
In #Auschwitz from 1 September 1942.
No. 62674
He survived the war.
Two Transgender Girls, Six Federal Agencies. How Trump Is Trying to Pressure Maine Into Obedience.
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Maine said it wouldn’t break state law to follow President Donald Trump’s order barring transgender girls from playing girls’ sports. Then came a barrage of investigations and threats targeting the state’s federal funding.
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#News #Maine #Trump #Trans #Sports #Girls #USPolitics #Government #LGBTQ #TransRights
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Addressing Risks from Perkins Coie LLP – 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. TheThe White House
If only you had invested USD 1000 in Tesla three months ago, you would now have 481 dollars left.
Musk has reached the find out phase.
Musk wasn't the only billionaire funding a fascist GOP and buying an election win for them.
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Uline
SpaceX
Citadel
Susquehanna
Elliott
Blackstone
Go after Tim Mellon's company stock too.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timoth…
Charles Koch
Diane Hendricks
Miriam Adelson
Ken Griffin
Linda McMahon
Rob Walton
They all deserve their own FAFO too.
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Who are the Biggest Donors?
Who are the biggest donors in the 2024 election cycle? See the details.OpenSecrets
X allegedly ignored the chosen venues in the TOS when filing "thermonuclear" lawsuits.
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X’s globe-trotting defense of ads on Nazi posts violates TOS, Media Matters says
X allegedly ignored the chosen venues in the TOS when filing “thermonuclear” lawsuits.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
Musk is a hypocritical space Nazi.
People need to quit boosting him by using his fascist-friendly platform Twitter/X.
There is no excuse to be there unless you are a Nazi.
#ElonMusk #Nazis #Twitter #X #Twitter #GetOffOfTwitter #QuitTwitter #LeaveTwitter #DeleteTwitter #SocialMedia
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Trump act as an authoritarian in attacks on perceived opponents
The Trump administration is testing out whether Trump can get away with taking a clearly more authoritarian path forward. We must respond accordingly.Chris Geidner (Law Dork)
“It is beautiful!”
Donald Trump is now using the US presidency to market the Tesla Model Y.
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BREAKING NEWS: Trump, Elon Musk Speak To Reporters As POTUS Decides Which Tesla To Buy
President Trump and Elon Musk speak to reporters as the President decides which Tesla to buy.Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium ...YouTube
“Helicopters should be barred from a four-mile stretch over the Potomac River when flights are landing on Reagan National Airport’s Runway 33, National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy said in a briefing today as the NTSB released its preliminary report on the mid-air collision in January.”
@heartofcoyote The restriction actually makes it *easier* for the controllers, since they won't have to watch as as carefully for imminent conflicts between planes on approach to 33 and helicopters flying on "route 4" (the helicopter path along that stretch of the Potomac.
These flight paths (in DC) aren't like roads in the sense that you can just fly on them when you think it's safe. Every movement has to be authorized by ATC.
Okay. Now let's see the "world's forkiest fork" and the "world's spooniest spoon"
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It’s Not Just a Spoon. It’s a Kunz Spoon.
The chef-designed Kunz spoon is a kitchen workhorse that easily tackles basting, plating, and spooning for an elevated cooking experience.Maki Yazawa (Wirecutter)
Hey new people, you don't have to use the official Mastodon app! There are lots of other options you can use such as third party apps etc. Most people who try these alternatives usually prefer them.
Mastodon doesn't impose any particular app on you. You're free to use your account in whatever way works best for you. Here is a guide to all your options:
➡️ fedi.tips/which-apps-can-i-use…
If you want to compare apps, you can be logged in with the same account on many apps at once.
Which Mastodon apps can I use? Should I use the official app or a third party app? Are there other options? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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