A Florida judge illustrates the foolishness of 'soclal media moral panics' by demonstrating that D&D did not, in fact, make him a Satanist
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#news #DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #florida #moralpanic
Judge Uses D&D’s Failure To Make Him Worship Satan To School Florida On Social Media Moral Panics
When Florida’s lawyers tried to defend the state’s social media age restriction law by claiming it’s “well known” that platforms harm children, they probably werenR…Techdirt
Google's Firebase platform also hosted configuration settings used by the apps.
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Researchers find North Korean spy apps hosted in Google Play
Google’s Firebase platform also hosted configuration settings used by the apps.Dan Goodin (Ars Technica)
Getting what I want makes me happy
∴ I deserve to get what I want
How the Trump administration's Education Department cuts are playing out
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5325854/how-the-trump-administrations-education-department-cuts-are-playing-out?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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I know it's been said many many times before, but every single bit of trans healthcare was originally created for and still predominantly used for gender affirmation of cis people. And cis people have much higher dissatisfaction and regret rates for those healthcare procedures.
HRT? Cis people treating menopause or low testosterone or improving fertility or prostate cancer or anything else that fucks with the endocrine system.
Puberty blockers? Cis kids with precocious puberty
Mastectomy, orchiectomy, hysterectomy, cis people.
Even vaginoplasty or phalloplasty or metoidioplasty were invented as urology reconstructive surgeries to correct injuries, birth defects, or other medical conditions impacting cis people's genitals.
Banning the same exact necessary healthcare procedures for one population and not for another, despite having even better outcomes by basically any metric you can show is textbook discrimination.
I bought a seed starter kit a few years ago that consisted of 1020 seed trays and a set of 2.5 inch seed pots, along with an insert that holds the pots upright. Unfortunately, the insert adds another inch or so of height, which cuts into the space available under the grow lights.
I didn't buy any more inserts because of this, but I have problems with pots falling over or not getting bottom-watered because they are leaning and not making contact with the tray.
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So I designed this seed pot grid to keep the pots from leaning or falling over. My printer bed isn’t large enough to print a full width grid, so I broke them up into smaller pieces and designed a snap-in fastener that holds the grids in place. This also makes it possible to lift a 2x2 grid of plants when they are ready for transplant so I can have a mix of plants in each tray if need be.
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If you guys don't like Self's behavior, you can call his office or send him letter.
5 years of doing this "MechE" thing and they still haven't given me the giant robot??
sure I'm a girl now, but that wasn't the part I was excited about..
Good. Lets replace search with "AI" then! Totally logical if you ask me. Even more worth it when you know they're exponentially overtaking the airline industry in their carbon footprint.
Study: cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared…
AI Search Has A Citation Problem
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.Columbia Journalism Review
Contemplating OpenAI's "PhD level $20k/month grift"?
Note that ""Premium models provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts" 😂
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Saw a toot that basically said: "To try to defend Occupant Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship: corrupt pieces of garbage at his completely corrupt DOJ have claimed that Native Americans aren’t birthright citizens. A normal person explains why this defense misconstrues the Constitution and legal precedent."
I don't need a lawyer to tell me that any of this is absolute bullshit, but thanks.
Like this #meme? Try the #stream!
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How to lose $148B in less than 2 months.
A corrupt attempt to juice a friend’s stock -beneath the office of the presidency -embarrassing spectacle for Musk. Trump declared: the WH would label any acts of violence against Tesla dealerships as dom terrorism—re ongoing countrywide protests against Tesla, due to #DOGE. Protesters have defaced or damaged Tesla vehicles... #Tesla stock price⬇️fallen sharply;
New #SpaceX Starship exploded 2X this year.
No🎻s for #musk
#USPol
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Elon Musk Looks Desperate
How to lose $148 billion in less than two monthsCharlie Warzel (The Atlantic)
If this works Musk is going to be sooooooo maaaaad
"Revenge Junkie"
Trump has embarked on a revenge-a-thon -removed sec protection from past aides who pissed him off—incl fmr SOS Pompeo & JCS CHM Milley—exposing them to serious danger -angry at the NAR for its role in the stolen docs case *MAL home: raided -indicted, Trump booted out the l'ship of NAR -moved to revoke the sec clearance of a prv DC ATTY CEN of his 1st impeach.
He tried to freeze out media outlets that draw his ire -called Zelensky a dictator...
#USPol link.motherjones.com/public/38…
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This fucking evil orange bastard.
“So far, it’s a tossup which of the Trump Administration’s wrecking balls will prove most destructive: the one that accelerates global warming, the one that abandons our allies, the one that torches the economy, or the one that compromises public health. Yet all of these are distractions from the President’s long-standing pet project: decimating free and fair elections.” - Sue Halpern
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Trump Is Still Trying to Undermine Elections — The New Yorker
Now that Trump has installed election deniers throughout his Administration, he has been busy dismantling the guardrails protecting voting and voters.apple.news
Revisiting Club Quarantine, the dance party that DJ D-Nice brought to our homes
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5321370/revisiting-club-quarantine-the-dance-party-that-dj-d-nice-brought-to-our-homes?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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A few years ago, I started tracking my sleep because it could integrate into my cycling training app. It’s useful for looking at fatigue and recovery so that I can adjust my training accordingly.
It’s also really fascinating to look at sleep stages, heart rate, and respiration through the night. 9 out of the last 10 nights, I have been in REM right before my alarm goes off. Is that meaningful? I’m not sure, but it’s interesting to me.
Also, 🍻 kills your #sleep. Like clockwork. Moderation=👍
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NIH investigating agency-funded research into mRNA vaccine technology
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5325863/nih-investigating-agency-funded-research-into-mrna-vaccine-technology?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Mission launches to retrieve 2 astronauts from the ISS
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5323878/mission-launches-to-retrieve-2-astronauts-from-the-iss?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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New COVID vaccine in the works that targets less-mutable parts of the virus, covering all existing variants of the virus and possibly giving us techniques that outpace viral evolution.
Promising, promising....
I'm even more enthused by the inhaled vaccines coming soon - clinical trials are open!
mstdn.ca/@ducky/11414545085139…
McMaster University is starting a clinical trial of an inhaled COVID-19 vaccine. They are looking for participants in Hamilton, Ottawa, and Halifax. The eligibility details are in the press release:healthsci.mcmaster.ca/made-at-…
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Canada's threat to hike electricity prices highlights U.S. reliance on imported power
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5325859/canadas-threat-to-hike-electricity-prices-highlights-u-s-reliance-on-imported-power?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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A little-known law is in the spotlight: What to know about the Privacy Act of 1974
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5323779/a-little-known-law-is-in-the-spotlight-what-to-know-about-the-privacy-act-of-1974?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The latest on the Trump administration's Ukraine-Russia ceasefire proposal
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5324679/the-latest-on-the-trump-administrations-ukraine-russia-ceasefire-proposal?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Two Boston doctors sue Trump regime for censoring articles in an online medical forum
Two Longwood Medical Area doctors today sued the Musk/Trump Administration, including Secretary of Vaccine Denial Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Universal Hub
Just being honest.
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in reply to Frankie ✅ • • •James
in reply to Frankie ✅ • • •A good read.
It's a pity that you seem to have to be a judge in the States to be able to form a rational argument and be heard.
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