Trump's hiring freeze has halted local head counts and could threaten the U.S. census
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5324706/federal-hiring-freeze-special-census-white-house-westfield-aurora?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-npr
NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile,' French University Says
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NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile,' French University Says
โWe are witnessing a new brain drain.โEmanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
A French University has so much interest from American scientists trying to flee the country that it is now asking other European universities to begin taking them into "scientific exile"
404media.co/nasa-yale-and-stanโฆ
NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile,' French University Says
โWe are witnessing a new brain drain.โEmanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
A French University has so much interest from American scientists trying to flee the country that it is now asking other European universities to begin taking them into "scientific exile"
404media.co/nasa-yale-and-stanโฆ
NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile,' French University Says
โWe are witnessing a new brain drain.โEmanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
Wรคre es nicht schรถn, wenn unsere (zukรผnftige) Regierung einen Plan fรผr den Ausbau von Bildung und Forschung hรคtte?
this is so so so wild, must read:
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Super Nintendo Hardware Is Running Faster as It Ages
Why is this speedrunner putting his Super Nintendo in the freezer? Science.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
If you can find it somewhere, I highly recommend checking out Racoon Nation. It shows just how crafty trash pandas can be.
pbs.org/wnet/nature/raccoon-naโฆ
Raccoon Nation ~ About | Nature | PBS
New insights about a species that is far more smart and wily than most ever imagined. Is city life cultivating โรผber-raccoons,โ ready to take over the world? Watch a preview of Racoon Nation.fultonk (NATURE | PBS)
Gemini can do more with your data if you let it.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0โฆ
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jz.tusk (@jztusk@mastodon.social)
@heidilifeldman @ezralevin@mstdn.social Hey, I'm following the Indivisible suggestions, but I'm wondering what the suggestions are for the following: I called both my senators (one Tues, one Wed).Mastodon
Part 2 of my Intro to #Zephyr series is out! CMake is a popular tool, even among embedded developers, and Zephyr relies heavily on it for its build process. Get a quick primer on #cmake and see how Zephyr uses it!
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youtu.be/HSWazjB63cU
#esp32 #microcontroller #embedded #programming @zephyr
Introduction to Zephyr Part 2: CMake Tutorial | DigiKey
CMake is a powerful, cross-platform build system generator that makes managing complex C and C++ projects easier. Rather than relying on a single build syste...YouTube
DHS official defends Mahmoud Khalil arrest, but offers few details on why it happened
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5326015/mahmoud-khalil-deportation-arrests-trump?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Google Changes Chrome Extension Policy After YouTuber Calls Honey a 'Scam'
Google updates its policy after YouTuber MegaLag details a scheme under which the PayPal-owned Honey swapped creators' affiliate links for its own.Emily Forlini (PCMag)
I've updated the ottopot website and build instructions with the PCB version and the new case.
I'm considering this the v1 release ๐
The ottopot is a MIDI controller with 8 endless potentiometers sending 14bit CCs.
Special thanks to @Nervengift for the PCB contribution.
#musodon #electronics #3dprinting #ottopot
GeroTakke.de - ottopot
This is the ottopot. It's a MIDI controller I made with nothing but 8 dials. However, the dials I made in the highest quality that I possibly could.gerotakke.de
Elon Musk is winning Republican fans. Can Tesla win them over, too?
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5325321/elon-musk-tesla-politics-republican-buyers-sales?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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EPA says it will roll back many climate rules. But that could prove complicated
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327219/epa-environmental-regulations-explained?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Science @science-npr
Just in case like me you didn't know: You can get single SMD contacts like the one in the picture below on digikey under the "RFI and EMI - Contacts, Fingerstock and Gaskets" category, and on LCSC under the "Industrial control electrical / Antenna spring" category. I've looked for these more than once and haven't found them. Links:
digikey.de/en/products/filter/โฆ
lcsc.com/products/Antenna-spriโฆ
Antenna spring | Industrial control electrical | LCSC
Antenna spring are available at LCSC Electronics. LCSC offers inventory, prices, datasheets for Antenna spring.www.lcsc.com
National security hinges on unfettered access to AI training data, OpenAI says.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20โฆ
![A dialog box: โOpenSCAD.app"โ would like to access files in your Desktop folder.
[Don't Allow] [Allow]](https://friendica.rogueproject.org/photo/preview/640/211077 "A dialog box: โOpenSCAD.app\"โ would like to access files in your Desktop folder.
[Don't Allow] [Allow]")
Yay modern macOS.
You can probably 'skip' this annoyance by giving the app its access through system preferences. Full disk access for example, since you trust the app (right?)
I do that on Sonoma for apps I regularly use (code editor, spreadsheet app, ftp client and such) just to avoid this nonsense.
I rode the TGV once, and it was light years ahead of anything we have in the US now in 2025, I mean โlike aliens dropped me in the futureโ light years ahead.
That was in 1993.
From @drahardja: sfba.social/@drahardja/1141560โฆ
Dave Rahardja (@drahardja@sfba.social)
US: High speed rail? IMPOSSIBLE. What about property rights? The French: https://fediscience.org/@gwagner/114154991543801174SFBA.social
@drahardja
Watch the Only Time Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton Performed Together On-Screen (1952)
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Watch the Only Time Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton Performed Together On-Screen (1952)
Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton were the two biggest comedy stars of the silent era, but as it happened, they never shared the screen until well into the reign of sound.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
Trump Officials Are โPretendingโ a Judge Didnโt Bar His Anti-Diversity Orders
A judge blocked the administration from forcing organizations to accept anti-diversity contract terms. Trump officials havenโt let them know
rollingstone.com/politics/poliโฆ
#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption
Trump Admin โPretendingโ Judge Didnโt Block His Anti-Diversity Orders
A judge blocked the Trump administration from forcing organizations to accept his anti-DEI contract terms. Trump officials havenโt let them know.Asawin Suebsaeng (Rolling Stone)
One of the excellent features of the SPOKE board is the very customisable neopixel lights. The kickstarter ends today if you want to grab an early bird discounted one!
I chose these colours for the demo as #transrightsarehumanrights
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The whole "Unbound Publishing goes into ad ministration--and the owners move on to a new publishing venture, which has also acquired some of the assets of the dying business" seems like a full-on scam to me.
Writers beware, I guess
thebookseller.com/news/unboundโฆ
Unbound goes into administration as Archna Sharma and John Mitchinson launch new publisher
The independent publisher Unbound has gone into administration, with Allister Manson and Charles Turner of Opus Restructuring appointed administrators of the company on 10th March 2025.The Bookseller
I know it's bad form to post links to Bluesky, but one of the authors owed several thousand dollars by #Unbound has found a clause in their contract that means the new (and ever more fucked up) #Boundless doesn't own their work.
Please read this thread by Alex De Campi:
bsky.app/profile/alexdecampi.bโฆ
And if you were thinking about working with #Boundless or its principals: don't. #Scam
It's acceptable to post the link I suppose, but you should verify first that one can read it without an account, which one cannot, so this becomes pointless, because asking people to create an account there is a bit much.
sadly that kind of phoenix company bullshit is a common feature of, at least, UK contract law, and it's usually done to shirk debts - limited liability companies don't pay their bills, go into liquidation, then a new company arises that somehow has all the same people in it, but none of them can be pursued for the bills. a little overlap, and the old company can "sell" all its assets to the new company for a token sum before going into liquidation.
but of course, those assets are usually physical. not licences to intellectual property specifically written to be easy to terminate! oops... someone wasn't paying attention there
Columbia graduate detained by Ice was respected British government employee
Mahmoud Khalil described by former colleague at UK office for Syria as well liked and extensively vettedRuth Michaelson (The Guardian)
Ohlsdorf Cemetery between Heavy Summer Rains
Canon AV-1 + Rollei Superpan 200
#BelieveInFilm #cemetery #angel
โThere is significant public interest in knowing when and on what basis the UK government believes that it can compel a private company to undermine the privacy and security of its customers.โ
ORG, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship call for the Tribunal into the UK government's secret order for Apple to break encryption to be held in public.
The case happens TOMORROW.
Read more โฌ๏ธ
techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/applโฆ
#encryption #e2ee #privacy #security #ukpolitics #ukpol #cybersecurity #apple
Appleโs appeal against UKโs secret iCloud backdoor order must be held in public, rights groups urge | TechCrunch
Privacy rights groups have called on Apple's legal challenge to a secret U.K. government order asking it to backdoor an end-to-end encrypted (E2EE)Natasha Lomas (TechCrunch)
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๐จ We need you to call your Democratic senator ASAP if their name is on this list.
Tell your senator you will have their back if they do the right thing and vote NO on the extreme MAGA spending bill that would give Trump more power to dismantle the federal government: indivisible.org/resource/call-โฆ
Just to answer some of your questions: We are asking Senate Democrats to vote NO on cloture without a path to winning a clean 30-day continuing resolution.
Cloture requires 60 votes, so the Senate GOP will need Democratic support. Urge your senators to hold the line. indivisible.org/resource/call-โฆ
White House withdraws controversial pick to run the CDC
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5323926/cdc-weldon-withdrawn-vaccine?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Setting up a M4 Max Mac Studio the most Boring Way Possible
I bought an M4 Max Mac Studio, it's an upgrade from my M1 Max. Can I offset like 1% of the cost with revenue from this video?Resources I mentioned in this vi...YouTube
I've been sitting on this story for months:
The best iPad apps I've used lately areโฆweb apps. Groundbreaking iPad-only apps are now a lost art, and only Apple is to blame.
The iPad's "Sweet" Solution macstories.net/stories/the-ipaโฆ
The iPadโs โSweetโ Solution
In working with my iPad Pro over the past few months, Iโve realized something that might have seemed absurd just a few years ago: some of the best apps Iโm using โ the ones with truly desktop-class layouts and experiences โ arenโt native iPad apps.Federico Viticci (MacStories)
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When you see two men carrying a heavy load across a lonely mountain one evening, it's best to leave them well enough alone.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @germany @folklore
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For superfans, comic-con culture is more than fun โ itโs sacred, a sociologist explains
Beyond entertainment, fandom provides meaning, values and essential community to some participants.The Conversation
Trump threatens a 200% tariff on European alcohol
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327141/trump-european-alcohol-tariff?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Tesla products now excluded from B.C. Hydro rebates in response to U.S. tariffs
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tesla-products-bc-hydro-rebates-tariffs-1.7482501?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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