US judge orders #Trump admin to reinstate thousands of fired workers
A California federal judge on Thurs ordered 6 US #FederalAgencies to reinstate thousands of recently-hired employees who were fired as part of Trump's purge of the federal workforce.
The ruling made by US Dist Judge William Alsup in San Francisco during a hearing applies to the Departments of #Defense, #Veterans Affairs,#Agriculture, #Energy, #Interior & the #Treasury.
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March Madness By The Numbers
The 2025 NCAA Division I men’s and women’s basketball tournaments kick off next week. In honor of the season, The Onion examines the key facts and figures behind March Madness.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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Why do owls always keep their friends? Cause they never turn their backs on them, just their heads
-Hugh Walpole, born this day, 1884.
*He's* building what... and then...whatnow???
Via Rupar:
#Trump says he's building an energy pipeline through New York and it a state tries to block him he'll use "the extraordinary powers of the federal government"
My name is Matilda, I am a member of Greenheart Co-op. Interested in #interactiondesign, #systemsdesign and #servicedesign. Specifically in the spirit of e.g #VictorPapanek, #DonellaMeadows. Also in interested in #economics in the spirit of #KateRaworth (#DoghnutEconomics ). Furthermore interested in #tech #frontend #GrowOwnFood #mushroomfarming #TechCooperatives #neuroscience #cognitivescience
POLITICO: Thousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately, judge rules
politico.com/news/2025/03/13/f…
> U.S. District Judge William Alsup described the mass firings as a “sham” strategy by the government’s central human resources office.
I can't get enough of this. #WompWomp
Via NewsEye on Bsky (👉🏼ADDED: who I copied/pasted from.. don't @ me about their flag error):
🚨TESLA SALES CRASH AGAIN
Disastrous sales figures reported for February 2025. These are the drops in key countries:
🇩🇪Germany - 76%🔻
🇦🇺Australia - 66%🔻
🇮🇹Italy - 55%🔻
🇵🇹Portugal - 53%🔻
🇨🇳China - 49%🔻
🇰🇵Norway - 48%🔻
🇩🇰Denmark - 48%🔻
🇫🇷France - 45%🔻
🇸🇪Sweden - 42%🔻
@mattblaze
True. Buying no Teslas seems to express a lack of ambition.
The number of Teslas I want to buy < 0
Things that count towards this effort.
Getting others to not buy Teslas,
Getting other to sell their Tesla,
Getting others to not buy/sell Tesla shares
Gettting others to not renew Tesla leases.
PSA: 🚨 Update Tor Browsers now!
On March 14, 2025, a Mozilla root certificate used for add-ons verification will expire, potentially disabling extensions like NoScript or breaking features such as the Security Slider on Tor Browser versions older than 13.5.11 legacy.
To avoid issues and security risks, update now to 14.0.7 stable or 13.5.13 legacy. blog.torproject.org/old-tor-br…
Older Tor Browsers Breaking, Update Now! | Tor Project
The expiration on March 14 2025 of a root certificate can cause breakages Tor Browser version 13.0 and below. Users should updgrade immediately.blog.torproject.org
I don't understand why these are built-in. They should be something a user or administrator could manage without requiring a new build :/
(I realize this is really Firefox's problem to fix, though)
"A hospital is a place where human beings remove their masks and show themselves as they truly are, in their purest essence."
- Pope Francis
Fuck you, T-Mobile.
I just received a text claiming they're going to bring up the price by 5 dollars per line, every month. I wonder if that will count for the Internet line too. If so, that's going to be a 20 dollar price hike.
What is annoying, is I've been paying off an iPhone, and just as the bill was about to go down, after paying it off, now they add this.
13 March 1901 | A German, Hermann Bartel, was born in Siegmanten. A decorator.
In #Auschwitz from 6 December 1941.
No. 23760
He perished in the camp on 2 March 1942. One of at least 77 prisoners registered as homosexuals. 43 of them perished.
Senate Democrats face major dilemma: help GOP pass funding bill or trigger shutdown
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/g-s1-53495/senate-democrats-funding-bill-government-shutdown?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-npr
Hi, @MapComplete !
I'm checking the Restaurants and fast food in my area and noted that it's very outdated vs #OpenStreetMap data.
mapcomplete.org/food.html?z=17…
openstreetmap.org/#map=19/40.7…
There shows two restaurants that I removed some months ago and lacks another added about one month ago.
Could be something at my side or map items are updated from time to time?
Which restaurants are you referring to? I had a quick look and couldn't see any obvious mismatch between MapComplete and current OSM data.
Did you add specifically a restaurant or fast food amenity? I don't this this theme includes cafes or bars, for example.
My experience has been that MapComplete usually updates quickly.
@alan
El Rincón de Chencho
openstreetmap.org/note/4293360…
and Taberna Julia
openstreetmap.org/note/4293359…
were removed 9 months ago.
Did try cleaning cache but they keep there.
My mistake about Tapas & Copas that it's as Bar and not a Restaurant.
Note: 4293360
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.OpenStreetMap
@alan
This screenshot it's in other browser in Android. Instead at Firefox in laptop. So does not seem a cache problem.
Did noticed that it shows Sal Y Canela restaurant with their correct name I've fixed some minutes ago. It was Canela y Sal and I've edited at #openstreetmap website.
So maybe it's only a problem with removed places.
I don't see those two restaurants in MapComplete - only Mesón Gerardo appears on that street.
So it does seem like some kind of a caching issue. Maybe try in a different browser or a private window?
@alan
True! It depends on browser.
My first screenshot was from Firefox in Linux at laptop.
The second one, Browser (Chromium's e/OS/ version) on e/OS/ - Android.
And now with Fennec in e/OS/ just appears Mesón Gerardo too.
I mean, maybe they're telling the truth, and maybe they're actually just that committed to the secret. Jury's still out on that one, I guess. XD
While we're here: friendly reminder that there'll be no standard pages until the 26th. Maybe doodles and gag strips like this if I feel up to it, but nothing canon until then.
Now back to bed for me.
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/13/ele…
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Niantic, developers of hit mobile game and surveillance machine Pokemon Go, among others, just sold their location tracking pocket casino to Scopely, a company that is notorious even within the notably corrupt mobile gaming industry for overmonitizing their products.
This is bad! Niantic was not a good steward of our PII and location data, but I never felt like they were explicitly exploiting me.
Scopely absolutely will.
" Not only are you not authoritzed, you're not authortized to be authorized. "
This phrase has to be the weirdest troll I have ever seen on Facebook. It is what conservatives are saying to progressives, anytime they say they want something, for example, healthcare. I've seen it a bunch of times now.
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