theonion.com/survey-finds-near…
Survey Finds Nearly 6 In 10 Wealthy Americans Living Fraud To Fraud
WASHINGTON—Noting that the most opulent were under constant pressure to make cons meet, a survey by the Pew Research Center released Monday revealed that nearly six in 10 wealthy Americans are living fraud to fraud.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
#polisky #USshutdown
Is the US heading for a government shutdown? 5 essential reads to occupy the mind while we wait to find out
Congress has until March 14 to pass a spending bill that will keep the lights on in Washington.The Conversation
BREAKING: The S&P 500 entered correction territory, closing more than 10% below the all-time high the index hit in mid-February.
Less than two months into the second Trump presidency, markets are telling the administration they're concerned about the impact of tariffs and rising odds of a recession.
Judges threatened with impeachment, bombs for ruling against Trump agenda
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5316340/judges-threatened-with-impeachment-bombs-for-ruling-against-trump-agenda?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Mahmoud Khalil's lawyer talks about govt. efforts to deport her client
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327110/mahmoud-khalils-lawyer-talks-about-govt-efforts-to-deport-her-client?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Not So Sensitive Content Contemplation
I am not sure why. Some users go crazy with labeling everything as Sensitive Content. I guess they do not realize if you highlight everything on every page then essentially nothing is highlighted? Well, let them be them and I will be me. From here on out if it is labeled Sensitive Content I am ignoring that post. Not because it has sensitive content, rather because I am sure it does not. I will also start ignoring users that post everything they post as sensitive content.
I know it should not bother me. It does though so I will just make it go away.
Eris by Eluvian Art
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#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #character #characterart #art #digitalart
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Are Ukrainians ready for ceasefire and concessions? Here’s what the polls say
More Ukrainians are willing to negotiate for peace now than in the early stages of the conflict − but clear red lines remain for the public.The Conversation
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New instance, new #Introduction !
My name is Jürgen, and I translate old German folk tales into English - not just tales from the Brothers Grimm, but from the hundreds of other 19th century German folklorists out there.
To date, I have translated more than 700 tales. You can learn more about my project here (and you can get a free ebook version of my first book if you subscribe to my newsletter there):
#Germany #folklore
sunkencastles.com/
Your guide to German folklore! - Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles
Your guidebook to German folklore!Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles
I should point out that my interest is less in traditional "fairy tales" than in local local legends. The former tend to be more universal in their narratives, while the latter are deeply embedded in local geography, history, and culture.
I've even put most of these tales on an interactive map - either the town where they come from, or the actual place where the legend supposedly took place. You can see them for yourself on this interactive map!
sunkencastles.com/german-folkl…
German Folklore Map - Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles
The German Folklore Map showcases the locations of the various legends I have translated, as well as links to both my translations and the original German source material.Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles
Backlash Grows Against Trump's Detention Of Mahmoud Khalil
If Trump has his way, Kahlil will be just the first of manyThe Big Picture
Israel targets what it says was an Islamic Jihad command center in Damascus
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327437/israel-damascus-airstrike-islamic-jihad-syria?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Mass graves dug up at Gaza's al-Shifa hospital as survivors search for closure
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327105/mass-graves-dug-up-at-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-as-survivors-search-for-closure?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Well my new Intel N100 16Gb ram, 250Gb NVME is now online running #OPNsense . I didn't need to do any of the changes that Ben Tasker mentioned it just gave a full on 1GB PPPoE connection. Fingers crossed I have most things set up correctly ? I did notice a bug after updating though. Before I updated the system health graphs showed the correct date and times now it is showing me the 14th and 10PM UK time yet the systems is reporting the correct date and time plus time zone as I'm using NTP. Oh well no doubt it'll get fixed shortly.
[ EDIT - The issue is resolved ]
I just had to reset the RRD in the settings and wait just over a minute and now all the graphs under health are working as expected. 😄
Go to Reporting -> Settings
Click "Reset RRD Data"
Wait over 1 minute
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Ex-Philippine president Duterte to face trial on crimes against humanity charges
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5325899/ex-philippine-president-duterte-to-face-trial-on-crimes-against-humanity-charges?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Steven Soderbergh's 'Black Bag' doesn't need guns and stunts to deliver thrills
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5324520/steven-soderberghs-black-bag-doesnt-need-guns-and-stunts-to-deliver-thrills?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Louisiana is the one state where kids have gotten better at reading since the pandemic
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5304415/louisiana-is-the-one-state-where-kids-have-gotten-better-at-reading-since-the-pandemic?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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destructured.net/future-fedive…
This is a manifesto for the fediverse that I can get behind.
Notes on the future of the Fediverse
The most promising social media network from a specifically social point of view is the fediverse. Of our current options, it is…destructured
EFF Thanks Fastly for Donated Tools to Help Keep Our Website Secure
EFF’s most important platform for welcoming everyone to join us in our fight for a better digital future is our website, eff.org. We thank Fastly for their generous in-kind contribution of services helping keep EFF’s website online.Eff.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Interessant oder erschreckend? 🤷🏻♂️
"Donald Trump und sein Team wollen mit dem Mar-a-Lago Accord das globale Handels- und Finanzsystem neu ordnen. Der Plan könnte die Weltwirtschaft abstürzen lassen."
Ohne #paywall archive.is/UwmWx
Original: zeit.de/wirtschaft/2025-03/don…
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Aber sie tun es ja auch nicht. Es tun nur ihre momentan allmächtigen Kleptokraten. Die werden unglaublich viele #Euro, #Renmibi und #BitCoin verdienen, sobald sie selbst den #Dollar shorten.
Der folgende Crash hätte genug Wumms für den 3. Weltkrieg.
Hasardeure am Werk. Nero wirkt dagegen wie ein kleiner Lümmel.
#MarALagoAccord #Trump #Musk #Thiel #USDollar #USA #Derivatehandel #MAGA #Korruption
Two big LLM releases today - Cohere's Command A simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/13/… and Ai2's OLMo 2
OLMo claims to be "the first fully-open model (all data, code, weights, and details are freely available) to outperform GPT3.5-Turbo and GPT-4o mini", which feels notable allenai.org/blog/olmo2-32B
OLMo 2 32B: First fully open model to outperform GPT 3.5 and GPT 4o mini | Ai2
Introducing OLMo 2 32B, the most capable and largest model in the OLMo 2 family.allenai.org
By any measure, a 1 year return of 40% is excellent.
I’ve been seeing a lot of these charts on Mastodon and I think anyone who is posting them is taking a premature victory lap.
Could it be that the Biden tax breaks were inflating the price? That those electric car tax subsidies went right into Elon Musk’s pocket? Were you posting pictures of the price *rising* during the Biden years?
@rob
The two most relevant metrics here, because we are talking about the impact of Musk’s fascist politics on his company, would be:
1. Return since the election
2. Return since inauguration
Go check those.
I feel like these posts are not only dishonest, but they are just plain dumb.
I know so many people who bought Teslas because of the Biden tax breaks. What did you think was going to happen to Tesla’s stock price while they were in force? And after they expired?
Posts like “Tesla is down, yay!” just play into the conservative narrative - especially when you just look at a tiny sliver of data. They don’t care - they made 40+% over the previous year.
@rob For you, Rob:
hachyderm.io/@inthehands/11411…
The memo still hasn’t made it to everyone about the systemic function of the #TeslaTakedown protests. I still keep getting well-meaning quesitons like the one below from @tymwol.The purpose is •not• just to register symbolic discontent. The purpose is •not• just to take individual action that directly harms Musk.
The purpose is to tank demand for Tesla’s product, and thus tank their stock price. This is Musk’s biggest vulnerability, Smaug’s exposed belly.
1/ hachyderm.io/@tymwol/114111199…
Timothy Wolodzko (@tymwol@hachyderm.io)
@inthehands yeah, but I don’t think that it hurts Elon if you buy a car from him and destroy it. You paid for it, so it’s yours. It’s like burning your books to protest against Amazon.Hachyderm.io
@inthehands
Question: what were you saying when Biden was shoveling buckets of money to Tesla?
Please point me to those posts.
🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾
📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
@Rocket There are extensions to automate it so that every single page you visit is automatically saved if it hasn't been saved in the last 30 days.
I use the Internet Archive Saver, which works on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, etc
greasyfork.org/en/scripts/3910…
Internet Archive Saver
This userscript saves every visited page to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine (archive.org), if the page has not already been saved there within the last 30 days. This prevents duplicate saves (We don't want to spam the Internet Archive).greasyfork.org
People REALLY need to stop thinking in terms of elections. The window to start reversing Trump is much shorter. Agnostic in how that affects shutdown. But this should not be abt 2026.
Study shows widespread H5N1 bird flu infection in cattle
phys.org/news/2025-03-widespre…
#news #science #health #medicine #birdflu #h5n1 #cattle
Study shows widespread H5N1 bird flu infection in cattle
Scientists are sounding alarms about a genetic mutation that was recently identified in four dairy cow herds, nearly one year after H5N1 bird flu was first reported in Texas dairy cattle.Susanne Rust (Phys.org)
Do you love Battlebots? Want to try competing yourself? Come compete in the 3d printed 1 lb antweight combat robot tournament at this year's Rocky Mountain Rep Rap Festival May 17-18 in Loveland, CO! I'll be there - it'll be a blast. Also, there are prizes! A free role of filament from CookieCAD for every participant, and a $500 gift certificate from Fabreeko for the winner of each day's tournament.
Signups are free: rockymountainreprapfestival.co…
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-…
There's a lot of issues about how LLMs are trained (and with the ways they obtain training data). But in this case the problem is more about the tooling around search in LLMs than the LLMs themselves. In most cases it just uses a regular search engine and then feed the first N results (converted to plain text) to the LLM, so the quality is highly dependent on the query, the search engine results, as well as the quality of the conversion to text.
And as we know, search engines are much worse now... but they're still better being used directly rather than indirectly through one of these services.
I'm not surprised, I've been assuming this for a while.
The problem is that all these AI companies just plug in a search engine and expected to work.
Most search engines these days suck, so if your base is bad, your results will be bad.
That's why I love @kagihq cause they're search first, AI second. They have a solid search engine, which then also makes the ai searching much better. WHO WOULD HAVE EXPECTED
#Kagi
Start Your Apps: Apple Sports Adds F1, March Madness Tracking, More
Racing fans will be able to see start times, live leaderboards, and lap times. Fans across multiple sports will also be able to find out where to watch the action.Tyler Hayes (PCMag)
Senate Democrats — including Colorado's John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet — refuse to go along with GOP spending plan
Democrats are pushing a stopgap 30-day funding bill as an alternative. But its prospects are dim in the Congress controlled by Republicans.The Associated Press (The Colorado Sun)
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Two weeks in after finding the Fediverse I decided to self-host friendica. It can be a pain at times though it is rewarding as well.