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Itโ€™s actually true.
X post by Associated Press (@AssociatedFress ), featuring a verification badge and a "Follow" button. The text of the post reads, "Former McDonaldโ€™s Employee Opens Car Dealership." The attached image shows a person in a blue suit with a red tie standing with arms outstretched in front of a red Tesla car parked on a driveway. In the background, there is a white building with columns, partially covered by a white canopy, and some greenery. The scene appears to be staged humorously, suggesting a connection to the White House or a similar official building.

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#PPOD: Blue Ghost got her first diamond ring! The photo, taken at their landing site in the Moonโ€™s Mare Crisium around 3:30 a.m. CDT on 14 March 2025, shows the Sun about to emerge from totality behind Earth. This marks the first time in history that a commercial company was actively operating on the Moon and able to observe a total solar #eclipse. This phenomenon occurred simultaneously with the lunar eclipse we witnessed on Earth. Credit: Firefly Aerospace

#space #science #scicomm

The Earth covers the Sun as seen from the surface of the Moon, with the flash of the diamond ring effect appearing at the 4 o'clock point as the Sun begins to emerge from totality.
#science #Space #scicomm #PPOD #eclipse

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Every 7th night, they come in droves. Suddenly fast and aware of my hideouts. They'll smash through wooden doors in seconds and claw their way through stone walls and steel bars.

I survived once by climbing on a roof and sniping them from above and through a hole in the roof when they got in, but they almost collapsed the walls to bring me down.

Now I've built a castle. Workshops, vulture tower and killing tunnel with dart traps. Tonight they come.

#Zombies #7DaysToDie #Survival #Game #Gaming

Game screenshot. The player is wielding a crossbow and looking at an ugly bunker like structure made from concrete, steel barred windows to shoot through and reinforced doors. On top a yet low tower lurches. A long tunnel with funnel-like entrance is supposed to guide zombies into a killing zone. Some green bars identify a staked land claim. The landscape is brown desert with a hand planted forest behind. The sky is yet sunny, but nighttime approaches fast.
#Game #gaming #survival #zombies #7daystodie
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The tunnel worked. Alas, I got overrun by zombies climbing on top of each other until they reached me on the roof. Then I hid at the safe end of the tunnel, shotgunning any in the face that made it past the traps. This worked until they smashed in the backdoor (and wall) and got me from behind. Close though!

Finally unlocked the crucible to make steel (with lots of mining). Stronger doors and more concrete walls. And I made the tunnel wider so I could install whirling blade traps.

#7DaysToDie

#7daystodie

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I aspire to this specific level of celebrity.
A Pedro pascal coloring book
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@wohali shoppers.
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"Thatโ€™s not all, folks! Under fire, the Looney Tunes are breaking ground on the big screen. Warner Bros. has put its legacy cartoon at a crossroads. We spoke to those looking towards Looney Tunesโ€™ future."
avclub.com/looney-tunes-the-daโ€ฆ

Under fire, the Looney Tunes break ground on the big screen

Warner Bros. has put its legacy cartoon at a crossroads. We spoke to those looking towards the future of the Looney Tunes.
AV Club
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Tesla urges overhaul of Trump tariffs hurting EV industry
Tesla hopes to slow down Trump's tit-for-tat tariffs amid financial woes.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20โ€ฆ

Tesla urges overhaul of Trump tariffs hurting EV industry

Tesla hopes to slow down Trumpโ€™s tit-for-tat tariffs amid financial woes.
Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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Look at all the sh*t Free Speech hating Elon is doing with DOGE and laugh about this hypocrisy.
With no audit, no thought, and no accountability, Elon Musk is just taking an axe to jobs and services.
But when the same ideological, reckless behaviour is aimed at him, it's suddenly a problem.

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In case you're wondering what happened to serial rapist Morgan Marquis-Boire, he co-founded a crypto security company with sleazebag Eric Michaud, who hid Morgan's identity from the rest of the company. washingtonpost.com/technology/โ€ฆ

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But, that is not what upsets them. They are upset because he was with the Citizen Lab?

We are in Bizarro World.

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Anyone need a Drupal specialist? PHP programmer? Javascript programmer?

linkedin.com/in/alicemrhodes/

I've been doing software development for over 10 years.

#HireMe

#hireme

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Police say CEO ran away, tried to hide evidence after boy's hyperbaric chamber death

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#news #health #medicine #fraud


Police say CEO ran away, tried to hide evidence after boy's hyperbaric chamber death

Troy police say Tamela Peterson ran away when asked for her cellphone after Thomas Cooper died in a hyperbaric chamber fire at the Oxford Center.
Andrea May Sahouri (Detroit Free Press)
#news #health #medicine #fraud

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The image is a four-panel cartoon making a joke about simulation theory. In the first panel, two men are at a kitchen counter with fast food. The man on the left is saying "All I'm saying is that we could be living in one big simulation!" In the second panel, the same two men are at the kitchen counter with fast food and the man on the left is saying "This is all just some crazy video game!" and the man on the right is saying "We're not in a video game. I can prove it." In the third panel, the same two men are standing at a doorway and the man on the right is pointing and saying "Just right down here." In the fourth panel, the same two men are standing in a room with a large pile of corpses. The man on the right is saying "See? Here's a giant pile of dead bodies without any clipping or frame drops." The man on the left is saying "Oh yeah!"
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Here is the alt-text description for the image:

The image is a four-panel cartoon making a joke about simulation theory. In the first panel, two men are at a kitchen counter with fast food. The man on the left is saying "All I'm saying is that we could be living in one big simulation!" In the second panel, the same two men are at the kitchen counter with fast food and the man on the left is saying "This is all just some crazy video game!" and the man on the right is saying "We're not in a video game. I can prove it." In the third panel, the same two men are standing at a doorway and the man on the right is pointing and saying "Just right down here." In the fourth panel, the same two men are standing in a room with a large pile of corpses. The man on the right is saying "See? Here's a giant pile of dead bodies without any clipping or frame drops." The man on the left is saying "Oh yeah!"

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NASA and SpaceX make second attempt to launch astronauts this week
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5328536/nasa-and-spacex-make-second-attempt-to-launch-astronauts-this-week?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Space @space-npr

@Space

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Bingo. Actually, I tell people itโ€™s no longer anything political. Itโ€™s gotten well beyond that.

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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Photo by The Onion on March 14, 2025. May be an image of 2 people and text that says 'Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage the ONION'.

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In early 2006, Mark Klein walked into EFFโ€™s office asking โ€œDo you folks care about privacy?โ€ We do. The documents he provided helped inform our class-action suit, known as Hepting v. AT&T, which made national news. washingtonpost.com/obituaries/โ€ฆ

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"Just keep your arm here for a while. Imma take a nap."
#RedPandas #RedPanda :redpanda:
A red panda clings tightly to the extended arm of a human, who is wearing a red jacket, grey gloves and an ID badge.
#redpanda #RedPandas

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The best part is that Elon's incompetence is the cause of all this, from shoddy workmanship, lethal self-driving systems, lies about legal self-driving systems, a Cybertruck that falls apart if you try to do truck things with it, spending years antagonizing his target audience in Twitter, the Nazi salute, dragging America into authoritarianism, etc.
(Picture of a Tesla Cybertruck with a Rivian logo added to the tailgate) atheistadamx ยฉ 5h Tesla owners are now racing to trade in their cars before insurance companies make them uninsurable. One dealership employee posted, "We've had five people try to offload their Teslas today. One guy straight up said, โ€˜I don't care about the loss โ€” I just need it gone before my insurance drops me." This isn't just a boycott. This is the collapse of Tesla's resale market.
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Someone should make a HOWTO on how to make what looks indistinguishable from spontaneous Tesla battery fire to insurance investigators.
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So many compounding positive effects. Makes Teslas further uninsurable, and makes owners get rid of their Teslas fearing they'll be accused of insurance fraud when theirs burns.

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On Thurs night, the #KennedyCenter concert hall was awash inโ€ฆhowling, passionate booing. It started w/1 or 2 boos & caught on fast, roaring from the rows. Iโ€™ve never heard anything quite like itโ€”let alone before a note was played.
โ€ฉThe cause of the nearly sold-out houseโ€™s audible outrage was the emergence onto the box tier of VP #JDVance, 2nd lady (& newly appointed Kennedy Center board member) #UshaVanceโ€ฆ, nearly a half-hour after the concert was scheduled to begin.

washingtonpost.com/entertainmeโ€ฆ

#kennedycenter #jdvance #ushavance

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Apple Intelligence is now on by default. You can turn it off with a quick tap, but what if you want to pick and choose: keep Writing Tools but ditch Notification Summaries, for example? Here's how. pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-turn-oโ€ฆ

How to Turn Off the Worst Apple Intelligence Features (and Keep the Best)

Tyler Hayes (PCMag)

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14 March 1893 | A German Jewish woman, Grete Marx Emmel, was born in Warburg.

In October 1940 she was imprisoned in the internment camp in Gurs. In September 1942 she was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

Profile view of a woman with a neat hairstyle, standing next to a shuttered window, wearing a polka-dot blouse.
#auschwitz

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The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism

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The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism

It would hardly be notable to make the acquaintance of a Greek Buddhist today. Despite having originated in Asia, that religion โ€” or philosophy, or way of life, or whatever you prefer to call it โ€” now has adherents all over the world.
Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)

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Free fiction isn't really free.

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Relativity Space may soon move a majority of its operations to Texas
"We are exploring options to expand our manufacturing capabilities."
arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/โ€ฆ

Relativity Space may soon move a majority of its operations to Texas

โ€œWe are exploring options to expand our manufacturing capabilities.โ€โ€ฆ
Eric Berger (Ars Technica)
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I can't keep up with all these people, but going Texas...? Does that suggest a MAGA move.

Are they in that sense similar to the neo-military-industrial startups like Anduril and Palantir, funded by far-right accelerationist types?

And a totally unrelated observation: California for some reason apart, it seems like the pro-authoritarian populace tends to be generally found in the 'hot and bothersome' regions while the more level-headed and cooperative peoples don't mind the cold all that much... (Northern European here)

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#MathArtMarch "irrational", pi day, lets assign pi to random variables

with curved-ruler.github.io/webgl-sโ€ฆ

return {
N : 10000,
Fi : [ 0, 0],
dFi: [42, Math.PI],
R : (i) => (Math.sin(i*Math.PI/20))
};

Turtle

curved-ruler.github.io
#mathartmarch

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โ€˜Ted Lassoโ€™ Will Return for Season 4 on Apple TV+ - The New York Times

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โ€˜Ted Lassoโ€™ Will Return for Season 4 on Apple TV+

Apple TV+ announced on Friday that the Emmy-winning comedy will return for a fourth season. Jason Sudeikis will be back to reprise the title role.
Jeremy Egner (The New York Times)
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Iโ€™m excited but I hope this wonโ€™t be the season where they โ€œjump the sharkโ€!

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Tennessee Man Shot By Dog
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Photo by The Onion on March 14, 2025. May be a Twitter screenshot of 1 person, onion and text that says 'GGIt's /4/LIt'ssocutewhendogsact so cute when dogs like people. Garrett Josephs Systems Analyst the ONION'.

Tennessee Man Shot By Dog

A Memphis man was recently grazed by a bullet in his home after his 1-year-old pit bull, Oreo, got his paw stuck in the trigger guard of a gun, causing it to fire. What do you think?
The Onion Staff (The Onion)

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Hackaday Podcast Episode 312: Heart Attacks, the Speed of Light, and Self-balancing

hackaday.com/2025/03/14/hackadโ€ฆ


Hackaday Podcast Episode 312: Heart Attacks, The Speed Of Light, And Self-balancing

Elliot does the podcast on the road to Supercon Europe, and Al is in the mood for math and nostalgia this week. Listen in and find out what they were reading on Hackaday this week. The guys talked โ€ฆ
Hackaday

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Ianthe Tridentarius by Starcanist

Source: starcanist.tumblr.com/post/647โ€ฆ

#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #character #characterart #art #digitalart

art blog

tfw youโ€™re godโ€™s last loyal lyctor and youโ€™re here to party
starcanist (art blog)
#ttrpg #DigitalArt #art #dnd #dungeonsAndDragons #character #characterart
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A digital drawing shows a pale-skinned figure with long, blonde hair, a white shirt with gold buttons, dark pants with a laced front, and a fencing sword. The figure is seated with one leg crossed over the other and is holding the sword in their right hand. A gold circle is behind the figure, and the background is a dark color.

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That's why I'm drowning in debt?
90% of college tuition goes towards on-campus ice cream parties.
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youโ€™re not wrong. My college had Dr Pepper hour every week with Dr Pepper floats.

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The Sigma BF draws attention with its modern industrial design and woos creative photographers with a streamlined interface and gorgeous color profiles, but it offers fewer features than mainstream cameras. Here's our review: pcmag.com/reviews/sigma-bf

Sigma BF Review

PCMag

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lithium enthusiasts look away now
angle grinder on top of huge lithium battery
ruler clamped to lithium battery while angle grinder looks on menacingly

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Stump sighting ๐ŸŒฑ
~Current earworm: "Left to Rust and Rot," by If These Trees Could Talk~

#portland #oregon #pdx #pnw #nature #trees #trunk #ifthesetreescouldtalk #photos #photography #fotografie #mobilephotography #digitalphotography #iphone #shotoniphone #iphoneography #smartphoneography #fediverse #pixelfed

A viewpoint from the base of a hollowed tree trunk reveals its inside walls and tree branches in the sky above.
#photography #fediverse #pixelfed #trees #nature #fotografie #Portland #Oregon #shotoniphone #trunk #pdx #pnw #iphoneography #photos #iphone #Smartphoneography #mobilephotography #DigitalPhotography #IfTheseTreesCouldTalk

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Okay, I am impressed. Apparently someone in 19th century Austria released a folk tale collection for a specific grammar school _as teaching material_!

books.google.de/books?id=Bx8WAโ€ฆ


Sagen und Volksglauben im inneren Bregenzer Walde

Google Books
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Ich hab es nicht durchgelesen; steht da irgendwas von Unterrichtszwecken? Im 19. Jahrhundert gaben verschiedene Gymnasien solche Schulprogramme heraus, in denen sie neben administrativen o.รค. Infos auch einen wissenschaftlichen Beitrag verรถffentlichten. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulproโ€ฆ

im 19. und frรผhen 20. Jahrhundert herausgegebene Verรถffentlichung

Autoren der Wikimedia-Projekte (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

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Aha! I didn't realise it car came with a built in yarn holder as standard
The cup holder in a car holding 2 cakes of yarn instead of cups

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NEW: Insiders tell ProPublica that Amy Gleason is only in charge on paper, while Muskโ€™s top lieutenants really run #DOGE.

One person who has been in meetings with Gleason described her as having โ€œlittle to no actual decision makingโ€ responsibilities.

#news #government #musk #ElonMusk #AmyGleason #Trump

propublica.org/article/doge-leโ€ฆ


Whoโ€™s Really in Charge at DOGE: Elon Musk or Amy Gleason?

Insiders tell ProPublica that Amy Gleason is only in charge on paper, while Muskโ€™s top lieutenants really run DOGE. One person who has been in meetings with Gleason described her as having โ€œlittle to no actual decision makingโ€ responsibilities.
ProPublica
#news #trump #elonmusk #Doge #government #musk #amygleason

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If someone wanted to test that, they'd count how many times Amy Gleason told Elmo the Dick, "No."

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See yโ€™all tomorrow for some Cypurr fun! bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cypuโ€ฆ:

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#Warnung #ruckruf

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When humans use AI to earn patents, who is doing the inventing? buff.ly/En8SLOb

When humans use AI to earn patents, who is doing the inventing?

US patent law says inventors must be human, but they can use AI. This changes the nature of invention and raises the question: Is this what the founders had in mind when they set up the patent system?
The Conversation
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this is just a start, wait and watch when patents will be filed and even checked by #AI ๐Ÿ˜…
#ai

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"Es gibt nur noch eine formelle und keine inhaltliche Brandmauer mehr. Das bedeutet, dass wir uns rekalibrieren mรผssen, sodass klar ist: Wir protestieren nicht gegen formelle Bรผndnisse, sondern gegen menschenfeindliche Inhalte โ€“ egal von wem sie kommen."
~~ @arnesemsrott

taz.de/Autor-ueber-AfD-Tendenzโ€ฆ


Autor รผber AfD-Tendenzen der CDU: โ€žDas ist einfach nur saugefรคhrlichโ€œ

Der Journalist Arne Semsrott hatte in einem Buch durchgespielt, was passiert, wenn die AfD regiert. Nun kommt die Union seinen Prognosen zuvor.
Gareth Joswig (taz)
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So much for the โ€œFree Speechโ€ champions.
X post by Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders ), featuring a verification badge. The text of the post reads: "No, Mr. President, you cannot illegally arrest and detain legal US residents because of their political views or opinions. In America, we have a little something called the First Amendment. Throwing protesters in jail is yet another step on the path to authoritarianism." The post emphasizes a defense of First Amendment rights and expresses concern about authoritarian actions.
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