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Troy Edgar Implies We Should Deport Elon #Musk - emptywheel.net/2025/03/14/troy… "To be clear: Edgar is wrong. It’s not that Khalil entered on a student visa, it’s that he’s not a citizen. Elon was allowed to become a citizen, so is safe from this particular targeted persecution.

But his use of government funding to platform antisemitism should not be."

#musk


Full moon rising across the Dornoch Firth, with Portmahomack (Tarbert Ness) lighthouse for company, a few minutes ago.
in reply to Justine Smithies

@justine @Jkp Thanks. It also seems the only mast from which we can get service is due south, straight into the prevailing winds.


After a three-month trial, the Anchorage Police Department has decided to discontinue using Axon’s AI-generated police report technology because of a lack of time savings. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/anch…

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Robee? Na! 🌈
@gary_bbgames Then Knightmare Live is for you!!! It was great fun!
@Gary



You can edit your posts on Mastodon, it's very easy:

1. Go to the post you want to edit
2. Click ⋯ on the post
3. Click "Edit"
4. Make the changes
5. Click "Save changes"

NOTE: Every time you edit, anyone who boosted the post will receive a notification about it. Also, previous versions of the post will be visible by clicking the post's "edited" link. These are to stop abuse through bait-and-switch tactics.

Lots more questions answered about editing at:

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@coloco

The notifications are sent to those who have boosted it (retooted it).

@Toni
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cierto, si, lo tenia malentendido, pensaba que llegaba a los mencionados y los favs tambien y NO, solo a los boost/retoots.

Gracias.
#edit #tips

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giving #COSMIC a go on #postmarketOS with the Yoga Slim 7x.

This is really feeling like the natural successor to Sway for me, let's see how daily driving goes....

Thanks @craftyguy for getting it packed in pmOS 😁



Die Merkur AG (Gauselmann) hat Dank einer Hacktivistin all ihre Daten aus all ihren Onlinecasinos verloren. Diese Hackerin war ich. Mehr dazu gleich.
in reply to Lilith Wittmann

Artikel:
lilithwittmann.medium.com/casi…


HELP! :earth:

Anybody in PR/advertising in NYC and know where this Publicis dinner is taking place?

"We are also hosting a dinner in New York on Tuesday, where former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will share insights with about 40 global CEOs."

:ExtinctionRebellion:

#uspol #advertising #pr #publicis #research #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #resistance #fedihelp #activism

fortune.com/2025/03/14/publici…



We can't believe it! Less than five hours after going public with our emergency fundraiser, we are past the halfway point! More than £30,000 raised! That's a *hole* lot of love for this museum which means so much to so many of you gofundme.com/f/btscc2


Meta stops former Facebook director from promoting critical memoir

Meta has won an emergency ruling in the US to temporarily stop a former director of Facebook from promoting or further distributing copies of her memoir.

bbc.com/news/articles/cq5zyq02…

#news #tech #technology #socialmedia #meta #facebook

in reply to Frankie ✅

now i am very interested in knowing who managed to get one before it was locked down.


RFK Jr. Claims Measles Can Be Cured With A Good Concealer
theonion.com/rfk-jr-claims-mea…


Tomorrow is the Ides of March, and here at the Scalzi Compound we have a whole stack of new books and ARCs to peruse. Which of these books would you like to take a stab at?
in reply to John Appel

@jappel @zakalwe
I would go a little further and say he helped create them.
There's a generation of talented people who didn't give much thought to the possible ethical concerns of working for Google, Amazon, and Facebook and, later, Tesla and SpaceX partially because of reading his fiction.


Despite all the stereotypes, sometimes software gets the math wrong 💀

Why care about understanding how software metrics operate in the real world at scale? Because I see tech folks constantly talk big about using terrible aggregations that make no sense.

arxiv.org/abs/2503.05040

in reply to Dr. Cat Hicks

By the way, if you want some evidence design consulting for your engineering organization from someone who CAN show her work? You know where to find me.

catharsisinsight.com/



French nuclear submarine arrives in Canada, so the Canadians can see its capabilities, and choose to buy French instead of buying from the gangster in Washington.

Merci! ♥️

youtu.be/lKSKWI40fI0?si=ekxL2g…





CURRENTLY IN ROTATION
Tune in to the #stream for more!
youtube.com/watch?v=S6_geDVVNU…
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I guess I picked a bad day to stop making miniatures. 😸
But seriously, it has six GPIO pins, 12bit ADC, and native support for ISRT, I2C, and SPI. 16k of memory is tight these days but still amazing in that package.
It would be very cool for @adafruit to make a public spec like the Feather but for boards the size of a tic-tac. ti.com/about-ti/newsroom/news-…


To stop a wave of vandalism against Tesla cars, dealerships, and charging stations, the Trump administration has vowed to crack down on the perpetrators. pcmag.com/news/trumps-attorney…
in reply to PCMag

Maybe they should go after Elon, then they'd all stop, duh.



// In 14 minutes, Matthew McConaughey* begins his epic journey to recite a million digits of Pi. Don't miss the opening!

* Impersonator. No AI.

youtube.com/watch?v=7KpS54llYU…



I threw away Audible’s app, and now I self-host my audiobooks
Stream your DRM-free audiobooks to devices yourselves, without the cloud's chains.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
in reply to Ars Technica

Great input here - just fired up my own instance and began transferring my books from #Audible. Thanks! 🙏


It's the first #FediDonutFriday 🍩 I'm starting a donut club for the Fediverse, let's get donuts together!

sethmlarson.dev/fedi-donut-fri…

in reply to Seth Larson

Participating is easy:

* Follow the #FediDonutFriday hashtag on your Fediverse instance.
* Every-other Friday, get a donut and share it with the hashtag.
* Meet strangers in the Fediverse twice a month and enjoy your donut! 🍩

Here's an iCal event for an easy reminder for the next #FediDonutFriday:




2nd Gen Chromecasts are Fixed! youtube.com/watch?v=1FGpeftDmF…


“It was a sad and disappointing day when I found out that my universal remote control did not, in fact, control the Universe. Not even remotely.” — Memes by Sam

Painting by Carolus Duran (1837-1917)

#quote #quotes #painting #remote #funny #meme



And here I go computer-sciencey again:

The Composition-Oriented ual Way

Part 1: Foundations - Container-Centric Thinking


github.com/ha1tch/ual/blob/mai…

ual is a programming language that places containers, not values, at the center of its design. Part 1 explores container-centric thinking and how focusing on where values live rather than what they are creates interesting new approaches to code organization and algorithm design.

Part 1 of 6, the rest of the series is here:
github.com/ha1tch/ual/tree/mai…

#ual #rustlang #golang #forth #compsci #programming #retrodev #retrofuturism #retrocomputing



Found a purveyor of genuine Lardy Cake! If you have not eaten Lardy Cake, I suggest you seek some out (vegans, diabetics, and so forth excepted as they will likely explode).
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lardy_…


Amazon Uses Arsenal of AI Weapons Against Workers

A study of a union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, shows that the company weaponizes its algorithmic surveillance tools to prevent organizing.

prospect.org/labor/2025-03-13-…

#news #business #ai #amazon #economy #workers #workersrights #union

in reply to Frankie ✅

We boycott Amazon as much as we can because of the way Bezos treats his staff znd becsuse of his monopolistic practises. Support all the alternatives. As Musk is finding with plunging Tesls sales, consumers have a lot of power by choosing alternatives.


in reply to Low Quality Facts

I'm pretty sure this actually means you should cut back on the broccoli.
in reply to Low Quality Facts

youtube.com/watch?v=a_426RiwST…


in reply to isaiah

@isaiah it is. I think you would be hard pressed to find a diner here that didn't offer them.
in reply to Emily Velasco

i’m just joking — my favorite bit about metro california (north and south) is the food.

i was born and spent much of my childhood in san diego (though i’m mostly from santa cruz) — even though i live in austin now — (at least for a bit more)



RCS texting updates will bring end-to-end encryption to green bubble chats
Lack of encryption was one SMS shortcoming that RCS was created to solve.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…


Every time I read "Lunar Lander", I get this in my head.

The 80's really did have an effect on me.

in reply to Extreme Electronics

If you've not written a lunar lander program then your not a real programmer 😀


Finally doing some design at home.

I'm revisiting the Joystick handle to optimize it for 3D printing, rather than machining, as I spent months doing in the past (fuck, XD)

On the outside there doesn't seem to be much change, but there's a LOT of difference.

Previously I was going to use 20mm aluminium stock, so removing, or leaving, material was a non issue. Switching to additive means I want to either add as little material as possible, or at least NOT need supports.

in reply to Patrick Herd

@PatrickHerd Yeah, I'm just now finding out about the loose fibers thing in the ones that have simply fivers mixed in them. The one that is only core should be a lot more safe.

Oh well.



Who needs lightning? Key biochemicals form from static sparks
Charges cause water droplets in an early-Earth atmosphere to build up pre-life chemicals.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…



There are a lot of depressing developments in the news. So I wanted to amplify and flesh out some good ones, courtesy of our federal courts. I hope they put some smiles on your faces! open.substack.com/pub/statusku…