"Having trouble selling your Tesla? Tired of being associated with a toxic, Nazi-adjacent brand? We understand that thereβs a shrinking market of buyers and limited selling options for current owners."
Steal My Tesla
I offered up some options, and wife and kids decided they wanted burgers for lunch. I made this plan this morning when the forecast said it was going to stop raining at noon.
Right about the time I went outside to start up the griddle, the wind picked up and it started snowing.
Too late to stop. I was out so long and I burned my finger but I donβt know which finger is burned and which fingers are just cold.
Non Heralded Awesome Music
Online magazine-style platform aiming to help draw connections between indie musicians, fair distribution platforms and listeners, under a shared ethos.nham.co.uk
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New long blog, The Covid pandemic, 5 years on (1/6)
Five years ago, COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. For millions, it was literally a defining event of their lives: It killed them. It indisputedly killed at least 7,000,000 people. Thatβs covid deaths reported to the World Health Organization. The actual number is far higher, and the ongoing impact of the pandemic is also tremendous. Two meaningful parts of that impact are continuing excess mortality, and impact on children, especially how theyβre doing educationally. (For example, see Nationβs test scores fall.)
shostack.org/blog/covid-5-yearβ¦
Shostack + Friends Blog > The Covid pandemic, 5 years on
Thinking about Covid, five years on.shostack.org
You want to get acid free rag board to mount the piece onto otherwise it will discolor over time. Mount it with acid free double stick tape, again to prevent discoloration.
Glazing is a nice to have to protect from dust and grime. If you're going with glazing, consider glass with a UV film or UV plexi (expensive!)
In which an unpaid open-source maintainer gets help from companies using the software to attack a particularly complex and ugly bug: blog.hartwork.org/posts/expat-β¦
Good on Sebastian and on the companies that stepped up!
Also, recursion is often bad.
#oss
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In Danish we say βArrogance is bound to fallβ, which perfectly describes this situation (Hovmod stΓ₯r for fald).
Is there a similar saying in English?
@HarriettMB perhaps?
mastodon.social/@randahl/11416β¦
Larry Kudlow interviews Elon Musk, and this is what regret looks like.Throwing your entire brand value down the drain and halving the value of your car company while your rockets are blowing up, is clearly not the joyride Musk hoped for.
Source: youtu.be/T6DiMIJIvYw?si=logfwXβ¦
Elon Musk exposes why Democrats donβt want βwaste and fraudβ to be turned off
Tesla, SpaceX founder and CEO and Department of Government Efficiency advisor Elon Musk on the alleged X cyberattack, spending 'fraud' targeted by DOGE and h...YouTube
Howdy, I'm a mixed-media artist of sorts. I enjoy making a variety of crafts, props, and costumes based on video games and original ideas. I like things that are neat, and I hope you think my stuff is too!
#introduction #mixedmedia #mastoart #propmaking #cosplay #evafoam #crafts
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That's like 25 million Americans marching against Trump.
piaille.fr/@le_pere_peinard/11β¦
Le Père Peinard (@le_pere_peinard@piaille.fr)
AttachΓ©β―: 1 vidΓ©o β οΈ Flash Info β οΈ Il semblerait que l'ensemble de la capitale serbe soit dans la rue ce soir pour protester contre le rΓ©gime de Vucic. #Belgrade #Serbie #Manifestation https://www.leperepeinard.Piaille
Linus Torvalds reckons AI
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Linus Torvalds reckons AI is β90% marketing and 10% realityβ
The Linux creator is interested in AI, but the hype means he "basically ignores" it.Mark Tyson (Tom's Hardware)
get library cards and use them often (online e-book and audiobook rentals count!). sign up to volunteer at your local library. donate money to your libraryβs general fund. run for a spot on the library board.
join and participate in your local βfriends of the libraryβ group. donate books (if your library accepts book donations). set up your own little free library. vote for library funding when itβs on your local ballot.
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fill out comment cards to leave positive comments. request new materials that youβd like to see added to the stacks. like and share your libraryβs social media content.
The Big Picture | Substack
The Big Picture provides a deep dive into the cultural, political, and societal issues shaping our world today, from a variety of unique perspectives. Click to read The Big Picture, a Substack publication.buff.ly
Folks, we have about 30 days to save democracy.
VOA journalists put on administrative leave after Trump axes parent agency
thehill.com/homenews/media/519β¦
#EndTrump #EndMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #GOPWeirdos #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Microsoft shrugs off company climate goals to support burning methane gas for AI data centers
urbanmilwaukee.com/pressreleasβ¦
AI will burn everything to the ground.
linkspam!
The Turbo-Encabulator in Industry. (1944)
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At tribal colleges, scholarships funded by a USDA grant have been suspended amid the Trump administrationβs widespread cost-cutting.
Now some students are facing their final weeks on campus.
propublica.org/article/tribal-β¦
#News #Trump #Native #Indigenous #Education #College #Students #USDA
Trump Administration Suspends Tribal College USDA Grant Funding
Tribal colleges and universities, which ProPublica last year found are perpetually underfunded by Congress, say itβs illegal to withhold financial support from them.ProPublica
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Something Blue β Pepper β March 15, 2025
sbblues.com/2025/03/15/pepper/
This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week weβre featuring Common Time, Nigel Harpur, and Charlie Hunter. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.
Donβt miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM Central, at kasu.org.
I call this coming attractions. π±
I do not yet have a cat living with me, but I am getting ready for one. I bunch of things are being shipped here. For example, this six level cat tower. Nearly 100lbs (45kg) dry cat food, along with 60 cans of wet cat food. 2 littler boxes (one traditional, one enclosure). 1 stainless steal water fountain (cats like moving water). 2 large stainless steal food dishes.
Paper work too since the property management says we needed rental insurance with liability. Being I do not like leaving anything to chance, 100,000 property with 500,000 liability should be enough.
And this is all before a cat steps foot in here. So many folks "wing it" (do not plan ahead) before taking on the responsibilities of owning a pet. I would rather avoid that whenever possible.
Before anyone ask, no, that is not the final location of the cat stand.
Larry Kudlow interviews Elon Musk, and this is what regret looks like.
Throwing your entire brand value down the drain and halving the value of your car company while your rockets are blowing up, is clearly not the joyride Musk hoped for.
Source: youtu.be/T6DiMIJIvYw?si=logfwXβ¦
Elon Musk exposes why Democrats donβt want βwaste and fraudβ to be turned off
Tesla, SpaceX founder and CEO and Department of Government Efficiency advisor Elon Musk on the alleged X cyberattack, spending 'fraud' targeted by DOGE and h...YouTube
You think you had a bad cab ride?
How does this even happen? I don't think anyone was hurt. God bless the bollards I suppose.
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welcome to my world:
toot.community/@blabberliciousβ¦
Steve Williams (@blabberlicious@toot.community)
Attached: 1 image Catch of the day. There is a junction at Tooting that has achieved legendary status.toot.community
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Trump Administration say South Africa's Ambassador to U.S. 'persona non grata'
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5329268/trump-administraiton-south-africas-ambassador-to-u-s-persona-non-grata?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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You can embed Mastodon posts in your website or blog by doing the following:
1. Log in through your server's website
2. Go to the post or reply you want to embed and click on it to show it in an enlarged view
3. Click β― on the post and select "Get Embed Code"
4. Copy-paste the HTML code into your website or blog
Lots of common questions answered about this at:
β‘οΈ fedi.tips/how-to-embed-mastodoβ¦
If you have problems embedding, see the article for suggestions.
How to embed Mastodon posts on a website or blog | Fedi.Tips β An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
There used to be the advantage of making the embedded post more interactive and accessible. Unfortunately it looks like they have removed these features π
Together with the unreported bug, wish I'd picked a different tip to feature today π¦
Oh well, tomorrow is a new day...
Should definitely sue, though.
What's life like in advertising these days? When I was a child you could buy a commercial during the Saturday morning cartoons to sell your toy (or buy the whole cartoon) and you could put your car commercial on during the Evening News.
And you'd reach most of your "demographic."
But now? a maze of influencers and fragmented media (I don't think influencers really matter much, they are just the most familiar item in the new landscape for advertisers.)
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the public. For example, if you are waiting, there are two ways to avoid waiting becoming suffering. You can either find something interesting to think about, or do the mindfulness thing and intentionally keep words out of your head.
Neither option is possible if there is an ad playing. Medical ads are the worst. Health fear is one of the worst mental states, and deliberately inducing that is just evil. When those ads are playing, I get out of the supermarket faster, and buy less.
So to me the breakthrough would be finding a way to reach the public without causing annoyance or pain. If I am trying to find something online and an ad gets in the way, that is unpleasant.
However, I look through Slickdeals and Vine every day. Sometimes buy something too. Those are ads but I want to see them. How can we make advertising more like Slickdeals, and less like pop-ups on phones and shingles vaccine commercials in Ralphs?
#unix_surrealism animation: how-to?
Draw the first frame; draw the next frame; and the next.
Don't think about it.
This was done in pencil2d.
AN/FPS-24 Radar Tower, Mt. Umunhum, Los Gatos, CA, 2024.
All the pixels, none of the interference to TV reception, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53β¦
AN/FPS-24 Radar Tower
Mount Umunhum Summit, Los Gatos, CA 16 June 2024 Two captures with Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR-Digaron-W lens, Phase One IQ4-150 digital back (@ ISO 50), Cambo WRS 1250 camera (shifted left/right 15mm) to produce a 230MP stitched image.Flickr
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Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove βIdeological Biasβ From Powerful Models
A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of βAI safetyβ and βAI fairness.β
wired.com/story/ai-safety-instβ¦
#news #tech #technology #security #AI #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump
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