Trump slashes Voice of America with executive order, employees put on leave
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/15/trump-executive-order-voice-of-america/82443203007/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Trump slashes Voice of America with executive order, employees put on leave
The parent company of Voice of America, U.S. Agency for Global Media, oversees all non-military, international broadcasting.Greta Cross (USA TODAY)
Voice Of America — silenced.
#BoycottAmerica and buy local or European.
nytimes.com/2025/03/15/us/poli…
Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent
The order targeting the agencies, which include one overseeing government-funded media outlets, appeared to test the bounds of the president’s power.Tyler Pager (The New York Times)
@geerlingguy macOS + Ansible weekend project thanks to your video and galaxy collection. I am happy with how it turned out. Equally useful for a new system bootstrap or just adding a package.
github.com/jtbrough/macos_ansi…
GitHub - jtbrough/macos_ansible: Setup macOS devices with Ansible.
Setup macOS devices with Ansible. Contribute to jtbrough/macos_ansible development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
🇺🇸 A double standard. Trump won’t sanction Russia (yet) because he wants peace talks, says Sec. of State Rubio.
Sanctioning the aggressor? ❌
Blocking weapons to Ukraine to force talks? ✅
Meanwhile, Russia keeps making demands with zero consequences. Why is only Ukraine being pressured to compromise?
⚡️🇪🇺 The EU has no plans to halt arms supplies to Ukraine even if a 30-day ceasefire is agreed, DW reports, citing diplomats.
dw.com/ru/v-slucae-vremennogo-…
В случае временного перемирия ЕС продолжит вооружать Украину
ЕС будет поставлять оружие Киеву даже во время потенциального прекращения огня, чтобы помочь ему занять сильную позицию на переговорах и отразить возможную повторную атаку РФ, говорят дипломаты в Брюсселе.Ксения Польская (Deutsche Welle)
Ukraine is running out of missiles for its Samp-T air defense systems, Corriere della Sera reports. Kyiv has urgently asked Italy & France for at least 50 Aster-30 missiles to replenish its stocks.
corriere.it/off-the-record-giu…
Le batterie Samp-T sono senza missili, gli ucraini premono su Italia e Francia
I due lanciatori forniti dal governo Meloni hanno praticamente esaurito i colpi. Il ministro della Difesa Umerov in missione a Roma per chiedere aiuto, ma anche il nostro Paese è senza munizioni.Giuseppe Sarcina (Corriere della Sera)
patch: source.mnt.re/-/snippets/14
some notes:
—geometry shaders are afaik not used anymore, at least there was a big effort to replace them in UI
—not sure if multiDrawIndirect is still used (reference: projects.blender.org/blender/b…)
—multiViewPort: projects.blender.org/blender/b…
—gl_ClipDistance is used in a few shaders
—dual src blending mostly in eevee, otherwise rare: projects.blender.org/blender/b…
cc @kusma
Patch to run Blender 4.5 (git) on mesa/panvk ($14) · Snippets · GitLab
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I have just managed to find some COVID era large magnetic sheets. I have a colour laser printer, some adhesive vinyl paper and very little shame.
I think I'm going to out fridge magnet my Wife and then make up a load of "you park like a teenager in his first sexual experience" magnets.
L'œuvre de Hannah Arendt est aussi exceptionnelle que conséquente.
On peut l'aborder de manière simple et efficace grâce à ce petit bouquin. En ces temps troubles, les réflexions de cette grande philosophe sont - malheureusement - toujours pertinentes. Je recommande, absolument!
GitHub - tryvocalcat/activitypub-badges: ActivityPub Badges Implementa
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This has bothered me for years at this point. Decades.
Also: if you view the front of the car as a face, what emotion is it conveying? Once you start seeing it, it’s hard to stop.
My youngest would always comment on what the cars were feeling when he was little, and now I see it all the time too! … and there are few happy cars on the road anymore 😞
Back when I was a kid, I really really liked the Dodge/Chrysler Neon, because the front looked like it was smiling.
@JessTheUnstill @DavidM_yeg I had one of those things! My friend tried to give it to me for nothing, and I argued her up to $500 even though she said she felt bad about that. It had problem after problem. My rule was I’d only fix safety-related things, and only under a certain (fairly low) repair cost. It lasted for •years• that way: it was just barely holding together and always on the brink of undrivable…yet somehow it never quite died. Finally donated it for parts when the clutch had completely filled with engine oil.
It was by any standard a terrible car, yet it stuck with me for longer than it should have. And yeah, it looked happy doing it.
@inthehands @DavidM_yeg @seachanger
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Canada reconsidering F-35 purchase amid tensions with Washington, says minister: cbc.ca/news/politics/f35-blair…
Let's keep the pressure up, 🇨🇦! ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Pet… #CancelTheF35 #cdnpoli #polcan #Canada #RCAF #defence #defense #military
There isn't any reason passports need to mention gender. I didn't know about this but some of you mentioned it last week, then I stumbled on this article.
thedailybeast.com/how-the-rise…
How The Rise of Androgyny Changed Our Passports
The rise of androgyny and unisex fashion in the 1970s was apparently responsible for the introduction of a sex marker in passports.Samantha Allen (The Daily Beast)
@mcc
I use my passport because I live in a theocratic state.
But the same faction at the federal level would have a more difficult time. Because the Real ID Act shifted the responsibility for an ID onto the states, they can still issue accurate documents, as they choose. As such, places like Texas will have to accept an ID from places like Illinois, according to Article IV of the Constitution. The patchwork of state systems would overwhelm ideological enforcement by anti-LGBT forces.
@mudd0359 The full faith and credit thing is an odd thing. There seems to be a "bigotry exception"* that was previously used to reject interracial marriages, and we never got a decision on whether it applied to same sex marriages because Obgerfell happened sooner than expected. I'd be curious to see the full faith and credit clause truly tested for trans recognition.
* Sorry I mean "public policy exception".
@mcc
Obergefell's case against Ohio was a full faith/credit case: Maryland marriage vs. Ohio record keeping.
Article IV could open options for transfolk. The problem is living in a regressive state, like mine. Existing residents must produce a (corrected) birth certificate to the DMV; new arrivals can use other forms, like passports or the old state's ID. If a court in one state (residence or birth locale) were to correct one's gender, would the state be forced to accept it?
@mcc
The equal protection and due process claims (14th amendment) seem to be the explicit basis for the Obergefell decision. Buried within the ruling text is an implied appeal to full faith/credit:
"In light of the fact that many States already allow same-sex marriage—and hundreds of thousands of these marriages already have occurred—the disruption caused by the recognition bans is significant and ever-growing."
someone wrote drivers to run Windows 3.1 in HD
github.com/PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv
GitHub - PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv: Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1
Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1. Contribute to PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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So I did a thing because I love my dark romance author wife.
I wrote new lyrics for the tune "The Hero of Canton / The Ballad of Jayne Cobb" ... you know the folk song from Firefly. Her pen name / author persona is Jayne.
Anyone have any thoughts on how I could get a recording of the new lyrics done without embarrassing myself?
#firefly #browncoats #browncoatsforever #music #musicproduction
youtube.com/watch?v=pI-fiGUjAP…
Hero of Canton - The man they call Jayne (original/full scene)
the full song screne from episode 7YouTube
My 3d-printed morse key didn't allow me to adjust the throw of the paddle, and I had to move my hand way too far when sending. It was tiring, and I kept occasionally missing a dit or a dah. I swapped out the 12mm M3 screws for 16mm and added a nut. I adjusted the throw to be shorter, then held the screw in place while tightening the nut on the ring terminal to lock it in place.
Then I ran some 400 grit sandpaper against the screws to contour them a bit to fit the screw head they connect to.
Suddenly a lot of the problems I had sending before went away. I still have trouble copying at 10WPM, but sending a sample QSO from paper (so I didn't have to think about spelling while sending) I can now send with this key with few errors at 20WPM...
I hadn't used this key since my nicer Putikeeg arrived. But now I want to do CW #POTA (as my skills increase) so I thought it would be interesting to try strapping this key to my leg... 1/2
@cad_viewer Well, that's "how you wonder if someone else will distinguish you from GrabCAD" and I'll let you do your own market research.
But I've also seen open source web-based STEP model visualization that honored colors at least; don't remember whether what I saw included a representation of the tree, since when i care about that i have it open in FreeCAD anyway. 🙂
@cad_viewer Right, my questions are only somewhat related to "what is your market?" and were really started by your opening suggestion that I would have a reason to use your services for my Morse code key design, then more generally what a community hobbyist would want, since you started this with an assumption of community outreach.
I still don't grok why a commercial entity is operating from a .org domain; that sets up weird expectations.
Requiem for the voice that carried a nation’s conscience
VOA's signal for 83 years crossed borders and ideologies—now its silence will speak volumes.open.substack.com
Boris Karnikowski reshared this.
Please read this and share widely, folks. We are losing an incredible service to democracy.
"I’ve met many in our audience who told me VOA gave them their first taste of freedom, led to their decisions to defect from authoritarian lands or that they now speak our language because of VOA's Learning English broadcasts."
Requiem for the voice that carried a nation’s conscience
steveherman.press/p/requiem-fo…
Requiem for the voice that carried a nation’s conscience
VOA's signal for 83 years crossed borders and ideologies—now its silence will speak volumes.www.steveherman.press
Michael Stanclift reshared this.
Hitler used the Constitution to shatter the Constitution. In 53 days. Today is day 54 of Trump’s second term.
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
#TrumpLovesHitler #EndTrump #EndMusk #DonaldKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.Timothy W. Ryback (The Atlantic)
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Cartoon Network Groovies (Gorilla 4 Sale)
One of a series of Cartoon Network Groovies that used to air on the Boomerang channel.YouTube
My husband took this with his telescope and I just adore it.
#nasa #space #photography #photo #bwblackphotography
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‘It’s worth it’: Urban Grocer replacing all U.S. produce suppliers
Urban Grocer staff in Victoria have removed nearly all U.S.-sourced produce from their shelves, and by next week, they will no longer have any of that countr...YouTube
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16 March 1891 | A Polish Jew, Aron Libster, was born in Żółkiewka.
In #Auschwitz from 14 September 1941.
No. 20824
Fate unknown.
Judge blocks #Trump after he invokes wartime #AlienEnemiesAct to speed up #deportations
A federal judge ordered the administration to turn around any planes that had already taken off after the act quietly went into effect.
#law #immigration #Venezuela #DueProcess #14thAmendment #5thAmendment
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@pluralistic :
"Amazon's excuse for destroying your privacy: they want to do AI processing on the audio Alexa captures, and that is too computationally intensive for on-device processing. But that only raises another question: why does Amazon want to do this AI processing [...]?
For Big Tech companies, AI is part of a "growth story" – a narrative about how these companies that have already saturated their markets will still continue to grow."
"Every part of this Echo privacy massacre is downstream of that [pro-monopoly] policy choice: "growth stock" narratives about AI, twiddling, DMCA 1201, the Darth Vader MBA, the end of legal privacy protections. These are material things, not ideological ones. They exist to make a very, very small number of people very, very rich."
Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading (15 Mar 2025)
pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/alt…
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