The sicko leading the sick. 🤦🏻♀️
“ #RFKJr. has suggested allowing #BirdFlu to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Veterinary scientists said that would be inhumane, dangerous and have enormous economic consequences.”
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RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread
The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.Apoorva Mandavilli (The New York Times)
#ETTD Republicans just keep doing this kind of thing.
Via Rupar:
"MN state Sen. Justin Eichorn allegedly arranged to meet someone he thought was a teenage girl for sex and instead was arrested by police ... One of Eichorn’s recent official acts was being among 5 Republicans who are seeking to dub 'Trump derangement syndrome' as an official mental illness" startribune.com/justin-eichorn…
GOP calls for Sen. Justin Eichorn to resign after arrest for allegedly soliciting teen for sex
The Grand Rapids Republican actually was talking with a Twin Cities police detective, officials said.Paul Walsh
Data protection is human protection: EU’s top court demands Hungary correct trans refugee's documents -
Today, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) issued a judgment in the case of Deldits (C-247/23), stating that national authorities responsible for keeping public registers (such as asylum registers) should correct data on gender identity when it is i…nisha (TGEU - Transgender Europe)
At first glance, the specimens in Mandy Barker's images appear like a fragment of a leaf or a scatter of organic material, but upon closer inspection, they reveal details of unraveled polyester or scraps of nylon tights.
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Mandy Barker's Cyanotypes Revive a Pioneering Botanist's Book to Warn About Synthetic Debris — Colossal
Forthcoming from GOST Books, Mandy Barker's 'Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Imperfections' surveys synthetic specimens.Kate Mothes (Colossal)
A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music For Airports: Meditate, Relax, Study
Robert Wyatt, Music for Airports started the idea of slow, meditative music that abandoned typical major and minor scales, brought in melodic ambiguity, and began the exploration of sounds that were designed to exist somewhere in the background, beyo…OC (Openculture.com)
Trump got nothing. Putin tricked Trump into demanding that Ukraine can no longer bomb Russian oil refineries, while Putin can continue bombing civilians, and Ukraine can have 0 weapon deliveries for 30 days.
Trump truly possesses a lethal level of stupidity.
It is time the international community tells the wannabe dictator, that we do not deal with fools, and we will now help Ukraine send Putin's murderers back to Moscow.
Enough is enough.
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Hurra: Ukraine’s army escapes from Kursk by the skin of its teeth
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Ukraine’s army escapes from Kursk by the skin of its teeth
Ukraine will have less Russian land than it hoped to trade for peaceThe Economist
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" The Russians had also massed at least 50,000 troops, four times the Ukrainians’ numbers. It remains unclear how they pulled it off, and what role Donald Trump’s decision (subsequently reversed) to limit intelligence sharing with Ukraine on March 5th had played. Some Ukrainian intelligence officers insist they were blindsided. “The Americans are lying if they say we had everything we needed for defence,” one says."
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Rep Brandon Gill (R-TX) is the same House member who introduced bill this month to order the U.S. mint to begin printing all $100 bills with Trump’s portrait (replacing Ben Franklin) in 2028
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Republicans execute the innocent with lethal injection and soon firing squad.
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Guilt or innocence is irrelevant to the billionaires buying a fascist takeover of American democracy.
It's the intimidation that matters to Jim Crow Birchers & the silencing of critics & dissidents
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SC justices again refuse to stop Friday's execution, despite new claims of innocence • SC Daily Gazette
Unless the governor or the state Supreme Court intervenes, Freddie Owens is scheduled to die Friday night, the first SC execution in 13 yearsSkylar Laird (South Carolina Daily Gazette)
With the Parliamentary bill about making #smartphones 'safer' for young people in the news, here are some of my articles on this very subject, which show the more nuanced picture than the headlines suggest
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Are you addicted to your phone, or does Martha Gill need more friends?
Another day, another Guardian column that demonises smartphones and tech for very dubious reasons. But such casual invoking of the label 'addiction' could be causing actual problems.Dean Burnett (The Neuroscience of Everyday Life)
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GitHub - idaho/hassio-trash-card: TrashCard - indicates what type of trash will be picked up next based on your calendar entries 🗑️
TrashCard - indicates what type of trash will be picked up next based on your calendar entries 🗑️ - idaho/hassio-trash-cardGitHub
I needed a script to continuously monitor the queries handled by a local Pihole installation, and this didn't yet seem to exist for version 6, so I wrote one. Someone else might also have some use for it, so here you go: gist.github.com/floe/cd64ada1b…
(Yes, it's not Codeberg, but they don't have gists (yet).)
Continuously fetch DNS query stats from Pihole 6
Continuously fetch DNS query stats from Pihole 6. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.Gist
I took note from another Fedi user that you can just create a repo name "Gists" on Codeberg and put all your little stuff there. 😀
Warum es #AI-Regulierung braucht, Teil 48/∞
Cellebrite Dumps AI Into Its Cell Phone-Scraping Tool So Cops Can Hallucinate Evidence techdirt.com/2025/03/18/celleb…
Cellebrite Dumps AI Into Its Cell Phone-Scraping Tool So Cops Can Hallucinate Evidence
I honestly don’t understand this compunction to break things that are already working fine. Axon makes body cameras (and Tasers!), but it simply wasn’t enough to equip cops with cameras…Techdirt
Denver mom detained by ICE without a deportation order, during her lunch break at Target, because of her immigration rights work
"John Fabbricatore, the retired field director for ICE in Denver, says the agency tried to deport Vizguerra for years, starting in President Donald Trump's first term.
“She's been against this government, against ICE,” Fabbricatore said. “She's just part of the Abolish ICE movement, and she should have been deported years ago.”
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Denver immigrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra detained, advocates scramble to protect her as Trump escalates crackdown
Jeanette Vizguerra became famous for her activism during President Donald Trump’s first term.Kevin Beaty (Denverite)
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I love the way the ICE guy throws out “working under a fake Social Security number” as something that makes her deportable. It means she pays into our Social Security system through the payroll tax but will never be able to collect benefits.
This of course is how it is with most undocumented immigrants: they carry a heavier weight in our society so the burden for the rest of us will be lighter.
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Gemini is absorbing features from one of Google's coolest AI products.
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Gemini gets new coding and writing tools, plus AI-generated “podcasts”
Gemini is absorbing features from one of Google’s coolest AI products.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
Woot! Woot! 😎
Go Net Speed (spelled as one word, GoNetSpeed) is coming here. Finally!!!! I am getting Fiber Optic Internet.
Woot!!!!!!!!!!!! Woot!!!!!!!!!!!! 🥳
#GoNetSpeed #FiberOpticInternet #FiberOptic #Fiber #HighSpeedInternet
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Judge rules against Musk and ‘Doge’, finding USAid shutdown ‘likely violated’ constitution – US politics live
Federal judge orders halt on any work to shut down USAid and tells Musk’s so-called Department for government efficiency to reinstate workers’ email accessTom Ambrose (The Guardian)
Geoffrey Starks to leave FCC as new chair pushes "Delete, Delete, Delete" plan.
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FCC Democrat to resign, cementing Republican majority for Chairman Carr
Geoffrey Starks to leave FCC as new chair pushes “Delete, Delete, Delete” plan.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
From pulpits to protest, the surprising history of the phrase ‘pride and prejudice’
The phrase appeared on thousands of pages unrelated to Jane Austen before and during her life – and was a favorite phrase of the abolitionists.The Conversation
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I simply do not understand. How many times can consumers be shafted before they realize THE COMPANY IS A PREDITOR.
Sorry for shouting, but fer crissakes people…
While developing for Windows 2.X, we were granted a visit from Redmond, to prep us for 3.1 We were told directly this will require replacing computers.
What about home users? MS rep said fuck 'em. No, not really, he said "Microsoft owns shares in Intel, and home users are an insignificant sliver of M$ revenue.
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Nossen: Großbrand in alter Puppenfabrik - Polizei warnt Anwohner
Das Dachgeschoss der alten Puppenfabrik in Nossen steht in Flammen. Die Feuerwehr ist im Großeinsatz. Anwohner sollen Fenster und Türen geschlossen halten.Henriette Kuhn (Sächsische Zeitung)
4 things to know about Judge Boasberg as he battles Trump over deportation flights
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/g-s1-54493/judge-boasberg-trump-deportation-flights?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Officially licensed spin-off features familiar voice talent; starts at $11,620.
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Heut hab ich meine #Faircamp -Seite mal geupdated.
Neben meiner relativ aktuellen EP "Arbeit oder Liebe" von 2023 lassen sich dort jetzt auch "Demos und Ideen" aus den Jahren 2007 bis 2025 anhören sowie Songs, die ich mit meiner damaligen Band "Danke Samba" aufgenommen hatte.
#Music #Musik #Songwriting #Selfhosting #Folk #Pop #Liedermaching #Chanson
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Myanmar junta’s promise of elections denounced as ‘sham’ by experts
There are fears military will deploy further violence in run-up to any poll, which is unlikely to be viewed as credible
"Will Google continue to invest like this if they are forced to sell Chrome? It would be hard to blame them if they did not."
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Google Being Forced To Sell Chrome is Not Good for the Web
You’ve got a monopoly on lemonade because you pay all the grocery stores to be the default lemonade. So we’re going to force you sell your car. What’s with the weird redirect? If …Chris Coyier
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@slightlyoff Don’t threaten me with a good time, or what is the saying.
Honestly, that seems like another argument for taking Crome away from Google. Google was a source of quite a few… let’s say not very good things. Remember AMP? WebUSB, Web Bluetooth, Topics, and pretty much everything that allows tracking after cookies. Google’s very gung ho about adding stuff. They throw together a silly page in GitHub and merge a feature in a day. Then pressure everyone to accept it because they have a proposal and an implementation. And it’s all because they need it for their product (that’s going to be discontinued next quart anyway).
How is Google going to sell something they do not own? If we take a look at the actual code base then 95%+ of Chrome is Chromium. Which Google does not own. If I am running a monopoly on selling eggs should I be allowed to sell My Neighbors farm to correct that problem?
Firing federal employees was swift. Unwinding the terminations is proving complicated
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California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly
California legislators have begun debating a bill (A.B. 412) that would require AI developers to track and disclose every registered copyrighted work used in AI training. At first glance, this might sound like a reasonable step toward transparency.Electronic Frontier Foundation
> This bill demands that creators of any AI model–even a two-person company or a hobbyist tinkering with a small software build– identify copyrighted materials used in training. That requirement will be incredibly onerous, even if limited just to works registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. The registration system is a cumbersome beast at best–neither machine-readable nor accessible, it’s more like a card catalog than a database–that doesn’t offer information sufficient to identify all authors of a work, much less help developers to reliably match works in a training set to works in the system.
Would you mind expanding on this statement? If you know what works are going into your model, why do you need to scour the Copyright Office's database to find that information?
The best bands we saw at SXSW 2025
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in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Trump wasn’t tricked. He has never been on Ukraine’s side.
They both want to utilize Ukraine for their own benefit, and they both are against a free, liberal, democratic society. Trump and Putin are not enemies, just competitors.
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Unknown parent • • •@lin11c That is my gut feeling too. But there can be a ton of details we do not know.
We need to see the final agreement text to know more.
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in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Please stop saying he is stupid.
His team are very deliberate about what is done and what is said.
There is no stupid here.
Nothing Trump fronts for is stupid. It is all planned.
Elon, on the other hand...
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