What the actual fuck is this? We've already reached the torturing engineers stage?
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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.NHPR
I could have really just skipped learning about why "herd immunity thresholds" matter with an example. We could have just skipped this whole thing. We had a whole plan and it was working great.
a pox on them hippie moms (and me too now I guess, wonderful)
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Why measles breakthrough infections are possible among the vaccinated
Being immunocompromised or in close contact with an infected person puts vaccinated people at a higher risk of infection, experts say.Miriam Fauzia (The Dallas Morning News)
Saturday Sports: College basketball ins and outs
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5325939/saturday-sports-college-basketball-ins-and-outs?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Arlington National Cemetery stops highlighting some historical figures on its website
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/g-s1-54054/arlington-national-cemetery-dei-website?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Last night the band Stealing Sheep joined us for a special #JoyRide listening party. We played their new album on the soundsystem and everyone decked their bikes out in colourful LEDs (inc. lots of @MCQN_Ltd's My Bike's Got LED kits 🤩)
They performed from the back of the trike and livestreamed it to their socials (sadly they're not on the Fediverse)
Here's a bit from my phone when we were down at the Pier Head
#BikeTooter #InTheSaddle #Liverpool #LED #WLED
#JoyRide Stealing Sheep Listening Party at the Pier Head
The #JoyRide Friday social ride hosted @stealingsheepuniverse for a special moving listening party for their new album.Here's a tiny clip of when we were at ...YouTube
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After Schumer's abrupt U-turn to pass the spending bill, what comes next for Democrats?
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5327422/after-schumers-abrupt-u-turn-to-pass-the-spending-bill-what-comes-next-for-democrats?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Federal contractors say they're stuck between nondiscrimination laws and anti-DEI orders
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5325881/federal-contractors-say-theyre-stuck-between-nondiscrimination-laws-and-anti-dei-orders?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Noor Abdalla, wife of detained Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, speaks out
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5328546/noor-abdalla-wife-of-detained-columbia-university-student-mahmoud-khalil-speaks-out?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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A Ukrainian refugee on how her life has changed after leaving Western Ukraine for Iowa
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5325882/a-ukrainian-refugee-on-how-her-life-has-changed-after-leaving-western-ukraine-for-iowa?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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After the strike, New York state prisons are even more short-staffed than before
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5327232/after-the-strike-new-york-state-prisons-are-even-more-short-staffed-than-before?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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In a ski jumping scandal, Norwegian athletes were found to manipulating their suits
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5327440/in-a-ski-jumping-scandal-norwegian-athletes-were-found-to-manipulating-their-suits?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Key sentence in a story that is interesting on many levels.
"But the dollar is a fiat currency, which means that its value does not depend on the backing of any assets the government owns."
Failure to understand this is the foundation of the #DeficitMyth, the convenient excuse for destroying the US government.
What's the deficit myth besides being expedient?
See L. Randall Wray's "Making Money Work for Us" or the very compact "Money for Beginners."
#mmt
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The Strategic Crypto Swindle
A bitcoin reserve would be a government-backed grift.James Surowiecki (The Atlantic)
Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guide for a Self-Guided Tour of Doha - Qatar Purple Travel Guide
Today, we will explore some of the highlights of Doha in Qatar: the Museum of Islamic Art, the Corniche, and Souq Waqif. We provide detailed information and the best things to see and we show lots of photos so you know what you can expect.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
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Elon Musk and His Doge Pals™️, in "Auto Graft"
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Garnet Witch by Aimee Lynette
Source: artstation.com/artwork/B3dXXk
#DnD #Dndmemes #funny #TTRPG #TTRPGMemes #DungeonsandDragons
Everything you need to know about measles, as cases continue to climb
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5327403/everything-you-need-to-know-about-measles-as-cases-continue-to-climb?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Arlington National Cemetery removed links to webpages listing the dozens of “Notable Graves” of Black, Hispanic and female veterans and their spouses. 🙄
15 March 1903 | A Polish Jew, Rafał Rozenberg, was born. He lived in Brussels. A merchant.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 August 1943 in a transport of 1553 Jews from Mechelen. He did not survive.
Attorney General Bonta Announces $1.3 Million Settlement Against Companies Over Sham Health Insurance Plans
Settlement also prohibits companies from selling or operating any health plans in California OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced a $1.3 million settlement with Sedera, Inc.State of California - Department of Justice - Office of the Attorney General
Milwaukee Plans To Construct 60 Traffic Calming Projects in 2025 by @jeramey.urbanmilwaukee.com
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Milwaukee Plans To Construct 60 Traffic Calming Projects in 2025
City plans record number of projects while federal cuts loom.Urban Milwaukee
truthiness - news - corroboration
Use other country's news sites to corroborate the truthiness of news. #truthiness #news #resist
Low hanging fruit:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news site. cbc.ca/news.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation news site. abc.net.au/news.
ABC News - Trusted Source of Latest News & Headlines
Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.www.abc.net.au
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Utspel från Putin: Öppnar för vapenvila - med villkor • Utredningsförslag: Skolorna ska bli mobilfria • Nya utmaningar för kyrkan: AI och existensenSVT Play
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Become an irreplaceable 10x developer in 30 seconds flat
Why learn actual skills when you can just look impressive instead?
Introducing rust-stakeholder - a CLI tool that generates absolutely meaningless but impressive-looking terminal output to convince everyone you're a coding genius without writing a single line of useful code.
github.com/giacomo-b/rust-stak…
GitHub - giacomo-b/rust-stakeholder: Generate impressive-looking terminal output to look busy when stakeholders walk by.
Generate impressive-looking terminal output to look busy when stakeholders walk by. - giacomo-b/rust-stakeholderGitHub
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Was mich hier echt bedrückt, ist die Abwesenheit von Diskussionen um die US-Politik auf den großen Bühnen. Auf der SXSW wird in jeder zweiten Session die Zukunft vorhergesagt. Wie geht das ohne den Faschismus mit in die Rechnung zu nehmen? Hier sind jede Menge wirklich etablierte bekannte Leute, die Einfluss hätten - wenn sie ihn nutzen würden. Hier habe ich gelernt, wieso sie es nicht tun. Und das ist frustrierend. Hier mein aktueller Text dazu.
zeit.de/digital/2025-03/sxsw-2…
SXSW 2025: Warum ist der Faschismus hier kein Thema?
Auf der Tech-Konferenz SXSW in Austin zeigt sich, wieso der Widerstand gegen die aktuelle US-Politik so klein ist. Geschwiegen wird aus Angst – und weil es um Geld geht.Eva Wolfangel (ZEIT ONLINE)
"Record labels attempt to bankrupt Internet Archive over grandpa's dusty old 78s"
Two WoT book readers dive back into Amazon's increasingly divergent adaptation.
arstechnica.com/features/2025/…
The Wheel of Time is back for season three, and so are our weekly recaps
Two WoT book readers dive back into Amazon’s increasingly divergent adaptation.Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)
iPhone And Android Users Will Soon Have The Ability To Send End-To-End Encrypted RCS Messages, Bringing …
Apple has announced that it would be adopting the new RCS standard that comes with end-to-end encryption for enhanced securityWccftech
Week in politics: Schumer faces backlash form Democrats, Trump and the DOJ
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5325944/week-in-politics-schumer-faces-backlash-form-democrats-trump-and-the-doj?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Bigger stepper installed and now my “steam punk” Blind controller is working! It’s slow as hell but it saves me climbing over my work bench to let some light into the room! Still need to mount the driver board and ESP32 but it’s mostly done!
#homeassistant #esphome #smarthome #esp32 #HomeAutomation
Is the gear 3d printed?
Why a steppper and not a classical DC brushed with h bridge?
Mark T. Tomczak
in reply to mem_somerville • • •So last time Trump was on this bullshit, this is one of the things that stopped him: a group of tech companies got together and very quietly explained to the man and his advisors what kind of damage, precisely, it would do to the economy if they couldn't get their employees back out of the airports Trump had stranded them in.
This time? He's got a second term, he thinks he's very right, and I have no idea if anyone will talk him off his bullshit.
mem_somerville
in reply to Mark T. Tomczak • • •@mark I was thinking about the number of people I know who come here for business trips--besides the actual residents here.
I wouldn't send my staff here anymore either. It's clear and present danger now.
But yeah, I don't think there are any guardrails now.