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The March Madness men's bracket is out, and the SEC dominates with a record 14 teams
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/g-s1-54180/march-madness-selection-sunday-ncaa-tournament-brackets?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Sports @sports-npr
Never give up - one Gaza boy's story trying to survive in Gaza : Consider This from NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/1238987355/consider-this-from-npr-draft-03-16-2025?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World News @world-news-npr
"With data center construction on the rise and utility costs top-of-mind for many Americans, the Harvard Electricity Law Initiative reviewed 40 special contracts that state regulators have approved between utilities and data centers. If these contracts offer discounted electricity rates to data centers, and new power grid infrastructure is needed to serve them, other customers may end up paying for the shortfall through higher utility bills."
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Big Tech's secret energy deals may raise costs for families: Harvard
Data centers are spiking electricity demand, and some worry states are striking deals that mean households will pay the cost.Catherine Boudreau (Business Insider)
"We’re in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government. It’s been coming and coming, and not everybody is prepared to read it that way."
~ Lee Bollinger
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism #democracy
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The offpunk-users mailing-list has suddenly seen a dramatic increase in volume. People are really starting to use #offpunk and asking questions, trying to understand how it works.
lists.sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk-…
I’m doing my best to answer and helping people getting started. There’s now a "tutorial" command (which is simply redirecting you to offpunk.net/ )
People are also asking me about #gemini
Welcome to the #smolnet #SmallWeb #smallinternet #unix , welcome to the #resistance …
shelf shorts p28: one laptop per child XO laptop #olpc #laptop #onelaptopperchild #planetclue #fyp
website: https://planetclue.comdiscord: https://discord.gg/cluepatreon: https://patreon.com/cluebsky: https://bsky.app/profile/planetclue.comYouTube
Just finished up this potting bench for my daughter. The frame is poplar painted with 2 coats of primer and 2 coats of an exterior acrylic latex. The bench top is white oak finished with tung oil. Both the top and the bottom shelf are removable with 1/4-20" stainless steel hex bolts to make maintenance easier.
@sarahatlee Thanks!
Just in case my other reply doesn't make it to your server:
It is a standard hotel pan to hold soil mixes. I designed it so you can have multiple pans with different mixes depending on what you're planting up. The cover helps to keep pests and weed seeds out.
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Now make a video of it and tag it #ASMR and #P4A (Plane for All), please.
Or wait, is this more #PBB4P content?
/cc: @SwiftOnSecurity
#DigitalBookBurning
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Racing to comply w/ #Trump’s executive orders banning “DEI” & “gender ideology extremism,” agencies have cut materials on everything from supporting transgender youth in school to teaching children about sickle-cell disease, which disproportionately affects people of African descent. But they have also axed records having little to do w/the Admin’s ideological priorities, seemingly assisted by AI tools that flag forbidden words w/o regard to context.
A recently leaked list of pages marked for deletion on military websites includes…the #EnolaGay, …the B-29 bomber that nuked Hiroshima.
Oblivion menaces every scrap of #information that doesn’t spark joy in the Oval Office. “It’s gone,” #Trump said of “wokeness,” during his address to Congress, in almost motherly tones. “And we feel so much better for it, don’t we? Don’t we feel better?” But on this front, at least, Trump is facing well-organized resistance.
Prof. Sam Lawler (@sundogplanets@mastodon.social)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00781-1Mastodon
Hackaday Links: March 16, 2025
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Hackaday Links: March 16, 2025
“The brickings will continue until the printer sales improve!” This whole printer-bricking thing seems to be getting out of hand with the news this week that a firmware update caused ce…Hackaday
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This Is the Dumbest Time to Buy Into MAGA
Centrist Democrats are scrambling to appease a right wing movement that will never accept them and has nowhere to go but down.Joan Westenberg (The Index.)
Nesting with Taskmaster, knitting, and Callisto, my squishy axolotl 😍
#AutisticNesting #ComfortTV #KnitSky #Autistic #SpoonManagement
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Pope Francis seen praying in first photo since his hospitalization a month ago
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5329813/pope-francis-first-photo-since-hospitalization?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World News @world-news-npr
Elon Musk never went to university, so he violated his student visa.
He did not leave the country for 10 years before asking to come back.
Therefore, by the definitions used by ICE, Musk is "an illegal" and must be shipped off to a concentration camp.
usatoday.com/story/news/nation…
He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.
ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.Lauren Villagran (USA TODAY)
Pennsylvania Democrats want to make their state the latest to provide school kids with free lunch and eliminate existing school meal debt. That’s pro-life.
I knocked on doors in several elections for Emily Kinkead, one of the state Democrats reintroducing this bill. Local elections matter and so does your involvement.
Pennsylvania lawmakers introduce bill to eliminate school meal debt, provide free lunch | ABC27
abc27.com/pennsylvania/pennsyl…
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geez NPR. what a bloody strange article. npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-53052…
Jokes create in-groups and out-groups of those who are laughing and those who are not. Butler described jokes as a kind of sonar that detects like-mindedness.
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that's exactly what a nazi salute is used for - to detect and attract like-minded people.
you're giving cover to nazis by even suggesting that sieg heil salutes are 'jokes.'
A fundamental understanding. - GIFs - Imgur
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A fundamental understanding.
Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and so much more from users like countervail247365.Imgur
People should read this just to find out a little bit more about what governing in a divided state is.
If you don’t want to work with other people in a divided state, you won’t get anything done.
This also carries over to a divided federal government, unless you have a plan for undoing gerrymandering and turning Senate seats blue in Florida, Iowa, Ohio. You get the drift.
DFLer David Gottfried wins special election securing a 67-67 party tie in Minnesota House:
startribune.com/minnesota-hous…
DFL wins special election, locking Minnesota House in 67-67 tie with Republicans
As expected, DFL candidate David Gottfried ran away with a victory in Tuesday’s special election.Elliot Hughes
Banger cover: "American Idiot (Canadian version):
youtu.be/oXnP_YIG7Ww?si=3B_hPv…
#Never51 #Canada #CanadaStrong #Greenday #covers
Whitenoiz CA - American Idiot Cover (Canadian Version)
In light of the new USA trade wars and other threats, we've updated this protest song for the Trump era, with a Canadian twist.Like and share to help send th...YouTube
Tesla vehicles suffer fatal accidents at a rate that's twice the industry average, according to a new report. Bankrupting Tesla is a multi-level public service.
Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands, Study Finds
roadandtrack.com/news/a6291913…
#TeslaTakedown #BankruptTesla #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #ArrestElonMusk #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #NaziMusk #PresidentMusk #FuckElonMusk #USPol
White Lotus actress Natasha Rothwell plays a game of Wild Card
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5326057/white-lotus-actress-natasha-rothwell-plays-a-game-of-wild-card?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Arts & Life @arts-life-npr
“The Trump regime is using the dictator’s playbook against what was once its closest ally.
This increasingly looks like a destabilization campaign aimed at annexing Canada. It would be foolish to believe this will be limited to the economic realm. If America is intent on annexing Canada, the CIA will be kicking into overdrive.”
open.substack.com/pub/palecek/…
It’s not a trade war; it is a destabilization campaign.
The erratic swings in trade policy are not a bug, they’re a feature.open.substack.com
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President Trump deports hundreds of migrants to El Salvador
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5329790/president-trump-deports-hundreds-of-migrants-to-el-salvador?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-npr
The NWSL is adopting a tool to protect players from online abuse, commissioner says
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5324756/nwsl-berman-banda-online-abuse?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All Things Considered @all-things-considered-npr
My Morning Jacket is coming out with a new album, 'Is'
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5260783/my-morning-jacket-is-coming-out-with-a-new-album-is?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All Things Considered @all-things-considered-npr
In the early days of the pandemic, a green space in Seattle was one woman's refuge
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/16/nx-s1-5321308/in-the-early-days-of-the-pandemic-a-green-space-in-seattle-was-one-womans-refuge?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-npr
Ruth Ben-Ghiat & @ruthbenghiat
Everyone who thought he was joking about being a dictator, are you waking up now?
🔥Aaron Reichlin-Melnick •
Holy crap. The DOJ is arguing that the President can unilaterally deport anyone he wants without ANY statutory authority, just on his inherent authority as President over national security.
That is a terrifying claim to make and has never been recognized before in US history.
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On the advice of @mia , and with the experience of @amd , I have decided to finally get Catboat-1 running again by rebuilding its toolhead. I'm going with the Xol, using the Tap carriage and the MeowXol faceplate. Now I have to order some parts (in transit now), but I can print the shell at least!
Overall, _super_ impressed with the design of these parts, especially their supports.
William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"The characters regarded as people to emulate, like Orban and Putin and so on, all indicate that the strategy is to create an illiberal democracy or an authoritarian democracy or a strongman democracy. That’s what we’re experiencing. Our problem in part is a failure of imagination."
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism #democracy
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"For many years, the radicalization of the Right has consistently outpaced what even critical observers expected. Now the speed and scope of the authoritarian transformation and destruction of the system over the past two months have gone beyond what some of the most insightful observers thought likely."
~ Thomas Zimmer
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism #democracy
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thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/wh…
What Authoritarianism Means
Thomas Zimmer (Democracy Americana)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"That means we must recalibrate what we expect going forward. 'They are not going to go *that* far' has been proven wrong over and over again. The idea that 'they won’t be able to do this' seems similarly unfounded."
#Musk #Trump #Republicans #authoritarianism #fascism #democracy
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