Did you know? Batman was created by John D. Rockefeller to teach the working class that billionaires will always win.
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Could we crank it down a notch?
I am seeing multiple posts from people speculating that the US attack on the Houthis in Yemen is somehow a test run for the invasion of Greenland.
My thoughts:
1. The Houthis are terrorists who are attacking international shipping, and a wide range of NATO countries are involved in fighting them. This is not new under Trump.
2. There is a vast difference between the US bombing an Iran backed rebel group, and the US choosing to attack a NATO backed country.
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May even be a company derived from The Schindler
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Just FYI my notification for this has only just shown up 😮
Not sure where the delay might be.
Okay, hope the situation is solved somehow.
By the way, I wasn't intending it as a criticism, just wanted to make sure you knew in case you were missing replies! 🙂
It looks and functions just like a generic USB battery bank.
Reposting this from last night: (may make your eyes tear up)
60 Minutes - Newsmakers
What musicians did after an executive order on DEI led to the cancellation of U.S. Marine Band collaboration
"...I just felt like, well, there's usually two responses to something. You can complain about it, or you could do something about it. I chose the latter within seconds. And it was the easiest decision ever.....
With the active-duty Marines ordered to stand down, Equity Arc reached out to retirees who answered the call from everywhere, former band members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Westpoint, the Naval Academy and the Marines....The original Marine Band concert would have been seen by hundreds. Here, tonight, these musicians are being heard by millions...."
youtube.com/watch?v=lhwS06U1Sn…
U.S. Marine Band forced to cancel concert with students of color after Trump DEI order
After an executive order ending DEI initiatives, the U.S. Marine Band canceled a concert featuring young musicians of color. Veterans stepped in to mentor th...YouTube
Didn't have this on my 2025 Bingo card
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French MEP demands the US 'give us back the Statue of Liberty'
A French member of the European parliament has called for the US to return the Statue of Liberty originally gifted by the French people to mark the centennial of American independence because the US no longer represents the values that led France to …FRANCE 24
Ask Hackaday: What Would You Do With the World’s Smallest Microcontroller?
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Ask Hackaday: What Would You Do With The World’s Smallest Microcontroller?
It’s generally pretty easy to spot a microcontroller on a PCB. There are clues aplenty: the more-or-less central location, the nearby crystal oscillator, the maze of supporting passives, and …Hackaday
A pretty good overview of the significance of Amazon's #greed and #fuckery. Part of it is the usual by now #AI bullshit.
> Pluralistic: Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading (15 Mar 2025) pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/alt… by @pluralistic
Me to MSRC: Words clearly describing a vulnerability, with supporting screenshots of the commands I typed and the response that Windows gives.
MSRC: Can you please provide a video showing the behavior you are seeing?
Me: ...
I get that people doing grunt work have mostly-fixed workflows that they go through with common next steps.
But to request a video that now captures (beyond my already-submitted screenshots) the act of me typing, and the Windows response being painted on the screen adds what of value now?
Denmark de facto ended the death penalty in 1892, although after World War II we did for a brief period reintroduce the death penalty and killed 46 people after 5 years of Nazi occupation.
But Republicans really like things old school, and the Republican state of South Carolina recently executed a man by a three man firing squad.
Future generations are going to look back at our time and be confused that this practice existed in our otherwise modern, educated times.
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Trump will attend today's Kennedy Center board meeting as its new chair
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330840/trump-kennedy-center-honorees-board?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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‘Space junk’ is clogging the atmosphere—and it’s going to make weather forecasts and internet access much worse
A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pile up—causing ripple effects across everything from weather tracking to broadband internet to national defense.
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#news #tech #technology #spave #spacejunk #internet #weather #climate
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Another experiment with Wi-Fi antenna placement for AsiaRF/RK3588, might help others
Here are the design files I have so far for the PCB antenna. One is the kicad footprint for the antenna. Another is the prototype PCB I made and tested.MNT Research Community
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It feels quite uncomfortable that cloudflare is somewhat openly admitting to analysing login credentials that are going through the reverse proxy, and providing aggregated stats on it (without explicit consent of the user it appears?)
Based on Cloudflare's observed traffic between September - November 2024, 41% of successful logins across websites protected by Cloudflare involve compromised passwords.
Don't get me wrong the results are actually pretty interesting, but I just cannot think of a ethical way of doing this, and it feels kind of jarring that they just "did that"
blog.cloudflare.com/password-r…
Password reuse is rampant: nearly half of observed user logins are compromised
Nearly half of observed login attempts across websites protected by Cloudflare involved leaked credentials. The pervasive issue of password reuse is enabling automated bot attacks and account takeovers on a massive scale.The Cloudflare Blog
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“During the time after Little Rock, Hazel had become increasingly political, branching out into peace activism and social work. David Margolick discovered, "She taught mothering skills to unmarried black women, and took underprivileged black teenagers on field trips.”
Enlightment and progress is possible.
Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test
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No I don't know who that guy is or care what you think about him.
Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test
Tesla Autopilot drove into Wile E. Coyote-style fake road wall in the middle of the road in a camera versus...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
Unus Nemo doesn't like this.
Ex-Project 2025 chief says Trump’s actions are beyond his ‘wildest dreams’
Project 2025 alarmed progressives by pushing deep cuts to government, LGBTQ+ protections and DEI effortsMartin Pengelly (The Guardian)
Report: Tesla Cybertruck Deliveries Paused Due to Trims 'Flying Off'
The automaker had similar issues with detaching trims June 2024, recalling over 11,000 EVs.Will McCurdy (PCMag)
"The major news of the weekend was the rapid-fire series of events following President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act that culminated with the White House chortling over its defiance of a federal court order blocking deportations under the act and ordering outbound flights to return to the United States."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations
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Trump’s Open Defiance Of Federal Courts Is Now At Hand
INSIDE: Todd Blanche ... Pam Bondi ... Elon MuskDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"Before we give up the rule of law because Trump wants us to do so, I believe we must continue to fight for it in spite of anything they throw at us. …
Every single moment, statement, or action that slows down the backslide into authoritarianism is a good one, and we should look for and document them."
~ Chris Geidner
#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations
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lawdork.com/p/what-the-trump-a…
Trying to understand the Trump admin's TRO response matters
Planes were in the air. They kept going. What did they do, and why? I strongly believe that it matters for our future that we work to understand what is happening.Chris Geidner (Law Dork)
"The unitary executive theory is really just a way to cloak the morphing of a democratically elected president into a dictator with the appearance of legality. If presidents can do whatever they want, including putting people on a plane and sending them to prisons in a foreign country with no due process whatsoever, then really, who are we?"
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #courts #RuleofLaw #fascism #immigrants #migrants #deportations #UnitaryExecutive #SupremeCourt
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Some historical parallels for the anti-intellectual witch hunts in the modern USA.
#Trump #history #USPolitics
slate.com/news-and-politics/20…
How American Bureaucrats Became Public Enemy No. 1
Here’s how the McCarthy era gave DOGE a blueprint for its culture war against bureaucrats.Clay Risen (Slate)
[goes to sob quietly in the corner for the next hour]
FITNESS FOR DUTY
LaSalle (IL), 03/13/2025
A licensed employee violated the FFD policy. The employee's access to the plant has been terminated.
The NRC Resident Inspector has been notified.
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How a firefighter's quick action saved his friend's life
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5328518/unsung-hero-firefighter-life-saved?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Assistant is becoming less helpful as Google "prioritizes" experiences.
arstechnica.com/google/2025/03…
Why wait? Google is already dismantling Assistant as it switches to Gemini.
Assistant is becoming less helpful as Google “prioritizes” experiences.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
I tried Google Gemini. Asked it to place a call to my wife. It responded with a mini-essay about women named Diane.
AI sucks.
Konnte nicht an mich halten und bin schnurstracks noch über den Löhberg gelaufen.
Nichts besonderes, fast leer, nur ein unerzogener Labrador sprang mich mehrmals an.
Ich habe keine Angst vor Hunden, meine kleine Enkelin schon.
This NBC News graph is so frustrating. When Biden was in office, prices were lower, the US was trading with other countries, and the stock markets were on the rise, only 5 percent of Republicans thought the economy was “good” or “excellent”.
But now, when prices are rising, there is a trade war, and the US stock markets are crashing, 26 percent think the economy is “good” or “excellent”.
All feeling — zero analytical skills.
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Poll: Trump faces early challenges on the economy as a united GOP backs big change
Voters are starting 2025 sour on the state of the economy and President Donald Trump’s handling of it so far, even as his election to a second term sparked an upswing in positive feelings about the direction of the nation, according to a new national…Scott Bland (NBC News)
'Red Scare' revisits the fear of Communism that gripped post-WWII America
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330704/red-scare-revisits-the-fear-of-communism-that-gripped-post-wwii-america?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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We've adopted a new cat! Her name is Wren. She is 6 months old, has one eye, and is mostly blind. She's been with us since Saturday.
She is very smart and *intensely* cuddly. She also seems very confident and friendly, and once she's a bit more settled we're gonna try various training things to keep her occupied.
The ghosts of the old Noricans fled into the depths of the mountains when they longer wanted to witness the shame of their descendants losing to the forces of Napoleon.
#Austria #folktale #folklore #ghost #ghoststory @austria @folklore
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'The Pitt' and 'Adolescence' offer a radical, real-time approach to TV storytelling
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330598/the-pitt-and-adolescence-offer-a-radical-real-time-approach-to-tv-storytelling?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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