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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecyFreedom of the Press
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Thank you, Nature. For everything.
#Photography #Photo #Flowers #SpringIsComing #ThankYouTuesday #Nature #Italy
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Israel ends ceasefire in Gaza
Israel has launched a deadly wave of airstrikes on Gaza, killing hundreds of Palestinians and ending the ceasefire.Al Jazeera
This is the story we need right now:
Trump fired 20,000 probationary federal employees claiming they had poor performance, but court documents show that at least some of the fired employees had stellar performance, so U.S. District Judge William Alsup called that a lie and ordered the Trump administration to reinstate all the workers.
Because Trump is not above the law. 🧑🏻⚖️
Source: abcnews.go.com/Politics/judge-…
Judge orders thousands of federal workers reinstated; slams ‘sham’ government declaration
The order includes workers fired from the Department of Veterans Affairs.Peter Charalambous (ABC News)
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consequences?
N + 1 for oops, not really.
Jesse Colin Young, singer of The Youngbloods' 'Get Together,' dies at 83
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5331329/jesse-colin-young-obituary?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Had some excellent photos so far! There’s still time if you’d like to get involved. 📸
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#Music #MusicVideo #Musician #Photo #Photograph #Photos #Photographs #Snapshot #Photography #PhotographyLovers #Electronic #Synthpop
Photos and Synthesis
As you might already know, I've been putting together another video for the next song. I know music videos are apparently dying (or “if a music video pl...Roberta Fidora
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Got a different opinion? Say the magic words. Or else!
#DnD #Dndmemes #funny #TTRPG #TTRPGMemes #DungeonsandDragons
The image is a four-panel comic strip featuring two characters. In the first panel, the character on the left says, "I like RPG X!" while the character on the right responds, "RPG Y is the best!" In the second panel, the character on the left looks sad and says, "But..." while the character on the right looks confused and says, "What...? Oh right-." The third panel shows a close-up of the character on the right with a dramatic background, saying, "But you can play how ever you want!" The fourth panel shows the character on the left crying and the character on the right saying, "Sorry, almost forgot." The characters are drawn in a simple, cartoonish style with minimal detail, and the comic strip uses speech bubbles to convey dialogue.
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It becomes apparent that Elon Musk is a showman, nothing more. He's not an engineer. The whole thing is an act.
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Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning
The fatal flaw SpaceX can't overcome.Will Lockett (Planet Earth & Beyond)
Mastodon will no longer support Redis Namespaces. The reasons are fully valid. Redis (or, more specifically, Valkey or KeyDB) is lightweight software that is easy to install/manage, so separation is always a good thing.
However, I read that many admins will face problems because they use Redis "in the cloud" and, therefore, have a single instance. Unfortunately, this is also a side effect of the "cloud," meaning the loss of control over your own software.
On FreeBSD, a thin jail with "Redis" takes up very little space and resources.
#OwnYourData – in the long run – always pays off.
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#Mastodon #SelfHosting #RunBSD #FreeBSD
Retiring Redis Namespaces · mastodon mastodon · Discussion #34198
Background Mastodon has supported using a dedicated namespace for keys in redis for a long time. The idea was that several applications (or instances of Mastodon) could share a single redis databas...GitHub
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For the curious, this is the product said person is selling: enrichlead.com
GDPR compliant according to the website homepage 😅
EnrichLead | Generate quality leads from website traffic
Generate quality leads from website traffic, even if they don't fill out a contact form.enrichlead.com
"Our Cartoonists are doing the job our journalists are afraid to"
#Cartoon #Cartoonists #News #Journalists #Media #USPoli #DOGE
Thanks Joosteto
Source: Christopher Weyant.
Here's the full cartoon.
Boston Globe Opinion on Instagram: "Doged by @christopherweyant. #GlobeCartoons"
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Source: Christopher Weyant.
Here's the full cartoon.
Boston Globe Opinion on Instagram: "Doged by @christopherweyant. #GlobeCartoons"
1,863 likes, 53 comments - globeopinion on March 15, 2025: "Doged by @christopherweyant. #GlobeCartoons".Instagram
Am Freitag wurde mir die Gallenblase entfernt und direkt davor habe ich mir prompt den Fuß beim Wandern verstaucht. Nun kann ich also 2 Wochen lang nur auf Krücken gehen, mich nicht bücken, nichts heben und nicht lange sitzen. Ein Traum. ✨
Damit ich nicht in grumpiger Depression versinke, weil ich nicht wandern kann, plane ich nun, jeden Tag ein kleines Bastelprojekt zu machen. :3 also, machen wir das beste draus!
Exercises from the watercolour course I started (and abandoned) last year. Although I have no will power to concentrate on precision in the evening, I can’t not notice I’ve improved in understanding - things just make more sense to me. All the same ideas (blending edges with the background, painting shapes not lines) but I “hear” it better this time. Taking long breaks helps, practicing “your thing”, your own way of doing it also helps
#dailysketching #sketchbook #watercoloursketch #mastoart
My first attempt of Linocutting! 🧡🖤
A little wonky but overall quite solid 😀
#MastoArt #linocut #linoprinting #linoleum
“What was the first thing scientists discovered?” Asks Jacobl, age 9, from Santiago, Panama.
In our latest Curious Kids column, University of Colorado Boulder engineering professor James Byrne discusses this age-old question. buff.ly/12weacW
#curiouskids
What was the first thing scientists discovered? A historian makes the case for Babylonian astronomy
Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and built on.The Conversation
Israel’s military launched a new round of deadly strikes in Gaza since the ceasefire agreement with Hamas. It’s the deadliest attack on Gaza in months with hundreds of Palestinians killed.
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#news #war #israel #hamas #gaza #genocide #ceasefire
Israeli Airstrikes Kill Hundreds In Gaza as Ceasefire Is Shattered
Israel’s military launched a new round of deadly strikes in Gaza since the ceasefire agreement with Hamas. It’s the deadliest attack on Gaza in months with hundreds of Palestinians killed. NBC’s Matt Bradley reports for TODAY.TODAY
Google is buying Wiz for $32B to beef up in cloud security, sources say
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#news #tech #technology #security #privacy #google #wiz #business
Google is buying Wiz for $32B to beef up in cloud security, sources say | TechCrunch
Google is making the biggest acquisition in its history. The company's parent company Alphabet is acquiring Wiz, the cloud security startup, for $32Ingrid Lunden (TechCrunch)
Dammit, we missed Ruth Amos, on TV last night.
Got the series set to record now, so just need to find ep1 on repeat now.
Ruth Amos, inventor and maker, in a new TV show recreating projects from Practical Mechanics magazine.
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I suspect (and dumbing down is often not really the intention I guess) that these types of shows are geared less towards learning and inspiration and more towards entertainment.
That's how I feel about them especially when the directors prefer filming a face talking, or just nodding, instead of the thing that is being done.
But I want to see this show anyway, and before I pass any judgement on it directly.
whoopsie
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Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank
BYD reveals new platform with charging speeds of 1,000 kW, which would be twice as fast as Tesla’s superchargersGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Wir sind jetzt im Fediverse. 😀
Und wir starten damit, euch hier tolle #Gesellenstücke (und mehr) zu zeigen.
Los geht´s mit Helenas #gesellenstück:
Flexibel, leicht zu transportieren und Platz für viele Dinge des Alltags - das sind die Faktoren, nach denen Helena ihr Gesellenstück konstruiert hat. Entstanden ist so ihr #möbel aus Esche mit einer harmonischen Lackierung in Blau-Grau.
#tischlerin #tischler #schreiner #handwerk #ausbildung #tischlernrw #holz
Gesellenstück von Helena Determann – DIE GUTE FORM NRW 2024
Das große Finale der Ausbildung: Das Gesellenstück ist der krönende Abschluss für die angehenden Tischlerinnen und Tischler. Hier zeigen sie eindrucksvoll, w...YouTube
18 March 1921 | A Czech Jewish woman, Gertruda Husserlová, was born in Frýdek.
She was deported to #Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.
They work pretty darn well to keep warped ply flat or to hold a jig in the right place.
Labour are brutally gutting diability benefits while allowing many more to become disabled.
Research shows that roughly 1 in 10 people in UK have Long Covid, with many more to follow.
Each infection carries risk, not only for LC but many other sequelae.
Covid is an *ongoing* mass disabling event.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Long Covid is the pandemic’s dark shadow. Why does no one in power in Britain want to talk about it?
Five years after the first lockdown, millions of lives are still being ruined by this debilitating disease. You wouldn’t know it, says Guardian columnist Frances RyanFrances Ryan (The Guardian)
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What might save China's economy : The Indicator from Planet Money
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/1239156785/what-might-save-chinas-economy?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Plants thrived in present-day China throughout the End-Permian extinction.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
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It's so satisfying to finally see her shape. There is still a lot of work to do to complete the longship but we are getting there 😀
#viking #sailingship #sailing #boat #ship #woodworking #toulouse #france
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Becoming an expert in medical image analysis may make you better at spotting illusions.
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As a European, I can verify this
In fact, the reason it angers a Frenchman so much to be called a frog is because it triggers their inherent philosophical nature to ponder whether or not they themselves exist, to which the answer is always "J’ai besoin d’une cigarette"
Researchers at Harvard Business School and University of Toronto used unique data to quantify the value of open source.
Takeways:
* Supply-side (cost to recreate) is ~$4.15B, but demand-side (value to firms) is $8.8T. Shows massive cost savings & productivity boost from OSS.
* If OSS didn't exist, firms would need to spend an estimated 3.5 times more on software than they currently do. OSS provides a massive, often invisible, productivity boost.
* A tiny fraction of OSS developers create the vast majority of value. Only 5% of developers are responsible for over 96% of the demand-side value
* Firms should not just "free ride" on OSS but actively contribute to the ecosystem, as this is far cheaper than recreating the software themselves.
Source:
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I should be working on a DFG proposal.
But I'm more in the mood for messing about with vacuum pumps.
These were free because our workshop didn't think it was worth repairing them. Motors completely shot, everything seized, chunky oil. I was not yet able to separate the case from the pump...
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in reply to David Colarusso • • •More and more I'm noticing that "we" define/declare who the bad guys are, so it all works out perfectly. Totally ok to do bad stuff to bad guys.
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DyingWorld 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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