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Same.
Germs communicate through interpretive dance.
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Voracious Reader
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The little whippy things on bacteria are the basis for monks practising self-flagellation.

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i hair cut a day keeps the doctor away ✂

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Any act of repair a gratifying gesture of refusal and subversion these days. A poke in the eye to corporate waste and consumer lassitude.

Feeling like renegade heating engineer Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro) of ‘Brazil’ right now, having decided: eff no, not into landfill—not yet.

And how fitting: while finishing up, @pluralistic heard on CBC radio discussing DCA & right-to-repair.

details in #alttext

#Stratford #canada #repair #technology #corydoctorow #environment #coffee

The internal wiring and heating element of a ‘Master Chef’ coffeemaker (not a bad machine most days) with its bottom cover removed, repair in progress. A blocked cold feed tube down to the horseshoe was the issue, probably my fault for letting something fall into the reservoir—it looked like a bit of cinnamon stick caught at the narrow point. And then broken lines, as they’d grown brittle and broke on disassembly. Note the classic bi-metallic corrosion built into the design (white oxidation where element was affixed to the underside carafe’s hot plate and brown-yellow oxidation stains where bracket clamps element)—total failure still on the way, but thwarted for the moment.
Same photo, feed and hot tubes replaced. Let’s take a sip from the first-run p-test now (production system using ‘live’ coffee vs. test water—not pee!)… Ah, yes… Taste that? Non-compliance is sweet and delicious.
#Canada #environment #coffee #technology #alttext #repair #corydoctorow #stratford @Cory Doctorow
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A neighbour asked me recently to take her dead power strip to the e-waste collection point. All it needed was a bit of soldering. Money saved, environment spared a bit, power strip producer furious. Triple win.

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I printed out the decal on paper and put it on one of the test pieces. This one's going to my wall of prototypes.
A 3D printed slot reel with a laser printed decal on it.
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This is what we’ve become. In just a single decade.
The image is a screenshot of an X post. The top part features a comment from user @mattxiv , who expresses shock and criticism, stating, "this is actually fucking jaw-dropping, while trump cuts programs you need to live, he's turning the white house into a car dealership to advertise his unelected shadow president's failing company. dystopian levels of corruption." Below this, there is a quoted post from @TeslaOwnersSiliconValley, posted 5 hours earlier, with the text "BREAKING: @Tesla vehicles lined up at the White House for @realDonaldTrump to view." The attached image shows the White House in the background with several Tesla vehicles, including a silver Tesla Cybertruck, a red Tesla, and a blue Tesla, parked on the driveway in front of the building.

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Photo : Villiers Steyn -2012 #Photography #Photographie #Fotografie #Nature #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography
Impala accompanied by two birds Buphagus erythrorhynchus. riding on their face
#photography #nature #naturephotography #fotografie #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photographie

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@404mediaco has obtained a list of sites and services monitored by an ICE contractor ShadowDragon to let government analysts search and draw connections between people.

"The long list of sites and services that ShadowDragon’s SocialNet tool accesses is a reminder of just how much data is accessible and collected from and about us to provide surveillance services to the government and others."

404media.co/the-200-sites-an-i…

#news #USNews #ICE #immigration #surveillance #technology


The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring

404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it and draw connections between people.
Joseph Cox (404 Media)
#news #technology #surveillance #ice #immigration #usnews @404 Media

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Another reason I don't feel great about using Firefox is that I just got another fund-raising email from Mozilla. It doesn't say "Corporation" or "Foundation." Just "Mozilla."

They are asking for contributions because $3.55M in federal funding is "currently at risk."

Again, for the nth time, MOZILLA CORPORATION HAS HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS FROM GOOGLE. USE THAT MONEY.

Mozilla Corporation should fully fund Mozilla Foundation.

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ICE is trawling Bluesky for people to snatch.

Gilead is here.

#ICE #Bluesky #SocialMedia #USPOL

#bluesky #uspol #socialmedia #ice

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Ditto writing, making music, creating cartoons, etc., etc.

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Well I'm in. Nothings configured as yet and I'm certainly not ready to swap out the currently working #OpenWRT APU router until I'm 100% happy. For now I'm going to explore and read the docs.
#RunBSD #OPNsense
A screenshot of the OPNsense web ldashboard on my Intel N100 NUC based router
#runbsd #OPNsense #OpenWRT
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Very nice. Tinkered with it myself as well. On an old Sophos box. A lot possible. Freq updates (in part a good thing) might be a negative in the sense of inconvenient reboots
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It is very nice and OMG the sheer amount of available settings are vast. Also you can configure via the CLI too. Been playing around seeing what's where and reading up, maybe tomorrow I'll temporarily see if I can bring up the 1Gb pppoe fttp connection and then once I have connectivity I can concentrate on configuring the firewall and other stuff. I'll obviously keep my AMD APU router in the rack ready to reconnect should I have issues and need a reliable connection. Eventually the nuc will become my main router / firewall. Slow and steady wins the race. 😉

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Hmm, bit obsessed with looking for a Lumon Waterdrop pin, but none are forthcoming that are either hideously expensive or far away. I can see me thinking about how to make one.

*goes away thinking about how to make one*

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@poledance 😮😮WOW Wednesday: What does a kips workshop look like at @thebrassring2.0 with @wolfie_j__ ? well, like this!! So much fun and I had a great time working on some of these dynamic movements and drops. Looking forward to putting them into my upcoming comp routines ❤
#dancer #poledancer #poledancers #poledancer #poledancing #workshop #pdworkshop #workshop #pdkip #kips #pdkips #pdtrick #pdtricks #dynamicmovements #foryourpage #fyp #foryoupage #fypage #wow #wowwednesday #pdhardstyle #kips #kip #hardstyle #hardstyledancer #pdroutine #pdcomp #pdcompetition
#dancer #poledancer #poledancers #poledancing #foryourpage #fyp #foryoupage #fypage #wowwednesday #wow #workshop #pdtrick #pdtricks #pdworkshop #pdkip #kips #pdkips #dynamicmovements #pdhardstyle #kip #hardstyle #hardstyledancer #pdroutine #pdcomp #pdcompetition @poleDance group

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神様ルース来日が転換点に　開幕戦、日米交流史の一歩 - ライブドアニュース

来日し横浜で歓迎されるベーブ・ルース（ゲッティ＝共同）18、19日に東京ドームでのカブス―ドジャースで幕を開ける米大リーグ公式戦。野球を通じた日米交流の歴史は長く、1934年の「野球の神様」ベーブ・ルースの
共同通信 (livedoor News)
#news #bot #神

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Takeaways from our investigation on AI-powered school surveillance. The AP and Seattle Times teamed up on this investigation.

From their overview: "But these tools raise serious questions about privacy and security. In fact, when The Seattle Times and The Associated Press partnered to investigate school surveillance, reporters inadvertently received access to almost 3,500 sensitive, unredacted student documents through a records request. The documents were stored without a password or firewall, and anyone with the link could read them."

Read more at apnews.com/article/ai-school-c…

#databreach #EduSec #infosecurity #surveillanvce #AI

@douglevin @funnymonkey


AI surveillance on school Chromebooks has security issues, investigation shows

Schools are turning to AI-powered surveillance technology to monitor student accounts and school-issued devices like laptops and tablets. The goal is to keep children safe, especially amid a mental health crisis and the threat of school shootings.
Sharon Lurye Of The Associated Press (AP News)
#ai #databreach #edusec #infosecurity #surveillanvce @funnymonkey @Doug Levin

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This Image Is So Funny For No Reason HELP
That image you see everywhere of JD Vance in the propeller hat with the swirlypop

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BBC => Central Africa 13790 khz 12Mar25 hfunderground.com/board/index.…

BBC => Central Africa 13790 khz 12Mar25

www.hfunderground.com

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#PPOD: NASA's Curiosity rover captured this image of the Sun through the dusty martian atmosphere in July 2018 while the dust storm that ended the Opportunity rover's mission was still raging. Curiosity was not affected by the decline in solar input because it is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Thomas Appéré

#space #science #scicomm

A dusty orange sky with the small circle of the Sun seen through the haze to the left of center.
#science #Space #scicomm #PPOD

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Oooh, interesting, VOR for Ventura is apparently not functioning. #VOR #aviation
ACARS message about VOR in Ventura/Oxnard being out of service
#aviation #vor

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As promised, here is an interview with @ryanleesipes from #Thunderbird, on the whole #Mozilla and #Firefox terms of use situation.

We talk about why this had to happen, how Thunderbird will handle their own Terms of Use, what's happening at Mozilla, and what's changing.

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Clarifying what's happening at Mozilla: an Interview with Ryan Sipes from Thunderbird

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#firefox #mozilla #thunderbird @Ryan Lee Sipes ⚡🦅
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Kevin
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Thanks, tot was really interesting. I learned a lot from the video and the peek behind the Mozilla curtain.
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Louis
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thanks for this interview. I still feel unconfortable with all of this, but really appreciated the discussion.
I love Firefox and Thunderbird even more, I would be sad to have to switch!

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Must stop
Comic. Panel 1: The curly-haired character says, "I must stop wasting my time!" while the long-haired character listens. Panel 2: The curly-haired character, now appearing more distressed, exclaims, "I must stop making the same mistakes over and over again!!" The background is shaded red to emphasize frustration. Panel 3: Looking even more upset, the curly-haired character yells, "I must stop disappointing everybody!!!" The background is shaded in a softer peach tone. Panel 4: The long-haired character gives them a comforting hug and says, "You must stop expecting far too much of yourself." The scene shifts to a moment of support and reassurance.

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Gavin Newsom has been hanging out with the likes of Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon lately in case you're wondering what the Great White Hope of the Democratic Party is up to these days.

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UNID 5840 AM 1816 UTC 12 MAR 2025 hfunderground.com/board/index.…

UNID 5840 AM 1816 UTC 12 MAR 2025

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This weekend, talking to a guy who does IT at a Dutch bank.

Me: So everything runs on Azure or AWS these days?

He: Yes

Me: So they can see all the data.

He: No it's on separate servers, on EU soil. That was a thing before we decided to go ahead with this.

Me: So... They can see all the data.

He: No it's encrypted and threw some acronyms at me.

Me: So, you download the data, decrypt it, and work on it?

He: No that's done on the servers.

Me: So... They can see all the data.

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There are actually encryption technologies that provide sufficient assurance that “they” cannot access your data. They go under obscure names as “trusted execution environments” and “confidential computing”. That is complicated, and relatively new stuff, so it’s understandable that also @bert_hubert has missed it.
@bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦
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A by far larger risk is that availability of your data and your computing capacity is not guaranteed. CSP’s may just stop your service, which is what the International Criminal Court currently seems to be suffering from

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Sunset is very pretty today!
Just above the horizon, roughly centered in shot, there is an orange glow, fading through azure and blue to almost black at the top of the photo. A few lonely whisps of cloud create a black silhouette over the orange glow. Apart from a small body of water reflecting the sky, everything below the horizon is completely black. In the top right of the picture you can faintly see the reflection of the interior of the train I took this from.

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Nova massa de ar frio vai manter a sequência de dias agradáveis

Segunda incursão de ar frio da semana chega ao Rio Grande do Sul nesta quinta e vai manter a sequência de dias agradáveis.
MetSul.com (MetSul Meteorologia)

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#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #canada
Star wars meme. Top panel: Obi Wan with Canadian flag on his forehead representing Canada. "You were like a brother to me. I loved you!" Second panel: Annakin with US flag on forehead representing the US. "*Russian text*"
#news #uspolitics #uspol #politics #Canada #trump #gopcult
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Said the Canadians while exploiting Mexico and killing indigenous people they colonized to install pipes for billionaires.

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Here’s a graph based on data from the Digest of Education Statistics, derived ultimately from IPEDS, both of which are overseen by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is a federal agency that traces its roots to legislation passed in 1867, which been collecting data on U.S. educational enrollment and attainment since 1870, and whose staff were apparently all fired yesterday.
US Trends in Bachelor's Degrees Conferred, 1970-2023, for areas averaging more than 2% of all degrees Estimates are every 5 years from 1970-1995, and annually thereafter Main points: Business has long been the most popular major; social sciences/history, education, and English have declined considerably; growth areas are health professions and computing.

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Unlocked: I might have accidentally destroyed an entire publishing house!

At the end of 2023 I released a book "20 GOTO 10" via the publisher Unbound. (4.4 stars on Amazon!) It sold tens of thousands of copies, and yet, I was not paid for any of them. I waited. Politely emailed. Looked past their emails of "any day now" and waited some more.

Last year, I filed a legal case. The week after, they sent an email to all their authors claiming "issues" with payment.

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A few weeks ago, I escalated my case to the County Court. Today, they sent an email saying "We will shortly be announcing that Unbound (United Authors Publishing Limited) has gone into Administration." In short - they took my royalties, paid themselves, ran, and started a new company to absolve themselves of the responsibilities and the debt.

Guess what? The same people are in charge!

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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!
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Ugh, that sucks. And while I can't imagine what it's like for the authors, it's very dispiriting for me as a consumer.

I have a copy of "20 GOTO 10" (thank you for that, btw, it's wonderful) as well as two other books from Unbound. And until your post I had slight warm fuzzies from the thought that I was helping small, independent authors via a small, self-publishing site.

I'm rather gutted to learn that probably none of the money I've spent with Unbound has ever gone to the creators of the works.

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Open Source underpins almost 90% of the software used around the world today, but very little of the money used for public procurement reaches Open Source developers. opensource.org/blog/overcoming… #OpenSource

Overcoming barriers to Open Source procurement in the European Union

The EU has just started a review of European public procurement rules, and have asked for input on potential changes to the rules.
Open Source Initiative
#OpenSource

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Good day! Unsure if you'll see this before meeting, but... I'm still set and on track.

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Over 110,000 Medieval Manuscripts May Have Been Copied by Women medievalists.net/2025/03/11000… #medieval #medievalmanuscripts #medievalwomen

Over 110,000 Medieval Manuscripts May Have Been Copied by Women - Medievalists.net

A new study reveals medieval women copied over 110,000 manuscripts—far more than once believed.
Medievalists.net
#medieval #medievalmanuscripts #medievalwomen

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Honestly the words “pay gorn” looks grosser than “gay porn” in such a primal Visceral way .

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Only Good-Looking Person In Office Mingles With Hideous Coworkers Like Missionary Among Lepers
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Photo by The Onion on March 12, 2025. May be an image of 3 people, people standing, plant, office and text that says '0C-= Only Good-Looking Person In Office Mingles With Hideous Coworkers Like Missionary Among Lepers the ONION'.

Only Good-Looking Person In Office Mingles With Hideous Coworkers Like Missionary Among Lepers

CHICAGO—Showing a graciousness and magnanimity that the rest of the world has denied these pariahs and rejects, Jordan Hall, the only good-looking person in the office, was reportedly mingling Wednesday with his hideous coworkers like a missionary am…
The Onion Staff (The Onion)

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It is now time to Rocq out with the Coq out

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Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni (@gadmm@mathstodon.xyz)

https://rocq-prover.org/releases/9.0 "Rocq 9.0 This page describes Rocq version 9.0, released on March 12th, 2025. Go here for a list of all releases. This is the first release of Rocq, version 9.
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every Mario 64 level needs a fedi instance named after it

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Today I learned that the CEO of a major social network was born in 1991.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I am just going to sit here quietly and watch the last of my remaining bones turn to dust and blow away.

*sigh*
#socialMedia

#socialmedia

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Antipope? What is that? Like An Evil Pope? If the Pope said his favorite color was Red would the Antipope favorite be Green? If the Pope says “let us not Waste time here” would the Antipope says “Let’s Waste Time Here”

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A 1912 metamorphic toy celebrates the escape of suffragist Christabel Pankhurst to France to avoid arrest. When you pull the tab, she vanishes and two police detectives crash into each other. rylandscollections.com/2025/03…
First stage, showing Pankhurst’s head and shoulders, with the outstretched arms of the police reaching for her on the left and right.
Second stage with just the police.

Rylands BlogVotes For Women! Making Light Of The Fight

The first blog in our series for International Women’s Day.
Rylands Blog

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404 Media has obtained a list of 200+ sites monitored by a contractor for ICE (Amazon, Apple Music, BabyCenter, Bluesky, Facebook, Github, GoFundMe, etc.). They can “pull a target individual’s publicly available data” from these sites “all at once”. 404media.co/the-200-sites-an-i…

The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring

404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it and draw connections between people.
Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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