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Stormtrooper helmet progress from the stream last night. It’s just minor stuff, but those bring it together. Still to-do: ear pieces, lenses, magnets and weathering. #3DPrinting #cosplay #StarWars #wip #propMaking #MakersHour


Trump names himself "Chief law enforcement officer" and promises to abuse the Justice Department to attack everyone who was involved in investigating his own crimes.

This man is building a dictatorship.

cnn.com/2025/03/14/politics/ju…



Here is this week's #Linux & #OpenSource News video!

youtube.com/watch?v=oyF21g5YI1…

in reply to Nick @ The Linux Experiment

Thanks Nick, a great update!
Please can you post links to your PeerTube account for your videos on here 😀

tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperime…

in reply to Chewie

@chewie Uou can subscribe directly to the Peertube channel from Mastodon, so there’s no need for me to post links in this account ;)


Der vorerst letzte sonnige Tag und es wurde noch keine Biene bzw. kein Fluginsekt im Balkongarten gesichtet 🤔😐
in reply to BALKONGARTEN 6

Soll ich dir ein paar von meinen Bienen schicken? Die fliegen gerade wieder los, die Sonne scheint direkt auf ihr Haus 😉
Nach Köln ist allerdings sehr weit.
Aber sehr schön gemachter Balkon, besonders der Speiskübel mit der Deko außenrum gefällt mir


Hackaday Europe 2025: Streaming Live

hackaday.com/2025/03/15/hackad…



"Thiel and Musk all but forced Trump to choose JD Vance as VP in exchange for funding his presidential campaign.
The three of them, plus a lot of other tech billionaires subscribe to an ideology called the Dark Enlightenment espoused by this super weird, creepy dude: Curtis Yarvin aka Mencius Moldbug."
linkedin.com/posts/sneider_dar…


The article has some useful context about Musk's career, notably what a sleazeball he has always been in his business and public dealings. It also points up the way governments have refused to do their regulatory jobs – and, less explicitly, how journalism has been a lapdog along the way.

But as it accurately points out Musk's desperate efforts to slow or reverse the well-deserved slide at Tesla, it doesn't get into the truly scary stuff. Namely, Musk won't give a damn about Tesla or its shareholders if his coup (per the first piece in this newsletter) succeeds. If he can divert U.S. government spending even more (see: SpaceX) into his bank accounts, Tesla will be an afterthought. Everything we know about this guy says there are no boundaries on his lust for money, and power. - @dangillmor

#GiftArticle #USPolitics
theatlantic.com/technology/arc…



“Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models | WIRED”

wired.com/story/ai-safety-inst…

Literally what I and so many others have been warning about. Using LLMs in your work is effectively giving US authorities central control over the bigotry and biases of your writing.

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Newsletter: The real threat isn't AI using open knowledge — it's AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free. The future of free and open access isn't saying “wait, not like that” — it’s saying "yes, like that, but under fair terms”.

citationneeded.news/free-and-o…

#OpenAccess #AI #Wikipedia

in reply to Molly White

Instead of worrying about “wait, not like that”, I think we need to reframe the conversation to “wait, not only like that” or “wait, not in ways that threaten open access itself”.

#OpenAccess #AI #Wikipedia

in reply to Molly White

Anyone at an AI company who stops to think for half a second should be able to recognize they have a vampiric relationship with the commons. By operating in this purely extractive way, they destroy the things that underpin their businesses.

#OpenAccess #AI #Wikipedia






This small SNES timing issue is causing big speedrun problems
Cheap, unreliable ceramic APU resonators lead to "constant, pervasive, unavoidable" issues.
arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/03…
in reply to Ars Technica

It's a problem for TASBot, not for regular speedrunners. Even with the variance, it amounts to microseconds of difference. I know, I submitted information on the 5 consoles I own. Also it's not nearly as common as you are making it seem. All 5 of my systems were in tolerance.





'Das mit dieser Server Auswahl im Fediverse ist viel zu kompliziert. Das verschreckt die Leute.'
(Nur die EBikes füllen 4 Seiten) 😁
#joinfediverse


London is empty at 9am, shops all open at 10am.

The one person I saw this morning was a lady soaking up the sun, recharging her soul, despite it only being 2'c in temperature.



Pixelfed DMs are getting a huge makeover!

Group chats, share from feeds, media attachments, realtime presence features and more ✨

Like way more, think PixelTime (video chat) and Sup integration 🚀

#pixelfed #direct #sup #pixeltime




Researchers astonished by tool’s apparent success at revealing #AI’s hidden motives - arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/res… " Anthropic trains AI to hide motives, but different "#personas" betray their secrets. "




The US has no shortage of bombastic, creative, weird and wacky monuments. Of course, I have to visit them. Here is a growing list of such monuments that we have visited.
Let me know which you have visited and how you liked them. backpackandsnorkel.com/USA/Onl…


On this day of protest, #Belgrade is a powder keg, but just as important is how the president reacts – now and tomorrow - theguardian.com/commentisfree/… "Amid anger over dysfunctional politics and alleged #corruption, Aleksandar #Vučić faces a harsh spotlight, inside and outside #Serbia"


On my way to Utrecht, playing the #mtg #SpotlightSeries in modern. Wish me Luck 😅

Playing grinding breach: moxfield.com/decks/Fj4evBxtmUG…

Will report my matchups/records here, if I remember to do so 👍

#magicthegathering #tournament




Georgian Dream Strongmen Double Down on Deep State Conspiracy Narrative - civil.ge/archives/669106 actually, pathetically weak "strongmen"... #georgia


#Rubio says #SouthAfrica’s ambassador to US is ‘no longer welcome’ - theguardian.com/world/2025/mar… "US secretary of state accuses Ebrahim Rasool of being a ‘race-baiting politician who hates America’ and Donald Trump" #trump is such a pathetic wuss; hating him is a feature, not a bug


15 March 1938 | A Dutch Jew, Leo Samuel Drukker, was born in Amsterdam.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 5 March 1944 in a transport of 732 Jews from Westerbork. He was among the 477 people murdered after selection in a gas chamber together with his mother Mietje and father Joseph.




The abysmally low book sales for Utown in English has motivated me to give the webcomic a new push. If Oni won't promote the book on their end, I can still get people to read what I consider to be a very, very good story--for free, as a French and English webcomic.

Utown has a dedicated website that looks awesome and I would love if you checked it out. I did a massive update this week 😀

utowncomic.com

#utown #comics #webcomic

This entry was edited (6 months ago)
in reply to Cab

Thank you for writing that story! I think I still owe you an update:

- the printed book reached London after I had completed reading it online (shipping was perfect… I just could not stop reading!)
- after just a few days it ended up in my bag and flew to Italy
- two days ago it was passed to a dear friend (see attached documentation 😜)



Tunisia medina watercolor sketches (2023).

As I sat on the floor with my sketchbook, one guy gave me free mint tea just to watch me paint. ❤

#sketchbook #urbansketching #watercolor #aquarelle #tunis #tunisia #tunisie



Climate litigation - Environmental groups sound new alarm as fossil fuel lobby pushes for immunity theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…

Nearly 200 groups urge Congress to reject fossil fuel industry immunity efforts, fearing long-term damage to climate lawsuits

“Lawmakers must decisively reject any attempt by the fossil fuel industry to evade accountability and ensure both justice today and the right of future generations to hold polluters responsible for decades of deception,” said the missive, which is addressed to the House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, and Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer.

Fossil fuel companies have vied for such a get-out-of-jail-free card for years.

#environment #climate #pollution #litigation #immunity #uslaw #uspol



Trump officials decimate climate protections and consider axeing key greenhouse gas finding
EPA takes aim at almost every major pollution rule in what environmentalists call act of ‘malice toward the planet’
...
“The Trump administration’s ignorance is trumped only by its malice toward the planet,” said Jason Rylander, legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
“Come hell or high water, raging fires and deadly heatwaves, Trump and his cronies are bent on putting polluter profits ahead of people’s lives. This move won’t stand up in court. We’re going to fight it every step of the way.”
#uspol #uslaw #climate #EPA


France’s European affairs minister, Benjamin Haddad, said on Wednesday that the EU could “go further” in its response to the US tariffs: “If it came to a situation where we had to go further, digital services or intellectual property could be included,” he said. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m… #trade #tariffs #IP #TRIPS #WTO #ecommerce #digitalservices


'Sharktopus' - Octopus hitches a ride on a shark - the University of Auckland youtube.com/watch?v=3cYlBarkmD…
auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2025/03…
One for @firstdogonthemoon's nature cartoons. #octopus #shark #newzealand


As the U.S. under Donald Trump seeks to reset ties with Moscow and broker peace between Russia and Ukraine, Britain has been granted the status of Russia's public enemy number one. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/… #worldnews #politics #uk #us #donaldtrump #russiaukrainewar #russia #ukraine #keirstarmer


Amazon Is Discontinuing the "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" Feature on Echo
L: resetera.com/threads/amazon-is…
C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
posted on 2025.03.14 at 14:10:20 (c=2, p=29)


Another day, another lie.

Trump falsely claims that a large group of Ukrainian soldiers are surrounded in Kursk, this is completely false, even according to Russians themselves.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/190…

#Ukraine #Russia #US #Trump #Kursk