I wrote up a post about how I get around silly macOS security stuff to run rsync jobs from cron by embedding shell commands inside of Automator applications...
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'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter' is Stephen Graham Jones' horror masterpiece
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330583/buffalo-hunter-hunter-review-stephen-graham-jones-horror?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Most apps fail to reach $1,000/month revenue within two years.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
17 March 1940 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Barnett Greenman, was born in Rotterdam.
In February 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing theregister.com/2025/03/14/ai_… via @theregister & @sjvn
To use Gartner jargon, #AI is dropping from the Peak of Inflated Expectations to the Trough of Disillusionment as businesses realize AI is not a miracle after all.
AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing
Opinion: Biz leaders still dream of obedient agents replacing workers. In the actual workplace, they're going AWOLSteven J. Vaughan-Nichols (The Register)
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Freedom of speech?
Freedom of assembly?
Not recognized in Orbán's #Hungary.
theguardian.com/world/2025/mar…
Hungary’s government submits bill to ban Budapest Pride event
Ruling coalition continues its crackdown on LGBTQ+ people under its ‘child protection’ legislationGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Stay safe from online hate with these five tips
In this era of anti-science activism, it‘s wise to take steps to protect your research and reputation in the digital realm.Brooks, Michael
“The basement gallery of London’s Japan House has been transformed into a woody wonder world of chisels and saws, mortises and tenons, and brackets of infinite intricacy, alongside traditional clay plastering, shoji paper screen making and tatami mat weaving.
It is a dazzling display of the phenomenal skills behind centuries of timber architecture and joinery, celebrating elite master carpenters”
Photo: Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum
mastodon.scot/@tompearce49/114…
Just Tom... (@tompearce49@mastodon.scot)
I am in awe at the skills and techniques of Japanese woodworking. My own efforts pale into insignificance in comparison: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/mar/17/the-craft-of-japanese-carpentry-exhibition-japan-house-londonmastodon.scot
Several nuclear scientists, bomb engineers, and safety experts critical to national security were among the cuts made by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
More than 130 members of a top secret agency, the National Nuclear Security Agency, either took the Trump administration’s deferred resignation “buyout” or were fired in the past six weeks, putting an effort to upgrade the American nuclear arsenal at risk
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #breaking
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Guts U.S. Nuclear Agency
DOGE cuts have hit some of the country’s top nuclear scientists.The New Republic
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Copilot can be reinstalled from the Microsoft Store if it's something you want.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
This month’s Windows updates are removing the Copilot app (accidentally)
Copilot can be reinstalled from the Microsoft Store if it’s something you want.Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)
Ungarns Regierungspartei will Pride-Parade in Budapest verbieten
Ungarns Regierungspartei Fidesz will der Pride-Parade der LGBTQ-Bewegung in Budapest ein Ende bereiten. Ein Gesetzentwurf sieht vor, dass Teilnehmern und Organisatoren künftig Geldbußen und polizeiliche Erfassung drohen.
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Macron: “It is not Russia’s Decision to Accept or Reject” Foreign Contingents in Ukraine
French President Macron affirms Ukraine's right to request allied forces for security, highlighting European support without Russia's consent.Ivan Khomenko (UNITED24 Media)
Useful! European alternatives to AWS/GCP/Azure: asamsig.com/blog/picking-a-eur…
Picking a European Public Cloud Provider
What public cloud providers exist in Europe, and how do they compare?Alexander Samsig (asamsig.com)
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Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users
The advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque.Lucas Ropek (Gizmodo)
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I clicked on that. It opened a Vivaldi tab that looked like...
(No alt text to image, but here it is: It's a browser screenshot in dark mode. There's an ad where the headline should be and a cookies notice where the picture should be. Nothing about the article is visible other than a subtitle, "The advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque")
...which I suppose perfectly illustrates your point
Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users
The advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque.Lucas Ropek (Gizmodo)
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Tucker Carlson and others alleging new Deep State conspiracy about JFK records. Someone at National Archives with knowledge of the situation, meanwhile, tells me that thousands of pages of 60-year-old documents don't just magically digitize themselves
404media.co/why-all-of-the-jfk…
Why All of the JFK Assassination Documents Haven’t Been Released Yet
"The conspiracies are funny, everyone is acting like not getting instant responses for complicated, broad searches is malice. A lot of it is just very unexciting."Jason Koebler (404 Media)
Tucker Carlson and others alleging new Deep State conspiracy about JFK records. Someone at National Archives with knowledge of the situation, meanwhile, tells me that thousands of pages of 60-year-old documents don't just magically digitize themselves
404media.co/why-all-of-the-jfk…
Why All of the JFK Assassination Documents Haven’t Been Released Yet
"The conspiracies are funny, everyone is acting like not getting instant responses for complicated, broad searches is malice. A lot of it is just very unexciting."Jason Koebler (404 Media)
Every part of this is correct except the word “beginning.”
We are •well• into the constitutional crisis at this point.
(EDIT: Probably by “beginning of a new…” the OP means “yet another…,” in which case…agreed.)
From @jrefior: hachyderm.io/@jrefior/11417876…
John Refior (@jrefior@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 1 image New Trump admin motto appears to be “move fast and violate federal law and the US Constitution.Hachyderm.io
It would, I think, be genuinely useful if Chuck Schumer were politically ruined after last week.
There’s a limit to how useful it actually is to direct our energies specifically at elected politicians right now. Politicians aren’t going to save us. BUT: institutional leaders of many stripes (.gov, .edu, .org, and .com alike) are still acting much, much more afraid of the consequences of •fighting• than they are of the consequences of •compliance•.
We can change that. Make compliance ruin some high-profile careers. Make examples out of a few people. Schumer. Newsom. The Columbia admin. Tar and feather them. flipboard.com/@vanityfair/top-…
Won’t You Spare a Thought for Chuck Schumer’s Book Tour?
The Senate minority leader has postponed his multi-city promo tour, citing security concerns following his vote to pass the GOP funding bill. This is going to ruin the tour.Vanity Fair - By Issie Lapowsky
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Yes. Somebody said last week or so that there’s a split between Democrats who want to •fight• and Democrats who want to •survive•, and that this is a new split that crosses the previous ideological lines in the party. I think that second part is probably correct and important to understand.
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Outgoing Broadband Chief Issues Stark Warning Against Elon Musk
“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” wrote Evan Feinman
rollingstone.com/politics/poli…
Paywall Free: archive.today/Bgtc6
#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #elonmusk #nazi #corruption #doge #firemusk
Outgoing Broadband Chief Issues Stark Warning Against Elon Musk
Evan Feinman warned colleagues that if Elon Musk's Starlink contracts with the government to provide rural internet, Americans will pay the price.Peter Wade (Rolling Stone)
US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, 2021.
All the pixels, none of the political turmoil, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51…
US Capitol, Washington, DC
2 June 2021 The Western face of the US Capitol, perhaps the most "classic" and iconic view of the building. Note the temporary fencing and scaffolding, lingering remnants of the January 6th 2021 attack by insurrectionists. Rodenstock 90mm/5.Flickr
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I always enjoy your work (I realize I don't get the full experience on my small screen)
There are some architectural features i used to enjoy. I am sure it is a lovely scene. Just not getting the vibe with this one
#ElbowsUp and all.
It may not be the quality of the work but the subject that gives me an uneasy feeling.
Stay well. You folks are going to need support.
UK Online Safety Act requires prompt content removals Musk's X has resisted.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Trump may not be able to save Elon Musk from UK’s strict online safety law
UK Online Safety Act requires prompt content removals Musk’s X has resisted.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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But also, Elon should be held personally accountable for the more extreme content on his platform.
eff.org/pages/uk-online-safety…
The UK Online Safety Bill: A Massive Threat to Online Privacy, Security, and Speech
Are you a young person fighting back against bad bills like this one? Become an EFF member at a new, discounted Neon membership level specifically for you--stickers included! Update, September 19, 2023: The U.K.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Forever 21 is bankrupt, again. This time actually could be forever
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330440/forever-21-bankruptcy-chapter-11?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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An Arduino LED Ring MIDI CC controller using Duppa I2C Rotary Encoder and a 24-LED RGB LED ring.
diyelectromusic.com/2025/03/17…
#SynthDIY #MIDI #Arduino #Duppa
Duppa I2C MIDI Controller – Part 2
This is a follow up post to Part 1 where I’m starting to look at MIDI applications and a range of control options. Since posting the first part, I’ve stumbled across a rather excel…Simple DIY Electronic Music Projects
@gerotakke That would be amazing!
I so love the look and feel of the ottopots - such a good job there 😀
Adding options for potentiometer or plain rotary encoder control too.
Still waiting for my endless pots to be delivered 😀
diyelectromusic.com/2025/03/18…
#SynthDIY #MIDI #Duppa #Arduino
Backlash Grows Against Trump's Detention Of Mahmoud Khalil
If Trump has his way, Kahlil will be just the first of manyThe Big Picture
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Fascists Have No Drip, a video about fashion under Fascism (Italy brand) - by a drag artist in a stunning look, which dragged me in... But I stayed for the sources! 19 minutes.
Quotes: "The Italian Fascist Party didn't have to invent misogyny. The anti-feminist backlash in Italy was well underway before the fascists came to power."
"But as the previous quote suggests, Italian Fascism was a cult of male sexuality, one that wanted to ignore women as much as it wanted to subjugate them. When the Fascist Party did give attention to women, it was often to parade them as objects of propaganda."
youtube.com/watch?v=aAfiCV-7QE…
Fascists Have No Drip | the history of fashion in fascist Italy
As fascism rears its head once more, let's travel back in time to understand the fabric of oppression...Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/t...YouTube
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in reply to Carl T. Bergstrom • • •Rob
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Sophie Schmieg
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •I legit thought it was some misunderstanding of quantum computing at first, but then the title says "AI computing" and I got nothing.
(And to be clear, quantum computing also does not work like that)
Matt Blaze
in reply to Sophie Schmieg • • •Robin Adams
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •David Mankins
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Chilly 🛡️
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •💀 𝓕airchild 💀
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •@mattblaze @sophieschmieg I _think_ they're comparing a single-threaded CPU to a modern GPU??? Which is nonsensical. We've had multiprocessing for decades.
As Pauli might have said, this is not only not right, it is not even wrong.
Matt Blaze
in reply to 💀 𝓕airchild 💀 • • •Björn ❄️ Starkimarm
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •@mattblaze
It's a case of "so wrong, even the opposite is not correct". F for failed the topic of the assignment.
@sophieschmieg @ct_bergstrom
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in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Mike (no not that one)
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •Camille 🐁
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •@mattblaze
What do you mean by wrong, science popularization is the art of saying wrong things in an interesting way and it have to be.
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Unknown parent • • •Bas Schouten
Unknown parent • • •@causticmsngo @mattblaze @sophieschmieg I don't believe that excuses misinformation...
After all how would someone earn the benefit of the doubt if you blindly accept lies about them?
This is more about being skeptical of information you're being presented.
Even if someone lies about something Donald Trump has said, 'I will accept this as truth because DJT is a madman' seems like extremely thin ice.
Matt Blaze
in reply to Bas Schouten • • •Ms Ngo
Unknown parent • • •RootWyrm 🇺🇦
in reply to Carl T. Bergstrom • • •...
ATTENTION FEDI: THE VOID IS NOW FULL.
I repeat, the void into which we have told you all to scream?
The bottomless pit for expressing your existential despair?
The yawning blackness of infinity devouring your shattered hopes and dreams?
IT'S FULL.
COMPLETELY FULL.
OVERFLOWING, EVEN.
WE WILL INFORM YOU OF A SUBSTITUTE AS SOON AS ONE IS AVAILABLE.
Nathan Hubbard
in reply to Matt Blaze • • •How A.I. Is Changing the Way the World Builds Computers
Cade Metz (The New York Times)Matt Blaze
Unknown parent • • •Bas Schouten
Unknown parent • • •@sophieschmieg Leaving out the context is -in itself- misleading. As the graphic in the context of the article and given the audience is viewed quite differently than in isolation. Misinformation as you well know is very often about leaving out context.
That aside, wayback machine shows the 'correct graphic' in the article before the post: web.archive.org/web/2025031703…
Having said that the old image may have persisted somewhere, I looked later.
How A.I. Is Changing the Way the World Builds Computers
Cade Metz (The New York Times)Carl T. Bergstrom
Unknown parent • • •@sophieschmieg @Schouten_B @mattblaze
No.
This was the graphic that went along with a headline on the online version of the page. Mine is a direct screenshot from my subscription.
it is possible that the New York Times changed the graphic after enough people pointed out how ridiculous it was. But I absolutely did not share misinformation about the Times by posting this graphic.
Carl T. Bergstrom
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