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So, science friends.

When in the 1930s would you have decided “no, I’m not going to go to that conference in Germany”?

Because the question now needs to be posed looking westwards across the Atlantic.

If your phone can be taken on arrival & searched for messages critical of the government & then you can be denied entry (or perhaps worse in the future), why would you even think of going in the first place?

Absolutely horrifying slide into totalitarianism.

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French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
Robert Mackey (The Guardian)

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#Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner is stepping down after #DOGE leader #ElonMusk called for the #transit service to be #privatized.

Amtrak, also known as the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, is the national passenger #rail service for the #US. It is nationally chartered, meaning the federal government is the majority stockholder. It also means Amtrak board members are nominated by the president & confirmed by the Senate.

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Amtrak CEO steps down as Musk insists ‘sad’ rail service needs to be privatized

Stephen Gardner left position to ‘ensure that Amtrak continues to enjoy the full faith and confidence of this administration’
Katie Hawkinson (The Independent)
#us #elonmusk #Doge #transit #rail #amtrak #privatized
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I posted a photo standing next to Loch Coire nan Arr yesterday. Here's one from a while back taken above the Bealach na Bà looking down onto the same loch.
Looking down onto mountains near and far.
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Donald Trump has already lost in the popularity polls.
in reply to Randahl Fink

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this is BS. Approval says nothing about who would be elected. Where is the poll for Democrat-approval? Last thing I read, they are in the 30% area. The country seems to be lost. 😞

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Flowering trees at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (France). Today is the March equinox, which marks the beginning of astronomical spring in the Northern Hemisphere.

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#wikimedia #photo #daily #photography #fotografia #photographie #foto

Flowering trees at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (France). Today is the March equinox, which marks the beginning of astronomical spring in the Northern Hemisphere.

File:Paris - The Eiffel Tower in spring - 2307.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

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#photography #photo #foto #daily #photographie #wikimedia #fotografia

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Eight arches.

#Architecture #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable

A black and white portrait photo of brick arches. The camera look s through one arch made of old bricks toward a second arch on the opposite side of a brick porch. Three other arches on the outside of the porch cast arch shaped dark shadows on the the porch. The sunlight streams in from the right side of the photo.
#photography #darktable #architecture #blackandwhite
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"Top Tesla investor issues brutal ultimatum to Elon Musk as boycott leads to major stock plunge

Ross Gerber, who owns an estimated $105 million in shares of Tesla stock, called on Elon Musk to step down as head of the company, saying that he 'destroyed' the company's reputation"

By Alana Loftus, Boston reporter
08:20 ET, MAR 19 2025
Updated10:58 ET, MAR 19 2025

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Top Tesla investor issues brutal ultimatum to Elon Musk as stocks plunge

Ross Gerber, who owns an estimated $105 million in shares of Tesla stock, called on Elon Musk to step down as head of the company, saying that he "destroyed" the company's reputation
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G.
Cheese and wine, a party table with a selection of cheeses and wines, a basket of sliced bread, cheese knife, wine glasses with red and white wines poured.
[ Prints : james-mccormack.pixels.com/fea… ]

#cheese #wine #party #bread #FediGiftShop #wineglasses #BuyIntoArt #redandwhite #red #white #MastoDaoine #MastoArt

G. Cheese and wine, a party table with a selection of cheeses and wines, a basket of sliced bread, cheese knife, wine glasses with red and white wines poured.

Cheese and Wine by James McCormack

James McCormack
#MastoArt #fedigiftshop #buyintoart #bread #red #white #mastodaoine #wine #party #cheese #wineglasses #redandwhite

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Chess masters and physicists show how expertise, not innate talent, enables flexible thinking. For evaluating online info, that means knowing #history and civics.

A scholar explains: theconversation.com/why-histor…
@academicchatter #academicchatter @psychology


Why history instruction is critical for combating online misinformation

Critical thinking involves specific skills for assessing evidence, but background knowledge about the subject is also essential.
The Conversation
#history #academicchatter @AcademicChatter group @psychology group

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I post memes like these as a way to feel connected to the people who I care the most about.

Let's all be good to each other!

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20 March 1933 | A French Jewish girl, Freda Rojzner, was born in Paris.

She was deported to Auschwitz in February 1944 and murdered in a gas chamber.

Black and white school portrait of a young girl wearing a turtleneck sweater.
in reply to Auschwitz Memorial

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How is it possible that most, if not all, automatically (exactly every 3 hours) spammed "victims" of the holocaust are NOT FOUND in the victims database maintained by IDF soldiers who colonized former concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau?
URL: https://victims.auschwitz.org/victims?pattern=Freda+Rojzner Search field: Freda Rojzner Result: Unfortunately, in the digital collection of names of victims of the Nazi German Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz information about the person you were looking for was not found. The base material of lists of names are partially preserved files created by the SS camp administration. Most of the files created by the Germans were destroyed by them, therefore, unfortunately a complete list of KL Auschwitz does not exist. There is also a possibility that the preserved documents may have inaccuracies and errors. The information about the person you were looking for might be found with the help of archivists from the Analyses and Archival Information Office.

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Cloud iridescence is a colorful optical phenomenon that occurs in a cloud and appears in the general proximity of the Sun or Moon. The colors resemble those seen in soap bubbles and oil on a water surface.

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Buffalo Bill Cody (born Feb 26, 1846) accidentally invented the rodeo.

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The first known film to be recorded with sound. Thomas Edison's film studio, 1894

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Disaster at the Lorraine Public Library

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This plaque in Prague has been rubbed to gold because, for centuries passerby have touched the dog for good luck and to reassure him that he's a good boy.

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Colorado senator on Schumer: 'It's important for people to know when it's time to go'
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g-s1-54852/colorado-senator-michael-bennet-town-hall-schumer?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@Politics

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HOBO SYMBOLS:

Almost from the beginning of the existence of hoboes, as early as the 1870s, it was reported that they communicated with each other by way of a system of cryptic "hobo signs", which would be chalked in prominent or relevant places to clandestinely alert future hoboes about important local information.

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Commander Hadfield's live experiment on board the space station was beamed back to 1,200 pupils at Lockview High School in Fall River, Nova Scotia.

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And now we wait

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The #Atacama #Desert in #Chile has the world's highest elevation geysers and endless salt flats. #Laguna Tebinquinche is our favorite lagoon with turquoise water and white salt crystal outcrops.
Here are the best tings to see and do: backpackandsnorkel.com/Atacama…

The best things to see in Chile's Atacama Desert - Chile Purple Guide

Chile's Atacama desert is one of the world's highest elevation deserts. It has neverending slat flats, clear night skies ideal for stargazing, the world's highest elevation geysers and a lagoon where you can float on water similar to the dead sea.
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#chile #desert #atacama #Laguna

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"Every evening, a maid went from the castle on the Reußenberg mountain to the spinning chamber in Sodenberg, which was half an hour away. In order to get there and back again faster, she made a pact with the Devil."

— Alexander Schöppner: Sagenbuch der bayerischen Lande. Erster Band, p. 257

Those commutes can be a killer.

Alexander Schöppner: Sagenbuch der bayerischen Lande. Erster Band (German language, 1852, M. Rieger)

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Malaysia approves a new search for MH370 wreckage in the Indian Ocean
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5334315/malaysia-mh370-search-indian-ocean?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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World’s Smallest Blinky, Now Even Smaller

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World’s Smallest Blinky, Now Even Smaller

Here at Hackaday, it’s a pretty safe bet that putting “World’s smallest” in the title of an article will instantly attract comments claiming that someone else built a far sm…
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Canada says China executed four Canadians earlier this year
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Protest before you can't: micro-blog.brianward.us/2025/0…

Brian Ward - Protest before you can't

Had a full-on existential crisis today. I was panicking this morning. I’ve been feeling helpless and terrified about what’s going on right now. So I worked through some of that and tried to channel it into something productive.
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Military buildup is never something I can feel thrilled about, but in this case it is a sign of good news: a Europe-Canada alliance to shed US dependence is taking shape with impressive speed.

At least •somebody• understands the new kind of threat the US now poses.

From @Nonilex: masto.ai/@Nonilex/114192946689…

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The #EU is taking major steps to increase #military spending, both loosening budget rules so that countries in the bloc can spend more & proposing a 150B euro loan program to finance shared military development.
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I guess my dreams of reducing American hegemony involved a lot more giving everyone else a leg up and a lot less shooting ourselves in the face
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Accurate.
A Tumblr post by user ‘elegantpiplup’ reads: ‘centrists be like “I can excuse fascism but I draw the line at being against fascism”’. Below it, user ‘endclownerynow’ responds: ‘God give me the strength not to look at the notes’. The post has 45,479 notes

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The U.S. government is taking people off the street and sending them to the place in the bottom picture without charges filed, no arraignments, no due process and without notifying anyone of the people’s whereabouts.

El Salvador intends to never release anyone from CECOT.

#HumanRights #USpol

collage of two images top image shows many people in striped pajama-like clothing confined in small, stacked compartments, labeled 'Dachau, Germany - 1945' bottom image shows many people in white pajama-like clothing, also confined in small, stacked compartments, labeled 'CECOT, El Salvador - 2025.'
#uspol #humanrights

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Colorful painted houses, white sand #beaches and #turquoise water and the fact that Curacao lies below the hurricane belt make it an ideal vacation destination.
Here is the best beach with snorkeling and a walking tour of Willemstad:
#beach #travel backpackandsnorkel.com/Curacao…

Travel Guide for a Cruise to Curacao - Curacao Purple Travel Guide

Curacao is known for its colorful houses, the blue Curacao liquor, beautiful white sand beaches and incredibly turquoise waters.
Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
#beach #travel #turquoise #beaches

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the only way for cloudflare to have this data is if it is inside the ssl channel, analyzing traffic to their customers who are logging in.

ssssoooooooo i guess this makes the cloudflare logs a massive target for nation states now?

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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#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration
A blurry desert scene, like something from a dream. The sky is a bright yellow, with a blazing white blur of a sun in the top right. The landscape is flat and reddish brown, punctuated by mountains and a tall, towering promontory. Hovering on the sky, far sharper and clearer than anything else in the scene, is a shiny reddish saucer, the sunlight glinting off of it. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
#MastoArt #art #illustration #notesArt
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