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Why is no one talking about a Swiss or Norway-type association? #CanadaEUSingleMarket

Could Canada Join the EU? (VIDEO) youtu.be/kV9OfUGiExQ?si=rYG28-… #cdnpoli #polcan #eupoli





Seven Arrested For Nazi Salutes At France V Croatia Match
https://www.barrons.com/news/seven-arrested-for-nazi-salutes-at-france-v-croatia-match-aa22b685?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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We’ve re-released our May 2023 “How to Fix the Internet” episode with FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya. By moving to fire him last week, the Trump Administration has sidelined the FTC’s much-needed focus on protecting all users of digital technologies. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/podc…

in reply to padeluun ⁂

Should have just been using basic calculus to make it less confusing for the reader. /s



Update: I'm no longer completely fine - if you want to donate to me, feel free (but not pressured.

Please look at all the urgent #MutualAid-Posts as well.

I have some additional monthly expenses for all the #SafeguardingResearch & #WhiteHouseWash, if you want to chip in:
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It's $45/month right now:
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Ed O'Neill - who I mostly know as Schlub Couch Dad from Married With Children - has a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and trained with the Gracie family?

youtube.com/watch?v=lJBkzTgg2L…

I never would have guessed.

What's wild is that Keanu Reeves has also trained in BJJ (with the Machado brothers, cousins of the Gracies) and - while awarded an honorary black belt for contributions to the art - hasn't trained up to that level.

Which means... Al Bundy is more dangerous in a fight than John Wick?

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in reply to mhoye (temporarily spooky)

if you haven't seen Modern Family, you very much need to. Ed O'Neill is fantastic in it.

And as for his threat level, I'm sure he could flush the bad guys no problem.




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The rain this day was intense and incessant! Holy bananas we got soaked. But this trio of pups was determined to enjoy their play date no matter what!

.#BestFriends #dogs #DogsOfMastodon #GimmeThatBall



"Greed breeds consumption. We end up doing more and being busier in an attempt to satiate our greed, ultimately an impossible task because greed never gives up. It is the opposite of empathy. Try overcoming it and finding comfort in what you already have. See if that unlocks a sense of wellbeing that wasn’t there before. Contrary to the way most of us try to find happiness in modern life, going slow/pausing/doing less is actually the secret!"

ethicalrevolution.co.uk/decrea…

in reply to Gerry McGovern

find nice people. Spend time with them. Don't worry too much about finery. Find family.



Every Hidden Detail of New York’s Classic Skyscrapers: The Chrysler, Empire State & Woolworth Buildings

openculture.com/2025/03/every-…





Well I'll be damned. There's a carnivorous plant nursery in my state.

carnivorousplantnursery.com

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In partnership with Nvidia, Yum Brands will roll out AI drive-thrus at 500 more Taco Bell and Pizza Hut locations in the second quarter of this year. pcmag.com/news/ai-agents-have-…



Wearable Computing Goes Woven, Wireless, and Washable

hackaday.com/2025/03/24/wearab…



i've built a reproduction chord keyboard (keyset)! this device was invented along with the computer mouse by Douglas Engelbart's team at SRI back in the 1960s. unlike the mouse, it never took off.

files are here: github.com/schlae/engelbart-ke…

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If it wouldn’t be too much trouble, if you have a spare half hour, could we possibly suggest that you might enjoy reading the transcript of our past episode on politeness? Or, if you’d prefer a less polite version, “Read! Now!”

lingthusiasm.com/post/77034182…



Should we be concerned about the loss of weather balloons?
Most of the time, not a big deal. But in critical times, the losses will be felt.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
in reply to Ars Technica

the weather service missed a tornado that hit KCVG airport in Cincinnati, a major midewest travel hub. I was there this weekend and told by someone there that the tornado was picked up by air traffic control on their radar rather than being called in by weather service. I had to wonder if this was due to cuts. This thing not only destroyed a storage building but also pushed a parked 747 several feet. This easily could have been a mass casualty event.

in reply to mmu_man

for that soldered grounding strap you might be able to get away with copper foil EMI tape. It won't be as structural as what you're doing, but the adhesive conducts, so you wouldn't need to solder anything. Just an idea.
in reply to Chris "🐓||🥚problem"

it's not required electrically, there's already a wire on the shield. It's just so the PCB isn't pushed inside when plugging in.
Possibly I can get away with some design changed instead.
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in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

The judge's words don't matter.

America's political system is being gradually transformed into a personalist dictatorship.

in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

:
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln 🎖️🇺🇸


Infinite Mac can now emulate OS X: Mihai also added a bunch of new old software to the Infinite HD library to play with blog.persistent.info/2025/03/i…


Staying out of Europe might be a good idea too.
I hear Russia’s nice. 👿
in reply to Constantin

I don't understand. There was ample room for "TF" after "Stay". Somebody really messed up.
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Privatizing the Postal Service is not reform. It is a direct attack on Americans

This move from Trump threatens towns, small businesses, seniors, veterans, and more

Annually, the postal service makes 1.2 billion prescription deliveries, services 167 million addresses, and is the lifeline for 63 percent of microbusinesses

This is not about efficiency.

It is about erasing public good for private profit

in reply to flexghost.

It's also very very unconstitutional. Not that this concernes these men.

But the mail is in the constitution, one of a few explicitly mentioned functions of the federal government.

(I always thought a modern reading ought to imply free high speed wifi nation wide in addition to paper mail.)

in reply to myrmepropagandist

@futurebird totally. It’s a constitutional mandate. Undermining it is a rejection of one of the few public goods our founders explicitly protected. If anything we need to expand to include digital infrastructure too.



The Trump admin uses Signal to coordinate military operations... and somebody in the Signal group added a member of the press into the group about which targets to bomb in error, and didn't notice. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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in reply to Kevin Beaumont

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has testified today that Signal has been preinstalled on US government devices and they use it for secure comms on the advice of CISA.

I think CISA may get thrown under the bus on this one too. Signal may be too — today Trump suggested it was a “bad signal”.

bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz9e875gd1…

in reply to Kevin Beaumont

The White House are bringing in Elon Musk, not Mandiant, to look at how a reporter ended up in the Signal chat.

Elon has publicly tweeted many times that Signal isn’t secure, and told people to use Telegram (lol) - so basically, Signal, CISA and likely the reporter are going to get thrown under the misinformation bus next week.

in reply to Kevin Beaumont

when you call an even bigger moron to help with an investigation involving a slew of morons leaking classified data. And that moron doesn't even hold a security clearance.
in reply to da_667

@da_667 I think he actually *does* have a clearance. Which is, of course, even worse.
in reply to Kevin Beaumont

Bus chucking and disinformation begins. President Trump: "I think Signal could be defective, to be honest with you."

Expect several weeks of this. Wouldn’t surprise me if CISA remove advice to use Signal.

wired.com/story/signalgate-isn…

in reply to Kevin Beaumont

Israel has complained to the US that the HUMINT they gave appearing on Signal put the sources’ life at risk. wsj.com/politics/national-secu…
in reply to Kevin Beaumont

Der Spiegel report some of those in the Signal chat had publicly listed email addresses and mobile numbers with associated WhatsApp and Signal accounts, and publicly available passwords from prior breaches.

spiegel.de/international/world…

in reply to Kevin Beaumont

The CIA director who accidentally added a journalist to that Signal group has been using a free Gmail account for government business, it has emerged. washingtonpost.com/national-se…
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in reply to Kevin Beaumont

Although the White House tried to publicly throw Signal under the bus over that group chat situation, the investigation has leaked and shows Signal not at fault. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…



Today's Low Quality Ad is for The Betrayal at House on the Hill Tabletop Game, on sale for 26% off.
Nothing good ever happens at houses on hills. Psychopaths live up there. The homes are haunted. Why can't they just live on flat land like decent people do?
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I cannot stress this enough - so many of the people in the Trump WH, including Trump himself would NEVER pass even the most rudimentary background checks. They have access to intel only because the Senate Republicans confirmed their incompetencies. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
in reply to Sean Casten

No one is this sloppy just once. We should assume these clowns have compromised significant portions of our natsec system by now.

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How a nephew’s CD burner inspired early Valve to embrace DRM
Valve's Harrington: unchecked CD duplication "put our entire business model at risk."
arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/03…


Current SEC chair cast only vote against suing Elon Musk, report says
SEC case over late disclosure of Twitter stock buy still moving ahead, for now.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…