Boeing seeks to withdraw guilty plea deal in deadly crashes of 737 MAX jets
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#news #business #boeing #planecrash #guilty
🟣 Purple Day! 💜
Our purple hold-down clamps are here to steal the show! 🛠️
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• Developed for our pasta machine base
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No purple people eaters - just precision and style!
#PurpleDay #WoodworkingTools #HeartwooodAndSteel
The Universe should be full of alien civilizations. Why can’t we find any?
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
1. Space is very big and stars are very far apart
2. All evidence to date and our best theories of physics say FTL travel is impossible (yes, I know about “warp drives," and they are impossible too AFAWK).
3. The closest one may be too far away to detect.
4. Only a few survive long enough.
NPR and PBS heads appear on Capitol Hill to answer allegations of bias
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5339951/npr-pbs-congress-hearing?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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"Brädgård" (lumber yard) and "Staket" (fence)
Yeah, I wish I had any idea of how to stop that. Not really because I value my own stuff so much, but because I really dislike "AI" and don't want to help it in any way.
Torsten Hoefler of ETH Zurich is the recipient of the 2024 ACM Prize in Computing for fundamental contributions to high-performance computing and the ongoing AI revolution
Hoefler developed many of the core capabilities of modern supercomputers and defined key aspects of the algorithms for distributing AI models on them.awards.acm.org
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#Massachusetts
ICE disappears a Tufts graduate student in Somerville
Regime agents yesterday arrested a Tufts graduate student, possibly for the thought crime of co-authoring an article on a campus news site last year criticizing the school's official position on the war in Gaza and demanding it divest itself of Israe…Universal Hub
#Pittsburgh backpackandsnorkel.com/USA/Pit…
SELF-GUIDED WALKING TOUR OF PITTSBURGH'S GOLDEN TRIANGLE (PART 1) - Pittsburgh Purple Travel Guide
Pittsburgh’s Golden Triangle is very walkable and many attractions are within walking distance from each other. This self-guided walking tour of Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle covers the highlights in architecture, history and culture.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released an open source project called Rayhunter. It is designed to run on an inexpensive (~$20) mobile hotspot and look for signs of mobile spying devices called cell-site simulators. Also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers, they masquerade as legitimate cellphone towers, tricking phones w/in a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower.
eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet…
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS) around the world.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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The Greenpeace verdict is a warning sign for protest rights
Human rights and First Amendment lawyers say Energy Transfer’s case against Greenpeace is part of an escalating attack on nonprofits and protestors.Emily Sanders (ExxonKnews)
DOGE says it needs to know the government's most sensitive data, but can't say why
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5339842/doge-data-access-privacy-act-social-security-treasury-opm-lawsuit?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Intelligence officials to testify before Congress about war plans leaking on Signal
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5339796/intelligence-officials-to-testify-before-congress-about-war-plans-leaking-on-signal?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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COVID-19 gave rise to vaccine skepticism. That may affect our preparedness for the next pandemic
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5341297/covid-19-gave-rise-to-vaccine-skepticism-that-may-affect-our-preparedness-for-the-next-pandemic?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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alright... made it over to Makertube as well now if you prefer following me there:
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I'll slowly be uploading most of the back catalog of covers and new covers.
Trump cancels NIH grants on equity research
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#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #science #health #medicine #equity
Trump cancels NIH grants on equity research
The Trump administration is canceling dozens of National Institutes of Health grants funding health equity research, including work studying Black maternal and fetal health and HIV.Jessie Hellmann (Medical Xpress)
Here Are the Attack Plans That #Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The admin has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to #TheAtlantic’s editor in chief.
By #JeffreyGoldberg & Shane Harris
#law #NationalSecurity #SignalGate #Signal #idiocracy #kakistocracy #intelligence #USIntelligenceAgencies #JDVance #Hegseth #TulsiGabbard #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller
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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)
#Ratcliffe said much the same: “My communications, to be clear, in the #Signal message group were entirely permissible & lawful & did not include classified information.”
#Trump, asked yesterday afternoon…, said, “It wasn’t #classified information.”
These stmnts presented us w/a dilemma. In #TheAtlantic’s initial story about the Signal chat—the “Houthi PC small group,” as it was named by #MikeWaltz—we withheld specific info related to weapons & to the timing of attacks…in certain texts.
TCE Is Linked to Heart Defects in Babies, Cancer and Parkinson’s. Republicans in Congress Want to Reverse a Ban on It.
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The toxic substance, used in dry cleaning and manufacturing, has been linked to a host of serious health problems. A Biden-era ban on the chemical has faced multiple challenges since Trump took office.
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Hallo liebe Menschen! Wenn ihr unserem Kindergarten* zu einer #Spende 💸 verhelfen möchtet, gibt es hier eine tolle Gelegenheit: spardaimpuelsle.de/projekte/67…
Aktuell sind wir auf Platz 105, nur noch 7 Stimmen und wir würden 250€ mehr bekommen. Mitmachen und weiterteilen wäre großartig! 🥰 DANKE!
(Da das eine deutsche Bank ist hab ich da auch wenig Bedenken zwecks Datenschutz bei einer SMS-Abstimmung mitzumachen, habe aber vollstes Verständnis, wenn ihr das nicht wollt.)
Aktuell Platz 64 😱 Großartig, damit bekommen wir vermutlich die 500€! DANKE DANKE! Ihr seid die Besten! 😁
Würden wir auf Platz 30 oder besser kommen, dann wären es sogar 750€. Aber aktuell haben wir 279 Stimmen, Platz 30 hat 437 Stimmen. Da kommen wir nicht mehr dran. Läuft ja nur noch 3 Stunden.
Vielen Dank für's mitmachen, liebes Fediverse ❤️
EDIT: Achje, es ist ja noch ein Tag und 3h! Aber das bekommen wir trotzdem nicht mehr hin, denke ich…
Taking tactically responsive space to the next level. Literally.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/…
Effectively as a punishment for winning an Oscar, this Palestinian director was beaten in front of his home. Instead of helping him, the Israeli army arrested him, blindfolded him and forced him to sleep under a freezing air conditioner www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Hamdan Ballal: Oscar-winning P...
Hamdan Ballal: Oscar-winning Palestinian director released from Israeli detention
No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal released a day after he was attacked by settlers and detained by Israeli forcesLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
What Is an Oligarchy, and Why Are People Worried the US Is Becoming One?
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-an-oligarchy-us?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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What Is an Oligarchy, and Why Are People Worried the US Is Becoming One?
Oligarchy talk in the U.S. is growing. Here's what that actually means.Liv McConnell (Teen Vogue)
Our new-to-us Zeiss DSM 962 is not entirely broken anymore!
Resolution isn't great, but there's a whole bunch of low hanging fruit: eg. reducing the working distance by making a proper sample holder, and actually installing a vibration isolation system (currently there's no isolation between the lab floor and the column).
I'm gradually starting to regret some choices I have made in my life, particularly where I have decided to paint hazard stripes on this tank.
#Warhammer #Warhammer40k #MiniaturePainting #3DPrinting #Nerdlings #WipWednesday
This article is so interesting. It was written in 1990 about how Gen X is entering the workforce and how we aren’t buying into the boomer propaganda about work.
This is why I still am still shocked to see the people I went to high school with boot licking like they do. This is why their simping for capitalism was so shocking to me in 2020. Especially after people told me for years that it “must be so nice to sit home all day!”
Then I watched them flip out when they could stay home with their family and collect an extra $600 on top of unemployment. The TANTRUMS OMG LOL
Living: Proceeding With Caution | TIME time.com/archive/6715389/livin…
#GenX #WorkLifeBalance #slackers #latchkeykids
Living: Proceeding With Caution
The twentysomething generation is balking at work, marriage and baby-boomer values. Why are today's young adults so skeptical?David M. Gross and Sophfronia Scott (Time)
So I put up a YouTube post about the Tesla protests happening in Amsterdam this Saturday:
actionnetwork.org/events/taked…
It made a few people mad, and a handful of people unsubscribed (almost entirely Americans: I can see from the stats).
That was to be expected.
But what really surprised me was the number of people who said something like, "Why are you against Tesla when they are in favour of everything this channel stands for?"
Uh ... wut? What channel are these people watching?
Takedown Tesla Amsterdam
We are taking action at Tesla. ⚡ Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines. ⚡ Hurting Tesla is stopping Musk. ⚡ Stopping Musk will help save lives and our democracy. The stakes couldn’t be higher.actionnetwork.org
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Obviously if somebody has to drive a car into the city, then electric is better than gas, but at the same time, almost any other electric car (especially EU-made) is better than a Tesla!
If I said "American cars don't belong in Dutch cities" everybody would agree, but "Tesla cars don't belong in Dutch cities" is equally true.
We have lots of other electric cars to choose from in Europe these days, including microcars, which are much better for European city streets.
Teslas are also dangerous! Besides having oversized engines that encourage people to speed, they're also very heavy compared to most EU electric cars.
Tesla doesn't care about road safety either. They've released "Full Self Drive" when it was clearly unsafe, and I almost got in a serious crash myself because of FSD slamming on the brakes on a highway for no reason.
The CyberTruck is not sold in Europe because it cannot pass safety tests, especially pedestrian safety.
theguardian.com/technology/202…
Tesla Cybertruck ‘too big and sharp’ for European roads, say campaigners
Questions raised about registration in Czech Republic of one of first models to reach continentAjit Niranjan (The Guardian)
Maritime truce would end a sorry war on the waves for Russia that set back its naval power ambitions
Russia is becoming more reliant on naval support from China, limiting Moscow’s sea-power reach.The Conversation
Offering paid time off dramatically cuts odds of employees quitting their jobs, study reveals
phys.org/news/2025-03-paid-odd…
#news #business #finance #work #worklife
Offering paid time off dramatically cuts odds of employees quitting their jobs, study reveals
About 4.5 million workers in the United States quit their jobs in 2022, continuing a trend that began after the 2007 Great Recession.Florida Atlantic University (Phys.org)
Hope you can get back inside soon. At least it's not raining I suppose.
Isle of Wight incident in Ventnor sees police close main road
Isle of Wight police have closed and cordoned off a road in Ventnor this afternoon.Jon Moreno (Isle of Wight County Press)
I modelled the whole enclosure for the face mechanism, the in-game version is made of sheet metal, but this one will probably work fine for my wall mounted ornamental version of the thing.
I really need to look into FreeCAD's sheet metal workbench thing, this wouldn't probably be too hard to do out of metal after some lasering.
I also really need to learn the Assembly workbench that came with the 1.0. There's so many mechanical things I'd need to try out before printing.
The sheet metal workbench is not super hard to learn, and it's flexible. If you put radiuses for bends into your existing designs, you can "unfold" without starting over. Or you can design the whole thing using sheet metal workbench knowing the material you are going to fold.
The built-in Assembly is still a bit limited compared to Assembly3 and Assembly4, but a lot of the simplifications work really well. My initial impression was that I'd need more joint types, and then I realized that actually no I mostly don't. I haven't figured out yet how best to use it with the Fasteners workbench.
@mcdanlj I'll definitely look into the sheet metal bench in the close future, this project I'm working on needs a metal enclosure and I could see myself making a small batch of them for other hobbyists.
What comes to the Assembly, from what I've seen on Youtube videos of the 1.0's integrated one, it'll do for the relatively simple projects I make.
Steffo
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They are? I may not have noticed this in the past, it just jumped out at me this time because I wanted to ask the person who reported it why they felt the need to do that. In case I missed something, or to deter bad reports.
Peter Kisner ≈
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •I wonder if it would help if the report button was designed to require the reporter to input some text explaining why they consider it spam/bad.
deilann v -0.2.1.
in reply to Steffo • • •Yeah, that's a forwarded report. The specific reporter isn't provided for forwarded reports out of potential retaliation/privacy concerns.
myrmepropagandist
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That makes sense. However it makes follow-up harder. But, then they could have left a reason to explain. I guess I'll just assume it was a mistake.
Rory
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Aubrey Jones
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •I'm so confused. Out of all my posts, that seems like such a weird one to report. Except that it is trending a tiny bit.
Thanks for looking into it!
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
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in reply to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) • • •I mean maybe... but that's not reportable... explain your ideas and feelings in the Market Place of Ideas (tm) IDK.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
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