I want to see a fleet of these little guys swarm a Cybertruck like crows driving an eagle out of town
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h/t @blaine for pointing to this amazing website
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This mouse is so delightfully over-the-top girly that I'm almost tempted to get it. Almost.
(Alas, I don't like that style of mouse wheel.)
@intransitivelie I like mouse wheels that allow you to push the wheel to the left or right, activating a "back" and "forward" command when using software where those commands are relevant. The mouse in the picture has a wheel without that side to side movement.
Alternatively, there are mice with a fixed mouse wheel without the side to side motion but have two buttons on the left side of the mouse which are accessible to one's thumb that function as "back" and "forward" command buttons.
@intransitivelie The Logitech Triathlon is a lower priced mouse which offers that option. Although, I prefer to just leave it in "free wheeling" mode because the "click, click, click" sensation is very harsh compared to other mice.
You can find if for much cheaper than the $39 manufacturer price on eBay.
...I kinda like the click click click 😅
Seriously though, thanks for the info. I'll look into it, though I confess given my current monetary situation that the lure of a $3 Logitech knockoff from China may be too much for me. The cats like to knock my mice off the desk and I'd hate to do that to a fancy piece of tech.
I actually switched to wireless mice and keyboards because one of our cats, now sadly deceased, could bite through wires like a pair of pliers 😅 Dib destroyed so many pairs of headphones too. He didn't seem to do it maliciously, he just liked to do it, I guess. We really only worried about electrical wires, so we would wrap those in aquarium tubing or similar to keep him from electrocuting himself.
I'm sorry you're kitty-less. I saw that you got to visit one recently though. Maybe the cat delivery system will have one for you someday.
@intransitivelie Oh gosh. I have heard stories about so many cats loving the chewy licorice goodness of electrical cords, wires, audio cables, and so on.
It does seem to be a thing for parts of feline-kind.
Alas, I don't have the kind of life that would be good for a cat friend. I am literally away from home for a week at a time when I'm at work. One week on, one week off.
I'll continue to find joy in other people's cat friends, I guess.
Your schedule is a bit of a sticky wicket, I agree. But maybe someday.
*bad idea chimes in* ☝️😈 You could get multiple kitties who could entertain themselves while you're away! They sell automatic food dispensers and you could put up cameras to talk to them while you're at work!
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@intransitivelie I'll probably find that they've hacked my computers in my apartment and have re-engineered them into a kitty doomsday machine for control of the planet and the annihilation of human rule over the world.
Wait, I like this plan.
I'm going to see if I can gather a team of cat friends together at my apartment...
DC folx: Come see "Sylvan," my collaboration with Ceci Cole McInturff, at Freight Gallery in northeast D.C. on Sunday, March 30, 4–6PM.
The opening is the show; for these two hours, a working, hundred-year-old freight elevator is converted into a gallery space. freightgallery.com/
Made possible by Julia Bloom and DC CAH. 2414 Douglas St NE. Be there or be square.
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27 March 1909 | Norwegian Jewish woman of Polish origin, Gittel Hirsch, was born in Bergen.
She arrived at #Auschwitz on 3 March 1943 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
Can't buy one in Canada either!! 😤
Time to disconnect from American fossil fueled tarifd insanity!
#canpoli #cdnpoli #cars #ev
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I was in Beijing in November, and it was amazing. 22 million people, freeways everywhere, virtually silent.
We haven't even gotten into trucks: made-in-china.com/showroom/kin…
Offer any rural Canadian a new 4x4 truck for $20K with manual window handles, no radio, and an 4x8 bed and the answer will be "shut up and take my money" - except we don't sell them here, or anything less than an $80+k luxury SUV with tiny beds and electronic tailgates that never work.
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We're hoping to organize a hopeful virtual event to get us to think our possible technological futures, and have a creative workshop. Maybe in the spring. Stay tuned. In the mean time, read our Possible Futures Series. If you have thoughts on what you'd like to see from the event, comment below.
▶️ Nobody Owns Our Techno-Future: dair-institute.org/blog/techno…
▶️ A Bus Model For Global, Human-Centered Education: dair-institute.org/blog/educat…
▶️ An Internet for Our Elders: dair-institute.org/blog/elders…
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Nobody Owns The Technofuture
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.www.dair-institute.org
▶️ Closure for Families of the Missing: dair-institute.org/blog/eritre…
▶️ Decentralized, Locally-Tailored Technology: dair-institute.org/blog/decent…
Closure for Families of the Missing
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.www.dair-institute.org
DAIR Presents: Imagining Possible Futures
At DAIR, we want to encourage imagining otherwise. Join us for two panels and a collaborative zine-making workshop.Eventbrite
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Medetomidine is replacing xylazine in Philly street fentanyl − creating new hurdles for health care providers and drug users
An emergency physician and nurse scientist explain what medetomidine is and how to respond if someone is overdosing on it.The Conversation
WIP Wednesday 26 March 2025
This week in FreeCAD development:
Draft: Roy_043 contributed several improvements and bugfixes including one for the bug where Near Snap would not obey the Always Snap setting.
Sketcher: PaddleStroke improved the way length is enforced in Line and Slot tools when an angle is set.
Part and PartDesign:
PaddleStroke added missing tooltips to Clone and Subshapebinder
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WIP Wednesday 26 March 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy_043 contributed several improvements and bugfixes including one for the bug where Near Snap would not obey the Always Snap setting. Sketcher: PaddleStro…FreeCAD News
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It takes a lot to shake me but this abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar at Tufts is bone-chilling.
Plainclothes, masked agents bundle her into an unmarked car.
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It appears her thought crime was co-authoring op-ed in the Tufts newspaper, asking the university to take action in opposition to Israeli war crimes.
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She's been whisked off from Massachusetts to Louisiana.
This is the new America.
Citizens are next.
Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions
The independent student newspaper of Tufts UniversityRumeysa Ozturk (The Tufts Daily)
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*AND* they transported her over state lines illegally.
A federal court had specifically ordered ICE not to transport her across state lines unless they notified the court.
It's here, if not in the AP article above.
(edit: according to the Guardian, the court's statement applies specifically to this student, Rumeysa Ozturk)
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Footage shows masked Ice agents detaining Tufts graduate student
Rumeysa Ozturk, Turkish national on a student visa, sent to Louisiana detention center over pro-Palestinian activismJosé Olivares (The Guardian)
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Hmm k3s cluster or docker swarm cluster on my pi’s? What do you think folks? #raspberrypiMastodon
"why not both"
And then automate both. And then build an Ansible playbook to switch the cluster between the two haha
ok so i've worked with microcontrollers before but fuck if i know what to do with this specific thing. bought it on impulse because i liked the vibes, but now i need actual project ideas.
it's basically a raspberry pi pico in a handheld form factor with keyboard, screen, speakers, battery, etc. oh and GPIO on the side
what should i do with mine? i need ideas!! funny, wild, any ideas
@pluralistic -- "Politicians who make themselves beholden to organized supporters who really care about the issues are armoring themselves against the enormous pressure on elected representatives to make compromises."
Schumer compromised and capitulated; "you're not a wartime consigliere, Chuck." It's time for leaders who will go to the mattresses.
amazing, my favorite pizza. I call it "The Thackerville" because I discovered it on the menu at Tin Star Pizza in Thackerville OK about 10 years ago.
I just looked it up and it turns out that Tin Star is actually in nearby Ardmore OK. I am speechless.
Fitting a Spell Checker into 64 kB
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Fitting A Spell Checker Into 64 KB
By some estimates, the English language contains over a million unique words. This is perhaps overly generous, but even conservative estimates generally put the number at over a hundred thousand. R…Hackaday
Magnolia season: their blousey, bold and beautiful, momentarily here, then gone.
#flowers #photography #BloomScrolling #alttext #art
NSC Chair: "Yeah, well, Mike Waltz, I guess he said, he claimed responsibility, I would imagine. Had nothing to do with anyone else. It was Mike, I guess. I don't know, I was told it was Mike."
He imagines a lot of stuff but can not be bothered to find the facts.
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‘Where was the president?’ Hayes on Trump’s alarming absence amid war plans group chat
Based on the group chat, it's not clear that the Commander-in-Chief made the final decision for the United States to bomb another country. "The core thing th...YouTube
I was laid off last month, so I had to scramble and build a new portfolio from scratch. Really happy with how it turned out!
🎨 I am primarily a UX/UI designer
🤖 I also do front end development
🏃♂️ I’d love to animate some stuff
🚀 Boosts appreciated
Support vmst·io ❤️. ko-fi.com/vmstio
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Questrial, designed by Joe Prince and Laura Meseguer
During colonial times, European colonial powers in Africa made their languages the official ones. Many African languages still lack typographic support, making it hard to write them correctly due to missing letters and diacritics in most fonts.
In post-colonial times and to address the lack of open source fonts for African languages, @googlefonts gave me the task of expanding Questrial for that purpose
More here:
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Questrial - Google Fonts
Questrial is the perfect font for body text and headlines on a website. It's modern style, suited with past characteristics of great typefaces, make it highly rGoogle Fonts
The future is more stuff.
Slightly better stuff.
More marketing to convince us we need the slightly better stuff.
More debt to buy it.
More work to pay off the debt.
More environmental damage to produce it.
And more waste when we discard it for the next slightly better iteration.
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The Future is More Stuff
Let me tell you about my smartphone. Not the one I have now - the one I had in 2015. It took decent photos, browsed the web reasonably well, and let me text my friends. When it eventually died, I replaced it with a newer model that...Joan Westenberg (westenberg.)
if the systems aren’t explainable then you’re not a “Vibe Engineer” or a “Vibe Architect” as much as a “Vibe Eloi” to the AI’s Morlock. You have to wrangle the Morlocks into doing what you need and avoid being eaten
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From Fair Haven to Technomic Empires. - MapAI - Medium
For the best part of a decade, anyone who knows me has had their ear chewed off over the idea of conversational programming. But, what is it and why?swardley (MapAI)
It’s one thing if I—a four-year college grad with a B.A. in sociology—say that the political situation is deteriorating here in the United States. It’s quite another when it’s Yale professor Jason Stanley, who studies fascism specifically. After Columbia University’s cowardly capitulation to the Trump administration, he packed his bags, headed to Canada, and joined the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy—where hopefully, he can continue to study fascism without being the target of it.
Do I have to tell you this is a bad sign? Y’all, THIS IS A BAD SIGN.
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Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’Rachel Leingang (The Guardian)
A ten year old could figure out that this was Classified information.
This Coverup will only get worse.
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Administration trying to avoid that Signal chat is massive security breach, Goldberg says
Details about U.S. military strikes being discussed on Signal have shocked many in the national security community. But President Trump called the whole epis...YouTube
Well, I am definitely headed for the gulag now. But Fuck ICE.
#SomervilleMA #RumeysaOzturk #PowderAlarm
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Thousands rally for scholar Rumeysa Ozturk, taken from Somerville street by federal agents - Cambridge Day
As many as 3,000 people came together for an “emergency protest” for people who have been swept up by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.Jodi Hilton (Cambridge Day)
@oberbrunner It was way bigger than I expected. I was looking for others and I got buried layers into the crowd.
I am pleased that we might be over that tyrant-tossing threshold...
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To overthrow a tyrant, try the 3.5 Percent Solution
A study of 323 uprisings against repressive regimes yields stunning insights.Charles Euchner (Big Think)
but Gulag is nice, get some meat in there, simmer for hours, get some black beans and rice...
oh wait, thats Goulash
"don’t even get me started on the security risks this poses. You could be a few clicks away from leaking all your data by signing up for some cool thing"
*Has Jeffrey Goldberg been informed
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Cracking the code of vibe coding | UX Collective
WTF is vibe coding? Why you care and why this is the future of design and business.Pete Sena (UX Collective)
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I'm pleased Zorin is still going strong, but the choice to use Brave as a default browser going forward feels rather unfortunate.
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With a little adjustment for casual users, LibreWolf would be up to the task, IMO.
linux mint is still ubuntu-based and handles proprietary drivers for ya.
chimera-linux.org/ is my current infatuation, tho.
Oh, I definitely have enough resources to run it (8GB RAM, I think?), but I'd prefer lower needed resources for the OS so that the programs get more...
(Also, I was planning on recommending something for older relatives with slower machines and Zorin seemed good for that: easy to use yet lighter weight than Ubuntu-distros usually are).
The Signal scandal is still egregious. Don't drop it. Impeach.
Text SIGN PEVSUL to 50409 to send this to your officials.Resistbot
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