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While staying vigilant, we’re embracing the chance to catch our breath and to start healing. The city right now has a bit of the feeling of the days after a natural disaster: there is so much damage to repair. Thousands of people are still sheltering at home, understandably reluctant to go to work and/or school. Thousands are facing imminent eviction when March rent comes due.
There’s organizing around rent relief, talk of a rent strike. Food delivery is still in full swing. Mutual aid is not letting up.
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excellent #movie #FilmMastodon
https://www.filmaffinity.com/uk/film538977.html

Upon Entry (2022)
Genre: Mystery | Synopsis: Diego, an Venezuelan urbanist, and Elena, a dancer from Barcelona, move to the United States with their approved visas to start a new life. His intention is to boost his professional careers and form ...

Is there a way in mastodon or activitypub in general to use a hash character as a literal and *not* make the following word a hashtag (e.g. when posting about C/C preprocessor directives I don't necessarily intend for my post to be hashtag ifdef)

Source: Anthropic has no intention of easing Claude usage restrictions for military purposes, following Dario Amodei's meeting with Pete Hegseth (David Jeans/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-digs-heels-dispute-with-pentagon…

We are, however, cautiously hopeful that we have won this battle and can move on to the next.
One theory is that this is all a ruse, and as soon as Congress funds ICE CBP, they’ll come roaring right back. That’s certainly plausible. My own gut feeling, however, is that this is not the case.
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This is exactly the thing I wonder about. Was it shoved through over internal objections? Was it many teams’ separate good work stuck together too hastily? Was it the wrong kind of pressure from above, or bad taste from below, or what?
It’s frustrating because as a dev I catch glimpses of all the really fantastic engineering work folks at Apple are doing •inside• the box, and they’re feeling very little love for it right now because the •outside•is so clunky.
https://sfba.social/@scm/116296203532915798

This article is interesting about thoughts of using flying networks to support military operations.
It is a complex system - and my sense is that they will screw it up with application specific protocols and APIs that evolve and change over time as as military events (the kind that go boom or are intentional forms of in-band attacks - think everything from hyper-phishing to spoofing to zero-day attacks).
But even if it were put together with the precision of a Swiss watch, my old…

New Transport & Environment research shows that the EU's proposed Clean Corporate Vehicles targets will not create lead markets; they are only intended to prevent fleets from falling further behind. Nevertheless, many car manufacturers are actively lobbying against the targets.

…it’s not even that. It’s just ugly. Bad layouts. Bad margins. Bad proportions. Awkward animations. Flickers and flashes. Content peeking through all the negative space so that the screen is filled with visual noise. It feels designed by committee. It feels pasted together.
The feel of Apple products has covered a lot of ground over the decades. They’ve felt elegant. They’ve felt basic. They’ve felt bauble-y and cute. They’ve felt futuristic. They’ve felt practical. But this is the first time I can recall an Apple product feeling •cheap•.

I once again have the feeling that Randall Monroe can see directly into my brain (especially the mouseover text):
https://xkcd.com/3210/