@johl@mastodon.xyz2025-08-14 05:44:55
“The statistics are brutal. Fascist takeovers prevented after winning power democratically: zero. Average length of fascist rule once established: 31 years. Fascist regimes removed by voting: zero. Fascist regimes removed by asking nicely: zero. Most were removed by war or military coups, and tens of millions died in the process.”
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-13 17:35:36
Exclusive: Senior prosecutor removed as Lindsey Halligan reshapes key US attorney's office (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/politics/federal-prosecutor-maggie-cleary-removed
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p64#a251013p64
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-14 10:30:43
Filings: the Dutch government seized Nexperia after the US warned it would not be removed from its export control list if Chinese CEO Zhang Xuezheng remained (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/db019842-01a9-4488-a6a0-45d0e102536b
@arXiv_condmatmeshall_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-13 09:02:00
Mapping the moir\'e potential in multi-layer rhombohedral graphene
Eric Seewald, Sanat Ghosh, Nishchhal Verma, John Cenker, Yinan Dong, Birui Yang, Amit Basu, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Mandar M. Deshmukh, Dmitri N. Basov, Raquel Queiroz, Cory Dean, Abhay N. Pasupathy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09548
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange2025-09-13 15:55:15
Materials folks: I'm looking for a removable sacrificial masking material that:
* Can be applied as a thixotropic gel and cures quickly, preferably under UV
* Sticks reasonably well to silicon, tin plated copper and epoxy-glass composites
* Can be removed with no residue
* Will survive repeated brief exposure to concentrated or fuming nitric and sulfuric acids at ~80C followed by washing in cold acetone
I'm currently using a Dymax peelable UV polyurethane…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-13 15:06:59
A historic wave of retirements and other departures has swept through the federal workforce in recent months, putting enormous strain on agencies as they cope with a new government shutdown and administration layoffs.
This mass exodus
— unprecedented in its scale
— includes 154,000 federal employees who accepted buyout offers and were largely removed from the payroll as of the end of last month.
Some of those are among nearly 105,000 employees who took regular retire…
@floheinstein@chaos.social2025-08-13 05:26:25
I had seven moles surgically removed yesterday because my dermatologist didn't like the way they looked.
So now I have stitches all over my body and I'm not allowed to stretch unduly to prevent the sutures from coming apart.
I guess that's one way to keep me from reaching anything but the lowest hanging fruits.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-14 12:55:50
An internal Meta doc shows its chatbots were allowed to engage in provocative conversations; Meta removed some examples, including romantic roleplay with kids (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-14 18:35:46
Sources: xAI was part of a US government AI initiative alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, but was removed after Grok posted antisemitic content in July (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/xai-grok-government-contract-hitler/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-13 13:25:38
Sources: the Trump administration cut 176 CISA jobs last week as part of laying off 4,000 US federal workers, and is likely to make further mass CISA layoffs (Cynthia B Brumfield/Metacurity)
https://www.metacurity.com/the-white-house-f…
