@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialHe's just whining because they won't change the name to Trumpflix. 😏
And it will be too much competition for state-run media outlet Paramount / Skydance
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/08/trump-netflix-warner-b…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 11 - Gambit
CHENIE: If I want to be involved ... Now listen. There's a Trantinian planet hopper leaving here in a couple of hours. I think I can get you on it.
DOCHOLLI: Trantinian ship?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/308 B7B4
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
James Brown:
🎵 Get Up, Get Into It and Get Involved (mono)
#JamesBrown
https://djade.bandcamp.com/track/james-brown-get-up-get-into-it-get-involvedade-dj-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1E5ZAgjqiDdnzfe4E52ghX
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDemocrats call on 'disengaged' Trump to get involved to end shutdown (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/democrats-call-disengaged-trump-get-involved-end-shutdown-rcna238873
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p140#a251021p140
@grumpybozo@toad.socialWell…
It’s still a remarkable display of ego to ask POTUS to get involved with a healthcare scheduling matter. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3m4onydufic2x
@scott@carfree.cityI donated a bit to Gary McCoy's campaign for District 8 supervisor in SF.
I'm hesitant to support merely "progressive" candidates since so many veer rightward after getting elected, like D8's current supe Mandelman, and recently D7 supe Melgar to a lesser degree.
But I really like Gary's platform, emphasizing non-police public safety programs; traffic calming as part of public safety; and pro-housing with emphasis on public investment, not just upzone an…
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… @… I’ve gotten books from various university libraries via the Fort Vancouver Regional Library system.
One of them stuck with me enough to get my own copy… which involved calling the author’s widow and mailing her a check. At…
@datascience@genomic.socialTidyX: screencasts explaining different aspects of the R language and the coding process. #rstats
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump On Race:
💥"And we just clean out that whole thing … I don’t know, something has to happen, but it’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything’s demolished, and people are dying there, so I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing in a different location where I think they could maybe live in peace for a change.
– 👉Suggesting Palestinian displacement onboard Air Force One, 25 January 2025
💥"Then it’s a group w…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzEvaluation using in-situ observations from national governments and Citizen Scientists suggests nadir #altimeters can accurately measure water level changes regardless of lake area: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15481603.2025.2543521 -> Volunteers Help NASA Test Lake Monitoring From Space: https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/how-small-is-too-small-volunteers-help-nasa-test-lake-monitoring-from-space/
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI think I need to get more involved in OpenSCAD, or maybe just try to learn more about how to best us it, and improve my own workflow. I read a few things today that will really help me out. I will probably write up a blog post about it as well. (I already donate monthly because I use it so much!)
#OpenSCAD
@ben@a11y.infoGotta love how quickly pull request best practices get abandoned the moment accessibility work is involved.
@hex@kolektiva.socialReal conspiracies tend to come out, but some of them take a while. Information on the Iran/Contra scandal broke out about 5 years after the conspiracy started. That would have taken several hundred people to carry out, so it was somewhat hard to hide. Even so, they largely got away with it.
The moon landing conspiracy theory would have taken thousands of people, so it would have come out more quickly. Since we have an example of a real secret program of a similar scale as what would be required to fake a moon landing (that is, the Manhattan project), we know that the fake moon landing conspiracy theory is not true. (There's also the literally tons of evidence in the form of rocks and other samples, and all kinds of other ways to debunk the claim.)
Could Kash Patel's FBI have been trying really hard to entrap people into carrying out terrorist attacks in order to justify #Trump's occupation of DC? Could they have helped a guy plan an attack then just failed to arrest him? There are reasonable scenarios that fall in between malice and incompetence while still indicating some level of false flag.
Could someone have just snapped and ambushed some guardsmen without any involvement from the FBI? Yeah, totally. The US is a country full of guns with a completely non-functional mental health system. Someone coming from a country that the US destroyed, twice, could have a lot of untreated trauma. Might they see the national guard as a threat (even if that wasn't totally true)? Yeah, they were deployed to threaten people (even when they were just picking up trash). The point was to incite this kind of response. It's completely reasonable to believe that the FBI would not need to be involved at all, that this would just be the stochastic response they were looking for.
So the point here is that everything is on the table, nothing is really known, nothing should be surprising, and no matter what it's Trump's fault. This is exactly the escalation he was looking for. If he didn't get it naturally, he would also have had ways of making it happen.
He will use this in exactly the same way as the Reichstag fire, to drive a wedge between liberals and radicals. Don't fall for it.
Edit:
There are plausible reasons to not believe the official narrative at all right now, or maybe ever. The official narrative is also plausible, but there are plausible reasons to disagree with the response even if the official story is true. It is unnecessary to resort to conspiracy thinking in order to account for what happened and to disagree with the response. But it is also understandable why someone might jump immediately to a conspiracy given the circumstances.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioIf you’re wondering how you can help…
If you’re in MSP: talk to your neighbors, find the people who are doing organizing work, and get involved. Find something and show up for it. Info & resources here: https://monarcamn.org
If you’re elsewhere in the US: talk to your neighbors •now• about what’s happening, and get your support networks set up •before• this comes to where you live — unless of course it already has, in which case see above.
If you’re not in the US, spread the word about what’s happening here. Make the shame of ICE known internationally.
@Jyoti@mas.to @cdarwin@c.im“They’re behind schedule, and so the President wants to make sure we beat the Chinese,”
acting NASA coordinator Sean Duffy said of SpaceX.
"[Trump] wants to get there in his term. So I’m in the process of opening that contract up.
I think we’ll see companies like Blue [Origin] get involved, and maybe others.
We’re going to have a space race in regard to American companies competing to see who can actually lead us back to the Moon first.”
There are a coupl…
@hacksilon@infosec.exchangeInteresting thread to get a first-hand account on the current state of LLMs for assisting US tax filings, even in complex situations. tl;dr: Very helpful for a sophisticated user that can check the output.
Another point towards my very narrow defense of LLMs, i.e., feel free to dislike LLMs for many good reasons, but please don't call them useless.
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialGiven that a significant portion of my professional career involved using computers, and helping other people who used #computers to do real work get that stuff done, I know very little about how they actually work. When I started, core memory was literally that: little iron disk cores handwired into matrices. A #mainframe
@pre@boing.worldSo the temporary placeholder name "Your Party" is made permanent.
None of the options on the shortlist were good. Most of them just as grammatically inconvenient as the dumb placeholder name.
The people who decide on the short-list, who can be a member, whose votes counts and what the options are, have quite a lot of power.
Zara Sultana boycotted day one over who sets the rules and who can be involved. If Your Party have a governing body with power to override conference they end up like the Labour party and just are easily taken over and usurped by a cabal of thatcherite neoliberal capitalists.
They did allow the dual membership system and a wider governance, so Zara won on who gets to be a member and who gets to be in charge. Which is probably good.
Coz as the terrible name shows, if you put the idiots in charge you'll get idiocy not good collective decision making.
For now the membership appear to have won, and I hear are they are all very excited and fierce and canny and not likely to let the old guard just set up another dictatorship from the top.
They currently have half the membership count of the greens, less than a quarter that claimed by Reform. Lets hope they can get some attention towards something other than how billionaires think the country should be run and focus on the people.
Here's hoping they can inflate that number by draining the Labour party and Reform members who just want change really rather than actually liking anything said by Farage.
#yourParty #ukpol
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaKimi Onoda, Japan's new Minister of State for Economic Security, is a 43 year old half-Irish ex-game industry PR femcel with an extensive history of defending her exclusive attraction to anime boys on twitter
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caBeaverton is hitting it out of the park today.
"Danielle Smith uses notwithstanding clause to declare herself Premier of BC”
"“This is a matter for the courts, probably,” Carney said. “It’s not my place to get involved in interprovincial issues. Unless the extraction industry asks me to. Wait, have they asked? No? Not yet? Okay, then let the courts handle it until then.””
lol
(and the Eby "quote" about First Past the Post lol!)
#ABPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #BCPoli
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/11/danielle-smith-uses-notwithstanding-clause-to-declare-herself-premier-of-b-c/
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI've filed a report about a minor problem with a #Python package, namely that the source distribution contained some trailing junk that breaks GNU #tar. On one hand, I'm happy that upstream took the issue seriously. On the other hand, I'm terrified of how much #AI slop was involved in the response.
I mean, my short bug report yielded a few walls of text of #LLM analysis of what the cause of the problem might be, of suggested solutions… and praise of the author's fix. These are interspersed with short comments from the author, all pasted under their own personal account. And the linked pull request is also huge, with "verification code" that's quite sloppy (bits that don't do anything, conditions that will never be true… but at least it seems to do what it was supposed to do).
Honestly, I don't know what to do. Not that I ever planned using this package, but at this point I will definitely stay away from it. It's in #Gentoo, and I'll have to continue maintaining it for the sake of reverse dependencies, but I feel like it's unfair to expose our users to packages that have clearly proven to accept AI slop without reviewing it properly. Or rather, AI slop that's being reviewed… by AI. How can anyone think this a good idea?!
There were multiple times in my life when I've considered retiring from Gentoo, for variety of reasons. There were also multiple times when I wanted to get away from computers altogether. Unfortunately, we're living in a truly fucked up world, and there is no escape. The best you can do is put an ever increasing effort to keep fixing all that crap that will just keep piling on faster and faster.
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource
