@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2025-06-03 23:12:14
After a recent discussion with a politically opposed (hard right) acquaintance is that neither full socialisation (left) nor full privatisation (right) are desirable options. My considered impression is that there's a middle ground - where you have to understand *where* privatisation makes sense, and where it's counter-productive, and socialisation makes much better sense. I think revolves around the sense of 'calling' among practitioners (or lack thereof).... 1/n
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-04 04:29:51
Elon Musk’s team of Texas lobbyists during the 2025 legislative session did not rival those of huge energy and telecommunications companies,
which typically employ dozens of people to represent them.
⭐️But Musk and his companies still hired more lobbyists this year than any other since 2021, according to data from the Texas Ethics Commission.
❌Musk, the billionaire businessman behind carmaker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. …
@ukraine_live_tagesschau@mastodon.social2025-06-02 14:36:06
Ukraine: Lösung nur bei Treffen von Selenskyj mit Putin
Die entscheidenden Fragen für eine Friedenslösung mit Russland können nach Ansicht der Ukraine nur auf Ebene der Staatschefs geklärt werden. Das sagte der ukrainische Verteidigungsminister und Delegationsleiter bei den Gesprächen in Istanbul, Rustem Umerow. Er schlug vor, bis Ende Juni ein Treffen der beiden Präsidenten zu organisieren.
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@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-07-03 18:43:21
Virginia county says April ransomware attack exposed employee SSNs https://therecord.media/virginia-county-says-ransomware-attack-exposed-ssns
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2025-06-01 19:26:53
Ik wil hard rijden, maar waarom wil ik zo snel zijn? | Thomas Verbogt | #gelderlander
https://www.gelderlander.nl/thomas-verbogt
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2025-07-03 10:11:03
Interesting. Never heard of this company before - seems to be used by most of the public sector in the UK for their social media accounts. Never seen .tech as a domain either!
https://orlo.tech
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-06-03 07:30:19
H'mmm... My @forgejo instance has been hit very hard last night by AI crawlers, including from
* https://openai.com/gptbot (125,467 hits in 24 hours)
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@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-06-03 14:15:46
Trump's approval among Latino voters is crashing, new poll shows (Andrew Howard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/03/somos-votanes-poll-trump-approval-latinos-00381955
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p45#a250603p45
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-03 17:22:38
I just received a shocking phone call that made my heart sink.
Just days after Susan Collins voted to confirm RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard,
the MAGA Republican establishment rushed Susan Collins $842K
to rescue her chances for re-election.
𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭:
𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐯𝐮𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫
- 𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩'𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐭
- 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-02 19:23:32
It’s been 55 years since the Ohio National Guard opened fire on students at Kent State University
who were protesting the US war in Vietnam.
Four students were murdered at the Kent State Massacre:
Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, and William Schroeder.
In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with Mike Alewitz,
who was a student at Kent State in 1970,
about what it was like to witness the massacre firsthand,
and abou…
