@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-24 16:42:23
"Scores of frogs have been removed, with the remaining sanitized ones displayed like an interior designer was called in.”
I don’t drive on Paterna Road in Santa Barbara often enough to have a good sense of how different it is,
but a Riviera resident said someone has been working on it for months now.
Anyone know more?
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-10-24 21:56:02
@pre@boing.world2025-11-23 14:42:18
Rob Gaskell of Sundial is presenting on a layer two protocol designed to enable bitcoin to generate yield.
Most bitcoin is still, in long term hodl. Not helping anyone.
Sure, you could lend your bitcoin for interest but that would count as a tax event and also involve losing custody.
What if a programmable sidechain to help with scaling, allow borrowing and lending and products retail and institutions like?
His solution is called Sundial and doesn't need new protocol changes or forks.
Hard to say what it actually does though? Presumably something like liquidity in sidechains? Didn't really seem to get what he actually is building. 🤷
#bitfest #bitcoin
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-23 18:55:35
Twenty people allege he has a racist past. He denies it. Who's telling the truth about Farage's schooldays? (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/22/nigel-farage-racist-past-who-is-telling-truth-schooldays
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p47#a251123p47
@thijs_lucas@norden.social2025-11-25 03:21:34
Pixelfed ist immer noch recht klein und ich vermisse noch etwas die professionellen Fotograf*innen und Künstler*innen… ganz besonders den *innen-Teil nehme ich noch wenig wahr und ich frage mich, wem Folgen. @… hat gleich eine Liste an Vorschlägen in ihrem Profil, auch wenn die (noch) nicht im Fediverse sein dürften.
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-10-24 20:50:12
Warmer weather is leading to vanishing winters in North America's Great Lakes #America
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-24 13:52:52
Day 28: Samira Ahmed
As foreshadowed, we're back to YA land, which represents a lot of what I've been enjoying from the library lately.
I've read "Hollow Fires", "This Book Won't Burn", and "Love, Hate, and other Filters" by Ahmed, along with "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know" which is quite different. All four are teen ~romances with interesting things to say about racism & growing up as a South Asian Muslim, but whereas the first three are set in small-town Indiana, the third is set in France and includes a historical fiction angle involving Dumas and a hypothetical Muslim woman who was (in this telling) the inspiration for several Lord Byron poems.
Ahmed's novels all include a strong and overt theme of social justice, and it's refreshing to see an author not try to wade around the topic or ignore it. Her romances are complex, with imperfect protagonists and endings that aren't always "happily ever after" although they're satisfying and believable.
My library has a plethora of similar authors I've been enjoying, including Adiba Jaigirdar (who appeared earlier in this list), Sabaa Tahir ("All my Rage" is fantastic but I'm less of a fan of her fantasy stuff), Sabina Khan ("The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali"), and Randa Abdel-Fattah ("Does My Head Look Big In This?"; from an earlier era). Ahmed gets the spot here because I really like her politics and the way she works them into her writing. Her characters are unapologetic advocates against things like book bans, and Ahmed doesn't second-guess them or try to make things more palatable for those who want to ban books (or whatever). Her historical fiction in "Mad..." is also really cool in terms of "huh that could actually totally be true" and grappling with literary sexism from ages past.
#30AuthorsNoMen
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-09-25 09:13:10
Wow. The UK government is thinking of bailing out JLR. What a case study on how absolutely critical cybersecurity risk management is.
Government considers financial support for JLR suppliers
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62nv0xx32go
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-24 04:29:38
A warrant reviewed by Forbes, filed towards the end of last week,
now allows the government to force unlock a suspect’s phone by
💥applying the defendant’s fingerprints to the device,
💥or holding up the phone to their face, depending on what, if any, biometric access features they’re using.
A "pen register" is a device that records all outgoing phone numbers dialed from a specific telephone line, but it does not capture the content of the conversations.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-23 19:05:57
Tensions over right-wing antisemitism have burst to the forefront of Republican politics,
and show signs of becoming a fierce point of contention in the midterms and beyond.
For years, Jewish Republicans often denied that the right had a serious problem with antisemitism,
pointing instead to anti-Jewish bigotry on the left and celebrating President Trump’s support for Israel.
But now that problem is staring them directly in the face.
Tensions over antisemitism in…
