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"When the Trump regime took over in January and Elon Musk's data-raiders started hacking federal agencies of various kinds, a group chat in which I participate started speculating about what kinds of terrible things this crowd might do. One member of the group wondered if the hacking might include the Social Security Administration's "death master file" – a list of people, presumably deceased, who would not receive any federal benefits and whose names and other identifying information would be flagged so that financial institutions would refuse to serve them.
What if, the conversation continued, the infamously cruel and paranoid regime decided to add living persons to the death master list? Doing so would destroy people's actual lives – which might make it just what a vicious government would do."
#USPolitics
https://cornerstone.dangillmor.com/essentials-april-12-2025/

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And if you're wondering what happened to those three Fast Cats.
In January 2024 someone tried to get someone to buy them by putting them up on Facebook Marketplace (yep!) for $15 Million for all three. (98% off original price lol). They were, and likely still are, sitting tied up in Alexandria, Egypt. They were last owned by the Egyptian Government.
At least one of them was essentially unchanged inside since the 1990s. (a Nanaimo Bar for $1.5!)
#BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding

Für unsere Versuchsstation zur experimentellen terrestrischen Ökosystemforschung suchen wir eine:n Techniker:in mit einer Ausbildung im Bereich Landbau, Agrartechnik, Landwirtschaftsmeister:in o.ä.
Die Aufgaben umfassen u.a.
- Bedienung gängiger Feldversuchstechnik, landwirtschaftlicher Technik und Traktoren
- Bewirtschaftung der Versuchsflächen unter anderem durch Nutzung von Precision Farming
- Mitarbeit bei der Anlage und Betreuung von Feld- und Modellversuchen (Ausmessen und Einfluchten von Versuchen, Bodenbearbeitung, Düngen, Aussaat, Durchführung von Ernten/Zwischenernten und Bodenprobenentnahmen nach Einweisung in den Versuchsplan)
- Veranlassung von TÜV und UVV-Prüfungen
- Reparaturabwicklung mit Werkstätten
- Pflegearbeiten im Gelände und in Versuchen außerhalb von Bad Lauchstädt
- Pflanzenschutz
- Mitbetreuung des Fuhrparks (Wartung und Instandhaltung der Landtechnik, Reinigung, Winterfestmachung)
Weitere Infos und Online-Bewerbung hier:
#Job #Ökologie #Landwirtschaft #Landbau #Agrartechnik

There's a really charming movie from the '80s called "Saving Grace" starring Tom Conti as a young, newly installed #Pope who sends the Vatican into an uproar by going off on walkabout without telling them where he is.
In the movie his regnal name was Leo XIV, so I can't help but wonder whether the real world Leo XIV remembers that movie and thought, "Ha, why not…

GNHeII J1236 6215: A He II $\lambda$1640 emitting and potentially LyC leaking galaxy at $z$ = 2.9803 unveiled through JWST & Keck observations
Chayan Mondal, Kanak Saha, Anshuman Borgohain, Brent M. Smith, Rogier A. Windhorst, Naveen Reddy, Chian-Chou Chen, Keiichi Umetsu, Rolf A. Jansen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06831

GNHeII J1236+6215: A He II $λ$1640 emitting and potentially LyC leaking galaxy at $z$ = 2.9803 unveiled through JWST & Keck observations
He II $λ$1640 emission in galaxies indicates the presence of sources that produce extreme ionizing photons. Here, we report the discovery of a He II $λ$1640 emitting galaxy, GNHeII J1236+6215, at $z=$ 2.9803 in the GOODS-north field. We use photometry in 17 wavebands from near-UV to infrared to characterize the galaxy SED and combine Keck LRIS and JWST NIRSpec spectra to identify 15 emission lines including He II $λ$1640. We infer that the He$^+$ ionization in the galaxy could be driven by s…

#NowPlaying - aw, peaceful departures to cosmic traveler ariel kalma. i wrote notes for this anthology of his '70s recordings. a truly heady & wonder-filled sweetheart, like a french terry riley or something.

If you wonder how much disk space you need to run your own Mastodon instance, here are our stats of a server with a handful of active accounts:
Attachments: 8.51 GB (462 MB local)
Custom emoji: 477 MB (74.8 KB local)
Preview cards: 457 MB
Avatars: 4.29 GB (1.89 MB local)
Headers: 7.57 GB (3.58 MB local)
Backups: 0 Bytes
Imports: 0 Bytes
Settings: 34.4 KB
Disk usage is pretty stable after a while. We do backups with our own mechanism, so YMMV.

Calamus 24 I hear it is charged against me
This poem feels just so typically Whitman, but lesser somehow. Not one of my favorites.
He says he is "charged that I seek to destroy institutions". Charged by whom, one wonders, is he really so important? He sort of denies this, or is ambivalent to it, and then gets to the queer part:
I will establish ... the institution of the dear love of comrades
And here we are again at the central queer question: just what does he mean by "dear love of comrades"? As I read these poems I'm increasingly thinking it's both things. Sure, it's brotherly love, adhesiveness, a sort of robust fraternity. But so much of his writing and life is homoerotic it has to also have that charge. It can be both.
I feel like I've heard that phrase "the institution of the dear love of comrades" repeated often.

Hmmm, I wonder if #Youtube is doing some fuckery or if my install of #LibreWolf is just misbehaving.
Well, the live video still plays, so I guess at least there's that.