@cdarwin@c.imEvery republican in an interview should be asked about the statement, read the statement, and then asked to denounce it. Any who don’t denounce it should be told it’s unconstitutional and not debatable and given a 2nd opportunity to denounce it. Those who don’t should have their interviews ended.
-- Andrew Rothstein
https://
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu"It's science, it's f = ma. We should keep politics out of it as much as we can." ->
NASA astronaut [Col. Terry W. Virts] on Russian colleagues backing war against Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgSoSAsvio
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaso many of yall should be writing autobiographies. even if it's just scattered vignettes cause u can't remember it all well.
@scott@carfree.cityMinneapolis and Saint Paul are finally launching this BRT line that was already in the planning phase when I last visited in ... 2019.
Good, but if it's gonna take that long, maybe agencies should just incrementally upgrade the buses that exist instead of these big fancy unicorn "BRT" projects?
https://
@hex@kolektiva.socialI think it's a generally bad thing that I've referenced a specific Nazi death camp in reference to #USPol so often that I was thinking "oh, I should probably just bookmark this." I think that's a bad sign and I don't like it.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alI don’t know, asshole, was 1947 worth it? Was close to 80 years of settler colonialism and apartheid worth it? Is the current genocide of the Palestinian people being committed by israel worth it? https://ravenation.club/@welkin7/114652095075122736
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.orgThat's a first: I ordered & paid shorts from Nike, delivered by DPD as “will be deposited without ringing.” OK, there is a box at our mailbox and the parcel should fit. I get the notification “parcel delivered.” An hour later partner looks for it—nothing. Not in our box, not in one of the neighbors, not in the hallway, nothing. DPD sends a picture with our box and the parcel. So at least it was there once. But where is it now? Never before someone stole sth from this box. So the driv…
@EmilyMoranBarwick@mastodon.social"What I'm optimizing for isn't growth... reach, or influence. I'm chasing connection[...]spending my days on things that bring me alive."
"It's about...signals that something genuinely MATTERED to one or more humans...private replies saying they've never felt so seen or understood." Rob Hardy
To fellow #writers
@dankeck@a11y.social14 June 2025 is World Blood Donor Day.
"Blood donation is a collective effort and a powerful act of solidarity. By coming together as a community of donors, we ensure a steady and safe blood supply for all who need it.
Anyone, anywhere, who needs a transfusion should have timely access to safe blood."
http…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialEverybody should remember that even as Iran is probably militarily incapable for the coming few years, it is really about instability in the broader region. For example in neighbouring Iraq. Where extremists are active, terrorism can develop etcetera.
#geopolitics #iran
@chrysn@chaos.social
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itIt's so funny, my wife travels for work and is like, "It's amazing here! We [the whole family] should visit!"
Ah, those rose-colored traveling-alone glasses. I remember those! ...As opposed to the the-kids-have-been-yelling-and-screaming-at-each-other-for-over-an-hour-because-someone-was-humming-too-loudly-colored glasses. A 12-hour flight with these monsters? 🫠
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org"Each summer brings an annual farce, in which an increasingly hot country pretends it is anything but."
🎁.
Britain is already a hot country. It should act like it
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/07/03/britain-is-already-a-hot-country-it-should-act-like-it?giftId=5f3749d8-a0fc-46fe-ac93-69f1a875e5bb&utm_campaign=gifted_article
@twistermc@fosstodon.orgCoding with Ai is wild.
Me: Write some code.
AI: It's done!
Me: Is it performant?
AI: No, this code is not great, we should optimize it.
@grumpybozo@toad.socialSeriously, we should have mandatory national service consisting of farm and construction labor. Make rich white kids spend a year under the Central Valley sun learning how to pick radishes from an expert who barely speaks English. Send kids into the Great Plains to detassel corn between HS and college. Put teams of young folks into Habitat For Humanity and similar projects.
It would reduce the disdain so many adults have for migrant & marginalized workers.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSam Altman says "intelligence and energy", the "limiters on human progress", will be abundant in the 2030s, and superintelligence should be widely distributed (Sam Altman)
https://blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-singularity
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… @… Try putting @gottalaff.bsky.social€ into your search box. You should get Laffy's Bluesky account. Follow it.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
DAYNA: Shut up! Be quiet! [Sound of engines approaching] What is it?
VILA: How should I know? [Two Space Rats approach on three-wheeled ATV's.]
DAYNA: What are they?
VILA: THEY are the Space Rats.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/209 B7…
@annsev@troet.cafeIt should become a very, very black Friday the 13th for Netanyahu and his #TerrorRegime in #Israel.
@cdarwin@c.imCelebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States Army is fitting.
But the Army doesn’t need to celebrate Donald Trump.
That’s what’s about to transpire in the shadow of the White House
— a ridiculous, self-aggrandizing display that would look right at home in Moscow or Tiananmen Square.
It should not happen here. Ever.
@anildash@me.dmIt’s time for something new. So: what do you think I should do next? I want to be of service. https://anildash.com/2025/06/11/time-for-something-new/
@kurt@nelson.funStraight from the training manual:
```
1. Transit Fare Inspectors are not authorized to take violators into physical custody and
book them. Instead, a citation should be issued.
2. If the person has no satisfactory identification or refuses to sign the Civil Citation, it is SFMTA’s policy that Transit Fare Inspectors shall not physically detain the patron nor take the patron into custody. If the ind'l still refuses to provide satisfactory ID after that, we often accep…
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialLoads of interesting stuff in my timeline is boosted by people I follow, rather than posted by them, and it's great.
A few people boost a lot; more of you should do it!
@timbray@cosocial.caStoller: “Private Equity, UnitedHealth Take a Huge Loss as Oregon Bans Corporate Control of Doctors”.
Here in Canada, the home of single-payer free-for-residents healthcare, we’ve also had financiers rolling up a variety of healthcare operations and we should do like Oregon.
https://www.
@hex@kolektiva.socialRelated to understanding firearms, "rifles" and hand guns tend to be rifled. Rifling is grooving that runs in a helical pattern down the barrel. When purchasing a firearm, it's important to check the rifling.
First check that the firearm is unloaded. Empty or remove the magazine, cycle the weapon. Next, check again that it's unloaded by looking both down the barrel and into the magazine. Now, shine a light down the barrel and look down it. In the absence of a light, you may be able to reflect light off your thumbnail.
Rifling should look as though it's drawn on with a sharp pencil, and the barrel should look otherwise completely smooth and clean. If the rifling looks like bumpy mountains, then the owner probably used corrosive ammo and didn't clean it enough. It will probably still shoot, but not at all accurately.
Both the rifling and the pin can be used in forensic analysis to match a bullet to a gun. I don't honestly know how accurate this is because a lot of forensic "science" is just made up stuff that relies on the CSI effect and doesn't actually work as advertised.
However, not all firearms are not all rifled. Shotguns are "smoothbore" firearms, meaning they lack rifling. It is not possible to perform forensic analysis of a smoothbore firearm. It *is* possible to check for powder on the hands of someone who has used a firearm within the last few days, but it's not possible to distinguish between firing inside and outside a range.
I've been gathering all kinds of tidbits like this, partially just out of curiosity and partially because I've been wanting to write a story about a revolutionary group fighting a modern authoritarian society. I'm always happy to learn other bits, if anyone has anything else I could throw in my narrative (whenever I finally get back to writing it).
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMailbag: Should Diggs be rehabbing with team? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-should-diggs-be-rehabbing-with-team
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialPosted here the other day about getting a #pinephone, so I guess I should update. As I was half-expecting, it's not usable for me as a main phone (though I should still try LineageOS before giving up completely).
I had the Linux skills to hack through a lot of the problems that came up, but the shaky state of Android emulation meant I'd never be able to run key apps I wanted to, and the battery life is abysmal due to fundamental OS issues (plus probably some hardware stuff).
Still a super interesting platform and I've got ideas for uses besides being my main phone.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI should probably write some Python to do a map thing with OpenStreetMap now that I've learned how incredibly easy it is.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWetzel: Why the NFLPA mess should matter to football fans https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45712186/why-nflpa-mess-matter-football-fans
@servelan@newsie.socialNo one should be surprised Israel is helping ISIS. It’s been doing it for years – SKWAWKBOX
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/06/09/no-one-should-be-surprised-israel-is-helping-isis-its-been-doing-it-for-years/
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caI don't usually advocate for an outcome like this... but this time I am because really the question isn't about the CBC. It's about Canadian sovereignty. Trump should have no part of any decision in Canada, period. So whether you love the CBC or not, the only correct answer here is No because we should never allow a foreign dictator to make decisions for us.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #ElbowsUp
https://mastodon.online/@ZebKing/114829919091275075
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialChina is dramatically investing in renewable energy. In pure self-interest but it will also help to improve it’s position as a world superpower. In the USA Trump is breaking down investments in renewable energy. Europe should not follow his self-destructive example.
https://www.
@ruari@velocipederider.comHmm… maybe I should pickup a watch with a "California Dial". 🤔
P.S. For those unfamiliar with this dial layout or even those who have seen it but wondered WTF is going on, this is a nice summary:
https://revolutionwatch.com/california-love/
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 017 - XVII
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies;
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers, yellow'd …
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThe hide is now stretched out in the hayloft and (since this photograph) covered in salt. We definitely haven't removed as much material as we should have, but we're under time pressure in other jobs.
The rest of the process of slaughter and initial processing is documented in this collection, but be aware that some of the pictures are graphic.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeIf you took off time last week, you should check out today's Metacurity, which succinctly recaps the most critical infosec developments you might have missed, including
--IT giant Ingram Micro's systems shut down after SafePay ransomware attack
--Qantas is talking with threat actor after attack,
--Android spyware flaw exposes thousands of customers,
--Ransomware negotiator may have struck deals with hackers,
--US sanctions bulletproof hoster,
--US g…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgYou’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.
Britain is already a hot country. It should act like it
https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/07/03/britain-is-already-a-hot-country-it-should-act-like-it?giftId=5f3749d8-a0fc-46fe-ac93-69f1a875e5bb&utm_campaign=gifted_article
@Treppenwitz@sfba.socialYou should #protest this Saturday. If ever there was a time to do it, it's now. Do it while you still can!
Making a sign is kind of fun the first time, but honestly the protests are tedious. So just show up. Bring a book. Stay near the edges. But show up!
It really can makea difference:
@brian_gettler@mas.to"Assistant Professor of History Invitation
Brian - Your management skills are impressive and made your boss a lot of money. Why not use them to build something of your own?"
YES!!! Just look at the filthy lucre that my department chair is rolling in. It could - NO, IT SHOULD - be mine!!!!
@scott@carfree.city3 years after car-free JFK/Overlook/Middle/MLK was made permanent, the signage for the non-JFK parts of the route is still so bad. No one but us nerds knows a car-free path to the beach even exists!
There should be a big banner on this overpass telling you to turn left then right. Instead there’s a tiny sign no one will see and even if you do it’s unclear (this isn’t “slow streets,” it’s car-free!)
@inthehands@hachyderm.io“What AI sells is vastly different from what it delivers, particularly what it delivers out of the box.”
The post gives some great context on the study of “the difference between work-as-imagined (WAI) and work-as-done (WAD),” and says:
“If what we have to do to be productive with LLMs is to add a lot of scaffolding and invest effort to gain important but poorly defined skills, we should be able to assume that what we’re sold and what we get are rather different things. That gap implies that better designed artifacts could have better affordances, and be more appropriate to the task at hand.”
5/
@arXiv_econTH_bot@mastoxiv.pageSeeding an Uncertain Technology
Eric Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10340 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10340
@tml@urbanists.socialIn addition to poking fun at media showing video and images from the same few street corners of LA where there is unrest, and hinting that the whole city is on fire and rioting is everywhere, thus providing a cause for Trump's heavy-handed responses, we should also poke fun at the leftist loonies who call it a "revolution". That is exactly the same exaggeration as what the right-wing loonies do.
This does not mean that I would be on Trump's side, obviously.
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaThe first MS-A2 node is up and it only took the entire day. After fixing a ton of networking issues across the homelab I've got all the VMs running on the new node. The old nodes have been decomissioned which kinda marks a milestone. Still need to get the other two new nodes into the cluster, but should be fairly straightforward and can wait until tomorrow.
#homelab
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
@cheeaun@mastodon.socialSlept through it. Catch-up couldn't go beyond 2 AM (#WWDC25 was at 1 AM SGT) because reached the 800 limit on Mastodon 🤦♂️
Maybe Mastodon should limit it by time duration or something instead.
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.socialIt is very easy to mute a user and that way they won't and can't be offended since they can't know whether you muted them or not...while blocking is much more severe so then they will know.
Muting is a great Mastodon feature that I recommend to everyone!
Also be careful out there, there are scammers that are saying that you should verify your account and that the time is limited. Don't listen, they try to fool you.
@samerfarha@mastodon.socialWas wide awake at 4a. By 6, I figured I should go for a walk before it got too hot. I saw this baby bunny on the walk.
I needed a cold shower after that.
@nelson@tech.lgbtCalamus 23 This moment as I sit alone
A promise of global unity, Whitman sharing his adulation for men in other countries.
I guess this is an antidote to Whitman's nationalism? His celebrations of America seem sweet and sincere but they are very American-centric. Here he's explicitly saying men of other lands can be just as wise, beautiful, or benevolent as American men. It seems unusual that he feels he has to say it explicitly.
As for the queer reading, his conclusion is
I know we should be brethren and lovers
There's that word, "lovers". It's so brash it's hard to understand. It seems uncharacteristically direct even understanding Whitman as a gay poet. Maybe this is some 19th century romantic language, mixing what feels very gay in with a more general celebration of brotherhood? Or maybe it is literally what it says, Whitman eroticizing international men.
@cdarwin@c.imThe move to Windows 11 isn’t just about security updates.
It increases dependence on Microsoft through aggressive cloud integration,
forcing users to adopt Microsoft accounts and services.
It also leads to higher costs due to subscription and licensing models,
and reduces control over how your computer works and how your data is managed.
Furthermore, new hardware requirements will render millions of perfectly good PCs obsolete.
This is a turning point.
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizzaSigh, whomever wrote the code at work should be forced back to coding school. It makes AI generated code look good and maintainable.
Going through the program and there are 28 EXIT lines in a row (yes, I counted them). All have different paragraph names and you can only get there from somewhere in the program by doing a "GOTO". Multiple tables with "OCCURS" and not used anywhere.
All too many "IF [condition] NEXT SENTENCE ELSE GOTO [paragraph]".
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialOnly the combination/simultaneous arrival of both drones and ballistic missiles will have any chance to break through Israel's missile defenses i would think. Unless Iran has some new smart technology up it's sleeve. Those Shahed drones alone are not that effective anymore. What i should worry about as Israel is more assymetric attacks/warfare in the world.
#iran
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nlMy favourite hammock for on our balcony broke and landed me on my ass, last month. Just got around to fixing it with parts of a new lashing strap that's rated for much more weight than me. The hammock itself is still in good shape, so this should last me some more years, now.
(I got the hammock from Kickstarter years ago, in a time when I was still fascinated by that website...
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgAcademic conferences often pick talk submissions on the basis of 2 or 3 review scores, which I guess has no real statistical power, especially without any of the balancing usually done with things like likert scales when they're treated properly.. different people treat the scores very differently and that should be accounted for or it's really just down to chance. Researchers can be very unscientific sometimes!
Better to just ask
- does this properly address the topic of …
@xiffy@mastodon.nl@… is there a way to not display tags as buttons? My issue is
It takes up way too much space, it's not working consistently. It only buttonizes tags after a newline, which makes sense, because tags inside a sentence must be left untouched.
Determining which tags to make a button should be smarter. Some posts only contain tags, they stay untouched, some …
@luca@social.luca.runMy Convoy S12 UV light stopped working. I contacted Simon and he sent me a new driver. I had some issues opening the metal ring that holds the driver because I don't have the right tool. Soldering was tricky because of the short wires and I didn't take into account how it should be placed. But it works again. I'm happy.
@MamasPinkyToe@mastodon.worldEvery American should be able to own a gun as long as it's a Gatling gun.
- the revised Second Amendment
@patrick_townsend@infosec.exchangeMy Personal Privacy - Your resource for achieving better online privacy
Why privacy:
The right to privacy is a well-established, fundamental human right. It is necessary for a safe and just society. It is especially important in regions where intolerance and discrimination are backed by autocratic regimes. While you may not feel the need for privacy in all of your online activity, you should be able to achieve a high level of privacy when you need it. This website and the document…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itCity Council looked the other way for over 3 years while the Adams' Administration broke laws around the requirement to build protected bus & bike lanes. Why would Adams give a shit about Sanctuary City laws when City Council has proven to be toothless? https://www.
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deCapitalists are fine with destroying the world. And they will be there to profit from rebuilding it from the ashes.¹
__
¹no, they are not the ones to do the actual work. They never did, so why should they
#capitalism #CapitalismIsADeathCult
@tarah@infosec.exchangeHeh - I'm sitting here hoping my Bsides Vegas talk gets taken but also wondering if I should not have requested that it be 18 and over :-) I've never made that request before but the talk justifies it :D
@wraithe@mastodon.socialBut you should stay on Twitter, so as not to be in an echo chamber!
🙄
https://bsky.app/profile/cascoinfoundation.org/post/3lr6rqsknvs23
@cdamian@rls.socialIf you are working with a LLM tool, and it responds at some point with:
"Yes, you are correct, let me correct his" or any other version of "I fucked up"
It should automatically provide a refund.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMailbag: Should Diggs be rehabbing with team? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-should-diggs-be-rehabbing-with-team
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineI have a new job, I'm happy I have this job because it's a good job for a good company.
So I should be generally happy, shouldn't I?
Unfortunately I'm not - not as happy as I would like to be - due to everything else going on (my father, *waves frantically* fascism and war and ecocide), so I resort to buying stuff.
Namely, a refurbished coffee grinder and a second-hand Casio watch.
Neither is trackable yet for some DHL reason.
I hate everything.
@tobi@dz.socialI want to power the ZTE MU 5002 mobile router without the battery. Unfortunately, it depends on a battery present. I could put a power adapter on the contacts but it also wants a third one for the batter temperature sensor. What resistor should I but?
Or better has anyone build a „fake“ battery to simulate its presence while the device it being powered with USB-C?
The device‘s battery is just not good, gets hot and switches off the device once in a while and I normally don’t need …
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social@… Boy-oh-boy. What DIY is like for the disabled. Humbling.
https://oldfriends.live/@paul/114805197623754036
@fell@ma.fellr.netI only took one more picture today as my little vacation with my friends is coming to an end. We had a great time.
Using a Linux phone was surprisingly boring. I mean that in the most positive way. Using a phone should be boring, because it should just work.
It wasn't perfect. All images look vintage, I had to rotate them all manually, and there was no way to select multiple files for sending. It crashed a few times, too.
I'm happy overall.
@mho@social.heise.deAnd another question: Say I want to watch, comment and share videos from #Peertube (and nothing else like microblogging). Where should I create an account, which platform/software has @… in mind? It's not Peertube itself, right? Because that's for publishing…
@cdarwin@c.imThey're doing this because the Insurrection Act sounds cool and edgy but they can't actually justify using the Insurrection Act.
It's a silly action by an insecure administration desperately to seem manly and powerful.
It should be criticized relentlessly, but it should also be laughed at.
https://…
@FandaSin@social.linux.pizzaSabine Hossenfelder is just great!❤️
"These are souls trapped in AI."🤦
We are doomed, as human kind, we are doomed.
"AI" will kill us, but not in the way ANYONE expected.
We will kill each other, because "AI" said we should do it.😬
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWZRQsejtfA…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukIt's June, so I've got my Javastation off the shelf for the first time in a couple of decades. This is a Javastation Krups, with 100MHz sparc, sold as a diskless workstation. I never realised it had a PPP ROM boot in! Anyway, I should get on and set up networking and a boot server.
(Note: the plastic on the clips on the doors is fragile, 2 just pinged off on me)
#retrocomputing
@castarco@hachyderm.ioIn Europe and other regions we have laws mandating that electronic devices must be properly labelled with information about their energy consumption and some other externalities...
We should demand equivalent or at least similar measures for commercially distributed software, same for cloud services.
It would be a fun experience for us, software devs, being forced to acknowledge how terribly bad is the software we create.
We should be held accountable.
#software #ecologism
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nl"It’s crazy that we celebrate people who are billionaires. It should be illegal for Christ’s sake. It’s got nothing to do with money, and everything to do with how big their dick is. We should have awards and whenever someone achieves $100 million, which is already obscene, we give them a bronze statue of a dick, and when you get $1 billion, we could give them an even bigger dick."
@timbray@cosocial.ca1/2 “My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether it’s Good or Bad and what we should be doing. All the channels: Blogs and peer-reviewed papers and social-media posts and business-news stories. So there’s lots of AI angst out there, but this is mine. I think the following is a bit unique because it focuses on cost, working backward from there.”
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThe israeli-american genocide of the Palestinian people continues. It’s not just israel. It was never just israel.
“‘This is an administration that is committed to Palestinian erasure, both physical and political,’ Elgindy said. ‘The signs were there even in the first Trump term, which nominally supported a Palestinian ‘state’ that was shorn of all sovereignty and under permanent Israeli control. At least now they’ve abandoned the pretense.’
Yousef Munayyer, head of Palestine/Isr…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialAsk yourself: How many water bottles thrown at cops are worth keeping one innocent American* teen out of inhumane #ICE detention?
For anyone criticizing the #LA protests or suggesting they should stop for any reason, let's be clear about the stakes. Read this article (or my summary):
https://abcnews.go.com/US/massachusetts-teen-detained-ice-family-video-ice/story?id=122511685
This 18-year-old was snatched without a warrant, because he was in his dad's car and allegedly (possibly a lie or mistake) his dad drove recklessly. He's been in the US since he was 5, originally on a student visa that's since expired. He is an innocent American, by any reasonable definition of those two words*. Thankfully, he's since been released on bail, but he may yet be held indefinitely in ICE detention (in inhumane conditions that have been repeatedly documented) and/or separated from his family & friends and shipped off to Brazil where he last lived when he was 5 (ICE does not care whether he speaks Portuguese, has any family there, etc), all potentially without due process (though he seems to be getting that in this case). Even if this doesn't happen to Marcelo due to the media attention & protests, it is certainly happening to other innocent Americans throughout the country who aren't as lucky to have people standing up for them.
Here's Marcelo speaking about detention conditions and those he was detained with:
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZpZMUb9aEys?si=bpK-022CU7Acb5RY
Do you know how many kids like Marcelo were detained in LA yesterday? Probably zero, because of the protests, including their confrontational tactics. The most "violence" I've seen (from the protestors) is throwing a water bottle at a line of heavily-armored riot police. So the protests are working to protect the community. If you're suggesting a change in tactics, consider whether your suggested tactics (like pre-scheduled non-confrontational protests that have been happening for weeks) will protect the Marcelos of LA.
*Whether he's innocent or American should not in fact matter, but sadly it might to some reading this. If that's you, you've still got some growing up to do.
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euIn Europe, it's harder to keep up with every country's local political landscape. We should all compare notes on our despicable and exemplary politicians.
@cdarwin@c.imA federal judge ruled on Thursday that Donald Trump illegally deployed the California national guard to suppress protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles
and ordered the force to be returned to the control of the state governor, Gavin Newsom.
The order by the US district judge Charles Breyer will not take effect until noon on Friday,
but it marked a stinging defeat for the Trump administration that is sure to touch off a pitched legal battle destined for the US supr…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeRegardless of the weather, the cyber world is always hot, so check out today's Metacurity for the crucial infosec developments you should know, including
--M&S and Qantas leaders remain mum on ransomware payments,
--M&S chairman says two other British companies' ransomware attacks have gone unreported,
--5.7m customers impacted by Qantas attack,
--US sanctions DPRK man for IT worker scheme,
--DoJ seeks to bring COVID hacker to US,
--Rubio im…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotI've spent most of today trying (and failing) to do something which seems as though it should be inherently simple: I've been trying to open an new popup window from #Clojurescript running in a browser, and give that window dynamically generated content.
My mental health really is rubbish today, but I'm not sure to what extent that's the problem and to what extent this …
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI took the old 1970's Raleigh out this morning and it was creaky and had problems shifting, but it was also sort of a fun ride!
I only did about 1.5 miles and when I got home I realized the tires were low... like a lot more low than I think they should have been since I filled them three days ago.
Anyway, I may try to make the ride a bit smoother and see if I can get the shifting working better.
@cdarwin@c.imOn the same day a military parade unfolds in D.C. to mark the Army’s 250th anniversary on Saturday,
an organized day of protests against the policies of President Donald Trump’s administration is planned for more than 2,000 cities nationwide.
While thunderstorms could disrupt the celebrations in D.C.,
weather will vary at locations around the country where rallies are planned.
Mostly dry and hot weather will dominate the western United States,
while it should b…
@servelan@newsie.socialThe Daily Beast: "Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence fed the JFK files into an AI program, asking it to see if there was anything that should remain classified. https://trib.al/AqWNKuR" — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xzlvsk4ty7ecwigbjpxah6yb/post/3lrc2zbtmkf2w
@scott@carfree.city"There is no reason to believe [rent controls] have any effect on new housing construction. One could go a step further: economically, land use reforms and stronger rent regulations should go together."
https://jwmason.org/slackwire/can-zohran-do-it/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys should pursue trade with Patriots for $9 million running back upgrade https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/11/cowboys-trade-talk-9-million-rb-antonio-gibson/84525287007/…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioHard to find a single summarizing quote from the post, but it keeps coming back to two closely related ideas:
(1) the tendency of humans to blame themselves for poor tool performance (“oh I should have prompted in •that• way instead, my bad”), and
(2) what we educators call the “hidden curriculum:” people are unaware of learning they have done / habitual effort they are expending, and thus they see their own learning / ongoing effort as zero-cost, obvious, nonexistent, innate personal virtue, etc.
The existence of (2) sets people up for (1); recognizing (2) helps cure (1).
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@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaSo, making slow progress as I learn `rust` things. Instead of going with my usual `union`/`struct` combination in C, I'm resorting to not overflowing/underflowing primitive types and doing things more safely. This snippet of code took far longer than it should've, but it gets the job done.
#programming
@hex@kolektiva.socialIf you save someone from having their face eaten by a leopard, you have their ear and the beliefs that lead you to save them suddenly have weight. If you abandon them, you have nothing at best and an enemy at worst.
It doesn't matter if they voted to release the leopards or were simply caught by them, the two possible outcomes are the same.
Anarchists build systems to save people. That will always be our advantage. We should use it.
@annsev@troet.cafe @metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe US holiday is a memory now, so time to check out today's Metacurity to get briefed on the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Italian cops arrest FBI-wanted Chinese hacker who tried to steal COVID-19 vaccine
--Brazilian cops bust IT worker connected to $100m banking systems hack,
--Call of Duty: WWII yanked offline after RCE rumors,
--OpenAI beefs up corporate spying protections,
--DragonForce battles RansomHub,
--Cambod…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itYour scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CargoBike/comments/1ltpsvg/a_friend_gifted_me_this_custom_built_cargo_bike/
@cdarwin@c.imOne thing Newsom has shown is key to effectively deal with Trump & the MAGA propaganda machine:
You must respond immediately & call out the lies.
You can’t wait until hours/days later, then answer in a press conference, statement, scripted speech.
All Dems should learn from it.
https://
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgAnyone with experience on here driving an #EV around the French Alps? Problems finding chargers? ABRP looks like it's a bit thin on the ground for fast chargers? Maybe ok for trickle charge? Trying to work out if I dare rent an EV or should l stick to ICE for now (which I really don't like..). #askFedi
EDIT: update - thanks all for your helpful info, looks like it's easily possible even in the french Alps. Looking forward to my summer holidays!
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeDon't leave for the weekend without reading today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you should know, including
--US feds seize nearly $8 million from fake DPRK IT workers
--Cellebrite buys Corellium for $200m,
--Play gang breached 900 orgs,
--Two ViLE members sentenced,
--UK revenue offices lost $64m to phishing scam,
--One-fifth of Ukraine IP space under Russian control,
--Cairncross defends his lack of tech expertise,
--Ukr…
@cdarwin@c.imHere’s a mind-blowing experiment that you can try at home:
Gather some children’s blocks and place them on a table.
Take one block and slowly push it over the table’s edge, inch by inch, until it’s on the brink of falling.
If you possess patience and a steady hand, you should be able to balance it so that exactly half of it hangs off the edge.
Nudge it any farther, and gravity wins.
Now take two blocks and start over.
Stacking one on top of the other, how…
@cdarwin@c.im“What Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s family is going through is just unimaginable,”
says Baltimore-based journalist Baynard Woods,
“but it is also what we’ve all allowed to happen over generations of letting the drug war and our deference to police departments erode the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution,
which should protect us all from illegal search and seizure,
such as these seizures that ICE is committing all around the country right now.”
@cdarwin@c.imWe’re witnessing unprecedented attempts to bully academic institutions with the administration’s ideological aims.
These attempts challenge long-standing norms of academic freedom
—that is, the ability of a teacher or researcher in higher education to investigate and discuss subjects without fear of political interference.
Our elected officials should stand up for scientific research and those who produce it in the face of politically motivated attacks.
But public a…
