Tootfinder

Sean makes a good point, so fine, here’s a proposal for Barasso:
A photo ID is both necessary •and• sufficient to vote. No voter rolls, no registration. You show up on the day of the election with a photo ID that shows an address in the district, you can vote — end of story. Because photo IDs are so great.
What do you think, Barasso? How about it? https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/116194834884868503

He was already out of the path of the vehicle when he decided to shoot her.
US Department of Justice Policy On Use Of Force
https://www.justice.gov/jm/1-16000-department-justice-policy-use-force#1-16.200

'Dramatic changes are necessary': Hakeem Jeffries defends Democrats' push for ICE reforms amid funding fight (Dana Bash/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/02/08/politics/video/house-minority-leader-hakeem-jeffries-dhs-funding-gov-shutdown-trump-obamas-elections
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p43#a260208p43

UK's weekly street newspaper Big Issue makes its two top digital editors redundant as part of a "difficult but necessary" restructure of the organization (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

When asking someone to do something it's important to be clear about everything you are asking them to do, and when you are asking them to do it, up front.
Increasingly I'm asked to do something, I look at my schedule and other commitments and agree to the ask, and then weeks later am informed that "as part of X (what I agreed to) everyone is expected to do Y (something time consuming that wasn't mentioned before)" or "we need you to provide X (something necessary the day of the event) a week in advance (when there was no indication of this early deadline at the initial ask)".
This means that the calculations someone made regarding whether they could participate are based an incomplete understanding of what is required. That's not fair and it either results in forcing the participant to deprioritize something else or makes them push back on something they never agreed to and potentially withdraw.

TIL you can just break apart Thomas’ English muffins easily without using a fork (or knife) - i’ve been using a fork for decades as the best solution and now…this.
“🤣🤣 necessary keyboard 🎹 moments
“ALL MY LIFE I HAD TO KNIFE””
https://bsky.app/profile/invadeherzim.

@13a@mastodon.social
I'm not saying we lack empathy. I'm saying most lack the experience necessary to understand how "the other" are impacted. It's not that people do not care, it's that they are unaware of the impacts and concerns. And that makes it easy to manipulate people.
I'll respond to MEER separately

@13a@mastodon.social
I'm not saying we lack empathy. I'm saying most lack the experience necessary to understand how "the other" are impacted. It's not that people do not care, it's that they are unaware of the impacts and concerns. And that makes it easy to manipulate people.
I'll respond to MEER separately

Please apply pressure to electeds, urging them to aggressively pursue state charges against ICE officers, in defiance of the FBI if necessary.
Many of them already want this. State AG is already taking steps to do this. Apply the pressure anyway; the pressure helps.
If you live in Minnesota:
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #MSP

Valentine's Day is coming up and reservations will fill up quickly, so this is your reminder to go look up stuff and book it if necessary ^_^
I went to book something back in November and it was already booked, so pivoted to something else which ended up being cancelled, and booked another thing which is similar. And just managed to snag restaurant reservations.
So yeah, folks. Esp if you're a cishet guy (like me), make sure you don't disappoint for Valentine's Da…

@… Editor with properly set language server is key here, then jumping between "nodes" (or however editor will name it), go outside, inside, to siblings, parents etc.

In python, it's useful, but not necessary, here is starting to be necessary to don't get lost...

At least with fmt you don't need to care about those…

Source: the 2024 cyber-attack by the Scattered Spider group on Transport For London resulted in the theft of personal data of ~10M people (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0ggkr2g77o

I •think• the most important people for MN residents to call right now are MN Gov Walz and MN AG Ellison. Those numbers again:
Gov: ‭(651) 201-3400€
AG: ‭(651) 296-3353€
My points when I call:
- We don’t trust Trump’s FBI
- We want an independent MN-based investigation of the killing of Good
- Thank you for steps you’re already taking in this direction
- Do more, try harder
- Do so in outright defiance of the FBI if necessary
(To be clear, this is all just from Paul; if I get better guidance from more informed folks, I will share/update.)

Packers LB Edgerrin Cooper excited to 'see what's coming next' under DC Jonathan Gannon https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-lb-edgerrin-cooper-excited-to-see-what-s-coming-next-under-dc-jonathan-gannon

Ukraine to provide US with 'necessary resources' to counter Iranian drones, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/05/ukraine-to-provide-us-with.html

CAGE: An Internal Source Scanning Cryostat for HPGe Characterization
G. Othman, C. Wiseman, T. H. Burritt, J. A. Detwiler, M. P. Held, R. Henning, T. Mathew, D. Peterson, W. Pettus, G. Song, T. D. Van Wechel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06289 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.06289 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.06289
arXiv:2602.06289v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The success of current and future-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments relies on the ability to eliminate or reduce extraneous backgrounds. In addition to constructing experiments using radiopure materials and handling in underground laboratories, it is necessary to understand and reduce known backgrounds in data analysis. The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless double beta Decay is searching for this decay using 76Ge-enriched high-purity germanium detectors submerged in an active liquid argon veto. A significant background in LEGEND is surface events from shallowly-impinging radiation on detector surfaces. In this paper we introduce the Collimated Alphas, Gammas, and Electrons (CAGE) scanning system, an internal-source scanning vacuum cryostat, designed to perform studies of surface events on sensitive surfaces of HPGe in a surface-lab. CAGE features a collimated radionuclide source inside a movable infrared shield that is able to perform precision scans of detector surfaces by utilizing three independent motor stages for source positioning. This allows detailed studies of pulse shapes as a function of source position and incident angle, where defining features can be extracted and exploited for removing surface backgrounds in data analysis in LEGEND. In this paper, we describe CAGE and demonstrate its performance with a commissioning run with 241Am. The commissioning run was completed with the source at normal incidence, and we estimate a beam spot precision of 3.1 mm, which includes positioning uncertainties and the beam-spot size. Using the 59.5 keV gamma population from 241Am, we show that low-energy photon events near the passivated surface feature risetimes that increase with radial distance from the detector center. We suggest a specific metric that can be used to discriminate low-energy gamma backgrounds in LEGEND with similar characteristics.
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On the occasion of ice’s latest killing: Local police MUST engage, detain and arrest ice. There is no better option.
Here’s why in detail: https://stuff.davidaugust.com/local-law-enforcements-challenge-uphold-the-law-even-against-the-feds…

Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
SERVALAN: And yet you remained silent. There was a time when you wouldn't have taken an insult like that from anyone. Not even me.
TRAVIS: True. I want my command back. To get it I'll do whatever's necessary. If you think my silence is weakness, you mistake me.
https://blake.torpi…

support for DNS-over-TCP has been explicitly necessary since 2010
it's irritating that we still have to keep explaining this https://lobste.rs/c/hatmxu

Mike Tapp, Starmer government minister typically appalling on radio 4.
First he supported the US terrorism and kidnapping in Venezuela.
Then he failed to give any assurances that migrants whose phones confiscated (to trace people smugglers - probably an ineffective measure) would be able to retrieve them for family and other necessary contact.
#LabourStooges

“Nuclear talks with the United States are scheduled to be held in Muscat on about 10am Friday,” wrote the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi.
“I’m grateful to our Omani brothers for making all necessary arrangements.”
US officials also indicated the talks in Oman will go forward.
They will take place amid a massive buildup of US naval and airpower in the region and appear to be a last chance for Tehran to avert a US strike against the country’s leadership and nuclear …

Trump won't rule out sending US troops into Iran 'if necessary'-- tells The Post 'I don't care about polling' (Steven Nelson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/02/us-news/trump-wont-rule-out-sending-us-troops-into-iran-if-necessary-tells-the-post-i-dont-care-about-polling/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p51#a260302p51

Reasonable And Necessary
Aims to simplify the NDIS for participants, their families and anyone supporting NDIS participants to work their way through the system...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/reasonable-and-necessary/

Oil and drugs have a lot in common. Their very presence is a problem. It has enabled unscrupulous forces to foster wide-spread addiction to both. The addiction to oil is arguably worse, as there are few rehab facilities, and besides, it is slowing down any necessary remedies to prevent climate change to dramatically damage the world we live in.

Ownership, accountability, responsibility - what is really needed is the power to make necessary decisions and changes.

Things like the #NoKings protests may feel like they're not enough, but they can be useful for building that network. Asking neighbors if they're going can help open up conversations, can lead to more conversations, can provide openings to find ways to escalate resistance, and can let you build what you need to feel safe going hard if you realize it's time.
Protests directly against facilities and other direct actions are small escalations that let you build trust and understand your network. If you want to know where you need to be, look at Twin Cities. That is the type of response that makes the machine grind to halt.
Make that happen everywhere and more escalation may not be necessary. And, if it is necessary to escalate more, that level of community organizing makes all other forms of escalation sustainable.

Tibetan Buddhism is quick to judge an "imperfect documentary" but much more laxist to leave a system of abuse in place because : traditions and root guru cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.org/art…

Brains aren’t computers.
It’s self-evident:
🤖 Computers (even primitive ones) can do a lot of stuff that no brain can.
🧠 Brains (even primitive ones) can do a lot of stuff no computer can.
You know what’s really interesting?
That brains never evolved to be really fast and precise calculating things—which is exactly the raison d’être for computers.
(It’s either not necessary for consciousness or maybe actively detrimental to it?)

Based on a wee experiment, I've decided that I could probably replace my MacBook Air with a Thinkpad running Elementary OS 8.
I wouldn't do it voluntarily but if necessary, it's far less aggravating than Windows.
#linux #thinkpad

I watched Slack’s Liquid Glass presentation and got excited about adopting the new tab navigation. I wired up the search to the built-in command palette and it is quite nice.
Some polish is still necessary here and there.

Huge respect to @… for taking the necessary risk with his 3 million subscribers by telling it like it is with the political landscape in the US, at the end of his latest video.
(linked video at the start of the "Who the liars are and what we need to do about them" section, but the whole video is worth watching for other reasons)

@…

Not after, *during* the ongoing pandemic. Escalating ableism is necessary to "justify" the urgency of the "normal". You wouldn't want them disabled people to hold us back from living like nothing happened, would you?

@…

Not after, *during* the ongoing pandemic. Escalating ableism is necessary to "justify" the urgency of the "normal". You wouldn't want them disabled people to hold us back from living like nothing happened, would you?

Was in Japan übrigens so nebenbei zum Thema gemacht wird:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSqy86IAJPZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Trump said the Navy will escort tankers through Strait of Hormuz, if necessary.
Per reports the Navy has no timeline for this hazardous maneuver
and Trump himself has just demanded convoys begin "as soon as possible"
The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 301 points, or 0.6%.
The 30-stock index was down more than 1,200 points, or around 2.6%, at its low of the session.

@… On I’m aware. But I don’t think that makes it any less necessary. If society is going to keep depending on software for even the most basic functions, sooner or later I hope some force ensures we stop just playing “Move fast and break things”.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/116147788492297699
Therefore, solar power cannot continue to be subsidised, but it is necessary to focus on smart consumption during these hours. This can be achieved with smart energy tariffs and services, smar…

Hope you've enjoyed the influx of cat pics. Those are necessary for my sanity... Ni ni :neocat_flop_sleep:

Okay, next big thing: get `svt-av1-psyex` packaged up for installation on Arch Linux. Figured the easiest way would be to grab the PKGBUILD for `svt-av1-psy-git` and tweak as necessary. Also, need to add Dolby Vision and HDR10 support because reasons.
#archlinux #svtav1

Exporting E3 now. Every shot upscaled and repaired where necessary; captions combed through and corrected, timing confirmed; all cast and music credits confirmed; render integrity confirmed by going through frame by frame; project files backed up to 2 external drives.
Waiting on my collaborator's approval, and then I can attach the word FINAL to the file name!
😮‍💨
#VideoEditing

It has come to my attention that we may have made more cookies than strictly necessary.

Massive queues for fuel today, even for the more esoteric stuff like MGO and kerosene. The guy behind me at the MGO pump had 3x 50L jugs in the back of his hatchback which he filled up with road diesel.
Anyway, I've now got enough MGO for a couple of weeks of heat, which I will try not to use unless absolutely necessary, since the next fill will be much more expensive. Need to get that PV heater installed ASAP!

@… this is a different kind of shape but a related theme of what is and isn’t necessary by @…
Substrates and algae
…

I really feel bad for sysadmins who don’t have great English skills. There’s no way a world of LLM translator bots can ever get all the discussions amongst English-speaking sysadmins close enough to correct. Too much jargon and more importantly too much nuance in how words are used. I’ve spent a lot of time crafting technical prose, often finding it necessary to proofread and harmonize precisely how I say things. I doubt any LLM can be equivalently fastidious.

Corridors are a government priority, and the necessary resources have been allocated for the north-south and east-west routes (Imam Khomeini/Khamenei.ir)
https://english.khamenei.ir/news/12037/Corridors-are-a-government-priority-and-the-necessary-resources
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p34#a251227p34

Apparently, future travellers to the US are now expected to disclose every email address they've used in the last five years, alongside their social media accounts. I must have hundreds of addresses, because of the catch-all 🤯. There's not a chance in hell I'm going there unless absolutely necessary.
#USA

The #genAI *research* bubble will burst around the same time; it’s largely driven by the economic promises, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that, as for any technology, it’s not going to scale up indefinitely: some *actual* research will be necessary to advance the SOTA.
As @…

The #genAI *research* bubble will burst around the same time; it’s largely driven by the economic promises, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that, as for any technology, it’s not going to scale up indefinitely: some *actual* research will be necessary to advance the SOTA.
As @…

@… @…
SDDM, GNOME, X.Org.
Initially: a black screen on the display to the left.
For the screen to appear on the primary display: it was necessary to use settings on the secondary display, to temporarily make the sec…

So, it's really going to happen. My next book to be published by Wiley is slated for release in April.
I have analyzed some high-profile cyber incidents and mapped them to the outcomes in the NIST 2.0 Framework.
The goal is to give real-world relevance to what can sometimes be dry but absolutely necessary cybersecurity fundamentals that all defenders should take to heart.
Even more exciting is that Wiley will be offering corporate and government purchasers some intere…

Thanks to all who are submitting feedback on #LeftWordle, I truly appreciate it!
Private Messages to me aren’t necessary from my POV. If you're sharing something sensitive - of course, but to report a bug or request a feature, a public post w/ an @ mention is fine.
Maybe someone else has a similar problem, or found a workaround. Also, favs on a bug report or feature request can h…

Here is another project I've been working on: https://github.com/ytmytm/1551-RAMBOard-FirstBank
It's a RAMBOard, but for 1551. As far as I know this is the first of its kind. Just like on 1541-II a small daughterboard that plugs into the ROM socket. It adds 8K of RAM ($8…

RE: https://sciences.social/@conradhackett/115958821243723405
More people asserting the obvious (often necessary!): opt-in panel web surveys are increasingly popular (cheap, easy, profitable) but provide poor information about the world.
Let&#…

#StarmersLabour #TheDemocrats
https://theonion.com/democrats-condemn

#TheOnion

Kids back then had it easy. To hack a pay phone, you just had to whistle into the receiver. But today, only highly trained opera singers can hit the 13.56 MHz frequencies necessary to whistle an RFID signature.

Within the working lifetime of a British politician, the "necessary regulation" they vote in favour of may become the "red tape" they are proud to slash.

Lifting systems for finite length modules
Benjamin Katz, Nawaj KC, Kesavan Mohana Sundaram, Andrew J. Soto Levins, Ryan Watson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01440 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01440 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.01440
arXiv:2602.01440v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper is concerned with lifting modules along a surjective map of noetherian local rings, say $\varphi \colon R \twoheadrightarrow S$. A finitely generated $R$-module $L$ is a naive lift of an $S$-module $M$ if $L \otimes_R S \cong M$. We are concerned with the maximum depth and dimension among all naive lifts of $M$, which we call the liftable depth and liftable dimension, respectively, of $M$ along $\varphi$. We approach this via a notion of lifting systems that we introduce in this paper. We then provide a necessary and sufficient condition for a module of finite length to lift and Serre lift to a regular local ring in terms of lifting systems.
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Putting this in the context of decades of US imperialism is both appropriate and necessary. Look at this map: even just in the Americas, this US-instigated coup of a foreign country has a long and miserable series of precedents.
However…
https://mastodon.ie/@2legged/115830727173641772

I'm a lucky guy, and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to
thank everyone for making this night necessary.
-- Yogi Berra at a dinner in his honor

It's remarkable how much modern web page programming breaks fundamental things. Scrolling with spacebar or page down doesn't work. Or selecting text. Or doing Ctrl-F to find stuff on a page. All this basic functionality destroyed so some mediocre programmer can use a giant Javascript framework that isn't even necessary.

Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
TRAVIS: True. I want my command back. To get it I'll do whatever's necessary. If you think my silence is weakness, you mistake me.
SERVALAN: Better. I was afraid that the suspension and the court of inquiry into your mishandling of the Blake affair might have broken your spirit.
https://

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that well-off people try to see both sides of the issue and insist that civility, compliance, and compromise are the answer.

The British Ministry of Defence (MoD)
has said it is ⚠️moving families from the RAF Akrotiri airbase in #Cyprus
⚡️after it was targeted in a suspected Iranian drone strike last night
at around midnight local time (22:00 GMT), in an attack which caused limited damage but no casualties,
🔥Cyprus has put authorities on alert,
closing schools and evacuating people where necessary,

Present thought
Mastodon's the right model. But to be truly *useful* politcally - the Bluesky/Mastodonian idea of "we will make our safe space over here" might be pleasant for many and that's fine
But they're not healthy for useful political discourse, which is often ugly, but generates the necessary talk.
The discussions I'm seeing on Twitter/threads e.g. left v. liberal are finally getting "good." (among others)

Many AI founders now find it necessary to raise at valuations requiring absolute domination of the field; Brex, once valued at $12B, shows the downsides of this (Jason Lemkin/SaaStr)
https://www.saastr.com/brex-and-the-pros-and-cons-of-hubristic-fundraising/

Random thought of the day: if someone wanted an EV *fast* charger at/near home, how much would the power company charge for all of the necessary infrastructure?
Like, putting a megawatt supercharger on a random residential block that's currently only wired with like 7200V single phase.
I feel like you'd probably have to run a new medium voltage line all the way out to the nearest substation. Judging by what I was quoted to run fiber a shorter distance you're talking &…

Snow, Silence, and the Difficult Question of How We Die
A winter storm slowed the world to an eerie quiet, blurring time and routine. In that silence, my thoughts drifted from snow and preparation to harder questions about death, dignity, and whether we should have more control over how life ends.
https://…

So... in the end, I switched to the iPhone as my primary device after already having to use it as a secondary device alongside my Pixel 9 with GrapheneOS.
Before you stone me, let me say first and foremost that I love GrapheneOS and its almost perfect privacy features! But certain circumstances made a switch more or less necessary.
On the one hand, I don't want to constantly carry around two smartphones – especially when I don't want to lug around an extra backpack, walle…

This *no notes necessary* does not look good.
https://open.substack.com/pub/welivedit/p/behind-the-noise-the-document-you?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Been playing with #gokrazy this weekend, testing it out as a base for a container os idea I'm playing with. As part of that I've made it run with podman 5, and also implemented a pure go shim for the nft command that's sufficient for netavark to create pod forwards and such https://code.bas.es/marcus/nft-shim - Not sure if strictly necessary as I was able to build static binaries for nft using nixpkgs pkgsStatic target, but was a fun weekend project to hack on anyways. I quite like the idea behind gokrazy.

"this that makes it necessary for the United States to do something to avoid the civilizational and democratic disaster that is unfolding in Europe." — @…
I'm REALLY going to take issue with this. Yes, it's true that Europe faces challenges. But it is not Europe which faces civilizational or democratic disaster. This is classic pr…

Trump's new Board of Peace is necessary because the UN has failed again and again (Douglas Murray/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/22/opinion/trumps-new-board-of-peace-is-necessary-because-the-un-has-failed-again-and-again/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p11#a260123p11

Same.
It is a Bad Practice that developers should be encouraged to avoid. By any means necessary. @… https://federated.press/@CmdrTaco/115967725775252479<…

This is as good a time as any for a thought experiment.
You're in Nazi Germany. You know about the camps, you know what they do, you see the ash fall, you smell it. People who resist alone are killed, some are sent to the camps too. You're afraid to even talk to people about it for fear that they'll turn you in.
You think back to when the camps were being built. You had all the warning signs, but you didn't know how to interpret them. You could believe it would happen. You thought you'd have a chance to vote him out. You thought there might be another way. You thought maybe things would turn out differently if you just sat tight, kept your head down, kept yourself safe.
You see a family being dragged from their home. You know they will be killed. You want to fight, not just for them but for yourself. You opposed Hitler, and at any point you know you could be on the list... Even if you do nothing.
You wish you could rise up, shoot the SS, open the gates, fight it all. You know you aren't alone, but you don't know how to connect with the people who want the same thing.
Using the knowledge we have now, what should you have done in the preceding months and years to connect, to build a community that would open up all paths of resistance?
There were people who resisted. We know it wasn't enough.
Gun laws in Nazi Germany were very similar to US laws in that Nazis were largely free to own guns and everyone else was not. Unlike the US, where "others" have historically controlled using the fear that they might be randomly executed, Germany did codify it. Red flag laws were one more step in the US towards that codification, and there will be more.
When Nazis were taking away those guns, the social networks didn't exist to make resistance possible for most folks. But some Jews were able to resist.
It wasn't the guns that made the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising possible, though they definitely helped. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was made possible by labor organizing in the precessing years.
If there were more uprisings like that, the Holocaust could have been stopped if not prevented. Social networks make resistance possible. Guns are only useful tools to resist authoritarianism *after* you build a community able to support that resistance, and they are only one of many tools made useful by that community.
Getting guns is easy, and not always necessary. Building community is hard. Guns won't keep you safe. Community will.
Single acts of resistance may slow the machine down, but to actually bring down a monster you need to be able to attack more than once. You need a society of resistance. If you are afraid now, build that. Talk to people while it's still safe to do so. Ask them where their red line is. Talk to neighbors. Figure out your network.
Take the steps you need now to keep your neighbors safe, to keep yourself safe.
#USPol

In Our Mothers' Gardens"
Film Screening & Potluck
Community Event · Hosted by Black Thumb Farm
Saturday, February 28
5 – 8pm PST
8380 Ventura Canyon Ave
Los Angeles, CA 91402
About this event
In honor of Black History Month, Black Thumb Farm invites you to a free screening of "In Our Mothers' Gardens."
This powerful documentary celebrates the strength and resiliency of Black women and Black families through the r…

Tibetan Buddhism is quick to judge an "imperfect documentary" but much more laxist to leave a system of abuse in place because : traditions and root guru cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.org/art…

So it seems that Carney, like Trudeau before him, is capable of raising his speech game when necessary.
https://www.youtube.com/live/uStuQ-TbL9k

Sources detail the efforts SoftBank is making to raise the necessary funds as it races to close its $22.5B funding commitment to OpenAI by the end of this year (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Ukraine war latest: 63% of Ukrainians ready to endure war 'as long as necessary,' poll shows: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/ukraine-war-latest-of-ukrainians.html

There is no reason to think this war with Iran is necessary (Max Boot/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/28/trump-war-iran-/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p65#a260228p65

"A Palestinian children's football club in the occupied West Bank faces imminent demolition despite an international campaign to save it. Its supporters say it provides a rare sporting opportunity for young Palestinian players.
"But Israel insists it's been built without the necessary permits."
As I understand it, such permits are rarely given.
It's on land supposedly under the control of the Palestinian Authority in occupied Palestine.

Microsoft has begun automatically replacing the original Secure Boot security certificates on Windows devices through regular monthly updates, a necessary move given that the 15-year-old certificates first issued in 2011 are set to expire between late June and October 2026.

A winter storm slowed everything down—quiet house, lost sense of time, strange stillness. That silence turned into a reflection on death, dignity, and medical aid in dying. New post is up. ❄️🕯️
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/snow-silence-and-the-diff…

Just figured out I should turn off ClearType (subpixel rendering) on the high DPI monitor. Always loved that rendering hack, it is heroic, but is not necessary and was causing visible color fringing for me.

The U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country -- because it doesn’t like their speech.
This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech.
If that sounds insane to you,
congratulations on your reading comprehension.
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s State Department declared the
“Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex,”
which will take
“decisive actio…

I’m old enough that it took me years to adopt a screen name. I had been given something of an embarrassing nickname (Dr. Bill) on various BBS’s because of my tendency to expound at length and in depth on a variety of topics.
I adopted the one I’ve stuck with since when I needed to have an AIM account for reasons. No one has ever questioned my choice. I could make a trademark case for it if necessary. @…

Sources: Chinese officials told customs agents that Nvidia H200 chips are barred from China and instructed local tech companies not to buy them unless necessary (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-cu…

the ten pillars of fascism
1.The mythic past: Fascists draw on a mythical past to justify a glorious future.
2.Propaganda: Propaganda in fascist politics often operates through inflammatory speech, stirring hostility and manipulating emotions, and displacing reasoned public debate with fear and division.
3.Anti-intellectual: Fascist politics attacks education, expertise, and language, weakening the tools necessary for informed public debate and leaving power and group ident…

“It was necessary to destroy the polling org in order to save it”

Didero, which provides an agentic AI layer that integrates with ERP systems to automate supply chains, raised a $30M Series A co-led by Chemistry and Headline (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/didero-lands-3…

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposal to
reenact the corporate head tax has been hotly debated,
But whether corporations should pay more taxes should not be contentious. 
Highly concentrated corporate wealth and economic inequality is a scourge on our city and society.
Corporations should pay their fair share to support the public good.
We’ve seen why this is necessary throughout history — over and over again. 
I had the privilege of working with lat…

RE: https://mstdn.social/@NSalwen/116060789482624866
Yup, good point. Pretty sure the Republicans could get the necessary D votes to do this.
Whining about TSA and FEMA being held hostage to the fight over ICE and CBP? Fine, release them. Rs can do that AFAICT.

Gallup deciding not to do presidential approval ratings any more is like McDonald’s deciding to stop making french fries. The amount of fear and cowardice necessary for them to do this is just staggering.

Trump wants to put U.S. boots on the ground in Mexico to
fight "drug cartels",
once again reinforcing his complete disregard for the concept of state sovereignty.
According to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum,
Trump has been pushing for
“the participation of U.S. forces,”
even though Mexico says it’s not necessary.
Nonetheless, The New York Times has reported that the Trump administration prefers to send
either Special Forces (gre…