@cdarwin@c.imThe USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
https://bsky.ap…
@cdarwin@c.imData potentially accessed by the hack includes things like names, usernames, emails, and the last four digits of credit card numbers.
The unauthorized party also accessed a “small number” of images of government IDs from “users who had appealed an age determination.”
Full credit card numbers and passwords were not impacted by the breach, Discord says.
The company is notifying impacted users now over email.
If your ID might have been accessed, Discord will specify that.…
@wyri@toot-toot.wyrihaxim.us@… @… the whole thing is PII, doing the same with my email adresses.
@jake4480@c.imI don't currently subscribe to Game Pass and haven't for years, but I still get their emails. I find it interesting that today they just sent out an email with the subject 'Xbox Game Pass is better than ever'-- the very day after I read that Microsoft is raising the price of Game Pass by 50% 😂
@cdarwin@c.imThe White House’s aggressive push to hire federal immigration agents is causing friction with local sheriffs
– even those who back Donald Trump’s deportation agenda.
More than a dozen US sheriffs and law enforcement associations have
complained that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice)
has tried to poach local deputies and officers as Ice rapidly expands.
“It is unprofessional and unethical,” Grady Judd, the sheriff in Polk county, Florida, told the Guar…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThis? Oh, it’s just GoFundMe preventing people who are being starved by Israel in Gaza from raising money to buy food to live.
The scale of this inhumanity and injustice will haunt us forever. https://mastodon.social/@daliamohisen/115060399174567486
@samueljohn@mastodon.world
@lilmikesf@c.im @cdarwin@c.imHeritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts
-- under fire for a video he posted defending Tucker Carlson for his friendly interview with white supremacist talker Nick Fuentes
-- has reassigned his chief of staff to another position.
In an email to the conservative think tank’s staff on Friday,
Roberts announced that Heritage’s executive vice president, Derrick Morgan, had been tapped to replace Ryan Neuhaus as chief of staff.
In the controversial video posted on X …
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldAlways, always, ALWAYS check out the "source" of any promotional offers you get. Don't click links in the message. Go to your favorite search engine, look up the organization, and verify from there.
And if they ask for money? Run. #writingcommunity #writers
@paulomalley@c.imI think my most-sent email of all time is "Does Tuesday at 2 pm work for you?" followed closely by "No worries, how about Wednesday?" 🫠
But what if you could just... not do that anymore?
There’s a scheduling tool hiding in plain sight in Gmail that ends all this nonsense. You offer times, they click once, and poof—it's in the calendar.
I filmed a quick guide on it because this needs to be public knowledge:
@scott@carfree.citySays a lot that the Hayes Valley open space on land that was supposed to be affordable housing (Proxy/Parcel K) is apparently secure, with no politician threatening to build the housing anytime soon; but the Hayes Valley open space that closes 1 block of street two days a week is fighting for its life.
Save the @…!
@aral@mastodon.ar.al@… Hi there,
(I tried the email route but got an automated response, so I’m trying this instead.) :)
I just got notified that my friend Iman’s account (@emanahmed@mastodon.social) has been suspended with cause due to private messages being sent from her account to ask for donations. (One of the people who was upset about this contacted me directly to let …
@jake4480@c.imOne great thing about Proton mail is that they managed to include a simple 'Trash' option on the notifications for new mail alongside 'Archive' and 'Mark read'. It's such a small thing, but it's massively useful and is a time saver -- so you don't need to open each new email to delete it. Maybe Google will add that functionality someday, but Gmail still doesn't have it.
EDIT: Gmail doesn't have it for ME? I'm hearing others might have it?…
@lilmikesf@c.imIn typically brutalist #MelonHusk style 500 of his employees were given the ax on Friday Night, and immediately deleted all access to even their email with no warning.
"We no longer need most generalist AI tutor positions and your employment with xAI will conclude."
htt…
@cdarwin@c.imA top official at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
demanded the removal of YouTube videos of himself
that were published by a physician and writer who has been critical of medical misinformation and public health officials in the Trump administration.
Jonathan Howard, a neurologist and psychiatrist in New York City,
received an email from YouTube on Friday night, which stated that
Vinay Prasad, who is the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, had demanded the remov…
@scott@carfree.cityglad people are advocating for more tree planting opportunities in sf! if you email, consider asking them for a permit process to plant trees in bulbouts in the parking lane too. this allows for larger tree beds, healthier trees and built in traffic calming and is common in berkeley & santa cruz but currently not permitted in sf!
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHumanity is against the Bluesky Social Terms of Service.
#BlueSky #SiliconValley #BigTech #israel…
@cdarwin@c.imThe federal prosecutor in charge of pursuing mortgage fraud allegations against New York Attorney General Letitia James
resigned Friday after Trump said he no longer wanted him to serve in the position.
Erik S. Siebert, the acting U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, announced he was stepping down in an email to colleagues that was obtained by NBC News.
Trump on Friday unleashed an attack on Siebert, who was tasked with pursuing mortgage fraud charges against Ja…
@jake4480@c.imLooking out for text salting - abuse and scamming via hidden CSS and HTML
https://blog.talosintelligence.com/too-salty-to-handle-exposing-cases-of-css-abuse-for-hidden-text-salting
@cdarwin@c.imA new attack was shown to use AI to hack into Gmail accounts.
“It illustrates why developing robust protections against prompt injection attacks is important."
Direct and indirect prompt injection attacks hide instructions for AI assistants in emails, messages, websites, attachments and calendar invites.
You won’t see them, but your AI assistant will. -- And all too often that assistant will do as it’s told.
This threat “is not specific to Google," the compan…
@samueljohn@mastodon.worldThey move to ... Germany (partly)
https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/115040366123200972
@cdarwin@c.imIn an email sent out to PBS station managers on Wednesday,
PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger announced that the organization plans to cut its budget by 21 percent
in order to offset some of the financial damage being caused by the Trump administration’s campaign to stop public media from receiving federal funding that was originally distributed by the CPB.
Because of the recently passed bill, PBS, NPR, and all of both organizations’ affiliates will no longer receive the $…
@cdarwin@c.imIn an email sent out to PBS station managers on Wednesday,
PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger announced that the organization plans to cut its budget by 21 percent
in order to offset some of the financial damage being caused by the Trump administration’s campaign to stop public media from receiving federal funding that was originally distributed by the CPB.
Because of the recently passed bill, PBS, NPR, and all of both organizations’ affiliates will no longer receive the $1…
@lilmikesf@c.im#TeamEpstein Elite Email Draft Picks : Top #Academics, Big Time #Legal Warrior$, and #MassMedia $pecialists that defended
@cdarwin@c.imOn Friday Oct. 10, MIT President Sally Kornbluth formally rejected the Trump administration's proposed compact in an email to the U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon.
This decision came after mounting pressure from many MIT organizations, students and faculty alike, that called on the Institute to formally reject the compact.
MIT is the first university to openly decline the compact.
The Institute’s Response
In her response to Secretary McMahon, President Kornbl…
@cdarwin@c.imNo sane person ever said Donald Trump was very sharp,
his tariffs just don't mean much to China at this point.
I'm sure Xi is shaking in his boots https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/…
@cdarwin@c.im“Supreme Court Shocks
—Trump’s Power Just Exploded” reads the typically hyperbolic headline from religious-right podcaster Steve Turley.
“The Supreme Court's recent rulings are a game-changer for Trump's immigration policies,
empowering ICE with aggressive tactics,”
reads Turley’s Wednesday morning email newsletter.
“With Kavanaugh's backing, ethnicity now plays a role in enforcement—cue the controversy!”
Turley is referencing a ruling by the Sup…
@cdarwin@c.imIt's tempting to do everything as fast as possible:
listen to podcasts on double speed,
work in email-free sprints,
or train at lung-bursting intensity in the gaps between your morning meditation and the school run.
But evidence is piling up that the last one might not be as beneficial as it seems
– and that, in fact, just introducing a lot more ultra-low-intensity movement into your schedule can improve your fitness as well as your quality of life,
…
@cdarwin@c.imUS Open broadcasters have been asked not to show any negative crowd reactions to Donald Trumpat Sunday’s men’s final.
The president is expected to attend the match between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz in New York, with security at Flushing Meadows being heightened in preparation.
Trump used to be a regular visitor to the US Open but has not been to the tournament since 2015, when he was booed by spectators.
An email sent to broadcasters by organisers reveals that the 79-…
