@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-06-17 19:40:54
Trump's pardons cost victims and taxpayers $1.3 billion, House Judiciary Committee Democrats' review says (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-pardons-cost-victims-and-taxpayers-1-3-billion-house-judiciary-committee-democrats-review/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p126#a250617p126
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-18 23:04:23
Trump signed an executive order decrying so-called anti-Christian bias in February,
and a hotline was created in April to encourage State Department workers to call in and snitch on their colleagues who might be acting with any kind of “anti-Christian bias.”
The Religious Liberty Commission was established via another executive order on May 1 during a flashy White House event.
Trump has even established his own Christian “faith” office in the White House, seemingly further…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-06-19 11:53:49
For folks who missed it due to timezones: I wrote a post about different options for sharing decision-making power with online communities, nudged by the situation around inaturalist. #citizenscience
https://tzovar.as/power-sharing/
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-06-19 14:37:32
@marcel@waldvogel.family2025-06-17 16:38:27
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social2025-06-18 17:23:29
Let's use Hanlon's Razor, and assume good faith in that the #inaturalist staff just needs a bit of help for how one could actually share decision-making power with a large online community.
To do that, I've written up some ideas of how other online communities (in #citizenscience, #openscience and beyond) have gone about doing that.
https://tzovar.as/power-sharing/
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-06-18 18:38:50
Takeover of British Russia expert’s email accounts used novel phishing tactic https://therecord.media/keir-giles-russia-expert-email-attack-gtig-citizen-lab-reports
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com2025-06-18 13:32:19
I'm fortunate to have the option of exercising outdoors, including in an outdoors gym within walking distance of where I live - there are plenty in Finland, and they are an excellent use of taxpayers money - so I mostly exercise off-hours maskless when nobody is around.
However I have exerted considerable physical effo…
@carlos@perceptiveconstructs.com2025-06-18 13:32:19
I'm fortunate to have the option of exercising outdoors, including in an outdoors gym within walking distance of where I live - there are plenty in Finland, and they are an excellent use of taxpayers money - so I mostly exercise off-hours maskless when nobody is around.
However I have exerted considerable physical effo…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-18 22:50:02
Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border.
That decision, made in the waning hours of this year’s legislative session,
leaves the future of the state wall unclear.
Just 8% of the 805 miles the state identified for construction is complete, which has cost taxpayers more than $3 billion to dat…
