considering making little add-on boards for recent-ish thinkpads (e. g.. using a hub on the USB lines on the smartcard reader FFC header, or by tapping in the I2C lines on the NFC header)

things that add little internal few-chip solutions, like:
- subghz radios
- nrf52s for 2.4G ISM hackery
- those simple SDRs
- IR (possibly software defined)

curious who's interested in trying some of these out, and what kind of accessories you'd want to see squished in there

With the #MastodonForHarris fundraiser approaching $300,000 (!), I thought I'd say a little about why I am going to keep it going, most likely all the way through Inauguration Day. 1/
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

We were evacuated to Illinois post Katrina when Obama ran for president and I covered his campaign. The excitement at his headquarters was electric.

The energy feels the same for Kamala Harris' run. Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe are closing out #AnswerTheCall2024 tonight- over $2 mil raised!! #WomenForHarris

Finding a toehold: Creativity in times of grief. A recording of my talk:

https://youtu.be/laXFDexKnvA?si=ZJsNXLN6rBY7QpQL

Jasper NP just posted a new update.

Incident Command is able to confirm that all critical infrastructure in Jasper was successfully protected including the hospital, emergency services building, both elementary and junior/senior schools, activity centre and wastewater treatment plant. Although more time is needed to complete a detailed damage assessment, it is clear that some homes and businesses have been lost.

#Jasper #JasperFire

VP Harris reports that she told Netanyahu the war must end, Israel must completely withdraw from Gaza, and Palestinians will have their own state with self determination.

A start. But not enough. USA needs to stop arming Israel to bomb Palestine. That’s a non negotiable.

She's doing it. "The same Black voters who split 70% for Biden to 23% for Trump in previous polling now break 78% for Harris to 15% for Trump." 👍🏿

Future president Kamala Harris did not come to play games. If this holds, and Black folk check and re-check their voter registration every month, then Harris wins.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/24/politics/cnn-poll-kamala-harris-donald-trump

CNN/SSRS polling still makes the same mistake that everyone makes about US elections: They report on the category "people of color,"🤦🏿‍♂️

What color? Is it Black?

This meme is at least two years old, but current politics compels me to post it again.

"On Fox News Thursday morning, Donald #Trump had a weird instruction for his supporters: they don’t have to #vote.

“My instruction: We don’t need the votes, I have so many votes,” Trump said on Fox & Friends before going on a rant about how much support he has in #Florida."

Cool, cool.

You do you, orange shitstain.

https://newrepublic.com/post/184269/trump-urging-supporters-not-vote-election

"The idea of America lies in your hands."

—Joe Biden

#JoeBiden

just saying i would title my goose game

Harris attacked as "childless" by Vance as more Americans go child-free

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/harris-childless-cat-ladies-new-poll

'Pathetic': RNC chair mocked as he mixes up Germany and Russia during Harris attack - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/michael-whatley-2668817110/

Tirem a mão do Sudueste Alentejano @ Praia de Sines https://eventos.coletivos.org/event/tirem-a-mao-do-sudueste-alentejano

Butterfly and Wild Rose, Shibata Zeshin, 1885

Kamala Says She ‘Will Not Be Silent’ on ‘Suffering’ in Gaza

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kamala-harris-says-she-will-not-be-silent-on-suffering-in-gaza?ref=home

#Harris #Harris2024

“Utterly #Immoral and Cruel”: @IlhanOmar Tears Into #Netanyahu

https://newrepublic.com/post/184202/utterly-immoral-cruel-genocide-ilhan-omar-netanyahu-speech-congress

#AllStarTrek I dunno what the big deal is. Just leave me with my Trek blue-rays and xbox, and I'm pretty sure I'd be fine alone for months.

(Probably says more about me than anything else 😖)
#StarTrek #StarTrekVoyager #One

This story is just over a week old now, but (unsurprisingly) I haven't seen that much coverage about it in the media, so we're gonna talk about it here. Indie media outlet Unicorn Riot recently published a summary dive into just *who* is behind Project 2025; the christo-fascist battle plan for transforming America into the Pork Reich over the first 180 days of a potential Trump presidency. It probably won't surprise you to learn that the folks involved in both funding and creating Project 2025 are kooks, fundies, and nazis. What might surprise you to learn (because it's barely covered in the media) is that these fascists are almost universally "Very Respectable People" in US society - politicians, employees of globally significant consulting firms, and legal organizations:

https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/a-deeper-look-into-project-2025-far-right-political-funding-and-propaganda/

A Deeper Look Into Project 2025, Far-Right Political Funding and Propaganda

"Likewise, it pays to understand who is funding not just the politicians but groups like Heritage and the Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), where many of these far-right Republicans get their bigoted ideas, dictated talking points, and financial support. These groups often draft conservative policy ideas and legislation for politicians.

For Republicans, the goal is simple: keep white Christian nationalists in power at all costs.

Upon deeper investigation of the Project 2025 document and its funders, Unicorn Riot found that Joel Frushone, a Senior Manager at Ernst & Young, is listed as a Contributor in the 922-page document ‘Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise’, as is Jen Ehlinger, formerly a communications strategist at the U.S. State Department for much of the Trump Administration and an Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton until December 2022.

Ernst & Young is a major professional services firm that serves as a consultant for businesses and governments globally. They are considered a Big Four Player among accounting firms along with Deloitte, KPMG, and PwC – some of the largest in the world. Booz Allen Hamilton is a consulting firm specializing in helping governments and businesses with complex technology-related challenges. Booz Allen Hamilton is listed next to Jen Ehlinger’s name in the Project 2025 document’s ‘Contributors’ list; Ernst & Young is not listed next to Joel Frushone’s name on that list."

While the sheer size of list of names, think tanks, and organizations profiled in this piece can be quite dizzying, much of the clout behind both the larger fascist project in America and Project 2025 itself, revolves around or is connected to an innocuous sounding political policy shop/think tank called the Conservative Partnership Institute, or CPI. If you follow the links in this piece, you'll discover that the CPI is dedicated to creating "America First political infrastructure" (read: fascism) and is "led by former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and former Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint." The expressed purpose of this group is to create the political infrastructure to install fascism in America, the moment the nazis reclaim the White House; infrastructure Trump lacked when he won in 2016.

Obviously, this means CPI isn't an ordinary think tank/policy document shop; even if it's run like one. Let's look at some of the US fascists who have offices at the CPI:

"The Documented and Guardian report focuses on an analysis of recently acquired tax records that revealed Citizens for Sanity, a dark money group with ties to former president Trump’s inner circle, spent $93 million in the second half of 2022. Nearly all of that money went to running ads that have been described as vile, racist, and transphobic.

Tax records also revealed that Citizens for Sanity’s offices are located at the headquarters of CPI in Washington D.C. – a key component of the infrastructure to get Trump elected. Notably, the group has ties to America First Legal (AFL), which employed three Citizens for Sanity’s board members. Many of AFL’s employees are also listed as contributors to Project 2025."

"Many far-right politicians in Congress who promote racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred across the country have offices at CPI’s headquarters. U.S. Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA14), Ralph Norman (R-SC05), Matt Gaetz (R-FL01), and Byron Donalds (R-FL19) alongside senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) call it “a home away from home,” according to CPI."

I encourage you to read the full piece because there are names I didn't have room to list, but the key point is that American fascism and Project 2025 are not the product of fringe elements on the right and street nazis. These folks are elected officials, lawyers, PR minions and influential members of our society. They're running the fascist project the same way you'd run any other policy shop or political infrastructure organization, and they're dead serious about it.

#Fascism #Project2025 #HeritageFoundation #CPI

https://www.europesays.com/1361262/ SCOTUS Justice Elena Kagan endorses ethics enforcement mechanism #AnythingGoesNews #BreakingNews #GlobalNews #LatestNews #News #WorldNews

🤣 🤣 🤣 😂 🤣 Who did this?

This summer, the 14 Leopard 2A4 tanks that the Netherlands and Denmark purchased for Ukraine will be sent to Ukraine. These battle tanks have been refurbished and tested over the past few months, according to Minister Ruben Brekelmans. The tanks, originally used models, were bought last year and refurbished by the German company Rheinmetall.

https://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/2024/07/25/toegezegde-leopard-2-tanks-naar-oekraine

'Scared little punk': CNN panel slams 'big, strong man' Trump after he backs out of debate - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-2668817401/

#MacyFire #CAwx

Liam Winstead, Staff Reporter
Jul 25, 10:55 PM EDT

Structures remain threatened, per incident command. Highway 74 will be shut down through the night. Grand Avenue will be shut down at least until midnight.

The Evacuation Center will be moving to Elsinore High School (21800 Canyon Dr, Wildomar, CA 92595), per radio traffic.

https://share.watchduty.org/i/28015

[País Basco] 20 anos de prisão e 56.000 euros por acampar em Aroztegia - Anda tudo louco! https://noticiasanarquistas.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/23/pais-basco-20-anos-de-prisao-e-56-000-euros-por-acampar-em-aroztegia/

Kamala Harris is right.
We’re not going back!
I’ve modified the flux capacitor to make sure we never ever go back to the 1950s.
We’re headed for the future!

“A single query to an AI-powered chatbot can use up to ten times as much energy as an old-fashioned Google search.”

https://theconversation.com/power-hungry-ai-is-driving-a-surge-in-tech-giant-carbon-emissions-nobody-knows-what-to-do-about-it-233452?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%209%202024%20-%203026730815&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20July%209%202024%20-%203026730815+CID_7414d54f281dc65955d825c9246c446d&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=Power-hungry%20AI%20is%20driving%20a%20surge%20in%20tech%20giant%20carbon%20emissions%20Nobody%20knows%20what%20to%20do%20about%20it

https://www.europesays.com/1361260/ “That’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for them.”. #PoliticalHumor #PoliticalHumor #Politics #UsPolitics

Angel on my shoulder: What sustains me during complex creative projects? A couple of years ago, I discovered something surprising...

https://www.meredithlewis.com.au/blog/angel-on-my-shoulder

US solar production soars by 25 percent in just one year

2024 is seeing the inevitable outcome of the building boom in solar farms.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/us-solar-production-soars-by-25-percent-in-just-one-year/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

The effect of the Loblaws boycott wasn't huge, but their food retail sales saw only an increase of 0.2% this quarter. This is on top of a settlement of $500M for bread price fixing.

Another way of looking at this though is that this quarter last year had a net income of $1.58 per share, but dropped to $1.48 per share this year, a year over year drop of 6.3%.

#Loblaws #BoycottLoblaws #CanPoli #cdnpoli https://www.reddit.com/r/loblawsisoutofcontrol/comments/1ebx2w2/press_release_consumer_boycott_exerts_pressure_on/

#ApacheFire #CAwx

Benjamin Kuo, Reporter
· Jul 25, 10:23 PM EDT

According to VCEmergency.com, as of 5:00 PM Thursday, July 25, 2024, the fire is estimated at 1,499 acres with 0% containment. There have been no changes to evacuation orders or warnings since the last update.

#ApacheFire https://share.watchduty.org/i/27551

Let me help you, Ted. Literally no woman on Earth wants anything of yours.

RT：Childless Cat Lady T恤，所有利润将以万斯的名义，捐献给堕胎基金会~

https://weirdlilguys.com/

'Kamala just broke Zoom': 136K white women overcome glitchy call to raise over $1M - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/kamala-harris-2668817109/

#Harris #Harris2024

funk rock levels are 70% and rising

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