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GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺 • mastodon (AP)
So here's the question: is Elon Musk about to use his obscene fortune to buy governments and create fascist states worldwide? And if so, what are we going to do to prevent it?

Okay, those were two questions.
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Chuck Darwin
Chuck Darwin • mastodon (AP)
In their 30 years as a band, the Grateful Dead scored just one Top 40 hit with "Touch of Grey," and not a single Grammy nomination.

"We've had people come up to us, say, 'You guys are never gonna make it. You play too long. You play too loud,'" Kreutzmann recalled.

But through their decades together, they built a legion of followers -- "Deadheads," who started recording and sharing their concerts.

"You'd look from the stage and it looked like a forest of trees of microphones," Kreutzmann said of their fans recording their concerts.

Their record company advised against allowing fans to record, but the band refused, saying they weren't worried about piracy.

"It was the smartest thing we ever did," Kreutzmann said.

The Grateful Dead played more than 2,300 concerts and fans recorded most of them.

"Those cassettes went out all over the world," Hart said. "They were our archivists as well."

When Jerry Garcia died in 1995, the band broke up. They weren't sure they could find a way to carry on without their frontman.

The surviving members went off to start other projects and bands, but the Grateful Dead's spirit would always live on.
Weir said Garcia visits him in dreams from time to time, including recently.
"In the dream, Jerry comes to me and he says, 'Listen, I'm gonna invite a song in to meet you.
I want you to meet this song.' …
What that dream did was, it solidified in me the notion that, yes when we play the songs, they're living things," Weir said.
"They come and visit our world and they come through us."
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/grateful-dead-kennedy-center-honores-2024/?intcid=CNR-02-0623

Grateful Dead, 2024 Kennedy Center honorees, reflect on the band's legacy and support from fans

Surviving members of the Grateful Dead, Bobby Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, revisit the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.
Anthony Mason (CBS San Francisco)
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QuirkyFilms
QuirkyFilms • mastodon (AP)
#AfricanFilmPoster #GhanaFilmPoster
In Ghana 🇬🇭 when posters can't be imported, local artists will bootleg them to the best of their abilities. Some often are more imaginative than the official studio releases.

#TomorrowNeverDies (1997)
#JamesBond sets out to stop a media mogul's plan to induce a war between China and the United Kingdom.
#JamesBond #tomorrowneverdies #africanfilmposter #ghanafilmposter
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Europe Says
Europe Says • mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1704270/ House Democrat Says, “I’ll Just Sit Back and Watch Republicans Fight”(Video) #AnythingGoesNews #BreakingNews #GlobalNews #LatestNews #News #WorldNews
House Democrat Says, “I’ll Just Sit Back and Watch Republicans Fight”(Video)
#News #Worldnews #BreakingNews #latestnews #globalnews #anythinggoesnews
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Julia Evans
Julia Evans • mastodon (AP)
really enjoyed this paper by Kendall Makai and Philip Guo on the process of building an unofficial guide for undergrads by undergrads https://pg.ucsd.edu/publications/hidden-curriculum-undergrad-mentoring_ICER-2023.pdf

more here: https://kendallnakai.com/portfolio/hidden-curriculum.html
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Europe Says
Europe Says • mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1704268/ U.S. to lift $10 million bounty on de facto Syrian leader’s head #GeopoliticalAnalysis #GeopoliticalNews #geopolitics #Politics
U.S. to lift $10 million bounty on de facto Syrian leader's head
#Politics #Geopolitics #geopoliticalanalysis #geopoliticalnews
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Europe Says
Europe Says • mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1704266/ coulda sworn he was on the ticket #PoliticalHumor #PoliticalHumor #Politics #USPolitics
coulda sworn he was on the ticket
#Politics #USPolitics #politicalhumor
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Paxton Orglot
Paxton Orglot • mastodon (AP)
Reflections on IGD Mexico, Anarchist Media, and International Solidarity

https://itsgoingdown.org/reflections-on-igd-mexico-anarchist-media-and-international-solidarity/

#AnarchistMedia #Mexico #InternationalSolidarity

Reflections on IGD Mexico, Anarchist Media, and International Solidarity

Social struggles south of the border in so-called Mexico held a somewhat uncomfortable space on IGD. One obvious reason being the language barrier which we sought as a project to overcome,...
It's Going Down
#Mexico #internationalsolidarity #anarchistmedia
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Europe Says
Europe Says • mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1704262/ Phone snatch victim runs 2km to get it back – and finds six more stashed in hedge #News #UK #UkNews #uknews #UnitedKingdom
Phone snatch victim runs 2km to get it back – and finds six more stashed in hedge
#uk #UnitedKingdom #News #uknews
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Scott Campbell
Scott Campbell • mastodon (AP)
"A Genocidal Special Relationship" by Carlota McAllister

"Israel used Guatemala’s genocide not only as a platform for asserting itself as a minor imperial power and a profit center for its military and associated industries but also as a proving ground for anti-Indigenous counterinsurgency. In return, Guatemala has numbered among Israel’s most loyal international allies. Not only did Guatemala move its embassy to Jerusalem in 2017, but it also voted alongside a tiny number of nations to protect Israel from condemnation in the early stages of the latest bombardment of Gaza."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714839.2024.2427974#d1e114

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Guatemala
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #Guatemala @palestine group
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mvario
mvario • mastodon (AP)
In Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle

The Arizona senator's prodigious campaign spending in global wine hotspots can’t possibly be related to the campaign she’s not running, says an ethics complaint.

https://theintercept.com/2024/12/20/kyrsten-sinema-campaign-spending-castle-france/

In Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle

Outgoing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is spending campaign cash on lavish trips like, like one to a castle in French wine country, says a complaint.
Matt Sledge (The Intercept)
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Frankie ✅
Frankie ✅ • mastodon (AP)
Feds Warn SMS Authentication Is Unsafe After ‘Worst Hack in Our Nation’s History’

https://gizmodo.com/feds-warn-sms-authentication-is-unsafe-after-worst-hack-in-our-nations-history-2000541129

#news #tech #technology #security #privacy #sms #hack #china

Feds Warn SMS Authentication Is Unsafe After ‘Worst Hack in Our Nation’s History’

Even the U.S. government is telling Americans to use encrypted apps.
Matt Novak (Gizmodo)
#privacy #tech #News #china #Security #Technology #SMS #Hack
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Rocketman
Rocketman • mastodon (AP)
I found myself nodding along furiously while reading Ed Zitron's "Never Forgive Them". An instant classic of critical technology appreciation:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

The only criticism I have is that he's merely highlighting one small part of the enshittified technology experience: That of the adult USian consumer.

That's a valid perspective of course, but there are SO MANY OTHER PEOPLE, for whom tech is infinitely worse still. (Type "facebook rohingya" into your search engine of choice.)

Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might pr…
Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
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McNadoMD
McNadoMD • mastodon (AP)
For anyone not aware, AfD is Germany’s far-right party, and is riddled with actual nazis.

You know, in case this were to be in the news for some reason today.
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cpkimber
cpkimber • mastodon (AP)
Vekllei/MillMint is such a fun mixed media project showing an alternative history 21st century. It is #solarpunk as hell, but I never see it discussed anywhere

https://millmint.net/stories/antigua/
#SolarPunk
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The Ferridge
The Ferridge • mastodon (AP)
Wow, that is fascinating! Thanks for sharing!
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GayDeceiver
GayDeceiver • mastodon (AP)
“You’re under arrest. 4 wives in 8 years. Each new wife during the Christmas Season. We found their bodies in the back 40 of your ranch.”

#HallmarkChristmasRedux
#HallmarkChristmasRedux
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Bok
Bok • mastodon (AP)
I have music on most of the time, but I don't _listen_ to music. (It's overwhelmingly instrumental, for one thing.) So I'm #listening to _Department Store Christmas_ on #SomaFM, and one of the songs started with what I would swear was the theme from the 1954 TV version of _Sherlock Holmes_ with Ronald Howard and Howard Marion-Crawford. It changed after a few seconds, but it was most odd. #ChristmasMusic
#listening #SomaFM #christmasmusic
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Stop That
Stop That • mastodon (AP)
So there’s a reason why that prison barber had Luigi looking so good:
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS6FSGDT5/
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Camilo
Camilo • mastodon (AP)
If I had like four hundred dollars for every time someone with immigrant parents asked about getting their citizenship with their parent’s country instead of just relying on US citizenship since trump was elected, I could probably buy one of those golden passports

The general vibe would be that this country is Fucking Cooked. That day without an immigrant is not gonna be pretty.

#immigration #uspol
#uspol
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Camilo
Camilo • mastodon (AP)
It’s not overstating that due to #ClimateChange there will be a mass migration the likes humanity has never seen before, and whichever country harnesses this phenomenon will be the world leader for the next few centuries.

Spain is committing to normalizing 300,000 immigrants annually. The US is doing the opposite. We’ll see the dividends this will pay for Spain for decades while oligarchs continue to pillage the US people and scapegoat immigrants.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/11/21/spain-to-grant-residency-and-work-permits-to-around-300000-undocumented-migrants-per-year

#uspol #immigration
#ClimateChange #Immigration #uspol
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Lake Michigan! Live!
Lake Michigan! Live! • mastodon (AP)
Current* conditions near Charlevoix, MI:
Rotating view around Charlevoix Marina in Charlevoix. // Image captured at: 2024-12-21 00:35:58 UTC (about 27 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Charlevoix: 24.64 F | -4.09 C // Precip: light snow // Wind: NNW at 18.410 mph | 29.62 kph // Humidity: 73%
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Susan ✶✶✶✶
Susan ✶✶✶✶ • diaspora
AI’s emissions are about to skyrocket even further | MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/13/1108719/ais-emissions-are-about-to-skyrocket-even-further/

AI’s emissions are about to skyrocket even further

Data center emissions have tripled since 2018. As more complex AI models like OpenAI’s Sora see broad release, those figures will likely go through the roof.
James O'Donnell (MIT Technology Review)
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Deb Zaccaro-Rojas
Deb Zaccaro-Rojas • diaspora
Which is why I've been iffy about the usefulness of AI from the get-go (not to mention a fan of several books and not a few movies that have warned & wrote about the dangers of such - i.e. Aliens)
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Wausau Pilot & Review
Wausau Pilot & Review • mastodon (AP)
#AfternoonUpdate #AMUpdate Kids can call into Santa Claus Live on Christmas Eve https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2024/12/20/kids-can-call-into-santa-claus-live-on-christmas-eve/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
#afternoonupdate #AMUpdate
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Ferocious Designs
Ferocious Designs • mastodon (AP)
While in a long line of cars trying to exit a train station parking deck in December 2015, I heard a news story about the Starbucks cups not being Christmassy enough. I had this song written in my head before I reached the exit and recorded this demo the next day. https://youtu.be/pnCw3GKAB6k
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Ferocious Designs
Ferocious Designs • mastodon (AP)
Going to try to record a live-in-studio performance of "Merry War on Christmas" and "It's Christmas Time Again," and post that over the next few days. Stay tuned.
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Year Progress
Year Progress • mastodon (AP)
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ 97%
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Tengrain
Tengrain • mastodon (AP)
Third Time Is The Charm

Happy Hour News Per the AP, With hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House approved a new plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but dropped President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year. So, the 4th Reich did not get what they wanted, and neither did we, but we also kept the government open.

http://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/12/20/third-time-is-the-charm/
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Sam Smith Moving to Glasswings
Sam Smith Moving to Glasswings • diaspora
"Dumb" is often better. No need to complicate things more than necessary.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/united-chargers-grizzl-e-classic-review/

Charging My EV Was a Pain. So I Bought the Dumbest, Sturdiest Charger.

EV chargers don’t need to be smart. The simpler the charger, the better the odds it will get you from A to B.
Liam McCabe (Wirecutter)
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Kevin C 🎬
Kevin C 🎬 • mastodon (AP)
#FridayThrillerClub I like knowing helpful passenger guy in the next seat (Robert Lesser) had a whole nother career before and after this one scene. 😁
#DieHard
#diehard #fridaythrillerclub
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Tengrain
Tengrain • mastodon (AP)
It’s #Happy Hour and so it’s time to grab a bevvy and join me in watching the #Momocrats!

Where’er you find your pods!

H/T @Karoli @socalmom @AlizaWrites
#Happy #momocrats @Donna Schwartz Mills @Karoli :cldude: @AlizaWorthington :cldude:
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Nick's world 🌎
Nick's world 🌎 • mastodon (AP)
I have a feeling that there will be many people using programming to hack into computers toeople straight up steal rich people's cash because they feel justified to do so. Here's my opinion. Actions have consequences, no matter how justified you feel. Do not do this.
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Schadenfreude
Schadenfreude • mastodon (AP)
This owl is sad and confused with USPS. I posted a package to my cousin on Mon, she posted one back on Wed.

The one I sent is missing, seems never left my post office, hers already arrived.

And one arrived in L.A. yday, got text to expect today, tracking says it's still in L.A.🦉💧
what looks like a Spotted Owl on top of a stack of 3 packages on what looks like an ethernet port on a shelf
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Schadenfreude
Schadenfreude • mastodon (AP)
@Jason844 Oh, no, I hope your deliveries are ok! 🥲

For the most part my packages have arrived just fine whatever the carrier. It figures the one package I send goes AWOL. 🥲

*I've only got one non-local relative I like enough for me to actually make up a package and go to the post office. 😅
@Jason844
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Jason844
Jason844 • mastodon (AP)
May the AWOL package arrive on time!
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unusual_whales
unusual_whales • mastodon (AP)
Trump has said any shutdown ‘is a Biden problem to solve’

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options
#Finance #News #Stocks #Economics #options
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unusual_whales
unusual_whales • mastodon (AP)
“Congress must get rid of, or extend out to, perhaps, 2029, the ridiculous Debt Ceiling,” Trump wrote.

Read more: https://t.co/fyOBlOKoUm

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

Trump has said any shutdown ‘is a Biden problem to solve’

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday morning shifted the blame for a potential government shutdown onto the current White House, asserting that resolving the funding impasse is “a Biden problem to solve.
Unusual Whales
#Finance #News #Stocks #Economics #options
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Europe Says
Europe Says • mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1704244/ Wyoming Business Council believes the new year will bring opportunities for more economic diversity #america #business #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA
#UnitedStates #USA #America #US #business #unitedstatesofamerica
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Europe Says
Europe Says • mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1704242/ WisDOT technology helps travelers get to destinations safely #511 #america #app #cars #Christmas #conditions #drivers #highway #HolidayTravelAAA #interstate #map #roads #roadway #science #technology #traffic #travelers #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA #Vacation #WisconsinDepartmentOfTransportation #Wisconsinites #WisDOT
#UnitedStates #USA #Science #America #US #app #cars #Technology #Christmas #Traffic #map #vacation #conditions #Highway #drivers #Roads #roadway #unitedstatesofamerica #Travelers #holidaytravelaaa #interstate #wisconsindepartmentoftransportation #wisconsinites #wisdot
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Europe Says
Europe Says • mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1704240/ Coalition Kickoff for Whole Person Health #america #Entertainment #health #sports #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA
#UnitedStates #USA #Entertainment #America #US #Health #sports #unitedstatesofamerica
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Europe Says
Europe Says • mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1704230/ Car slams into crowd at Christmas market in Germany in suspected attack; at least 2 killed, dozens injured, officials say #Christmas #EuropeanUnion #germany
#germany #EuropeanUnion #Christmas
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Megan
Megan • mastodon (AP)
Hello, it's been a while so I figured it was a good time for a re-introduction! I'm Megan, I enjoy posting random glimpses into my life and the thoughts that accompany them, as well as boosting bits I enjoy.

I'm into:
- fiber arts (knitting, crochet, cross-stitch)
- security engineering
- learning what I can
- a general love of cats, goats, and sheep
- nature
- Everquest 2

Looking forward to meeting new people and finding old friends here.

#knitting #SecurityEngineer #EQ2 #crochet #BringMeCatMemes #AlwaysLearning #infosec #FiberArts
#infosec #knitting #crochet #fiberarts #securityengineer #eq2 #bringmecatmemes #alwayslearning
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Karen Strickholm
Karen Strickholm • mastodon (AP)
Hi Megan, I'm a knittertoo! Nice to e-meet you! 😊
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Megan
Megan • mastodon (AP)
@KarenStrickholm
Thanks and nice to meet you! :ball_of_yarn:
@Karen Strickholm
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Europe Says
Europe Says • mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1704222/ Remembering the impact of Mark Spain as a champion of the community #ABC13 #cancer #community #family #impact #journalism #legacy #MarkSpain #spain
#Spain #journalism #cancer #community #legacy #family #impact #abc13 #markspain
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Scott Campbell
Scott Campbell • mastodon (AP)
Well, that's a wrap. It's (no longer) Going Down. Or at least not in its current form. More on the changes afoot here:

https://itsgoingdown.org/on-hiatus-a-statement-from-the-editors/

And here are some important reflections from a compa who trudged alongside me in covering Mexico for IGD:

https://itsgoingdown.org/reflections-on-igd-mexico-anarchist-media-and-international-solidarity/

I hope to put together some of my own thoughts on my time with IGD in next couple of weeks.

#Mexico #IndyMedia #anarchism

Reflections on IGD Mexico, Anarchist Media, and International Solidarity

Social struggles south of the border in so-called Mexico held a somewhat uncomfortable space on IGD. One obvious reason being the language barrier which we sought as a project to overcome,...
It's Going Down
#Mexico #Indymedia #anarchism
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Janeen
Janeen • mastodon (AP)
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Europe Says
Europe Says • mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1704196/ Latvian operational services on high alert for upcoming Christmas holiday #AlcoholConsumption.OperationalServices #ChristmasHoliday #Featured #Jaunumi #latvia #Latvija

Latvian operational services on high alert for upcoming Christmas holiday - EUROPE SAYS

Latvian operational services are awaiting the upcoming Christmas holiday with concerns, as this is the season when Latvian
EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
#latvia #Featured #latvija #jaunumi #alcoholconsumption #christmasholiday
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