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unusual_whales mastodon (AP)
BREAKING: The spending bill to avert government shutdown passes the House.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

Hart mastodon (AP)
Ein Duell zwischen #merz und #habeck wäre eigentlich logisch
#teamhabeck💚
Grafik, 27% wollen Habeck als Kanzler...

Mary Hilton mastodon (AP)
A not-so-merry Christmas for the Party City employees:

"Staff were told they would not receive severance pay, and they were told their benefits would end as the company goes out of business, CNN reported."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/20/party-city-closes

And why do we put up with corporations?

Earthlingz mastodon (AP)
he's a good dad.
Cameron mastodon (AP)
🤣🤪

Dare Obasanjo mastodon (AP)
Users of Zelle have no recourse when there is fraud on their accounts compared to debit or credit card fraud. This is an egregious situation that’s cost consumers $870M since 2017.

The banks behind it are finally being sued by the CFTB, just in time for that agency to be defanged after the government transition.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/20/cfpb-sues-jpmorgan-chase-bank-of-america-wells-fargo-over-zelle-fraud.html

Radley Balko unkn (AP)
TIL that before a 1978 World Cup qualifying match between Peru and host Argentina, Henry Kissinger and Argentinian dictator Jorge Videla visited the Peru team’s locker room to intimidate them into throwing the match. They lost 6-0, a shocker which allowed Argentina to qualify.

Argentina v Peru (1978 FIFA Wo...

AaronDavid mastodon (AP)
Spoiler alert
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God :verified: mastodon (AP)
If guns don’t kill people, I’m still waiting for the headline, 'Man Opens Fire on Mall Using Pure Determination'.
Hybrid 🐘 Elephant mastodon (AP)
i open fire on the mall using pure determination every time i go to the mall... it's the only thing that prevents me from using more drastic measures.
Pandanus mastodon (AP)
Did you get the spirit of Gene Wilder to sing that to the tune of Pure Imagination?

Coz that’s what I heard…

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1704030/ Quelqu’un a rajouté ça alors que ce n’est pas dans la chanson de base, et depuis c’est resté pour tout le monde #france #Memes #rance
Quelqu'un a rajouté ça alors que ce n'est pas dans la chanson de base, et depuis c'est resté pour tout le monde

Charles Gaba mastodon (AP)
Thanks, POTUS Biden!

HHS announces cost savings for 64 prescription drugs thanks to the Medicare Drug Inflation Rebate Program established by the Biden-Harris Admin under the Inflation Reduction Act:

https://acasignups.net/24/12/20/hhs-announces-cost-savings-64-prescription-drugs-thanks-medicare-prescription-drug

Remembering the time I was contracted as a security consultant in 2002-ish to review network security, help with documention, and to harden company systems, when I was mansplained about... (wait for it)... security.

So I was sitting at my desk writing documentation in the very open office, when one of the programmers, I guess trying to brag or impress me, sits on the edge of my desk and says, "So, you know, I'm a hacker."

Me, who loves all things hacking and security related, replies, "Really? That's awesome!"

Him: "Yeah, so a computer hacker is someone who can [blah blah] and ..."

I quickly discover that he has zero clue I am the solo security consultant working at the place, and that I'm an actual hacker.

Me (thinking to myself): Okay, well everyone starts somewhere, and it looks like he the caught the hacker bug— Wait, is he... is he now explaining what a network is to me?

🧵
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P. S. F. reshared this.
Cut to my sister-in-law walking by with 10 different expressions on her face, from disbelief to humor, when she realized that our coworker (and a personal friend of hers) was mansplaining the definition of networking and computer security to me.

Realizing he is blissfully unaware that I touch computers on the daily, I decide to try an give him a subtle out.

So I slowly reach for my freshly bought Official (ISC)² Guide to the CISSP® CBK® book that was *checks notes* sitting between us on the desk next to my O'Reilly books.

I open it to the section titled "Domain 2: Telecommunications and Network Security" and continue to nod at his explanations.

You might have guessed it, but he did not notice.

🧵
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Mistress Remilia sharkey (AP)
there was one time where I had someone mansplain to me how my own code worked. My own. That I wrote. From scratch.

The best part is he was incorrect in how it worked.
@remilia Oh my gosh!! Lmao

That's like all the stories I hear where people who are subject matter experts get told they don't understand something and to refer to a book/artcle that they published. :blobcatfacepalm:
aeva mastodon (AP)
they should make a pheromone spray or something one can spritz on mansplainers to gently break them out of their reverie and make them serenely wander off
overflo mastodon (AP)
@aeva
Estradiol?
@aeva
Eniko Fox mastodon (AP)
did he eventually cotton on to what your role was and if so, how did he respond after that >_>
@eniko It took my sister-in-law telling him what I did here for him to discover he was putting his foot in his mouth.
Alien mastodon (AP)
@eniko reminds me of the several times male coworkers (not managers or bosses) asked me basic sec questions and I, naively believing they are really struggling to understand something, I explained it to them to just get a "ah I knew that, I was just testing out if you knew too" among other random crap.

Or the times I literally do a presentation on an event and someone raises his hand and proceed to explain the very same thing I just explained, to my own surprise.
overflo mastodon (AP)
@alien @eniko

"More of a remark than a question.."

....
🤨
Alien mastodon (AP)
@overflo @eniko my friends literally have a joke with this sentence, image how many times I was told so. 🫠
overflo mastodon (AP)
"Personal" is the german word for employee.

When i was a kid, i taught a "Personal Computer" is a computer for people working at the office..
Very different beasts compared to my Commodore64 that was clearly a "Funtime Computer".

Steve Herman mastodon (AP)
Police in Germany say at least two people are dead after a Saudi physician rammed a rented car into a Christmas market this evening in Magdeburg. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-car-driven-into-crowd-at-magdeburg-christmas-market/a-71127071
kaffando mastodon (AP)
A Saudi physician...wot?
Grandpa Beer mastodon (AP)
WTAF is wrong with people?

A quotation from Tuchman, Barbara
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) American historian and author
Essay (1979-12-30), "Papyrus to Paperbacks: The World That Books Made," Washington Post

#quote #quotes #quotation #books #civilization #communication #history #literature #meme #science
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/tuchman-barbara/38418/

Nowhere Girl mastodon (AP)
So now we found out Biden wasn't all there even from January 2021 and had to be basically handheld by staffers, who never showed him critical articles or negative polls. That explains a lot.

https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.wsj.com/politics/biden-white-house-age-function-diminished-3906a839
Nowhere Girl mastodon (AP)
It's not a huge surprise but yeah. I guess over the next couple of years we'll find out how much was actually Biden making decisions based on poor and incomplete information and how much was staffers running the country without him.
not staffers. billionaires; most pointedly, Bloomberg.

these past 4 years was a replay of Bloomberg’s fascists policies down to the violence unleashed during the StudentSpring and having a so-called Catholic commit heresy by going in front of the cameras and call himself a zionist.

Bloomberg & his “liberal” billionaires paid Clyburn and the whole southern network of party ops to block Warren & Sanders.

primaries aren’t covered by the VRA; only fed elections.

@gwynnion @Kalshann

Yet another Tesla recall

Tesla recalling almost 700,000 vehicles due to tire pressure monitoring system issue - ABC7 Los Angeles https://abc7.com/post/tesla-recalling-almost-700000-vehicles-due-tire-pressure-monitoring-system-issue/15681829/
Christoph S reshared this.
So, in other words: tesla does crappy job on their vehicles. You want better EV's, then check other car makers



unusual_whales mastodon (AP)
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries says they 'defeated' Elon Musk and Donald Trump with the current spending bill, per Punchbowl News

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

Wallflower 🌺 mastodon (AP)
Did we know Joe Pesci is now 81yo?

🤯

Strypey mastodon (AP)
"People think, oh, you just want to slow down the entire economy and this is obviously going to leave us in poverty. But degrowth actually calls for, let's identity very energy intensive and materially intensive forms of production that are also socially unnecessary. Like mostly are organised around capital accumulation and elite consumption, etc, etc."

#JasonHickel, 2024

https://techwontsave.us/episode/226_how_degrowth_will_reshape_technology_w_jason_hickel

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#podcasts #TechWontSaveUs #DeGrowth
Strypey mastodon (AP)
"SUV production, private jets, cruise ships, fast fashion, things like this. Like big parts of our economy that are clearly not important for human wellbeing, are very ecologically destructive, and we can scale down."

#JasonHickel, 2024

https://techwontsave.us/episode/226_how_degrowth_will_reshape_technology_w_jason_hickel

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Strypey mastodon (AP)
"Corporations don't produce money. They produce things, and it's ridiculous for us to say that we need to grow production ... of cruise ships, and 'AI', and private jets ... to increase production of public transit and building insulation, or, public health care ...

You don't need to increase production of bad things to increase production of good things."

#JasonHickel, 2024

https://techwontsave.us/episode/226_how_degrowth_will_reshape_technology_w_jason_hickel

(1/?)

#podcasts #TechWontSaveUs #DeGrowth #PublicFinance
Strypey mastodon (AP)
"We can increase the production of good and necessary things directly, through a public finance strategy that can be implemented by any country that has sovereign control over their currency.

You issue the currency to fund whatever you require. This is basic to industrial policy. Of course, there’s limits to your ability to do this. And the limit, of course, is inflation.

#JasonHickel, 2024

https://techwontsave.us/episode/226_how_degrowth_will_reshape_technology_w_jason_hickel

(2/?)
Strypey mastodon (AP)
"If you’re using money to mobilize a bunch of additional public production, you’re competing with the existing forms of production that are also demanding labor and resources and factories in the economy.

And that’s going to cause inflation unless you reduce demand elsewhere in the economy and that’s precisely what degrowth provides an important answer to is we can scale down less necessary forms of production, thus liberating resources ..."

#JasonHickel, 2024

https://techwontsave.us/episode/226_how_degrowth_will_reshape_technology_w_jason_hickel

(3/3)
Strypey mastodon (AP)
"We’re told that capitalism is almost synonymous with innovation. And I really feel that’s not true ... We live in a shadow of the world that we could live in.

We could have much ... more durable products. We could have better public transit systems that are high quality, efficient, integrated ... So, we could have much more efficient buildings. Our appliances could be more efficient."

#JasonHickel, 2024

https://techwontsave.us/episode/226_how_degrowth_will_reshape_technology_w_jason_hickel

(1/2)

#podcasts #TechWontSaveUs #DeGrowth
Strypey mastodon (AP)
"If we had a more democratic economy where we can direct investment to what we know is socially and ecologically necessary, we could have much better technologies from the perspective of social needs and ecological objectives.

And we’re sort of stuck in this process where we just can’t get those things. And so we have a scarcity of sort of good technology."

#JasonHickel, 2024

https://techwontsave.us/episode/226_how_degrowth_will_reshape_technology_w_jason_hickel

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Strypey mastodon (AP)
"I think that democracy is key here.

Let me first just back up and point to something else, which is that when you say these things, people are like: Oh, that sounds like a totalitarian economy where you have some kind of shadowy elites kind of planning things. I’m like, mate, we actually already live in a totalitarian economy, where capital controls what gets produced."

#JasonHickel, 2024

https://techwontsave.us/episode/226_how_degrowth_will_reshape_technology_w_jason_hickel

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#podcasts #TechWontSaveUs #DeGrowth #democracy #totalitarianism
Strypey mastodon (AP)
"They’re the ones that get to decide how our labor and our resources are going to be mobilized to produce what for whose benefit and how the yields are distributed, et cetera, et cetera, is a deeply anti democratic system.

Yes, we have political democracy in many countries, but when it comes to the economic system, there’s not even the pretense of democracy. We effectively work in totalitarian institutions where we’re just told what to do."

#JasonHickel, 2024

https://techwontsave.us/episode/226_how_degrowth_will_reshape_technology_w_jason_hickel

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Yeah, that’s a line (lie?) that gets harder to believe with every passing year. What capitalism is good at is turning innovation into ‘miracle products’ that exploit creators and innovators in order to make owners massive amounts of money. Look at the measure used… it’s usually ‘$X made!’ instead of lives improved.
And the innovations that truly change lives usually start in free work or gov funded work before being highjacked.
Strypey mastodon (AP)
@DavidM_yeg
> Look at the measure used… it’s usually ‘$X made!’ instead of lives improved

Ae, and as the idiom goes, what we measure is what we optimise for. I think the last NZ Labour government did something truly innovative when they built measures of child poverty into the Public Finance Act. If NatACT First haven't already reversed this, as they have so many other progressive reforms, I look forward to seeing the trend of these numbers across this term, and how it compares.
Strypey mastodon (AP)
"Corporations don't produce money. They produce things, and it's ridiculous for us to say that we need to grow production ... of cruise ships, and 'AI', and private jets ... to increase production of public transit and building insulation, or, public health care ...

You don't need to increase production of bad things to increase production of good things."

#JasonHickel, 2024

https://techwontsave.us/episode/226_how_degrowth_will_reshape_technology_w_jason_hickel

(1/2)

#podcasts #TechWontSaveUs #DeGrowth #PublicFinance
Emory mastodon (AP)
i'm really curious why four years ago I could sell a 2016 Volkswagen golf turbo for $20,000 to any dealership in this country and now I'm getting Letters offering me to give me $9000 in trade-in value for a car that only has 4000 more miles on it than it did back then 😆
Strypey mastodon (AP)
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@emory Well, what you can get for it, at any given time, is the highest price the market will bear, as they say. It's only loosely coupled to the cost of bringing it to market, and in in a financialised economy, it's only loosely coupled to demand. The main variable that determines price is where on the wealth ladder the demand is coming from.
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Strypey mastodon (AP)
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The further up the wealth ladder you go, the more finance potential buyers have access to, allowing them to bid up the price beyond their own current buying power. Further down, expression of demand is limited more and more to the liquidity people have right now, and predatory forms of finance like credit cards and payday loans.
Strypey mastodon (AP)
Here's one for everyone who enjoyed all the pull quotes from Jason Hickel's interview on Tech Won't Save Us.

#TIL that @jasonhickel has a fediverse account!

#JasonHickel

Keith McNeill mastodon (AP)
A survey of 5,000 Australians found almost half (49%) are angry about our warming world. Many were angry because they felt nobody cared. But research suggests the opposite is true
#GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
https://theconversation.com/climate-anger-can-lead-to-action-or-curdle-into-despair-we-found-out-why-245361

The old hotend of the 3D printer and its feeder motor have been removed
and the new center mounted one put in its place
Just the wires to swap over later

I hope this works
At least until I can replace the original setup
Hot end of a 3D printer Hot end of a 3D printer
Hot end of a 3D printer

A quotation from Martin, George R. R.
The war that Tolkien wrote about was a war for the fate of civilization and the future of humanity, and that’s become the template. I’m not sure that it’s a good template, though. The Tolkien model led generations of fantasy writers to produce these endless series of dark lords and their evil minions who are all very ugly and wear black clothes. But the vast majority of wars throughout history are not like that.

George R. R. Martin (b. 1948) American author and screenwriter [George Raymond Richard Martin]
Interview (2014-04-23) by Mikal Gilmore, “The Rolling Stone Interview,” Rolling Stone

#quote #quotes #quotation #epic #fantasy #fiction #myth #war #writing
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/martin-george-r-r/73543/


Steve Herman mastodon (AP)
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau does not address questions about whether he’ll stay or prorogue parliament. https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/justin-trudeau-avoids-questions-about-his-future-after-cabinet-overhaul/article_9b875b9e-be5b-11ef-8000-97b1f7a57f63.html


Neil Brown mastodon (AP)
This long, thoughtful piece, by @broadwaybabyto, entitled "Gisele Pelicot, Medical Misogyny and How Disabled People Face Increased Risk of Abuse" is well worth reading.
Now is not the time to shout “not all men” and demand we give you props for not being abusive. Now’s the time to say LOUDLY that you condemn this behaviour and that you will hold the men in your lives to a higher standard.

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/gisele-pelicot-medical-misogyny-and

AaronDavid mastodon (AP)

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1704014/ Protect the Rouge River: Stop Sheetz from building on the Rouge River #Environment
Protect the Rouge River: Stop Sheetz from building on the Rouge River

NASA (unofficial) friendica (via ActivityPub)
NASA has selected multiple companies to expand the agency’s Near Space Network’s commercial direct-to-Earth capabilities services, which is a mission-critical communication capability that allows spacecraft to transmit data directly to ground stations on Earth. The work will be awarded under new Near Space Network services contracts that are firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts. Project timelines span from […]

Flipboard Tech Desk mastodon (AP)
Google Chrome is experimenting with a new AI-powered tool designed to help you avoid online scams. Read more at @TechRadar. #AI #CyberSecurity #OnlineScams #Google #Chrome #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/0OlBin
lupus_blackfur mastodon (AP)
So...

We've reached the point where they're embedding a scam into the browser in attempt to stave off other scams...

🤦‍♀️🤪🤔

Scam inception.

No telling what else the thing is doing in the background...

No thanks. You can fuck right off with that.

🫏🤡

One more way we are so fucked by steal-ionnair tech bros...

FFS.
aeberbach mastodon (AP)
how about the scam that just serves pages of ads when you are looking for information, will it help with that one?

Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
This could be fun ... Let's hope there is a train strike ... I definitely didn't have this on my 24/25 bingo card ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

Police commissioner threatens to recommend cancelling Sydney NYE fireworks if rail chaos continues https://www.9news.com.au/national/nye-rail-strikes-police-commissioner-threatens-to-stop-nye-fireworks-if-rail-unions-strike/eb99e461-b0b3-4714-b759-e1e56d239f6b
thefathippy mastodon (AP)
ACAB

Surely it's not up to the commissioner? "Transport options are limited, so you can all get fucked. No fun for you. Unions, other than our own powerful union, sorry, *association*, are bad."
Melissa BearTrix reshared this.
Melissa BearTrix mastodon (AP)
@thefathippy

It is up to the commissioner of police ... It was not safe for the public. They have the ultimate authority over everybody ... Hugz

And if there is a rail strike, the new years in Sydney city should be cancelled, over millions of people being "trapped" in the city, what a nightmare

Hugz & xXx
thefathippy mastodon (AP)
Imagine the horror, stuck in a place with zero food, drink, accommodation, entertainment, AND no trains. [checks notes] Wait, Sydney? 🤔
Robert Watkins mastodon (AP)
Let me summarise the article for you:

Cops: Cancel the fireworks because the union is striking!

Unions: The trains will be running as normal, all it takes is a little staffing adjustment.

Business: The unions are threatening to shutdown the fireworks! It will be a disaster! How dare they!!!

I wonder which one of these viewpoints is correct…

Thought this was a fake but...nah
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Elon Musk gives nod to German far-right party as election looms
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/elon-musk-gives-nod-german-far-right-party-election-looms-2024-12-20/
#xitter #elon #afd
Khurram Wadee reshared this.

Eegads, Musk is gonna interfere globally.

"Elon Musk has caused outrage in Berlin after appearing to endorse the far-right, anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland.

Musk, who has been named by Donald Trump to co-lead a commission aimed at reducing the size of the US federal government, wrote on his social media platform X: “Only the AfD can save Germany.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/20/elon-musk-claims-only-afd-can-save-germany
Elon Musk is becoming a one-man rogue state – it’s time we reined him in

The sheer immorality of any one person possessing so much wealth is obvious to most people with basic amounts of empathy. But when it comes to Musk and the other 14 people worth more than $100bn, the morality of it is almost a secondary concern. Their individual wealth is a society-distorting threat ...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/20/elon-musk-is-becoming-a-one-man-rogue-state-its-time-we-reined-him-in

Jayson1985 mastodon (AP)
#Europa #Deutschland #Psychologie

#ADHS #Aufmerksamskeitsstörung

#Erwachsene #Hilfe #Ärzte #Nöte

Hilfe bei Aufmerksamkeitsstörung -

Was hilft Erwachsenen mit ADHS?

https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/gesundheit/adhs-erwachsene-100.html
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unusual_whales mastodon (AP)
BREAKING: Ripple, $XRP, to donate $5 Million to President Trump's inauguration, per Fox Business.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
Jake Tapper Flat Out Tells Mike Lawler, 'You Can't Govern'

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jake-tapper-flat-out-tells-republican-congressman-you-cant-govern/

kottke.org mastodon (AP)
Al Green’s cover of R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts” is as great as you’d expect it to be. https://kottke.org/24/12/al-greens-cover-of-rems-everybody-hurts

Professor Smartass mastodon (AP)
"Are you busy?"

"It depends on what you want."
Chris Johnson mastodon (AP)
the answer is always "yes." And it's no lie; if nothing else, I'm busy breathing.

AI6YR Ben mastodon (AP)
Vanuatu has been raised to Level 3 DO NOT TRAVEL by the US State Department

Updated to a Level 3 due to infrastructure damage from an earthquake.

The U.S. Department of State advises U.S. citizens to reconsider travel to Vanuatu following the December 17, 2024, earthquake, which caused significant damage to local infrastructure. The U.S. government’s ability to provide emergency assistance to U.S. citizens in Vanuatu is limited, and departure options have been disrupted. Within Vanuatu, numerous buildings sustained severe damage, and curfews are in effect in some areas. (continued)

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/vanuatu-travel-advisory.html

#Vanuatu #earthquake #travel
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