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Jacob T. Levy
Jacob T. Levy • unkn (AP)
LOL. LMFAO, even. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
To placate Mr. Trump, Republicans were considering a handshake deal — which would lack the force of law — in which they would promise to raise the borrowing cap early next year by $1.5 trillion as part of a broad tax cut measure, and to compensate for the additional debt that would add by slashing future government spending by $2.5 trillion.
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fediverseobserver
fediverseobserver • friendica (via ActivityPub)
Found 25 new servers and 34 servers died off since 7 hours ago.

22,917 servers checked. 14,756,970 Total Users with 1,069,805 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

blog.wgpstudio.org a #writefreely server from Private
social.flctwn.com a #mastodon server from France
peertube.chikl.de a #peertube server from Germany
video.0xc0edba.be a #peertube server from Germany
sayakko.thruhere.net a #akkoma server from Germany
videos.nerdout.online a #peertube server from United States
exil.aufentha.lt a #akkoma server from Germany
social.iaysco.club a #gotosocial server from Private
yotsu.rocks a #sharkey server from Private
beta.argyle.social a #mastodon server from United States
gamma.argyle.social a #mastodon server from United States
mastodon.ghammashi.space a #mastodon server from France
mas.fedivers.al a #mastodon server from Finland
mastodon.joolstorrentecalo.com a #mastodon server from Private
rap.channel.org a #mastodon server from United Kingdom
fedsy.ergon.network a #fedsy server from United States
adho.org a #wordpress server from Germany
stream.neotheta.fi a #owncast server from Germany
keepupwthetempo.com a #wordpress server from United States
janerationx.rocks a #mastodon server from Portugal
pixel.starbuckstech.com a #pixelfed server from United States
content.haacksnetworking.org a #peertube server from United States
social.moekyun.me a #sharkey server from United States
thedailyid.com a #wordpress server from United States
m.drifting.boats a #mastodon server from Private

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer
#Mastodon #WriteFreely #fediverse #PeerTube #pixelfed #wordpress #owncast #gotosocial #akkoma #sharkey #fedsy
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John Socks
John Socks • mastodon (AP)
I appreciate the Cybertruck lampoonery, but that feeling when you know the average driver laughing at him is doing less environmental good.
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Dave Rahardja
Dave Rahardja • mastodon (AP)
NYPD looks weak as hell. Riot gear and automatic rifles just to march one single skinny boy with a bad back down a walkway.

This photo makes Luigi look like a superhero. https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@glusnews_mirror/113686515797615808

Global News US News

2024-12-20 18:16:03


Luigi Mangione perp walk: Did it garner more support for suspected killer?
Luigi Mangione's perp walk was orchestrated to send a message, but some questioned the theatrics of the spectacle and argued it only cast him in a more positive light.
#crime #justice #media #Trending #USNews #LuigiMangione
https://globalnews.ca/news/10927872/luigi-mangione-perp-walk-new-york/

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Defiance!
Defiance! • mastodon (AP)
In case you missed it, this one is my favorite
“The Arrest of Christ, German artist, 1480-1495” Picture of Luigi Mangioni in orange jumpsuit and handcuffs surrounded by NYPD Below is the painting mentioned in the headline
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Europe Says
Europe Says • mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1704041/ Massive Explosion Near Russia’s Arctic Naval Base Sparks Theories #News #WorldNews
Massive Explosion Near Russia's Arctic Naval Base Sparks Theories

Massive Explosion Near Russia's Arctic Naval Base Sparks Theories - EUROPE SAYS

Massive Explosion Near Russia's Arctic Naval Base Sparks Theorieshttps://www.newsweek.com/massive-explosion-near-russia-arctic-naval-base-sparks-theories-2004236
EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
#News #Worldnews
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スランプモード
スランプモード • mastodon (AP)
heads-up for this week's #monsterdon of Snowbeast (1977): the version on Tubi is extremely AI upscaled and also the wrong aspect ratio. Here it is against the Blu-ray and the version on Plex free streaming:
Tubi screencap, everything is extremely smooth and clean and the wrong aspect ratio Plex free streaming screencap, 4:3 and seems to be SD but at least not a headache-inducing sin against the human visual cortex
Blu-ray HD screencap, in 4:3 and looking fine
#Monsterdon
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Scalzi
Scalzi • mastodon (AP)
THIS JUST IN: Snow.
A bunch of really fluffy snowflakes falling in front of bare trees.
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Rich Alderson
Rich Alderson • mastodon (AP)
Cool!
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KMWool
KMWool • mastodon (AP)
snow what? I’m sorry, I just had to do it
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Adrianna Tan
Adrianna Tan • mastodon (AP)
One time I talked to an acquaintance about why she hadn’t tried the best taco truck that I love that is literally next to her house. She was like ‘I’m from the Midwest, flavor is just not for me, I know I won’t appreciate it’ and I laughed so much and I appreciated her self-awareness.

I then interviewed her about her fear of flavor and grease in an ethnographic exercise. I told everyone back home about it, and it was like telling them about aliens.
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Adrianna Tan
Adrianna Tan • mastodon (AP)
She then told me about how her favorite taco restaurant is this place I would totally never go to, and I finally understood why those places exist. Something for everyone I guess.

She said ‘the lack of flavor is just very comforting for me’ and I was so amazed to hear that, because everyone I’d met til then is a flavor maximalist
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Adrianna Tan
Adrianna Tan • mastodon (AP)
Sometimes my wife and I talk about how it must be weird to others that we sort of expect every single meal we eat (whether it’s food we cook or food we buy) to be incredible.

I know it sounds like an exhausting way to live, but where we are from (Singapore / Malaysia), eating poor quality food is seen as a waste of time, stomach space and soul
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Adrianna Tan
Adrianna Tan • mastodon (AP)
I think in that part of the world you have to go out of your way to find food that hasn’t been prepared with great care and love, and that tastes ‘bad’

Even the stuff I turn my nose down on when I’m in Singapore / Malaysia / Thailand is like, better than most fancy places ahaha
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Adrianna Tan
Adrianna Tan • mastodon (AP)
One of the things my elders were exceptionally proud of me for: she knows how to select good fish, dried mushrooms, and she has great taste in food

People who don’t care about food are treated with extreme suspicion in my culture, almost like.. they are aliens you can’t communicate with.

I was surprised to learn that in other cultures, people who care too much about food are perceived to be odd
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Adrianna Tan
Adrianna Tan • mastodon (AP)
One time I saw an internet discussion about ‘what are some things that cause your society to ostracize you?’

The Americans said ‘not liking dogs’

The Singaporeans said ‘not liking food’
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M.S. Bellows, Jr.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. • mastodon (AP)
This is why haggis exists. To fill this vacancy.
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NilaJones
NilaJones • mastodon (AP)
I know someone from Saskatchewan who, when he was his a kid, his mom did not use seasonings. Like not even the mildest of herbs

He's old now, but he still cooks that way. It's just what tastes good to him
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Adrianna Tan
Adrianna Tan • mastodon (AP)
@NilaJones I would be fine with that if people also got the best ingredients!
@NilaJones
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NilaJones
NilaJones • mastodon (AP)
Sadly, he does not

If I ever get the opportunity to visit him, I'm going to bring him some good meat!
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M.S. Bellows, Jr.
M.S. Bellows, Jr. • mastodon (AP)
@NilaJones One of the best foods I ever ate contained no spices – and was in Saskatchewan. Northern pike grilled an hour after being caught, on top of bread slathered in butter and strawberry jam, all topped with baked beans. That was 1975 and I can still taste it as if it were slightly burning my mouth right now.
@NilaJones
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Lot⁴⁹
Lot⁴⁹ • mastodon (AP)
Midwestern soul food. Take it from a boy who grew up in Chicago
Box of Rice Chex cereal
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eestileib (she/hers)
eestileib (she/hers) • mastodon (AP)
@12thRITS
Surely Corn Chex is more Midwestern?
@Lot⁴⁹
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Lot⁴⁹
Lot⁴⁹ • mastodon (AP)
@eestileib Yeah, but too tasty. The rice is blander.
@eestileib (she/hers)
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acm
acm • mastodon (AP)
@12thRITS I think you misspelled "tuna noodle casserole," but maybe I'm showing my age. 😀
@Lot⁴⁹
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Europe Says
Europe Says • mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1704038/ Trump Is Desperately Trying to Shift Blame for Impending Shutdown – Donald Trump is realizing he messed up with the spending bill. #Politics #U.S.Politics #UnitedStates
Trump Is Desperately Trying to Shift Blame for Impending Shutdown - Donald Trump is realizing he messed up with the spending bill.
#UnitedStates #Politics #U
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jan
jan • mastodon (AP)
Liebe #Gruene, wäre es an der Zeit die Frage zu stellen, ob es klug ist, dass #RobertHabeck auf #Twitter (X), #Musk's Sprachrohr, postet?
#Twitter #Musk #gruene #RobertHabeck
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DJM (freelance for hire)
DJM (freelance for hire) • mastodon (AP)
Alt Text: What to Write

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/write-alt-text/

Did you know that you should end your alt text with a period?

"End alt text with a period, even if it isn’t a full sentence. The period ensures that the screen reader pauses after reading the alt text."

#AltText

Alt Text: What to Write

Images are decorative, functional, or informative. Skip alt text for decorative. Describe the action for functional. Convey the message for informative.
Emma Cionca (Nielsen Norman Group)
#alttext
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unusual_whales
unusual_whales • mastodon (AP)
BREAKING: The spending bill to avert government shutdown passes the House.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options
#Finance #News #Stocks #Economics #options
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Hart
Hart • mastodon (AP)
Ein Duell zwischen #merz und #habeck wäre eigentlich logisch
#teamhabeck💚
Grafik, 27% wollen Habeck als Kanzler...
#Merz #Habeck #TeamHabeck
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Mary Hilton
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?

Party City shutters after nearly 40 years, firing workers without severance pay

Company went into bankruptcy in January 2023 under $1.7bn in debt, but remaining $800m too much to overcome
Edward Helmore (The Guardian)
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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽
George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽 • mastodon (AP)
Rude!
A social post from @huntergraybeal that says: Me: You're my favorite kid. My kid: My favorite adult is Santa
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Earthlingz
Earthlingz • mastodon (AP)
he's a good dad.
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Cameron
Cameron • mastodon (AP)
🤣🤪
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Dare Obasanjo
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

CFPB sues JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo over Zelle payment fraud

Zelle, a peer-to-peer payments network run by bank-owned fintech firm Early Warning Services, allows for instant payments to other consumers and businesses.
Hugh Son (CNBC)
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Radley Balko
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...
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AaronDavid
AaronDavid • mastodon (AP)
Spoiler alert
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AaronDavid
AaronDavid • mastodon (AP)
@stuartl Good thinking
@Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)
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God :verified:
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'.
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Hybrid 🐘 Elephant
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.
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Pandanus
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…
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Europe Says
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
#france #memes #rance
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Charles Gaba
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

HHS Announces Cost Savings for 64 Prescription Drugs Thanks to the Medicare Prescription Drug Inflation Rebate Program Established by the Biden-Harris Admin's Lower Cost Prescription Drug Law

via the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): Under the Inflation Reduction Act, some people with Medicare will pay less for some Part B drugs because the drug’s price increased faster than the rate of inflation. The U.S.
ACA Signups
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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:
CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow: • mastodon (AP)
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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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:
CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow: • mastodon (AP)
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
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.
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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:
CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow: • mastodon (AP)
@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:
@Mistress Remilia
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aeva
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
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overflo
overflo • mastodon (AP)
@aeva
Estradiol?
@aeva
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Eniko Fox
Eniko Fox • mastodon (AP)
did he eventually cotton on to what your role was and if so, how did he respond after that >_>
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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:
CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow: • mastodon (AP)
@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.
@Eniko Fox
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Alien
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.
@Eniko Fox
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overflo
overflo • mastodon (AP)
@alien @eniko

"More of a remark than a question.."

....
🤨
@Alien @Eniko Fox
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Alien
Alien • mastodon (AP)
@overflo @eniko my friends literally have a joke with this sentence, image how many times I was told so. 🫠
@Eniko Fox @overflo
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overflo
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".
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WIST Quotations
WIST Quotations • diaspora
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/
#Science #history #quote #meme #literature #books #communication #Quotes #Civilization #quotation
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Steve Herman
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

Germany: Car driven into crowd at Magdeburg Christmas market

At least two people have been killed, according to the head of the state government. Police have taken a Saudi national into custody.
Deutsche Welle
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kaffando
kaffando • mastodon (AP)
A Saudi physician...wot?
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Grandpa Beer
Grandpa Beer • mastodon (AP)
WTAF is wrong with people?
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Nowhere Girl
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

RemovePaywall | Free online paywall remover

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Nowhere Girl
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.
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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 • mastodon (AP)
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
@Nowhere Girl @Kalshann
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Susan ✶✶✶✶
Susan ✶✶✶✶ • diaspora
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/

Tesla recalling almost 700,000 vehicles due to tire pressure monitoring system issue

Tesla is recalling almost 700,000 vehicles because of an issue with the warning light on the tire pressure monitoring system.
MICHELLE CHAPMAN (ABC7 Los Angeles)
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Deb Zaccaro-Rojas
Deb Zaccaro-Rojas • diaspora
So, in other words: tesla does crappy job on their vehicles. You want better EV's, then check other car makers
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Rob Simmons
Rob Simmons • hometown (AP)
It’s my birthday! If you want to get me something, I request:

1. A tiny story (pre-made micro-fiction is fine) ❤️
2. A program that makes tiny stories ❤️❤️
3. A tiny generative story in Dusa ❤️❤️❤️

No LLMs please!

Here’s a starter Dusa story: https://dusa.rocks/#jsonz=dVLLasMwEPyVrXJJIPUHBEopPpSCSaEJ9CIIa1mxRW0pSHKDCfn36uFnaW2DpZmdkTTaG7FkR9SFS7IlhWJtw6VHVpBWqJFZroFpjlYoSd27yltRWyHhcPx427-e0vd9-nIEpiRDm_iKi1ZASdYyNJSAMHCDim_BVryDezLwn6iFinzFR_SAzVxjFkI2bkiYZ0hh90gluMdLUy86hfWNkKVTe4CSilOS9JgZQDNHg32A_SjgF2XM5CDMBJrJV0_owkJEgspasbBRSgoXqTA24BOa4xfX3S-w7Jpezr-daigV2lYFxuI5UWos2ng3vylXDup87t00v6Iuesr6-wzEAs5rNH_AVilbIeszW1A1L2HYlmsNyOIclKw7aNz5XGJcGg5ofUjgTydXZ6VzUcDoNDfaQswCsi1k8PC0iARPxiodol7HhgPfAWNf-Ilrn6sPwaqwops6w55wC_vfOlza2rfNKN1s-hr3hRT7KcoiSEKr_COpsAD0g3iiiCaUbBJy_wE
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cynthia
cynthia • mastodon (AP)
this is a dusa i made on my phone. it's called "my friend's cat is named dusya which means i always have the strong urge to mispronounce dusa. here is an introduction to my friends' cats"

(edit to properly include the punctuation) https://dusa.rocks/#jsonz=nVZNb6MwEP0rU3roVmL5Ab1Uqx5We-lKu1VPkSIHJsUN2AibZFHV_77jL2oSSGijRDEwfu_5eWbMW6KTu0Q2KJI0KWTe1SjMnWuoe9i2HEVxoyBnGrgCwWosoOhUz-BQ8ryEGplQwIFVB9YrKNkeQZcISrdSvEDXvtC1hJqrhm7ITuRo5rMMSmzRYDIBXFB00eWaS2GjA7O6McxqJVbietPxSnMBf5_-_Hr8uX74_fjw4wlyKSgiMxFe4xusEqtwlaQ0JDE0gncbssd2s9Z9gy5QtyQ-tfRmFS7GjtcmMqAdmM5LVA6Pac3ynb9AI86OdgJZoQwR3H2HEY8FJGg-Af3a1Y1HUBViGA-ME3AeZliPufc8TZrCmPE5OzfFAw9-jKatRMnUummxCdZ1mMKWVQovaPRz7u166YF0S5R2ND83hUAfuRRrMAqIoJJ5MNPknUkC3SIOmw8bLGKeI8SAFgSdIm7kvw8wwfZc96ByFLgIlQfUyAjiojk0fcHSo9y7vPhWytpppeKCsquZWCo94okssTKd-KpTZe9uW1cqVrJXtwZfeKHWstNotpcUJI_CfZVOZUnIkaUZ8lE8l12yCRFcmciXS_sdb66JPFXxKc7RVnnjjnjkPA81Ruq-AukhvKCGhue6a1GB3Po-TS2TlkRbK663st3w4mQDUvBqIwMyA-wBqO9LbWaVsuJ5thhobJ4X61rtfqNcR5GbV-fT-YYS2gnNL-lSCns3p_NE04GkD5yOlW0r66GXW4KgMyKyBJMFFvSVyFsK28NWSurowvy50JxOvB0KctseADO5fBTfIDuOHcpkJYIqM2emhUfinUfj5hwOoRjuQj9wSXapL3xax9jJSMpshn-JZjiAz9IMXUrsUH-J94MxnO0uQ3xO-dgpD9PZFldwemJY7-Gbe3NxNOQ7fW3BuyHV0e1835voccfwFnYRgK2IE4QpfbTkU1HT9mVn0JZgRKLolXF4r7u6cnubub8r9xle79haadn2MaH5De56PRbyNkve_wM
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Its Not A Hoax ☑️
Its Not A Hoax ☑️ • mastodon (AP)
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unusual_whales
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
#Finance #News #Stocks #Economics #options
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Wallflower 🌺
Wallflower 🌺 • mastodon (AP)
Did we know Joe Pesci is now 81yo?

🤯
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Strypey
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
#podcasts #degrowth #TechWontSaveUs #JasonHickel
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Strypey
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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How Degrowth Will Reshape Technology w/ Jason Hickel - Tech Won’t Save Us

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Strypey
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

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#podcasts #TechWontSaveUs #DeGrowth #PublicFinance

How Degrowth Will Reshape Technology w/ Jason Hickel - Tech Won’t Save Us

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Tech Won't Save Us
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Strypey
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

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Strypey
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

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Strypey
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

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#podcasts #TechWontSaveUs #DeGrowth

How Degrowth Will Reshape Technology w/ Jason Hickel - Tech Won’t Save Us

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Tech Won't Save Us
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Strypey
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
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

How Degrowth Will Reshape Technology w/ Jason Hickel - Tech Won’t Save Us

A left-wing podcast for better technology and a better world.
Tech Won't Save Us
#democracy #podcasts #totalitarianism #degrowth #TechWontSaveUs #JasonHickel
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Strypey
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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David Mitchell :CApride:
David Mitchell :CApride: • mastodon (AP)
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 ‘$X made!’ instead of lives improved.
And the innovations that truly change lives usually start in free work or gov funded work before being highjacked.
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Strypey
Strypey • mastodon (AP)
@DavidM_yeg
> Look at the measure used… it’s usually ‘$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.
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Strypey
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

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#podcasts #TechWontSaveUs #DeGrowth #PublicFinance

How Degrowth Will Reshape Technology w/ Jason Hickel - Tech Won’t Save Us

A left-wing podcast for better technology and a better world.
Tech Won't Save Us
#podcasts #degrowth #TechWontSaveUs #JasonHickel #publicfinance
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Emory
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 😆
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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
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.
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Strypey
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
#TIL #JasonHickel @Jason Hickel
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Keith McNeill
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
#globalcarbonfeeanddividendpetition
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K.R. O'Connell 🇦🇺 ✅I❌
K.R. O'Connell 🇦🇺 ✅I❌ • mastodon (AP)
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
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WIST Quotations
WIST Quotations • diaspora
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/
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Europe Says
Europe Says • mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1704020/ Bless #GreatBritish #GreatBritishMemes #Memes #UnitedKingdom
Bless

Bless - EUROPE SAYS

Bless by Elianathomas-xoxo
EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
#UnitedKingdom #memes #greatbritish #greatbritishmemes
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Steve Herman
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
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Neil Brown
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
@Broadwaybabyto
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Its Not A Hoax ☑️
Its Not A Hoax ☑️ • mastodon (AP)
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AaronDavid
AaronDavid • mastodon (AP)
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Europe Says
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

Protect the Rouge River: Stop Sheetz from building on the Rouge River - EUROPE SAYS

Protect the Rouge River: Stop Sheetz from building on the Rouge Riverhttps://chng.it/4ZcGjqKBJ9by redwitch_bluewitch
EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
#environment
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