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"NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED." 🇺🇦

Choose hope while preparing for the worst.

"I keep ringing the bell to stop this bus but it drives on with persistent malevolence." - a person named gruaud

Always know where your towel is.

My following you doesn't obligate you to follow me. If I unfollow you or don't follow you after you follow me, it's just me, it's not you.

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@LibrarianRA@worldkey.io avatar LibrarianRA , to random

1989 NBC 227, Amen, Golden Girls, One of the Boys Promo
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First you see the 227 kitchen with some of the cast smiling Then Sandra laughing in the doorway of the Apt. A guy pulls down his shades Next it he bumps into Sandra at the front door, she has a red dress on. Moving to Amen, we start in the living room with the cast excited. The Deacon Ernest Frye is at a restaurant and is lifted up by a strong man and dumped into a pool of mud? Odd. The golden girls start out with Dorothy, Blanch and Rose on the couch. We move on to the kitchen with shots of the cast reacting surprised to Blanch in a Gold satin suite saying she will enlarge her breasts. The last show seems to take place in an office? With a women walking in through a door, and a man taking a seat and following out of it. Then we see them kissing in formal attire The guy is then seen getting up from a couch with his hands up the woman is seen in a yellow top blowing someone a kiss from a doorway This ends with a colorful screen of Jackee as Sandra surrounded by the NBC Ident and the text of King 5 the station this promo came from

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@LibrarianRA I just don't understand how anyone watched more than one episode of this show or, really, the majority of the shit that was on TV in the '80s.

@FediFollows@social.growyourown.services avatar FediFollows , to random

and accounts to follow:

FOOD & COOKING BLOGS
@NextGenCookbook - Cooking & recipe blog, encouraging more people to cook
@index - Easy-to-understand cooking tips
@ben - Belgian cooking blog with meal plans for under 25e per person per week (in English)
@index - Food blog, especially grilled & barbecued food
@diningcar - Stories from dining cars on trains in Europe & elsewhere
@vegan - Vegan food & cooking blog in USA
@index - Gluten-free & vegan cooking blog

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@FediFollows I don't know where this list came from but the first one "at meal prep" has no posts, no followers and follows no one.

Example 2,674,847 why AI sucks balls.

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@FediFollows I appre iate your work but I don't think this is anything to with servers ...

@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar gerrymcgovern , to random

Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too

Altman — who was in India for a major AI summit — said concerns about AI’s water usage are “totally fake,” though he acknowledged it was a real issue when “we used to do evaporative cooling in data centers.”

Griftas gonna grift

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/sam-altman-would-like-remind-you-that-humans-use-a-lot-of-energy-too/

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@gerrymcgovern How will the Times of India generate shitty AI "artwork" without those datacenters?

@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar gerrymcgovern , to random

Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long

An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

Big Tech fascism in full flow.

https://www.404media.co/man-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-speaking-slightly-too-long/

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@gerrymcgovern It's not free if I have to give personal information for access. 404 Media has a paywall, and it's a lie to claim otherwise.

@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , (edited ) to random

Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.

EDIT: Diskussions under this are fine, but I do not want this to turn into an ad hominem attack to Cory. Be fucking respectful

https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/

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@tante I have to assume Cory's been bought by Big LLM.

I don't give a shit really but it's funny he's enraged his fans who think he's super smart and a great sci fi writer when he's really only good at fluffing himself. At least Gaiman was a genuinely good writer - something Doctorow only dreams of. (I despise Gaiman and will not read or watch any of his stuff because he's a shit human being.)

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

As Billionaires make excuses for being 'conned' by Jeffrey Epstein (Lex Wexner claims he was naive), one might wonder how this compromises their self-narrative that deserve their riches because they are somehow much better than normal folk.

If you're naive about a convicted sex offender, we might think that your riches are a lot less due to your genius and more to do with plain luck.

And, if its just a lucky break, then a wealth tax looks less contentious!

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@ChrisMayLA6 Should people who are as naive as Wexner claims he was really be getting paid such enormous salaries?

I'd argue no.

Having transcribed a number of depositions of CEOs, CFOs and the like, I'm always struck by what incredibly poor memories they have of actions they took, orders they gave, who they spoke to or what they themselves said. And none of them keep notes.

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🎉 Celebrate World Radio Day! 🎙️

Tune into college & community radio history, from vintage playlists to searchable transcripts of historic broadcasts.

Observed every Feb 13 since UNESCO’s 2011 proclamation, 2026 highlights “radio and artificial intelligence” 🧠📻

DLARC College Radio brings this to life with 1980s playlists, zines, flyers, stickers, and materials from stations across the U.S. and Canada 🎶

It’s all in our blog ⬇️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/13/Tuning_in_to_College_Radio_Materials_on_World_Radio_Day_2026

Airplay list from UC Berkeley’s college radio station KALX-FM from 1982. Source: DLARC College Radio (donated by Get Smart!) is a red sheet listing music charts and top albums from June 11, 1982.
Cover of the Spring 1983 joint program guide produced by the Cleveland College Radio Coalition. Source: DLARC College Radio (donated by Mary Cipriani), featuring a black-and-white cover titled “College Radio Coalition Joint Program Guide.” It shows a small screen displaying radio frequency numbers having been sliced like a loaf of bread.
Black and white cover of ‘Static’ ‘zine from Barnard College radio station WBAR, promoting shows, reviews, and music for Spring 2000, with a collage and radio frequency details, surrounding an old-fashioned TV dinner that contains a human eye.

Black and white cover of ‘Static’ ‘zine from Barnard College radio station WBAR, promoting shows, reviews, and music for Spring 2000, with a collage and radio frequency details, surrounding an old-fashioned TV dinner that contains a human eye.
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

Finally, 35 years after Hillsborough itself, the Hillsborugh Inquiry has revealed (as many expected) widespread misconduct & deception over the day's deaths by members of South Yorkshire police.... 12 named officers all have escaped misconduct cases by retiring, while the inquiry also uncovered even more doctored & amended police reports of the incident, all intended to blame the victims of the police's actions.

Justice delayed had become justice denied!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y9r863k4eo

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@ChrisMayLA6 It is outrageous that police officers can avoid responsibility by resigning. It's not just a problem here, it's an international problem.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

I cannot make up my mind whether the formal adoption of Your Party as the name of the Sultana/Corbyn is entirely sensible marketing (after all the is the name under which the party/group has been known almost since its inception earlier this year).... or;

is is a but like leaving your password as 'password'?

Of course, the name might not be the most important thing....

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@ChrisMayLA6 It sounds like meaningless marketing bullshit intended to be a "make your own adventure" scam.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

joseph Stiglitz's new report for the G20 (sadly the link from the Guardian is to an insecure URL) points out across the world, that:

'the richest 1% captured 41% of all new wealth since 2000, while the bottom half gained just 1%. On average, someone in the global top 1% became $1.3m richer; a person in the poorest half gained $585'... which as Stiglitz also points out isn't an accident but a choice by the world's political & business class(es).

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/30/the-guardian-view-on-the-inequality-emergency-why-a-nobel-prize-winners-warning-must-be-heeded

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@ChrisMayLA6 Eat the rich.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

If the world wide web for some time was the way the human race could talk to each other, the launch & fast roll-out of various forms of 'artificial intelligence' is fast destroying this aspect of social media...

If the chart below is anything like accurate, one can only wonder what the next few years will being in the way of 'automated' content & what that might mean for the handling & distortion of information, communication & politics?

Should we be worried? Yes!

Chart: AI-generated content has surpassed human-written articles proportion of articles published on the web (%) - human, AI Shows 0% AI generated in 2020, growing to around 10% in 2023 when ChatGPT launch, and then accelerated increase to over 50% this year (2025)
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@ChrisMayLA6 This will end in tears and whocuddanode.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

A new study by the Equality Trust concludes:

'Britain’s democratic architecture has become more susceptible to unelected influence, now hardening into systemic dominance, while countervailing forces such as trade unions, local journalism & civic organisations have weakened'

Wealth inequality is not just about the wealth itself but about the mechanisms the wealthy can use to maintain their privilege position, undermining democracy!

https://equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-base/money-media-and-lords/

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@ChrisMayLA6 Eat the rich.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

The headlines of the report in the DWP actions around the Carers' Allowance will not surprise you, merely confirming the inhumanity & callousness of the Department of Work Pensions.

The very fact that a Labour Govt. has not moved quickly to solve this issue, while of course also saying they're going to crackdown of benefit fraud, tells you the DWP is not an outlier.

We should be celebrating & valuing the work of carers not persecuting them!

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/25/outdated-and-ever-less-fit-for-purpose-five-takeaways-from-carers-allowance-report

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@ChrisMayLA6 I think we're all familiar with the fact that most fraud in "benefit fraud" is coming from inside the house - it's not the people receiving the care, it's the subcontractors providing the care.

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , (edited ) to random

The data broker industry is losing their minds over more than 150+ lawsuits filed against them by Atlas Data Privacy for alleged violations of Daniel's Law. The NJ statute gives law enforcement in that state special rights to have their personal information redacted from data broker and people-search services. The law specifically allows for non-trivial financial damages for each violation, and Atlas is seeking relief on behalf of >20k NJ residents.

And now in the face of intense lobbying by the data broker industry, NJ lawmakers are proposing to weaken Daniel's Law. The proposed changes "would remove covered individuals’ ability to select an assignee to sue to enforce Daniel’s Law on their behalf, and it would give judges discretion to award damages in such cases. Those awards are mandatory under existing law."

https://newjerseymonitor.com/2025/11/20/nj-data-privacy-law/

Want to read more about how Daniel's Law is being used to turn the screws to data brokers who traffic in mobile ad data? See this story:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/

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@briankrebs This has been another episode of "Lawmakers: Privacy For Me But Not For thee."

@w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

NYT - Dozens of Venezuelans sent by the US to a maximum security prison in El Salvador describe being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/world/americas/el-salvador-prison-migrants.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zk8.FAZ0._7GOH-HGTnrT&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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@w7voa And the NY Times fucking helped! And they continue to help! Yet we're supposed to fucking praise them for writing about it!

Fuck that noise.

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is.

The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.

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@Daojoan I don't think it's an issue limited to any one generation.

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@w7voa Are we sure he's dead? Did someone drive a stake through his chest to make sure?

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

Music from the 1970s that remans timeless, no.37

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel. Make me Smile

Steve Harley's four minute masterpiece is a pop classic. The wonderful stop-start structure, Harley's arch vocals (with ensemble backing) and the jaunty acoustic backing all contribute to this well-rounded & brilliant bit of musical joy. He had other hits but nothing ever really approached this moment of perfection, which remains a sing-along classic when I'm DJing.

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@NewsDesk@flipboard.social avatar NewsDesk , to random

When Tucker Carlson interviewed white nationalist, antisemitic, Holocaust-denying podcaster Nick Fuentes on Monday, even conservative outlets like Breitbart and The Daily Wire bristled. But, says @TheBulwark's Will Sommer, Carlson's platforming of Fuentes is perfectly in line with what the MAGA movement was already doing. "The right has no immune system against hatemongers and grifters. Few people in MAGA circles are willing to stand up to them — and the audiences likely wouldn’t support them if they did," writes Sommer.

https://flip.it/D3V7dH

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@NewsDesk @TheBulwark Dangerous for who? Certainly not MAGA. And certainly not The Bulwark. The people who work for and own the Bulwark made their careers promoting the same people they're now making bank tut-tutting.

Fuck the Bulwark and fuck Will Sommer, a man with absolutely no self-respect.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

Is dealing with the Dept. of Work & Pensions fatal?

Well, if you are a parent using the DWP's Child Maintenance Service, you look to have greater risk of death than those who are not using the service....

We know how difficult dealing with the toxic & callous DWP can be but it seems for 'paying parents' using the CMS the stress & tensions of using the DWP to pay ensure maintenance may lead to more premature deaths.

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/shocking-figures-show-parents-linked-to-dwp-service-face-death-rates-up-to-three-times-higher/

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@ChrisMayLA6 You should be ashamed to be buying into this kind of bullshit.

CORRELATION IS NOT FUCKING CAUSATION.

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

So, I wonder what sort of (untraceable) phone calls were made between people at No.10 & Rachel Reeves letting agents, to encourage them to blame some who has now left their firm for the licensing mistake on Reeves family home rental?

Call me cynical but there seems to be a world of difference to how Angela Rayner's troubles were 'dealt' with & how Reeves have played out; it almost like the no.10 goons wanted rid of Rayner, but have been more forthright in protecting Reeves?

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@ChrisMayLA6 "I take full responsibility."

And then ... ?

Profit!

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@w7voa Without the Fucking New York Times, none of this would have been possible. Excuse me for not clicking through to read yet another "both-sides story."

@NewsDesk@flipboard.social avatar NewsDesk , to random

Earlier this week a post went viral on Bluesky that claimed ICE had spent $61,218 on guided missile warheads and explosive components. @WIRED took a look at what might actually have happened (looks like the ICE team entered the wrong procurement code).

https://flip.it/evOg7y

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@NewsDesk @WIRED They let those fuckwits carry loaded weapons but they cannot navigate procurement codes.

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From the Dutch news org de Volkskrant:

"The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have started sharing less information with their American partners, according to the heads of the Dutch services. Peter Reesink (MIVD): "It's true that we sometimes stop sharing things." Erik Akerboom (AIVD): "Sometimes you have to consider each case individually : can I still share this information or not?"

"This is the first time that the AIVD and MIVD have acknowledged that developments in the United States, where human rights and the rule of law are under pressure, have consequences for the intelligence relationship. This marks a striking rupture in the decades-long relationship between the Dutch services and American intelligence agencies such as the CIA and NSA."

https://archive.ph/9L0iW#selection-1557.0-1579.365

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@briankrebs Didn't the EU do the same thing during the first Trump presidency?

@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

'Touch grass' is what extremely online people tell other extremely online people as if taking a 20 minute walk will cure the spiritual rot of spending 8 hours a day in the discourse mines

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@Daojoan Twenty minute walk? Are you kidding? IN THIS ECONOMY?!?

@404mediaco@mastodon.social avatar 404mediaco , to random

Reddit’s conversational AI product, Reddit Answers, suggested users who are interested in pain management try heroin and kratom

🔗 https://www.404media.co/reddit-answers-ai-suggests-users-try-heroin/

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@beeoproblem Same advice that the Secretary of Health and Human Services is providing, so what's the problem?

"I did very, very poorly in school until I started doing narcotics," "It worked for me," he continued of his past heroin use. "And if it still worked, I'd still be doing it."
https://people.com/rfk-jr-heroin-use-top-of-class-student-8752783

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

As hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman donates $1m to oppose Zohran Mamdani’s New York mayoral campaign, you cannot but wonder if Ackman & his ilk might be better wondering why it is that a self-avowed democratic socialist is proving so popular in a political environment that has long demonised the left?

He'll call it the 'politics of envy' I'm sure, but it seems more likely that people are fed up with their economic wellbeing stolen from them by the ultra rich!


h/t FT

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@StefanThinks@beige.party avatar StefanThinks , to random

Welcome to Mastodon, if you want an enjoyable experience, you probably want to migrate off mastodon.social sooner than later. 🫶

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@jaykass I've been very happy with mastodon.online. I put the people whose posts I want to see on the regular in one list. Plenty of entertainment. I only look at the firehose if everyone's gone to bed. I don't remember seeng trolls there.

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    @JessTheUnstill Republicans oppose "a bail out" for health insurance compan8es, so they want single-payer instead?

    @LibrarianRA@worldkey.io avatar LibrarianRA , (edited ) to random

    Partners in Crime TV series - 1984
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    Lonnie Anderson and Linda Carter are in the lower left-hand corner looking on with mouths open. Above them is somebody holding a hairdryer. There’s a spotlight creating a shadow in the background, but the shadow is of a hand holding a gun.
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    @LibrarianRA I am so grateful I had no TV between 1977 and 1989.

    @w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

    The Washington Post’s founding Global Opinions editor, Karen Attiah, says she was fired for her Bluesky posts about the killing of Charlie Kirk and political violence. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/washington-post-fired-charlie-kirk-karen-attiah-b2826734.html

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    @w7voa I don't think you actually read what Karen Attiah wrote about her firing. She didn't say it was because of what she wrote about Kirk. It was her writing about political violence committed by white men.

    Go back and actually read it.

    https://karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washington-post-fired-me-but

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    Fox News morning show co-host Brian Kilmeade apologizes after proposing lethal injections for homeless people with mental health issues. https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379403917112

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    @w7voa If by "apologize," you mean he now says only SOME homeless people should get an "involuntary lethal injection," sure.

    @scotlit@mastodon.scot avatar scotlit , to bookstodon group

    Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) was born , 25 Aug, in Dunfermline. She is best known as a writer of historical fiction – in particular the six-part LYMOND CHRONICLES that begin with those fateful words:

    “Lymond is back.”

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    bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group

    1/6

    https://booksfromscotland.com/2019/06/rediscovering-dorothy-dunnett/

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    @scotlit bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group writingcommunity@a.gup.pe icon writingcommunity group My fav part of the list is "include women." Putting it last in the list is perfection.

    @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

    Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Crab Mug. Well said, my pinchy little friend.
    https://collabs.shop/s5hsal

    A white mug with a crab smoking a cigarette on it. It says Life is fucking relentless.
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    @lowqualityfacts I adore that crab.

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    @malwaretech I am constantly amazed at how willing Republicans are to believe snake-oil salesmen. You'd think I'd have gotten used to it by now.

    @killyourfm@layer8.space avatar killyourfm , to random

    This rock is amazing!

    A hand holds a colorful, patterned rock with shades of red, green, and gray, set against a blurred beach and ocean background.
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    @killyourfm That is a keeper!

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

    CISO: We have state-of-the-art corporate IT security.

    The Reality of corporate IT security:

    A pic of rusted green metal gate with peeling paint in front of an old, dark-colored house with the number 32 above the door and there is small opening right to the metal gate allowing anyone to enter or exit without any security.
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    @nixCraft When it's cheaper to leave the gate open rather than spend money to actively protect your clients/customers/users, of course you're going to leave the gate open. This is all part of privatizing the profits and socializing the losses.

    @mattdm@hachyderm.io avatar mattdm , to random

    “We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

    It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. [...]

    The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”

    — R. Buckminster Fuller (March 1970, New York magazine)

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    @mattdm Hear hear!

    @w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

    Texas Tribune - Texas State Sen. Angela Paxton files for divorce from her husband, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, on grounds of adultery. The state attorney general is challenging incumbent US Sen. John Cornyn in next year’s Republican primary. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/angela-paxton-divorce-texas-attorney-general-ken/

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    @w7voa I can't even imagine how skeevy you've got to be to let Paxton touch you with his penis.

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    There can be devastating consequences as a result of irrational cuts DOGE made to federal government services. Some saying the lethal flash flooding in the Texas hill country is an example. https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-officials-slam-donald-trumps-national-weather-service-for-bad-forecast/

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    @w7voa They fucking voted for this and now they complain?

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    To celebrate the Nation’s Semiquincentennial, the US Mint will be making changes to most of its circulating coins. Final designs set to be shared with the public later this year. https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-programs/semiquincentennial/

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    @w7voa They're going to all be coated in gold paint that chips off when it's handled, later discovered to be toxic, thousands of children will die after putting a coin briefly in their mouth.

    @gbhnews@mastodon.social avatar gbhnews , to random

    🌞 Hello ! This is GBH bringing you the world from . It's 64F (phew) at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.

    Bill Moyers, journalist and documentary filmmaker who worked at both CBS and PBS, has died. He was 91.

    Paul Dama, manager of the award-winning Boston restaurant Suya Joint, has been taken by ICE.

    in 2015, same-sex marriage became legal across the US after a Supreme Court ruling.

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    @briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , to random

    So many missed headline opportunities. Balls Dropped. Sacked. It goes on and on.

    https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-coristine-doge-resigned-us-government/

    A Wired story headline from June 24 says "Big Balls No longer Works for the US Government" and shows an image of the US Capitol with the sun behind it.
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    @briankrebs Is this a reset of the 120-day limitation?

    @Gargron@mastodon.social avatar Gargron , to random

    As some of you may have already noticed, in the latest update, we've reworked the layout of the web app for smaller screen sizes. It should be easier to navigate and more pleasant to the eye. Let me know what you think!

    A screenshot of the Mastodon web app on a mobile device with the side menu open.
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    Axomamma ,
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    @Gargron My only ask would be to have the menu items moved to the left side. I am regularly hitting one of them when simply trying to scroll.

    @Gargron@mastodon.social avatar Gargron , to random

    Putting aside everything else that's wrong with streaming platforms, why is there still no "Report" option in Tidal or Spotify? A quite regular occurence is artist pages and New Releases playlists including tracks from impersonators with the same name. Absolutely no way to fight it.

    Axomamma ,
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    @Gargron I "fight it" by simply not using Spotify. Never heard of Tidal.

    @briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , to random

    A steady rain has moved into the DC area. Visibility is not great. Whoever ordered it to rain on his parade, <chef's kiss>

    Axomamma ,
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    @briankrebs Aww, what a shame!

    @gbhnews@mastodon.social avatar gbhnews , to random

    Members of the US House of Representatives voted to take back funding from NPR and PBS.

    The vote was 214-212 along party lines. The bill now goes to the Senate, where it must be passed by mid-july if the cuts are to go into effect. https://bit.ly/3SOO3y1

    Axomamma ,
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    @gbhnews This is what you get for giving assholes like David Brooks a permanent seat at the NPR and PBS news tables. You've normalized the hatred Republicans have for most of this country. You reap what you sow.