Someone is abusing my profile picture on other accounts and sending messages to my followers.
You can always spot the attacker as their Mastodon user name is wrong. Last week the attacker called himself "randahl2 @ mastodon.social", and there is no "2" in my real name.
I will never write direct messages to you asking to contact me on Telegram or other media. This is just someone trying to scam people, so please click report, so the admins can take down these accounts.
Wrote up some thoughts about the proposed ban on the sale of TP-Link devices in the US.
The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to ban the sale of wireless routers and other networking gear from TP-Link Systems, a tech company that currently enjoys an estimated 50% market share among home users and small businesses. Experts say while the proposed ban may have more to do with TP-Link’s ties to China than any specific technical threats, much of the rest of the industry serving this market also sources hardware from China and ships products that are insecure fresh out of the box.
A TP-Link WiFi 6 AX1800 Smart WiFi Router (Archer AX20). The router is black, completely flat, with a very low profile, and six green lit lights in the front. There are four black antennas sticking straight up out of the back.
I don't mean to pester you but I got this weird op on my Samsung galaxy with no warning... like a brute force deal. phone locked up then normalized ...took pic with old phone cam. Does anyone wtf this is?
I care. I think you do, too. The swamp is now a damn tar pit.
A tweet from Ron Filipkowski reads: “Trump Org’s income in the first half of 2024 was $51 million. In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million. A massive percentage came from foreigners. It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics. But few even care.”
Below the tweet is a Reuters image showing members of the Trump family and associates in suits cheering and raising their fists outside a building with a sign that reads Nasdaq. The caption reads: “Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine.”
Top story on WaPo: How Trump’s ballroom will dwarf the White House
Trump’s new 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom would be almost as large as the rest of the complex.
"There has been little public information released about the layout or design of the addition, which would be the largest ever, with a planned size almost double the footprint of the 55,000-square-foot main section of the White House."
A wapo graphic shows how the planned ballroom (shown in red) for where the East Wing previously stood would roughly be double the size of the main White House complex.
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President Donald Trump's project to build an expansive new White
House ballroom officially broke ground Monday. Crews tore down the
East Wing in only four days, despite Trump's claim that the ballroom
wouldn't interfere with the existing building. There has been little public
information released about the layout or design of the addition, which
“The carbon footprint of the first 15 months of Israel’s war on Gaza will be greater than the annual planet-warming emissions of a many individual countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency on top of the huge civilian death toll, new research reveals.”
🍿 "The White House is considering inviting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Alaska, where President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week."
Two clowns get into a quarrel on social media, and now the US Navy has to reposition two nuclear subs because of it.
That is two times a crew of 134 sailors sailing round the world under water for days, because two manbabies disagree.
We must be living in the dumbest timeline.
Trump posting:
Based on the highly provocative statements of the Former President of
Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, who is now the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that. Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended
consequences, I hope this will not be one of those instances. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Excited to be returning to the Star Trek universe as Captain Sulu in the new original podcast series, Star Trek: Khan! Star Trek: Khan premieres on Star Trek Day, September 8. Follow the series wherever you get your podcasts today! https://link.podtrac.com/star-trek-khan
Sketchbook page with blue ink drawings of two capybaras. The top capybara is walking under water with his nose and eyes sticking out. "Water Capy" is written near the top capybara. The bottom capybara drawing is of a capybara head with his eyes closed, with the text "Capy Don't Care" written along his head. The date 1/10/24 is written on the bottom right.
This is the saddest July 4 in my memory. The United States is plunging into vile right-wing dictatorship, in large part because once-vital institutions -- including Big Journalism -- have chosen to be quislings when courage was needed.
It's not too late to reverse our decline, but it's close.
So thrilled Google has embedded Gemini into every square inch of its empire—truly revolutionary stuff. Meanwhile, I just tried to merge two calendars and it sent a meeting update to everyone I’ve ever met with since 2019.
The Confederate flag is a symbol of white supremacy and support for slavery. Full stop.
A tweet from Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump
) posted 16 hours ago reads: "Trump just nominated this guy to run the United States Office of Special Counsel. Only the best people." It includes a tweet from Paul Ingrassia (@PaulIngrassia
) on April 28, 2023, at 12:00 PM with 614 views, stating: "In a proper country, any public building now flying the Ukraine flag would be forced to replace it with the confederate battle flag or face serious fines. Also the confederate flag is not 'hate speech' and anyone who claims otherwise is a braindead lemming who knows zilch about American history." Below the tweet, an image of the Confederate battle flag with a blue cross, white stars, and red background is shown.
The Titanic is the perfect metaphor for trickle down economics: the rich got lifeboats, the poor got “stay calm and wait your turn” and then they drowned while the band played.
if you're still writing about the morning routines of billionaires actively destroying democracy, freedom and the planet itself you're either a useful idiot, a fucking idiot, or a grifter.
“We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.” Harvard Library Innovation Lab (via BlueSky)
