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steter

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ASCAP member. Once was in R&D at Apple & Compaq. One NASA launch. Designed stuff. Made things go. Made things stop. Collected data. Sysadmin. Musician. Lead guitarist. Songwriter. Oregonian again after many stops.

Profile picture: Head of a man in a hazmat suit from an album.

Header picture: Colors of Ukraine.

#nobridge

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Putting child rapists in charge of disseminating court-mandated proof of their pedophilia is not working out. Have the courts any power over Donald Trump, or is he our emperor?

https://flipboard.com/@salon/news-politics-vjnjnsc9z/-/a-F6MT1MdTQ2aSh2K6VUWbig%3Aa%3A3199680-%2F0

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The FBI works for gangsters and pedophiles, not you and me. Never has. Never will.

https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/115986131759677263

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A library's ICE machine is always broken. Generating ICE is the business of broadcast media.


@steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co avatar steter , to random

A few minutes before began, I closed my eyes for a moment.

A moment later, it was 8:00.

I've had 1 cup of coffee today, I then discovered, to my horror. 😱

If you want to know what life will be like once the changing climate wipes out coffee crops, I call it "siesta." 🥱

I've gotten a lot of sleep today. Tonight will surely be special.

@steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co avatar steter , to random

America's Nazi government stole the plaque because it insulted the American dictator. They sent in the Marines to blow up some random cars and commit the heist.

The Venezuelan attackers did as they were told, because cowards in uniform, fearful of the brig, can be traitors, too.

https://mstdn.party/@Crystal_Fish_Caves/115844094554699696

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Ceasefire is not a word in the Hebrew language. Billionaires want casinos there. They have much gangland money to launder. There is no better place for a fascist to launder money than atop a graveyard.

So much warring as the Epstein billionaires hide from investigators behind their dictators.

https://mastodon.neometropolis.net/@QudsNen/115838664804320633

@steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co avatar steter , to random

Look in a mirror. We are the Russians, thanks to an old, beat-up Constitution, and the weakest opposition party on the planet begging for money from billionaires, to whom they and their Republican colleagues gave SuperPACs while limiting our donations to a pittance, ensuring billionaires control America from the top down, and there is nothing anyone can do about it or Trump, Epstein, Clinton, all of them, would have been behind bars a long time ago.

https://mastodon.scot/@Rojertb/115758943064307059

@steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co avatar steter , to random

In the process of having groceries delivered, some guac that was available in the app was not available at the store, per the app at checkout. The app has you select a replacement, and I did. Later, I am informed that the store is out of the replacement guac. But, lo! It has plenty of the one I originally asked for in stock.

I recall someone telling me that computers would be everywhere, and that people would even use them in kitchens. That person never mentioned digital screw-ups.

"Yo, so they were out of catsup, so here's some gum."

@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

After a "double-tap" strike was ordered to kill survivors of an initial U.S. military attack on a so-called "drug boat," the White House has tried to gaslight the American people by fabricating their own reality. What we’re witnessing is a disturbing pattern of denial and distortion at the highest levels of government. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/hegseth-trump-leavitt-doubletap-gaslighting

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@georgetakei "They are who we thought they were." - Coach Dennis Green

@steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co avatar steter , to random

I guarantee that Trump encouraged Putin to brutally attack Kyiv, to soften Zelenskyy up for Team Russia's bullshit "deal."

https://mastodon.social/@RealJournalism/115635500638554517

It's versus both and , who play for the .

@petergleick@fediscience.org avatar petergleick , to random

Killing unarmed civilians is the same war crime for which Lieutenant Calley was convicted during the Vietnam war.

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/28/hegseth-kill-them-all-survivors-boat-strike/

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@Crystal_Fish_Caves @petergleick As they murder people with immunity.

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@georgetakei If there are no Republican names in the files, we should assume all of them are involved in the international racketeering and child rape.

The things we've learned over the years. The CIA is a Republican front organization. So is the FBI. So is the Democratic party when it bends knee in "partisanship."

There can be no partisanship with fascists. Yet there there sits the Senate.

It is a most unhappy Thanksgiving.

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party avatar TheBreadmonkey , to random

I'm no expert but don't just keep it under a chair. Put it in a cabinet or on a high shelf or somewhere safe.

BBC may not be in 'safe hands' under its chair, says committee head
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@TheBreadmonkey I usually keep my BBC hermetically sealed in a mayonnaise jar that's kept on Funk & Wagnall's porch since midnight the night before. Doesn't everyone?

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    @Alice Don't worry about it. I'm sure they thought that was the best channel on TV!

    "It's the crazy girl show again!"
    "My favorite!"

    @randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

    In the US, The House has agreed to release the Epstein files. Only 1 member of the House voted against it: Republican Clay Higgins of Louisiana.

    It is quite telling, that as soon as Trump caved, so many Republicans voted against hiding the files. Trump had clearly picked the indefensible position at first.

    The bill will now move to the Senate where it is expected to pass as well, before being signed by Epstein's long time partner in crime, Donald Trump.

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    @randahl It will be interesting to see if he chooses to sign it, and what he says about it, if he does. Partners in crime.

    @steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co avatar steter , to random

    WWIII began when Russia invaded Ukraine. Never forget who started this, and for what purpose. The reluctance of governments to face down the Russian bully only empowered him. We are all going to suffer because of our government leaders' fears of war messing up their retirement plans, and their seemingly endless fascination with genocide.

    @Alice@beige.party avatar Alice , (edited ) to random

    Every pharmaceutical warning:

    This [anti-bad thing] has been known to cause [even worse bad thing].

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    @Alice Super Happy Fun Drug can cure anything except its side effects, which are legion.

    @ProPublica@newsie.social avatar ProPublica , to random

    Using his clemency power, Trump has undone prosecutions made by his own DOJ during his first term.

    Experts say the actions show a broad contempt for the justice system: “He’s rejecting ... the work of people he appointed but didn’t fully control.”
    https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-pardons-erased-prosecutions-second-term?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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    @ProPublica What he did was allow them to be prosecuted, so that later they would be eager to give him whatever he demands to get the government off of their backs. He's a gangster, and you guys STILL don't seem to get how gangsters operate. He hurts you forever, or until you give in. Then you are pals.

    @mattblaze@federate.social avatar mattblaze , to random

    Just experienced the most hostile MFA login I've seen in a while, from, naturally, a tax accountant (for a nonprofit I'm an officer of).

    You get sent a 20 character mixed case code, which is sent to your phone as a image via MMS, in a font suitable for use in difficult CAPTCHAs. You have 3(!) minutes to receive it and enter it correctly or you have to get a new code.

    Accountants seem to have singularly bad client login systems.

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    @mattblaze Memories are made of this.

    At one company, we needed customers to leave their dial-up modems (I am so old) on overnight for updates. To handle the nasty business of logging in for automatic maintenance, a new concept at the time, I had the honor of inventing a secure-ish login system.

    You had to have a key, a small code snippet, to unlock the system, without which the hacker would be left on a peripheral board. Getting to the CPU from there, in that direction, would require hardware knowledge. No hacks ever happened.

    In hindsight, it is a good thing that the company did not ask me to design a login system for humans.

    @Alice@beige.party avatar Alice , to random

    WARNING: Long post and NO point, but a very real example of what it's like to try to have a conversation with me...

    To start, I have autism and ADHD (AuDHD) and I just had a conversation with a stranger that's a pretty typical conversation I have where I start talking about something I care a LOT about but then get ten words in and uncontrollably switch to a different topic and keep repeating that pattern until the other person manages to escape.

    Here's a near transcription of my last conversation that started earlier this evening at a show for a band I like called The Beths where I was wearing a t-shirt for an adjacent band called ALVVAYS and saw another person wearing a different ALVVAYS shirt:

    Me: I like your ALVVAYS shirt! Did you see The Beths open for ALVVAYS the last time they were in California?

    Them: Yeah! I saw both at The Greek in Berkeley!

    Me: Cool! I saw them both in Oakland!

    Them: Neat! I went for ALVVAYS and The Beths opened and I really liked them!

    Me: Me too! I've been listening to ALVVAYS for years, but didn't know about The Beths until they opened and I really liked them which is why I’m here now!

    (This is where AuDHD Alice kicks in)

    Me (continuing): I was JUST thinking about the chain of events that lead to me being here, so it was that ALVVAYS show where The Beths opened and I wouldn't have even known about ALVVAYS if my coworker hadn't introduced me to them about ten years ago.

    The reason my coworker mentioned them is because I was wearing a Jawbreaker shirt so he realized we liked similar music and thought I might like ALVVAYS and he was totally right!

    The reason I was wearing a Jawbreaker shirt is because we worked for a scrappy startup in the Bay Area where nobody cared about anything and you could wear whatever you wanted as long as you got your job done.

    I got that job because I used to work for Yelp because my former Yelp coworker started working for that startup and referred me.

    I got the job at Yelp because my mom had stage 4 cancer and was DYING so I moved from Chicago to Phoenix to take care of her and Yelp had a location in Arizona so I interviewed and I got that job.

    I'm pretty sure I got the job because my resume used Avenir as the font and the hiring manager liked it.

    We also talked about The Neverending Story which is one of my favorite movies and apparently one of his, so we bonded because I mentioned job interviews making me feel like Atreyu trying to run through those laser shooting sculptures and he said he totally got it and somehow I still got the job.

    That job eventually lead me to the startup which brought me to the coworker who introduced me to ALVVAYS which introduced me to The Beths and that's why I’m here now.

    How did you find out about The Beths?

    Them: Oh. Uh. Just that ALVVAYS show where The Beths opened, as I previously mentioned.

    Me: Oh okay good talk have a nice night.

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    @Alice Alice, you're adorable. You're also the last person I'd want involved in my big heist at the Louvre.

    Cop: "So..."

    Alice: "You wouldn't believe it! The guards were easy to bribe. Is that eclair for me? Thanks. We bought all of our gear from this guy at 87 Front Street. He said he's a second story guy. I've got a t-shirt with that band name on it! Second Story! Which reminds me of a story I wrote, but it didn't have burglary tools in it like the ones we got from the pawn shop on 23rd. Are you gonna finish your eclair? Steve cased the joint, and has a really cool map of the Louvre on his laptop. He went on one of those tours, you know? His desktop has your face on it, but with Snidely Whiplash's mustache. The cop behind you is a jerk. He wanted $100 to look the other way. Everybody else took $50. Hey! Check out my new sneakers! They've got this stuff on them that lets you climb up walls."

    Cop: "...your name is Alice?"

    Alice: "Oh. Yeah. Alice."

    @FediTips@social.growyourown.services avatar FediTips , (edited ) to random

    The continued growth of mastodon.social is putting the in danger (here's why: https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server/).

    The quickest, easiest and most effective way to solve this would be if the official apps & website stopped promoting mastodon.social, and instead promoted a rotating selection from a pool of reliable servers with solid track records.

    If you're comfortable using Github, please give thumbs up to all these:

    steter ,
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    @FediTips When I started here, I looked at a page of servers and wound up choosing the big one. I'm a musician, a programmer, I create video games, and I rant about politics. None of the smaller servers with focuses had that combo. I wondered if talking about other things would be disapproved of. A large, nebulous server seemed right for me to start with.

    Later, when I decided to make a private server, I kept the old m.s account to use in power failures. I post new releases on both servers. Although m.s is growing, perhaps a good number of accounts are similarly dormant until needed.

    One way to ease entry might be to have a page where a new user checks off their interests, and the closest-fitting instances are offered. They needn't all be mastodon. Servers indicate areas of interest (and also if they welcome general/political/off-topic conversation).

    Fwiw, I'm considering opening up my servers to the public next year, should anyone be interested in moderating. Every bit helps, I guess.

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

    With all the advancements in technology, do you think we will see a smaller data center that uses less energy and cooling due to the reduced size of servers, especially GPUs, in the next 20 years?

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    @nixCraft Unless AI bankrupts us all, it seems unlikely, especially right now, with billionaires building gargantuan data centers - almost as large as the giant warehouses ICE, Border Patrol, and whatever National Guard units are federalized, can use to torture people in.

    If it all blows up in their faces, sure.

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    I was only 30 something when I helmed The Enterprise.

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    @georgetakei The writers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were mostly in their 20's, iirc.

    @w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

    President Trump is returning to 60 Minutes this evening, his first appearance on the program in five years. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-to-watch-donald-trump-60-minutes-interview/

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    @w7voa He's punishing Fox News for disagreeing with him more often recently. Now that CBS is a Republican party propaganda channel, it's worthless. Personally, I will not watch. I don't care to see any excerpts.

    @Alice@beige.party avatar Alice , to random

    I'm going out for Halloween as my original Mastodon profile pic.

    Woman with poor eyesight who is wearing a pink knit cap and simultaneously drinking two Slurpees.

    Woman with poor eyesight who is wearing a pink knit cap and simultaneously drinking two Slurpees.
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    @Alice You have mad skills. I can't tell the difference.

    @Alice@beige.party avatar Alice , to random

    So many birds!

    Hundreds of black birds (maybe crows?) flying over an apartment courtyard
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    @Alice Clearly, there was a bovine home invasion and takeover of the unit. They're just letting everyone know who's in charge now.

    @arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

    Feds probe Tesla about its “Mad Max” mode
    The new mode added in the latest update will speed and weave through traffic.
    https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/feds-probe-tesla-about-its-mad-max-mode/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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    @arstechnica They have no RADAR or LIDAR. They cannot operate safely without this insanity. I consider this mass murder by a corporation.

    @KatyElphinstone@mas.to avatar KatyElphinstone , to random

    The five neurodivergent love languages 😊💖

    the five neurodeivergent love languages: infodumping, parallel play, support swapping, Please Crush My Soul Back Into My Body, and "I found this cool rock/button/leaf/etc and I thought you would like it" from Amythest on Twitter, 2021
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    @blogdiva @401matthall @farah @KatyElphinstone It works for everyone to some extent.

    My mother crocheted some... the name is not coming to me... essentially large shawls that go across the bottom of the bed. Weights the feet, and warms them. Great in cool weather.

    Yeah, not a fan of weighted blankets, either. I think I'd rather sleep in a chair, lol.

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    How is that probable cause?!

    Screenshot of a tweet from Matt Hill (@thematthill) on X. The tweet states that Greg Bovino admitted agents can detain people based on behavior like looking scared or gripping the steering wheel tightly, even if they’re U.S. citizens. Below is a CNN screenshot showing Bovino being interviewed, with the headline: ‘Exclusive: Agent leading Trump’s immigration crackdown speaks to CNN.’
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    @georgetakei Probable cause is whatever the Trump Nazi SCOTUS says it is, apparently. No laws exist in this country, except those aimed at its citizens. The gangsters get away with murder, and threaten us all. This isn't even a republic anymore.

    @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar gerrymcgovern , to random

    Bitcoin is pure, pure evil

    Bitcoin’s energy use per dollar generated now exceeds that of mining copper or gold

    Bitcoin mining significantly increases PM2.5 pollution, the tiny airborne particles linked to respiratory and heart disease.

    Each bitcoin mining rig has a short shelf life of about 1.3 years. Once outdated, they’re dumped

    Bitcoin mining needs massive water cooling systems

    https://gulfnews.com/your-money/cryptocurrency/cryptos-dirty-secret-how-mining-it-is-hurting-the-planet-and-farms-1.500299583

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    @gerrymcgovern Plus, there is no reason for it. An algorithm could release bitcoin at intervals. No mining required. But that's not good for gangsters laundering money.

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

    Adblockers should block "AI" buttons and features and I don't understand why they don't

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    @mcc I haven't seen it yet.

    I've already yelled at them for using AI to distort my videos. It is not easy for me to make music videos. It takes time. I work hard, using public domain materials, to turn out something artistic that expresses the lyrics or mood of the music. They turned several of mine into AI slop, including changing hues, and washing out details. I hate everything they are doing with AI, and wish they would stop.

    I guess I'll get to yell at them again.

    @w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

    US presidents can only be depicted on $1 coins if they’ve been dead for at least two years. But the treasurer of the United States plans to mint a “Fight, Fight, Fight” Trump $1 coin for America’s 250th anniversary. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/5112

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    @w7voa Perhaps he's been dead for 2 years, but his body hasn't realized it yet. His brain certainly has.

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    The Bunnings–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people who are good at one thing overestimate their ability to perform home maintenance tasks

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    @Daojoan Oh. Okay. Sure. Just because I tore the broken fire bricks - actually, tiles - off of that wall 8 years ago, and haven't even patched the holes it left, maybe I like brutal drywall art. Nobody ever thinks of it as artwork.

    Yeah, that's me.

    I'm improving as I get older, though. I call electricians now. No more flying off of ladders to slam into interior walls because a line was hot and my screwdriver met it. 👍 😎

    Small victories.

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    History has many painful lessons.

    A screenshot of an X post by Q. Anthony Ali (@NobleQAli , 12h ago) featuring a black-and-white historical image of a person lying on the ground while others, including a woman kneeling and several standing figures, are around them in what appears to be a park or open area. Below this, a reply by Antonio Benetto (@Tony_Benetto , 1d ago) to @drmistercody states: "I don't believe US troops will fire on American citizens."
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    @georgetakei None of which penetrate the thick skulls of American politicians or the Pentagon eager to kill.

    @tracketpacer@infosec.exchange avatar tracketpacer , to random

    my workplace is hiring! if this sounds like it could fit you (or someone you know), please shoot your shot or pass it on!

    key points:

    • network engineer
    • beginning to mid level
    • US citizen or legal res
    • shouldn’t hate women or diversity (this one’s mainly for twitter)
    • you’d have to work with me. a lot

    link: https://blueorigin.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/BlueOrigin/job/Seattle-WA/Avionics-Network-Integration-Engineer-III---New-Glenn_R53158

    video/mp4

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    @tracketpacer Darn. I'd do it for you if you'd let me work on video game development in my downtime, but I wound up on the board of an HOA in the Portland metro and my longevity on the board lowered our insurance rate, lol. I don't suppose I could convince your operation to move here. We'd give you a unicycle blazing bagpipe salute, if you did!

    I'll spread the word. Good luck!

    @Miro_Collas@masto.ai avatar Miro_Collas , to Palestine

    Gaza Sumud flotilla live: Israel intercepts ships, detains activists | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/9/2/live-geta-thunberg-once-more-on-board-sumud-flotilla-sailing-for-gaza

    • Photos: Protests erupt after interception of flotilla vessels
    • Six vessels confirmed intercepted
    • Hamas condemns Israeli interception of Sumud flotilla
    • Israel says flotilla activists will be deported after Yom Kippur



    palestine@lemmy.ml icon Palestine palestine@fedibird.com icon Palestine_Group

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    @georgetakei Did it spur any action on anyone's part? I must have missed it in the sea of generals who will approve of murdering people in fishing boats, but won't lift a finger to stop a Nazi coup.

    I don't think this is funny at all.

    @georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

    Why can’t we have nice things, too, instead of more spread of preventable diseases?

    A post on X by @esjesjesj (evan loves worf) comments sarcastically, "Meanwhile in America we're bringing back polio," alongside a screenshot of a post by @LegitTargets from two days ago. The @LegitTargets post, marked with a Chinese flag, announces "BREAKING: CHINA has invented a new 'BONE GLUE' that repairs bone fractures in just 3 minutes — no surgery or metal plates needed." The post includes an image of a person in a suit with the Chinese flag in the background, alongside an X-ray image of a fractured bone.
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    @georgetakei Because Republicans are traitors. Period.

    @steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co avatar steter , to random

    Small wonder then that our bastions of independent unbiased
    free speech –- those entities we once thought unassailable –-
    have proven all too often to have only Quaker guns. 52 Behold
    President Trump’s successes in limiting free speech -– law firms
    cower, 53 institutional leaders in higher education meekly appease
    the President, 54 media outlets from huge conglomerates to small
    niche magazines mind the bottom line rather than the ethics of
    journalism. 55

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.282460/gov.uscourts.mad.282460.261.0.pdf

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

    Been thinking a lot lately about how many fresh college grads are probably going to wind up joining the cybercrime community thanks to AI's impact to entry-level jobs, particularly in IT. We've spent years telling everyone we had this huge shortage of qualified IT workers, and that those who pursue a career in cyber have a promising future. Whoops.

    And then I was tagged in this LinkedIn post, which seems to agree.

    Financial Times recently had a good video story on how AI is affecting the job market
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTFpsuCor8

    NPR's Planet Money on which jobs are least threatened by AI
    https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/09/30/jobs-ai

    A linkedin post by (D2) Paul Eckloff [id - 1st or Experienced Leader in Security, Threat Assessment & Communication | ... h-® THE FRAUD ECONOMY IS HIRING. The IT & Security Economy Is Firing. © GK8 by Galaxy (Nasdaq: GLXY) just found underground job postings where cybercriminals are recruiting professional voice impersonators to scam U.S. crypto executives. Salary: up to $20K a month. Benefits: anonymity, flexible hours, and all the deepfake tech you can plug in. & Meanwhile, in the "above ground” economy? Tech CEOs are announcing record profits... and mass layoffs of highly skilled defenders who might've stopped exactly this kind of attack. We've created a bizarre paradox: & Criminals are hiring voice talent with curated data sets and Al-driven tools. ® Companies are firing IT and security talent, leaving execs more exposed than ever. The result? The underground looks like LinkedIn with fewer buzzwords, and the surface looks like a Fortune 500 boardroom congratulating itself while its phone lines are wide open. J» This isn't phishing emails anymore. These are personalized deepfake calls targeting the people who hold crypto custody keys, legal authority, and access to the financial core. If you think your MFA and spam filters cover it, you're already on mute. We've commoditized the defenders while adversaries are professionalizing the attackers. And when the “shadow HR department” offers $20K/month to pretend to be a CFO, guess who wins that recruiting race?
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    @briankrebs Billionaires demand it. They bought the goddamned Senate who sold us out by seating Nazis to the Supreme Court so they could do this to us.

    @dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar dangillmor , to random

    Just like the other Big Media payoff "settlements" to Trump in his string of bogus lawsuits, Google's millions are proof that he is a successful extortionist -- and that they are willing to pay bribes. Don't think otherwise. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/business/youtube-settle-trump-lawsuit

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    @dangillmor It makes a kid wonder how many of the leaders of business, industry, and politics were clients of Jeffrey Epstein's child rape club.

    @indivisibleteam@mastodon.social avatar indivisibleteam , to random

    Yet again, the American people are dealing with the consequences of Trump believing something that he saw on TV. https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/trump-seems-to-back-off-portland-military-plan/283-e9c6bdfb-92d6-4881-bb74-09bb325a5270

    steter ,
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    @indivisibleteam He. Has. Dementia.

    All his perverted staff need do it replay Fox News' slanted portrayal of the BLM protests and tell him that it's today.

    He. Will. Believe.

    Because he trusts them.

    It is not rocket science. Find anyone who has cared for a dementia patient. He is led wherever Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, and the rest of the fascists want to take him.

    For God's sake, people! He needs help, and so do we!

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    steter ,
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    @georgetakei ... to keep mass media talking about anything except for industrial-scale child rape by rich pedophiles with power.

    There is only one thing going on here, and it's devouring democracies.

    Where are the complete and unredacted Epstein files??? These people need prison, not power.

    @randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , (edited ) to random

    It took 247 days for this US President to realize Ukraine can defeat Putin's gang of prisoners.

    We went from "You haven't got the cards" to this:

    Trump posting: After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form. With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, the original Borders from where this War started, is very much an option. Why not?
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    steter ,
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    @randahl Assuming he wasn't distracted by something shiny, so someone else grabbed his cellphone and penned the post. It seems too... rational... and literate to be written by Trump. My keen eyes detect complete sentences. Nice to see. I wonder who wrote it for him.

    @Binder@petrous.vislae.town avatar Binder , to random

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    steter ,
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    @jimfl @Binder This is subliminal, in-song, drummer-speak. I'm guessing Mick started singing the 2nd verse instead of the 1st.

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    Pro tip: software needs to work.

    Just because you don’t like a design doesn’t make it “boomer.”

    There are trends. Trends come and go.

    Good software - like Obsidian - is ageless.

    Yes, slack is poorly designed. But it’s not because it’s “boomer.”

    A tweet by Sara Du (@saraduit) that reads: “nested modals are one of the clearest signs of boomer software.” Below the tweet is a screenshot of Slack showing a modal window to add people to a channel, layered on top of another modal for channel settings, illustrating the “nested modal” issue.
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    steter ,
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    @Daojoan I just read online gripes about changes to export-import mechanisms for Blender to Unreal. They're quite modern now, and difficult for some people to use. I agree with you. Software needs to work. I don't care how pretty it is. Some of my best work happens at the command line.

    @MLE_online@social.afront.org avatar MLE_online , to random

    One of our season ticket holders is giving up her membership at the theater after seeing our performance of Matilda last night because of "inappropriate subject matter." She said she felt bad for the children "forced to say such distasteful things."

    steter ,
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    @MLE_online Raised by a Republican father and a confused mother. I have much practice. 😁

    steter ,
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    @JessTheUnstill @MLE_online The ones who were going to do that already have, I think. Everyone left in that party seems MAGA to me.