I wonder when the US Congress is going to do something about the "do what you did to Twitter to the Federal government" stuff. Are they still alive in there? What's up? Should we turn Congress off and then on again?
NATO-Chef Rutte fordert von Deutschland höhere Verteidigungsausgaben
Gefahr drohe nicht nur durch Russland: NATO-Generalsekretär Rutte hat Deutschland aufgefordert, mehr für Verteidigung auszugeben. Deutschland habe seit Beginn des Ukraine-Kriegs vieles richtig gemacht, müsse aber noch viel mehr tun.
Das sind die konkreten Massnahmen. Europa muss zusammen stehen und offenbar mehr fuer seine Verteidigungsbereitschaft tun.
2 February 1882 | A German Jew, Ludwig Friedmann, was born in Mainz. A goldsmith.
He arrived in #Auschwitz on 16 August 1942 in a transport of 911 Jews deported from Drancy. He was probably murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
This plush animal says trans rights.
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Made myself a proper cold morning coffee beverage (yep that’s breve / half and half foam!). Time to enjoy it while I bang out a #Matrix server to host Retro Retreat!
I ran Yunohost for nearly a year. The number of times I had to get a shell open and fix something was too many. Yunohost is basically a set of scripts to configure a Debian machine, so if you don't mind fiddling it's probably fine. Cloudron is containerized and basically handles all the 'glue' for you. I've never had to manually fiddle with anything, although it provides the means to.
Elon Musk
The new defendants added into the legal filing included Lego, Nestlé, Tyson Foods, Abbott Laboratories, Colgate-Palmolive, Pinterest and Shell International.www.npr.org
Slashdot Asks: Do You Remember Your High School's 'Computer Room'? - Slashdot
Bill Gates' blog has been updated with short videos about his upcoming book, including one about how his school ended up with an ASR-33 teletype that could connect their Seattle classroom to a computer in California.developers.slashdot.org
let be clear, i'm totally against trump and gop.
however, i advice against such demonstrations, and especially with ordinary smartphones or gadgets. trump administration is already out of control, and may track and surveil demonstrators. and penalties might be draconian.
use other methods, like social media and internet.
Pretty wild to watch the best soft power (USAID) just disappear. I wonder if that role will end up being served by the military directly now.
Last spring I was doing some work with USAID folks. Good people doing things in the collective interest.
How about a little good news in this *gestures around*... you can now get ebooks via bookshop.org, including THE AI CON! (Available May 13, but you can pre-order now.)
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w/ @alex
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"It's a free country"
...until it isn't. Musk isn't a member of any advertising corporation's promotional department and has no say on any advertising corporation's promotional strategies of choice.
What?! Since when is it illegal to choose not to advertise through a certain outlet?
Elon Musk's X broadened an existing lawsuit on Saturday to include several major brands — accusing more companies of illegally boycotting the social media platform in 2022 following Musk's acquisition.
npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-52832…
What?! Since when is it illegal to choose not to advertise through a certain outlet?
Elon Musk's X broadened an existing lawsuit on Saturday to include several major brands — accusing more companies of illegally boycotting the social media platform in 2022 following Musk's acquisition.
mögen das
Alex Feldstein mag das.
The danger of the law going after a criminal absolutely is a deterrent. Without it, there would be far more crime.
Dems don’t need to be more like Trump. Trump is not and was never popular. He got fewer votes in ‘16 than Romney did in ‘12, he barely got more votes in ‘24 than he did in ‘20 (when he lost).
If everyone who voted for Biden had voted for Harris, Trump would have lost. If everyone who voted for Obama had voted for Clinton, Trump would have lost.
Trump doesn’t win, he’s never been a popular candidate. The Democrats just lose to unpopular candidates by doing even more unpopular things.
Yesterday afternoon I responded to my inner paranoiac by doing a trial mix of the title for the second sideSister album. It was a fun learning experience.
The first and most important thing is that, yes, I can turn what we have into something that "sounds like a record". I had been a bit unsure about this, given that the approach we've taken to recording this album is quite different from any process I've used in the past.
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After applying clipping to individual drum kit elements (which allowed me to reduce their actual volume while retaining their impact), I turned my attention to the bass.
I tried a new technique for me, parallel processing the bass, with one channel bumping the pitch up an octave and applying a saturator to the result before merging with the original. It only takes a little of the octavated bass to provide definition; the original delivers the gut punching. Nice.
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Copyright Week 2025
Day 1: Copyright Policy Should Be Made in the Open With Input From EveryoneCopyright is not a niche concern.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Was die US-Zölle für Mexiko, Kanada und China bedeuten
US-Präsident Trump hat wieder Ernst gemacht und Mexiko, Kanada und China mit neuen Zöllen belegt. Die drei Länder kündigten Gegenmaßnahmen an. Die Zölle haben auch für europäische Unternehmen Folgen.
Vollste Solidarität in den #suendibleibt, der gerade von RWE gerodet wird, aus dem #dietilebt
#allewaelderbleiben
#jederbaumzaehlt
#waldstattasphalt
#keinbaumistegal
I feel like the Overton window has shifted massively to the right, and is still shifting faster and faster. It scares me that fascism is now normalized enough that they’re just dropping the pretense completely.
I’m not just scared because of the US but also because of Germany, in Germany the conservatives have recently broken the taboo of collaborating with the AfD, and are embracing vile racist rhetoric more openly than ever. The next federal election is in 3 weeks, and the conservatives will most likely win it by a landslide. It terrifies me. It feels like it’s obvious that we’re far beyond the point of no return (here, in the US, and probably in many other places too), fascism is considered “normal” now.
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@enby_of_the_apocalypse Sickening. Imagine the reaction if the January 6 insurrectionists were people of color.
You may have heard that a trans pilot was falsely accused of piloting the military helicopter that crashed with the commercial plane last week. She was nowhere near that location.
I said a while back:
I've been on HRT for a couple years now so I've seen a lot of changes when looking into mirrors, but the most important one is that the person on the other side seems to be smiling more.
You, a nonbinary person, are real.
No twisted rhetoric, tired bigotry, or irrational thinking can permanently plaster over the truth of your existence.
Hold tight to the truth.
I think the talk I gave with @tsyesika at FOSDEM today is maybe the talk I've had most people say they enjoyed that I've ever given. It was basically a "ten minute comedy sketch lightning talk, with purpose"
Sadly the recording / stream apparently failed to get the camera on us, which means you're going to miss a lot of it, because a lot of the humor was in the emoting on both of our ends
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On the one hand, I'm happy these people are resisting fascist ideology.
On the other hand, why are they still working for Meta? They're forking over private data of people who have had abortions to the authorities.
Wouldn't the right to do be to quit on the spot?
What would you do?
mashable.com/article/mark-zuck…
Mark Zuckerberg removed tampons from men's restrooms. Meta employees put them back.
Changing the system from the inside? IDK!Christianna Silva (Mashable)
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The drawback for that use case is that you can't keep it on for an extended time, it overheats.
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