Dev: I really want to put in this refactoring into this item at the last minute.
Me: Well, then have another twenty things to fix that you just intrroduced.
The Best Early Presidents’ Day Mattress Deals (and Bedding Too!)
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Hilarious example of "cognitive dissonance" in this LiveScience article
LiveScience: Santorini earthquake swarm intensifies but likely won't trigger volcano
".... the earthquakes by Santorini are likely caused by a series of faults — or zones where two blocks of rock move or slip against each other. However, he noted that the earthquakes were "unusual."
"The problem with this event is that we've just seen earthquake after earthquake after earthquake," Pyle said. "It's all underwater, and so it's really hard to anticipate what's going to happen next."..."
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#earthquakes #volcanoes #santorini #kolumbo
'We've just seen earthquake after earthquake after earthquake': Santorini earthquake swarm intensifies but likely won't trigger volcano
Santorini's earthquakes are intensifying as a rare earthquake swarm continues to rattle the Mediterranean's Aegean Sea. The earthquakes are probably caused by faults rather than volcanic activity.Patrick Pester (Live Science)
Families and Advocates Sue Trump Administration Over Executive Order Seeking to Restrict Access to Gender-Affirming Care (ACLU)
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Families and Advocates Sue Trump Administration Over Executive Order Seeking to Restrict Access to Gender-Affirming Care
WASHINGTON – Transgender young adults and families with transgender youth joined PFLAG National and GLMA in a federal legal challenge against an...American Civil Liberties Union
Trump Order Set to Ban Transgender Girls and Women From Female School Sports (Wall Street Journal)
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Trump Order Set to Ban Transgender Girls and Women From Female School Sports
From Wall Street Journal. View the full context on memeorandum.memeorandum
"Plaintiffs Alliance for Retired Americans, American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, and Service Employees International Union, file this action against defendants Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, the Department of the Treasury, and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, for declaratory and injunctive relief to halt Defendants’ unlawful ongoing, systematic, and continuous disclosure of personal and financial information contained in Defendants’ records to Elon Musk and other members of the so-called 'Department of Government Efficiency' (DOGE), or to any other person."
The real headline here is about how the casual use of Auror for Police surveillance ...
"... raised concerns about privacy for everyday Kiwis."
Instead, the headline editors chose for this episode of The Detail is;
"A retail crime-fighting app helping police track repeat offenders"
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What's up with that?
The other aspect of the Auror story that isn't getting much attention is the degree to which the functions of public policing, subject to democratic oversight, is being gradually replaced by private security companies. Often multinational corporations with multi-million dollar valuations. Operating under minimal if any regulation, with almost no enforcement.
How much public money is given to private security contractors even by government departments, like WINZ, instead of using Police?
Öffentlich-Rechtliche zu Rechtsextremen:
“Sie wollen uns, die wir als Reaktion auf Rechtsextremismus gegründet wurden und eine demokratische Öffentlichkeit fördern sollen, abschaffen?
Lassen Sie uns offen drüber diskutieren, herzlich willkommen.”
🙄 Jetzt geht das #zerfleischen und gegenseitig madig machen wieder los.
"Ich kann das nicht wählen weil..."
"...aber die sind für... deshalb kann ich die nicht..."
"...wenn so, dann never mit denen..."
Und die Konservativen lachen sich 'nen Ast. Wählt doch einfach nicht rechts, stellt Positives in Wahlprogrammen in den Vordergrund und gut ist. Warum immer dieses gegenseitig madig machen?
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People who vote for Trump and Populists to "shake up the system" are creeps, I don't care about your fucking sob stories.
There were people like you in Germany during the 1930s, and in the end nobody cared about their motives, just the result of their actions.
They're just not good people and I don't trust them.
Unless they're self immolating for the Cause, I call bullshit on sad loner men whining about the privilege of their dicks
Der Beitrag Liebe in Zeiten der Nazi-Hysterie erschien
Liebe in Zeiten der Nazi-Hysterie
Sage mir, wen du wählst, und ich sage dir, ob du mit mir schlafen darfst: Ein Partnersuchportal hat untersucht, welchen Einfluss parteipolitische Vorlieben auf Paare haben.Marco Gallina (Tichys Einblick)
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#TFG established a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) that could be used to buy TikTok and have it run by ???
"Sovereign Wealth Funds" are actually profit-making businesses competing with private businesses!
A US SWF could be run by salaried government employees or by highly-paid contractors (Haliburton🤬🤬🤬)
Problems with SWFs are: inherent conflicts of interest & opportunities for crony-corruption among elected politicians & bureaucrats/contractors.
For example, if a U.S. SWF bought TikTok they could contract with Elon Musk to run it
Many nations have SWFs, but they’re all countries that have big budget or trade surpluses, or sales of nationally owned resources (China, Saudi Arabia).
U.S. has lots of valuable national resources, but instead of selling our natural resources on the global market we lease them out to mega-corporations at very low 'sweet-heart' rates and it's the corps who reap the profits. Meanwhile we fund our government through debt and taxes.
WHO BENEFITS from SWF?
With soldered RAM and eMMC storage, this is not "a consumer-ready experience."
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
Framework Laptop expands beyond x86 with its first-ever RISC-V-based motherboard
With soldered RAM and eMMC storage, this is not “a consumer-ready experience.”…Andrew Cunningham (Ars Technica)
Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base.
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Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base
Overnight, Wired reported that, contrary to published reports that DOGE operatives at the Treasury Department are limited to “read only” access to department…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
[RANSOMHUB] - Ransomware Victim: escada[.]com - redpacketsecurity.com/ransomhu…
#ransomhub #dark_web #data_breach #OSINT #ransomware #threatintel #tor
[RANSOMHUB] - Ransomware Victim: escada[.]com - RedPacket Security
NOTE: No files or stolen information are by RedPacket Security. Any legal issues relating to the content of the files should be directed at the attackersadmin (RedPacket Security)
Some nuanced privacy advice:
- Signal is good, and you should use it because it strikes an effective balance in the optimization problem that is getting people to use secure technology.
- You should think really, really hard before using any technology whose entire threat model depends on centrally operated infrastructure remaining trusted and uncompromised. Especially ones based in jurisdictions without effective democratic institutions.
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in reply to AI6YR Ben • • •Yesterday they went down the cliffs to our beach house in Armenaki. Laid out the ground lines in the evening. At sunrise they brought in enough fish to feed 10 people.
This is their biz, Armenaki beach below
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in reply to Erich M. • • •But they are all staying cool as fuq. "We know we've built onto a vulcano. Let's face it".
I feel them, right now. After every rumble much swearing. Commanding all sorts of saints & holy virgins to mutual fornication. Then: "Sssht, current weather report. Nice. Where are we heading tomorrow?"
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in reply to Kim Possible • • •BBNET - Real Time Seismicity in Greece for the last 24 hours
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