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The #90s band alignment chart

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Considering the impact this would have on our economy, I don't think that this aspect of America First isolationism has been discussed enough. Republicans propose charging huge fees on Chinese vessels that want to import/export at U.S. ports […]

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What did 14 years of autocratic populism produce in Hungary? Poverty and corruption www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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New, by me: How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to America." But barely two months into his second term, the president has waged an unprecedented […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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United States Disappeared Tracker https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

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50 Ways to Eat Your Burger #FastFoodASongOrPoem #HashTagGames

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In the 15+ years people have been promoting blockchains, this flowchart remains undefeated.

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Here’s tonight’s 60 Minutes piece on the silencing of the Voice of America. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/voice-of-america-sunday-on-60-minutes/

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1. Not possible 2. Send Elon Musk, with Dictator Donald’s blessing, has steamrolled legal oversight to fast-track his Mars obsession. DOGE gutted the FAA, clearing SpaceX’s path. 1/2

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Bear in mind that while the Nazis built concentration camps everywhere they could (including the bits of the UK they'd occupied—the Channel Islands), the death camps were very specifically located outside Germany. This pattern will be repeated. The worst atrocities will be conducted out of […]

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All nations should be making concerted efforts to stop using Microsoft Windows as soon as possible. While it was always a dubious proposition to trust Windows for critical applications, it is doubly so now that the United States is sliding into authoritarianism. The same is true of Apple and […]

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Todays Life Hack

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Is not just that evolution makes sense of the natural world that matters, it is that, without an understanding of evolution, we will be robbed of wonder, unable to fully perceive and experience the the beauty of the natural world. Are lichen surprising and remarkable if one can simply say the […]

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I just had yogurt for dessert. It's almost as good as ice cream if you pretend hard enough.

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This is new. Talk about not reading the room. #spam #elon

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Hmm, someone seems to have come up with a protest chant... Sign says: GET OUT ELON! GO TO MARS! WE DON'T WANT YOUR NAZI CARS! #TeslaTakeDown #Tesla #Politics #USPol

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Has anyone here tried out the Cosmic desktop from System 76? What are your thoughts? Fedora is releasing a Cosmic spin, and I'm tempted. https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-42-beta/ #Linux #Cosmic #System76 #Fedora

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Ooh, Nicole has come up with a new handle: unpopularityTwoNumbers I wonder if that's a joke about her notoriety.

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A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of a Washington-area #Venezuelan couple who contend they’ve been unfairly swept up in #Trump’s crackdown on Venezuela-based gang #TdA. Luddis Sanchez Garcia, 33, & Julio Sanchez Puentes, 27, walked out of the federal courthouse in Alexandria […]

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I really hate people using stupid cutesy nicknames for Elon Musk or Donald Trump or Vance or Putin or Democrats or Republicans or GOP or anything else. Just say their names. I can read your post and figure out if you approve or disapprove of them. And if you actually say their names, people who […]

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The Posse Comitatus Act generally forbids the government from using the military for police actions within the borders of the United States. This is an inconvenience for authoritarians. For the past 40 years, police departments have been buying up surplus military hardware at steep discounts […]

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If he tries to close down the National Museum of African American History and Culture in D.C., there will be hell to pay.

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Toby is such a square. #CatsOfMastodon #catstodon

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:: Sarah lives on a "primitivist server" run by a conservative group obsessed with the early 21st century, (just before the climate crisis) It simulates a barbaric time the server-founders regard as a 'golden age.' A world of forgotten horrors: poverty, cancer, psychologically damaging religions […]

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Signal's encryption is pretty good. People talk a lot about how Signal isn't a secure messaging application for sensitive government work, and they're correct, but it's not because of the end-to-end encryption. While it's theoretically possible that an adversary has cracked the code, it's not […]

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As an aging #genX person let me be clear: if you’re my age and don’t support #trans rights, you’ve missed the fucking point. We’re the generation that created #cyberpunk as a genre. There is nothing more cyberpunk than self selecting your gender identity. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Oooh, I just blocked that range of addresses to fix my overloaded Mastodon server issues last week. 🤨 "KDE's GitLab infrastructure was temporarily knocked offline by crawler traffic originating from Alibaba IP ranges"

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@lenasun.bsky.social has reported that frequently-retracted, notorious antivaxxer David Geier has been tapped by Kennedy to run his autism/vaccine study. Geier is part of a father/son duo that have published bogus papers in this area for decades, often retracted & unethical.

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Pretty nice view this evening. Little America Travel Center Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

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A timeline of DOGE's invasion of the US Institute of Peace includes the delicious tidbit that the building is equipped with a gun safe. Sort of the other side of the coin of "You can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" […] [Original post on federate.social]

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The prophecy is fulfilled.

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WTF?!? Are they sleeping together? #ElonMusk #MayeMusk #MatchingPJs

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"Where were the calls for a special prosecutor? Where were the calls for resignations? Where were the calls for impeachments? If Democrats can’t muster the energy to be outraged about this — the world’s easiest outrage! — how are they possible up to this political moment? Every Dem should be […]

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A buddy who has spent his life studying philosophy didn't like my post on the subject the other day, "monkeys manipulating symbols." I am not nearly as well read in philosophy as some people -- I've sampled a dozen writers in the field, without any particular sense I'd spent my time wisely […]

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