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This will put the cat amongst the pigeons. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/02/deepseek-goes-beyond-open-weights-ai-with-plans-for-source-code-release/

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

This reminds me about Phil Zimmerman' PGP deemed illegal munitions back on the early 90s, and me creating my first key in defiance on a student visa (good, so stupid and dating). https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Americans don't do history. That's why we don't need a Department of Education anymore. Knowing facts is boring. Watching TikTok videos is more fun.

submitted 7 days ago • 115 comments

I thought this was the onion. It’s not the onion. Oh god. I hope that aliens and ufos are real. I want to leave this planet. "Red White and Blue Land," like fucking what? https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1161

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Apple has received a secret order from the UK office of the Home Secretary mandating the company to provide a backdoor into the end-to-end encryption offered by Advanced Data Protection for iCloud.

submitted 13 days ago • 26 comments

Trump says there must be "pain" for Americans in this idiotic trade war of his. Ask yourself, what pain does TRUMP suffer? What pain will the billionaire class suffer? Why is it that when Republicans talk about pain and sacrifice, it's always YOU who suffers for their vision?

submitted 20 days ago • 77 comments

It does occasionally snow in Seattle.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Because of the terrible United States–Mexico–Canada trade agreement (USMCA, a/k/a “NAFTA 2.0”) negotiated in 2019 by … {checks notes} … President Donald J. Trump?

submitted 21 days ago • 118 comments

95% of adults in the United States have a literacy of sixth grade students -0 or worse. https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2024-2025-where-we-are-now

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Legal immigrants to the United who stained citizenship had better not have made typos on the application forms. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/27/trump-resumes-threat-to-denaturalize-citizens/77905612007/

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

This map is wrong, North Mexico is mislabelled as "Texas". https://mastodon.au/@Heliograph/113910948377718682

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

I have the distinct honor of unlocking the achievement of separating from my parents at the age of 2 years and none months at a previous iteration of this event (60 years ago). I personally have no memory of that, but it traumatized my parents and left a lasting impression on my older sister […]

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Someone did a study on whether or not bluesky is a decent alternative to X (spoiler alert: it is. And if has advantages over X) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3646547.3688407

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I guess this is yet another reason to migrate off Facebook and encourage folks to move to Mastodon. https://distrowatch.com/weekly-mobile.php?issue=20250127#sitenews

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

How anyone can defend these pardons is beyond pathetic!

submitted 27 days ago • 20 comments

“You are talking about a recession-level event if this is the new long-term norm,” Gearhart said, arguing that the end result of Trump’s policies will be felt in the grocery store check-out lines across America […]

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Updated list of companies committed to DEI Costco, Meijer, Kroger, Giant Grocery, Ben & Jerry’s, Ulta, Macy’s, Old Navy, Nordstrom’s, TJ Maxx, GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…), Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans

submitted 28 days ago • 921 comments

It's damn telling how fast corporate America quit diversity. Seems like those marginalized people who've been telling us about racism, sexism, bigotry, bias, and exclusion might have been right all along.

submitted 28 days ago • 64 comments

While he's at it, maybe he could sign an executive order to open up the pumps and valves in Saudi Arabia and get that sweet crude oil flowing to our refineries so gas is .10c at the pump? Oh, hey, I know, he could sign an EO to get them chickens laying again! Free eggs for everyone!

submitted 28 days ago • 117 comments

Just lay back and enjoy it. Exactly the advice I'd expect from a rapist.

submitted 29 days ago • 119 comments

The "radical ideology" of checks notes ...Jesus. The way they tell on themselves.

submitted 30 days ago • 88 comments

There's a reason why you never, ever, see "feed the hungry, clothe the poor, heal the sick" or any other words attributed to Jesus on those signs in front of the churches. Republican Jesus ain't got time for empathy.

submitted 29 days ago • 71 comments

So ... the guy who just ended all National Cancer Institute research and left thousands in clinical trials to die, that guy, right? You still think he and his miserable political party are going to protect your Social Security and Medicare and VA benefits? Do you really?

submitted 29 days ago • 52 comments

“[Manifest Destiny] is... the idea of empowering individual White men to take over lands and take over the property of their neighbors.” Historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social on Trump’s attempts at imperialism in his Inauguration & the origins of the term ‘Manifest Destiny’. zeteo.com/p/heather-co...

submitted 30 days ago • 50 comments

Jesus: Feed the hungry. Clothe the poor. Heal the sick. Love your neighbor as yourself. It's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. Judge not, least ye be judged. Blessed are the peacemakers. Trump: I DEMAND AN APOLOGY!

submitted 31 days ago • 37 comments