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Oh hi, it's #TransDayOfVisiblity, just popping up to say hi, I'm trans and work on trust & safety for the Fediverse, help with hachyderm infrastructure, and contribute to a whole bunch of open source projects. If you'd like to support my work: https://support.thisismissem.social Right now your […]

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This feels like an especially important story. NewsGuard tested 10 major chatbots — including ChatGPT 4.o, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Grok — and the bots repeated Russian propaganda 7% to 56% of the time. 1/4 https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global

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My husband and I know this man. My husband taught his kids. He's an incredible sweet guy. He is in the country legally- he pays taxes, he's married to a US Citizen, he has no criminal record and now he's in ICE detention. For those who thought "it can't happen here" it is happening here […]

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President Trump is considering ways to serve a third term. “I'm not joking,” he said in a phone call this morning with NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-third-term-white-house-methods-rcna198752

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❝ These men—human beings with names, histories, dreams—were marched through a gauntlet of armed guards, beaten, stripped naked, shaved, and thrown into overcrowded cells. A photojournalist on the scene described watching men age a decade in two hours. He watched as one young man sobbed, “I’m not […]

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When you see the POTUS or people who support him saying things like, "man who could have asked for a better start to this presidency," you might go "whuh?" But if you take a look at the useful Project 2025 Tracker, they've made incredible progress on their […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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The Independent - A federal judge in NYC appeared ready to grant a temporary restraining order on Friday in support of VOA journalists attempting to stop the Trump administration from shutting down the international broadcaster […]

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Again: The important question isn't "how did a reporter get added to a Signal group for discussing sensitive military operations?" (though that's certainly worth asking). The big question is why Signal was used for discussing sensitive military operations in the first place, especially when […]

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Well, congestion pricing is well liked by New Yorkers it seems. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/03/27/knicks-legend-walt-clyde-frazier-im-loving-the-congestion-pricing #congestionPricing #NYC #knicks

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What an achievement: * All official Debian bookworm live images rebuild reproducibly lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb...

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I get that issue trackers are hard, but I feel like stale bots that close issues come off as so hostile. I shouldn't have to come back to the issue tracker every month to confirm, “Yes, this is still an issue!” to prevent the issue from getting closed. Tag an issue as “stale” for easier […]

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I was doomscrolling earlier and learned about #publicsquare, an anti-woke marketplace. I had never heard of it and was curious to see what was around in #nyc - and I figured I would share it with people that don't want to visit the site. I focused on places to eat, but they have categories for […]

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I was doomscrolling earlier and learned about #publicsquare, an anti-woke marketplace. I had never heard of it and was curious to see what was around in #nyc - and I figured I would share it with people that don't want to visit the site. I focused on places to eat, but they have categories for […]

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Watch: The statutory mandate of the US Congress "that VOA continually broadcast to the world is being defied." My remarks at today's news conference in front of the US Courthouse in Manhattan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0vB4Ikn_uo&t=165s&ab_channel=TheNewsGuild-CWA

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Last year, interns Sangmin Pak and Lily Donaldson investigated extreme rain. This year, they’re connecting students from Sangmin’s Richmond Hills High in #Queens #nyc with astronauts on the International Space Station #ISS Tune in Wed 3/26 11.45a to see this downlink #nasa event: plus.nasa.gov

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This morning, I was asked to be one of the speakers at the aquarium’s all staff meeting. We had several speakers talking about trans / race / identity intersections. This was mine https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/114196315790437664

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A federal judge issues a temporary restraining order barring DOGE from accessing personally identifiable information from the Social Security Administration. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.49.0.pdf

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Honest to God, anybody who was telling people before the election not to vote for Harris because of Gaza or whatever and who is still defending that can fuck right off into the sun and then fuck off some more. I can't even. What we are experiencing now is the most stark possible illustration of […]

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The Joy of Coding returns today with Episode 396! Come join me while I #livehack on #firefox ! Some of our documentation changes for CustomizableUI bounced last week after we attempted to land them. We need to investigate and get this buttoned up. After that, we're going to continue our […]

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Over the weekend, I received some vaguely threatening emails from someone who wanted to stop me from publishing my research into Readium's LCP DRM. I've published both my findings and the emotionally manipulative messages they sent […]

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MSNBC - Voice of America journalist speaks out as China and Russia celebrate Trump silencing news outlet. https://www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-reports/watch/voice-of-america-journalist-speaks-out-as-china-and-russia-celebrate-trump-silencing-news-outlet-234818117612

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Silencing the Voice of America. https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast

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"It almost sounds harmless. But chemical analysis shows that gum contains styrene-butadiene (the durable synthetic chemical used to make car tyres), polyethylene (the plastic used to make carrier bags and bottles) and polyvinyl acetate (woodglue) as well as some sweetener and flavouring." […]

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Apparently DOD went through the web pages for Medal of Honor recipients and marked those of non-white dudes as "DEI", which also broke links. The shameless racism is nakedly on display.

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Today we're publishing a monster feature that dives deep into the initial six weeks over Elon Musk's government takeover. Our entire newsroom came together to help make this story happen. Read this culmination of our blood, sweat, and tears:

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The government is demanding that a school discipline students as it wants, change the authority structure at the school, and end a department it doesn’t like. Remember that next time some person on the right tells you the GOP is the free speech party.

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Wonder how easy it would be to add Gaussian Splat 3D models to @OpenStreetMapUS ? I couldn't see an obvious option in @MapComplete 😄

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I've been filing bugs to improve Mozilla's crash reporting infrastructure so it's easier to see at a glance if a particular crash affects only a specific CPU but also if only some microcode versions are affected. I said it before but I'll say it again. I would have never thought that CPU bugs […]

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UX design, it's not just a good idea, it's the law "To resolve the allegations, Honda agreed to implement a new and simpler process for Californians to assert their privacy rights. The company is required to certify its compliance, train its employees, and consult a user experience (UX) […]

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Notice the lack of the passive voice in the headline: "NYPD officer shoots person in Brooklyn" instead of the more common "A person was shot in an officer involved shooting". https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-officer-shoots-person-in-brooklyn-police-say #NYC #NYPD

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Great. Columbia J-school students from abroad are being told to obey in advance by their dean. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...

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I just called my reps with 5 Calls, you should too: 5calls.org #uspol

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Elon Musk gets a lot of hate. But that’s not enough. We can do better.

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“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.” -Elon Musk, March 6, 2025 “In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was […]

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What's the most common feedback/comment I've received over the past month? "I used to like reading your stuff when you didn't write about politics all the time." My response: Me too. But they've left me no choice at this point. If you think tech isn't politics and vice versa, you probably […]

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I've learned that in the past 10 days, the National Weather Service has had to halt radiosonde (atmospheric telemetry balloon) launches in at least four states (Alaska, Maine, Maryland and New York) due to NOAA layoffs. The telemetry from this equipment provides critical pressure, temperature […]

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New, by me: Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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Me: Please don't use Chromium-based browsers, use Firefox instead. Google has way too much control over the web because of Chromium and they'll be sure to leverage that in order to benefit themselves. Chromium: Hey all, we're getting rid of ad-blockers because it's cutting into our […]

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