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obviousdwest

@obviousdwest@hachyderm.io

Online game developer, distributed systems, software. Compassionate philosopher. Home improvement, tools. Science. Sustainability. Democracy, equality. Dachshunds. Books, movies. The Princess Bride.

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arstechnica , to Random stuff
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Sony Music opts out of AI training for its entire catalog

Music group contacts more than 700 companies to prohibit use of content

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/05/sony-music-opts-out-of-ai-training-for-its-entire-catalog/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

obviousdwest ,
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@arstechnica Probably considering doing it themselves, and don’t want the competition. I have such a hard time thinking a big corporation is going to do anything for ethical reasons.

jessamyn , to Random stuff
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Drop-In Time toots! I made a few little social media posts (thanks Canva!) about the fact that drop-in time exists and it was busy today.

First: a pregame request to track down a fiendishly expensive textbook in a... less expensive form. It's in the 15th edition and I could find the 14th. I respect the rights of authors to make money off of their work but the "No you have to have this edition and we print a new one every year" textbook scene is a racket. Could I find it? Of course I could.

obviousdwest ,
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@jessamyn Passkeys should live in the cloud. Like 1Password. And be protected reasonably there.

georgetakei , to Random stuff
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Probably could have given it a little more thought.

obviousdwest ,
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@georgetakei I always assumed it was discovered by a Viking with a lot of German heritage.

arstechnica , to Random stuff
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Big Three carriers pay $10M to settle claims of false “unlimited” advertising

States obtain settlement, but it's not clear whether consumers will get refunds.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/big-three-carriers-pay-10m-to-settle-claims-of-false-unlimited-advertising/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

obviousdwest ,
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@arstechnica There goes big government making up new cost of doing business fees after the fact. Oh well. Better add that to the budget for next year: $10m bribe to cover false advertising expense. /s

GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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🧵starts HERE.

REMEMBER: I can’t/won’t reply while live-posting. Please use NFL (Not For Laffy) so I can skip your reply, but NO hashtag on that. Thx.

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Tyler McBrien::

Necheles rises to renew Trump's objection to Daniels testifying about any "sexual details," which she says has no relevance and is prejudicial.
By details, Merchan asks, more than just "we had sex"? Yes, Necheles says.

obviousdwest ,
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@GottaLaff Now that’s a dramatic pause!

georgetakei , to Random stuff
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Now that is an apology. https://www.comicsands.com/jon-cooper-apology-sexist-comment-2668135591.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

obviousdwest ,
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@georgetakei I’m constantly surprised that articles continue to embed Xitter posts, as if that’s the only source of community comment, or that they have the funniest/sharpest/most entertaining commenters. Are reporters not reading Mastodon? Is the problem that Mastodon clients don’t make screen grabs easy? If our community is not helping redirect this, then we are responsible to a degree in perpetuating Xitter’s existence. By making it seem like the more vibrant destination.

georgetakei , to Random stuff
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This is what passes for "news"? Absolutely pathetic. https://www.comicsands.com/eric-bolling-newsmax-biden-salad-2668104428.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

obviousdwest ,
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@georgetakei Every accusation is a confession. All this means is Trump has to be fed by spoon, now, and the marketing machine is trying get ahead of that.

GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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I wanna puke.

Via Lisa Rubin:

NEW: In the first row of 's side of the gallery post lunch? Ken Paxton.

obviousdwest ,
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@GottaLaff We should look into who paid for his flight to NY. Not a legit Texas AG expense. Not a legit Paxton political campaign expense. Petty, maybe. But there’s so much corruption we start overlooking it. And who has time to do it? If it’s a reporter, these people don’t care about reputation. If it’s some election or legal person, they’ll just “pay it back” because they got caught. It’s gross.

mattblaze , to Random stuff
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It's amazing (for highly depressing values of amazing) how many people will reflexively bend over backwards to find ways to defend a politician bragging about literally SHOOTING A PUPPY.

And now we're going to be in a stupid arms race over this. "My opponent thinks she's tough just because she shot a puppy. But I regularly BURN DOWN ORPHANAGES." And so on.

obviousdwest ,
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@mattblaze This is slightly different than you were maybe suggesting, but my thought was lying about “being a supporter of hitler”. Many people will try to fit into not be targeted. And getting caught lying about that could be fatal under a repressive regime. The bragging example is on the road to the quisling example.

w7voa , to Random stuff
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(AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday formally began planning for a potential presidential transition, aiming to ensure continuity of government no matter the outcome of November’s general election. https://apnews.com/article/presidential-transition-biden-trump-prepare-2312bba2b6202cd8ddd0e6c7f59ab28b

obviousdwest ,
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@w7voa Change the locks on the nukes, and misplace the keys.

w7voa , to Random stuff
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"If I have it my way in the next four years, I'm going to make community college free," says President Biden in a speech in Tampa, Florida.

obviousdwest ,
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@w7voa Spending on education costs negative dollars in the long run. Your citizens get an education, better jobs, higher salaries. And the government gets back more than the cost in the associated income taxes. Not to mention we get a better society because we have more trained workers and better voters. So “free” education actually pays the taxpayer monetary benefits.

arstechnica , to Random stuff
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It’s cutting calories—not intermittent fasting—that drops weight, study suggests

The study is small and imperfect but offers more data on how time-restricted diets work.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/its-cutting-calories-not-intermittent-fasting-that-drops-weight-study-suggests/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

obviousdwest ,
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@arstechnica I tried it for a bit. It was valuable as psychology. It’s not the right time to eat, but that time is coming up. So you’d skip one more snack. Without feeling like it was “never eating again”. Every little bit.

georgetakei , to Random stuff
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Why does this always happen?

obviousdwest ,
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@georgetakei Now that I’m not busy with my day, I can work on these Really vexing problems!

molly0xfff , (edited ) to Random stuff
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was briefly baffled by this CAPTCHA until i realized it was asking me to identify the animal that was bigger than the other animals in the picture, not the animal that, in real life, is bigger than roughly 1cm

we are rapidly approaching the point at which CAPTCHAs clever enough to keep the bots out are too confusing for the humans

obviousdwest ,
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@molly0xfff “bigger” is the wrong word. That implies what you thought…each bigger than its image. “Biggest” would have communicated to compare real-life sizes. It’s a kind of misplaced (assumed) pronoun problem.

carnage4life , to Random stuff
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I have friends who don’t plan to take any flights over oceans until the Boeing plane situation is under control.

I thought that was an overreaction but now it seems at least prudent to track what type of plane a flight is on.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boeing-whistleblower-says-dreamliner-787-break-apart-due-safety-flaws-rcna147137

obviousdwest ,
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@carnage4life …at the time of booking. Airlines change equipment without notice. And they will likely see patterns in the data and dream up ways to do just that to save money.

mattblaze , to Photography
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Solar Eclipse at Totality, DFW Airport, Grapevine, TX, 2024

All the pixels, with no moon in the way, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53640792292

obviousdwest ,
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@mattblaze Light that escaped the belly of our star 8 minutes earlier, and just barely missed our moon, passed through your lenses to be converted to electricity via quantum electrodynamics. Stored on silicon wafer, processed by a program stored in volatile memory, then transmitted to me over threads of glass and copper to be displayed to me using crystals with magnetically aligned polarity. It all sounds magical, actually.

georgetakei , to Random stuff
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I certainly tell Bradder it is.

obviousdwest ,
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@georgetakei Maybe we don’t need house cleaners. Maybe we need a service that pretends to be your mother in law. Scheduled to show up every week or two.

rbreich , to Random stuff
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Biden wants a 25% tax on billionaires.

Trump wants to double down on his tax cuts, which have already fueled billionaire wealth.

This isn’t complicated.

Billionaires are funneling cash to Trump’s campaign for a tax break.

Anyone else supporting him is being duped.

obviousdwest ,
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@rbreich @mastodonmigration Let’s remember that as we aggressively go after the billionaires. They started it.

w7voa , to Random stuff
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NBC News plans to drop ex RNC-chair Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor following an internal on-air revolt, reports Puck News' media reporter Dylan Byers.

obviousdwest ,
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@w7voa That sounds like: “I still think it was a good idea, but you are forcing me to do this”.

PlayHistory , to Game Development
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What's your favorite part of game development stories?

-Inspirations?
-How we get to the final concept?
-Technical/production hurdles?

Share your favorite tales.

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obviousdwest ,
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@PlayHistory As an online game developer, I like stories of exploits and emergent behavior bugs. You have a large community of sophisticated players looking for loopholes. How they exhibit, the root cause, and the path developers followed to deduce what is going on within a complex distributed system. That can make a good story. Drama, characters, mystery, plot.

obviousdwest ,
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@PlayHistory A simple one: on The Sims Online, there was a simple minded profanity filter. There were also numeric IDs used in various data structures. The bug was that the filter was applied to the wrong part of one structure. Instead of looking at the user name, it also looked at a text representation of the IDs. Whenever an ID contained 69, user accounts started failing. At first it was rare. But at 69,000 there were a lot of unhappy players.

mastodonmigration , to Random stuff
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The revolt at NBC over the hiring of Ronna McDaniel is reaching a crescendo. Pay attention to what happens here. Over the next 24 hours we will learn a lot about the future of media and journalism in America.

obviousdwest ,
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@mastodonmigration This is the Maddow video. It is awesome. And McDaniel should be charged w treason; working against the functioning of the US system of government. https://youtu.be/CqassXP6HAU

GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️A New York appeals court agreed to slash the amount of the bond Donald must post to cover a $454 million civil fraud verdict to just $175 million -Bloomberg

granting him 10 days to pay a reduced bond

obviousdwest ,
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@GottaLaff Wouldn’t it be nice if poor people had bail and stuff reduced when they couldn’t pay? Favors for rich people is not just. We need a list of corrupt judges.

dangillmor , to Random stuff
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WordPress experts, can you tell me what this means (and what I should do about it)?

When testing the REST API, an error was encountered:

REST API Endpoint: https://dangillmor.com/wp-json/wp/v2/types/post?context=edit
REST API Response: (http_request_failed) cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 10001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received

(Dashboard menu pages are horribly slow to load, and the site is anything but speedy as well.)

obviousdwest ,
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@dangillmor Test a GET of a static image first. DNS and firewalls will thereby be confirmed. If that’s all good, there’s probably a server side script running on your failed request that is blocked (eg db query). Server logs should tell you which.

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    obviousdwest ,
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    @samlitzinger One must also consider how bad Google is at software and design.

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    It's that time again, folks...

    obviousdwest ,
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    @georgetakei I’m picturing hobbits. Morning jacket, second morning jacket, noon jacket, …

    GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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    “ lawmakers unanimously approved a new national security law on Tuesday that grants the government more power to quash dissent, widely seen as the latest step in a sweeping political crackdown that was triggered by pro-democracy protests in 2019.”
    https://apnews.com/article/37e1aca2daef8a4f9f998f389ff3d7f5

    obviousdwest ,
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    @GottaLaff I got all the way past the end of that sentence and saw the headline before I realized it wasn’t about the USA (or at least some States within). (Removal of our right to protest on roads is similar, for example)

    parismarx , to Random stuff
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    “The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes. At 200 terawatt hours annually, data centers collectively devour more energy than some nation-states.”

    https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/

    obviousdwest ,
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    @parismarx By their own estimates, AI related computation is increasing by a factor of 10x per year. That’s a lot of new data centers to build out once it subsumes all other uses. Can vs should is such an important question. https://openai.com/research/ai-and-compute

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    obviousdwest ,
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    @rbreich Here’s an idea: don’t link to a billionaire’s propaganda machine.

    GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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    Via Brian Tyler Cohen:

    A video has been unearthed showing Trump-appointed prosecutor Robert claiming that Bush v. Gore happened in “2001” or “2002.”

    It happened in 2000.

    By his own logic, he must have dementia.

    obviousdwest ,
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    @GottaLaff @SummerDay It’s coping mechanism to box up that detail, TBH. I don’t want an annual reminder to be depressed about my mom’s passing on a given date/week/month. That would harm my remaining family.

    GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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    Via Jose Pagliery:

    Need I remind you all that invaded with "liquidation trucks" in tow--meant to destroy evidence of torture, rape, & assassinations. Putin's soldiers have kill lists. Children are being kidnapped en masse.

    NATO is arming Ukrainians to prevent a modern day Holocaust.

    Reese Gorman:

    said told him during their meeting that "he will not give a single penny for the Russo-Ukrainian war."

    obviousdwest ,
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    @GottaLaff Given that Russia is his banker, that “disinterest” is guaranteed. And is why presidents should give up financial control of their estate. And should be able to earn security clearance the normal way: by having no dirty secrets.

    hacks4pancakes , to Random stuff
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    Should I bring uranium ore to my lecture on stuxnet to make talking about stuxnet fun again?

    I wonder if TSA would seize it.

    obviousdwest ,
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    @hacks4pancakes If you brought Iodine and Xenon, would they Cesium?

    TheConversationUS , to Random stuff
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    A large percentage of Americans – Two-thirds! – say we can do away with all together.

    Ultimately, while the ‘extra’ hour of sunlight in the evenings feels exciting to some, it comes with significant health trade-offs.

    https://theconversation.com/could-the-days-of-springing-forward-be-numbered-a-neurologist-and-sleep-expert-explains-the-downside-to-that-borrowed-hour-of-daylight-224597

    obviousdwest ,
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    @TheConversationUS Permanent standard time is best, because then noon and midnight line up with the highest (lowest) point of the sun (which is the very definition of those times). If people then think that school or work starts at an inconvenient time, just change those business hours (who cares if the bakery opens at 10am, it just does). No big deal.

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    Leprechaun you believe it?

    obviousdwest ,
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    @georgetakei The recycling plant must run it through a supernova to up-cycle it into gold.

    GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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    WTAF!

    "U.S. intelligence officials are planning to brief on national security matters if he secures the GOP nomination this summer — despite concerns about his handling of classified information.

    The decision would be in keeping with a tradition that dates back to 1952, but it would mark the first time an admin has volunteered to share classified information with a candidate who is facing criminal charges on charges that he mishandled classified documents." https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/07/biden-intel-briefings-trump-00145651

    obviousdwest ,
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    @GottaLaff He is expecting a traditional and orderly hand off of power?! Let him sue, then drag things out in court.

    mattblaze , to Photography
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    Spanish Steps, Kalorama, Washington, DC, 2023.

    Several additional pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53335651417

    obviousdwest ,
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    @mattblaze Do you work this out in your head as you consider the options? Or are artifacts caused by diffraction visible on site as you try different settings? Having a monitor capable of seeing that seems like a lot of gear “just in case” conditions push the envelope. (Or maybe you go back to the scene of the crime for trial and error?) …not an important question, really; just curious.

    w7voa , to Random stuff
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    Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson is to return to the ring to take on YouTuber Jake Paul on July 20th at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, according to promoters. The fight will stream live on Netflix.

    obviousdwest ,
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    @w7voa I thought snuff films were illegal.

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    obviousdwest ,
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    @samlitzinger He said “ranked choice”, so I paid attention.

    GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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    -ish

    Via Lisa Rubin:

    NEW: Judge Lew Kaplan, faced with ’s fully-briefed request for a further stay of the $83.3 million judgment, effectively says, “I’ll rule when I rule.”

    ORDER. The Court is aware of defendant's request for a decision on the stay motion no later than today "to allow time for [him] to finalize arrangements for an appropriate bond if necessary." Dkt 287, at 21. A decision will be rendered as promptly as is reasonably possible. Without implying what that decision will be or when it will be made, however, it will not come today. SO ORDERED. (Signed by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan on 3/4/24) (yv)
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    • obviousdwest ,
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    @GottaLaff What does hurrying the judge have to do w Trump having time to arrange bond? When there’s no stay, he’s going to whine that the judge didn’t rule quickly and now he can’t arrange bond “in time”. Dude, real people plan for the expected case. Now, bring me the money!

    GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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    I love with the heat of eleventy million white hot suns.

    Jamie Raskin is already “working on” a bill responding to ballot ruling

    https://www.axios.com/2024/03/04/jamie-raskin-trump-ballot-ruling-supreme-court

    obviousdwest ,
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    @GottaLaff Maybe need to remove some insurrectionists from Congress itself, first. So this can be passed by the remaining representatives.

    mastodonmigration , (edited ) to Random stuff
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    Today we may get a Colorado Trump Insurrection Ballot Exclusion ruling. It will likely be that Trump remains on the ballot, but anything is possible.

    Whatever SCOTUS rules, it does not change the facts. We saw it with our own eyes. Trump engaged in insurrection. He can not be 'vindicated'. He engaged in months of criminality to illegally change the results of the election. He sent a armed mob to the Capital, and refused to call them off for hours. His VP was afraid for his life. People died.

    obviousdwest ,
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    @mastodonmigration What it will change is the likelihood of a repeat. If the Supremes give a pass for any kind of criminal to appear on our ballots, that’s what we can expect to happen in the future.

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    obviousdwest ,
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    @samlitzinger They didn’t have time until April for the immunity decision. But this one is “next day”. Hmm.

    arstechnica , to Random stuff
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    US prescription market hamstrung for 9 days (so far) by ransomware attack

    Patients having trouble getting lifesaving meds have the AlphV crime group to thank.

    https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/us-prescription-market-hamstrung-for-9-days-so-far-by-ransomware-attack/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    obviousdwest ,
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    @arstechnica I know good people are suffering, but I wanted to point out some potentially good news…there are a lot of old people in Congress, that surely take a lot of medications. Wouldn’t it be nice if this stupidity resulted in them finally noticing something that affects us, then regulating those corporations that literally hold our lives in their hands? Like stress testing banks. Because healthcare is clearly more important and more urgent than money.

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    obviousdwest ,
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    @GossiTheDog If you ever find yourself in a room with Steve Bannon, you’re doing something wrong.

    petergleick , to Random stuff
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    OMFG. "Exxon CEO blames the public for failure to fix change."

    Could there be a more stunning example of hypocrisy?

    obviousdwest ,
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    @petergleick They didn’t have to smoke all those addictive cigarettes we sold to them! We just responded to the market. /s

    indivisibleteam , to Random stuff
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    Winning this election will take all of us. Voters are being bombarded with GOP messaging every day, and we have a strategic plan to ensure people are turning out based on our issues: protecting democracy and fighting anti-abortion extremism. Join our organizing work to win in November: https://act.indivisible.org/survey/majority_over_maga_signup?source=mastodon&medium=directpost

    obviousdwest ,
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    @indivisibleteam This is one of the best political “ads” I’ve seen years. Normally, the content is nothing, and the message is send-cash. In contrast, this message is: we can help, you can help, please act, here are 5-6 ways (phone banking, postcards, …). Good job, Indivisible! I wish our politicians would talk to us like the timid, but motivated voters and citizens we are, not bank accounts.

    obviousdwest ,
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    @indivisibleteam This (the link in the OP) is one of the best political “ads” I’ve seen in years. Normally, the content is nothing, and the message is send-cash. In contrast, this message is: we can help, you can help, please act, here are 5-6 ways (phone banking, postcards, …). Good job, Indivisible! I wish our politicians would talk to us like the timid, but motivated voters and citizens we are, not bank accounts.

    petergleick , to Random stuff
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    Remember, voting for Biden also means voting for the experienced, talented, ethical team he's brought to Washington.

    Do you remember the massively incompetent, corrupt, and anti-government cronies and thugs Trump brought the first time around? And how many of them are now in jail?

    obviousdwest ,
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    @petergleick Don’t forget the nepotism. A family member took over the Covid response. And profited off it.

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