Jumped the paddock afforded to me, now I'm happily grafted onto a rock in the Pacific. My roots are still in #SoFlo.
russian-speaking Ukrainians overwhelmingly oppose moscow despite kremlin protection claims, poll shows
moscow’s primary justification for invading #Ukraine collapses under scrutiny as the very population putin claims to protect demonstrates overwhelming negative stance toward russia, with russian-speakers choosing European integration over moscow’s influence by massive margins.
@tanavit @aj @CassandraVert @pluralistic
The golden parachute is codified and legally binding before the name on the suite door is changed to reflect the new guys tenure. Otherwise, what's the fucking point right?
@aj @CassandraVert @pluralistic
They would not try to fix it. They will generate a new version.
And in each software licence, there is a disclaimer clause.
Something like "If the brakes of the car we just sell you are broken, we are not responsible if you do not stop".
And I am pretty sure that the CEO of these compagnies have secured their money as gold in vaults with mevhanical locks.
@aj @CassandraVert @pluralistic
Amazing that amazon “tech” workers thought they were *unlike* the “warehouse” workers…
A new atomic clock in space could help us measure elevations on Earth.
@technologyreview reports: "The European Space Agency’s ACES mission could ultimately pave the way for a global network of atomic clocks that make these measurements far more accurate."
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Support the Manchester 4. ##juststopoil
Ella (22) and Margaret (54) will be released in the next few days but Daniel (23) and Indigo (31) face more weeks and months in prison. They all will be working to get their lives back on track but now face crippling costs of up to £2,000 each, totalling £8,000, that needs to be paid to the court – or they'll face balliffs, deducted wages or even more prison time.
Can you help these brave actiontakers cover these costs?
What's hilarious and goddamn awful is these words now mean something completely fucking different from what they would have meant a year ago.
“When we began, there was a silence in #Texas about racism, poverty and corporate power. ... we ranked dead last among the major states and next-to-last in the South in education, health care and programs for the poor. … We were Texas, a backwater braggish and bigoted and brutal, slow and rich and poor.” https://www.texasobserver.org/ronnie-dugger-1930-2025/
Reconciliation.
My @smh cartoon.
Anti-vaxx is a classic upper-class luxury belief.
You reject vaccines, not because you’ve studied the science, but because your zip code has a 97% vaccination rate.
Trump pardoned a man who'd been convicted of tax cheating -- he withheld over $10 million from the paychecks of nurses, doctors and other employees, money that was intended to make their tax contributions ...
... and blew it on a $2 million yacht and shopping
he was caught, fined $4.4 million and given an 18-month jail term
then his mother attended a $1 million Trump dinner ...
... and soon after he was pardoned
Full story here: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trump-pardoned-tax-cheat-after-mother-attended-1-million-maga-dinner/
Don’t do this, and don’t use a google voice number (which totally works) or other disposable mobile-style number or your email-for-spammers email address at this link:
And don’t encourage others to do it too.
DOGE is not unstoppable. The courts stand in the breach.
The perfect metaphor for the fediverse doesn't exis...
(From faculty slack)
Forgive me, but if your "industry" depends entirely on stealing someone else's work, it deserves to die.
"Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would “basically kill the AI industry in this country overnight.”
https://www.theverge.com/news/674366/nick-clegg-uk-ai-artists-policy-letter
Mike Luckovich commentary today is right on point, but I suspect most Americans won't realize its historical context.
For that context, here's a photo from the Nuremberg trials (via Wikipedia):
Evening soul food 🫂
As intended, this afternoon I took another walk up to the castle, this time with camera and in better light, to photograph my message in stones #StopGazaGenocide
I was disappointed, but unsurprised, to find it had been obliterated letter by letter in under 24 hours. This bank holiday weekend 4/5ths of people up there were visitors. Just saying
So I did it again, in front of the tourists, and got warm smiles. This time I took *many* photographs for posterity 🇵🇸🏴💕 #Cymru
‘What About All the Other Times ...?’: California Cop Steals $3,500 from Homeless Man Saving Money for Dental Work But Avoids Felony Charge and Only Loses Job In Questionable Plea Deal
