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I for one welcome only white men fighting and dying for this country that increasingly benefits only them. Maybe enough will die to make us...

I for one welcome only white men fighting and dying for this country that increasingly benefits only them. Maybe enough will die to make us not the majority… wouldn’t that be nice?
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/mar/19/jackie-robinson-article-removed-department-defense

Damn, incredible #art. #sculpturehttps://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/salvador-dominguez-mano-de-obra/

Damn, incredible #art. #sculpture
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/salvador-dominguez-mano-de-obra/

German Green Card holder and legal resident of NH with U.S.-citizen wife and daughter arrested, detained, and tortured flying back into...

German Green Card holder and legal resident of NH with U.S.-citizen wife and daughter arrested, detained, and tortured flying back into Logan Airport. #uspol
https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-03-14/green-card-holder-from-new-hampshire-interrogated-at-logan-airport-detained

Department Of Government Efficiency… for whom?

Department Of Government Efficiency… for whom?

Among other horrible things, this an attack on #US #labor. The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is often specified in collective...

Among other horrible things, this an attack on #US #labor. The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is often specified in collective bargaining agreements as the default mediation service. Gutting it may delay current mediations and future ones, giving management new ways to delay contract enforcement. Shameful.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/

My Dad was a librarian. May his perfect soul smite and haunt this mfer into eternity....

My Dad was a librarian. May his perfect soul smite and haunt this mfer into eternity. #Libraries
https://mastodon.education/@bryanalexandee/114166925344869887

This is a really funny and well-told story of how the implicit metaphors in some innocent diagrams led to iterative software development...

This is a really funny and well-told story of how the implicit metaphors in some innocent diagrams led to iterative software development being delayed for a generation (or something like that).
https://mstdn.social/@marick/114161091572818240

“Our country is doomed unless you let me to steal the entirety of human knowledge and keep pocketing billions of dollars.” Uh, sure bro....

“Our country is doomed unless you let me to steal the entirety of human knowledge and keep pocketing billions of dollars.” Uh, sure bro. What a huckster. #AI #OpenAI
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/openai-urges-trump-either-settle-ai-copyright-debate-or-lose-ai-race-to-china/

Theory: Social movement actions grew quickly in the time prior to social media because there was nothing stopping them from snowballing....

Theory: Social movement actions grew quickly in the time prior to social media because there was nothing stopping them from snowballing. Now, social media introduces negative feedback loops that dampen social movement actions. #activism

Is 1Password compromised? This is what I asked myself when I saw that they announced this “feature.”...

Is 1Password compromised? This is what I asked myself when I saw that they announced this “feature.” #infosec
https://blog.1password.com/add-locations-to-items/

We’ll see how people like getting vibe-hacked and vibe-breached. #software #infosec...

We’ll see how people like getting vibe-hacked and vibe-breached. #software #infosec #vibes
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/is-vibe-coding-with-ai-gnarly-or-reckless-maybe-some-of-both/

Cutting CISA makes no sense. #infosec...

Cutting CISA makes no sense. #infosec #uspol
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/we-are-effectively-flying-blind-election-officials-say-cuts-to-cisa-are-affecting-operations/

“I would go so far as to say that the natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. The book holds words....

“I would go so far as to say that the natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. The book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meaning. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

#literature #philosophy #feminism

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#ThisIsFine
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/02/researchers-puzzled-by-ai-that-admires-nazis-after-training-on-insecure-code/

Bezos: sell to your readers, your customers, or both.https://mastodon.social/@Wileymiller/114075897366822288

Bezos: sell to your readers, your customers, or both.
https://mastodon.social/@Wileymiller/114075897366822288

The only thing the ultra rich can’t buy in a democracy is monarchy. Until now. #democracy #coup #fascism

The only thing the ultra rich can’t buy in a democracy is monarchy. Until now. #democracy #coup #fascism

“All the labor-saving machinery that has hitherto been invented has not lessened the toil of a single human being.”—John Stuart...

“All the labor-saving machinery that has hitherto been invented has not lessened the toil of a single human being.”
—John Stuart Mill

#labor #automation

“But below it all lay an uneasy awareness that this whole new post-work civilization was, basically, a fraud. Our carefully engineered...

“But below it all lay an uneasy awareness that this whole new post-work civilization was, basically, a fraud. Our carefully engineered high-tech sneakers were not really being produced by intelligent cyborgs or self-replicating molecular nano-technology; they were being made by the daughters of Mexican and Indonesian farmers who had, as the result of WTO or NAFTA-sponsored trade deals, been ousted from their ancestral lands.”
—David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules

🫡https://toot.boston/@knizer/112538094045723370

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https://toot.boston/@knizer/112538094045723370

What if whale songs and codas aren’t language, but methods for initiating quantum entanglement of whale mind-bodies? A telepathic...

What if whale songs and codas aren’t language, but methods for initiating quantum entanglement of whale mind-bodies? A telepathic handshake…