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Nonya_Bidniss

@Nonya_Bidniss@mas.to

Retired deep state IC/civil servant. Scientific & technical intelligence re pandemic threats, chem/bio weapons, bioscience, emerging tech; personal staff of senior GOs; tech writer, speech writer, senior editor; also worked at various analytic & research labs. Today I hike, cook, read & watch #scifi. Degrees in biology & strategic intelligence. Currently in N. Alabama :( #veteran #atheist #antifascist #natsec #fedi22 🌻
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Nonya_Bidniss, to scifi
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Still working my way through Three-Body, the Chinese TV adaptation of The Three-Body Problem. Sometimes it gets slow but it is so much better than the Netflix version. Especially if you read the book(s).

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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Yes he's demented but also I LOL'd at “stanktuary” and I think there needs to be a whole series of shitposts for it.
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/john-gartner-trump-cognitive-decline

Nonya_Bidniss,
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"People need to understand dementia is a progressive illness, which means the Trump you see today is the best Trump you’re ever going to see. It’s all downhill from here. Trump’s rate of decline is accelerating, and if he’s typical, at some point, he will “fall off a cognitive cliff”"

kevinrns, to climate
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In the near future a mass of people are going to die in a city from the heat, and the headlines will say that "it wouldn't have been so bad except the power went out"

Heat is going to take down power systems. The power systems that could protect us from an event, will be harmed by the event.

618 people in Canada, in the mountains, in the forest, died of a heat event, on the floors of their homes, on their beds. No flames. Just a days heat.
The power stayed on, it would have been worse

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@kevinrns The way I read that, there are no instructions yet for how an individual would apply for whatever sort of credit each state has in their program. The states and territories have to apply for the money, which will fund state and territory programs, however each one designs it.

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@MisuseCase Yes it would. Knowing how states behave, the federal govt surely knows that people in some states will get little to nothing while others get the benefit. @kevinrns

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@MisuseCase All probably true, which leaves states to do as they will, so there we are. @kevinrns

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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If Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson flew a BLM flag over her home would Congress hold hearings about her impartiality?

If the Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff, flew an upside down flag over the VP's home, would Congress hold hearings?

How do you suppose the right wing media sphere would handle such events?

Justice Samuel Alito has used flags to openly proclaim his support for a white supremacist theocratic takeover of the U.S. and it's pretty much guaranteed nothing will come of it.

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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It's often said that America became a full democracy after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Yes, Chad, I know the word "republic," if you come at me with juvenile bullshit you'll be blocked).

I was born before the U.S. became a modern democracy, and I want to live the rest of my life without the U.S. going further backward. But that's the road we're on. is working hard on taking rights away. Even if they're not your favorite in all respects, please for all Dems in November.

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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They were never "losers" or "suckers." They were great human beings who chose a hard path for many different reasons. They loved their country. They made sacrifices for the person on their left and right.

A person who doesn't even attempt to understand that bond should never be Commander in Chief.

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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The best character in besides Peralta was Doug Judy, the Pontiac Bandit.

There will be no Q&A.

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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Did you see a handy resource posted on Mastodon? Bookmark it! You'll thank yourself later. 😀

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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I'm confused as to why yesterday MSNBC had Crowdstrike & think tank guy Dmitri Alperovich (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Alperovitch) on as a Chinese strategy expert wrt Taiwan reunification. There are hundreds of top retired DOD or State Dept personnel more qualified to discuss this topic. How did he end up in MSNBC's rotation of talking heads? Well, apparently he recently wrote a book it even though it doesn't seem to have been a top focus of his career. Wonder what I should write a book on?

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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How long have you been Netflix free?

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@BlackAzizAnansi Many years, 15-20 maybe. I used to get DVDs in the mail.

carpingdiem, to Birds
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There are 2 bluebird fledglings. This morning, they were fed by their father, but by this afternoon, they were eating mealworms all by themselves! (proud)

In this set of 3 photos, a baby bluebird fledgling is on the left, with its dad on the right. There is a pile of dried mealworms next to them. The baby is paying no attention to the mealworms and is honed in on its dad, who picks up some worms and feeds the baby.
The adult male bluebird is on the right and the two fledglings on on the left. Dad had been feeding the pair, but when he got a bit too slow, one of the babies (at the top) started feeding himself.
Adult male bluebird on right, fledgling on left. They are resting on the top of a nesting box and watching the activity at the feeders.

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@carpingdiem Are those live or dried mealworms? The bluebirds here don't have much interest in the dried ones. I've considered getting live ones.

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@carpingdiem I keep trying them without getting many birds interested. A lot of the time they just go to waste. Maybe there's just a lot of live snacks around here for them to pick instead.

Nonya_Bidniss, to USpolitics
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Amazing. I was just listening to Jasmine Crockett on The Bulwark and she related a story of two members of Congress who'd had their student loan debt relieved and they DIDN'T KNOW WHY. They were trying to figure out what happened. And we wonder about how low-info our voters are when we have Congress members so completely uninformed about what has done?! 🤦‍♂️ 🤬 😩 p.s. someone tell Tim Miller "emigrating" is a word. Jeez. Americans aren't planning on "immigrating" from the U.S.

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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"More people were killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2023 than any other year in the past decade, outpacing population growth eightfold. But despite a focus on urban areas, fatal police violence is increasingly happening in small town America at the hands of sheriffs, the top law enforcement officials in counties nationwide." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/county-sheriffs-deaths-accountability/

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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No-paywall archive link.
WSJ: Foreign Purchase of U.S. Ammo Maker Sparks National-Security Battle; Opponents of deal stress need for American ownership amid gunpowder shortage and concern over China-Russia influence

Brings back memories. Years ago I provided input to CFIUS for the Pentagon office that I worked for. Important process. Many reporters pronounce it wrong. It's "SIF-ee-us."

https://archive.is/HmxtA

spacerog, to random
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Pro tip: Before returning your rental car, make sure you delete your phone contacts and travel history from the onboard infotainment systems. The rental agency isn’t going to do it for you.

List of previous phones paired to car

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@spacerog Or, don't allow the car to download your contacts at all. That's what I do. You can still use the bluetooth to play media from your phone. Just delete your device when you turn in the car.

_L1vY_, to random
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Will current Windows desktops be forcing us to "upgrade" to the screenshot surveillance nightmare? Or is it only new machines?

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@_L1vY_ Mine's too old for Win11. But short answer I think up-to-date users will be forced to switch to Linux

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@_L1vY_ If you're running Win10 it should have already been annoyingly warning you if your computer can't be updated to Win11. If you're running Win10 you're safe from Copilot and associated bullshit.

Nonya_Bidniss, to climate
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Babies are suing the South Korean government over weak effort to combat change. “It will send a message: all countries need to take action in order to tackle this global crisis, and there are no exceptions,” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01457-y

Nonya_Bidniss, to scifi
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This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone seems to be a popular book lately so I've been working my way through it but tbh so far it's pretty awful. I hope it gets better as I'm tempted to stop.

mattblaze, to photography
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31-41 Union Square West, NYC, 2024.

All the pixels, each of which will be famous for 15 minutes, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53731622110

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@mattblaze I always wonder how you manage to catch these places with no people wandering around.

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@mattblaze Oh, right, I forgot, it's the crime!

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