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Skepticat, 7 hours ago to random

Self Reflecting during that word salad rant... "the Manchurian Candidate. "

lupus_blackfur, 14 days ago to random

@SomeGadgetGuy

Wireless charging is even worse than we thought...

Some tests and numbers for your edification (edjumucation) 😁 :

https://www.ifixit.com/News/94409/wireless-charging-trading-efficiency-for-convenience

Free_Press, 17 days ago to news

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) railed against Donald Trump’s hush money trial in remarks outside the Manhattan courthouse Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking lawmaker to visit Trump in New York amid the ongoing legal proceedings.

So much for Democrat's goodwill towards Johnson!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4662191-mike-johnson-donald-trump-courthouse-manhattan-hush-money-trial/

heidilifeldman, 1 month ago to random

I’ve spent the past few days driving across the country. The natural beauty of Arkansas and of Oklahoma surprised me. The aggressive, creepy white Christian evangelical vibe of western Tennessee did not surprise but it disturbed me. The Texas panhandle was as nuts as I anticipated. Some billboard messages from Texas follow. 1/

FAIR, 1 month ago to random

Among the terms the #NYTimes memo tells reporters to avoid: “Palestine” (“except in very rare cases”), “occupied territories” (say “Gaza, the West Bank, etc.”) and “refugee camps” (“refer to them as neighborhoods, or areas”). The memo discourages the use of the terms “genocide” (“We should…set a high bar for allowing others to use it as an accusation”) and “ethnic cleansing” (“another historically charged term”).

https://fair.org/home/action-alert-nyts-war-on-words-avoid-palestine-genocide-ethnic-cleansing/

AAKL, 1 month ago to Instagram

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mastodonmigration, 1 month ago to random

So, maybe you heard that Trump got a $175M bond for his NY fraud appeal. Well, it seems his bond deal is falling apart and the NY AG may be about to start seizing his properties.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-bond-new-york-fraud-trial-letitia-james-attorney-general-arthur-engoron-1887833

"An insurance company will not be permitted to post a $175 million bond for Donald Trump while he appeals a fraud judgment, a former federal prosecutor has said... as a result, New York Attorney General Letitia James will be able to begin enforcement proceedings on Donald Trump's properties."

majorlinux, 2 months ago to random

Yeah, this is a big no from me, dawg!

HP finally did it! They've turned a printer into a subscription. - Desk Chair
Analysts

https://dcanalysts.net/hp-finally-did-it-theyve-turned-a-printer-into-a-subscription/

#DCA

RealJournalism, 2 months ago to random

From now on, "Genocide Joe" will get you blocked. One can be critical of Joe Biden's policies over the conflict in #Gaza without repeating Russian propaganda. He can't just pick up the phone and order Bibi to stop, and Bibi has already stated he would refuse such orders. And I'm not going to throw women, gays, trans, immigrants, Ukraine, or anyone else under the bus just because I'm disappointed in his Israel policy. I've made up my mind.

GottaLaff, 3 months ago to random

Via Klasfeld:

Explainer:

For each category of disgorgement, Justice Engoron imposed "prejudgment interest" starting from a date. That has a 9 percent rate determined by statute.

The AG crunched those numbers to estimate ~$450M AS OF TODAY.

Hey_Beth, 3 months ago to random

Another Musk post about birth control. We knew that birth control would be under attack.

wdlindsy, 3 months ago to random

David Kurtz on Fani Willis in court:

"It was the seething, barely controlled anger of a Black woman put in a position none of her white male counterparts have had to endure, at the hands of a criminal defendant no less. White prosecutors have used the power of the law to torment Black people for centuries, but a Black woman becomes prosecutor and finds herself tormented by white criminal defendants."

#FaniWillis #misogyny #racism #BlackWomen #Republicans

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/fani-willis-racism-trump-georgia-rico-romantic-relationship

petergleick, 4 months ago to random

The Wall Street Journal oped page continues its decades-long unbroken streak of being absolutely terrible.

drahardja, 4 months ago to apple

I guess this is how #Apple does #layoffs these days.

First they require in-person #returnToOffice, then they relocate business units from one location to another, and force those who can’t uproot their lives to leave.

The Apple location in #SanDiego isn’t going away. But they intentionally forced 121 people to choose between moving to #Austin, or lose their jobs. Make no mistake, this is a layoff.

Never mind the fact that #Texas is hostile to anyone with a uterus, or is not cishet—why the hell anyone would move to that state? If anything, Apple should be shutting down their Austin office, and paying for people to relocate to a state that better ensures their safety.

“Apple to Shutter 121-Person San Diego AI Team in Reorganization”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-14/apple-to-shutter-121-person-san-diego-ai-team-in-reorganization

Unpaywalled link: https://archive.ph/TnOUv

AndyPaciorekArt, 5 months ago to EarWorms

It seems that in last year or so, haven't kept strict track, more days than not I am haunted by ear worms 👂🪱
Sometimes from a song I have heard, sometimes from something said and sometimes random. Today's is the latter. Oh You Pretty Things by David Bowie. Not a bad song at all, but could do without it on repeat in my jukebox skull! 😐

#EarWorms

verge, 5 months ago to random

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen accidentally cited fake court cases generated by AI https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/29/24019067/michael-cohen-former-trump-lawyer-google-bard-ai?utm_content=bufferd6549&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Teri_Kanefield, 5 months ago to random

I work at a standing desk, which has done great things for my back and neck.

But it leads me to say things like "I can't write any more today because my legs are tired," which is a funny sentence.

blogdiva, 5 months ago to streaming

if all #streaming services in the United States are now charging you to watch ads, then they aren't streaming services. they are #cable #TV channels.

#FCC needs to do their job and regulate these fake #internet companies as they are supposed to regulate cable & legacy #broadcast tv stations.

usluck, 5 months ago to twitter

https://www.usluck.com/149075/so-immigrants-are-flying-over-the-border-now/ So immigrants are flying over the border now #Tweets #Twitter

augieray, 5 months ago to random

A brief history of people telling me I'm wrong, panicky, and addicted to #COVID19 doom. I don't think I know more than experts. I think I listen to experts and have tried to warn people about the facts. It takes the media weeks and public health agencies months to parse information, evaluate it, and act. But if you really listen to the sources who've been correct from the start, you can know what's going to happen earlier than others (and perpare better than others.)

carnage4life, 5 months ago to random

Another vaporware dream created by Elon Musk finally dies. Hyperloop One, formerly Virgin Hyperloop, is selling off its assets, laying off its remaining workers, and preparing to shut down by the end of the year.

The hyperloop was a concept Elon Musk championed to distract the public from California’s efforts to build a high speed rail network.

High speed rail ran against the idea that fixing the problem with cars required EVs and self driving. So he derailed it.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24011448/hyperloop-one-shut-down-layoff-closing-elon-musk

Bam, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to threads

The Fedi #Threads angst: The view from a Fedi-loving normie. 🧵

I’ve spent much of today pouring over various comments and discussion about the first toe dips of Threads and Meta into the Fediverse. The responses are kind of amazing. From excitement to revulsion, I get them all and I understand them. But the more I think about it, the more I think folks are creating a “why” that may not exist.

To start, I do follow people on Threads. Many of my Twitter follows have migrated off the Bad Place to Threads. Some have not. However, I anticipate as X becomes more people’s ex, Threads is where they will go.

I love the Fedi. I’ve worked hard to build my follows and find my peeps. But it takes work. For me, that work has borne fruit. It’s my place to connect and get my wonderfully chaotic feed.

A lot of folks chose the fedi because they felt and are excluded or targeted and it offers them a community that lets them protect themselves and instances that help protect them. I love that. 1/x