Joint Leadership Statement About Donald #Trump’s #DeathThreats Against Democratic Members #House #Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark & Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar released the following statement: #PoliticalViolence has no […] [Original post on masto.ai]

" The country lost a giant. These men served a country that looked down upon them as second-class citizens or even worse. They performed admirably during battle using the Code Talker system that helped battlefield commanders make quick decisions to win […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#china is mobilizing an armada of civilian ships for an #invasion of #taiwan – a mission that could surpass the WWII’s Normandy landings. Reuters used ship tracking data & satellite images to monitor the role civilian vessels played in Chinese exercises this summer. The drills revealed that […]

Question for #writing #publishing #writerscoffeeclub #writingcommunity : Does anyone know anything about the Manhattan Book Club? Are they legit? I've been approached via email about doing an Author Feature event for _Bearing Gifts_ , but the email looks very AI-written, and I would **expect** […]

I'm proud that my Senator Mark Warner (D-Va) is consistently one of the smartest voices on cybersecurity in Congress. Warner took to the Senate floor today to warn about political purges at the FBI, and the apparent collapse of U.S. cyber defenses under this administration. "I intend to […]

Preliminary report on the #ups MD-11 #crash on takeoff at #louisville, Kentucky a few weeks ago has determined that the #1 [left wing] engine separated from the wing because of a cracked engine mount. Still not determined at this time: • why the engine mount cracked • why the cracking was not […]

The #uspto under Trump's direction is preparing to introduce new #rules that would **protect** #patent #trolls from challenges to their invalid patents. The EFF's suggested comment: > I oppose the USPTO’s proposed rule changes for inter partes review (IPR), Docket No. PTO-P-2025-0025. The IPR […]

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/19/pegasus_fly_again_rescue_swift/ I'm glad to see Pegasus still flying, having worked on it myself.

New, by me: Mozilla Says It's Finally Done with Two-Faced Onerep In March 2024, Mozilla said it was winding down its collaboration with Onerep — an identity protection service offered with the Firefox web browser that promises to remove users from hundreds […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Tell you something I _was_ thinking about, though ... AI girlfriends. No, no, bear with me. More accurately, "AI girlfriend" **apps**. _SIMULATED_ 'girlfriends'. We humans ... we need connection. We need connection _badly_. It makes us feel complete. (Well, the ones of us who aren't sociopaths […]

• You're half asleep and find yourself pondering something. You think to yourself, "This would make an interesting discussion tomorrow." • But you're half asleep, so you don't write anything down. Too sleepy and you don't want to wake up again. It took hours to get this close to sleep, and you […]

"He personally insults, berates, demeans and abuses female reporters on a daily basis. As bad as he was in the past, it has only gotten much worse this year. I compiled these clips just from Trump’s interactions with female reporters during the last few months. Several of these were in the last […]

Dear Fucking #verizon, _STOP FUCKING STEALTH-INSTALLING GAMES I DIDN'T ASK FOR ON MY PHONE WITHOUT MY FUCKING PERMISSION._ kthxbye.

Usually, I ignore Trump in real time. But his appearance from the WH with MBS of Saudi Arabia is so disturbing, I cannot ignore. Two depraved men, fawning over each other from the seat of executive power in the U.S. I’m sick.

Win! For now anyway Federal judges block #texas from using its new US #house map in the 2026 #midterms TX cannot use a new congressional map drawn by #republicans in hopes of securing the party additional US House seats, a panel of 3 federal judges ruled Tuesday. The ruling was a blow to […]

Chatting with a friend about Cloudflare's intermittent outages today, they brought up an interesting point: How many organizations have started relying on Cloudflare to do basic security blocking and tackling stuff, like stopping SQL injection attacks at the edge? Maybe your devs were lazy at […]

The Cloudflare outage it taking a long time to resolve.. I posit that this is because it caused OpenAI to go down as well and how do you fix problems if you can't ask ChatGPT?? #outage #cloudflare #ai

When do you know if a downtime is really bad. Well when downdetector is down. #cloudflare

[Workity Work: For-Cause Fitness For Duty checks needed immediately] If THC and MDMA cause one to fail a drug test, they really need to screen for MBA too.

[Workity Work: For-Cause Fitness For Duty checks needed immediately] Had a quick conversation with one of our principal engineer level software people (one of my favorite people at work) and he was relating the story of managers proudly opining that once our main nuclear anslysis and design […]

'Twas on a Tuesday morning, that the men came to rip out the old failed HVAC system and install a new one...

Republican Senators are trying to sideline Judge Boasberg, one of the first federal judges to try to rein in Trump regime lawlessness. They want to prevent him from issuing a ruling on the contempt of court the regime may have shown in ignoring his orders […]

Orlando Sentinel: Sanford grandfather, born in refugee camp, nabbed by ICE after 70 years in U.S. "...Paul John Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a German refugee camp a year after World War II ended. His family legally emigrated to the United States in 1952 when he was five. More than […]

A federal magistrate says the criminal case against former FBI director Comey could be in serious trouble because of apparent errors committed in front of the grand jury by the inexperienced prosecutor picked by President Trump to handle the matter […]

Elsewhere someone described Jeffrey Epstein as charismatic. Same comment about Trump. Look folks, Epstein was a stooge and a child rapist, Trump is one of the world's worst people, a murderer and child rapist. They are charismatic in exactly the way streetwalking meth addicts are: the sort of […]

Moon over Welcome Bay. #moonsofmastodon

Remember: the only reason that makes sense why #ice would deny clergy access to the #broadview detention facility to minister to the detainees is because they believe the substantial bad press and messaging damage from publicly denying clergy access is less bad than the damage that would result […]

Thinking out loud: There's a lot of really heroic indy media documenting how inhumane Stephen Miller's dragnet is. We need a campaign noting that if you want to fix the housing market you need to fire Stephen Miller. www.nahb.org/advocacy/ind...

"A new investigation of Elon #Musk’s X by Sky News found that every account set up by reporters, 'no matter their political orientation, was fed a glut of rightwing content', much of which was extreme. The experts it consulted believe this pattern could have resulted only from an algorithm […]

#giftarticle The President Who Cried Hoax #republicans went after #epstein only when it was politically useful By Adam Serwer The #epsteinfiles were the most important issue in the world, until they weren’t. “Are you still talking about #jeffreyepstein? This guy’s been talked about for […]

Look I don’t generally approve of defacing traffic control devices but in this case I’ll let it slide.

Trump lied again?! Of course he knew. Not only did he know, he actively encouraged and participated in the trafficking. @wdlindsy https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/115543220669758909

_Sigh_. A user of a software package I have assisted with in the past complains on the user mailing list about performance problems. Let's see ... looks like source is a local Ceph cluster. Shouldn't be any problem with that, as long as it's properly configured. Destination is Glacier cloud […]

Whatever brain genius thought up paying by cell phone in massive concrete parking ramps needs to be abandoned in the desert with no water, 5% phone charge, and zero bars of cell service. Peak web startup mentality. Great job there chief, Ruby-on-Railsing your way past EM wave propagation […]

The next time someone tells you that America isn’t a sick & racist country, just remind them that this nation is willing to accept treason, rape, and child abuse from a white president but not healthcare from a Black one.

Your health insurance premium just shot up. Your groceries cost more than ever. Your electric bill too. And what is your President's focus today? Lobbying Congress... to keep suppressing the Epstein files.” —Pete Buttigieg

It's not clear yet whether Epstein was ever able to share info with the Russians, but this could explain a lot. From Politico: "Nearly a month before President Donald Trump met Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018, Jeffrey Epstein attempted to pass a message to Russia’s top […]

Transcribed from an opaque screenshot from @Stonekettle on ... the formerly bird site, now raised-middle-finger site, I think? > "The absolute morally-bankrupt pimp whose entire business was sex-trafficking underage girls to the world's wealthy and powerful ... thought Trump was an absolute […]

I can't wait to see how the Dems will hand victory to the GOP over the Epstein Files... #uspol #uspolitics #gop #dems #EpsteinFiles #epstein

Good. Stop enabling this fascist regime’s #ExtrajudicialKillings #UK suspends some #intelligence sharing with #us over boat strikes concerns in major break The #unitedkingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the #caribbean#extrajudicialkillings#uk#intelligencecause it […]

> The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN […]

🎼 _I have squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles_ ; _such are promises_ — _All lies and jest, but a man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest_ 🎵 This post is about #congress.

1. Last week, we reported on WSU certifying an anti-trans SPLC-designated hate group to teach medicine. Now, S. Baum has uncovered that the Michigan State Medical Society has certified anti-trans hate group Genspect to teach medical workers. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Boy, really don't do business with Bosgame. (Also magicnuc.com, and Jinge Technology (Hong Kong) Limited.) I asked for my money back -- so they created a label in UPS, conceded that the package was coming from overseas, and did not refund me. UPS doesn't have a package yet. They just have a […]

I don't know when I'll write it up, but among the things Rudy Giuliani got pardoned for is destroying the lives of Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

I think about this guy sometimes. His name is Robert Smalls. He escaped from slavery, with his family and with his escaped-slave crew, stole a warship filled with weapons from under the confederate's noses, turned it over, with intelligence to the US Navy […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

Fifty years ago today, the Edmund Fitzgerald was lost on Lake Superior. 🎼 _Does anyone know where the love of God goes_ _When the waves turn the minutes to hours?_ _The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay_ _If she'd put fifteen more miles behind her_ _They might have split up or […]

Read the entire thread. The Trump maladministration somehow just keeps on getting worse. We **ARE** the Axis of Evil, now.

#trump Officials Accused of Mob Tactics to Kill a #climate Measure Nations were poised to approve the first fee on #pollution from #ships. That’s when the Trump admin began the #threats. Among other threats from US officials, Secretary of #state #marcorubio personally called officials in […]

last month, a friend of mine had a confrontation in #SomervilleMA with a violent driver who wanted to drive their vehicle into a protest. the driver ran over their bicycle and did their best to endanger the other people present who were standing in front of the vehicle. today, they've shared […]