George Mari @GeorgeMari@qoto.org

Thanks for the reminder to cancel Disney+. As my wacky Jethro Tull loving high school history teacher used to say, "you gotta hit 'em in the pocketbook". That was his primary take from all of U.S. History. And he's right. So let's really hit them where it hurts: the money.

MSNBC - In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help win government contracts in a second Trump administration. https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/tom-homan-cash-contracts-trump-doj-investigation-rcna232568

Hello world! Joined Mastodon to see if I can find a community of people looking for feedback on their writing, and who are willing to give feedback on mine. Also looking for advice on guiding independent publishing that can reach a wide audience.

After a 23-year career in HigherEd IT, I have been recently laid off and am ready to #GetFediHired for remote it support, application administration, and security roles.

I have been fortunate to have a long and varied career:

- remote technical support
- SharePoint document management,
- preparing monthly CIS security metrics for our team,
- designing and implementing the first systems-wide combined endpoint asset inventory,
- application administrator for the PaperCut printing platform.

Hello Mastodon,

I’m Jenny, a piano composer from Germany.

I live with chronic illnesses (ME/CFS, POTS) and found my love for composing through that journey. Music became a refuge for me.

I dream of reaching people who struggle, so they may feel less alone through my music.

I’m just starting here and would love to connect with others who enjoy soft, emotional music or share similar experiences.

Find my music here: https://linktr.ee/jennygrobosch

#introductions #pianomusic #chronicillness #mecfs

Today I am doing my best.

So are you.

"You must not forget how to dream"

"None can change in me these things that I believe
But I don't know what happens now
I am too scared to close my eyes"

If you need help, let me know.

My infrastructure team has a Sr. Software Engineer position open.

It is remote (US Only: CA, GA, NY, NC, TN, TX, and WA, some other states negotiable)

Supporting a python backend with a typescript/vue frontend on AWS.

Some security.
Some developer tools.

Signal in bio if you want more details.

A reminder that Signal will never reach out to you proactively, never send you a Signal message, and never ask for your verification code. The only way to correspond with Signal is via email (support@signal.org) or the Signal Support Center (support.signal.org).

#Jokes #Humour #Humor

A lost dog wanders into the jungle. A lion spots him from a distance and thinks, “Huh… never seen one of these before. Looks edible.

The lion starts charging. The dog freaks out until he notices some bones nearby. Thinking fast, he blurts out:
“Mmm… that was some tasty lion meat!”

The lion slams the brakes: “Wait… this little dude eats lions?! Nope, I’m out.”

But high up in a tree, a monkey saw the whole thing. He scampers over to the lion and spills the truth, hoping to score points. The lion growls: “Hop on my back. We’ll get him together.”

They storm back toward the dog. The dog sees them coming, panics harder… then yells:
“Where the hell is that monkey? I told him to bring me another lion an hour ago!

#Poland refuses to reopen its border with Belarus, cutting #China off from a €25B/year trade artery, after it was closed indefinitely following #Russia drone incursion into Polish airspace on 10 September.

Some 90% of China-EU rail freight moves through Poland, now frozen amid Zapad-2025 drills and a Russian drone incursion. Yestrday Beijing asked Warsaw to restore the route (vital for platforms like Temu & Shein) but after 3 hours of talks, FM Sikorski said no.

With sea routes slower and air transport up to 30% more expensive, Europe’s e-commerce supply chains risk serious disruption. As a reminder, the border was originally planned to be briefly closed for the period of the “Zapad-2025” exercises only, but the closure had been extended following Russian drones provocation. China is the primary supplier of military drone parts into Russia.

I'm looking for US/North America remote work and would love any boosts!

I'm a product designer who's made accessible design systems, trained people in human-centered design, managed teams, and still knows how to do the work. I've worked with governments, EV tech, and more.

I also wrote a book called We Need to Talk (Rosenfeld, 2025), so I'm good with nearly any kind of tricky conversation.

Resume: https://joshuagraves.me/resume.pdf
Portfolio: https://joshuagraves.me/professional/portfolio/

#getFediHired #FediHire #FediHired

I regularly get death threats. I've had to go to federal court to testify against the man who wanted to kill me and my children. I have never responded by calling for violence against those who seek to harm me, & certainly never against any block of people.

We have no idea who killed Kirk, and may not for a while. But speculation only creates more chaos. And we don't create peace by demanding an eye for an eye.

If we want peace, take this moment to thoughtfully reflect, not seek blind revenge.

New post: This Cheap Metal Could Replace Lithium and Change Everything! https://www.transportevolved.com/2025/09/11/this-cheap-metal-could-replace-lithium-and-change-everything/

My students are often surprised to learn that LLMs aren’t answering their questions. Rather, an LLM answers the question “what would a reply to this look like?” It’s one of the first things I explain in the “Should I use LLMs?” portion of my syllabus.

I'm writing this post here today in hopes to bring some attention to something that is near and dear to my heart, and that's an update to the current situation with Nova Launcher, that I worked for and with for nine years up until August of 2024.

For those that haven't seen the news, Kevin Barry, the founder and developer of Nova has left Branch which in turn means he's now no longer involved with Nova Launcher in any way going forward.

https://teslacoilapps.com/nova/solong.html

For the past year or so Kevin has stated that he was working on the open source version of Nova Launcher so that if/when this time came, it would be out in the open and the community could take it over and contribute to it and have it continue being developed.

However, it seems that Harish Thimmappa and others at Branch had told him to stop working on that effort as they didn't want him to continue doing that for unknown reasons. This is sad news because this was something that former CEO, Alex Austin, had promised both via a contract and publicly that if Kevin were to ever leave Branch, Nova Launcher would become open source. You can find that quote here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/w2q6al/comment/igzoniu/

and another very similar quote with similar conversation here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/w2q6al/comment/ih25ntz/

The reason for this post is to try and draw some attention to the folks at Branch, specifically folks like Harish Thimmappa to do the right thing and honor these promises and any writings in the contracts from 2022 and to fully focus on releasing Nova Launcher as an open source app.

The community deserves this more than anything, since that was something that Kevin was very adamant about when he allowed Branch to acquire Nova Launcher back in 2022. Plus, this is just something that Branch should do since it is something that has been promised.

There is currently a petition on Change.org to try and get Branch to do this as well. After only 3 days of it being posted to Change.org, it sits at almost 1,500 signatures, and that's with very little to no press coverage at this time, which is something that would be super useful to bring full attention to this situation. You can find the petition here:

https://www.change.org/p/make-nova-launcher-open-source-let-the-community-continue-its-development

I ask that everyone who sees this post can share it with their followers as I would love to see Branch do the right thing and follow through with their promises that were made back in 2022 when they acquired Nova Launcher and release it fully as an open source app now that Kevin is no longer working for Branch and not involved in Nova Launcher.

I'm going to tag some folks below that I worked with at Branch in hopes of getting this post seen by as many folks there as possible.

#NovaLauncher #Nova #Branch #BranchMetrics #OpenSource #OpenSourceNova #Petition #Android #Apps #Google

From watermarks to missing sources and credibility gaps, here's how you can sharpen your senses – and avoid falling for the latest wave of newscast fakes:

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-how-to-spot-ai-generated-newscasts/a-73053782

Useful media and information literacy feature by Monir Ghaedi & team for DW.

🕵‍♀️ 🔔

#ai #news #fakes #verification #mil

Hey gang, I really need a job. UK, remote, something to do with computers.

I've been doing all sorts of software plumbing for a decade now, I can speak C, Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, even a bit of Assembly for certain architectures in a pinch.

I might not be extremely specialized in any one area but you bet I can solve that one nagging problem you're not sure what specialist you need for. I've done frontend, backend, embedded, everything.

Please boost!

#FediHire #getfedihired

To think -- some of us spent all that time and effort in school studying science, history, and math. We thought deeply about ethics and society.

Now, our government and businesses are run by the kids who cheated on all the exams. Our law enforcement and defense are run by the kids who skipped class to drink behind the bleachers. And our health care and science policy are run by the people who ate the crayons.

Every company with AI.

Courtesy of Eleanor Morton, comedian.

#EleanorMorton #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #funny #humour #NonFiction

When your dad is Mr. T 🤣 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjhJyAXS__M