⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

@Edent I would be offended if I was asked for consent. You beep the goods, I tap my card, we do not make eye contact. Anything more is IRL equivalent of nag screens and popups.

I never heard of these whole ass deeply evolutionarily preserved organelles in my cell bio class. Anyone know what these dang things are?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_(organelle)

OpenStreetMap.org will shortly be available READ-ONLY. You will unfortunately NOT be able to save any map edits. We will be running on our backup infrastructure in Dublin. We are working to restore full services and we are waiting for our ISP to restore services in Amsterdam.

UPDATE: All up and running again (17 Dec 2024 13:45 UTC/GMT)

It occurred to me today that there is no reason that releasing our entire stash of CIA secrets to the Russians, or even our nuclear codes, could not be proclaimed “an official act,” for which Trump could not be prosecuted. He’d only need to say HE believed it’s in our best interests. On what grounds could/would that be contested? We are so fucked.

@pluralistic

^ Some good news from the EU:

Any experts in #GrapheneOS / #Android able to help me debug this eInk app?

The (non-Play) app installs, asks for location, and then claims it doesn't have permission.

It works fine on stock Android - but won't run on Graphene.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/17498-cant-launch-nfc-ble-app-logs-attached

"I found that penguins differed in their reactions to being hoisted between human legs. Some were calm, mildly befuddled at how they got a foot off the ground. Others acted as if they were possessed, squirming and slapping and biting. Penguins are beefy birds, sleek bullets of swimming muscle, torpedoes of power, and they slapped impressively hard."

https://nautil.us/my-life-with-the-penguins-298047/?utm_source=pocket_collection_story

#Antarctica #Penguins #Marine #Birds #Science

I just got kicked off my health insurance again, so not only do I need a new doctor even moreso but now I can't afford my prescriptions. If you can afford to, I could really use a couple dollars.

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing #mutualaidreqest

This week, Kenneth and Eugene look at Season 1, Episode 21 of Space Above and Beyond, entitled Sugar Dirt. They look at bad historical analogies, check in on this week’s contestant on Wheel of Court Martial and ask the question, “What has the 58th been eating for three months?”

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 44:46 — 61.5MB) | Embed

Subscribe: RSS

https://fusionpatrol.com/2024/12/14/714-space-above-and-beyond-sugar-dirt/

#Podcast #SpaceAboveAndBeyond

I don't think it's possible to undersell exactly what just happened. A handsome, white, upper-middle class man from the Midwest, with an ivy league education and chronic debilitating pain just, without help from anyone else, 3D printed a ghost gun and a silencer at home and used it to execute a wall street CEO.

This murder completely robbed MAGA of all their previous excuses. This wasn't feminism. It wasn't immigrants. It wasn't brown or black people. It wasn't a trans person. It wasn't a left coast elitist. It wasn't mental illness. It wasn't a blue-haired leftist. It wasn't Marxism. It wasn't communism.

This was the consequence of two previously unrelated right wing mechanisms suddenly coming together: the Venn diagram of unregulated healthcare and unregulated guns. This is the MAGA deregulation machine attacking itself. And they are completely unprepared for it.

A Florida woman has been charged with terrorism for expressing frustration at blue cross and blue shield for denying her health insurance claim.

Understand this fact -- this is not about silencing her. It is about silencing all of us. And we must peacefully but firmly resist.

https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/florida-woman-charged-with-terrorism

@splorp ... and a stack full of Newtons?!?

FIFA and Saudi Arabia clearly at the capers. No voting structure? No problem. Just clap very loudly for Saudi. Raise your hands for an actual count? Actually physically cast a vote? Don't be silly.

#Sportswashing

Some of my Babylon 5 art.

Enjoy.

#scifi #SciFiArt #fanart #Babylon5

What is the main use you give to your preferred #retrocomputing system?

Boosts and comments with more details are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for being involved in this 🙂

#dos #amiga #windows95 #windowsXP #apple2

@simon_brooke I would encourage everyone who signs this to ALSO submit a response to the consultation directly. In my experience drives like this, even if they collect thousands of signatures and form responses, get collected and counted as a single "campaign response" and as only a single vote when it comes to determining positive or negative sentiment.

So hey, a ray of light:

One of my clients, [huge company you have heard of], just DECLINED a [vendor] offer to install a “first one’s free” proof-of-concept AI server with a pile of fancy GPUs, because *the power requirements were so high they would skew a key internal sustainability metric*.

AI nonsense being delayed or deferred because of a green energy initiative? Inject that shit right in my veins!