Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org
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So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software since 1968, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, scary fast Python jockey, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
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"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
"I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous amount of fumes and everything." --Donald Trump
Joined Nov 2022
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https://www.europesays.com/2142683/ News Wrap: Supreme Court allows DOGE to access Social Security systems #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency #doge #ElonMusk #Musk
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So now in America, if your spouse becomes ill, you could go to jail....
‘Elder Abuse!’ DOJ Official Floats ‘Criminal Charges’ for Jill Biden
Then the next step would be deportation???
Where do these people come from...
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/elder-abuse-doj-official-floats-criminal-charges-for-jill-biden/
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ArsTechnica: Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books
"The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a 'summer reads' feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?"
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When it's #DOGEvsNOAA, we all lose.
"Working for the National Weather Service is a stressful and high-stakes job. It was before DOGE came along.
Trump and DOGE are making things worse, and quickly. This is just a small preview of what is to come on the current course.
Question the motives of those telling you they can do it better than the experts without offering how and why. Support the real experts."
https://www.weatherretort.com/p/tornado-disasters-and-the-fog-of-war-f570
@opsnlops I call this fun.
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@wms It's all a giant grift. 25 years ago I said that USA is a huge pig that's going to be slaughtered. The only question was when and by whom.
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#SeanDuffy : like #PamBondi , another pig taking his turn at the #Trump trough. If they didn't use their insider knowledge, then how to explain these two examples of PERFECT timing?
Sean Duffy Sold Stocks Days Before Trump Announced a Plan for Reciprocal Tariffs — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/sean-duffy-stock-sales-trump-tariffs
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Came across this on imgur. Fact. Period. 100%. No Notes. #humanrights #BLM #civilrights #FuckRacism #uspol #EndFascismNow
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I'm retired in the sense that I was tired yesterday and am tired again today.
@JL_Lycette Thanks. Diagnosing prostate problems here that have been simmering for 8 months. Still no solid diagnosis. MRI next week.
My primary care physician and urologist have both told me we don't lose people to prostate cancer anymore.
They both know that I went through this with my stepfather in the early 1970s who did die of it. It was not pretty. It was real ugly.
Back then they worked on him and said that if the cancer stayed away for a year, he was cured. It stayed away for exactly a year and then metastasized. The last two weeks went as described in the movie "The Shootist", which we did at home: screaming pain and heavy opioid medication.
So I've been a bit agitated for the past 8 months over what's going on with me. Not happy.
The prostate is a very odd organ. Seems that more research work needs to be done on this.
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BTW the recognition of personal property and the protection of the owner's rights with respect to the treatment of that property is foundational to the very concept of capitalism.
So if there’s no more copyright, welcome to a free for all on their once protected software code, and everyone else’s.
The Copyright Office is correct: it’s not fair use; it’s theft at scale. Musk, Altman, et al want you to believe the hype so they obscure the theft and profit, distracting you with shiny toys.
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Texas reshaping its laws depending on your name or the color of your skin.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/war-hero-killed-texas-parking-160041901.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9sb2dpbi55YWhvby5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGD6741Y2q3319PnYnj1YI1Z19jcW0aJ471kqoWTZvhQ-4N4AvlftjBavZL5-RYLHxW6RFO4V_tf473ZYXMI0klmACwKbibW23YNdf4a_CLy6_6F6L_lEt1BIiecxba6W0UqfBCBCbS0dfVmNwJQR--at6DG_T32X1KvAWoMRrcU
#Law #Murder #Guns
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"I haven’t been in my lab or worked with my microscope since February, when I was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as I was returning to Boston from a vacation in France. At Logan International Airport, I did not complete a customs declaration for frog embryos (for use in our lab’s research) in my luggage. I’m told this would normally result in a warning or a fine. Instead, my visa was revoked and I was sent to a detention center in Louisiana, where I have spent the past three months with roughly 100 other women. We share one room with dormitory-style beds."
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"If all these big companies are shouting from the rooftops that AI is up to production code the money relies on, then zero open source contributions of substance is a glaring absence."
(Original title: If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?)
@Quarky @georgetakei Exactly. If you're operating lawfully there's no need for a mask, is there? Right? Hello.
On the other hand, if you're breaking the law, pushing the envelope...
@georgetakei Yes, very "third world". Cops in Guatemala 30 years ago wore masks to conceal their identity. They don't do that anymore. But now we do it in the USA. Imagine that.
Hahahaha.
Beware, lest you hate something so much that you become just like it.
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Why are ICE agents masked to begin with? Our law enforcement officers shouldn’t be anonymous. Ever.
@DeltaWye Yes, I have like 500 accounts here and there. Ridiculous.
- Website
- https://shuttersparks.net
So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software since 1968, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, scary fast Python jockey, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
#HamRadio
#Morse
#MorseCode
#Birding
#BirdWatching
#eBird
#wv
#WestVirginia
#food
#cooking
#astronomy
#physics
#engineering
#photography
#FountainPens
"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
"I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous amount of fumes and everything." --Donald Trump
Joined Nov 2022
