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Alina Leonova

Hey Mastodon, I’m running a small experiment here. Please boost for better reach 🙏

Do you add alt-text to your images?

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Chuck Darwin

Alone our debts are a burden. Together they make us powerful.
We are a debtors’ union
fighting to cancel debts and defend millions of households.
Join us to build a world where college is publicly funded,
healthcare is universal
and housing is guaranteed for all.

debtcollective.org/

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Sandrockcstm, in space!

People are being kind of smug about the FBI announcent not to text anymore, and I understand why... But there's a bigger problem than your texts to aunt Edna being intercepted.

Your mfa codes that are texted to you are now fully compromised. And a lot of websites only have sms mfa. That's the real story here. We've known for a while sms mfa was insecure because it's susceptible to SIM cloning and hijacking but there's now confirmation of man-in-the-middle happening. That's 10x worse.

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Phil Landmeier

Question regarding Android and call blocking.

For years I've used so-called whitelist call blocking. All calls are blocked except a list of about 20 numbers that will ring through.

There's an organization that has a bunch of different numbers, and the list of numbers sometimes changes, but the caller ID string for all of them is the same: Mountain State such-and such. Is there a way I can unblock the caller ID string so that all the numbers with that ID can ring through?

Seems this feature must exist. It's probably right under my nose and can't see it.

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Phil Landmeier

Yeah, I don't know what to say on this. The politicians are obviously grandstanding. "Oh look what we're doing!". At the same time they're shamelessly showing their constituents that they're out-of-touch numbskulls.

It's nonsense and can never work. Ridiculous.

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Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊

Schadenfreude, death, US healthcare 

You know, I've come to the conclusion that the reason I felt absolutely nothing beyond a mild joy when I saw the UnitedHealth CEO had been shot dead is pretty straightforward.

For the entirety of my life, billionaires, CEOs, and especially healthcare executives have been doing their damnedest to prove to us that even a sea slug has more empathy than they do. These are not people with a shred of conscience -- they have shown that 'earning' a mere dollar is more than worth the cost of a human life, and demonstrated it over and over, with United denying one in three claims on intrinsically spurious grounds. And now with BCBS stating that surgeries have to be under X amount of time.

I do not personally take great joy in it, because all human life intrinsically has meaning, but don't expect me to be in mourning over someone who clinically sentenced millions of people to death and/or lifelong debt.

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Eugene McParland 🇺🇦

Eternal memory 🕯️

Ukraine is losing some of it's best people. 💔

Victory and justice for Ukraine 🇺🇦

lyubov_lyubushkina2 / Instagram

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AI6YR Ben

American Society of Anesthesiologists:

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Won’t Pay for the Complete Duration of Anesthesia for Patients’ Surgical Procedures

Another Example of Insurers Putting Profits Over Patients

asahq.org/about-asa/newsroom/n

#anesthesia #insurance

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Phil Landmeier

Hahaha. I think I've been away from home for too long. This just happened 4 blocks from where I was born. Too much fun. Love it.

youtube.com/watch?v=22PORnPB-Y

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Samuel Smith ✅

@futurebird @whknott having taken both Calc and Stats, I'd say statistics was harder for me.
But then, I'm no mathematician. Math is a tool to accomplish a goal, not something to play with.

I've met people with the opposite opinion, and that's fine. We just need to realize that those opposing philosophies can complement each other or fight each other. It's up to us to decide which it is.

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jo_the_hat

Your annual reminder...

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kottke.org

Madeleine Riffaud, hero of the French Resistance, has died at the age of 100. “The essential was not to give in. When you resisted, you were already a victor. You had already won.” nytimes.com/2024/11/23/world/e

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Lauren Weinstein

And to those who argue that Biden pardoning Hunter gives Trump an excuse for his J6 pardons ... TRUMP WAS GOING TO DO THAT ANYWAY!

It's time for Democrats to stop the "oh gee, we have to play by all the rules all the time and be super fair and nice and sweet" while the Evil GOP breaks all the rules and runs over the Democrats with a fascist steamroller while the Democrats stand there waving flowers.

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Tony, Pretty Much

Well, Trump pardoned his son-in-law’s father and made him Ambassador to France, so no Republicans can complain.

Right?

President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden:
nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden

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Eugene McParland 🇺🇦

It's not every day that you see a tank at a gas station. But in #Ukraine it is possible.

📽️ United 24 Media / Instagram

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Phil Landmeier

Good fortune has always followed me around. I'm reminded of it tonight. I'm working on a design that involves a thermistor. Modern thermistors are marvels of accuracy and repeatability. Wonderful things.

So, in the 1960s I lived in the Hillcrest area of West Los Angeles. We also had a beach house in Venice Beach. Our next door neighbor was the Link family, as in the child actor Michael Link. Michael's father was a chemist and retiring. He gave his entire personal laboratory to me, which we transported to the basement of our house in West LA and I added chemistry to my studies. Tremendous fun, very educational, even though I didn't become a chemist. Fortunately, he chose someone responsible because, while I was a crazy youthful experimentalist, I wasn't crazy enough to kill myself. The lab included lots of supplies and plenty of very dangerous reagents. Like I said, fun. This was not a child's toy or chemistry set and I was determined to learn how to use it properly. I mainly focused on chemical assaying. As in you give me a rock and I'll tell you what it's made of.

At the same time, one of my parent's many friends was Dr. Samuel Ruben. He visited Los Angeles from time to time. He and I would hang out and discuss chemistry. When he wasn't around, he was at his lab in New Rochelle, NY and we corresponded by written letters. He was my chemistry mentor. At that age and education level, I was not yet qualified to understand all that he had done. As time went on, I learned more about who had been teaching me.

Which brings us back to the thermistor. Dr. Ruben was an expert in electrochemistry. He held around 200 patents including the invention of the modern thermistor. He also invented the dry electrolytic capacitor, the modern alkaline battery, the mercury battery, the tantalum capacitor... on and on. Ruben co-founded with Mallory the Duracell company.

So I'm getting a kick out of closing the loop and holding a thermistor in my hand tonight.

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Maximilian Overdraft, Esq.

Space is big. Really really big. Big enough for all the billionaires and oligarchs and power-hungry people to coexist in without taxing the people and ecosystems of Earth. Let's put our heads together and send them there.

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Kathmandu

@FiddleSix @NorcalGma2

Our dog was very clearly choosing things that smelled like us. If we left him alone in the house, he would get Person A's slipper, Person B's stuffed animal, Person C's (worn) shirt, and Person D's pajamas, and arrange them in a half-circle around himself.

He didn't especially chew on them - he just wanted our scents with him. He would lie there forlornly until we came home.

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Randahl Fink

Trump thinks he can force Ukraine's hand by holding back US aid.

Now, Japan alone has reserved USD 7.46 billion for Ukraine.

And Japan is just one of 50+ wealthy nations supporting Ukraine.

I am not saying the US support does not matter. It does. But all Trump is doing, is removing US influence.

reuters.com/markets/asia/japan

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