Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

The conscience of the world https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-conscience-of-the-world?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Michigan Live: Lab that helps forecast severe weather in Michigan ‘crippled’ by Trump staffing cuts https://www.mlive.com/politics/2025/04/lab-that-helps-forecast-severe-weather-in-michigan-crippled-by-trump-staffing-cuts.html?gift=50fafb2c-4ea0-41ce-a77e-dc8b29030fd6 #Politics #WX #MIwx #weather

A reporter asks Trump about Presidents Zelenskyys offer to buy Patriot missiles from the US.

Trump responds he cannot have any, because he started the war.

This man is a mythomaniac. He no longer lies because it benefits him. He lies, because lying itself is his favorite pastime.

I used to celebrate when after a week, a video of mine would get 1000 views. With a little luck we will reach 1000 views on the first day of my latest video, “Why Trump lies about Ukraine”.

I am truly grateful to everyone who has shared it, commented, or given it the on YouTube. Your help makes all the difference — thank you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUed8hy5gaE

@nemo

As pointed out by Corey Doctorow long ago in his book, "Little Brother" gait-recognition AI can be foiled by wearing shoes with a rock inside.

Lifts, overpronation carved on heels, and untied shoelaces achieve similar alterations in gait.

Hopping & skipping do the same to AI.

Scooters, wheelchairs, and crutches or a cast on one foot work as well.

@w7voa

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"Republican billionaire donors promise to primary anyone who acts in opposition to their instructions to end American democracy.

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/elon-musk-threatening-to-fund-primary-opponents-to-bully-gop-senators-to-confirm-trump-s-nominees-226926149983

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2025/01/25/how-key-republican-senators-are-responding-to-trump-allies--primary-threats

The only way to achieve 147 seditious Members of Congress on Jan 6, was the donors.

We still need to identify those billionaires.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/07/us/elections/electoral-college-biden-objectors.html

"This is not incarceration; it is liquidation.

Incarceration is a penal act. It is controlled by laws. There are well-understood mechanisms governing the length of terms, applications for parole, processes for release.

Liquidation is a political act. It is arbitrary, opaque, and unappealable. There are no controlling laws or processes. There is only power."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #Bukele #AbregoGarcia #Rubio #ElSalvador #SupremeCourt #dictator
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/bring-him-home

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.

@woolie @RenewedRebecca @brouhaha I'm still trying to imagine what a good replacement for engineering-oriented Fortran would look like (mostly Fortran-like with aspects of Ada and Rust plus more domain-specific features that fail CS purity tests). Best case, I get some retirement motivation to dig into that problem. Not clear retirement will ever be an option. :/

News: Germany now funding European satellite internet alternative to Starlink for Ukraine.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/germany-funds-eutelsat-internet-ukraine-musk-tensions-rise-2025-04-04/

As I said once on the old site:

We're pretty close to the end of the American experiment, now that the corrupt Roberts court has basically rubber-stamped Trump regime's kidnap-and-send-to-El-Salvador policy. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-venezuelan-deportations.html

Look, if you don't get what's happening, I can explain it very simply:

The Republican Party exists to tax you and give your tax money to billionaires.

That's it. All the rest, all the bigotry and religion and kidnapping and threatened wars, exists to distract you so that they can continue to steal.

I could write a million words worth of analysis and not get significantly closer to the truth.

https://substack.com/@grrlscientist/note/c-106817058

Went to the rally at City Hall, expecting a few hundred folks and some signs. The rally not only filled the whole plaza/street on the north side of City Hall, but filled Market nearly solid during the march to Independence Mall. In fact, I spent 45 minutes on the Mall, wandering around and reading signs, and then decided I had to leave (family appointments), only to see that the tail end of the parade, still filling the street, had yet to arrive!!

#Philadelphia #Indivisible #Resistance

RFK, Jr.'s pushing of vitamin A code liver oil against measles rather than vaccines may be causing liver damage in children

https://boingboing.net/2025/03/28/signs-of-liver-damage-rfk-jrs-anti-vaccine-propaganda-hurts-kids.html

I look at a lot of space images, but this one made my eyes bug out like a cartoon character.

What you see here isn't a spiral galaxy, exactly. It's a spiral galaxy whose image was bent into a circle by the gravity of an elliptical galaxy visible at the center.

Warped space, right before your eyes!

https://esawebb.org/images/potm2503a/ #space #science #art #nasa #esa

Keep the Congressional switchboard number handy these days: (202) 224-3121

One of many notable takeaways from 'Careless People':

The creators and top execs of Meta do not allow their own children on it.

Think about that.

#carelesspeople #facebook #tech