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Heidi Li Feldman<p>I want to make sure people know that in the U.S. a Presidential executive order is not a law. It is an internal memo from the head of the Executive to others in that branch. The President has no constitutional authority to legislate or adjudicate the law. 1/</p>
Wonder of Science<p>Pluto’s ice mountains, frozen plains and layers of atmospheric haze backlit by a distant sun, as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft.</p><p>Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI</p>
Jeff Jarvis<p>&quot;You don&#39;t always win when you fight, but you always lose when you don&#39;t.&quot;<br />- Rachel Maddow tonight on the law firms that surrendered vs. the law firms that fought. <br />Words to fight by.</p>
buttplug.io 🍑🔌<p>I really cannot stress enough how much of an unexpected marketing gift the term "vibe coding" has been for us.</p>
McNadoMD<p>Some of y’all forgot that guys wearing no identification, driving rented unmarked minivans, kidnapped Americans off the streets in Portland in 2020, and it shows.</p>
BrianKrebs<p>When you see the POTUS or people who support him saying things like, "man who could have asked for a better start to this presidency," you might go "whuh?"</p><p>But if you take a look at the useful Project 2025 Tracker, they've made incredible progress on their policy goals in a remarkably short time. I encourage everyone to explore this site, because it kind of puts all the awful in one place.</p><p><a href="https://www.project2025.observer/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">project2025.observer/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Randahl Fink<p>Denmark has not found it relevant to spend tax payer money on a large military base on Greenland. Instead Denmark gives a yearly grant of 620 million dollars to the 57,000 Greenlanders, which is spent on everything in the Greenland budget including having free healthcare, free access to universities in Denmark AND a well functioning police force.</p><p>Vance now abuses that fact to claim that Denmark has not kept Greenland safe, and therefore Greenland should become American.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/jaJRLBfdux4?si=MtZJIuEhWjVBuFr1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/jaJRLBfdux4?si=MtZJIu</span><span class="invisible">EhWjVBuFr1</span></a></p>
JA Westenberg<p>In an age of information, the truly subversive act is to think slowly.</p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p>&quot;Can we please stop the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/signalChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>signalChat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>memes</span></a>?&quot;</p><p>No.</p><p>Because it deserves to be mocked forever.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/signalGate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>signalGate</span></a></p>
Eugen Rochko<p>You can hardly find a studio the works of which are so thoughtful, kind, and intentional as Studio Ghibli. To stripmine that for its aesthetics, to take a piece of cardboard and paint it like food and say &quot;See, doesn&#39;t this taste just as good?&quot; is more than missing the point, it&#39;s barbaric, dystopian. It&#39;s an insult to life itself. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenAI</span></a></p>
Paul Cantrell<p>Holy shit.</p><p>Just wow, wow, holy shit:</p><p>Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?</p><p>I’ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea I’ve ever heard from leadership.</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-s</span><span class="invisible">ocial-security-administration-cobol-benefits/</span></a></p>
Micro SF/F by O. Westin<p>A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated and a robot rolled out, holding a golden disc in a transparent sleeve.</p><p>"Greetings! We found your sound recording. We enjoyed it, and have made one for you in return."</p><p>It placed the disc on the ground and returned to the spaceship, which took off.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/MicroFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MicroFiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/TootFic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TootFic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/SmallStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmallStories</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/vss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/VoyagerRecord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VoyagerRecord</span></a></p>
Kailee ♾️🇺🇦 Vote Midterms<p>Truth here</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a></p>

The physics dept head wanted to have a little thank you lunch for students who volunteered for a university fundraiser event that we were both involved in a couple weeks ago. Since it's almost baby goat time, I suggested we hold it at my farm, so now I have and event called "Physics goat party" on my calendar.