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>
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buttplug.io 🍑🔌<p>I really cannot stress enough how much of an unexpected marketing gift the term "vibe coding" has been for us.</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>
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>
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 "See, doesn't this taste just as good?" is more than missing the point, it's barbaric, dystopian. It's an insult to life itself. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenAI</span></a></p>
JA Westenberg<p>In an age of information, the truly subversive act is to think slowly.</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>
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>
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>
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>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p>"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>?"</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>
Prof. Sam Lawler<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.</p>
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George Takei :verified: 🏳️🌈🖖🏽<p>If you don’t think this administration is so incompetent or callous as not to do this, you haven’t been paying attention.</p>
MostlyHarmless<p>A good percentage of my friends are Nazis. That percentage is zero; that’s a good percentage of Nazi friends to have.</p>
ProPublica<p>The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations<br>—</p><p>The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/measles</span><span class="invisible">-vaccine-rfk-cdc-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/CDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CDC</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/RFKJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RFKJr</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Measles</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicine</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a></p>
Matt Blaze<p>Again: The important question isn't "how did a reporter get added to a Signal group for discussing sensitive military operations?" (though that's certainly worth asking).</p><p>The big question is why Signal was used for discussing sensitive military operations in the first place, especially when everyone involved (except the reporter) had ready access to official classified communications systems.</p><p>Signal is great, but it's not designed to prevent this kind of screw up. The official systems are.</p>
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It's The Weekend<p>Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)</p>
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