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Jason Lefkowitz
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Amid global hellscape, full of modern recreational flavor. Low Quality Sexiest. Surprisingly adequate. Fedizen since 2017. Founder, president and cruel intergalactic tyrant of Rogue Repairman Productions. Web developer for 30 years now (oh god). Writer that nobody reads; leader that nobody follows. #writing #movies #cycling #kayaking #programming #php #python #wordpress #history #military
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The thing I did not anticipate about the future was how dumb everything would be
Any Democratic candidate who does not turn this headline into an ad is guilty of political malpractice
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/05/white-house-ballroom-donald-trump-00951892
#USPol
In the movies, this would be the headline on a newspaper we see our protagonist find as they pick through the wreckage of a devastating pandemic
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/07/nx-s1-5814761/hantavirus-outbreak-unlikely-to-turn-into-a-pandemic
“Our community has spent so many years building something of genuine human value: a shared body of knowledge, cultural meaning and careful critique all of which lend considerable discursive depth and richness to what we do. But in the brave new world of Knitting Bullshit, all of that accumulated wisdom, all of the real history of knitting as labour, as resistance, as solidarity, as design intelligence, as craft, is now there simply to provide the powerful emotional currency that AI-generated podcasts and videos cynically mine for profit.”
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This is not just a European problem. Here in US civic tech, whenever I saw "actually good software made from the grassroots" go up against "crappy software with a bunch of well-connected people attached to it," the crappy software won every time
Fired the lawn company today that replaced their phone receptionist with AI. That wasn't the entire reason I fired them. But it wasn't not, either
You know some serious shit went down when there is a Wikipedia entry for a guy and then a separate one for his leg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sickles%27s_leg
Every time I think this guy can't possibly get more embarrassing, he somehow finds a way
https://www.twincities.com/2026/05/14/fbi-director-patel-vip-snorkel-uss-arizona-emails/
I am going to hell for laughing through this as hard as I did
"Parmigiano Reggiano is one of the world’s most tightly regulated foods. It can only be produced in a small, designated area using three ingredients — milk, salt and rennet — and it must age for at least 12 months before it can be sold. Many wheels mature for 24, 36, or even 40 months.
That long wait creates a financial bottleneck. Farmers must be paid every 30 days. Staff, feed and energy costs accumulate daily. But revenue doesn’t arrive for a year or more. For more than a century, Credem Bank has stepped in to bridge that gap — accepting cheese as collateral."
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/02/food/italy-cheese-bank-parmigiano-reggiano-intl
Try to live your life so that you are not ever required to testify under oath about whether or not you are a prolific liar
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Back in the '80s and '90s, there was a category of software pejoratively referred to as "databases for dentists."
Desktop relational databases like dBase, FoxPro and Access were incredibly flexible. You could apply them to nearly any business situation by writing a little business logic and building a few forms. But understanding that required a degree of abstract thinking which most people don't have.
So for a while, you could make a lot of money by taking a general-purpose database, slapping a few forms on it that were specific to a particular type of small business, and selling it to those businesses at a huge markup.
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Free tip: regardless of your politics, do not get your food from someone who is this cavalier about “put[ting] a couple kids in the hospital”
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/14/health/the-milkman
RE: https://vmst.io/@vmstan/116757564108266599
Welp. Guess I’m looking for a new place to live again
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“Yarbo sells autonomous lawn mowers and snow blowers, consumer robots priced between $1,500 and $5,000, deployed in private homes all over the world. Every one of them ships with a persistent SSH tunnel, a root password hardcoded identically across the entire fleet, and telemetry that phones home to ByteDance. None of this is disclosed at point of sale. These devices have WiFi, Halow and 4G connections.”
https://github.com/Bin4ry/yarbo-nat-in-my-back-yard
Lord, send me one competent person. Just one. As a treat
Some photos make great writing prompts. This is one of them
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"A federal judge in Virginia on Friday granted a longer block against the Department of Justice implementing a 'Anti-Weaponization Fund,' saying that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s verbal claim that the fund was not going forward was an insufficient guarantee.
Judge Leonie Brinkema gave Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent a week to submit written sworn declarations that the fund was not going forward, as Blanche recently testified to Congress."
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/12/trump-doj-fund-preliminary-injunction-blanche-bessent.html
#USPol
“There’s one fundamental ground truth that every A.I. huckster always, eventually, reveals that they do believe. They believe that you all are probably fucked, but they’re gonna be just fine.”
"Since the ceasefire, Iranians have gone further, offering to stop all enrichment for five years and to readmit international inspectors to verify compliance.
This was an extraordinary concession. Trump could have accepted it and claimed that his Iran nuclear deal was better than Obama’s, which allowed Iran to enrich uranium at a level of 3.67 percent. But he rejected the offer, demanding a 20-year suspension—a term Iran was certain to reject."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/05/trump-iran-peace-deal-war-news-oil.html
Medieval flying monk? Don't mind if I do
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/did-a-medieval-flying-monk-spot-halleys-comet-twice-its-complicated/
“A painting stolen by Nazis from a Jewish art collector in the Netherlands during World War Two has been found in the home of descendants of a notorious Dutch SS collaborator, an art detective says.”
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@sarahtaber@mastodon.online A lot of times people like that are less interested in your opinions than they are in getting a public figure like you to bless _their_ opinions.
Some of them have a high enough regard for themselves to think that once you hear their opinions you will naturally get on board. The rest usually figure they can just throw enough money at you to endorse whatever they want. Both types are usually gobsmacked when their preferred approach does not work
I enjoyed this 1975 interview with British fast-draw champion “Big Dave Rio,” a.k.a. “Mister Hill the unemployed truck driver”
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@dangoodin@infosec.exchange They are, but they're more of a niche thing these days. The term to search for is "digital audio player" or "DAP".
https://www.popsci.com/reviews/best-daps/
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@dangoodin@infosec.exchange If you're looking for specific brands, others have already mentioned FiiO, so I will mention South Korea's Astell&Kern, which was spun out from iRiver (a name you may remember from the golden age of MP3 players).
https://www.astellnkern.com/
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"Sources indicate that Kennedy has little interest in the details of the health department’s work and little direct interaction with career staff. Kennedy misses critical, regularly scheduled meetings with agency leaders, is sometimes 'checked out' in the meetings he attends, and has been out of the loop on key decisions.
On Wednesday night, Kennedy responded to the report with an 871-word diatribe. His key argument was that much of the story could be refuted by a look at his jam-packed public calendar.
The problem with Kennedy’s argument is that he does not have a publicly available calendar."
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/rfk-jr-melts-down-over-nyt-report-admits-he-blacklists-reporters/
#USPol
A filmed West End performance of the Tony Award-winning musical "Hadestown" is coming to movie theaters across America for five days on July 24, starring five principals from the original Broadway cast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Q5TWHslOE
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org "But I get so much more work done after I snort cocaine!" Ok, yeah, but
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@gildilinie@beige.party Federated Mutual Insurance. They’re still around!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_Mutual_Insurance_Company
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@oxy@social.bsdlab.au I was more of a DOS/Windows guy back then, but I remember lots of similar stories from people on the Mac side of the fence about FileMaker 😆
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@BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us @dangoodin@infosec.exchange It's not uncommon for companies to use Android as the OS for non-phone devices. Lots of handheld game players run Android, for instance. It's just a convenient OS optimized for mobile devices that you can pick up and use without a lot of licensing hassle
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@jackdaw_ruiz@normal.style If it's not blinking and beeping and flashing, what the hell are we even doing here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebo0aLLPYwA
Airplane! The Sequel (1982 movie) - blinking, beeping and flashing lights
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@20002ist@thepit.social I tried that. The pole I wasted money on could not grab the bulb, and my tolerance for blindly buying poles until I find one that works is limited
It is not clear to me that America can build ships anymore.
https://news.usni.org/2026/05/08/future-aircraft-carrier-doris-miller-delayed-by-2-years
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@federicomena@mstdn.mx If you’re talking about routine maintenance, pure EVs generally require significantly less since they have a lot fewer moving parts. But you’ll still need to replace consumables, and things like tires can wear faster from the heavier weight.
https://www.ace.aaa.com/automotive/advocacy/electric-car-maintenance.html
RE: https://alaskan.social/@ANC_Historian/116535070704512235
I wish I had one tenth of this dog's swag
RE: https://mstdn.social/@ComicContext/116536365120650794
unmnga indeed
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@cmconseils@mastodon.social "After [a] lengthy day of reviewing the troops, Lincoln admitted to Brooks, 'It is a great relief to get away from Washington and the politicians. But nothing touches the tired spot.'"
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/noah-brooks-and-the-lincoln-white-house