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The best place to find out about #Fediverse #events around the world is https://fediforum.org/events/ .
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John | @john #US #Navy #Submarine #veteran ⚓ and 20+ year #Technology professional. I’ve launched CoreSignal as a digital “hard reset” to prioritize intentionality over algorithms—seeking connectivity in pursuit of connection.
I am still early in my #Stoic journey, practicing prosoche through the #Enchiridion and learning to “grab the smooth handle”.
When I’m away from the terminal, I’m exploring my #JohnnyDecimal categories (301/302), growing #wildflowers, and practicing #photography —a hobby I’ve tinkered with since my high school medium-format days, though I remain a dedicated student of the lens. 🌸📸
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A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs)
that would capture not only the license plate of passing vehicles, but also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices in those cars,
-- potentially letting law enforcement identify specific drivers or passengers.
The technology, called #SignalTrace, would turn ALPR cameras from devices focused on tracking cars to ones that can track the location of particular people.
ALPR cameras have become a commonly deployed technology all across the U.S.
Looks like there's more than one hero Tom Holland. https://www.comicsands.com/musk-holland-odyssey-backlash?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram
@georgetakei@universeodon.com Lupita isn't even the first woman of color to play Helen of Troy.
Orson Welles' 1950 Paris stage production of Time Runs, which cast a 22-year-old Eartha Kitt as Helen of Troy. Her performance earned widespread acclaim and helped launch her international acting career
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There is no denying the seriousness of the threat posed by Trump.
He is trying to implement the classic autocrat’s playbook
by chipping away at the restraints on executive authority.
He has made dangerous inroads,
but in most cases,
the opposition has been significant.
A struggle is under way, and the prospects for his success are dimming.
The Republican-led Congress has been most disappointing.
It has largely swallowed Trump’s excesses because its Republican members fear him mounting a primary challenge against anyone who resists him.
Bowing to his will, they enacted his “big beautiful bill” to cut taxes for the rich and healthcare for the working class.
They discovered their backbones only recently to oppose funding for his ballroom,
a slush fund for his cronies, and his proposal for voter suppression.
The courts have a better, if mixed, record.
More than 300 lawsuits have contested Trump administration actions,
many of them at least temporarily successful.
The supreme court has handed Trump victories on campaign finance, immigrant deportation, racial gerrymandering and executive power over most independent agencies.
It has also largely placed the president above the rule of law.
But even the court with its presumptive 6-3
pro-Trump majority blocked his efforts to impose tariffs,
limit mail-in voting,
remove a member of the Federal Reserve board,
and restrictbirthright citizenship.
Outside government,
the media remains strong, despite Trump’s efforts through libel suits and regulatory oversight to restrain it.
For example, his pressure on the corporate owners of CBS News, who needed government permission for a merger, was followed by the appointment of a controversial editor-in-chief who seems to have inserted herself in ways that are friendly to the administration.
She has now overseen the exodus of a major part of the storied 60 Minutes staff.
Worryingly, the same owner is now taking over CNN.
The billionaire Jeff Bezos was once viewed as a savior of the Washington Post.
He easily could have afforded to run it even at a loss as a quasi-charitable public service.
But seemingly worried about antagonizing the Trump administration to the detriment of his major business interests,
he fired much of the Post’s international staff and lost columnists and its political cartoonist to perceived editorial interference.
Yet significant independent voices remain,
showing the importance of ownership by people whose financial interests are not as vulnerable to Trump’s meddling
(the Sulzbergers for the New York Times)
or by not-for-profits with no external business interests (the Guardian).
Social media platforms, even Elon Musk’s X,
remain venues for endless exposés and criticism of Trump’s excesses.
So do proliferating podcasts.
Universities, a vital source of expertise for monitoring and challenging government action, have largely weathered the storm.
Trump has tried to rein them in, especially by withholding government grants for science and medical research.
That has created financial hardship and hurt American innovation,
but only a handful of universities cut deals with the administration,
most disturbingly Columbia.
Harvard sued the administration,
and no university joined a Trump-proposed compact that would have given them preferential access to government funding in return for permitting greater government intrusion on university independence and academic freedom.
Several major law firms struck deals after Trump threatened to bar them from dealing with government agencies.
Yet they were pilloried for agreeing to provide millions of dollars worth of pro bono services for causes of Trump’s choosing.
Other law firms fought back successfully – and brought some of the lawsuits against the administration.
They have reportedly benefited from clients who prefer lawyers who stand up, rather than capitulate, to the administration.
Civil society remains threatened but largely untouched.
Groups such as the ACLU have taken the lead in many lawsuits.
Others such as Human Rights Watch are strong critics of Trump’s foreign policy.
Trump brought concocted criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, and organizations that depend on government funding are self-censoring,
but the cacophony of voices from all political views remains impressive.
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Confidence Is Not the Same as Truth: What my mother, social media influencers, and AI hallucinations have in common
I have a lot of great memories of mom, aka M'dear. She had an infectious laugh that would fill a room until its echoes were bouncing off the walls.
I was very curious as a young child and M'dear would answer my every question with unshakeable confidence.
Even if she was…
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New Release: v18.13.1 is now available!
https://github.com/super-productivity/super-productivity/releases/tag/v18.13.1
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More than 200k users said NO!
More than 70 organisations signed a letter saying NO!
#FDroid wrote posts on why NOT!
We've talked with you and your representatives, around the world.
We've made the #KeepAndroidOpen website to explain it.
If you read the #Android tech news, you saw it.
If you use a search engine, you found it.
If you've asked their own #Gemini, you got the summary.
But who didn't see, hear or read anything from above? Yes, #Google
For your saftety? https://f-droid.org/2026/07/01/adv-malware.html
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Years ago I built a People Directory for the fediverse, to help you find people based on topics aka hashtags in their bio.
https://fediverse.info/explore/people
Spread the word!
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Racism Is Invisible To Sam Alito,
Because It’s His Own Worldview
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/29/actual-racism-is-invisible-to-sam-alito-because-its-just-his-own-worldview/
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Confidence Is Not the Same as Truth: What my mother, social media influencers, and AI hallucinations have in common
I have a lot of great memories of mom, aka M'dear. She had an infectious laugh that would fill a room until its echoes were bouncing off the walls.I was very curious as a young child and M'dear would answer my every question with unshakeable confidence.Even if she was wrong.
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"Huddled in a Zodiac boat in icy waters off the Antarctic peninsula, I waited patiently for an Adélie penguin to propel itself from the water to the safety of an iceberg. Persistence delivered as I captured this penguin in an almost levitational-like state, as if posing for the camera”
Photograph: Mat Bell/Australian Geographic
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Hey Fediverse! After leaving Instagram behind, I'm making this my new home. Time for a proper #introduction. #neuhier
I'm Fabian, a graphic designer and artist from Leipzig, Germany. I'll be sharing projects like books, prints, a board game system I'm tinkering with, and some journal entries from my archive.
I also speak German and a bit of Korean, but will mostly post in English.
Glad to be here! :)
#graphicdesign #leipzig #design #photography #bookdesign #boardgames
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I always imagine my thoughts as clouds during meditation. Sometimes it’s stormy, sometimes they’re big, sometimes it’s a tiny rain cloud that follows me around. It helps view and consider my thoughts with more clarity.
So whenever the clouds put on a show IRL, I wonder what sort of epic epiphany the world is having.
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Today we celebrate Juneteenth, the day news of freedom finally reached the last enslaved Americans in Texas, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. It's a reminder that justice delayed is justice denied, and that freedom, equality, and democracy are never guaranteed. We honor those who came before us and recommit ourselves to the ongoing fight for civil rights and equal justice for all.
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In recognition of #Juneteenth today, we’re sharing scans of General Order No. 3, the document that informed enslaved people in Texas that they were free on June 19, 1865, carrying out the Federal Government’s final execution of emancipation. 📜
Read the text in scans based on the original handwritten records preserved by the U.S. National Archives and saved to the Internet Archive ⤵️
https://archive.org/details/general-order-3-juneteenth-details
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“The #Juneteenth story is much more than one day, or one city. But this is where it started.”
Meet the man known as "Professor Juneteenth": https://www.texasobserver.org/juneteenth-galveston-sam-collins/
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Hey, who remembers that time that the South lost the Civil War, so slavery was abolished? But racist Texans didn't want the slavery party to stop, so they kept slavery going for another 2 years after abolition? But then a bunch of Black Union soldiers from the United States Colored Troop under General Gordon Granger marched into South Texas with guns, and threatened to shoot anyone that wouldn't release their slaves? So then those Black soldiers finally forced those racist Texans to release their slaves? But then American people pretended that Juneteenth celebrates the news of slavery reaching the far reaches of Texas, when "the news" was really Black Union soldiers with guns? Because we lie to ourselves and talk about Texas like a distant space colony that was out of contact with the rest of humanity, but in reality people traveled to Texas every single day during that two years, and everyone knew what was going on? And no white people went to jail for keeping slaves for 2 years after abolition, because Lincoln was a self-admitted white supremacist and slavery sympathizer?
Happy Juneteenth!
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New from DaLyah Jones: Finding freedom ... We interviewed Diana Jones Allen, an expert on the #history maroons, about the connection between environmental justice, identity, and cultural landscapes.
https://www.texasobserver.org/juneteenth-emancipation-freedom-marronage-east-texas/
