Reports state that the Trump administration is considering giving out "baby bonuses" to increase birth rates. Ridiculous. Babies are notoriously bad with money. They will blow it all on frivolous goods, such as rattles and dumb little outfits, which they will immediately outgrow.
John Roberts can't control the monster he made
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/15/john-roberts-created-this-monster-what-is-he-going-to-do-about-him/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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If you run a peertube instance, it’s time to update! V7.1.1, released last week, has some important security fixes detailed here: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v7.1.1
Hopefully the CDC tells Kennedy to go fuck himself.
https://flipboard.com/users/politico/statuses/1rSvI--HQSS65ucemwesuA:a:3195449
The amount of fucked we are cannot be overstated. https://flipboard.com/users/Salon/statuses/cVd1KcslQTS8QhQF3Y0BhA:a:3199680
using #firefox or a derivative? Setting browser.ml.chat.enabled=false turns off the brand-new AI features.
You're welcome.
(RIP my mentions, muting this)
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Over the past several days, we conducted a "scream test" by shutting off https://verifiedjournalist.org to see if anyone screamed. Turns out, it's not serving the purpose we hoped it would since no one did. So, we'll be retiring the service at the end of April, 2025. #news #journalist #journalism Sad day.
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Really excited to see @AlJazeera on the #fediverse! Hopefully they join https://verifiedjournalist.org soon!! https://disobey.net/users/yawnbox/statuses/114183906011254596
Funny, but I need to learn more about this so called kabal of billionares trying to bring about the end of the world. It sounds absurd, but I've heard it now several times and curious if there's anything actually to it. https://mastodon.social/users/MissingThePt/statuses/114099201775182118
Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.
A stallwart conservative legacy (that I hated) destroyed by feilty to the Felon in Chief. See ya. https://flipboard.com/users/FastCompany/statuses/5ebRvUP9TM-aqM6pFtdDbQ:a:3199563
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Ah - excellent, now she's in charge. We are so...so...soooooo unbelievably fucked.
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A 23 year old intern with no security screening with access to the DOEs mainframes is just about the most catastrophic breach of national security since the FOTUS stole our nations secrets and stored them in his fucking bathroom. https://apple.news/AOlCPbA92RCCQjfmb0snmow
🚨BREAKING: Google will soon install an app called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore
They say it's a "safety measure" to protect your #privacy, but in fact it's client-side scanning.
Yet, we all know that client-side scanning is bad: https://tuta.com/blog/eu-client-side-scanning
Deinstall the app on your #Android: System -> Apps
I miss the innovation of keybase.io
http://keybase.io/
Wired has been killing it lately on covering what may well be the biggest security breach this country has ever seen. They obtained an email sent by an intelligence team within the U.S. Treasury Department that referred to Musk's actions to unilaterally slash and burn government agencies as "the single greatest insider threat risk" they have ever faced.
"There is ongoing litigation, congressional legislation, and widespread protests relating to DOGE’s access to Treasury and the Bureau of the Fiscal Service,” the email reads, per the tech-focused outlet. "If DOGE members have any access to payment systems, we recommend suspending that access immediately and conducting a comprehensive review of all actions they may have taken on these systems."
"There is reporting at other federal agencies indicating that DOGE members have performed unauthorized changes and locked civil servants out of the sensitive systems they gained access to,” the ‘Recommendations’ portion of the email continues. “We further recommend that DOGE members be placed under insider threat monitoring and alerting after their access to payment systems is revoked. Continued access to any payment systems by DOGE members, even “read only,” likely poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-bfs-doge-insider-threat
Meanwhile, The Washington Post reports the warning came from a Treasury threat center run by the govt contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. The Post reports that late Friday, Booz Allen said it had “removed” a subcontractor who wrote the warning and would seek to retract or amend it. “The draft report was prepared by a subcontractor to Booz Allen and contained unauthorized personal opinions that are not factual or consistent with our standards,” company spokesperson Jessica Klenk said. Booz Allen won more than $1 billion in multiyear U.S. government contracts last year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/07/doge-treasury-payments-system-warning/
I really do not need campaign fundraising texts from Democratic politicians right now.
I would like "this is what we are doing about the current crises" notices instead.
I document Trump's 7 most destructive actions undermining our Republic, and share 7 meaningful actions we can take to counter his fascism.
Actions you can take locally, actions that don't cost money, and actions that have a meaningful impact.
I also ask Dems in power why they haven't organized a meaningful response? What are they waiting for? We are way past out of time!
So excited to play this - been a Civ player since I was in 7th grade - Civ 1 on a Packard Bell! https://flipboard.com/users/DigitalTrends/statuses/HxeQu9g6RNuag6In5NIP0w:a:201375877