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“Undeterred, Marocco and DOGE threatened a security guard with a lawsuit and told the building’s property manager that they would bring in U.S. Marshals and the Secret Service unless they were given access to USADF. Their threats were unsuccessful.”
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Mar 6
JUST IN: The head of the US African Development Foundation is suing Peter Marocco and DOGE — and he is describing in detail the standoff in which he blocked DOGE from entering the agency's offices.

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March 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Most Android OEMs have early access as Google partners. Google's security team wanted to get us partner access but their business team vetoed it and has unreasonable, essentially unobtainable requirements for getting it. We need an OEM to work with us and it would help us a lot.
March 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Set up a recurring donation to ProPublica (they don’t do subscriptions), subscribe to FlamingHydra and Defector, and find some independent journalists that cover a beat you care about and subscribe to their newsletter/website/whatever
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 1
"One thing I would recommend is if you’re going to cancel your subscription to the Washington Post, don’t entirely remove those dollars from the news space. Take that money and at least invest it in an organization or a publication that you think is aligned with your values."
Oliver Darcy on a cowed mainstream press
"It’s highly alarming how news institutions and Big Tech are behaving in response to an autocratic wannabe."
www.publicnotice.co
March 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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I'm sure very few people know about this. Inmates in 43 states are charged a per diem cost for "room and board" ranging between $40 to hundreds of dollars. In some states you owe for every day of your original sentence EVEN IF YOU GET OUT EARLY.

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In some cases this can add up to tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees, as it did for a woman named Shelby Hoffman. Originally sentenced to seven years, she served only ten months before being released. A couple years later while applying for a job and jumping through the typical hoops that a formerly incarcerated person has to do as a matter of course, she found out she still owed $127,750. "I felt so tricked and so fooled," Hoffman said. "There is no ladder with them. There is nothing that you can do. Apparently. That will ever truly allow you to be a second chance anything. There isn’t. And they make sure of it.” Obviously this is not really about reimbursing the state for your stay in Hotel Hell, it's also, as so many things in this country are, about creating and entrapping people in a permanent underclass from which there is little hope of escape. Saddling people, and yes usually a certain kind of people, who have served their time, with crippling debt so that they'll be forced into accepting worse working conditions forever. Or end up back in prison again where the state can further profit off of their bodies. As an added bonus, those that cannot pay the fees have also not technically completed the terms of their sentence and therefore cannot have their voting rights restored.
February 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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folder gotchas (in the terminal)

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panel 1: ls .. and cd .. refer to different folders if you `cd` to a symlinked folder ~/Dropbox -> ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox ``` cd ~ cd Dropbox ls .. cd .. ``` * ls .. lists ~/Library/CloudStorage * cd .. moves to ~ this is because `ls` is a program and `cd` is run by the shell. The shell handles `..` differently from other programs. `ls ~/Dropbox` will list the contents of the folder this is annoying if you just want to look at its permissions, or where it links to to fix this: ls -d ~/Dropbox panel 2: deleting a folder and recreating it with the exact same name makes everything weird everything you do in the folder will fail with weird errors like: $ touch newfile touch: newfile: no such file or directory how to fix it: ``` cd . ``` panel 3: on Mac OS, these are not the same: cp -R a/ b cp -R a b * `cp -R a/ b` merges the contents of `a` into `b` * `cp -R a b` copies the whole folder into `b/a` panel 4: tip: `cd -` switches to the folder you were previously in panel 5: notes on `mv file.txt dest~ * if dest is a file: renames `file.txt` * if dest is a folder: moves `file.txt` to that folder
November 11, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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January 6, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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They're back and still pissed, Bluesky

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Orcas sink another boat in Europe after a nearly hour-long attack
For the fourth time in two years, a group of unusually brazen orcas in southwestern Europe have sunk a sailing boat after relentlessly attacking it for almost an hour on Halloween.
www.livescience.com
November 7, 2023 at 11:11 AM
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hexagonal.bsky.social
Today’s mushrooms 🍄📷
An orange gilled mushroom in dead leaves Polypores with guttation on a dead tree Reddish mushrooms on mossy stump A gilled yellow mushroom in moss
October 15, 2023 at 4:28 PM
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Gold xkcd.com/2826
September 9, 2023 at 2:57 AM
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The creator of the ‘Oh No’ webcomic needs help in raising funds so he can continue his legal battle against a shady as fuck board game company trying to claim ownership of all his artwork. Don’t know how these assholes sleep at night. Plz contribute to this if you can, & re-skeet

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Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics, organized by Alex Norris
I am Alex Norris, creator of the webcomic Webcomic Name. I am here to ask for h… Alex Norris needs your support for Legal fund for Alex Norris "oh no" comics
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October 4, 2023 at 11:01 PM