Matt Lehrer
@mattlehrer.definitely.social.ap.brid.gy
American dad and recent CS masters graduate looking for a job in Sweden. Interested in #Svelte & web development, startups, #podcasts, and history.
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It’s hard to wrap my head around this moment, standing outside the largest synagogue in Europe beside a memorial with the names of every one of the hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews who were killed in the Holocaust, thinking about the opening of a concentration camp ~75 miles from my hometown.
July 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
It’s hard to wrap my head around this moment, standing outside the largest synagogue in Europe beside a memorial with the names of every one of the hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews who were killed in the Holocaust, thinking about the opening of a concentration camp ~75 miles from my hometown.
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Yesterday may have been the worst news for the preservation of democracy under Trump yet. Also the S&P 500 hit a record high.
Wanting an analog for understanding, I looked up the performance of the German stock market from 1930–1945.
Wanting an analog for understanding, I looked up the performance of the German stock market from 1930–1945.
June 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Yesterday may have been the worst news for the preservation of democracy under Trump yet. Also the S&P 500 hit a record high.
Wanting an analog for understanding, I looked up the performance of the German stock market from 1930–1945.
Wanting an analog for understanding, I looked up the performance of the German stock market from 1930–1945.
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This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
June 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.
Pic and video of me in #aftonbladet for #nokings 😯
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/rP6drA/trump-protester-i-malmo-jag-ar-sa-arg
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/rP6drA/trump-protester-i-malmo-jag-ar-sa-arg
June 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Pic and video of me in #aftonbladet for #nokings 😯
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/rP6drA/trump-protester-i-malmo-jag-ar-sa-arg
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/rP6drA/trump-protester-i-malmo-jag-ar-sa-arg
Imagine Lindsey Graham watching Bluey
https://mastodon.social/@kottke/114592052821616730
https://mastodon.social/@kottke/114592052821616730
kottke.org (@kottke@mastodon.social)
Pediatrician Dr. Annie Andrews is running against Lindsey Graham for one of South Carolina’s Senate seats. Based on the commercial launching her campaign, I kinda want to move to SC just so I can vote for her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8wMNLaSNW4
mastodon.social
May 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Imagine Lindsey Graham watching Bluey
https://mastodon.social/@kottke/114592052821616730
https://mastodon.social/@kottke/114592052821616730
This is extremely good news. If Google is forced to sell DoubleClick and are no longer incentivized to send traffic to sites loaded with ads, that will be so great for the web. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/google-loses-ad-tech-monopoly-trial-faces-additional-breakups/
arstechnica.com
April 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is extremely good news. If Google is forced to sell DoubleClick and are no longer incentivized to send traffic to sites loaded with ads, that will be so great for the web. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/google-loses-ad-tech-monopoly-trial-faces-additional-breakups/
I can imagine Trump thinking other countries will pay these tariffs.
And I can imagine Trump thinking the US might eventually rebuild manufacturing capacity with these tariffs.
But I think it’s really just another grift.
And I can imagine Trump thinking the US might eventually rebuild manufacturing capacity with these tariffs.
But I think it’s really just another grift.
April 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I can imagine Trump thinking other countries will pay these tariffs.
And I can imagine Trump thinking the US might eventually rebuild manufacturing capacity with these tariffs.
But I think it’s really just another grift.
And I can imagine Trump thinking the US might eventually rebuild manufacturing capacity with these tariffs.
But I think it’s really just another grift.
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Looks like Mastodon is finally getting some built in functionality to fetch missing replies:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615
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#mastoadmin #fedifetcher
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615
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#mastoadmin #fedifetcher
Add Fetch All Replies Part 1: Backend by sneakers-the-rat · Pull Request #32615 · mastodon/mastodon
Fix: #9409 Fix: #14017 Fix: #18150 Original PR Here: NeuromatchAcademy#44 Further description here: NeuromatchAcademy#43 I've never made a PR for upstream before, so forgive me if i'm doing...
github.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Looks like Mastodon is finally getting some built in functionality to fetch missing replies:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615
🥳
#mastoadmin #fedifetcher
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/32615
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#mastoadmin #fedifetcher
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This is exactly what they're trying to achieve by destroying government services that benefit the public. A VC-backed startup intervenes to gather data that the National Weather Service was previously collecting, and before we know it, we will be paying them for what was once funded by our […]
Original post on mastodon.world
mastodon.world
March 11, 2025 at 5:33 AM
This is exactly what they're trying to achieve by destroying government services that benefit the public. A VC-backed startup intervenes to gather data that the National Weather Service was previously collecting, and before we know it, we will be paying them for what was once funded by our […]
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I really didn't need to feel this seen.
March 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I really didn't need to feel this seen.
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March 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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New #hometown release is now available!
v4.2.17+hometown-1.1.2 incorporates a Mastodon security patch and also some bugfixes from the Hometown community. More info at the release notes as always.
https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.2.17%2Bhometown-1.1.2
v4.2.17+hometown-1.1.2 incorporates a Mastodon security patch and also some bugfixes from the Hometown community. More info at the release notes as always.
https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.2.17%2Bhometown-1.1.2
Release Hometown v1.1.2 (Mastodon 4.2.17) · hometown-fork/hometown
This is a security release and a patch release that keeps us up to date with Mastodon v4.2.17. There are also a few minor fixes to Hometown features that come along with this. Changelog Hometown ch...
github.com
March 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
New #hometown release is now available!
v4.2.17+hometown-1.1.2 incorporates a Mastodon security patch and also some bugfixes from the Hometown community. More info at the release notes as always.
https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.2.17%2Bhometown-1.1.2
v4.2.17+hometown-1.1.2 incorporates a Mastodon security patch and also some bugfixes from the Hometown community. More info at the release notes as always.
https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.2.17%2Bhometown-1.1.2
Trump is going to say the most offensive thing possible when the Pope dies so we talk about that instead
February 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Trump is going to say the most offensive thing possible when the Pope dies so we talk about that instead
We need a stronger phrase than doom scrolling now.
February 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
We need a stronger phrase than doom scrolling now.
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I’m sure this is nothing to be concerned about, right? https://cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-exposes-once-secret-government
February 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I’m sure this is nothing to be concerned about, right? https://cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-exposes-once-secret-government
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"The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has a budget of $42.8 billion, representing 42 percent of humanitarian aid disbursed worldwide." 42%!
https://fortune.com/europe/2025/02/17/norway-announces-855-million-funding-humanitarian-ngos-amid-trumps-dismantling-usaid/
https://fortune.com/europe/2025/02/17/norway-announces-855-million-funding-humanitarian-ngos-amid-trumps-dismantling-usaid/
Norway announces $855 million funding for humanitarian NGOs amid Trump’s dismantling of USAID
The Norwegian funding had been intended to work alongside USAID, and humanitarian groups warned it wouldn't fill the black hole being left by the U.S.
fortune.com
February 19, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has a budget of $42.8 billion, representing 42 percent of humanitarian aid disbursed worldwide." 42%!
https://fortune.com/europe/2025/02/17/norway-announces-855-million-funding-humanitarian-ngos-amid-trumps-dismantling-usaid/
https://fortune.com/europe/2025/02/17/norway-announces-855-million-funding-humanitarian-ngos-amid-trumps-dismantling-usaid/
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No comment.
REPORTER: Do you future in which Ukraine returns to its pre-2014 borders?
TRUMP: It certainly would seem to be unlikely. They took a lot of land and they fought for that land
REPORTER: Do you view Ukraine as an equal member of this peace process?
TRUMP: Ummmm ... it's an […]
REPORTER: Do you future in which Ukraine returns to its pre-2014 borders?
TRUMP: It certainly would seem to be unlikely. They took a lot of land and they fought for that land
REPORTER: Do you view Ukraine as an equal member of this peace process?
TRUMP: Ummmm ... it's an […]
Original post on mastodonsweden.se
mastodonsweden.se
February 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
No comment.
REPORTER: Do you future in which Ukraine returns to its pre-2014 borders?
TRUMP: It certainly would seem to be unlikely. They took a lot of land and they fought for that land
REPORTER: Do you view Ukraine as an equal member of this peace process?
TRUMP: Ummmm ... it's an […]
REPORTER: Do you future in which Ukraine returns to its pre-2014 borders?
TRUMP: It certainly would seem to be unlikely. They took a lot of land and they fought for that land
REPORTER: Do you view Ukraine as an equal member of this peace process?
TRUMP: Ummmm ... it's an […]
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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists […]
Original post on ai6yr.org
m.ai6yr.org
February 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists […]
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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/
https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/
January 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/
https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/
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Happy 12th birthday to the defining visual artwork of this era.
January 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Happy 12th birthday to the defining visual artwork of this era.
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President Biden permanently bans offshore oil & gas drilling along most of the US coastline https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2025/01/06/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-protecting-americas-ocean-and-coasts-from-offshore-oil-and-gas-drilling/
www.whitehouse.gov
January 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
President Biden permanently bans offshore oil & gas drilling along most of the US coastline https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2025/01/06/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-protecting-americas-ocean-and-coasts-from-offshore-oil-and-gas-drilling/
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Winter solstice! Or as we call it in Sweden: winter sun boner (vintersolstånd)
December 21, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Winter solstice! Or as we call it in Sweden: winter sun boner (vintersolstånd)
Listening to Christmas music, reteaching the kids how to play dreidel
December 19, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Listening to Christmas music, reteaching the kids how to play dreidel
‘People today are in danger of drowning in information. But, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be.’ – Idries Shah
From: @interfluidity
https://zirk.us/@interfluidity/113669640219620322
From: @interfluidity
https://zirk.us/@interfluidity/113669640219620322
Steve Randy Waldman (@interfluidity@zirk.us)
data has become the opiate of the professionals, inkblots only they can properly interpret, from which they weave accounts of the world in which everything is fine for everybody if only they wouldn’t change anything serious, and anything who says otherwise is objectively, mockably wrong.
zirk.us
December 17, 2024 at 7:11 PM
‘People today are in danger of drowning in information. But, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be.’ – Idries Shah
From: @interfluidity
https://zirk.us/@interfluidity/113669640219620322
From: @interfluidity
https://zirk.us/@interfluidity/113669640219620322